Jim Fetzer - Truth vs. NEW$ Inc, Part 1 (4 May 2026) with Don Grahn, Joachim Hagopian, and Brian Davidson
Aired: 2026-05-05
Duration: 59:04


=== Conflicting Reports on Strait of Hormuz (07:28) ===

[00:00:00]  The truth versus news, all that news out there is making so much headlines and creating such a stir.
[00:00:08]  We're stirring it up and straightening it all up for you here on May the 4th, 2026 with such outstanding people as Jim Fetcher, the very fantastic author of all kinds of good books that are just wonderful that you need to have in your library that are very important.
[00:00:30]  Okay, hang on a second.
[00:00:34]  Excuse me.
[00:00:35]  And then we have Brian Davidson, a private investigator out of Houston, who's really sharp on everything, and Joaquin Magropian out of Bali, who knows an awful lot about this world and had to move over there to tell what's wrong with America.
[00:00:55]  So, Jim, what we got today?
[00:00:56]  It looks like we have a little bit about proposals and other things that are not acceptable.
[00:01:03]  We have all kinds of Kickoffs going on, right?
[00:01:07]  Oh, Don, there's so much taking place in the world today.
[00:01:12]  Trump declares he's reviewed the Iranian proposal and he doesn't like it.
[00:01:17]  Found it unacceptable.
[00:01:19]  Hal Turner reporting.
[00:01:22]  The afternoon, Sunday, yesterday, U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed the latest Iranian proposal, saying, I've reviewed it.
[00:01:35]  I've reviewed it.
[00:01:37]  And it's not acceptable to me, right?
[00:01:40]  Everything revolves around him.
[00:01:42]  Meanwhile, the IRGC says the U.S. is boxed in.
[00:01:47]  Room for U.S. decision making has narrowed, and Trump must choose between an impossible military operation or what he regards as a bad deal.
[00:01:59]  Elsewhere inside Iran, the Supreme Leader's advisor declared Trump threatened us with famine while global food security and fertilizer supplies in our moves are subject to. our control.
[00:02:13]  This is Mohsen Razay who went on to say, the U.S. is the only pirate in the world that possesses aircraft carriers.
[00:02:23]  Our ability to confront pilots is no less than our ability to sink warships.
[00:02:28]  Prepare to face a graveyard of your carriers and forces, just as the wreckage of your aircraft was left behind in Isfahan.
[00:02:38]  I believe they mean it and they have the ability to do it.
[00:02:42]  Meanwhile, we're getting propaganda.
[00:02:45]  Look at this from the Western Journal.
[00:02:49]  Project Freedom leads to immediate U.S. success in Strait of Hormuz.
[00:02:55]  President Donald Trump's Project Freedom to end Iran's stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz began with success Monday.
[00:03:02]  That, of course, is today.
[00:03:05]  U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers are currently operating in the Arabian Gulf after transiting the Strait of Hormuz in support of Project Freedom.
[00:03:14]  U.S. Central Command posted on X. American forces are actively assisting efforts to restore transit for commercial shipping.
[00:03:24]  Yeah, well, maybe so.
[00:03:27]  Meanwhile, we have Iran reporting two missiles hit U.S. warship warns on the Hormuz Strait.
[00:03:37]  Iran's Navy presented American scientist warships entering the Strait of Hormuz Monday, State TV reported, while the Fars News Agency said two missiles had hit a U.S. warship.
[00:03:49]  Near Jask Island, after it ignored Iranian warnings.
[00:03:53]  Reuters could not independently verify the reports, and there was no immediate response from the United States.
[00:04:00]  A senior U.S. official denied that a U.S. ship was hit by Iranian missiles.
[00:04:07]  But think about it.
[00:04:08]  If you've got to ask who's more reliable as a source of information, it's not the United States, but Iran.
[00:04:17]  Joaquin, your assessment.
[00:04:21]  Yeah, the fog of war is really very big right now.
[00:04:28]  We're hearing conflicting reports.
[00:04:31]  Yeah, one report is saying that, you know, the two shots were fired on a naval ship.
[00:04:39]  And, you know, then we're hearing also that there were like warning shots and they did not hit that ship.
[00:04:48]  And of course, America is denying everything.
[00:04:51]  So it's hard to know exactly what is going on.
[00:04:56]  What we do know, though, Is there a confrontation here again because Trump has basically said, We're not going for peace, we're going for war all the way, you know?
[00:05:10]  I mean, as he always does in the end.
[00:05:12]  And, you know, he flip flops back and forth constantly.
[00:05:16]  We'll probably see another flip flop before, you know, maybe even war begins.
[00:05:22]  But it looks like confrontation.
[00:05:26]  And we've been calling it all along that, you know, they're headed for all out war.
[00:05:32]  Which could have obviously spread to world war.
[00:05:35]  And that is the huge concern that all of us face.
[00:05:40]  So, exactly what's going on?
[00:05:44]  It appears as though there are U.S. naval warships that are entering the Strait of Hormuz vicinity.
[00:05:55]  Now, whether they're still there, that's another matter.
[00:05:59]  I think that probably shots.
[00:06:02]  Were fired, missiles were fired, and they headed out quickly.
[00:06:09]  And so we don't know whether there are U.S. naval warships inside that area or not.
[00:06:16]  Chances are they're not.
[00:06:19]  And, you know, CENTCOM apparently is putting out a lot of propaganda to indicate that they're controlling the Strait of Armoes now and making sure that all ships.
[00:06:33]  Pass freely, you know, the navigation thing.
[00:06:37]  Well, you know, I got news for them.
[00:06:40]  First of all, the side in which there is deep enough water for ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz is on the Iranian side, which means that that's not international water.
[00:06:56]  That is Iranian water.
[00:06:59]  So they have the right to do what they want.
[00:07:02]  There was a setup a long time ago.
[00:07:05]  With Turkey and the Strait of Dardanelles, which was in the Mediterranean and a key choke point.
[00:07:13]  And it was resolved.
