IRAN WAR DAY 28: GROUND INVASION IMMINENT??? | America First Ep. 1664
Nicholas J. Fuentes frames the U.S. as an occupied nation facing moral decay and an imminent Iran ground invasion involving 20,000 troops to seize Karg Island. He alleges a "Canary Mission" blacklist targets pro-Palestinians since July 2025, claims Palantir serves Israeli interests, and argues the 2016 election was a Trump-Israel collusion to scuttle the JCPOA. Fuentes warns that failing this conflict could spike oil prices to $200 per gallon by 2028, triggering a global recession while elites like David Sachs maneuver for political gain against the war. [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?
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.
Would you look at the time?
Would you look at the time?
The broken block is right again.
Would you look at the time?
Print your apology form.
I told you so.
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When I get home, I want you.
Hello, I got places to be Evening everybody You're watching America First.
I don't even know who you are No one's allowed to say that the blood is a quintessential part of this, that 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 geolocation, 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.
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.
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The Canary
Israeli Funded Blacklist00:11:34
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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.
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.
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?
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.
unidentified
Hello, I got places to be Evening, everybody You're watching America First.
I want 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 geolocation, 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.
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.
Canary Mission Blacklist00:03:03
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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, and 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.
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.
Who are you?
unidentified
Don't you see the universe matters more than your meaningless squad of matters?
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.
Very excited to be back here with you tonight on Friday, Casual Friday.
We have a lot to talk about tonight, lots to get into.
Big show.
Finally, we have some news, and we're going to be talking all about the war in Iran.
We are now entering officially the fifth week of the conflict.
Can you believe it?
It has already been a full month, almost exactly, almost to the day.
War started, I think, about midnight on Friday, four weeks ago.
So we're just about an hour shy of that.
It is day 28 of the Iran war.
And I'm going to give you all the big developments on the conflict.
There is a lot to discuss.
And where I left you on Tuesday, we're having a little bit of a disrupted schedule this week, a little bit of a mix.
But where I left you on Tuesday, we were talking about the timeline.
We're talking about how Trump is timing all of these operations and strikes.
Not just why things are happening, but why they're happening when they're happening.
And where I left you on Tuesday, we talked about this big ultimatum that Trump gave last Saturday, almost a week ago.
Trump said last Saturday that Iran had 48 hours to open up the Strait of Hormuz.
And if they didn't, then Trump and Israel would begin bombing Iran's power plants and their electrical grid, their civilian infrastructure.
Well, the weekend came and went.
48 hours passed, nearly.
And on Monday morning, Trump announced that the deadline had not been called off, but it had been postponed.
So Monday morning, about a half hour before the markets opened and traders and investors got an opportunity to panic about the imminent attack, Trump postponed the ultimatum and said that he was extending the deadline to today, to Friday.
He said there would be a five-day extension.
And so implying the new terms would be: if Iran doesn't open up the strait by Friday, by today, then the power plant strike would commence.
Well, what has happened since Monday, since we last spoke?
On Wednesday, Trump came out on True Social and extended the deadline again.
That is our big story.
And we'll talk about the significance of this.
Trump goes out on True Social on Wednesday afternoon and says the deadline is extended this time by 10 days, which if you're counting, that takes us not to Monday, but to the following Monday.
And if you've been keeping track of all of this stuff, the timeline over the past four weeks of the conflict so far, what that really means is two weekends.
It means he got this weekend, next week, and the weekend after that.
New deadline says if Iran doesn't open up the strait in the next 10 days now, then there will be a major escalation in the war.
And that escalation will probably consist in attacks on Iranian power and energy.
In the meantime, Trump is pursuing two parallel simultaneous tracks.
On the one hand, allegedly there is a peace process.
There is no evidence of this.
Iran denies it.
And what is coming out of the administration makes it hard to believe that it is serious or that it is real.
Last Thursday, before the deadline was announced, the initial deadline, it was reported that intermediaries from the other Arab countries, from Egypt, Pakistan, and Turkey, I guess they're not Arab, they're not all Arab countries, but Egypt, Pakistan, and Turkey intervened, and they're trying to get a summit together between representatives from Iran and the United States.
There was a plan to potentially have a meeting in Pakistan yesterday in Islamabad, the capital.
That did not happen.
The United States submitted its 15-point plan to end the war.
Iran has not delivered its final answer, but seems like they're going to reject it.
And this coming week, next week, they say that potentially talks could advance.
They say that the White House, and in particular, Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, and lately JD Vance, are going to be leading an effort to make some kind of a deal, although it doesn't seem like that's going to happen.
And this is why you have the deadline.
This is why Trump is giving these ultimatums.
The 48-hour deadline initially, the five-day extension, the 10-day extension.
Ostensibly, okay, nominally, the reason we have this timeline at all, the reason we have this deadline is to give room for diplomacy to take place, to give room for peace talks to breathe and for the two sides to get together and make a deal.
That's the pretext.
So you've got this timeline.
The clock is ticking.
Two tracks.
One of them is diplomatic, which is apparently being pursued.
We're only hearing about it in the media.
At the same time, however, the dual track, the second track, is that we are clearly preparing for a ground invasion.
In the event that diplomacy does not happen, and when this countdown timer expires, whenever it does, whenever it stops being postponed, it's looking like we're going to invade on the ground.
And we're not sure where that is yet.
If we're going to invade the coastline of mainland Iran, or more likely, if we're going to invade one of Iran's islands in either the Persian Gulf or the Strait of Hormuz.
And there's been a lot of talk about Karg Island, which is the energy hub 300 miles northwest of the Strait in the Persian Gulf.
And then there's a series of islands in the actual strait, in the choke point, where potentially the United States might make an amphibious landing, establish a beachhead, and then use that to force the strait open if they can't get Iran to open it through diplomatic means.
So 10 days, two tracks, diplomacy, and potentially a ground invasion.
We're going to talk about all of it.
And there is a lot of ground to cover.
There's going to be another major force deployment.
As we've discussed this over the past two weeks, and we'll get into the timeline a little bit again.
Initially, you had a contingent about 4,000 to 5,000 Marines as part of an amphibious assault unit.
They were headed to the Persian Gulf two weeks ago.
Last week, they announced that there would be an airborne force that would supplement the Marines.
So this rapid deployment force, which is deployable in 18 hours, they would parachute out of airplanes.
This is another 3,000 to 5,000 troops.
They would be reinforcing the Marines in the Persian Gulf.
Then a couple of days ago, they said there would be an additional 10,000 troops.
We don't know where they're coming from, what unit they're a part of, what branch they're a part of.
But just a couple of days ago, there was an announcement or a report that the Pentagon is discussing another 10,000 troops to send for a grand total of anywhere between 15 and 20,000 troops in total.
They are all being mobilized into the Middle East right now.
Simultaneously, the Gerald Ford is out of commission.
The USS Gerald Ford, which is our biggest, most advanced carrier, is still at port in Greece being repaired.
They say there was a laundry fire on the carrier.
It has apparently rendered it inoperable for two weeks because there was a fire in the laundry room.
Now they're saying maybe the ship was hit.
Maybe its radar systems, maybe its weapon systems were damaged because they were hit by a missile and the military doesn't want to disclose this.
In any case, there is another aircraft carrier joining the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East as well.
So either way, you're going to have two carriers, 50,000 troops, plus an additional 20,000 and the amphibious assault unit.
That's all going to be in place, not by tomorrow, but by next weekend, just shy of the deadline.
So it's pretty clear where all of this is pointing toward.
It's pretty obvious where this is headed.
At least that is what is being telegraphed all the time by the Pentagon and the media.
So we'll cover it all.
If we have time, we're going to talk a little bit about the TSA.
There's been some movement on that.
There's been a partial government shutdown for roughly the past 60 days or so.
And as you, I'm sure, have heard, the partial government shutdown is affecting the Department of Homeland Security, not ICE, not Border Patrol, but only the other aspects of DHS, like the Coast Guard, the TSA, and other agencies.
We have a shirt with a Groyper on it, Jeff Epstein.
We have the white Jeffrey Epstein quarter zip.
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Yeah, I wasn't here for the past couple of days.
Honestly, just wasn't really feeling it.
You know, it's been a slow week.
Slow week, not a lot of news.
Just wasn't feeling it.
It's the same stuff.
Every day, it's the same thing.
Don't you ever feel like that?
Don't you ever get that feeling?
It's like different day, same stuff.
Wake up, brush your teeth, get dressed, do your thing.
I just wasn't really in the mood.
I wasn't really feeling it.
So I just said, forget it.
But I'm here now.
I'm feeling it again.
We're doing the show and we have some real news.
We have some real updates that we actually have to cover.
So we're going to just dive into it.
I'm trying to think if there's, you know what?
There was one thing I wanted to actually talk about because I did get into a rant about this yesterday and it was so good.
Not the rant, but the tweet.
So yesterday I go on this big rant on Telegram and I'm talking about the delusional nature of Republicans.
I was kind of mad yesterday.
I was kind of like pissed off.
I was just kind of out of sorts.
And I was just thinking about how sad it is.
It really weighed on me, the gravity of the situation.
You think about, and you know, this is my thing.
You think about what we were promised in 2024, and it was two things.
We were promised mass deportations and no new wars.
That's it.
Those were the big ticket items, mass deportations and no new wars.
And you fast forward a year and a half later, as you know, spoiler alert, we literally got the opposite.
It's not like we didn't get them.
We got the opposite of them.
We got, instead of mass deportations and no new wars, we got a new war and no mass deportations at all.
So it's about as clear and unambiguous of a betrayal as there could possibly be.
And it's not like debatable.
There are no mass deportations.
It's not happening.
They shut it down.
They never got started.
And whatever they were doing, they stopped.
So that's off.
And in case you haven't noticed, we're in a new war.
We're in a war that we weren't in before.
It's a war.
It's brand new.
Trump got us into it.
So I can't really paint a clearer picture.
We didn't get what we were promised.
Everyone voted for one thing and we got the opposite.
We voted for mass deportations, no wars.
We got a war, no mass deportations.
Now, to me, it is then obvious what has to happen.
So the people that did this to us now have to lose.
Like, isn't that, to me, that just follows like a mathematical equation.
It just logically follows.
Okay, these people that we voted for, they promised us one thing, then they screwed us.
They totally fucked us over.
They rug-pulled us.
They lied or scammed us or they broke the promise, however you want to say it.
So they forfeited the mandate to govern.
We voted for you to do these things.
You've done the opposite.
So now we don't want you to govern anymore.
So it logically follows to me that at the minimum, you don't vote.
At the minimum, you stay home.
And at the furthest extent, you vote for the other side.
Because the other side is the opposition.
Whatever you want to say about them, we know that they're going to hold the first side accountable.
They're going to challenge and oppose and degrade and diminish the side that we voted for.
And yet you see these people on Twitter all day, every day.
It's like they're going through the stages of grief and they're bargaining.
They're in denial about it.
They won't acknowledge the problem.
They say, well, it's not really a war.
