IRAN WAR DAY 20: Strait of Hormuz INVASION IMMINENT??? | America First Ep. 1661
Nick Fuentes frames American society as morally decayed, citing drag culture and OnlyFans while alleging a "Groypers" conspiracy within the White House. He details an imminent Strait of Hormuz invasion requiring $200 billion, linking it to Israeli collusion that scuttled the JCPOA and assassinated Qasem Suleimani. Fuentes accuses the Trump administration of betraying "America First" by halting mass deportations to appease elites like Musk and Zuckerberg, effectively becoming an obstacle to true populism while promoting a worldview he claims ignores modern cultural shifts regarding gender and technology. [Automatically generated summary]
People that are scrambling, trying to protect their ever-shrinking share of what they have are foolish.
It's all going.
It's all going away.
This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases quickly murdered and assassinated.
And we're killing ourselves every day.
Inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
People have got to start to get courageous.
And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
And the alternative is that there will be no country.
Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
to say that the blood, the blood of our people, is something that is essential.
That we are different.
that america was different because we are different palantir is an ai data analytics company
They use artificial intelligence to look at vast amounts of data and create insights.
If the government has an amount of data which is kind of unimaginable, if you've got every phone call, every email, every transaction, every photograph of a license plate on the highway, satellite data, it's too much data for a bureaucracy to sift through.
Palantir comes in and interprets the data using algorithms, using artificial intelligence, using software to make vast amounts of data usable.
That's what they are.
And so many of the people that worked with Elon that came into the government through Doge worked with Palantir.
Now that Doge is finished, Palantir seems to be just getting started.
If we don't have freedom on the Internet in the age of AI, we are going to be mind raped every day forever.
Think about anything you've ever said or done in the vicinity of your phone's camera or microphone, everything you've ever put into your phone, and even things that are not necessarily so scandalous, but even things like your favorite restaurants, your geo-location, because your phone also has a GPS.
They know where you are at all times.
They know where you go and when.
They know what you buy.
They have access to your bank account.
AI will literally know everything about you.
Everyone you know, your relationship to them, your tastes, your preferences, your habits, your whereabouts, your routines, your schedule, when you asleep.
They know how much REM sleep you're getting.
They know your resting heart rate.
They know how many calories you consume.
Think about the ways that they can manipulate you.
You have a computer in your refrigerator, computer in your car, computer in your home security system, computer in your everything, computer in your clothes, your watch, your glasses, your VR headset, your alarm clock.
You have a smart home, economy of things.
It's like total, like, rape of everybody by the system forever.
My life is like a first-person video game, you know?
People that are scrambling, trying to protect their ever-shrinking share of what they have are foolish.
It's all going.
It's all going away.
This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases quickly murdered and assassinated.
And we're killing ourselves every day.
Inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
People have got to start to get courageous.
And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
And the alternative is that there will be no country.
Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
Because they voted for Kamala Harris.
People do not stab young girls on trains because they're born black.
People do not shoot Palestinians in the back of the head or cheer it on just because they're Jewish.
The people that do this are lost.
They have to be isolated and segregated out.
A new consensus must emerge.
Are you in favor of a society with meaning?
A society where life is sacred, where life has sanctity, where people's lives and their dignity and their integrity is respected.
Or are we going to live in a society that is a never-ending war between nihilistic tribes, warlords, savages, pagans?
I see an emerging consensus.
And I think that the mature people that actually love America, actually love our children, the people that recognize the division, the peril that we're in, we need to fortify a new consensus and rally the people of conscience, the people of decency, the people of humanity, the people of charity towards their fellow man,
against those that want to kill us, against those that laugh and celebrate when innocent people are harmed for any reason, for any ideological reason.
Against the people that are cruel, the people that are hateful.
And by that, I mean the people that are really cruel.
Not the people that say things you disagree with, not the people that are provocative, not the people that are sometimes angry, but the people that are really cruel and really evil.
What makes Christianity and Christ so different from the other religions is that our religion is based on the bearing of suffering for the sake of even those that persecute us.
An overflowing of love.
An overflowing of self-giving love.
So much of it it cannot be contained.
An unconditional, absolute standard of love for all of God's children, even those that are misguided, even those that persecute us, even the most heinous among us.
That is what makes us different.
That is what makes us good.
The Canary Mission Blacklist00:13:20
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The Canary
Mission is an Israeli-funded blacklist, which, since July 2025, has been confirmed to be used by the Trump administration to target students, professors, and professionals who oppose Israel and reside in the United States.
This idea is part of an initiative created by the Heritage Foundation, the same group responsible for the infamous Project 2025.
In their initiative, titled Project Esther, they state that students participating in pro-Palestinian protests and activism are supporting Hamas, a group that the United States designates as a foreign terrorist organization.
Therefore, pro-Palestinian students are considered to be supporting terrorism and are subject to the revocation of visas, frozen bank accounts, asset seizures, and the denial of basic constitutional rights.
In effect, the Canary mission serves as a means to circumvent constitutional protections, allowing the federal government to engage in intelligence gathering activities that would otherwise be considered unlawful.
But the Canary Mission is not alone.
Palantir, another company closely aligned with the state of Israel, uses AI-driven analytics to maintain private databases on U.S. citizens and currently works with four federal agencies.
While government contracting with the private sector is long-standing, the prominent influence of Jewish groups within these increasingly powerful organizations warrants careful examination.
I renew the call for all able-bodied young American men, all of our elite human capital, all of our geniuses, warriors, intelligent people to dedicate themselves to American sovereignty and independence as Christians, as Americans, as white people, as citizens of the United States.
And anybody that settles for anything less is just as much of an enemy.
I would actually consider them worse than our oppressors.
So on Independence Day, it's important to reflect on the fact that we are an occupied nation.
Now, just like then, we're being ruled by a small country across an ocean, serving itself at our expense.
And as long as that is the case, I will always be obsessed with that.
As long as that is the case, I will always be speaking out against that and fighting against that.
And I will always be anchored, understanding that that is the fundamental struggle.
As long as our presidents have to kiss the wall in Israel and wear a small hat, as long as they have to say that we want to make Israel great again and they're the greatest country ever, I will never be okay with that.
Ever.
And it doesn't matter what they offer me or us.
It doesn't matter how they might try to placate us or appease our interests, the concessions they'll make.
As long as that is the case, it is unacceptable.
And that's what it means to be an American.
How did we get here?
This is not a timeline going back to 1948.
What had just happened before the 2016 election?
Barack Obama created the joint comprehensive plan of action, the JCPOA, or the Iranian nuclear deal.
And Barack Obama brought together China, Russia, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States and the European Union to enforce a nuclear deal that restricts Iran's enrichment of uranium.
The early talks were conducted in secret, and the Israelis were furious, furious about this.
They hated Obama.
Netanyahu went to a joint session of Congress and gave a speech in defiance of the American president and its nuclear deal, and Congress gave 37 standing ovations.
This is the background of Trump's first election.
2016 election happens.
Trump gets elected with the help of the Israelis.
You don't believe me?
There's a whole article about it.
It's an excerpt from James Bamford's book, Spy Fail.
It goes into great detail about the hidden collusion in the 2016 election.
It wasn't Trump and Russia.
It was Trump and Israel.
And why was Israel so hell-bent on getting a Republican elected in 2016?
In 2018, Donald Trump declares the IRGC, the Revolutionary Guard, which is the military of the regime, a terrorist group.
Greenlights that group for sanctions, for attacks.
Now the United States is in a shadow war with Iran.
It culminates by January 2020 in the assassination of Qasem Suleimani.
Suleimani was the architect of the axis of resistance.
Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Suleimani built all of it.
Are you starting to see Obama had this solved?
He made the deal.
The Israelis hated him for it.
They colluded with Trump to get him elected so that Trump would do maximum pressure and create a ladder of escalation, pulling us out of the deal, declaring the IRGC terrorists, then killing its leader, putting sanctions on the regime.
This is a war that started a long time ago, that Trump made hot in 2018 and has been going on for seven years.
That's the nature of forever wars.
Just like in Iraq, which went from 1990 until today, just like Libya, which went from 2011 to today.
Syria, which went from 2011 to today, and Iran, which went from 2018 until today.
That's the nature of forever wars.
And if you're not paying attention to those underlying forces, you're going to fall for it again and again.
You're going to be surprised and confused and coping over and over.
And people are just tripping over themselves to do it again.
Okay, I'm like two seconds out from just joining the Jews at this point.
It's like I started out like the Jews are oppressing us, then it's like, no, no, the Jews are oppressing all of you.
People that are scrambling, trying to protect their ever-shrinking share of what they have are foolish.
It's all going.
It's all going away.
This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
And we're killing ourselves every day.
Inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
People have got to start to get courageous.
And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
And the alternative is that there will be no country.
Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
to say that the blood, blood of our people is something that is essential.
That we are different.
that america was different because we are different palantir is an ai data analytics company
They use artificial intelligence to look at vast amounts of data and create insights.
If the government has an amount of data which is kind of unimaginable, if you've got every phone call, every email, every transaction, every photograph of a license plate on the highway, satellite data, it's too much data for a bureaucracy to sift through.
Palantir comes in and interprets the data using algorithms, using artificial intelligence, using software to make vast amounts of data usable.
That's what they are.
And so many of the people that worked with Elon that came into the government through Doge worked with Palantir.
Now that Doge is finished, Palantir seems to be just getting started.
If we don't have freedom on the internet in the age of AI, we are going to be mind raped every day forever.
Think about anything you've ever said or done in the vicinity of your phone's camera or microphone, everything you've ever put into your phone, and even things that are not necessarily so scandalous, but even things like your favorite restaurants, your geo-location, because your phone also has a GPS.
They know where you are at all times.
They know where you go and when.
They know what you buy.
They have access to your bank account.
AI will literally know everything about you.
Everyone you know, your relationship to them, your tastes, your preferences, your habits, your whereabouts, your routines, your schedule, when you're asleep.
They know how much REM sleep you're getting.
They know your resting heart rate.
They know how many calories you consume.
Think about the ways that they can manipulate you.
You have a computer in your refrigerator, computer in your car, computer in your home security system, computer in your everything, computer in your clothes, your watch, your glasses, your VR headset, your alarm clock.
You have a smart home, economy of things.
It's like total, like, rape of everybody by the system forever.
My life is like a first-person video game, you know?
This is like, this is my primary.
This is me like walking, walking down the hall.
This is my primary weapon.
Press circle to interact.
Press circle to interact with this item.
At the end of the day, here's the question: Is it worth it to save the country?
Does the country matter?
Is it worth it to preserve our civilization?
Is it worth it to preserve our religion?
Maybe bigger than that, is the truth worth it?
What is the truth worth to you?
What is telling the truth worth to you?
Is it worth something, nothing?
What are you willing to give to tell the truth?
All you need is Jesus.
All you need is prayer.
These material appetites will never be satisfied.
And even if they are, it'll never be an adequate substitute for communion with our Holy Father, with somebody, with the author of the world.
Every mother and father understands the love for a child.
And that is how we were made.
We were designed that way.
Because through that experience, we could understand by analogy God's love for us.
