The Scott Adams School - 04/06/26 HOW TO CREATE A HOAX & The Home Team Talks News & Current Events
Scott Adams School hosts dissect the Biden administration's alleged border manipulation tactics and analyze Trump's aggressive military threats against Iran, including power plant bombings. They debate the deportation of Soleimani's relatives, question NATO allies' loyalty, and examine Trump's endorsement of Steve Hilton for California governor amidst a crowded Democratic field. The episode concludes by addressing Artemis II moon mission conspiracy theories regarding lost contact, ultimately framing current events through a lens of strategic realignment and skepticism toward established narratives. [Automatically generated summary]
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Simultaneous Sip and Guest Intro00:03:28
We know what you really mean, Eric.
You know what I mean.
Yeah, we really do know.
Just get me in the mood.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Good Monday morning.
You guys look so ready.
Look at that.
Steven's here right on time.
Who is first?
Rick.
Steven, of course.
Bookish.
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Lotus.
Hi, you guys.
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All right, you guys.
Or is it SGB the Missing now?
SGB the Missing.
The.
Permanently suspended, allegedly.
Allegedly.
I'm hoping it's not permanent, but we'll see.
I know.
Hoping it's permanent.
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I'm already having a Monday.
I should have switched to decaf today.
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Marcella brings the legal views.
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Hello.
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Thank you, Bob Lawler.
Thank you, thank you.
That just set me off in the right mood.
And as we say, like, you know, who's the guest we want to know?
We are going to have a guest in a minute.
It's going to be Joel Pollock.
Okay, we're just waiting for Joel to pop in.
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Welcome, everyone.
I am Erica.
You are at the Scott Adams School on Monday, April 6, 2026, in the year of our Lord, the day after Easter.
Okay.
So, are you guys ready for a fresh new week?
I'm going to need you to help me get through this week.
I don't know why I feel like I'm dragging a little.
Peeling Back the Onion of Thought00:08:16
I'm still wondering if we're going to have bridge and power plant day.
I don't know what to wear for bridge day or power plant day.
Like, should one be an entree and one be a dessert?
Like, should we make it?
I don't know.
What do you think, Marcella?
It doesn't sound like it's going to happen.
The last I heard was there's a supposed proposal for 45 day ceasefire.
Who knows?
I don't.
We are very much in the two movies on one screen.
And I even posted two movies on one screenshot because I had two posts right one on top of the other in my feed where one of them said, Reuters is reporting that we've got a deal on the table and it might go forward.
And then right underneath that, it said like Iran rejects all ceasefire things and they're not willing to open the strait and they're not going to do any of that.
So I don't know what the truth is.
It could be both.
It could be that there are some people that are refusing and that other people are negotiating.
But the 45 day thing bothers me as well because it's like we said we were going to be gone in two or three weeks and that's longer than that.
If we had a ceasefire for 45 days, that would assume we would be there that long, right?
Are we glitching?
I'm not glitching.
I'm not.
It's more everything looks all right.
You guys are glitched for me, but that's okay.
That's okay.
You're glitching for me, but hmm.
They're like, all right.
It's pretty close to okay on your end for me, though.
So it looks fine.
Yeah.
I think we can move forward.
Okay.
So while we wait for Joel, I do want to talk about this when he gets here.
So can we do one clip that I saw that I found was amazing?
Absolutely.
Okay.
So we're going to wait for Joel, you guys, because, you know, war talk.
And hopefully this clip's going to work okay.
So this, just the quick synopsis, is a very woke liberal woman coming out of.
Out of it and like seeing the light.
And we don't see enough of this.
So I just saw it this morning, real quick.
But I want to show you because it gave me some hope and I found it exciting.
Okay, ready?
Indulge me.
And then Joel will be here and we're off and running.
I resisted for a long time this notion that Democrats were deliberately inviting masses of foreigners into the country because they wanted to grow little Democrats and create a one party state.
I've started to come around to that view.
Before Trump effectively closed the southern border, I imagined a lot of it was incompetence and fecklessness.
Now, there may be an element of that, but I think it was more intentional.
The Biden administration opened that border on purpose and shipped people all over the country, wherever they wanted to go.
They put illegal migrants with no ID onto commercial airplanes.
With regular passengers who all have to have, you know, an impeccable national ID.
I mean, it's just, it's, it, there is design behind it.
And I, I don't have any other theory aside from this pathological passion for minorities and a weird notion that people who are non white are superior.
I, I don't see any other reason.
For inviting so many people in, especially because, you know, on the one hand, the left talks about, oh, we need these people economically.
You know, we have this aging age structure and, you know, social security is imperiled and Medicare costs too much.
And we need young people to fill out the workforce.
But then, you know, they support family reunification, which means these people can bring in their parents, right?
I mean, so much for improving the age structure.
I was like, yeah, I don't know who the woman is.
She was on the trigonometry podcast.
But when I saw it today, I was like, oh, it's like so weird to see someone kind of like peel back this onion of thought and be like, wait a minute, is this right?
What do you guys think about that?
Owen, what do you think?
Well, I don't know who she is either.
So that would be my first question.
Is this really a liberal or is this someone else?
I don't know exactly who that person is.
It was portrayed that way on X and maybe it is.
I don't know.
But I certainly applaud people who are waking up.
To that sort of thing and have that kind of open mind to really look at the facts and think about it in that depth.
