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The American Journal: MAJOR ESCALATION! Israel Vows To Intensify Attacks After Iranian Missile Strikes Hospital, Says Khamenei “Can No Longer Be Allowed To Exist” - FULL SHOW - 06/19/2025

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alex jones ▲ ● ▼		In the early 1960s, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Ella Lemonser, concocted a plan for false flag operations as a pretext to invade Cuba and for war with the Soviet Union.
		In Operation Northwoods, they planned to hijack jets by remote control, crash them, and blame the attack on Cuba.
		There were many other terrorist attacks they planned to carry out that were contained within the document.
		One scenario mentioned was the destruction of a U.S. naval vessel that was to be blamed on a foreign power as a pretext for war with any enemy they picked.
		President Lyndon Baines Johnson went operational with Northwoods on June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War.
		During the Six-Day War between Israel and the Arab nations, the USS Liberty was sent by Johnson to collect electronic intelligence in the eastern Mediterranean.
		The clearly marked U.S. intelligence ship was 14 miles off the coast of Israel in international waters.
unidentified		A short time after the air attack had been completed, the three torpedo boats approached us from our starboard quarter at high speed and in an apparent torpedo launch attitude.
alex jones ▲ ● ▼		Israeli surveillance aircraft flew low over the ship and clearly identified it as an American vessel.
		At 2 p.m. that afternoon, the USS Liberty was attacked by three Mirage III fighter bombers.
		From the onset of the attack, the fighter bombers were jamming U.S. signals.
		Not only were they jamming U.S. signals specifically, they were also unmarked, the only unmarked aircraft in Israel's arsenal.
		The fighter bombers strafed the ships with their cannons, dropped conventional munitions and napalm on the ship, repeatedly from stem to stern.
		After the Mirages had done their work, the ship was hit by medium bomber Desalt Missaries carrying napalm.
		The USS Liberty was then attacked by three Israeli torpedo boats bearing Israeli flags.
		The torpedo gunboats opened fire with high-caliber machine guns and launched torpedoes.
		A single torpedo struck the ship, blowing a hole in both sides, entering the ship and leaving a 30-foot exit hole when it exploded.
		Then the torpedo boats began strafing life rafts in the water, an international war crime.
		While all of this was happening, the oversized American flag flew clearly above the ship.
		The attack on the Liberty went on for hour after hour after hour.
		During the entire attack, the USS Liberty continually called the 6th Fleet that was nearby, begging for air support or rescue.
		Two aircraft carriers in the MED responded by launching fighter aircraft.
		Unbelievably, they were recalled by the White House.
		Rear Admiral Geist, then commanding the carriers in the 6th Fleet, called Washington personally to confirm the recall order.
		Secretary of Defense McNamara came on the line, and then President Johnson himself told Geis, I want that goddamn ship going to the bottom.
		No help.
		Recall the wings.
		Imagine being Admiral Geis, begging the President to allow you to defend an American ship that's under attack, and being told by him that he wants the ship going to the bottom.
		Despite the fact that the U.S. carriers withdrew their help, a Russian spy ship appeared and witnessed part of the attack.
		After three hours into the attack, the Israelis withdrew because there were witnesses, allowing the damaged USS Liberty to limp to safety.
		Forty years after the attack on the USS Liberty, we know exactly what happened.
		I've interviewed former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Thomas Moorer.
		I've interviewed the admirals that were on the line, who heard what President Johnson said.
		I've even talked to the head JAG officer of the Navy.
		who was ordered to falsify the reports and cover up what had really happened.
		One of the Israeli pilots has gone public as well, saying that three times he refused over his radio to headquarters to attack the ship, saying clearly that it was an American ship in international waters and an ally.
		He was ordered under threat of court-martial to engage the ship.
		In a nutshell, this is what happened.
		President Johnson had personal control over the ship, parked it in the Mediterranean, Made a backroom deal with Israel to attack it with an order to kill all aboard.
		Then the attack on the ship was to be blamed on Egypt.
		The US would enter the war and take over the entire Middle East.
		In the aftermath of the attack on the most highly decorated ship in US history, the captain and his entire crew were told they would spend life in prison or be killed if they told anyone what happened.
unidentified		That'll never happen again, right?
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		There's no way they'd do that for a second time, would they?
unidentified		It's Thursday, June 19th, in the year of our Lord 2025.
		And...
		Watch it live right now at band.video.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
		Welcome to The American Journal.
		I am your host, Harrison Smith.
unidentified		Coming to you live on this Juneteenth.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		It's June 19th, 2025.
		I just realized, what am I doing at work?
		Isn't it a federal holiday?
		Didn't they make this a federal holiday to appease the baying mobs of Black Lives Matter rioters?
		I guess for a couple years, I literally haven't seen anything about it.
		Maybe it's because there's so much else going on.
		Maybe it's because, you know, hyping the African-American plight is not politically convenient right now since we're focused on.
		I don't know.
		I don't know what it is, but I haven't seen anything about Juneteenth at all.
		I genuinely forgot what happened, which is, again, a shame.
		I used to like Juneteenth.
		I used to like Juneteenth when it was a Texas holiday.
		And you'd go down to the Miller Outdoor Theater in Houston and dance to some Zydeco.
		It was cool then.
		Then it got hijacked and weaponized by the left into an anti-white Holiday for black people nationwide.
		And it's like, well, this sucks now.
		Well, now this sucks.
		And it feels like an expression of hatred rather than freedom and togetherness.
		But, oh well.
		Just another good thing ruined by the left added to the list.
		We got a lot to talk about today.
		Obviously, the war in Iran continues to happen, whether we like it or not.
		The full video.
		We played yesterday, spent a while talking about the clips from Tucker Carlson's interview with Ted Cruz.
		The clips that he had released as sort of teasers.
		Well, the full thing dropped.
		And I'll tell you, those weren't even the best clips.
		Those were not even the craziest parts of the interview.
		It was a masterclass.
		It was a masterpiece.
		It was something to behold.
		It was probably the worst day of Ted Cruz's life, and we're going to watch it in excruciating detail.
		We're going to take it apart and look at it, not just because it's entertaining and it's a neocon being forced to justify his positions and utterly failing to do so, and that's funny.
		It's not just because it's funny and interesting and, frankly, dominating the news cycle and the conversation, but because Ted Cruz's answers Give us a lot of insight into the mindset of the neocons, the mindset of the traitors in our government.
		He openly is bragging about what I would consider treason, personally.
		And we'll get into why that is and what he believes and how utterly, outrageously, catastrophically, I would even go so far to say apocalyptically wrong.
		Ted Cruz is about just about everything he tried to do there.
		And this is creating an interesting split in MAGA.
		It's not that interesting.
		It's actually kind of obvious.
		But I think there's a misconception that the pro-war with Iran people have.
		I'm talking about cat turd.
		I'm talking about the cat turds out there.
		Cat turd style conservatives.
		Who seem to think that opposition to war in Iran has something to do with either being a leftist and, you know, wanting to protect the poor brown people.
		Or maybe they think it's about, like, people think that America can't handle it and that we're, like, we're scared or something.
		They have this straw man that they put up of the perspective of the anti-war people that's just completely Asinine and delusional.
		When the reality is, there's no positive outcome to this.
		That is the issue.
		The issue is not whether we'll win or not.
		The issue is, if we win, it's still a loss.
		There is no winning this.
		There's no positive that can come out of this.
		It's just not possible.
		There's nothing beneficial to America at all in engaging in this.
		It's especially insulting when our country is embroiled in riots and collapse and division and immigration and we can't get anything done and everything is getting worse statistically.
		That's just like the extra insult to the injury of yet again being led by the nose into a war in the Middle East for the state of Israel for no reason whatsoever.
		No reason whatsoever.
		So we'll lay out that argument and, you know, disabuse the cat turds out there, whatever the hell they think is going on.
		We got other news to cover as well.
		I am going to open up the phone lines for your calls today, and we will be reviewing the Ted Cruz massacre.
		The Ted Cruz massacre carried out by Tucker Carlson forces just a few days ago.
		It was a bloodbath, a true one for the ages, and we'll get to that momentarily.
		We'll begin today, as we do every day, with our daily dispatch.
	Here it is, folks.
	Your Daily Dispatch for Juneteenth, Thursday, the 19th of June, 2025.
	Zero migrants released in May as southwest border crossings fall 93%.
	And I believe it was a day last week that we had the first day, first 24-hour period with zero encounters at the southern border in like 40 years or something crazy.
	Border Patrol released zero migrants into the U.S. in May 2025, down from 62,000 in May 2024.
	Total border encounters dropped 93% to 80%.
	From 62,000 to zero.
	Absolutely incredible.
	And guess what?
	We didn't need a single bill passed through a single House of Congress to get it done.
	It turns out it was simply a matter of will.
	Incredible.
	We gotta get those deportation numbers up.
	We gotta get those deportation numbers up significantly and quickly.
	I'm not saying we need to treat the Mexicans like Gazans.
	I'm just saying there's a spectrum of acceptable activity that governments can have and we're too far on the lenient end and we need to move more towards the Ethnic cleansing genocide end.
	Not all the way.
	I don't want to go all the way to that end.
	I'm not an Israeli.
	Come on.
	God forbid.
	But at least we can move that direction.
	Meanwhile, Trump privately approved attack plans for Iran pending final order, according to the Wall Street Journal.
	And I'm under the impression at this point that basically every leak and release about this It's just entirely strategic.
	I really don't trust any of this.
	On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video that Israeli forces have air superiority over Tehran and are steadily advancing and neutralizing the danger coming from Iran's nuclear facilities and missile capabilities.
	The statement came amid intensifying conflict involving Israeli airstrikes in Iran, ongoing missile exchanges, and U.S. deliberations over military involvement following Trump's approval of attack plans but withholding final orders.
	Iran fired hypersonic and around 400 ballistic missiles towards Israel, killing 24 civilians.
	While Israeli military-targeted missile sites and nuclear facilities in return, both sides issued warnings and evacuation notices.
	Trump stated, I may do it, I may not do it, when questioned about potential U.S. airstrikes withholding confirmation, while Iran's top religious authorities rejected demands to surrender and promised severe retaliatory measures against any foreign intervention.
	In fact, if the crew wouldn't mind, I retweeted or posted yesterday an address from an Iranian spokesperson basically talking about the damage that the strikes are having and what they're doing in return.
	I think it's extremely illuminating.
	And while it's a little bit silly when he's saying, Iran didn't do anything wrong.
	What did we ever do?
	I'm saying, okay, all right.
	All right, you don't have to pretend to be a totally innocent actor in this little exchange, but we hear a lot from Israeli officials in mainstream media.
	You almost never hear from the Iranian officials.
	We'll play that in just a minute.
	It's a little bit longer, but we'll play as much of it as we can.
	Meanwhile, J.D. Vance got a Blue Sky account to troll the transgender people that frequent that website, and then his account was suspended.
	Blue Sky temporarily suspends, then reinstates J.D. Vance's account.
	On Wednesday evening, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance created an account on the Blue Sky platform, shared his initial post around 4.50 p.m., and experienced a brief suspension shortly after.
	Blue Sky's automated impersonation detection system flagged Vance's account as potentially fraudulent, causing the suspension, which lasted less than 30 minutes.
	Vance expressed enthusiasm about joining Blue Sky, recognizing it as a platform for thoughtful political dialogue, and shared a post highlighting the Supreme Court's ruling on gender-affirming care for minors.
	That's awesome.
	A Blue Sky representative explained their automated system temporarily restricted Vance's account due to impersonation detection protocols, but the account was quickly reinstated and verified to ensure its legitimacy.
	The incident illustrates challenges social media platforms face in balancing content moderation and user experience, especially when public figures'accounts trigger automated safeguards.
	That is a hilarious troll by J.D. Vance.
	So I'm not kidding.
	Blue Sky essentially is...
	It's a website for the gender-confused Americans among us.
	And we explain, I mean, Blue Sky, I genuinely think was supposed to replace Twitter.
	I think they had a plan that if Kamala Harris got into office, they're basically going to destroy X one way or another, either by forcing it to abandon the protections that most social media companies have or...
	And so they wanted to have a pre-staged alternative to drive people to.
	One that just so happened to be run by a communist Chinese activist who had censorship built in to the foundation of the entire system.
	But that didn't work out so well.
	Kamal Harris lost in blue sky.
	Has devolved into just trannies posting their anime pornography.
	It's very bizarre.
	It's a very strange and disgusting place.
	And even the liberal users that went there to escape the Nazi hellscape of X are fleeing blue sky now.
	Its user base is actually dropping and even...
	So nobody wants to be there.
	And so J.D. Vance joined as a joke.
	That's the real headline there.
	J.D. Vance joins Blue Sky as a giant joke because who would actually do that?
	Meanwhile, in this story we've hardly covered, but I frankly have been watching it pretty closely.
	Karen Reed found not guilty of murder in retrial on police officer's boyfriend's death.
	If you don't know this story, folks, now's the time to catch up.
	It's been going on for years.
	Long story short.
	Just outside Boston, Massachusetts, a police officer was found dead in a snowbank early in the morning after being out drinking with his girlfriend and fellow police officers the night before.
	And long story short, the police officers framed the girlfriend, saying that she hit him with the car, when in reality, it's almost certain that he was killed in a fight inside the police officer's house.
	But it's an incredible example of the sort of small-scale corruption that exists in America in the way that these institutions protect themselves and cooperate and work hand-in-hand with the judge and the court itself.
	And I didn't come to this conclusion before I looked at the evidence.
	I really I wasn't sure what the case was.
	But if you look at all the evidence, especially if you're looking for a master class in proving someone's innocence, just go listen to the closing statement of the lawyer for Karen Reed.