It says in Revelation that God will wipe away every tear.
And that's like, to me, it makes me want to cry when I read that.
People experience these things in their lives.
We've all been there where you feel like the whole world's against you, the walls are closing in.
And you read something like that that says that God, like our Father, our Creator, is going to wipe your tears off your face.
There is something involved where we have to forgive them.
We do have to forgive them for their ignorance.
We do have to forgive them for their misunderstanding.
And we have to embrace them and say, better late than never.
Welcome to the right side of history.
Welcome to our massive vision, our massive and ambitious vision for how we want the world to be.
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Hello, I've got places to be Good evening everybody, you're watching America First My name is Nicholas J. Quentis.
Have a great show for you tonight.
You got that, that's a bump.
You got that, that's a bump.
Listen to the cure, listen to the cure, listen to the cure, and then it cry.
All the things I've been thinking about, running in my head, running through my head, running through my head.
All the things you're saying, all the things that I said, running through my head, running to my head, all the things you're sad, all the things that I'm trying to do.
All the things you're bad, all the things you're saying.
All the things you said, all the things you've had, all the things you said, all the things you've had, all the things you said.
People that are scrambling, trying to protect their ever-shrinking share of what they have are foolish.
It's all going.
It's all going away.
This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases quickly murdered and assassinated.
And we're killing ourselves every day.
Inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
People have got to start to get courageous.
And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
And the alternative is that there will be no country.
Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
Because they voted for Kamala Harris.
People do not stab young girls on trains because they're born black.
People do not shoot Palestinians in the back of the head or cheer it on just because they're Jewish.
The people that do this are lost.
They have to be isolated and segregated out.
A new consensus must emerge.
Are you in favor of a society with meaning?
A society where life is sacred, where life has sanctity, where people's lives and their dignity and their integrity is respected.
Or are we going to live in a society that is a never-ending war between nihilistic tribes, warlords, savages, pagans?
I see an emerging consensus.
And I think that the mature people that actually love America, actually love our children, the people that recognize the division, the peril that we're in, we need to fortify a new consensus and rally the people of conscience, the people of decency, the people of humanity, the people of charity towards their fellow man,
against those that want to kill us, against those that laugh and celebrate when innocent people are harmed for any reason, for any ideological reason.
Against the people that are cruel, the people that are hateful.
And by that, I mean the people that are really cruel.
Not the people that say things you disagree with, not the people that are provocative, not the people that are sometimes angry, but the people that are really cruel and really evil.
What makes Christianity and Christ so different from the other religions is that our religion is based on the bearing of suffering for the sake of even those that persecute us.
An overflowing of love.
An overflowing of self-giving love.
So much of it it cannot be contained.
An unconditional, absolute standard of love for all of God's children, even those that are misguided, even those that persecute us, even the most heinous among us.
That is what makes us different.
That is what makes us good.
The Nuclear Deal Shadow War00:06:48
unidentified
The Canary
Mission is an Israeli-funded blacklist, which, since July 2025, has been confirmed to be used by the Trump administration to target students, professors, and professionals who oppose Israel and reside in the United States.
This idea is part of an initiative created by the Heritage Foundation, the same group responsible for the infamous Project 2025.
In their initiative, titled Project Esther, they state that students participating in pro-Palestinian protests and activism are supporting Hamas, a group that the United States designates as a foreign terrorist organization.
Therefore, pro-Palestinian students are considered to be supporting terrorism and are subject to the revocation of visas, frozen bank accounts, asset seizures, and the denial of basic constitutional rights.
In effect, the Canary mission serves as a means to circumvent constitutional protections, allowing the federal government to engage in intelligence gathering activities that would otherwise be considered unlawful.
But the Canary Mission is not alone.
Palantir, another company closely aligned with the state of Israel, uses AI-driven analytics to maintain private databases on U.S. citizens and currently works with four federal agencies.
While government contracting with the private sector is long-standing, the prominent influence of Jewish groups within these increasingly powerful organizations warrants careful examination.
I renew the call for all able-bodied young American men, all of our elite human capital, all of our geniuses, warriors, intelligent people to dedicate themselves to American sovereignty and independence as Christians, as Americans, as white people, as citizens of the United States.
And anybody that settles for anything less is just as much of an enemy.
I would actually consider them worse than our oppressors.
So on Independence Day, it's important to reflect on the fact that we are an occupied nation.
Now, just like then, we're being ruled by a small country across an ocean, serving itself at our expense.
And as long as that is the case, I will always be obsessed with that.
As long as that is the case, I will always be speaking out against that and fighting against that.
And I will always be anchored, understanding that that is the fundamental struggle.
As long as our presidents have to kiss the wall in Israel and wear a small hat, as long as they have to say that we want to make Israel great again and they're the greatest country ever, I will never be okay with that.
Ever.
And it doesn't matter what they offer me or us.
It doesn't matter how they might try to placate us or appease our interests, the concessions they'll make.
Barack Obama created the joint comprehensive plan of action, the JCPOA, or the Iranian nuclear deal.
And Barack Obama brought together China, Russia, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States and the European Union to enforce a nuclear deal that restricts Iran's enrichment of uranium.
The early talks were conducted in secret, and the Israelis were furious, furious about this.
They hated Obama.
Netanyahu went to a joint session of Congress and gave a speech in defiance of the American president and its nuclear deal, and Congress gave 37 standing ovations.
This is the background of Trump's first election.
2016 election happens.
Trump gets elected with the help of the Israelis.
You don't believe me?
There's a whole article about it.
It's an excerpt from James Bamford's book, Spy Fail.
It goes into great detail about the hidden collusion in the 2016 election.
It wasn't Trump and Russia.
It was Trump and Israel.
And why was Israel so hell-bent on getting a Republican elected in 2016?
In 2018, Donald Trump declares the IRGC, the Revolutionary Guard, which is the military of the regime, a terrorist group.
Greenlights that group for sanctions, for attacks.
Now the United States is in a shadow war with Iran.
It culminates by January 2020 in the assassination of Qasem Suleimani.
Suleimani was the architect of the axis of resistance.
Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Suleimani built all of it.
Are you starting to see Obama had this solved?
He made the deal.
The Israelis hated him for it.
They colluded with Trump to get him elected so that Trump would do maximum pressure and create a ladder of escalation, pulling us out of the deal, declaring the IRGC terrorists, then killing its leader, putting sanctions on the regime.
This is a war that started a long time ago, that Trump made hot in 2018 and has been going on for seven years.
Very excited to be back here with you tonight on Thursday.
We have a lot to talk about, lots to get into.
Big show.
Day 20, our featured story.
We are talking about day 20 of the U.S.-Israel war in Iran.
Some big developments.
We got some other stuff too.
I don't know how you guys are feeling about it.
I feel like I'm getting a little tired of the war in Iran.
been three weeks.
Tomorrow is going to be week number three.
We're entering week four.
And it looks like there's no end in sight.
As we've been saying, the war just goes on and on.
Initially, they said days, then weeks, then they said a couple weeks, a few weeks, four weeks.
Now they're saying it's going to be at least another month, it seems, based on what has been reported today.
And our featured story tonight, the big development in the war is that the operation to open up the Strait of Hormuz has begun.
Yes, the Trump administration has planned to forcibly reopen the Strait of Hormuz using the U.S. military.
I don't know that anybody believes this is going to work, how this is even going to happen.
And if it does, it seems like there is a high possibility that there will be a lot of American casualties.
And so today, U.S. jet fighters and helicopters did a number of air raids on ships and targets on the land around the Strait of Hormuz, and the operation has begun.
Once again, this is going to be extraordinarily difficult because the way that the Iranians have closed the strait is with missiles and drones, of which they have a virtually unlimited supply.
They're making more of them all the time.
They've got millions of them.
They're launching hundreds of drones now every single day.
And because the Strait of Hormuz is so narrow, it's only about 24 miles across at the narrowest point, Iran can launch a drone from hundreds of miles inland and with almost 100% accuracy hit a ship because that's just how narrow it is.
So if the goal is to use the military to reopen the strait, you have to ask, how are we going to suppress every drone and every missile that is launched at the strait from anywhere inside of Iran?
It doesn't even seem possible.
And yet the operation has already begun today.
The U.S. military says it is going to take weeks at the minimum to get to a point where we even consider escorting commercial ships through the strait using the U.S. military.
Even then, they say we're not going to be able to guarantee 100% safe passage through the strait.
So what are we doing?
They admit, they say it's going to take another, it's going to take another few weeks at the minimum, three weeks in, three more weeks to open up the strait.
They say that is the minimum amount of time required to suppress drone and missile fire sufficiently, whatever else they might be planning, and we'll get into that before they're comfortable even trying in a minimal way.
And that leads me to my next point.
One of the parts of the operation they are considering is potentially invading with an amphibious assault force the islands in the actual Strait of Hormuz.
So not necessarily invading the Iranian mainland, but invading some of the Iranian islands in the Strait of Hormuz.
The U.S. military will be able to establish a beachhead, and they'll be able to deploy logistics and potentially anti-missile systems, other types of equipment, and that might be used as a springboard either for further attacks or for defense of shipping in the strait.
To that end, the U.S. military is now sending close to 5,000 Marines on three ships.
It's an amphibious assault force.
And that seems to me to be an operation to actually try to invade on the land.
And there's sort of a cruel irony here, or maybe something funny.
Trump is always saying we're not going to put boots on the ground.
He said we're open to it.
I don't have the yips about it.
But he has said there's no imminent operation to put boots on the ground.
Nobody wants to say there's going to be boots on the ground.
And so maybe this is like a technicality where they can land on an island so they can invade one of the islands in the strait.
And then they can say, well, we never put boots on the ground in Iran's mainland, on Iran's mainland.
We only put boots on the islands.
And I'm not joking.
I mean, this is in all the papers that are reporting about this.
They say maybe that is one of the political considerations.
If you invade the island, then you can say, well, we never put boots on the ground on the mainland.
So that makes it different.
Well, I don't see the difference at all, actually.
Seems to come with basically the same risks in principle and seems to be equally an escalation against Iran.
Maybe marginally less, but I mean, that's roughly the same thing.
So they're talking about invading Iran's islands with Marines.
Those Marines will arrive in the Middle East next week.
So again, this is the timeline.
Think about it.
The USS Gerald Ford is currently in Greece where they are repairing the ship because the kitchen exploded or something.
Number one superpower, by the way, number one empire.
Oh, there's a fire in the kitchen.
We have to, Mayday, Mayday, send the carrier to an island.
We need repairs immediately.
Okay, no fire extinguishers.
So the Gerald Ford is out of commission, they say for at least a week.
Marines, at least 4,500 Marines on three ships are headed to the Middle East.
They arrive in a little over a week.
And the Pentagon is saying it's going to take at least a few weeks to reopen the strait.
So when you put the timeline together, you understand this war is not ending anytime soon.
It's going on at least another week when the Ford is done being repaired, when the Marines are deployed.
And it seems that that is actually when the operation to open the strait really begins.
And so then it's going to be another two or three or four more weeks of fighting.
