"Is Iran Going to End Donald Trump & MAGA?" dissects how a swift, three-month military strike on Iran could solidify Trump’s base—85% of Republicans back it—while framing opposition as left-wing attacks on conservative values. The episode ties Iran’s decimation (air force, navy, missile drops) to past successes like Desert Storm, dismissing casualties as "meaningless" while mocking critics like Kendall Brown and BLM’s financial scandals (Patrice Coulors’ $6M mansion). Texas primaries—Brandon Herrera’s upset over Crenshaw, Paxton vs. Cruz—are used to argue GOP resilience, while body-cam debates expose leftist hypocrisy. The core claim: Trump’s decisive action could neutralize Iran’s nuclear threat without alienating voters, proving strength over "moderation." [Automatically generated summary]
I'm happy to see you, but I get you see me every day.
You're like, this guy again.
Look, I know you probably have Iran fatigue.
Do you say Iran or do you say Iran?
Doesn't matter because it's not as important of a country as the United States.
But I know you have Iran fatigue.
Look, I'm going to stake my claim here.
Three months.
Okay?
How about that?
When people are trying to fracture the base, the people who will actually fix this country, largely conservative Christian nationalist men by saying Donald Trump is a traitor.
This is betrayal.
We need to impeach him.
All right.
I don't like when people are wishy-washy when they don't offer solutions.
Three months.
If the main military operations go beyond three months, come right back and tell me, told you so.
That fair comment below.
That's what I think the timeline should be.
Hopefully significantly shorter.
And we'll get into the polling on Iran, the support or lack thereof.
It's time-dependent, how long it takes.
And we'll give you some historical examples other than Iraq.
I don't know if you know, but that's a thing.
Texas primaries happened.
Jasmine Crockett.
She blames Republicans for cheating because apparently the voters think she's a croc.
Oh, shit.
I bleeped the wrong part, didn't I?
And is that what I bleeped the o?
Admonish.
This is something we've had in the works for a long time.
Body cams.
We're going to do it then and now.
We got to have body cams.
We got to have body cams.
And I remember saying, like, yeah, okay, fine.
We should have body cams.
Well, then it turns out that the left really doesn't want body cams.
Take a guess why.
Take a guess who's responsible for the anti-body cam message.
The answer is yes.
You know exactly why.
On with the show.
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Yeah, that's me.
Excellent, Mr. Bennington.
I'm just calling today because I heard you might be interested in refinancing your home.
No, I'm really not.
And this isn't a good time.
Oh, hey, now.
It's always a good time to talk about saving some money.
It looks like you're currently at a 5.3% rate.
And, you know, I can get you up to 9%, 9.5% easy.
Maybe even get you some cash out on the deal.
That sounds terrible.
And it's really not a good time.
Well, respectfully, Mr. Bennington, you don't know what you're talking about, okay?
I'm the professional here.
All right, so why don't you take the tampon out and calm down?
I don't have time for this.
Please take me off your list.
Okay.
I can do that.
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You look tired.
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That was a good one.
And you know what?
I didn't think I was going to have a good one with two hours sleep.
Black Lives Matter Anger00:15:19
It's true.
It's okay.
My alarm system went up.
It was a false alarm, but that doesn't change the heart in your throat, armed and swinging.
Yeah, I woke up early and I thought you should have to as well.
Yeah.
I don't understand what that means.
What?
I set off your alarm.
Oh, oh, oh, okay.
I did it remotely, though, by my phone.
It's awful fun.
I don't know.
We'll get to the third chair today, Nick, and he'll explain why that joke doesn't work.
So, no explanation needed.
What are you talking about?
Cat Morgan, CEO, how are you other than that?
More well-rested than you are.
Yeah, it's okay.
Jerry likes to anger me before the program because he thinks it's fun.
I think you perform better slightly angry.
That's not good.
People either want me angry or drunk.
That's the problem.
It's the opposite.
They're like, hey, we want you angry when you have to perform.
And then we want you drunk because you're nice and you're cuddly.
Playing slightly hurt makes you better.
Yeah, I don't know about that.
But I tell you what, we'll test that theory and we'll make sure you play slightly hurt.
Wait.
Two man, you know, the plan that we have.
Yeah, but we won't talk about it on air.
All right.
And in third chair today, actually, we have, of course, Mr. Josh Firestein as well.
But the funniest man alive.
And at 6 p.m. Eastern on the live lineup here on Rumble, you can watch him.
Go to nickdip.com for any of his dates.
Mr. Nick DiPaolo, how are you, sir?
Good.
How are you doing?
Don't go for those dates.
Why not?
Semi-retired.
Well, you look good.
You look trim.
Oh, that's because I stay awake 23 out of 21.
My fans will document it for you.
I'm within, I'm putting a ready to suck on a dare rifle.
Really?
Oh, good to see you.
I wake up every hour on the fucking hour.
Last night I went to the bar at the hotel, had three drinks, took two Advil p.m.
You're not supposed to do that.
Hoping I die.
Yep.
And fuck at five o'clock, I'm staring at the ceiling like I'm on crack.
Well, I guess the solution is just try a little crack.
Yeah, try crack.
I mean, you're already halfway there.
Boy, was she fatal, kids?
What?
We'll get to the body cam footage, correct?
Crazy things to people, Josh.
Good.
Yeah, excellent.
Wanted to have you on because we're talking about some military stuff today.
But first, yesterday, some footage was unearthed from October in 2025.
Made the rounds yesterday showing a Black Lives Matter, I guess a leader from Illinois.
I don't know, just to be clear, I don't know who started this.
We don't know who committed the assault initially, but there's a man and a woman involved with Black Lives Matter in Illinois fighting each other in a hallway, and the video is as good as you would hope.
Wow, there we go.
He had no audio originally.
You can imagine what they're saying.
Oh, he needs some milk.
Let go of my sideburn.
She handled him.
Now she's talking some smack.
Oh, now he gets him back.
Oh!
Took him down.
Oh, hell no.
I'll give you ass some more.
Don't touch my weed.
By the way, I will tell you this.
He's embarrassing.
Horrible people and politics aside, that broad has some kind of judo training or something.
She's looking for leg ships.
And I think that was a delayed reaction to a nutshot.
I think she hit him in the nuts and he came up.
He's like, no, I'm going to.
Black broads don't have to take judo to be that tough.
No, they don't.
They don't.
They can go, man.
Well, that was.
And I'm not lost.
He's going to go to hell.
That's what I said.
He's obviously, people are like, oh, you got to ask it.
He's obviously going easy on her.
He's just grabbing her.
He wasn't, you know, he wasn't hockey punching her.
Let's be honest.
I think so.
Yeah, I saw some swinging.
He swung once, but when he had her up against that wall, he was just trying to...