	It's probably the most convincing closing statement I've ever heard in my life.
	And it really puts a bow on the whole thing.
	And after watching the trial, at least large segments of it, and looking at Hours and hours of auxiliary information.
	I'm pretty much 100% certain Karen Reed was being framed.
	So good for her.
	Good for her getting out.
	And I hope the cops go down.
	Some of them already have.
	Finally, we have this.
	RFK Jr.'s new vaccine advisors will vote on flu shots containing mercury.
	A newly appointed vaccine advisory panel selected by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.
	RFK Jr. is scheduled to vote on the use of thimerosal, a preservative found in some flu vaccines during their meeting on June 26, 2025.
	Kennedy dismissed the previous 17-member expert committee last week and named eight new advisors, many known for criticizing vaccines and the pandemic response.
	The committee advises the CDC on vaccine policies, will review data on flu, RSV, and measles vaccines, and discuss recommendations including combination shots for children under 5. According to the FDA's website, research conducted for more than two decades has found no indication that thimerosal in vaccines causes harm, including serious neurodevelopment issues.
	The vote in discussion could influence immunization policy amid opposition from medical groups as thimerosal use has declined due to single-dose packaging but remains in some adult flu vaccines.
	And of course, I mean, we've we've reported on this endlessly in the in the annals of Infowars.
	There is.
	certainly.
	And while it might not The real danger is the subtle but, in a lot of ways, debilitating neurotoxic effects that mercury can have over an extended period of time.
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	Keep us on the air and in the fight.
	As once again, we're in this situation where we prove that a MAGA is not a cult.
	Which I think is one of those things that people say even though it's disproved on a regular basis.
	Every month or so there's something that Trump does that half of his base rebels at and balks at.
	But also that Infowars has had the same positions more or less for the last 30 years.
	They don't change and they're always right.
	And you can stick with us and take on the positions we hold and it turns out you never have to feel like an idiot.
	Ever again.
	Turns out 20 years from now and everybody saying, yeah, this war with Iran's no big deal.
	Let's just do it.
	Let's get it done.
	When they're all going, oh, we had no idea.
	We had no idea what damage it would do.
	You don't ever have to experience that.
	You don't ever have to look back a year from now, a decade, two decades now.
	You'll be looking back and saying, yeah, I was right.
	Yeah, no, we shouldn't have done that.
	No, that was stupid.
	Alex Jones, InfoWars.
	They were right yet again, over and over, time and time again.
	So go to thealexjonesstore.com to make sure that we can continue to be right about everything.
	And hopefully the more people support us, the more people listen to us, and the more we can avoid the incredibly ill-advised positions of our government, like everything they did during COVID or currently trying to get us into war with Iran for the sake of the genocidal situation.
	I'm just going to be meaner and meaner about Israel until we get the message that they're not our friends, not our allies, not good people, not a good nation.
	They're not, they don't want peace.
	They don't want safety.
	They're bad.
	They're bad.
	It's a bad nation.
	It's a bad, evil group of people, in my professional opinion.
	As I study this more and more, it's one of those things.
	You know, sometimes Iran would be the opposite, right?
	You hear people talk about Iran, even people I really like, right?
	People like Mark Dice.
	In fact, there's another video.
	Actually, I'm not sure if I retweeted it.
	I was sending it to some people.
	But, you know, you hear about Iran, and you might go, you know, they suck.
	They're bad.
	They're, you know, they put their women in hijabs.
	And they, you know, are brutal.
	It's a brutal theocracy.
	I heard Mark Dye say that yesterday.
	I love Mark Dye.
	Mark Dye is like one of my favorite human beings of all time.
	So this isn't really even a criticism of him.
	But he's wrong about this particular part, right?
	He's like talking about how he's not a fan of Iran.
	He says, you know, they keep their women in hijabs.
	And, you know, he said, I don't even think women can drive there.
	It's like, no, that's Saudi Arabia.
	Those are the people that we are allies with completely and support endlessly.
	They're the Wahhabists who don't let women drive and force them to cover everything except for their eyes.
	Iran's not really like that, actually.
	It's actually a little bit different.
	So Iran's one of these places where you hear about it just throughout your life as an American, and you think it's just, you know, the setting of Black Hawk Down or something, right?
	Just like this desert adobe houses where it's just like dust swirling and men beating women with sticks.
	And then you learn more about it and you're like, well, this is not as bad as I thought it was.
	Whereas Israel is the complete opposite, where it's always presented as this paradise or whatever.
	And then the more you look at it, the more it exposes the rotten interior, but like in a million different ways.
	Like you look at the history and you're like, oh my God, they were all just brutal terrorists.
	This is crazy.
	Then you look at like, well, what is it like to go there now?
	And you just see videos.
	Just Christians being spit on by groups of children.
	I mean, it's crazy.
	And also, I mean, if you want to talk about the religious aspects or how they treat women, like, you ever heard of the Hasids?
	You ever heard of the Hasidics?
	They don't even let their women have hair.
	Crazy.
	This is a video from inside of Iran.
	If we want to play this here, it's just, we don't have any audio or anything.
	But you can see, it doesn't quite look like the I don't know, Islamist hellhole that it's generally presented as.
	Not to say I necessarily want to move there anytime soon.
	It's like people got dyed hair.
	Some women are wearing a veil over their head.
	I don't see anybody in a hijab.
	And most people I see are...
	I don't know.
	Doesn't look that bad, actually.
	Doesn't look that crazy.
	I guess they all have to die, though.
	I guess, you know, they might potentially one day possibly create a nuclear weapon.
	So I guess we should probably just kill all these people.
	I guess all those people slated for death now because Israel wants to act with impunity in the Middle East.
	So I guess we have to kill them all.
unidentified		All right, welcome back, folks.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		This is the American Journal.
		I'm your host, Harrison Smith.
		We're going to show some clips from Ted Cruz being destroyed in a way that I haven't seen in a long time.
		Maybe ever.
		Because it's not like Tucker Carlson had some quippy comebacks or anything of the sort.
		He just logically dismantled everything Ted Cruz was saying.
		Because everything Ted Cruz was saying was total nonsense.
		So we'll go to those clips in just a second.
		But I want to first go to this statement from an Iranian representative about the strikes that have occurred and about what their position is.
		Again, I haven't seen this anywhere.
		I define this on like an Iranian Telegram channel.
		But let's play it and we'll hear what they have to say about what they've been through.
		And again, I posted this on XP.
		We'll go, stop listening to Iranian propaganda.
		Why?
		Why would I stop listening to what the Iranians are saying?
		Are they 100% truthful?
		No, probably not.
		Are they saying things I haven't heard about this conflict at all?
		Yeah, I need to hear what's going on in some regard.
		And we hear a lot from the Israeli leadership in U.S. mainstream media.
		And basically everything they say is a lie.
		You know, you can handle this.
		You can watch things.
		You can watch liars say things and still glean the truth from it.
		And in this case, really the only thing I think is dishonest about this statement is in the very beginning when he's like, Iran didn't do anything to deserve this.
		And it's like, okay.
		You do have proxy armies.
		Like, let's be real.
		You're a big boy.
		You're big boys.
		You're in this conflict.
		And you knew what you were getting into.
		Playing innocent in that regard, everything else he says, again, sort of reframes the conflict in a way that I think is necessary for a full understanding of what's actually happening.
		So here's an Iranian spokesperson talking about the attack they have been under by Israel.
unidentified		Let's watch.
		Hello, good afternoon to everyone.
		In the name of God the Compassionate and Merciful, I wish to make a brief statement on the ongoing terrorist and criminal aggression by the Israeli regime against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
		Israel has committed a blatant act of aggression against the sovereign and territorial integrity of Iran.
		Its relentless campaign of atrocities against our people continues unabated.
		This is a serious violation of the United Nations Charter and fundamental principles of international law.
		These attacks cross all red lines.
		Most alarmingly, Israel deliberately targeted a peaceful nuclear facility operating under full IAEA safeguards.
		This is a dangerous and illegal It posed a serious risk of releasing radioactive material.
		If Iran had not immediately contained the situation, the consequences would be Israeli claims of surgical strike is false and misleading.
		In contrast, it has launched a campaign of unlawful and indiscriminate attack targeting civilian infrastructure in Iran.
		Civilians were killed.
		Homes, hospitals and other civilian infrastructure were destroyed.
		These are facts, not claims.
		The Israeli regime deliberately struck densely populated civilian areas in multiple large Iranian cities where millions live.
		So far, 1,480 people have been killed or injured.
		At least 224 civilians, including women and children, have been killed.
		Many of the victims are children.
		In one brutal attack on a residential building in Tehran, around 20 children were martyred.
		Due to the severity of the injuries, this number may rise.
		Israel also targeted vital civilians and economic infrastructure.
		Water storage, fuel depots, the petrochemical facilities, including the Asaluye refinery in Boucher, were hit.
		Hospitals were also struck.
		They are not accidents.
		They are war crimes.
		Just hours ago, Israeli regime deliberately targeted the office of Iran's news agency during a live broadcast.
		This appalling attack constitutes a blatant war crime and a direct assault on press freedom.
		The Israeli regime has once again demonstrated that it is the foremost enemy of thought.
		It holds the disgraceful record of being the world's leading perpetrator of violence against journalists and media professionals.
		In response to this barbaric attack and aggression, Iran exercised its inherent right to self-defense, in line with Article 51 of the Charter.
		Our response was defensive, targeted, and proportionate.
		It is solely aimed at deterring and preventing the recurrence of such crimes.
		Iran will resolutely defend its security and territorial integrity.
		We focused only on military and economic assets involved in the aggression.
		Iran does not seek war or escalation.
		But we will not hesitate to defend our people, our territory, and our sovereignty.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		So that's the spokesperson for Iran talking about some of the dozens of children that were killed.
		And of course, the evolving purpose of this, and it's not actually evolving, right?
		The purpose was always to decapitate Iran.
		And probably what's going to happen...
		I don't think Iran totally surrendering is going to happen anytime soon.
		I think it's more likely that America will get involved, will drop a big bunker buster on the Fordow nuclear site, and will probably drop a precision strike on the leader of Iran and decapitate it completely and try to install.
		Reza Pavlavi or whatever his name is into the position.
		It's just a regime change war.
		So that hasn't actually evolved.
		That hasn't actually changed.
		What they're telling us it's about has evolved a little bit in the sense that this whole thing is predicated on Iran can't have a nuclear weapon and that's what we keep being told.
		But also apparently Israel now is hijacking Iranian satellites and Iranian people watching TV are having their broadcasts interrupted by messages from Israel, encouraging them to overthrow their leadership.
		Because that's what it was always about, and that's what this whole thing has been designed to achieve.
		It just has genuinely, just absolutely nothing to do with nuclear sites, despite that being the talking point repeated over and over and over and over and over and over.
		Again, I think people have a misunderstanding about the principle of resistance to this asinine adventure.
		The likes of Cat Turd are out there mocking anti-war people.
		In all caps saying, Red Alert!
		Red Alert!
		The sky is falling!
		We're doomed!
		World War III is here!
		Panic for clips!
		Trump is George Bush!
		Red Alert!
		It's Armageddon!
		Democrats will win until 2028 or 2084!
		Red Alert!
		Warning, the zombie apocalypse is upon us.
		Red alert, run for your lives.
		Farting sound.
		Not comic genius, cat turd.
		No, but then they fart.
alex jones ▲ ● ▼		Get it?
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Like, dude.
		Your existence is a blight on this country.
		Not that I want you to die, just...
		That's the real sad part.
		like, what?
		How did this...
		I guess there's enough boomers out there to make this a viable career path, old cat turd.
		Does the sky have to be falling for us to say not to go into World War III?
		Or even if it doesn't devolve into World War III, which it is already, obviously.
		You've got Iran and China and Russia obviously being allied.
		The proxy war going on in Ukraine with Russia.
		Now this war going on in Iran.
		I mean, historians will look back at this and say, yeah, they were already in World War III by that point.
		But regardless of that, does it have to be a zombie apocalypse for you to stand up to this?
		Does it have to be an apocalyptic thing for you to oppose it?
		Or can you just say this is a bad idea?
		This is stupid.
		This is a waste of resources.
		It is America's government being hijacked by a foreign entity.
		With a number of different strategies, be it blackmail of our politicians, bribery of our politicians, or just genuine ideological insanity of our politicians, like you'll see on display from Ted Cruz.
		This is a bad idea in every possible way you could ever slice it.
		Why would you not oppose this?
		And how stupid are you going to look if this does go on like this, if we do actually get involved in the Middle East?
		You know two servicemen have already died.
		Do you know that?
		You know two American soldiers, two American families are going to have an empty chair at their Thanksgiving this weekend.
		Two American families just saw their younger brothers for the last time as they were deployed to the Middle East never to return.
		Is that even worth it?
		Is a single human life, a single American life, worth whatever Israel's trying to achieve in the Middle East?
		Apparently decadent it is.
		Apparently those families getting the dreaded knock on the door to hear their son is never coming home.
		CatTurd thinks you're an idiot for opposing that.
		Oh, is it the apocalypse?
		Oh, is the world ending?
		No, your son just died.
		Get over it.
		It doesn't have to be the apocalypse.
		It doesn't have to be World War III.
		it could easily devolve into that.
		I mean, they are...
		But sure, okay, maybe we avoid the worst possible outcome of this.
		Why are we doing it?
		Why take the risk?
		What is the benefit?
		It's like you're playing Russian roulette.
		There's no money on the table.
		Like, yeah, okay.
		There's a 5-6 chance that you're fine at the end of this.
		But there's a 1-6 chance that you're shot in the head, and there's a 5-6 chance you gain nothing.
		So why would you take that risk?
