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The U.S. is deploying strike groups to the Middle East.
Refueling tankers are flying.
We've seen a bunch of military movement.
Right now, Iran has shut down airspace.
The U.S. virtual embassy has told Americans, get out of the country.
The U.K., now the same thing, with warnings about American travel to Israel as well, saying the region is going to be unstable.
Donald Trump, of course, has threatened to shoot Iran.
I'm assuming that means war if they keep shooting protesters.
Now it seems like, with all of the news reports we're getting, there is a high expectation that war has already begun.
Reports of fighter jets over the border of Iraq and Iran.
It may be kicking off.
Right now, you've got all the prediction markets saying it's happening.
Someone just made a $20,000 wager that the U.S. would strike Iran today.
And they'll get paid $160,000 if it happens.
At the same time, we saw a major cellular outage across the country in basically every single metro if you're on Verizon.
And many people are assuming this was a cyber attack.
We don't know for sure.
No statement has been released.
But considering the massive escalation with Iran, which is not some desert nation, I mean, they got surface-to-air missiles.
They've got a powerful military.
They've got cyber attack capabilities.
People are kind of saying maybe they made a move against us.
Because you've got to understand, taking out cell phones does not just mean making it so you can't call mom, which you haven't done anyway, and you should.
I digress.
It also means that Ubers and Lyfts can't pick people up.
It means DoorDash deliveries.
It means a large portion of our internet-based economy gets struck down.
That is a massive attack on our country and economy.
But we don't know for sure.
Maybe Verizon just sucks.
So we're going to talk about that.
We had a bunch of other news.
CBS reporting earlier today that the ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, who shot Rene Good, suffered internal bleeding after being struck.
The funny thing now is it feels like a big ask because liberals are coming out and saying, internal bleeding, that sounds like bruising.
To which my response is, so you admit he got hit.
No, now they're conspiracy theorists saying CBS News is lying and they're stenographers for a corrupt regime.
Sure, or the guy got hit.
So we'll talk about all that.
We've got a bunch of breaking news to go through with the deployments and all of this war stuff.
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Yeah, I almost just said in the intro, pray for these people because the whole purpose of this is to help the protesters that are apparently under siege or something, being killed by the government.
You do not carpet bomb cities to help the people that live in the cities.
I really feel like the situation that went down in Venezuela really kind of put the rest of the world kind of on alert and said, look, The world is run by power, and the United States is still the most powerful military in the world.
Russia can't even beat Little Russia.
Like they've been there for it was supposed to be three days and they've been there for three years.
I don't think that China has the type of army that people are afraid they do.
Really, the thing that deters war when it comes to the big, bigger militaries in the U.S. is nuclear, or I'm sorry, the bigger militaries in the world is nuclear arms.
And I don't think that it's in no one's interest to get into a nuclear war.
So I think that for the most part, the U.S. can kind of do whatever it wants in most places.
And whether that's good or bad, I think that that's not really the argument I'm making.
From what I've just read about some of the way that the structure of the Iranian government works, if I understand correctly, not that I'm some kind of expert, I'm not trying to put on airs or anything, but if I understand correctly, like Khomeini isn't actually the dude, and the people that are actually running the show are actually fairly shadow kind of figures.
They don't really put their name out there.
And so if you get rid of Khomeini, not much is going to change.
There was a lot of speculation that once they got rid of Solemani, that that was going to be a big change in Russia.
And that, I'm sorry, in Iran.
And that didn't materialize.
So if Khomeini's not the guy, him leaving is really irrelevant, guys.
I think to your point of how you're not keen on this, and obviously I am with the people of Iran on this, like people who love freedom, love the West, all that, which is actually not necessarily even the majority of Iranian people.
But people should care about the U.S. getting involved in this, and they should be happy about it.
Because I want us to talk about something a little different, which is the future is AI.
I know this is random, but whether or not people like it, AI is the future.
AI requires astronomical amounts of energy.
Okay.
Right now, we, as Americans, if you're America first, that means you want American supremacy.
American supremacy means we are on top of the AI race.
We need to secure energy.
We need to destabilize our enemies' energy.
That means China and Russia, who have, by the way, been getting oil from Venezuela and Iran.