In the meantime, the supply of energy, oil, and gas in the world continues to be constrained.
Price of crude oil went past $120 a barrel today and seems to be only getting worse since the United States and Israel escalated their attacks on Iran's energy infrastructure yesterday.
So how long can this really go on?
It's going to go on, it seems, for another three to four weeks.
How much pressure will that put on the American economy?
What will happen in the intervening time?
A lot of issues here.
Last development in the war with Iran, and this is a minor one, we got confirmation from Pete Hegseth today at a press conference that yes, indeed, this is real.
The Pentagon is asking the White House to approve $200 billion for the war in Iran.
This was just a rumor yesterday.
We covered this last night.
And at the time, it was a rumor that the Pentagon had a number of different appropriations requests, different versions of it.
And one among them was a $200 billion package.
We don't know the details.
We don't know what's contained in it, but that is the price tag.
Today, Pete Hegseth admitted, he said, well, hey, man, wars cost money.
He said it costs money to fight the bad guys.
By the way, don't you love our most professional, most serious, most presidential administration?
We need money to fight the bad guys.
I don't know about you, but I'm really tired of how remedial the vocabulary is in the White House.
We need money to fight the bad guys.
Is that what it is?
Pete Hegseth says we need $200 billion.
And get a load of this, it gets better.
Earlier in the year, Trump was asked about budget reconciliation.
This is the process whereby once per year, the Senate can pass an appropriations bill with a simple majority.
Normally in the Senate, you need 60 votes, a three-fifths majority to pass anything.
Once per year, there's an exception.
You can pass a major piece of legislation with only 51 votes, only a simple majority.
It's called budget reconciliation.
Earlier in the year, Trump was asked: Are you going to use budget reconciliation again in 2026?
And if you are, what are you going to use it to get done?
And Trump said, I'm not really interested in that.
I'm not interested.
We don't need it this year.
We covered this three, maybe four weeks ago.
And I said, that's such a stupid thing to say because we should use every tool that is available to us to change policy.
If you have it, why not use it?
So it seemed that up until this point, we weren't even going to utilize the reconciliation process this year.
Maybe you can see where this is going.
Do you want to know how they're going to allocate $200 billion for our war in Iran?
The budget reconciliation process.
So the Republicans are going to bypass Democrat opposition using the reconciliation process, not to give money for infrastructure, not to give money for a middle-class tax cut, not for a border wall or deportations, anything like that.
No, House Republicans, Senate Republicans are excited to use this process so that they can appropriate $200 billion to bomb Iran.
And they're actually enthusiastic about it.
They're saying this gives us the urgency to do something.
It just gets better and better and better, doesn't it?
Every single day, every single day.
You thought it was good when we bombed Iran with Midnight Hammer.
Fast forward to we're bombing Iran with Israel.
And they say it'll go on for four days.
We're in week number three at the tail end of it.
Now they're telling us the price tag is $200 billion, which by the way, that means the war in Iran, if they get that, it is already more expensive than the war in Ukraine.
$188 billion for the war in Ukraine.
They want $200 billion for Iran, and that is on top of the $30 billion that we've already spent.
Okay?
So the war in Iran is going to be something like 25%, 30% more expensive than the four-year war in Ukraine.
And we're not even at the end of week three yet.
The things we do for Israel.
Mr. President, I've seen what you can do for Israel.
Do that for us.
There's no hope that's not going to happen.
But anyway, we'll talk all about that.
We're also going to talk, if we have time tonight, about the new piece in the Wall Street Journal.
We got some more confirmation.
Not that we needed it, but there's an exclusive in the Wall Street Journal today, which confirms that President Trump is done with mass deportations.
If there were any doubts, if anybody was still in denial, and there are some people still in denial, now we have it verified.
It is coming directly from the top.
Trump says he doesn't even want to use the word mass deportations anymore.
He says, I think people don't like that.
So let's stop saying mass deportation.
Let's start saying criminals.
They're also saying now that Kirsty Noam is out at DHS and they got a new secretary of DHS, they're saying this is an opportunity to change all the policies as well.
So we talked about this last Monday when the House Republicans had their retreat in southern Florida and they made the determination that they were going to stop talking about it.
Now they're saying since Noam is out, the new secretary of DHS is going to have a much lighter touch.
And he's actually changing all the policies.
So for example, they're not going to arrest illegals in their homes without a warrant.
They're not going to be conducting these huge operations in cities like they did in Chicago and Minneapolis and LA.
He says they're going to cooperate with local and municipal governments instead of being adversarial.
He says his mission is to keep ICE out of the news.
Well, you know how you keep ICE out of the news?
You don't deport anybody.
That's the only way you keep ICE out of the news.
And yet I still see people coping.
They're saying, yeah, but the Trump administration is doing self-deportations.
They're going to stop illegals from having a bank account.
It's always, it's always something like that, right?
Isn't it?
Every day, every week, month, you get the real story, which is it's not happening.
The deportations are over.
They decided it's too unpopular.
But then you always have this contingent on Twitter that says, yeah, but any day now, they're going to do E-Verify.
Any day now, they're going to ban illegals from having a bank account, from having, I don't know, from ordering DoorDash.
And it's always like five-dimensional chess.
What we wanted was every illegal alien kicked out of the country, like physically kicked in the ass and flying over the border back to Mexico.
That's what we voted for.
When Trump campaigned, he didn't say we're going to have net negative migration using the community survey from the that wasn't on the sign.
That wasn't in the commercial.
Trump said mass deportations.
It was fucking border wall.
I think the F-word was in it at one point, wasn't it?
It was real, tall, powerful, physical, 30-foot concrete border wall, and they're all going back.
We're literally going to put them in cannons and shoot them back to Mexico.
Weren't they literally saying that?
And now they're saying, and now that it's not happening, it's always like some five-dimensional chess.
It's like, well, you see, what Trump is doing is he's not going to let illegals buy Sprite using their snap cards, and that's going to make them reconsider living here.
It's like, what are you talking about?
They need to be physically removed by big policemen, like big giant policemen need to physically remove them at the end of the barrel of a gun.
And people go, so Trump is going to close their bank accounts.
And then what are you talking about?
Anyway, we'll get into that as well if we have time.
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I can meet somebody and not shud out about politics in the first 30 minutes.
And the latest, the latest on this front, the reason we're covering it is because of this big exclusive from the Wall Street Journal, literally hot off the presses.
This came out a few hours ago, this evening.
And they have actually confirmed that it goes all the way up to the top.
President Trump himself is now saying mass deportations are over.
So it's not coming from Susie Wiles, the chief of staff.
It's not coming from James Blair, her deputy.
It's not coming from the other forces, the bad advisors, the bad personnel.
No, we now have it confirmed 100% that mass deportations have not only been shut down, they have been shut down by Trump.
And they have been shut down because Trump believes they are too unpopular.
Trump is under the impression that mass deportations, even the word, the phrase, is so unpopular that if they keep going, they're going to get killed in the midterms.
He blames that.
He thinks that is the reason they're going to lose.
So he is telling his personnel in DHS, he's telling Susie Wiles, telling House Republicans, stop saying those words.
He's saying instead, use the word criminal.
We're deporting criminals.
And they're also changing all the policies.
As you know, the secretary of DHS, Christy Noam, was recently let go.
She was fired.
And she's got a ton of problems.
Part of why she was fired is because she might be going to jail with her alleged boyfriend, her alleged paramour, Corey Lewandowski, because the two of them are in some very deep crap over some of these contracts that DHS is giving out.
And this is covered extensively also in the journal.
So partly they're fired for that reason, but also Christy Noam and a lot of people in DHS are being flushed out because they want to reset the policies.
The new Secretary of DHS is now going to reverse many of the mass deportation policies.
For example, there's two policies in particular they're getting rid of.
One, some of the biggest boost to the deportation numbers is coming from these big operations that are targeting Democrat cities.
So you might recall the most recent operation was in Minneapolis.
I forget the name of it, but that is when you had thousands of border patrol and ICE.
That is what catalyzed the two protesters that died and the protests and the riots.
That was a targeted operation when they surged law enforcement to Minneapolis and they started doing big raids and big patrols.
That was boosting the deportation numbers.
That's done now.
That's over.
So they did operations like that in Minneapolis, in Chicago, in LA, in New York.
Under the new secretary of DHS, Mark Wayne Mullins, he actually said those are canceled.
You're not getting any more of those.
That's number one.
Number two, there was a secretive policy in the DHS where ICE was making arrests inside private domiciles without getting a warrant from a judge.
And there's questions about the constitutionality of that, legality of that.
That's a big source of protest from the left, from the Democrats.
Mullins says that's finished too.
We're not going to be raiding houses without a warrant anymore.
By the way, that also happens to be one of the demands of Chuck Schumer.
That's why the Democrats have shut down the government partially and why they've defunded DHS, because among other things, they want ICE to stop the warrantless arrests inside private residences.
The mass deportations, they're not running on them.
They're not saying the words anymore.
And the policy is effectively dead.
They're done.
Whereas at one point they were maximizing deportations, now they're trying to have them plateau.
Now they're trying to moderate the deportations as much as possible.
They've changed the personnel, they've changed the policy, and now you're getting something different.
And this is the story from the journal that says, quote, President Trump is seeking to lower the profile of his mass deportation effort and has directed his top advisors to adopt a new approach on one of his central campaign promises.
In conversations with top advisors and his wife Melania, Trump has become convinced that some of his administration's deportation policies have gone too far.
They went too far.
Deporting 230,000 people is just too far.
Biden let in 10 million people.
He was letting in 2.5 million per year, but removing 10% of that total, it's too far.
Guys, this isn't us.
We have to stop.
This is too many.
He says it's gone too far.
And Trump believes that voters don't like the term mass deportation.
Really?
Well, you know, it would have been nice to know that when you ran on that two years ago.
Really?
So Trump ran on mass deportations in 24.
In 26, he says, I don't think voters like that.
I don't think voters like mad.
Are you kidding me?
Seriously?
The promises you ran on in 24, you are halfway through your term.
And now you say, I don't think the voters like that.
That's how you won.
The voters elected you to do that.
That's what you were saying when you won the popular vote and the Electoral College and the House and the Senate.
Now he's decided, well, I don't think the voters like that.
Well, that would have been good to know.
Maybe there should have been some transparency at the beginning or, you know, before the administration started.
He says, the voters don't like it.
Great.
Awesome.
Loving it.
The president has told them he wants to see more attention on arresting the bad guys and less chaos in American cities.
The bad guys.
It's like when Pete Hex says, we need $200 billion to fight the bad guys.
Yeah, we got to, no, no, no, we don't want to deport every illegal alien.
We want to stop the bad guys.
Right, right.
The article goes on.
It says, the desire for an immigration reset is being driven by Trump's White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, who believes the president's immigration team has turned one of his marquee issues into more of a challenging issue ahead of the midterms.
It's a little challenging.
As a result, the administration is attempting to change not only how it talks about the issue, but also what enforcement looks like on the ground.
Great.
So it's thorough.
The shift has been spearheaded by White House borders are Tom Holman since he took over ICE operations in Minneapolis.
