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Conversation is with Mr. Yuri Alexandrovich Besmyanov. | |
| He was the son of a high-ranking Soviet Army officer. | ||
| He had an outstanding career with the press agency of the Soviet Union. | ||
| It turns out that this is also a front for the KGB. | ||
| He escaped to the West in 1970 after becoming totally disgusted with the Soviet system, and he did this at great risk to his life. | ||
| He certainly is one of the world's outstanding experts on the subject of Soviet propaganda and disinformation and active measures. | ||
| When the Soviets use the phrase ideological subversion, what do they mean? | ||
| Ideological subversion or active measures, activi immediatye in the language of the KGB, or psychological warfare. | ||
| What it basically means is to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country. | ||
| It's a great brainwashing process and it's divided in four basic stages. | ||
| The first one being demoralization. | ||
| A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. | ||
| The facts tell nothing to him. | ||
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Do you believe then that men can become pregnant and have abortions? | |
| Yes. | ||
| What has this world come to? | ||
| It's come to a world where drag kids actually exist. | ||
| And people do academy on a couch. | ||
| The next stage is destabilization. | ||
| Economy. | ||
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There are some dire predictions on where the world economy is going. | |
| Foreign relations. | ||
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Some of the world's superpowers could be on a collision course. | |
| Defense systems. | ||
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The U.S. Army is cutting back its expectations due to, quote, unprecedented recruitment challenges. | |
| The next stage, of course, is crisis. | ||
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Folks, we're in a crisis. | |
| After crisis, you have so-called the period of normalization. | ||
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When we say getting back to normal, we mean something very different from what we're going through right now. | |
| The demoralization process is basically completed already. | ||
| I could never believe it when I landed in this part of the world that the process will go that fast. | ||
| This is exactly what the KGB and Marxist-Leninist propaganda wants from Americans. | ||
| To distract their opinion and attention from real issues of the United States. | ||
| To have a bunch of duped Americans, then Americans who are healthy, physically fit, and alert to the reality. | ||
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What is your ideal political or social structure? | |
| Communist utopia. | ||
| That's why my KGB instructors specifically made the point. | ||
| Try to get into filthy-rich movie makers, intellectuals, cynical, egocentric people who can look into your eyes with angelic expression and tell you a lie. | ||
| These are the people who KGB wanted very much to recruit. | ||
| All these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders. | ||
| They are instrumental in the process of subversion only to destabilize the nation. | ||
| When their job is completed, they think that they will come to power. | ||
| That will never happen, of course. | ||
| The psychological shock, when they will see in future what the beautiful society of equality and social justice means in practice, obviously they will join the links of dissenters. | ||
| The Marxist-Leninist regime does not tolerate these people. | ||
| In future, these people will be simply squashed like cockroaches. | ||
| Nobody is going to pay them nothing for their beautiful, noble ideas of equality. | ||
| The United States is in a state of war. | ||
| The initiator of this war is the world communist system. | ||
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The only revolution is communist revolution! | |
| That's why we need communist! | ||
| That's what we need. | ||
| This is it. | ||
| This is the last country of freedom and possibility. | ||
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Okay, so what do we do? | |
| What is your recommendation to the American people? | ||
| The immediate thing that comes to my mind is, of course, there must be a very strong national effort to educate people in the spirit of real patriotism, number one. | ||
| Number two, to explain them the real danger of socialist, communist, whatever, welfare state, big brother government. | ||
| If people will fail to grasp the impending danger, nothing ever can help United States. | ||
| You may kiss goodbye to your freedom, including your precious lives. | ||
| I know Americans don't like to listen to things which are unpleasant. | ||
| I tried to get the message across to my horror. | ||
| Nobody wanted even to listen, least of all to believe what I had to say. | ||
| The time bomb is ticking, but every second, the disaster is coming closer and closer. | ||
| Unlike myself, you will have nowhere to defect. | ||
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It's Friday, June 27th, in the year of our Lord, 2025. | |
| And you're listening to the American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| Watch it live right now at band.video. | ||
| I think it's time upload this scene. | ||
| Get everybody in this stuff together. | ||
| Okay, three, two, one, it's down. | ||
| Okay, three, two, one, it's down. | ||
| All right, good morning, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Welcome to the American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith, coming to you live this morning from our off-site satellite office here in Austin, Texas. | ||
| Welcome to the show. | ||
| Thank you so much for being here with us. | ||
| Wish you have a good Friday show. | ||
| We're going to be joined by nuclear arms expert David Pine in the next hour. | ||
| I want to hopefully be able to take your calls in the third hour. | ||
| The crew will tell me if that's even possible. | ||
| But we do have a lot to talk about today. | ||
| Although it's a lot of the same old stuff. | ||
| Excuse me, just with a little bit of updates. | ||
| Obviously, Iran's still a major topic. | ||
| The potential mayor of New York, Ma'am Donnie, an equally interesting topic of conversation with new information coming out about that election. | ||
| We'll try to get to all of it and your phone calls. | ||
| But we'll begin today as we do every day with our Daily Dispatch. | ||
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Daily Dispatch All right, here it is, folks. | |
| Your daily dispatch for Friday, the 27th of June, 2025. | ||
| Christopher Wray referred to FBI by Oversight Project for lying to Congress. | ||
| This is from Postmillennial. | ||
| The Oversight Project said that there is reasonable basis to believe that Ray's conduct violated law, including obstruction of proceedings before Congress, false statements, and perjury. | ||
| The Oversight Project has submitted a criminal referral to the Department of Justice and the FBI requesting that federal authorities investigate former FBI Director Christopher Wray for allegedly making false and misleading statements to Congress during his time in office. | ||
| The statements noted by the Oversight Project were made on September 24th, 2020, March 2nd, 2021, July 12, 2023, and December 5th, 2023. | ||
| The comments were in relation to voter fraud in his agency targeting Catholic Americans. | ||
| In September 2020, in a September 2020 hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Ray said that, quote, we have not seen historically any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it's by mail or otherwise. | ||
| He said during the March 2021 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, we are not aware of any widespread evidence of voter fraud, much less that would have affected the outcome of the presidential election. | ||
| And this comes after current FBI Director Cash Patel handed over an FBI intelligence report dated August 2020 to Congress that raised concerns over China mass-producing fake U.S. driver's licenses to fraudulently cast mail-in ballots for then-candidate Joe Biden. | ||
| Around 20,000 counterfeit driver's licenses had been seized by Board of Patrol on August 5th, 2020. | ||
| Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said in a joint statement on Tuesday, based on our continued review and production of FBI documents related to the CCP's plot to interfere in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, previous FBI leadership chose to play politics and withhold key information from the American people, which this would be great. | ||
| This would be a great start. | ||
| But I also just want to emphasize, re-emphasize, remind you all that there's really no need to be talking about Chinese mail-in printed ballots. | ||
| We saw it all with our own eyes. | ||
| We saw the fraud happen. | ||
| Has there ever been a satisfactory answer as to why the one gentleman was driving a truck from Pennsylvania to New York, or rather from New York to Pennsylvania, a truck full of ballots. | ||
| He testified that he was trying to keep the chain of custody intact, but that he was basically forced to just hand his truck over to somebody that he didn't know and didn't identify themselves and completely ran him. | ||
| I mean, they completely overturned our electoral process in 2020, totally outside of the bounds of law. | ||
| And that fact alone means that we cannot trust the results of the 2020 election. | ||
| And it was all done, again, outside of the strictures of the Constitution or the way that any of this is supposed to be done. | ||
| And of course, the very same secretaries of state that did mail-in ballots with drop boxes, again, just open fraudulence, just totally abject fraud, just unbelievable amounts of fraud that we saw all throughout 2020. | ||
| So fine, I'm sure China was doing something too. | ||
| I still don't even understand what the claim for China is. | ||
| It's like China was making driver's licenses for mail-in ballots. | ||
| It's like, well, you didn't need driver's licenses for mail-in ballots. | ||
| So what exactly? | ||
| What exactly is the thing that they're saying? | ||
| I don't really understand. | ||
| But that's fine. | ||
| Moving on, also from Postmillennial, Representative Andy Ogles calls for investigation into Zoran Mamdani's naturalization over potential support for terrorism. | ||
| Ogles opens an investigation into Mamdani's naturalization over potential willful misrepresentation or concealment of material support for terrorism, which is pretty much what we covered yesterday, this idea that when you're naturalized, you're asked whether you support, you know, deconstructionist or revolutionary communistic ideas or terroristic organizations. | ||
| And if you're discovered to be supporting one of these organizations within five years of your naturalization, then it can be basically assumed that you lied about it and therefore your naturalization is fraudulent and can be reversed. | ||
| And so it looks like that is what's happening. | ||
| Apparently this guy's been in the U.S. since he was seven years old. | ||
| Do you know that apparently both Mamdani and Vivek Ramaswamy had parents who were kicked out of Uganda by their dictator? | ||
| Apparently there was a big Indian population in Uganda, and this dictator came into power and kicked all the Indians out. | ||
| Two of the people they kicked out were the fathers of Vivek Ramaswamy and Mamdani. | ||
| Just an interesting coincidence. | ||
| Very interesting coincidence. | ||
| Apparently he became a citizen in 2018 when he was 27 years old. | ||
| He'd been in the U.S. since he was seven. | ||
| And Ogles wrote, I write to request the Justice Department open an investigation into whether Zoran Kuemi Mamdani, currently a candidate of mayor city of New York, would be subject to denaturalization proceedings on the grounds that he may have procured a U.S. citizenship through willful misrepresentation or concealment of material support for terrorism. | ||
| Again, this is only coming about because he's anti-Israel. | ||
| But I'm sort of in favor of this. | ||
| I honestly don't know why we let immigrants become politicians. | ||
| Does that sound crazy? | ||
| Because it's absolutely not. | ||
| Why would we allow that? | ||
| Why would we allow immigrants to become politicians? | ||
| Why would we allow people that just arrived here to rule over us? | ||
| It actually doesn't make any sense. | ||
| Now, the children of immigrants, Sure, right? | ||
| If you're born here, your parents were citizens when you were born, you grew up here in America with American values, then sure, you can run. | ||
| But why do we have to let first-generation immigrants into our government? | ||
| Why would we, should we, why do we allow that? | ||
| Doesn't make any sense. | ||
| Socialist New York City mayoral candidate, Mam Donny, once rapped about his love for Hamas, terror funding group, Holy Land 5. | ||
| Deport him for cringe. | ||
| Forget the terrorist support network. | ||
| He's a rapper. | ||
| He's a rapper. | ||
| He's a pro-Hamas rapper running for mayor of New York. | ||
| Deport him for cringe immediately. | ||
| That's got to be a crime. | ||
| At least it should be. | ||
| Speaking of that, speaking of immigration, our next story here. | ||
| Breaking update, Kilmar Obrego-Garcia to face trial prior to deportation. | ||
| Garcia was previously deported to his native El Salvador in March. | ||
| He's since been returned to the U.S. where he was kept in jail in Tennessee to face federal charges of human smuggling. | ||
| Federal prosecutors told a Maryland judge Thursday that immigration authorities intend to deport Kilmar Obrego-Garcia to a country other than his native El Salvador once he's released from a Tennessee jail, but will try him on human smuggling charges in Tennessee first. | ||
| The prosecutors added that the removal is not immediate and they will follow all court orders, according to the Associated Press. | ||
| The defendant has been charged with horrific crimes, including trafficking children, and will not walk free in our country again, DOJ spokesperson Chad Gilmartin said. | ||
| Defense attorneys previously asked the court to order Obrego Garcia's return to Maryland, a move aimed at blocking what they called likely efforts by immigration authorities to quickly deport him. | ||
| Garcia was previously deported to his native El Salvador in March. | ||
| He's since been returned to the U.S. where he's been kept in a jail in Tennessee to face federal charges of human smuggling. | ||
| Justice Department Attorney Jonathan Guyan, or Gunn, or something, confirmed that Obrego Garcia's removal would be to a third country, though he added that there are no imminent plans for deportation and the Trump administration will comply with all court orders. | ||
| Why we have to continually hear updates as to this one goblins immigration trials? | ||
| I think it's just a general indictment of our entire system overall. | ||
| How can we not deport this guy? | ||
| How is it that our government that can overthrow sovereign countries the world over at a whim can't expel a single individual from our own country? | ||
| A human trafficker, a foreigner. | ||
| What is this system that we're running? | ||
| This is ridiculous. | ||
| It's completely ridiculous. | ||
| This is like it's like we don't even know. | ||
| That's a terrible analogy. | ||
| I have a terrible analogy for you. | ||
| You know, it's like we have access to a computer where we can get into the internal, we can rewrite the code. | ||
| We can even send viruses to other computers, but like we can't change the brightness on our screen. | ||
| It's like this should be the, these should be the things we can do. | ||
| The stuff that should be easy and without a problem and like shouldn't need to require any sort of permission or anything. | ||
| Like we should be able to kick out foreigners that are in our country at the bare minimum. | ||
| Apparently we can't do that, but if we want to, I don't know, ban TikTok on a whim, no problem there. | ||
| If we want to bomb the hell out of a nuclear site for no particular reason, no problems there. | ||
| No problems when it comes to the budget. | ||
| No problems when it comes to the legal possibility. | ||
| Just things are a little bit backwards. | ||
| Things are very bad. | ||
| Things are completely inverted, in fact. | ||
| We'll get back to Zoron later. | ||
| Sounds like a villain from a Flash Gordon cartoon, but whatever. | ||
| We'll get back to him. | ||
| There's some new information about the U.S. population change over the last four years. | ||
| Since 2020, this is from Ryan James Gerduski on X. He's retweeting a population study recently done showing the change in population from 2020 to 2024. | ||
| Latinos are up 6 million. | ||
| Okay, if we're keeping score, this is the demographic change over four years. | ||
| Latinos are up 6 million. | ||
| Asians are up 2.5 million. | ||
| Blacks are up 1.2 million. | ||
| Whites down 2.145 million. | ||
| They're down. | ||
| Well, white people are down 2.145 million people since 2020, born in the U.S. plus one, plus two, immigrants plus nine. | ||
| Among immigrants, white immigrants plus 14, Hispanics plus two, Asians plus nine. | ||
| Yeah, I think that's bad. | ||
| I think that's that's bad. | ||
| Why is the white population going down? | ||
| That's not actually that crazy of a question. | ||
| Why is the white population going down? | ||
| Not as a share, not as a percentage share, not as a portion or a, you know, how much what share of the population weren't like as an absolute number. | ||
| It's going down. | ||
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It's going down. | |