He didn't look panicked when she threw him down.
He didn't like, you know, he looked like, I don't know, he was kind of.
Yeah.
I think.
Just go.
Look, look.
He lost all his credit on that.
Just go for the weaves.
That's like black people crav McGah.
Instead of the eyes, go for the weave.
No, I've learned that if you take off the weave, they get angrier.
Mel?
Yeah, you'd rather have a fighting.
No, I'd rather fight them angry because they're not being logical, right?
Their thoughts are cloudy.
And by the way, the woman claimed that she confronted that guy, Clyde McLemore.
Recler.
McLemore, like the white man.
McLemore, because he's a Black Lives Matter leader.
And she said that he handled the grant money poorly.
So it was, you know, he didn't pay her.
And you'd be surprised to learn, by the way, that he spent Black Lives Matter funds also on self-defense classes.
So that's the real.
I learned the fuck out of cookies.
Well, that's why he lost a fight.
Who was that?
Steven Seagal, I guess.
It depends on the era of Steven Seagal.
Sometimes he talks like he's an Italian because he's in a mobster movie.
And then sometimes he talks like a Native American because he was, and then sometimes he talks like he's black.
He's like, I was raised on the porches of Detroit now.
Yeah, he's all screwed up.
I was out there playing the blues before I smoked a peace pipe and made a pizza.
In my home oven.
What?
Which one are you?
I'm all things.
Yeah.
Namely a fraud.
You had one good movie.
Yeah, Under Siege.
That's true.
First, I don't know.
See, that's how audio is.
It might have been even before your time, though, the one I'm thinking.
There was great fight scene in the bar.
You know, the bar that opens up like this.
Yeah, the way that he slammed it on the guy's arm.
Is that Under Siege?
That wasn't Under Siege.
That's the one where he runs like this.
Yeah.
That's every movie.
That's both his moves.
Yeah, he's like, I tell you, if you get me angry, bad things happen.
Got to catch a bus.
He loves his turtlenecks, too.
Yeah.
Oh, it hides that neck.
And his skeet shooting.
And his skeet shooting glasses for some reason.
All the time.
Blue black.
She's better in yellow.
I like to spot weld.
I'm colorblind.
I don't see color because I'm with the brothers and the guinea.
So that's why I wear yellow glasses and claim I taught UFC champions, even though they don't let me in their locker room.
You suck, Steven Segal.
Speaking of Black Lives Matter, just so you know, this is not new.
Check all the references as far as the fraud.
A few examples.
The Black Lives Matter co-founder, Patrice.
And I don't like to say Patrice Colors.
You know what?
That's fine.
That's a name.
I think it's Coulors.
Just, you know, whatever.
Yeah, it's French.
Colors.
What's her name?
Colors.
Patrice Colors.
That's right.
That's a woman's name.
I don't know.
It could go either way.
Yeah, really.
Patrice Colors bought a $6 million mansion in Los Angeles after there were $90 million in donations.
Only 33% of the 90 million donated went to charities at all.
$1.6 million went to the father of colors.
$2.1 million to another Black Lives Matter board member for consulting.
Then you have the Black Lives Matter Oakland, or sorry, Oklahoma City director, Teshella Cherie Amore Dickerson.
That's ridiculous.
I've heard of people being out of touch with black culture.
Just stop.
Tashela Cherie Amore Dick Amore Dickerson.
I bet it's Amore.
I bet it's Amore.
Have you had the Teshella Day?
Oh, my God, it's delicious.
Hey, her name is my name too.
You've never had the stuffed Cashelis?
Cashelis?
Yeah, I think I get that at the airport.
I think you can.
Yeah, well, look, Sabaros leaves no man untouched.
Indicted for stealing $3.15 million in bail funds for personal travel, shopping, and property.
How many weaves can you buy?
Black Lives Matter Atlanta activist Sir Major Page.
What?
Is this a real action?
These are real.
These are real paper.
These are real.
Yeah, he's a knight, and he's also for yelling at you, Nick.
You didn't deserve that.
Oh, are you yelling?
I'm not even hearing it.
I'm just yelling out tight.
I thought that was in my head.
Convicted of stealing $500,000 from donors through fake Black Lives Matters, Atlanta, GoFundMe.
Jara Salim, Black Lives Matter in UK, got two and a half years in jail for stealing $30,000 in donations.
And remember, even Breonna Taylor's mother referred to Black Lives Matter as a fraud, a fraudulent organization.
And Charity Watch gave the Black Lives Matter organization a rating of question mark.
People love him on Yelp.
Yes.
People love them on him.
Leave us a Google review.
Yeah.
Where would I leave it?
You know, we'll just find a way.
Go to my $6 million mansion.
Yeah.
They're not big fans on TripAdvisor, though.
No, not huge fans.
By the way, I think we have a picture of Sir Major.
Do we have a picture of Sir Major Green?
Major Haley?
It's Major Page.
It's like Major Payne that we can read.
Oh, he's albino.
That's an albino Puerto Rican.
That is not.
That is cruel, man.
That is your Black Lives Matter, ladies and gentlemen.
That's why he went in so hard on the nickname.
Yeah.
Because he's like, hey, nobody's going to believe us unless I come in and I say, it's Major Page.
He looked like albino Malcolm X.
Yes, he did.
It's the worst case of Vitalago I've ever seen.
Wow.
Hold on a second.
Bring that back up because we all know.
So now, yeah.
That looks like a black guy who's seasick.
Got skirts.
I fucking need some gravel.
Get this man some lemons.
Get some ginger juice.
Something.
Let's get the fuck.
You look like a bad guy from Spider-Man.
The colored fellow with malaria.
No, the color fella with this color.
Enbezzle your funds now, Spider-Man.
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Here's another one.
Aggravating.
We've talked about Black Lives Matter.
Not all Black people, just Black Lives Matter.
You know, just the figureheads.
Let's go to white women because I think you're not angry enough at this point.
White suburban liberal women.
Here is a wife of an active duty soldier currently serving overseas.
This woman went to TMZ to bash President Trump on behalf of her husband, which I'm sure being actively deployed, he's thrilled about.
Is your husband okay with this risk?
And obviously you're upset about it.
It's very clear you disagree with President Trump's decision to start this.
That's why they have her on.
Do you know how your husband feels?
He's also not happy.
And I will say more than any other decision that any commander-in-chief has made in his entirety being in the military.
More service members are being vocally upset about this than we've ever seen before.
But it is very obvious to a lot of people military families that this has nothing to do with protecting Americans.
This has everything to do with distracting from the military.
To protect as the buffet performance at home and what we are okay with that.
My husband isn't okay risking their lives to serve that distraction.
Somebody stuff a salisbury steak in her mouth and get her to shut up crying out loud like, hey choose, not a good steak.
