Owen Shroyer Live - Chaos And Confusion As Entire World Wonders What Trump's Plan In Iran Is Or If He Has One At All
Aired: 2026-03-18
Duration: 03:14:35


=== Superficial Politics and Rising Gas (05:13) ===

[00:00:00]  Wednesday, March 18th, 2026.
[00:00:02]  Here's what's coming up on the Owen Report today.
[00:00:12]  Well, we have a very news-heavy day.
[00:00:16]  This is probably the most news and headlines we've had on the desk in quite some time.
[00:00:22]  We've got a lot of action on the Hill today.
[00:00:25]  You had intelligence briefings or testimonies.
[00:00:31]  Tulsi Gabbard was one of the members of the intelligence community that was taking questions from Congress today.
[00:00:41]  We're going to have some of those highlights, some of the news that broke from that.
[00:00:46]  And then I think Gabbard right now, and this is really just kind of superficial, but it is politics after all.
[00:00:56]  Gabbard right now, with her presence, seems to be kind of separating herself from the rest of the administration.
[00:01:05]  And I'll explain that when we go to the news and go to her clips.
[00:01:11]  And I don't know if she's that smart and if she's that aware of everything that's going on and how to conduct herself in it, or if it's just natural for her.
[00:01:22]  But to me, after seeing Gabbard's performance today, it's very clear that she is on a completely different plane.
[00:01:31]  Her energy, her conduct, completely different than everybody else in the administration right now.
[00:01:37]  And it really came out, I think, today during that hearing.
[00:01:41]  You also had Mark Wayne Mullen, his confirmation hearing to be the next head of DHS.
[00:01:50]  Well, he cried.
[00:01:53]  He cried.
[00:01:56]  So that about sums that up.
[00:01:58]  We went from Ice Barbie to Ice Ken crying things out.
[00:02:04]  So we got all that for you today.
[00:02:06]  Tons of news now.
[00:02:07]  When we get into the war, lots of different developments on the war front.
[00:02:14]  You've got a big stack of economic news today.
[00:02:18]  Bad news for the economy.
[00:02:22]  As far as inflation is concerned, as far as consumer price index, producer price index, all of these numbers were bad.
[00:02:32]  On top of that, gas continues to go up.
[00:02:36]  No end in sight as far as that's concerned.
[00:02:39]  And then you had JD Vance out there today.
[00:02:42]  He was speaking at an event.
[00:02:44]  And they can't deny that gas prices are obviously up.
[00:02:49]  So it's the short-term pain for long-term gain.
[00:02:56]  That's their sales pitch.
[00:02:58]  That's what they want you to buy.
[00:03:00]  So that's what they're going around saying.
[00:03:02]  But Trump has now made another move to try and lower gas prices.
[00:03:08]  So they're definitely pulling out all the stops to try and avoid gas prices going up.
[00:03:13]  Except that is, of course, stopping the war.
[00:03:18]  Can't do that.
[00:03:20]  Do anything and everything except stopping the war.
[00:03:23]  We're not allowed to do that.
[00:03:27]  And as today's show headline reads, and maybe we'll kind of get into this with an opening monologue, but it's pretty clear at this point, the whole world knows what's going on.
[00:03:40]  Most Americans see what's going on.
[00:03:42]  The only people that don't want to be honest about it are obviously the Israeli lobby and the Trump administration.
[00:03:52]  But the whole world is looking at Trump, looking at America and just saying, all right, what are we doing here, guys?
[00:03:58]  What are we doing?
[00:03:59]  Do you have any plans?
[00:04:03]  Do you even have any ideas of how you're going to get out of this deal or how you're going to end this deal?
[00:04:08]  And it seems the answer to that is no, but we'll get into that a little longer.
[00:04:12]  And then just insane levels.
[00:04:15]  I mean, honestly, the levels of propaganda that we're getting from the Trump administration are now communist dictatorship level.
[00:04:24]  So you can debate: was it worse for Biden?
[00:04:28]  You know, whatever.
[00:04:29]  Forget about the comparison contrasts.
[00:04:33]  They came out and said Kim Jong-un won re-election with 99% of the vote.
[00:04:41]  But apparently, there's only one politician more popular with his people than Kim Jong-un, and that's Donald Trump.
[00:04:50]  That's what they're telling you now.
[00:04:54]  This news update was brought to you by Owenschroyer.store, the official site for Owen Report merchandise.
[00:05:05]  You know, guys, I asked this question yesterday, and I'm wondering if there's not something to it.

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=== Propaganda and Anti-War Backlash (15:58) ===

[00:09:03]  Being anti-war is anti-Semitic now, all right?
[00:09:07]  We really just need to, we need to really pound this point home today.
[00:09:13]  If you are anti-war, you are now anti-Semitic.
[00:09:16]  That is the real headline.
[00:09:18]  That is what they're telling you on Vox, on thevox.com social media.
[00:09:25]  It's very important for you to understand if you are anti-war, you are anti-Semitic.
[00:09:29]  And don't even think about reading into this.
[00:09:32]  Don't even think about trying to pull some other message out of that.
[00:09:36]  Okay?
[00:09:36]  That's just all you need to know right there.
[00:09:38]  Don't dig any deeper.
[00:09:40]  Don't ask any other questions.
[00:09:41]  Don't make any other correlations or comparisons.
[00:09:44]  Just simply understand.
[00:09:45]  If you are anti-war, you are anti-Semitic.
[00:09:50]  So there you go.
[00:09:52]  How we doing today, guys?
[00:09:54]  It's great to be here with you.
[00:09:55]  I got to tell you.
[00:09:58]  Really a blessing, really an honor, really a privilege.
[00:10:05]  I feel grateful.
[00:10:08]  I feel blessed to be here with you today.
[00:10:13]  And I'm talking to some of my friends that work in DC.
[00:10:20]  And I kind of throw some jabs at them.
[00:10:25]  It's like, hey, what's it like working in the new swamp?
[00:10:28]  How's Clown World treating you?
[00:10:30]  And it's funny because the mindset now, it's shifted so much.
[00:10:36]  You know, a lot of guys like us were able to actually get into the DC Beltway, get into the DC media.
[00:10:44]  They think like us.
[00:10:45]  They talk like us.
[00:10:47]  Similar politics as us.
[00:10:50]  And it's funny now in this transition.
[00:10:57]  Okay, we all went through getting Trump in there again.
[00:11:01]  Then They get their access.
[00:11:04]  They get their jobs.
[00:11:05]  It's good for them.
[00:11:07]  But it was still kind of that MAGA ride or die vibe.
[00:11:12]  It was still kind of that patriotic, drain the swamp, like this is our movement vibe.
[00:11:18]  And now you can see the mindset change.
[00:11:24]  It's very palpable.
[00:11:26]  And this is, again, just me talking to my friends that work there.
[00:11:30]  It used to be, let's say, even a year ago, you still kind of had that spirit a year ago, whether you were working on the Hill as a staffer, whether you are part of the new media that's getting access to the White House or roaming around D.C. looking for stories, doing interviews.
[00:11:52]  There was still that spirit, a kind of revolutionary spirit, that Renaissance vibe, that feeling of patriotic victory.
[00:12:04]  We were still kind of riding high on that.
[00:12:06]  And that was just a year ago.
[00:12:08]  And so now the approach, now the mindset has totally changed.
[00:12:14]  And I think it's very indicative.
[00:12:16]  This is very indicative of where it's at right now, I think, at least culture-wise, the vibe of it with the Trump administration.
[00:12:24]  And then I've got another statement that I'm going to read coming up that I also think is indicative at more of a superficial level.
[00:12:32]  But now, for these individuals, it's not like getting up every day with that sense of excitement.
[00:12:40]  It's not like getting up every day and feeling like you're part of something bigger.
[00:12:47]  That excitement, that feeling of an organic, patriotic taking back of our government, taking back of the narrative, the system, all of it.
[00:13:00]  What MAGA was all about, it's all dead now.
[00:13:04]  And for them, it's like, well, they still got a job to do.
[00:13:07]  And it's just, it's totally changed.
[00:13:08]  And so it went from kind of having that excitement, kind of carrying that with you to work every day, feeling like this was something different.
[00:13:18]  This was something bigger that you were a part of.
[00:13:21]  Now they basically just get up and it's just like any other day at work.
[00:13:25]  And they just got to go in and punch the clock and just get out of there.
[00:13:27]  And it's just, the vibe is dead.
[00:13:31]  The spirit of it is gone.
[00:13:33]  They're actually, they're trying to get out.
[00:13:36]  They're trying to get out.
[00:13:39]  And that's kind of another theme that we have in the news today.
[00:13:44]  But that's what it is.
[00:13:45]  So, so many patriots went to D.C. to work in media or on the Hill.
[00:13:57]  They went there feeling the MAGA vibes, feeling the patriotic spirit.
[00:14:03]  And now here we are a year later, it's all dead.
[00:14:05]  And they all went out.
[00:14:07]  But they got jobs to take care of.
[00:14:08]  They're doing their jobs.
[00:14:09]  They're punching their clock.
[00:14:10]  They're making sure they do good work.
[00:14:14]  But that's the spirit in D.C.
[00:14:18]  And when I used to go to D.C. quite often, obviously, in the first administration, and really the vibe in the first administration in D.C., it was something else.
[00:14:35]  It really was.
[00:14:38]  It's gone now.
[00:14:41]  It's gone.
[00:14:43]  It's like, if I could make a comparison, sorry, but you know, I do the sports analogies.
[00:14:51]  It's like the difference would be in the first administration before the COVID scandemic that Trump screwed us all over with.
[00:15:03]  It was like the difference between going to a regular season baseball game and going to a World Series game.
[00:15:11]  It's like you know when you arrive downtown for the World Series, like you can feel it.
[00:15:19]  You can feel it.
[00:15:19]  There's something special in the air.
[00:15:22]  There's a buzz.
[00:15:24]  You can see it.
[00:15:25]  You can feel it.
[00:15:26]  You're a part of that.
[00:15:27]  That's what DC used to be like in the first Trump administration.
[00:15:31]  Like there was a buzz.
[00:15:32]  There was a vibe.
[00:15:33]  There was an excitement.
[00:15:36]  It's flat now.
[00:15:38]  It's flat.
[00:15:39]  It's just like any other ballgame, any other regular season game.
[00:15:44]  Nothing special to it.
[00:15:49]  Now, that's just one angle of this new MAGA, whatever we want to call this.
[00:15:59]  Folks, this is honestly, I don't even know how to quantify what it is I'm about to show you.
[00:16:11]  All I can do, all I can do is sit here and present this to you and just shake our heads at what the hell is going on.
[00:16:26]  We're now dealing with levels of propaganda.
[00:16:28]  I mean, let's just be honest.
[00:16:31]  When they were telling you Joe Biden was sharp as attack and, you know, his brain is better than ever, all the other things they used to say.
[00:16:39]  That was, if we're looking at peak level propaganda in as recent years as we can find, that's about your peak right there.
[00:16:48]  It's like you could go back and look at some other things, but in the most recent scope, in the most recent memory, them going around telling you how Biden's sharp as a tack, fit as a fiddle, fit as he's ever been, smart as he's ever been.
[00:17:02]  His age is, we all remember the thing.
[00:17:05]  He's falling down.
[00:17:06]  He's falling asleep.
[00:17:07]  He looks half dead.
[00:17:08]  They're telling you, oh, look at him.
[00:17:11]  We are now, in this administration, we are now borderline, maybe even above that level of propaganda with what I'm about to show you.
[00:17:29]  This administration is now rivaling the propaganda that came out of the Biden administration.
[00:17:38]  That's how insane, that's how absurd what I'm about to show you is.
[00:17:44]  So, okay, let's clarify something first before we introduce this.
[00:17:50]  Let's clarify something.
[00:17:53]  Obviously, there is a divide in MAGA.
[00:17:57]  I don't even think it's fair to say that.
[00:17:58]  The divide started last year.
[00:18:00]  Really, MAGA, put whatever phrase you want.
[00:18:03]  MAGA is dead.
[00:18:04]  MAGA is a shell of itself.
[00:18:07]  MAGA is hollow.
[00:18:10]  Whatever you want to say it, we all can see every single day it's on display.
[00:18:18]  It's on display in the media.
[00:18:20]  It's on display in social media.
[00:18:22]  If you and your friends, your social circles, your family, if you guys talk politics, you can sense it there.
[00:18:29]  The MAGA coalition is gone.
[00:18:32]  It's done.
[00:18:33]  It's dead.
[00:18:33]  It's over with.
[00:18:36]  You can try to throw out numbers, but forget about the numbers.
[00:18:42]  You can all see it.
[00:18:43]  We can all see that the coalition is shattered.
[00:18:47]  That's like a year old.
[00:18:48]  The coalition is gone.
[00:18:49]  It's dead.
[00:18:50]  It's over.
[00:18:53]  And, you know, the proof is the proof is just living proof.
[00:18:56]  It's just right in front of you every day.
[00:18:58]  So they come out here, oh, MAGA's not dead.
[00:19:00]  MAGA's not dead.
[00:19:01]  Well, the only reason you're saying that is because it's dead.
[00:19:05]  The only reason why all of these people have to go out and claim MAGA isn't dead is because it's dead.
[00:19:11]  Otherwise, you wouldn't have to say it.
[00:19:13]  The proof would already be there.
[00:19:17]  I mean, you can see it in the bickering.
[00:19:19]  You can see it in the people making lists.
[00:19:21]  You know, that's what's so ironic about this.
[00:19:24]  That's why when you look at wherever this Trump movement is, you can't even put it to a left, right, or it's not even that.
[00:19:33]  It's just the Trump cult.
[00:19:34]  It's just Trump.
[00:19:35]  It's just Trump politics now.
[00:19:39]  So wherever this Trump movement is, here they are putting out lists.
[00:19:45]  Here they are talking about all the people that are disloyal.
[00:19:48]  Here they are talking about on each little subject, how if you disagree with them, they don't want you.
[00:19:54]  They don't want our votes, this whole thing.
[00:19:56]  So they're the ones that are playing their role in this.
[00:20:02]  They're the ones that are like they see a chink in the armor and they try to bust it wide open as far as Trump loyalty is concerned.
[00:20:13]  Because in their eyes, that's what this is all about.
[00:20:16]  In their eyes, this is some totem pool of social political culture and they're just trying to be at the top of it.
[00:20:23]  They can't understand that you're not here to be a social climber.
[00:20:26]  You're not here to be a social political climber.
[00:20:29]  You don't care about the totem pole.
[00:20:31]  They don't understand that.
[00:20:32]  That's all they care about.
[00:20:34]  These are narcissistic egomaniacs that think politics is all a popularity contest and they're scratching and clawing to get to the top, thinking that Trump loyalty is how you climb that ladder.
[00:20:45]  So in their eyes, when they see that you might not be loyal to Trump, they see that as an opportunity to destroy you, to bring you down, to climb that social political ladder.
[00:20:56]  We're not even interested in that.
[00:20:58]  But that's their role in destroying MAGA.
[00:21:01]  That's their role in destroying the MAGA coalition and killing MAGA.
[00:21:06]  That's their role.
[00:21:07]  They have actively participated in that role.
[00:21:11]  And then they're going to sit here and tell you none of it's going on.
[00:21:18]  It's quite something to witness.
[00:21:23]  There they are actively stabbing MAGA, knives, swords, hatchets, whatever.
[00:21:31]  There they are, actively sabotaging MAGA.
[00:21:36]  Forget about the policy disagreements.
[00:21:38]  Forget about the policies.
[00:21:40]  Forget about them.
[00:21:42]  We're all sitting there.
[00:21:43]  Every single former Trump supporter, they're out here attacking them, destroying them, putting them on lists, calling President Trump, telling him they're disloyal.
[00:21:53]  That's their active role in killing MAGA.
[00:21:56]  And then they come out on the other side.
[00:21:58]  So after they stab MAGA to death, they come out and they say, MAGA's not dead, as they're standing over the corpse of MAGA.
[00:22:11]  That's what they're doing.
[00:22:14]  And most of them were never Trumpers.
[00:22:19]  Most of them were never Trumpers on record.
[00:22:26]  And so here, and we're all watching this.
[00:22:30]  And the confusion, the break is that we don't care about a popularity contest.
[00:22:34]  We don't care about the social political ladder that they're obsessed with.
[00:22:38]  That's their entire thought paradigm.
[00:22:40]  They can't comprehend that we don't care about that because that's all they care about.
[00:22:45]  We're looking at this saying, wait a second.
[00:22:49]  Here's the neocons.
[00:22:51]  Here's the swamp.
[00:22:52]  Here's the establishment.
[00:22:53]  Here's the never Trumpers.
[00:22:54]  They just took out all the knives, stabbed MAGA in the back, watched it bleed out on the ground, put it on their face like a skin suit.
[00:23:03]  And now they're saying MAGA is not dead.
[00:23:05]  And we're just sitting here like, we just watched you guys kill MAGA.
[00:23:10]  We just watched you guys kill MAGA, and now you're telling us it's not dead as you're wearing it as a skin suit standing over the corpse.
[00:23:22]  It's just weird.
[00:23:25]  It's just strange.
[00:23:30]  So just remember that.
[00:23:31]  And I'm going to go to this next level propaganda we're getting out of the White House.
[00:23:34]  But just remember that.
[00:23:37]  When they say MAGA is not dead.
[00:23:42]  So what?
[00:23:42]  So what are you talking about here then?
[00:23:44]  Why are you saying that?
[00:23:45]  Why are you making lists?
[00:23:47]  Why are you calling out people that aren't loyal to Trump?
[00:23:51]  What are you talking about?
[00:23:51]  People on the right don't support the war.
[00:23:54]  So what are you talking about?
[00:23:56]  You guys are the ones exhibiting all the evidence that MAGA is dead.
[00:24:03]  And then you say, oh, no, no, it's not.
[00:24:08]  It's very strange.
[00:24:14]  But there's only one man now more popular in his own people, in his own groups, than Kim Jong-un.
[00:24:28]  The North Korean leader received 99.8% of the vote in the most recent election.
[00:24:39]  And of course, we all believe that.
[00:24:42]  Of course.
[00:24:44]  Of course, we all know that that is totally legitimate.
[00:24:48]  And Kim Jong-un received 99.8% of the vote.
[00:24:53]  That's totally legit.
[00:24:56]  That's a big win for North Korea, a big win for Kim Jong-un.
[00:25:01]  Totally legit.