Well, it's not boots on the ground.
Well, it's not nation building.
Well, Trump has been talking about a nuclear Iran for 40 years.
Well, and so I went off the other day about this and I said, at the end of the day, you are not in control here.
Okay.
This is the new talking point that I've heard.
This is what made me think of it.
And pay attention, okay?
Because you're going to see this on Twitter.
And you might already have, maybe you already have seen this on Twitter.
The new line that they're all trying out that I've heard over and over again is they keep talking about the generational coalition, which has been squandered.
Have you heard this one?
I see this and I've seen it with such regularity, with such frequency, that I honestly think it is a, it is a true talking point.
Like this is something they cooked up in the group chats.
It's an influenceable campaign or something like that.
It's some kind of paid social campaign, or it's just one of these things that is just, this is the lingo of that clique, of that faction.
But I see this on Twitter for the past couple of weeks.
You think about where we are.
We're in this war with Iran.
It's like the worst case scenario.
It's just going so badly because we can't extricate ourselves from it.
We can't leave.
Gas prices are at an all-time high.
It's going to crash a global economy.
And you're thinking about how bad the situation is.
And all they can say about it is this generational coalition has been squandered.
Trump put together a generational coalition and it could have been used for one thing.
And it's being squandered because of the war in Iran.
And I don't like that.
I don't really like how they're saying that because it almost seems like it's taking away from the other problems.
Like war in Iran is bad in and of itself.
War in Iran is bad because it's going to bankrupt the country.
It's another forever war.
We're going to build an Israeli empire.
It's a betrayal of all the promises.
It's America last.
Like there's so many things you could say about it in and of itself that they will not say.
They're still downplaying it.
They're still minimizing it.
They're still minimizing the issue and saying, well, it's not a ground war.
Well, Trump is going to handle this the right way.
The only thing they can bring themselves to say about it is that the war is making Trump less popular and that will prevent someone like Vance from succeeding in the future.
And that is the problem with it.
Is that not the implication?
They're not saying this is a deep spiritual betrayal of MAGA.
They're not saying this is in principle a betrayal of America first.
They're not saying we're doing the bidding of Israel, that a foreign lobby brought us into this conflict.
We've been suckered into it for their benefit at our expense.
They won't say any of that.
The most they'll say is, oh, the war is going to make Trump unpopular.
And then he can't do what he said he was going to do.
And so there's this hint of they're still hanging on.
They're still hanging on to this idea that Trump is who he said he was, that MAGA is what we thought it was, that Trump is still trying against every obstacle to do the right thing for, like, he's still our guy.
It wasn't a horizontal down here of Mexicans and whites and black people that didn't like Venezuelan refugees.
The coalition was up here, different latitude, different horizontal.
The real generational coalition was all of the little tech money mobilized by JD Vance, David Sachs, Elon Musk, Andreessen Horowitz.
It's all the little tech people that wanted to supplant big tech.
It's all the little tech people, all the effective accelerationists that wanted their drone companies, their AI companies, their rocket companies to get the government contracts instead of Bezos Rocket Company and Anthropics AI Company and the other drone company from private equity.
It was the Little Tech.
The other part of the coalition was the Israel lobby, good old-fashioned Israel lobby, the Jewish media that stood down and didn't oppose Trump, the donors like Miriam Adelson that donated $100 million, APAC, which was involved in 24 dethroning progressives and even trying to dethrone a conservative that voted against foreign aid to Israel.
And it was Wall Street.
It was the bankers in Wall Street, like Tim Mellon and Ken Griffin, who wanted the corporate tax rate permanently lowered, who wanted a Federal Reserve chairman who was going to aggressively cut interest rates to get the velocity of money going to grow the economy.
That was the real generational coalition.
And that is why in 2024, 60% of the money that Trump raised was raised from the big donors.
And it was only a third that was raised from the small dollar donors.
The real coalition was a moneyed coalition.
It was a coalition of the interests that wanted to see Republicans come in and take over from Biden.
That was the generational coalition.
Now, to the extent that there was a media blitz, to the extent that Mark Zuckerberg stood down in 2024, to the extent that there were all of these vibes and people thought this was a movement and we were going to end wokeness and it was a reaction to Biden's autopen and whatever you want to call it.
That was a farce.
It was a trick.
It was a show that they put on for you.
They were stimulating you.
You were stimming.
You were watching the color store.
Okay.
You were watching flashing lights and bright colors and hyperpop and you were being stimulated to go out and vote for this real generational coalition of interests.
And so on the contrary, on the contrary, the generational coalition was not squandered.
The generational coalition was used and then discarded.
It was put together for a particular interest.
That interest has already been served.
Thank you, come again.
They cut the corporate tax rate last year.
They're working on the AI moratorium.
Doge brought Palantir in through the back door in the Pentagon and in all the departments and agencies.
And we're at war with Iran.
So the generational coalition was brought together to do those things, to do those things.
It wasn't brought together and then those things happened in spite of the real aspirations of the real coalition.
No, the coalition was put together to do those things.
Those things are being done.
Now the voting block is exploding and they don't care.
They don't care because they got what they wanted.
So who is left holding the bag?
Who is left waiting outside on the curb?
Who is left hanging in all of this?
It's you.
You are the sucker, the voters that thought it was going to be a never-ending creed concert, that thought we were bringing grunge back or whatever, that it was going to be a golden age and there's going to be smart cities on the blockchain and it was going to be Columbus Day and we'd all say Merry Christmas and we're going to get trannies out of girl soccer.
You are left holding the bag saying, but Mr. Trump, what about our golden age?
It's not a movie.
That was never going to happen.
Okay.
And so there's something so delicious about that, that you have all these people.
They're still hanging on.
And you know, they're still hanging on.
Our generational coalition has been squandered.
You got raped.
You got raped.
Your rapists got what they wanted.
And now you are left hanging, used and abused, saying, I thought it was real love.
I thought it was a real thing.
Wrong.
Wrong.
And that's what these people don't understand.
They say they, because in their mind, the generational coalition was all of the posters on Twitter.
And who are the posters?
Jewish academics connected to Claremont next.
Who are the other posters?
Balding, Gen X, girl dads, cucks, people that care about the integrity of girl sports, people that care about Columbus Day, people that are getting up on a stump speech at their school board meeting talking about, I'm proud to be white or something.
You thought that was the generational coalition, numb nuts?
They did.
They thought that was the generational coalition was a bunch of high BMI, balding, girl dads and wife guys, a bunch of Gen X cucks, and they were going to put on their theme music.
They were going to put on Lincoln Park and they were going to stroll into Washington, D.C., and they were going to shit post with an A until, I don't know, they made Heritage America come back until they made it 1990 through science or magic.
Yeah, no, I hate to break it to you, but that's not politics.
That's called wish casting.
Okay, that's called magical thinking.
That isn't real.
Okay.
No, the posters are not in control of anything.
They are not in control of anything.
And they are not calling any shots.
And they have no power.
And they will never get what they want.
Okay.
The generational coalition were the billionaire oligarchs that put up the literal hundreds of millions of dollars in donations to make all this happen.
And that's why they got their cabinet picks.
That's why they got taken care of in the big beautiful bill.
That's why the State Department serves at their pleasure.
And this is something that people need to ingest and download on a fundamental level.
What does that mean for all of us?
It means that we need to have our own coalition.
Okay.
You cannot put your trust in a movement where you are the junior partner.
You cannot place all of your faith and all of your hopes and wishes on a movement that doesn't answer to you, that doesn't value you, that isn't listening to you, that doesn't prioritize you.
Then that is a different movement than in 2016.
In 2016, the message was explicitly, this is about the forgotten men and women, and we're going to drain the swamp.
And we're going to create a website called greatagain.org, and we're going to hire people from inside the country to come into DC and work in government.
People forget that that was a thing, but it was.
Google it.
In 2016, the movement was premised on the idea that it was a populist takeover leveled against the deep state.
It was a loaded gun pointed at the deep state, and it was the people and our leader, Trump.
But a lot has changed.
In 2016, 60% of the donations were small dollar donors.
Now it's the inverse.
In 2016, Trump said, I'm not taking super PAC money.
I'm not taking billionaire money.
I'm a self-funder.
I'm going to fund my own campaign.
I don't have donors with me.
It's me and my son, Baron, and that's it.
It's me and my supporters.
That was what the Trump rally was about.
It was people power.
He doesn't have the money.
He doesn't have the establishment, the endorsements, but he had that people power, the excitement, the enthusiasm.
That's what he represented.
That's not the case anymore.
And I tried to tell you that in 2024.
It's different now.
It's different.
It's not the same.
The value proposition is completely different.
That was not the message in 24, and no one could say that it was.
In 24, the message was, I'm running to get out of jail.
I need as much money as possible.
I need to be everything to everyone.
Some people think we're getting mass deportations.
Other people think we're stapling green cards to diplomas.
Some people think they're getting the West Bank in a war with Iran.
Other people think we're getting no new wars.
Am I wrong?
In 2024, he needed to be everything to everybody.
That is how you get your generational coalition because everybody was projecting onto him what they wanted.
And that's why people in Dearborn, Michigan read a rally with him thinking he was going to free Palestine.
But then Trump would go to Mar-a-Lago and hug Netanyahu, who believed Trump was going to deliver to him the West Bank.
And Trump would go to a rally or the RNC where they're holding up signs that say mass deportations.
Then he would go on the all-in podcast and say, we're going to staple green cards to the diplomas of every foreign student that comes here.
He was everything to everybody because he needed every vote, every nickel, every dime to get elected by any cost to get out of jail.
And so he did.
And then the chips fell where they would.
Cabinet members were picked.
And from then on, we knew what we were going to get.
It was only a matter of time.
And now here we are.
And these things are happening.
It started early.
We got the big beautiful bill.
Everyone hated it.
We got the Epstein cover-up.
Everyone hated it.
We got that.
They tried to sneak in that AI moratorium on regulations.
Everyone hated it.
Now we're getting a war with Iran.
Everyone hates it.
Then people say, Mr. Trump, you're squandering the coalition.
Trump says the coalition, the coalition, I got out of jail.
What are you talking about?
He is getting the benefits conferred upon him by the presidency.
He is getting legacy.
He is building up his legacy for the history books.
He's building a new White House next to the old one.
He renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, literally leaving his mark on the map.
He has these ambitions of territorial expansion, remaking the world in his image, and so on and so forth.
All the things that he's done, remaking the Oval Office, the Rose Garden, turning it into a patio.
The benefits are being conferred upon him, and in exchange, the benefits are being conferred upon the oligarchs.
The people are holding the bag.
You see?
So, no, the generational coalition wasn't squandered.
It was a spook.
It wasn't real.
It was used up like a booster rocket and then discarded because the things they actually wanted achieved their escape velocity, to follow the analogy.
The generational movement propelled Trump into office so that Trump could deliver for his backers.
If he loses popularity and if, you know, little John Doyle and all those sad little heritage Americans, if they get their hearts broken in the process, hoping and wishing and dreaming, well, that's something that they're willing to accept.