So uh, the name stovetop stuffing the name of the, of the uh the, the person, Kendall Brown obviously uh, an avowed leftist.
Let's look at the job history of this person.
Kamala Harris campaign was the digital rapid response amplification strategist, because that's a real thing.
The Hillary 2016 campaign deputy digital director.
Loser Mom's First Organization digital director.
It's a leftist group, just to be clear, pushing this sort of like nanny state undermining of the traditional family, like Black Lives Matter.
The nuclear family is a byproduct of patriarchy, so you have to destroy it because we need more single moms.
The HOPE, NOT HATE Campaign Organization it eludes me right now.
Digital director.
Muslim Advocates.
Another group, a senior digital strategist, Pro Islam sort of lawfare group.
So this person was just brought up.
You know, this person was just speaking on behalf of her husband, speaking on behalf of her husband and and, by the way, if she tells you, more and more people in the military speaking out are furious about this like, okay here.
I've always said this is what we try and do with the show.
This is why go check the references.
We provide them every single program show us.
Don't tell us yeah, everything that we tell you today we're gonna show.
She shows nothing other than neck fat.
And in case you needed more proof, here is her tick tock.
I'm sorry that I have to subject you to this.
We are live 11 A.m Eastern every day of the week sorry, weekdays.
So uh, you can subject yourself to more of this, but you need to know what the other side is saying.
Here's her tick tock.
Now that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are effectively intentionally crashing the?
U.s economy, there's almost certainly going to be a huge influx of people who are growing victory gardens, or hundreds of thousands of families due to the government shutdown, doesn't?
She have kids you got a ring in your nose, i'm not taking anything seriously and their families.
Welcome to part one of a series I hope diagnosed.
Welcome to the Olive Garden.
All you can eat buffets, doing some.
She said dumpster diving.
She got to get in a dumpster.
All right, I want to see the last thing she says here.
Any chance of stopping it?
We have To figure out how to connect with more reasonable moderates and conservatives and get them to stand shoulder to shoulder with us on fighting this.
I have a question for white conservative parents in the United States.
Have y'all picked out your son's coffins yet?
No, seriously.
Have you stood in the showroom and run your hand over the smooth wood trying to decide if cherry or oak will look better when it's covered by a flag?
Maybe right.
Have you picked the song you'll play while you bury a boy who still has his baby teeth in your attic somewhere?
You want to be a bad person?
Jokes on you, minor.
You're going to like your ballot, your shrug, your silence, your cheering on pointless cruelty.
Oh, your voice is giving me a lump of my nut.
You applauded when the commander-in-chief lit new conflicts like disposable matches.
ICE would force Mary to give birth in shackles.
They'd demand to see paperwork as contractions ripped through her body.
They'd tell her to sit, then to kneel, then not to move.
They'd separate her from Joseph.
The baby would be labeled unaccompanied.
He would be placed in a holding facility, not under the star of Bethlehem, but under fluorescent lights that never need to throw trans folks under the bus.
We just need to find ways to defend them that appeal to at least one of the foundational values that make up conservative morality.
Yeah, Mary would be arrested because revisionist history has ICE agents arresting baby Jesus, according to the left.
There you go.
He still has myrrh.
That's what that is.
By the way, what is she?
She's describing a hospital, like under fluorescent.
I don't know if you know, I don't know if you've been to many.
I think she might be describing an ICE facility.
Yeah.
Either that or a hospital, but they don't keep the lights on for the babies.
I mean, unless she's talking about like the heat lamps, is she talking about like the incubator?
No, she's not that clever.
Even if all that is true.
And what if they're using halogen?
Yeah, even if that is true, like, have you been to a manger like 2,000 years ago?
Modern hospitals are positively pleasant in comparison.
I would prefer either an ICE facility or a hospital.
Also, something else that she mentions there, and this is really important.
This is important because you see people right now wanting to abandon the conservative movement, the America First Movement, Christian Nationalist Movement, the president who has turned this country around in a lot of ways, isn't perfect.
You have a lot of these people saying, I'm going to stay home during midterms and this isn't what I voted for.
Negotiation Dynamics00:13:50
And people like this are waiting on you.
They're hoping that you do that.
You heard her say, we need to find the reasonable conservatives, the moderates, and stand shoulder to shoulder with them.
If you stand shoulder to shoulder, I mean, you stand hip to hip, you can stand roll to roll, really, or your shoulder to her role.
With this person, you're standing shoulder to shoulder with someone who's pro-LGBTQAIP, including transitioning, I believe, children, pro-illegals, anti-ICE, pro-abortion, all the way up until including birth period, pro-universal health care, anti-Second Amendment rights.
She believes in defunding the police.
She believes in justice reform, which includes no cash bail and letting violent offenders out in the name of justice.
Just be careful who you stand shoulder to shoulder with because these people will want to try and present you with this idea of moderation.
But make no mistake, someone like that is the enemy if you want to preserve this country.
Are we all going to just like gloss over the fact that Mary was a citizen of Israel and would have had no problems in her home country?
Good point.
Would have never missed it.
I don't understand.
I wish I knew the Bible.
Are they talking because she's in a different town?
I don't know, maybe.
They think it's like someone from Atlanta in Savannah, and they have to be.
They were ordered to go back for the census.
Like, she would have been totally fine.
Yeah, she would have been like, no, abla Aramaic.
Yeah.
I think it's one of those things like River to the Sea, you know, Palestine would be free.
Like, it was always Palestine or something.
I don't know.
I don't know.
My question is: what kind of soldier would marry somebody like that?
Yeah, also, simplicity.
She didn't just turn like that overnight.
Right.
I mean, you'd be surprised.
Oh, he's a tramp.
You'd be surprised at what some of these guys are marrying.
Well, also, he could get in some hot water for the kind of stuff that she says.
That's right.
I hope he does.
Not necessarily like legal trouble or, you know, losing a rank or something like that, because he has to say it himself.
If he did say something himself, it would be a serious problem.
But there could be like minor problems.
Like there could be issues where people see it in his chain of command and they go, oh, oh, okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, it looks like your promotion board's coming up.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
I might have to miss that one.
Or they just put up her TikTok.
Oh, shoot.
Might have to put Feierstein up instead, you know?
Put up her TikTok and every time he walks by, just go, come on, guys.
That's her middle name.
Come on, guys.
She's not that bad.
Like she is absolutely that bad.
Yeah, you can't.
First of all, you can't be that fat and ugly and be that cocky.
Yeah, that's a good point.
You really can't.
Yeah.
She's nothing off the world.
She's unfakable.
She's stupid.
See it.
Yeah, I'm far less.
Don't drop that or block it.
Whatever you do on Fagville.
We cannot.
We can't.
This is live.