ICE leadership isn't moving forward for now with those high-profile operations like the ones it previously conducted in big blue cities like Chicago, D.C., and Minneapolis.
Arrests of immigrants have ticked down to roughly 1,200 a day from more than 1,500 a day when ICE was running its unprecedented operation in Minnesota.
And by the way, it's lower than that.
So according to the journal, they say it's 1,200 arrests per day.
I talk to people in government.
They tell me the rolling seven-day daily average is 900.
The rolling daily average number of arrests is 900.
So quick math.
If you arrest 1,000 per day, that's 365,000 per year.
Out of all the people that get arrested, not all of them get deported.
So if you're arresting 900 per day, the very highest number of deportations is 365,000.
It's not going to be that.
So we're talking maybe 300,000, maybe fewer than that.
We're on track, in other words, for roughly the same or less deportations, fewer deportations than in 2025, if that's the rolling seven-day average, which is what I've been informed it is.
Trump's advisors view the firing of DHS Secretary Christy Noam as a prime moment for a reset.
Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, the president's pick to succeed Noam, promised to reverse several of her ICE directives.
Great, including one policy giving officers permission to force entry into immigrants' private homes without a criminal warrant signed by a judge.
Mullin said, quote, my goal in six months is that we're not in the lead story every day.
Trump has complained to advisors in recent days about bad headlines the administration received under Noam's tenure and has asked aides if they were aware of her unusual contract approval process.
On the campaign trail, Trump suggested he would deport as many as 20 million people.
No, yeah, not going to happen.
So when Trump ran in 2024, the slogan was: mass deportations, we're going to physically remove 20 million people.
It will be the largest deportation effort in American history.
He said, remember Operation Wetback under Eisenhower?
We're going to deport 20 million people like that.
Here we are.
Once again, it's only a year and a few months in.
So he's inaugurated late January 25.
It is March 26.
It's a year and two months.
The first year, they deported almost nobody.
They deported something like 230 to 360,000 people is roughly the numbers.
And even if you isolate interior removals, that is still fewer removals than Obama's first year in office in 2009.
Okay.
They said that is okay and that's justifiable because we need more funding.
We need more detention space.
We need more personnel.
They need more training.
And so that's why the Big Beautiful bill last year authorized something like $200 billion for Homeland Security.
And nearly $100 billion of that is going to ICE.
And a lot of that is going to the wall and detention facilities, all the things they said they needed.
And they hired over 10,000 ICE agents and they're buying the land and the facilities.
And now, now that they've got all the resources, now they're telling us, well, we're just not going to do it.
We're not going to say mass deportations.
We're not going to do mass deportations.
Stephen Miller was shooting for a million per year, was his target.
Now they're going to get, if you're lucky, maybe a third of that, maybe a quarter of that.
They said 20 million, which would have been 5 million per year.
Now you're going to get maybe a quarter million per year.
So you're getting 20 times less.
Literally, you're getting 20 times less than what they promised.
They're changing the slogan, not even in the middle in the first year, and now it's over.
And Trump was convinced to do this because Susie Wiles told him it's unpopular.
Now, here's what really happened, okay?
And I can say this with some authority because I predicted it.
I told you this is exactly how it would play out, which is that you're going to try to deport all these people.
Liberals are going to freak out.
The media is going to shine a spotlight on it.
And they're going to cast it in a very negative light.
And what this is going to do is generate bad press, bad publicity, and low approval ratings.
It's those two things.
And if you know anything about Trump, know this.
Trump, because he's an egomaniac, he is absolutely allergic to both of those things.
He hates bad press.
He hates bad headlines.
He hates low approval ratings.
And so this was inevitable that it would play out this way.
It was just inevitable.
Because if you are going to do a massive deportation effort, it's not going to go unnoticed.
And the Democrat city machines, these political machines in Chicago, New York, LA, they're going to fight it tooth and nail with their activists, with the media, with the entertainment industry, all the above.
And it's going to generate a lot of controversy.
It's going to be very contentious, and that's going to drive negative media.
Negative media begets low approval, low favorability.
And so it was always a question of, if you're going to do this, you need to have the political will to withstand that pressure.
That was really the question.
If you wanted to accurately predict, will mass deportations happen, you had to really ask the question: if they try, if they marshal the resources to do it, will they then be able to withstand the inevitable pressure which will come as a result?
And that's a question about Trump as a man.
And this is why in 2024, I said, you're not going to get it, because Trump is not going to stick it out.
He's going to get those bad headlines.
He's going to get the lower approval ratings.
And the second that happens, he's going to pick up the phone and he's going to call Stephen Miller and he's going to shut it down.
And do you want to know why I knew that would be the case?
Because it already happened.
That already happened.
And it happens with everything.
It literally happens with COVID.
It happened with BLM.
It happened with this in the first term.
And I've told this story a million times, but this is the thing.
People that got red pilled after COVID, they just weren't there.
They didn't watch it.
The history has either been forgotten or rewritten.
But I was actually there up close and personal.
I had friends in the admin in 2018.
And that is precisely how it went down in the first term, which is that they started to try to build the wall.
They started to try to deport a lot of people.
You might remember they had that family separation policy.
That's how these huge caravans of illegals from the Northern Triangle were getting in.
All these illegals would come to the border with an unaccompanied minor.
It wasn't always a family member, a child, and their child, son, daughter, their nephew, cousin.
Frequently, they were strangers.
But if an illegal alien had an unaccompanied minor with them, because the minors couldn't be detained in the same space as the adults, they would catch those people and release them.
Those people would surrender at a port of entry with their minor in tow.
And because the illegal and the minor could not be detained in the same facility, they'd be picked up and they'd be sent out into the country.
So Trump had a family separation policy where the minors were detained separately from the adults.
And that allowed them to be detained indefinitely at the border.
And so they weren't caught and released.
Well, that's where the story about kids in cages started because they said the Trump administration is imprisoning children in cages like the Holocaust.
And they destroyed Trump with that in 2018 in the midterm election.
They said it's kids in cages, concentration camps.
They did it at the Oscars, at the Grammys, just like they did this year.
And I have it on authority from people in the admin that it went down the same way.
Trump picked up the phone and said, Stephen Miller, we got to stop.
In the previous administration, it was Christian Nielsen, I think was the name, so long ago.
But Trump picked up the phone 10 years ago, eight years ago, and said, we're getting killed.
They're talking about kids in cages.
And they ended the policy.
They reversed the policy.
That's exactly what they're doing right now.
And that's because that's who Trump is.
And ultimately, that is who you have to blame because I can already see what is happening.
There's sort of like two different camps of denialists.
And there's one camp that just insists this is not happening.
Let's be very honest.
Mass deportations, at this point, you can say it was a lie.
It was a lie.
It was a scam.
It was a fraud.
Trump said we were going to have 20 million deportations.
We're not getting anything close to that.
It just, it's not happening.
But there are a lot of people that are in denial and they will just believe anything.
So they're coping about the retreat from Minneapolis.
They're coping about the self-deportation numbers, inflating those numbers, using the community survey and some data artifacts to overestimate by many by an order of magnitude.
They're just simply in denial.
They still think that someday, one day, mass deportations are going to happen.
Like they just don't live in reality.
But then there's another camp of denialists that say it's not Trump's fault.
They say it's his advisors.
It's his personnel.
It's all these people around him that are failing him if only he had the right people.
And here's the irony.
Maybe it's not ironic, but here's why that's not true.
Unlike the first term, that is totally not true in the second term.
Stephen Miller has way more power.
He's the deputy chief of staff.
You have a lot of really good people in Border Patrol and in DHS and in ICE.
And you even have people in the administration that are actually reaching out to outside groups.
They spun up this website.
It's called Mass Deportation Coalition, something like that.
I don't know the actual URL.
But if you look this up, Coalition for Mass Deportations, there is this outside group of nonprofits and activist groups.
They're begging the Trump administration to follow through.
They're trying to lean on the administration.
And there are actually a lot of people in the administration who are working with that group.
And they're pleading with them, saying, please criticize Trump.
Please put pressure on Trump because they can't do it from the inside.
So ironically, you know, in the first term, you could make the argument and say, yeah, well, Trump has all these bad people.
They don't want to see the deportations happen.
They're disobeying Trump.
They're giving him bad advice, whatever.
In the second term, it's the opposite.
No, you have a lot of good people giving Trump advice.
You have a lot of good people in DHS.
You have a lot of good personnel.
They want to see it happen.
They are running into the obstacle of Trump himself.
If it were up to them, it would be happening, but it's up to Trump.
And so now we sort of solved for X. Who was the problem?
It was always Trump.
It was never the personnel.
It was always Trump.
And you want to know why?
Because Trump always had the power.
Trump appoints the personnel.
Trump chooses the advisors.
Trump has the discretion to listen to one advisor and not another.
He does it all the time.
Case in point, Brooke Rollins is the Secretary of Agriculture.
So she represents the big agriculture interest.
And big agriculture loves illegal immigration because they employ low-skilled illegal aliens on the farms.
Consequently, Brooke Rollins doesn't want to see a ton of illegal immigrant migrant labor deported because she, in a sense, is captured by the industry that she's supposed to administrate, that she's supposed to regulate.
So Brooke Rollins is against deportations.
She's against job site raids.
She's in favor of expanding visas for migrant workers.
Christy Noam, on the other hand, well, as Secretary of DHS, Homeland Security, her job, her mandate is to deport as many people as possible.
And Stephen Miller in the White House as the deputy chief of staff, he is trying to work with Christy Noam to get these deportations up.
And he's encouraging job site raids and getting the migrant farm workers out and raiding a meat processing plant in Nebraska and a Hyundai plan in Georgia and so on.
Well, you see that in the court of Trump, there's two different people with two different agendas, and they're going to have different advice.
So Christy Noam is going to go to Trump and say, we want to do all the deportations.
And Brooke Rollins is going to go to Trump and say, we want more visas and fewer deportations.
Well, who does Trump listen to?
He's got a better relationship with Brooke Rollins.
She was in the first admin.
She ran AFPI, America First Policy Institute, which is the official Trump think tank after Trump left office.
And Trump actually sidelined Project 2025 at Heritage, which was good, to prioritize AFPI because those are his people.
And so it's like in the first term, everybody said, oh, it's all the personnel.
It's the advisors.
It's everybody else.
We need to put the right people in front of Trump.
But Trump consistently chooses all the wrong people and consistently makes all the wrong decisions.
In 2024, he had an option, AFPI or Project 2025.
He chose AFPI.
With regard to deportations, he had a choice, Stephen Miller and Christy Noam or Brooke Rollins and Susie Wiles.
He chose Brooke Rollins and Susie Wiles.
And ultimately, the decision came down to the fact that he didn't want the bad press.
What you need to understand about Trump is that his dream is to be beloved by New York City.
He wants the New York Times to love him.
He wants CNN to love him.
Anyone that knows Trump is nodding their head right now.
And I'm sure there are people watching the show that know Trump because Trump is like a girl.
Every day, he's on the phone all day kicking his feet and giggling.
I'm not making this up, calling people for hours and hours and hours.