| That's crazy. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Do you have any idea how hard it is to stop people from reproducing? | ||
| That's something I think we maybe need to re-emphasize. | ||
| If there's no outside force acting on a population, the population grows. | ||
| If the population has sufficient food and safety, it's supposed to grow. | ||
| And without any outside influence, usually populations with not just sufficient, but in excess of food and safety would grow exponentially and very rapidly. | ||
| You have to do a lot to stop people from reproducing. | ||
| and a lot has been done to stop white people from reproducing. | ||
| Does anybody care? | ||
| Remember about two years ago, you had that video of Stephen Colbert saying that the population of white people had gone down in the United States, and his crowd cheered. | ||
| And that should have been the moment everybody realized there's something very, very, very sick happening here when people hear, and look, it would be sick if it was a different population. | ||
| If it was Stephen Colbert going, hey, this is the first time that the black population's gone down. | ||
| And white people are like, yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| It's like, okay, that's incredibly creepy. | ||
| To me, it's sort of less creepy than him saying the white population's going down and white people cheering that. | ||
| We just got to, we got to, we got to help our fellow white people. | ||
| Jimmy Fallon audience, cheers. | ||
| News of 2020 census showing white population in decline. | ||
| That's from 2021, August 15th, 2021. | ||
| Story on Infowars. | ||
| And we're going to talk a little bit more about the census later today because this was another scandal, argument, debate that was had in 2020, whether or not we should count illegal immigrants in the census. | ||
| Our position was, of course, no, you shouldn't. | ||
| And the reason for that is because electoral representation is determined by the census. | ||
| And so the places that have allowed their cities to be overrun by illegal immigrants, the latest thing people have said is that somewhere between 20 and 40 extra seats in Congress are because of the illegal aliens. | ||
| So if you had all the illegal aliens deported, you would have the Democrats with 20 to 40 less seats in Congress. | ||
| Or if you just didn't count them in the census, the Democrats would have 20 to 40 less seats in Congress. | ||
| So of course it is beneficial for the Democrats to want to count illegal immigrants on the census so that they get more representation in Congress. | ||
| But that, of course, is cheating and unfair and shouldn't happen. | ||
| And finally, we have another story from our greatest allies, from Horetz. | ||
| Quote, it's a killing field. | ||
| IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid. | ||
| IDF officers and soldiers told Horetz that they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. | ||
| Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes. | ||
| Now, we didn't necessarily need to have them say this. | ||
| After all, we've been reporting day after day about all of the dozens and dozens of Gazans being shot at while waiting in line for food. | ||
| So not exactly a revelation that we needed to. | ||
| I guess it's particular, it's like extra bad that they were ordered to do it, but it's sort of quibbling at this point. | ||
| People are dying. | ||
| People are being shot. | ||
| They're being starved. | ||
| They're being given food aid. | ||
| And when they go to get the food aid, they're being shot. | ||
| I mean, when it happens every day regularly at a certain point, you can just assume it's a matter of policy and not mistakes or rogue soldiers or the fog of war, friendly fire, anything like that. | ||
| When it happens every day in the exact same way, the exact same outcome, and every single time it's totally unprovoked and there's like no excuse for it, yeah, we assume that this is just like a matter of policy, especially since it corresponds with and aligns with the genocidal rhetoric of the people doing the ordering of the massacres. | ||
| So not exactly a surprise, just another, just another emphasis on just how despicable this all is. | ||
| And we can return to that and give you more details on it. | ||
| We do have some more videos that cover what's going on in the Middle East today. | ||
| We'll go to those in just a second. | ||
| I do want to remind you to go to thealxjonesstore.com. | ||
| Thealexjonesstore.com keeps us on the air even in the absence of our big, beautiful studio. | ||
| We are making plans behind the scenes. | ||
| We're making moves because we, believe it or not, treat the info war like an info war. | ||
| We take it seriously and we don't let our enemies get the initiative on us or back us into a corner. | ||
| We always have, it's actually like rule number one when it comes to being a general. | ||
| Ensure your retreat. | ||
| Ensure that you have a method or a path of retreat. | ||
| And in a way, that's what this condo is. | ||
| That's what this satellite studio has become. | ||
| Not that it's a retreat in the colloquial sense. | ||
| It's not a running away or a hiding. | ||
| It's a rebel outpost. | ||
| Well, and if you look at American history, George Washington lost almost every battle he fought in the Revolutionary War, but he was incredibly skilled at retreating in an orderly fashion, which actually saves you at the end of the day. | ||
| And the vast majority, like 95% of the deaths on the battlefield back in those days were during retreats, during routes, when people would just break and run and get run down by cavalry. | ||
| That's typically what happens. | ||
| So you got to have a retreat. | ||
| You got to have a plan for if things don't go your way. | ||
| And that's what we have done here at Infowars because we do treat it like a literal war of information. | ||
| And we've got our enemies trying to destroy us. | ||
| And instead, we will destroy them because they have nothing but hastily cobbled together cacophony of lies while we have the ever shining sword of truth. | ||
| Go to thealexjonesstore.com to support us in this mission because we will not give up and we are all in on this. | ||
| All that we ask is that you support us in this mission and be a part of this rebel alliance. | ||
| Now, I got some videos to go to here. | ||
| I don't know if I'll have time to get to them necessarily right away. | ||
| But I got videos about all of the topics that we have just covered, including what the real downstream and long-term effects of America's support of Israel is going to be. | ||
| Because it's not just about the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians murdered. | ||
| It's not just about the shame one feels at your big, powerful country being the B word, but it is the only one that fits the female dog of the genocidal state in the Middle East. | ||
| It's about the long-term destruction of America's reputation, the trust that America once had in its diplomacy. | ||
| And of course, it exposes the hypocrisy or just the outright deception of the so-called rules-based order that our leaders are constantly invoking to justify their outrageous and anti-human behavior. | ||
| Because they have to uphold the rules-based order, unless those rules or that order contradict Israel's desire for land expansion, in which case, it all gets thrown to the side. | ||
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Oh, Taking a record of the hearts and minds of the American people, it's the American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| All right, welcome back, folks. | ||
| This is the American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| We're going to get into the war topic in the next hour with David Pine. | ||
| He's an expert on nuclear arms, and we'll talk to him about that. | ||
| I got some other topics to get into and some other videos to play for you. | ||
| We've got some interesting developments in a number of different cases here. | ||
| Let's go to clip number four here first. | ||
| This, of course, relates to one of the stories we covered in our Daily Dispatch, but it is my hero, Scott Jennings. | ||
| My hero, the man I envy above just about anybody else in media. | ||
| The man gets to be the sole voice of reason in CNN. | ||
| It's like he's a major league baseball player that gets to be a pinch hitter on a T-ball team. | ||
| That's what it's like. | ||
| We're up here having to face the fastballs, curveballs, the rocket-like arms of the major league baseball players. | ||
| And Scott Jennings over there just knocking him out of the park with T-balls. | ||
| Just knocking over second graders as he's running around the bases. | ||
| He's got it easy over there, and I'm jealous, quite frankly. | ||
| But we love to see it. | ||
| Let's go to clip number four here. | ||
| This was posted with a comment of CIDN's viewership would probably be zero if not for Scott Jennings. | ||
| Scott Jennings, that's his name, right? | ||
| Did I call him Steve earlier? | ||
| Scott Jennings is his name, and he's my hero. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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I don't know if you're shaking your head at me or him, but the fact is he deserves due process. | |
| You know, I suspect that Maryland Senator Chris Van Holland, when he heard that San Abrego Garcia was coming back, took a shower, put on his nice suit, got on open table, found out what maybe party of two reservation they could get for tonight so they could continue the romance they started when he went back to visit Santo Brego in El Salvador. | ||
| Look, he was not deported because he was a bad guy. | ||
| He was deported because he was an illegal immigrant living in the country illegally for 14 years, who hadn't gone through due process, who had an existing deportation order. | ||
| It so happens that it turns out he may in fact well be a really, really bad person that we would not want in the country. | ||
| Here are his possible outcomes. | ||
| Number one, he gets convicted of this stuff and goes to prison for a long time. | ||
| Number two, he gets acquitted and goes back to El Salvador, which is what I suspect the White House would do with him if he somehow gets out of these charges. | ||
| Either way, it's what the White House said all along. | ||
| There's no future where this man, the Maryland man, goes back to Maryland to live quietly in the civilization. | ||
| And again, it's just outrageous that we have to even hear about this guy or learn what he's doing. | ||
| He's not an American. | ||
| He doesn't have rights as an American. | ||
| He doesn't deserve due process. | ||
| I mean, due process in the way, again, it's being used. | ||
| Due process actually just means the process that is due. | ||
| And in the case of a foreigner in this country who's here illegally without permission and committing crimes, the process they are due is a hasty deportation. | ||
| And that's it. | ||
| That is the process. | ||
| It is determining whether they're supposed to be here. | ||
| When you determine that they're not, you send them out of the country. | ||
| Period. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That's the only thing that's needed. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, you got this guy, this Maryland man and his elected representative. | ||
| Of course, he didn't vote for him. | ||
| He doesn't actually represent him. | ||
| But man, won't this guy go above and beyond for this random foreigner? | ||
| Wouldn't it be something to have the American people with support and representation of that level? | ||
| But no, not anytime soon. | ||
| Politically, things are getting to a kind of insane place. | ||
| And I think, you know, a large part of what's happening with the political landscape right now is that the Democrats have been completely sidelined. | ||
| Like, they kind of don't matter at this point nationally, which is why you have a lot of splitting in the MAGA coalition, because we don't have a common enemy to fight, because they're just impotent. | ||
| The Democrats are utterly, they've been rendered completely impotent. | ||
| They don't even matter at this point, at least not for the big issues, like the reconciliation bill, the big, beautiful bill that they're trying to pass, that they should be passing soon. | ||
| But the Democrats have got all sorts of little tricks up their sleeves for how to deal with this. | ||
| And none of them are working. | ||
| And frankly, none of them are working. | ||
| So for the reconciliation bill, the fact that it's a reconciliation bill means you only need a simple majority to get it passed, which means we don't have to even consider what the Democrats want to be in the bill. | ||
| Typically, any other bill, you'd have to throw them a bone to get a few of them on board to meet a 60-vote threshold in the Senate with the reconciliation bill. | ||
| The only people you have to concern yourself with are Republicans. | ||
| Now, are Republicans using this opportunity to pass everything that they've always wanted and to just shove things in the bill that they could never pass if they required Democrat support? | ||
| No, of course not. | ||
| Republicans are using it to hamstring ourselves and screw ourselves over for the most part. | ||
| But on top of that, there is this institutional roadblock. | ||
| And there are a lot of them. | ||
| This one in particular is worth noting. | ||
| There's a great article on this by Amuse on X. Can the Senate be saved from its Democrat parliamentarian? | ||
| And it's this type of stuff that they just sort of do. | ||
| And for the most part, people like don't even know it's happening. | ||
| And then you learn about it. | ||
| And it's like, well, how long has this been going on? | ||
| And how did this become the case? | ||
| Essentially, there's a person in the Senate who's unelected. | ||
| I don't even know how she's appointed, but her role is supposed to be like kind of like a referee, but she's the parliamentarian. | ||
| So she's supposed to know all of the rules of the Senate. | ||
| And she gets to dictate what can and can't be in bills based on precedent that had been previously set in the Senate. | ||
| And it's like, well, what? | ||
| What? | ||
| Who is this? | ||
| Who is this? | ||
| And how does she have essentially veto power over what goes in the bill? | ||
| And again, Amuse breaks this down. | ||
| He says, it's a curious feature of our constitutional order that a nameless advisor, unconfirmed by the people or their elected representatives, can effectively wield veto power over landmark legislation. | ||
| The Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth McDonough, something like that, is that figure. | ||
| An avowed Democrat and Obama ally, McDonough. | ||
| McDonough? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| How do I say this? | ||
| I'm going to call her Liz. | ||
| Liz has, in recent weeks, taken it upon herself to obstruct the very legislation that brought President Donald Trump back into office with a mandate, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. | ||
| This is not simply administrative mischief. | ||
| It's technocratic usurpation of Democratic authority. | ||
| And Vice President J.D. Vance, as president of the Senate, has both the constitutional authority and the moral duty to act. | ||
| He says, let us begin with this matter-of-fact, not speculation. | ||
| The parliamentarians' rulings are advisory. | ||
| They are not law. | ||
| The idea that she is the final arbiter of what may or may not appear in a reconciliation bill is a legal fiction, propped up by political timidity and institutional inertia. | ||
| There is precedent, and not ancient musty precedent, but recent muscular precedent for the vice president to exercise the authority that the Constitution vests in him. | ||
| In 1975, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller overruled the parliamentarian in a matter involving the filibuster. | ||
| In 1969, Hubert Humphrey attempted the same. | ||
| The office of the vice president, when acting as president of the Senate, is not a rubber stamp. | ||
| Consider the bill in question, the one big, beautiful bill act passed by the House in May by the narrowest of margins, is not merely another legislative vehicle for routine policy tinkering. | ||
| It's the centerpiece of Trump's second-term agenda. | ||
| And its key provisions are deeply rooted in the fiscal and moral expectations of the American electorate. | ||
| The bill eliminates funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a bureaucratic stronghold created by Dodd-Frank, long insulated from congressional accountability. | ||
| It restricts Medicaid and CHIP funds from being used for what is euphemistically called gender-affirming care for minors. | ||
| And it bars the disbursement of public health funds to those unlawfully present in the country. | ||
| Each of these provisions carries both moral clarity and budgetary consequence, yet Liz has ruled them as impermissible under the Byrd rule. | ||
| They call it the Bird Bath. | ||
| They write a bill. | ||
| It's this type of stuff that makes me never want to be a politician. | ||
| It's this type of crap that, like, how do you put up with this? | ||
| How do you play by these rules that are so utterly arbitrary and unfair and one-sided and pointless? | ||
| I couldn't do it. | ||
| I wouldn't do it. | ||
| So you've got a bill that has to go through its particular committee. | ||
| And if it gets through that, then it goes to the House floor vote. | ||
| They can make changes or whatever. | ||
| Eventually it gets passed through there. | ||
| Then it goes to the Senate. | ||
| Then the Senate can either pass it directly or make changes to it and send it back to the House to be voted on. | ||