=== Beyond Communist Narratives (15:36) ===

[00:25:02]  And of course, they say it's 99.8 because no country, no group of people would be 100%.
[00:25:13]  No group of people would be 100% behind any individual because that would be cult level.
[00:25:20]  So they say 99.8 just to say, oh, you know, it's not a total cult here.
[00:25:25]  We got some other people they didn't vote for on Kim Jong-un.
[00:25:30]  Well, MAGA, they've just decided they're not even going to pretend.
[00:25:35]  They're not even going to pretend.
[00:25:37]  Now, I'll give a little background after we play this clip.
[00:25:41]  This was shared by Caroline Jean-Pierre Levitt talking about MAGA support for Trump.
[00:25:49]  Yeah, you know, sometimes you look at the polling data and there are numbers that just jump off the screen at you.
[00:25:54]  And this is one of those because just take a look here.
[00:25:57]  MAGA GOP view of Trump.
[00:25:59]  Approve 100%, 100%.
[00:26:03]  If you are a member of MAGA and the GOP, you approve of Donald John Trump.
[00:26:09]  0% say that they disapprove.
[00:26:12]  You don't have to be a mathematical genius to know you can't go higher than 100%.
[00:26:16]  He is the 1972 Miami Dolphins.
[00:26:20]  Yeah, you know, sometimes.
[00:26:22]  So 100%, guys.
[00:26:26]  Bigger numbers than Kim Jong-un.
[00:26:28]  100%.
[00:26:31]  So obviously that's ridiculous.
[00:26:34]  But this is being shared by Caroline Levitt.
[00:26:38]  So this is just outrageous propaganda.
[00:26:42]  This is pure communist propaganda.
[00:26:45]  Okay, so let's put the ridiculousness of that propaganda aside and let's actually try to make sense of it.
[00:26:51]  Shall we want to make sense of this?
[00:26:55]  So if MAGA is 100% behind Donald Trump, then what is MAGA?
[00:27:03]  Because we're not denying that many Trump supporters have stopped supporting him.
[00:27:09]  We're not denying that a lot of the MAGA base is gone and has abandoned Trump.
[00:27:15]  I mean, we're not denying that, right?
[00:27:18]  Certainly, we're not denying that.
[00:27:20]  So obviously, that number does not represent Trump voters.
[00:27:24]  That number does not represent Republican voters.
[00:27:27]  That number does not represent conservatives.
[00:27:29]  That number only represents the Trump cult.
[00:27:34]  So all you're saying is, oh, the Trump cult supports Trump 100%.
[00:27:38]  So really, that's a worthless poll.
[00:27:41]  Completely worthless.
[00:27:43]  Now, why would CNN be promoting this poll?
[00:27:49]  Think about that.
[00:27:50]  Here's CNN.
[00:27:51]  Fake news, right?
[00:27:52]  Fake news, propaganda, CNN.
[00:27:55]  Why would they be, and then it gets shared by the press secretary, it gets shared by Crean Jean-Pierre Levitt.
[00:28:03]  Why would CNN be doing a 100% poll for Trump?
[00:28:07]  Well, I think there's two potential reasons for this.
[00:28:11]  One, they know now that Trump has helped broker the deal for the Ellisons to take over CNN or to take over the umbrella that's above CNN in order to have more favorable coverage, more favorable coverage for Trump, more favorable coverage for Israel.
[00:28:30]  That's what the whole deal was about.
[00:28:33]  So now that that deal is done, although is it done?
[00:28:37]  There's some other news on that today, but it looks like that deal is done.
[00:28:40]  Maybe this is them just trying to keep their jobs.
[00:28:43]  You know, maybe this is them showing Trump that they can be good loyalists to just please let us keep our jobs on TV.
[00:28:51]  Please, can we just keep our jobs here?
[00:28:53]  We'll tell people you're the greatest president of all time.
[00:28:55]  Just let us keep our jobs.
[00:28:57]  Okay.
[00:28:58]  Maybe that could be something.
[00:29:02]  Or what about this?
[00:29:03]  Because maybe you don't trust CNN.
[00:29:06]  Maybe you still don't trust CNN as a Trump supporter.
[00:29:09]  And why would you?
[00:29:11]  What if CNN is doing this to embarrass the Trump administration?
[00:29:18]  What if CNN, I mean, folks, 100% support?
[00:29:22]  This is ridiculous.
[00:29:25]  That is communist propaganda.
[00:29:28]  It's beyond communist propaganda.
[00:29:30]  Even Kim Jong-un is a 99.8.
[00:29:32]  They don't even give Kim Jong-un 100%, but Trump's getting 100%.
[00:29:37]  Okay.
[00:29:38]  So it's outrageous level propaganda on its face.
[00:29:44]  Would CNN be promoting this to fool Donald Trump?
[00:29:50]  Would CNN be promoting this to fool the administration?
[00:29:54]  You might think that's a bit of a reach, but let's be honest.
[00:30:01]  Clearly, Trump's approval ratings are not where they want them to be, not good, not where they should be.
[00:30:07]  Clearly, Trump's voter base has split, whether it's 30%, 40%, 50%, whatever, it's split.
[00:30:19]  So, I mean, there's clearly measurables where you can say Trump is losing support.
[00:30:26]  Trump is losing popularity.
[00:30:29]  Very clear measurables with every single day.
[00:30:32]  And now this war in Iran is the most unpopular war in modern American history.
[00:30:39]  So what if CNN thinks, hey, let's tell Trump everybody likes this.
[00:30:45]  Let's tell Trump that this war is very popular and everything he's doing is very popular so that he keeps doing it.
[00:30:51]  Because in their mind, and they know how the mainstream media manipulates this administration now.
[00:30:58]  So maybe they're kind of learning that.
[00:31:00]  Maybe they're kind of learning.
[00:31:02]  You know, everybody's kind of had to adapt to Trump.
[00:31:07]  So you kind of saw the right wing adapt to Trump, the neocons adapt to Trump, the foreign lobby, the special lobby.
[00:31:13]  They all adapted to Trump and they realized the move is not to go after Trump.
[00:31:22]  The move is to get in bed with Trump and then use the different factors we can to manipulate and control and steer Trump in the direction we want him to go.
[00:31:31]  And as you can see, they've been successful with that.
[00:31:35]  That's been the neocons big victory was they adapted to Trump.
[00:31:39]  They realized you don't fight Trump.
[00:31:41]  You get in bed with Trump.
[00:31:42]  You tell him he's the greatest thing in the history of the world and there's nobody like him ever.
[00:31:46]  And then you guide and manipulate and steer him to do your good, to do what you want done.
[00:31:52]  And that's what's happened.
[00:31:53]  So what if CNN now has maybe had a similar adaptation and they figured, you know, we're not very popular.
[00:32:04]  Us attacking Trump hasn't really helped.
[00:32:09]  So what if we started to support Trump?
[00:32:13]  What if we started to fluff Trump?
[00:32:17]  That would make him think he's even more popular, even though he's not, and he would keep doubling down on these unpopular decisions and unpopular policies.
[00:32:26]  And then in the midterms, we can sweep 100% support.
[00:32:35]  Remember, it was just like a couple days ago.
[00:32:38]  Remember the first propaganda they put up there?
[00:32:41]  You know what?
[00:32:43]  They're going to come out next week, guys.
[00:32:45]  Trump support in MAGA will be 110%.
[00:32:51]  Yes.
[00:32:53]  110% support for Trump in MAGA.
[00:32:57]  That's what they're going to come out and say next week.
[00:32:59]  110%.
[00:33:01]  Oh, 120%.
[00:33:04]  200%.
[00:33:06]  Oh, my gosh.
[00:33:07]  We're talking like rigged elections now.
[00:33:11]  So it was like, what, 90% last week?
[00:33:13]  Now it's 100%.
[00:33:14]  It'll be 110.
[00:33:17]  This is crazy.
[00:33:21]  Honestly, guys, let me ask.
[00:33:26]  As Trump is on pace for 1,000% support from MAGA, what is worse?
[00:33:32]  What is worse?
[00:33:33]  Joe Biden, fit as a fiddle.
[00:33:36]  Joe Biden, sharp as attack?
[00:33:39]  Joe Biden, scratch golfer?
[00:33:43]  Joe Biden, master biker?
[00:33:48]  Or Donald Trump, 100% in MAGA?
[00:33:52]  What is more ridiculous?
[00:33:57]  So I just look forward to that poll next week.
[00:34:00]  Honestly, it could become such a joke.
[00:34:05]  CNN is going to be like, oh, my gosh, they believe this crap.
[00:34:09]  Oh, my gosh, they're sharing our reports.
[00:34:12]  Let's put out a poll next week and say he has 110% support.
[00:34:18]  Let's see if they'll fall for it.
[00:34:19]  Let's see if they'll go.
[00:34:20]  Let's see just how brainwashed these zombies are.
[00:34:26]  Let's just see.
[00:34:26]  110% Trump support next week.
[00:34:31]  What was worse, guys?
[00:34:32]  Fit as a fiddle or 100%?
[00:34:37]  I want to see it in the chat.
[00:34:38]  Guys, you don't understand.
[00:34:39]  I've said this before.
[00:34:39]  I'm about to get into the news.
[00:34:42]  I've said this before, and I notice everybody freaks out because they see the Drudge Report.
[00:34:46]  Guys, this is how I do media consumption.
[00:34:50]  I consume everything.
[00:34:53]  Like, this is all I do.
[00:34:55]  That's why my desk is like this.
[00:34:56]  That's why I have four news broadcasts here and the Drudge Report over here.
[00:35:02]  This is an eight-lane superhighway of information.
[00:35:08]  So don't freak out and be like, oh, my gosh, he's manipulated by CNN.
[00:35:12]  Oh, my gosh, he's manipulated by Drudge.
[00:35:14]  No, I consume everything.
[00:35:18]  And then I have a final aggregation that ends up as this show.
[00:35:22]  It's called the Owen Report.
[00:35:26]  So let's get to the news.
[00:35:28]  We're fit as a fiddle.
[00:35:31]  We are 100% approval rating, fit as a fiddle.
[00:35:38]  And now we're going to the news.
[00:35:39]  We do have one more kind of comparison after this, but you may have seen this video.
[00:35:45]  This was in Pennsylvania.
[00:35:46]  The reason I bring this up is because, you know, it's just, it's indicative to where things are going.
[00:35:54]  At this point, it's not even worth it.
[00:35:56]  I think there used to be an idea last year, there used to be an idea that we could corral this and we could get this train back on the tracks and we could salvage this administration and get back to the original purpose of MAGA.
[00:36:15]  I think all of those hopes and dreams are dead.
[00:36:19]  I don't think there's any effort.
[00:36:20]  Because normally I'd show this and I'd say, hey, you know, this is, hey, White House, hey, administration, hey, Trump cabinet.
[00:36:28]  Like, hey, other members of the media that support Trump, like, are you seeing this?
[00:36:33]  This is a bad thing.
[00:36:35]  We need to get on top of this.
[00:36:38]  Remember when they call this Panikins?
[00:36:39]  Like, that was the first warning shot.
[00:36:43]  It was like, hey, guys, we're getting off the tracks.
[00:36:46]  Hey, guys, we're losing everything.
[00:36:49]  They call this panicin.
[00:36:50]  So now I think it's just dead.
[00:36:51]  I think the hopes and dreams of getting MAGA back on track, getting this administration back on track, I think the hopes and dreams are dead.
[00:37:00]  So the approach to a story like this is different.
[00:37:02]  So this local news team goes to a gas station in Pennsylvania and they're asking people how they feel about Trump.
[00:37:11]  And one lady, three-time Trump voter, and this is probably, you know, you look at this from a demographics lens and you look at where Trump was able to make ground as far as black Americans, Hispanic Americans, and women.
[00:37:28]  You know, those were the margins that helped Trump get a record number of votes, probably twice.
[00:37:35]  So this is a woman.
[00:37:36]  This is probably one of those women that falls in line of that graphic that maybe votes either way.
[00:37:46]  But Trump won that group over, and now she calls Trump a worthless pile of shit.
[00:37:52]  Trump voter rips into him over Iran War.
[00:37:55]  Donald Trump supporters are tired of his broken promises.
[00:37:58]  So it goes on here.
[00:38:01]  I guess we could play, I guess we could play the clip.
[00:38:04]  I mean, I suppose why not?
[00:38:08]  So here's the clip I'm talking about.
[00:38:11]  Pull this up for you.
[00:38:16]  And then I'll explain what this really represents.
[00:38:18]  So this is in Pennsylvania, Millersburg, Pennsylvania at a gas station.
[00:38:22]  Let's take a listen to one more woman who we spoke with.
[00:38:26]  If you could say something to President Trump, he was going to hear you right now.
[00:38:29]  What would it be?
[00:38:31]  You are a worthless pile of shit.
[00:38:35]  And you voted for him how many times?
[00:38:37]  Three times.
[00:38:38]  That was my bad.
[00:38:40]  Apparently, I'm an idiot.
[00:38:44]  So there you go.
[00:38:48]  Now, I want to explain the significance of this.
[00:38:51]  And then I want to bring up this metaphor, let's say, that somebody else suggested that I think is right on point.
[00:38:59]  But these two things work together.
[00:39:04]  This is middle America.
[00:39:06]  This is salt of the earth America.
[00:39:08]  These are Americans just trying to get by, mind their own business, work their jobs, raise their family, pay their bills, whatever.
[00:39:17]  This is where Trump had the most support.
[00:39:20]  This is where Trump resonated with those Americans more than any president probably since Reagan.
[00:39:30]  The middle, low-class Americans that are just grinding to get by, want to be left alone, sick of the status quo politically, think it's all corrupt, want to see somebody go in there and just wreck it all.
[00:39:42]  Trump resonated with those people.
[00:39:44]  They voted for him three times.
[00:39:47]  And that's in Pennsylvania.
[00:39:49]  So now you look at it through the political strategic lens.
[00:39:53]  Pennsylvania, a swing state.
[00:39:56]  Pennsylvania that seems to swing red, blue, back, forth.
[00:40:02]  And if that is the contention of the middle America voters, the middle lower class voters in Pennsylvania, I'm telling you guys, you're cooked if you're the Republicans.
[00:40:16]  Trump has cooked the Republicans for at least two election cycles, if that's how they feel.
[00:40:22]  And things change, obviously, rapidly in politics, but I think what people forget, because you love politics, you watch this show, you probably consume a lot of political media.

=== Middle America Voter Frustration (02:03) ===

[00:40:39]  The average American does not.
[00:40:41]  The average American gets invested in maybe one or two political stories a year.
[00:40:47]  Maybe.
[00:40:49]  So the Iran war happens to be one of those stories, and the vast majority of Americans don't like it.
[00:40:56]  So all this other stuff, save act, all this other stuff, maybe it's good, maybe it's bad.
[00:41:00]  Forget about it.
[00:41:01]  The average American has no idea.
[00:41:04]  No idea, no clue, couldn't care less, not invested, not invested in it.
[00:41:11]  But they're invested in this Iran war.
[00:41:13]  They see their gas prices going up and they blame Trump and they are living at Trump.
[00:41:18]  And there's no backdrop of the deep state and the corrupt establishment attacking Trump anymore.
[00:41:25]  They all support Trump now.
[00:41:26]  He's part of it now.
[00:41:27]  He's the leader of it now.
[00:41:29]  So there isn't that kind of rebel underdog gravity where somebody like that would be inclined to support Trump just because they see all the bad people against him.
[00:41:39]  Now Trump's in bed with all these people.
[00:41:42]  So you can't even get that force of nature anymore.
[00:41:48]  So if that's how they feel in middle Pennsylvania, that's how they feel in middle Missouri.
[00:41:55]  That's how they feel in middle Illinois.
[00:41:58]  That's how they feel in middle Wisconsin.
[00:42:01]  Those are the voters that Trump connected with more than any other politician.
[00:42:05]  And those are the voters that he has now pissed off to such a degree that they either won't vote or they're going to go vote Democrats for potentially two election cycles.
[00:42:18]  And then they're going to come out here and they're going to tell you that Trump has 100% support in MAGA.
[00:42:27]  And these brainwashed sheeple are actually going to believe it.
[00:42:36]  Wow.
[00:42:38]  Wow.

=== MAGA Identity Crisis Explained (05:02) ===

[00:42:42]  So this is how it was put.
[00:42:46]  And I felt that this was a pretty good breakdown here from this account on X Avid series.
[00:42:55]  It shows a picture of Caroline Levitt prior to becoming the press secretary and then a picture of her now.
[00:43:01]  And, well, we'll get more into detail here, but just for a brief layout, the parade of cosmic, excuse me, the parade of cosmetic surgery and filler casualties at the GOP convention in 2024 was visual evidence of the transformation of the party from the salt of the earth conservatism to brash tacky populism.
[00:43:25]  I can't help but notice that the latest edition of Caroline Levitt's face is quite a contrast to her original one.
[00:43:32]  Fuller lips, plumper cheeks, thinner nose.
[00:43:34]  Now, the only thing I would say on the political side of this, it's actually salt of the earth populism that is now switched to brash-tacky conservatism.
[00:43:48]  That's the only kind of thing that if we're looking at this through a political breakdown, I might disagree with.
[00:43:54]  But I do find the analogy of, yeah, you look at the plastic surgery, the makeup administration now, and it's like that's what this has become.
[00:44:06]  It's become just this big Hollywood act, this big popularity contest, this big narcissistic ego competition.
[00:44:15]  And, you know, you can see it in Caroline Levitt.
[00:44:18]  You know, as Trump said, whatever the hell this means, she's got lips that go boom, you know, like the bombs in Iran.
[00:44:27]  Boom, boom.
[00:44:31]  Obviously, she's had a ton of work done to her face, probably some form of a nose job, whatever.
[00:44:38]  Tons of cosmetic work done.
[00:44:41]  I think people said the same thing about Christy Noam.
[00:44:47]  Trump wears makeup all the time.
[00:44:52]  But that's what it is.
[00:44:53]  That's what this administration has become.
[00:44:55]  It no longer represents the salt of the earth Americans.
[00:45:00]  It no longer represents the thoughts, the values, the concerns of the average American, the middle class, lower class American that just wants to live their life and be left alone and just get a shot.
[00:45:13]  They just want a chance.
[00:45:17]  That's all they want is a chance.
[00:45:21]  They grind it out.
[00:45:22]  They grind it out 56 weeks a year.
[00:45:26]  They just want a chance.
[00:45:27]  They just want a chance to own something.
[00:45:29]  They just want a chance to get their head above water financially.
[00:45:32]  They just want a chance to get to take their family on a vacation, a summer vacation, a spring break for a week or two.
[00:45:41]  They just want a chance.
[00:45:46]  Now it's just turned into some bloated, narcissistic ego administration filled with Botox and lip filler and plastic surgery.
[00:45:57]  And that average American that's just looking for that chance, they don't see it.
[00:46:04]  They don't see the odds of that chance getting any better.
[00:46:06]  So they find the media in their backyard and they have a little thing to say to Trump.
[00:46:13]  And it's not so friendly.
[00:46:17]  And that is.
[00:46:18]  It's all fake now.
[00:46:19]  It's all fake.
[00:46:20]  It's all ego.
[00:46:21]  It's all narcissism.
[00:46:23]  It's all Hollywood.
[00:46:26]  That's all this Trump 2.0 is.
[00:46:28]  They're all running around Mar-a-Lago.
[00:46:31]  They're all running around D.C. They're getting their lip filler.
[00:46:33]  They're getting their Botox.
[00:46:36]  They're all getting dressed up.
[00:46:38]  They want the pictures.
[00:46:40]  They want the access.
[00:46:42]  They want to show off that they're in the club.
[00:46:44]  They want to show off that they're in the prestigious political clubs and they get access to all the different groups and locations.
[00:46:54]  They show it off in their fancy clothes and their gowns and their suits and their tuxedos and their new lips and their new boobs and their new noses.
[00:47:05]  It's the antithesis of everything MAGA was supposed to be.
[00:47:12]  MAGA was supposed to be the guy that shows up to the poll with dirt under his fingernails, a little bit of sweat on his brow from a long day's work, still in his ragged uniform, stopping by to vote before he goes home to see his wife and kids.
[00:47:29]  That is what MAGA was supposed to be.
[00:47:32]  Now MAGA is two hours in front of the mirror, a visit to your plastic surgeon, and then go take a selfie of yourself when you go vote for Trump.

=== Coffee Break: Blackout Code Owen (05:51) ===

[00:47:44]  And I do think the physical representation of Levitt pre-administration and post-administration is a fair representation of where things are at.
[00:48:01]  First break of the show.
[00:48:03]  We hit the news on the other side.
[00:48:06]  You're listening to the Owen Report on the Win Network.
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=== Producer Prices and Economic Inflation (02:15) ===

[00:53:36]  All right, we got a lot of news now.
[00:53:41]  We're going to pile drive through a ton of headlines.
[00:53:48]  Most of it, at least to start here, is going to be on the economy.
[00:53:52]  And this is where Trump was supposed to be scoring major victories, and it really just hasn't happened unless you were able to take advantage of the first year of the administration and get ahead of some of that definitely not insider trading that was going on.
[00:54:12]  Other than that, you're not really seeing too much.
[00:54:15]  PPI inflation surprise producer prices rise more than forecast in February, complicating Fed outlook.
[00:54:25]  U.S. producer prices rose more than twice as fast as expected in February, almost a whole percent in February, which is on top of now gains in back-to-back months on the producer price index.
[00:54:42]  So it's costing more to make things.
[00:54:43]  And then Jerome Powell came out today and said that because of this and because of the war, they can't lower rates yet.
[00:54:51]  So no fun there.
[00:54:55]  Not good news there.
[00:54:56]  U.S. producer prices rise 0.7% in February, higher than expected.
[00:55:00]  Food prices rose 2.4% from January, led by a 49% surge in vegetable prices and a 10% increase in fruit prices.
[00:55:13]  So the producer price index goes up, and then ultimately the consumer price index follows.
[00:55:23]  And as the Fed chair Powell was noting earlier today when he spoke to the media, U.S. producer inflation runs hotter in February, expected to accelerate further amid Iran war, amid the Iran war, amid the tariff struggle, amid the trade war, amid our Congress, our government gutting our own production and manufacturing capabilities.