This is the greatest economy.
I'm the greatest president, blah, blah.
Anyone who knows Trump and talks to him knows this is true.
His dream is the approval and the validation of the New York Times, of New York City.
He wants to be beloved.
And so if you're doing something unpopular with the media or the entertainment industry, the left, the masses, Trump is never going to follow through because he doesn't want to upset those people.
And so I said in 2024, you're not going to get mass deportations because Trump is going to cuck, because Trump wants to be loved by the media and they're going to hate this.
And because Trump ultimately chose Brooke Rollins over Project 2025.
He chose Chris La Cavita and Susie Wiles over Hope Hicks and John McIntye, let's say.
He chose the disloyal personnel that threw him under the bus after January 6th over the good personnel that tried to salvage his White House in 2020.
So I knew based on the personnel choices, I knew based on his temperament that he had not changed at all.
And by that, I mean not for the better, that we were going to get the exact same thing and the exact same story.
And this is how Trump has been conditioned over time.
I want you to notice something also.
In 2024, there was so much fanfare around Trump, you almost forget how it was in the first campaign.
In 2016, everybody hated Trump.
The media hated Trump.
All the institutions hated Trump.
The Republican Party hated Trump.
Everybody hated Trump.
And why is that?
Because in 2016, Trump was actually a radical.
Trump was actually an insurgent force.
So who didn't like him?
The deep state, the establishment, the institutions.
That was the nucleus of Trumpism.
There was actually a great article in The Spectator by Christopher Caldwell, and he said this, and it's brilliant.
He said that the actual nucleus of Trumpism is the idea of the deep state, and that Trump is this democratic populist force against those institutions.
And so in 2016, that's how it felt.
It was this populist wave, the people and Trump at the front of it against the establishment, the institutions, the deep state.
And all these institutions are very incestuous.
It's the permanent bureaucracy in Washington.
It's the lobbyists, the consultants, the super PACs, but it's also the Ivy Leagues and academia and big law.
It's also Wall Street and the asset managers and private equity.
And it's also the entertainment industry, Hollywood, and the mainstream media.
It's also Silicon Valley.
At that time, it was big tech.
So it was all of the institutions, all of the powerful, the true deep state, holistically against Trump.
But what you saw in 2024 is that all the institutions actually acquiesced to Trump.
Did you notice?
Again, this gets back to a lot of people just weren't there for the original victory.
In 2016, it was like us against the world, and all the media coverage was negative.
And they were ripping him apart every day.
And the party was always trying basically to sabotage him, his own party.
In 2024, different story.
Who was at the inauguration?
Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI, Elon Musk.
They were all there.
Mark Zuckerberg didn't even put any money into this election.
He put $300 million against Trump in 2020.
And Tim Mellon donated $200 million to Trump.
And Elon Musk donated $300 million to Trump.
And the Israel lobby donated to Trump.
And so did Ken Griffin from Citadel.
And so did Andreessen Horowitz.
And if you looked, whereas in 2016, the small dollar contributions were 60% of Trump's fundraising.
In 2024, it was about 30%.
So it flipped.
And they've conditioned Trump to do the things that they want him to do.
And what they want him to do is to keep the flow of cheap labor, cheap skilled labor, cheap unskilled labor.
What they want him to do is to bomb Iran, keep the weapons flowing into Ukraine.
They want him to intervene in the Congo for the minerals.
They want him to deregulate AI.
They want their corporate tax cut in the Big Beautiful bill.
They have conditioned him because Trump wants, he wants to be liked.
He wants the approval of the establishment.
And this is why they've effectively stood down.
And they condition him by allowing him to take the path of least resistance and never fight those battles.
And everybody that's making excuses for him, you need to realize we elected him to fight those battles.
We elected him to be hated by the Israel lobby, to be hated by Wall Street, to be hated by the multinational corporations, to be hated by the asset managers.
We elected him to be hated by those people and to fight those people and ultimately to defeat them.
Now it's the opposite.
Now he's fighting against his own people to protect them.
And this is what is so sick about this influencer cadre that is constantly trying to tell you that everything's on the up and up.
Because while Trump opened up the floodgates for more migrant workers on farms, more H-1Bs, more foreign student visas for the universities, while Trump says he's okay with home prices going up indefinitely, he says we want housing to be more expensive than ever because we're protecting the people that own them.
And Trump is celebrating the stock market rising.
He's cutting the corporate tax rates and doing all those things.
In the meantime, he's not releasing the Epstein files.
He's going to war with Iran, not building the wall, not carrying out the mass deportations.
And so now he's beloved by the institutions.
Trump has told the institutions, get behind me.
I'll protect you.
I'll protect your data centers.
I'll protect your home values.
I'll protect the asset bubble.
I'll protect your profits and your cheap labor.
I'll protect your complicity in Jeffrey Epstein's island.
And it is him and the influencers taking the fight to the people, attacking the people.
If you want the Epstein files, I don't want your vote.
If you're against the war with Iran, you're not MAGA.
If you attack Mark Levin, you're not MAGA.
If you don't like the big, beautiful bill, you're not MAGA.
Now the war is on behalf of the institutions against the people.
It's on behalf of the elite against the Democratic forces.
This is in a nutshell what is going on.
And that's why you have to say Trump is the problem.
Now, I don't expect everybody to maybe go head on against Trump.
Maybe that's suicidal politically because Trump is still extremely popular.
He's still the leader of the party and the movement and the president and he's at the top of the pyramid.
But ultimately, you must realize that there's never going to be a populist movement until Trump is out of the picture.
And I'm not insinuating anything there.
I just mean until Trump is out of office, until Trump is unpopular, until he is basically rejected or exits the stage, he is always going to, he's not only not going to be the guy, he's going to prevent the guy from emerging.
He cannot do it, just constitutionally, cannot, will not deliver the victory.
He's not Caesar.
He's not a leader.
He's not that guy.
And not only is he not the guy, he's depriving us of the guy, but as long as he's around, there is no space for the guy to emerge.
Because if that guy were to emerge, he would be attacked by Trump.
Case in point, Tucker Carlson.
Case in point, Megan Kelly, Marjorie Green, Thomas Massey.
All the people that have critiqued Trump for the ways in which he has diverged from America first, the ways in which he has betrayed us to the deep state, Trump has used his political capital.
He's used his popular support to bludgeon those people and sabotage their careers.
So whereas a Marjorie Greene, a Thomas Massey, a Tucker, whereas they might have been able to take the baton or do something or climb the ladder, Trump is not only not helping them, he is suppressing them as potential competitors, challengers.
That is why Trump really is the sickness.
And this is why I said in 24, it's better actually, maybe, if he loses.
Because you see how him being this 80,000 pound gorilla in the middle of the room, him being the center of gravity, him being this cult-like figure that cannot be questioned, cannot be criticized.
He's the nucleus.
Everything orbits around him.
Everything is contingent upon him.
You see how he has actually become the biggest opponent.
He's become the biggest liability, actually, in a counterintuitive way.
You might say, well, he's not perfect, but he's good.
No, he's the enemy of the good because the good cannot ascend.
It can't succeed as long as he is there holding everything in suspense, holding everything in place, and ultimately holding it all back.
So that's the mass deportation policy.
Don't blame the advisors.
Don't blame the personnel.
It's him.
It's coming from the top.
And how sick, by the way, how sick is that?
Actually, how evil is that?
Trump said in 2024, I'm going to deport 20 million people.
It's because people were furious that we had open borders for four years and we got invaded by Venezuela.
Venezuela opened up its doors and they flooded our country with like 4 million people from Venezuela alone.
And there were millions more on top of that.
And it got so bad, even in the south side of Chicago.
Black Democrats are going to a town hall meeting or a city hall meeting and complaining about all the Venezuelans on the streets.
It was a fever pitch.
You campaigned to fix it, to provide the remedy.
And a year in, you say, never mind.
That's disqualifying.
That's a forfeit.
How is there anybody left still defending it?
And you hear from his defenders, they say, yeah, well, did you see the administration's considering preventing illegals from having bank accounts?
Preventing them from having bank accounts.
Do they even have bank accounts?
What are you talking about?
I want them removed from America.
I don't care if they have a bank account.
Well, but you see, if they can't have a bank account, then maybe they'll leave.
Well, I want them to be for, why do we give ICE $90 billion to hire ICE agents in detention facilities if all we're going to do is close their bank accounts?
My bank account got closed.
I'm still here.
It's always some five-dimensional, well, Trump is considering maybe one day closing the bank accounts, which indirectly will lead to self-deport.
Is that what the placard said?
When I saw the RNC, maybe I forgot.
Maybe it's the Mandela effect.
I thought they had signs that said mass deportations.
Not we're going to ban illegals from having bank accounts so that they'll self-deport and then we'll have negative migration.
What is even the point then?
And that leads me to our other story tonight, which is about the war in Iran.
We had something else confirmed on the same day.
And this is deeply related to this: shifting gears a little bit into our ongoing war in Iran, which will enter the fourth week in 24 hours.
Today, our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, gave a press conference and he confirmed the report from yesterday, a rumor that the Pentagon is asking the White House to approve a $200 billion spending package to prosecute the war in Iran.
So think about that.
You had a mass deportation placard and a no-new war placard.
One year in, they're telling us no mass deportations, but we are going to have a $200 billion endless war in Iran.
We are going to have a war in Iran with no clear objectives, mission creep, no exit plan, and it's going to cost us $200 billion.
If that's not the biggest scam of all time, then what is?
You're promised illegals will be removed from America, which is, by the way, that's a quality of life improvement for everybody.
That is one of the worst things about living in America.
Illegal immigrants are causing a lot of the problems.
In Houston, they're breaking into people's cars and stealing their stuff.
In Colorado, they're taking over apartment complexes.
In New York, they're putting them up in hotels.
And same thing in Chicago, having to build tent cities for them.
And you see them everywhere.
They are there on the street corner with their kids selling candy bars that they stole from Walgreens.
This is a 21st century.
We're in a first world country.
And we have this peasant population of foreign nationals.
We already had an underclass of minorities and refugees and regular old immigrants.
Now we got 10 million more here.
Trump promised to fix that by kicking these people out.
We're not getting that.
They're telling us that's no longer popular since a year ago.
At the same time, they told us no new wars.
We're going to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours and we're not going to start any wars.
The war in Ukraine rages on and now there's another war in Iran, which will actually cost more money in three weeks than the Ukraine war cost in four years.
And you're telling me we didn't get betrayed?
You're telling me we didn't get scammed?
You're telling me you're seriously going to consider voting Republican in 26?
This is a story.
This is from the Washington Post.
It says, quote, the Pentagon has asked for $200 billion in funding for the war in Iran, according to a military and administration official, a significant sum, adding to the cost of an already divisive campaign.
The request has been sent to the White House, the military official said, which will review it before any request for funds is formally submitted to Congress.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity, and the request was reported earlier by the Washington Post.
Obviously, it takes money to kill bad guys, said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
As far as the 20, or excuse me, the $200 billion, I think that number could move, he said.
Oh, okay, good.
