Owen Shroyer dissects the "war that was never a war," mocking Trump supporters as a cult while exposing ineffective sanctions via India's Yuan oil purchases. He critiques the "woke right" and MAGA hypocrisy regarding LGBTQ+ adoption, citing raw milk legal loopholes in Florida and Epstein file cloning theories. The episode concludes by analyzing insider trading on crude futures and questioning if the Strait of Hormuz opening truly benefits Americans or merely central banks. [Automatically generated summary]
Victory in opening the strait that was already open.
Well, anyway, we'll try to make sense of it.
We're going to look at Trump's statements, the results, some good results.
However, I think we're all getting the Groundhog Day feeling.
We've been here before.
We've been here before.
In fact, we've been here so many times before.
We're starting to think that the whole world has gone crazy.
We're really starting to wonder what the hell is going on with the world around us.
You wake up, the clown horns go off, and then you're surrounded by a bunch of people in a Trump outfit waving pom poms in your face and gyrating on you.
And you're like, what the hell?
I'm just trying to.
Can I just have a normal Friday, please?
Can I just get a normal Friday?
No.
And then Trump makes a statement on Israel.
We'll see how that thing held up.
Doesn't look good.
Doesn't look good.
So we'll look at that.
We'll look at that.
That's the big news today.
That's the big news today.
Plus, this weird thing that happens whenever the Trump cult gets off of their knees worshiping Trump, they then turn around and start pointing and screaming at you.
So we are going to cover that today.
They're out as usual.
We actually have a bunch of news from the Senate, from the House, that is not getting much attention today because of this.
The FISA vote last night, what happened with that?
We have a development there.
You also have Congress voting.
It's so easy to do this, it's impossible.
You can't get a Save Act.
You can't get that.
We can't get the votes for a Save Act, but we can get a vote to turn over American wildlife, American land, to foreign companies.
Who wants to come mine it?
So that happened in Congress.
No resistance.
Easy to get that deal done.
Can't give you a Save Act, though.
Can't just do that.
What about all the money that Trump's talking about coming into the country?
You know, those trillions?
What about those data centers?
We've got an update on that story for you today.
A couple updates, actually.
It'll lead us into a comment.
That Elon Musk made, which is a comment you've heard before.
Even Musk has made it before.
But for some reason today, this comment that Musk made is getting more attention than it normally does.
So we are going to look at that.
A couple other stories out of the administration.
You've got another exit.
Yes.
Another exit, ladies and gentlemen.
We'll be telling you about that.
We've got some Maha news, some Make America Healthy Again news.
You know, that's like, that's like if Clav has to hit a quick, you know, a quick hit of, what does he take?
PCP or something.
You know, that's like your local looks maxer.
He's got to take his PCP first.
He's got to, you know, before he goes live, your local looks maxer has to hit the crack pipe or whatever it is.
Methanfetamine.
That's my methamphetamine, guys, is firing off a spicy X post.
So pardon me.
I needed to, I needed to inject a little.
Meth into my veins here by firing off an ex post here.
I'm X maxing on a Friday.
So, okay.
So, yeah, guys, how about that?
Fun conversation today or what?
Are we having fun today in the political melodrama?
Are we having fun today in the political mudslinging?
I certainly are.
I certainly are.
And again, we are, the trend continues in the next episode of Groundhog Day.
Maybe some of you saw, I shot a, it's about a 10 minute video on X, 4X earlier today.
And I'm thinking in my head, this is my morning routine.
I don't know, maybe this is healthy.
I like it.
I sit at the gym, I do a set, and then I get on X. If you're watching me, if you see this at the gym, you probably think I'm some sort of a psychotic person.
You might be right.
I'm sitting there.
I do my leg extensions.
I fire off an ex post.
So I'm sitting there.
I'm reading all the incoming all morning.
You know, the Trump cheerleaders.
I'm watching them run out onto the field.
I'm watching them gyrate.
I'm watching the Trump cheerleaders.
They got their coordinated dance routine.
Their leg is kicking higher than it's ever kicked before.
And then, if you dare, if you aren't worshiping Trump hard enough today, if you aren't on the ground groveling to his graciousness, the Almighty, if you aren't humbly bowing to the great leader today, they're coming for you.
They're looking for you, by the way, they're seeking you.
They're running around making sure everybody is paying the proper praise.
Everybody is praising the president as they see fit.
And if you're not on your knees and if you're not bowing and you're not humbly recognizing his greatness, they're coming for you.
They're coming for you.
Oh, man.
So they were coming for me today.
That was fun.
So, anyway, so I'm going through this.
I think, well, is it worth it?
Can I actually sit here right now and try to concoct the mental gymnastics that we have witnessed in the last month, in the last year?
Is it possible for me to somehow compress this entire mental gymnastics routine that we've seen for a year?
Can I possibly turn that into one solo, beautiful dance today?
And I think we did.
I think we did.
The video got shared.
It got viewed quite a bit.
A lot of incoming attacks.
Beautiful, glorious, stunning, magic.
I've got some of them today.
We're going to cover some of them.
We're going to cover some of them today on the show.
But outside of my deep dive into sarcasm and irony here, it's almost like the biggest gaslighting of all of it today is the fact that we're pretending like we haven't been here two weeks ago, two weeks before that, two weeks.
I mean, you know, like, what are we doing here?
It's like somebody puts on the Macarena, and you're like, oh my gosh, I've never heard this song before.
And here's what is another phenomenon that's happening with this.
Because this is just like it's part of the cycle that we've been doing now with Trump in the right wing kind of infighting that's happening.
It's like every time we complete another cycle here, every time we complete another trip around the board, more people start looking at us like we're the same people.
Like more people join our side of things and they're like, okay, you're right.
I'm going to do this maybe at the start of the second hour.
I actually, I meant to do this at the top of the show, but I got lost in the sauce.
So we'll just start the next hour with this deal.
Let's get back to the news on the war front here.
Iran declares Strait of Hormuz open to shipping, but Trump says U.S. blockade still active.
Well, that doesn't give me much hope.
Unfortunately, I really want this deal to end, but that doesn't help very much.
Oil prices are down, not really affecting us quite yet.
Oil falls by 13% after Iran declares Strait of Hormuz open.
So the cost per barrel is down.
Let's hope.
Let's hope that impacts the price of the pump here.
But so far, the price of the pump here has done nothing but go up since this war.
We'd all like to see an end to that.
Now, here's some of the bigger news.
Let me pause and go back to kind of the general debate happening today.
There's a lot of assumptions that are being made.
There's a lot of assumptions being made as far as the results of this day's news.
There's a lot of assumptions being made about the general geopolitical order, the price of oil, all of this stuff.
And of course, all of the assumptions being made today by the Trump.
Cheerleaders are all positive.
Of course, it's all positive for Trump.
Nothing Trump does is ever bad.
America is greater than ever for them.
No, I don't think we're so sure about what the final outcome of all of this is going to be.
So people are leaping to conclusions.
This is one of those stories that, if there's anything that points us in the direction of what is the bigger outcome here, what is the larger geopolitical outcome here, aside from just the MAGA infighting and The debate over the war, the effects of it, whatever, here in the United States.
What is the actual bigger picture effect of all of this?
This is where you start to get an idea.
India imports millions of barrels of Iranian oil paid for in Yuan.
Indian refiners have paid for the oil in Yuan via ICICI Bank's Shanghai branch, bypassing U.S. linked financial channels.
So this is bad.
If more countries start buying oil in the yuan, that hurts us.
That has been one of the major fallouts from this regime change war in the Middle East, in Iran.
Let me do this, and then we'll get back into some of the weeds here on the debate over this war.
And I'll get into some of the replies to me and some of the commentary happening, and then there's also some breaking news.
Let me just pause everything right here.
Let's put our differences aside for a second.
And let's think about something that needs to be done.
Let's think about something we need to put our foot down in a very calm but authoritative way.