This is not a coincidence that we're dealing with both Venezuela and Iran at the start of this year.
You know, my principal concerns have been over the past several years that the United States domestically has been screwed up, infrastructure-wise, culturally.
And we spent decades in Afghanistan and Iraq for a very obvious reason to surround Iran, one of the countries we wanted to invade.
And so we end up getting this woke revolution where the Democrats are like, maybe we should cut off, you know, little girls' tits or whatever.
And regular people are like, stop.
What is wrong with you?
At the sacrifice of our country, we were prioritizing this BS.
In the event, so I'll say it like this.
What we don't want, U.S. destabilizing regions, causing more death and chaos, which blows back on us.
What we don't want.
Conflict in general in these regions.
I know the military industrial complex probably loves it selling up against both sides.
And you're like, I really don't think I should get involved in the gang fight and conflict.
But the point is, as much as you don't want to get involved because different gangs might come in and fight, at a certain point you call the cops, the cops go and stop the guy from selling drugs and doing these bad things.
My point is, I think a generation traumatized by the failures of the neocon policies in these countries is justified.
That being said, right now we're looking at people so traumatized, they're like, the U.S. should not engage in any kind of pressure campaigns, influence, or conflict internationally.
And that just means China dominates.
And then in two or three generations, it's going to cost 50 grand for a laptop.
Because I said this back in 2016 I said it every year since.
Hillary Clinton was the American hegemonic candidate.
If you wanted cheap laptops, cheap oil, laziness, and all of this stuff, then she was your candidate because she was going to go to war with Russia.
They were going to prop up the petrodollar and the United States would continue debasing its manufacturing infrastructure.
And then a few generations later, we're all destitute.
Like what's happening right now?
Donald Trump, however, was seemingly less concerned with enforcing American hegemonic power.
And I would argue in many ways, rightly so.
However, Saudi Arabia gets off the petrodollar deal, which means as a country that doesn't produce anything, Trump probably realized, hey, wait a minute.
We can't stop the petrodollar system until we have a manufacturing base.
Otherwise, America collapses overnight.
We do not export enough relative to our imports to justify the strength of our economy compared to every other nation.
It's actually quite simple.
We force other nations to use the U.S. dollar to buy oil.
Well, that's starting to falter.
And it seems like Trump is now trying to reinforce that.
And I actually think the reason why he didn't want to release the Epstein files, I've long argued, is that there's going to be Saudi princes in there.
And Trump is probably telling Bongino and everybody else, do not release this stuff because I got to get them back on the petrodollar.
Otherwise, our economy is cooked.
So what happens then?
They just sold $500 million in Venezuelan oil.
Silver is up near $100 an ounce.
If you want to buy an ounce, a little coin on a website to $105, that is apocalyptic level stuff.
I think Trump's recognizing you can't overnight flip the regime on its head.
There has to be, but we are in this system.
We are in the petrodollar system.
And if you end it, we end with it.
There's got to be a transition.
That's why I think Trump is doing these limited military engagements, snatch and grab with Maduro, and what appears to be a get out of the country before we nuke you, and we don't go to war.
Trump learned a lesson from the neocons.
You invade, you get 20 years of chaos.
If you can get the job done with a finger snap, do the fingersnap.
Yeah, well, because Trump's entire approach to geopolitics, people, when he came on the scene, they sort of portrayed him as if he was this like anti-war hippie, which is not really a correct assessment of Trump's view of geopolitics.
so it's just like it's a very classical view of empire building and it's i just i think it's so easy And I just beg, I beg the military-industrial complex to just be honest with people, okay?
Because when they go, the poor Iranian people's freedom, they're fighting so hard for freedom.
I go, I hear you.
But there are so many countries where people are fighting for freedom and we can't invade them all.
Trump, I love it, because he comes out in his first term and he gets asked about a weapons deal with Saudi Arabia and he goes, it's amazing.
We're going to sell tons of weapons to the Saudis.
It's going to be great for the economy.
And all of the anti-war progressives, their jaws hit the floor and they were like, he just said it.
He just admitted what we are and what we do.
And so I tell you this.
They need to explain to the American people, do you like having cheap goods and doing minimal labor for high wages?
Do you like having a median income of $50,000 a year?
Where I know it's rough relative to Americans, like my rent is so dang high.