And this is something you got to keep in mind.
When you're talking about the world empire of the United States, they're thinking in terms of decades and centuries and in hundreds of trillions of dollars.
What is your complaint, citizen, denizen of Strip Mall Village?
You live in a city, which is really just like a glorified Main Street with a car dealership, a Holiday and Express, a Walmart, an Applebee's.
Am I wrong?
This is where you live.
And lately, you're noticing it's getting a little too Mexican because the Mexicans are the migrant workers in the farms near your town or in the hospitality in your town or whatever.
And you start saying, I don't like all these Mexicans in my town.
You file, you take a number and file a complaint at the help desk.
I'm inconvenienced.
I'm uncomfortable seeing these brown people in my Walmart and my Applebee's and my kids' high school or whatever.
Do you think BlackRock, which has $20 trillion in assets under management, you think they care about that?
Do you think that Open AI, you think they care about that?
Okay.
Do you think Tim Mellon?
Do you think Jamie Dimon, who just built a skyscraper in New York City, do you think they care that you're inconvenienced?
Who do you think brought them here?
Why do you think they're here and who brought them here?
And who do they benefit?
It's a new slave class brought in to replace the old one, you.
They're being brought in by the elites.
They're being brought in by the generational coalition because they make money, okay?
Because that increases the profits of the oligarchs who funded the Trump generational coalition.
So if you think that your provincial concerns from all the way out there in Nebraska or Iowa or Minnesota, you think they're reaching the imperial capital?
So-and-so with two first names is mad that there's too many brown people in his neighborhood?
They don't care because a pipeline needs to go through Saudi Arabia, because a pipeline needs to go through the Middle East, because the trade that goes through the Panama Canal needs to be charged and billed to a Panama controlled by the United States, and so on and so forth.
So we have to think a little bit bigger.
We have to think a little bit more globally.
And we have to be a little more sober-minded about these things.
You want to run the government?
Become the government.
Don't vote for Trump thinking he's going to come and save us.
He's going to come down the golden escalator, which is metaphorical in many ways, rich in symbolism.
He never came down the golden escalator.
He never came down from his class to help us.
We have to go up.
Okay.
We have to actually ascend the escalator if we are going to take what we want.
I know I'm kind of like, we're like an hour into the show already, but I keep seeing that message going around and it couldn't be more emblematic.
It couldn't be more definitive of how they don't get it.
When they say our generational coalition got squandered, and I've been saying it in exactly that way, it's sort of sad.
Your movement, our movement, your movement, my movement, to the extent that we were all part of MAGA and we have all these sentimental feelings about it.
We have these attachments to it.
This is all collateral damage.
Getting us sentimental about it, nostalgic, wistful, emotional, that's all part of it.
It's getting us to emotionally invest.
That's part of it.
And you got to realize that in politics, there's just no place for those kinds of feelings.
This is the biggest game in the world, and there's no room for crying.
There's no room for sentimentality.
There's no room for any of those kinds of feelings, only calculation.
So I see these sad, sad, sad, sad girl dads and wife guys on Twitter.
What about our generational coalition?
Mr. Trump, they honest to God thought a generational movement spawned in response to Trannys playing soccer with their daughters and Columbus Day being renamed Indigenous Peoples Day and because Disney Plus cast the wrong character and the little mermaid or something.
I mean, that's literally what they thought it was.
A guy like Matt Walsh or that archetype, he really drives his daughter to soccer, watches Disney Plus with his daughter, and he thinks that that is the world revolves around this, or at the minimum, the world of politics revolves around this.
And it just doesn't.
Sorry.
It doesn't.
So we have to think as an empire, you, me, we are citizens of the empire.
Welcome to the American Empire.
We're in it.
Yes, we have a global reach.
No, that's not going to change.
Yes, we have a massive amount of diversity, and we're going to have to live with that, actually.
We're going to have to be realistic.
So we need a cutthroat mentality of increasing.
You and me, citizens of the global empire, as heritage Americans, legacy, multi-generational, we have to take what is ours.
It won't be given to us.
No one's going to save us.
No one is going to come and hand it down.
We have to fight for it.
We have to take what is ours.
I'm so sick of all the doom and gloom.
Are we going to win?
Is it possible?
Is America over?
It's always sort of been over.
We're born, we live, we die.
We watch others die.
We get sick.
We don't get what we want.
Life belongs to those.
The empire belongs to those that show up and fight and win.
And winning isn't easy.
So that's how you have to do it.
And that's how we have to approach politics.
So don't get mad.
Get even.
Don't hate the game.
Play the game.
Get in the game.
That's why I tell people, you want to get involved, be a college Republican, get on a campaign, be an intern in the administration, and start working your way up the ladder.
I'll tell you something.
Whether Republican wins or whether a Democrat wins, there's going to be Groypers in the next administration because we've taken care of things.
We are outcome independent.
And just like Anthropic has their people in this government, and just like OpenAI has their people, and just like other people have their people, we need to have our own people.
Outcome independent in the administration.
No loyalty to Republicans, no loyalty to Democrats, loyalty to ourselves, loyalty to the country.
That's what it really means to engage in politics.
So anyway, that's that.
I do want to move on.
I want to get into our war with Iran.
It's just a little bit about where we are.
I do want to get into our war with Iran.
We've got some big developments for you tonight.
And where we left off, we are in a stalemate in the war with Iran.
Week number five is starting.
We have been in this war now for exactly four weeks, and there is no end in sight.
It is a true catastrophe.
And we've talked a lot about why that is.
The United States and Israel have engaged Iran in a joint operation using only air and sea power.
They were hoping for a quick and decisive strike so overwhelming that it would topple the regime, that the masses of Iranians would rise up and change their government.
And this is what the U.S. and Israel, maybe more so the United States, was counting on.
But that's not what happened.
The Iranian regime has proved to be resilient.
And although we killed its leader and much of its leadership, although we have crippled its military and we've bombed them almost 10,000 times, the Iranian regime remains intact.
And remaining intact, they still retain the capability to launch drones and missiles at the Gulf Cooperation Council nations, at U.S. military bases, at Israel, and maybe most importantly, at shipping that transits through the Strait of Hormuz.
So the United States is effectively unable to achieve its strategic objectives.
If its strategic objective was to quickly and decisively collapse the Iranian regime, that goal now appears to be out of reach.
However, we have initiated hostilities.
Iran has retaliated, and they have changed the dynamic of how the region works.
By closing the strait, they have effectively seized control of the global energy market.
20% of the world's energy that transits by ship goes through the strait, and Iran is effectively controlling it via a toll.
It is a drone-enforced tollway.
And the countries that are allied with Iran have safe passage.
And Iran's oil itself is able to be exported.
And nations that are willing to pay a $2 million toll, they're able to get their goods through the strait as well.
But countries that are antagonistic towards Iran, countries at war with Iran or allied with those at war with Iran, they are being attacked.
And so the conflict has settled into an attritional war where the United States is unable to complete its objectives.
Meanwhile, in open hostilities, Iran is choking off the supply of global energy, which is badly hurting the U.S. economy, our allies in the Indo-Pacific, and the economy of Europe.
So Trump is faced with a couple of options.
He can escalate the war and how the war is being fought to ultimately achieve his objectives.
He can, in some way or another, with an invading ground force, with a nuclear strike, those seem to be the only options.
He can escalate the tactics in the fighting to ultimately achieve his aims, which is a regime change.
They will be able then to suppress Iran's ability to attack the strait, and the war will be won.
The alternative is he can de-escalate.
By achieving a ceasefire or a truce, he can get Iran to stop choking off the strait through diplomacy, and this would be considered a tactical retreat and ultimately a strategic victory for Iran.
He doesn't want to do either of these things.
These are two bad options.
If we withdraw, if we surrender, Iran is going to be able to extract concessions and they will have won.
If we escalate, the means by which we do so would be unacceptable.
Politically, geopolitically, can't use a nuclear weapon, unprecedented, can't invade, too many casualties, not enough political capital, no morale, appetite for that domestically.
So Trump is trying to find a third way out of the conflict, and we've been talking about this.
It seems that he had no plan B. If he doesn't succeed and Iran closes the strait, what's the exit plan?
He doesn't seem to have one.
And so as the days and weeks go by, this attritional war is hurting the U.S. economy.
Oil prices are higher than ever.
Stock market is having another very bad week.
SP 500 is down 500 points at close earlier tonight.
As all of this economic pain is setting in, Trump is trying to figure out a third way, a way to escalate the conflict, maybe not achieving total victory, but a decisive blow, a tactical victory that brings Iran to the negotiating table so that we can achieve favorable terms for a withdrawal with dignity, a face-saving tactical retreat with honor.
That seems to be the play.
And how he's decided to do this is to engage Iran's energy industry in a very tactful way.
So far, that seems to be the elephant in the room.
The only way to hurt Iran any further without actually invading Iran, we seem to be doing as much as we can with air and sea power, dropping bombs from above, launching missiles from ships.
It seems that the only other way we can escalate short of a ground invasion is to begin targeting Iran's energy infrastructure, which we have avoided doing so far.
And we've talked about why that is.
In an attritional war, the way that Iran hurts us and uses leverage against us is by raising the price of energy by constraining its supply.
Well, if we bomb Iran's energy, that only constrains the energy supply further.
We take Iran's oil out of the global market.
It reduces global supply and the price goes up further.
What's more, Iran will retaliate, and they will likely retaliate against energy infrastructure on the other side of the Persian Gulf, in Saudi Arabia and Qatar in particular.
That will compound the effects.
So you will take Iran's energy out of the market, and then Iran will take Saudi oil and Qatari LNG off the market.
So it actually worsens the problem of the attritional war.
And it may not even then bring Iran to the negotiating table anyway, because their regime will be intact.
They'll be badly damaged, but we will be too.
So it seems that Trump is trying to circumscribe how he's going to approach energy.
He's finding a third way.
And the third way appears to be not destroying Iran's energy infrastructure, but taking control over it.
And so he's fixated on this small island called Karg Island, as you know, in the Persian Gulf.
And although the oil is extracted and refined on the coastline of Iran's mainland, the actual oil is pumped out via pipeline to the island, 95% of it, where it is then loaded onto a ship and then exported.
And so that seems to be the critical choke point for Iran's entire energy industry, which accounts for half of its exports, 95% of the oil, and the oil is 50% of Iran's exports.
So Trump believes that he doesn't necessarily have to destroy Iran's energy infrastructure.
If he can seize control over it, he can take it hostage and then use that as a counterweight to how Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz.
So to that end, two weeks ago, he bombed Karg Island, bombed its military assets.
Not their energy infrastructure, but just the military assets protecting the island.
In the ensuing two weeks, it seems that he's building up a military force to take over that island.
Invading Iran on the mainland would be almost impossible because of the terrain, the size of Iran's armed forces, the scale of its missile and drone stockpile.
If we tried to invade Iran's mainland, it might be a suicide mission.