		What is the point of us doing this in Iran?
		I mean, they have nothing.
		They have nothing.
		The only thing they have is the, yet again, just absurd, absurd specter of mushroom clouds over New York City.
		That's it.
		That's the only argument they have is that if we don't do this, potentially maybe, even though they weren't going to do that before.
		I think really, if nothing else, I mean, you can't even make that...
		A, it's not even a threat remotely at all.
		B, even if it...
		You're only increasing the likelihood by waging this aggressive war against Iran.
		It's just so stupid.
		Just this is all so unbelievably stupid.
		I like how Scott Adams put it.
		The Iranian situation represents multiple ways for America to lose and probably no way to win.
	This is Trump's Kobayashi Maru, Star Trek reference.
	If Israel and Trump do not eliminate Trump, If Israel takes out Iranian top leadership, that will lead to chaos.
	That could be on the Iraq-Libya scale, or potentially significantly bigger than that, considering it's a much larger, much more advanced country than either of those were.
	If the Iranian leadership survives even without the top guy, they will rebuild their missile and nuclear capabilities.
	If Israel, quote, finishes the job without needing American bunker busters, How did Captain Kirk do it?
	I don't even know.
	He just, like, didn't play, right?
	Anyway, Trump should bomb Israel, I think is what he's saying.
	I think what Scott Adams is suggesting is that the real way to win this election That'd be the Captain Kirk move.
	That's the Ender's Game move, actually.
	It'd be a great prank.
	It'd be a great prank for Trump to pull.
	It could obviously expand into World War III very easily, as China tells Oman, we cannot sit by and let Israel-Iran situation escalate.
	Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Wednesday his country was concerned that the conflict between Israel and Iran may get out of control, warning that the region could slide into an abyss.
	Israel and Iran exchanged fire again on Wednesday, the sixth day of strikes between the regional rivals, fueling fears of a drawn-out conflict that could engulf the Middle East.
	Quote, Israel's acts of disregarding international law and international rules have caused the situation in the Middle East to suddenly become tense, and China is deeply concerned that the situation may get out of control, Wang told his Egyptian counterpart in a phone call on Wednesday, China's foreign ministry said.
	The same day, in a separate call with Oman's foreign minister, Wang said the two countries cannot sit idly by and let the region slide into an unknown abyss, he said.
	reaching a ceasefire agreement was a top priority.
unidentified		Thank you.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		I wish we were China.
		And foreign policy matters, obviously.
		I don't know.
		Maybe I'm just a wild-eyed dreamer here.
		I'm just John Lennon singing Imagine.
		But what if?
		What if you could have a state that both was not a communist industrial hellhole, but also didn't start wars overseas for no reason and drive area after area of the earth into endless warfare for the benefit of its elites?
		Like, could we handle it?
		Can we do that?
		And I don't know why everything falls in this way.
		It really is crazy.
		I was talking about yesterday with the Republican Party where it's like, can we have a party that both doesn't want to go to war and is willing to use the American government to achieve our ends like getting deportations?
		Because right now we've got the Libertarians who apparently don't care that we've been invaded by 70 million or however many million invaders.
		You got the Rand Pauls and Thomas Masseys being like, border wall?
		Sounds kind of pricey.
		And then the other half of the Republican Party being like, war with Iran?
		Is it my birthday?
		So it's like, is it possible?
		Is it possible to have the good things and not the bad things?
		Is this available to humanity?
		Or are we always stuck in this dichotomy where it's like, well, America's free and has human rights and generally Christian and And moral and being here is nice and comfortable and you're not living in a 3x2 apartment complex with 18 other million factory workers with the suicide nets around you.
		But we just endlessly start wars overseas, whereas China looks like a hellhole most times I see it.
		Well, it either looks like a dystopian paradise of neon lights and maglev trains or – But in general, you know, I wouldn't want to live there.
		I don't want to live there.
		I don't like their communist mindset or lifestyle or, you know, worldview.
		But in the international realm, they're the ones going around going, hey, can we have peace actually?
		actually, what can we do to help you?
		You know, what, where can we loan out money and, and, I don't know why we can't handle it.
		I don't know why everything has to be half bad and half good, but that's just how everything is for some reason.
		It's very annoying.
		So again, it's like, I don't want to like China, but how can you not agree with these statements?
		Israel's act of disregarding international law and international rules have caused the situation in the Middle East to suddenly become tense.
		I mean, yeah, absolutely.
		Totally true.
		America's sitting here going, actually, Iran chants death to America, so therefore they're the bad ones.
unidentified		What?
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		What?
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		So, you bomb them, some civilians there don't like you, therefore they're the bad guys?
unidentified		Come on.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		He's the one, you know, China's the one saying, We can't sit idly by and let this region slide into unknown abyss.
		We have to have a ceasefire agreement.
		Yeah.
		Yeah.
		No, we should.
		Thank you, China, for pointing that out.
		Frickin'sucks you have to be the ones to do it, but...
		Thank you.
		China and other world powers have pushed to find an off-ramp to the hostilities, which began after Israel on Friday launched strikes on Iran.
		The United States, however, has called for Iran's unconditional surrender, with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, saying Washington may still take part in the conflict.
		Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday his nation would never surrender and warn the United States of irreparable damage if it intervenes, while Israel said it destroyed the internal security headquarters of Tehran.
		So, great.
		Our strategy of pushing all of our enemies into the arms of China as they represent the peacemakers in the region, it's just great.
		It's just wonderful.
		I love it.
		Don't you love it?
		Just infuriating.
		And, of course, you have this.
		House Republicans and Democrats move to limit Trump from entering Iran war.
		Representatives Massey and Ro Khanna plan to introduce a measure that would force President Trump to get approval to Congress to enter from Congress.
		I think it means to enter Israel's conflict with Iran.
		A rare bipartisan effort reflects longstanding frustration among lawmakers in both parties with the executive branch's growing power to wage war unilaterally.
		Still, Republicans are proved largely reluctant to oppose Trump since he returned to office this year, making the war powers measure a long shot.
		But absolutely, this should have happened a long time ago.
		America is not supposed to be able to get an award because of the whim of one man.
		And I was pointing out the other day with the...
		Just up to Trump.
		And it was kind of ironic that it's like, okay, over the weekend they have the no kings protest and we're laughing at them and mocking them.
		It's like, well, he was elected.
		He's not a king.
		So what the hell are you talking about?
		You're literally protesting against democracy, but that's fine.
		But then now here we are, you know, waiting to see if our supreme leader.
		He deigns to start a war with a foreign power because of the conniving of his devious courtesans.
		He's like, wow, we kind of do have a king, but only in this regard, right?
		If he wants to deport people, he's got to get Congress, he's got to get the Senate, the judges are going to stop him, the lawyers are going to stop him.
		Even if he gets it done, we don't have the money to pay for it.
		It's just, ah, gee, I mean, this is a mess.
		This is a big mess.
		You want to go to war?
		Done.
		It's done.
		We're actually already in war.
		You didn't even have to tell us, sir.
		We preempted your decision.
		We're already in war with Israel.
		You're welcome.
		Money?
		Never heard of it.
		We've got infinite amounts of material and lives to spend, sir.
		Whatever you will, it will be done.
		No need to ask.
		No need to question.
		Infinite money.
		Infinite resources.
		Infinite authority.
		To wage endless, senseless, pointless warfare anywhere in the world.
		But you want to eject illegals, huh?
		That's going to be an issue.
		We got no money for that.
		We got no authority to do that.
		Anybody that feels like it can stop you.
		That just can't be done.
		Sorry.
	Sorry about that.
	Yeah, it's a little bit designed that way.
	It's been developed that way because people that run our country don't actually like us and have warped our system to be absolutely, resolutely irresponsible when it comes to America.
	Totally inactive.
	Will not respond.
	To the demands of the American people.
	But when the.
	Absolutely no resistance.
	The media won't even report on it unless they have to, in which case they'll frame it as good.
	So I think the point here is that it's not just about the war with Iran.
	It's about the hijacking of our entire system to serve the military-industrial complex.
	And not even the military-industrial complex of America, but just the military-industrial complex that currently sits across the world and survives off human blood.
	And the fact that it's not just in war where this control is manifest, it's also in things like immigration and pretty much any other aspect you could point to of American life where the foreigners in our government Clearly have greater loyalty to themselves or their ideology or their home country than they do the American citizens or America itself,
	up to and including even the most patriotic, important and prominent Republican senators like Ted Cruz, who makes it abundantly clear and in no uncertain terms.
	He is more loyal to Israel than he is to America.
	He says his entire point of being a politician is to serve and protect Israel, just like Chuck Schumer.
	We have this bipartisan cabal of Israel-first traitors controlling our government.
	sort of the consequence of all of this.
unidentified		Welcome back, folks.
unidentified		I got a lot of videos to show you here.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		We should get right into the Israel stuff and go to Ted Cruz.
		But in this first five-minute segment, I think I'd rather go to clip number five here.
		This is a story that's been brewing, and they've made the official announcement.
		Again, we'll get back to Israel and Iran, and we'll show you the clips from Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson here in just a minute.
		But I want to show this video.
		This is a Japanese study of 18 million vaccine recipients.
		Came to some pretty interesting conclusions.
		Let's watch and I'll read along.
unidentified		On March 29th, the call was made.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		The data on the number of vaccinations for 18 million people has been compiled.
		And compared vaccinated and unvaccinated people accurately with unvaccinated in orange.
		Well, we tried this.
		And for unvaccinated people, no peak forms, which is expected.
		They aren't vaccinated, so there's no issue.
		It stays flat.
		The issue is with the vaccinated people.
unidentified		The green line starts low.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		But the first week or two has fewer deaths.
		From about a month, the peak grows and has a significant peak forms at three or four months.
		The unvaccinated people never experience a peak in death.
		What does this mean?
		Doctors administering the vaccine likely think that within the same day, the next day or the next week, it's probably due to the vaccine's influence with adverse reactions occurring, leading to death.
		The information sent to the PMDA, Pharmaceutical Medical Device Agency.
		However, if deaths occur one or two months later, One more thing, another finding is that with vaccination, normally the more doses you receive, the earlier the peak shifts, moving to the left.
		We found that as the number of doses increases, the peak of death appears faster, meaning the more doses you get, the sooner you're likely to die within a shorter period.
		So, the risk increases with more doses.
		First, the formations of a peak shows that the vaccine had no toxicity or didn't induce death.
		There wouldn't be a peak.
		That's the point.
		This is the key discovery.
		The more doses, the more peak shifts, indicating the toxicity accumulates.
		The toxicity overlaps.
		The more doses you receive, the faster people die.
		The more doses you receive, the faster people die.
		Stories there at InfoWars.
		Japan releases bombshell vax versus unvax data on 18 million people.
		I don't think there's ever been a study of that size or with conclusions that rock solid, but I guess you can add it.
		To the number of other studies, the smaller scale studies that have shown that not only are you more likely to die the more vaccines you get, you're more likely to get the disease the more vaccines you get.
		There's a direct correlation to the number of vaccines for COVID that you have and your likelihood of getting or dying from COVID.
		Because it's not a vaccine.
		Because it was always poison.
		So congratulations to everybody that lived through the great filter.
		And that avoided the largest psychological operation ever waged on humanity.
		But realize that was just a single salvo.
		I wouldn't even call it the opening salvo of the war on humanity, but rather a desperate stopgap measure so that they could get Trump out of office, test all of their...
unidentified		Thank you.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		soon-to-be-implemented plans, and we'll see you next time.
		And get a head start on the mass depopulation program at underscore Aussie17 has the study.
		You can, of course, find the article at Infowars.com.
		Yeah, share that to your vaccinated friends.
		Just let them know.
		You don't need to be gloating about it, but they'll get the message.
unidentified		Stay with us more on the other side.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		You're right now not in a very good position.
unidentified		You're gambling with World War III.
unidentified		You're gambling with World War III for the American people to see what's going on.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		So you got a little Trump versus Trump for you.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		If only Trump could sit down with Trump from three months ago and give him a good talking to.
unidentified		Again, the.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Again, the question is just like, but why?
		But why though?
		But why are we doing this?
		What are we involved for?
		What is the purpose?
		What is the benefit to us?
		Answer, there is none.
		Except that Iran is our enemy because of what we are doing over there.
		This is not difficult to understand.
		I don't know why we even have to make this argument.
		But the gaslighting is really out of control.
		Again, we'll try to approach this from a whole bunch of different angles, but I gotta make fun of Ted Cruz for a little while.
		I gotta indulge in the mockery of this, at this point, I mean openly treasonous individual.
		It is truly wild to hear some of the things Ted Cruz said.
		And again, just like the videos that we showed yesterday, the little clips that we thought were going to be sort of the meat of the discussion, They weren't even as bad as some of the clips that we'll show now.
		And it's not about Tucker Carlson having gotcha questions.
		It's not about him having little quips that are like slam dunks.
		It's about him dismantling Ted Cruz's entire worldview, his every stance, his every justification for his positions with just basic elementary logic.
		And it was truly embarrassing for Ted Cruz.
		And everybody who supports what Ted Cruz supports.
		And they're scrambling and kind of trying to act like they won.
		But nobody's falling for it.
		You're only making yourselves look like complete idiots.
		So let's go to some of these clips, shall we?
		Which one should we start?
		They're all good.
		Let's go to clip number two here, because this is one that, I mean, you don't just have to see it.
		Let's go to clip number two now.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		So I've never taken money from the Israel lobby.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Have you?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Taking money from the Israel So AIPAC raises a lot of money for me, but it's actually a misnomer because the people who raise money are individuals.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		So it's not the PAC itself, but they're individual members who believe in the American-Israeli friendship and relationship.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Is AIPAC a foreign lobby?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		No, it's an American lobby.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		AIPAC stands for the America-Israeli Political Action Committee.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		What is it lobby for?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		So, to be honest, not a whole lot effectively.