Sure is.
Silver is through the roof.
You can live like a Brazilian at $8,000 a year.
You can live in a favela where you can't flush your toilet.
So when we live in luxury, there is this liberal fever dream where everything we just have, there's an abundance of infinite wealth.
When the reality is, where do we get sulfur from?
And why do we need sulfur?
We need it for computer components for our advanced MRI technology or helium and things like this.
Third worlders are mining sulfur while their teeth fall out of their mouths from the sulfuric vapors and they stuff rags in their mouth and you aren't going to do it.
So we find countries where the people do and we buy it from them.
We have, I don't think the American people understand that I love the argument of the illegal immigrants do the jobs the Americans won't, because that's not true.
There's tons of Americans that have no problem working in a meat processing plant.
However, Americans are not going to be working in a sulfur mine for the most part.
There are a lot of core resource jobs that we get from other countries that we pay very, very low amounts of money for because they don't have the development to compete with us.
So you sell the American people the truth.
And that is the reason why we want to remove the Iranian regime is because we want an Iranian government that is in the petrodollar system.
The reason why we removed Maduro is because in 2006, I believe it was, he stole billions of dollars in American oil assets and we just did nothing about it.
And I'm really irked by this because if there's anything that justifies a response, it's stealing our stuff.
We cut legitimate deals with Venezuela so that we could have oil.
They elect a commie and then he says your oil's mine now.
And America was like, I guess we'll have to figure it out later.
And then we get these stupid PR campaigns where it's like, let's advocate against Venezuela.
Well, 20 years later, Trump said, I'm done with this.
You stole it from us in the first place.
So when Trump sells Venezuelan oil for $500 million and all these hippie progressives are like, the CIA is trying to destabilize Venezuela.
Well, you know, maybe we'll get our stuff back.
I'll tell you this.
I don't want to go in your house.
You're my neighbor, right?
I'm not going to kick your door and I'm going to leave you the F alone.
But if we have an agreement, I'll let you borrow my bike and you're going to pay me back, but then you steal my bike, I'm going to go in there and take my bike back from you.
Well, Tim, this is why we have to take out the trash in Venezuela and Iran.
Let's talk about the numbers, right, of what the oil is.
Between Venezuela and Iran, if that's not on the petrodollar, we are in the minority globally when it comes to dollars being traded for oil.
With Venezuela, with Iran, we tilt just over.
We're like a hair over 50% with oil being traded in U.S. dollars.
What Venezuela has been doing is they said we want to free ourselves from the dollar, right?
What people need to understand is when Henry Kissinger in 1974 made the deal with the Saudis to trade oil exclusively in USD, that made the U.S. dollar the global reserve currency that is very powerful, that stabilizes the U.S. dollar, that guarantees inflation staying lower.
Do you remember what happened this last year with this summer when Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz?
U.S. completes first sale of Venezuelan oil valued at $500 million official sales.
The details of the sale haven't yet been disclosed, but Trump has said the U.S. will sell 30 to 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil in partnership with U.S. companies.
Now, let's just pause real quick because I've had a bunch of progressive friends I've known for a long time and they're like the U.S. hands off Venezuela.
Okay.
Well, let's go back in time to 2007 when Venezuela elected a socialist who then seized U.S. oil assets, stealing billions of dollars.
How about Venezuela hands off our oil investments?
By all means, you want to be a climate change person and say oil's bad?
Fine.
Separate argument.
Our investment, our partnerships seized from our backyard out of our pockets and then weaponized to help fund our adversaries.
Let me give you the numbers.
Total USD loss from Venezuela's nationalization or expropriation of U.S. oil in 2007 under Hugo Chavez, ExxonMobil claimed $10 to $16.6 billion.
ICSID, $1.6 billion.
You've got recent claims of between $1 and $2 billion.
ConocoPhillips, $4.5 billion, with $20 to $30 billion in after-the-fact claims, meaning money that would have been generated from the investments.
ICSID awarded $8.7 billion.
The total overall U.S. loss is estimated between $10 and some $20 billion.
So let me just make it very, very simple.
I don't want war with Venezuela.
I don't want war anywhere.
What do we do as a country when a leader comes in and says, hey, you know how we had a deal with you?