I think most people don't do that.
I think most people are just taking whatever they're fed from the media as the headline and they don't go any deeper than that.
And so, whatever the Biden administration says they believe, or whatever the Trump administration says they believe, depending on their political affiliation, and they never question those things and say, wait a second, does that really make sense?
I mean, I think some people are doing that on the right now with the Iran war, certainly, because there are a lot of people that are saying, hey, wait a second, you said no more wars, and what are we doing now?
But I do think it's good to do that.
I think it's good to question those things and to say, wait a second, this is what you promised me, or this is what you said was happening, and that's not really what's happening.
And I think that happens all the time in government.
I mean, I do think that Trump is more, tries to stick closer to his campaign promises than any prior president in my lifetime.
I agree.
But he's certainly not perfect in that regard.
He hasn't been.
And we, I think, all expected that we'd be cutting back on government, we'd be draining the swamp, we'd be doing all those things.
And I think in many ways, we're kind of disappointed that.
There's still a lot of swamp and there's still, you know, trillion dollar budgets being proposed and all those things.
But I think certainly in the case of Biden, you know, it does look deliberate.
I think everything she said was correct.
I think it was all a system that was designed to manipulate the political system.
And as Scott would often say, you know, you can tell, I mean, a system is, you know, the design of the system is what it does.
Right.
And so I think in many ways you can just look at what it does and say, well, if they didn't like what it's doing, then they wouldn't do it, they would stop it.
And they're not, she's a novelist.
Okay, so this woman was on Gutfeld a couple weeks ago.
I couldn't watch it, I saw her.
Um, so she's a novelist apparently and has written books with like a conservative theme, is what they're saying.
Um, but I just, I just loved it.
I was just like, yeah, like piece it all together.
Marcella, you say what?
I think her name is from the chat Lionel Shriver.
However, you pronounce that.
You know, I mean, it's kind of obvious what they're trying to do with the system.
I don't even know if they're trying to hide it.
Maybe you know, I think uh, the last time I heard one of the democrats actually admit to it, in regards to well, this is going to cut into how many democrats, how many immigrants could become democrats if you're uh, you know, basically deporting all of them, right?
So, I it is what it is.
Um, the sign is destiny, as as Owen said, you know, Scott would always say that, but um, yeah, I just wish actual liberals actually realized it, but maybe they do.
Maybe they realize it and they like it and they want it.
So, yeah, I don't know.
I think the census is really important that we count American citizens only because Beverly, you put it well.
You said, Where'd Beverly go?
She said they brought those illegals en masse to bump the population in certain areas to be counted in the next census to increase Dem seats in the House.
Iran Rescue and Census Claims00:14:37
Bank on it.
Yeah.
I mean, it seems obvious, you know.
No one's going to exactly admit it, but it seems obvious.
Okay, so I just thought that was interesting.
And if anyone sees anything like that, where I'm like obsessed with, I think my kink is watching people change their opinion about something that they took a long time forming and a long time holding on to it, and then they kind of come out of it.
So if you guys ever come across stuff like that, please send it to me.
I love that.
Maybe we can feature it here because I want more people to understand that that is a super.
Power and a talent to be able to do and not to be afraid and not to think like what will people say?
It's okay to change your mind.
I change mine constantly.
So while we're waiting for Joel, one other clip I want to play to just kind of get a quick update from Trey Yanks on Fox News this morning.
It's just a quick, I think like a minute clip or something, but let's get an update from Trey and then we're going to go right into talking about Iran, the three of us until Joel gets here.
Okay, let's do it.
The president was very clear when we spoke.
Nothing is off limits if the Iranians are unwilling to make a good faith deal.
He's given them another olive branch, an opportunity at de escalation, an off ramp in this conflict, and they're getting hammered each and every day.
On the battlefield, when we look at what's happened just over the past several weeks, the United States has systematically targeted the production lines of the Iranian regime.
Iran can no longer produce the amount of ballistic missiles or drones that they could in the past.
And even if the war were to end at this moment, the Iranian regime has already set back decades.
And as the president told me, they're not even negotiating about their nuclear program anymore.
Because most of it was decimated during Operation Midnight Hammer last summer.
There have been new strikes against what's left of the program.
There is still this issue of enriched uranium inside of Iran.
But broadly speaking, the Iranians only have small bits of their military left that they can even negotiate.
And that is why they're putting pressure on the Strait of Hormuz.
And the president talked about this as well how they can use these small boats and they can lay a single sea mine and it can affect billions of dollars worth of international shipping.
But this is what the Iranian regime does.
They try to hold the international.
And the global economy hostage.
And that's exactly what they are doing right now.
And that's exactly, according to the president, why he is threatening to target the country's energy infrastructure if the Iranians do not make a deal.
All right.
Marcella, I'm going to come to you first on this one.
So they have very little left to negotiate with.
I would imagine that's true.
But yes, one little mine can cause a lot of problems for multiple countries in the straight.
So, what are we thinking?
I know there was a press conference this morning with Caroline Levitt, but let's kick off Iran.
So, well, where do you want to start?
So, there is the down F 15 on Friday.
Then they recovered the pilot.
Then you have the rescue of the second WSO, which is the weapon system officer.
In the plane.
The F 15 was down by Iranian forces.
They don't know if it was a missile or someone on the ground that got it, hit it, and was able to force it down.