[00:07:14]  And it has been resolved for decades now, with basically Turkey in control of the Strait of Dardanelles with all the passage of ships through that little choke point zone.

=== Nuclear Weapon Intel Contradictions (06:54) ===

[00:07:28]  And so that's the precedent here.
[00:07:31]  So Iran has the right to control and draw fees.
[00:07:37]  Because I believe that's what Turkey does, you know.
[00:07:42]  So, yeah, there is a peaceful resolution.
[00:07:45]  Now, will the United States accept that?
[00:07:48]  That looks like because when you talk United States, you have to talk Israel.
[00:07:53]  And Israel obviously will not accept it.
[00:07:56]  And therefore, the sexually blackmailed pedophile Trump will do whatever he's told by Netanyahu in Israel and the city of London founders of Israel.
[00:08:06]  So it's looking like, yes, there will be a major confrontation.
[00:08:12]  The battle lines have not been drawn and reversed, but they're going forward.
[00:08:17]  That's the way I see it.
[00:08:19]  I fear you may have it right.
[00:08:21]  Brian?
[00:08:24]  Well, I think what really stands out right now is not just the war claims or the corruption or the institutional decline, it's the contradiction itself that's being put out into the mainstream media through different outlets.
[00:08:43]  We're watching near simultaneous claims of escalation and de escalation, victory and vulnerability.
[00:08:54]  Economic strength and financial deterioration.
[00:08:58]  And all of this is driving in a deeper sort of secretive pattern with less and less transparency every time.
[00:09:09]  So the public that's watching the signals right now is being forced to process a reality in which all the narratives are shifting all over the board faster than verification can even keep up.
[00:09:25]  Now, that should be impossible with the way the internet works today, but the problem is every outlet that's out there that has any sort of stable platform or foundation seems to be under a barrage of disinformation coming from one side or another.
[00:09:45]  So, when the government, the media, and the institutions are all just overlapping contradictions, we've lost our ability to distinguish.
[00:09:57]  What is policy from what's theater?
[00:10:00]  So, the deeper issue here might not be simply whether one story is false or whether one story is true.
[00:10:09]  The bigger question I'm starting to think is that the contradiction itself has become the new governing mechanism to keep everybody off its feet.
[00:10:19]  So, all these events seem suspicious, and the fact that nobody can seem to have a consistent narrative.
[00:10:28]  No longer feels to me like it's just political bias.
[00:10:31]  It feels to me like it's more of a designed system designed to keep everybody off their feet.
[00:10:40]  So, you know, there's a lot of confusion right now, and confusion creates great opportunity to go in and run deeper psychological operations, not only on the American people, but on the Iranians.
[00:10:56]  So, I don't know what to believe in terms of what's really happening because.
[00:11:01]  Just about every time I take a look at an outlet, I find contradictory stories all over the place.
[00:11:08]  Well, I think you're absolutely right about the contradictions as being a cover.
[00:11:13]  But we have one party that is reliable in the past, that has been known for its integrity, honesty, and candor the Iranians.
[00:11:24]  And then on the other side, we have parties that are known to dissemble, to violate treaties, to negotiate in bad faith and the like, and are known to lie all the time.
[00:11:34]  So, in many ways, If you simply take the Iranian approach to heart and presume that's what, in fact, is taking place, I dare say you're going to know 90% of the truth.
[00:11:46]  Meanwhile, we have an expert torching the Hegzeth claim that war was necessary to prevent Iranian nukes.
[00:11:54]  This was in his testimony before Congress.
[00:11:57]  Absurd.
[00:12:00]  It feels insane to have to keep repeating this, said Matt Duss, pointing to U.S. Intel assessing that Iran ended nuclear weapon related work in 2003.
[00:12:10]  President Donald Trump and his admin have continued to claim that their historically unpopular war with Iran.
[00:12:18]  Was necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon despite ample evidence to the contrary.
[00:12:25]  During Desafor, only before the House Armed Service Committee on Wednesday, Heseth insisted the U.S. military had obliterated Iran's nuclear capabilities with strikes carried out in 2025 while maintaining that a full-scale war was necessary because the country hadn't given up its nuclear ambitions.
[00:12:47]  But I would add, If we in fact obliterated their nuclear capabilities in 2025, how can they possibly continue to pursue nuclear weapons in 2026?
[00:13:00]  Merely having the ambition to create a nuclear weapon would not pose an imminent threat, and U.S. Intel found no evidence Iran was anywhere close to developing such a weapon.
[00:13:13]  U.S. Director of National Intelligence, Dulcie Gabbard, for example, testified under oath before the Senate Select Intel Committee last month. that Iran's nuclear weapon program had been obliterated by US-led airstrikes that were launched last year, and that there has been no effort since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability.
[00:13:35]  Frankly, I don't believe she was testifying truthfully, but she may or may not have been sincere.
[00:13:44]  Matt Lewis, executive vice president at the Center for International Policy, pointed out in a social media post, U.S. intel showing that Iran lacks the capability To build nuclear weapons goes back decades.
[00:14:01]  Feels insane to have to keep repeating this.
[00:14:04]  The 2007 National Intel Estimate assessed Iran ended nuclear weapon related research in 2003.
[00:14:11]  That assessment has not changed.
[00:14:13]  The claim this war was necessary to prevent an Iranian nuke is just complete bullshit, with which I agree 100%.

=== MAGA Movement Collapse in Media (15:27) ===

[00:14:23]  Meanwhile, 61% of Americans see Trump's war as a mistake.
[00:14:30]  Far-reaching disapproval of Vietnam and Iraq.
[00:14:34]  More than six in ten Americans now say President Trump's war in Iran was a mistake, going to pull out Friday from Washington Post's ABC Ipsos.
[00:14:45]  Within two months, the war, which has inflicted thousands of civilian deaths and caused gas prices to spike worldwide with little tangible gain, has reached levels of unpopularity.
[00:14:59]  That previous wars, now seen as historical boondoggles, took years to reach.
[00:15:06]  The Post asked about the mistake for other major wars.