| And while all of this is going on, the Senate parliamentarian basically has the say. | ||
| And again, they call it the birdbath At some point, the bill, I guess, after it's rewritten by the Senate, then has to go through a process where some lady named Liz gets to decide whether or not the senators get to put what they want in the bill. | ||
| What? | ||
| So, in the last few days, we're learning or being reminded or understanding the true power wielded by just like random women in our government that nobody's ever heard of, but that apparently run everything. | ||
| There's some lady named Nira, who was basically the president for four years. | ||
| We're just learning. | ||
| Okay, what? | ||
| Yeah, apparently, while Joe Biden was lying like a squid on the beach, some lady named Nira was our president and had access to the auto pin and wasn't asking Biden whether or not he wanted things signed. | ||
| It was just authorizing things on his behalf. | ||
| Okay, that's crazy. | ||
| Meanwhile, the Senate and all the senators that we all vote for are being overridden and prevented from putting provisions in the bill they want to vote on by some lady named Liz. | ||
| Okay, does this make sense to anybody else? | ||
| Anybody else feel like we've gone really, really, really wrong here? | ||
| And that nothing is as it seems? | ||
| I mean, literally, that is crazy. | ||
| So both our Senate and our executive branch are basically just being run by random women that nobody ever voted for. | ||
| And nobody, like, they weren't even, you know, approved of or appointed by people that we vote for. | ||
| Like, they weren't confirmed by the Senate and we vote for the Senate. | ||
| They're just there. | ||
| They just exist. | ||
| And they just have this power, apparently. | ||
| What? | ||
| But why, though? | ||
| But why do we put up with this? | ||
| Why is this the case? | ||
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Why are they trying? | |
| Are they trying to make us have an emperor? | ||
| Is that what they're doing? | ||
| Because this has been a continual thing with Trump. | ||
| We get Trump elected against all odds in 2016. | ||
| I mean, it was miraculous he got elected in 2016. | ||
| How much more miraculous was it in 2024? | ||
| He's got to survive assassination attempts. | ||
| He's got to flip Democrats like RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard. | ||
| I mean, truly, a miraculous series of events leads us to the point where our champion, Donald Trump, gets into office with a mandate from the people, with every single county in the country swinging to the right, with every single voting district in the country moving more towards Republicans. | ||
| We get the Senate, we get the Congress, and then we can't get anything done. | ||
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Why? | |
| Because you've got a foreign infiltration network, APAC, hamstringing us constantly. | ||
| We've got 700 district judges, any one of which apparently can override the United States president. | ||
| So apparently you have to get unanimous support from all 700 random Democrats in judge robes. | ||
| And we've gone over the profile of some of these people. | ||
| Like a third of them aren't even Americans, or at least, you know, are foreigners that have only been here a few years. | ||
| Most of the ones making the big decisions have, again, literally no experience as judges before being appointed to a position where they can dispute the president of the United States. | ||
| Like literally, like, I want to use the word literally, but I'm not just making things up here. | ||
| I'm saying actually, they have no experience as judges. | ||
| They like go to law school in Mozambique. | ||
| They come over here. | ||
| They spend 20 years working for an NGO, getting government taxpayer money to agitate to lessen the restrictions for immigration. | ||
| They come here. | ||
| They work for a nonprofit, non-government organization that takes entirely nothing but government money to agitate for more greater immigration, greater foreigners, not helping America, but helping their own people take advantage of America. | ||
| And then one day, Barack Obama says, you're now a judge. | ||
| You get to override the United States president that we all voted for. | ||
| And then we can't get this bill passed because there's some random lady named Liz that gets the final say, apparently, for no reason. | ||
| And we can't even undo the measures taken by Biden, or at least under and in Biden's name, by some random lady named Nira that nobody ever voted for or ever had to be confirmed by anybody. | ||
| Can we just have an emperor already? | ||
| Can we just have a king? | ||
| Can we, how about a king? | ||
| Can we just have, can Trump just do things and then it's a mandate from God that they be done? | ||
| Can we just, we just want things to be done for us? | ||
| Now, I'm being facetious, obviously. | ||
| And of course, the irony is that these types of roadblocks, these types of, this type of interference only ever happens when it's something that the American people want. | ||
| Again, it's all compounded and exacerbated by the fact, adding insult to injury, that when we want to start a war, or if we want to shut down TikTok, or if they want to Fire the president of Harvard on a whim. | ||
| Then it gets done. | ||
| No questions asked, no barriers, nothing in the way. | ||
| No random ladies we have to get to sign on board. | ||
| It just happens, and everybody acts like it's normal that it happens. | ||
| So it's not actually that we need a new system. | ||
| We just need our system to work for us. | ||
| We just need to expel by force, if necessary, the foreign and in other ways, just un-American roadblocks that are just gunking up our government and keeping us just completely incapable of dealing with our issues, dealing with our problems, and not being endlessly exploited or distracted by overseas conflicts. | ||
| Democracy sucks. | ||
| Democracy sucks, I guess, is what I'm saying at the end of the day. | ||
| Because there's all of these insane little nuances and rules. | ||
| And it is like a giant board game where it's just totally arbitrary and up to the whoever brought the board, they get to make all the rules, I guess. | ||
| And sometimes they matter, sometimes they don't. | ||
| Sometimes the powers get invoked. | ||
| Sometimes they don't. | ||
| It just doesn't seem to matter. | ||
| It's kind of like the measure we were talking about yesterday and again today that Andy Ogles is bringing forward, where it is a law. | ||
| It's just there on the books as a matter of law that in the naturalization process, if it's discovered that you are in fact a revolutionary or a political radical of some sort, then you are stripped of your naturalization. | ||
| And we like to act. | ||
| And when it's convenient, we pretend like these laws or even these rules or precedents or not laws, but long established traditions, that they're just like unshakable. | ||
| It's just how it is. | ||
| You just can't get around it. | ||
| No matter how hard you try, no matter how good your reasoning, just like, these are the rules. | ||
| We have to play by them. | ||
| Everybody plays by them. | ||
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Those are the rules. | |
| Unless they're rules they don't like. | ||
| Unless there are rules they don't really want. | ||
| So if that's how it was, if that's actually, if we actually had this complicated, convoluted rule set that everybody just had to learn and play by, then things like the Naturalization Act would just be adhered to. | ||
| And it wouldn't be a matter of discussion. | ||
| It wouldn't be a matter of debate. | ||
| It wouldn't be something that we would have to write, you know, Andy Ogles, you know, writing a letter encouraging the DOJ to look into this thing and other people are going to interfere. | ||
| And he's just writing that because he's racist and blah, blah, blah. | ||
| It would just be a matter of course. | ||
| It would be like a computer process or just go, oh, he was naturalized and within five years he was advocating for a terrorist organization or a communist organization. | ||
| Then he is now denaturalized. | ||
| He's no longer a citizen and he can't run for mayor of New York. | ||
| Bing, bang, boom. | ||
| Done, done, done. | ||
| Should take about 45 minutes and you'll be out of here by lunch. | ||
| Like that's how it should be. | ||
| If that's the rules that we're playing by. | ||
| And this, again, is a reality about the modern world that you can extrapolate to the rest of the world. | ||
| It's not just America. | ||
| It's not just our political system. | ||
| It's the international rules-based system, the rules-based order that is constantly shoved down our throat. | ||
| And we're told that we have to go to war in order to uphold. | ||
| And then, you know, Benjamin Nanyahu is convicted for war crimes. | ||
| And instead of arresting him to uphold the all-important rules-based order that's worth killing a million people to uphold, right? | ||
| If you ask the people in charge, it's like, was it really worth it putting sanctions on Iraq and killing half a million Iraqi children? | ||
| And they're like, it's the rules-based order, okay? | ||
| The rules said they had to starve to death and the rules are supreme. | ||
| But then Benjamin Nanyan, who gets convicted of war crimes at the ICC, and what happens? | ||
| Donald Trump and the Trump administration and the American government go so far as to lean on Microsoft to cancel and ban the head prosecutor at the ICC from using their email service. | ||
| Did you know that that's what happened? | ||
| Have you heard that story? | ||
| We have all these sanctions on the ICC for daring, for daring to besmirch the innocent, lovely Israelis out of just sheer anti-Semitism, I'm sure. | ||
| And in punishment, not only have we like put sanctions on them and Tom Cotton sounded about invading The Hague, but the Trump administration actually got in contact with Microsoft and said, hey, if they use your Outlook program, cancel their account. | ||
| And so Microsoft canceled the email account of the head judge of the ICC. | ||
| It's a nice little sort of a beautifully packaged symbolic representation of like everything wrong in the world. | ||
| You've got the industry and corporation conspiring with the government to unfairly and unlawfully punish the enemy of a foreign state that wields America like a weapon, | ||
| even though it's to no benefit to us and all of it in flagrant and abject and just outright opposition to the so-called rules-based order that apparently is supreme and that we have to go to war to uphold. | ||
| It's just all complete nonsense, totally arbitrary. | ||
| And again, it's the same that you see in it's like the fractal conspiracy, right? | ||
| It's like it's the same thing that happens internally of like small businesses where, you know, it depends on your race whether or not you'll be punished for certain actions or saying certain words. | ||
| And you like zoom out and you're like, oh, the government's kind of the same. | ||
| It's kind of all arbitrary. | ||
| It's kind of like these Rules don't actually mean anything if the people in power don't want to enforce them. | ||
| And then you look at the world order, and yeah, it's the same there, too. | ||
| They have these rules, the rules-based international order, democracy, these words they love to throw around that are just utterly meaningless. | ||
| They don't mean anything. | ||
| They're just words. | ||
| They're just sounds they make while they screw you over. | ||
| And at the end of the day, it's whether you have the power and the will to exert it. | ||
| And that's all that really matters because these rules are bullcrap. | ||
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| You know what the root of the problem is, don't you? | ||
| Feminism? | ||
| Guns don't kill people. | ||
| The government does. | ||
| It's about getting out in the woods, away from the government, where your paper money's useless unless you run out of leaves. | ||
| Everything has been foretold in the book of Revelations. | ||
| You just be careful. | ||
| Computers have already beaten the communists at chess. | ||
| Next thing you know, they'll be beating humans. | ||
| If you want, I can show you how to make a bomb out of a roll of toilet paper and a stick of dynamite. | ||
| Game was pre-taped six months ago in the same Nevada hangar where they faked the moon landing. | ||
| Co-ed sports has been the number two priority on the international feminite agenda. | ||
| You want to know what the number one priority is? | ||
| Please, not right now, Dale. | ||
| Co-ed bathrooms. | ||
| Computers don't make errors. | ||
| What they do, they do on purpose. | ||
| By now, your name and particulars have been fed into every laptop, desktop, mainframe, and supermarket scanner that collectively make up the global information conspiracy, otherwise known as the beast. | ||
| Dale Gribble was right about everything, folks. | ||
| Dale Gribble was right about everything. | ||
| How do you know about the transgender bathrooms all the way back then? | ||
| Because he was listening to Alex Jones. | ||
| And of course, it's been admitted, Mike Judge, who's friends with Alex Jones, has been interviewed by Alex Jones, and based Dale Gribble off Alex Jones. | ||
| And it really is fun going back and listening to that stuff, especially if you were listening to Alex Jones back then. | ||
| I remember in the first episode, the pilot episode of King of the Hill, he's talking about the black helicopters, which was a major topic of conversation with Alex at the time. | ||
| And again, it's just a reminder, just like the, in fact, I don't know if we'll have time to play the video, but Darren McBreen put together just a fantastic compilation using, I sort of was rambling about Alex Jones being the wise old man, the Yoda or the Obi-Wan Kenobi figure guiding Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan decades ago. | ||
| And just how amazing and legendary this is. | ||
| Then you think back to like, oh yeah, you know, one of the most popular popular culture characters of all time, Dale Gribble, literally based off Alex Jones. | ||
| And it's been that way since the 90s. | ||
| You know, a lot of and it really is just, to me, like just annoying and upsetting, really, in a lot of ways to see so many people online criticize Alex when they wouldn't exist without him. | ||
| They literally would not exist. | ||
| You know, the positions they hold are informed completely by Alex Jones. | ||
| The whole idea of this, you know, radical view of a global conspiracy working against the American people. | ||
| It's all Alex. | ||
| And you got these people who are like, well, Alex may have been a maverick back then, but now he loves Trump. | ||
| And it's like, imagine. | ||
| Imagine people working away in basically obscurity when it comes to the mainstream media. | ||
| Very obscure. | ||
| Not a lot of kudos, not a lot of pats on the back from the mainstream, but just plugging away day in, day out, seven days a week for decades on end to suddenly have a presidential candidate who is repeating your talking points. | ||
| We didn't join Trump's movement. | ||
| Trump joined our movement and became the president with our talking points and started making moves against our enemies. | ||
| And Alex isn't supposed to support him and we're supposed to ignore that. | ||
| This is what the point is. | ||
| The whole point of this is to wage an information war so we don't have to wage an actual war. | ||
| So we can take over politically and solve these problems through legitimate means by a mass awakening, getting voters to start choosing America over globalism. | ||
| This is what the point is. | ||
| Of course he's going to support Trump. | ||
| You an idiot? | ||
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You're listening to The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | |
| The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| This is the American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| The second hour is on, and I'm very happy to be joined by my guest, David Pine. | ||
| David Pine currently serves as president of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security. | ||
| He's an expert in geopolitics and has unparalleled insights into the complexities that contribute to the balance of power in international relations. | ||
| You can find him on his website, emptaskforce.us, and his substack is dpine.substack.com. | ||
| That's dpyne.substack.com. | ||
| Mr. Pine, thank you so much for joining us once again. | ||
| Hey, it's great to be with you. | ||
| Well, it's my pleasure. | ||
| And we got a lot to talk about. | ||
| Obviously, you know, you're an expert on nuclear weapons, and that's been the talk of the town, I guess you could say. | ||
| And at this point, I'm really not sure what to make of it. | ||
| I mean, I got half the articles are saying, you know, nothing happened, nothing was destroyed, everything's totally fine. | ||
| The other half is saying it was totally obliterated. | ||
| There's no more risk. | ||
| I mean, how do you even find what's true with all these varying accounts of what happened in Iran? | ||
| You know, it's incredibly hard because, you know, we have, just like always, our government lies about war. | ||
| And unfortunately, the Trump administration is not immune to that temptation. | ||
| We've seen the president came out and unequivocally stated that all three nuclear sites in Iran were obliterated, that the U.S. struck. | ||
| But then a DIA report leaked out that I reported on immediately within like a couple hours of the news breaking, I think, on Tuesday. | ||