In 2014, the Congressional Research Service calculated that the U.S. had spent $815 billion in direct cost for the war in Iraq over 13 years.
A recent report from the Council on Foreign Relations found the U.S. had dedicated $188 billion in aid to shore up Ukraine's war effort since Russia invaded in 2022.
So $800 billion for Iraq, $200 billion for Ukraine, $200 billion for Iran.
And we're not even three weeks in.
It's actually going to cost us $230 billion in direct cost.
So this is a fourth the cost of a 20-year war.
It costs more than a four-year war.
We're not even four weeks in.
And this is from the administration that said we're putting Americans first.
We're going to put all our money back in America to make America great again.
We're going to fight no new wars.
And we're going to extricate ourselves from the endless wars in the Middle East.
And now we're going to find $200 billion to go to war in Iran.
Why?
Well, remember, they said it's because Iran poses an imminent threat.
Then they corrected themselves and said, well, Israel was going to hit them first.
So because of Israel, we're now in a $200 billion, endless war in Iran.
Meanwhile, we can't deport even 500,000 people from our country per year.
So what about any of this is working?
Isn't this like, let me just ask you, it's not a rhetorical question.
What to you is the worst case scenario?
How is it different than this?
For people that are saying, well, it could have been worse.
Well, at least it was in the Democrats.
In your mind, what is the worst case scenario?
What is the red line?
They haven't even deported half a million people per year.
Simultaneously, we are still at war in Ukraine and they have plunged us into a war in Iran, which is a catastrophe.
There is no exit plan.
And it is going to cost us, in the end, nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars.
And Trump brought us there on behalf of Israel.
So what about this is working?
Exactly.
What about this is, isn't the whole spirit of the movement making America great again?
How is this making America great again?
This is making America worse.
This is setting us back.
Another war sets us back.
Canceling mass deportations, that's effectively an amnesty.
That sets us back.
We're up 10 million illegals and we're down $200 billion.
We amnestied every illegal in America and we're going to go into another war in the Middle East, depleting our stockpile, killing deterrence.
They shot down an F-35 and they're learning about our technology.
It's the opposite of, it's not just not living up to the promises.
It's not politics made it messy.
No, this is the opposite of what we were promised.
And think about what we have been told in the past 10 years about anything.
We have been told that we need fiscal restraint.
The Republicans are constantly telling us about the debt ceiling and out-of-control spending and the deficit and the debt.
We're being told we can't afford Medicaid.
We can't afford Medicare.
We need to raise the retirement age.
We can't afford Social Security.
Isn't this what they say?
They said we need doge because we need austerity.
We need to find trillions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse.
So we're going to nickel and dime all the different departments and agencies.
We're going to downsize the Department of Education and HHS and all the different departments and agencies.
We're going to cut $800 billion from Medicaid.
We're going to look into modifying the entitlements, kicking people off of Social Security because we're out of money.
Oh, but Israel needs to topple the government in Iran?
$200 billion.
And they're enthusiastic about it.
They're enthusiastic about it.
$200 billion extra.
Trump wants a $1.5 trillion defense budget, up from a trillion.
Under Biden, I think in 2023, it was $800 billion.
Trump in 2026 wants it to be $1.5 trillion.
Unclear if that's including or excluding this $200 billion ask.
Where's that money going to come from?
Exactly.
Where is that money actually going to come from?
How are they going to pay for that?
Last year, we had to cut $800 billion from Medicaid to pay for a corporate tax cut, where we permanently reduced the corporate tax rate from 35% to 23%.
Now we need to find other cuts from entitlements, healthcare, whatever, to pay for $200 billion for a war with Iran.
So what does our tax money go towards exactly?
It seems like it goes to Somali scammers.
It goes to daycare centers and food drives and other scams.
It's going to Somalian real estate projects, luxury cars, Lamborghinis and Ferraris for Somalis that hate us in Minneapolis.
It's going to black people to pay for steak using SNAP, using their EBT card.
It's going to illegal immigrants and their hospital visits.
If you go to Rush Hospital in downtown Chicago, it's like Mogadishu.
It's like the third world.
God help you if you need health care in a major American city.
Tell me I'm wrong.
Go to an emergency room in New York City.
Go to an emergency room in Chicago, in LA.
It's like a fucking third world country.
And those people don't have insurance.
So it's going to those people.
And it's going to public schools where they're going to say the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish.
It's going to Israel's decapitation campaign against Iran.
And it's going to the richest people in the world, the AI oligarchs and scions who don't pay taxes, who don't have to abide by regulations, who get government contracts.
This is making America great again.
This is what it is all for.
They told us a border wall, which costs $20 billion, that was too expensive in Trump's first term.
Republicans, when they had the House and the Senate, they would not give Trump $17 billion for a border wall.
They said, too much, costs too much money.
We'll give you $1.6 billion.
Mass deportations, they say, are too unpopular.
We can't run on mass deportations in 26.
It's turning everybody off.
It's not popular anymore.
But a war with Iran that costs $200 billion, well, that's going to give us a sense of urgency to pass an appropriations bill using budget reconciliation.
They actually want to do it.
It's never enough.
We gave $27 billion to Israel in 2024.
The war has cost us $30 billion so far.
Another $200 billion for a grand total of $260 billion, all in, maybe close to $300 billion, factoring in the carrier strike groups, factoring in the war against the Houthis, factoring in all the other airstrikes.
$300 billion for a war in Iran?
No problem.
Least popular war in contemporary history, 27% approval rating.
Hey, no problem.
Trump says, I don't have the ips about boots on the ground.
I don't care if it's unpopular.
We may do it.
That's fine.
As they watch their odds of winning the Senate collapse, as they watch the odds of a Republican to win in 2028 collapse, for them, that's fine.
And this is why you need to realize this is the simplest form of the idea.
It's not working.
Okay, people are overthinking it.
Don't overthink it.
You're overthinking everything.
People are working themselves up.
They're setting plays, making moves.
playing games.
And they're saying, well, you see, we got to vote Republican because we got to get our guys in there and we got to kiss Trump's ass because we need him to do this, that.
It started really then under Biden when Russia invaded.
Now under Trump, they're still getting money.
It's all the same.
Trump started Operation Warp Speed.
He's the father of the vaccine.
He got it.
He got the vaccine.
Trump shut down the economy.
Then Biden mandated the vaccine and carried on the lockdowns.
It does not matter.
You always lose.
The House always wins.
Trump gets elected to build a wall.
He doesn't do it.
Biden then opens the country up to 10 million illegals.
Trump gets elected to deport them.
Then he decides he doesn't want to anymore.
It's all the same.
And this is why, from a propositional point of view, the only thing I'm interested in is anti, against opposition.
I'm not for Republican.
I'm not for Trump.
I'm not for Democrat.
I'm against whoever runs that is against APAC, that is against the Iran war, that is against the elites, against the system, against the establishment.
That's the only person I'm interested in going with.
I'm not interested in more people explaining themselves to me, explaining how it works.
Well, here's what happened.
It doesn't matter what happened.
Look at the result.
You have people, they still call themselves Trump supporters.
They recognize ostensibly that this is not going well.
War in Iran, no deportations.
And they're telling us, well, here's what we need to do.
Here's why it is the way it is.
Here's what we, what are you talking about?
Look at the effects.
Look at the result.
It's not working.
We're 10 years in and it's bullshit.
So it failed.
I'm never voting for this again.
And I'm voting for the guy that's going to destroy all this.
I'm voting for a destroyer.
People say, you want to burn it all down and celebrate over the ashes.
Yeah.
Don't you?
At this point, don't you?
They say this guy, Nick Fuentes, he just wants to burn it all down just so he could be the king of the ashes.
He just wants chaos and destruction.
Yeah.
Yeah.
At this point, I do.
Somalis are scamming Minnesota out of $8 billion to buy luxury cars, fund construction projects.
They're rich and they fucking hate us.
We send ICE to investigate and deport them.
A couple of protesters die and ICE just quits.
They just leave.
And it's still going on.
Biden had open borders.
10 million people came here.
They don't have health insurance.
They can't afford to live here.
They can't afford education.
10 million people are being subsidized.
You are working three or four months out of the year for foreign nationals leeching off of public services.
And Trump will not deport them.
That's over now.
Trump got elected on no new wars, said he would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.
War in Ukraine is still going on.
Now they want $200 billion for Americans to die in Iran and to spend all our money so that Israel can become a superpower.
They want a moratorium on AI.
Data centers are the only thing driving any economic growth.
Getting harder for everybody else.
Elon Musk is going to become a trillionaire.
Meanwhile, defaults on car loans and mortgages are through the roof.
People have no savings.
You're telling me there's something to salvage here?
What's the alternative?
People are telling us, well, you see, it's a team game.
You got to be a team player.
I don't feel like I'm on the team.
When Trump is motherfucking us every day on True Social because we're not kissing Mark Levin's ass and cheerleading a war in Iran and because we still want the Epstein files, I don't feel like I'm on the team.
Donald Trump called Laura Loomer to celebrate the war in Iran.
He had lunch with Mark Levin before bombing Iran.
Lindsey Graham's on Air Force One, selling him the war on behalf of Netanyahu.
Meanwhile, I'm being told he doesn't want my vote because I still want the Epstein files.
I don't feel like I'm on the team, actually.
I'm not wearing a jersey.
I didn't sign a contract.
I'm not getting paid.
And nobody passes a ball to me.
So what do you mean we need to be a team player?
Fuck you and fuck all this and MAGA.
I'm out.
If it's not America first, it's not good enough and I don't want it.
Don't let anybody tell you that America first isn't enough.
They say, well, you see, we can't run on America first and we can't deliver America first.
That's just not practical.
It's just politics.
You just need to be patient.
You just need to understand.
Don't let anybody convince you of that because Trump won the election in 2016 on America First.
Lest anybody forget, that is where this whole movement came from.
That is why Trump still has support.
It all came from that in 2016.
That's the winning formula: reindustrializing America with protection and tariffs, closing the border, and having a nativist, restrictionist immigration policy, and having a restrained, non-interventionist foreign policy.
We are not at war with the entire world, destabilizing every region and spending all of our money building other countries.
That is the original formula.
Don't let anybody tell you that that's not good enough all of a sudden, and we need to pull out this bag of tricks.
We need the Chinese students.
We need the Indian engineers.
The universities need the students.
The farmers need the labor.
Wall Street needs the profits.
They're trying to convince you to fight against yourself, to negotiate against yourself.
And think about how shameless that is.
How do you even go out there at the press conference and even say that and not hang your head in shame?
They go out there and say, hey, man, we need $200 billion.
It's not free to fight the bad guys.
Hey, man, fuck you.
Seriously?
First of all, the bad guys?
Are we children?
Stop insulting my intelligence.
But he comes out there.
They say, are you seriously considering you just got done?
And think about how sick it is.
How much did we hear about the war in Ukraine and how expensive that is?
Republicans ran in the 2022 midterms on auditing or cutting foreign aid to Ukraine.
They ran in 2024 on ending the war in Ukraine.
Now it's not, there's no end in sight there.
It's not over.
That's still going on.
