IRAN WAR DAY 40: TRUMP SURRENDERS, CEASEFIRE COLLAPSES??? | America First Ep. 1670
Nick Fuentes dissects the collapse of the Iran ceasefire, alleging Pakistan and Iran intended a broader deal including Lebanon that failed after Israel struck Hezbollah. He claims Trump and Vance initiated this war to scuttle the 2015 nuclear deal, costing the U.S. $200 billion in missiles while failing deportations or regime change. Fuentes argues Iran now controls the Strait of Hormuz, turning the conflict into an attritional economic war where rising oil prices hurt the U.S. AI sector. He accuses former MAGA supporters of delusion for backing Vance in 2028 despite these betrayals, concluding that America faces permanent strategic weakness unless it rejects globalist collusion and embraces his vision of soldiers of Christ against perceived Jewish control. [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, 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.
to say 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're asleep.
They know how much REM sleep you're getting.
They know your resting heart rate.
They know how many calories you consume.
Think about the ways that they can manipulate you.
You have a computer in your refrigerator, a computer in your car, a computer in your home security system, a computer in your everything, a 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 rape of everybody by the system forever.
My life is like a first person video game, you know?
This is like, this is my primary.
This is me like walking down the hall.
This is my primary weapon.
Press circle to interact.
Press circle to interact with this item.
At the end of the day, here's the question Is it worth it to save the country?
Does the country matter?
Preserve our civilization?
Is it worth it to preserve our religion?
Maybe bigger than that, is the truth worth it?
What is the truth worth to you?
What is telling the truth worth to you?
Is it worth something, nothing?
What are you willing to give to tell the truth?
All you need is Jesus.
All you need is prayer.
These material appetites, they will never be satisfied.
And even if they are, it'll never be an adequate substitute for communion with our Holy Father, with somebody, with the author of the world.
And every mother and father understands the love for a child.
And that is how we were made, we were designed that way.
Because through that experience, we could understand.
By analogy, God's love for us.
It says in Revelation that God will wipe away every tear.
And that's like, to me, it makes me want to cry when I read that.
People experience these things in their lives.
We've all been there where you feel like the whole world's against you, the walls are closing in.
And you read something like that that says that God, like our Father, our Creator, is going to wipe your tears off your face.
It's drag queens in schools, it's 18 year olds joining OnlyFans, it's the filth on TikTok, it's this country not having a border, it's the idea that our kids and we, this generation, are never going to own anything.
Think about it.
Never making an income to support a family, never being able to have a family.
People being corrupted before they're even a teenager by things on their phone, sick addiction to technology.
The future is so bleak, but that has changed the calculation.
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, 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.
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.
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What makes us good.
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.
The Shadow War with Iran00:15:53
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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 longstanding, 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.
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.
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.
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 Soleimani.
Soleimani was the architect of the axis of resistance.
Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis.
Soleimani 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.
Your job is to get into the Ivy Leagues, your job is to get into these offices, do what you need to do, say what you need to say, hold it close to the chest.
But we bleed for America.
That's why I like to raise the right hand.
You don't have to broadcast it to everybody, and you can say what you need to say.
But when we're in private, it's America first.
It's Christ as King.
And you're not going to know how many of us there are, and you're not going to know which one of us we are.
And you're not going to get a good count, and you're not going to know all our names.
And slowly but surely, you will be encircled, and you will be surrounded, and one day, you're going to wake up in the Kruiper party.
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, 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.
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.
Algorithm 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're asleep.
They know how much REM sleep you're getting.
They know your resting heart rate.
They know how many calories you consume.
Think about the ways that they can manipulate you.
You have a computer in your refrigerator, a computer in your car, a computer in your home security system, a computer in your everything, a 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 rape of everybody by the system forever.
My life is like a first person video game, you know?
This is like, this is my primary.
This is me like walking down the hall.
This is my primary weapon.
Press circle to interact.
Press circle to interact with this item.
At the end of the day, here's the question Is it worth it to save the country?
Does the country matter?
Preserve our civilization?
Is it worth it to preserve our religion?
Maybe bigger than that, is the truth worth it?
What is the truth worth to you?
What is telling the truth worth to you?
Is it worth something, nothing?
What are you willing to give to tell the truth?
All you need is Jesus.
All you need is prayer.
These material appetites, they will never be satisfied.
And even if they are, it'll never be an adequate substitute for communion with our Holy Father, with somebody, with the author of the world.
And every mother and father understands the love for a child.
And that is how we were made, we were designed that way.
Because through that experience, we could understand.
By analogy, God's love for us.
It says in Revelation that God will wipe away every tear.
And that's like, to me, it makes me want to cry when I read that.
People experience these things in their lives.
We've all been there where you feel like the whole world's against you, the walls are closing in.
And you read something like that that says that God, like our Father, our Creator, is going to wipe your tears off your face.
It's drag queens in schools, it's 18 year olds joining OnlyFans, it's the filth on TikTok, it's this country not having a border, it's the idea that our kids and we, this generation, are never going to own anything.
Think about it.
Never making an income to support a family, never being able to have a family.
People being corrupted before they're even a teenager by things on their phone, sick addiction to technology.
The future is so bleak, but that has changed the calculation.
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, 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.
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.
I don't know about you guys, and maybe this isn't a nice thing to say, but I kind of wanted to see the annihilation.
I know that's a horrible thing to say, but come on.
I mean, I can't be the only one that was kind of counting down.
Minute by minute, hour by hour.
I kind of just wanted to see what would happen last night.
You know what I mean?
And that's okay.
The good news is we got the good ending where nothing was annihilated at all.
And the war is over.
And we got a great show for you tonight.
We're talking all about the ceasefire.
Featured story tonight is about the ceasefire deal, which allegedly was brokered last night and seems to now be totally collapsing.
Seems to be basically over.
And it was over just about 12 hours after it was supposedly imposed.
And so we're going to work through it.
There's been some major developments in just the past 24 hours.
If you've been following me on Telegram, I talked a lot about it today.
And I talked a little bit about it on Twitter, but mostly talked about it on Telegram.
So we announced it last night, or we discussed the announcement of the ceasefire last night.
Yesterday, President Trump announced on True Social that the war is effectively over, at least for the next two weeks.
And yesterday, the ultimatum, the deadline, was supposed to go into effect at 8 o'clock Eastern Time.
And if Iran did not open up the Strait of Hormuz, then Trump threatened to annihilate Iran.
He said he would kill Iranian civilization, which made a lot of people very upset and very unhappy.
But at the last minute, about an hour and a half before the deadline, Trump announced that a ceasefire had been reached.
And this was only possible because of the intervention of Pakistan and China, who both lobbied Iran to come to the table and make an agreement.
Now, we discussed this last night, and at the time that I did the show, it wasn't exactly clear what the agreement really was, what it consisted in, what are the main points, what did we actually agree to, is there even an agreement, which is a valid question.
And what we have found out in the past 24 hours is that there really isn't.
Actually, a ceasefire agreement.
We have found out that what Washington and Israel believe about this agreement is completely different than what Pakistan and Iran think about the agreement.
And so it seems that Washington was under the impression that this was a two week cessation of hostilities.
So we will stop bombing Iran.
And in return, Iran will stop attacking shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
They will effectively open up the Strait.
Iran is going to take control over the strait and they're going to charge a toll for every vessel that goes through it, about $2 million apiece, and that will be denominated in cryptocurrency or Chinese yuan.
Trump administration seems to be okay with this.
And this is what the U.S. believed the deal to be two week ceasefire, opening up the strait.
Reluctantly, Iran gets the strait and they get to charge money for it and use that to rebuild.
That's our understanding.
What we have since found out is that Pakistan and Iran have a completely different idea of what the deal is.
They believe that is the deal.
But in addition, they believe the ceasefire also extends to the ongoing conflict in Lebanon.
Between Israel and the Iranian proxy Hezbollah.
And ever since this operation against Iran began, Israel has also restarted their campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
And they've displaced millions of people.