[00:15:11]  CNN senior political reporter Aaron Blake explained in Iraq, it took more than three years to reach this high.
[00:15:19]  In Vietnam, it took six.
[00:15:22]  Despite a massive protest movement, voters overwhelmingly support President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq.
[00:15:31]  81% believing it was the right thing to do in April of 2003.
[00:15:35]  Only 16% doubting.
[00:15:39]  But the occupation turned into a long, deadly, and costly disaster, and the admin pretext for the war were revealed to be lies.
[00:15:47]  Public opinion steadily eroded to the point where 64% viewed it as a mistake by January 2007.
[00:15:55]  Vietnam never had the overwhelming support of Iraq, but 60% of Americans still supported President Johnson's decision to begin direct military involvement in 1965, when only 24% said it was wrong.
[00:16:12]  Meanwhile, Marjorie Taylor Greene is getting some satisfaction.
[00:16:18]  Marjorie Taylor Greene is unleashing on Donald Trump, MAGA Mike Johnson, and all MAGA Republicans who are still Trump sycophants.
[00:16:27]  She's saying that MAGA Mike needs to resign.
[00:16:30]  She's saying Donald Trump's term needs to end.
[00:16:34]  She's saying this entire Trump movement is an utter fraud.
[00:16:39]  She posted the following about MAGA Mike Johnson as there are calls that are starting to.
[00:16:46]  pick up within MAGA Mike's own caucus right now to kick MAGA Mike out as the speaker before this congressional term even ends.
[00:16:56]  Marjorie Taylor Greene writes, if there only had been a Republican member of Congress that had tried to remove Johnson early on before he ruined everything.
[00:17:08]  Oh, wait.
[00:17:08]  That was me.
[00:17:09]  But almost all of my colleagues voted to keep him because Trump told them to.
[00:17:15]  Welp.
[00:17:16]  That's what they all get for being Cowards.
[00:17:19]  Then, with respect to the news that U.S. gas prices have surged to the highest national average since August 2022, $4.23 per gallon for regular unleaded, driven by the escalating tensions with Iran and disruptions to global oil.
[00:17:39]  Marjorie Taylor Greene writes, This is all because Trump is waging war on Iran and broke his campaign promise of no more foreign wars and no more foreign regime change.
[00:17:52]  And it's only going to get worse as food prices will surely rise as well.
[00:17:57]  Also, our poor truckers are paying insane prices for diesel.
[00:18:03]  Next, Marjorie Taylor Greene talks about the scheme that MAGA Mike Johnson and Donald Trump tried to pull to trick MAGA Republican Congress members into supporting a warrantless FISA Section 702 extension, knowing that it would then be killed in the United States Senate.
[00:18:26]  In order to basically try to trick MAGA Republicans to get their support.
[00:18:31]  This is what Marjorie Taylor Greene says.
[00:18:33]  Do you know how bad it is?
[00:18:34]  So the House passed a FISA 702 reauthorization yesterday without a warrant requirement by adding a good bill that bans central bank digital currency.
[00:18:46]  That's how they try to trick members of Congress.
[00:18:49]  They dangle a ban on CBDC, but you have to give up the warrant requirement for Americans for FISA 702.
[00:18:57]  You get one thing you want, but you have to vote for a dirty deed to get it.
[00:19:00]  But Thune, the Senate majority leader, said that the House bill reauthorizing FISA 702 is dead on arrival because of the ban on CBDC, Central Bank Digital Currency.
[00:19:13]  And Johnson knew this ahead of time, which is even slimier.
[00:19:18]  He's got it right.
[00:19:20]  Here's another discussion about mega imploding from two young guys I don't really know particularly.
[00:19:28]  They're selling a product that constantly attacking people verbally, hinting towards violence, calling to lock up their political opponents.
[00:19:35]  But the moment we reciprocate and actually ask them anything in return, the entire MAGA movement collapses.
[00:19:41]  And that's what we're seeing right now.
[00:19:42]  We are seeing a MAGA movement collapse across the media.
[00:19:46]  We'll talk about the Scott Jennings debacle in just one second.
[00:19:49]  But the bigger story that is, you know, really, really taking storm right now is the fact that the Daily Wire just laid off approximately 50 to 60% of their staffers.
[00:19:58]  We've both been to the Daily Wire studio in Nashville.
[00:20:01]  And it is a massive compound.
[00:20:03]  We can talk about the compound in one second, but my main takeaway from this is that all of these conservatives who are saying that, you know, politics is just kind of boring right now, nobody's really paying attention.
[00:20:15]  So people are leaving the Daily Wire and we have to fire people tells me that the Daily Wire is doing something very, very wrong because you and I have been growing and pushing back on these lies.
[00:20:25]  And right now, there is a war that many Americans are paying attention to and many Americans care about.
[00:20:30]  So if the Daily Wire, Which is a company that focuses a lot on the Middle East, on certain wars, on certain conflicts, on Israel, on all these Middle Eastern topics.
[00:20:38]  If they can't hold the attention of the American public on this war, it must be because the war is failing.
[00:20:44]  The war is unpopular, and they don't know how to take a popular position on this.
[00:20:47]  So, just to loop it back around, we're seeing throughout MAGA media an entire meltdown that is parallel to the meltdown that is happening within this administration.
[00:20:56]  As Donald Trump spirals, loses his mind, as the polls continue to drop, and as this war backfires, the people who have to defend this war are also having a psychological toll taken on them.
[00:21:06]  Of course, there's a Jennings of it all, but I've talked about that before.
[00:21:09]  The Daily Wire imploding is huge.
[00:21:12]  This is a seismic shift for independent media and the way things work.
[00:21:15]  And here we are every single day pushing back against these lies with facts, facts, facts.
[00:21:21]  So if you guys want to help us, if you guys want to join our community, which is more important now than ever, make sure you hit the like below.
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[00:21:28]  Yeah, they're doing a good job, it seems to me.
[00:21:33]  Joaquin, your thoughts, my friend.