It still costs us all this money.
And they come out and they tell us, hey, well, we need another $200 billion.
We got to fight the bad guys.
So did every, do we all just have collective amnesia?
The Republicans have said for literally the past four years, audit foreign aid to Ukraine, cut foreign aid to Ukraine, no more new wars.
If Trump was elected, this would have never happened.
It's still going on.
And now they're starting another.
And they shamelessly go out and say, yeah, we need $200 billion to fight the bad guys.
And people eat it right up.
They eat it right up.
How much did they campaign about illegal immigration, about open borders?
You need to elect us so that we could close the border.
You need to hold the line in 2022 so that we can put some restrictions on Biden's open borders immigration policy.
2024, elect us.
We'll do mass deportations.
26, they say, I think we just about did it.
We don't need nasty portations.
It is about taking public sentiment and steering it into a ditch where it's not going to roil the political system.
That's really what this is.
It's hot and cold.
The Democrats do what they need to do and rally up their people.
The Democrats redistribute the wealth and they let in all the illegal aliens and they have all the woke stuff.
The Ruubes get mad.
The Ruubes overthrow the Democrats.
They get in.
And then the Republicans bomb Israel, genocide Gaza, give all the money to Little Tech.
And the Democrats are mad.
You see how this, and it just oscillates.
It just keeps turning.
And I'm in favor only of a political solution where we step outside of the wheel.
Step outside of that hamster wheel that's always turning.
Trump is not that person.
It's not that movement.
It isn't working here.
$200 billion.
Are you kidding me?
And I'm old enough to remember they literally told us $17 billion is far too much for a border wall, for an 18-foot steelboller fence in only half of the southern border.
Oh, it's too much.
$260 billion to bomb Iran?
Hey, well, if it'll break the stalemate in Congress, let's fully send it.
We're going to talk a little bit about the operations in Iran briefly.
This war has no end in sight.
As you know, there is a stalemate right now.
The United States is unable to topple Iran's regime, unable to suppress their fire.
In the meantime, Iran is creating economic pressure against the United States and the whole world by choking off the energy and other commodities that flow through the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump is faced with two options.
He can either escalate to victory by invading Iran and toppling the regime, which might be ruinous for America, or he retreats, withdraws, begs Iran for a ceasefire, and it's a strategic defeat for the United States.
He's looking for a way out, and he settled on a third option, which is he is going to try to forcibly reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Last week, he initiated a new phase of the conflict, launching an energy war.
He bombed Karg Island in the Persian Gulf.
And then a couple of days ago, Trump and Israel struck against Iran's South Pars gas fields in order to pressure Iran to agree to open up the Strait of Hormuz, thinking that maybe if we increase the economic pressure on Iran as they have against us, then maybe they will accede to our demands.
And that didn't work.
So today, the operation, a military operation to force the strait open has begun.
Trump sent in airplanes and helicopters to bomb the Strait of Hormuz, its islands, its coastline and territory in a bid to eventually potentially invade the coastline or the islands in the strait and ultimately regain control of the shipping there.
And this is a story.
This is from the journal.
It says, quote, the U.S. and its allies have intensified the battle to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, sending low-flying attack jets over the sea lanes to blast Iranian naval vessels and Apache helicopters to shoot down Iran's deadly drones.
The stepped-up operation is part of a multi-stage Pentagon plan to reduce the danger from Iranian armed boats, mines, and cruise missiles, which have halted ship traffic through the waterway since early March.
If the danger can be reduced, the U.S. could send U.S. warships through the strait and eventually escort vessels in and out of the Persian Gulf.
But it will likely take weeks for the U.S. to clear out Iran's web of assets that have harassed traffic through the choke point.
Air Force General Dan Kane, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, revealed the operation in a Pentagon news conference, saying that heavily armed A-10 warplanes known as Warthogs, along with Apache attack helicopters, were flying missions over the strait or off the southern coast of Iran.
Despite the strikes, Iran is still believed to have a vast stockpile of mines, cruise missiles on trucks, and hundreds of undamaged boats in hidden facilities with deeply dug tunnels along the coast and on islands.
The general said, quote, I think it will take weeks to reach a point where we can be, where there can be safe operations in the strait.
Even then, a lot of the Iranian assets will survive.
So the latest stage in the conflict is they are preparing this multi-stage operation.
They're really doing it, where they're going to try to use the military to open up the strait.
And I don't even understand how that's going to be possible.
You need to understand about the Strait of Hormuz.
At its narrowest point, it is 24 miles long.
Do you know how small that is?
24 miles long at the narrowest point.
And what that means is that Iranians that are hundreds of miles inland inside of Iran can reliably hit ships in the strait with drones, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles.
And so if you want to prevent drones and missiles from hitting ships in the strait, you have to clear a radius hundreds of miles inside of Iran's territory.
Massive, vast swathe of territory.
You need to make sure there are zero drones, zero missiles of any kind being launched and reaching ships in the strait.
It's impossible.
Cannot be done.
Last year, we bombed Yemen a thousand times, and we couldn't stop them from bombing the Red Sea, which is far bigger.
Iran is many, many, many times the size of Houthi-controlled Yemen, has a significantly larger population and military, and a huge industrial base.
And apparently they're still getting resupplied from China with new drones and parts for missiles, they say, from Tajikistan.
Last year, we could not stop the Houthis from bombing the Red Sea.
You think we can stop Iran now from bombing the Strait of Hormuz with exponentially more territory, more people, bigger industrial base, more projectiles, and a much smaller target?
They say, well, we're bombing all their ships and their islands and tunnels and this, that, and the other.
Still, you're always going to have the threat of drones from inside the country.
They say the operation will take several weeks at the minimum.
And they say, even after this operation is complete, and it looks like they're planning to have Marines land on islands in the Strait of Hormuz or near the Strait.
Even if you're able to do all these things, okay, we're going to take the islands.
That is a suicide mission all by itself.
IEDs, tunnels, incoming drones and missiles.
Even if you're able to do all this without a hitch, Marines are there.
They've taken islands, airstrikes and helicopter attacks, anti-missile systems, whatever.
Even still, they say, after three weeks, we're still not going to be able to guarantee that every ship is going to make it through the strait without being hit.
So what exactly is the goal here?
And you realize there really is no way out of this.
This is a war where there is legitimately, there is no plan, no exit strategy.
It's impossible.
And so this is very quickly starting to feel like Iraq, where no one really seems to have any clue how this is ever going to end.
Iran, if you haven't been able to stop them from shooting now, if you haven't collapsed the government by now, you might never be able to do it.
So the Strait of Hormuz is indefinitely closed.
Okay, well, if the Strait of Hormuz is indefinitely closed, then oil prices are just going to keep going up and up and up.
And some estimates say that oil could hit $200 per barrel.
They say that's not out of the question.
By late April, they say if oil is up to $138 a barrel through the end of April, and if it sustains that for weeks and months, you have a full-on global recession.
Well, they're saying the timeline to even have any semblance of an effective operation in the strait is at least another three weeks.
The Marines are going to take a week to get there.
Gerald Ford is going to be out of commission for at least another week.
What happens when we're still in Iran by the end of April?
What do you do then?
Global economy's down.
Americans surely are going to die, maybe by the dozens, perhaps by the hundreds, if you try to invade the mainland, coastline, islands.
God forbid, if Marines actually try to set foot on the island, surely there's going to be an IED waiting for them.
Surely there's going to be shoulder-mounted missiles, drones, all that stuff is going to be waiting for them.
So here we are in late April or May.
Oil prices have been persistently high for months.
Maybe we're cracking $140 a barrel.
Maybe it's $200 a barrel.
You have runaway inflation in Europe and the United States.
You have energy shortages in Vietnam and Taiwan and Korea, Japan.
You have dozens, hundreds maybe of dead Americans, depleted U.S. stockpiles of standoff weapons, standoff munitions, radar systems, TAD systems, Patriot missile batteries.
What do you do then?
Do you retreat after months of war?
At that point, do you withdraw?
There's literally no end in sight to the conflict.
And that's the scary part.
I don't think anybody even realizes where this is going.
It gets very uncomfortable because you realize that defeat is really not an option.
This is something that I don't think the United States is going to walk away from.
I don't think the United States even can walk away from it at this point.
It just seems impossible that the Iranians would even agree to stop bombing the Strait of Hormuz without preconditions that the United States is unwilling to give.
But even if they were, they might not stop.
It's not Trump's temperament.
We can't afford to lose our deterrent credibility.
That's when you start to think, is a tactical nuke going to be deployed?
Is it going to be a full-fledged ground invasion?
Honestly, what are the options for extricating ourselves from the conflict?
And this is why they're asking for $200 billion.
I hate to say that, but they're not asking for $200 billion to replace Patriot missile batteries.
They're asking for $200 billion because they're getting ready for a much wider and much more intense conflict.
And I don't think people are ready for that.
And that's the latest on the operations.
Running out of time, so we'll leave that part short a little bit.
And we're going to move on.
We'll take a look.
We'll see what you guys are saying.
Hate to leave it on a bad note like that, but this is about as bad as it gets all across the board, politically, strategically.
This is a bad scene.
All right, but we're going to move on.
We're going to take a look.
We'll see what you guys have to say about all this.
I saw the Arctist put out an essay about you in connection with a new book they're putting out about the political revolution of Gen Z. What are your thoughts on Arctic or the whole intellectual movement of the new Veld Watt?
French New Right.
Are they antithetical to you or do you have common cause with them?
Well, the song sounds dumb, but you know what I discovered about Tucker?
I saw this clip of him on Fox and Friends from years ago.
And he said that he's known his wife since the first week of 10th grade.
He married his high school sweetheart.
They met when they were 15.
And in that moment, I immediately understood everything.
Of course, the guy that married his high school sweetheart is going to be totally blue-pilled about women, obviously.
So you're, how old is Tucker now?
He's got to be in his 50s.
So what year did they meet?
That just goes to show how out of touch he is.
So if he was born in 69 and he met his high school sweetheart in what, 84, 83?
So you met your rich, white, pretty girlfriend when you were 15 years old in the 10th grade at your private, rich school with, I don't know what the tuition is there, but it's expensive.
You met her, you married her.
I guess they got married about 20 years later or maybe seven years after they met.
Now you're the authority on women.
That just goes to show how out of touch you are.
If only it were that simple.
Tucker says, yeah, just marry your high school sweetheart that you never stopped dating from the time you were 15.
Just marry the rich white blonde girl you met at your private school on the East Coast.
Just do that.
Just do that.
It's easy.
Well, you know, Tucker, it's easy to say that you love women.
It's easy to say that women aren't the problem and you love women and women are so amazing and blah, blah, blah when that's the arrangement.
Most people are not able to have that arrangement.
First of all, our generation is already a minority.
That's first.
Most Zoomers and Gen Alpha growing up in a major metro, they're already a minority.
So there's not even a lot of white people at their school, period.
Second of all, they also have OnlyFans and Snapchat and Instagram.
So I'm sure growing up in the 80s, there was no phenomenon of like every girl has their nudes on Snapchat and every guy has seen every girl's nudes.