But if we can target this eight square mile island, if we can use air power and electronic warfare and other means to shut down that island, shut down that zone and put a military presence on it, then we can seize control of Iran's energy infrastructure without destroying it.
We can say that that is a decisive victory.
We can call that a tactical objective.
That gives us the morale.
That gives us, you could say, the political capital to leave the war with dignity.
And it's a huge bargaining chip that we can use to extract concessions.
We will release your oil if you release ours.
If you release the Strait of Hormuz, we will release Karg Island back to you.
That seems to be the play.
Now, in the meantime, the United States does not want Iran to know that this is coming, that this is happening.
And maybe more importantly, Trump does not want the stock market to know that this is happening.
This is a nutritional war.
It's an economic war.
And part of the economic war, it's not just about the actual scarcity of the commodities involved, which is oil, natural gas, fertilizer, aluminum, other things.
It's also about perception.
And so the demand for these commodities and how they value them in the present is dependent upon how people perceive the flow of the conflict.
If they think the war is going to go on for a long time, and if they think this energy crunch is not going to end anytime soon, it makes the economic problems much more acute right now.
If they think, however, that everything is going according to plan and the war is going to be over any day and that there's going to be an influx of oil next week or in two weeks, then without all the panic, it makes the economic problems less severe.
So it seems that simultaneously, Trump is preparing the way for a major escalation in the conflict, an actual ground invasion, not of Iran's mainland, but of its islands.
It's a huge risk, major gamble.
There's a big risk of American lives.
And it seems that that might be the only way out.
That might be threading the needle between a disgraceful retreat, which gives Iran a strategic victory and an unacceptable escalation.
At the same time that he's preparing for this, he has to reassure the markets that this is not about to happen.
And so that brings us to this past weekend and where we left off on Tuesday.
Last weekend, Trump made a big ultimatum.
Trump said on Saturday that if Iran does not open the Strait of Hormuz and end the war in 48 hours, then Trump would begin targeting Iran's power plants and its energy grid.
Iran immediately replied, predictably, and they said in the event that that happens, Iran will then target all civilian infrastructure in the Gulf countries.
And that's Qatar, that's the United Arab Emirates, that's Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia.
And Iran said, not only will we attack their energy, their LNG, their liquefied natural gas, their oil, but we'll also attack their desalination plants, which they rely on for drinking water.
We'll also attack their hotels, airports.
We'll attack all their civilian infrastructure will be on the table.
And in response to this news, everything on the market tanked.
Gold, Bitcoin, stock market.
This would be an apocalyptic conflict for the economy, not just for oil and natural gas, but for everything.
This would seriously tank the economy.
So then before the markets opened on Monday, Trump said the deadline was extended by five days because Trump said that he was going to give Iran an opportunity to make a deal, that there was going to be this peace process, and he was going to give them an opportunity to find a diplomatic way out of the conflict.
And so he was extending the deadline.
The news from today and this week is that on Wednesday, Trump said the deadline is extended another 10 days.
And so whereas the deadline was supposed to expire today or tomorrow, now the deadline expires not on Monday, but the following Monday.
And Trump said that he has made this decision because the peace process is underway and Iran wants to make a deal.
And they've actually agreed in principle to many points of contention in the conflict.
And this is a story about that extension.
This is from the Wall Street Journal.
It says, quote, President Trump said earlier on Thursday that he was pausing strikes on Iran's energy sector for more than 10 days until April 6th so that peace negotiations can take place.
Trump's previous deadline was Friday.
He said the extension was at Iran's request.
Iran has not requested a 10-day pause and has yet to deliver a final response to a 15-point plan to end the war, according to mediators in the peace talks.
Iranian officials have told the mediators that they are interested in negotiations, but the country's leadership has yet to weigh in and give a final decision.
The U.S. offered a 15-point plan that essentially would swap an end to crippling sanctions for Iranian concessions on every point of conflict, including its nuclear and missile programs and support for regional militias.
Iranian officials already have demanded that the U.S. scale back its excessive demands outlined in the 15-point plan before it agrees to meet to discuss a potential ceasefire.
They also ruled out discussing Iran's missile program as a starting point for the talks, and they do not want to commit to ending enrichment of uranium forever.
The odds of success for a ceasefire remain low with Iran and the United States taking out maximalist demands that are unacceptable to each other side, said the mediators.
So this is where we are, and this kind of catches us up from where we are before.
Like I said, you've got the state of the conflict, which we're all very familiar with at this point.
We're stuck here.
And this has been described variously as an escalation trap.
There's a lot of talk about the escalation ladder, escalation dominance, the escalation trap.
You have to understand there's sort of a logic to how conflict works.
There's a political dimension to how conflict works.
And what I mean by that is, for example, we go in really heavy when the war starts four weeks ago.
We blow up Iran.
We blow up their leadership.
We assassinate their supreme leader, half their military and civilian leadership.
We sink their navy, destroy their whole country.
In retaliation, they close the Strait of Hormuz.
Now, we made and took a shot to kill Iran.
We went for the juggler.
Make no mistake about it.
This was intended to be the killing blow.
This was not a Nicky knack surgical strike.
It wasn't a tactical hit.
This was a definitive, decisive, killing blow, or at least intended to be.
And when they say decisive decision to cut, to come down, they mean we're going to topple the regime.
It's going to be decisive.
On the other side of this blow, there's going to be a different regime.
And it failed.
Now that it failed, Iran has done the only thing that they can, which is to close the Strait of Hormuz.
Now, and this is the problem that we're in, we're realizing we can't finish the job now.
We took our shot, we missed, and now it's going to be impossible to do what we initially set out to accomplish.
And why is that?
Because when you try to strike a killing blow, it actually has a rally around the flag effect.
We killed the symbol of their regime.
And so what this does is it emboldens everybody in the regime.
All the hardliners, all the people that said not to trust the United States, all the people that really believe death to America, really believe in the Shiite eschatology.
They're now in control.
And if they weren't true believers before, they are now.
So they're dug in and they're entrenched because they are facing an existential danger.
We want regime change.
They are the regime.
We're carrying out regime change with assassination strikes.
We're literally threatening to murder all of them.
So this is now about survival.
This is not a negotiation, war as politics by other means.
For them, this is now existential.
Their literal backs as human beings are up against a wall.
They're facing certain death.
So they have to win or they die.
A regime that has to win or die does not negotiate.
They're not going to meet in Pakistan.
They're not going to hang out and talk about concessions, at least not right away.
They want to guarantee their own survival.
And so what they've done in response to this is close the Strait of Hormuz, and they have let it rain on the Gulf countries.
They're now inflicting the maximum amount of pain.
Why?
Why do they have to inflict the maximum amount of pain?
Why do they have to take these steps, bombing the Emirates a thousand times, bombing Saudi Arabia, closing the strait, many ways turning other countries against them?
They have to do this to reestablish deterrence.
They have to do this, in a word, so that the United States doesn't try to kill them again.
The United States tried to kill them.
They failed.
They can't succeed now because with all the air and sea power, they're not going to defeat all the 200,000 Iranian Guard Corps.
They're not going to incite an uprising.
Not going to be able to defeat every guy with a gun that is in control of the infrastructure and institutions of Iran.
So now these people that have just survived the killing shot, they have to make sure that the United States can never attack again.
How do you do that?
Impose the heaviest cost possible.
And because Iran does not have strategic weapons that can hit the United States, they have to do it in other ways.
They have to act like a porcupine as a weaker adversary.
And they have to make it as painful as possible for everybody.
They have to make it a drag.
They have to make it unpleasant and painful so that when the United States backs off, unable to achieve its goals, it thinks twice before they try to kill Iran again.
They have to inflict the maximum amount of damage.
But now the United States is, they're also in a bit of a bind.
They also have to make a certain type of decision here.
So we tried to attack Iran.
We failed.
If we now retreat and Iran reestablishes deterrence, then we look weak by comparison.
And then other countries that we are actually holding in suspended animation right now by the threat of force, they don't take us as seriously.
Maybe they start to do aggressive things.
Maybe they start to do things.
In other words, I'll give you an example.
The reason that China won't invade Taiwan is they think that we will defend it.
And they think that because we have deterred China from intervening.
Our threat of force is credible.
If they invade Taiwan, you're in a war with the United States.
It's a threat of force that is credible, that is strong.
You don't want to mess with us.
North Korea has a nuclear arsenal.
They have some ambitions of their own.
Maybe they don't pursue regional ambitions for the same reason.
And the same is true of other regimes in the world.
The moment that the United States retreats, everybody else recognizes the calculation has changed.
And what we thought, what we calculated to be, the threat of U.S. intervention, might be less than it was before.
And now they recalibrate their foreign policy, their security policy, to be maybe more aggressive, more risk-taking.
Maybe they're going to test the United States, push the boundaries.
As a superpower, as a world hegemon, the United States really can't afford that.
And so we're sort of trapped in the situation where we don't have a lot of good options.
We can't really leave here.
We have to win by any cost.
And what that means is there is no off-ramp.
There's no way to de-escalate this without catastrophic knock-on effects for U.S. deterrence on a global level in every region.
So we have to achieve some kind of credible victory.
Maybe not a total victory, but a credible one.
And the only way to achieve a credible victory at this point is to escalate the fighting.
And this is why we say all the time the United States is being drawn into the fight.
We're not going willingly.
Nobody said 10 years ago, we need a ground war in Iran.
We need to decapitate Iran and then we need a ground war and then we need to send in troops to seize all the radioactive material.
We were drawn into it step by step, working our way up the escalation ladder, killing Sulamani, ripping up the nuclear deal, calling their paramilitary a terrorist group, then authorizing cyber attacks, assassination strikes against their nuclear scientists, shooting down their missiles over Israel, going to war with their proxies, bombing their nuclear sites.
And then one day you find yourself in a situation where we go for it, try to cut the head off the snake in an air campaign, and it doesn't work.
And then all of a sudden, the unthinkable becomes the inevitable.
All of a sudden, the only option left on the table, how do we finally get these guys?
Because they just won't quit.
The only option left on the escalation ladder is ground invasion or nukes.
Ground invasion of some sort or nukes.
We've thrown everything at this country.
And it started with soft power, and then it was smart hard power.
Now it's just raw hard power.
We've thrown everything at them.
Maximum pressure, sanctions.
We have condemned them in the UN.
We got together an international regime of sanctions.
Again, sanctioned their proxies, their institutions, their leaders.
Okay, then we killed the leader of their paramilitary, called it a terrorist group, shot down the did everything step by step, walking up that ladder until we did everything shy of invasion and nukes four weeks ago because we bombed them 10,000 times.
We did everything, all of our standoff weapons, air power, sea power, tomahawk missiles, some say bunker buster bombs, 5,000 pound bombs, 50,000 pound bombs.
We're doing the most, doing everything.
Killed their leader, literally killed their leader.
They won't quit.
So now two options remaining.
We can't get them to quit, can't win.