[00:21:37]  Well, yeah, Hegzeth claim about, you know, they must prevent nukes in Iran.
[00:21:48]  Oh, they've been using that.
[00:21:50]  I mean, you go back 30 something years, and Benjamin Netanyahu's been claiming that as his excuse to wreak havoc in the Middle East.
[00:22:00]  And so, of course, you know, Trump's in Netanyahu's pocket.
[00:22:05]  So they use that same exact excuse.
[00:22:09]  Over and over again now, when they really had no plan.
[00:22:15]  Obviously, the only plan that they had, and it came out, but now it's like, oh, backseat to the nukes again.
[00:22:24]  But the plan all along was yes, they were going to basically rescue the Iranian people from their horrible government, their Islamic Republic government, regime change, George Soros, and all the rest of it.
[00:22:43]  US is known.
[00:22:45]  They're the guilty party for regime changes all over the world forever now.
[00:22:52]  And that was the agenda from the very get go.
[00:22:55]  They want a puppet.
[00:22:56]  They want to bring, you know, Pahlavi, the son of the Shah, you know, total in the pocket of Israel and the US.
[00:23:06]  That was their agenda all along.
[00:23:09]  And that's why they started the whole thing at the end of December with a financial situation that was totally.
[00:23:17]  Induced by the US and sanctions.
[00:23:21]  Iran is probably the most sanctioned country ever because they've been sanctioned for what?
[00:23:29]  Since 1979, basically, sanction after sanction.
[00:23:35]  Somehow they managed to survive as a country and still managed to keep going.
[00:23:41]  And they got the support of the entire world behind them.
[00:23:45]  Very few are actually behind the United States and their war of aggression.
[00:23:51]  Illegal war of aggression, their piracy on the high seas.
[00:23:56]  You know, they're the total bad guy.
[00:23:58]  They've been the world bully forever.
[00:24:00]  Their days are numbered.
[00:24:02]  What do empires do when they're declined, in steep decline?
[00:24:07]  They always lash out, they get crazy, they start wars.
[00:24:13]  And so that's what we've been seeing now.
[00:24:15]  Well, in the history of the United States, 93% of all the years in the quarter millennium now that the U.S. has existed as a sovereign nation.
[00:24:25]  Yes.
[00:24:26]  That's what they do.
[00:24:27]  They make war.
[00:24:28]  We are the most warring population nation on this earth and have been since our existence began 250 years ago.
[00:24:38]  So, you know, it's all the dark side, bad guy manipulation from the city of London.
[00:24:47]  They control the United States.
[00:24:49]  We never separated, you know, Washington, D.C., total sovereignty nation.
[00:24:55]  No.
[00:24:56]  You know, it went from the British Empire to the U.S. Empire, and the British still hold claim, City of London claim, anyway, which is a centralized banking structure that runs the earth.
[00:25:12]  That's the bottom line.
[00:25:13]  So, enough of this bullshit with Hegseth.
[00:25:17]  I can't stand this guy.
[00:25:19]  He is so full of bullshit.
[00:25:21]  That's all he is.
[00:25:22]  And he was a yes man psychopath from the very beginning, and that's why Trump has him there, because he only wants.
[00:25:30]  People that tell him what he wants to hear.
[00:25:33]  And that's what Hegseth does.
[00:25:35]  He's got a lip lock on Trump forever now.
[00:25:40]  But he's a total doofus idiot.
[00:25:43]  So now we move on to 61%.
[00:25:46]  I dare say it's more like 80 to 90% of Americans know this war is a horrible fiasco and mistake that's going to cost the entire world economic collapse.
[00:26:01]  Everybody can see that.
[00:26:02]  It's just.
[00:26:04]  You know, the domino effect is going to reach everybody on this earth.
[00:26:10]  It starts off where the prices of gas go up, you know, 40% or whatever in the matter of days.
[00:26:18]  Well, they're going to continue going up, they're going to go up past $6.
[00:26:24]  And the bottom line, though, is that the whole global economy that's been a usury debtor system, they've already been planning for this collapse of the global economy.
[00:26:37]  The city of London again.
[00:26:39]  They've been planning this forever.
[00:26:41]  They knew that it was not sustainable from the very get go, but that's the whole purpose.
[00:26:47]  You know, I mean, a few years ago, the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab and King George, King George, you know, him, the King of England that just came over, yeah, they got together and said, you know, Let's do a great reset together.
[00:27:11]  And that entails basically the destruction of the global economy.
[00:27:17]  So, what do they do?
[00:27:18]  They start this war in the Middle East where one fifth of all passage of oil, petroleum products, which includes the urea in the fertilizer, which includes food shortages all over the earth, which includes prices going out of reach for the vast majority of people living on this earth.
[00:27:40]  It's all basically down to depopulation, World War III, throwing all kinds of mega crises at the global population.
[00:27:50]  To make sure that they're down to a point where there are either cyborg controlled, you know, transhumanism, that's been the elite agenda, the whole Epstein class elite agenda has been all along.
[00:28:06]  Transhumanism, putting machine parts into the humans, changing DNA, that's what the whole COVID shot was all about.
[00:28:16]  It altered the DNA of humans.
[00:28:19]  So, this is all part of their big grand scheme.
[00:28:23]  The whole picture of it is.
[00:28:26]  So, anyway, getting back to 61, more like 80 to 90% at least, because everybody knows it's doom and gloom.
[00:28:35]  I mean, you got to be totally stupid not to realize.
[00:28:39]  I mean, you go to the gas pump, that's enough to see that it's all going to get higher, higher, higher until you can't afford to go to work anymore because you can't pay for the gas, nor can you pay for the food, and you're going to be homeless.
[00:28:53]  This is the problem, this is the crisis.
[00:28:56]  Coming down to America.
[00:28:58]  And even before this war, homelessness was on a record scale in America.
[00:29:04]  You know, we are no longer the quote, number one prosperous country on earth.
[00:29:09]  No, the standard of living of Americans has dropped in the last few years mightily.
[00:29:16]  And it's only going to continue like we have never seen in our lifetime now.