Thankfully, they ejected and they were alive.
The first, the pilot was rescued right away.
However, the rescue of the pilot was also very iffy because the actual helicopter that rescued the pilot got hit also by Iranian forces.
They themselves had to be rescued by a second helicopter.
And so there were wounded, but not seriously.
And so then came, but I mean, the lesson is, I guess, and then obviously the rescue of the WSO, the weapons systems officer.
That was announced on Saturday to Sunday, as we know Easter was coming.
And it seemed very like it mimicked Easter.
Good Friday is when Jesus was finally laid to rest, and we thought, okay, he's dead or whatever.
The same thing happened with this WS officer, not to compare him to Jesus.
But that is the idea, it kind of mimicked that.
And so a lot of us thought that he was gone, you know, that we would just find his remains, or Iran alleged that they had him.
And there was a lot of misinformation, which we have now learned was also intentionally created by the US.
The CIA intentionally created lots of misinformation on the ground through the Iranians.
Giving us the idea that there is Iranian CIA double agents, I guess.
And so they ended up trying to say, you know, that they have rescued him or that the Iranians had him.
So it was just very lots of misinformation.
But anyway, so then the rescue happens.
And what I wanted to highlight is the difference in the administration.
So Trump.
Administration obviously not to minimize rescuing the WSO officer and the WSO actually surviving all of this for one 24 hours or more.
He survived with no food, no anything.
When he ejected, he said, God is good.
He's a true Christian believer.
And so I'm glad and I'm very happy that he survived.
He hid in a mountain.
Mountain area, so that nobody could find him.
But I think I want to emphasize the difference between this administration and the Obama administration when it happened that there were attacks in Libya on September 11 of that year.
Yeah, the 13 hours that they went through, and we lost people there.
They actually were abandoned in Libya without anybody bringing in forces.
So, I will never forget that.
You know, that's our theory.
Leave no man behind.
You know, do you not leave your Americans behind?
And they were left to be brutally, disgustingly murdered.
And there was no attempt to get them.
So, yeah, I agree, Marcella.
I was thinking about that a lot.
And, you know, all that went into this rescue and how many other American military people put their lives in danger to do this.
And, like, that's just the Best of America.
I love that.
Like, I was just like waving my flags and just like, hell yeah, like that's our military.
That's America.
That's what it's about.
You don't leave these guys behind.
I mean, thank God that if we were doing this, it was under this administration with this military, with this Pentagon and all their action.
I'm so glad about that.
Regardless of what you think of President Trump and his political stance on anything, you realize that he does believe in our soldiers in America and that he will do whatever he needs to do to rescue you.
And he has done so for people that have, like us, that have gone to another country and become hostages or not part of the military, and yet he's able to rescue them.
Able to negotiate them leaving without having to pay money in exchange for them.
So I think that's, I mean, it was amazing.
Obviously, it's not just President Trump, but the people that he puts in command to lead the troops.
So President Trump in his truth post said, We got him, my fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States military pulled off one of the most daring search and rescue operations in US history.
For one of our incredible crew member officers.
We also happen to be a highly respected Colonel, and who I'm thrilled to let you know is now safe and sound.
I mean, it's a miracle that we got for Easter.
You know, he is risen, and so is this officer.
So, and so is America, because I think this, and Owen can chime in, or Erica, you want to chime in.
If this officer would, or Colonel, as we now know, Would have been taken by Iranian forces and taken hostage and tortured and so on and so forth.
I think it would have changed the entire landscape of this war, even though it's only one American soldier, but it would have completely changed the dynamics, the leverage, everything.
Of course.
And Owen, what I want you, thanks, Marcel.
And what I want you to touch on too, it's like people were all up in arms about this post Trump made and stupid Hakeem Jeffries was like, this is his Easter post.
I'm like, that's not his Easter post.
That wasn't for you.
That was for Iran.
There's no days off in a war.
A lot of that was just, you know, baiting and, you know, like, Allah.
Yeah, Allah.
It had nothing to do with any American.
That was all like sarcasm, hyperbole, threats wrapped up in, like, oh shit, I don't know what's going to happen.
What the hell is bridge day and power plant day?
Like, it was like a whole gift wrapped in one.
If I can add something in regards to that post.
So later on, Trump did another post, which was after the rescue.
He was, he used the F word, open this F in straight, you crazy bastards.
But my belief is that when he did that, he was actually angry because I think he realized how money, how Iranian, the IRGC, and the Iranian forces hate America because of the fact that he possibly had images of.
Of Iranians looking for the soldier.
And I think he realized how dangerous, you know, he, it became palpable to him.
And I think that's why he, he didn't, you know, he did it in, through those, that filter.
That's my belief.
Yeah.
I mind reading him.
Go ahead.
In terms of the rescue, I would just say it was an incredible story.
Maybe there'll be a movie made about it at some point because it reads like a movie plot.
Know the officer apparently went over 100 miles or something to hide, um, and they had to go like over 100 miles to get him and back.
And, um, you know, so he hid in some crevice in a ridgeline.
And, um, you know, they had the transponder that told them who he was and told them where he was, but they used the CIA to kind of misdirect people to a different area.
I think they probably had drones or other, you know, aircraft circling around some other area to try and make the Iranians think it was somewhere else to put cover in.
And so it was, it.