How do we, we, the superpower, credibility and deterrence on the line against what should be a far weaker adversary, how do we finally pound them into submission?
Ground invasion, nuclear weapons.
This is where we are.
So this is where the present calibration comes from.
This is the present calculation, like we talked about.
So we hit Iran very hard in the opening weeks.
They don't buckle.
They don't bend.
They close the Strait of Hormuz.
They've effectively seized control of global energy.
This is a humiliating embarrassment to the United States because we couldn't achieve our objectives.
And now they've taken control of the global economy and we can't stop them.
Why can we not take back control of the Strait of Hormuz?
Because we can't stop them from launching drones and missiles.
It's impossible.
These weapon systems are too abundant, too mobile, too small.
They're effective.
They're too cheap.
Iran is always making more of them, importing more of them, can launch them from anywhere, from a long distance, a short distance, tethered to a fiber optic cable or using radio.
They can always launch drones.
The Strait of Hormuz is 10, 20 miles wide at its narrowest stretch.
So it is impossible for us to open up the strait.
We are being humiliated and embarrassed.
And we can't end the conflict on Iran's terms.
We cannot end a conflict where the terms are dictated by a far weaker power.
And we can't end the conflict.
And the concession is that Iran took control of the strait and retained control of the strait.
We went for a decisive killing blow and they came out expanding their territory and power.
We killed their leader, dropped 10,000 bombs, sank their navy, and somehow they expanded their control.
Now they control one of the single most important showpoints in international trade.
Unacceptable.
So Trump is left with one option, escalate to de-escalate, escalate to achieve a favorable peace on our terms.
And that is the only conversation that is legitimate here.
This was determined, maybe you could say a week into the conflict, that this was going to happen.
And so, like I said, this is my take on what is happening.
Trump has effectively resolved that if he cannot topple the regime, and again, that became very clear within the first or second week, if Trump cannot quickly topple the regime, and if Iran will not open up the strait and they're going to extract major concessions, even if they get a ceasefire, they're going to seize control of it.
Then, Trump has a narrow lane to escalate the fighting to achieve a tactical victory to then maybe get a more favorable agreement to get a truce, a ceasefire, and end the fighting.
Maybe not forever, but at least for now.
And Trump has calibrated that the only way to do that, we can't invade their country, we can't drop a tactical nuke on them.
We're going to have to do some kind of surgical ground intervention on an island to take control of energy.
And that's either going to be in the Persian Gulf or in the Strait of Hormuz.
And it's going to be an island.
And so, what he did two weeks ago, like we talked about, I believe this was on a Friday, he seized control, or rather, he used an airstrike to bomb the military assets on Karg Island.
And what that did is it rendered Karg Island vulnerable for an invasion.
Karg Island, again, it's that energy hub.
It has all their oil infrastructure for exporting their energy products.
But in the north of the island, is where they have a military airstrip and they have a radar system and they have an anti-air system.
Trump bombed all of that, took it all offline.
And then he came back the following week, if you remember, I believe this was last Tuesday or Wednesday, and Trump said, We're not going to do any attacks on Iran's energy, reassuring the markets, maybe even reassuring Iran.
Then there's talk of diplomacy the next day.
They say that Pakistan, Egypt, and Turkey are trying to get a peace deal together.
The following weekend, after the Karg Island attack, Trump makes his big 48-hour ultimatum and says, If you don't open up the strait, then we're going to destroy your power plants and your power grid.
Before the markets open, Trump calls it off, extends the deadline.
The deadline approaches.
Trump extends it again.
And in the meantime, there's all this talk about diplomacy.
They say there's a peace process.
They say there's negotiations, intermediaries underway.
They say that Iran is amenable to negotiations.
They don't want to be public about it.
They're not very trusting.
All this is happening in the background.
Now, the current deadline extends until the following Monday.
Over the past two weeks, so let's say Karg Island was two weeks ago.
In the past two weeks and in the next two weeks, until the next deadline, this is a four-week stretch.
You have seen actually a second military buildup in the Middle East.
From the time that Trump bombed Karg Island two weeks ago until the end of the next deadline on April 6th, Trump will have deployed another aircraft carrier into the region.
He will have deployed an additional 20,000 troops, and that includes 5,000 Marines, 5,000 airborne, 10,000 other soldiers.
There might be more on the way.
And what all of that looks like is they're putting in place a small force package, not a big one, but maybe the biggest special forces operation that has ever been conducted, very logistically difficult, to seize one of the islands.
They're putting all those pieces in place.
While there is a ruse, not just for Iran, but more so for the public and for the markets of peace talks.
And under the cover of that story, they're building up a force posture to take over one of those islands.
That's the only way that the United States is able to counterintuitively de-escalate the conflict, is to first escalate it.
How do we know this?
There's another story today, yesterday, about the size of the force package.
Like I said earlier in the week, so far you've got 5,000 Marines.
They will arrive in the Persian Gulf this weekend.
You've got another 5,000 airborne troops that are on notice.
They have an 18-hour window to deploy anywhere in the world.
As of yesterday, the Pentagon reports there could be another 10,000 troops going into the region.
This is from the journal.
It says, quote, the Pentagon is looking at sending up to 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East to give President Trump more military options, even as he weighs peace talks with Tehran.
The force, which would likely include infantry and armored vehicles, would be added to the roughly 5,000 Marines and thousands of paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division who have already been ordered to the region.
It is unclear where precisely forces will go in the Middle East, but they will likely be within striking distance of Iran and Karg Island, a crucial oil export hub off of Iran's coast.
Trump has repeatedly said he will open the Strait of Hormuz with or without the help of U.S. allies.
So it's a force package now of 20,000.
It started with 2,200.
Now it's 20,000.
We thought earlier in the war that you were only going to have one aircraft carrier in the region.
You had two initially, the Abraham Lincoln and the Gerald Ford.
As of last week, the Gerald Ford probably got hit by an Iranian missile.
They said it was a fire in the laundry room.
Now they're saying the damage is far more extensive.
That carrier has been taken out of the picture.
It's being repaired in Greece.
Another carrier is being deployed to the region.
A Marine expeditionary unit is being deployed.
You got 3,000 to 5,000 paratroopers.
And now they're saying 10,000 more ground forces.
And what it seems like, and this is what everybody's reporting.
It's not my idea.
I did say it, though, right after Karg Island was bombed.
What everybody now is saying is that there is going to be a major ground operation.
This is being reported by sources in the Pentagon.
It's in all the major papers.
There was a closed-door hearing of the Armed Forces Committee, and three Republicans left that meeting and said, we are against a ground war, which seems to imply that they were briefed about future ground operations.
Today, at the G7 summit in Europe, Marco Rubio told our allies we will be in a war with Iran for two to four more weeks.
Well, what's in two weeks?
Your April 6th deadline.
So we'll be at war at least until that deadline.
Well, if the deadline expires, then we're going to be at war for two more weeks after that.
So all the evidence is pointing towards there's going to be a major ground operation to take back the island.
Let's talk about that operation.
How exactly is this going to work?
The problem that we're facing, by the way, is that we can't open up the strait because the strait is this big.
The strait of Hormuz is like eight miles across, 20 miles across at its narrowest point.
And so Iran, they don't even have to be looking to shoot a drone from 100 miles inside the country and hit a ship going through the strait.
It's also, there's two lanes.
So you got ships going one way and the other way.
It's a very narrow stretch.
And then in terms of where they can actually sail, it's narrower than that.
So Iran is dialed in.
They've got it on lock.
You can't get a commercial vessel or even a U.S. destroyer through the strait because it's that vulnerable.
And it's vulnerable because Iran is a very big country with a big coastline, and they are launching drones and missiles from everywhere all the time.
Some precise, some imprecise, but the target is so small they're going to hit it.
Well, Karg Island is eight square miles.
So the island is not bigger than the narrowest point of the strait.
If they could hit the strait, they could hit the island.
And it's the same problem.
Karg Island is not far from Iran's coastline.
It's only, I think, 10 miles off the coast of Iran.
I don't have all the precise measurements here, all the precise numbers.
It's not far from Iran's coastline.
So you have the same problem on the island that you have in the strait.
If you can't sail a vessel through the strait without getting hit by drones and missiles, how are you going to land on an island without being hit by drones and missiles?
So the plan seems to be that this amphibious assault force, the Marines, are going to land on the island and take the island.
They're going to come under heavy fire from drones and missiles.
They're prepared for that.
The plan is to send in attack helicopters that are going to shoot down the drones.
And they're going to move some of their anti-missile systems away from the other targets, the U.S. bases that have been destroyed.
And those systems will be put in place to protect the island.
So they will land.
They will repair the runway of the airstrip, which was bombed by Trump.
They're going to seize control of the military facilities and they're going to prepare the way.
The paratroopers will land on that airstrip, bringing reinforcements, bringing supplies.
And then maybe those 10,000 or more other troops who will surely be deployed in Kuwait or at hotels and bases elsewhere in the Gulf, then they will be reinforcing and a logistics supply chain will be established and they will control the island.
They will be there for a prolonged occupation.
But again, if we can't shoot down all the drones and missiles in the strait, how are we going to have 100% success rate on the island?
If we can't shoot them down in Doha and Dubai and Abu Dhabi and Riyadh, how are we going to get them on Karg Island?
Do you understand that Iran has destroyed at least 13 bases?
The Pentagon is lying to us.
Iran hit the Gerald Ford and took it out of commission.
They told us about the Gerald Ford that there was a fire in the laundry room.
Well, it's being repaired for two weeks.
You're telling me that the biggest and most sophisticated U.S. carrier, which is the biggest and most expensive class of ships that we have, the Ford class carrier, you're telling me that got taken offline for two weeks because of a fire in the laundry room?
That's not true.
Simultaneously, 13 U.S. bases in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, elsewhere, Qatar, they have been taken offline.
This is more damage to U.S. air bases, I believe, than any point during the Iraq war.
These bases have been rendered inoperable.
The damage is extensive.
They're underreporting the extent of it.
And they're actually putting up soldiers now in hotels because they can't stay at the bases.
There was an attack at a base in Saudi Arabia that killed 13 people today.
There was another attack last week.
It took out five refueling aircraft.
They're allegedly shooting aircraft out of the sky over Iranian or Iraqi airspace.
So here's the question: We can't protect the strait.
We can't protect our military bases.
We can't protect our floating base, which is the carrier.
How are we going to protect an island that's off the coast of Iran?
And the coastline of Iran is 600 miles.
So you've got 600 miles of coastline from which Iranians are going to be launching fiber optic drones that can't be jammed, literally have an unspooling fiber optic cable behind it connected to the receiver.
How are you going to shoot down hundreds of drones flying at the island?
How are you going to shoot down what may be Iran's most precise and advanced missiles that they haven't used yet?
Because they're waiting to exhaust U.S. interceptors.
The inevitable conclusion is that this is a suicide mission, wherever we do it, whether we do it on Karg Island or whether we do it in the Strait of Hormuz.
And they know that.
Israel knows that.