They have ordered millions of people in about the southern 25% of Lebanon's territory to leave.
Pakistan and Iran believe that they don't have a deal to open up the strait unless the ceasefire also extends to Lebanon and Israel agrees to stop bombing Lebanon.
And to stop waging war against Hezbollah.
Well, the United States and Israel never agreed to that, or at least they're claiming that that was never a part of the deal, and they don't agree to it now.
And so, what happened this morning is that Israel unloaded on Hezbollah and delivered some of the most devastating strikes against them in a couple of years, killing almost 100 people, wounding almost 1,000.
Now, Iran says the deal is off, and Iran has reclosed the strait.
That is official.
That's claimed by Iranian media, and that is effectively the situation.
And what is strange is that U.S. media will not seem to admit this.
As it stands right now, what it looks like is that the deal is off.
If you're looking at what Iran is saying publicly, and if you're looking at all the available information, the strait is once again closed.
No shipping is going through.
And what's more, the head of Iran's legislature is saying that there will be no negotiations and there can be no ceasefire.
Because the U.S. and Israel have violated the terms of the agreement brokered last night.
So that's where that leaves us.
So we're going to get into it tonight.
We're going to work through all the details.
We'll tell you the whole story and where all of this is headed.
We're also going to talk a little bit about the angle with JD Vance.
So if we have a ceasefire, and we don't know that we do, then Friday there is going to be a bilateral meeting between Iran and the United States in Islamabad in Pakistan.
And take a wild guess who is heading up the delegation for the highest level meeting between U.S. and Iranian officials in 50 years.
Well, it's going to be our courageous, fearless Vice President JD Vance.
J.D. J.D. is headed to Pakistan to broker the deal.
I wonder who predicted this.
Who could have possibly predicted this?
Well, they want JD Vance to emerge from this, not only.
As a survivor, but they want him to be in a stronger position than from when the war started.
All of JD Vance's biggest boosters recognize that this was a catastrophe.
It's an unmitigated disaster, strategic blunder, historic mistake.
And JD Vance, as vice president, well, he's in it.
He is going to be the vice president until 2029, at least.
And being the second in command, he owns.
This, just like he owns the rest of it.
He owns whatever is done under the Trump administration.
And Vance's supporters know that he's going to pay dearly for this in the 2028 presidential primary.
So that is why, for the past five or six weeks, he knows that.
They know that him and his people have lobbied to get Vance to be the lead negotiator.
They knew this war wouldn't go on forever.
They had to know because they're on the inside where all of this was headed.
And so they knew that whenever talks were going to be held, they want Advance to be at the front and center of it.
Why?
So that even if he owns the mistake of the Iran war, he can take credit for ending it when he's asked about it on the debate stage in 2027 and 2028.
That's why.
And it seems to be a prophecy which is coming true.
So we'll be on the lookout for that on Friday.
We'll talk a little bit about that as well.
Should be a pretty good show.
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Okay, with that, we're going to dive in.
Yeah, there's not too much else going on.
I'm trying to think.
I guess the only thing I have to say, besides the latest in the war, which I'm eager to get into, is what is really insufferable.
And I've been seeing this on the timelines for the past 24 hours.
So think about where we are, okay?
Think about where we are in the second Trump administration.
I don't need to tell you because I tell you every fucking day.
This administration is a disaster.
Everything they have tried has failed.
Their tariffs got struck down by the Supreme Court.
Doge didn't save any money and they folded it up in three months.
Epstein files never got released.
They tried to cover it up, failed, and then Thomas Massey forced it open.
Key White House allies like Marjorie Greene and Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly are on the timeline every day hating on Trump.
Mass deportations, where are they?
Not happening.
It's literally every single thing.
And then you add to that, on top of all of it, we are once again at war with Iran for the second time.
We went to war with Iran last year, and everybody said it was a one and done.
It's not a big deal.
All of the hoopla about it was exaggerated.
And then here we are again in the midterms, where the Democrats are forecasted now they're the favorites to sweep.
Both the Senate and the House, they want $200 billion for the war.
They want $1.5 trillion for the military.
And we just barely got out of another 40 day war with Iran by the skin of our teeth.
And we fucking lost to boot.
And we lost.
We went into this war in contravention of his major promise, which was no new wars.
We gave Israel everything they wanted and more, which was this all out attack.
A war of choice and aggression against Iran, and we lost.
We didn't get regime change.
We didn't stop them from shooting missiles, and they own the Strait of Hormuz now.
They didn't have it before, but they have it now, and they're making money off of it.
This is where we are.
And you would think, you would think that based on all of this, you would see an ounce of humility from Trump's biggest supporters.
How about, and I don't know, I was wrong, my bad, my mistake.
Maybe we aren't in a golden age, but literally the second that the ceasefire was announced last night, and we don't even know if we have it, but the second the ceasefire was announced, All these cocksuckers wasted, and forgive the vulgarity here, but they wasted absolutely no time getting on Twitter and saying, see, see, the influencers, the podcasters were wrong.
Trump is a genius.
Art of the deal, folks, the mad lad did it again.
And you want to say, did what?
Did what exactly?
Sorry, what's the five dimensional victory here?
So we bombed Iran 15,000 times, and now they have more territory than when they started?
We killed their leader, bombed them 15,000 times, and now what?
Oil's still $100 a barrel.
They now control, they went from 4% of the world's energy now to 20% of the world's energy.
Because they control the Strait.
And not only is the revolutionary Islamic regime still intact, they're stronger and they're more extreme and they're more pissed off.
And people go, yeah, see, well, it wasn't Iraq.
Yeah, see, it wasn't a full scale ground invasion yet.
And you're like, well, honestly, what is it gonna take?
Can we count how many illegals have actually been deported?
They just realized something is not right.
And I see them tweet about it.
I see them saying, we got taken advantage of.
Trump is de radicalizing us.
These plan trusters will defend anything, no matter how bad it is.
But you know what their solution is?
I guess we have to just wait for 2028 when we can vote for JD.
And you go, What?
You mean you think the solution is to do the exact same thing that we did before?
Who do you think was in the room when the decision was made?
Seriously?
They fell for it.
They know now that they fell for it and they're getting ready to fall for it all over again.
Literally, you can't make it up.
These people, their ass is sore, not to be gross, and they're saying, man, we voted for Trump and we got tricked again.
I'm just realizing it.
And now they're lining up to fall for it all over again.
They're literally saving their seat.
They're getting in line early.
Don't leave the line.
They have to let you vote.
They're lining up practically for early voting to do it all over again, to fall for it all over again.
And you say, wow, Goyam are subhuman.
Like the Goyam cannot be helped, cannot be saved, totally beyond.
What at that point even are you supposed to say?
You fall for it, you get suckered, you don't get what you voted for, and you think the solution is to get right back in line to vote for more of the same garbage.
I don't know what to tell you.
And here's the thing.
A lot of these people have found out far too late that Trump is the problem, and he is, and he always was.
These people found out far too late.
It was obvious a long time ago.
And I don't necessarily begrudge anybody for not getting it, although I kind of do actually.
But there are a lot of people that are finding out way too late, way late in the game.
We're like, again, we're 40 days into a war in Iran, and now they're realizing we have a problem.
And you want to say, hey, better late than never.
It's great that they realized it.
Unfortunately, however, these people that found out too late are going to be the problem.
Because these people that found out too late about Trump, they're going to be finding out too late about JD.
They're going to be finding out about him after we go all in on him as the nominee, and he'll probably lose.
God help us if he doesn't, they'll find out too late when he's the president.
And so, this is where we actually have to humble all those people and say, if you were wrong, you have no credibility.
And it's not personal.
And I'm not mad at you.
And I don't think you're a terrible person.
But if you were one of those people like Sneeko, if you were one of those people like Tucker Carlson, if you were one of those people like Candace Owens, that in 2024 said everybody needs to vote for Trump and people were wearing the MAGA hat and they got in line and voted.
And now that we're bombing Iran, now all these people say, oh my goodness, my mistake.