Let's all start thinking about something we can agree on on the American right, Christians, conservatives, people that want to act morally, people that want to go back to common sense, biology.
Let's put our differences aside for a second.
Let's be really stern about this.
And we may have to be, you know, it's going to be a very hard issue for us to really just put our foot down and say no, but we're going to have to do it.
And maybe, you know, maybe we come with a bit of a soft touch, but no tolerance.
We might be able to be a little soft on the touch, but intolerant.
To the idea.
What am I talking about?
You've probably seen this video going around.
This is a phenomenon that's been happening for a while, but this video is now maybe one of the biggest viral videos on this phenomenon.
It is a man with a baby.
He and his husband just adopted a baby boy.
And they ask, one of the dads is playing with the baby boy, who do you want?
Dada or Pop.
So I guess one is Dada, one is Pop.
And the baby keeps saying Mama.
The baby keeps saying Mama.
And the guy says, There is no Mama, and the baby cries.
It's really crazy here.
This thing has been seen tens of millions of times.
The video I've pulled up right now is 8.5 million alone on X. Here, I'll show you the video, and then it's time for us to say no.
This has to stop.
This is wrong.
This is morally repugnant.
I'm sorry.
I know that we have people supposedly on our side.
I know that there are Republican voters, Trump voters, Trump officials that are gay and adopt babies.
I don't know what we have left as far as a Christian or conservative coalition in this country.
I don't, I don't know.
MAGA coalition, right wing, Republican.
I don't know what we have left.
I don't know.
But I'm going to tell you this.
If, if whatever we have left of said coalition, whatever we have left as far as political capital meets, Mandate from the American right.
If we can't stop this ridiculous practice of gay men having a baby, if we can't stop this, and there have been obviously cases that you could put forth that say, see, this is why we can't do it.
Now we have to understand that there is robust debate.
In this country, we have to understand that, you know what?
Everybody gets to have their opinion and not everybody's going to agree with this.
So we have to be ready to find a consensus and reach an agreement here.
Two men should not be allowed to have a baby.
Two gay men should not be allowed to have a baby.
Now, if you want to talk about, because I can already hear the response, what about a situation where a kid is an orphan or a kid is in a bad situation in care and they could have a better life with, with, A gay couple.
Yeah, well, you know what?
Maybe we're open minded to that.
Maybe we can talk about where a situation like that could be better for a kid.
But let's just leave that over here and say whatever this new thing is of two gay men having a baby, it's done.
It's over.
We're not doing it anymore.
We're not going to take a baby out of a mother's hands and give it to a gay couple.
We're not going to do it.
And, you know, you almost come at it from like no government intervention mindset, libertarian mindset, however you want to look at it and say, hey, this isn't up to the government to understand here.
It's not the government's business to be involved in this.
Okay, but to what degree?
To what degree do you make that declaration?
When we have seen multiple cases where a gay couple will take a baby that they have and sexually abuse it.
This has happened multiple times.
We don't need to make a blanket statement about all people, but we do know that's happened.
So then, what declaration are you making to say, hey, the government can't be involved in this?
Well, then, what's stopping somebody from turning this into a human trafficking operation?
What's stopping somebody from turning this enterprise into a.
Adopt a toddler for personal reasons, type of thing.
So, I saw a pretty loud response to this video.
I saw a pretty loud response to this video on the right declaring it immoral and wrong and how it has to be stopped.
And I saw this and I said, well, then, okay, so let's do it.
Let's actually see this.
And I think it will actually go to show that most people on the right wing, they really don't care about anything, you know?
They really don't.
And it's like almost everything is a projection with them.
They'll say, You do everything for clicks.
You do everything for views.
You know, you're the grifter.
And it turns out they're the grifters.
Like they're the ones that don't care about policy or results.
Like they're the ones that don't really stand for anything.
And it's fully exposed now with Trump.
Hey, what's your policy?
Whatever Trump says.
Well, that's not a policy.
That's a cult.
So I'm saying, OK, if we can't take a stand on this, Then there is no such thing as a conservative coalition.
There's no such thing as a right wing coalition, Christian coalition, high moral, whatever.
If we can't take a stand on this issue, if we can't even take a true stand on trans kids, then there is no such thing.
There is no conservative coalition.
There is no movement of whether it's Christianity or any other moral basis politically.
None of it exists.
It does not exist.
If we can sit here, and I think that's part of the process too, by the way, to sit here and abuse you with this.
To sit here and show you, look, gay men can literally buy a baby, and there's nothing you can do about it.
We won.
We dominate you.
And they bounce the baby on the lap.
It's the same thing they do with the trans kids.
They send a six foot male with a hairy chest and beard, a pervert, they send a pedophile dressed in a princess outfit to your school to play with the kids.
And then there's nothing you can do about it.
And so you sit there as a so called conservative, and we can't even stop.
Open child abuse.
We can't even put an end to blatant child abuse that they now do in public and brag about it and make it part of the curriculum.
And now gay men just buy babies.
So, as we sit here and pretend like there's some sort of a right wing to have an infighting debate, as we sit here and talk about some political coalition, does it still exist?
Does it not?
Is Trump popular?
Is Trump not?
All this other stuff.
This is the real test.
And to me, it just proves again Trump, we can't even do Doge.
We can't even fix the budget.
I saw a story today about a highway in St. Louis, been under construction for six years.
And I said to myself, if that highway was the Strait of Hormuz, it'd get all the attention it needs.
And why is that?
Because the donors run everything, folks.
The donors run everything.
So, you, the big right wing coalition, the big anti woke coalition, the common sense coalition, the party of science and biology coalition, the party of save the kids coalition, the big coalition.
And we just got Trump in office.
Look at our mandate.
And we can't even stop men from buying babies.
We can't even stop a public baby buying operation for gay men.
We can't even put an end to trans children.
We can't even arrest the doctors that mutilated these kids.
What right wing movement is there?
There is no right wing.
There is no conservative movement.
There's whoever we vote for, they get an office, and the donors get everything, and you get nothing.
And they bounce kids on their laps.
They dance kids around, treat them like strippers.
They run around chopping them up, bragging about it.
You can't even get a damn highway fixed.
But don't worry, we're back in the Middle East.
Don't worry, you're going to get plenty of data centers.
Don't worry, you're going to get that AI government.
And whatever conservative movement is supposed to exist, you can't even stop gay men from buying a baby.
And they don't want little girls either.
It's funny how that works.
So, this is to me, nobody will see it this way.
Nobody will care.
But this is to me a big test.
This is to me a big test.
We all sat there.
We all watched it.
We've all seen it.
We've all read the stories of the gay men that buy babies and rape them.
We've seen it.
It's happened multiple times.
We've all seen these so called conservative voices, and they go out and they buy babies and they get praised by the right wing conservative coalition.
And then they'll turn around and they'll see this baby crying for mommy and they'll say, Oh, we got to do something about that.
So why don't we?
So why don't we?
Because you know why we don't?
Because you guys don't really care about anything.
And that's the point.
That's why we're back in the Middle East.
That's why Trump is screwing us over.
That's why they're building the AI surveillance centers.
That's why there'll be no deep state arrests.
That's why there'll be no doge cuts.
That's why the donor class gets everything at once, time and time again, because you guys don't care about.
Anything and you never did, and you're coming at us again because we do.
That's the big difference.
We actually care.
You guys don't.
So let's see.
Don't worry.
Nothing is going to happen.
And then in a month or two or three, there'll be another video.
There'll be another story where a gay couple adopts a baby or a gay couple buys a baby, and you know what it's going to do, and you know what the headlines are going to be.
And you know what the response from the right wing is going to be.
And then nothing will happen.
But see, that's because you don't have half a million dollars to pay Turning Point USA to get access to Trump.
So, Trump, this is their big, oh, Trump controls Israel as if we haven't been here before.