It's a live show.
I don't care.
There's ways of doing that.
I learned from the Jews.
They hack into your shit.
So did Iran.
Hey, I'm all for it.
Which I have a whole take on that.
Yeah, we're about to get to this.
So here's the thing.
Before we go into this, there's a lot of, there really is a lot of propaganda out there, and it's designed to make things feel bleak.
And I feel it.
This is a time right now where there should be a lot of folks being galvanized.
There should be optimism.
I don't think you realize how bad things can get.
We're going to show you, for example, some body cam footage later in that segment that got us removed from YouTube.
We were removed in the middle of midterms.
We weren't allowed to discuss vaccines, masks, any of that.
Like free speech was not a thing.
X was not a free platform.
Rumble didn't exist.
We just assumed that at one point in time we were going to go down that road of LGBTQ AIP, right?
Facebook went from 50-something genders to 100-something genders.
I don't think you know how bad it can get across the board to say nothing good has come of this and we're going to throw it all out.
Now, as far as Iran, a couple things.
First off, it's time-dependent as far as people's support for military action.
Not everything needs to be compared to Iraq because it's very often the least legitimate comparison.
But I will stake my claim right here, three months.
Okay, three months.
At three months in of this war, if things have not been scaled back, the main, the primary military operations, you always have some small units, then guess what?
The people saying, oh, this is why we'll lose the midterms, okay.
It doesn't mean that I think the guy should be impeached, but I will grant that to you.
I don't think this is going to go beyond three months.
I think it's going to be short.
I think it's going to be effective.
And I really hope for the sake of the country that I'm right.
Because even though that shouldn't be the required timeline, it is as far as public support as we go into midterms.
Three months.
You guys let me know if that's reasonable.
You can comment below.
The widespread narrative out there right now.
If you believe this, you've been propagandized a little bit.
This war is going to sink President Trump.
And I don't even want to say war.
This military action intervention is going to sink President Trump.
It is a foregone conclusion.
That's what you're told.
Bush had his Iraq war.
Trump now has his Iran war.
Donald Trump's war with Iran is already wildly unpopular with the American people.
And Republicans are already facing a very difficult election cycle.
And now it seems like, at least in the short term, they're all going to be defending something that is unpopular and not really fully understood by the American public.
When Trump made a promise, no more foreign entanglements, Jamie Vance ran on this.
Trump's not going to get in support, specifically on Iran, in fact.
Like, oh, no, we're going to be great negotiators.
Again, goes to the heart of a promise he made to his people.
No, no, that's not true.
That's not true.
And they just throw out this term forever wars, hoping that you don't do a little bit of fact-checking.
Donald Trump, we ran that video yesterday, 1980, talked about intervention with Iran.
Reiterated it 2004, 2008.
They try and pull a bait and switch and go, he was saying we'd be great negotiators.
Let me ask you this.
Can you negotiate with psychopaths if you are not willing to go to use of force?
How do you enforce it at a certain point when you're dealing with lunatics?
So part of the negotiation is this option has to be on the table.
Now.
How is this not negotiation also?
Right.
I mean, they're still going to have a regime.
If they still have their own government and they're still governing their own, it's still Iran.
Then, I mean, this is a negotiation.
Hey, we killed the other guy that was in charge.
Now you're in charge.
Do what we say.
Or.
Yeah.
Well, we just keep killing their guys.
So that's the most fun part.
We present to you the newest end.
He's gone.
All right.
Next one.
So generally, I will tell you this.
Americans, they're split.
They're not thrilled about it.
But, and I would say this to those on the right who are doom and gloom, overall it's 44%.
But with Republicans, it's 85%.
Democrats, 10%.
That's what throws it off.
So if you are a conservative, if you are a nationalist, if you are a Trump voter, just know that you are out of step with 85% of the voting base with President Trump, and you are in line with Roe Conna and Elizabeth Warren and the left.
It doesn't mean that the left is always wrong about everything.
It just means that that's who you've decided to link arms with.
I want to be really clear about that.
So examine it pretty thoroughly because you do have to ask why.
Where else has the left been right?
Were they in tremendous support or disapproval of a given policy that you would say, yeah, that makes sense.
Abortion, LGBTQ, ICE, the border, taxes, Second Amendment, First Amendment.
Name me one other issue where you would have 90 to 80% of Democrats in support or against, where you would be in line with them.
I can't think of one.
And I'm not saying that that means or it determines what is right.
I do think it's a pretty important indicator.
Here's the thing that people aren't telling you.
And this matters because we've had a lot of, we've been involved with a lot of military interventions that aren't just Iraq.
The polls change dramatically.
The support changes dramatically when you take this poll, when the survey takes into account duration of conflict.
They don't necessarily think this is going to be a short conflict.
Look at this.
A lot of people think it might take months.
Some people think it might take years.
And there are a lot who are not sure.
Now, the reason that is important is if you think it's going to be a long conflict, months, even years, look at how the numbers tilt toward disapproval of it overall.
They just skim past that.
No, no, no.
But hold on a second.
Look at approval.
If the conflict lasts days or weeks, 76% approval.
Massive.
Now, let's be clear.
That has been the stated goal of this administration.
If they don't achieve that goal, it means there's a miscalculation.
And I would say that was a strategic mistake.
But they've been pretty clear that their goal is for this to be swift and it's to be short.
Historically, as opposed to Iraq, when that is the case, campaigns militarily are unbelievably popular.
As a matter of fact, you seldom find this kind of unifying data anywhere else.
I'm going to give you some examples.
Granada, 63%, it was 51 days.
Panama, 77% support, it was 55 days.
Desert Storm, 77% support, 42 days.
The Yugoslavia bombing, 62%, it was 78 days.
And just so you know, while Iraq was going on, in the early days, it had 71% approval while people were under the impression that it would be short, like those many other examples that I listed.
Not all of them are Iraq.
Iraq is kind of an outlier, just like Vietnam, which is why it's often a study.
It's something that you separate.
It's an outlier.
Yeah.
By the way, one quick thing about all of those, the media was reporting those patriotically, not positively, patriotically.
Right.
American interest.
They were actually being honest about their reporting, calling balls and strikes to a much larger degree than we see today.
Right.
It's very obvious what the media is saying today, just to damage Donald Trump.
You could even look at the first military action in Iran.
Yeah.
People telling you World War III was getting overwhelming support when people saw what was accomplished.
You can look at what happened in Venezuela.
These things do matter when people are trying to tell you all is lost.
It's all done for because it's another never-ending war.
The strongest evidence that we have, nothing is a guarantee, is that this will not be a very long-term war.
And I will tell you, I would not support a long-term war.
If it looks like Venezuela, if it looks like the first uranium enrichment facility strike in Iran, if it looks like, has this been called, is it Operation Fury?