We had a treaty.
We had a deal.
You guys come in.
You spend all the money building the drills, building the refineries.
You guys get the profits, but we get kickbacked a little bit.
Yeah, that's a fine deal.
They then stole all of our oil assets that we paid for and built.
Why should we have ever tolerated that?
Now, again, real quick, I'm not saying we should have invaded.
I'm glad we didn't.
But Trump removing Maduro and taking $500 million doesn't begin to remedy the theft and the betrayal that we experienced.
To make it worse, we endured 20 years where, again, I think the reason largely is another reason why I think Iraq and Afghanistan was stupid is that we're spending billions in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, Venezuela in our backyard was running roughshod over us and stole our stuff.
Trump, I believe, has been doing things masterfully.
Again, I'm concerned about destabilization in Venezuela.
I lean slightly against the removal of Maduro because to be fair, I think we are a traumatized generation.
And I don't look at our government as successful in the last 50 years when it comes to these things.
But that being said, Trump's precision strikes on Iran to take out their nuclear capabilities did not result in an expanded conflict.
So all I can really say is I'm happy that's what happened.
I still don't know if it was the right move, but I don't have access to classified information.
And the snatch and grab of Maduro so far seems to have been okay.
I hope we don't destabilize.
And I just want to at least be a voice of tepid reason against people saying go in, invade, and all of these things.
Tell me someone who doesn't hate listening to them because I feel people need to understand, especially on the right, where everyone's acting as if a tactical operation is the same as a forever war and it's not.
Having energy and having a petrodollar are legitimate interests for the United States.
If you want, like you were saying, your affordable lifestyle and low inflation, we need to have control.
We need the petrodollar strong and we need control of energy and we need to destabilize it and take it away from China and Russia.
And that is exactly what we're doing with Venezuela and Iran.
I think the important lesson a lot of people in the more moderate space need to learn.
Again, I want to stress this.
I'm not advocating for invasion or war conflict.
The important thing you need to understand is this.
Look at what the Democrats did to Donald Trump, his lawyers, conservative personalities, J-Sixers.
The unrepentant use of illegitimate force against innocent people for the sheer exertion of power.
Democrats and the woke machine said, we will destroy you because we can.
China is worse.
In the event the U.S. falters and we do experience the expansion of a multipolar world, we're going to get a Thucydides trap war.
We are not going to just let China's Belt and Road Initiative take over.
And that's what's been happening.
I think Trump's view of this has been, I really do look at the Democratic Party as like the weak, pathetic great-grandchildren of the greatest generation or the grandchildren of.
They don't know how to maintain a business.
It's a third generation failure.
Trump comes in and says, you've given away our manufacturing.
Our borders are collapsed.
Our people aren't having babies anymore.
What is the point of your endless quagmires in Afghanistan and Iraq if we are not sustaining the American people, its tradition, its dreams, and its worldview internationally and nationally?
Trump now, in my opinion, is also seeking to reinforce American hegemonic power.
And I think he's doing it so far.
I give him a C. C in that I've never been a fan of the U.S. forcing other countries to do whatever it wants.
But if Trump is doing it in a limited fashion with sanctions, and so far, what we've seen with Iran and Venezuela, very, very light, what I can only say is, okay, it's better than I've seen in my life.
And I pray we don't get destabilization.
And at the end of this, I recognize China, Russia, and Iran would burn us to the ground if they had the ability to do it at any moment.
The Venezuelan calculation, it's okay, yes, you take away 50% of our global adversaries' oil supply, you release 20% of the world's oil reserves into the markets, going to tank the price of Iranian oil, Russian energy, these sorts of things.
But then also it's a geopolitical calculation, which is Venezuela's inner hemisphere.
They're on our back porch, taking them out.
There's obvious incentives for the United States and a variety of reasons.
Where Iran is, I agree, there is interest for the U.S., but the interesting thing about Iran is it's more dangerous because there's converging interests in Iran.
So that's why it's like Venezuela is kind of a no-brainer in a lot of ways if you truly like apply the Trump doctrine.
But Iran is just a much tougher decision to make.
That's why there's a debate around it.
Where Venezuela happens, everyone's like, yeah, that kind of checks out.