Well, sorry, but we're not actually going to listen to you in 2028.
Why would we?
Tucker says that Trump is the Antichrist.
Well, it's really good that he found that out now and not in 2024 when Tucker spoke at the Republican convention in support of Trump's candidacy.
It's a good thing that he found that out two years in, year and a half in, when we're in the eschaton, when we're in the Armageddon battle.
It's good that we found that out now, right?
And same with Canna Sowens.
Now she says, we need the 25th Amendment.
Get Trump out.
Once again, it's good that she woke up and realized that all the way now, all the way a year and a half in, and not in 2024 when we actually needed people to have foresight.
So forgive me if I'm not going to listen to these people when they almost surely make the recommendation, and they will.
They're going to tell everybody JD Vance is our only hope.
This is the last thing I'll say, then we'll move on.
Megyn Kelly has been on a tear, very anti Trump, very aggressive, very, very provocative stuff.
She's very critical of Israel.
But she is adamant and consistent.
She says, I don't care what happens, I'm still voting Republican.
So for all of her advocacy, for all of these monologues, all of these barn burner monologues, is that the expression?
I don't even know.
All of these monologues, which are so incisive, what is her antidote?
Where does it all lead?
What is the call to action?
Vote Republican every time.
She said, I don't care how bad it gets.
She literally said, I don't care if Trump nukes Iran, I'm still voting Republican.
She actually said that on Monday.
She said, even if Trump nukes Iran and we go to war and we're at war forever, she said, I don't care, I'm still voting Republican.
When these people tell you who they are, believe them.
Pay attention and believe them.
Because as sure as I am sitting here right now and you are watching this, the replay or live or the clip in two years, and this clip will resurface in two years, as sure as I am sitting here and you are watching this, whenever you're watching this, mark my words Megan Kelly, Tucker, almost certainly Candace Owens.
All these people that are so against the war in Iran and so against Israel and so hypercritical of Trump, all of them are going to tell you to vote Republican and vote for JD Vance in 2028.
And what did JD Vance do?
He sat there in the White House while Trump was at Mar a Lago.
And they say that Vance encouraged Trump to hit Iran as hard as possible.
There was no dissent within the ranks when this decision was made.
There was no dissent from within the cabinet.
And that would have been the time.
If JD Vance were the guy, if he had character, if he was America first, that would have been the time.
This may be an inflection point in our history.
This is a really bad mistake.
And it's one that was totally avoidable.
And we all know why it happened because Israel wanted it and they forced us to do it.
And as a consequence, now they need $200 billion to replenish our missiles.
And now there's an energy shock, which will lead to an economic correction.
And we may not even be out of this war.
We don't know where this thing is headed, where we are right now.
But JD did not dissent, he did not protest.
He sat there and he encouraged Trump.
And it doesn't matter how much these people criticize the war, they will endorse him in 28.
They will try to get you to vote for this person.
Simultaneously, they are telling you and they're getting you all ramped up.
Telling you Trump is evil.
Trump is the Antichrist.
Netanyahu's evil.
Israel brought us to war.
This is diabolical.
This is pure evil.
And then they're going to tell you in 26, you got to vote Republican.
And they'll tell you in 28, you got to vote for JD Vance.
And these are the same people that told you to vote for Trump in 2024.
Even though we knew then that he would bring us to war in Iran, just like we know now that JD Vance will suck if he becomes the president.
So, no, I'm not listening to them.
Thanks, but it's too late.
Thank you, Tucker, very much.
Thank you, Megan.
Thank you, Candace.
Thank you, Sneeko.
But where were you in 2024 when Trump cut a deal with Miriam Adelson to get $100 million?
And in exchange, he promised her regime change in Iran and annexation of the West Bank.
You people swept that under the rug and said it wasn't a big deal.
Well, not everybody did that.
Not everybody.
So that's very important.
Where is all of this headed?
People say, what can we do?
Where do we go?
How can we get Trump to back off?
You can't.
You can't because you have no power.
You have no audience with the president.
He's not listening.
He's on true social.
He's cloistered away by Susie Wiles.
And you know what Susie Wiles is?
She's a lobbyist from Florida and she was running this operation at least since 2021.
And you should have known better.
It's Susie Wiles, it's Rubio, it's Mike Waltz, it's Pam Bondi, it's all of these pro Israel creatures from Florida where he now resides.
You should have known better.
So he's not listening to you and he never will and he doesn't hear you.
You know who has an audience with Trump?
Mark Levin, Laura Loomer, Ben Shapiro, Jared Kushner, Bill Ackman, Steve Witkoff, Howard Lutnick.
Those are the Jews that have an audience with Donald Trump, not you.
So, people say, What are we going to tell the president?
How are we going to stop this?
You can't.
The time to have done something about this was in 2024 when he needed your votes, but nobody wanted to hear it.
Now, we have another opportunity to be heard.
That is 2026, and that is 2028.
And I will remind you, as people told me in 24, there are two parties there are Republicans and Democrats.
If Republicans keep Congress, What do you think they're going to use it to do?
They're going to use it to prevent Trump from being constrained by a war powers resolution.
They're going to use it to shut down the Epstein files disclosure.
They're going to use it to allocate $1.5 trillion for the military and more wars in the Middle East.
That's why I'm voting for the Democrats in 2026.
I want to punish the Republicans.
I want the Democrats to take the House.
I'd like the Democrats to take the Senate.
I'd like the Democrats to shut this administration down because this administration is not doing what we want it to do and it's doing things that we don't want it to do.
So I'd like this administration to stop.
If they're not going to do mass deportations and they're going to bring us to war in Iran, then I want the Democrats to get in and shut it down.
And that's what I'm doing.
And that is what we can do.
People say, call your congressman.
Nobody cares.
Vote in 26.
For Democrats who are going to shut this administration down and prevent them from doing more harm.
The administration's not doing any good, so don't worry about it.
People say, What about immigration?
Yeah, what about immigration?
Good question.
How many troops are we going to send into Iran?
We probably sent more troops into central Iran than we ever sent into Springfield, Ohio or Minneapolis, Minnesota.
And that's all you need to know.
People say immigration, immigration.
I wish somebody would tell our president that.
So it's not like we're losing much.
This administration had their chance.
They've had a year and a half.
They buckled on immigration.
They shut it down and they capitulated to Israel and they brought us to war in Iran.
You forfeited your right and mandate to govern.
Forget it.
26, I'm voting Democrat.
Megyn Kelly, fuck you.
We're not.
If Trump nukes Iran, I'm voting Democrat.
Stupid.
And the same goes for the rest of them.
And in 2028, I'm going to vote in the Republican primary for an America first candidate.
And if there is no America first candidate in 28, then I'm going to sit it out all over again.
And that's what we need to be prepared to do.
And if that means letting the Democrats win, so be it.
I'm beyond caring at this point.
This is now the party of blow the Republicans up.
The Republicans have betrayed us.
They have royally pissed me off.
Now they need to be utterly destroyed.
And you know what they'll say?
They'll bitch about this.
They'll complain on Twitter.
I've already seen it.
They say, This Nick Fuentes, he's so destructive and divisive, and he's a child, and he's not serious, and he doesn't have a plan, and blah, blah.
So, I don't listen to people that tell me to vote for people that are my enemy.
I don't listen to somebody that tells me to use my vote, my God given right as an American.
It's the only thing I have that's free, it's the only influence I have that's mine.
I'm not going to listen to somebody that tells me to squander that.
Voting to empower somebody that hates me and will betray me and hurt me.
And that means Tucker, Megyn Kelly, Candace, the rest of them, forget it.
So, anyway, that's that.
I do want to move on, though.
I want to get into our news for the night.
I want to get into our featured story here, which is about this ceasefire.
Yeah, not so fast, everybody.
So, as you know, last night was supposed to be the annihilation of Iran.
Finally, Trump's deadline arrived for his ultimatum.
He said that if Iran did not open up the Strait of Hormuz, then Trump would decimate their civilian infrastructure, their power plants, their desalination, bridges, and transportation infrastructure.