Epic Fury.
Epic Fury.
That kind of tells you Epic Fury means hellfire.
One big shot.
If it looks like that, I'm going to trust the people who I'm in line with 90% of the time, as opposed to being in line with 90% of Democrats.
That is the deduction that I kind of have to make because there is some incomplete information out there.
We don't know how long this is going to go on.
But in the interim, as long as this is days and weeks, what's the downside to being in line with the general American public and to not giving the left fodder?
Because if you give them any ammo, guess what?
They're going to load their coffers and they're going to save them for a rainy day and use that ammo on LGBTQ, on Second Amendment Rice, to strip you of everything.
Are we about to say something?
Yeah, when did we start putting expiration dates on wars?
You see what I'm saying?
How about growing up, America?
It's a very fluid situation, as they say.
Right.
And in the end, it's good for you, unless you don't believe that.
So what do you give a shit if it takes six weeks or six months?
Yeah.
And you go, well, Trump promised.
Yeah, he has to because you guys are babies.
Seriously, the American public, you're like fifth graders.
You fucking, you want everything tied up in a bow.
Just like when you watch Law and Order, they solve the crime in an hour.
It's always the white guy.
Of course, it's fucking Wolf.
Dick Wolf.
Yeah.
Anyways.
But you get my point?
Growing up, you want everything with a bow on it.
And you people on the right, are you shitting me?
This guy hasn't done enough in the last year for you to back him to the hilt.
He's taken a bullet in the face and had his life threatened.
How many times?
Give him a little slack.
Yeah, they won't because of Israel.
No, but here's my Israel take on that.
Did it ever, I love this whole thing that, ooh, Bibby's playing Trump.
He's cooking.
Bibby's playing Trump like a violin.
You ever think that maybe our long-term interests intersect and we're getting stuff out of it, working with Israel?
Yeah.
I mean, if Israel wasn't even in it, the Iranis would still be maniacs and threaten to kill us because they're Islamic, they want to take over the world.
That's their long-term goal.
Right.
Right?
So even if Israel wasn't there, we're going to have to deal with them at some time.
So why not deal with them when you have somebody on your side like Israel?
Fano.
And then if Israel turns out that they weren't trying to fuck us, we'd take care of them.
Yeah.
No, you're absolutely right.
I heard an interesting theory.
Yeah, yeah, you just did.
That's from me.
I didn't read it.
I didn't fucking get it off a website.
Well, yeah, and it's very in line with what we were talking about yesterday.
Just, I said, it's not the Jews have an interest.
The myth out there is only the Jews have an interest.
I go, since when?
Since when do only the Jews?
Right.
That's the, and I don't think we should be doing Israel's bidding.
I completely agree with you.
I agree with that.
At this point in time, there's no evidence to suggest we are.
That's how I.
Yeah.
No, it's a bang on.
We're going to clip that.
That was maybe I'll put it on my show.
Absolutely.
Yes.
Sorry, Josh.
What were you going to say?
The interesting theory I heard was that there's a possibility that Trump knew that Netanyahu was planning to possibly send a nuke towards Iran.
That's right.
And the action of, hey, let's do this together and let's hit.
No, no, don't do that.
It might have been something that saved a real nuclear fallout or war between Israel and other people.
I want to have this conversation with you.
We'll take it during chat.
Do you accept, I do believe in transparency with the administration as far as $500 billion a year in fraud, illegal immigration, SNAP, EBT, Social Security.
But I do accept that militarily there will be information that cannot be given to me.
Do you agree with that?
Or do you think that makes someone a lackey or a Patsy?
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Or a bootlicker?
No, I don't think so.
That's what we have a lot of people saying.
That's a good point.
I do accept that.
And you can go back to me in 2009 saying that.
That's not new.
Yeah, some military operations, you know, the guy who works at Lowe's doesn't need to know.
Right.
Hey, just let me know if I need a 4x4 or a 2x4.
Like, what do I need to build a porch?
Yeah.
Let's get Ilon Omar's thoughts on this.
No.
She'd just be calling her brother, good out.
Now.
She's still in the country.
I can't believe that.
Yeah.
I'm going to run into that.
So here's the best information that we do have.
And this administration has been, I will say, in communicating on this war far better.
Certainly Marco Rubio, the White House comms team, didn't do well in how they clipped it.
And the Secretary of War, I keep wanting to say Secretary of Defense, Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth.
Hey, one other thing, too.
You notice no one's calling him a Fox News morning host anymore.
You know why?
Because he's really good at killing people.
He's an artist.
Some paint with watercolors, pastels.
His is death.
Yeah, where's his experience?
He doesn't have anything.
He's awesome.
After watching him, I wouldn't get in a fight with Steve Dosi.
No, no, I wouldn't.
You decided to come around.
You know, find out by look like a Jackson Pollock painting by the end of it.
That's Pete Hegseth.
No one's calling him Fox News morning host anymore.
But they move the goalpost and so many people go, squirrel.
And you chase it around.
So the best indicator we have as to the plans of this war, what missions, to which missions are we tethered, this Secretary of War, Pete Hag Seth, has made it pretty damn clear.
Here's an update that if we are all American, look, wherever you line up on the action taking place, this, these are tidings of great joy.
I liken Iran's predicament to a football team who scripted the first 20 plays of a game.
The team knew what plays to run because their first few drives were scripted.
But now that the game has started and the blitz is on, they don't know what plays to call, let alone how to get in the huddle and call those players.
Oh, the New York Jetsies talking.
Iran's senior leaders are dead.
The so-called governing council that might have selected a successor, dead, missing, or cowering in bunkers, too terrified to even occupy the same room.
Senior generals, mid-level officers, enlisted ranks, they can't talk or communicate, let alone mount a coordinated and sustained offensive.
That's not great for morale.
The Iranian Air Force is no more.
Built for 1996, destroyed in 2026.
The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.
And then he went on to, look, there are some pretty strong indicators.
Some would call them positive trends.
We have complete and total control of the skies in Iran.
He detailed how that came to be.
In a few days, in under a week, the two most powerful air forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies, uncontested airspace.
I hope all the folks watching understand what uncontested airspace and complete control means.
It means we will fly all day, all night, day and night, finding, fixing, and finishing the missiles and defense industrial base of the Iranian military, finding and fixing their leaders and their military leaders.
Looking up and seeing only U.S. and Israeli air power every minute of every day until we decide it's over.
And Iran will be able to do nothing about it.
And I should also mention, like in many wars, they're also dropping propaganda leaflets.
There you go.
Oh, there's some positive news.
Yeah.
For those who don't know, finding and fixing was a thing this morning.
Fixing means stopping their maneuvers.
It means that they are unable to move.
They are in place.