Does anybody?
I'm not even so sure what he's talking about.
This was the post from Trump earlier today.
The USA will get all nuclear dust created by our great B 2 bombers.
No money will exchange hands in any way, shape, or form.
The deal is in no way subject to Lebanon either, but the USA will separately work with Lebanon and deal with the Hezbollah situation in an appropriate manner.
Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer.
They are prohibited from doing so by the United States of America.
Enough is enough.
So, this is their big see, Israel doesn't control Trump.
It's the opposite, as if we haven't been here before.
As if Trump didn't step out in front of the media and say they don't know what the fuck they're doing the last time we were here.
Well, that wasn't the last time, actually.
That would have been like, what, five or six turns ago?
It's nice that Lebanon gets some recognition after what Israel is doing.
So Trump is admitting how bad it is there without being too harsh.
Thousands of Lebanese try to head home after Israel Lebanon truce.
But there are claims that right after Trump sent that message, Israel started bombing southern Lebanon again.
And then this is claimed by a news team that was in south Lebanon because they thought it was supposed to be a ceasefire, and then bombs start going off.
unidentified
That was a strike, one of two, really feels quite close.
We're just outside the hospital.
That felt very close and was obviously incoming.
And some of the emergency service workers, incredibly, are starting to get into ambulances, I think, to respond to that.
The claim is that that video is from just an hour after Trump or whatever it is.
Who knows the actual timing?
The claim is that that strike happened after the deal was made.
I don't know.
Either way, that's Israel bombing southern Lebanon.
If it was after the deal was made or not, there was another news story about Israeli blowing up some road or a motorcycle driver or something.
So who knows?
But the point is, we've been here before and Israel has violated every single ceasefire, every single time.
And it's funny because they always do the same thing.
Trump says, All right, Israel, stop bombing.
Israel immediately starts bombing.
Or no, I forgot a step.
Trump says, Israel, stop bombing.
And then the MAGA cheerleader says, See, this is proof.
Israel answers to Trump.
Trump's in control.
And then moments later, Israel bombs and totally ignores Trump's request to stop bombing, proving that Trump is not in control of Israel and perhaps, in fact, the opposite.
Now, you know, this is pretty heavy stuff for a Friday, I got to say.
Especially this next topic.
But I do think it's important to understand this.
I do think we have to be aware of this.
And I'm even trying to think about how to properly present this.
But we are dealing with bloodthirsty, psychotic, paranoid, schizophrenic lunatics that are these Trump cheerleaders now.
And I think you need to understand their psychology.
I think we've done a pretty good job.
Explaining their psychology.
But I think the more we can provide evidence for this, the better we can understand how serious this is.
So Laura Loomer may be the best example of this or the worst example, depending on how you want to phrase it.
But the point is, when you study Laura Loomer's psychology, you understand where a lot of these people are coming from.
Laura just wears it on her sleeve.
But when you see all of the Trump cult members or you see all of the radical Israel supporters, you need to understand that they all are downstream from the psychology of Laura Loomer.
And when you understand that, you realize how dangerous these people are.
That's why they're the equivalent of the woke left, just like the woke left will punish you, put you in jail, kill you, whatever.
So will the woke right.
Let's be very clear about this.
Let's be very clear and concise about this.
Let's leave no room for debate.
Just as the woke left would behave when it comes to censorship and lawfare and imprisonment and physical attacks, the woke right will do the same thing.
They come from the same psychological understanding of how politics works in their extremism.
So you have to understand the new radical right, the new Trump cult, it is the woke right.
They have the same psychology and they will end up with the same conclusions and results.
That we saw from the woke left.
These are seriously dangerous people.
The only difference is that they're not going to go after the radical left.
They're going to come after the centrist right.
They're going to come after the dissident right.
That's the only difference, which is ironic because we seem to be the ones under attack by everybody.
The establishment hates us, the radical left hates us, the radical right hates us.
Now Trump hates us, the mainstream media hates us.
Maybe we're on to something.
I don't know.
But no, the woke right doesn't go after the radical left.
The woke right doesn't go after the left, the corrupt establishment of the left.
No, they come for us.
The woke right comes after us.
Why do you think the woke left is celebrating it so much?
The woke left has been trying to get us for years.
The woke left has been trying to silence us for years, and they've never been able to do it.
And now they're on the sidelines.
And they've watched the woke right come onto the field and now they're trying to silence us and now they're trying to censor us and now they're trying to imprison us and now they're trying to kill us.
So that's why the woke left is so happy.
So here's loomer.
This is the psychology you need to understand.
The woke Reich is an Islamic movement.
Horseshoe theory remains undefeated.
So she's talking about, which, by the way, whatever this canary mission is, somebody made sure that as many people as possible saw this post.
Hatred of Jews is America's canary in the coal mine.
Rising on the left and the right, we expose anti Semites, extremists, endangering our freedoms and democracy.
So this group seemingly pops out of nowhere, and they're calling out all the anti Semites.
So, they call woke Reich.
So, what is woke Reich, according to Laura Loomer?
What is woke Reich, according to Mark Levin?
It's anybody that has a foreign policy disagreement.
It's, I can't beat you in a foreign policy debate.
I can't beat you on a debate of the merits of our current foreign policy or our relationship with Israel.
And so, therefore, I'm calling you Hitler.
So, the woke left couldn't defeat us in a debate.
They called us Hitler.
The woke right can't defeat us in a debate, and they call us Hitler.
But you have to understand, when she says it's an Islamic movement, you know what that means, right?
She wants you dead.
These people are not shy about what they want done to Muslims, folks.
These people are not shy about how they feel about Islamic movements.
So if they're now including you as part of the Islamic movement, that means they want you dead.
That means they want to kill you.
They want to see you shed blood and die.
This is not a debate.
We all see how they speak, we all see what they say, we all see what they do.
So now they're calling you an American.
Now they're calling you a Christian.
Now they're calling you a white person, a black American, Hispanic American, whoever you are, because you don't have an agreement on foreign policy in the Middle East.
They now consider you to be Islamic, which means you're a terrorist, which means you need to die.
So this is the beginning of the psychological conclusion that people like Laura Loomer are reaching that you have to be killed.
This is not a joke.
I don't say this lightly.
I warned about this from the woke left for years and was proven totally right.
And now I'm telling you this is happening with these people.
Here's a little more evidence Laura Loomer calls Joe Kent and Tucker Carlson enemy combatants.
What do you do to enemy combatants, ladies and gentlemen?
What do you do to enemy combatants?
Do you see what I'm saying?
Just like the woke left wanted you dead, so does the woke right.
And they're really not even hiding it.
They might think they're hiding it because they won't come out and say it, but I can decipher what they're saying.
I know where the psychology is coming from.
These people want you dead.
And that's why it's far more likely, or it's just as likely, that the woke right.
Had something to do with Charlie Kirk's death as the woke left.
It's the kind of thing they'll team up on.
You know, the woke left didn't really like Charlie Kirk because of the stance he took on issues like abortion and trans ideology.
The woke right didn't like Charlie Kirk for the stances he recently took as far as foreign policy and the Israeli lobby is concerned.
And it was funny because Charlie stood against the woke left for years and never.
Managed to get shot.
And then he stood against the woke right for a couple months.
And well, we know how that went.
Ooh, that's going to spike some cortisol levels.
That's going to really have some people freaking out right there, isn't it?
Oh, yeah.
You better believe it.
All right, let's go to the news stack here.
ICE acting director Todd Lyons will resign.
Homeland Security says another one is out.
Acting director Todd Lyons will leave the job May 31st.
DHS has said the announcement comes within hours of a public hearing on the record number of detainee deaths in ICE detention centers.
You know, I saw that story.
I mean, it's not good, but I don't think it's, you know, the left is misrepresenting it to make it out that there's some sort of intentional negative treatment that's leading to these deaths.
Deaths always happen in these detention centers.