Definitely is a good demonstration of the power of the US military and also our commitment to go after our soldiers and to do whatever we need to to not leave a man behind.
So I think all that's great.
I think the post from Trump, you know, I think it is kind of like just another example of people not understanding the situation or not understanding Trump.
Because to me, it is a persuasion post, it was meant to try and get negotiations going.
Because it was this threat of saying, you've got less than 48 hours, and if you don't do this, here's what's going to happen.
And time's running out, kind of a TikTok sort of warning that, hey, you better do something right now.
Otherwise, this is what's going to happen.
And he used that strong language.
But his opposition were saying, oh, we need to impeach him.
He's a mad king, all these other stupid things.
And that's clearly not true.
But I think the.
The intent of it might have been to give the enemy that impression that this guy might be crazy enough to knock out our power plants and to really blast us back to the stone ages.
And they might have to start thinking about what would that look like and what would people think of them as the leadership that didn't make that stop.
And so I think he has to say, everything's on the table and I'm not going to back down.
And you've already seen that I don't bluff.
And so he has to take that position.
And I think we've seen that he's certainly willing to say, I'll extend it another.
A couple of days or another 10 days, whatever it is.
So, I certainly think we've seen the pattern of behavior where he's not really a mad king, where he's just going to do crazy stuff.
But he may come across that way to the enemy.
And that's what you want in war.
You want the enemy to think you're willing to do whatever you need to and whatever you want to, and you're not going to back down and to say the only option is to surrender or to negotiate or to make some kind of deal.
And I, you know, it's just kind of baffling to me that people don't see that.
I'm sure a lot of it is just they don't want to see it.
And they're just using it for political purposes.
But to me, it was a clear military message.
It was meant to communicate a message to Iran and to try and get them to negotiate and to come to some kind of deal.
NATO Strategy and Global Commerce00:16:10
Yeah.
I mean, I think if you want to, you know, American Debunk wrote like a really long Scott esque take on Trump's tweet that people were losing their hair about.
So if you want to read that, you guys, you know, he's on X.
He also has a Substack.
You know, so if you want to put the Scott spin on it, maybe that's a part of what Scott might say.
You know, it was well thought out.
We loved it.
But also, It, you know, war is hell.
Trump's the master negotiator.
He might say, I'll give you six days or a week and then bomb the shit out of you in four days.
Like, you're not supposed to really just lay out a plan for your massive enemies of exactly what's going to happen.
But yeah, I'm sure he is pissed too.
Like, his numbers are plummeting.
He knows the midterms are coming.
He has a lot of pressure on him from a lot of people.
But you're also so many lives are depending on this.
You know, war with our military and the innocent civilians, and you're dealing with a very unhinged country in Iran.
So I'm sure you get a little heated.
And, you know, and he's a doer.
He's a doer.
So he's probably like, look, mother effers, like, I'm not kidding.
You know, like, this is going down.
Yeah, daddy's home.
I ain't sleepy Joe Biden and I'm not Obama sending you money.
Like, I love America and I want this shit wrapped up.
Before I'm out of here.
So remember that too, you guys.
Like everyone's like, oh, his poll numbers, this and that.
He's out of here soon.
Like, okay.
You know what the left is saying?
Which is crazy.
They're citing the 25th Amendment, saying that he's not fit to be president and that they should impeach him, which is kind of, which should lead us to have Republicans vote in the midterms because that's what we're going to see.
We're going to see impeachment again.
Yeah.
They wanted to impeach him for the 25th amendment when he drank his water using two hands on the cup, so it doesn't matter what he does, everything is that.
And I have to mind read again, but MS Now and CNN, a bit, and um, you know, just your average leftist, the Atlantic, they all wanted this WS officer in my mind not to be rescued, they wanted to lose, they hate that we're winning.
I mean, if that doesn't tell you where they stand on America, I don't know what else can.
I mean, like in everybody in the chat on your platforms.
So give us a yes if you agree that like we should just be freaking done with NATO, or a no if you think NATO's just great.
But yes.
Okay, that reminds you of a New York Times story.
Okay, well, let's get them going.
But you could tell a story.
So, yes, if you're done with NATO, no, if you want to keep NATO.
Go ahead.
Okay, go ahead, Marcella.
So it, you know, you think, I mean, you think New York Times is very, you know, they say liberal.
But you, they come from Harvard, they come from, you know, the Ivy League schools, most of those writers.
But yet they posted a, somebody cut off, like somebody was reading the New York Times and they took a picture of it on X and it said the North American Treaty, the NATO, North American, Something treaty and it doesn't stand for North America at all.
So, uh, because it says something, it was playing on words.
How does the how does NATO exist without America?
And so, North America treaty, something, something without America is not a treaty.
I just found it interesting.
Well, so what's your take on that, Owen?
Because I just want to read something when we have a second, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, certainly, the you know, that was a big mistake for the New York Times, and it just speaks to the lack of talent and the lack of editorial capability that they have.
Um, maybe it's AI.
Yeah, I don't know.
But, you know, in terms of NATO, I am on the side of it, I think it's outlived its purpose.
I think, you know, to me, it's high time that Europe steps up to protect themselves and takes really at least their share of that.
And I know Trump has done a lot to at least get more countries to contribute more financially to NATO.
But, troops wise, military wise, I don't really see much of anything.
And I'm not sure how well they're going to be able to do on their own.