		Listen, I came in to Congress 13 years ago, with the stated intention of being the leading defender of Israel in the United States Senate.
		And I've worked every day to do that.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Can we pause it real quick?
		Already.
		You see what I'm saying?
		You see what I mean?
		The Israeli, the American-Israeli Political Action Committee is not about a foreign state.
		Lobbying for Israel?
		What?
		That's crazy!
		No, it's the Israeli lobby, but they don't.
		Advocate for really anything.
		Anything really.
		Nothing effective.
		Okay.
		Isn't every...
		Everybody that they endorsed was elected?
		Isn't that what happened?
		I mean, what do you mean they don't lobby effectively?
		They are the largest and the most effective lobby in the history of America.
		Why gaslight like this?
		Why say such obviously untrue things?
		AIPAC isn't a foreign lobby?
		Of course it is.
		Of course it is.
		You know, he uses the excuse as, well, no, the money is raised by individuals.
		I don't even understand what that's supposed to mean.
		Is there any situation in which money is not raised by individuals?
		Aren't human beings always a part of the fundraising mechanism of every organization?
		Well, the money is raised by individuals.
		Yeah, Israeli individuals.
		They're foreigners.
		We get it.
		We know.
		We know what this is.
		But the statement, the proud statement of Ted Cruz, that when he went into the Senate, he went in there with the intention of being the greatest defender of Israel.
		And it's funny because Chuck Schumer said, Something very similar.
		I'm starting to think that that's the only qualification that APAC looks for.
		And then they use their connections with the media.
		Because remember, I've explained it before.
		It's not about money necessarily with APAC.
		They provide a lot of money.
		They do fund a lot of the stuff that happens.
		But much, much more valuable than the money are the connections and the agreements that APAC brings about and the good media that you get when APAC is on your side.
		It's much more about the relationship and the corruption that they're able to facilitate rather than the direct cash donations.
		Everybody should recognize that.
		That's why they have an APAC person, right?
		That APAC person isn't there just giving them money.
		They're there for consultation.
		They're there to tell the senator or congressman, here's what you're supporting next.
		And since I'm telling it to you, you know all of the other APAC people are telling all of their senators and Republicans that this is what you're supporting.
		So you can know that you're on the side that will get the good media, that will be presented as the popular and responsible side.
		So you just do what I say, and I can facilitate all of this.
		I can get you the good interviews.
		I can get you the friendly news coverage.
		That's how this works.
		It's not necessarily about money.
		But to say that you are going into the American government to serve a foreign nation is bad.
		This is how simple this has to get.
		The American government should serve America, not a foreign country.
		Okay?
		I know this is like elementary and very anti-Semitic, but this is the truth, okay?
		You should feel the same way about Ted Cruz that you feel about Ilhan Omar saying she went to Congress to benefit the Somali community and to benefit Somalia.
		These are traitors.
		These are traitorous people.
		At least with her it makes a little bit of sense because she's literally from Somalia.
	Ted Cruz is a Cuban guy from Canada who's dedicated his life to Israel.
	I can't make sense of that for the life of me.
	But it reveals this is what it takes to get elected into Congress.
	In any reasonable republic or democratic system, anybody saying elect me to the American government so I can serve Israel would be roundly rejected by everybody.
	Because we're not Israelis, we're Americans.
	I believe the Texas population is 0.6% Jews.
	I think it's 0.6% Jews.
	I think it's lower than the 2% average that you hear all over America.
	So unless 0.6% of people are deciding our elections, it has a lot more to do with AIPAC's selection of who we're able to vote for.
	And Ted Cruz says, I'm not just going to be pro-Israel, I'm going to be the most pro-Israel.
	I'm going to be Israel's guy in the Senate.
	Me and Chuck are going to just team up to absolutely benefit Israel in every possible way.
	And APEC says, you are hereby ordained, you are hereby granted position of senator.
	Now we have to go through this whole election rigmarole, but you're our guy.
	So you're in.
	So again, just absolutely traitorous, beyond ridiculous that this is happening.
	In both parties.
	And that nobody seems to have a problem with this in the mainstream media or the wider, you know, Republican party system.
	Let's go back to Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson.
	Ted Cruz is currently bragging about being a traitor to America.
	Let's watch.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		AIPAC a lot of times.
		AIPAC, I wish, were much more effective.
		What do they do?
		I thought they were terrified of AIPAC.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I'm not terrified of AIPAC at all.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		You're the one who seems a little uncomfortable when I'm asking.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		No, not uncomfortable at all.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I'm just asking what AIPAC does.
		My understanding, having known a lot of people who want AIPAC, is that it lobbies on behalf of the Israeli government.
		Oh, okay.
		When was the last time AIPAC took a position that deviated from...
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		All the time.
		Okay.
		Let me go back and give a little history.
		If you want to do a deep dive on AIPAC.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I don't.
		I want to do a shallow dive.
		I want to get to the core question.
		AIPAC is lobbying for a foreign government.
		It's not.
		It's lobbying for the United States?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		It is lobbying for a strong U.S.-Israeli relationship.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		So it has nothing to do with the foreign government.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		It wants America and Israel to be closely allied.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Okay, but it's lobbying on behalf of the interests of another country.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		So that's not true at all.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		It's not true.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		How much contact do you think AIPAC leaders have for the government of Israel?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		No idea.
		I imagine some.
		I think the government of Israel is often frustrated with AIPAC because AIPAC is not nearly strong enough.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Do you think there's any coordination between the government of Israel and AIPAC?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Do they talk?
		Sure.
		If you're lobbying for more U.S.-Mexico trade, would you talk to people in the U.S. and Mexico and the government?
		Sure.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I'm not mad about that.
		There are a million countries that lobby Washington.
		I like a lot of those countries, including Israel.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		But APEC or Americans?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		They're not Israelis.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Hold on.
		There are tons of Americans who lobby on behalf of foreign governments.
		I know them.
		I'm related to some of them.
		I know how it works.
		I'm from here.
		So my question is not, is it outrageous that foreign governments lobby the United States?
		They all do, including Israel.
		My only question is, why don't we admit that is what's happening?
		You're denying it, but it's true.
		And why aren't they registered as a foreign lobby?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Because they're not.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		I mean, but they are.
		So why would you say that they're not?
		I don't even get the argument Ted Cruz is trying to make.
		He literally is like, APAC is there to...
		But they're not advocating for Israel.
		If they're in America advocating for a strong...
		They're in America advocating for Israel.
		Why would you...
		What even is his argument?
		That the Israel PAC has nothing to do with Israel?
		Okay, Ted.
		What?
		Yeah, I mean, it's absurd.
		It's absurd.
		Democrat demands Democrats stand with Israel.
		Everything they do is for the benefit of Israel.
		It's an Israeli PAC.
		What are you talking about?
		It's completely insane.
		To say that they're not in Israel's interest.
		It is completely insane on the face of it, from the name of the organization to what it does.
		I mean, come on.
		Come on.
		But if you really are tricked by that, just, I don't even know how to call it a lie.
		Like, it's a lie, but he also told these, like, yeah, they advocate for, you know, the Israeli-American relationship.
		Okay, so they advocate for Israel.
		Nope, they don't advocate for Israel.
		All right, well, it's not even a lie.
		That's just schizophrenia.
		That's just, like, madness on display.
		But in case you were wondering, from Li Feng, Ted Cruz told Tug Carlson that AIPAC doesn't coordinate with the state of Israel, thus does not need to register under FARA.
		That's plainly not true.
		They discussed coordination openly.
		Here's an Israeli minister stating that he asked AIPAC to lobby Congress on the ICC issue.
		This is Israel underscore Katz.
		This evening, I met with AIPAC leaders Michael Tuchin and Howard Kor.
		The state of Israel owes them much of their longstanding support.
		I asked them to work with the administration and Congress to take dramatic steps against the decision by the prosecutor of the ICC to demand arrest warrants of PM Netanyahu and the defense minister.
		The prime minister of the Jewish state and other senior officials cannot be declared war criminals equated with Hamas murderers.
		Yeah, what?
		Just because they commit war crimes?
		You're going to call them war criminals?
		That doesn't seem fair to AIPAC.
		Why, because they...
		You're going to charge them with a crime?
		Not if AIPAC has anything to say about it.
		Not if America has anything to say about it.
		AIPAC's tugging our leash.
		We are loyal dogs, if nothing else.
		Israel is a strong country that knows how to ensure its existence, but on the international stage, we need the unconditional support of the United States, stemming from genuine friendship.
		Demand the unconditional, unquestioning support of you slaves because we're such good friends.
		Okay, so it's just absurd.
		It's just beyond absurd.
		Ted, I love Israel Cruz flailing completely.
		And again, can we just hear it again?
		Let's go to clip number three to hear it again, to hear the treason on tape, shall we?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		By the way, Tucker, it's a very weird thing.
		The obsession with Israel.
		We're talking about foreign countries.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		It's hardly an obsession.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		You're not talking about Chinese.
		You're not talking about Japanese.
		You're not talking about the British.
		You're not talking about the French.
		The question, what about the Jews?
		What about the Jews?
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I'm an anti-Semite now.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Senator, you're asking the question, Tucker.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		You're asking, why are the Jews controlling our foreign policy?
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		That's what you just asked.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I am hardly saying that.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		That is exactly what you just said.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		I'm Ted Cruz.
		I'm going to the Synod with the sole intention purpose of being the greatest defender Israel ever had.
		Why are you so obsessed with Israel?
		Why are you so obsessed with the country that I have dedicated my life to serving?
		I mean, this is the biggest failure of PR I've ever seen in my life.
		And of course, Carlson's exactly right when he's like, oh, so now I'm an anti-Semite because, of course, that's.
		Oh, you're obsessed with the Jews.
		Well, I'll tell you what.
		Is AIPAC Israeli?
		In which case, it's about a foreign nation interfering with our government, you know, and lobbying our politicians and hijacking our foreign policy for their benefit.
		Ted Cruz says it's not Israeli.
		It's not.
		It's not foreign.
		So it is the Jews.
		Okay, so it's just a Jewish pact that is doing this.
		You're obsessed with the Jews.
		Well, actually, I'm obsessed with a foreign country.
		Leading us into war for the third time in my life.
		But you're saying it's not the foreign country.
		You're saying that they're actually all Americans.
		So it's actually all the American Jews that are doing this.
		From any angle you approach this, Ted Cruz's position is indefensible and nonsense and totally absurd.
		And that's the way this conversation has gone for a decade.
		It's like trying to...
		It's like, well, I don't like them because they're Israeli.
		Well, they're not Israeli.
		Okay, well, then it's Jews doing it.
		Oh, you're an anti-Semite.
		It's like, can we just not have this organization exist anymore?
		How about we just dismantle this organization because it is a pernicious and deceptive cabal of foreigners destroying our electoral system Through their money, influence, and corruption.
		How about we don't have to let this exist anymore?
		It's causing all these problems.
		This is a big confusion.
		Let's get rid of it.
		Let's get rid of it.
		Once and for all.
		And forever.
		Please?
		Can we do that?
		Is it possible?
		Of course, Ted Cruz has some...
		Has some bizarre...
		Well, that's right.
		We got so many clips, we don't even know what to do with them anymore.
		Let's go to clip number nine here, because this is Senator Ted Cruz trying to use the Bible to justify his, again, indefensible and hilarious position.
		Let's watch.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Growing up in Sunday school, I was taught from the Bible, those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		And from my perspective, I want to be on the blessing side of things.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Of those who bless the government of Israel?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Those who bless Israel is what it says.
		It doesn't say the government of, it says the nation of Israel.
		So that's in the Bible.
		As a Christian, I believe that.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Where is that?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		I can find it to you.
		I don't have the scripture off the tip of mine.
		You pull out the phone and use it.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		It's in Genesis.
		So you're quoting a Bible phrase.
		You don't have context for it.
		You don't know where in the Bible it is, but that's like your theology?
		I'm confused.
		What does that even mean?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Tucker.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I'm a Christian.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I want to know what you're talking about.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Where does my support for Israel come from?
		Number one, because biblically we're commanded to support Israel.
		But number two...
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		You're a senator and now you're throwing out theology and I am a Christian and I am allowed to weigh in on this.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		We are commanded as Christians to support the government of Israel?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		We are commanded to support Israel.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		What does that mean, Israel?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		We're told those who bless Israel will be blessed.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		But hold on.
		Define Israel.
		This is important.
		Are you kidding?
		This is a majority Christian country.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Define Israel?
		Do you not know what Israel is?
		That would be the country you'd have asked like 49 questions about.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		So that's what...
		The nation of Israel, yes.
		So is that the current borders, the current leadership?
		He's talking about the political entity called Israel?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		He's talking about the nation of Israel.
		Yet nations exist, and he's discussing a nation.
		A nation was the people of Israel.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Is the nation God's referring to in Genesis, is that the same as the country run by Benjamin Netanyahu right now?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Yes, yes.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		It is.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		And by the way, it's not run by Benjamin Netanyahu as a dictator.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		It's a democratic country that elected...
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		He's the prime minister, what?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		But just like...
		No, actually, the American people elected Donald Trump.
		The same principle is there.
		This is silly.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I'm talking about the political entity of modern Israel.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Yes, and that is Israel.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Do you believe that's what God was talking about in Genesis?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		I do.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		That country's existed since when?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		For thousands of years.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Now, there was a time when it didn't exist and then it was recreated just over 70 years ago.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I'm saying, I think most people understand that line in Genesis.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		To refer to the Jewish people, God's chosen people.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		That's not what it says.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Israel, but you don't even know where in the Bible it is.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Again, it's just absurd to be deciding decisions of war based on Ted Cruz's Sunday school experience as a four-year-old.