=== Geopolitical Terror State Conversations (15:02) ===

[00:55:51]  Yeah.
[00:55:53]  This was supposed to be the easy victory for Trump, fixing our economy, and it's simply not happening.
[00:56:05]  And he says this, Trump posted this, I wonder what would happen if we finished off what's left of the Iranian terror state and let the countries that use it, we don't, be responsible for the so-called straight.
[00:56:25]  That would get some of our non-responsive allies in gear and fast.
[00:56:30]  So he posted this on Truth Social this morning.
[00:56:32]  Guys, what the hell is going on with this man?
[00:56:40]  Of all the crazy stuff that we've seen from this administration, like Trump posting thousand-word posts and defensive Levin and all this other stuff, like that's like pure crash out, not even worth reading.
[00:56:59]  That's just like a psychotic person in a rubber room, you know, bashing his head against the wall.
[00:57:04]  This, he says, you know, somewhat sober in comparison, and it just makes no sense.
[00:57:14]  If we finished off what's left of the Iranian terror state, well, he keeps saying that they have.
[00:57:18]  I love how he throws terror state in there, so you know it's propaganda.
[00:57:22]  And then he says, we don't even use the strait of Hormuz, which is not entirely true, but generally speaking, the Strait of Hormuz activity has a very small impact on our bottom line.
[00:57:38]  Now, it has a larger impact in the global economy, so ultimately it will affect us.
[00:57:45]  But, okay, he's saying that we haven't finished off the Iranian terror state.
[00:57:51]  Okay, so what are we doing?
[00:57:53]  What's the goal?
[00:57:56]  And now he's saying that, okay, this whole thing is about the strait of Hermuz, which doesn't even affect us.
[00:58:01]  So maybe we'll just pull out and then our allies can get in gear.
[00:58:05]  The problem is, and Trump has to be aware of this.
[00:58:09]  The problem is that the so-called allies, as he puts it, they're not having this problem.
[00:58:17]  They have actively and vocally said they're not getting involved in this war against Iran.
[00:58:23]  And Iran has said, if you don't, we will allow you to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:58:29]  So what is Trump even talking about here?
[00:58:33]  They just dropped a bunch of bunker busters in the vicinity.
[00:58:37]  I'm guessing they think or they know that they have some sort of a Hezbollah or Houthi tunnel that they just bombed and they think they destroyed whatever capabilities they have to disrupt the flow.
[00:58:50]  Maybe time will tell.
[00:58:52]  But to me, you see this and it's just like nobody knows.
[00:58:56]  Trump doesn't even know.
[00:58:58]  Trump doesn't even know what's going on.
[00:59:00]  And this is where I think it's at.
[00:59:02]  And I think everybody sees it.
[00:59:08]  Forget about addressing the people that always fall for the fake news, the propaganda, whether it's from the left or the right, the liberals or the neocons.
[00:59:17]  Forget about the unserious people in Maginau.
[00:59:20]  Forget about the unserious people that don't want to have honest geopolitical foreign policy discussions.
[00:59:29]  I think it's pretty clear what's going on for the adults in the room here.
[00:59:34]  And the whole world sees it, by the way.
[00:59:38]  What's the plan for Iran?
[00:59:40]  What is the plan?
[00:59:42]  What is the mission?
[00:59:44]  What is the outcome we're looking for?
[00:59:47]  What are the goals?
[00:59:48]  Yeah, they come out and they give you ideas and they say this stuff, but nobody really knows.
[00:59:52]  Nobody knows really where we're at.
[00:59:55]  Nobody knows what the finish line is.
[00:59:58]  I think we're up over 25 billion now.
[01:00:02]  Let's see if the number, I think it went over 25 billion today.
[01:00:07]  Over 24 billion today.
[01:00:10]  So the war in Iran has cost us 24 billion, day 19, and that real number is probably over 30.
[01:00:18]  When it's all adjusted, it'll be over 30.
[01:00:22]  So, okay, regime change, that's not going well.
[01:00:27]  We wanted to start a revolution inside to get the Iranian people on our side.
[01:00:30]  That didn't work.
[01:00:33]  We're not supposed to have boost on the ground, but now we might have to.
[01:00:36]  We tried to get the Kurds to fight the war.
[01:00:38]  They didn't want to do it.
[01:00:40]  We can't get control of the Strait of Hormuz.
[01:00:44]  What's the deal?
[01:00:47]  From the American perspective, there is no answer to this.
[01:00:51]  And this is what the whole world realizes.
[01:00:53]  This is what the adults in the room here realize.
[01:00:55]  This is the serious geopolitical conversation now.
[01:01:00]  The reason why the Trump administration is flailing on this, the reason why Trump himself is flailing on this and the chaos, the confusion, the mixed messages, the uncertainty of results versus goals.
[01:01:18]  It's like nobody really seems to know anything.
[01:01:20]  No, because here's the reality of the situation.
[01:01:24]  It's like you want it to make sense?
[01:01:26]  Make sense of it.
[01:01:28]  The reality of the situation is this is what Israel wants.
[01:01:32]  Let's just stop playing games.
[01:01:33]  This is the adult conversation.
[01:01:35]  Everyone in the world has realized this.
[01:01:37]  All of the NATO allies, all of the EU countries, pretty much the entire world knows that the only reason the United States is in Iran is for Israel's interest.
[01:01:49]  And we all know how this goes.
[01:01:51]  We all see it.
[01:01:52]  We all see the formula.
[01:01:53]  We all see APAC.
[01:01:54]  We all see the Israeli lobby.
[01:01:55]  We see the Adelsons.
[01:01:57]  We see the Ellisons.
[01:01:59]  We see all their assets inside the U.S. media.
[01:02:02]  We see all their bought and paid for congressmen.
[01:02:04]  So that's what they do.
[01:02:07]  So the Israeli lobby comes in with their big checks, their big fat checkbook, and they get control of Congress.
[01:02:14]  They get control of the American media.
[01:02:16]  And then you're back in the Middle East fighting a war for Israel.
[01:02:19]  That's what this is.
[01:02:21]  So, forget about what is the U.S. goal, what is Trump's goal, what is our mission.
[01:02:25]  That doesn't exist.
[01:02:26]  Trump can't decide when this war ends.
[01:02:29]  Netanyahu can.
[01:02:30]  Israel gets to decide.
[01:02:33]  So, we see all this chaos.
[01:02:35]  We see all this confusion.
[01:02:36]  We see all the questions going unanswered.
[01:02:38]  Nobody seems to know anything because they're not in control.
[01:02:42]  Clearly, the war doesn't stop until Israel says it's done.
[01:02:48]  The war isn't over.
[01:02:50]  America doesn't stop sending money and blood and treasure to Iran.
[01:02:55]  Americans don't stop dying.
[01:02:58]  Americans don't stop paying for this until Israel says, okay, it's done.
[01:03:04]  That's the story.
[01:03:06]  So, if you want to know what the mission in Iran is, forget about asking the Trump administration.
[01:03:12]  Ask Netanyahu.
[01:03:16]  Ask the Knesset.
[01:03:18]  Ask the Israeli lobby.
[01:03:20]  Hell, ask Mark Levin.
[01:03:24]  You want to know what the goal in Iran is?
[01:03:26]  There's no American interest there.
[01:03:28]  That's all propaganda.
[01:03:29]  For those that haven't figured it out yet, don't worry.
[01:03:31]  Eventually, you will.
[01:03:34]  So, the reason why Trump can't give you any answers, the reason why there's all this confusion and chaos, the reason why the world isn't leaping out of bed to go to war with Iran is because this is all 110% Israel's interest and Israel making the calls.
[01:03:51]  It's never been more obvious.
[01:03:55]  And that's why it's such a frustrating thing here that we can't even have a serious geopolitical conversation.
[01:04:00]  We can't even have a serious foreign policy debate because people still fall for the same propaganda for 25 freaking years or the new woke right propaganda where if you try to have this conversation, they just say you're anti-Semite to shut you down.
[01:04:14]  So you can't even have it.
[01:04:16]  So the real question is, what is it that Israel wants?
[01:04:20]  That's the real question.
[01:04:22]  What is it that Israel wants?
[01:04:25]  And the best indicator, you'd have to go back to what they call Operation Rising Lion.
[01:04:32]  That's what this whole thing is.
[01:04:34]  Operation Epic Fury.
[01:04:35]  That's a joke.
[01:04:36]  This is all part of Israel's Operation Raising Lion.
[01:04:40]  That's all this is.
[01:04:41]  There is no Operation Epic Fury.
[01:04:45]  That's just some buzzword.
[01:04:47]  That's just some catchphrase for this new wave of America's involvement in the war in Iran.
[01:04:53]  That's all it is.
[01:04:54]  Midnight Hammer didn't work.
[01:04:56]  So now they got to come back with Epic Fury.
[01:04:58]  It's all Operation Rising Lion.
[01:05:02]  So Israel's goal is they want Iran wiped out, whatever that means, to the extent that they can then put whoever they want in as the next government in Iran.
[01:05:16]  That's what this is all about.
[01:05:19]  Israel wants the United States military to annihilate Iran to whatever extent necessary so that they can move in there and control the next government.
[01:05:28]  That's what it's all about.
[01:05:29]  That's Operation Raising Lion.
[01:05:32]  That's what this whole thing is.
[01:05:33]  Forget about Operation Midnight Hammer.
[01:05:35]  Forget about Operation Epic Fury.
[01:05:38]  It's all Israel's operation of Rising Lion and using our military to do all their dirty work so that once we destroy the country and kill all of the leadership, they will move in with their government that they appoint, that they can run, that they can influence, that will favor Israel in the Middle East.
[01:05:53]  That's what the whole thing is about.
[01:05:59]  And we can't even have adult conversations in this country about it anymore because the propaganda has been so heavy, specifically on the American right.
[01:06:10]  The propaganda has been so heavy to get Americans invested in this war, whether it's 9-11, whether it's Muslims that are your enemy, whether it's they hate your way of life, whatever it is, that's how they've gotten us into this.
[01:06:29]  So, what is the outcome?
[01:06:31]  What is the goal?
[01:06:33]  Nobody knows.
[01:06:36]  Destroyed their nuclear facility.
[01:06:37]  It wasn't enough.
[01:06:38]  Killed their entire political military leadership.
[01:06:42]  It wasn't enough.
[01:06:43]  Apparently, we've sank their military, destroyed their military capabilities.
[01:06:47]  It wasn't enough.
[01:06:50]  And everybody sees it.
[01:06:51]  And then you have Trump crashing out.
[01:06:54]  To me, that's what this represents.
[01:06:58]  Trump, the world has now abandoned Trump just like they abandoned Netanyahu.
[01:07:04]  And Trump is sitting around here stunned by it.
[01:07:07]  He can't understand it.
[01:07:10]  And he says, oh, well, fine.
[01:07:13]  We will pull out of the region then.
[01:07:15]  Good luck.
[01:07:16]  And the rest of the world is saying, please do.
[01:07:19]  We can't get you guys out of the region quick enough.
[01:07:24]  And he's saying that like it's some sort of a threat.
[01:07:29]  Trump going to Truth Social today, threatening to pull out of the Middle East, like threatening.
[01:07:37]  Don't threaten me with a good time.
[01:07:38]  This is what we're asking.
[01:07:40]  This is what we're demanding.
[01:07:41]  This is what the entire world wants, except one small country in the Middle East.
[01:07:48]  And then maybe some leaders around the world that are blackmailed by said country.
[01:07:58]  So there's Trump on the island losing all of his support.
[01:08:03]  There's Trump on the island losing the trust of the world leaders.
[01:08:09]  There's Trump drug into the Middle East like his predecessors that he used to call out.
[01:08:14]  There's Trump attached at the hip to Bibi Netanyahu, the most unpopular man on earth, wanted in the international criminal court, wanted for war crimes, a known liar to the American people for 40 years.
[01:08:28]  And there's Trump attached at the hip, watching his approval sink like an anchor as he's tied to Netanyahu.
[01:08:35]  And now he's coming out and nobody wants to work with him on this Iran deal.
[01:08:38]  And he's like, oh, really?
[01:08:40]  Well, then we'll just pull out and you guys can deal with it.
[01:08:43]  And everybody in the world is like, yes, please, thank you.
[01:08:48]  But of course, we know he can't actually do that because Israel is making the decisions here.
[01:08:53]  And if that is not true, if that is not true, if this isn't about Israel making these decisions, then ask yourself this.
[01:09:06]  Ask yourself this.
[01:09:10]  If Israel was not our ally in that region, would we still be doing this?
[01:09:22]  If Israel didn't want regime change in Iran, would the United States of America be involved in this?
[01:09:29]  If you didn't have AIPAC, if you didn't have the Adelson cash, would America be doing this?
[01:09:35]  And the answer, of course, is no.
[01:09:39]  Because they didn't do it.
[01:09:41]  They never did it until now with Trump.
[01:09:48]  And it's never been more obvious.
[01:09:51]  And it's just sad that we can't have real geopolitical foreign policy conversations.
[01:09:58]  You know, dealing with the propaganda is one thing.
[01:10:00]  You're always going to have to deal with that in debates, in these conversations.
[01:10:06]  But now it's like you can't even talk like this without the woke mind virus, the woke ideology that was to immediately jump to the conclusions and call you a name.
[01:10:19]  So you can't even have these real conversations.
[01:10:22]  But the whole world sees it.
[01:10:23]  The adults in the room, the world leaders, they all see what's going on.
[01:10:26]  They know this is Israel controlling Trump.
[01:10:28]  They know this is Operation Rising Line and Israel using the United States blood and treasure again to do it.
[01:10:33]  The whole damn world knows that.
[01:10:36]  Like you are such a clown if you haven't figured this out.
[01:10:42]  Like you are just such an embarrassment.
[01:10:45]  You are such a clown.
[01:10:46]  The whole world looks at you like a moron.

=== Texas Crude and War Costs (02:03) ===

[01:10:54]  So anyway, there you go.
[01:10:59]  Oil prices jumped 5% after Iran threatens to attack Middle East energy facilities.
[01:11:09]  And they're up across the board, every country.
[01:11:12]  Oil prices up 5% on Wednesday.
[01:11:17]  Brent futures rose $5.14 or 5% to $108.56 a barrel.
[01:11:26]  U.S. West Texas Intermediate Crude gained $2.17 or 2.3% to $98.38 a barrel.
[01:11:36]  So Brent crude is kind of the world market stage.
[01:11:39]  West Texas Intermediate Crude is kind of the American stage.
[01:11:47]  It's like, why is all of this happening?
[01:11:50]  I thought we got the oil out of Venezuela.
[01:11:52]  Nope.
[01:11:56]  I mean, what is even going on right now?
[01:12:00]  What is even going on?
[01:12:03]  Can you declare victory?
[01:12:04]  What is a victory?
[01:12:06]  Can you pull out of this deal?
[01:12:10]  Or are we not even in control?
[01:12:11]  Do we not have any say over this Scandinavian Airlines, another major airline canceling 1000 flights due to soaring gas prices?
[01:12:32]  Thousand flights this April due to the rise of oil and jet fuel prices.
[01:12:39]  So I think you're going to see a lot more of this if this war doesn't end soon.
[01:12:47]  I wonder, again, when does this deal end?
[01:12:52]  You're in day 19, at least $25 billion in.

=== Gulf Sabotage and Energy Prices (15:12) ===

[01:12:57]  Day 19, 13 dead Americans.
[01:13:02]  Energy prices skyrocketing.
[01:13:06]  Where does this end?
[01:13:07]  When does this end?
[01:13:10]  What are we doing?
[01:13:16]  And who knows as far as the military operation is concerned?
[01:13:21]  I mean, Iran still seems to have something left.
[01:13:27]  USS Gerald R. Ford, huge fires ravage the world's largest warship for 30 hours.
[01:13:34]  A fire broke out on the U.S.'s biggest warship, raged for 30 hours before it was extinguished.
[01:13:39]  Three sailors on the Gerald Ford had to receive medical treatment, and dozens suffered smoke inhalation.
[01:13:45]  More than 600 sailors and crew members lost their beds after the blaze broke out in the laundry room.
[01:13:51]  The New York Times reported some have spent days bunking down on floors and tables instead.
[01:13:58]  Yikes.
[01:14:01]  It marks the second embarrassing incident for the U.S. aircraft carrier, the largest warship ever constructed.
[01:14:08]  While it supports American forces in the Middle East during the war with Iran, you may recall this story from the beginning of the month.
[01:14:20]  The warship's lavatories were experiencing plumbing issues and flooding and everything else.
[01:14:27]  They were already overextended on this trip.
[01:14:31]  What was supposed to be a six-month trip turned into eight, turned into 10.
[01:14:36]  So there were reports out, and this, you know, this wasn't from my sources, but from people that probably have sources on the ship.
[01:14:48]  And they reported that it was direct sabotage in a protest because they were already overextended on their due date and they didn't want to go to war in Iran.
[01:15:01]  They didn't want any part of the war and they wanted to go home.
[01:15:03]  So they sabotaged the plumbing.
[01:15:05]  Now, you can believe that or not.
[01:15:11]  Either way, they had that issue.
[01:15:13]  And now you have an issue of a fire.
[01:15:15]  So would they be that stir-crazy?
[01:15:18]  Would they want to avoid the war that much that they would start a fire on it?
[01:15:21]  I don't know.
[01:15:23]  But it is funny, I got to say, because the two things, if you're trying to sabotage something in a protest, and you know what?
[01:15:34]  Maybe I'm reaching, but I can't help it.
[01:15:36]  This is where my mind goes.
[01:15:37]  In prison, that's what they do.
[01:15:39]  They sabotage the laundry, they sabotage the plumbing in prison.
[01:15:43]  If they're trying to stage some sort of a protest to get the attention of the guards, to get the attention of the chiefs, the commanders, whatever, the warden, that's what they'll do.
[01:15:54]  They'll stage some protest with laundry.
[01:15:56]  They'll stage some protest with the plumbing.
[01:16:01]  So now they've been out for 10 months, four months past their time of return, and now they're going to have to get to a port here, get to a harbor, because the thing is just going completely chaotic.
[01:16:14]  So the largest aircraft carrier is now sidelined, but I don't think it was operating very efficiently.
[01:16:29]  But now it's on the sidelines.
[01:16:30]  Trump temporarily loosening shipping rules in bid to lower gas prices.
[01:16:36]  Yeah, anything.
[01:16:39]  Anything to fix this gas price issue.
[01:16:41]  Trump temporarily waives the Jones Act to try and lower gas prices.
[01:16:45]  Will it work?
[01:16:47]  The White House has temporarily rolled back a law that requires all goods traveling between the U.S. ports to be moved on American-made and American crude ships as the ongoing war with Iran has spiked energy prices across the country.
[01:17:05]  So, yeah, they're all telling you how great it is.
[01:17:10]  Caroline Lovitt saying President Trump's decision to issue a 60-day Jones Act waiver is just another step to mitigate the short-term disruptions to the oil market as the U.S. military continues meeting the objectives of Operation Epic Fury.
[01:17:24]  Oh, what objectives exactly?
[01:17:26]  Nobody knows.
[01:17:29]  This action will allow vital resources like oil, natural gas, fertilizer, and coal to flow freely to the U.S. ports for 60 days.
[01:17:36]  And the administration remains committed to continuing to strengthen our critical supply chain.
[01:17:40]  So there you go.
[01:17:43]  Sorry, Americans, you're out of a job because we had to go to war for Israel in the Middle East.
[01:17:49]  So we're waiving the Jones Act because gas prices are going up and it's hurting my approval ratings.
[01:17:54]  So you guys are out of a job.
[01:17:55]  We're letting any foreigners come here on any ship they want now.
[01:18:00]  That's where MAGA is at.
[01:18:03]  60 days, he says.
[01:18:05]  Now, I don't know if you want to take anything out of that number.
[01:18:08]  Are they anticipating this war is going to go on for two months, two more months?
[01:18:15]  They already tapped into the petroleum reserves.
[01:18:19]  And I'm just curious.
[01:18:21]  You know, I'd like some actual hard numbers here.
[01:18:28]  Not just political speak.
[01:18:30]  What is your short-term pain here?
[01:18:33]  What are we talking about?
[01:18:34]  Can you give us a number of days?
[01:18:37]  We're on day number 19.
[01:18:39]  What is considered short-term?
[01:18:40]  Is it 20 days?
[01:18:41]  Is it 30 days?
[01:18:42]  Is it 60 days?
[01:18:43]  Is it 100 days?
[01:18:45]  What are we considering short-term pain here?
[01:18:47]  Can anybody put a number on it?
[01:18:49]  Is anybody willing to give us a number on that?
[01:18:54]  And is there a number as far as energy is concerned, as far as gas prices are concerned?
[01:19:01]  Is there a number per barrel or is there a number per gallon that you guys are willing to say enough is enough and we have to stop this and reverse course?
[01:19:13]  Or is it just until Netanyahu says it's over and until Israel puts whoever they want in charge of Iran, America will continue to suffer until that happens?
[01:19:23]  Is that the plan here?
[01:19:26]  And let's say, because this is ultimately, I think, I think people are starting to reach the similar conclusion here, which is the only way this thing is going to be finished is with bombs we've never seen before.
[01:19:44]  I mean, total annihilation.
[01:19:46]  And this is obviously Israel's go-to.
[01:19:49]  This is what they did in the Gaza Strip.
[01:19:50]  This is what they're doing to Lebanon.
[01:19:52]  They just do military demolitions and then they just move in.
[01:19:56]  So it looks like that's ultimately, I think, where this is going to go.
[01:20:03]  I don't see any other indicators that there's any other outcome here.
[01:20:09]  They can't give us a clear path forward.
[01:20:12]  They can't give us objectives that make sense.
[01:20:18]  They can't tell us what short-term pain is.
[01:20:20]  They can't give us how many days.
[01:20:22]  They don't know the prices.
[01:20:26]  So I think people are starting to realize and reach the same conclusion, which is eventually they're just going to Palestine Iran.
[01:20:37]  They're just going to Palestine it.
[01:20:39]  They're just going to kill hundreds of thousands of people.
[01:20:41]  They're just going to Lebanon it.
[01:20:42]  They're just going to do a military demolition and then just move in on top of the rubble.
[01:20:48]  And maybe for Trump, he might want to avoid that.
[01:20:57]  I don't think that's something that Trump wants.
[01:21:01]  But I also feel like in this phase of the Trump presidency, like he just gives up.
[01:21:09]  The white flag is very common for Trump now to wave the white flag.
[01:21:16]  And I feel like it's going to be this situation where he's going to be against the wall here.
[01:21:25]  And they're going to say, well, look, we can do a ground invasion.
[01:21:30]  We can just keep death by a thousand cuts, just keep bombing and for days, for years.
[01:21:40]  Or we can just, you know, we can just drop the big one and just call it a day.
[01:21:47]  We could take this war from going on for another hundred days, another year, and we can just end it right now.
[01:21:53]  We can just go drop the big one on Tehran and we'll just go in.
[01:21:56]  We'll just do it like that.
[01:22:01]  Everybody's starting to think that that's the conclusion here because why wouldn't it be?
[01:22:06]  You have to view this through the lens of how Israel behaves, how Israel thinks and how Israel behaves.
[01:22:13]  So look what they've done in Palestine.
[01:22:15]  Look what they've done in Lebanon.
[01:22:16]  They'll do the exact same thing to Iran if Trump agrees to it.
[01:22:21]  So Trump might just wave the white flag and say, I can't do this anymore.
[01:22:24]  I can't do another month of this war.
[01:22:26]  I can't do 100 days of this war.
[01:22:28]  I can't do two years of this war.
[01:22:29]  We got to end this thing now.
[01:22:31]  I don't really want to drop a bomb and kill a bunch of people, but Israel doesn't seem to mind it.
[01:22:35]  So just go ahead and do it.
[01:22:37]  I don't really care anymore.
[01:22:39]  Hell, they just put up a poll that said I have 100% approval rating.
[01:22:43]  So fuck it.
[01:22:44]  Bomb them all.
[01:22:46]  Mr. President, bombing them is very unpopular.
[01:22:48]  Doesn't matter.
[01:22:48]  100% approval rating with MAGA.
[01:22:50]  Go ahead.
[01:22:50]  Bomb them.
[01:22:50]  Doesn't matter.
[01:22:51]  We'll just say 110% approval rating.
[01:22:53]  We'll just say it was a peaceful bomb.
[01:22:58]  Who knows what we just did in Cuba?
[01:23:01]  Oh, hey.
[01:23:03]  Well, we got that coming up in the news.
[01:23:10]  U.S. aims to curb soaring oil prices as Iran vows more revenge.
[01:23:15]  I thought we wiped out their military.
[01:23:17]  I thought their military was dead.
[01:23:19]  I thought they had nothing left.
[01:23:21]  So someone's lying.
[01:23:23]  And the war isn't over.
[01:23:27]  The American economy continues to suffer because of it.
[01:23:30]  Fed votes to hold rates steady, notes uncertain impacts from Iran war.
[01:23:37]  So you got the uncertain issue with energy costs.
[01:23:40]  You've got the uncertain issue with the Iran war.
[01:23:42]  So sorry, can't cut rates.
[01:23:48]  Sorry.
[01:23:52]  And now our biggest aircraft carrier is literally on fire.
[01:23:59]  USS Ford has seen war, fire, and plumbing woes as it nears a record-long deployment.
[01:24:06]  When are they going to let these guys and girls come home?
[01:24:08]  When are they going to bring these people off of the ship and do these necessary repairs?
[01:24:13]  I can't imagine morale is very high on this deal.
[01:24:19]  Can't imagine it's very, very high.
[01:24:22]  And that's why you wonder if there isn't some level of sabotage happening there.
[01:24:25]  So this is like nowhere in the news.
[01:24:28]  We'll see if this is true or not.
[01:24:30]  If this was true, this could be big.
[01:24:32]  This is the only place I could find it.
[01:24:36]  But other locals were reporting this.
[01:24:40]  But I couldn't find any mainstream news, just locals that were reporting this from the region, independent press.
[01:24:47]  Iran says U.S.-Israel strikes hit key South Pars gas field and oil facilities.
[01:24:53]  Both Iranian state television and state-run IRNA news agency reported on the attack targeting facilities at Asa Leye in Iran's southern Bashir province.
[01:25:06]  Well, and then the so basically we'll see about this.
[01:25:12]  You have to be careful now because the administration wants to arrest you for covering news.
[01:25:19]  So I don't know.
[01:25:19]  This is this kind of thing that they might want to arrest you over.
[01:25:23]  What's going to be interesting to find out about all of this is the United States, Trump signed a deal with Qatar.
[01:25:31]  Trump signed a deal with Qatar that essentially any attack on Qatar, we view as an attack on us, and we will respond accordingly.
[01:25:39]  It's similar to the defense deal that the handshake, I guess, that we have with Israel.
[01:25:44]  There's no actual treaty.
[01:25:45]  There's no actual deal.
[01:25:47]  It's just the Israeli lobby buying our government and media.
[01:25:52]  No, there's an actual executive order with Trump and Qatar.
[01:25:55]  So if they drag Qatar into this and they keep attacking Qatar, whoever it is, whoever Qatar figures it is, or these oil fields that Qatar has a joint operation with, the whole Gulf Nation states thing, I think, is very much in the air.
[01:26:15]  I don't think they know what to do yet.
[01:26:17]  I really don't think they know.
[01:26:23]  And it's really a matter of do they still trust Trump or not?
[01:26:26]  Maybe they trust Netanyahu, maybe they don't.
[01:26:28]  I don't think that matters.
[01:26:30]  What they want to know is if Trump can follow through with the promises that he's made.
[01:26:34]  And now I think they're starting to wonder.
[01:26:37]  I'm not sure if they are so confident.
[01:26:40]  Gulf oil facilities evacuated after Iran threat.
[01:26:44]  Energy sites across the Middle East were being evacuated on Wednesday as Iran threatened strikes on facilities in the coming hours.
[01:26:53]  The price of oil surged to $108 a barrel after Iran urged staff to leave sites in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar ahead of a possible strike.
[01:27:04]  Such an assault would further cripple global oil and gas supplies with Brent crude reaching the highest levels in 10 days amid fears of a growing shortage.
[01:27:13]  Now, I don't understand why Iran would start attacking the Gulf nation states.
[01:27:17]  I really don't.
[01:27:20]  It doesn't make sense surface level at all.
[01:27:22]  Now, if I believe that that's happening, I have to assume that Iran is getting some sort of not just what we're hearing about cooperation from Russia and China, but something much greater than that.
[01:27:36]  If Iran really has the cojones to be attacking the Gulf nation states and oil fields and refineries in the Gulf Nation states, to me, that says that they have some bigger deal.
[01:27:51]  They have some other confidence that they can get away with all of this stuff and come out clean.
[01:27:57]  Otherwise, I don't understand why they would be bombing the Gulf nation states who are kind of just hanging in the balance as far as this whole thing is concerned already.
[01:28:04]  And why would they want to create more enemies in the region?