But, It's at least made them realize how dependent they are on America for their defense.
And, you know, I think they are looking to see, you know, what can they do?
And I think they're planning to start spending a lot more on defense going forward.
So they're already moving in that direction.
But, you know, I personally think it is a very one sided thing.
It's kind of like we protect everybody else, they don't even help when we ask them to.
And so, why would we stay in a treaty where the other side's not keeping their end of the bargain?
Yep.
All right.
So, you guys, it's way too long for me to read, but I reposted on my timeline something that Ari Fleischer wrote.
And let me just try to summarize it.
He said, My message here clearly struck a nerve.
A few friends from.
Oh, so, all right.
Let me tell you what his message was.
This is good.
This is all we need to know.
He said, When this is over, the Western part of NATO will never be the same.
Spain, England, France and Italy have sold us out as they too often have a history of doing.
Eastern European nations are the heart of NATO.
They spend money on defense, know how to fight, and love the U.S. France particularly deserves fault and blame.
From supporting China and Russia at the UN to denying Americans overflight rights, they're doing what they've always done showing weakness while cutting deals with terrorists.
The reason the U.S. has a Marine Corps and Navy is unlike France, we refuse to pay a ransom.
To the Barbary pirates France is always happy to cut a deal.
We have unintended consequences as nations show their true colors.
NATO will never be the same, and Western European weakness and acquiescence is the cause.
And man, were people mad at him, but he is 100% right.
And I love that.
And I think what I see Trump doing is this sort of Monroe Doctrine idea that we should be focusing on our part of the world and let them focus on their part of the world.
And that I think we are moving in that direction, partly because of demographic shifts, that we don't have enough people, we don't have enough resources, we don't have enough ability to say we can be the world police like we have been for many decades, really since World War II.
And so I think the way things are moving, we're going to have.
To scale back, we're going to have to say what's the real priority because we can't do everything anymore.
So we're going to have to say, look, Europe, you got to step up and protect yourself.
And, you know, we may help out here and there.
And I really don't think NATO's going away, but I think to me, I'd like it to.
It might change.
But I think, you know, Hegseth has talked about this recently that he said we're going to be focusing mostly around North America, you know, from the equator on up.
And we'll help where we can south of that.
But it's mostly going to be that region of the world, like South America, North America.
And so that's going to be our focus.
And I think most America First people would very much agree with that idea that we should be defending ourselves.
We shouldn't be defending Europe.
That's not our priority.
And, you know, any people that don't like what we're doing with Israel might say we shouldn't be defending Israel.
So I think we are moving in that direction.
Certainly, you can argue that we're doing all this for Israel at this point.
But I think, you know, it does seem like very few other countries are coming to our aid when we need it.
And even when it is in their best interest to do so, because as Trump has pointed out, we don't need this oil.
This is all your oil.
Like, we've got plenty of oil on our side of the world.
And so, you know, go get your own oil.
Like, do it.
You know, it's this is all for you, so why don't you step up and do something?
Um, yeah, but I also wanted to say, too, Owen, that um, because I'm looking at some of the comments, you know, just this point here like, this is this is I feel the same exact way Ari also said in a response to this because this is pertaining to what you're saying, and and I think you guys might agree the world is changing, out of this war will come a new group of younger nations that understand real power and the importance of strength.
The UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Eastern Europe will emerge stronger than ever.
Western Europe will continue to fall behind.
As for Trump, you don't have to like him.
He often says things none of his predecessors would say.
But don't underestimate the fact that the U.S. taxpayers are fed up with nations that don't pull their weight and then force our pilots to take risks and longer flights so we can rid the world from the menace that is Iran.
Today's Western European leaders would rather mollify Iran and pay them ransom trade.
Than support the US.
Things are different today.
We all know it.
The UK, France, Spain, and Italy, despite its prime minister, have earned the consequences that will unfold.
They could have and should have supported the US, not as NATO alliance, but as individual free nations.
All we wanted was overflight rights and full access to airfields.
They've made their choices.
Soon they'll see the results.
And I feel that way too.
And it's like, NATO aside, why wouldn't you want to help the US?
You know, so like you want all of our money and our support.
And when I mean, the countries you mentioned in Western Europe, they don't act like they're our allies.
No, they don't act like they're our friends.
And, you know, we still treat them like they're allies.
I think Trump less so more recently.
But, you know, it's not even just military, it's also with all the censorship and going after our tech companies and, you know, criticizing our politics and trying to interfere with our politics.
I know there were a lot of people from the UK over here trying to keep Trump from getting elected.
Like it's just left and right, they're interfering with our things from their perspective.
They're not respecting our sovereignty.
They're not respecting that we are a much stronger partner in all these things.
And they're just kind of expecting to get special treatment just because they have in the past.
And I think that's been a big mistake.
Administrations is that they just kind of let the world just, you know, use us however they want.
Yes.
And we do everything for them, but they don't do anything for us.
And they decide when they want to step in and only when they feel like it.
Yeah, I just think, like, you know, I'm not looking at it from a news standpoint.
I think most of us look at it from a pragmatic kind of just, what are we doing?
You know, what are we doing?
Like, so because of traditions or, you know, EJ, I know this upsets you.
I get it.
But, you know, it's like the world's changing and you have to change with it.
You know, if those nations don't want to be supportive to America, you got to rethink your strategy.
So I like that.