		Because that's what he just said.
		He just said, when I was in Sunday school, somebody told me to bless Israel, and that's just been his position ever since.
		He just unquestionably accepted that and just applied the word Israel from the Bible to the current Rothschild-founded criminal enclave on the coast of the Mediterranean.
		Grow up, Ted.
		Grow up.
		And the responses to this are hilarious.
		People all over Twitter being like, are you telling me my gardener is actually Jesus Christ?
		Are you telling me he's the Savior?
		They have the same name though.
		No, but it says Jesus is the Savior and his name is Jesus and it's spelled the same.
		So, you know, it's like, because they called themselves Israel.
		Therefore, it's the same as, I mean.
		Every one of these points, it's like, do I even need to explain?
		Yes, the Israeli PAC benefits Israel.
		No, the Israel from Genesis is not the current state of Israel.
		What the hell are you talking about, Ted Cruz?
		And how is anybody falling for this?
		Why would anybody buy this?
		And frankly, I don't think people are.
		And this is why we need to...
		It's not just for the entertainment value.
		As hilarious as this nonsense is, people in our government are making decisions based off this crap, and they have for decades.
		And you remember the story from the first or the second, I guess the second Iraq war, George W. Bush.
		He was talking to the French president, I believe.
		I was talking about Gog and Magog and the...
		Imagine that.
		You're in a meeting about a looming war with a fellow head of state, and they just start rambling in this apocalyptic speaking in tongues, Gog and Magog, and it's just like, what?
		Well, no, we're talking about a state and another state and people and weapons and guns and bullets, and you're talking about something from Genesis?
		This is crazy.
		This is indefensible.
		This is madness.
		I'm sorry, Ted Cruz, you were brainwashed by a Sunday school teacher to think that you're supposed to give all of America's money and blood to some atheist secular Jews in the Middle East, but that's nonsense.
		That's crazy.
		Historically, according to theology, it's just...
unidentified		Thank you.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Well, it explains why we're in the position that we're in.
unidentified		All right, welcome back.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		We'll get one more humiliating clip of Ted Cruz being confronted on not just his position on Israel, but his utter failure as a representative for America to do anything positive for America ever.
		We'll get to that in just a second, but I want to go to clip number 19 here.
		This is Steve Bannon's response to Ted Cruz.
		Ted Cruz invoking the Bible and saying, you know, bless Israel and you'll be blessed, which is even historically total nonsense.
		But we can leave that to the side.
		We can leave that all the way to the side for now.
		Should we get into what happens to countries that go against Israel?
		We don't have time to get into the history here.
		What do we have?
		The nation is like a mighty lion.
		When it is sleeping, no one dares wake it.
		Whoever blesses Israel will be blessed, and whoever curses Israel will be cursed.
		Well, that's it.
		Surrender your children to Baal.
		Is Israel the nation, or is it the Jewish people?
		If it's the Jewish people, that is Israel, the diaspora included in the label.
		Anyway, we can move on, but the year 1492 is probably interesting.
		Oh, Ted Cruz's friends with Shmuley, with Rabbi Buttplug.
		What a big surprise.
		Rabbi Shmuley, another one of these people, another one of these characters in the drama we see play out, who is...
		And yet, somehow, this disgusting freak who sells sex toys with his daughter is best friends with every world leader.
		Isn't that amazing?
		Isn't that incredible?
		Nobody likes him.
		Nothing he says is even remotely sensical or beneficial to anybody, but he's best friends with every world leader.
		Isn't that crazy how that happens?
		And actually, on the topic, it's funny, these topics kind of coincide.
		Rabbi Shmuley just went to Spain and was making all these videos going around talking about how evil Spain is.
		Because they kicked out the Jews in 1492, which just so happened to be the first year of their golden age, when Spanish-sponsored explorers discovered America and injected untold wealth into that country.
		Gold beyond measure.
		Spices.
		World trade.
		Flourishing to a degree that perhaps no nation has seen before or since.
		I don't know where the Bible is, Bible verses.
		That explains that occurrence, but there it is.
		That is actually what happened.
		Can you imagine holding a grudge for 500 years?
		I mean, Rabbi Shmueli literally is going around Spain talking about how evil they are and how mean they were to Jews 500 years ago.
		It's like, dude, who cares?
		First of all, who cares?
		Second of all, the only reason Spain had to be reconquered in the first place is because the Jewish communities there collaborated with the Muslims to conquer Spain in the first place.
		Like, that's why there was the expulsion of the Jews in 1492 in Spain, because they collaborated with the Muslims to take over Spain.
		And to the Spanish, you know, it's like, well, we got to kick the Muslims out.
		We got to kick the Jews out, too, because they are working together, basically one and the same.
		Anyway, we don't have to get into the history here, but it does disprove Ted Cruz's assertion.
		And it is something that Rabbi Shmueli himself brings up over and over and over and over again.
		And it's so funny when you hear Jews, they're like, you know, we've been kicked out of countries for a thousand years.
		But we're still here, and every other country is down.
		Oh, is this happening?
		Today?
		How did I not know about this?
		Rabbi Shmuley is debating Alex Jones at 7 today?
		Wait, what?
		He's debating Brother Nathaniel?
unidentified		What?
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		It says debate Alex Jones tomorrow live at 7. Is that...
		I'm very excited for that.
		I'm going to need to...
		Thank you.
		Alex isn't confirmed?
		Or Brother Nathaniel?
		Okay.
		Alright.
		Alright.
		I'm hearing rumors from the crew.
		We don't know what the debate is gonna look like, but apparently at 7 tonight, something's going down.
		Might have to make a little cheat sheet.
		Rabbi Schmule.
		But anyway, it's like, you always hear, it's a constant refrain of like, people kick the Jews out, but those countries are all gone and the Jews are still here.
		Then you look at the list of countries the Jews were kicked out of and it's like, England?
		Spain?
		Germany?
		Like, yeah, those countries are still around.
		I'm not sure if you're aware of this.
		Spain does in fact still exist.
		Anyway, that's a small side point, but I hear that talking point all the time.
		It's just like, what?
		They're like, you know, Rome may have defeated Judea, but the Jews are still here and Rome is gone.
		Rome transformed into the Catholic Church and it's the biggest single religion in the world.
		It's probably the wealthiest religion in the world too.
		It also is still headquartered in Rome with the most beautiful buildings you've ever seen in your entire life.
		the grandeur that will astonish you.
		So I don't know what they're talking about when they say that, but...
		Here's Steve Bannon, not a particularly Christian dude.
		He's not known for being a Bible thumper, but here he is responding to Ted Cruz's assertion that we must bless the state of Israel or else God will hate us.
		Let's watch.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		For Ted Cruz, yo dude, I'm not exactly the churchiest guy in the world.
		And I know you're, you know, Mr. Bible.
		When you talk about the Genesis thing, Isn't our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ the new covenant?
		Now, you know, I'm a Catholic, and the Catholics, as everyone knows, are not as intensely into the Bible.
		I think that's changing now, but particularly when I was raised.
		But in the Mass, the Catholic Mass, at the most solemn part, the new and everlasting covenant.
		This whole thing, it was one of the most bizarre things I've ever heard in my life.
		A grown man.
		A grown man that professes to be a Christian?
		The New Testament is obviously very important.
		It's one of the foundational elements.
		But the New Testament is called the New Testament for a reason.
		Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, is the new covenant.
		A new covenant was made.
		And is that the reason for Israel?
		Look, we're one of the biggest defenders.
		I think we're one of the biggest defenders of Israel and the nation of Israel.
		But this can't go on.
		It can't.
		It's not helping Israel.
		It's hard to think there the guy promotes himself inside of Israel as a manipulator of American presidents, a manipulator of the American political process.
		That's got to stop now.
		It has to stop.
		For the good of Israel, it has to stop.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I completely agree.
		And again, this is why this conversation I think is important.
		It's not even about just Iran.
		It's not even about...
		It's about these fundamental misunderstandings that have been perpetuated for decades on end.
		And I've had to explain it here.
		I've said I don't know how many times in this show.
		And, like, it's weird because it almost sounds offensive, but it's not.
		It's just absolutely, undeniably true that, like, Judaism is not Christianity.
		I've said that before.
		It sounds crazy, but it's like, these are two different religions.
		In the same way that it seems like Ted Cruz and Donald Trump say we when they're talking about Israel, it's like, well, that's not us, though.
		That's a different country than America.
		What?
		Christianity is a different religion than Judaism.
		And it's weird when you hear Christians talk about Jews as if they're just like genetic Christians or something.
		And it's like, it's entirely different.
		Religious system, just like Islam, is an entirely different religious system.
		Or Hindu, or Taoism, or Buddhism, or any other religion you want to name is different than any other religion you want to name.
		What is hard to understand about this?
		And what are the consequences of ignoring the fundamental moral differences between religions?
		It's good to see Steve Band talk about that.
		And it's good to see Discredit this claim that somehow the Israel that exists now is the Israel from back then.
		They don't even practice the same religion.
		The Talmud wasn't written until 200 years after Jesus died.
		The Jewish religion...
		Anyway, we don't need to get into the theology because it's stupid because this is a war we're talking about.
		It's a war with Iran and Israel, but it's worth to talk about because it envelops so much other controversy happening in America today.
		We'll finish up with Ted Cruz, but I'm tempted.
		In fact, let's just do it now.
		Since we're on the topic, since we're discussing religion.
		A very interesting announcement was made.
		And I'm not sure the validity of these claims, but apparently there's some Asian guy who's the smartest person in the world.
		He's got the highest IQ in the world.
		His IQ is something like 237.
		Something crazy.
		But I was confused with this because there's another guy that claims to be the smartest guy in the world.
		There's another guy, he's a white guy, who claims to have the highest IQ in the world.
		And there's like mainstream Articles about these guys.
		Like, these aren't just some dude going, I have the highest IQ in the world.
		Pay attention to me.
		Like, they actually do the test and score higher than anybody else.
		And they score in the 200s of their IQ.
		And both of these guys are faithful Christians.
		And it's so crazy to see.
		So the announcement that was made was that the smartest man in the world with an IQ of 237 has announced that Jesus Christ is God and that He believes this.
		Here, Young Hoon Kim, as the world's highest IQ record holder, I believe that Jesus Christ is God, the way, the truth, and the life.
		So he's a world record holder for the highest IQ in the world.
		Clip number 21. I believe this is him talking about his faith.
unidentified		In this video, I would like to share my idea, my thoughts about afterlife.
		I think Our consciousness is not just brain activity, but it is something deeper.
		I think you believe this.
		Science says that when the brain stops, then our consciousness disappears.
		You believe this now.
		Quantum physics says that information never disappears.
		Never.
		It only changes in forms.
		If our consciousness is quantum information, it may continue after the body is gone.
		For example, like computer data stored in the cloud, Our consciousness may not be trapped in the brain.
		Quantum entanglement suggests that our consciousness is part of a bigger system beyond the physical world.
		Some scientists and philosophers believe that our world may be a simulation.
		Created by a higher dimension of being which I believe.
		If this is true, then the death is not the end, but a shift to another reality.
		Just like a video game character disappears, but the player still exists.
		Our consciousness may continue in a higher dimension like this.
		Many people with near-death experience says they saw their bodies from above or felt warm light and deep peace.
		They felt They say they felt warm light and peace.
		These experiences seem like moving from one system to another, I think.
		So, if reality is part of something bigger, then death is not the end.
		But it is a transition, shift to another reality.
		Science is growing now, and we are learning more about consciousness and reality.
		Our death is not destruction, but change and shift.
		Humanity will keep searching for the truth about what comes after, after life.
		Thank you.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		All right, so that is the world record holder for the...
		Highest IQ.
		The other guy I was thinking of is Christopher Langan.
		He's been reported to have an IQ between 195 and 210 based on tests like the Megatest, which he's been described as the smartest man in history or in America by media outlets.
		And he's got some interesting takes.
		He's got some very interesting takes.
		He also believes that Jesus Christ is Lord.
		You should look up his takes on the situation.
		So I thought that's a very interesting revelation.
		No pun intended.
		And you look up Chris Langang, and it's like, question, what are your thoughts on the future of the white race and how we can reclaim our former glory?
		Answer, the white race has proven its raw ability to succeed, just as it alone has proven its ability to build modern civilization and develop modern science and technology to their present heights.
		It's like, never mind.
		And never mind, we don't want to know what the smartest man in the world thinks about white people, actually.
		Never mind.
		We want the dumb people commenting on that exclusively, please.
		Let's finish out with Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson because we have our final clip and it is, to me, the most telling, the most important, the most powerful clip of the collection of the entire conversation.
		Clip number 14 on our list and it's Tucker Carlson making the fundamental argument against the American government as it stands now and it's in response to Ted Cruz criticizing his trip to Russia.
		And you remember that scandalous video Tucker Carlson made where he showed people that Russia is actually kind of nice.
		And you go into the grocery stores and there's no shortages of anything.
		And the food is significantly cheaper.
		And it's not filled with filth and criminals.
		And the products aren't behind plexiglass.
		Remember when he did that traitorous thing of disproving the lies of the mainstream media, who at the time were telling us that the sanctions against Russia were having a devastating effect, and that Russia itself was some sort of hellish third-world Siberian nightmare where everything was controlled.
		And again, because something about our system is stuck in the 1970s.
		They expect to go to Russia and see Soviet brutalism.
		And empty store shelves and bread lines.
		Like, guys.
		They're basically a modern country at this point.
		I mean, there's huge swaths of Russia that are still very rural and everything, but...