This is something that Trump really didn't want to do, and we'll talk about why that is.
We discussed it a little bit last night.
But he's bluffing so that Iran will open up the Strait.
And last night, it looked like we were on.
The deadline was in effect and Trump was really going to do it.
He was really going to carry out these massive strikes and annihilate Iran.
And that would initiate a sequence of events that would lead to Iran then annihilating the Persian Gulf countries on the Arabian Peninsula and probably cause a global economic meltdown.
Iran annihilated, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar annihilated.
And you destroy a significant chunk of the world's energy, maybe up to a fifth.
And not to mention this entire region destabilizes, refugee crisis.
It's unfathomable what happens in that scenario.
And at the last second, all of this was averted and called off because at about 5 30 p.m. Central Time last night, Trump announced that a ceasefire had been reached with Iran.
And he announced it on True Social.
And he said that Iran had agreed to a two week ceasefire.
This ultimatum, this threat of force, was not canceled, it was postponed.
And Trump said that we would resume hostilities in two weeks unless a more comprehensive deal was negotiated.
But in the meantime, the U.S. would stop bombing Iran as long as Iran opened up the strait to commercial shipping.
And this was the announcement.
And everybody celebrated, everybody breathed a sigh of relief because the whole world was not going to be plunged into chaos and darkness.
And so it seemed like maybe Trump had achieved some kind of tactical or strategic victory.
Everybody felt very good about this.
But the first thing that I want to hit tonight about the ceasefire is that it doesn't look like there ever really was an actual agreement.
And there's something very strange going on here.
I said it on Monday, and I said it, I think, on Tuesday as well.
Before you say anything about this war in Iran, you have to make one thing absolutely clear, and you have to understand this.
Everything that is being said about this war is a lie.
Everything being said by the administration, everything being reported by the press is a lie.
And when I say a lie, I don't mean they're getting it wrong.
I don't mean we're in the fog of war and we don't know everything.
I don't mean they're fudging it.
I don't mean it's politically biased.
I mean the national security apparatus is manufacturing a calculated deception because that is part of the war effort.
The information war, the information space is another domain of the war itself.
So just like we engage.
In outer space and in the air and at sea and on the ground, we also engage in the information space.
And everything, literally everything that has been said by the White House, by the Pentagon, and then reported in the press by anonymous sources that are planting these stories, all of these things are a part of an information campaign.
And so when you hear the president announce something, you cannot take it at face value.
And when you see the reports in the media, you can't take it at face value.
And this is no different.
So last night, we get the announcement from Trump on True Social.
And even that announcement, we really, it reeked of uncertainty.
We really don't know what's going on.
Yesterday, Trump said that we will agree to a two week ceasefire if Iran opens up the strait.
He said, and this is the agreement which allows us not to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age.
But wait a second.
If you have a ceasefire, if you have a deal, then why is Trump saying we will stop bombing you if you open up the strait?
That doesn't sound like you have an agreement.
That doesn't sound like you have confirmation from Iran that they have agreed to the deal.
And so that was contained in the very first announcement.
And almost immediately after this announcement went out, there was a lot of debate about what this agreement actually entails.
And let's talk about some of the details here.
So, what Washington and Israel believe this deal to be is completely different from what Iran and Pakistan believe the deal is.
So last night, Trump makes the announcement, and we get some of the details from the press.
And they say that Pakistan is the intermediary.
Pakistan is the go between.
The US and Iran do not talk to each other directly, they pass notes to each other indirectly through Pakistan.
They say that it was actually China, with the help of Pakistan, that leaned on Iran to get the deal.
Now, why might that be the case?
Well, China relies on Iran for oil, and all of these countries in Asia.
Rely on the Persian Gulf more broadly for their energy.
So, if Iran gets bombed back to the Stone Age and then Iran bombs the other Persian Gulf countries back to the Stone Age, this might significantly hurt China and it's also going to hurt all the other countries in Asia.
China has a very good relationship with Pakistan and is a strategic partner of Iran.
So, they say that China actually intervened to avert this mutually assured destruction scenario in the Gulf and they were able to broker a deal, but it was largely through Pakistan.
Now, what the U.S. announced, and this is what Washington and Israel believe the deal to be, like I said, is that there is a two week pause in the fighting.
Now, this is important because what Trump is saying is that the ultimatum still exists.
The threat of force is still there.
Realistically, this is just another extension of the deadline, of which there have already been four.
Trump had a 48 hour deadline, gave a five day extension, a 10 day extension, a 24 hour extension.
And now Trump is saying that we will pause hostilities for two weeks and then they will resume.
But there will be a two week ceasefire, he said, but that's conditioned upon Iran opening up the strait to commercial shipping.
Now, again, there's a technicality here.
What Trump said is that Iran has to let shipping resume.
But the shipping will go on under the control of Iran.
So if a shipping container, for example, or not a shipping container, if a chemical tanker wants to leave the Persian Gulf and go out into the Indian Ocean, they actually have to go to the Iranian military and ask for clearance.
And the Iranian military will allow them to do this.
They actually have to pay a $2 million toll, and they're going to pay it through Bitcoin or cryptocurrency or through Chinese currency.
And so when Trump says Iran must open the Strait, there's a very important detail here.
Trump is not saying we want the Strait back.
He's saying Iran effectively controls the Strait, and we acknowledge they control the Strait.
They just have to open it.
And that's a pretty big concession.
Trump is effectively saying, We recognize Iran's control over the strait, and we will allow them to control it, and we'll allow them to use their control over it to make money off of it.
This is the deal.
Two week pause.
We will not attack Iran as long as Iran retaining control of the strait allows shipping to resume.
What's more, if we want the ceasefire to hold, or if Iran does, we expect that Iran will negotiate with the United States and Pakistan later this week to agree to a more comprehensive peace deal.
This is a ceasefire, this is a truce.
And in order for it to hold, we want to meet with Iran to negotiate an actual deal.
So, this is how the U.S. sees the deal.
The U.S., through Pakistan, talking to Iran, sees it as a two week pause.
As long as Iran opens the strait to shipping, as long as there's no restrictions and there's freedom of navigation there, and it's also incumbent on a more comprehensive deal.
Now, Israel was not even a party to these negotiations, they were not even involved.
They were not at the table, they were shut out of the process.
And there's a lot of reporting out of Israel that they were blindsided by this.
And they are very, very angry.
They say that Israel is furious.
The Israeli opposition against Netanyahu in the Knesset is saying that he, for Netanyahu, this is a strategic disaster.
And they're very unhappy that they were shut out, but they are reluctantly saying that they accept the terms that Trump negotiated.
So this is how we see the deal, and this is what was announced last night.
But like I said, what happened about two hours after the deal was announced.
Is that it came out from Iran that they have a very different version of the deal?
Iran came out and said that actually the United States agreed to their 10 point proposal.
So the United States did not just agree to stop bombing them for two weeks.
Iran says we agreed to this huge 10 point plan, which includes, among other things, the U.S. acknowledges their right to enrich uranium, that the U.S. is permanently giving them control over the Strait to share revenue between Iran and Oman.
That the US has agreed to lift all primary and secondary sanctions.
That the US has agreed to withdraw 40,000 troops from the region and close all their military bases.
And maybe most importantly, that Israel agrees to a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Because there is a war raging simultaneously.
You have your war in the Gulf, where the US and Israel are bombing Iran, and Iran is bombing the Gulf countries.
And US bases in Israel and shipping in the Strait.
But simultaneously, there's a war between Israel and Lebanon.
And part of this 10 point plan that Iran says we agreed to as part of the truce is that the ceasefire extends to that other conflict as well.
And so Iran came out last night and declared total victory.
They said, We got the United States to agree to everything.
They agreed to our whole 10 point plan.
And then right away, the United States came out and said, No, we did not.
The United States came out and the negotiators were furious.
And they said, We did not agree that you have a right to enrich uranium.
That's not true.