It's very unfortunate.
It happens under every president.
There's an extreme amount of people in these detention centers right now, which is a bad thing.
And that's probably the increased reason for the death.
But I don't think there's really any there there.
And these people shouldn't even be in these detention centers, really.
They just need to be deported.
But there's the legal fight happening.
And I just look at this as the continuing trend that people are getting out, man.
They're just getting out.
People are racing to the exit of this administration, man.
And I think it's only going to get worse.
I don't think Trump is done firing people ahead of the midterms.
I would anticipate at least another firing or two before the midterms.
And then other people are just going to outright quit, that we're seeing too.
And to me, that's a sign of whatever we thought was going to happen with this administration.
It ain't happening.
It ain't happening, and it's not even going to happen.
So the FISA vote happened last night.
I think it ended up going down at about 2 a.m., is when they took the actual vote.
House GOP passes short term FISA deal amid Republican infighting.
We got some details on this.
It's all going to happen again because Congress votes to extend expiring law on warrantless surveillance, you know, illegal surveillance, illegal spying, they might say, for 10 days.
The Senate approved a stopgap measure that passed the House early Friday.
Libertarian leaning House Republicans had balked at long term extension.
So 10 days.
So they got 10 days to try to figure out FISA, is the conclusion they reach, and they all get to go home for the weekend and then go back to work Monday, try to figure this deal out.
And the Senate was on the same page.
The Senate extends surveillance powers until April 30th after chaotic votes in the House.
So they're going to wait and then they're going to take a couple extra days after the House debate.
So they just put a little pause.
They put a little pause.
Now, here is another issue that just went down.
This passed.
This passed, no problem.
Republicans made sure of it.
The House just voted 224 to 204.
To pass a three year extension of temporary protected status for 350,000 Haitians living in the USA.
So, the temporary protected status, that's a Democrat political item.
This is a way far left progressive liberals try to keep illegal aliens in the country as long as possible.
And, you know, then they kind of try to work the system to get them here permanently and vote Democrat.
So, that's a, the TPS, that is a Democrat agenda.
That is a Democrat item.
And the Republicans, Just made sure it got through.
10 House Republicans voted for this.
Now, let's point something out here.
It's very likely that all of them will end up getting an endorsement from Trump.
Kylie left the Republican Party and went independent because it's gone completely crazy.
Salazar voted to extend the TPS.
She's endorsed by Trump.
Same thing with Mike Lawler.
And I'm pretty sure Kerry and McCormick and Bacon, I think all of these people have been endorsed by Trump.
And they all just voted to extend the far left liberal illegal immigration temporary protected status for 350,000 Haitians.
Then I thought two years ago we were talking about how they were eating cats.
They're eating the cats.
They're eating the dog.
Keep them here.
We got too many cats and dogs, I guess.
So Trump endorses the Republicans that vote for this crap.
And attacks Joe Kent.
That's what you get.
Attacks Thomas Massey.
It's very nice.
You won't hear much about this.
Where's RFK Jr. on this?
Senate overturns boundary waters protections, a boon for a Chilean mining company.
The Senate on Thursday overturned a mining moratorium in Minnesota's Superior National Forest, a boon for a Chilean mining conglomerate, Antofagasta.
Beautiful.
Let's destroy the American wilderness.
Let's destroy Minnesota Lake Country for a Chilean mining company.
Who cares about Minnesota's lake country, national park culture?
Sell it to a Chilean mining company.
That's MAGA.
That's our corrupt Congress.
They were paid to do that.
You know that.
You know that.
They're going to build a Chilean mine company, it's going to go build a copper and nickel mine.
Environmentalists say it's going to completely destroy the lakes and forests.
In the national park, but they don't care.
They were paid to vote for it, so they're going to get it.
And where's our conservatives?
You know, this should be a conservative issue.
You know, conserving nature, conserving our national parks, our wildlife, this should be a conservative issue.
So again, where's our conservative movement here?
So we're going to let that happen.
It's just going to pass, no problem.
They're all going to get paid off.
Then there's the data centers.
Speaking of paid off, apparently they're not paid off and they're not going to get paid off.
Nearly half of U.S. data centers planned for 2026 canceled or delayed.
And it's expected to get worse.
So you got two issues here.
One, all of this money that Trump would talk about, I've had trillions, trillions of investments, trillions of investments, all of these deals.
Folks, the money never came.
It's like a lot of the stuff that Trump does now, he just makes it up.
Now, there might have been a handshake.
There was a discussion, I'm sure.
We all saw the CEOs and the billionaires coming in and out of the White House, we all saw it.
But it never happened.
And now that Trump has America back involved in the Middle East, and now that Trump's number one focus is whatever Israel's interests are in the Middle East, he's abandoned all of these other issues.
So, all the billions of dollars, all the trillions of dollars that these people are so called investing, they can't get Trump on the phone now.
They can't get any ground laid on any of these projects at all.
So, the money is not coming in.
It's just, it's not there.
And so it's just another thing where Trump just goes in front of a microphone and makes something up that doesn't exist.
And it sounds great, but it doesn't exist.
So, this is all this investment to build the AI and to build the data centers and all of this.
There's no money.
The money's not there.
A lot of these AI companies are now in the red and trying to figure out what to do, begging the federal government for money.
The money's not coming, folks.
And then, of course, you have the issue of the local community standing up and saying, We don't want the data centers, we don't want this deal.
So they got the issue.
And then they're screwing us in Texas.
It's unreal what they've done to us in Texas.
Unreal, folks.
Texas needs at least $174 billion to avoid a water crisis, state says.
And this is obviously because we have, I think Texas has the most data centers than any other state.
Now they're going to sit here and say, oh, this always happens.
And, you know, Texas has water shortages.
Well, that is true.
We do have some water shortages here.
And we, you know, we have dams on our lakes and we try to control the water.
Some of these lakes have water restrictions, even when you live on some of these lakes.
So, okay, there's some water issues in Texas.
Never like this.
They have to, what they have to do is they basically are going to have to redesign the entire grid here and find a way to get these data centers the energy and the water that they need because the infrastructure just doesn't exist.
And they're telling Texans that we have to pay for it.
They're saying, oh no, Texans.
The energy and water grid is not up to date.
We need $174 billion to get it up to date.
And what does up to date mean?
Powering and providing water to these data centers.
And you know, there are backroom deals going down, and the politicians are getting kickbacks.
And so the politicians are telling the data centers hey, we'll build the infrastructure, we'll make sure the water and everything can get to your data center.
So 20 years later, 2026, I don't even know if that experience ever happens, ever at any sporting event.
I don't know if that experience that we had before smartphones went mainstream, the experience of going to a concert, a ball game, a dance, anything, that experience before smartphones is gone.
It's never happening again.
It's gone.
We're not getting it back.
So now I look at that from the AI and I think, okay, well, where's AI going to go in 20 years?
Where is AI going to be in 2046?
I just watched what happened.
I got to witness the world before smartphones and the world after smartphones.
I've watched that 20 year evolution to where we're today.
It's kind of crazy.
It's kind of depressing.
I'm a victim of it, I'm a user of it.
And yet I sit here and I say, you know what?
It was kind of better before.
Well, okay, so think about AI.
So Musk believes that once AI is doing everything and robots are doing everything, Essentially, we can keep feeding money as we are into the monetary system, and it's just not going to change anything, and you're just not working anymore.
The whole thing is a little mind blowing to me.
And I don't think we're really asking the right questions.
We're looking at it, the questions we're asking are all after we've asserted the conclusion that this is the world we're going into.
There's nothing we can do.
We're going into the AI world and there's nothing we can do about it.
We're going into AI and robotics.
We can't turn around.
We've already made the decision.
And I'm saying, hold on a second.
Why aren't we starting there?
Why aren't we starting with that question and asking ourselves, is that what we want?
Or is that what we want in this sector or that sector versus maybe every sector?