		If you've ever talked to anybody that has spent any amount of time in Russia, they will not shut up about how great it is.
		It's white Japan, basically.
		It's the place people go and they come back depressed that they have to live in America because they've seen the alternative.
		They've realized that it's not incumbent and an inextricable aspect of modernity that everything is filthy and chaotic and bad.
		That you can actually be prosperous and futuristic and safe and clean and nice.
		And then I really don't want you to know that.
		So here's Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson.
		Debating this point back and forth.
		Let's watch.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		You just accused me of being an anti-Semite, an isolationist, and a Russia-lacky.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I've not called you a neocon once, which you are, but I haven't said that.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		I mean, that's absurd.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, those neocons that oppose the Iraq war.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		But, like, that's dishonest.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Okay, but I haven't called you that.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Well, you just said, which you are, so you just called me that.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		You just did.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I guess what I'm saying is you're triggered because I used name-calling.
		I get it.
		I was triggered when you called me names.
		And I'm triggered once again that you're calling me a Russia defender when in fact I'm defending...
		Do you think Putin's our enemy?
		Well, he's literally our enemy.
		You are funding a war against him.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		You're saying we're his enemy.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Do you think Putin is our enemy?
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I think it is a tragedy that your policies, your policies, specifically yours, helped drive Putin into the arms of China, forming a block that's larger than us.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		So you won't answer that question?
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I don't.
		He is literally our enemy right now.
		That is a tragedy for the United States.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		You're saying, but you won't say he is our enemy.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I don't want to be enemies with Russia.
		It doesn't help us at all.
		It may help some people in the United States, but in general, I don't want to be at war.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		With Russia.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		I don't think it is in our interest to be at war with Russia.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		You don't want Russia aligned with China.
unidentified		All right.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		That's totally my mistake.
		That was not the clip I meant to play.
		Let's go to clip number 12 now.
		See if this works.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Look, I watched your episode where you went to the Russian grocery store and...
		It was just weird.
		It was weird.
		It was like a promo video for Russia.
		I don't understand.
		I'm not attacking you when I ask why, because I'm genuinely, like, I don't get this thought.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Like when you caught me and said something.
		You weren't attacking me, you were just noticing.
		But may I ask you a question?
		So, here, well, let me just answer yours by saying the United States, the Biden administration, with your help, full support, began this war on Russia.
		In response to their invasion of Ukraine.
		And one of the things was they kicked Russia out of SWIFT, of the international financial system.
		And my first response was, this is going to really hurt the US dollar, which it has.
		And I hope someday we can have a conversation about that.
		It's really, really hurt the one thing that we needed, which was to retain dollar supremacy.
		I was interested in the economic condition.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		By the way, that's a reasonable point and a serious conversation.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I'm aware.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I'm aware.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		But I can agree with you.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		No, no, but I was accused of being...
		I think it's weird that you went to a Russian grocery store and said it was prosperous.
		No, my point is...
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Isn't this wonderful?
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		It was an argument against the efficacy of sanctions.
		Sanctions against Russia, which you casually and enthusiastically imposed, scoring a little moral victory every time.
		Had no material effect that helped the United States.
		Russia is backstopped by China, and I recommend that you go there and see it.
		It is way nicer than Washington, D.C. Way nicer.
		To me, that's a tragedy.
		I was horrified and angry at my leaders, including you.
		It's like, I want to live in a country that's nice, with low food costs and no homeless people.
		I don't understand why that's too much to ask.
		So do I. Instead, I get worse with Iran.
		No, I just want lower food costs.
		How's that?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		So, look, it's a weird argument that you do often, which is, listen, things are crappy in America.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Liberals have done bad things to America, so we shouldn't worry about any enemies around the world.
unidentified		No, not liberals.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Republican senators, they don't care about us.
		They're focused on other countries.
		And our country is dying, and you don't care because you're focused on Iran or Putin.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		So you believe that I don't care about America?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		I guess you believe Donald Trump doesn't either, like nobody cares.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I believe that your focus...
		It's way too focused outward.
		The money that you send abroad could be used here and should be.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		What money did I send abroad, by the way?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		I emphatically agree with you.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		You don't even know!
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		I emphatically agree with Donald Trump's, for example, dramatically slashing USAID.
		I think the only reason we should be deploying that is to benefit U.S. interest, national security interest, and keep Americans safe.
		Look, you're in about $80 billion.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		$80 billion.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		So you're in...
		You love just giving these broad characterizations that are not accurate.
		I'm...
		Look, I don't want to go to war with Russia, but I don't think they're our friend.
		I think Putin I think Putin is a murderer, I think he's a liar, and I think he does not wish well on America.
alex jones ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
		Yeah, I've never seen a humiliation like it.
		I've never seen somebody take L's that bad.
		And it's so funny, Ted Cruz is like, you think I don't care about America?
		Well, you told us that you don't care about America as much as Israel.
		You told us your point of going to be a senator was to defend Israel, not America.
		So, first of all, yes, I don't think you care that much about America.
		But also, you're deliberately missing the point because you know Tucker Carlson's right and you have no defense against the way that we spend infinite amounts of money overseas when America is collapsing.
unidentified		All right, folks, still a lot to cover in today's episode of The American Journal.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		I'll open up the phone lines in the next segment.
unidentified		Dramatic music
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		We're going to continue to talk mostly about Zionism and Iran and Israel and the looming specter of direct involvement in that conflict.
		I think Iran might be calling Trump's bluff, if you want to know the truth.
		I think Trump, and maybe this is just wishful thinking, but it seems to me like Trump does not want to go To war with Iran.
		If anything, what he wants is Iran to capitulate completely.
		And I think he kind of thought they would.
		I think he lets Israel bomb them to hell, kill a bunch of their leadership.
		He promises to get involved directly, bringing America to bear.
		Because remember, I mean, you have to look at the past of Trump's military interventions, things like killing Or the rocket launches against Syria when they're trying to trick him into that war with the chemical weapons, which didn't exist.
		I just run the same playbook over and over.
		Oh my god, Assad has chemical weapons.
		Saddam has chemical weapons.
		Iran has nuclear weapons.
		I mean, they don't, but whatever.
		We have to do it anyway.
		And the way Trump avoided that one was by firing the rockets to an empty base.
		Putting on a big show, getting a lot of positive press for that, and then it didn't go any farther.
		But I think he's been bluffing against Iran.
		I think he wants Iran to think he's going to go to war with him, but I don't think he actually wants to.
		I don't think Iran is capitulating.
		I don't think they're going to fall for it.
		I think he may have miscalculated here.
		Because if he wanted to get in to war with Iran, I think he would have done it already.
		Like, why the delay?
		Why the delay?
		It's clearly not about nuclear weapons.
		We know that because of all the people telling us that, like Lindsey Graham.
		This is for regime change.
		Or the Israelis spreading broadcasts on Iranian television saying overthrow your government.
		I mean, they want regime change.
		It's not about nuclear weapons.
		So Trump is sitting there going, hey, if they just get rid of their nuclear weapons, we'll stop.
		Sort of wanting to have that off-ramp to this conflict.
		But the Iranians aren't capitulating, and they know what this is about.
		I don't know, because again, I think if Trump wanted to go to war in Iran, we would have been involved from the beginning in a really obvious way.
		Obviously, we have been involved since the beginning.
		Our intelligence, our refueling flights, all that stuff, but if you wanted to go to war with Iran directly, if you wanted to drop the bunker busters on The nuclear weapons sites, there's no reason why he wouldn't have done it already.
		So, you know, again, I think the most likely outcome of this is that we will get involved with direct bombing that will help Israel out by dropping the bunker buster bombs that we have that they don't, that can potentially reach the Fordow nuclear site.
		And then Trump will want to sort of get out of it and just, you know, put somebody in charge like Pavlov or something.
		It's just not going to work.
		I don't think it's going to work.
		I think it's a bad decision, regardless of how it turns out.
		But at the end of the day, what do you think it is?
		Do you think it's that the powers that be are running the old playbook, not realizing how different the world is today than it was 20 years ago?
		I mean, did they really think they were going to run with weapons of mass destruction and that Americans were just going to, you know, pile onto that again?
		Do they not realize not just what's happened over the last 20 years, but specifically what's happened over the last year and a half?
		And that by pursuing this goal and lying in the way they are, all they're doing is...
		This is why we, you know, I don't want to go to war with Iran, but maybe we needed this conflict for our own sake.
		So America can finally look at itself in the mirror and see what's going wrong.
unidentified		Welcome back, folks.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Major escalation.
		Israel vows to intensify attacks after Iranian missiles strikes.
		Well, he bombed a hospital.
		You can't just bomb a hospital and get away with it.
		Unless you're Israel and you've bombed 36 Palestinian hospitals in the last year.
		Those were accidents.
		Or they were fighting Hamas or something.
		Whatever.
		It's bad when they do it, not when we do it, okay?
		That's how it works.
		That's not a made-up number, by the way.
		That is, in fact, the number of hospitals that Israel has bombed in the last year, 36. And they bombed an Iranian one yesterday.
		So, again, no, hospitals should not be bombed.
		Yes, it is a tragic disaster that any hospital gets bombed.
		It's horrifying to think about what it must be like to be an Israeli citizen in the hospital right now.
		Being bombed.
		Nobody wants that.
		Maybe you should have thought about that before you bombed all those hospitals.
		Like, how am I supposed to feel sorry for you?
		I do.
		Don't get me wrong.
		I'm not happy that it happened.
		But, you know, fair is fair, man.
		And I don't know what else to tell you.
		Actually, back to our old conversation about like...
unidentified		Thank you.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		It says treat others as you like to be treated.
		Apparently they didn't realize it's not fun having your hospitals bombed.
		Maybe you shouldn't have done it to other people.
		It's not a justification for the bombing of Israeli hospitals, but it is a reminder that following the Golden Rule is a moral imperative, even if you reject Jesus.
		So again, the excuses being made for our intervention in Iran are baffling and nonsensical and ridiculous.
		But it doesn't matter because you're doing it anyway.
		It's just the cover that they're providing you so that we can still operate with the semblance, the pretend disguise of being some sort of You know, republic rather than just a slave state controlled by oligarchs and international bankers, many of them foreign.
		I'm trying to think of a good analogy for this, but I don't know if there is one.
		I don't know if one exists.
		Because as much as we talk about the language and the psyops and the discussions and the assertions and the counterpoints, Counterpoints.
		At the end of the day, physically, all that's happening, with all the talk swirling around it, what's really occurring is America is controlled by Israel and is being sent to the Middle East to yet again get into another war.
		And in reality, it just has nothing to do with what benefits America.
		It has nothing to do with a threat that Iran poses.
		It has nothing to do with the will of the American people or anything of the sort.
		And because they feel obligated to, they provide whatever random excuses they can come up with that they think will convince you that this is a good thing.
		But it just is completely divorced and unrelated to the reality of the situation on the ground.
		And it's very funny seeing all the Republicans trying to defend Ted Cruz, posting the same clips we're posting.
		Of course, we're posting them just sort of without commentary, going, wow, I've never seen anything this bad, right?
		Just going, take a look at this guy, and then we post the video.
		They're posting much shorter videos and trying to act like what Ted Cruz was saying was not, you know, prima facie, internally inconsistent logically and just utter nonsense from the outset.
		Senate Republicans at Senate GOP say Ted Cruz is right.
		Republicans back Israel because it's in our interest to support an ally against our common enemy.
		What makes Israel an ally of us?
		We give them everything, sure.
		We do what they say, yes.
		We provide them intelligence, absolutely.
		What is the benefit from them?
		We wouldn't be enemies with Iran if it weren't for Israel.
		So what are they talking about?
		It's internally totally inconsistent and baffling.
		They go on to say, Iran has killed many Americans.
		What?
		Genuinely, what is that referring to?
		I cannot figure it out.
		What is that referring to?
		Iran has killed many Americans?
		When did that happen?
		I'm serious.
		Am I missing something?
		When has Iran killed many Americans?
		I don't get it.
		And I posted that on X and people responded to me saying, well, they certainly have contributed to the deaths of Americans, soldiers at some point.
		So that's a valid reason to go to war?
		It just makes no sense.
		When has Iran killed Americans?
		What are they talking about?
		This is what I mean by baffling.
		They just say things.
		They just assert things and don't even try to prove them.
		Or quantify exactly what they're talking about.
		They just say Iran has killed Americans.
		You want to show us which ones?
		You want to tell us what the hell you're talking about?
		Mexico has killed way more Americans than Iran ever has.
unidentified		Ever.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Mexico has probably killed more Americans in the last month than Iranians have killed.
		If you're talking about the fentanyl deaths, if you're talking about the just...
		You're talking about a real threat and a real enemy in Mexico.
		Iran?
		I don't know.
		Iran's not the one shipping fentanyl in.
		There's not Iranians choking our prison system.
		I just want to stick on this for a minute because you've got to understand how bizarre this is.
		The official Senate Republican's account on Twitter, on Axe, just posts this statement that I can't even figure out how to prove it's true or untrue.
		Iran has killed many Americans.
		What does that mean?
		What are they saying?
		Who are they talking about?
		Was there an event where they killed a bunch of Americans?
		Are they talking about all the, like, Dual citizen people in the Israeli army that are killed by Hezbollah, the Iran proxy.
		How far removed from America and Iran are these deaths to qualify as Iran killing Americans?
		What does this mean?
		And that's just one of the things that they say.
		So this is how lacking we are in valid reasons to go to war with Iran.
		They are just making stuff up and not even trying to prove it.
		If America is going to go to war with another country, you would think there would be a reason.
		It doesn't even have to be a good reason.
		There would be a reason, though.
		The reason America is going to war with Iran is because Israel wants it to.