Okay, but people on the right, like Megan Kelly was saying, I don't want my sons to go be drafted for Venezuela, which is one of the dumbest things she could have possibly said.
So not everyone's saying that.
And also, Iran, there has never been any more vulnerable moments to attack Iran.
They have fights from within.
They're economically crippled because oil is so low right now.
I don't know about the entirety of the Iranian people, but we certainly know for a fact there are massive protests and there have been for a long time.
I think it'd be way too many cooks in the kitchen.
And I think that was one of the major failures of Iraq is that we said, let's give these people democracy when democracy was going to lead to them electing worse people, right?
So if Pahlavi, he's the son of the last king of Iran, they would install him as maybe the first president and they could write a Republican constitution based on the U.S. Constitution.
We're not saying let's go and make these women girl bosses like Afghanistan and give them democracy.
Let's just not have a radical Islamist who threatens to choke off the Strait of Hormuz for trade and threatens to send oil to Russia and China in won and rubles instead of U.S. dollars.
We can't sustain, like, we overproduce our military.
And there was a post I saw on X where they were like, who was it?
Some guy said, subsidies for Israel are actually subsidies for the U.S. the military industry.
It was a progressive who said this.
It's us funding the military industrial complex through Israel, where we can claim it's for foreign aid, but we're actually buying and building bombs.
Yeah.
How do we do that?
How do we extend our economy?
Through the petrodollar.
We don't need to produce widgets and sell them.
The way it works for everybody else, they have to export more.
Like any job you have, you have to make more money than you're spending, right?
Like you American people.
Think about this.
Imagine you didn't have to actually have a job because, in order for anybody to make money, they had to ask your permission first.
That's what the American system around the world is.
And so, why do we have these ships, these bombs, military power?
China, Russia, Iran, South Africa, many other nations that are opting to join the BRICS alliance.
This was the collapse of American supremacy.
Now, I'm not saying it's a good thing that the U.S. does, you know, blows up kids like Obama was doing or killing Abdul Rahman al-Alawi or anything like that.
I do think it will be miserably bad if China becomes the unipolar power.
As bad as you think the United States is, it is infinitely better than every other alternative.
My point with Iran is that the risk of it being a quagmire is higher.
Not necessarily that we wouldn't be like successful in an operation there, but again, the risk of it just being an in-and-out like Venezuela is much higher.
Again, that's why I led the show with, like, I do have faith in Trump and Hex have to make this calculation.
But the point of them being a paper tiger is it was like common thought for the longest time that we were heading towards a multipolar world, especially after Afghanistan.
I mean, I was saying this, but we're seeing increasing, like there's indicators coming from China and Russia that things aren't so hot.
I mean, obviously, Russia, we're not seeing much success from them on the battlefield.
So my point is, America, I don't think our position as a unipolar power is really being threatened too much.
And as long as we can dominate our hemisphere, I think that's like pretty satisfactory.
I mean, for the past 15 plus years, article after article after article has been written about how China is on pace to dominate the global economy now and the specifics.
And then also with the second Trump admin, he's basically just trying to correct, because Biden fumbled the situation as Biden was inheriting like basically our global adversaries fumbling the ball.
And Biden also fumbled.
Where now Trump comes in, he's mopping up these messes.
Yeah, not to mention Venezuela's literally like, well, up until recently, they were literally making claims on Guyanese territory because they found oil reserves off of their coast.
So it's like Venezuela is not even surprised, the left's hypocritical, I know, but it's like they're not even honoring sort of their gripe with the U.S. They're doing the same thing to Guyana because they're a minnow and then the nation.
I was thinking Art of War would say, don't take out everything you can at first.
Like, don't show them your full potential.
It looks like they hit us as hard as they could, and that was what is going to happen when we put Starlink, Elon, over Iran, and then they shut off Starlink.
And then this is retaliation for us trying to bug their system with Starlink.
Sorry, guys.
Global satellite, Unimind incoming.
Prep your palantir.
Are you ready to be seen from above by satellites?
By 2100, 20% of Pennsylvania will be Amish at current numbers.
And then obviously a lot of people are going to leave the state.
The Amish don't really leave.
So it's going to be like, and literally by the end of this century, you're going to have Democrat and Republican politicians courting the Amish vote.
It's going to be hilarious.