And is anybody having that conversation?
Is anybody at the table saying, hey, maybe we shouldn't do this?
And the answer to that seems to be, A resounding no.
And I'm wondering if anybody really does, except the ones that are going to profit from it, except the ones that are going to get more rich, more powerful, more influential off of it.
Who wants this?
I mean, I sit here and almost get depressed watching a video from 20 years ago, knowing that world is gone.
It's gone.
And that's mostly because of this technology right here.
I've watched this technology in 20 years completely change the world.
And the world that I grew up in no longer exists.
Now, what is AI going to do?
If that's what this does in 20 years, can you imagine what AI is going to do in 20 years?
I don't even think we can.
I don't even think we can, folks.
But if it's the same phenomenon that we watch with smartphones, I'd say we're going to regret it wherever we end up.
I'd say we're going to regret it, folks.
But it doesn't look like anybody's interested in stopping it.
So we just go right in.
So universal basic income, says Elon Musk.
And the left will love that.
Yes, I'm sure, though.
We'll figure it out.
We'll be the ones that figure out how to never have to work and everyone be rich.
We'll be the ones that figure that one out.
Maybe.
I don't know.
We can all dream, I guess.
Protests in Syria.
Protests under the law and dignity slogan launched in Damascus.
Tensions erupt.
Oh, it turns out that Syrians don't like their government being overthrown by foreign interests and foreign proxy groups.
Gatorade to remove artificial colors from top flavors and brand refresh.
Well, this is nice if you drink Gatorade.
The PepsiCo beverage is repositioning itself beyond sports by focusing on everyday hydration.
What is this?
Like a paid sponsorship here?
Just tell us that they're getting rid of the bad.
Ingredients.
Removing artificial colors from three of its top Gatorade flavors.
I don't know about you guys.
This is part of Maha.
Big victory for Maha.
Good job.
So maybe now you can buy a Gatorade for your kid at a basketball game and it's not filled with toxic ingredients.
And actually, you know what?
Let me do a shameless plug here.
This was part of what led to me doing Crash Out, guys.
This is part of what led to me.
Making the crash out blend that is now, you know, I made it.
It's my baby, the official energy drink of the Owen Report.
I hate it when I would go and try to buy a supplement, whatever, something.
I wanted to try something new, wanted to switch it up with whatever supplement.
And I go on there and it's red dye, yellow dye.
It's all these freaking dyes.
It's all these added sugars.
It's all of this garbage.
I don't want it.
I see that stuff on a label, I'm out.
Not buying it.
So part of this is just trying to respond to the market.
But I will tell you this one.
So let me do a quick plug here.
We'll finish the news and I think we'll have time for calls and super chats.
By the way, you can try Crash Out at crashout.energy.
But I want to give you an example.
So as I've said, I used to, I would take my nootropics and drink my energy drink.
And I said, why wouldn't I just put all of this into one formula?
And that's what I did with Crash Out Energy.
And in the process of this, I learned some things.
Because basically, what I did, and someday I might tell the whole story, but basically, what I did was I virtually have tried everything on the market and I looked at the things I did like and what I liked about them.
And then I looked at some things I didn't like or what I didn't like about them.
And then I basically tried to filter it out and decide this is what I like about.
Everything, these are the ingredients I want, put it in there.
And so in this process, I learned a lot.
Here's an example one ingredient.
Usually, this is in almost all these different drink mixes.
This is in almost every single nootropic, Alpha GPC.
It's in almost everything.
So I'm like, okay, well, they put it in everything.
So, if you take a nootropic or even some of these energy formulas, you're probably going to find Alpha GPC.
So, I'm making my formula.
I'm looking into all the different ingredients.
I'm like, okay, what do I like flavor wise?
What do I like for mental focus and clarity and energy and everything else?
I'm going through this when I'm building the formula.
And I want to have something that's also healthy for you.
So, as I'm putting this together, I'm looking into Alpha GPC.
Look at if you have a nootropic at home or an energy drink at home.
See if you have alpha GPC in there.
And there's a lot of studies on some of these recent studies.
I was shocked.
I was shocked.
Long term or high dose use of alpha GPC is associated with a significantly increased risk of stroke.
According to a 10 year study, findings suggest a 46% higher risk of stroke in users compared to non users with doses.
Increasing this risk.
And then it gets into some of the other studies here.
There were multiple studies.
The point is, there is some pretty strong evidence here that continued and sustained alpha GPC use increases your risk of stroke.
So if you're somebody that's drinking an energy drink every day or one of these nootropics every day, like I was, I see that and I say, well, this is not good.
I don't want that.
I don't want that in what I drink every day.
I don't want that in my nootropic every day.
So we got rid of it.
It's not in there.
I didn't have to do a red dye or a blue dye to get the beautiful color of Crash Out.
That's pomegranate.
That's actual pomegranate.
That's how we get that color.
So I'm really proud of it, guys, honestly.
I don't even know.
I just think it's great.
I'm so happy because I drink it every day.
I think you're going to love it.
Crashout.energy.
And you're going to find that I'd be stunned if you find the closest thing you can find to this on the market.
Funny enough, it's a friend of mine that makes it, actually.
It's funny enough.
The closest thing you can find to this on a market is going for $69.99.
And then you can usually get like 10 bucks or so off if you do a bundle or you do a subscription or whatever.
So, this is the stuff I'm being told from our different sources and our different like, you know, fulfillment centers, like, you need to do this, you need to do that.
And I told, and DMT is really proud of this.
And he stepped up because I was listening.
I was open minded.
I was like, all right, what do we need to do?
And DMT stepped up and he said, no, Owen, we're selling this, we're selling it, we're undercutting the market.
We're selling this cheaper than anybody else.
We're going to make this affordable for the audience.
I don't care about this different stuff that they're saying.
And I said, All right, you got it.
We're keeping it there.
So that's the plan.
That's the plan, ladies and gentlemen.
Crashout.energy.
So, if you drink energy drinks every day, if you drink something for mental focus, clarity, and energy every day, like I do, this is your new go to Crashout Energy.
I'm going to make a request of you guys today, if you'll humor me.
So, the NFL, they just announced some of these teams announced new jerseys, and most of them you can barely even notice the difference.
And then some of them are totally flopping.
The Commanders are kind of one of them.
But there's a controversy now.
So, the Washington Commanders, formerly the Washington Redskins, but that's racist, the Association on American Indian Affairs called the Commanders logo update disappointing and inappropriate.
Adding, we are not your mascot.
So I'm assuming that they find a spear to be offensive because it's just a W with a spear going through it.
This is very strange.
Native American group disappointed in Commander's new logo.
It's a spear.
Am I missing something?
Are Native American Indians the only people in the history of the world that ever used a spear?
Am I missing something?
I didn't know that that group exclusively and only.
They own the spear.
Nobody else ever used a spear anywhere else in the history of the world except Native Americans, huh?
That the spear disappointed you?
They already got rid of the Redskins, which is a travesty, and it's not enough.
Now they can't even have a spear.
And so people point out, of course, that the Kansas City Chiefs logo is quite literally an arrowhead.
But I guess we're not looking for consistency when we're complaining.
Here's another one.
Here's another one that grinds my gears.
Here's something that grinds my gears.
A little Friday slop.
A little Friday slop for you.
So, the NHL regular season comes to a close last night, watching the St. Louis Blues final game.
And, yeah, no, I'm like, yeah, sprinkle a little on the Blues tonight.
Get a little extra, get a little extra out of watching a hockey game tonight.
Sprinkle a little on the Blues.
So, I believe it was second period last night.
Score was two to one, or yeah, two to one.
The Blues are losing two to one.
And the Mammoth, the Utah Mammoth score a third goal and they go up three to one.
And at this point, it's like, okay, the season's over.
The Blues could easily just cash it in.
They're playing in Utah.
They could easily cash it in and say, ah, season over, whatever.