=== Israel Interests Over American Safety (14:51) ===

[01:28:09]  So I don't know.
[01:28:10]  Take all of that with a grain of salt.
[01:28:14]  But I just think when you look at this situation, I don't think you can isolate this now to simply Iran.
[01:28:21]  I think this war now has expanded.
[01:28:24]  I think it's global.
[01:28:25]  Now, that doesn't mean everybody is getting involved in the fight yet.
[01:28:31]  And you can see some countries are not willing.
[01:28:35]  But what I see is this thing has already gone global.
[01:28:39]  And Iran figures we're going to start bombing these refineries in the Gulf nation states.
[01:28:47]  I mean, that's bold.
[01:28:50]  And I don't see how they could think that's going to benefit them.
[01:28:56]  Now, obviously, some people will tell you that's a false flag.
[01:29:00]  And that's why the Gulf nation states, I think, are kind of waiting right now because I don't think they're convinced that it is Iran.
[01:29:06]  I'm not so sure the Gulf nation states are confident that those are Iranian missiles.
[01:29:13]  And we do know that Israel actually has a base inside of Iran.
[01:29:18]  They have a drone base that they can fire from inside of Iran.
[01:29:27]  The Emirati billionaire put a voice to gulf anger over Trump's war in Iran.
[01:29:35]  This is out of the UAE in Dubai.
[01:29:38]  Khalaf Ahmed Al-Habtor, 77-year-old billionaire, says his staff thinks he talks too much, sitting outside a cafe in one of his stunning apartments.
[01:29:49]  Goes on here.
[01:29:50]  Let me get to the point.
[01:29:51]  So this is what he's saying about this war.
[01:29:54]  He addresses this to Trump.
[01:29:56]  He says it's a dangerous decision.
[01:29:57]  He dragged the entire region into the war.
[01:30:00]  He says, who gave you the authority to drag our region into war with Iran?
[01:30:04]  And on what basis did you make this dangerous decision?
[01:30:09]  Well, I think we already addressed that.
[01:30:11]  Did you calculate the collateral damage before pulling the trigger?
[01:30:14]  And did you consider that the first to suffer from this escalation will be the countries of the region itself?
[01:30:22]  Well, I don't think so.
[01:30:23]  I think he's doing whatever he's told to do by the Israeli lobby.
[01:30:28]  And I wonder how this all works behind the scenes, I have to say.
[01:30:33]  I have to say, I wonder how this really all works behind the scenes.
[01:30:37]  Like, do you think they're in there telling Trump that if he does this, he's basically going to be like a god?
[01:30:46]  You might think that sounds crazy.
[01:30:47]  I don't think that's too far-fetched.
[01:30:50]  I think they know how to work Trump.
[01:30:51]  They know how to stroke Trump's ego to get him to do what they want.
[01:30:56]  I could easily see them going in there being, oh, Trump, if you do this deal, let's say they talk about the third temple or something.
[01:31:06]  Trump, if you do this deal, if the Iran regime falls and you empower Greater Israel, they will build monuments to you for thousands of years.
[01:31:17]  Your name will be etched into the history books as the king of Israel.
[01:31:23]  We will be building hundred-foot-tall monuments and statues.
[01:31:27]  We'll be building temples and synagogues, calling them Trump.
[01:31:32]  You, your family, your legacy will be cemented in the Middle East as a God, as a king, Trump.
[01:31:40]  If you do this for us, and maybe they take the religious angle too.
[01:31:46]  I don't think Trump is really a deeply religious or spiritual man, but he has deeply religious, spiritual people that are in there advising him, or at least they pretend to be.
[01:31:56]  Oh, Mr. Trump, the gods will reward you.
[01:31:59]  You'll have a seat next to God in heaven.
[01:32:02]  You'll have a seat right next to God in heaven if you do this for Israel, Trump.
[01:32:07]  The gods will favor you, Trump.
[01:32:11]  This is a promise of God.
[01:32:14]  This is biblical.
[01:32:16]  And now he's got this all in his head.
[01:32:19]  Like, oh, I can be sat next to God.
[01:32:24]  They'll build temples for me.
[01:32:27]  I can, I can, oh my God.
[01:32:29]  Like, he's into it now.
[01:32:31]  He's thinking, oh, forget about America.
[01:32:33]  Forget about whatever my legacy here is.
[01:32:35]  That's all propaganda anyway.
[01:32:38]  You're telling me I can be like a God?
[01:32:42]  I can usher in your Messiah.
[01:32:45]  You'll build temples for me.
[01:32:48]  All I got to do is turn over my military and our blood and treasure for you, what I used to stand against.
[01:32:52]  But now if I do that, this is what you can do for me, huh?
[01:32:57]  Oh, you'll promise me I'll be seated on the right-hand throne of God.
[01:33:03]  How much of that do you think is going on?
[01:33:06]  Does that sound crazy or does that sound like that could potentially be exactly how they're doing this?
[01:33:12]  So the Gulf Nation states are coming out.
[01:33:13]  They're like, what the hell, Trump?
[01:33:15]  Why did you do this?
[01:33:16]  What's the goal?
[01:33:16]  When does it end?
[01:33:18]  And he can't say anything because he doesn't even know.
[01:33:21]  Because the answer is until Israel is happy, until Israel is appeased, the war must go on.
[01:33:26]  And that's the general situation in the Middle East.
[01:33:30]  The problem is, will Israel ever be happy?
[01:33:36]  Let's say they do get the Greater Israel Project, whatever it costs, whatever it costs.
[01:33:43]  Let's say 10 million people die for Israel to have the Greater Israel Project, World War III, whatever.
[01:33:48]  Let's say, or let's say it's a very minor issue.
[01:33:53]  Let's say they just do these military demolitions and most of the world turns their head the other way.
[01:33:58]  A couple hundred thousand die.
[01:33:59]  Israel eventually gets it.
[01:34:00]  So, okay.
[01:34:01]  Let's say Israel even does get everything it wants.
[01:34:04]  Let's say Israel does take over Iran politically.
[01:34:08]  Let's say Israel does accomplish their vision for the Greater Israel Project.
[01:34:13]  Do you think that's it?
[01:34:14]  Do you think they'll just finally sit down and say, All right, enough killing, enough raping, enough stealing, enough deceiving?
[01:34:22]  We've got it all now.
[01:34:23]  We toppled all the regimes in the Middle East that we wanted to topple thanks to the United States.
[01:34:30]  We've taken all the land.
[01:34:33]  We've killed a bunch of Muslims and their leaders.
[01:34:36]  Okay, we can relax now.
[01:34:38]  Guys, it's over.
[01:34:40]  We can have peace now.
[01:34:42]  Do you really think that's how this is going to go?
[01:34:47]  Don't tell me you're that delusional.
[01:34:51]  Don't tell me you think these warmongers that have a lust for blood have an addiction to killing and stealing.
[01:35:01]  You think that they can just turn that off when this is all said and done?
[01:35:05]  You think the world is just going to forget what happens here?
[01:35:12]  But that's the general situation in the Middle East.
[01:35:15]  Until Israel gets its way, the war will continue.
[01:35:20]  You want, you want, hey, what's the situation in the Middle East?
[01:35:23]  You want it put as simply as possible?
[01:35:25]  There it is.
[01:35:26]  What's the situation in the Middle East?
[01:35:28]  The war, the death, the destruction will continue until Israel gets its way.
[01:35:35]  That's the situation.
[01:35:39]  Even John Bolton, I mean, the war mustache.
[01:35:46]  John Bolton says he briefed Trump on Iran scenarios.
[01:35:49]  Hard to believe that he forgot.
[01:35:50]  So, what Bolton is saying here is that Trump should have known there would be all this chaos if he's pretending he didn't.
[01:36:00]  I briefed him on this.
[01:36:01]  Now, I believe John Bolton or don't.
[01:36:04]  I don't really care.
[01:36:07]  But I think that the general direction here is: yeah, of course, everyone knew this chaos was going to happen.
[01:36:12]  Trump didn't have an option.
[01:36:13]  He had to do it.
[01:36:14]  They pulled him into this war.
[01:36:15]  Everybody knows it.
[01:36:17]  Former National Security Advisor John Bolton pushed back at President Trump's claim that nobody expected Iran to target neighboring countries in retaliation for the U.S.-Israel war against Tehran.
[01:36:26]  Or maybe Iran isn't targeting those neighboring countries.
[01:36:29]  Maybe someone else is as a false flag.
[01:36:32]  But Bolton claims he briefed Trump on this scenario multiple times in his first term.
[01:36:38]  And of course, back then, Trump didn't want these wars.
[01:36:41]  What changed?
[01:36:44]  So whether you believe Bolton or not really doesn't matter.
[01:36:47]  I think the situation is clear here.
[01:36:51]  They knew all of this would happen.
[01:36:53]  They knew there would be this chaos, oil prices rising, bombs flying everywhere, death destruction.
[01:36:59]  They knew that would be the case.
[01:37:01]  And they did it anyway because they have no choice.
[01:37:09]  And it'd just be nice.
[01:37:10]  Again, I just wish they would be honest.
[01:37:14]  Just be honest.
[01:37:15]  You're doing this for Israel's interests.
[01:37:18]  You're doing this for the donor class.
[01:37:20]  You're doing this for your special interests.
[01:37:21]  You're doing this for your family.
[01:37:23]  Just be honest.
[01:37:25]  Just be honest.
[01:37:28]  You're all turning your head on what happened in Palestine.
[01:37:31]  You're all turning your head of what's going on in Lebanon.
[01:37:34]  You're not going to look.
[01:37:34]  You're not going to do it.
[01:37:35]  That's all good.
[01:37:36]  When Israel kills 100,000 people and kicks them off of their land and out of their house, that's okay.
[01:37:43]  When Iran doesn't do a single thing to anybody, we bomb it and blow them up and have to kill them all.
[01:37:48]  Okay.
[01:37:49]  Can we just be honest here?
[01:37:52]  The Adelsons gave you $200 million.
[01:37:56]  They're Israel firsters, so you're working for them.
[01:37:59]  Just be honest.
[01:38:01]  Bibi Netanyahu is like your best friend now.
[01:38:04]  So you're doing everything you can for your best friend.
[01:38:07]  Just be honest.
[01:38:11]  And maybe you believe your legacy is now going to be in Israel, in the Middle East, and not even in America.
[01:38:20]  So that's why you're doing this.
[01:38:22]  You see how fickle American politics are?
[01:38:26]  You see how flaky Americans can be in this political world?
[01:38:31]  So maybe Trump figured, yeah, I'm more popular in Israel.
[01:38:35]  I could leave office here and be hated.
[01:38:38]  But in Israel, they'll build statues.
[01:38:40]  They'll build monuments.
[01:38:41]  I'll be treated like a god.
[01:38:43]  So, you know what?
[01:38:44]  I'm going to go that way.
[01:38:46]  Like, let's just be honest about this.
[01:38:51]  I'd rather you be honest about the situation than sitting here and gaslighting us as if we can't clearly see what's happening.
[01:38:58]  So, what's going on in Cuba?
[01:39:01]  China is stepping in to help.
[01:39:03]  Trump has choked off Cuba's oil supply.
[01:39:05]  China is stepping in with solar.
[01:39:07]  So, China trying to fill this void.
[01:39:09]  And I love how China is helping Cuba race to recapture renewable solar energy as the United States imposes an effective oil blockade on the island.
[01:39:21]  Worst energy crisis in Cuba in decades.
[01:39:24]  I love how in the Strait of Hermuz, Israel is bad for blocking energy to go through the Strait of Hormuz, but then in Cuba, America's good for blocking energy from going to Cuba.
[01:39:40]  That's a fun one, isn't it?
[01:39:43]  No, when we stop a country from getting energy, it's a good thing.
[01:39:47]  When we choke out a country, it's a good thing.
[01:39:50]  When Iran does it, it's a bad thing.
[01:39:54]  If logic can't be applied universally, it's not logic, it's propaganda.
[01:40:01]  Cuba partially restores power as President Diaz-Canal vows unyielding resistance to U.S. oil blockade.
[01:40:08]  So I wonder about all of this now.
[01:40:12]  And of course, if you really want to get into the brutal details here, you talk about the central banks, you talk about the Rothschild banks, and it's pretty clear all the countries that did not have a Rothschild Central Bank, they're the ones that the U.S. has to destroy: Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, now Iran, Cuba, Venezuela.
[01:40:40]  So that's ultimately what you get.
[01:40:42]  The American people are slaves to foreign interests.
[01:40:44]  The American people are slaves to the central banks.
[01:40:47]  You still are.
[01:40:48]  Trump didn't free you.
[01:40:49]  If anything, he made it worse than ever.
[01:40:52]  Trump ended up being like the grotesque reminder that you're still a slave and you can't vote your way out of it.
[01:41:01]  So, but what's the plan in Cuba?
[01:41:05]  To just choke them out and what?
[01:41:07]  Just starve them?
[01:41:08]  What's the plan for Cuba?
[01:41:10]  Drive Cuba into the arms of the Chinese?
[01:41:14]  What happened to Greenland?
[01:41:15]  Are we going to make Greenland a state?
[01:41:16]  Are we going to make Cuba a state?
[01:41:17]  What are we even doing?
[01:41:18]  Does anybody even know what the hell is going on here?
[01:41:23]  Yes, actually.
[01:41:26]  You see, right over there is going to be a beautiful ballroom.
[01:41:29]  That's what's going on.
[01:41:30]  It's going to be a big, beautiful ballroom.
[01:41:33]  Mr. President, Mr. President, do you have any plans on Cuba?
[01:41:36]  We were thinking about maybe naming one of the stalls Cuba.
[01:41:43]  Maybe in the ballroom, we'll just have a little thing called Cuba.
[01:41:47]  It's nice.
[01:41:48]  It'll be themed, maybe some tile.
[01:41:51]  So, yes, we are thinking about Cuba.
[01:41:53]  Mr. President, Mr. President, what are your goals for the war with Iran?
[01:41:58]  We're thinking about a chandelier over there, right there, overlooking the ballroom.
[01:42:04]  And there'll be a nice grand window here, maybe French style.
[01:42:08]  I don't know.
[01:42:08]  We'll see if Macron wants to be friendly.
[01:42:11]  And we'll put it right there.
[01:42:12]  And so, when you guys come here, the fake news, when you guys come here, you can see the ballroom.
[01:42:17]  It'll be great.
[01:42:18]  Mr. President.
[01:42:21]  Mr. President, what are you going to do about gas prices?
[01:42:28]  We're thinking about obviously white exterior.
[01:42:33]  We're thinking white interior.
[01:42:35]  The real question is: what do we want to do with the floors?
[01:42:38]  So many options.
[01:42:39]  We could do wood, a more traditional.
[01:42:42]  We could do some tile.
[01:42:44]  They could have it flown in, some tile, and very classy, very elegant.
[01:42:48]  Obviously, we're going to have gold elements and themes throughout the ballroom.
[01:42:53]  It's going to be fantastic.
[01:42:55]  Mr. President, you haven't answered a single question out here because we're building a ballroom.