[00:29:23]  That's how bad it is.
[00:29:25]  So, you know, as far as this, Marjorie Taylor, great.
[00:29:30]  Yeah, I give her a lot of credit.
[00:29:31]  She was one of the only ones in Congress that was worth anything, and now she's out.
[00:29:37]  But at least she's now totally free to speak her mind and getting a lot of traction with a lot of the public, aware and respectful of what she is basically saying.

=== Americans Finances and US Hegemony (07:51) ===

[00:29:50]  So, but the whole thing is MAGA was gone a long time ago, you know?
[00:29:56]  I mean, this guy, as soon as he began in January, With all its tariffs and the war talk and the threats and all of this, you know, and then the whole thing about Epstein trying to keep that quiet.
[00:30:11]  He lost MAGA a long time ago.
[00:30:14]  So that's really not even a news item, I don't think, because they're gone, they're gone, completely gone now with this Iran war.
[00:30:23]  So, yeah, you know, and yeah, as far as the media going, I guess.
[00:30:37]  Brian, go right ahead.
[00:30:38]  Brian.
[00:30:40]  Well, one of the things I'm observing about the situation is that, you know, what's funny is how much we've changed since in the last few years.
[00:30:51]  It used to be very clear that this was a left versus right America.
[00:30:56]  And now it seems to be like the fragmentation is sort of changing directions.
[00:31:01]  Now, I can't really tell if the fragmentation is taking us into a worse place or a better place.
[00:31:08]  From a citizen's perspective, but I don't know that the citizens really have much power anymore.
[00:31:13]  The Republican Senate recently gave, they voted away Congress's power to declare war to the executive branch.
[00:31:24]  Now, why would they do that?
[00:31:26]  Are they saying that they're fragmented too, that they're unable to do it?
[00:31:30]  And all these messages that are, again, going back and forth, you know, they're telling us this Iran threat is so urgent that this is an anti nuclear justification.
[00:31:44]  And they're giving all this sort of military necessity rhetoric driven by Egg Seth and the others.
[00:31:50]  But then the critics out there are saying that this isn't as urgent as you say.
[00:31:57]  They're claiming again, just like they did in Iraq, manipulated intelligence.
[00:32:03]  And so you're seeing this sort of repeated Iraq weapons of mass destruction logic.
[00:32:08]  And it's going to backfire this time around because a lot of people are older and wiser to what's going on out there.
[00:32:16]  So, while the administration continues to press this as sort of a strategic necessity, and critics are saying, wait a second, what are we really doing?
[00:32:25]  This doesn't seem to add up.
[00:32:26]  What you're forgetting in the background is that I believe what Trump is really battling for at the cost of anybody's life is continued power and continued US hegemony over the petrodollar.
[00:32:40]  And from the signals I've been seeing this week on RT and other networks, the petrodollar is in serious decline.
[00:32:48]  And is it at serious risk right now?
[00:32:50]  So I think Trump is really wrestling a bear in terms of what he's gotten himself into.
[00:32:55]  I think he thought he needed to go into Iran to protect the petrodollar, but he didn't calculate the cost of going into Iran in terms of what it would do domestically, in terms of what it would do to split America, and at the same time, what it would do to get America to sort of coagulate together into new camps.
[00:33:15]  War and anti war is an entirely different camp than.
[00:33:18]  Democrat, Republican.
[00:33:20]  And so you're now seeing new blocks of resistance forming that are bigger, that combine both Democrats and Republicans.
[00:33:30]  And this could end up being very, very bad, not just for Trump, but also for the Republicans.
[00:33:36]  But the bigger problem is the institutional faith is going to be reduced to such a low, low level that it just doesn't make sense to continue to fund all of these projects and all of these programs.
[00:33:49]  So All these domestic issues combined with war, combined with everything Trump is doing and all the mixed signals intelligence, is really making a mess of everything.
[00:34:00]  And I don't think that in the long haul, this is going to play out in anybody's favor except for a new leader who comes in and claims that he can put the pieces back together again.
[00:34:12]  That's going to be virtually impossible after we get fragmented and this is over with.
[00:34:18]  Those are excellent, excellent comments, Brian.
[00:34:22]  Very, very good.
[00:34:24]  I'd like to add one more thing before I got cut off again.
[00:34:28]  Sure.
[00:34:29]  Yeah, Ben Shapiro in the Daily Wire.
[00:34:32]  Oh, I'm so glad to see that where they're having to lay off half the staff there because he's been a total stooge for Israel, Zionist stooge.
[00:34:45]  And so get the hell out of here.
[00:34:53]  Did you want to add more?
[00:34:54]  Oh, Washini got cut off again?
[00:34:57]  Wow.
[00:34:58]  Wow.
[00:34:59]  Hard to believe.
[00:35:02]  There it is.
[00:35:06]  Okay.
[00:35:08]  Poll shock.
[00:35:10]  Americans' finances are in free fall.
[00:35:14]  65% of Americans are saying their finances are getting worse.
[00:35:19]  Not just a gloomy headline, a warning the country's normal has quietly become unaffordable.
[00:35:27]  Gallup's April 2026 polling found a record 50.
[00:35:32]  No picture.
[00:35:34]  No picture?
[00:35:35]  No picture.
[00:35:37]  Okay, let me try again.
[00:35:47]  Do you have a picture now?
[00:35:49]  No.
[00:35:51]  No.
[00:35:52]  Okay.
[00:35:54]  Okay.
[00:35:54]  Let me try one some more.
[00:35:57]  Joaquin back.
[00:35:59]  Yep.
[00:36:01]  Every time I mention Israel, bam, I'm gone.
[00:36:07]  Can you see the page?
[00:36:10]  Gone.
[00:36:11]  No.
[00:36:11]  Black.
[00:36:13]  Wow.
[00:36:14]  What the hell?
[00:36:16]  Plenty of games.
[00:36:17]  It's kind of crazy.
[00:36:18]  How about now?
[00:36:20]  There.