They're unable to attack, unable to move.
So if you don't know what that meant, this is also why this is something, too, that's important.
Saudi Arabia's Hidden Interest00:07:20
If you believe that there's any type of threat that the United States faces, okay?
The language that a regime like the Islamic Republic speaks, they only speak one: power.
These people are willing to die, right?
They're suicidal maniacs.
They're not willing to be embarrassed.
That's a far scarier prospect to them.
So mocking them mercilessly and talking about how impotent and powerless they are, that is important.
And there are more numbers, by the way.
Check the references.
Link in the description as we do every show.
Let's look at their ballistic missile launch rate.
On Saturday, it was 350.
Sunday, 175.
Monday, about 120.
Tuesday, 50.
Some would say that's a consistent trend.
Drones are down about 73%.
They should go to hymns.com.
Yeah.
Someone gets some blue juice.
Maybe some goats.
Yeah.
Well, that's a local flag.
Praise Gerald.
That's inappropriate.
That is inappropriate.
These are people.
You have a book.
A goat's prescriptive.
I don't know.
Now, look, that's not to say, and this is the thing, too, where people will say, of course, we don't want boots in the ground.
We don't want Americans to die.
No one wants Americans to die.
And by the way, I do believe that even when Barack Obama had to make decisions, I think he was the worst president possibly ever.
I don't think that he wanted Americans to die when he took military action.
I don't think that any commander-in-chief wants that.
But I will say, there has been tremendous care taken with this administration to mitigate loss of life in a way that is unprecedented.
It doesn't mean that those who have lost their life, I'm not going to do what Megan Kelly or what that military wife did and say that their lives were lost in vain or in service of Israel.
We've lost six service members as of the time of this broadcast, including, and I want to make sure I get their names right, Sergeant First Class Nicole M. Amore from Minnesota, Sergeant First Class Noah L. Tejens of Nebraska, Sergeant Declan Cody of Iowa, Captain Cody A. Cork of Florida, two have not been named as of this showtime.
We don't want to leave anyone out.
Thank you for your service.
And I have no idea if these people supported this action.
Stats would probably say that they did.
I have no idea how they voted.
Stats would probably say that they supported their duty.
Yes.
Yes.
They might not support every war.
We don't know everything.
No, we don't know everything.
Especially them.
They're doing it before we even find out about it.
They just, you know, they support what they're supposed to do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
When you take your oath, you should be aware things are going to come up that you can't control, but you're in a hierarchy.
Yeah.
And most of them mean it, right?
I don't care how they voted.
I don't care what their views were.
They gave, I think we should all be able, if we want to find common ground, they gave their life in their duty to this country.
That's any war.
That's any military conflict, whether I agree with it or not.
You want to get me on the, oh, these troops are losing their lives meaninglessly bandwagon.
That's never going to happen.
If that convinces you that I'm a paid shield for Israel and you think I'm being paid $7,000 to honor the fallen, whatever.
It's just not going to be a talking point here.
I think we should stop funding Israel in the way that we do.
I think that Israel should fight their own wars.
And I think that Iran is run by lunatics and a threat to the Western world.
Why?
Because they said so.
So, again, going back to for me, because I understand where you guys are coming from, and I understand that people, for some reason, people think everything is bleak and it's not.
Three months.
Let's come back after three months.
After three months and see where we are.
Let's see if this escalates.
Let's see if it's an outlier like Iraq or if it's in line with the other conflicts that we discussed, like Granada, like Panama, like Desert Storm.
After three months, then we can, and that'd be a drop in the bucket, by the way, as far as when we're talking about spending.
When people say, why can't we do this here?
And I get it.
We need to fix things here at home.
I think Donald Trump's doing a much better job than most.
Than anyone could.
Certainly as far as deportations, secured border, when we're looking at actually having requirements, work requirements for social services, when we're actually getting people to pay their fair share in NATO, I think there's a lot of good freedom of speech.
Two genders, that's a big change.
As far as military, let's give it three months and let's come back.
And the reason that I'm putting, I agree with Nick, you shouldn't put a timeline on it, but I'm putting myself on the hook because the people telling you that all is lost and that you shouldn't show up for midterms and that you should impeach Donald Trump, they hold themselves to no accountability.
That's right.
So I had to pick something arbitrary.
You can hold me to it.
That's where we are.
Based on the first two weeks, it's going to last another 10 minutes.
Right.
At least based on how it's going.
Yeah.
And when Trump says we're way ahead of schedule, I sort of believe him.
Yeah.
Because he's pretty much everything he's predicted since you're stand-up paddleboarding in the Strait of Hormuz next week.
You have no idea.
That's right.
He said it like it was a construction project, too.
Yes.
It's supposed to take four weeks.
We're ahead of schedule.
That's good.
Oh my God.
That's good.
The investors are going to be very happy.
They get a bonus for speed.
We already got calls from people who want to lease an office.
Like that hockey rent in Central Park that they couldn't fix for 10 years.
Yeah.
Fixed it in 10 weeks.
Right.
Yeah.
Just look at the World Trade Center.
Look at how long that took.
The inter-state building was built in a year.
I know.
You throw a few Irishmen with lunch pails on the top of those beams.
Don't care about this much.
Yes, that's true.
A lot of Genzo.
Yeah, but they weren't as disposable.
I want to make one quick point because we've talked about intersecting interests between the United States and Israel.
Thank you.
One thing that hasn't come up quite as much, maybe some people are making this point, is Saudi Arabia's interest.
Of course.
Saudi Arabia has a massive, if not bigger or as big as Israel's, maybe even bigger than Israel's potentially.
Because if you don't know this, they've been fighting a proxy war in Yemen against the Houthis by Iran.
To act like the United States, if anybody, the U.S. being led by the nose with any foreign country into a war is a bad thing and cannot happen, right?
That cannot stand.
But when you just paint the one picture of it's Israel doing it and not address the other people in the region with a huge interest in this and the largest interest probably in Saudi Arabia, it shows me that you just have this hat on that Israel bad.
Yeah.
And it's kind of like the people that used to say Trump bad, Orange Man bad.
It doesn't matter what he does, he's bad.
You're doing the exact same thing.
Just present the whole case.
Make the whole case.
By the way, even if Israel bad, that doesn't mean that United States bad.
Exactly.
We're not acting on behalf of it.
I agree.
You would need to present a really strong case as to why we would have zero interest in destabilizing the regime in Iran outside of Israel.
You would really have to, and we haven't seen that yet.
I understand why those out there would be hesitant and say, we don't, I don't want to fight a proxy war for anyone else.
No.
I don't.
Do I think that Iran, a strong Iran, is not in the best sense?
Of course.
Of course.
And by the way, every single president has said as much.
Every single one going back to the 1970s, only one had the testicular fortitude to do it.