Trump formed the new coalition that I can never remember, peace.
What's it called?
Board of Peace.
Board of Peace.
I can never remember the name.
Like, I'm down with the Board of Peace.
Like, I'm all in for that because NATO basically sucks.
And they're all like, you know, and didn't we just hear?
I shouldn't blurt this out because I don't know the details, but that Obama had some kind of like backroom channel to NATO to thwart everything Trump was doing.
I just read about this.
So I'm just putting that out there like a big matzo ball right now.
But, um, Yeah.
So it's all BS.
It's another club.
You know, it's just like another club of grifters and oh my God, where's my opinion sign?
It's another club of grifters and people on the take and money laundering and blah, blah, blah.
Okay.
So let's get the board a piece where it seems like the focus of commerce is now in these other countries.
And I think we need to do that.
And I saw somebody write also that, you know, Scott would say Russia.
Russia's really like not our enemy.
I mean, they're just another nation that loves their country.
Yeah, they got their wacky ways of doing stuff, but it's, you know, like where do you want to be not aligned, but who do you want to be working with in these situations?
I don't know.
It was Sodak, hilarious callback to my meatballs.
It's a giant matzo ball.
If you know, you know.
Okay, so let's wrap up Iran.
What else do you guys want to finish up about that?
The Pope on Sunday in his Easter.
The Pope on Sunday in his Easter Mass asked for peace.
I am so shocked.
Yeah.
That was my thing.
I don't know.
I mean, I think, you know, certainly Trump is trying to leave everything on the table.
He's trying to have every tool in the toolbox to get this to an end.
And I think that's his overall objective to just finish this in a good way.
My guess is it won't be another 45 days, but we'll have to see what happens with the negotiations and whether or not they're real or not.
What kind of deal is struck and whether or not they even have control over their own country?
Because I think right now they might be pretty splintered.
I know one of the recent attacks said they took out 20 more of their leadership.
So it's kind of like just peeling back layers until you get somebody that's willing to make a deal.
But I think that to me is the strategy to just say, okay, if we can't deal with those people, let's take them out and find a new group to work with.
And so it is kind of uncertain as to where it goes from here because Trump certainly has.
Said, you know, we're a day away from dropping bombs on your power plants.
But, you know, if I had to guess, it'll get delayed again, or they'll say they made some deal and it'll get delayed for some other reason.
But, you know, maybe not.
We'll see.
Because at some point, Trump has to pull the trigger and say, okay, you didn't do it.
And I got to show you that I mean business.
And so he may start dropping bombs on power plants.
We'll see.
All right.
And why a rock star says best pope ever.
Okay.
Scott.
And that's who the best pope was.
Apparently, we did get rid of the, or we apprehended the relatives of Soleimani who were living in the United States for some reason.
A couple of relatives of General Soleimani, his grandniece, who was 25, and I think her mother, and her mother, I think, was somehow promoting Iran.
Within the countries within the United States.
So they had their green cards revoked and they're no longer being able to fly around with their private jets and do whatever else they were doing here.
So it looks like they were living it up in the United States, which I don't understand why they were able to do that.
But I don't know how they got green cards, but you know, it's a problem.
And so, yeah.
Yeah.
You can buy your green card for a million or so dollars.
So maybe they.
That.
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But I know they're.
Some kind of vetting, though.
They're not going to do it for a relative of a terrorist.
But.
Well, I mean, I. Again, you should not be punished for who your relatives are.
And they are still being processed.
They have not yet been.
You know, they're still in.
There's supposed to be hearings regarding their deportation to back to Iran.
And I think that they would be killed during Iran the way that they wear miniskirts and.
Wear their dresses and all that.
So they're not very, how would you say, orthodox or very traditional Islam wearing women.
So I don't know.
Their allegations were made that they sided with the killing of Americans in Iran.
But there's freedom of speech, all sorts of things.
I, you know what, though, Marcel, I love you for having these takes.
Okay.
Yes.
Like, because I just don't have that kind of nature in me for terrorist family members coming to America.
But, like, go to another country, but don't come to the country that your family screams death to.
There's a million other places they could go.
Don't come here.
That's how I feel.
Like, I'm sure they'll go to France or somewhere else.
Go to France.
Go to France.
Amazing.
I just, you know, for me, I, I agree with you.
They probably would be killed if they went back there.
But don't come here.
There's just no reason to come to the country.
Don't come here and start siding with the IGRC and saying death to America and promoting that sort of agenda.
I mean, that's the big thing.
Well, that's the allegations that were made.
It's still not proven in court.
Well, I mean, we'll see.
But I think.
We're all full.
We're all full.
We're full of terrorism already.
It's enough.
Again, I always think people are innocent or proven guilty.
I love you.
Corporations are different.
But I mean, that's the same thing.
I do believe in the system that we have.
So, regardless of where that system leads to in regards to somebody I don't like, I still believe the system needs to remain.
Okay.
So, Marcella, you're the person in 2023 that gets to decide do they get their green cards or not?
And you know that they're relatively close to the girls.
Yeah, that's when they got the green cards under Biden.
So, do you give them their green cards?
It all depends on how they came in.
I would not know how they came in under what program.
They came in under a student visa in 2015.
Yeah, but then how do you get from a student visa to a permanent green card?
Maybe it was through marriage.
Biden said, here's your green card.