=== Election Integrity Under Threat (12:32) ===

[01:43:00]  Did you hear me?
[01:43:01]  Did you not hear?
[01:43:02]  We're building a ballroom and it's going to be great.
[01:43:06]  And you're going to forget about everything.
[01:43:07]  Let me tell you.
[01:43:08]  You're going to forget about those high gas prices.
[01:43:12]  You're going to forget about the economy.
[01:43:15]  Not good.
[01:43:16]  You're going to forget about that.
[01:43:17]  No.
[01:43:18]  You're not going to be thinking about the Iran war.
[01:43:20]  You're not going to be thinking about the war in Cuba or Greenland or I don't even know.
[01:43:24]  Where else are we?
[01:43:25]  Anyone know?
[01:43:26]  Where's Pete?
[01:43:27]  Pete, how many wars are there?
[01:43:29]  Well, whatever.
[01:43:30]  We solved them all, right?
[01:43:31]  There's no war.
[01:43:33]  We solved all the war.
[01:43:34]  So you won't even be thinking about any of that stuff.
[01:43:37]  You'll be thinking about the ballroom, is what you'll be doing.
[01:43:40]  You'll be talking about the ballroom, actually.
[01:43:43]  And if you don't, we might have to take your broadcast license.
[01:43:48]  It's what we're looking at.
[01:43:49]  I talked to Brandon Carr with the FCC.
[01:43:52]  I said, Brandon, the media is not too favorable of us.
[01:43:58]  And so what can we do?
[01:44:00]  Well, why don't we just shut them down?
[01:44:02]  You know, I can sue them.
[01:44:04]  We've done that.
[01:44:04]  We've done the lawsuits.
[01:44:06]  We've won.
[01:44:06]  We've won big.
[01:44:08]  We have forced some of these companies to sell to our friends, the Ellisons, that are tied into my administration.
[01:44:14]  It's totally not illegal at all.
[01:44:15]  It's very good.
[01:44:16]  It's not corrupt.
[01:44:17]  If Biden did it, you'd hate it.
[01:44:18]  But when Trump does it, it's good.
[01:44:20]  So anyway, you were asking something, and I told you, though, the ballroom.
[01:44:26]  That's what we have for you.
[01:44:27]  The ballroom.
[01:44:30]  What's the plan for Cuba?
[01:44:31]  Ballroom.
[01:44:33]  What's the plan for Iran?
[01:44:35]  Ballroom.
[01:44:40]  We're going to build a 100,000-seat stadium for our UFC event.
[01:44:47]  It's going to be great.
[01:44:51]  Oh, boy.
[01:44:52]  Okay.
[01:44:54]  I'm sorry.
[01:44:55]  I couldn't help myself.
[01:44:57]  Oh, all right.
[01:44:58]  Anyway.
[01:45:01]  Senate GOP Tempers flare over how to pass Save America Act.
[01:45:07]  Isn't it beautiful, guys?
[01:45:11]  Now, a lot of this is redundancy, but okay.
[01:45:15]  Yeah, we want to protect our elections.
[01:45:17]  We want to make sure no illegal aliens are voting.
[01:45:19]  We want to make sure one person, one vote.
[01:45:21]  You have an ID.
[01:45:22]  So it's like, you know, we're not against this stuff.
[01:45:24]  Most of these laws are already on the books, but okay, it creates a redundancy feedback and it kind of forces the state's hands to make sure they're abiding by these laws.
[01:45:36]  So whatever.
[01:45:37]  I'm not complaining about the Save Act.
[01:45:38]  Now, it is funny.
[01:45:40]  The Democrats are playing the same gambit that it's, you know, racist and everything else.
[01:45:45]  That was the presentation for the Democrats today.
[01:45:48]  But here's what I find funny.
[01:45:50]  We can't pass a SAVE Act.
[01:45:52]  We can't pass a Voter Integrity Act.
[01:45:54]  Can't do it.
[01:45:54]  Cannot have election integrity.
[01:45:56]  Cannot have voter integrity in America.
[01:45:58]  We just can't do it.
[01:46:00]  Congress, we just can't get it done.
[01:46:04]  This airport disaster.
[01:46:07]  There's no security at the airport.
[01:46:09]  TSA is not getting paid.
[01:46:12]  There's different stories now about these TSA agents that haven't been paid in a month or two.
[01:46:18]  And they're trying to take odd jobs or they have to quit or they're selling blood plasma, anything they can do.
[01:46:25]  So I don't even like TSA anyway.
[01:46:27]  I would say make the airports have their own security, but whatever.
[01:46:31]  So we can't get election integrity.
[01:46:33]  We can't get airport security.
[01:46:35]  Can't do it.
[01:46:36]  We just cannot do it.
[01:46:37]  Our Congress, it's just impossible.
[01:46:40]  We cannot have security for Americans.
[01:46:42]  We cannot secure American elections.
[01:46:44]  We just can't do it.
[01:46:46]  But if we need to go to war in Iran, no problem.
[01:46:50]  No resistance, no vote, no Congress needed, nothing.
[01:46:57]  Isn't it amazing?
[01:46:58]  I mean, folks, that's everything right there.
[01:47:01]  If you want to know why, I mean, you could say the whole country, but let's just go narrow here.
[01:47:08]  If you want to know why this administration is so corrupt, and if you do expand this and you look wide, if you want to know why our country is so corrupt, if you want to look at one story that shows you why this country is so corrupt and how this country is so corrupt, that's it right there.
[01:47:28]  We cannot have election integrity.
[01:47:31]  We cannot have airport security.
[01:47:33]  We just can't do it.
[01:47:34]  We just can't do it.
[01:47:35]  Congress can't do it.
[01:47:36]  We can't do it.
[01:47:37]  It's just impossible.
[01:47:38]  But if we need to go to war in the Middle East, no problem.
[01:47:42]  No vote, no Congress, no resistance, no problem.
[01:47:45]  War in the Middle East.
[01:47:46]  Can't secure your airports.
[01:47:48]  Can't secure your elections, but damn well, we can go to war in the Middle East again.
[01:47:52]  That's everything you need to know about why our country is so corrupt.
[01:47:56]  That's everything you need to see about how broken our process is, how broken Washington, D.C. is.
[01:48:04]  Now, reach your own conclusions as to why we can go to war in the Middle East at the drop of a hat with no problem, but we can't get secure airports or secure elections.
[01:48:16]  Reach your own conclusions.
[01:48:18]  I think most people are reaching the same conclusion.
[01:48:22]  But regardless, that's the outcome.
[01:48:25]  That's the reality.
[01:48:28]  When this thing, who knows?
[01:48:30]  Who knows when this deal is going to be done?
[01:48:33]  So just look at it right now.
[01:48:34]  13 dead Americans that we know of.
[01:48:38]  $25 billion that we know of in 19 days of this war in Iran.
[01:48:45]  No resistance in D.C.
[01:48:47]  No congressional vote needed.
[01:48:49]  Nothing.
[01:48:50]  America wants to go to war in Iran.
[01:48:53]  Flick of a switch, it's on.
[01:48:56]  But we can't secure our airports and we can't secure our elections.
[01:49:03]  That's how bad it is.
[01:49:08]  Now, we told you APAC, as its popularity is, well, waning would be one word.
[01:49:16]  Maybe like falling off a cliff into the abyss might be more accurate.
[01:49:24]  So APAC is finding a way to get that Israel money into other groups, not marked as APAC, because now being funded by APAC is a negative, a net negative on your candidacy.
[01:49:38]  So APAC is fine to find the Israeli lobby is trying to find new ways to fund elections without going through APAC.
[01:49:46]  They're covering the story in Illinois.
[01:49:50]  And there's a couple of races that we're following there that Israel is a big issue in.
[01:49:56]  AIPAC becomes a major issue in Democrat House races.
[01:50:00]  Several groups with ties to the pro-Israel group have spent at least $20 million in four primaries backing candidates who are likely to support their cause in Washington.
[01:50:10]  So what happens here is on the campaign, APAC becomes an issue.
[01:50:16]  And so the non-APAC fan, the non-APAC funded candidates, the ones that don't take money from APAC, they call out all the other candidates that do.
[01:50:27]  So what APAC has done is they've now basically had a bridge put in so that now when the attack of, hey, you're funded by APAC, the candidates can say, no, I'm not, because the APAC money goes to these other shell groups that then end up in the candidates' bank accounts.
[01:50:44]  And then they can say, oh, no, it's not APAC.
[01:50:46]  It's still APAC.
[01:50:48]  In fact, if you go down here, I think this is the one that breaks it down.
[01:50:55]  Officially, AIPAC Super PAC, United Democracy Project.
[01:51:00]  So this is how they're shelling it.
[01:51:03]  It's not involved in the district.
[01:51:04]  Instead, two groups with ties to APAC, elect Chicago women and affordable Chicago now.
[01:51:10]  So this is AIPAC now putting on the mask of liberal progressivism to hide the Israel lobby money.
[01:51:19]  So that's what the Israel lobby is doing.
[01:51:21]  They're putting on a mask of liberal progressive, oh, elect women, oh, affordable Chicago.
[01:51:27]  So, oh, it's the leftist bent now.
[01:51:29]  No, we're not Israel money.
[01:51:31]  Look, we're liberal progressives like you.
[01:51:32]  It's just Israel lobby money.
[01:51:35]  Appeared suddenly spending millions in the ninth district primary and two other Illinois districts with competitive Democrat primaries.
[01:51:43]  A third super PAC, Chicago Progressives.
[01:51:46]  Oh, there it is.
[01:51:46]  The Israeli lobby puts on the progressive face mask.
[01:51:50]  Oh, no, I'm not Israeli money.
[01:51:51]  Look, I'm a progressive appeared in the final days of the campaign, spending $1.2 million to attack Kat Aba Gazela.
[01:52:01]  This is the young progressive blondie that you've probably seen, a progressive influencer who is deeply critical of Israel.
[01:52:08]  But in a twist, the same group released an advertisement praising Bashwa Amawala, another progressive challenger in the race.
[01:52:17]  So now AIPAC, they're not spending this money through AIPAC.
[01:52:21]  They're spending it through all of these different groups because they know that AIPAC is like political cancer now.
[01:52:28]  It's like political herpes that never goes away.
[01:52:32]  It'll stick on your lip forever.
[01:52:34]  Everybody will see it.
[01:52:35]  Oh, we don't want to make out with you.
[01:52:37]  We don't want to kiss you.
[01:52:39]  So now they've just put on all of these different masks to hide the Israeli money.
[01:52:46]  And people are following it, and it'll be relatively transparent to follow this stuff.
[01:52:53]  But the problem is the voters won't know.
[01:52:56]  The voters won't know who the candidates might not even know.
[01:52:59]  We'll see.
[01:53:00]  So, but that's what they're doing.
[01:53:02]  So they're doing it on the right, and they're doing it on the left to hide Israeli money, Israeli lobby money through what appear to be progressive liberal groups and what appear to be conservative groups.
[01:53:17]  And it's all just, it's all just Israel lobby money masked.
[01:53:23]  So here's one person on the right who's running against the Israeli lobby in front of the Capitol, Florida Gober National candidate James Fishback.
[01:53:34]  When President Trump earlier this week said we went to war to back up our allies, he said plural, but let's be honest, it is singular.
[01:53:45]  And then you would have been called a conspiracy theorist if you would have said that this was done at the bidding, at the behest of the Israeli government.
[01:53:55]  And then Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, made very clear that that was the case.
[01:54:03]  The Iraq war for as disastrous as it was, never had this kind of dissent, never had this kind of angst, never had shifting explanations and moving goalposts just in the third week of the conflict.
[01:54:21]  So what gifts?
[01:54:24]  Wow.
[01:54:26]  Stay safe, James.
[01:54:29]  And it's obviously the awareness level and the regret, even of the past wars in the Middle East that has more Americans irked, upset, paying attention to this current war in Iran.
[01:54:46]  And the whole Israel thing is so funny because, I mean, we all see the APAC money.
[01:54:51]  We all see the Edelson money.
[01:54:52]  We all see Trump going around saying, I mean, it's essentially exact quotes that the Jewish lobby is the most powerful in D.C.
[01:55:00]  And that's a good thing.
[01:55:02]  He goes to Israel.
[01:55:03]  He says, look, there's the Edelson money.
[01:55:05]  They paid the most money for my campaign.
[01:55:06]  They care about Israel more than America.
[01:55:08]  That's what Trump says.
[01:55:09]  And then you have, you know, the Ted Cruzes and everybody else telling you, oh, you have to be loyal to Israel.
[01:55:14]  You must be loyal to Israel.
[01:55:16]  But then when you say, hey, this is all about loyalty to Israel, they say, that's a conspiracy theorist.
[01:55:20]  That doesn't exist.
[01:55:20]  You're like, what are you talking about?
[01:55:21]  You told me that.
[01:55:23]  You're literally the one that told me this is all about Israel.
[01:55:26]  And then I say, hey, this is about Israel.
[01:55:27]  And you say, no, that's not true.
[01:55:29]  And it's, you're my source.
[01:55:31]  It's like, what's your source that this is all about Israel?

=== Protect Wealth Amidst Political Chaos (04:58) ===

[01:55:33]  Oh, I don't know.
[01:55:34]  Trump, Ted Cruz, half the American right-wing media, Netanyahu, our own intelligence agencies?
[01:55:43]  Like, what do you mean?
[01:55:46]  What's your source?
[01:55:46]  This is about Israel.
[01:55:47]  I don't know.
[01:55:48]  Every freaking person in DC.
[01:55:52]  It's the most crazy, gaslighting thing I've ever seen in my life.
[01:55:57]  There they are telling you it's all about Israel.
[01:56:01]  And you say, hey, I don't really like this war.
[01:56:03]  It seems to be about Israel.
[01:56:04]  They say, this isn't about Israel.
[01:56:08]  What the hell kind of clown world am I in?
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=== Final Hour Reflections on the Show (03:56) ===

[02:00:31]  I don't care, I don't need to.
[02:01:06]  I don't need to I don't need it button.
[02:01:10]  I don't care.
[02:01:11]  I don't need it.
[02:01:32]  The light
[02:03:31]  years ahead of the rest.
[02:03:33]  It's the Owen Report with Owen Schroyer.
[02:04:05]  All right, guys, third and final hour moved a little slower than I thought I would today.
[02:04:13]  I got to be honest.
[02:04:15]  Was I talking too much?
[02:04:19]  It's only a talk show.
[02:04:21]  I thought we would be a little further down the docket than we are.

=== California Bridge to Nowhere Scandal (12:18) ===

[02:04:29]  So I think I'm going to have to pick up the pace a little bit.
[02:04:39]  We'll start off a little light here.
[02:04:42]  You love, you love to see stories like this.
[02:04:46]  Isn't it fun, guys?
[02:04:47]  Here's one for you.
[02:04:49]  California's unfinished wildlife bridge to nowhere tops $100 million.
[02:05:02]  I guess they wanted to build this bridge like a zoo.
[02:05:07]  I'm shocked, guys.
[02:05:10]  It didn't work.
[02:05:13]  In 2022, Gavin Newsom broke ground.
[02:05:16]  Oh, it was a big, exciting ceremony on the Wallace Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, a project featuring an overpass for animals atop lanes of the 101 freeway in Southern California.
[02:05:31]  At the ceremony, Newsom boasted that the state had committed $54 million.
[02:05:36]  He promised to complete the job within another 10 million.
[02:05:40]  Now we're at upwards of 100 million, and the job is not done.
[02:05:45]  It may never be done.
[02:05:49]  You know, as a concept, I think that this started in Europe where they build these land bridges over roads and highways so that animals can cross safely.
[02:06:02]  As a concept, you don't hate it, but they just couldn't do it, huh?
[02:06:06]  They just couldn't figure out how to do it in California with $100 million, just couldn't get it done.
[02:06:12]  Again, it's like this is how corrupt politics is in a nutshell.
[02:06:19]  $100 million, you can't even build a land bridge.
[02:06:24]  Like, where does the money go?
[02:06:28]  What are we doing?
[02:06:31]  And it's not like California is the only place this happens.
[02:06:33]  It might be the worst, but it's not the only one.
[02:06:39]  The bridge, the $100 million bridge to nowhere.
[02:06:43]  You promised, Gavin.
[02:06:48]  And they'll still run this guy for president.
[02:06:50]  They won't even hesitate.
[02:06:55]  Politics.
[02:06:56]  American politics is just insane.
[02:07:01]  Just completely insane.
[02:07:03]  Trump's takeover of D.C. landmarks reaches legal apex.
[02:07:07]  I didn't even realize all of this.
[02:07:10]  And we did cover how there's some issues as far as the ballroom is concerned.
[02:07:14]  Apparently, there's other issues.
[02:07:16]  Now, I don't mind.
[02:07:19]  Look, we're about to, we're at $25 billion spent on the Iran war.
[02:07:24]  I would much rather build America, obviously.
[02:07:27]  I'd much rather have $25 billion to build a bridge to nowhere, to build a bunch of new DC monuments, statues that like town square center or whatever it is Trump wants to build in D.C. Hell, I guess, even the ballroom.
[02:07:42]  I'd rather spend the money on that than in another war in the Middle East.
[02:07:47]  But apparently, he has all of these plans, and they're not really happening.
[02:07:52]  Trump's government real estate projects in the nation's capital are reaching an apex in court.
[02:07:57]  Environmental groups, a Democrat congresswoman, and even golfers have sued.
[02:08:05]  Judges so far have largely declined to stop President Trump's projects from rebuilding the Kennedy Center to constructing a planned archway.
[02:08:13]  That archway looks nice from East Potomac Park to the Eisenhower Executive Office building.
[02:08:18]  That may soon change.
[02:08:21]  Yesterday, Judge Richard Leon heard the latest bid to halt construction of the new White House ballroom planned for the site of the demolished East Wing.
[02:08:32]  So right now, it's just a demolished hole in the ground, a nice eyesore.
[02:08:38]  You know, we'll see.
[02:08:41]  The ballroom gets built or not.
[02:08:43]  Right now, that ballroom, you know, I made the joke of it earlier.
[02:08:47]  Honestly, that is the perfect illustration of this Trump administration.
[02:08:52]  It's just a giant hole in the ground.
[02:08:54]  It's just a destroyed building and a hole in the ground.
[02:08:56]  That's it.
[02:08:57]  It's got an idea.
[02:08:59]  It could be beautiful.
[02:09:00]  It could be nice.
[02:09:01]  It could be something grand.
[02:09:02]  It could be something great.
[02:09:03]  It could be something unforgettable.
[02:09:05]  It could be something monumental, but it's not.
[02:09:08]  It's just a hole in the ground.
[02:09:10]  It's just destruction.
[02:09:15]  So all of these, all of these new landmarks, all of these new real estate projects that he's been bragging about in DC, they may not even happen.
[02:09:31]  They may not even happen.
[02:09:32]  Judge skeptical over Trump ballroom project amid new bid to halt it.
[02:09:37]  What are they going to do?
[02:09:38]  Did you do the deconstruction a little early?
[02:09:43]  It's like, I'm not going to sit here and have some struggle fest over the ballroom.
[02:09:47]  I actually like the archway.
[02:09:49]  I thought that was a cool thing.
[02:09:50]  I'd like to see that.
[02:09:52]  But it's just all this grandiose idea and no real substance, no real plan.
[02:10:00]  That seems to be the case.
[02:10:03]  FBI and IRS to investigate nonprofit groups for domestic terrorism links.
[02:10:09]  Oh.
[02:10:12]  Oh.
[02:10:14]  The FBI and the IRS agents are forming a new initiative to investigate nonprofit organizations over suspected possible links to domestic terrorism.
[02:10:25]  Now, I don't think this is exactly as it sounds.
[02:10:29]  Bondi ordered law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to prioritize efforts to investigate and prosecute groups and individuals who belong to the anti-fascist Antifa movement and are deemed extremist.
[02:10:42]  So I think what's actually going to end up happening here is this is going to be used to fight anti-Semitism and all of this, oh, anti-Christian, anti-American, anti-capitalism.
[02:10:53]  I think that's all BS.
[02:10:55]  The only thing that will be enforced is anti-Semitism.
[02:10:57]  And I think the proof is already in the pudding because this was the plan last year and nothing happened.
[02:11:05]  In fact, there were two plans.
[02:11:08]  And there should have been another one over the border invasion.
[02:11:12]  But they're just going to let that go.
[02:11:14]  We're just going to let the border invasion go.
[02:11:16]  And you're not even getting mass deportations now.
[02:11:19]  So sick of winning.
[02:11:24]  Bondi was supposed to investigate all of these groups that were funding the left-wing protests, specifically the recent ICE protest.
[02:11:34]  She didn't do it.
[02:11:35]  It didn't happen.
[02:11:38]  Yes, the FBI and the IRS were supposed to do this big sweeping investigation to locate the organizers, the individuals, the funders, whoever runs these left-wing disruption groups, chaos groups, whatever you want to call them, terrorist groups.
[02:11:53]  This was all supposed to be done.
[02:11:55]  It hasn't happened.
[02:11:56]  We keep hearing it's going to happen, and it never does.
[02:11:59]  And the only thing that happens.
[02:12:01]  I can't.
[02:12:04]  The only thing that happens.
[02:12:09]  Yeah, I don't even have to say it.
[02:12:10]  Paramount rushes off predicted $1.5 billion frivolous lawsuit against the Ellisons, Jeff Shell, and executives.
[02:12:18]  Latest filing alleges Trump quid pro quo in Warner Brothers deal.
[02:12:23]  Oh, no kidding.
[02:12:24]  They bragged about it.
[02:12:27]  They bragged about how this was a quid pro quo.
[02:12:31]  This isn't even a secret.
[02:12:33]  Everybody knows the deal.
[02:12:35]  Ellisons take over a giant piece of the media landscape.
[02:12:40]  They make sure that they run their broadcast favorable to Israel and favorable to Trump, and they would help broker the deal.
[02:12:48]  And so they did, just like the TikTok deal.
[02:12:52]  That's the quid pro quo.
[02:12:54]  It's not a secret.
[02:12:58]  An annoying thing happened to David Ellison in Paramount today on the way to taking over Warner Brothers Discovery.
[02:13:04]  He got sued for $1.5 billion over a beef a self-declared confidant of Jeff Schells has with the Paramount president.
[02:13:14]  The wide-ranging lawsuit against the CEO was filed today.
[02:13:26]  You know, I don't know what's going to happen with this.
[02:13:29]  Maybe they're just trying to buy time.
[02:13:33]  Ready for the filing, which second time around still doesn't seem to lay out any actual crime.
[02:13:39]  Paramount was quick to respond this AM in blunt fashion this morning.
[02:13:43]  Who's writing this?
[02:13:45]  You missed a word right here.
[02:13:47]  And this AM, stop it.
[02:13:50]  Paramount is aware of the frivolous lawsuit and believes the claims are entirely without merit.
[02:13:54]  There is no factual or legal basis for any claim against Paramount, its directors, or its major shareholders, and the company intends to defend these allegations vigorously.
[02:14:02]  Let's see.
[02:14:03]  I think Netflix has already waved the white flag.
[02:14:07]  I think Netflix already said, whatever, this is a rigged deal.
[02:14:10]  So we're just going to give up.
[02:14:13]  But it seems like there are still people that want to make sure this deal is at least not going to go smoothly.
[02:14:26]  Wall Street sours on the Ellison deal.
[02:14:30]  This should not be a public company.
[02:14:31]  Analysts warned that debt, shaky financing, and a Middle East war could derail history's largest test of legacy media.
[02:14:39]  The Ellisons have persuaded the Warner Brothers Discovery Board to agree to a $111 billion merger.
[02:14:45]  Yeah, after Trump twisted their arm, but they have yet to convince Wall Street.
[02:14:51]  That's now Paramount CEO David Ellison's next challenge.
[02:14:54]  And boosting the stock price is a math problem, possibly too hard for even Sheldon and Leonard on WB's Big Bang Theory.
[02:15:04]  Awful reference.
[02:15:07]  If the deal closes, it will be the largest leveraged buyout ever and arguably the highest stakes bet on the future of legacy media ever made.
[02:15:14]  If Ellison can pull off a success, he will show that the old studios, broadcast, and cable can be retooled for the streaming era.
[02:15:22]  Imagine thinking that that's what this is all about.
[02:15:25]  Now, they will have to answer to their shareholders, but I don't think they care.
[02:15:30]  I don't think they care about their media success, the shareholder success.
[02:15:35]  This is all about propaganda.
[02:15:37]  This is all about controlling propaganda.
[02:15:40]  And so what's happened, what you're seeing is it used to be, this is kind of old hat now, but it used to be like, oh, Bezos buys the Washington Post or Carlos Slim buys the New York Times, whatever it is, the LA Times, that billionaire bought it, gave it to his daughter.
[02:15:55]  It used to be that, you know, these rich people would just buy outlets, news outlets, newspapers, whatever.
[02:16:02]  They would just buy it just to have it.
[02:16:04]  And maybe there was a reason and maybe it was a direct reason or an indirect reason, but that's what they do.
[02:16:10]  They just buy it to own a part of the media landscape because there's inherent value in just having it.
[02:16:17]  It doesn't even matter whether it makes money or not.
[02:16:19]  It's like most of these newspapers that these billionaires end up buying, they can barely even turn a profit.
[02:16:24]  So it's not even about money.
[02:16:26]  It's not about shareholders.
[02:16:27]  It's not about making money or profit or being successful.
[02:16:30]  It's all about propaganda.
[02:16:32]  It's all about controlling the narrative and the flow of information.
[02:16:35]  So that's what this whole deal is all about.
[02:16:37]  I don't think the Ellisons really give a damn about, oh, can we retool this into the age of streaming?
[02:16:44]  Can we make sure our shareholders are taken care of?