And what has now become the biggest sticking point is that ceasefire in Lebanon.
And so, as of this morning, this has become apparent that this is going to be the sticking point.
This is the major impasse and point of contention.
The U.S. and Israel are under the impression that it's a simple two week truce.
Again, the three terms are basically they have two weeks to find a deal.
In the meantime, there won't be any bombing as long as Iran opens a strait.
Well, Iran says, no, no, you agreed to stop the war in Lebanon and we can enrich uranium.
And you're going to pack up all your bases, and we get sanctions relief, and we get the straight forever.
Well, this morning, the U.S. came out and said, No, we didn't agree that you can enrich uranium.
That's not true.
We also came out today and said, We wiped our ass with your 10 point plan.
Carolyn Levitt, the press secretary, basically said as much.
She said, President Trump took that 10 point plan and threw it in the garbage.
And the bigger issue is that the U.S. and Israel say, We never agreed to a ceasefire in Lebanon.
Well, Iran and Pakistan have come out today and said, we have explicit terms.
You did agree.
It's not just Iran.
Pakistan, which negotiated the deal, said, yes, you did agree to a ceasefire in Lebanon.
You explicitly agreed to the terms that the ceasefire extends to Lebanon.
Well, Israel wasted no time this morning, and Israel launched one of their most devastating attacks on Lebanon in their ongoing conflict with Hezbollah in over two years.
Israel went into Lebanon today and they killed almost 100 people and wounded more than 700 other people.
And so Iran saw that and they immediately shut down the deal.
That happened this morning.
And Iran said, You agreed to a ceasefire in Lebanon.
This is now a blatant violation of the agreement.
So Iran has now closed the strait.
They shut the whole thing down.
Cargo ships that went through the strait with Iran's permission, then they shut it down before noon.
And what's more, Iran's parliamentary speaker came out and said, not only is the strait closed, but the deal is off.
They said, because you blatantly violated the deal, there is no basis for us to even have a ceasefire.
And what's more, there's no basis for bilateral negotiations.
In other words, the negotiations on Friday are off, according to the parliamentary speaker.
So, what it looks like where we're sitting right now is that this whole thing has totally fallen apart.
It looks like there's no deal.
But there's a lot of strangeness here because, like I said, what this actual deal ever consisted of, we are not even really sure.
Pakistan and Iran say it was far more widespread and far reaching.
The United States denies this.
We don't really know who to believe because, again, there's so much deception.
And Trump is telling us one thing on True Social and misrepresenting the truth and exaggerating.
And Iran is always denying these things and asserting a pretty consistent line.
So we don't really know what the original deal was.
And now here's something strange.
We don't really know what the state of the deal is because Iranian media is telling us the Iranian state media is saying the Strait of Hormuz is closed.
All of the tracking websites that actually use satellite and other information to monitor shipping in the Strait, they all say that there are no ships going through the Strait.
They say that four cargo ships went through in the morning and then the Strait was shut down and a ship tried to go through but was turned back.
So Iranian state TV says the Strait is closed.
All of these shipping trackers say the Strait is closed.
And the Iranian parliamentary speaker said the deal is off, the Strait is closed.
And the whole deal is off, and we're not going to talk anymore.
Well, today the White House denied this.
In the White House press pool this afternoon, Carolyn Levitt was explicitly asked, Who controls the Strait right now?
She wouldn't say.
Well, it's clear that Iran controls it.
They do effectively control it.
And on True Social last night, Trump effectively conceded that.
Trump said they will charge money and they will use that to rebuild their country.
So he's effectively admitting.
Yes, they control the strait and they'll use that control to charge money and then they'll collect that money and they'll use it to rebuild.
Well, today at the press pool, Carolyn Levitt said, I'm not going to tell you who owns the strait.
She refused to answer the question.
And what's more, she was asked, Is the strait closed?
Is the deal still on?
And she said, The strait is open, but Iran needs to reopen it.
Okay, well, the strait is closed.
Like I said, Iran's parliamentary speaker, their state media says it's closed and it's closed.
And so they say to the Trump government, is it closed?
They say, no, it's wide open.
And yet, Iran must immediately reopen the strait.
Okay, so it's not open.
You know it's not open, but you're saying it is, but also you want them to reopen it.
What's more, the parliamentary speaker says the deal's off.
Well, the White House says the deal is still on.
The White House says the deal is still on, and we're going to meet on Friday in Pakistan.
And what's even weirder is that nobody in American media is reporting on this.
If you read the New York Times, if you read the Wall Street Journal, if you read the Washington Post, they are all read the headlines right now.
It's like scary.
Because again, the straight is closed, there's no shipping going through.
But if you read any of the major papers in America, they're all saying, well, it's a little shaky.
They're all lying.
All the papers are lying, and they're all saying the deal is on.
It's a little shaky.
It's a little turbulent right now, but Trump is pressing ahead.
And you say, What the fuck is going on?
The government is lying.
The press is lying.
We have this information.
We have the internet.
The straight is not open.
The deal is off.
What Iran is saying is that they're done, unless there's something that we don't know about.
Now, this is the summary of this.
This is from the New York Times.
It says, At 6 32 p.m. last night, Mr. Trump announced on True Social that he had agreed to suspend the bombing campaign in Iran for two weeks to work out a peace agreement.
Disagreements over the scope of the deal emerged almost immediately.
At 7 50 p.m., Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif of Pakistan announced the ceasefire agreement and said it applied everywhere, including Lebanon.
But on Wednesday morning, today, the president told a PBS reporter that he viewed the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
Backed by Iran as a separate skirmish.
This morning, Israel launched its heaviest bombardment of Lebanon in more than a month of war with Hezbollah.
Carolyn Levitt, the White House press secretary, announced that Vice President Vance, along with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, would travel to Pakistan to hold talks with the Iranians.
But shortly after Ms. Levitt's announcement, top Iranian officials accused the United States of violating the agreement.
Mr. Ghalibaf, the Speaker of Parliament in Iran, who is expected to attend the meeting in Pakistan, Wrote in a statement that the truce and negotiations with the United States were, quote, unreasonable because Israel was attacking Lebanon, a hostile drone entered Iran's airspace, and the United States continued to oppose Iranian nuclear enrichment.
Now, again, what they don't mention even in this article is that this parliamentary speaker went further and said there is no basis for bilateral talks or a ceasefire because you violated the deal.
Why was that omitted?
So, as it stands right now, it looks like we have no ceasefire.
And the sticking point is the war in Lebanon.
Now, here's where it gets really interesting.
So, of course, the US went about the ceasefire alone.
We went in with Pakistan and Pakistan talking to Iran, and we came up with this agreement to stop the war, which, of course, Israel did not want to happen.
Israel, as well as the Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE and the others, They want the war to go on longer.
They want Iran to be completely annihilated before the United States is allowed to leave.
They want us to destroy more of their missiles, more of their drones, more of their military.
They want us maybe even to invade and to open up the strait by force before they will let us be done with this.
That's the Saudis, that's the Emiratis, that's the Israelis.
So when Trump went into these negotiations, You're starting to see the fragmentation of this coalition.
We're starting to realize that we want very different things than the Gulf and Israel.
For the United States, it is okay if Iran controls the Strait as long as the oil flows.
And we want the war to end expeditiously because we want oil prices to recover because we have the midterms coming up.
And by we, I mean the administration.
But the Gulf countries and Israel, they need the Strait open and they want their regime change and they want the war to go on longer.
And they're okay tolerating the economic pain because, in the long term, they need this dread dealt with.
So Trump goes into the room with Pakistan and he comes out with this two week deal.
Israel's furious.
The Gulf countries are furious.
About an hour after the deal is announced and Trump averts his biblical strike on Iran, Pakistan comes out and says, Yeah, so about that ceasefire, it includes Lebanon too.
Well, that's Israel's war.
Iran, that's the US and Israel's war, but Lebanon, that's Israel's war.
And Israel has been adamant that even after Iran ends, Lebanon will continue.