Again, I would need to have more information and I could look into it further, but that's what they would need to look into how do they get permanent residence?
I feel very strongly about it, you guys, because I was a permanent resident.
Then I became a US citizen.
For a country to kick you out, there has to be a reason for it.
And the reason to say, oh, I support this and verbally say it and not actually do it, you have freedom of speech under the First Amendment.
And you need to be able to be picky as a country.
So I'm assuming your family wasn't some terrorist bombing, death to America cult.
So I feel differently about you and most people.
But Iran, there's a lot of countries in between Iran and America, and a lot that they aren't screaming death.
To this country, go to that country.
That's all I'm saying.
I think that there's exceptions to everything.
It shouldn't be so black and white.
I don't know if it's that black and white.
I mean, I can't imagine.
I just can't imagine Americans, citizens, being okay with that.
You know, of all the people that you want to accept and give green cards to, it's not them.
There's a million other people that didn't grow up hating our country.
So I don't know.
I feel bad.
There's a lot of Americans that hate America.
You know, it's not like we're citizens.
Well, that's the thing.
Like when you're a permanent resident, you're almost a citizen.
So there are certain rights that you have.
Again, the right to freedom of speech you have.
And so I foresee there being issues in regards to them being deported.
Now, the Secretary of State has certain powers to be able to decide what that is.
And, you know, it's basically Marco deciding that.
But, you know, I still believe in the system that we have and to have certain rules of law.
You know, obviously, I'm a lawyer.
So, you know, it'll all pan out if they really are truly terrorist or terrorist adjacent, then they will be deported for the right reasons.
All right.
So, Marcella will look into it more.
And, you know, Marcella has.
You won't become their attorney.
Marcella has a unique perspective one, because she's an immigrant, a legal immigrant, and also because she's an attorney.
And third, because she lives in California.
I always give you the California.
So, Marcella will look into it more.
And it's so okay, you guys, to disagree with Marcella's opinion.
And, you know, maybe because I am a natural born citizen, you know, and I am like fully American, I see it different.
Who in this crowd has not had relatives they disagree with?
I mean, like sometimes we come from parents that are very liberal, not that I did, but I'm saying like, You know, you're born into where you're born.
You don't decide, you know.
And so, I mean, I don't know just necessarily because my dad was this person, then I become that person, you know, not necessarily because then they would have stayed behind in Iran and being like served by all these servants and so on and so forth.
So, I'm just like everybody out there, whoever has relatives or who has parents that they don't get along with or an uncle, an aunt, or whatever.
It's that's kind of like imagine yourself being judged by those people, yeah.
But I gotta say, okay, so like if I'm having a house party and it's like, hey, come on in, and then it's like, hey, listen, like my whole family just destroyed this other.
Are you inviting your Dara's family?
I mean, I'm gonna be like, you know what, there's other house parties you can go to, and you're not coming in this one, so like that's just how I feel about my country.
It's like, listen, go to another country, you just don't have to come here.
I agree, don't go back to Iran, no bueno for you, but you can't come here.
That's all I'm saying.
I'm not saying they should go back to Iran.
They just shouldn't come here.
Oh, my lordy.
Oh, and so Trump endorsed on that note, Trump endorsed Steve Hilton for California governor because some people are saying that me being from California is being held against me.
I always did that to Scott and I always said it to Marcella, you guys, for years and years.
Scott and Marcella, in my opinion, would have these like takes on things that I felt like the rest of the country didn't.
And I'm like, is this like a California?
California thing, like you guys are on another planet.
So I always have to inject the California because.
Well, California is a state, and Trump endorsed Steve Hilton in California.
It is also a disability that I learned right now that I am California disabled.
And that Trump at 1 30 in the morning, he never sleeps.
I want his energy.
I mean, he.
His birthday's gonna come up soon.
He's in his almost 80s, you know, and he, I just want his energy.
Like, that's one thing.
But he, he was, you know, I could picture him with his phone, like, you know, not that he probably does it with his phone, but I could just see him, like, okay, and now I'm gonna endorse him.
I'm gonna endorse him.
So he endorsed Steve Hilton, who probably some of you know was a Fox News contributor.
He had a contributor and he had a show on Fox News in the weekends.
And basically, he said that, you know, because California is done for, people are fleeing, crime is increasing, taxes are the highest of any state in the country.
This is from his truth post.
And so he said that he has known and respected Steve Hilton, who is running for governor of California for many years.
He's truly a fine man, one who has watched at this once great state has gone to hell.
Gavin.
Gavin.
Gavin Newscom, Newscom.
He's new scum, not old scum, okay?
And the Democrats have done an absolutely horrendous job.
People are fleeing, crime is increasing.
I already read that.
Steve can turn it around before it's too late.
And as president, I will help him to do so with federal help, okay?
And a great governor like Steve Hilton, California can be better than ever before.
Steve Hilton has my complete and total endorsement.
And as some of you know, He'll make a great governor and will never let you down.
But as some of you, President Donald J. Trump, as some of you know, Steve Hilton is also an immigrant.
He's from England originally, I think.
Yeah.
Or he has the UK.
Yeah.
UK.
And so he has a different perspective than your American born governor.
So he, he, Chose California.
He chose America, you know, and so he wants to better California.
Now, I was telling Erica earlier in the green room, as we would call it, that this is not good for Steve Hilton to be endorsed by Trump in California, that this is probably going to lead to possibly him not being elected.