		That's the reason.
		So they're coming up with excuses, and they can't even come up with good ones.
		I think they're in a bad situation.
		Any other time in history?
		A decade, you know, from the 2000s and before, this would have been false flag time.
		That would have been the excuse.
		Because you can see how it doesn't make any sense.
		Like, they're flailing, they're just making stuff up, they're just claiming attacks that never even happened.
		That's how far gone we are.
		It's like they're basically asserting a false flag happened when nothing happened.
		Now, any other time in history, they would have just blown up one of our ships and said, ah, that was Iran, that's why we have to go.
		And anybody who said, whoa, whoa, war with Iran, they'd say, the ship, though.
		But the ship that was blown up and that would have silenced all opposition.
		They can't get away with that anymore.
		I really don't think they can get away with that.
		I think they know they can't get away with that.
		I think they're running AI simulations going, what if we blew up an aircraft carrier?
		And the AI is returning.
		Yeah, nobody falls for it.
		The AI is telling them, everybody knows it's you.
		And they blame you.
		And they don't blame Iran.
		It actually makes it harder to get war with Iran.
		That's not going to work.
		I think the open internet and the Infowars movement that popularized the term false flag that opened people's eyes to the reality of the way that war is fabricated through deceit has made that option impossible.
		So, since they can't do a false flag and get away with it, they don't have anything.
		They don't have anything to go on.
		They got no reason to give us.
		That we should go to war in Iran.
		The reasons they are giving us are Iran has killed Americans.
		Apparently, at some point, somewhere.
		They tell us.
		That might even be less ridiculous than the next one.
		Iran tried to assassinate the president.
		You want to show any proof for that?
		Do you have anything that even remotely suggests that other than the baseless assertions of our intelligence community?
		I mean, there have been two near assassination attempts, like nearly successful assassination attempts.
		The one of them in Butler, Pennsylvania, that kid may have had some overseas connections.
		The one thing I know about those overseas connections is they were not Iranian.
		Because all they've told us officially is that he had overseas connections.
	Now, if it was Iranian connections, that would be the headline.
	If he had bank accounts in Iran or was communicating with people in Iran, you think they wouldn't tell us that?
	You think they'd just say, oh, well, a foreign country may have been in connection with...
	In all likelihood, it's probably Israel or Ukraine or Brussels or something of that sort.
	Okay, so that was one assassination attempt.
	Obviously, I would put any amount of money that that guy was not in communication with Iran because if he was, that would be the headline and they would not shut up about it.
	All right, so it wasn't that assassination attempt.
	What about the other one?
	What about the Ralph guy in Florida on the golf course?
	Well, he was Ukrainian, a Ukrainian activist.
	He dedicated his life to trying to start the war in Ukraine and continue the war in Ukraine and, you know, recruit people to go fight the war in Ukraine.
	So if we want to go to a war with a country that's trying to assassinate our leaders, It would be our puppet state, Ukraine.
	That's how little sense any of this makes.
	Because this isn't really a battle between America and Russia, America and Iran.
	This is a battle between the international NATO, Israel, America, Mossad, MI5, UK, CIA, the cabal versus humanity.
	Freedom lovers in America, patriots in Russia, even the...
	They are all the enemy of the warmongering psychopaths that have driven us down these roads.
	Okay, so we're going to war with Iran.
	Why?
	Because Iran has killed Americans, apparently, somewhere, somehow.
	Don't ask details.
	Because they tried to kill Trump.
	Trust us, we don't have any proof or anything to even point to or any assassination attempt to say is the one that we're talking about.
	It's just, in general, apparently, somewhere out there, Iran assassins, therefore war.
	Fine.
	And then Iran was racing towards a nuclear bomb.
	Well, not according to us, not according to our intelligence, not according to Tulsi Gabbard, the DNI, not according to the IAEA, who was cooperating with Iran and had people inside their nuclear facilities.
	The director general himself said that they were nowhere near getting a bomb, and it would have been years if they were even going towards one, which he didn't believe they were.
	So the only people telling us that Iran has nuclear weapons is Israel.
	And this time they didn't even launder it through MI5 or Germany.
	And again, at least then, at least they had the courtesy to false flag us.
	At least they had the courtesy to provide fake evidence to try to trick us.
	They don't even do that anymore.
	They just assert it.
	Why do a false flag when you can just say Iran has killed Americans?
	Why actually try to assassinate the president when you can just assert?
	Actually, somebody tried to assassinate the president and it was Iran.
	Really?
	We didn't see any?
	No, trust us.
	Shut up.
	You're an anti-Semite if you disagree.
	And they have this big report.
	Oh, weapons of mass destruction.
	The German intelligence feeds it to Colin Powell who delivers it in a speech in the UN.
	They're not even doing that anymore.
	They're just baselessly asserting that Iran has nuclear weapons and the only evidence they have to point to Is Israel the one party in the whole event that wants it to be true and would benefit from it being true?
	One that's literally false-flagged us in war before.
	Of course, it didn't work with USS Liberty, but it's not exactly outside of their normal activity to lie to America to get us to do their bidding.
	But we're going to do their bidding regardless.
	These lies they're telling are almost just like, It's like a form.
	They're just like stuck.
	They're like, this is what we have to do.
	Doesn't matter.
	We're going to do it anyway.
	America's our slaves.
	We have them all blackmailed.
	Senators on the Republican and Democratic side openly espouse their unending and unquestioning loyalty to our country.
	So we're going to go to war anyway with Iran.
	We're going to get America into it.
	But I guess for old times' sake, we'll throw a couple lies their way to pretend like we're trying to justify it.
	Anyway, it's all just stupid, retarded nonsense, and everybody knows it.
	Clint Russell at Liberty Lockpot.
	I can't believe Ted Cruz claims Iran tried to take out Trump not once but twice, and everyone in D.C. agrees that this is true, and yet he knows no details about the plot, nor plot to do so, nor do the perpetrators.
	Nor does he reference it in his reasoning for supporting war against Iran, nor has he followed up with the intel agencies to get any answers to these very obvious questions.
	It's just a bald-faced lie.
	I think people have grown so accustomed to politicians lying us into war, we must have outrage fatigue.
	Otherwise, the whole country would be laughing him out of the Senate.
	This is such an outrageous lie, I'm honestly offended.
	Tucker rightfully destroyed him for it.
	What a freaking scumbag you are, Ted.
	That's what I mean.
	It just asserted.
	Yeah, Iran tried to kill Trump.
	Really?
	When?
	I don't know.
	Well, who did?
	We don't know.
	How are they trying to kill him?
	Weapons, probably.
	It's like, what?
	What are you talking about?
	We're going to go to war?
	And you're telling us this is one of the reasons we're going to war.
	And there's no validation or confirmation.
	It's just nothing.
	This is just nothing.
	Again, Donald...
	No, we get it.
	We understand.
	We're not confused.
	We're just outraged.
	And if nothing else, the fact that a United States senator would even feel comfortable saying something like that, it shows you how warped our entire perspective is.
	They really do think that this is like a positive.
	This makes them look good and strong and powerful.
	All it does is reconfirm the loyalty these people have to their paymasters.
unidentified		Thank you.
unidentified		Thank you.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		And it just goes to show how decades of this infiltration has left America openly, fully, deliberately occupied.
		Here again, Clint Russell provided me this number that I said earlier.
		He says, Iran just bombed an Israeli hospital.
		Tragic, no doubt.
		There are sure to be cries of war crimes and red lines having been crossed.
		Agreed, totally unacceptable.
		Which is why I ask, why was this okay?
		He asked Grok, how many Palestinian hospitals has Israel bombed?
		The answer, of course, 36. Now, weirdly, again, this is the stuff I don't understand.
		Tom Papert is defending this.
		Tom Papert says, Israel told locals to evacuate before bombings and claimed the hospitals were valid military targets.
		Okay, and?
		So what?
		Apparently, they did the same thing when they bombed the Iranian television station.
		They gave people 45 minutes to leave.
		We're going to bomb your journalists, but you have 45 minutes to leave, so now it's not a war crime when we do it.
		That's not how this works, actually.
		Not how any of this works.
		By the way, they love to claim that Hamas was operating in the hospitals, never provided any information for that.
		In fact, After they bombed the hospitals to smithereens, people went in and they were like, yeah, there's no tunnels here, there's no weapons cache, this is nothing.
		I think they produced one video where an IDF guy went around just like planting weapons in the hospital and were like, see, a gun!
		Therefore, we bombed the hospital.
		Great.
		Meanwhile, Israel posts videos showing their military bases underneath their hospitals.
		Again, I think it's bad, but like, fair is fair, man.
		If a hospital becomes a valid target because it has the potentiality of hiding warfighters underneath it, if that's the rule that you're setting, if that's the excuse that you use to bomb hospitals, I'm not going to feel sorry for you when your hospital gets bombed because you have a military installation underneath it.
		Is this really difficult to understand?
		Am I saying crazy things here?
		And it's part of the reason.
		I mean, the main reason was because they were bombing hospitals and we were against that.
		But the other reason why you would oppose such a thing early on in the conflict was because you're going to suffer the same fate, obviously.
		So we're sitting up here in October 2023 going, Israel should not bomb hospitals.
		This is bad.
		This is a war crime.
		And they go, you anti-Semite.
		You're a Hamas supporter.
		Oh, you're listening to Hamas again, are you?
		So, fine.
		Don't listen to us.
		Get your hospital bombed.
		And we'll sit here saying we told you so.
		Because we did.
		And you called us Hamas supporters for saying it.
		So, doesn't it make any sense?
		Iran claimed they meant a building a mile away and missed.
		Not here to justify every bomb Israel ever dropped, but there are marked differences.
		Clint Russell, okay, well, as long as they notified the injured people in the hospital.
		To vacate 36 effing times, I guess that makes it legal.
		And of course, Clint Russell's sentiment has 10 times as many likes as Tom has because, say what he will, Tom is justifying strikes on hospitals, which is not popular amongst us human beings.
		Amongst us human beings with souls and consciences.
		So, it's not going to be a popular thing to bomb them.
		In my opinion.
		Well, they claimed the hospitals were valid military targets, so therefore they exploded them.
		Then you get to a point of boomerism that's pathological.
		Bill Mitchell is our specimen to study today.
		He says, has anyone considered the possibility that America has miraculously survived so many close calls over the century that it's our purpose to defend Israel?
		If we quit Israel, I believe God may quit us, and I'm not prepared to take that chance.
		I never thought of it that way, Bill, because it's retarded.
		That's why, actually, I've never thought about it that way, because that's a crazy, retarded thing to say.
		First of all, what close calls is he even talking about?
		Where do these people live?
		In what reality are these people existing in?
		America has miraculously survived so many close calls over the centuries.
		What is he even talking about?
	I genuinely don't understand.
	Over the centuries.
	I can't think of a single time America came close to, like, not being here anymore.
	That seems to be what he's suggesting.
	Because there was a civil war where hundreds of thousands of people died.
	There was that.
	But a country was going to exist there, you know, regardless of who won that conflict.
	So in these people's delusional mind, it's like Iran's out here trying to kill Trump, and they're killing Americans, and America is miraculously surviving things to Israel.
	Nonsense.
	All right, welcome back, folks.
	Final segment of the American Journal.
	And there's other stuff I want to talk about, but I think it's pretty clear that America is going to enter the war with Iran.
	I think we were always intended to enter the war with Iran for an absurdly simple reason.
	Israel started the war with goals that it physically cannot achieve without America.
	Israel does not have the bombs necessary to take out the nuclear sites that are the whole purpose, supposedly, of this invasion.
	So America has to get involved, and we're going to, one way or another.
	And certainly all the signs seem to point to that.
	Again, I do wonder if Trump isn't sitting there going, I sure thought they would have capitulated by now.
	Gee, I really expected Iran to be willing to give up its nuclear enrichment by this point.
	I don't know.
	If I was Trump, I would not want to be directly involved in this.
	So maybe Iran is calling his bluff right now.
	From NPR, the U.S. could use bunker buster bombs in Iran.
	As the escalated conflict between Israel and Iran continues for the sixth day, the U.S. appears to be increasingly weighing in direct military involvement.
	I may do it.
	I may not do it.
	President Trump told reporters on Wednesday, I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do.
	All right, well, you shouldn't do it.
	There's an easy answer.
	Don't do it.
	It's like playing coy.
	I might do it.
	I might not.
	All right, well, you shouldn't.
	Maybe I will.
	Okay, well, don't.
	What are we talking about?
	Don't do it.
	I need the Iranians to think I will.
	They don't care.
	They're not giving up.
	Do you know who you're dealing with?
	They don't even call the people that were killed victims.
	They call them martyrs.
	I really don't.
	I don't think he has a theory of mind for the people that we're up against here.
	It may do it, it may not do it.
	Well, you shouldn't.
	Well, what if I do?
	It'd be a terrible idea.
	What are we talking about?
	What even is this?
	Why?
	Why would you do it?
	Again, this is just insane.
	This is insane.
	Trump's being an idiot.
	There's no other possibility to this.
	Israel says the assault on Iran is necessary to prevent the country from building a nuclear weapon, but of course it's not.
	And that's also not the goal.
	It's also a common goal for the U.S., which until last week had been in the midst of negotiations with Iran on limiting the country's nuclear capabilities.
	But of course that ended.
	So they ended probably the most reasonable option for getting rid of the nuclear weapons.
	That might be the The craziest twist of all of this.
	They're predicating this entire invasion on nuclear weapons, which is not true.
	They want regime change, but they're saying it's nuclear weapons because they think that will convince people.
	But in starting the attack, they end the negotiations, which had the best chance of actually getting rid of the nuclear weapons.
	You want to talk about like layers of absurdity.