What's more, Israel says we are going to escalate in Lebanon.
Once the war in Iran ends or pauses, Israel is planning on escalating.
They want to do way more in Lebanon, and they're going to wait until the war in Iran is over.
So that is not a part of their program.
A ceasefire in Lebanon, it's the opposite of what they want.
The way they see it, winding down the war in Iran lets them escalate in Lebanon.
So now Pakistan says the only way to get a ceasefire in the Gulf and open up shipping in Hormuz is if Israel stops the war in Lebanon.
Think about the drama that this creates.
The U.S. needs to open up the strait to save our economy, but Israel still wants the war to go on against Iran, and they view this as their war in Lebanon to secure their northern border.
So, they're having to swallow an end to the war in Iran, which they don't want.
And they're having to shelve their other priorities, their other conflict with Lebanon.
Well, now they're really not happy.
And Israel is refusing to play ball.
Israel says, We didn't agree to that.
And you can't make us.
We're going to bomb Lebanon harder than we have in the past month because we don't agree to this at all.
And now that is putting the ceasefire in jeopardy, which means the strait remains closed.
You can work this out like a mathematical function.
Israel bombing Lebanon, which is something they must do, is now directly causing the Strait of Hormuz to be closed.
And that is causing the U.S. economy to tank.
So you can literally create a through line and say Israel's ambitions in Lebanon is wrecking the U.S. economy.
As long as Israel is bombing Lebanon, Iran will not agree to a ceasefire.
As long as they don't agree to a ceasefire, the Strait is closed.
As long as the Strait is closed, our economy is in peril.
Now, Israel doesn't care.
They want the war to go on and they want their war in Lebanon.
It's a win win for them.
If they get to sabotage the peace deal and go to war in Lebanon to do it, well, they're doubly happy.
The U.S. is stuck in the war with Iran and we get our war in Lebanon.
Well, now we're super pissed because we're saying we can't get Israel to stop.
And now our ceasefire is scuttled and we look like a joke because we just called off the strikes for the ceasefire.
So this puts the U.S. in a position where we have to pressure Israel.
Israel to stop bombing Lebanon to get the strait open.
And now we are put in the position where we have to do Iran's dirty work.
Hezbollah is Iran's ally.
Now, think of this.
Think of this.
We got into the war to topple Iran's government.
Didn't happen.
Not going to happen.
We got into the war to destroy Iran's missiles and drones.
Didn't happen.
Not going to happen.
Over the course of the war, Iran took the strait.
Now, the war is about opening up the strait.
So, it's about trying to get something that we already had.
Forget about regime change.
Forget about the missiles.
It ain't happening.
We're lucky if we get the status quo from before the war back.
Well, now, after the ceasefire to open up the strait, now Iran is demanding that we shut down Israel and Lebanon.
So, now the new peace agreement is like Iran gets everything that they want.
You want a ceasefire?
Well, We are still here, so that's just not even on the table.
There's no regime change.
And we still have our missiles, and nuclear is not even in the talks.
What we're going to talk about is how much we're going to control the Strait and when Israel is making peace with our number one proxy, Hezbollah.
Talk about five dimensional chess.
We went from a negotiation last year about whether Iran could have a nuclear program.
Now the negotiation is how much of the Strait did they get to control and how much does Israel get to bomb Lebanon, if at all?
And we're doing it for them.
You see how they're using the Strait to drive us?
We had to leave this conflict without achieving any of our objectives.
And now that we've left the conflict, in order to stay out of it, which we desperately need to, We have to go to Israel and beg them to stop bombing Iran's proxy.
It's genius.
And I imagine maybe this was Iran's plan, a little bait and switch or a poison pill.
Maybe Iran knew that by saying Lebanon is part of the ceasefire, they had to know that Israel's never giving that up.
Israel wasn't happy to begin with.
Now we're going to beg them to stop their other war, which is their own.
They had to know they weren't going to do it, they weren't going to go along with that.
And they had to know that if Israel continues bombing Lebanon, that gives Iran the pretext to close the strait, and they don't have to take credit for it.
Iran can say, look, you violated the deal.
Now we're not going to hold up our end of the bargain.
And they get to blame Israel, which fractures the coalition.
Now you've got Israel and the Gulf on one side and the U.S. on the other.
Israel wants to prosecute their war in Lebanon.
The Gulf is happy to see the war in Iran continue.
And the U.S. has to now compel both of them to stop on Iran's behalf because we need the straight open more than anything and more than anyone.
That's where we find ourselves right now.
And so, again, in these very early stages, that is what it looks like the four dimensional plan is to put the squeeze now on the United States to bring to the fore those differences in strategic objectives between.
The Gulf, Israel, and the U.S., which previously were all united and which now all have a very different idea of how this is all going to come to an end.
So, where it is right now, we do not have a deal.
There is no ceasefire, and the Strait of Hormuz is closed.
I'll read you this is another article about the Strait.
This is from the Wall Street Journal.
It says, No oil or gas tankers have traversed the Strait since the ceasefire was struck on Tuesday, according to data provided to the New York Times by Kipler, a global ship tracking firm.
Four bulk carriers, vessels that carry dry cargo, did make it through.
Iranian state media said on Wednesday afternoon that the strait was fully closed and that some tankers had been turned away.
That report came after semi official outlets reported that traffic in the strait had again been halted, this time in response to a deadly wave of Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
Since those reports, no vessels have appeared to cross the strait.
The most recent vessel to cross the waterway was tracked in the middle of the strait around 10 45 a.m. Eastern Time today on Wednesday.
Iran's official broadcaster has said that because of mines, vessels must coordinate with the Iranian Navy and use designated routes to cross the waterway.
After the ceasefire was announced on Tuesday, Iran's foreign minister said safe passage through the strait would be possible only if coordinated with the military and with consideration of technical limitations.
The White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt added to the confusion, briefing reporters on Wednesday.
She said that news reports that the strait had been closed were false, and then she called for it to be reopened immediately.
And she would not answer repeated questions about who currently controlled the waterway.
So again, you think about who has won in the war.
And I said this on Twitter, and it was very controversial.
It went viral, and all the pro Trump plan trusters were debating this.
But think about the negotiations last year with Iran or this year with Iran.
When we sat down at the negotiating table with Iran, we were demanding limitations on their nuclear program.
The Strait of Hormuz was open, and oil and gas was flowing freely, and Iran did not control it.
They didn't control it.
They weren't charging money for it.
It was open and it was free.
And we were negotiating with Iran about what limitations they would accept on their nuclear program.
We go to war with Iran to topple their regime, destroy their missiles, destroy their centrifuges, get their highly enriched uranium, destroy their proxy network.
These were the things we were seeking.
And now, at the end of the war, what are the negotiations consistent?
Well, now it's all about the straight.
Now it's all about whether the strait will be opened, under what conditions, will Iran control it?
So, just from strictly being very objective, from a negotiating point of view, if you enter the negotiation and the talks are about what are you going to give us, but then you leave the negotiation and we're trying to get what we had before back, you have obviously lost.
Again, we achieve none of the objectives.
Make no mistake about it, we went out there to topple the regime, failed.
We went out to destroy their missiles, failed.
We went out ultimately to prevent them from acquiring a nuclear weapon, failed because they're not giving up any of their centrifuges or highly enriched uranium.
And now the only thing that we're getting from this deal is that they will allow shipping to go through the strait, which they now control and are getting money from, and we acknowledge.
They're up.
They're up.
And now that's the negotiation.
That is how you know we lost.
How much money did we spend?
$40 billion?
They say it's about, what was it, about a billion dollars a day?
So, about $40 billion, maybe more in cost, hundreds of wounded Americans, a dozen dead.
Our bases in the Middle East are destroyed.
About 15 U.S. military bases inoperable, fundamentally damaged and destroyed.
Tons of aircraft losses, and we didn't get anything.
And now Iran has a Strait of Hormuz.
Now, let's talk about where this is going.
The reason that I did not believe a ceasefire was possible.