=== Nuclear Enrichment and White House Claims (15:52) ===

[02:16:46]  No.
[02:16:48]  No, they make all of their money in data collection and Oracle.
[02:16:57]  That's where they're going to make their money.
[02:16:58]  They don't really care how much money they make or lose on this deal.
[02:17:01]  It's about owning that piece of property in the media landscape so that they can control the flow of information and propaganda.
[02:17:09]  That's the value for them.
[02:17:14]  Mark Wayne Mullen got a little emotional today, guys.
[02:17:18]  Must be tough.
[02:17:20]  I get emotional.
[02:17:22]  Mark Wayne Mullen wipes away tears while defending DHS nomination as Senator Rand Paul rips into him for anger issues.
[02:17:32]  He got choked up.
[02:17:36]  Noam didn't cry.
[02:17:39]  Now, maybe Noam couldn't cry because the makeup would run and nobody wants to see that.
[02:17:43]  Noam didn't even cry when she shot a dog.
[02:17:45]  Did she say she cried?
[02:17:46]  I don't think so.
[02:17:47]  Mark Wayne gets up there.
[02:17:49]  He needs a box of Kleenexes.
[02:17:50]  What is he like an Olympic figure skater?
[02:17:52]  Oh my God, the emotion.
[02:17:55]  Good lord.
[02:17:57]  I almost want Noam back now.
[02:18:00]  She never cried on the job.
[02:18:03]  No point in going to any more of that.
[02:18:06]  He'll get in.
[02:18:07]  John Osoff grills Tulsi Gabbard on whether Iran posed imminent nuclear threat.
[02:18:13]  All right.
[02:18:14]  I do want to go to some of these clips from the Gabbard hearing.
[02:18:23]  Maybe I'll do my Gabbard analysis after these videos.
[02:18:29]  Let's go to the hearing first.
[02:18:32]  Under the law, you are responsible for providing national intelligence to the president, correct?
[02:18:39]  Yes.
[02:18:39]  And to the heads of executive branch departments and agencies, yes?
[02:18:42]  Yes.
[02:18:43]  And to the chairman of the joint chiefs and senior military commanders?
[02:18:47]  Across the IC, yes.
[02:18:49]  And to the Senate and the House and relevant committees, correct?
[02:18:53]  Yes.
[02:18:53]  And the law states that the national intelligence you provide to Congress, quote, should be timely, objective, and independent of political considerations, correct?
[02:19:01]  Yes.
[02:19:02]  And you noted in your opening statement, you're here fulfilling a statutory responsibility and that your testimony, quote, represents the IC's assessment of threats, correct?
[02:19:13]  That opening statement, as submitted to the committee in advance of this hearing, stated that as a result of last summer's airstrikes, quote, Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated, end quote, correct?
[02:19:25]  That's right.
[02:19:27]  And is that in fact the assessment of the intelligence community?
[02:19:29]  Yes.
[02:19:30]  So the assessment of the intelligence community is that Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated by last summer's airstrikes.
[02:19:37]  Yes.
[02:19:38]  And the opening statement you submitted to the committee last night also stated, quote, there has been no effort since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability, end quote, correct?
[02:19:48]  That's right.
[02:19:48]  And that's the assessment of the intelligence community.
[02:19:51]  Yes.
[02:19:52]  The White House stated on March 1st of this year that this war was launched and was, quote, a military campaign to eliminate the imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime, end quote.
[02:20:04]  That's a statement from the White House.
[02:20:06]  Quote, the imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime.
[02:20:11]  Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there was an imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime?
[02:20:19]  The intelligence community assessed that Iran maintained the intention to rebuild and to continue to grow their nuclear enrichment capability.
[02:20:27]  Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there was a, quote, imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime?
[02:20:33]  Yes or no?
[02:20:34]  Senator, the only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president.
[02:20:39]  False.
[02:20:40]  This is the worldwide threats hearing where you present to Congress national intelligence, timely, objective, and independent of political considerations.
[02:20:49]  You've stated today that the intelligence community's assessment is that Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated and that, quote, there had been no efforts since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability.
[02:21:01]  Was it the intelligence community's assessment that, nevertheless, despite this obliteration, there was a quote imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime?
[02:21:11]  Yes or no?
[02:21:12]  It is not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat.
[02:21:17]  Okay.
[02:21:17]  That is up to you.
[02:21:18]  Here's the problem.
[02:21:20]  No, it is precisely that he received it is precisely your responsibility to determine what constitutes a threat to the United States.
[02:21:28]  This is the worldwide threats hearing.
[02:21:32]  So you're kind of splitting hairs.
[02:21:34]  Now, obviously, what Osoff is asking, and to a certain degree, I think he's probably playing a little more fair than you might anticipate from a Democrat.
[02:21:46]  But what Osoff is asking here is: was Trump lying then or is he lying now?
[02:21:51]  And that's the question the American people are asking.
[02:21:53]  Was Trump lying then or is he lying now?
[02:21:55]  Or is he lying all the time, maybe?
[02:21:57]  But I can see what Gabbard is doing is she's basically saying we just provide the intelligence and then the president decides if it's deemed an imminent threat or not.
[02:22:06]  So she's, you know, we're kind of splitting hairs here, but she doesn't want to obviously say something that's going to get the administration in trouble.
[02:22:16]  So she kind of just goes with the boilerplate response there.
[02:22:19]  She does handle it better than the rest of the administration, I must say.
[02:22:26]  But I'll get to that in a second.
[02:22:30]  Here was another line of questioning from Assov.
[02:22:33]  This was about the raid on the Georgia election facility that she was at.
[02:22:38]  So let me ask you about your presence in Fulton County on January 28th of this year.
[02:22:46]  You were present at the FBI's raid on the Fulton County elections office on January 28th, correct?
[02:22:53]  I was present for part of the FBI exercising a warrant approved by a municipal judge.
[02:22:59]  Yes, and the FBI was there executing.
[02:23:02]  The FBI was there executing that warrant to seize ballots and materials associated with the 2020 election, correct?
[02:23:08]  Yes.
[02:23:09]  And are you aware of it?
[02:23:10]  Members of this committee have already opened inquiries into your election-related activities.
[02:23:15]  Yes.
[02:23:16]  And are you aware that your general counsel and deputy general counsel have already provided testimony to this committee regarding those activities?
[02:23:23]  Yes.
[02:23:24]  On February 2nd, you sent a letter to Senator Warner regarding your presence at the raid.
[02:23:28]  Was that letter accurate?
[02:23:31]  I don't recall the exact date, but if I sent a letter that had my signature, it was accurate.
[02:23:36]  You stated in the letter that your presence at the raid was, quote, requested by the president, correct?
[02:23:40]  Yes.
[02:23:40]  When did the president request your presence at the raid?
[02:23:44]  The day of the raid, the warrant execution commencing.
[02:23:49]  The day of the raid?
[02:23:50]  Yes.
[02:23:51]  He called you on the phone.
[02:23:52]  I'm not going to disclose how the message was delivered, but it was a request from the president and his administration to go and help oversee this warrant being executed along with the deputy director of the FBI.
[02:24:03]  Is it your role to oversee?
[02:24:06]  Is it your role to oversee the execution of criminal warrants?
[02:24:09]  It is my role based on statute that Congress has passed to have oversight over election security to include counterintelligence.
[02:24:18]  But you said you oversaw the raid, correct?
[02:24:20]  You just testified you oversaw the raid?
[02:24:23]  Portions of it.
[02:24:24]  Okay.
[02:24:24]  Did you handle any ballots or election-related materials?
[02:24:27]  No.
[02:24:27]  You were inside an FBI evidence truck, correct?
[02:24:31]  You were photographed inside an FBI?
[02:24:33]  It was an empty truck, yes.
[02:24:36]  The president stated, quote, you looked at the potential.
[02:24:38]  The senators wanted to be checked out.
[02:24:40]  The senator's time is expired.
[02:24:41]  Did you look at votes as the president?
[02:24:43]  Senator Osoff, your time has expired.
[02:24:45]  Your response is not going to be available.
[02:24:47]  No, she cannot.
[02:24:48]  Listen to Tom Cotton, by the way.
[02:24:49]  This is totally not traditional.
[02:24:53]  You let the guy finish and you let her answer the question.
[02:24:56]  So, this is Tom Cotton playing tough guy trying to shut the Democrats out here when everybody knows it's kind of the unwritten rule.
[02:25:03]  You let him finish and you let her answer.
[02:25:05]  Respond because for the record, will the director please respond for the record to that question?
[02:25:09]  Is Mike?
[02:25:10]  I'm happy to respond to questions for the record.
[02:25:12]  Thank you, Director Gabbard.
[02:25:14]  Thank you.
[02:25:17]  Tom Cotton Candy.
[02:25:19]  So, not really much there, I think, as far as the question answer on why she was in Georgia.
[02:25:29]  I don't really think there's too much concern there anyway.
[02:25:31]  The question is: what was the purpose and what are the results we're looking for?
[02:25:36]  Because we all agree 2020 was stolen.
[02:25:38]  So, are we having a real investigation and are we going to arrest the people responsible?
[02:25:43]  Or is it just a show?
[02:25:47]  We had another question on Iran.
[02:25:49]  This one coming from Senator Mark Warner.
[02:25:51]  Even in your printed testimony today on page six, and your last paragraph on page six, as a result of Operation Midnight Hammer, Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated.
[02:26:02]  There's been no efforts to try to rebuild their enrichment capability.
[02:26:06]  You omitted that paragraph from your oral opening.
[02:26:11]  Was that because the president said there was an imminent threat two weeks?
[02:26:17]  No, sir.
[02:26:17]  I recognize that the time was running long and I skipped through some of the portions.
[02:26:22]  You chose to take my oral-delivered remarks.
[02:26:25]  You chose to omit the parts that contradict the president, even in your printed testimony.
[02:26:31]  Yeah, not a gotcha moment.
[02:26:33]  This is all going to lead into a conclusion about Tulsi Gabbard that I reached today.
[02:26:37]  So, just understand that.
[02:26:38]  All right, last clip here.
[02:26:41]  Now, this is where Gabbard probably says the most consequential thing, and we can get to foreign policy.
[02:26:46]  But she's talking about the threat right now, the threat level right now.
[02:26:51]  However, the intelligence community assesses that Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and Pakistan have been researching and developing an array of novel, advanced, or traditional missile delivery systems with nuclear and conventional payloads that put our homeland within range.
[02:27:07]  The IC assesses that threats to the homeland will expand collectively to more than 16,000 missiles by 2035 from the current assessed figure of more than 3,000 missiles.
[02:27:19]  The IC assesses that China and Russia are developing advanced delivery systems meant to be capable of penetrating or bypassing U.S. missile defenses.
[02:27:27]  North Korea's ICBMs can already reach U.S. soil, and the IC assesses that it is committed to expanding its nuclear arsenal.
[02:27:36]  Pakistan's long-range ballistic missile development potentially could include ICBMs with a range capable of striking the homeland.
[02:27:45]  The IC assesses that Iran has previously demonstrated space launch and other technology it could use to begin to develop a militarily viable ICBM before 2035, should Tehran attempt to pursue that capability.
[02:28:00]  However, these assessments will clearly be updated as the full impact of Operation Epic Fury's devastating strikes on Iran's missile production facilities, stockpiles, and launch capabilities is determined.
[02:28:12]  Now, I don't doubt anything that she says there.
[02:28:16]  I don't think there's reason to doubt that.
[02:28:18]  What I do find curious about this is when you get into the current foreign policy situation from this administration, and you have to understand what is being asked of Iran right now.
[02:28:34]  And you have to understand the logic and the mindset behind our interest and our involvement in this pressure campaign against Iran, which is obviously for Israel's interests.
[02:28:45]  So here's Israel in the Middle East bombing everybody, anybody.
[02:28:50]  Israel has killed more people in the Middle East than any of the countries in recent history.
[02:28:54]  That is just a fact.
[02:28:55]  Nobody denies that fact.
[02:28:57]  So here's Israel with the most blood on its hands, the most death on its hands, the most death and destruction on its tally sheet.
[02:29:06]  And of course, using and abusing the United States military as cannon fodder in order to accomplish their own agenda in the Middle East.
[02:29:14]  I don't think anybody disputes this.
[02:29:16]  No real serious geopolitical commentator disputes this, at least.
[02:29:21]  So now here's Iran, and they're the next on the list.
[02:29:24]  They have their list of the countries they wanted to use the United States to do regime change wars in.
[02:29:29]  They've got it.
[02:29:30]  Now Iran is on the list.
[02:29:31]  And here's Israel with its nukes and all of its death and destruction.
[02:29:36]  And they're pointing the finger at Iran now, and they're sicking the dog of the United States military on Iran now.
[02:29:40]  And they're saying, you're a threat.
[02:29:43]  You can't have nuclear weapons.
[02:29:46]  And then the propaganda rolls out: oh, yes, Iran bad, can't have nuclear weapons.
[02:29:50]  Now, again, to be clear, this is no endorsement of Iran.
[02:29:52]  Let's just look at things through a lens of black and white and reality.
[02:29:58]  So here you are.
[02:29:59]  You're Iran.
[02:30:01]  Israel has nukes.
[02:30:02]  All these other countries have nukes.
[02:30:07]  And the countries that have nukes don't get invaded.
[02:30:10]  The countries that have nukes don't have the United States military knocking on their door.
[02:30:16]  They engage in diplomacy.
[02:30:20]  So here's Iran.
[02:30:21]  They're saying, well, every other one of our neighbors here has been regime changed warred by Israel and the United States.
[02:30:32]  Maybe we might want to have a nuclear weapon to deter that.
[02:30:37]  Now, they deny that they're even trying to have a nuclear weapon, but I don't know if you believe that or not.
[02:30:44]  I'd say it's probably within their interests to have a nuclear weapon for obvious reasons.
[02:30:50]  The same reason Israel has one.
[02:30:51]  Why does Israel have nuclear weapons?
[02:30:52]  Because it's in their best interest.
[02:30:56]  So here's Iran.
[02:30:58]  And they're sitting here.
[02:31:00]  And out of nowhere, here comes the United States of America bombing them, killing them, regime change warring them.
[02:31:07]  Even after Trump said he wouldn't do it, even after Trump had the envoy over there trying to negotiate peace.
[02:31:13]  I think that whole thing was a sham now, by the way.
[02:31:16]  Now, there's another development to that in a second.
[02:31:20]  And so Iran is sitting here saying, now, hold on a second.
[02:31:24]  Everyone else has nukes.
[02:31:25]  Israel has nukes.
[02:31:26]  America has nukes.
[02:31:28]  You guys are the ones killing people all over the world.
[02:31:31]  That's you guys.
[02:31:34]  And now you're going to tell us that you're better than us.
[02:31:37]  You have the moral high ground over us and we can't have nukes.
[02:31:42]  So again, whether you agree with all of this or not, this isn't about agree or disagree.
[02:31:47]  This isn't about the debate.
[02:31:48]  This is about the let's just look at things through a face value here.
[02:31:54]  America gets nukes and kills everyone.
[02:31:56]  Israel gets nukes, kills everyone.
[02:31:59]  And Iran says the only thing to deter this happening to us is having nukes.
[02:32:04]  And then they just say, no, you're lesser.
[02:32:07]  Because you're Muslims or because you're Iran, whatever it is, you don't count.
[02:32:12]  You're a lesser person.
[02:32:14]  You're a less moral person.
[02:32:15]  Can you imagine Netanyahu and Trump lecturing you at this stage in geopolitics about who has the morals?
[02:32:24]  Can you imagine Israel and the United States of America, who probably have killed more people in wars in the last since the turn of the 21st century, have probably killed more people and engaged in more war than maybe every country on the earth combined.