And by the way, we're speaking about this going back to the 1970s.
We don't really have that with any other president because most of them weren't public figures their entire life.
You can't find anyone, any president in modern history with a longer track record of consistency on anything than President Trump on Iran.
You can't say traitor.
You can't say betrayal.
You can say that you disagree, and I think that's a reasonable discussion to have.
Time for Closes00:08:04
Speaking of reasonable conversations, the primaries in Texas just took place yesterday.
And a couple of quick updates.
Looks like Al Green may be headed for a runoff.
Oh, no.
Well, you walk off.
He's got a cane.
Yeah, exactly.
Stumble off.
Herrera, friend of the show who's been on here.
Yeah, right there, Brandon Herrera.
Looks like he might be heading to a runoff, and he's projected to likely, from what I understand, win.
That's a great thing.
Dan Crenshaw.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
This was an upset.
He got Buster Douglas.
He lost to a guy named Toth.
And I'm not going to lie to you.
I thought it was written by a guy with a speech impediment.
He lost by a lot.
Yes, they asked me.
He lost by a lot to Tosh.
They asked Crenshaw about losing because I didn't see it coming.
Hey, Toss his ass out.
Yeah, he got blindsided.
So, well, come on.
He's eyeing retirement.
Representative Crenshaw, it's time to close.
State Representative Steve Toth stunned the political world by defeating incumbent Representative Dan Crenshaw in the Republican primary for Texas, unseating one of the party's most prominent national figures.
Time to close.
Endings and beginnings are ending and beginning now.
Last week, I made a joke about a picture of you, and I feel like it would only be fair if you got me back and made fun of a picture of me.
Does that sound okay?
I don't really need to do that.
Pete, never forget.
Never forget.
And that is for both of us.
Time to close.
Endings and beginnings are ending and beginning now.
Have you ever met Tunga?
We've talked a lot.
I remember Tunga.
You know, net worth total is maybe just under $2 million.
So it's not exactly like I've gotten rich.
To vote for a ban on Congress members trading stocks.
Yeah, I mean, this is like number 1,000 on my priority list of things to care about.
This is one of those stupid things that I've been dragged through the mud on.
You know, how much money I've ever had in the stock market.
Long-term goal has to be a stable, prosperous, safe Mexico.
Why?
It's our biggest trading partner.
It's our neighbor.
You know, you got to pick one country in the world besides your own that you want to make better.
It should be Mexico.
I know that it's time for things to close.
I know it's time for things to close.
I always feel kind of crappy because he was on the show early on and he was kind of a friend of the show until I had to ask him about the TAPS Act.
And you guys can go back to that where you could see the moment that my opinion on him changed.
I wanted to have that conversation in good faith.
And I kept asking him, how is this different from red flag laws?
And you know, it might be interesting to go, and you can see it wash over me.
Oh, he's one of them now.
So looking at this, Paxton, who was on the show, Ken Paxton, he's headed to a runoff with Cornyn.
That's how it looks right now.
And it looks like it should mostly go to Paxton in the runoff.
Yeah, 13.5% for Hunt.
That'll probably mostly go to Paxton.
So he could upset Cornyn.
Yeah.
It looks like he could.
And that's a great thing because Cornyn is a peace ocean.
Yeah.
Most people don't know that.
He's a peace ocean.
Yeah.
Shit.
There you go.
Yeah, you got the right word.
And then our favorite fake hood rat, Jasmine Crockett, lost to Tadarico.
So pick your poison in that case.
People picked Tallerico.
They said, give me some of that poison.
And here's the funny thing: Crockett, you know, nothing like perpetuating the original stereotype, decided to not take accountability for the laws.
Not say, you know, she should have run a better campaign.
Blamed?
You guessed it.
Republicans for cheating.
Oh, election interference is a thing now.
And we're not going to have election results tonight, in my opinion, based upon what specifically is taking place.
Unfortunately, this is what Republicans like to do.
And so they specifically targeted Dallas County, and I think we all know why.
Because you're a retard?
Is that the point?
By the way, none of that makes sense.
Here's what, this is also what I hate when people say like the alternative, the dissident, right, whatever it is.
You can't just go out and make a claim with no substantiation whatsoever.
This is what Republicans do.
Any proof of that?
And then you say, and I think you know why.
What are you, the Stephen Seagal of representatives?
I think you know.
No, we don't.
By the way, if Republicans went in and voted in the primary, guess what?
They would be voting for you because you're the worst.
If they wanted to help, if they wanted to help elevate the worst, most unlikable candidate, it would be you.
It would be you.
Nothing that she just said makes sense, which is why, even though we've done this in the past, this is a sequel.
I think it's the first time we've ever dedicated to time to close.
It's time to close again for Crockett.
No one could have told me that when I went down to Austin, now looks like a little bit over a year ago, that I would be running for Congress.
There was a lot of confusion today.
Time to close.
Endings and beginnings are ending and beginning now.
We done picking cotton.
We are.
You can't pay us enough to find a plantation.
Immigrants have always been what made this country great, not this white supremacy agenda.
There has been no oppression for the white man in this country.
Time to close.
Endings and beginnings are ending and beginning now.
This administration is racist.
Coddling is for the white boys.
That's what's happening right now.
I am tired of the white cheers.
Tell me to calm down.
Calm down.
Y'all about her.
Y'all gonna have a word.
This is racist.
What they are doing.
Time to close.
Endings and beginnings are ending and beginning now.
One of the things that they propose is black folk not have to pay taxes.
I don't know that that's not necessarily a bad idea.
I have been a champion for the LGBTQIA community.
All the letters.
4-8.
All the letters.
Exactly.
We are going to be in your face.
We are going to pee on your asses.
This dude has to be knocked over the head.
You've got to pay attention to the qualified black woman.
White supremacy is a problem.
The only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys.
James Tallarico will win the Democratic primary.
I won't be back tonight because I have no idea of when we're going to get results.
And I fully anticipate it won't be until tomorrow.
So.
I know that it's time for things to close.
I know it's time for things to close.
Oh.
Beaten by the most mediocre white boy ever.
Yes, whoever changed the Bible's meaning and still beat her in a Bible-believing district.
Think about that.
Also, I don't think she's like, you can't pass enough to find a plantation.
Slaves weren't paid to find plantations.
I don't even remember that.
First off, they weren't paid to do anything.
Second, they didn't need to find the plantations.
They were born on it.
That's why it's kind of a horror.
It's an atrocity.
Anyway, she's gone.
Also, I think there's an amount of money that might make a lot of black people pick some cotton.
Body Cameras and Brutality00:09:28
Yes, I do too.
Yeah, I would pick cotton at heartbeat if they were paying me more than what I'm getting now.
Come on, see my show numbers?