Is because when you think about what Iran is actually saying, what they have said repeatedly is we do not want a short term truce.
We don't want a ceasefire, contrasted against a deal.
What's the difference?
Well, a truce, a ceasefire, anything short term like that.
Another way to say it is it's a reprieve, it's a timeout.
Why will Iran not agree to a ceasefire, a truce, short term agreement, whatever?
Because if Iran gives us two weeks, a month, 45 days, a few months.
All that is is a timeout for us to adjust to the attritional war that we are now in.
We went into this war with the understanding that it would be a decisive lightning war.
We were going to hit Iran with everything we had hard and quickly.
Their government would crumble and it would be over.
Didn't happen.
And then Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz.
And that made it an attritional war.
And it's attritional and economic in a couple of ways.
One, The Strait of Hormuz is closed.
We can't open it.
So, as long as the war is going on, oil prices go up and up and up.
And this puts pressure on everybody and everything.
And it really hurts us during the midterms.
And it really hurts us with our AI driven economy.
And it really hurts us with our stagflation challenges.
So, they're really hitting us where it hurts.
And now it becomes a war of timing and economics for that reason.
It's an energy war.
But it's also a war of attrition because of the projectiles being used.
Iran has this huge stockpile of missiles and drones.
We don't know exactly how big it is.
And in order for us to intercept those missiles and prevent a lot of damage from being done to the Gulf countries and their energy and civilian infrastructure, we need two interceptors for every one drone and ballistic missile.
And those interceptors are in very short supply, they're in high demand, they cost a lot of money, and we don't make enough of them.
So that's another aspect of it.
The war can't go on long.
Because it's going to destroy our economy.
And eventually, these drones and missiles are just going to be raining down on Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait City, Riyadh, all these cities in the Gulf.
And we're going to have to pick and choose which ones we shoot down.
So, in a word, the United States needs to adjust to this new reality.
We got trapped, we sprung the trap, and now we're stuck.
The difference is that Iran prepared for exactly this kind of war.
They prepared for this.
This is what they wanted.
They wanted it to be an attritional war.
And those were the capabilities they had up their sleeve.
They have their drones, they have their missiles, they have built cities underground that make drones and missiles, and they have decentralized the chain of command.
They have dispersed the missile and drone launch sites throughout the country.
They've made decoys.
They're hidden and they're everywhere.
And they knew they were going to make this move to close the straight.
This was their strategy.
We walked right into the trap and they were prepared for this.
We killed their leaders.
They were ready.
Their bench is seven guys deep.
So you can kill a guy number one.
You can kill his successor, the successor's successor, the third guy, the fourth guy.
They prepared for that.
We bombed their Navy.
They prepared for that too.
They got tons of speedboats and midget submarines.
We thought we were going to bomb their missile launch platforms.
They have more of them than we could ever destroy, and they're hidden and mobile, and they're making more of them.
They were ready.
We were not.
They knew what we were going to throw at them.
They survived it, and then they were prepared to put the screws in us and make it hurt.
We're not going to give you three months, six months, a year to get ready to fight the next war because the U.S. is going to build back better than they can.
The U.S. will build back very quickly because our country didn't get bombed 15,000 times, theirs did.
So we will find it very easy to find the supplies and do the planning and configure the next military operation.
They're going to be slow to recover from this.
So Iran figures while we have the leverage, we need some assurances, we need some guarantees.
That this will not start all over again.
We want peace.
And so that's why I never thought that there would be a ceasefire.
I never thought they would actually agree.
Now, what's more, the United States is not quite ready to give Iran what they're asking for because the United States still has all these conditions.
We want Iran to give up enrichment, and we want Iran to give up their missiles, and we want them to give up the Strait, and so on and so forth.
And so, for Iran to make peace with us, they want a deal.
But for there to be a deal, the U.S. is going to have to come off of all of our red lines on nuclear, on missiles, and even now on the Strait, which we're not willing to do.
So I saw last night, Trump said, Oh, we have this big ceasefire.
I said that Iran's not going for this, and the U.S. is not doing what is necessary for Iran to go for this.
So what will happen, I think, in the next couple of weeks and on a long enough timeline is that Iran is going to play this tactfully.
They do want an end to the fighting and they don't want to lose the prospect of a deal, but they're not going to settle.
They're not going to settle for anything less than some serious guarantees because their entire strategy right now is they need to make this hurt as bad as possible for as long as possible so that it is unthinkable that we will ever try this again.
And that is what they're looking for.
And then once that happens, think of it.
They make it hurt so badly.
At some point, there is going to be a truce.
At some point, there's going to be a ceasefire.
Iran will know that the United States still wants something from them, still wants restrictions on enrichment, still wants restrictions on missiles.
But Iran is not going to have to listen to the United States because for the U.S. to get those things, we're going to have to go back to war.
And if we go back to war, Iran is going to close the strait.
And if Iran closes the strait a second time, which they now control it, Then it's going to be even worse.
And I'll tell you why that is.
Because right now, everybody in the market is pricing in whether this war will end or whether it will go on.
And what's more, investors in the Gulf, when they're making their decisions about real estate or these data centers or American companies or banking services, when ultra high net worth individuals are considering moving to Dubai or Qatar or Saudi Arabia, they're watching this war.
And they're hoping it will end so they could pick up their lives.
But if in six months the US is making demands against Iran and then we attack them because we want to compel them to give us what we want, and Iran starts launching drones at Saudi Arabia again and closes the strait, well, now all these investors in these different markets are going to look at that and say, oh, so this is fucked.
Like the Strait of Hormuz is just closed for business now.
This is a recurring thing.
This is a thing now.
Iran closing the strait is just a feature of the Middle East.
We can't rely on this oil and natural gas and helium and aluminum and all these fertilizer, all these things that come from the strait.
We have to price in their significant risk here.
And the same goes for the Emirates.
The same goes for Qatar.
The same goes for Saudi.
All these people that populate these markets are going to say, oh, so this is just life in the Gulf now.
You have a luxury condominium in Abu Dhabi and you have drones hitting the hotels and the airport and the shopping malls.
You're going to say, I don't want to live here.
I want to go and live in Singapore.
I want to go and live in wherever, in Ho Chi Minh City.
I want to go and live in Japan.
I don't want to live in a city where the international airport's getting hit with drones.
They too will price in the risk.
They will leave.
The businesses will leave.
And the engine of growth in these cities, which is tourism, real estate, banking services, All these other things, that's all going to go away too.
So it becomes doubly unacceptable.
That's the deterrent.
And that's why the Strait of Hormuz is critical to everything.
If Iran seizes control over the Strait and they take it, and if, as time goes on, the Strait of Hormuz, those main shipping lanes are closed because they're covered with mines, and the only shipping lanes to get through are regulated by the IRGC, And the new normal is that shipping has to get approval from the IRGC and pay money to them, and Iran controls it.
So if the United States is thinking, we're going to get a ceasefire and then we'll come back another day, this isn't over.
We'll get you again.
If you don't give up your enrichment, eventually we're going to get you.
Well, how are we going to do that?
You have the lesson of history, the pain from this war, and then you have.
Iran's option that they can always close the strait again and make it happen all over again.
That is the state of the play right here.
And so I think this is going to put a lot of urgency on the U.S., Israel, and the Gulf because they know this.
And so, look, we tried the ceasefire, it didn't work.
Tried the ceasefire, it fell apart.
I don't know exactly how it's going to play out, but I think there's going to be a lot of urgency now on the part of Israel, the U.S., and the Gulf to fix it now because they know that if the longer the war goes on, the more pressure there's going to be to bring it to an end.
And if the war ends, again, The new normal prevails, and that gives Iran the checkmate move over us.
The deterrence is heavily established and entrenched, and we don't get another go at it.
We don't get a do over here.
So I think that is where everything is headed.
Now, the other thing is we have these negotiations apparently on Friday.
I don't know if they're even still on, but they say that on Friday, Iran and the U.S. will meet directly in Pakistan to negotiate.
Now, the.