| And that DIA report, the Defense Intelligence Agency report, using SITCOM expert analysis, the best intel we had for a bomb damage assessment assessed that none of those three sites were destroyed, that in fact, only two of them had the entrances blown out and closed. | ||
| And basically, all of them are repairable. | ||
| The Iranians just need to dig them out and then they can resume using those facilities. | ||
| But the real issue, none of that's the real issue. | ||
| The real issue is that Iran has likely about 34 underground nuclear sites, nuclear processing and production sites for highly enriched uranium. | ||
| They still have all of their highly enriched uranium stockpiles intact, an estimated 900 plus pounds that can build an estimated 9 to 15 nuclear weapons or atomic weapons. | ||
| And they still have thousands of centrifuges. | ||
| And none of those were really affected. | ||
| There may have been some centrifuges in the Fardot site that were unable to be evacuated. | ||
| But basically, President Trump decided to give the Iranians notice that not only would this be a one-off attack, but he identified the exact sites which we planned to bomb. | ||
| He didn't say when we would bomb them, but essentially he gave them 24 to 48 hours notice. | ||
| And my source in Iran as a secondary source through another Iranian immigrant stated that those evacuations began 48 hours before the attack. | ||
| And we saw some satellite images that looked like trucks going in. | ||
| But again, this is something where you got one side saying one side, one thing, one side saying the total opposite. | ||
| What can we absolutely know for sure? | ||
| So like we know for sure that there's no radiation leak, right? | ||
| We're sure that nothing has been hit to such a degree that there's been some fallout of some sort. | ||
| Does that mean anything? | ||
| Like what can we really put our money on when it comes to all these differing sources other than what you've just laid down, which we're like, maybe they have this, maybe they don't. | ||
| What do we know for sure about Iran's nuclear program at this point? | ||
| Well, we know it was significantly, you know, moderately or significantly impacted in terms of their nuclear enrichment capabilities. | ||
| You know, there are multiple sites hit, but the main sites were not above ground that the Israelis hit, but the underground sites, probably their biggest site was Fardot. | ||
| It's possible it could take three months to dig that out. | ||
| But the main facilities underground were reportedly unaffected, not collapsed, according to the initial bomb damage assessment. | ||
| Now, there is, that's not the final bomb damage assessment. | ||
| But if you look at the way the Trump White House has reacted to the leak of this top secret report, they didn't deny the report was accurate in terms of what it said. | ||
| They claimed it was low confidence. | ||
| They claimed it was, you know, so in the intelligence world, there's, you know, high confidence, which means they're very sure of their assessment. | ||
| There's moderate confidence and low confidence. | ||
| They're claiming without any evidence that it was a low confidence report. | ||
| In my experience, bomb damage assessments are not published with low confidence reports. | ||
| There's at least usually high confidence. | ||
| This is what we know happened. | ||
| Moderate confidence, this is what we think happened. | ||
| And then low confidence. | ||
| I've just never seen that before. | ||
| Perhaps in a minority assessment, there might be a low confidence, but this is the overall report. | ||
| It's just unfathomable that the overall report would be a low confidence intelligence assessment. | ||
| So just the way they reacted so furiously, President Trump, Hagseth, Carolyn Levitt, they're calling for the arrests. | ||
| And I heard a Republican in Congress call for the execution of the leaker. | ||
| They're claiming it's a CNN leaker. | ||
| I have another source, Colonel Rob Mannis, who's saying he's being told the leaker is actually a Fox News reporter, Jennifer Griffin. | ||
| But regardless, they reported on the truth. | ||
| And certainly if it's classified, maybe there should be some ramifications, although I think journalists are protected against that. | ||
| If they're told something, they have some kind of protection to leak that. | ||
| But in terms of what we know, my assessment has been for many years. | ||
| You probably know that Iran has had nuclear weapons. | ||
| They have a small nuclear arsenal, perhaps a dozen, maybe a few dozen. | ||
| But they've been completely deterred from using that nuclear arsenal against the U.S. or Israel by our nuclear supremacy over them. | ||
| We probably have around 200 times more operational nuclear weapons than they do. | ||
| We have 2,700 total, including reserve warheads between the U.S. and Israel. | ||
| The U.S., of course, being the third ranked power in terms of nuclear weapons, by my assessment, and Israel being fourth. | ||
| So There's just no, there was no urgency in terms of no need to bomb Iran. | ||
| And really, it just seemed like carefully choreographed political theater where we gave them notice, they evacuated all the nuclear scientists on highly enriched uranium from the three sites. | ||
| So there were no casualties. | ||
| Then they bombed a deserted or abandoned U.S. military base, the largest in, I think, the Middle East or certainly in Qatar. | ||
| There was no casualties there. | ||
| And then we declared a truce and everyone goes back to being happy again and peaceful again. | ||
| And there was even a source from a Substack writer who goes by Simplicius that claimed that even the ceasefire was negotiated in advance where Iran may have offered not to resist, not to try to shoot down any of the aircraft in exchange for an overall ceasefire with Israel. | ||
| And honestly, I'm surprised that this ceasefire is held seemingly a few days. | ||
| That alone is surprising to me. | ||
| And looking at the geopolitical landscape, what do you think is motivating the Trump administration to react so strongly to the claims that the damage wasn't quite as bad as they say it is? | ||
| Because it seems to me like Israel has these ambitions when it comes to Iran. | ||
| Some of what they say about the nuclear sites, I'm a little bit suspicious of. | ||
| I think they just want regime change and nuclear sites are kind of the excuse they're using to bring that about. | ||
| But if that's the excuse they're using to bring it about and then we destroy them, that sort of destroys their whole argument. | ||
| I just wonder what comes next from here. | ||
| And what do you think the motives are for the Trump administration in making these strikes or reacting so ferociously to the claims that the sites weren't destroyed? | ||
| And do you think that's because it would give an excuse to prolong the conflict or demand another bombing because they weren't destroyed? | ||
| I mean, what do you think the geopolitical motives of the Trump administration are at this point? | ||
| Well, President Trump is prone to exaggeration. | ||
| I think he tells the truth most of the time. | ||
| Every once in a while, he'll lie or exaggerate, however you want to call it. | ||
| And this is certainly one of those cases. | ||
| Of course, you know, of course, a president wants to spin a defeat or a failed operation as a victory, as a success. | ||
| No president wants to be accused of losing a war or having unsuccessful military operations, especially one like this, where he invested so much planning and effort in the hopes that he could destroy or cripple the Iranian nuclear production capabilities. | ||
| They're claiming years, setback by years, or completely destroyed. | ||
| The more reliable assessments say it was set back by maybe three months. | ||
| And Vice President Vance claimed that it would take right after the attack, the day after the attack, he was interviewed on a couple of Sunday morning talk shows, and he said that it would take years to dismantle Iran's nuclear capabilities, nuclear production capabilities. | ||
| So President Trump has stated after this attack, given his assessment that their capabilities are obliterated, there's no need to have a nuke deal anymore. | ||
| So he's not even pursuing diplomacy anymore. | ||
| But yeah, he's just trying to spend this as a success for political reasons. | ||
| And then he's politicizing the intelligence. | ||
| The entire intelligence community has been ordered to fall in line with some kind of assessment that substantiates his political talking points, which happen to be false in this system. | ||
| Well, and but it is, he's having success, right? | ||
| Again, so tomorrow, you know, it's Friday today. | ||
| Tomorrow will be one week since the attack. | ||
| It feels like it's been a year for me because it feels like we're in a completely different place. | ||
| You know, last Saturday, I think you felt like I did that like, all right, this is World War III. | ||
| Like this was something I did not expect Trump to do, did not want Trump to do. | ||
| I personally felt sort of betrayed by it. | ||
| Now, almost a week later, it's like, okay, obviously this didn't spiral out of control. | ||
| You know, maybe this was a better move than I originally thought. | ||
| I mean, just what, what's your take now, a week out on Trump's decision to bomb this site? | ||
| And, you know, what is the risk of World War III? | ||
| It feels like, you know, a week ago, we were getting ready to get in the bomb shelter and now it's like not even a threat. | ||
| And it's like not even in the top three stories on the news, you know, which is crazy in a week's time. | ||
| What is the threat of this war continuing or spiraling out? | ||
| And just what's your assessment a week out of Trump's decision to bomb these sites? | ||
| Well, I think it was a bad call. | ||
| There was no reason to make the attack. | ||
| There was no urgent threat. | ||
| Basically, he was being fed a steady stream of misinformation and deceptive talking points from the Israelis to their agents in the U.S. government, principally General Carrilla, who serves as SETCOM commander, very much known to be kind of an Israeli intelligence asset. | ||
| Basically, everything they tell him to say, he says dutifully. | ||
| So he's, you know, he repeated all that. | ||
| And then, of course, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, not quite as much of an Israeli agent, but also extremely pro-Israel to an extreme extent. | ||
| And that's, of course, General Kane. | ||
| And, you know, of course, you know, John Ratcliffe, according to a gray zone story, he's been called the stenographer of Israel because, again, just repeats whatever the Israelis tell him, you know, basically takes their fake propaganda, war propaganda briefing slides about Iran and regurgitates them in daily briefings to Trump. | ||
| And then, of course, Rubio as well. | ||
| So we had these four bad actors that deceived President Trump to make these attacks. | ||
| So that said, I think that it was kind of a best case scenario that President Trump did decide to notify Iran in advance that this would be a one-off attack. | ||
| I previously stated, despite my warnings of potential World War III, in my latest article, or maybe, you know, it was my latest article, I think, that I quoted that if it was a one-off attack and if we warned Iran in advance and then pressured the Israelis into a ceasefire, I thought that Trump could get away with that without any significant Iranian retaliation. | ||
| And that's exactly what happened. | ||
| So I did foresee this as a possibility that it would be a quote-unquote success in terms of no major Iranian retaliation. | ||
| And in that sense, I think that President Trump, at least, I think he was foolish to make the attack, but I think the way he made the attack and in terms of the actual warning, I think, was prudent. | ||
| And he set us back, at least in the Middle East, partially on more of an America-first foreign policy. | ||
| Whereas when he was caving to Israel, I felt he was putting America last and Israel first. | ||
| Yeah, I agree with you. | ||
| And it's, you know, it's funny because online, I mean, obviously, this is just a big debate. | ||
| And when he bombed, you know, I was on the side of just like, what the hell is this? | ||
| He started World War III and he had a ton of people, but nobody was saying, hey, trust Trump, this is all a big play for peace. | ||
| They were all going, actually, Iran deserves it. | ||
| We are going to war with Iran and it's going to be a regime change. | ||
| Thank God we avoided that fate. | ||
| But I imagine you feel like I do, where it's like whiplash, where, you know, he's doing this for Israel and you're like, dang it, another world, you know, another Middle East war. | ||
| But then he turns on Israel. | ||
| And I know that's the, you don't say turn on. | ||
| You say he pivots back to America first is the title of your Substack article. | ||
| Trump pivots back to America first with new Israel-Iran war ceasefire deal. | ||
| And you point out that he seems to sort of turn his ire on Israel after that because they were, you know, accused of breaking the ceasefire. | ||
| And, you know, he's saying some very unkind things to Israel. | ||
| How much do you think Trump's decisions are being guided by Israel? | ||
| Because I don't know because I can't figure out whether he's their agent and doing exactly what they want or if he's playing a long game, just kind of screw them over. | ||
| Is it something in between? | ||
| How does Trump feel about Israel to your interpretation, seeing the way he acts? | ||
| Well, I think Trump's something of a flip-flopper, and that's why we have so much whiplash is because he flips from one side to the other. | ||
| You know, Monday, of course, he was or yeah, Sunday, he, or Saturday night, he gave a speech right after, and he said, Israel's a great partner. | ||
| He praised Israel and the Israeli armed forces before he praised the U.S. and U.S. armed forces. | ||
| He invoked the name of God in this operation, which I thought was a little bit sacrilegious because I don't think God was a part of it. | ||
| I think that God has instructed us not to engage in unprovoked aggression against other countries unless there's some kind of urgent threat, which there wasn't in this case. | ||
| But I think that President Trump is, I do think he's mostly guided by Israel. | ||
| I think he's still in his foreign policy is mostly controlled by Israel. | ||
| I think the White House is arguably Israeli occupied territory. | ||
| And you could see that with his statement, I think it was just yesterday or probably the day before on Wednesday, when he was, yeah, it was Wednesday that he was making all these statements that, you know, when Netanyahu was under prosecution for, you know, with a new trial about it on his corruption charges, being the most corrupt and murderous Israeli prime minister. | ||
| Israel, of course, I've always supported, but I despise Netanyahu because of what he's done in Gaza in particular, and also trying to get us into World War III with Iran. | ||
| I think that, you know, the idea that a foreign leader would be trying to interfere in the Israeli judicial system just shows the degree to which he's tied at the hip to Netanyahu. | ||
| And the ceasefire was an exception. | ||
| I don't think Netanyahu really wanted the ceasefire. | ||
| Certainly he was getting to the point where he knew he needed it and he didn't know how to get it because he had this uncontrolled escalation with Iran. | ||
| But the fact was that Israel, both the U.S. and Israel, were running out of missile defense interceptors. | ||
| And you can see that in the Israeli interception rates, which initially were 92% and then went down to 80% or even in the 70s, that if they had run out of interceptors, both Hezbollah and the U.S., or Iran rather, would have been able to bombard Israeli cities at will. | ||
| And it just would have exposed that Israel is not the great undefeatable power. | ||
| And they could have had their cities burning and thousands of Israelis dead. | ||
| So I think Netanyahu did want to pursue regime change. | ||
| That was the reason for the operation. | ||
| I think there was Iran's secure sites was just a pretext. | ||
| He knew that he couldn't damage those much, but he wanted to get the U.S. to try to do it. | ||
| He was partially successful in that. | ||
| But Trump did prove that he's not 100% Israeli-controlled asset by doing the ceasefire, but then, again, backtracked again and showed he was kind of Israeli first with trying to save Netanyahu's political skin. | ||
| Which, yeah, it's just so strange when you look at some of the past stuff even Trump has said about Bibi Nanyahu or even just right before being inaugurated, posting a video with, I think it was Jeff, was it Jeffrey Sachs? | ||
| I'm blaming on his name, but calling Benjamin Nanyahu a warmonger and a crazy bastard, I think it was. | ||
| And Trump reposts that saying, yep, this is true. | ||
| And then he writes this essay about how great BB is and how bad his trial is. | ||
| It's just, again, whiplash or just like, okay, what are we even supposed to make of this? | ||
| And you sort of answered my other questions I had because I was wondering, I mean, this ceasefire, who is this ceasefire beneficial to? | ||
| Because it seems to me like it's the most beneficial to Israel. | ||
| They're running low on the interceptor Missiles. | ||
| Every missile that was fired cost them so much more than it cost Iran. | ||
| Was this in Iran's benefit as well to agree to this ceasefire? | ||
| Or do you think Iran could have just kept going and had Israel sort of in a really tough spot? | ||
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No, I think this ceasefire was beneficial to all parties. | |
| It was beneficial to the U.S. because it immediately downscaled the risks of World War III. | ||