[00:36:20]  Yeah.
[00:36:21]  All right.
[00:36:23]  American finances are in free fall.
[00:36:28]  55% of Americans are saying their finances are getting worse.
[00:36:32]  That's not just a gloomy headline.
[00:36:35]  A warning the country's normal has quietly become unaffordable.
[00:36:40]  Gallup's April 2026 polling met a record 55% of U.S. adults saying their financial situation is getting worse.
[00:36:49]  Inflation and high living costs dominate worries.
[00:36:53]  55% of adults reporting price increases as a hardship.
[00:36:57]  Credit card anxiety is rising.
[00:37:00]  28% worried about paying minimums, an ugly sign of household strength.
[00:37:06]  People cite everyday necessities like gas, housing, and bills more than long term fears like retirement.
[00:37:14]  Meanwhile, big brain Trump fesses up to high stakes profitable piracy.
[00:37:22]  That, of course, is Russ Winner's name for our president, big brain Trump.
[00:37:27]  Get this.
[00:37:29]  Trump says seizing ships by the U.S. Navy is very profitable, and that the United States is the world's biggest pirate enterprise now.
[00:37:39]  It's a very profitable business.

=== Trump Admits to Profitable Piracy (04:53) ===

[00:37:42]  We're like pirates.
[00:37:44]  He actually said it.
[00:37:46]  Listen to him in his own words.
[00:37:48]  Turn your ship around.
[00:37:49]  Evacuate your engine room immediately.
[00:37:53]  And you see all these guys running out of there.
[00:37:55]  Now, they're five miles away.
[00:37:58]  In one shot, into the engine room, blew up the engine room.
[00:38:02]  The ship stopped.
[00:38:04]  They used tugboats, and then we landed on top of it.
[00:38:06]  On top of everything else, we then land on top of it, and we took over the ship.
[00:38:11]  We took over the cargo, took over the oil.
[00:38:13]  It's a very profitable business.
[00:38:15]  Who would have thought we were doing that?
[00:38:16]  We're like pirates.
[00:38:18]  We're sort of like pirates.
[00:38:22]  But we're not playing games, because, you know, for 47 years, Iran has been pushing everybody around.
[00:38:27]  They're the bullies.
[00:38:28]  And there was no response.
[00:38:30]  Turn your ship around.
[00:38:32]  How absurd for 47 years.
[00:38:34]  That's from 1979 when the People's Republic occurred and they retook control of their own government after having been sabotaged by the United States and MI6 with a coup in 1953 that deposed the democratically elected Prime Minister Mossadegh, who had nationalized Iran's oil fields and replaced him with the Western stewed Shah, who ran the most vicious secret police force.
[00:39:04]  From 1953 to 1979.
[00:39:07]  But Trump ignores the fact that we struck the first blow back in 1953.
[00:39:13]  Now, D.C. Dave uses satire and music to expose what's going on.
[00:39:20]  Listen here.
[00:39:22]  Good old guys.
[00:39:28]  I decorate all the pie.
[00:39:32]  Yep, wrong one.
[00:39:33]  Booger.
[00:39:38]  Yes, the good old good old boys never mean no harm.
[00:39:48]  Beats all you never saw.
[00:39:50]  Been fighting for the Jews since the day they was born.
[00:39:54]  Straightening the curves, yeah.
[00:39:57]  Flattening the hills.
[00:40:01]  They die for Israel and fight where the Jew never will.
[00:40:08]  Making their way the only way they know how That's just a little bit more than the Jew will allow I'm a good old gory,
[00:40:38]  But they don't understand.
[00:42:34]  Awesome.

=== The Adderall Addiction Theory (14:59) ===

[00:42:36]  I dare say satire can make a powerful statement.
[00:42:39]  Joaquin, your thoughts.
[00:42:43]  Yeah, well, Trump did another number to extend this 60 day no declaration of war bypass, you know.
[00:42:56]  Oh, yeah, the war's over.
[00:42:58]  Okay, we get another 60 days now to wreak havoc and start World War III, you know.
[00:43:05]  All manipulation, all deception.
[00:43:07]  You know, he's got not an honest bone in his body.
[00:43:13]  Man is total 100% bullshit.
[00:43:15]  Everything that comes out of his mouth.
[00:43:18]  And it's only gotten worse in his senility years, where his mental decline is right before our eyes by the day.
[00:43:27]  So, yeah, that was a nice little manipulation to avoid having even to declare war, even though we're going to war big time.
[00:43:36]  It's only going to get worse.
[00:43:38]  Just like the economy and everything else falling apart.
[00:43:42]  Yeah, it's only going to get worse.
[00:43:45]  You know, and then he has the audacity, you know, here the whole world realizes that his war of aggression is illegal, international rules of engagement, rules of war, law of wars.
[00:44:00]  It violates every rule, international law.
[00:44:04]  Yet he goes forward with it.
[00:44:07]  And, you know, and then, This whole act of piracy, you know, where he commandeers other vessels on the high seas, international waters, you know, and then, you know, he's like, just like his thing a while back, a week or so ago, we're talking about him being Jesus Christ in one of his posts.
[00:44:30]  Well, here he's like rubbing it in our face with this act of war and aggression and piracy, calling himself a profitable pirate, you know.
[00:44:42]  You know, so and then, yeah, the good old guys.
[00:44:45]  Uh, yeah, that guy's pretty good, Dave Smith, with his uh little spoof.
[00:44:50]  Uh, and the other ones that are really good is the Legos from Iran, they're they're masterful at their satire.
[00:44:59]  So, yeah, I you're so right.
[00:45:04]  The Legos, I dare say, are getting a bit more attention.
[00:45:08]  Brian, go right ahead, give us your thoughts, Brian.
[00:45:17]  Muted, muted.
[00:45:22]  I think there's something that might explain a lot of this erratic behavior.
[00:45:28]  I've met people that had addictions before.
[00:45:32]  Trump sniffed 58 times during the State of the Union.
[00:45:37]  There are a number of serious doctors out there that are beginning to say that his behavior seems to be more aligned with an Adderall addict.