This game's lost down two.
Let's just ride this one out.
And the head coach of the Blues, Montgomery, challenges the goal and wins the challenge.
So they take it off the board.
The Blues are down two to one.
He wins the challenge.
And in that moment, Because I remember, I'm sure there's some Blues fans watching.
You guys probably remember.
In that moment, we all felt the same thing.
It was like, okay, that's it.
They're about to give up.
And then when Montgomery challenged it, it was like that was sending a message to the team that was like, no, we came here to win.
It's like, we're playing to win this fucking game.
Get back on that ice.
We're not done here.
And he challenged and they overturned the goal.
In that moment, I thought it was so great.
I loved it so much.
The competitive spirit there, I loved it so much.
I sprinkled a little extra.
I sprinkled a little extra on the Blues.
And since they were down at that time, you got a nice little bonus there.
Nice little bonus.
So, anyway, the Blues end up coming back to win the game.
And now I've got Blues all up and down my social media feed because of the algorithm.
And I'm watching Blues fans complain about winning.
Here's an example The Blues went from the second best odds to win the lottery at the Olympic break to finishing 17, 5 and 3 and picking 11th.
Blues fans are complaining that the team won.
Blues fans are complaining that they won the game last night and dropped even lower in the draft.
This is crazy.
This is insane.
It was like the best thing I'd ever seen.
I was so happy.
I was like, this is great.
I tune into the Blues.
I don't get to see the Blues often.
I live in Austin.
They happen to have a national game.
So they were on ESPN last night.
So I was like, oh, Blues final game.
I'll watch it on national TV.
They win the game.
This is great.
I don't get to watch much Blues hockey.
They won the game.
Okay, season over.
And then it's all these Blues fans.
They should have lost.
They should have thrown it.
Why did they?
I'm like, What type of a losing attitude?
What type of a loser attitude is that?
And it really shows you how out of touch they are with the vast majority of professional athletes that still care about the competitive nature of the game and they want to go win.
And I see the same thing this attitude of like a debate who won the trade, the Detroit Lions or the Los Angeles Rams?
It's like, well, how many Super Bowls did the Lions get?
You know, the LADWP has a combined water and power budget of $11 billion.
But where is all that money going?
As of 2023, over 100 LADWP employees earned an annual compensation of over $500,000.
Each 27 LADWP employees earned more than $600,000 per year, and four top level LADWP employees.
or more than $700,000 a year.
But somehow these highly paid individuals couldn't find the funds to repair a $140,000 tear in the Santa Ynez Reservoir or get the Palisades Reservoir in Chautauqua online despite being paid billions upon billions of dollars.
The top level of employees at the LADWP failed to do their basic job.
At this point, we shouldn't be surprised.
It's just like Newsom and all his friends and the nonprofits and the NGOs.
They blow all the budget and the salaries.
And there's nothing left to accomplish the actual task at hand, like having water for the town that didn't need to burn down.
If Pratt gets in, he's going to expose so much corruption.
It's going to be unreal.
He did a Rogan show lately and he got into it in not a one minute rant for X, but he was actually able to kind of sit down and explain a lot of it to Joe.
It's, I mean, we all know how bad it is in California.
I mean, we all know how bad it is, but it's like he actually can produce the receipts on it.
I'm cheering for Spencer Pratt.
I'm cheering for you, Los Angeles.
Cheering for you guys that you can get Pratt in there.
And let's see.
Let's see how that one goes.
I think it'd be a nice change of pace there.
Speaking of California, apparently Newsom is trying to stop the 4th of July fireworks show this year.
California Coastal Commission versus the 4th of July.
The California Coastal Commission is notorious for making life difficult along the otherwise spectacular Pacific Ocean, but its recent decision to block a fireworks display for the 4th of July in Long Beach on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence, no less, is a new low.
Well, they try to do a similar thing.
In 2020 during COVID, and it didn't work.
It led to the biggest firework display that we've ever seen, maybe in California.
So we'll see if it happens again.
So the Democrats in New York and the Democrats in California are trying to stop Americans from celebrating the 4th of July on the 250th anniversary.
That's pretty telling.
They really just can't help themselves.
They hate fun.
They hate America.
They hate you.
And if there's fun and you celebrating America happening at an event, they have to stop it, they have to shut it down.
Cannot let that happen, you dirty, stinking Americans.
The reason why it says for livestock is because in Florida, they have to basically do an end around to have the right or the legal ability to drink raw milk.
See, for some reason, the government believes that you don't have bodily autonomy.
For some reason, the government thinks that you can't self govern, you can't make decisions for yourself.
And so they have determined that you are not allowed to consume raw milk, they've tried to make it illegal.
So, what they do in Florida is they declare that it's only for cows, it's only for livestock, it's not for human consumption.
Therefore, if you buy something and consume it, well, then you've just decided to do that on your own.
So, it's basically an end around.
Now, on that note, it's really a beautiful thing that we can do in this country.
And you notice that nobody's going to crack down on that butcher in Florida, nobody's going to shut that butcher down because they're still serving raw milk.
So that's good.
That's how America should work.
This is how we get around our corrupt government.
And a similar thing could have happened with the no tax on tips, but it's all a lie.
Here's what I'm talking about the no tax on tips is virtually not even real.
And the policy itself was essentially already in practice when it comes to tax brackets and claims.
It just works differently if you're claiming tips or your 1099 or W 2.
All of these things work differently.
But I believe the number was 27,000.
I forget the number.
The no tax on tips has a cap.
It's not a no tax on tips.
If you make $90,000 and they're all tips, you're paying taxes.
So it's a lie.
They'll let you say up to 27,000, whatever the number is, they'll let you say up to this is intaxable tips income.
Because now, why do they do that?
Because then that would allow you and I to make our own decision without the government shakedown, without our government mafia shaking us down in every transaction.
And you and I could say, hey, I'm only paying you in tips.
Beautiful.
Guess what?
No tax on tips.
I only get paid in tips.
I'm not paying taxes anymore.
The government said, not so fast.
Not so fast.
We're going to put an end to that potential and we're going to cap it at $25,000.
So no tax on tips is a lie.
If you made $25,000 or less and you're $10.99 or something, you're probably not going to pay taxes on that anyway.
So it's all just another big lie.
I wanted, if we had really, if we actually had no tax on tips, then everybody would work for tips and nobody would pay taxes.
See how that works?
That's how we get around this stuff.
But no, that's just another lie.
The no tax on tips is just another lie, unfortunately.
But the other funny thing about that is, She obviously was kind of shocked.
It's like, oh, raw milk?
Okay.
And drinks it anyway and loves it and doesn't have any negative health effects.
Hey, make your own decisions about what you want to drink.
I'm a big proponent of raw milk.
I like raw milk.
I've never had any negative health problems since I've started drinking it.
So make your own decisions.
You want to drink pasteurized?
You want to drink raw?
Whatever.
That should be up to us.
Not our government.
All right, let's do a conspiracy slop.
All right, conspiracy slop, conspiracy slop warning.
And then I'll maybe get into my conspiracy theory.
I'm sure you've seen.
So we do know, here's where it gets real.
We do know that cloning is real.
Now, how far it's gone, but we know they try it, we know they've done it.
We saw it in the Epstein files.
So cloning is happening, 100% cloning is happening.
How much, how successfully?
These are the questions.
Cloning is definitely happening.
But some believe that cloning has already basically reached its potential.
And that not only are people being cloned all the time, but that most of the celebrities are actually clones, either clones of some past celebrity or historic individual or clones of themselves, even.
I don't know.
I joke around, say I'm a clone all the time.
But, um, Here's a little conspiracy slot for you because you do wonder how do all of these people look exactly alike, whether it's historical figures or celebrities these days?
A lot of people do the historical figure one.
Here's one today.
Here's one.
The new conspiracy theory is that these people are all clones because they look exactly alike.