Big Haynes, Bigfoot of the Loom.
What are you guys doing?
You guys are slacking.
Runoffs, by the way, May 26th, 2026.
And thank you to the incoming raid.
I guess guys came in from Bongino.
We appreciate it.
You'll be going to, I believe, Haley next after this.
I've been wanting to touch on this for a while.
We kind of briefly sort of glanced at it, I guess.
We just sort of skimmed past it.
But then I spent a little more time on this subject.
This was a huge point of discussion in 2015, I would say.
Now, let me set the stage.
Democrats, you know, they're known for flipping on many, many issues.
That's kind of their thing.
Well, the latest one that they flipped on and they were screeching about for a very long time, you guessed it, police body cams.
I don't care.
Here's the thing.
You may not realize there's an active movement, an active push to try and do away with the body cams that they said would solve the problem because of police brutality, namely against black people.
It was open season, a flip-flop.
It's time for then and now.
Those Armenians can put together some guitar riffs.
They can.
Let's go first to then.
Yeah, you got it.
No, you got it.
I did.
That's why I did it generally with my thumbs.
So if you guys have forgotten, they were arguing that it was open season on black people for a very long time.
And one of the solutions they pushed for it, I mean, vigorously, Democrats argued for don't let them forget it, hold them accountable, body cameras.
We should make sure every police department in the country has body cameras to record interactions between officers on patrol and suspects.
That will improve transparency and accountability.
It will help protect good people on both sides of the lens.
And we agreed actually found awareness because of social media, video cameras and so forth, that there are problems and challenges when it comes to how policing and our laws are applied in certain communities.
The Department of Justice has just announced a grant program for those jurisdictions that want to purchase body cameras.
The issue of body cameras, her mother has been advocating for that because, of course, those three police officers were not wearing body cameras.
To your point, in my experience, when I was Attorney General of California, I believe I was the first state to require our agents to wear body cameras and keep them on because it's about transparency.
Because of body cameras and other technology, we are seeing the horror.
Unarmed people handcuff people in the case of the tragic murder of Tyree Nichols.
We're seeing things that do not comport with our national standards and expectations.
Car videos have been crucial when you talk about black people, especially being able to get justice in police brutality cases.
I have been asked, Natasha, what is the difference between Brighton King speeding in the early 1980s and George Floyd?
And my answer has always been the quality of the iPhone video.
Well, there was no iPhone video.
So I think you mean the fact that there is iPhone video.
But okay, fine.
The point remains.
Here's the thing.
And we're just going to go straight to the overlay.
The largest study to this date that's been conducted, it concluded, and we're saying the same thing.
It concluded that there was no statistically significant effect on decreasing police use of force, meaning body cams.
So the left, and we'll get to the now in a little bit, the left is saying, well, see, it's actually, it hasn't helped.
So, you know, that means that it hasn't worked.
I would say it hasn't changed the statistics, which means it's worked perfectly, which means that with the cameras on, again, how do you want to interpret this data?
Cameras off, cameras on, you still get the same number of interactions and cases of police brutality, which means you were fed a lie.
You were fed a myth.
And if you don't believe that, then I would request that you take a look at what the body cameras have shown us.
Now, remember, you were told that you were going to see peaceful, gentle giants, and police just like, who's that, Melanin?
You know, that's what you were told you were going to see.
Instead, you saw this, which is why now Democrats are pushing to do away with them.
By the way, I'll just let you guys know, we blurred everything out, but people do get, they assume room temperature in these because they're assaulting police officers.
It's a long montage.
If there were no body cams, this would have warranted a march.
They tried.
Yeah, they did.
With body cam.
Back up.
I didn't know we had time release bullets.
No body cam.
White officer shoots black lady with elephant gun.
Come to the taser.
Like the ghost in the fatness.
She got a taser.
We did taser.
She came at me with a knife.
What did you expect me to do?
Hey, what's going on?
Oh, I remember that.
We were banned on YouTube for covering it.
Get down.
What, because of the crotch cut?
I said, good shoot.
No!
You ain't shoot my fucking bag!
Yeah, that dad gave the baby the knife right before that.
Oh, there you go.
Thank God for body cam.
Watch out on the floor, like Jesus, Jesus!
Yo, chill, yo!
Don't just hit him with the car, dude.
Come on.
Car off.
Stop the car off.
Black rain dancing.
Hey, Thanks.
Thanks.
Gentle giant.
It's like my wife trying to parallel park.
Oh, you broke the plant, yo.
much you want to bet Mike Brown footage would have been worse you know so study says we've seen no change You have.
You can believe your lying eyes and ears and go, well, maybe it's because this is the kind of behavior that was being encountered for a very long time.
But the left says, no, no, it must be, again, because of white supremacy or patriarchy.
I'll tell you what it did do with this body camera.
It broke the biggest lie, the biggest myth in the world that black people are afraid of cops.
Yeah, exactly right.
Oh my God, how many, that could have fooled me.
My buddy was a cop at 30 seconds, and he goes, that is a an yeah.
Oh, they look frightened, don't they?
Shut the car up.
Fuck you, man.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, my God.
What was it driving while Black?
I got my finger.
I got my hands at 10 and 2 officer.
Here's my identification.
Oh, no.
Instead, we were trying to run him over, which brings us to now.
Those on the left are saying, you know what, guys, we should do away with body cams.
Yeah.
Body cams, whether they're worn by ICE or Border Patrol or your local police, are a popular solution to officer brutality against civilians because they're a convenient way to make it look like accountability is happening without said accountability ever actually being borne out by the data.
Body-worn cameras were first introduced to police not as a form of accountability and reform, but instead, major tech companies introduced them as a convenient way to expand their surveillance capacity.
Everybody who studies these questions understands that body cameras are not a reform to any form of police violence.
There has been overwhelming research.
There's so much research and overwhelming consensus on this question that even the federal government's own position for a decade or more has been that body cameras do not reduce police violence.
But why is that?
Systematically is that body cameras lead to a decrease in the perceived culpability, intentionality, and guilt or punishment worthiness of the police officers involved, basically.
The body camera wearer is seen as less agentic because he is not seen.
Oh, because he's not seen.
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He's making funny faces at them.
The officer is not seen.
The only time we see the officer in that video is in the reflection of him in the screen.
So what they find is the more that you don't see the officer, the more that people blame the officer less.
Ah, okay.
So if you don't see the officer, the body cams don't work.
Therefore, her solution, well, the one proposed was to bag tag and body cam all black people.
That seems to be the, yeah, there you go.
It's just like.
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And we will send you off to Haley today, who is easier on the eyes than the mediocre white boys here, as Jasmine Crockett puts it.
But you know what, Applejack?
Josh actually tells me that you're not a big fan of body cams.