Not that he, although he is number one right now in the polls, as well as Chad Bianco, who I know, he is also a Republican candidate for governor.
And he is also number two.
So, how it would work, and Joel has talked about it, too bad that Joel couldn't be here right now, but he talked about how there could be two Republicans running for the candidacy for governor.
Yeah, I think the way the process works is whoever's the top two get onto the final ballot.
And then it's Based on that top two.
So, I think part of the issue on the Democrat side is there's something like six different Democrats running.
So they're splitting their vote between all of them.
And I don't think anyone wants to drop out.
Eric Swallow is in there.
Is Adam Schiff also running?
I don't remember.
But yeah, Swallow might be done now.
Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, he certainly has a lot of scandals hitting him.
Let's talk about it tomorrow.
That's interesting.
But I think, you know, he has his residency scandal.
He's got the Fang Fang thing where there may be some documents released and he's got.
Questions about his campaign finances.
Quite the ladies, man.
The third person in the running is Katie Porter.
Oh.
And then there's Eric Swabo.
And then there's Tom Steyer.
Isn't Katie Porter the one that had the meltdown in their interview?
Yeah, she's screaming.
Yeah, she's like.
I thought her name was Karen.
And it may as well be.
But yeah, I think they all have problems on that side.
And I think that's part of the issue.
But I think it's also that they can't get their crap together to decide who they're going to run.
Because if they had won, they probably would be in the top two.
But if they stick with it and fight each other to the end, then that might be the perfect result.
And we'll end up with a Republican governor.
And I don't know if that's exactly why Reagan was able to win, but it may be a repeat of that where you end up with a Republican governor just because.
The Democrats keep fighting each other.
The Democrats, yeah.
And these are like a lot of the Democrat politicians are the designated liars.
So it's interesting.
Most of them do seem to come from California.
Yeah.
I just wanted to add well, not to this story.
I'm going to the next one.
Artemis II does a moon flyby today.
So they're going to be the furthest out than any other humans ever.
Even compared to Apollo 13.
And there's going to be a press conference today at 1 p.m. East Coast time.
At the same time, I think President Trump is speaking in the press with the press secretary.
So I don't know how that's.
That would be cool.
Well, the 1 p.m. press conference that's obviously going to go forward.
Before that, there's the Easter egg rollout or whatever it's called.
I don't know where you look for eggs.
Can we get Biden back for entertainment purposes?
I know.
And the bunny.
Didn't Biden get lost and the bunny had to grab him or something like that?
Is that it?
He was just one of his staffers in the bunny costume and he was railing him back in because he was getting kind of out of control.
Oh, yeah.
This reminds me.
So then later on, okay.
So this whole thing about the moon flyby is going to take time.
It's not just going to be at one o'clock.
It's going to be from one o'clock to 9 20 p.m.
So, and this is East Coast time.
So it's going to be, but there is a time between 6 45 and 7 25 where they're going to lose, they're going to go to the dark side of the moon and they're going to lose connection.
Allegedly.
Yeah.
What is that?
Come on.
That is true.
It's not alleged.
What do you mean?
Oh, you mean our objective is?
Are they on the dark side of the moon?
No, yes.
They are.
They are.
I mean, that's the mission.
I believe it's happening.
But I think, you know, there's certainly plenty of conspiracy theories around this whole thing.
And the fun one to me was the recent one where they said that they had trained all these astronauts to take good notes by observing things because apparently they don't have good enough cameras to capture the dark side of the moon.
So they're just going to be looking at it like they're looking at a basketball.
At arm's length, that's the size of the moon from where they're going to be.
And they're just going to be observing the dark side of the moon and taking good notes.
And I just thought that was ridiculous.
It's like, what do you mean you don't have good enough cameras?
Come on, there's got to be some technology there where you could just snap a bunch of good footage.
It's like an FBI flyby.
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We just take notes.
We don't record anything.
We're just taking notes.
Really?
No footage?
Well, I don't know.
There may be pictures.
There may be video.
You know, I don't know what time of day it is and how much sunlight's going to be hitting the dark side of the moon because it's not really a dark side.
It's just the backside.
Like, there, You know, depending on the time of day, there is sunlight that would hit it.
But, you know, it's just kind of ridiculous to me that they would even say that, that they would even say, we trained our astronauts to take good notes so they can just, you know, tell us what it looked like as opposed to actually seeing it.
God bless.
I mean, listen, I hope it's all true.
And I hope everything.
I hope everything.
I hope it's great.
I hope we can go there.
I hope I can move there one day soon, honestly, and that it's a lot more like America than America.
I'm ready to go to the moon.
So send me, Elon, send me.
NASA.
So get two iPads or two screens because you're going to be watching President Trump at one o'clock and also the NASA stream.
And we'll fill you in all about it.
So we're at 11 o'clock.
Let's go.
Or one hour.
Let's go.
Okay, you guys, listen, we will be back tomorrow.
We do have guests lined up this week and I will fill you in as we go.
So just stay tuned, stay connected on X with us.
Where is my mug?
It's right in front of me.
Like, literally, where was it going to go?
I've been sitting right here.
Okay.
So, dementia cat might have taken it.
I know.
I'm so Monday ish today.
Good Lord.
You guys, a closing sip to all of you, to our beloved Shelly, to our beloved Scott.
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