=== Gun Trust and Moral Geopolitics (08:06) ===

[02:32:39]  And they're going to sit here and they're going to tell Iran, you guys are the bad guys.
[02:32:43]  You guys can't have a nuke.
[02:32:44]  We're higher on the moral chain than you are.
[02:32:49]  Imagine you're Iran and that's what you're told.
[02:32:51]  So, what are you going to say?
[02:32:53]  First of all, you can't trust anybody.
[02:32:55]  How could you trust anybody?
[02:32:57]  What are you going to say?
[02:32:57]  Oh, okay.
[02:32:58]  You guys have a gun pointed at me.
[02:33:00]  Here's my gun.
[02:33:02]  You guys are pointing the gun at me.
[02:33:04]  So here's my gun.
[02:33:06]  Come in, take over my country, kill my people, take over my government.
[02:33:10]  You guys just run it all.
[02:33:11]  You guys run it all.
[02:33:12]  Install your central bankers.
[02:33:14]  Bring OnlyFans to my women.
[02:33:17]  It's all you guys now.
[02:33:18]  Go ahead.
[02:33:19]  You got me.
[02:33:19]  You guys are better than me.
[02:33:21]  You're morally superior than me.
[02:33:22]  I'll turn in my guns.
[02:33:23]  You guys can have it.
[02:33:24]  You're in control now.
[02:33:25]  That's what they're asking Iran to do.
[02:33:27]  Are you surprised they're not doing it?
[02:33:29]  Are you shocked that Iran is not feeling so good about that plan?
[02:33:37]  Because that's what it is.
[02:33:40]  So, again, I'm not, this isn't about a debate, whether you think that it's good or not.
[02:33:44]  I'm just telling you, this is the baseline, surface-level geopoliticking happening right now.
[02:33:51]  Iran is being told, you're the bad guys.
[02:33:55]  We're taking you over.
[02:33:56]  And if you don't accept this, if you don't turn down your weapons, we're just going to annihilate you.
[02:34:02]  And that's what they're asking.
[02:34:07]  But, you know, Iran, again, does that sound like a good deal for them?
[02:34:13]  Well, I guess if the if the debate is they're going to kill us all, if we don't do it, then maybe they'll determine that's a good deal.
[02:34:19]  But that hasn't been the case yet.
[02:34:27]  I had more on this.
[02:34:34]  Well, let's pull up this real quick.
[02:34:39]  Trump's advisors circle the wagons as sign of dissent over Iran emerge.
[02:34:44]  Yeah, well, a lot of people got involved in this administration because they didn't want this to be another neocon administration.
[02:34:50]  And now that it is, they're bailing out.
[02:34:53]  I think that this story with Kent might be just the beginning, guys.
[02:34:58]  And there's obviously been others, you know, Kerry Prigene Bowler, Joe Kent.
[02:35:05]  There's been others.
[02:35:07]  And by the way, they're freaking out.
[02:35:09]  So, you know, you have these Jewish events, these Jewish conferences like every weekend where they go up there and they just talk about Jewish interest and Israel interest.
[02:35:18]  Happens like every weekend.
[02:35:19]  We play these clips all the time.
[02:35:20]  But God forbid Catholics want to do one.
[02:35:24]  So there's a Catholic conference, the Catholic Prayer for America.
[02:35:29]  It's tomorrow in Washington, D.C. Speakers such as General Flynn, Candace Owens, Carrie Pregene Bowler, and they just added Joe Kent to the list.
[02:35:44]  So you can imagine who's freaking out over this.
[02:35:48]  People are freaking out.
[02:35:49]  They're calling for it to be shut down.
[02:35:51]  They're calling it anti-Semitic.
[02:35:54]  So God forbid Catholics are able to have the conference.
[02:35:57]  God forbid Catholics go and sit down in a room for a conference and listen to speeches and panels and discussion and debate.
[02:36:04]  Catholics, you're not allowed to do that.
[02:36:06]  Jews do it every damn weekend here.
[02:36:08]  And they talk about how they're basically just going to destroy the Bill of Rights and the Constitution for Israel.
[02:36:14]  And they do that every damn weekend.
[02:36:16]  And one Catholic prayer group, one Catholic prayer event pops up in D.C. and they say it's anti-Semitic and it shouldn't be allowed to happen.
[02:36:27]  Pretty amazing, isn't it?
[02:36:33]  Let's do it.
[02:36:34]  You know what?
[02:36:34]  We may have to do a little bonus time today.
[02:36:37]  This was two years ago, right before Joe Kent.
[02:36:42]  So, when you see these people, let me explain.
[02:36:44]  People are calling Joe Kent a fraud and they're the frauds.
[02:36:48]  And they're saying, oh, look, Joe Kent said this.
[02:36:49]  He said this.
[02:36:50]  This is what he said right before he was appointed into the Trump administration.
[02:36:54]  But understand, and maybe this will come out.
[02:36:56]  I know he's on Tucker Carlson tonight.
[02:36:59]  And I think he's going to go on with Levin, too.
[02:37:01]  That should be fun.
[02:37:04]  He may come out and say this.
[02:37:06]  He may not want to do it, but this is what happens.
[02:37:10]  So they're going to bring up posts that he made talking about how dangerous Iran is while he was in the administration.
[02:37:16]  Folks, they were told to do that.
[02:37:19]  Part of what this administration does is social media propaganda or social media communication, whatever you want to say.
[02:37:26]  We'll be nice.
[02:37:27]  We'll call it communication.
[02:37:28]  So the White House sends out a memo and all the official government accounts from the administration, they send out the memo.
[02:37:36]  They say, hey, post this on your social media.
[02:37:38]  And then they do it.
[02:37:39]  So those posts that they're going to say, oh, look, Joe Kent's a fraud.
[02:37:41]  No, that was him posting what was requested by the White House because he was part of the administration.
[02:37:47]  So we'll see what comes of that conversation.
[02:37:50]  But this is what he said right before with Tucker Carlson.
[02:37:54]  This is what he said right before he came a member of the Trump administration.
[02:37:57]  Let me just ask you one last question because he, you know, he called it 60 years ago.
[02:38:02]  You referred to what a war with Iran would do to the United States.
[02:38:06]  And I don't know that a lot of people in this country fully understand what Iran is as a nation state.
[02:38:13]  It's not Afghanistan.
[02:38:15]  What do you think the immediate and then longer term effects of a war with Iran would be on the United States?
[02:38:23]  Immediately, it would be a very bloody, I have no doubt that we could probably defeat some of their air defense and go in there and have another shock and awe campaign.
[02:38:31]  But again, like we saw how the shock and awe campaign in Iraq really didn't actually work in the long run.
[02:38:36]  So I have no doubt that we'd have some immediate results that people would cheer about here in the United States.
[02:38:41]  But Iran, Persia has always been an empire.
[02:38:44]  It's been around longer than any of the other players in the modern Middle East right now, and they are not going anywhere.
[02:38:50]  And right now, Iran has a lot of internal problem.
[02:38:52]  They have a lot of internal strife with the Ayatollah and that government's only been in power since 1979.
[02:38:57]  But again, if we start conducting strikes in Iran, everyone in Iran will rally around their leader and they will become even more revolutionary.
[02:39:06]  And that is exactly what happened, by the way.
[02:39:08]  So Joe Kent clearly had his finger to the pulse.
[02:39:12]  And this is essentially, this is the best analysis of the situation you're going to hear.
[02:39:16]  And what he just said right there was now totally proven true.
[02:39:20]  And then we will have Iranian proxies throughout the entire region that will be conducting attacks just like we had in Jordan.
[02:39:26]  And really in the long term, Tucker, the axis that has been built really since Putin invaded Russia and we decided that since Putin invaded Ukraine and we decided we were going to throw this massive sanctions package at them, China has come in as a major player and we are deeply compromised by China.
[02:39:42]  They control a lot of our economy.
[02:39:44]  They control global manufacturing.
[02:39:46]  They're deeply embedded in Wall Street.
[02:39:49]  And they've also made deals with the Iranians.
[02:39:51]  They want access to Iranian petro.
[02:39:54]  Not to mention the fact that Biden killed off U.S. energy independence and now he's going after LNG and the world's biggest LNG exporters are Iran, Russia, and Qatar.
[02:40:02]  So this axis would become very powerful.
[02:40:04]  If we get deeply involved and deeply entangled with Iran, we are playing right into China's hands because China would like nothing more than for us to be committing our military industrial base to a war in Eastern Europe in Ukraine, and then to be committing our conventional military power, our blood and our treasure back in the Middle East.
[02:40:25]  That will make the Pacific, our actual border, extremely vulnerable to Chinese aggression.
[02:40:31]  Or China will simply just watch us bleed out economically as we bleed out on the battlefield on these couple different theaters.
[02:40:38]  It's absolute insanity.
[02:40:39]  It's opening up Pandora's box.
[02:40:41]  And again, for what gain to the American people?

=== Gabbard Testimony and Pandora's Box (03:44) ===

[02:40:45]  I mean, tell me that's not the guy you don't want on your intelligence community.
[02:40:50]  Tell me that's the guy you don't want advising President Trump right there.
[02:40:54]  That's about as clearly laid out in a consumable and easily understandable way for the American people and a truthful way that got proven to be true now two years later.
[02:41:09]  That's the guy who's that's the guy who's out.
[02:41:11]  That's the guy who just left because this administration has become such a disaster.
[02:41:16]  Have you ever heard it laid out as eloquently as that?
[02:41:18]  And, you know, I forgot to say this about Gabbard.
[02:41:23]  You know, what I saw from Gabbard was something, it was actually refreshing.
[02:41:31]  What I saw from Gabbard's testimony today was she seems to be the last person of this administration that hasn't lost her mind.
[02:41:41]  She seems to be the last member of the Trump administration that hasn't gone bat crap crazy.
[02:41:48]  And you can understand why people go crazy in the madness of it all and the confusion and the chaos and the lies and everything and the pressure.
[02:41:57]  Gabbard seemed to be the only one that was still poised and still confident in who she is and the job that she's doing.
[02:42:03]  She seemed to be the only one.
[02:42:04]  I mean, Mark Wayne Mullen up there crying.
[02:42:07]  We've seen Hegzeth crash outs.
[02:42:08]  We've seen Patel crash outs, Bondi crash outs.
[02:42:11]  I mean, Trump's crashed out.
[02:42:13]  Howard Luttnick with the weirdness.
[02:42:17]  It's all very strange.
[02:42:21]  I guess maybe Besant probably still falls into that category of members of the administration that actually seem like they still have their wits about them.
[02:42:30]  And I saw Gabbard up there, and I'm thinking to myself, she's accepted her role, whatever it's going to have to be.
[02:42:40]  She'll take the dings for sticking around in this administration, and she'll probably want to get back involved in politics.
[02:42:47]  That's my guess, that she might try to slingshot this into a presidential run or maybe a vice president role.
[02:42:57]  But it was just so refreshing to see her up there and, you know, so much about politics.
[02:43:04]  And most Americans, what, 98% of America probably won't see a second of that hearing, so it won't even matter.
[02:43:09]  But if she does run, what I see is because this administration has become so bombastic, because this administration has become so bombastic and outrageous with the confusion and the chaos, it actually opens up a window of opportunity now for a woman to actually run successfully.
[02:43:38]  Because this whole chaos agency right now, that is the Trump administration, people will literally get to the next election cycle and be like, I just want someone that's calm.
[02:43:51]  And if there's no man that can present that and it's a woman, it opens the door, I think, for the first female president.
[02:43:57]  And others have always said that it was going to be Gabbard.
[02:44:00]  And this isn't me, you know, it's like you can't even cover somebody without somebody having some opinion.
[02:44:05]  I'm just telling you, Gabbard appears to be the most poised of the entire administration.
[02:44:09]  She's the only one that was able to go up there and handle the questions and not crash out.
[02:44:17]  And now she seems to be the only person in the administration that offers some level of peace in this chaos.

=== Government Shutdown Myths and Wars (03:21) ===

[02:44:30]  That was the interpretation for me today.
[02:44:34]  I mean, how many of these recently have we seen?
[02:44:37]  And the member of the administration comes out on the other side looking like not good.
[02:44:42]  Well, she came out on the other side looking kind of untouched.
[02:44:46]  She's the only one that's been able to do that.
[02:44:50]  So anyway, back to Joe Kent.
[02:44:52]  Listen to the attacks on Kent now.
[02:44:55]  Listen to this on Jake Tapper last night with Mike McCall.
[02:44:59]  Joe Kent resigned today.
[02:45:00]  He says Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States.
[02:45:05]  He blamed the war and also the war in Iraq and also the U.S. war against ISIS in Syria.
[02:45:11]  He blamed all of it on pressure from Israel and the pro-Israel lobby.
[02:45:15]  Kent's letter also, first of all, before he was confirmed as director of the NCTC.
[02:45:21]  By the way, I want to know, are we denying that?
[02:45:23]  Are we denying that our involvement in the Middle East is not on behalf of Israel?
[02:45:28]  Is that a denial?
[02:45:30]  Are we outright saying that is not the case now?
[02:45:34]  Because that's outrageous, if that's the claim.
[02:45:36]  That is just outrageous.
[02:45:38]  He faced Senate opposition because of ties to white supremacists and anti-Semites.
[02:45:43]  His letter blames Israel and absolves Trump, blames Israel for the war in Iran, blames Israel for the war in Iraq, blames Israel and its supporters for ISIS, for the war on ISIS in Syria.
[02:45:57]  And I think there are a lot of people.
[02:45:58]  Who started ISIS?
[02:46:00]  Israel.
[02:46:01]  Who did regime change in Syria?
[02:46:03]  Israel.
[02:46:04]  Who's been lobbying us in D.C. to go to war with Iraq, Iran, Libya, Afghanistan, Netanyahu, Israel?
[02:46:15]  So again, are we denying this?
[02:46:16]  Like, I don't, are we just denying this now?
[02:46:18]  Are we saying this isn't true?
[02:46:20]  I thought it was true and it's a good thing because they're our greatest allies.
[02:46:24]  I thought it was true and it's a good thing because they're fighting our enemies in the Middle East.
[02:46:27]  So are we just abandoning all of that now?
[02:46:29]  And we're just saying none of it's true.
[02:46:31]  People today wondering, how did somebody like this get a position like this in government given his anti-Semitic views?
[02:46:41]  Oh, so there it is.
[02:46:42]  So unless you support Israel, you are not allowed to have a job in Washington, D.C. There it is.
[02:46:50]  As if we didn't already know that.
[02:46:53]  Ted Cruz is pissed about this, by the way.
[02:46:58]  This is how bad it is.
[02:47:00]  This is the bad economy.
[02:47:01]  This is the joke government.
[02:47:03]  TSA agents forced to sell blood to afford to go on, to go to work as 50,000 going without pay under shutdown chaos.
[02:47:12]  Yeah.
[02:47:12]  Oh, the government shut down.
[02:47:13]  No, it's not.
[02:47:15]  The government just went in over 39 trillion in debt.
[02:47:18]  So it's not shut down.
[02:47:19]  The government is at war in the Middle East right now, in Cuba, everywhere else.
[02:47:23]  The government's not shut down.
[02:47:26]  No, there's just some political football being tossed around right now.
[02:47:30]  And so we can't get airport security.
[02:47:32]  That's all it is.
[02:47:33]  There's no government shutdown.
[02:47:36]  The government still rapes you.
[02:47:41]  It's all BS.
[02:47:42]  I'd love to see a real government shutdown.
[02:47:50]  Oh, well, I guess we can hold some of this.