The United States knows it.
Many soldiers are going to die.
20,000 soldiers are going in.
Probably more than that are going to go in in the long run.
It's not going to be 200,000 yet, but it's going to be more than 20,000.
There's a population on the island of 20,000.
You don't think they're building IEDs?
You don't think they're armed?
There's a civilian population of oil workers on the island of 20,000.
We're sending 20,000 soldiers in.
And what's going to happen is there's going to be a lot of casualties.
And they know that.
They're telling us that.
They're priming the pump.
That's why they're reporting it all the time.
Why are they telegraphing their moves?
Because they're getting the public ready.
They do this.
They do it all the time.
They did it when we withdrew from Afghanistan in 21.
They told us this story about ISIS-K and blah, blah, blah.
They're doing that now.
And they're telling us a lot of Americans are going to die.
The Israelis are telling us Americans are going to die, but that's okay.
We're okay with that.
Americans are going to die.
And it's questionable whether they're even going to be able to hang on to the island.
Because once they take it, they're going to be under heavy fire.
And the Iranians know what's coming.
A couple of days ago, Iran's parliamentary speaker said, we have intelligence that the U.S. is going to try to invade an island.
And they said we are going to target all the infrastructure of the Gulf country that is helping them to do it.
That's either the Emirates or Saudi Arabia.
They are going to be raining missiles down.
They might even hit their own energy infrastructure.
They might even do that.
They'd rather lose it than have the United States control it.
And then they'll attack desalination in the Gulf.
Then they'll attack Saudi Aramco or they'll attack desalination in Dubai.
Because this is it for them.
This is an existential battle for them.
They either use it or they lose it.
So this is how they're thinking.
If they lose this war, the United States is going to take another swing at them.
They have to win and impose conditions on us.
They're fighting to the finish.
They're not going to let the United States take control of their energy and then they're negotiating on unfavorable terms, give up their missiles, their nukes, their proxies, their oil, and wait for the United States to topple their government.
If we lose and it's a suicide mission, then they're going to retaliate against Saudi energy and it's going to be a catastrophe for us.
If we take and hold the island, they might bomb their own energy and Saudi's energy.
And it's a catastrophe for all of us.
And what this appears to be is very similar to the first operation.
It's another trap.
It's another trap.
We killed their supreme leader, sank their navy, we dropped 10,000 bombs on them.
It's not enough.
You got to do an invasion.
We don't want to do an invasion.
How about a small one?
How about an island?
Okay, I guess, you know, we still want to win this thing.
What happens when that doesn't work?
Then what are you going to do?
You're going to retreat.
It's a sunken cost fallacy.
We can't retreat now.
We're too invested.
So we got to go for the island.
What happens when we lose the island?
Well, we can't quit now.
Look at how many Americans died.
What happens when a thousand Americans die and we don't take the island?
Are we going to say, oh, well, we tried.
We wash our hands of this.
We lost.
Does that make it more or less likely that we de-escalate?
It's already impossible that we de-escalate.
They're probably not even thinking about it.
What happens when a thousand Americans die?
More or less likely than now.
Then we're going to come in with a vengeance.
Oh, they killed a thousand Americans.
Now they really got to pay.
Now we need to send in a million troops.
We need to get the Kurds and the Saudis and the Emiratis.
We need a coalition war.
What happens when the UK and France deploy their only operable destroyers to the strait and they lose them?
Are they going to be involved in the war too?
Is it going to be a coalition war now in Iran?
This is what we're talking about.
What does Israel want in the conflict?
Israel wants regime change.
They're not going home without it.
They're having these peace talks.
The U.S. and the intermediaries are threatening peace talks.
What does Israel have to say about it?
They say, we got to hit Iran as hard as we can in the next two days because peace might break out at any time.
They have not let go of the dream of regime change.
And they're not letting go to the people that will deliver it, which is us.
They're drawing us further in.
They want Americans to die.
They want us to up the ante so that we get further stuck.
So we have fewer and fewer off-ramps and options.
And so the only possible path through is more escalation until we collapse the regime.
And they will fight this war to the last American.
Israel will fight their war with Iran to the last American, to the last gallon of oil, to last barrel of oil, gallon of gas.
That's what this is.
Of course, Israel wants us to up the ante.
The more that we have invested, the more that we've lost, the more we have to recoup.
So this is where it's going.
And I don't like it.
It's very unpredictable.
It comes down to the president.
It comes down to whether this operation succeeds.
And literally, it could go either way.
And the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
If Trump can get a deal and de-escalate, we can all breathe a sigh of relief.
The Antichrist and his arrival is postponed.
But if we fail and Americans die, get ready for another year of $200 oil.
Get ready for oil to be $200 a gallon until 2028.
And whatever the knock-on effects are of that on our AI economy, there are a lot of indicators that this is not going to go the way you think it will.
That is the current state of the conflict.
Now, in the meantime, they're prepping JD Vance to take over the peace talks.
We covered this on Tuesday, and I am so vindicated.
I said this last week.
I said it last Monday.
I said, when David Sachs, and you know what else I found out?
So that's the state of the conflict.
That's the tactics.
That's the strategy.
That's your geopoll.
Now let's talk about politics.
So last week you had Joe Kent resign from the admin and yada, yada, yada, right?
Okay.
Well, what nobody noticed, nobody was paying attention.
It wasn't last Saturday, but the Saturday before that, I was paying attention.
David Sachs, the AI czar in the White House, he was the first admin official to come out against the war.
David Sachs came out two Saturdays ago and he said we need to bring the war in Iran to a close.
Do you know that as an AI czar, he's the temporary government employee?
They can only bring him on for 120 days.
His term just expired.
Interesting timing, interesting timing.
So David Sachs, because he's not a cabinet level appointee, I don't know how all these regulations work, but there's a lot of regulations about how and under what conditions you can hire people in the administration.
He was brought on for a limited time role.
He only had 120 days as an AI czar, unofficial post.
And his term just expired this week.
Now he's going to be the chairman of the National Science and Technology Council.
He's on the board or something.
But his term just expired, but not before last week, he was the first Trump administration official, technically speaking, to say the war should end.
That was two Saturdays ago.
Then a few days later, Joe Kent resigned as the director of counterterrorism under the DNI with his letter saying that he's against the war in Iran.
Then he went on Tucker the following day.
And you know what I said two weeks ago?
I said, I smell an operation.
This is an op.
Why?
Because these are two Vance allies.
These are three Vance allies.
David Sachs, it cannot be understated.
He is the Jew behind Elon Musk.
Not really.
He's actually a reasonable guy.
I shouldn't say that because he's pretty reasonable, but he is a Jew.
And he has been in Peter Thiel's orbit since 1992.
They went to Stanford together.
They wrote, what is it?
The Diversity Myth.
That was the book that kind of put Peter Thiel on the map.
They co-wrote Diversity Myth and they went on like a little tour together and they were at Stanford.
So David Sachs was with Peter Thiel from the beginning, as was Tucker Carlson, who has known Peter Thiel since 92 as well.
They met in D.C. at some Fed convention and Tucker, I believe, met the two of them.
So Tucker is tight with Thial.
David Sachs is tight with Thial.
David Sachs was at PayPal and Confinity at the beginning, CoFinity, Confinity.
That was Peter Thiel's peer-to-peer payment platform before PayPal, which Elon Musk then joined in the year 99 or 2000.
So these guys are all there at the beginning.
David Sachs and Thial have been boys since college and they were there before PayPal was PayPal.
And then Elon Musk joined PayPal.
And Peter Thiel has known Tucker since 92.
They've all been there since the beginning.
JD Vance, as you know, is a creation of Peter Thiel.
JD Vance met Peter Thiel and he was at Yale, and Vance said that was the most important meeting of his lifetime.
And Peter Thiel hooked him up with his first job in Silicon Valley at some biotech firm.
And then Peter Thiel hooked him up with his job at a venture capital firm.
And then Peter Thiel hired him at his venture capital firm.
And then when Vance started his own venture capital firm, Peter Thiel funded it.
And that venture capital firm invested in other companies that Peter Thiel had invested in.
And then when Vance ran for Senate, Peter Thiel funded it to the tune of $15 million, as did David Sachs, who gave him a million dollars.
And when JD Vance sought the vice presidency, it was Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and David Sachs, and Tucker Carlson that persuaded Trump to nominate him.
When Vance ran for Senate, Tucker Carlson promoted him 45 times on Fox News and their friends.
And Tucker Carlson's son, Buckley, works in JD Vance's office, the press office, as a matter of fact.
Interesting, isn't it?
Interesting that JD Vance's comms team has Tucker Carlson's son working in it.
Do you think that Tucker Carlson's son talks to his father?
JD Vance's comms team that talks to the press employs Tucker Carlson's son.
Well, Tucker Carlson is part of the press and he talks to his son.
Okay, it goes around and around and around like this.
Joe Kent ran for office in 2022.
Peter Thiel maxed out his contribution for him.
Tucker Carlson promoted his campaign on his show repeatedly.
Joe Kent is in the CIA.
Tucker Carlson's dad was in the CIA.
Peter Thiel is a CIA contractor.
His billions come from Palantir, which got venture capital funding from InQTEL, the CIA's venture capital firm.
Around and around it goes.
Tucker Carlson's Tucker Carlson Network got seed funding from the Rockbridge Institute.
That's Chris Buskirk from Claremont.
Thiel-funded think tank.
That, or rather, he got the money from 1789 Capital, created at Rockbridge, which is a Vance venture capital firm.
It just goes around and around.
These people are all connected, okay?
So when David Sachs says he's against the war, and then Joe Kent says he's resigning from the admin over the war, and then Tucker interviews Joe Kent, you can bet that something is going on with JD Vance.
Why?
Because JD Vance is being sidelined by the Israelis.
Why?
Because Vance is friends with Tucker.
Tucker criticizes Israel.
So the Israelis are wondering if they have Vance in their pocket.
He's not the safe option.
Increasingly, they see Rubio as the safe option.
Vance wants to run for president in 2028.
Right now, he's the favorite.
The Israelis want to change that.
The Israelis, the Jews, Zionists, they want to get Rubio in his position instead.
So they are actually perfectly happy to see Trump fail because of the Iran war because they know that Vance will fail with the administration and they want him to.
As they're playing a lot of games to convince people that Vance is responsible for the war.
And they're trying to have him hanged alongside Trump by this catastrophe, which is the war.
So Vance's people are running a counter operation to save him from that culpability.
They are trying to promote him as the negotiator who will end the war.
So that's why they got David Sachs and Joe Ken out there protesting the war because they want Trump to see that.
And inside the admin and outside the admin, they're suggesting that maybe Vance should be the one that extricates Trump from this quagmire.
Kushner couldn't do it.
Witkoff couldn't do it.
Maybe Vance can.
So there's been all these reports since this weekend, this weekend, that the only man for the job to end the war is Vance.
And this is coming from inside and outside.
It seems there are elements inside the administration that want Vance to lead the charge.