| It was beneficial to Iran because even though they had a large stockpile of additional missiles and the capability to destroy the U.S. with super EAP weapons and cyber weapons, that would present an existential threat to Iran if on the chance that we were able to identify them as the perpetrators and that we could strike back with our own nuclear retaliation against Iran. | ||
| The crazy thing is, I used to believe obviously all of the neocon, well, not the neocon war propaganda, but when it came to Israel, I always believed that Iran was a terrorist state, which it is, but that it was also a rogue state. | ||
| And Iran has never directly attacked any of its neighbors for 300 years. | ||
| And if you look at Israel, I mean, they've attacked every neighbor they had practically in the last six months to two years. | ||
| So they've invaded obviously Gaza. | ||
| They've invaded, I mean, arguably the West Bank. | ||
| I mean, they occupy the West Bank, but they've conducted offensive operations and bombing strikes there. | ||
| They've also bombed Syria and Lebanon and re-invaded Lebanon. | ||
| And of course, they've conducted multiple attacks against Iran. | ||
| So, you know, if you define a rogue state as a country that bombs other, you know, its neighbors for little to no reason, there's no country in the world that fits that description more than Israel. | ||
| So, you know, Israel is led by a rogue state leader. | ||
| President Trump would be wise to support his prosecution, would be wise to call for an early election or his resignation so that he could be replaced by a sater and more rational and more pro-U.S. | ||
| prime minister that doesn't try to control you. | ||
| It's just enormous detrimental to the U.S. national security to have a rogue state actor like Net Yahoo in control of the world's fourth largest. | ||
| Look, I could not agree more. | ||
| We got to do a quick commercial break. | ||
| We'll be right back with David Pine. | ||
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You're tuned in to the American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | |
| Watch it live right now at band.video. | ||
| Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| This is Harrison Smith, your host. | ||
| This is the American Journal. | ||
| I'm joined by David Pine. | ||
| He currently serves as the president of the Task Force. | ||
| He's an expert in geopolitics and has unparalleled insights into the complexities that contribute to the balance of power in international relations. | ||
| You can find his substack at dpine.substack.com. | ||
| That's dpyne.substack.com. | ||
| And, you know, usually when you come on the show, Mr. Pine, it's usually not Iran that we're worried about. | ||
| We're usually talking about China and Russia and their nuclear capabilities. | ||
| I want to ask you about how they enter into this whole conflict. | ||
| But before we do that, I want to play a video. | ||
| This is from the Mideast side. | ||
| I think it's an interesting, it explains the interesting position Israel finds itself in. | ||
| I want to get your take on the other side. | ||
| But here's a short video from Middle East Eye talking about the position Israel finds itself in. | ||
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| Netanyahu has a dilemma now. | ||
| Because if Netanyahu says, we've won, it's all done, then the centerpiece of his regional strategy, the pillar around which he organized things, namely the Iranian threat, has been removed. | ||
| And that was crucial to his attempt to decenter what he was doing against the Palestinians. | ||
| You could tell an awful lot about a person in recent decades. | ||
| If when you said, let's talk about the Middle East, West Asia, if they said, yes, yes, what do you think about the problem of Iran? | ||
| You knew you were having one conversation. | ||
| If they said, yes, yes, what do you think about the problem of Israel's dispossession of the Palestinians, denial of their rights, apartheid regime? | ||
| You were having a different conversation. | ||
| Netanyahu now faces a situation in which the American president has said the U.S. saved Israel. | ||
| Remember Netanyahu's claim all those years? | ||
| We will defend ourselves by ourselves. | ||
| Not anymore. | ||
| The region looks at it and it sees an Israeli threshold of pain, which is positioned somewhere very different, sadly, to many other places of the region, which have known such pain. | ||
| Israeli resilience, Israeli capacity to absorb pain, Israeli societal strength are all legitimately questioned. | ||
| And most of all, people look at this and they see a state that is apparently at one and the same time both vulnerable and genocidal. | ||
| That is not a clever place to find yourself. | ||
| And it's the place that Netanyahu has brought Israel to. | ||
| I thought that was an interesting way to put it. | ||
| Not a clever place to be. | ||
| And yeah, it seems to me like Israel has acted so brutally in Gaza. | ||
| They've destroyed their reputation overseas. | ||
| Obviously, their support in America has drastically gone down. | ||
| I think you can look at the election of Mamdani in New York. | ||
| I think that's indicative that people are just, they just want anybody that's not going to be totally obsequious to Israel. | ||
| And it seems to me like that Israel made the calculus and said, hey, if we take out Iran at the end of all this, then all of this will be worth it. | ||
| This big gamble we've taken, all the reputational damage, it'll all be worth it because our main enemy in the region will be taken care of. | ||
| That really hasn't happened. | ||
| So now I've got this damaged reputation. | ||
| Their enemy, Iran, is not fully taken care of yet. | ||
| What's your take on this, David Pine? | ||
| How do you interpret all this? | ||
| Well, I think he's right. | ||
| I think that Iran can legitimately claim to be the main victor in this conflict, this 12-day war, because Iran stood up to the combined forces of the U.S. and Israel that were calling on their unconditional surrender and regime change. | ||
| And they got off almost scathed in terms of their nuclear program is still intact. | ||
| They still maintain the capability to build another nuclear weapon or more nuclear weapons within the next weeks. | ||
| They have multiple different underground sites and enrichment facilities, but most importantly, they have thousands of the centrifuges. | ||
| They have the 900 pounds of highly enriched uranium that's 60% or above near weapons grade. | ||
| And they pierce the myth of Israeli vulnerability. | ||
| I mean, towards the end, they were pounding Israeli cities and military targets and the port of Haifa mercilessly. | ||
| And I don't know what the total Israeli casualties were, but I would guess it'd be in the several hundreds at least. | ||
| So Israel, as I said, there was a good argument for Israel that they needed to end this conflict. | ||
| They had maybe seven days worth of defense. | ||
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| Thank you. | ||
| Ceasefire, you know, violate the ceasefire and strike Iran again. | ||
| But this was going to be a reputational damage situation for Netanyahu if he didn't end the conflict soon. | ||
| And he didn't know how to do it. | ||
| So in a sense, Trump saved his bacon. | ||
| And again, it was a ceasefire. | ||
| The ceasefire was beneficial to all parties involved. | ||
| Every party claimed victory. | ||
| They all gave victory speeches. | ||
| The Ayatollah gave a victory speech. | ||
| Netanyahu gave a victory speech. | ||
| Trump gave a victory speech. | ||
| Now he's at war with his own intelligence services in terms of whether it was a victory or whether it was a failed attempt on IRA's nuclear sites. | ||
| Well, and yeah, I mean, the whole thing is so strange. | ||
| Even just the fact that, like, you know, we understand that, you know, early on, earlier on in the conflict, it must have been about a year ago when Iran first did a big wave of drones and it later came out. | ||
| I think Seymour Hirsch wrote an article and he seems to have the best sources ever. | ||
| I don't understand how this guy gets all of the, you know, exclusives. | ||
| But, you know, he reported that, yeah, it was all sort of coordinated behind the scenes. | ||
| Iran will be attacking. | ||
| We'll help you shoot it down. | ||
| But at least that was revealed by this leak with Seymour Hirsch. | ||
| And now Trump comes out and says, yeah, they bombed us, but they told us where the bombs were going to be and we shot him down. | ||
| So it just seems weird to me that they're just like openly telling us, like, yeah, this is all just sort of play acting. | ||
| You know, they're trying to bomb us, but not really. | ||
| And we're bombing them, but we told them where it was. | ||
| It's just, it's just all very, it's all very bizarre, this war that everybody won. | ||
| It's just strange, isn't it? | ||
| Well, I mean, you always want to have a war termination situation where it's a win-win for everyone. | ||
| So I mean, I'm happy to see that everyone claims it's a win because that decreases the chances for a reinitiation of the conflict. | ||
| So that's what we want to see in Russia and Ukraine. | ||
| We have a peace deal such as the one I've devised that has something everyone likes. | ||
| And so the ceasefire deal, it's not even on paper. | ||
| It's an unconditional ceasefire. | ||
| Iran didn't have to do anything. | ||
| We basically came to their terms. | ||
| The terms were Israel needs to stop attacking us immediately and indefinitely. | ||
| You drop the unconditional surrender and regime change demands and we'll return to a status quo peace. | ||
| And that's what was achieved. | ||
| But you're right. | ||
| It does seem to be all for political theater, carefully choreographed because of the advance warning. | ||
| And Trump, I think the day after he struck Iran or two days after, he's praising Iran for showing restraint and giving advance warnings to ensure that there were no U.S. military casualties, basically. | ||
| And now he's selling the ceasefire as one of his transformational presidential legacy moments where he brought lasting peace to the Middle East. | ||
| And we know as long as that Yahoo's in charge, it's not going to be a lasting peace, but at least for now, the ceasefire is holding. | ||
| Yeah, that is what I was going to ask before we move on to sort of how the other power players play into this. | ||
| I mean, I'm not comfortable saying this is over. | ||
| I've seen enough ceasefire agreements in the Middle East to know they last about as long as an ice cube in hell. | ||
| So, I mean, what is the likelihood that this starts up again? | ||
| Or do you think we're seeing a sort of simmering for the time being of conflict in the Middle East? | ||
| Obviously, it's all speculation, but just what's your feeling on this? | ||
| Well, I think this is definitely a temporary truce. | ||
| As the Netanyahu regime stated, they reserve the right to bomb Iran whenever they want. | ||
| And if they see an Iran nuclear site that's reactivated, that they can see, that's above ground, or it's fully digged out in terms of Fardot or something like that, they reserve the right to violate the ceasefire with impunity. | ||
| So in terms of who's going to make war again, I mean, it's always Israel. | ||
| Israel's always the one who's quote unquote preemptively striking other countries. | ||
| And usually preemptive strikes refer to unprovoked military aggression. | ||
| So if it's Russia, Russia invading Ukraine, we call it unprovoked military aggression. | ||
| If it's Israel bombing and invading its neighbors, it's preemptive strikes. | ||
| So it's all a matter of language. | ||
| If the U.S. does something, we redefine the language to make it sound like it's justified. | ||
| If it's another country that we don't like, then it's always aggression. | ||
| It's always Putin trying to rebuild the Russian Empire, getting ready to invade NATO, all these ridiculous claims, when in fact, the war in Ukraine was a strategic defensive endeavor. | ||
| Yeah, and heck, I'd be on Ukraine's side if Putin was treating the Ukrainians in the way that Netanyahu's treating the Gazans. | ||
| I mean, it's just, again, absolutely brutal. | ||
| And there's more and more stories out every single day with the shooting of the people in the breadlines now. | ||
| Apparently, according to Horetz, this was an order that was given. | ||
| I mean, it's just insane. | ||
| And We could talk about that forever. | ||
| But, like I said, usually when you come on, we're not even concerned about Iran. | ||
| It's China and Russia that are the major nuclear threats. | ||
| And of course, that's your area of expertise. | ||
| How do they play into this? | ||
| I imagine, at least for Russia, they were watching what's going on in Iran with a lot of trepidation, right? | ||
| Because I could see the timeline where they take out Iran. | ||
| That's a major ally of Russia. | ||
| Who knows what comes after that, but it wouldn't have been good. | ||
| How were they watching this unfold, do you think? | ||
| What was their perspective as they watched the action in Iran unfold? | ||
| Well, of course, there was never any threat of regime change in Iran. | ||
| They weren't going to surrender to bombers in the air. | ||
| There was no ground army. | ||
| There was no insurgent army. | ||
| There's no effective political or military resistance whatsoever in Iran at this point. | ||
| All the resistance members are in prison, much like in Ukraine. | ||
| All the resistance parliamentarians are either dead or in prison. | ||
| There's very few that are left that are free. | ||
| But Russia and China had kind of a mixed feelings about the bombings, because on one hand, I think China in particular would love to see the U.S. bog down in a full-scale war with Iran that lasted two to several weeks, because that would have given them an unprecedented window to invade Taiwan, knowing that the U.S. couldn't do anything about it. | ||
| I mean, the U.S. can't really do anything about it as it is, but we have currently, I think, one carrier in the Western Pacific. | ||
| They have three. | ||
| So it's easy to see how they could Pearl Harbor attack the U.S. fleet, especially with just a single carrier, send it to the bottom and finish the Taiwan war within two to three weeks before the U.S. was able to effectively redeploy military assets and naval and air assets to theater. | ||
| So both Russia and China, of course, vehemently opposed the attacks in public. | ||
| Russia even had some kind of reason to get the U.S. bogged down there because the same type of weapons or similar weapons that Ukraine needs, especially air defense missile interceptors, are the ones that we're running out of and are being exhausted so that the longer the Iran conflict continued, the less weapons we have to give to Ukraine. | ||
| And you can see that as Ukraine cities have been in roughly not civilian targets, but military targets have been pounded by Russia in the last several weeks to months as Ukraine has, you know, the U.S. has basically run out of Patriots and other air defense systems to sell to Ukraine, as Secretary Rubio rightly pointed out, I think, just a couple of months ago. | ||
| Yeah, and of course, we've reported, and I think we even talked about it with you at the time, the way that American resources were being sort of depleted as heavily as we were arming Ukraine. | ||
| They were using our ammunition faster than we could make it. | ||
| Now we're supplying Israel with their interceptor missiles. | ||
| Can't remember the exact details, but I was reading an article saying we produce one of these missiles a month or something, and they just used 20 of them. | ||
| Is this lessening America's ability to defend ourselves, the amount of support that we're giving to Israel and Ukraine? | ||
| Absolutely, it is. | ||
| Our weapon stocks in key areas, advanced missile systems are tremendously depleted below the levels I think we would require to successfully fight, let alone win even a brief conflict with Russia or China. | ||
| In terms of China, I mean, there was a congressional report that came out that said, you know, we would run out of long-range precision strike munitions within seven days of intense combat operations. | ||
| So we could fight a seven-day war, but we couldn't win a war and we couldn't finish a war with China. | ||
| And now it's even worse because we've been using the same type of weapons in terms of the Houthi War or the Yemen war that Trump started with Yemen, I think back in March or thereabouts that lasted something like 45 days. | ||
| We used a massive amount of missile defense interceptor stocks for that, long-range precision strike weapons. | ||
| And then, of course, in this war as well, both in terms of primarily defensive weapons, defending Israel, but also some offensive weapons that we would need for a U.S.-China war over Taiwan. | ||
| So Russia has been boasting that they've been successful not only in demilitarizing Ukraine in terms of missile stocks and whatnot, but also and mainly in terms of soldiers, because there have been, according to the reports that I've been seeing, over 2 million Ukrainian casualties since the war began, which is, by my estimates, well over six times as many casualties the Ukraine has inflicted on Russia. | ||
| But they're also boasting about how they've demilitarized NATO and the U.S. as well, because NATO's, initially they started the war with maybe two weeks of weapons, of ammo to fight Russia in a general conflict between Russia and NATO. | ||
| And now it's probably less than a week. | ||
| So the U.S. has been demilitarized, NATO has been partially demilitarized, and now Ukraine as well. | ||