=== Dan Bongino YouTube Irrelevance (15:57) ===

[02:47:52]  Let's do that.
[02:47:53]  Let's hold some of this.
[02:47:56]  And I think we're going to do a little bonus time today to do the super chat.
[02:48:01]  So let's do that.
[02:48:02]  Let's hold on to those for tomorrow.
[02:48:05]  Let's close the third hour, hit the super chats in a little bonus time.
[02:48:10]  You're listening to the Owen Report on the Wynn Network.
[02:48:23]  All right, guys.
[02:48:27]  Let's go to our super chats today.
[02:48:30]  Do a little extra time on a Wednesday transmission.
[02:48:36]  As we do every show, we go to our super chats at the end of the show.
[02:48:39]  Uh, appreciate everybody sending us the super chats.
[02:48:41]  I appreciate everybody following us on YouTube.
[02:48:43]  Please give us a follow on YouTube, the Owen report on YouTube, trying to build that.
[02:48:49]  Done pretty good so far.
[02:48:50]  I appreciate everybody.
[02:48:53]  So, let's go to the super chats for today.
[02:48:56]  Uh, Cream Filling.
[02:48:58]  There's a new one for us.
[02:48:59]  All right.
[02:49:00]  You are the man.
[02:49:01]  Would you consider having Casey Putch on the show?
[02:49:07]  Uh, I don't know what that means.
[02:49:11]  Ask him strong questions.
[02:49:12]  He's running for governor of my state versus Ramaswamy.
[02:49:17]  Uh, yeah, I would have him on.
[02:49:20]  You know, I do have a certain level of uh loyalty to Ramaswamy.
[02:49:24]  I don't deny that.
[02:49:25]  I don't hide that.
[02:49:26]  I'm not saying he's beyond criticism, but um, Vivaik was one of the few people in politics that stood up for me when I was a political prisoner.
[02:49:34]  So, that means something to me.
[02:49:37]  I mean, especially when you're a speech prisoner and 99% of the political world ignores your case, ignores the fact you're a speech prisoner in America.
[02:49:47]  Uh, the people that do say things, the people that do support you in that regard, you don't forget them.
[02:49:55]  Uh, I like Push, I like Casey Push.
[02:49:57]  I obviously don't vote in Ohio, um, but I would have him on, I would definitely have him on.
[02:50:04]  I don't know what type of hard questions need to be asked of him.
[02:50:08]  I know Ramaswamy has had to answer some tough questions over the time, uh, but you know, that's a race where it's like I don't know, it gives you hope, maybe like that's going to be the future.
[02:50:22]  It's like Ramaswamy, all right, maybe you don't like him, maybe you got your issues with him, but it's like he's definitely not a neocon.
[02:50:30]  So, you might say, well, he's a little bit establishment now, he's a little, you know, he's a little con ink now, and maybe he's got a little political, you know, political slime on him, a little elite class slime on him.
[02:50:43]  But it's like he's definitely not a neocon.
[02:50:46]  Uh, he definitely has a fresh take, and then push is just like your total anti-establishment type.
[02:50:50]  It's like, hey, you know, if you're a Republican in Ohio, you're not so bad, it's not so bad, it's not like down here, we got another Abbott, got another Greg Abbott run or roll.
[02:51:08]  Problem is Democrats have all the momentum, that's the problem, and it might carry over to these local races.
[02:51:19]  So, that's the real issue here.
[02:51:20]  It's not whether you like Push or Ramaswamy more, it's that the Democrats, I think, have the edge, unfortunately.
[02:51:29]  Boiling point live: Bongino Stooges are trying to get an injunction against me for reporting their crimes.
[02:51:35]  They will fail.
[02:51:37]  Is Bongino even on air?
[02:51:39]  I saw Bongino.
[02:51:40]  He'll be out of the top 100 podcasts by definitely by the end of the month, probably by the end of next week.
[02:51:47]  But I don't even know if he's on air.
[02:51:48]  I don't even know if he's doing the show.
[02:51:50]  I mean, talk about a talk about a MAG, a measuring stick.
[02:51:55]  Bongino leaves the administration, leaves the FBI, and becomes more irrelevant than ever.
[02:52:01]  And on the opposite side, Joe Kent leaves the administration and becomes more relevant than ever.
[02:52:08]  I mean, you know, do I need to do the statistical data analysis of what that represents for you?
[02:52:16]  Why is it that Dan Bongino, who wasn't the top podcaster, why is it that Dan Bongino, who already had massive relevance and a massive following, why is it that he leaves the administration, but on a positive note, and he becomes more irrelevant than ever?
[02:52:31]  And then Joe Kent, who's never really had a big following, he leaves the administration on a negative note, and now he's more popular than ever.
[02:52:40]  Oh, but MAGA approval is at 100%, Owen.
[02:52:47]  Yeah, just all the evidence is against it.
[02:52:52]  This dude, hi, Owen.
[02:52:54]  Can you play Epstein Amnesia by Crack Amoco?
[02:52:58]  I suppose I could.
[02:52:59]  I don't know if I will.
[02:53:01]  Brother Fly Lineage, we was here before Trump and will be here after Trump, but not all.
[02:53:11]  The MAGA cult.
[02:53:12]  I don't know what they do after Trump, to be honest.
[02:53:15]  Not too curious either.
[02:53:18]  Felar unit.
[02:53:19]  Is it anti-Semitic to label a person anti-Semite for simply questioning their potential inference of the Israeli government in my own thumbs up this video?
[02:53:29]  I'm not sure exactly.
[02:53:32]  Maybe you're kind of tongue-in-cheek.
[02:53:34]  Yes.
[02:53:34]  The answer is yes.
[02:53:35]  The answer is yes.
[02:53:37]  If you don't want to pay your tithe to Israel, if you don't want to pay your tithe and drop your blood and treasure in the Middle East for Israel, then you are an anti-Semite.
[02:53:49]  You're an anti-Semite.
[02:53:51]  I mean, that's the message.
[02:53:52]  All right.
[02:53:54]  Tay Tay, Fishback was speaking at DC U.S. Capitol earlier.
[02:53:57]  Caroline Levitt wore same blue Lululemons as Argentina Italian Breanna Morello.
[02:54:08]  Well, he did play a little bit of fishback.
[02:54:09]  It's good to see him in front of the Capitol.
[02:54:10]  I like that.
[02:54:13]  If he doesn't win the governor's race, I think he runs for a house seat down the line and wins.
[02:54:17]  That's my prediction.
[02:54:19]  But he's climbing in the polls.
[02:54:20]  This thing's getting real.
[02:54:22]  DZ, wear a Joy Lives Matter.
[02:54:24]  You mean goi?
[02:54:25]  Lives Matter shirt on your show.
[02:54:26]  Replace the J with a G. YouTube won't let me spell the G word, so I had to send the message anyway.
[02:54:31]  Really?
[02:54:34]  You can't say goi?
[02:54:38]  Is that like the N-word now?
[02:54:41]  Ooh, the G-word.
[02:54:46]  Pre-X, why doesn't Susie get to fight her cancer at home?
[02:54:49]  You know, I haven't looked too much into that.
[02:54:51]  I saw the announcement, and then apparently she's, you know, fighting it and I guess is going to treatment regularly now.
[02:54:56]  I haven't looked too much into that.
[02:54:58]  So I don't know.
[02:55:01]  I don't think her influence is going away.
[02:55:03]  Spooky Mays.
[02:55:06]  Man, where is JD Vance?
[02:55:07]  He seems to be all of a sudden out of the spotlight.
[02:55:09]  I don't trust Tucker, Peter, Thiel, and Vance, that whole group.
[02:55:12]  Something's up with that.
[02:55:13]  Well, Vance actually was speaking today.
[02:55:16]  He's been doing these speaking tours.
[02:55:18]  He's been doing like these campaign-style events where he goes and speaks in front of the podium or behind the podium.
[02:55:25]  And basically what he's doing now is he's trying to bridge the gap between the anti-war conservatives and MAGA.
[02:55:38]  So he's telling you, oh, it's not that bad.
[02:55:40]  We're going to end it soon.
[02:55:41]  We're going to fix the gas prices.
[02:55:43]  He's telling you it's just, you know, short-term pain, long-term gain.
[02:55:47]  So he's basically just being used to try to tamp down the anti-war faction of MAGA or the right, however you want to put it now.
[02:56:02]  I mean, I don't blame you for not trusting anybody.
[02:56:06]  I'd like to think that Vance is legitimate in some way, shape, or form as far as his instinctual disgust for the neocons.
[02:56:19]  When you get into politics at that level, you got to cut deals.
[02:56:22]  You got to make sacrifices.
[02:56:23]  But the one thing that I see that's consistent is the Israel lobby all wants Rubio and hates Vance.
[02:56:33]  So take from that what you want.
[02:56:38]  Until the rope rots, we've been thinking that MAGA is dead.
[02:56:41]  Turns out it's still alive.
[02:56:42]  We just didn't recognize it because MAGA turned trans.
[02:56:46]  MAGA is trans now.
[02:56:48]  Maybe.
[02:56:49]  No, that already happened.
[02:56:50]  No, MAGA already died.
[02:56:51]  Now it's back as a zombie coming for us.
[02:56:55]  AlphaJerk, I feel the same way as that female Trump voter.
[02:56:58]  Oh, but MAGA's 100%.
[02:57:00]  Oh.
[02:57:02]  Bongino started calling us pannikins.
[02:57:04]  F him.
[02:57:05]  I have the solid evidence of what a trash bag he is.
[02:57:07]  It'll all come out soon.
[02:57:08]  Oh, some heavy talk.
[02:57:11]  Abdullah Siraj.
[02:57:13]  First it was Ben Shapippi.
[02:57:15]  Now it's Micro Mark Levin.
[02:57:20]  Micro Mark.
[02:57:22]  He's having a time, isn't he?
[02:57:24]  He's all right.
[02:57:26]  DZ, no way Trump can't figure out COVID vaccines, 5G, chemtrails, et cetera, are bad after five years.
[02:57:33]  Nothing happens to Bill Gates or Anthony Fauci.
[02:57:35]  He supports their agenda.
[02:57:37]  You know, Bill Gates is the one thing, and I don't know.
[02:57:41]  It's not like Bill Gates was at the White House influencing these decisions.
[02:57:46]  I mean, Fauci was behind it all.
[02:57:50]  That dirty little crook, man, that rat, that monster still walks free.
[02:57:57]  Unbelievable.
[02:57:58]  He is a monster.
[02:58:01]  Majin sell.
[02:58:04]  What questions would you ask Caroline Jean Pierre?
[02:58:08]  I guess that depends on the day.
[02:58:12]  If it was today, what would I ask Caroline Jean Pierre?
[02:58:21]  Hmm.
[02:58:24]  I would say, Caroline, why is it that on days you seem to have to lie the most for this administration, you don't wear your crucifix necklace?
[02:58:35]  That would get me in trouble.
[02:58:37]  That'd be my last day.
[02:58:39]  Well, I guess I won't be invited to the White House press room for that.
[02:58:41]  Thanks a lot.
[02:58:43]  Owens Royer's wifey.
[02:58:45]  I found myself liking a tweet from the American Communist Party.
[02:58:48]  What the F is going on?
[02:58:52]  Oh, expose 305.
[02:58:58]  Biden ain't got anything on Trump.
[02:59:00]  Project disaster.
[02:59:03]  You know, I'm not ready to go there, but people are already saying it.
[02:59:07]  People are already saying it to me.
[02:59:08]  They miss Biden.
[02:59:10]  I cannot believe.
[02:59:10]  I'm not going there.
[02:59:11]  I'm not ready to go there or say it.
[02:59:13]  And I don't even want to.
[02:59:14]  I don't even think you can because it's just, you know, everything moves forward.
[02:59:19]  But no, we're hearing it a lot.
[02:59:23]  And the Trump family is going to make more than the Biden crime family made off of the presidency.
[02:59:28]  That's for sure.
[02:59:30]  Shabbat, 45, slavery by consent.
[02:59:33]  Plain and simple.
[02:59:34]  Stop feeding the beast.
[02:59:35]  Stop paying taxes.
[02:59:36]  Love you, bro.
[02:59:38]  Yeah, well, they'll print the money anyway.
[02:59:43]  Why are there so many star reports here lately?
[02:59:47]  What is this?
[02:59:50]  Is that a shooting star?
[02:59:51]  Is that a comet?
[02:59:54]  I don't know.
[02:59:58]  Shirt is dialed, Owen.
[03:00:00]  Who makes it?
[03:00:01]  I do like these shirts.
[03:00:02]  I got a couple of them.
[03:00:03]  But you know what?
[03:00:04]  Like I said, I just, I don't want to give people free plugs.
[03:00:08]  I don't want to give people free plugs on the show.
[03:00:13]  So, and I don't want to try to look at my tag either.
[03:00:17]  The farm girl.
[03:00:18]  Trump trying to force other countries into Iran war means he's trying to invoke World War III and force Armageddon.
[03:00:24]  He's definitely trying to force the hand, and he's not had it go the way he thought.
[03:00:31]  I think that that's observably true.
[03:00:35]  Captain Hard, we just sit there.
[03:00:37]  Gas refinery, we just hit their gas refinery yesterday.
[03:00:40]  Now Iran is going to bomb other countries in the Middle East refinery who has a U.S. base on it and using it to attack.
[03:00:49]  That's what it seems like.
[03:00:50]  Again, it's hard to know exactly what's going on.
[03:00:52]  There's so much propaganda coming out from the actual ground, and there's so much censorship.
[03:00:59]  It's just total chaos.
[03:01:00]  I mean, that's what you got.
[03:01:01]  It's another war in the Middle East, and Iran is the biggest dog that they've tried to take down yet.
[03:01:06]  So that's what it is.
[03:01:08]  Salty Badger, they may fake another ear attempt or success.
[03:01:12]  The programming points to this, and maybe the only way they keep the MAGA narrative.
[03:01:16]  Yeah, a false flag, something to try to re-corral the base, something to try to reorient the messaging into a positive way.
[03:01:26]  A false flag would be the attempt to do that.
[03:01:28]  But I don't think, to be honest with you, I don't think it would work.
[03:01:31]  I don't think it would work.
[03:01:33]  It doesn't mean they won't try.
[03:01:36]  If the war gets over soon, three years left of blackmail projects for Trump.
[03:01:40]  So this war ending soon, that just means off to the next Israel project for Mr. T.
[03:01:46]  Well, that'd be the worst case scenario if it is a blackmail deal.
[03:01:49]  I think it's just a pay-for-play deal.
[03:01:51]  I think he made these deals and now he's just following through.
[03:01:54]  The Chaz.
[03:01:55]  I voted for Trump three times in Pennsylvania.
[03:01:57]  I'd rather be the salt of the earth rather than decay like these MAGA turds.
[03:02:01]  Matthew 5, 13.
[03:02:04]  You sound like the lady in the video.
[03:02:06]  Remember when Trump posted the Pope meme?
[03:02:11]  The memes are so cringe from this administration now.
[03:02:14]  It's literally in Iran war doctrine.
[03:02:19]  Are you talking about to match the enemy firepower?
[03:02:22]  What do you mean exactly?
[03:02:23]  Ballroom equals all room.
[03:02:26]  Is it the third temple from the peppermint?
[03:02:29]  I don't know.
[03:02:30]  I see that.
[03:02:30]  Yeah, I don't know.
[03:02:33]  Ken Rose, thank you.
[03:02:35]  Colin Quinn, Trump is glazing Jake Paul, Loomer, and Levin while people like you and others went to jail for him, yet he never mentions your name.
[03:02:42]  He is a joke.
[03:02:43]  Well, I don't take anything in politics personally, so I don't really care about that.
[03:02:49]  And for me, you know, I guess you could classify that, yeah, I struggled and suffered for supporting Trump, but to me, it was just supporting the truth, supporting what I think is right and good.
[03:03:03]  So whatever, you know, even Jake Paul, probably better than most people you're going to get, but who knows?
[03:03:09]  Now, you know, I look at everything now.
[03:03:12]  It's like, I don't have any problem with Jake Paul.
[03:03:15]  Maybe a lot.
[03:03:16]  I seem to like him even.
[03:03:19]  And when I see younger people getting involved in it, I'm like, okay, this is good.
[03:03:23]  Younger generations getting involved.
[03:03:25]  Okay, Jake Paul, probably better than some boomer neocon.
[03:03:28]  But then you wonder, it's like, how much of this stuff is just planned from the beginning?
[03:03:32]  Like, how much of this stuff is organic versus how much of it is?
[03:03:37]  No, they always plan to make these people famous, introduce them to a demographic, an age group, and then once they have fulfilled that purpose, they just move them into politics seamlessly.

=== Tucker Carlson Exposed by Perception (09:16) ===

[03:03:50]  And then you go out and you think you're voting for your guy, and it was just their guy the entire time, and the whole thing was AstroTurf.
[03:03:56]  I can't help but wonder that.
[03:03:58]  With all of them, by the way.
[03:04:02]  Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla.
[03:04:04]  All candidates should answer if they'll cut all Israel ties.
[03:04:08]  If not, assume they're compromised.
[03:04:09]  Well, I think that that's going to be asked of all candidates.
[03:04:12]  I don't think that question is going anywhere.
[03:04:14]  Mr. T is as clueless as Corey Feldman.
[03:04:17]  Both suck.
[03:04:18]  What's with the Corey Feldman hit?
[03:04:20]  Teeth 8836.
[03:04:24]  Someone needs to get a running tally on all the government things Trump is clearly trying to slap his name on.
[03:04:29]  He's really going for as much historical recognition as possible while destroying everything else.
[03:04:34]  100%.
[03:04:35]  This is such an ego campaign.
[03:04:36]  This is such a narcissism administration.
[03:04:38]  Trump just wants everything Trump everywhere around the world.
[03:04:40]  He just wants to see his name in the history.
[03:04:42]  That's what this feels like at this point.
[03:04:44]  It's all about Trump.
[03:04:46]  LA Patriot.
[03:04:46]  I saw Trump and BB and the Red Heifer at McDonald's.
[03:04:51]  The Red Heifer.
[03:04:55]  Give us the T on the Candace documentary.
[03:04:59]  Haven't seen it.
[03:05:01]  Joe Kent on Tucker says Israel runs our foreign policy.
[03:05:05]  They are about to go after him like no one ever seen before.
[03:05:07]  Trump voice.
[03:05:08]  It's really sled.
[03:05:09]  Yeah.
[03:05:10]  No one's ever seen it before.
[03:05:11]  Did you see these compilations?
[03:05:13]  Trump has said no one's seen anything like it or nobody's seen anything like it before.
[03:05:17]  Whatever.
[03:05:18]  He said that about almost every single thing.
[03:05:20]  They did a compilation.
[03:05:21]  He said that like about 50 different things.
[03:05:24]  No one's ever seen anything like it.
[03:05:26]  It's the biggest ever.
[03:05:29]  It's just such an ego used car salmon.
[03:05:34]  It's so old now.
[03:05:36]  It just sucks.
[03:05:37]  But yeah, well, hey, you know, look, you know, Joe Kent and even Tucker Carlson to an extent.
[03:05:50]  I don't know how much of this is measured, but the result is the same.
[03:05:56]  Tucker has exposed the blatant double standards in foreign influence, blatant double standards.
[03:06:04]  So in other words, you can be totally bought and paid for and sell out to Israel, and that's okay.
[03:06:09]  That's expected.
[03:06:10]  That's anticipated.
[03:06:12]  That's acceptable.
[03:06:13]  No problem.
[03:06:14]  But if you even glance at any other country, if you even glance or you even step foot in any other country as a journalist, you're a traitor.
[03:06:24]  You're a bad guy.
[03:06:25]  I mean, Tucker has exposed this double standard to a near-perfect degree.
[03:06:31]  So now Joe Kent, as he embarks on this journey now outside of the administration, post-administration, I don't know where it all goes, but it's going to be a massive expose of where the real hate is coming from, where the control factors are, and how everything gets based off of this lens of what is your support for Israel.
[03:07:00]  And the minute you are not willing to offer that support, they cut you off and they try to destroy you.
[03:07:08]  So this is just beginning now for Kent, and everyone's going to watch it.
[03:07:13]  PFF: How come they call Catholics anti-Semitic?
[03:07:17]  Jesus Christ was Jewish, but more importantly, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
[03:07:23]  Well, because they're woke and they can't actually win a debate, so they just say anti-Semitic because they, because they have no ideas that can defeat yours.
[03:07:32]  Google won't let me comment on Nasferatu, Loomer, and Randy Fine's dietary habits.
[03:07:40]  What habits?
[03:07:41]  Are they into beef jerky or Randy Fine, Lifetime Achievement Award winner at the Golden Corral?
[03:07:51]  What's your handicap and what's your longest drive?
[03:07:55]  I've hit a 350-yard drive before.
[03:07:59]  Handicap, I don't know.
[03:08:00]  I don't play enough to even say, but if I went out tomorrow, I'd probably shoot 100.
[03:08:08]  So I'm not proud of that.
[03:08:10]  If I play well, I'll stick in the double digits, but I don't golf enough, so I don't even really have a handicap.
[03:08:16]  But I have hit a 350 drive.
[03:08:17]  I can drive at 300.
[03:08:19]  Matt Gates and Vivek had Owens back.
[03:08:21]  That's right.
[03:08:22]  Two of the few.
[03:08:24]  Two of the few.
[03:08:26]  One of 1K.
[03:08:26]  Remember when everyone was avid about the Bongino rule?
[03:08:34]  What is it?
[03:08:35]  Wait 24 hours, wait 48 hours that he would say.
[03:08:37]  No.
[03:08:39]  Will Bongino ever be relevant again?
[03:08:41]  Joe Kent could start a podcast tomorrow and he would eclipse Dan Bongino within a month.
[03:08:46]  Think about that.
[03:08:48]  If Joe Kent launched a podcast on Monday, he would have more viewers than Dan Bongino.
[03:08:56]  That's your measuring stick for MAGA right there.
[03:09:00]  Not attaching any strings, but how about throwing your ex-subscribers a little extra love once in a while?
[03:09:05]  A repost or a reply here or there would be huge.
[03:09:08]  Just spitballing here.
[03:09:10]  Yeah, I mean, I don't really do anything with that.
[03:09:11]  I don't know what to do with that because I don't like doing exclusive stuff.
[03:09:15]  I kind of look at it as if you want to support my work, you can do it there.
[03:09:21]  Are you saying like to reply to my subscribers' posts?
[03:09:29]  I guess I could do something like that, but I don't really think, I don't know if I can do a notification for that.
[03:09:33]  I don't know.
[03:09:34]  JV free, Owen reunite with Alex.
[03:09:37]  World peace.
[03:09:38]  Pray.
[03:09:38]  Amen.
[03:09:40]  Instead of short-term pain, it's all long-term pain.
[03:09:44]  No, it's just pain, actually.
[03:09:47]  It's just pain.
[03:09:48]  You got to check out I Can't Even Productions Modern Art Masterpiece.
[03:09:53]  By the way, I'm still willing to mail you my shirt and mask.
[03:09:56]  Love you, bro.
[03:09:59]  I don't know if I want that.
[03:10:00]  Is that what's in your picture there?
[03:10:02]  My butt's been wiped.
[03:10:05]  Will Trump have his butts been wiped?
[03:10:06]  Moment.
[03:10:09]  I'll come and present it all if you like as soon as the hearings are done.
[03:10:12]  Yeah, keep us posted.
[03:10:14]  Israel's short-term gain is our long-term pain.
[03:10:19]  I like these play on words.
[03:10:21]  Hey, Trump, come kiss the garage door.
[03:10:24]  I'll open it for you, Donald.
[03:10:25]  Jordan Walker, Owen, I just want to say thank you.
[03:10:28]  I've gotten back into the gym and working on my sobriety because of you and Nick.
[03:10:32]  Single father to a beautiful 15-year-old girl.
[03:10:34]  Your show is my gym watch every day.
[03:10:36]  Oh, hell yeah, brother.
[03:10:37]  Are you in the gym right now?
[03:10:40]  Right on, man.
[03:10:42]  You know, that means a lot.
[03:10:45]  I want to keep everybody as informed as possible.
[03:10:48]  That's why I do this show.
[03:10:50]  And, you know, I don't do as much like gym stuff and that type of content because it comes off as a little superficial.
[03:11:01]  And I don't, I don't want that perception of me.
[03:11:03]  Because, you know, when you do this, basically everyone, they judge you on perception.
[03:11:10]  It's like you, you know, maybe you think you know someone because you watch them online, on TV, whatever, and then you get to meet them and it's like, oh, my perception was totally off.
[03:11:21]  I try to keep my perception as accurate as possible.
[03:11:23]  I think I'd like to think that your perception of me is as real as it gets, but it's difficult.
[03:11:30]  But the reason why I don't do as much of that stuff is because it comes off as really superficial.
[03:11:33]  But yet it's almost like I have the same motivation.
[03:11:36]  Like I want you to be as happy and healthy, as informed as possible.
[03:11:40]  And so if I can inspire somebody to increase their own health and to increase their own presence in their life, then that means a lot.
[03:11:52]  So good for you, Jordan.
[03:11:53]  I'm glad to hear that.
[03:11:55]  Don't forget our anniversary.
[03:11:57]  Already did.
[03:11:58]  Owen loves Gigi.
[03:11:59]  You need someone like me in your boring life.
[03:12:04]  Have you guys?
[03:12:05]  I don't even want to say it.
[03:12:06]  I'm not even going to maybe another time.
[03:12:08]  Thoughts on voting?
[03:12:09]  No incumbent strategy.
[03:12:11]  I like that.
[03:12:11]  I think that's a strong strategy.
[03:12:13]  I don't think it's the best strategy, but I fine strategy.
[03:12:17]  If you just want to go to the polls uninformed, just never vote for an incumbent unless you like him.
[03:12:23]  Fuentes thinks Tucker and Kent are an operation to save Vance.
[03:12:29]  That's a little conspiratorial.
[03:12:34]  I'd say there's enough circumstantial evidence that would lead him to that conclusion, and that's why he's there.
[03:12:40]  But, you know, you start to get to this point where it's like, and I totally get it.
[03:12:45]  Believe me, I get it.
[03:12:47]  But you just, you start to get to this point where when you don't trust anything and you don't think anybody can be real or anybody can be organic or anybody can be a good guy, you end up kind of caught in this trap that you caught yourself in, and you might miss on a good thing.

=== Kent: The Real Deal Moment (01:28) ===

[03:13:06]  And then it's like, well, where do you go from there?
[03:13:09]  You can't.
[03:13:09]  You're trapped.
[03:13:10]  So, no, I think Kent is the real deal.
[03:13:15]  I think Tucker is the real deal.
[03:13:18]  I understand there's all these different beefs and everybody's got their own opinion.
[03:13:21]  That's fine.
[03:13:23]  But in my view, if I'm looking at trust factor, the trust factor for Tucker Carlson and Joe Kent is above the vast majority of other people out there.
[03:13:36]  Can we get some egg slocking content?
[03:13:39]  I told you, bro, I'm off the egg slonks.
[03:13:45]  I've quit slonking cold turkey.
[03:13:47]  So not now.
[03:13:50]  Not in this moment.
[03:13:51]  Maybe someday.
[03:13:55]  But that day is not today.
[03:13:59]  And that's it for today.
[03:14:03]  Thank you, everybody, for tuning in.
[03:14:08]  We'll do it again tomorrow.
[03:14:10]  We'll take a 20 and a half hour break.
[03:14:14]  We went a little long today.
[03:14:19]  We'll take a 20 and a half hour break.
[03:14:24]  And we'll do it all again tomorrow.
[03:14:27]  Same time.
[03:14:30]  Same channel.
[03:14:33]  God bless.
[03:14:35]  Godspeed.