Parliamentary speaker of Iran is supposed to be there.
He says it's off.
But again, we don't know.
The U.S. is saying that Iran is more conciliatory in private.
Maybe that's true.
On the U.S. side, JD Vance is leading the delegation.
And I'll just say very quickly, and then we'll get on to the super chats I told you this was going to be their move.
And by they, I mean all of these pro JD Vance people, they all recognize the war is a catastrophe, it's a disaster.
JD Vance will be hanged by this war in the primary next year.
And so their big idea was how do we save JD Vance from culpability for the war?
Well, we have to give him responsibility for the peace.
We have to appoint him as the lead negotiator.
He'll take all the credit for the peace deal.
And so when he's on the stage in 2027 and 28, and they say, JD, the war in Iran was a disaster.
Why did you not tell Trump it was a bad idea, blah, blah?
He can say, well, look, look, Dana.
Or whoever the person's name is.
Look, is she, is it Dana Perina still at Fox News?
I was the vice president and my job was to execute the orders of the president of the United States as his administration, blah, blah.
But then I went to Pakistan and then I brokered the deal and blah.
That's going to be the line.
And I saved everybody.
I saved the day and I shook his hand and I held up the trophy or whatever.
I took the photo in front of the thing.
That's going to be the line.
And they've been doing this for like five weeks.
I told you they were going to do this.
They started this whisper campaign in the media.
They said, oh, JD Vance is going to lead the negotiations.
Oh, the Iranians say they'll talk with him.
Oh, Trump says if you don't talk to Vance, you're not going to talk.
There's been this whisper campaign for five weeks.
They want him at the front of it because they want him to get the credit so that he isn't blamed, so that we can make this mistake all over again.
And I told you that was going to be their move.
Joe Kent, David Sachs, Peter Thiel, Tucker, Elon, I'm sure is involved.
And they wanted to spare JD Vance from going down with the ship.
They didn't want him to be burned because he was a part of the administration that gave us the Iran war debacle or debacle, kerfluffle, as Candace would say.
And now here it is.
But do not be fooled.
JD Vance was in favor of this.
All along the way, he said it in 2024.
He said it in 2026.
He was not there to dissent against the war.
So I'm not going to buy it when he's there standing in front and giving the handshake for the peace agreement.
Mark my words, if Vance takes credit for the deal, you know that Tucker's going to commend him for it.
There was a show that Tucker did a few weeks ago.
Tucker said that JD Vance should lead the negotiations.
He said, because only a man with Vance's moral rectitude.
He literally said JD Vance's moral rectitude.
I think that was the word he used.
It was either that or something like that.
JD Vance is the only one with the moral character to negotiate an end to the war.
Yeah, make it more obvious that you guys are all in a fucking group chat.
Tucker, who's interviewing Kent, who resigned from the admin to Vance.
Tucker says on his show, I think the only negotiator is Vance.
Because he's the only morally upright person who can do it.
And then Vance is going to do it, and Tucker's going to glaze.
It's going to be mythical.
The love bombing, the glazing, it's going to be absolutely mythical.
And I'm telling you right now do not fall for it.
Vance is in on this.
And anyway, but we'll see if that even happens on Friday.
We'll be watching.
That's going to be it for me.
We're going to move on and take a look at our super chats.
We'll see what you guys have to say.
I'm going to get set up here and then, yeah, whatever.
I feel like I definitely don't give that impression at all.
That's like the opposite.
I'm terrible at that, but I appreciate the big super chat.
You know, I, here's the thing I never forget, and you can't.
You can never forget how people treat you, and you should be aware of how people treat you.
You should be very cognizant of it.
Sometimes I think I'm too aware of that.
You should never forget what people do to you and how they treat you and whether they reciprocate.
You should be acutely aware.
With that being said, you should be so preoccupied with your own world that you just don't even think about things you don't like.
That's the part I don't get.
Because I have a lot of haters and they hate me like it's their job, literally.
It's like they wake up and they're like, I fucking hate Nick Fuentes and I'm going to talk about him all day and shit on him all day.
It's like, you know, and I obviously don't like these people, but I don't wake up and think about them.
I wake up and, like, yeah, like I know the stuff they say about me and the shit they've done to me, and I'm not happy about it.
But I wake up every day and I think about the things that I love.
I think about the people that I love.
I think about what I love to do.
I think about, you know, the things I love about my life, the music I like, the food I like.
That's what I wake up and think about.
So I just try to keep it positive for the most part.
And I think that's the right way to live.
I think that's a good way to live.
I don't understand how somebody could live and be so preoccupied with things they don't like.
I could never do that.
The things I don't like, I just don't like to see them.
Things that are negative, things that I hate, things that bother me, I just put them out of sight and out of mind to the best of my ability.
If I see somebody that's really reprehensible, and by that, I don't even mean my enemies, but I just mean people that are really unfortunate, I just don't want to look at them.
Some people love a lol cow, they love to look at some.
Train wreck of a human being and they'll love to point and laugh.
I don't like that.
I don't like to look at that.
I like to stay focused on things that I like.
And I know what I like and I know what I don't like.
And the things that I don't like, I have zero tolerance for.
And the things that I like, I can't get enough of and I'm obsessed with and so on.
And so if there's anything about forgiveness, it's not even forgiveness.
I mean, you can give forgiveness, but to me, it's really just more about where you focus your.
Attention and your mental energy.
And I try for the most part to just be involved in things that are good.
And I, you know me, I'm not like a happy go lucky person.
I mean, I'm a very melancholy and brooding person and very intense and mood swings and volatile emotional states.
But the things that I do that occupy my mind, it's things that I like, it's not things that I don't like or people that I hate.
So, So, no, I don't.
I do not get past things at all.
I always remember and I never forget.
But as I get older, I also get a little bit, I'm getting to be more like my father.
You know, that happens.
When I was younger, I was very like hardcore.
And my dad, who's a boomer, he's like a hippie.
Not really, but he has like a hippie disposition.
He wasn't really a hippie, but he has like a boomer hippie demeanor where.
I hold the grudge and I get pissed about things.
And my dad's like, hey, man, like everyone's just on their journey, man.
That's somebody's kid.
Everyone's just finding their way in the world.
Everyone's doing their thing.
Life is short.
And I always give them a hard time.
I always make fun of them about that.
Cause like me and my mom, we're the opposite way.
We hold the grudge.
We remember everything.
We overanalyze every social signal for perceived slights.
And my dad's a total opposite.
He's like, hey man, we're just all on our journey.
We're all just people.
Hey man, we're all just doing our thing.
But as I get older, I'm a lot more like that.
As I get older, as I reach my advanced age, I'm not gonna lie, I am getting soft in my old age.
And I just start to think, how much of it is really worth it?
It's really not worth the fuss.
Life is not long, and there's so little in life that's genuinely enjoyable.
That you should tend to be more forgiving, I think, where possible.
And that's an important caveat.
Sometimes in life, you need to cut people out, and some people are problematic.
But I think that generally, like I said, as I get older, you realize that life is short.
And you basically make a decision do I want to have friends or not?
Because if you want to be around people that you care about and they care about you, you kind of have to be a little bit gracious.
And you have to just let things go.
You can't sweat the small stuff.
You got to give people the benefit of the doubt.
You do have to have some recognition that everybody's pretty self centered and everybody's got their own problems and their own things going on.
And you can't take everything too personally.
And you could get mad, but you got to let it go.
You know, you got to, like I said, you can't sweat the small stuff.
So as it concerns people that I have beef with, guys like Sneeko or whoever, maybe you're thinking about that.
It's like, what's really the drama?
What's the beef?
It's like, we said shit on the internet.
Who fucked?
Cares what people say on the internet.
That shit doesn't matter that much, you know?
And you got to think about where am I going to be in 10 years, 20 years?
Do I want to have friends?
Do I want these people in my life?
You do.
So you just have to make a decision that if you're going to, if you want things, you got to, you know, it's not maybe being willing to tolerate things you don't like, but you got to be a little forgiving.