| And in terms of what the Trump administration is doing to the Army, I've also published about that on X, that they're reducing the firepower of the United States Army, which I proudly served, reducing the number of our tank battalions, | ||
| aviation battalions, heavy artillery, all to try to transform the U.S. Army into a much lighter force like the Marines used to be, with a lot more light armor and even towed artillery to fight a war with China that likely we'd never fight because it's not U.S. troops that are going to win a war like that. | ||
| It's going to be our nuclear arsenal, which now is overmatched by China by a factor of two or three to one. | ||
| Ooh, that's some troubling information. | ||
| I mean, it does seem like we're sort of slipping into a worse and worse position the longer these conflicts go on. | ||
| And I mean, how close are we to any form of peace in Ukraine? | ||
| Obviously, that was a major promise during Trump's campaign. | ||
| He said he'd have the whole thing settled before he was even in office. | ||
| It seems like he is trying, but like, what is the holdup? | ||
| Why can we not find peace in Ukraine? | ||
| What is it going to take to settle that conflict once and for all? | ||
| And are we anywhere near that at this point? | ||
| We are nowhere near peace with Ukraine or with Russia over Ukraine. | ||
| We're no closer than we were during the Biden administration before Trump came to office. | ||
| So Trump has really mismanaged that one. | ||
| He did claim, as you mentioned, that he would end the war. | ||
| He actually said he'd end the war before he became president, like he successfully did for two months with the Israelis and Hamas over Gaza. | ||
| But in fact, it wasn't 24 hours. | ||
| He now has no plan at all for how to end the war. | ||
| He has no clue. | ||
| And he's decided to sign a 10-year security pact with Ukraine to continue selling arms to Ukraine for the next 10 years. | ||
| Essentially, he's fighting Biden's war indefinitely, even though he claims that the U.S. has no interest in fighting it and that it could escalate to World War III. | ||
| But essentially, what happened is he hired all the wrong people. | ||
| Certainly there's some good ones. | ||
| Hanks S, decent. | ||
| Vance is awesome. | ||
| Tulsi Gabbard is awesome. | ||
| Wickoff is awesome. | ||
| But then he has a lot of real bad ones. | ||
| The ones I mentioned, Rubio and Ratcliffe and Huckabee and folks like that, a lot of bad neocons, Waltz, which have been telling him not to make peace with Russia and to continue prosecuting the war. | ||
| Rubio even reportedly told EU leaders that the Lindsey Graham bill for secondary sanctions on Russia is going to pass soon. | ||
| It's got 82 co-sponsors. | ||
| And that once that passes, of course, it would enact 500 to 1,000% tariffs on all of Russia's trading partners, including China. | ||
| So we'd essentially have a full cutoff of all trade with China. | ||
| And even I, as a China hawk, in a lot of ways, I don't see that as being a good thing for America. | ||
| It would cause massive inflation. | ||
| It would cause a big economic recession. | ||
| It would destroy the Trump economy. | ||
| And Trump's been reluctant to pull that trigger. | ||
| It's kind of like considered the nuclear option. | ||
| But Lindsey Graham and 81 other senators have been all for it. | ||
| Just really disappointing to see how bad the neocons still control the Republican Party in Congress. | ||
| There's so many idiots. | ||
| They just go on Fox News and pair at all the Israeli and Ukrainian talking points, and it's total disinformation. | ||
| It's all America last. | ||
| And they just never learned from Bush's invasion of Iraq. | ||
| They still think that that was a good thing. | ||
| That was something that needed to be done, even though Bush basically handed Iraq to Iran, and Iran's been pretty much controlling it ever since. | ||
| Yeah, well, it probably was good for their portfolios, right? | ||
| I mean, you got those Raytheon and Halliburton stocks. | ||
| The Iraq war was very good for you, I have to imagine. | ||
| No, but not to make light of it. | ||
| I mean, no, you're right. | ||
| It's absolutely insane, the bloodthirst of some of these people. | ||
| And again, if you just look at it strategically, obviously China is going to be our primary enemy, and yet we do everything we can to drive Russia towards China, which I think is just a totally inexcusable mistake coming down the line. | ||
| So in the last three minutes we have with you, what do you think is next? | ||
| I mean, where do you think this goes? | ||
| Has what happened in Iran reset the board in any way? | ||
| Are we on a different trajectory now than we were a week ago? | ||
| Or is it same old, same old? | ||
| What happens next in your estimation? | ||
| Well, I think we continue sleepwalking into World War III. | ||
| You know, thankfully it was averted because Trump was wise enough, even though he gave in to Netanyahu in terms of bombing Iran, he did it in such a way that to incentivize Iran to de-escalate. | ||
| And in some ways, the way he bombed Iran was in and of itself a de-escalatory measure towards the overall war between Iran and Israel. | ||
| So he's shown that he's not completely lost it. | ||
| He's not a full-bore Israeli hack. | ||
| He still has some America First instincts. | ||
| And he really does. | ||
| I mean, his overall America First Grand Strategic Vision is very sound. | ||
| He just hasn't pursued it. | ||
| The only wars he's ended are the two wars that he started. | ||
| So in my opinion, those don't really count. | ||
| But the problem is he had the 22-point kill-out plan that the Russians had rejected in advance that he presented to the Russians. | ||
| And once they rejected it, he said it was a take it or leave it deal. | ||
| It was the first U.S. peace offer in the last. | ||
| And I thought for sure he'd be willing to negotiate the terms on that. | ||
| And basically the solution there is we accept all the Russian terms, basically the Istanbul agreement plus the four regions along the line of control. | ||
| We say to the Russians that the one demand we can't give you is additional Ukrainian territory, you don't control. | ||
| And honestly, I think that Putin is much more rational, much more practical, and he would see that as a major win for Russia. | ||
| And he would happily take the deal, even though Russia is saying, yeah, they have to give them more territory or else they won't make peace. | ||
| That's a deal he would take, especially if Trump were to offer a geostrategic partnership between the U.S. And Russia that Putin has long been seeking. | ||
| I don't know why we wouldn't. | ||
| It just seems like it'd be beneficial for everybody except for the warmongers who are driving us towards World War III. | ||
| So we're no further or closer from World War III a week on, where we're basically still on that slow but steady trajectory. | ||
| Yes, we're still on the World War III glide path under President Trump. | ||
| And that's sad. | ||
| And yet something he could reverse at any time. | ||
| At any time, he could revert back to the American first presidential candidate that he was and be the peace president he wanted to be. | ||
| He just has to show some backbone. | ||
| And the key to solving the Ukraine war dispute is to cut off Zielinsky, cut off all U.S. support to Zelensky, including certainly offensive intelligence and probably Starlink as well. | ||
| And then as Ukraine's front lines started to collapse, Zelensky would be much more incentivized to accept the Eastern peace with Ukraine. | ||
| This breaks not help coming. | ||
| Thank you so much for being with us, David Pine. | ||
| All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Third hour of American Journal is on. | ||
| That last break snuck up on me. | ||
| I didn't even get a chance to plug again our guest's website. | ||
| You can go to he's also at the website emptaskforce.us. | ||
| And as you can tell, a very, very thorough and deep knowledge of the geopolitical situation. | ||
| I always appreciate that. | ||
| To set us straight and help us understand all of the parse our way through all of the lies and try to seek the truth hidden, shrouded by all the deception. | ||
| David Pine, fantastic stuff. | ||
| And if you know what, I'm going to go to clip number 10 here because this is Luke Radowski talking about what Trump has pulled off here in the Middle East. | ||
| And, you know, the classic phrase is ignorance is bliss. | ||
| My God, nothing more true than that. | ||
| Wouldn't it be nice to just be an idiot and not understand any of this is going on? | ||
| I think second only to that, or maybe even more effectively blissful, would be to be a planned truster, to be the type of person that just could have full 100% faith in Donald Trump. | ||
| It'd be great. | ||
| That'd be very, very, very convenient. | ||
| It would be very nice to just be able to fully trust 100% Donald Trump to always do the right thing. | ||
| I think he is. | ||
| I think he is trying to do the right thing. | ||
| I do think he's America first at the end of the day. | ||
| I do think you have to have some leniency for him in who he's dealing with. | ||
| And look, the situations he's been stuck with are not good. | ||
| You got Ukraine, which will never be able to beat Russia on its own. | ||
| And you got Israel, which will never be able to beat Iran on your own. | ||
| So you're saddled with these two allies that are both weak and incapable of defending themselves and have started fights against much larger and more effective militaries. | ||
| So he's dealing with the hands he's been dealt. | ||
| And I think he's doing it pretty well, all things considered. | ||
| I want to hear Luke Radowski's breakdown of this. | ||
| And I vibe with this. | ||
| I agree with what he says. | ||
| And I think a lot of us are feeling the same way. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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So right now, there's a big debate raging in America whether or not Donald Trump's massive military strikes against Iran were successful. | |
| On one hand, you have the Iranians, the Russians, and CNN, along with some interesting comments by Lindsey Graham here. | ||
| No surprise here, saying, no, the job wasn't done successfully. | ||
| It wasn't finished here. | ||
| We have insider leaks from the intelligence agencies that are so trustworthy. | ||
| They're so trustworthy always telling us, no, they weren't successful. | ||
| On the other hand, you have Donald Trump, Tulsi Gabbard, J.D. Bance, Peak Hetset saying, best successful strikes ever. | ||
| For the sake of everybody here, we're still in a ceasefire, okay? | ||
| The peace negotiations haven't started. | ||
| There's now news coming in that there's more targeted assassinations happening right now in Tehran. | ||
| Haven't been confirmed, but I just did a full video about that on youtube.com forward slash We AreCase. | ||
| For the benefit of everyone, can we just give this one to Donald Trump? | ||
| Can we just call it a day? | ||
| Can we start the negotiations? | ||
| Can we move forward? | ||
| Please, if you agree, share this video. | ||
| And if you disagree, let me know why down in the comment section below. | ||
| Blessed are the peacemakers. | ||
| Let's pray for peace. | ||
| There's Luke Kurdowski at Luke. | ||
| We are Change. | ||
| And like I said, I can't help but agree with him. | ||
| It looks like here, about a week on, tomorrow will be one week since the strikes, Saturday afternoon, last Saturday afternoon. | ||
| It seems like Trump has pretty much pulled it off. | ||
| Now, obviously, it could restart at any moment. | ||
| Still to this day, there are claims of assassinations going on in Iran and Israel sort of up to no good. | ||
| And in fact, we have another story and we'll bring it to you. | ||
| It's another one of these things. | ||
| I guess this is just where we are at this point. | ||
| It's impossible to tell the truth from the facts. | ||
| So we'll just bring you what everybody's saying. | ||
| But Tehran is saying, Iran is saying that they warned America about a false flag attack that Israel was going to pull off on American soil and blame on Iran to try to get us into the war, which, of course, is what we've been predicting the whole time. | ||
| We'll bring you that story on the other side. | ||
| Stay with us. | ||
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| This is the story from Tehran Times. | ||
| Now, I don't know whether this is true or not, but it does align with what we sort of assume was happening anyway. | ||
| The story is Israel planned false flag operation on U.S. soil. | ||
| They say information obtained by Tehran Times shows that Israel was plotting to carry out an explosion on U.S. soil and subsequently blame Iran with the apparent aim of instigating a full-scale war between the United States and Iran. | ||
| The plan involves orchestrating a destructive event within the United States, fabricating evidence to implicate Iran, thereby manipulating American public opinion and prompting military action. | ||
| Iran uncovered the Israeli plot through information shared by a friendly nation. | ||
| Upon learning of the potential attack, Iranians sent messages to U.S. officials and prevented the planned explosion from occurring. | ||
| So, you know, take that for what it's worth, I guess. | ||
| Take that for what it's worth because it does align with what we sort of expected. | ||
| It aligns with the modus operandi of people who want us to get us into war in the Middle East. | ||
| False flags are, of course, the most efficient way to do that. | ||
| And of course, the brilliant thing about false flags is the only thing false about them are the flags. | ||
| So people hear the word false flag, they think that means that the whole thing was fabricated, that it just never happened. | ||
| In some cases, that is true. | ||
| Like you can apply the term false flag to something like the Gulf of Tonkin, where it just didn't happen. | ||
| Just didn't exist. | ||
| Or the babies in the incubators. | ||
| You could categorize that under a false flag attack, but it just never happened. | ||
| There were no babies and incubators. | ||
| It just didn't exist. | ||
| But that's not the case for most false flags. | ||
| Most false flags, and again, this comes from the naval practice of running up the enemy's flag on your ship, a rouse de guerre. | ||
| Usually it's a real attack, just under false colors. | ||
| So, you know, it's effective because people die. | ||
| And when people die, the country wants revenge. | ||
| They want action. | ||
| They want something to happen to somebody. | ||
| I almost don't care who, but they'll go with whoever is presented to them as the cause of the attack. | ||
| So, you know, that's a real danger of the false flag attacks. | ||
| Like, even if you know it's a false flag, or even if you've been telling people, hey, this is a false flag, if there's a big bomb attack and some bridge goes down or some building falls into its own footprint after getting hit by an airplane, then there's going to be a lot of dead people and America's going to have to do something about that. | ||
| And it would probably be what they wanted to do anyway, which is go to war in Iran. | ||
| So, Okay, so that's a point in favor of this story, is that we know that they do this typically. | ||
| Now, here's the other sort of disturbing aspect of this, is the reality and knowing that if this was true, if this was absolutely true, that Israel planned some sort of mass casualty event on American soil to blame on Iran. | ||
| And if the American authorities were warned about this and were able to stop it from happening, it's disturbing to know that they wouldn't tell us that this is the type of thing that Israel gets away with, actually. | ||
| And that, again, is the disturbing part to me is knowing in no uncertain terms that if our government found out that Israel was planning a mass casualty event, they would quietly sweep that under the rug. | ||
| They wouldn't want to ruffle too many feathers. | ||
| They wouldn't want to besmirch Israel's stellar reputation. | ||
| So you know that that would not be told to the American people, which it should be, obviously. | ||
| If there's another nation state planning an attack on U.S. soil, you would hope that the American government would stand up for its people and speak out against and criticize or possibly even go to war with the country that was planning it. | ||
| But Israel could get away with it, couldn't they? | ||
| They sort of get some lenience and some ability to do things that no other country would be able to do. | ||
| So, you know, whether or not this story is even true, we don't know. | ||
| I think it sounds true. | ||
| I think it sounds legitimate. | ||
| And I think it conforms with my understanding that if this thing were to happen, we would never hear about it from the official sources. | ||
| The American government would never go out of its way to tell us that this was the case. | ||
| And in fact, the fact that Iran found out about it might have been the only reason why it wasn't carried out. | ||
| I could easily see a situation where Israel is planning an attack. | ||
| America learns about it and just lets it happen and thinks, well, yeah, this is a good way to get us into the war that we want. | ||
| So let them carry it out. | ||
| But as soon as Iran knows and has probably told other governments, told other countries, or published the report saying, hey, you know, imminent Israeli false flag, then America realized, okay, we can't just let them get away with that. | ||
| We can't just let them do this because, you know, we're busted. | ||
| They got busted by Iran. | ||
| So again, I don't know if it's true, but it does comport to my understanding of the geopolitical situation as it were. | ||