But that happens with regularity now in high schools and middle schools.
You also didn't have internet pornography.
You also didn't have girls literally turning 18 and getting on OnlyFans.
Like, it's a different world now.
Women are different.
Men are different.
It's not the fucking 80s.
It's not fast times at Ridgemont High, bro.
Not everybody is growing up in a rich white boarding school in what, Rhode Island or whatever, in wherever you grew up, California, where all the girls are blonde and their dads are loaded.
If that's how it worked, I think everybody would be happy.
If it was still like that, nobody would have a problem.
There'd be no women hating incels.
There'd be no women hating lookist, black pill, whatever.
But it isn't like that anymore.
It isn't the 80s when California was an ethno state for white people, you know, for beautiful blonde white people.
And you're in a $20,000 year, you know, high school, private high school, and you marry your college sweetheart that you never stopped seeing from the time you were in English class in your sophomore year.
If everybody had that, yeah, I think everybody would be totally happy, but it isn't like that.
It isn't like that at all.
So that's the issue.
But that doesn't that explain everything?
Because he brings me on the show and he's like, you beat up on girls.
It's like, okay, so you never moved on past sophomore year.
That's what, that's why you don't get it.
You met your first girlfriend at age 15 and she became your wife and you had kids with her and all that went down in the 80s in California.
So, oh, so that's why you have this completely naive and immature view of women.
Because that's your situation.
Oh, obviously, you think I'm beating up on those poor girls.
I'm sure Tucker's wife, she probably is an angel.
If a girl pair bonds with a guy, her sophomore year, and that's the only guy she's ever had sex with, and has only known intimacy with one guy, and it's you, from the time she was a teenager.
Yeah, I'm sure she is probably as close to the ideal as a girl could be.
But that's not what we're dealing with.
Guys in this day and age are dealing with a girl with a double-digit body count.
Try that one on for size, Tucker.
You think I'm beating up on girls?
Try talking to a girl and you know that she's got a double-digit body count.
Okay.
And think about, try imagining that.
Picture that.
Let me paint a picture for you.
15, 20, 25, 30, 35, huge body counts.
Picture this and all that that entails.
Birth control, BPD.
And, you know, they have an OnlyFans on the side.
And, you know, they're on Instagram with 10,000 DM requests from football players and Saudi oil chics and this, that, you know, he goes, he beats up on girls.
Dude, honestly, most girls need to get their ass kicked in this day and age.
Isn't that true?
Most girls need to get their fucking ass kicked by their dad.
This is the guy that said, oh, I thought, oh, sorry, I called you gay.
He beats up.
He literally said that I beat up on girls.
He said, well, I disagree with him.
I disagree with anybody that beats up on girls.
Oh, I beat up on girls.
Grow up.
Grow up.
Can you grow up, pussy whip boy?
I know your wife is honest.
I'm not even being sarcastic.
Your wife is probably an angel.
And congratulations.
You literally won the lottery.
Your parents are rich.
You got trust funds on trust funds.
You were born before the third world rapification of America.
You got to live in California before it got filled up with Mexicans.
And you went to a $20,000 year private high school.
And you met a blonde Protestant girl whose parents are loaded and she never had another boyfriend and you got married.
I'm sure she's probably an angel and God bless you.
Good for you.
But for those of us that were born a little bit later, missed it by that much.
You know, it's a little different.
Those of us that are growing up in the 2010s to 2020s, it's a little bit different.
You know, your wife wasn't dating AI.
Your wife wasn't dating a tentacle monster on AI.
Your wife did never had a romantic relationship with a tentacle monster on chat GPT.
That's the difference, okay?
Your wife never considered having a spicy page, blue page in bio.
She never had you taking pictures of her for her at the beach for her Instagram so the guy, so the horny non-white guys and football players can slide in.
She didn't have 100 bodies because there was still a culture of shame about that kind of stuff.
Maybe she got one.
Probably not if you met when you were 15, unless you had a break or something.
It's a different world.
So, and by the way, so that's my message for Tucker.
But for everybody else, this is a lesson to all the young men out there.
Don't listen to these boomers because that's their world.
They live in a completely fucking different world.
So when you hear these boomers say, get married young, have more kids than you can afford, like consider the source.
Consider the source.
That would be like, you know, Baron Trump going to a homeless crack baby and saying, I don't know, did you try getting a job?
Like, no, no, I was born addicted to crack.
You know, like that, that would be like somebody.
That would be like Elon Musk's, you know, transgender son, Vivian Musk, going to some homeless crack baby who's living in a Motel 8 on the side of Mannheim Road and saying, I don't know, did you try getting a job?
Why don't you try learning to code?
That's what my dad did.
So it's a different world.
I saw that clip and I'm like, oh, so that's what, yeah, so that's why he thinks I'm like some disgusting human being.
Because he watches my show where I'm like, we need to kick women's ass.
And he's like, why would you want to beat up on my wife?
She's an angel.
We met when we were 15 and we kissed at the drive-in movie.
And then we went to third base, you know, 10 years later after we got married.
Like, bro, bro.
It's a different, we're in a different universe now.
We're in a different dimension.
You know, women are put on birth control when they're 15 now.
They have, they literally have seven bodies by the time they're 19.
They go to college.
They fuck 100 guys in their freshman year.
They start an OnlyFans or a Patreon or seeking arrangements or whatever.
They're fucking evil.
And guys, guys go to women with a bouquet of flowers and a gift and, you know, text messages, pickup lines.
Oh, I love you.
You know, I want this.
I want to cuddle, blah, blah.
And women, their roster, their bench is a thousand dicks deep.
It's literally a thousand deep.
You know, the hypergamy situation, you have 100,000 guys competing for the same like mid-white girl.
And it's guys, it's an age range of like 18 to 50, net worth ranging from, you know, zero to a billion dollar.
You literally need to be a billionaire.
Even if you're a low millionaire, it's not good enough.
You could be a guy making like $150,000 a year at age like 19 or 20, and they'll still be like, I'm talking to this guy that's 29 and he makes, he's a billionaire, he's a billionaire.
He has a billion dollars.
He has a $15 million mansion in Coconut Grove.
You know, it's just like hypergamy is real.
Watch Clavicular.
As the prophet said, dude, clavicular is like the prophet.
Tails, sayings of the prophet Clavicular.
Like all you need to do is watch clavicular stream.
How many of these do you need to see?
Where it's like, there's a picture on Instagram of like a good-looking guy, a good ass-looking guy.
Pause.
Okay, that's gay.
It's objectively, it's true.
These are good-looking guys that are well-dressed and clean and facially attractive, same-age peers, and they're with their girl at homecoming or prom or whatever.
And you see that same girl slutting out at the club, bussing it down for clavicular in the sprinter van.
That has happened like four times in the past four weeks that we know about.
That's all you need to know.
That's all you need to see.
And then they get caught.
They're like, wait, is this live?
Oh my gosh, I need to go.
Oh my gosh, I made a big mistake.
You fucking whore.
You got caught.
Look at what they're doing.
Look at what they're doing.
Beating up on girls.
Who's looking out for the men?
Is that gay to look out for men?
All men are kings.
What about the men?
What about the fellas?
What about the homies?
What about the boys?
You know, and for the mothers, what about your sons, huh?
The young men are renting a tuxedo.
You know, they're getting their corsage for prom.
I hope she likes me.
Going out to the prom.
And then where is she?
She's on the sprinter van with clavicular, shaking her fat little ass.
Shaking her disgusting flat ass.
No, it's not fat.
Shaking her flat ass, busting it down for King Clavicular on the Sprinter van.
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Because if we, if, first of all, there's no guarantee Iran will even accept a ceasefire at this point.
There's no guarantee.
Why would they?
Because one, if we leave, let's say we get a ceasefire, then the Iranian regime claims victory.
They say, look, the U.S. and Israel threw everything they had at us, and we survived.
The regime remains intact.
We survived.
And, you know, what are the implications of this?
The implications are that the U.S. lost.
The regime is powerful enough to protect its people from the U.S. and Israel.
So the regime actually grows stronger in the eyes of the people.
And actually, maybe is less likely to topple after the war.
It rallies people around the regime, which is something the U.S. doesn't want.
Once people rally around the regime, they immediately start rebuilding their capabilities.
Everything that we did threatens to be undone.
We leave, and then they build all their missiles back.
They start rapidly, just as they did last year.
They start building up their missile and drone arsenal again.
And they've also learned how we fight wars.
So they're going to adapt for the next conflict.
So maybe that's more drones.
Maybe that's more ballistic missiles, like whatever.
They've learned new tactics.
They know how the U.S. and Israel are going to attack.
They know how we're going to play.
So they're basically going to undo what we did.
They're going to re-fortify, rebuild, get more drones, get more missiles, and then we're sort of back in the same place that we were before.
Also, the implications of it are that Iran has veto power over global energy.
We went to war with them.
They shut down global energy.
It was at their discretion who got oil and natural gas and who didn't.
And so now the whole world knows don't fuck with Iran because they then can tie up the entire global economy.
And that is, that's a level of power that the United States doesn't want to cede to Iran.
We don't want them to think it's effective.
We don't want them to be emboldened and think they have all the cards.
We don't want them to think that the people in Iran to think that their government is unbeatable.
So that's a big part of why.
And inevitably, we're going to go back anyway.
So let's say there's a ceasefire.
The Iranian regime earns credibility from the people.
They're victorious.
Strategic victory.
They build back their missiles and drones.
Well, now they're never going to make a deal.
How are they going to make a deal with the United States when we keep bombing them and breaking our promises and rug-pulling them?
So now the hardliners are in power.
They don't trust the United States.
They're weaker, but they're angrier.
And what that means is that we're just going to have to go in at a later time.
If we can't make a deal with Iran, we're going to have to assume that they're rebuilding all their capabilities.
They have this ability to close off the Strait of Hormuz, which is now an existential threat to us and the Gulf and Asia, Europe, Israel.
So all it does is just defer the inevitable.
We're going to have to go back.
It's just that when we go back, they're going to have more capabilities.
They're going to have learned from this and they're going to have more stuff than they did when we started.
And they're going to retain the ability to close the strait all over again.
So that's why they don't want to leave.
That's why they want to finish it.
And by finish it, I mean they want to have a decisive victory, where either the regime is toppled or Iran is not able to dictate the terms of the strait.
At this point, it's really more about who gets to end it on their terms.
You know, we can't let them end it on their terms, like, oh, they made the economy so bad that we weren't able to continue in the war.
Because then the message goes out: the U.S. is a paper tiger.
We used up all interceptors.
We hit Iran with everything we had.
And in the end, they hit us where it hurt for us, which is oil, and we were forced to back down.
And they don't want everybody to then look at the Iranian drone industry and say that's the best protection against the United States.
There is this parallel universe of propped up, all-American storybook going characters to gaslight actual Americans into thinking the old ideal is still possible.
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I got Asperger's and I find conversations difficult because the small talk and stupid boy slop questions you see that NBA game, I tend to just shut up until something worth talking about starts.
Politics and world issues are far more interesting.
How do you keep from chatting out with your normie friends?
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