[00:45:49]  And there is a lot going on out there in terms of new buzz that's just developed over the last 24 hours that show that this is a real possibility here.
[00:46:01]  There was a comedian that worked on The Apprentice with Donald Trump that said that this was something he saw happen.
[00:46:11]  And now we've got different doctors saying that he's exhibiting the signs of being a guy that's losing control.
[00:46:21]  Not getting enough sleep, the things he says.
[00:46:25]  And there are also people out there that say that he's been a lifetime drug addict.
[00:46:30]  And whether that's true or not, I don't know.
[00:46:33]  But this is not the behavior of a man who's got control of every aspect of his life right now.
[00:46:43]  He might have some pro qualities that are working very, very well.
[00:46:47]  But the ability for.
[00:46:52]  Look, we all know how blackmail structures work.
[00:46:57]  And drug addiction could be something that could be very well.
[00:47:01]  Hidden and then used against him to make sure he aligns himself with Israel on these issues.
[00:47:07]  I wouldn't put it beyond anybody right now.
[00:47:10]  So I think that if you start looking through the lens of that, you'll begin to see what I'm talking about because there is a large amount of people out there on the internet that are beginning to say this looks like an Adderall addiction that has gone too far.
[00:47:27]  So that's my angle on it.
[00:47:32]  Trump could be suffering from an Adderall addiction.
[00:47:37]  Yeah.
[00:47:38]  Yeah.
[00:47:38]  Go to State of the Nation.
[00:47:42]  There's a number of huge strings on it over there at State of the Nation that have been getting a lot of play.
[00:47:51]  Could you elaborate just a bit more?
[00:47:53]  This is news to me, but it's fascinating.
[00:47:56]  Well, there's a doctor by the name of, I was just going over his article, there's a doctor by the name of, Whimsy Anderson, who put an article out.
[00:48:07]  There's a few others.
[00:48:09]  There's probably 15 or 16 different articles that have started putting together all the pieces on Trump related to potential Adderall addiction.
[00:48:20]  Now, I've seen this.
[00:48:21]  This is just as bad as heroin or anything else when it gets fully developed.
[00:48:27]  You know, just because it's a prescription drug doesn't mean that it can't be abused and doesn't mean that it's not.
[00:48:32]  Potentially more dangerous.
[00:48:34]  What is Adderall prescribed for?
[00:48:36]  What are the symptoms it's used to counteract or deal with?
[00:48:41]  Well, theoretically, you use it with kids with attention deficit, attention hyperactivity deficit disorder so that they can stay focused for long periods of time.
[00:48:51]  It's a derivative of like a methamphetamine that will just keep you going for days and days and days on end.
[00:48:57]  And of course, your body needs sleep.
[00:49:01]  Joaquin, you must have a lot to say about this.
[00:49:04]  Fascinating.
[00:49:06]  Well, you know, he's got three things going against him, among many others, but regarding what we're talking about.
[00:49:14]  First of all, he's a month away from 80, and he has dementia, full fledged dementia, mental decline rapidly.
[00:49:25]  And second of all, this guy has every physical ailment, disease going right now.
[00:49:34]  He's got all kinds of problems, you know, the bruised hands, the The swollen ankles, the shitting his pants all the time.
[00:49:45]  He's got major, major problems.
[00:49:47]  And what is the answer the medical profession in America does when there's physical, medical kind of problems?
[00:49:54]  Drugs, drugs, drugs.
[00:49:56]  So he's, and that's the third component.
[00:50:00]  He's been in an addict, I believe, for, you know, 30 years or whatever.
[00:50:05]  It's only gone from bad to worse.
[00:50:07]  As he gets more stressed out, as he is now more than ever, we're seeing.
[00:50:12]  Right before our eyes, every day displays more insane behavior before the whole world.
[00:50:20]  And then he puts it on social, you know, his media platform.
[00:50:26]  Well, so all of these together say we do not have a president that is in rational mind that controls the basically nuclear bomb, you know, and that's where it could be headed to in desperation along with our Israel, you know, the Samson option.
[00:50:46]  Joaquin, what do you think would have initiated his first use of Ad Ra?
[00:50:49]  I mean, his difficulty concentrating?
[00:50:53]  What would you think?
[00:50:54]  Well, yeah, what we're seeing is that he's falling asleep all the time.
[00:50:58]  Time now, I mean, you know, that's been a long ongoing issue.
[00:51:01]  Now, they catch him asleep a lot while he's in front of cameras.
[00:51:07]  Uh, so you know, I think that's probably part of it the Adderall to help keep a person more awake and alert.
[00:51:16]  Uh, you know, but it's I don't think it's just Adderall, I think he's on so many medications because of his physical and mental decline.
[00:51:28]  Uh, so yeah, we're seeing.
[00:51:30]  Him a drug addict now, and you know, it only exacerbates drug addiction, only exacerbates whatever mental incapacity a person might have.
[00:51:43]  So, we're seeing it galore.
[00:51:45]  We've never, Brian.
[00:51:49]  I'm extremely glad you brought this up.
[00:51:51]  It never crossed my mind.
[00:51:53]  I had no idea.
[00:51:55]  I just ran across a Russ Winter article, and of course, he's one of our contributors.
[00:52:00]  So, it looks like this.
[00:52:02]  Winter Watch article is probably a good one to go find.
[00:52:09]  He seems to have developed quite a bit of good information on this.
[00:52:12]  So you might want to check out Russ Winter and Winter Watch.
[00:52:15]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:52:17]  Do a show, Joachim and I with Russ on Wednesdays.
[00:52:21]  Which article is it?
[00:52:23]  It's Neo Caligula, a lifetime drug addict.
[00:52:27]  It was published just a couple days ago.
[00:52:29]  Yesterday, it was published yesterday.
[00:52:33]  Wow.
[00:52:34]  Let me see if I can pull it up.
[00:52:35]  That's really good.
[00:52:45]  They want to warn us, of course, about going to any of our sites.