So now the Israelis are going to the press and saying, well, the only people that want Vance to take the initiative on this are the Iranians.
Vance's allies inside and outside are saying, if anyone can bring an end to the conflict, it's JD Vance because they want him to be at that negotiating table, getting the credit for ending the war.
Why?
So that in 2027 or 28, when he's grilled and they say, where were you when the Iran war started?
He could say, well, I didn't agree with it, but I supported my president and I brought an end to it.
I was the one that negotiated an end to it.
They're solving the Iran problem for him early.
Well, the Israelis have anticipated this and they're countering him.
How?
They're going to their papers.
Miriam Adelson's paper in Israel said Vance and Netanyahu are fighting.
And the New York Post, a Murdoch-owned paper, friend of Netanyahu, says the only people that want Vance to negotiate with the Iranians are the Iranians.
Why are they saying that?
They're saying that because they want to poison pill the idea.
Well, the only people that want Vance to lead the negotiations are the enemy, because the enemy thinks they can get one over on him.
They're lobbying Trump.
The Vance people are lobbying Trump to let Vance take the lead and solve his Iran problem.
The Israelis are lobbying Trump, saying the only people that want Vance to lead it are the enemy because they think they can take advantage of him.
Don't let Vance lead the charge.
There's this battle going on.
And I anticipated this and I told you this was the case.
And this is the story from Axios from Barack Ravid.
It says, quote, Vice President JD Vance is preparing to take on the most important assignment of his career, steering U.S. efforts to end a war he'd been concerned about waging in the first place.
Was he concerned?
Says who?
Says Barack Ravid.
I don't trust Barack Ravid.
Says who?
The Israelis?
I don't trust, or I don't know, some of the Jews in the administration, I don't trust them.
Some people say he was in favor.
Other people say he was skeptical about the war in the first place.
It says Vance has already made multiple calls with Netanyahu, met Gulf allies about the war, and has been involved in indirect communications with the Iranians.
He's expected to be the top U.S. negotiator in potential peace talks.
Whose expectations are those?
Says who.
This is like watch house of cards.
They're speaking it into existence.
Nobody was expecting that Vance would lead the negotiations.
They're saying that.
They're engaging in creation.
They say he's widely expected.
No one's expecting that.
They want people to acquiesce to this, to accede to this.
Oh, well, Vance is going to.
So people are saying you're going to be the guy, huh?
Oh, I suppose so.
It's a trick.
Vance was highly skeptical of Israel's rosy pre-war assessment of how the war would unfold and currently expects the war to continue for another few weeks, say U.S. and Israeli sources.
Was he skeptical?
Because the New York Times says he was all in.
All in.
Interesting that some of the stateside sources from the Times say he was all in, but some of the Israeli sources and U.S. sources say no, he was very skeptical.
It's hard to know what to believe here.
Vance advisors think some in Israel are trying to undermine the VP, possibly because they find him insufficiently hawkish.
Israeli officials deny that.
President Trump made Vance's role official in a cabinet meeting on Thursday, asking the VP to give an update on Iran and noting that he was working with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on the negotiations.
A senior official said if the Iranians can't strike a deal with Vance, they don't get a deal.
He's the best they're going to get.
Why do you think they're saying that?
A White House official sought to tam down the speculation, saying that Witkoff and Kushner are still working their lines and the VP is ready to play his part if negotiations ripen, but we aren't there yet.
The Iranians need to decide if and how they want to come to the table.
Administration officials suspect foreign agents of spreading the word that Iran wants to negotiate with Vance.
Vance advisor Andrew Sarabian said on X that a CNN report to that effect was evidence of a foreign propaganda op.
He didn't say it was Israel.
An administration official told Axios, referring to the narrative that the Iranians see Vance as inclined to cut a deal and get out, it's an Israeli op against JD.
There's no evidence of such an Israeli operation, says Axios.
White House officials started suspecting that some in the Israeli government were trying to smear Vance after a difficult phone call on Monday between Netanyahu and Vance.
In the call, Vance mentioned that several of Netanyahu's predictions about the war had proven to be too optimistic, particularly when it came to prospects of a popular uprising to topple the regime, according to an Israeli and U.S. source.
The day after that call, a right-wing Israeli newspaper owned by Miriam Adelson reported that Vance had yelled at Netanyahu over the issue of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.
Multiple U.S. and Israeli sources said the story was erroneous, and Vance advisors suspected it was leaked by the Israeli side.
An Israeli official denied Netanyahu planted the story and said his office had actually denied it when approached by reporters from multiple outlets.
So I told you this was happening.
I told you something is up in the White House.
Something is up.
And if I were to guess, I would say it is this.
This war is a disaster.
And Vance owns the war.
Why?
Because he's the vice president.
Why?
Because his competitive advantage, his comparative advantage against Rubio is that he's America first, a national populist, and so on.
Rubio as Secretary of State may not serve the full four years.
And either way, he will be credited with the Caribbean portfolio, not the Middle East.
He will be credited for the successful Southern spear operation, the takeover in Venezuela, the operation forthcoming in Cuba, not the debacle in the Middle East.
And Rubio is sidestepping the issue.
What's more, Rubio is now the favorite of the Israelis and the pro-Israel Jews as of the last several months.
Why?
Because after my interview with Tucker and Tucker's general anti-Semitism, which I don't agree with, by the way, I'm against blood guilt.
Tucker seems to hate Jews.
I don't because I'm a Christian and I hate blood guilt.
So I agree with Tucker on a lot of things.
I don't agree that when he says things like hummicing Pharisees that killed Christ, I'm like, hey, man, I don't agree with the blood guilt, okay?
We all killed Christ because our sins put him on the cross.
So I don't agree with that.
Tucker's a little too hardcore, and I think he should really lighten up and stop hating Jews so much.
Anyway, that's just an aside.
But it was Tucker's, it's Tucker's anti-Semitism.
It's his hatred of Israel.
It's his alliance with me, which is deep and fruitful and deepening all the time, every single day.
We have a great relationship.
It is my friendship with Tucker, and it is Tucker's connection with Vance, which has made the Jews and the Israelis skeptical of Vance.
They told us.
After my interview with Tucker, after the Tucker cost, Republican Jewish Coalition held a summit in Vegas.
And Mark Levin, the chief propagandist in the war, he said, we the Jews have our resources, our clout, our positions, and we're going to use them.
He said, and we're going to be watching very carefully at who associates with who and who disavows who.
He said, and we're going to make our decisions for 2028.
And what he was implying is this.
If Vance doesn't fire Buckley Carlson, if Vance doesn't disavow Tucker and the Groypers, then organized Jewry will back somebody else.
That is what he was saying.
They were all telegraphing that.
If you have eyes to see and ears to hear.
And ever since then, ever since late October, the Jewish money has quietly been moving to Rubio.
If you pay attention, the evidence for this is everywhere.
He's so presidential.
He gave that NATO speech in Europe.
He handled Venezuela.
He's so competent.
And at a White House meeting, 25 Wall Street donors raised their hand in a meeting with Trump and said they prefer Rubio to Vance.
So the Israeli money was already moving.
Okay.
World Jewry was already moving against Vance and in favor of Rubio.
And this Iranian war, this is just the cherry on top.
This is what will bury Vance.
They're going to get Vance to own the liability.
They'll save their boy Rubio.
This is their plan.
Well, the Vance people are not going down without a fight.
They see this.
They're countering it.
How?
Well, they're against the war, actually, because they think it will hurt JD's chances.
This is why Bronze Age pervert is against the war.
He's allowed to be, even though he's a Jew.
Tucker is against the war.
I think he's also just against war in general.
And there's a faction from within the CIA that is against the war.
Because he's going to endorse Vance in 2027 or 28, and he'll have credibility.
All the people that are against the war are going to say, well, where was JD Vance during the Iran war?
And in comes Joe Kent to say, remember me, remember my letter.
I was a conscientious objector.
Well, I endorse Vance.
He's being put into place, mark my words.
So will Tucker.
So will the others.
And they, at the same time, are working inside and outside the administration to give Vance the opportunity to end the war.
Why?
Because that's the line they're going to use during the primary.
They're going to take a negative and turn it into a positive.
It goes from Vance was a pussy and hid because he didn't want to be blamed for this catastrophic war to Vance was quiet because he didn't want to go.
He didn't want to defy his president, his boss, but he had his reservations.
And in the end, he was the lead negotiator that ended the war.
Counter-counterattack.
The Israelis see Team Vance moving and they're countering it.
How?
They're poisoning the well.
Jews love poisoning wells.
They love Christian blood for ritualistic purposes.
That's a joke.
They don't do that.
That's a Tucker Carlson belief.
I don't subscribe to that.
That's something Tucker Carlson is really plugged into, I think.
He thinks Jews poison the wells in the Middle Ages to kill Christians, to kill Goyam.
I think.
I imagine he thinks that.
And I think that's blood guilt.
And I don't like that shit because I'm a Christian.
Anyway, I tried to talk him in off the ledge.
He wouldn't listen.
When I went on his show, I was extending an olive branch.
I was trying to convince him, bro, we shouldn't hate these people just because they're Jewish.
Like, he wouldn't listen.
That's a joke.
Anyway.
But so the Israelis, they are poisoning the well.
If Team Vance is trying to save him by anointing him, the lead negotiator who will save us from the war, the Israelis are sabotaging this effort.
How?
They're going into the Israeli press and saying, you know, Vance hates Israel.
They're going into the American press and they're saying the only people that want Vance to lead the negotiations are the Iranians because the Iranians know they could pull one over on him.
And it tracks because they're saying that Tucker is a Qatari and an Iranian, right?
If they say the Iranians want Vance and the people that want Vance to lead the negotiations are the Iranians, well, they say Tucker is pro-Iran.
They say that whole scene is Iranian, Qatari.
It fits, it tracks with this.
They're poisoning that.
Now, what are we supposed to think and feel about this?
Well, let me tell you something.
You might be inclined to say, well, if Vance is going to end the war, who are we to oppose?
And I sort of agree with that, actually.
You know what?
If Vance can end the war, then good for him.
I believe Tucker and Joe Kent and David Sachs and Vance, excuse me, they are against the war.
If Miriam Adelson and Rupert Murdoch are poisoning the well and they're trying to hurt Vance, if Mark Levin is against Vance, then that's a good thing for Vance.
That means that's good.
That being said, I am a little bit still skeptical.
The reason, number one, they want to save Vance more than that.
Number two, these people that are either involved with the foreign government or the CIA, I'm talking about Tucker, Kent, Vance, Sachs, Peter Thiel.
To the extent that they are against the war, it is not because they are against Israel.
They're not.
They're not against Israel.
And they make it clear all the time.
Joe Kent says, I'm not saying we're against Israel.
I'm against Netanyahu.
I'm against the war.
You notice that Tucker says the exact same thing.
Tucker says, I'm not against Israel.
I'm against a war.
I'm against Netanyahu.