| And I got a bunch of videos still to go to in this hour. | ||
| I think we're going to move on from the war topic and get into the domestic political goings on. | ||
| And I want to go to clip number nine here because this is something we've mentioned a little bit. | ||
| I mentioned it earlier today. | ||
| The AutoPIN scandal, the Biden Auto PIN scandal. | ||
| Now, I understand why these hearings have to happen behind closed doors because you're talking about very sensitive information about the inner workings of the executive branch. | ||
| I have the feeling that if these were public topics, there would be a lot of, I can't answer that in this forum, sir. | ||
| We'll have to do that. | ||
| We'll have to answer that question later, sir. | ||
| I understand why they are doing it behind closed doors, but the information that's coming out still is incredibly troublesome and worrying. | ||
| And again, like I said, like I was saying earlier in the show, it contributes to this bizarre reality that we exist in where just some random woman nobody's ever heard of just is the president of the United States. | ||
| Just Joe Biden is asleep on a beach somewhere. | ||
| And there's some lady who's never run for office, never been confirmed by the Senate, you know, never been under scrutiny of the American people, never being held to account for the choices that she makes, but she is, for all intents and purposes, president of the United States for the majority of the time. | ||
| This is crazy that this is the situation that we're in. | ||
| This is like a total, total violation of the entire construct of our government that we vest power in the representative we elect to do our bidding. | ||
| Instead, he's laying on the on the beach like a dead whale, and some chick named Nira is signing orders without even asking him. | ||
| It's just insane what's being revealed. | ||
| Here's a quick breakdown about the auto pin hearings happening in the Senate. | ||
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Did you know that while we were all watching what was going down in Iran last week, that there was a hearing about the Biden auto pin? | |
| Yeah, apparently, if you want to use an auto pin on behalf of someone else, you need written permission to do that. | ||
| So every single time that the Biden auto pin was used, there should be a written permission note saying that whoever pressed play on the auto pin has permission to do so. | ||
| Here's what Josh Howey said in the Senate hearing. | ||
| Here's the trail. | ||
| If you want to know, if you want an answer to the question, did Joe Biden actually assent to the use of the auto pin in all, you think of all the people he pardoned, he granted clemency to, murderers, drug dealers, child rapists? | ||
| Let's find out. | ||
| Did he actually authorize it? | ||
| There should be a record of it is what we've learned today. | ||
| Thank you for that testimony, Mr. Wolf there should be a record of it. | ||
| So this is a binary question. | ||
| It's not, oh, we don't know. | ||
| Gee, it's hard to say. | ||
| No, actually, we can find out. | ||
| So I, right now, today, I call on President Biden, former President Biden and his staff, release the documents. | ||
| You have them. | ||
| You know you have them. | ||
| Release them. | ||
| If what you did is legal and if you're really not embarrassed about it and you think it was totally constitutional, release the paper flow. | ||
| Show us the documents where the president authorized the use of the pen for every single pardon and clemency and stay application. | ||
| Let's see it. | ||
| Let's see all of it. | ||
| And if you won't do it, we should subpoena those documents and we should find out the truth of who was really running the White House because I think we could see it was not Joe Biden. | ||
| So it will be interesting to see if they actually do come up with those documents on their own or if they must be subpoenaed. | ||
| And if they are subpoenaed, if they actually exist. | ||
| I'm going to tell you right now they don't exist. | ||
| I'm going to tell you right now they don't exist. | ||
| Why were they using the auto pen? | ||
| It doesn't make any sense. | ||
| If you're going to write written permission to use the auto, but why not just sign the why not just sign the paper? | ||
| No, what happened here was an open secret. | ||
| Everybody knew, we knew, you're telling me they didn't know. | ||
| We knew the whole time. | ||
| The whole time we knew that Joe Biden was not competent, was not running his own White House, was not making his own decisions. | ||
| We knew in no, with no doubt, no uncertain terms, because we had people like the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, going to Biden, talking to him about orders he'd signed, and Biden denying that he signed the orders. | ||
| He didn't even know what was being signed in his name. | ||
| This might, and well, I was going to say this might be the biggest scandal, but I mean, just throw it on the pile, right? | ||
| Just throw it on the pile of outrageous, insane scandals that would, in any other circumstance, justify like total revolution. | ||
| I mean, the Russia collusion hoax. | ||
| Has there ever been a bigger scandal than that when the combined efforts of the executive branch and the spy agencies to try to shut down a successful presidential campaign? | ||
| I mean, insane. | ||
| That is a ridiculous thing to have happened. | ||
| The cover-up made it even more ridiculous. | ||
| None of those people have been charged or most of them haven't even been fired. | ||
| But at the worst, they lost their security clearance. | ||
| But of course, you've got the Afghanistan withdrawal, total scandal there, the Ukraine war and the corruption existing in Ukraine. | ||
| That was behind the Trump's first, you know, Trump's first impeachment. | ||
| Another ridiculous scandal. | ||
| The Autopin scandal is just like the cherry on top. | ||
| But if nothing else existed and the only scandal that came out of the Biden administration was the fact that he wasn't actually competent to act as president and it was instead being guided and directed and scripted by and just people operated on his behalf. | ||
| Just a variety of like random bureaucrats just ran our country for four years and in running our country opened the borders and flooded us with tens of millions of people and started multiple wars and led us down a path of total destruction. | ||
| This is just complete insanity. | ||
| And I don't know how we can't do something about this, except that so much of our effort, so much of our government's time and resources are being spent on anti-Semitism hearings. | ||
| And now, believe it or not, we have a new October 7th task force in the United States government. | ||
| So while the United States government is utterly failing to uphold its obligations to the American people or to investigate the corruption that has embroiled our government system, we are not only waging wars for foreign nations, funding foreign nations entirely, Ukraine and Israel, both not just the weapons they receive, but the cash for the day-to-day function of their government is provided by us, the American taxpayers. | ||
| But now our government is holding hearings to investigate attacks on them. | ||
| Their attacks. | ||
| It's like, what? | ||
| How is it? | ||
| Why is like that? | ||
| This makes less sense than anything. | ||
| I mean, you can justify military intervention because of the alliance that we have. | ||
| You can justify that type of stuff as bad as it is. | ||
| And as much as I don't think, you know, these excuses hold water, at least you can make the argument. | ||
| But what is the argument in favor of our government holding hearings and having investigations into the security lapses of another country overseas? | ||
| Now, in a world that made even a little bit of sense, the only thing that we'd be investigating when it came to the October 7th hearing would be investigating the standdown orders that were given, investigating the fraud that Israel committed in using October 7th as a caste belli, the cause for war in order to begin the operation in Gaza. | ||
| But apparently that's what we're doing. | ||
| Apparently, we're holding hearings about October 7th for the sake of a foreign country while the corruption that has embroiled our country goes completely unaddressed. | ||
| And it's outrageous and infuriating and can't cannot continue any longer as far as I'm concerned. | ||
| And I don't even know how to transition to this, except that we don't have an excuse because the right has all the power. | ||
| We've got Congress. | ||
| We've got the Senate. | ||
| Even the mainstream media is faltering. | ||
| Everybody's going to alternative media. | ||
| Everybody in alternative media is us, is aligned with us. | ||
| And so there's really no excuse to not get everything done, especially when we're beating the left so badly. | ||
| They are literally going insane. | ||
| And that's the only way I can describe what's going on. | ||
| And I've talked about this a little bit here or there for the last six months or so because it's been cropping up a little bit. | ||
| More people are noticing it and talking about it. | ||
| It's clip number 11. | ||
| It's left wing QAnon. | ||
| And like I've always said, it's QAnon without QAnon. | ||
| Like at least the right wing had riddles on the internet to point to. | ||
| And if you know the history of QAnon, you know that early on they were posting pictures that could only have been taken in Air Force One. | ||
| So I was like, okay, this really is somebody with access to the president. | ||
| This really is information coming from somewhere high up in the government. | ||
| So there's at least a reason to believe it had some credence to it. | ||
| And the things it was saying, about half of it was true, maybe even more than half of it. | ||
| A lot of the information it was giving was true. | ||
| it was just, you know, hijacked in a total psyop to get you to stay home and trust the plan and just, you know, stick to the plan. | ||
| Just carry on. | ||
| Keep on, keeping on. | ||
| Don't don't even worry about getting involved. | ||
| We got it under control. | ||
| That was a total psyop, of course, but at least there was QAnon. | ||
| At least there was something there. | ||
| The left wing is acting like QAnon, but they got nothing to base it on. | ||
| It's just complete, I mean, you know, we've talked about it before where, and we've showed videos where it's lefties like showing a video of Kamala Harris. | ||
| And it's like, look at the way she raised her eyebrow after she said that. | ||
| That's a signal. | ||
| Like they're reading into just nothing, just nothingness. | ||
| And the longer it goes on, the less their predictions are really just baseless assertions, you know, or disproven, the more insane they get. | ||
| Let's go to clip number 11 and learn about left-wing QAnon, Blue Anon. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
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The left-wing version of QAnon is here, and they believe that Kamala Harris really won the election. | |
| This group is called the 4 a.m. | ||
| Club. | ||
| Basically on November 6th, thousands of people were woken up around 4 a.m. | ||
| And those people were called to anchor in the higher timeline where Kamala was the winner. | ||
| The call was sent out and we received it. | ||
| It was founded by this woman who goes by Gia Prism on TikTok. | ||
| I am a psychic medium. | ||
| I'm a healer. | ||
| She sort of gives downloads, as she calls them, from spirit. | ||
| This contest wasn't right. | ||
| We will yet get a different result in the end. | ||
| I was shown him falling from something to do with blood on the brain. | ||
| Okay, I'm seeing lower level leaders will be removed before the top ones. | ||
| It bears a striking resemblance to QAnon, except everything has been feminized. | ||
| Instead of searching through Reddit boards and 8chan to find what they're looking for, they go deep within themselves, trusting their feminine intuition, their gut, the divine goddess. | ||
| The 4 AM clubbers, I don't think, are going to be scaling the Capitol anytime soon, but I do think they represent the next chapter in the story of political conspiracies. | ||
| It shows that the American population feels both completely out of control and lied to. | ||
| Yeah, I think that's a great way to put it. | ||
| It's got some pretty feminine energy about it. | ||
| No offense, but it's a bunch of very, very weird ladies who are just getting feelings about things and are convincing themselves that it's true. | ||
| And this has been going on for months. | ||
| And Blue Sky is a hotbed of this stuff. | ||
| And I say good for them. | ||
| It's always good to have a hobby. | ||
| All right. | ||
| You go ahead and keep psychically connecting to the world where Kamala is president. | ||
| We'll be here in the real world actually doing things. | ||
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You're watching The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | |
| I keep my hands on myself. | ||
| Pickle dust them off, put them back up on the show. | ||
| If I were 20 years old today and I might have had my head in TikTok and Instagram, I might be disillusioned. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe I wouldn't know. | ||
| Maybe I'd need someone to tap me on the shoulder and tell me that my country needs me. | ||
| Tap me on the shoulder, ignite my patriotism in a whole new way. | ||
| And I say this gently to those who are immersed in their own worlds who think their country doesn't need them. | ||
| And I say this to them with some urgency. | ||
| It is your torch to carry. | ||
| Your country needs you. | ||
| I feel called to be of service in this moment, to help other people better understand what's at stake and to help comprehend what has and continues to make America the great shining beacon on the hill. | ||
| Changing the hearts and minds of young people right now who have either forgotten or maybe never knew just how great our country truly is. | ||
| That is the work that we all need to do. | ||
| We need each other, man. | ||
| We're on the same team. | ||
| We're the United States of America. | ||
| When we are one nation under God, we are indivisible. | ||
| Let us never forget that, lest it be lost. | ||
| That was Chris Pratt giving what looked like a commencement speech of some sort, but just very powerful. | ||
| And I'm constantly surprised and gratified with how cool that guy is. | ||
| I think he's going to be running for office at some point. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| So I guess that was a little while. | ||
| Yeah, I didn't know if it was a recent speech, but it was a powerful one. | ||
| And it was a good one. | ||
| And if you'll remember, probably not a lot of people remember, but an early video I made for InfoWars, and I was still mostly just doing behind the scenes stuff. | ||
| I made a video because Chris Pratt was giving a speech at an award show. | ||
| And the whole time it sounds like he's building up to talk about Jesus Christ. | ||
| I can't remember exactly what he was saying, but he was saying, you know, you have to have forgiveness. | ||
| But clearly he was building up to talk about Jesus Christ. | ||
| And then the speech sort of ends. | ||
| And he's like, Ann, thank you for the award. | ||
| Goodbye. | ||
| And I remember seeing that and going, did they cut out his mention of Jesus? | ||
| Because he was clearly about to mention Jesus. | ||
| And then it looked like there was a cut. | ||
| And then it turned out that's exactly what happened. | ||
| And we were able to, I can't remember if we found the actual video of the full speech or just a article transcript from people who were in the audience who actually saw the full speech and then saw that it was cut out on. | ||
| But I always remember that because we actually had, we had family friends who were like, yeah, I was watching that award show and I went to Google and I typed in, did they cut out Jesus from Chris Pratt's speech? | ||
| And your face popped up. | ||
| And they didn't even know I worked at InfoWars. | ||
| And they're like, it's Harrison. | ||
| But I always think about that because it just shows you. | ||
| It just goes to show you, doesn't it? | ||
| You've got Chris Pratt winning an award. | ||
| Yeah, I wouldn't change a thing in a speech about God and prayer. | ||
| That must have been at the 2018 MTV speech in which he told audiences that God loves them and about the importance of prayer. | ||
| And he mentioned Jesus, and they cut out his mention of Jesus in the speech. | ||
| So he is a very rare Christian, outspoken Christian in Hollywood. | ||
| And it's great to see that. | ||
| And again, I think he's got the chops if he wants to run for something. | ||
| So keep an eye on that. | ||
| Much more so than somebody like The Rock, who just, you know, has ambitions because he's ambitious, but doesn't seem to actually believe anything. | ||
| We have a lot of stories still to cover in a lot of videos still to get to in this final segment. | ||
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| Keep us on the air and in the fight as we navigate this very interesting historical moment. | ||
| And like I said, I do have a few more videos to get to. | ||
| And I want to, I guess, emphasize, almost re-emphasize what Chris Prout was saying there by talking about how special America is and how America is all we need and that there's a psyop going on right now to convince you that the American system is what has failed when in reality, the American system has been betrayed by the people in office and in the government. | ||
| It has been hijacked and co-opted and slowly but surely disintegrated to the point where it no longer functions as it should. | ||