They're going to ding me for that music, so I'm turning it off.
So here you go.
I've never even heard of half of these people, but you have to admit they look like they are related.
I mean, they look exactly the same.
That is an undeniable thing that you're seeing on the screen here.
So we could do this.
This goes on.
It goes on and on and on.
You guys can see it.
So you might think it's nothing, you might think it's something, but there's no denying that these individuals look.
Exactly alike.
And it happens.
It happens.
So it might not have anything to do with cloning.
So let's say it doesn't.
You know what?
Here's what I think.
Here's what I think.
It kind of reminds me of The Sims.
Did you ever play The Sims?
It's like you could, in The Sims, you could make your own sim and you could choose your eyes, your nose, your mouth, but there was always a finite amount of eyes and ears and nose and everything else.
I wonder if the human code is the same.
It's like maybe the human code is the same.
There's only so many types of noses that can be on us.
There's only so many types of eyes, noses, mouth, all of this stuff.
You might be able to change the size, dimensions, whatever.
But it's like there's only a finite amount of options of noses that you're going to have.
And eventually, when there's billions of us, somebody's going to line up in a very similar eyes, nose, mouth, ears situation.
So that would be if there's a biological explanation, that would be it.
Or maybe, maybe we're all clones.
Maybe I'm a clone.
Maybe I'm actually a Brad Pitt clone.
Who else is there?
There's a couple of us running around.
We were all the same batch.
It was all one batch, and they kind of just let us roam free and just to see what would happen.
So I don't know.
But that's your conspiracy slop for the day.
That's your conspiracy slop, guys.
All right.
And in the movie Sixth Day, the movie Sixth Day, did you guys see that one?
You want a spoiler?
Spoiler for Sixth Day, spoiler for Sixth Day.
And if you've watched it, this is going to be a fun one.
Spoiler for Sixth Day.
Did you know?
And I had to watch it a couple of times to know for sure.
This is how you know it's a great movie.
Did you know that throughout that movie, they're actually following the clone?
And back on the human clones, which you were talking about earlier, I seriously believe that the Clintons are clones because when you clone an old person, it's screwed.
They're defective, right?
The Clintons are clones.
And I started to wonder is Trump, has he been murdered and cloned?
Because he doesn't seem like the Trump I voted for.
And I kind of saw it in the beginning where Venezuela was first.
Obviously, the idea of Greenland is wanting that for the Nazi resources all before Iran.
In kind of like thinking that this was going to, that they were going to close the straight and try to make us the source of basically the source of oil for the world, forcing the world to come to us.
Have you been seeing that like two or three minute segment that's been going around?
Yeah, that's been a narrative for a couple months now.
So I'm not sure if there's an exact video that you're talking about, if I've seen it or not.
I follow some of Tim Poole's coverage of it, not too much, because he seems to kind of just play the devil's advocate with most things now.
So I'm not sure.
I'm not even sure what Tim actually thinks or believes.
He kind of just seems to just play wild cards all the time.
So I'm not sure how much stake I put into that.
But I've seen the theory that you're talking about.
Yes.
So I would say this.
So, considering that, my response to that is so then who is the beneficiary, right?
Okay, who is the beneficiary?
Well, oh, they're going to be buying up American oil.
Well, they could be doing that now.
We could be forcing countries to do that now, and we could be doing well on that now.
Why isn't that happening now?
Why wouldn't countries be coming to us for oil now if that was the best option?
And then, does that even really change oil prices at the end of the day?
Does that really change anything?
I'm not so sure.
So, I don't know.
I guess if that's the argument that they're going to make, time will tell.
My argument would be if that's the strategy, which you laid some of it out here, I think there's a fair presentation to say, look, this was the strategy.
Okay.
So then my response is that strategy benefits the donor class.
This is a strategy to benefit the donor class, not us.
This is a strategy specifically to benefit Israel's interest in the Middle East.
Not our interests in the West, not our allies' interests in the West, and it's not what we voted for.
So if people do want to say, look at the strategy here, look, Trump's a genius, I'd say, okay, fine.
I'll give you that point.
But who did it benefit?
It didn't benefit us.
It hasn't benefited us yet.
You claim it's going to benefit us.
You keep claiming that it's not happened yet.
But who's driving it?
Who's driving this?
Whose idea, whose burning passion has been driving this for decades?
And it's Israel in the Middle East.
And they just play this game of name calling.
Oh, you're an anti Semite.
Oh, you're the woke Reich.
It's like, hey, I'm having a foreign policy discussion here.
We're trying to have a real political discussion here.
And I'm just not allowed to point out the obvious elephant in the room without you freaking out and going into a cortisol spike crash out because you don't like what I said.
So if there is a strategy here, it's the strategy to benefit the Israeli interests.
We'll see if anything benefits America.
I haven't seen any of that yet.
So we'll see.
I hope that happens.
I haven't seen it happening.
So If you want to say it's the strategy, fine, okay.
It's not our strategy.
It's not a strategy to benefit us, or at least it hasn't been yet.
Well, I would definitely agree with you on that end.
And unless it is $4 a gallon, it ain't bad if you're going to lose the reserve currency.
I'm not justifying what went on.
I do think, look, you've been ahead of this for about a year in the sense that Israel knows that this is their last chance to go for broke and get as much real estate as they possibly can because they're not, you know, you were saying 2028, they're an election cycle away from it's over.
Yeah.
They're not going to have the backing.
And I think that it, you know, I really don't think that there's a political solution to it.
I think it really comes down to he who prints the money, and it just is what it is.
It's this banking class that is, it's the Federal Reserve, it's the central banks around the world that at the end of the day, the politicians don't want to be responsible for a Great Depression in the country.
And they're basically told that if you don't do what we say, we know what's going on.
We've been here for 100 years.
If you don't do what we say, you're going to have a Great Depression in your country.
And again, I'm not justifying what they do, but I can understand that type of pressure being put on somebody.
And I just don't think the American people are ready to hear the fact that, hey, dude, we're done.
We're broke.
And as long as we're going to play empire, because our Constitution is not for an empire, it's for a country solely focused on itself.
And with this yin and yang every two or four years, you can't compete with Russia.
You can't compete with China or India that just make decisions on a dime.
And I see the rest of the world looking at us like we got to break with America in the sense that one, we're schizophrenic.
One party is for oil, the other party is against it.
One party is in support of Israel, the other party is not.
And it's like you have no long term investment.
Like the Middle East.
The Middle East, we've already shown we can't protect our allies over there.
Why would they want to keep in business with us?
And if that's the case, if you take over, if you've got Venezuela and you get Greenland, and by default, you get Canada in that type of situation, and we get the blank.
Because if not, if we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to get like the Germany World War I treatment where we're going to be forced to basically pay reparations for.
Because if we're unsuccessful and we keep these policies up, the rest of the world is going to be seeking some type of reparation for what we've done to it.
They already are, but we still like to think, or maybe we do still have the geopolitical upper hand.
I appreciate the call.
We're going to go to the super chats now.
I'll take one more call quickly, one more call before we go to the super chats.
I will say one thing in response I think there are a lot of other factors that kind of play into this at a decision level, but the one issue that remains obvious and consistent is the money in politics.
I mean, that's what it is.
It's money in politics, it's influence.
And when you talk about the American empire, that's not our empire.
That's not your empire.
That's not my empire.
We still got to work for a living.
We still got to fight and scrape and claw for our little piece of the pie here.
The American empire is the U.S. government and the giant companies that are the donor class.
That's the empire.
So you could argue that we benefit from the American empire.
The problem is they've built the empire, and now the empire is being sold out like it's a mercenary group.
And now the American empire and our blood and treasure is being used.
For all of these other interests, foreign and special interests, and not us.
And so we're not benefiting.
So, if they want to do this empire building on the United States of America political system, then they need to fund it themselves.
And so you can cut our taxes and find a way to fund it yourselves.