When he interviewed Piers Morgan in Saudi Arabia last year, Piers Morgan said, why are you against foreign aid to Ukraine, but not Israel?
How much foreign aid should we give Israel?
Tucker wouldn't answer the question.
He wouldn't say one way or the other.
Should we cut foreign aid?
Should we not?
Wouldn't commit.
Why?
It's because they represent a faction.
They're not anti-Israel.
They're not against world Jewry even.
They actually see Israel as an indispensable ally.
They just believe that the hardliners in Israel, the hardliners, a faction of the regime, want the United States to do more than is in our interest and would be detrimental because we need to do things elsewhere, specifically in China.
Tucker's a China hawk.
Vance, Thiel, Bannon are China hawks.
Steve Bannon at CPAC, I'm very disappointed.
I'm very disappointed.
I thought me and Steve Bannon were going to be friends.
But I have to say, Steve Bannon took the stage at CPAC and says, I like Josh Hammer.
Josh Hammer's a great guy.
No, he isn't.
Josh Hammer is the scum of the earth.
Josh Hammer hates whites, is a dual loyalist.
He's a Israel-first Jew who it could not be more clear, his contempt for this country and its people.
No, he's not a good guy.
He's not a patriot.
He's a dirtbag and he's a fucking idiot and he's ugly.
Bannon is a China hawk.
Tucker is a China hawk.
Thial is a Chinahawk.
They're not anti-Israel.
They are incidentally Israel critical because the hardliners in Israel want us to fight Iran and not China.
That's their problem.
There's only enough Patriot missile batteries and THAD systems to go around.
There's only enough U.S. force to go around.
And they don't want it in Ukraine.
That's why they're against the war in Ukraine.
And they don't want it in the Gulf because they don't want a war with Iran.
They want it in Taiwan.
They want it in Taiwan to defend against China because they see that as the future.
And I'm not necessarily against that per se.
I'm not against that in and of itself in principle because I think that's a more appropriate U.S. posture for sure.
It's not all wrong.
There's some nuance here.
There's some subtlety.
But I do believe that unless we confront world Jewry, I don't know that China is our biggest threat.
I honestly do believe it is going to be an Israeli superstate.
Whatever Israel becomes after this conflict, I believe that might be the biggest threat to America.
They have a much larger industrial base and so on.
But China's got some problems baked in.
And at the end of the day, we can share the world with China.
And China has not penetrated our system to the same extent as the Jews.
And so I really believe that if your posture is we could be friends with Israel, we just need to kind of get them to back off a little bit so that we can focus on China.
Directionally, I'm not against that, but I think you're putting the cart before the horse.
I think we have to actually prioritize extricating our society from the influence of international Jewry first.
Although that sounds crazy, I think first you got to get these Jews out of AI.
That's our number one national security threat.
Yes, there's a race going on between Chinese AI and American AI.
But American AI isn't even American because it's run by Sam Altman.
And it's run by all these people.
I mean, our Silicon Valley is penetrated by Unit 8200, by Mossad.
It's not really ours.
And you see this energy crisis.
What happens when Israel controls that choke point, not Iran?
What happens when Israel controls the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf rather than the Houthis in Iran?
What then?
Israel wants to colonize the islands in Greece.
Israel wants to colonize Cyprus.
Israel wants to colonize the Sinai.
They want to build a base in Somaliland in southern Yemen.
They want to take control of Yemen.
They want to create a Kurdish state or something.
They want to control that whole swave.
They want to control the Bosporus Strait.
They want to control the Aegean, the Eastern Med, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea.
They want it all.
And they've got influence in Russia and they've got influence in the U.S.
And they have their fingerprints all over our defense industry, our AI industry.
And I'm deeply skeptical because Vance is a part of this problem itself.
If Vance's sugar daddy is Peter Thiel, just look at who Peter Thiel is in business with.
Peter Thiel runs Palantir with Alex Karp, who is one of these guys.
He's a Jew, loyal to Israel, because Peter Thiel is not threatened by the Zionists in the slightest.
He thinks we have to just deal with them.
And these people all run in the same circles.
You know who is the first guy to contribute to Trump's campaign from that world?
It was Jacob Hellberg.
Jacob Hellberg is married to Keith Raboy.
He's currently the assistant to Alex Karp.
He's in tight with Sam Altman.
I believe Sam Altman officiated his wedding, his gay wedding, his literal gay wedding to his husband, Keith Raboy, who is at Facebook, I believe.
These people are all, okay?
And Jacob Hellberg is like a pro-Israel Jew.
Now he's an AI technology advisor in the government.
And Sam Altman and Peter Thiel, they're working together.
Alex Karp and Sam Altman are working together.
These people are all running in the same circle.
So the idea that we're going to put Little Tech JD Vance, who wants to work with Israel, not the hardliners, but the other elements to take on China, I don't trust them and I don't trust that.
So yes, they're trying to bring an end to the war in Iran to save Vance.
Also, because they're prioritizers as a faction in the Pentagon, they want to prioritize Indo-Pacific over Europe and the Middle East.
But the real priority is that we get our sovereignty back.
And that seems to be a non-starter when you have Little Tech infiltrated by the Israelis and Vance represents all of them.
They're the kingmaker for Vance's ascendancy.
So that's the other side of this.
And that's the other track to watch is the role that Vance will play.
And it's funny that Whitney Webb doesn't see any of this.
Hey, numb nuts.
Hey, dummy.
You see Whitney Webb's take?
Whitney Webb went on Jimmy Dore.
It's a show for idiots.
And Whitney Webb goes, so the reason that Joe Kent resigned is because they want to groom far-right terrorists for pre-crime.
It's like, you fucking idiot.
So for you, everything just is one thing.
Every question has the same answer.
Hmm, a CIA officer wrote this letter.
Why did he resign?
Pre-crime, pre-crime, false flag, pre-crime.
That's all you got.
One trick pony.
It's right there in front of you, dumbass.
It's right there in front of you.
I saw Whitney Webb on Jimmy Dore.
Whitney Webb wrote One Nation Under Blackmail, and everybody glazes her ceaselessly without rest.
They glaze her without a reprieve.
Whitney Webb goes on Jimmy Doerr and she goes, Well, I would be very cautious about Joe Kent because he's CIA.
I'm going, okay.
And Jimmy Doerr says, Well, why?
What's the angle?
And she goes, Well, I don't know.
If I had to guess, maybe it's because Joe Kent is going to catalyze anti-Semitic right-wing terrorism.
She goes, because in the first Trump administration, they said the domestic violent extremist threat is coming from the far right.
And Joe Kent is from the far right.
And so if he writes this letter, it's going to galvanize anti-Semites to do terrorism.
And then they're going to do a pre-crime AI system.
And I'm like, you're just guessing.
You're just guessing.
And you have no idea what you're talking about.
Hey, it's right there in front of you, stupid.
Didn't you see David Sachs' statement?
Don't you know that Peter Thiel maxed out the individual contribution of Joe Kent?
Don't you know any of this stuff?
Stupid.
But you don't because you're just a stupid liberal.
But you wouldn't know any of that because you're just a stupid liberal and all your ideological priors are wrong because you have to sit there and insist that it's Israel, not Jews, and there's something inherently wrong with the ideological foundations scaffolding for our critique of Jewish influence.
You have to insist upon this because you are a stupid liberal and that is why you're never going to get it.
So take off the glasses and shut the fuck up.
I saw that.
It was embarrassing.
I left a comment.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, go to my Twitter.
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Although we'll all continue to hide our power levels, the teens and I are going to break out and get something new that we can either wear indoors or smuggle it into our various rallies, etc.
Would you rather be an organic meat on cutting board food as fuel chud or married to a slut who's busting it down in a clav sprinter van while you say happy wife, happy life at home?
DHX for the new merch, Gotimoti.
Sucks, I can't pay my rent next month now.
But I'll be homeless wearing my white quarter zip.
Democrats sent a drill Tuesday through reliably Red Florida, flipping two legislative seats, including the district containing President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.
Well, you got the United States, you got Mexico, you got Belize, you got, let's go in the other, I don't believe, does Guatemala?
I'm not sure.
But I know it's Honduras.
I know it's Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, France, because you got French Guyana, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti.
Does Dominican Republic count?
I mean, maybe not really.
I mean, how big is the Gulf of Mexico?
Only the northern part?
Or I guess it's bounded by like Mexico, Florida, Cuba.
So then you would say maybe Bahamas as well.
I mean, do all the islands count?
I don't know.
I guess I don't really know how big if it's everything from like America to, because then it's then it's like the South American coast and the U.S. coast.
Oh, states.
I thought you meant like governments, like countries, states.
That's just like, what, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi.
That's it, right?
Just them.
I thought you meant like when you said states, I thought you meant like governments.
Sneeko streaming in mosques with European Muslims reminds me of white evangelicals posting photo dumps with black kids on their Africa missionary trip.
I can't really talk about those discussions, but yeah, they can't do it.
They can't do it.
Let a nigga get paid.
I'm so underpaid.
I would be so much richer.
But I don't give a shit about money.
Do you know how much money I've turned down?
I've turned down like two and a half million dollars in the past year because I would have to compromise in one way or another.
Two and a half million dollars in one year.
That's a lot of dough.
Two and a half million dollars I've turned down over my principles.
And I probably would have made millions more off of kick and rumble if I just wasn't like anti-Semitic or whatever.
So the most chronically under people say, shut up, you make all this money.
It's like, I know I should be making like 10 times as much, but I do it for you guys.
Cause I'm well, I do it for the truth.
If I did it for you guys, I would have sold out maliciously.
I would have sold out with a vengeance.
I would have like joined the enemy to hurt you specifically.
Like that would be the goal.
It wouldn't be like a benign, like, hey, we got to pick our battles.
If I was doing it for you, I would have switched sides and become a malicious inquisitor, like maliciously hurt you on purpose for money.
I would have, I would have done the opposite.
I would do things that lose money to hurt you more.
As opposed to like not taking the money out of principal, I would go out of my way to lose money to inflict more pain because I get off on the cruelty more.
Also, check your P.O. box whenever you can less than three hashtag HiEHC.
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Do you think the aspect of drone warfare footage has also changed or as in no way America could tolerate the demoralization of soldiers being blown up like the primitive war of Russia and Ukraine?
I was talking to my BF about your merch and he said he's probably got a sweatshop in some abandoned Chicago warehouse full of illegals that he plans on handing over to ICE when Payday comes around.
1-1 Whitney web posting about how Epstein worked with Fat Tony Salerno, the boss of the Genevieve's family in NY.
Caps 13 cent $40.
Lindsey Graham said on Bill O'Reilly that Iran are religious Nazis and if you don't believe that you're wrong.
It's like hey buddy I'm already buying.
Gordita Jr. Haroom for cent $20, like the big smoking gun about Epstein as he worked with a mafioso who died 35 years ago and whose family has no power anymore.
Gordon Jr. Haroom for cent $20, three-thirds these MFS just allergic to saying it's a Jewish thing and add to some other safe kosher version of it.
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