	Nowhere in this calculus is there even...
	Like a thought.
	A single thought applied to any one of these claims.
	And they just crumble completely.
	And they make no sense.
	And they're utterly contradictory with one another.
	Because the truth, the little hard shell of truth that Israel has territorial ambitions, they want to take out.
	Their primary geopolitical rival.
	They're not strong enough to do it.
	So they're, you know, wielding their control of the United States to take out Iran on their behalf.
	Like, that's just it.
	That's everything you need to know, actually, in reality of what's going on.
	But then it's just shrouded and completely surrounded by a whole host of contradictory and internally inconsistent lies that they're telling.
	So it's just exhausting having to go through all of this.
	But we will because they're trying to get us into World War III.
	Now, whether...
	I think it's pretty obvious that this is deeply unpopular.
	With everybody I know and talk to, I mean, you've got Trump, Ted Cruz, Cat Turd, and Israelis and Jews that have their own non-American reasons for wanting this.
	But other than that, and I'll point to again, the Charlie Kirk, and Charlie Kirk, I remind you, is not a dissident.
	And TPUSA holds like...
	They are one of the most pro-Israel groups on the right wing.
	TPUSA.
	To the point where it was so bad that Charlie Kirk's had to temper some of his thoughts about Israel.
	Charlie Kirk's the one who's like, America's just an idea.
	Anybody, you could swap populations and it would still be the same because America's just this idea.
	That anybody can have.
	And it has nothing to do with who you are, who founded it, or their history.
	It's just something that's for everybody.
	Not Israel, though.
	And he comes out and makes that distinction.
	It's like, Israel is eternal, and it belongs to the Jewish people.
	And America's responsibility is to fight for it.
	And I say that just to lay out how telling it is that that organization, with that leader, dedicated endlessly to Israel, his poll on his Twitter, Showed 90% of respondents were against intervention with Israel.
	So when you have one of the most pro-Israel organizations under Charlie Kirk, his followers going 90% against invasion, I think that is really all you need to know about, at least people on the right, how they feel about going to war for Israel.
	And I don't think we even need to ask what the left feels about it because they've been protesting for a year and a half against Israel.
	90%, 89.7% of respondents say no to the question, should the U.S. get involved in Israel's war against Iran?
	Which I think is very, I think that's an accurate reading because you've got 500,000 responses.
	And sure, you don't know if there are bots running, you don't know if there are, you know, people just who aren't Charlie Kirk fans making that decision, whatever.
	You would expect it to be a little bit more even if there was any question as to whether or not the American public wants to go to war with Iran.
	It would be a little bit more even than 10 to 90, right?
	Then the New York Post comes out, MAGA voters overwhelmingly support U.S. strikes on Iranian military.
	Yeah, that's a lie.
	That's just a lie.
	They say a whopping 65% of MAGA Republicans Wood backstrikes on Iran compared to a paltry 19% opposed.
	This apparently was a JL Partners survey shared exclusively with the Post.
	That is really shows how little you can trust JL Partners.
	I mean, my God, who's going to ever trust JL Partners to ever hold a poll ever again?
	Do you think they even asked anybody?
	I have the feeling they literally were just like, ah gee, it's not looking good.
	MAGA is not falling for our lies again.
	Let's come out with a poll saying they are.
	Let's just dictate reality to be what we want it to be.
	I don't believe that in the slightest.
	I think Zero Hedge is a better take.
	Only 16% of Americans and 19% of Trump voters want the U.S. to join Israel's war in Iran.
	That's an Economist YouGov poll taken between June 13th and 16th.
	And only 16% say they should get involved.
	Only 19% of people who voted for Trump say we should get involved.
	56% of all Americans say we should engage in negotiations with Iran.
	And one of the ways they do this, and everybody knows that, you know, basically polls are nonsense and all has to do with like how you ask the question.
	And they'll have polls saying, you know, The vast majority of MAGA voters think Iran should not have a nuclear weapon.
	Like, just as a general sentiment, like as a wish, like if you had a genie, that's what you would wish.
	Like, that's not, it's divorced from reality.
	If you say, should Iran have a nuclear weapon?
	Most people would go, yeah, probably not.
	Sounds dangerous.
	Yeah, that probably shouldn't happen.
	That's a pretty far cry from, should America engage in another Mideast war to stop Iran from having a nuclear weapon?
	That's a whole different question.
	In general, in sentiment, if you're just asking my preference, sure, Iran shouldn't have a nuclear weapon.
	Should we do anything to stop them from getting a nuclear weapon?
	No, not really.
	I don't really care that much.
	I mean, not enough to go out of my way for any inconvenient period of time.
	Not enough to make me, like, do anything about it.
	Like, if it's like, you know, You can stop Iran from having a bomb by spending an afternoon in our lecture to get a free condo.
	I'm just like, no, I'm not doing that.
	A whole afternoon?
	No.
	It's not worth it.
	That's how little I care about whether Iran has a nuclear bomb, to be honest with you.
	You're not asking for an afternoon of my time.
	You're asking for the lives of possibly thousands of American citizens.
	So, there you go.
	Washington Post also says more Americans oppose than support a U.S. airstrike on Iran.
	And that's only going to get lower because, again, there's no reason and there's not going to be a reason.
	It'll already start off on a bad foot.
	And as things get more destructive and chaotic, it's only going to be less likely that we approve of this.
	I, again, my best guess is that Trump is just trying to strong-arm and bluff Iran into capitulating, and I don't think they're going to, and I think eventually we're going to have to be involved.
	We are just going to get involved, whether we like it or not, and it's going to get really bad from there on out.
	The other thing, you know, there are a couple other things about this.
	Martyr Maid has been absolutely killing it.
	Daryl Cooper at Martyr Made.
	He says, this is the best they've got.
	I've looked.
	There's nothing else.
	And it's Todd Starnes saying, there are some in the MAGA world who believe the moral high ground is radioactive mushroom clouds over Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, New York, and Los Angeles.
	Yeah, basically.
	I mean, you list any other cities, I'd be against it, but...
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harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Have you ever heard the story of Sodom and Gomorrah?
		What do you know about Tel Aviv and their gay community?
		I'm just saying, if we're invoking the Bible to justify our positions, I think nuking Tel Aviv is actually more in line with what God wants than Going to war with Iran.
		I don't even know if there's a lot in there anymore.
		And there's a psychological aspect to this that I don't think you can underplay, and I want to encourage you to go listen to Martyr Maid's audio version of this essay, or find this essay on his substack.
		It's called The Psychopathology of Zionism.
		And he lays out, in just an absolutely brilliant way, The psychological damage and psychological abuse that keeps a lot of Jews loyal to Israel.
		And that is very disturbing.
		And I've talked about it a little bit here and there.
		I've also justified it a little bit here and there.
		So he tells a story and he focuses on an actress.
		I can't remember who it is.
		Rachel Zegler or something.
		We're talking about the way that she, as a child, used to sleep outside of her parents' bedroom door because she was so terrified of the idea, the stories that she'd been told about the Holocaust.
		And that she was convinced, as like a five-year-old, that at any moment her neighbors would just flip on a dime and decide to kill her and her family.
		And I, for one, just cannot imagine subjecting my kid to that type of psychological terror, especially not as young as a lot of these kids get introduced to it.
		At the same time, there's a balance, and you can't exactly blame them.
		Again, this is where I've like, and I don't even like defending this necessarily, but I can't empathize with it because for a lot of the people here in America now, that really did happen to them when they were kids.
		Like, you really can't look at a Holocaust survivor, a literal, legitimate, like somebody that was in a camp or somebody that, you know, was living their life as a little kid in Hungary somewhere when all of a sudden, you know, to them, to their understanding, as a little kid, One day, their neighbors turned on them and shoved their family in a train car and they never saw them again.
		So it's like, okay, what am I going to tell that person?
		Like, shut up.
		You stop being paranoid.
		It's like, well, it actually happened to them.
		So you got to have some sympathy for them.
		You got to understand why they would.
		It was Winona Ryder.
		That's right.
		Reveals she's been haunted by the horrors of the Holocaust since her childhood and her father's family were killed in the atrocity after her father's family were killed in the atrocity.
		So again, it's like, okay, there's this balance where it's like, I can't criticize you and say you're paranoid and this is nonsense because it literally happened in one form or another to members of their family.
		So I understand that and I respect that.
		At the same time, this is America.
		And that's never even been a remote possibility in America that something like that would happen.
		And there are ways to incorporate.
		But for a lot of people, it does become a mental illness.
		It becomes an overwhelming paranoia.
		And one thing that Martyr May doesn't really address in this article, even though he talks about this and he talks about, you know, the way that this is used to, you know, draw.
		Jews into being more loyal to Israel, telling them this is the only place Jews are safe, which ironically, Jews are probably least safe in Israel than maybe anywhere else in the world.
		Maybe anywhere else in the world.
		As a Jew, where would you rather live?
		Israel or New Jersey, right?
		Where do you think you're safer?
		Under the routine air raid sirens of Tel Aviv or, you know, the suburbs?
		Of New York.
		This is a stupid thing for them to say, but this is what's been indoctrinated into them.
		And it's not a tangential or unimportant aspect of the religion.
		is in a lot of ways the core of the religion.
		If you look at the holidays, most Jewish holidays...
		I mean, that's just what they are, you know.
		You can read into that as much as you want, but they have a bit of a different character than Christian religions.
		Again, as a little kid, it's got to be traumatic, you know.
		You just think about the difference between like Christmas and Hanukkah.
		Because they're portrayed as very similar, almost like, you know, two sides of the same coin.
		Hey, we give gifts to each other in winter.
		Hey, so do we.
		And it's like, well, one of them's like, this is when God himself was born as a little baby in a manger.
		This is when God delivered us his only son to a poverty-stricken village.
		And it's just like, what a miracle.
		And then Hanukkah's like, this is when they tried to kill us, but we survived and we killed them instead.
		As a little kid, I don't know, you know, hearing like, they hunted us, but we got them.
		And like Passover is like, the angel of death came, but we were spared.
		It was their sons that were killed.
		It's like, is this really what you want to be teaching to little kids about how to view the world?
		But it works.
		I mean, obviously it's worked and it's, if nothing else, given the Jews the strength and the cohesiveness to survive these thousands of years as a unified body.
	So again, I can't exactly criticize it.
	And the same thing as the Holocaust remembrance.
	It's like, what are you supposed to say?
	It's not the way I would.
	I'm not showing my four-year-old pictures of dead bodies being moved around with bulldozers.
	But then again, it wasn't my family that were in the pile.
	So, you know, it's difficult.
	But my point is that, you know, Martyr Maid goes through a lot of this stuff.
	And he says this, and I don't think this is the, it's supposed to not be the full article.
	But you should listen to the audio version.
	He says, everyone has heard the saying, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
	True enough, but fewer have heard the equally true flip side of that quip.
	Just because they are out to get you doesn't mean you're not paranoid.
	Paranoia is a neurotic complex that is toxic to the personality whether or not it's based on something real.
	In fact, traumatic experiences of betrayal or attack form the basis of most paranoid complexes.
	Discusses, insists that the experiences has proven their attitude is necessary to survive the world full of enemies.
	One psychologist has referred to the paranoid complex as the warfare personality because it places a person in a hostile relationship to the rest of the world.
	Such a belief has a tendency to become self-fulfilling.
	And I think that's the key thing there.
	Because if you are raised, and even if as an adult, and I know the actress that he's talking about.
	Has said like, okay, you know, I sort of got over the paranoia that I experienced as a little kid sleeping outside of her parents' door thinking that they could disappear at any moment.
	She's like, I'm not that bad anymore.
	But there's still that lingering, you know, psychological profile that dictates how you view the world or at least, you know, rises to consciousness sometimes because you're going to see things that confirm your bias.
	You remember the story where they did a job interview.
	And they put makeup on somebody's face to give them like a really disgusting scar.
	But then without the people knowing, they removed the scar, sent them into the interview.
	When the people came out, they would say, yeah, the interviewer kept looking at my scar.
	And he didn't choose me because of my scar.
	And it was my physical appearance.
	Then they hold up the mirror and the people realize they never had a scar.
	But if you think you have a scar and you think somebody's going to be staring at it, then you see that.
	that actually manifest in reality.
	So if you go around thinking, Everybody's an anti-Semitic person.
	They're all just secretly despised me.
	You're going to start seeing evidence for that.
	And then you're going to start acting in a way that treats that as if it's true.
	And when you start acting in a way that treats it as if it's true, it makes it true.
	Because then you have a population in a country that is acting as if they're enemies with the rest of the country.
	And the rest of the country, even if they had nothing against them in the first place, is going to respond to that activity.
	In a negative way, that's only going to fulfill the paranoid perception of the person who is in this state of delusion thinking that everybody's out to get them.
	So I think it's a very important article and I think it explains why it's a very difficult situation.
	But at the end of the day, you have to be concerned with and aware of the phenomenon of the self-fulfilling prophecy.
	And that when you have, as you have now, a bunch of Jewish groups and Israeli groups in America getting us into a war, we're trying to silence us and destroy our First Amendment, talking about anti-Semitism and taking over big tech companies and kicking people out who talk bad about you.
	Like, you are doing the thing that makes people see you as a hostile outside group, but you're doing it because you think that we see you as a hostile outside group.
	It's exhausting.
	It's infuriating.
	And it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
	And we need to address it and confront it so we can move on understanding that we don't hate each other and that we genuinely want what's best for every American.
	And we can stop defending ourselves against attacks that aren't coming or attacking people on the assumption that they would attack us first.
	All of this is psychological hogwash, psychological acid eroding.
	Our peace of mind and safety and general position in the world as Americans.
	That's gonna do it for us.
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