And the billionaire class and the people that spend all the money in D.C., you guys can fund it yourselves.
You've got all the money, you own all the politicians.
So, just do it yourselves.
Just stop taxing us.
Just leave us alone and we'll leave you alone.
How about that?
You want to go do your empire building?
You want to turn DC into a mercenary slush fund for your operations?
Yes, maybe it's more important we remind everybody of the TikTok indictments are coming.
Bull crap.
So I'm saying we've been here before.
Like, I don't, you know, fool me once.
Okay.
Fool me twice.
No, not happening.
The straight is open with extra steps.
Nobody knows.
Trump just says stuff.
Who knows if it's true?
You'd think after a 12 day war, they'd wait a couple months to celebrate.
No, they can't help themselves.
It's their driving force.
And actually, I was having a conversation with somebody about this.
I don't know if he wants me to mention his name, but, you know, he's got a big following.
He gets out there, he gets into the political debates.
And he was commenting too.
He was like, dude, these MAGA people have lost their minds.
And we reached a similar conclusion that they just don't have a life outside of politics.
They just do not have anything outside of their political bubble.
And it makes sense if you think about it.
Why are they so quick to do this like dopamine hit?
Why are they so quick to do this victory lap immediately after Trump says something as if it's like God's truth, as if, oh, yeah, now everything is great?
It's like, that's not how things work.
It's because they're in this weird political silo.
They're in this weird political bubble where their entire existence is basically like determined on what is happening politically.
They don't have anything outside of it.
They don't have any hobbies.
There's no other thing that exists in their life that brings them joy or anger or anything.
They don't feel connected to anything.
They don't feel accomplished in anything.
So it's like as soon as they can get a dopamine hit from a political news story and then turn around and scream and shout and point at you and say, I told you so, they do it immediately because that's like their drug, that's like their addiction, that's their life.
Like, why do you wear a hat?
Like, oh, it's like, dude, I was just working out for two hours and shot this video.
What are you doing?
So they just can't relate.
There's nothing outside of politics that keeps them real.
South Padre is like the best kept secret of Austin, Texas, rather.
South Padre is like the best kept secret of Austin.
Honestly, it's like it's kind of like a secret American treasure, South Padre Island.
Nobody really, not too many people know about it.
Nice beach.
People don't think about beaches when they think about Texas.
Who thinks beaches in Texas?
Nobody really.
South Padre is a very nice beach.
Very cool little area of Texas that feels like you're, you know, it feels like you're coastal.
So they're just going to destroy that too, huh?
I mean, at least they put the star base on the far side of the island so it doesn't interrupt anything, but it'll add commerce and some cool stuff when rockets are taking off.
I can't.
It's just the data centers now.
This, these people don't care about us.
They don't care about America.
They just care about money.
Doritos did it, but they still got seed oil.
They removed the food dyes, but not the seed oils.
Well, the seed oils, people are still catching up on that.
We'll get there.
Elon SpaceX relocated all the turtles that lived in llamas on Boca Chica Beach using 400K Texas water launch.
The devil went down to BTX and ruining it.
Are you connecting that to the last one?
They do all kinds of turtle saving stuff down there.
In fact, once a year they do like a big event and the turtles hatch.
You can watch them, or they send the rescue turtles back out to the ocean.
You can watch that.
Well, the Gulf, rather, the Gulf of America.
Sounds like you're appreciating what Elon did.
I think it's good.
They kept that out of the way of everything.
And I think they've done a good job, SpaceX down there.
But I don't like this idea of an oil refinery on the beach, but we'll see where it goes.
This is Sparta.
Owen Jones-Schroyer, just change them to the Washington tiny hats.
You could put a little on the helmet.
You do a little.
Oh, positive nitrogen balance.
Don't worry, people.
The South Side of Chicago fireworks will still proceed as scheduled.
Now, are you talking about fireworks or firearms?
1994 sports fanatic.
Ever see Kill Tony or any other show at Mothership?
I did see Kill Tony once.
Yes, I went to the Mothership once to see Kill Tony.
Very good time.
Hung out with him at the after party afterwards.
Very cool guy.
Really like Tony.
Really nice guy.
DMT unhinged.
Not quite.
Not quite.
You'll know when he is.
He's not quite.
Raw milk bad.
Fluoride good.
That's right.
That's right.
DZ.
How do they justify putting poison in the food?
Is Bill Gates behind this?
Florida State has a physical Indian Ramosphere in 50 yard line, but a redskin decal bad.
Indian Ramosphere.
What are we talking about?
I know.
Did they put it up in Texas?
I thought that was in Texas.
The largest Hindu god, whatever, Hindi, the largest statue is they put one up in Texas.
They're restocking weapons because all they have left is nukes and they need the illusion of peace during the midterms.
Also, have you watched Empire of the Sun yet?
I don't believe so.
No, I'm not going to do a movie recommendation.
Instead, I'll do a show recommendation, though.
So, The Boys, the Amazon show, The Boys, which is a great show, they're in their final season.
I think it's season five.
They've done two episodes, I believe.
I've seen the first two episodes.
If you haven't watched The Boys, I think it's a great show.
And they did something, the writers, the creators of The Boys, the whole team over there, they did something that was so brilliant, I think.
And it takes a second to kind of get used to it in the transitional phase of the show, but I think it was brilliant what they did.
The one thing that these shows, these shows that are like kind of, you know, dramatic, serious with like really heavy plot lines, they always seem to just, it's like, it's so hard to go past three seasons.
It's like season number three is like the make or break.
And usually it breaks.
Usually it's just you can't do it.
You've gone so far off the original plot and new characters and everything.
Most people lose interest and these things die.
So, what the boys did, I thought was brilliant.
They did the first three seasons, all great.
And then in the fourth season, they just went off the rails entirely.
And so, you kind of watch the fourth season in the beginning and you're like, what the hell is this?
This is not the boys.
This is not what I want.
And it turns out they just overwhelmed their script.
They overwhelmed their plot with all these modern day buzzwords and twists and tweaks, which they don't normally do.
And it felt like really politically aimed.
But then you realize they're just trolling.
They basically just said in season four, like, you know what?
We got nowhere else to do.
We got nowhere else to go with this show.
Let's just be ridiculous.
Let's just go all the way.
Let's just make this person AOC.
Let's make this person Trump.
Let's make these people this and just shove it in the face and just whatever.
If we don't make another season, who cares?
It's a good run.
So, they did season four like that.
It managed to end up being successful.
So, then they did season five and they're like, okay, now we can just, it's time to end this.
But they still do the like overemphasizing of the modern day political references in the show.
I think it's funny.
I think it's a good job.
So, I'm recommending the boys.
I don't know when they drop new episodes.
They'll probably do eight or 10 episodes this season.
I don't know.
But they did a good job.
Five seasons of, I think, good TV there.
The boys.
My effing clone has bills to pay.
Get on it.
No, that's my clone paying the bills.
I'm actually a South Padre.
The Trump is a clone.
Is clone's actions, orders legal?
What's worse, Trump clone signing a document or Biden auto pen?
Patriot.
Was the six day your movie recommendation or a cloning reverence?
We recommended six day a couple of weeks back, so it has been one.
How about Jeremiah Johnson with Robert Redford?
Loosely based on liver eating Johnson.
I don't think I've seen that one.
I think I've heard of it.
Redford has a big beard, looks, you know, scraggly, I think.
I don't think I've seen that one.
DMT needs to become unhinged more often.
That was, I mean, he broke through the line.
That was an all out blitz.
And my left tackle didn't have it.
Restrate of Hormuz.
It's a pump and dump scheme.
Well, I think we'll have a better idea next Monday or Tuesday.
I'm selling most of my stuff.
I'm thinking we just got the pump, so I'm dumping.
I'm dumping big.
Why wouldn't the Israeli lobbyists buy the Dems off?