| But that doesn't mean that the system itself is wrong. | ||
| And this is especially important in this time where we have people like Mam Donny in New York City and AOC and these other avowed open socialists taking positions in government or getting elected. | ||
| And I think the biggest threat to America is the fact that we're not making arguments for America anymore. | ||
| People aren't explaining why the American system is superior to others. | ||
| Mostly what you get from people that are actually patriots and actually appreciate the American system is when young people say, hey, I did everything I'm supposed to. | ||
| I went to college like you told me to. | ||
| I got a job like you told me to. | ||
| And I'm never going to be able to afford a house. | ||
| What the hell? | ||
| Right. | ||
| And the response from Republicans is, well, shut up, basically. | ||
| Well, just work harder, quit complaining. | ||
| They just don't care. | ||
| They just don't care. | ||
| And they just laugh at these young people that are expressing very real concerns. | ||
| Whereas the socialists are saying, yeah, you're right. | ||
| This is unfair. | ||
| And it's because capitalism. | ||
| And if we just tear down capitalism and seize the means of production. | ||
| Like, yeah, you know, as if that talking point wasn't disproved 100 years ago, they're still selling it, but at least they're showing, you know, care and concern for the people that are having trouble. | ||
| And so who do you think they're going to go with? | ||
| When in reality, the only system that has ever brought about true equality or brought about true uplifting of the masses is capitalism. | ||
| Communism promises the world and delivers piles of crap, right? | ||
| It just delivers gulags and destruction and just chaos and misery, and it never actually works. | ||
| But the promise of America is you do the right thing, you act like a responsible human being, you follow the rules, you work hard, and you'll get ahead. | ||
| And that is a beautiful promise, and it's a unique promise, and it's a promise that didn't exist before America was here. | ||
| And if we aren't making that argument or explaining the power of the American system and of capitalism in an open free market, then no one's going to know, right? | ||
| These young people, they aren't born with, you know, Americanism, you know, naturally. | ||
| You have to teach it to them. | ||
| You have to indoctrinate them positively into the right mindset of freedom and justice in the American way. | ||
| I understand Donald Trump's about to give a speech. | ||
| We'll go to him as soon as that comes out. | ||
| I suppose this is about the Supreme Court decision. | ||
| Looks like he just put out a truth social that says giant win in the United States Supreme Court. | ||
| Even the birthright citizenship hoax has been indirectly hit hard. | ||
| It had to do with the babies of slaves same year, not the scamming of our immigration process. | ||
| Congratulations to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Solicitor General John Sauer, and the entire DOJ news conference at the White House 11.30 a.m. | ||
| So we're waiting on that to begin. | ||
| It says we will begin shortly. | ||
| And this is one of the several Supreme Court decisions which are slated to be made today. | ||
| Supreme Court tees up blockbuster final day of term. | ||
| The Supreme Court will hand down its final decisions of the term today, including an expected high-profile ruling on whether President Trump may enforce his divisive executive order curtailing birthright citizenship. | ||
| As is tradition, Chief Justice John Roberts announced the final day from the bench. | ||
| This schedule sets up a blockbuster last day at the Supreme Court, in which the justices hand down six opinions in some of the biggest cases of the year, including those dealing with Trump's birthright citizenship order, a challenge from religious parents who want to opt their children out of reading LGBTQ books in school, and a First Amendment suit over a Texas law that requires people to verify their age before accessing pornography online. | ||
| Every year, the high court tries to finish its work by July, although it's unusual for the justices to bunch so many closely watched cases into the final day. | ||
| Last year, the court handed down three opinions on the final day, including a decision granting Trump immunity from criminal prosecution. | ||
| Two years ago, the court issued three opinions, including a ruling shutting down at President Joe Biden's student relief loan relief program. | ||
| Among the cases still pending, the court will decide whether a school district in suburban Washington, D.C. burdened the religious rights of parents by declining to allow them to opt their elementary school children out of reading LGBTQ books in the classroom. | ||
| And as well as a number of other things, so it sounds like at least one of these decisions has been made and Trump is going to address the outcome momentarily, apparently, and we'll go to you if it happens while we're still live. | ||
| But you have to understand, and part of the weakness of the American system is its openness, and it's a weakness and a strength, right? | ||
| It's the strength in that you're not going to be able to get to the right answer without having a full spectrum discussion with even objectionable viewpoints being able to be aired. | ||
| You've got to be open like that. | ||
| You got to have the maximum amount of allowance when it comes to the First Amendment. | ||
| And this is a fundamental truth that all Americans should agree on, considering it's the founding principle of our country. | ||
| But we also have to, that also means you have to be steadfast when you resist changes, even if you can discuss them, even if you want to have some leeway here or there. | ||
| You have to understand the slippery slope and you have to be able to see down the line where these things go if this precedent is set. | ||
| So right now, it's like, well, what's the big deal? | ||
| LGBTQ books, you know, they should be able to read them if they want. | ||
| Of course, it's like, well, of course you can read them if you want. | ||
| We just don't want the public schools indoctrinating children into a alternative sexual lifestyle. | ||
| And of course, that's exactly what's happening. | ||
| And this is just one of these, these obvious things that we keep having to point out, even though it should be just imminently observable to anybody with children at this point. | ||
| And we've talked about it before, just like places in Austin, places like Austin, where every single family we know with kids in elementary school, at least one kid is going by alternative pronouns, is dressing in clothes that don't correspond with their actual sex and gender. | ||
| And again, it's like baffling to me that we even have to explain this. | ||
| But if you go from a vanishingly small percentage of children in elementary schools identifying as gay or transgender, like zero, when that didn't exist 10 years ago, to 50% or more identifying as non-binary, that's not natural. | ||
| That doesn't just happen. | ||
| That's the result of concerted effort and indoctrination and deliberate manipulation by the people that these kids are supposed to think are authorities, the teachers or the administrators in the school, who they should be able to trust and believe and, you know, adhere to, are instead indoctrinating them into this satanic death cult. | ||
| But regardless, the argument, hey, it's about books in school, right? | ||
| What's the big deal? | ||
| Let the kids read the books. | ||
| Well, you got to be able to look at that and go, we're not allowing this because we know what comes next. | ||
| Because even if, you know, you say, what's the big deal? | ||
| We got these books with alternative lifestyle. | ||
| What comes next, though? | ||
| What comes down the line? | ||
| And you don't have to speculate. | ||
| You can just look at the countries around the world that are more progressive than America. | ||
| And what you see are things like this from Infowars. | ||
| Spain seeks to imprison parents who refuse to have their kids' reproductive organs chopped off. | ||
| The center right has joined the left in a surreal proposal to amend the Spanish Penal Code. | ||
| On Wednesday, June 25th, the Spanish Congress of Deputies approved moving forward with a controversial reform of the penal code promoted by the Socialist Party, which imposes prison sentences for up to two years for those who oppose gender transition treatments for minors. | ||
| It's like that's where it goes. | ||
| That's where it ends up. | ||
| It's already to the point now in American states, certain American states like Washington, where you can have your kid taken away if they're indoctrinated into the transgender mindset, lifestyle, ideology against your will and in secret without your permission, brainwashing and indoctrinating your kid into a worldview that is at odds with and incompatible with your religious or spiritual perspective. | ||
| And if you oppose that or even just try to argue against it, then they'll take your kid away and give them to a family that will transition them. | ||
| Spain taking it a step further. | ||
| Spain is taking not only will they take your kid, give it to some homosexual foster parents to mutilate, they'll put you in jail for opposing it. | ||
| They'll throw you in prison for trying to stop this process from happening. | ||
| So it's one of these things where it's like, okay, what is the balance between free speech and allowing your citizens to, you know, teach what they want to their kids or read the books they want? | ||
| How do you strike a balance between that and being open and free and liberal and not letting it get to the point where your kids are being, your parents are being thrown in prison because they don't want their kids to castrate themselves? | ||
| Is this an impossibility? | ||
| Is that what people think that you either have to have like government approved talking points, you know, books have to be banned, et cetera, et cetera? | ||
| And I'm just taking the extreme characterization of these things. | ||
| In reality, it's just like you can't have gay porn at elementary school. | ||
| Sorry, sorry that feels oppressive to you. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| It's actually very normal. | ||
| It's actually very normal to not teach kids about that. | ||
| But the false dichotomy is presented as like either you have to be authoritarian or you have to let your kid castrate themselves. | ||
| It's a false dichotomy. | ||
| Don't listen to it. | ||
| Here's Donald Trump approaching the podium now in the White House to talk about the Supreme Court decisions made recently. | ||
| Well, this was a big one, wasn't it? | ||
| This was a big decision. | ||
| An amazing decision, one that we're very happy about. | ||
| This morning, the Supreme Court has delivered a monumental victory for the Constitution, the separation of powers, and the rule of law. | ||
| In striking down the excessive use of nationwide injunctions to interfere with the normal functioning of the executive branch, the Supreme Court has stopped the presidency itself. | ||
| That's what they've done. | ||
| And really, it's been an amazing period of time, this last hour. | ||
| There are people elated all over the country. | ||
| I've seen such happiness and spirit. | ||
| Sometimes you don't see that, but this case is very important. | ||
| I was elected on a historic mandate, but in recent months we've seen a handful of radical left judges effectively try to overrule the rightful powers of the president to stop the American people from getting the policies that they voted for in record numbers. | ||
| It was a grave threat to democracy, frankly, and instead of merely ruling on the immediate cases before them, these judges have attempted to dictate the law for the entire nation. | ||
| In practice, this meant that if any one of the nearly 700 federal judges disagreed with the policy of a duly elected president of the United States, he or she could block that policy from going into effect or at least delay it for many years, tied up in the court system. | ||
| This was a colossal abuse of power which never occurred in American history prior to recent decades. | ||
| And we've been hit with more nationwide injunctions than were issued in the entire 20th century together. | ||
| Think of it, more than the entire 20th century, me. | ||
| I'm grateful to the Supreme Court for stepping in and solving this very, very big and complex problem, and they've made it very simple. | ||
| I want to thank Justice Barrett, who wrote the opinion brilliantly, as well as Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Thomas. | ||
| Great people. | ||
| Thanks for this decision and thanks to this decision. | ||
| We can now promptly file to proceed with numerous policies that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis. | ||
| And some of the cases we're talking about would be ending birthright citizenship, which now comes to the fore. | ||
| That was meant for the babies of slaves. | ||
| It wasn't meant for people trying to scam the system and come into the country on a vacation. | ||
| This was, in fact, it was the same date, the exact same date, the end of the Civil War. | ||
| It was meant for the babies of slaves, and it's so clean and so obvious. | ||
| But this lets us go there and finally win that case because hundreds of thousands of people are pouring into our country under birthright citizenship, and it wasn't meant for that reason. | ||
| It was meant for the babies of slaves. | ||
| So thanks to this decision, we can now promptly file to proceed with these numerous policies and those that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis, including birthright citizenship, ending sanctuary city funding, suspending refugee resettlement, freezing unnecessary funding, stopping federal taxpayers from paying for transgender surgeries, and numerous other priorities of the American people. | ||
| We have so many of them. | ||
| I have a whole list. | ||
| I'm not going to bore you, and I'm going to have Pam get up and say a few words, but there's really, she can talk as long as she wants, because this is a very important decision. | ||
| This is a decision that covers a tremendous amount of territory. | ||
| But I want to just thank, again, the Supreme Court for this ruling. | ||
| It's a giant. | ||
| It's a giant. | ||
| And they should be very proud. | ||
| And our country should be very proud of the Supreme Court today. | ||
| And with that, I'd like you to listen to the words of Pam Bondi. | ||
| She's an incredible Attorney General. | ||
| We're very proud of her. | ||
| And as you know, Todd Blanche is with us. | ||
| And we have so many others that worked on this case and other cases. | ||
| And I think they're doing a great job. | ||
| Pam, please say a few words. | ||
| Thank you, President Trump. | ||
| Thank you for fighting for all Americans. | ||
| Americans are finally getting what they voted for. | ||
| No longer will we have rogue judges striking down President Trump's policies across the entire nation. | ||
| No longer. | ||
| Today in the 6-3 opinion, Justice Barrett correctly holds that the district court lacks authority to enter nationwide or universal injunctions. | ||
| These lawless injunctions gave relief to everyone in the world instead of the parties before the court. | ||
| As the Supreme Court held today, they turned district courts into the imperial judiciary. | ||
| Active liberal justices, judges have used these injunctions to block virtually all of President Trump's policies. | ||
| To put this in perspective, there are 94 federal judicial districts. | ||
| Five of those districts throughout this country held 35 of the nationwide injunctions. | ||
| Think about that. | ||
| 94 districts. | ||
| And 35 out of the 40 opinions with nationwide injunctions came from five liberal districts in this country. | ||
| No longer. | ||
| No longer. | ||
| These injunctions have blocked our policies from tariffs to military readiness, to immigration, to foreign affairs, fraud, abuse, and many other issues. | ||
| That's Pam Bondi addressing the press room live, the stories at InfoWars. | ||
| Supreme Court slaps down activist judges in birthright citizenship and LGBTQ school book cases. | ||
| So that's two decisions going the way of MAGA and Donald Trump and putting an end to the imperial judiciary. | ||
| And that's actually a quote from one of the decisions. | ||
| You can read about it in that InfoWars article. | ||
| Supreme Court slaps down activist judges and birthright citizenship, LGBTQ schoolbook cases. | ||
| But remember, this was always the plan that the Democrats were running with. | ||
| The judges cannot unilaterally just decide that Donald Trump can't do it. | ||
| They have to have a plaintiff. | ||
| They have to have a case put forward. | ||
| So you've got a vast array of legal organizations conspiring with the courts to get these decisions in front of friendly judges, probably talking to the judges beforehand to make sure they wrote their proposal in a way that would justify the decision by the judge. | ||
| This is not even a matter of these judges simply being out of control, which of course they are and they should probably be impeached, but it's the massive spider web of NGOs and leftist legal organizations conspiring with the judges in order to stop Trump's agenda from being implemented. | ||
| This is what they talked about doing for the six months or the however many months before he was inaugurated as they worked to Trump-proof all of their despicable plans. | ||
| So very victorious day for the Trump administration. | ||
| I'm sure Alex Jones will be breaking it down on the other side. | ||
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