[00:52:49]  It's ridiculous.
[00:52:51]  Well, basically, there was a comedian.
[00:52:54]  I mean, the long and short of it is there's a comedian that came out, not as a comedian, but as a guy who started talking about this in the last few days.
[00:53:08]  And it seems like a lot of people are putting the pieces together, including medical doctors.
[00:53:12]  Okay, here I am.
[00:53:15]  Let me look for it.
[00:53:19]  Well, it was.
[00:53:21]  I'll find it.
[00:53:24]  Here it is.
[00:53:26]  Neil Caligula, lifetime drug addict.
[00:53:29]  For anyone who doesn't believe drug is a drug addict, as a former drug addict myself, this is from an Elizabeth.
[00:53:36]  I have to say you're extremely naive.
[00:53:40]  From the first debate with Hillary, I knew he was high as a kite.
[00:53:45]  Noel Sazer worked with Trump for years.
[00:53:49]  Trump snorted Admiral all day through the day.
[00:53:54]  Wow.
[00:53:57]  That would explain a lot.
[00:53:58]  That would explain a lot.
[00:53:59]  That would explain why at some points he seems like he's got it together and at other points he just doesn't.
[00:54:04]  Not even close.
[00:54:05]  Yeah.
[00:54:06]  Let me get to this guy talking about it.
[00:54:11]  All right.
[00:54:12]  I told him the real deal about Trump that people didn't know.
[00:54:15]  He was an open drug addict.
[00:54:17]  Everyone knew it.
[00:54:18]  None of this stuff was a secret.
[00:54:19]  He was doing Coke on shows 20 years ago when we'd do the VH1 Fashion Awards, and I used to do the beauty pageants with him in the 90s.
[00:54:28]  He was an open drug user, open sexual assaulter, and this stuff was just kind of accepted.
[00:54:34]  And it's not you heard this firsthand, it's you saw this with your own eyes.
[00:54:39]  Absolutely.
[00:54:40]  That's when most of the drug use occurred on The Apprentice when he had to read cue cards.
[00:54:44]  He'd get really nervous.
[00:54:45]  So he'd go in the bathroom, crush up Adderall, he'd come back to set, there'd be white chunks flying out of his nose, white powder under his nose.
[00:54:53]  He's doing the same thing as a candidate and as a president.
[00:54:58]  You know, it gives him a feeling of being in control.
[00:55:00]  But he's clearly an addict.
[00:55:02]  If you know anything about addiction, untreated addiction as a president is the worst thing you could have.
[00:55:08]  So, yeah, he was obviously high that night.
[00:55:12]  That was the same person we saw in The Apprentice.
[00:55:14]  And I remember watching that and like, yep, he's high.
[00:55:17]  And it was probably, you know, it probably wasn't just Adderall.
[00:55:19]  You know, he did Coke, he did meth, he had drug dealers coming to the after parties selling it to him.
[00:55:24]  Adderall is his maintenance high, it's what he does during the day.
[00:55:28]  When he gets down to Mar-a-Lago and these other places, he gets into it a little harder.
[00:55:33]  He also uses benzodiazepine, you know, Valium and stuff, to come down when he hits it hard.
[00:55:39]  So when you see him slurring and stuff, that's from the benzos.
[00:55:43]  And, you know, the things I saw, he didn't even hide.
[00:55:45]  So many other people saw this stuff.
[00:55:48]  But imagine what the people are seeing right now in the White House.
[00:55:51]  Do you know what I mean?
[00:55:52]  We got him for an hour a day on the Apprentice, Celebrity Apprentice, because he barely works.
[00:55:57]  That's the other thing.
[00:55:58]  The guy is.
[00:56:00]  Unmanageable.
[00:56:01]  You know what I mean?
[00:56:02]  He's not a functioning human being.
[00:56:04]  He barely works.
[00:56:05]  Nine times out of ten, we'd have to cancel that day's taping because he wouldn't show up at the last minute.
[00:56:10]  So imagine the dysfunction and the insanity these people are witnessing at the White House, the GOP leaders that, as you said, are enabling him.
[00:56:21]  Wow.
[00:56:23]  I am blown away.
[00:56:26]  I had no idea.
[00:56:28]  This is huge.
[00:56:30]  Joaquin, give us a final thought before we hit the break.
[00:56:35]  Well, it's real obvious.
[00:56:36]  The guy is so stressed out of his gourd that he's resorting to heavy use of drugs to just keep him internally on par.
[00:56:51]  Visibly obvious that this guy's fallen apart before our eyes.
[00:56:57]  And the drug addiction is just one more component to what we're seeing this man fall apart in front of the whole world.
[00:57:06]  Disgracing America and causing such havoc and danger to all of us.
[00:57:12]  Brian, you brought this up.
[00:57:13]  Give us a final thought or two.
[00:57:16]  Well, here we have another article that's on antiwar.com of a doctor saying that, you know, he went through this, the latest speech and sobbed, sniffed 58 times.
[00:57:28]  Completely out of line, indicative of potential drug use.

=== Drug Use Explains Erratic Behavior (01:28) ===

[00:57:35]  Look, I'm not there, but I sure think it would explain a lot in terms of.
[00:57:40]  How you see the world through a lens of a drug addict explains so much more about Trump's behavior and some of his decision making related to this.
[00:57:51]  And if you put in the right combination of drugs on top of the right combination of blackmail and historical threats and sense of narcissism, this is the kind of output that you get.
[00:58:04]  And so I think it holds water from a theory perspective.
[00:58:08]  I don't know this Kassler guy, I don't know anything else that's out there, but I'm beginning to see more and more.
[00:58:15]  That are probably stronger rather than weaker in terms of their analysis of his behavior.
[00:58:23]  I am stunned.
[00:58:25]  We got to get this guy out of there.
[00:58:27]  Get him the hell out of the White House.
[00:58:31]  Don't take us out.
[00:58:32]  Yeah, he's our target right now to get dismissed.
[00:58:38]  Trump, the psycho, and everything else here.
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