Yep.
Same thing in New York and New York City is Brooklyn is projected to be as red as Alabama again by the end of the century because of Hasidic birth rates.
Obviously, we can nuke Iran and turn the glass at any moment.
The point is, these attacks are serious and kill people.
I hear it all the time since the inception of these cyber attacks.
People would be like, well, you know, my phone doesn't work.
And I'm like, yes, but you have to understand the murder rate collapsed in 2007, 2008, because people, not because people decided to stop killing each other, but because people had ubiquitous phone access.
So a zero-day, for those that are not familiar, is an exploit that has spent zero days in the public knowledge or the public database.
So the zero-day exploit, for which there are probably millions.
And I got news for you guys.
If you discover a zero-day exploit in critical infrastructure, you could sell it for tens of millions of dollars.
So there are people.
So let's start here.
Penetration testers.
These are guys that will call up a bank and say, I am going to intentionally try and break into your system and tell you how I did it.
You pay me $10,000.
They say, do it because they want to know how you did so they can try and patch these holes.
I guarantee you, if this was a cyber attack, this is them firing a shot across the bow.
In Trump's first term, he was launching an airstrike on Iran on the coastline.
And abruptly, the fighters turned around and left.
And Trump said it was because he did not think the amount of dead that would come from this attack was an appropriate retaliation.
It was too much.
He didn't want to kill that many people.
However, at the same time as the attack was going out, an oil refinery in Philadelphia exploded, burst into flames.
There is no reason to believe, no evidence to suggest these are related events.
However, there has been speculation and rumors.
Some people think it's a possibility that when Trump announced he was launching an airstrike, Iran pressed the button and blew up an industrial control center, a petroleum refinery.
Then they said, Mr. President, this was just one ICS attack.
If you carry this out and we go to full-scale war, you could see water pumps, chemical reclamation, all of these things going up.
The critical infrastructure for our industrial control systems in this country, famously, even up to 10 years ago, was from the 70s.
In fact, I watched this really amazing video.
There's a guy who sells floppy disks still to this day.
And it's because our industrial control systems still use floppy disks for updates.
I kid you not.
The ability, the advancement in cyber offense is so advanced compared to where we were when we were using floppy disks.
We have what's called the Mexican standoff zero-day theory or the zero-day mutually assured destruction hypothesis.
That is, every major power on the planet has already infected each other's critical infrastructure with zero via zero-day exploits to destroy at a moment's notice.
And so everybody's got their finger over the button.
You'd think it was nuclear weapons.
That was the Cold War.
Now, since we've put all of our industrial controls onto these computer systems, hackers from every country have been doing everything in their power to infect them.
So that if we go to war with Russia, China, or Iran, they press a button and then explosions happen all across our country.
Our nuclear weapons are horribly not maintained.
There's been numerous reports on this internally and in the public that we don't even know where some of the tools are to pop these suckers open.
And there's the fear that the systems in place to secure and control them have already been hacked.
So I tell you this.
If you think nuclear weapons are the most powerful technology we have right now for war, man, I got a bridge to sell you because that's technology from 70 years ago, almost 80 years ago.
I was thinking earlier too, and I'm thinking it again now that when Khomei, if he truly left the country earlier and they averted that, it's like no country on earth wants hot conflict with the U.S. They're like, please don't start World War III.
You're the only country on earth that has the capability of doing it and probably ending it really fast if you want.
We've got breaking news right now and an update on this story.
We have this from Bill Malugan.
This is happening right now.
He says, I'm told by four law enforcement sources there has been another ICE involved shooting in Minneapolis tonight.
I'm told ICE was making contact with a target who then allegedly assaulted an officer with a shovel or swung a shovel.
Shots were fired and the suspect ran back in the house.
No info yet.
And if anything was actually shot, just that shots were fired.
So if something was hit, very preliminary.
More info as we are getting it.
We will have an update for you as we go through this, but I do want to jump to the story, which is massive from CBS News.
The ICE agent who shot Renee Good suffered internal bleeding.
We are now looking at CBS with two U.S. officials and DHS confirming, that is three independent sources confirming the ICE agent in question suffered internal bleeding to the torso following the incident, which confirms he was struck by the vehicle.
Now let's throw it to our good friend over here, Adam Cochran.
He says, BS, internal bleeding against a non-pinned, moving, armored individual would require a blunt hood of a car going at least 35 miles an hour.
Renee was driving a Honda pilot and averages 3.5 to 4.0 meters per second squared in a 0 to 60 run at two feet away from the officer.
So the story is currently developing and we'll follow this one.
But there you have it, guys.
The ICE agent was hit by the car.
I mean, we all knew it.
And you know what really irks me is that earlier today, Grok on X was a trend, and it said a Minnesota-based poet who was killed.
And I was like, are you kidding me?
So I took the story and I went into Grok and I pasted it to see how it would respond to its own trending thing.
And it told me on Grok that Jonathan Ross was not struck by the vehicle and that analysis by CNN and the New York Times proved that he had stepped out of the way of the vehicle and was clear of harm.
And so then when this story broke, I said, here you go.
Why is it?
Oh, and the funny thing about it, I asked Grok, I was like, what do you mean?
There's video of him getting hit.
And it said, according to Tim Poole, there is.
I'm not kidding.
It literally said that.
And it was like based on commentary from Tim Poole.
Many people are claiming he was struck, though CNN and the New York Times with cross-reference analysis showed that he was not.
And I'm just like, that's the craziest thing I've ever heard.
And now, how stupid must you feel, Grok, you dumb mother?
I love also how they use the photos of the woman from before her like lesbian pronouns turn right when she was uh In a heterosexual relationship.
And she's like, then she looks normal and not from like the pixie haircut Bristol.
Yeah, glowed down for sure.
But did you guys see the story of the last, I don't know if this is totally accurate, but it said it was the last white woman who was shot in Minneapolis.
Did you see this?
This woman, Justine Damond, I think is how you pronounce her name, but this woman in 2017 called the cops in Minneapolis because she heard something going on outside.
So like what Nick Shirley did was he showed the daycare centers.
You guys know about the Medicaid fraud that they're also doing where they're reporting that their children are autistic.
So they could get like $1,500 a month in government subsidies.
And they say that their child has to go to a community doctor that understands their culture.
They have to go to a community center, not just the daycare centers.
And the only reason why I don't fully blame our government for catching the sooner is because I think they saw this and thought, oh, when you marry your sibling and your cousin, like, yeah, your kid's going to be like retarded.
But that's actually different than being autistic.
And, you know, the money that they were getting from this Medicaid fraud, they were actually getting cash for a lot of it.
And they were putting actual cash onto planes to Somalia.
Like, it is totally normal to be like, we voted for you.
So you have to step in between the law and us and protect us.
And that when you have that kind of culture, like you don't just transfer into another place and the magic soil just makes you into a, you know, a Jeffersonian Democrat.
Well, that's, that's why, like, across the third world, like, the hustle grind set culture really took root is because in these cultures, they have like a get mine mentality where it's like the laws are just like an impediment in the way of like me getting rich.
And so that's why these things just click for these for these people because, yeah, they don't care if it's on the books or off the books.
They just got to get rich at all costs.
When they see like a private jet fly overhead, that like bothers them fundamentally.
And the West, we're just kind of content with the middle class.
I was going to say, actually, like right next to Somalia is Somaliland.
And these couldn't be more different as two countries that are right next to each other.
And kind of to the point we were talking about earlier with Iran and versus Iraq and Afghanistan, like you don't need a democracy to be a functioning country, actually, which is like, and I'm very pro-democracy, pro-America, but not other, not all cultures can have that, or at least the way they're set up right now.
Like they're not ready for democracy.
But Somaliland is a great example where they had a centralized, unified tribe, basically.
And that's why they're flourishing and they're also pro-West and like pro-Israel.
And BB, just like to piss off a bunch of people, just acknowledge Somaliland and Somaliland.
Like the people are like running around the streets celebrating it.
And you have Somalia with retards claiming to be genius autists, basically.
If you don't know, like, if a culture doesn't have the education, I think maybe people take it for granted that if other people, the level of ignorance other humans are operating at, like, if they don't know, if they don't, they'll just, it's almost like you want to go in and help them.
Like, people would throw their garbage in the same river they would drink out of, you know what I mean?
The funny thing is, the reason why this story is important is that it shows how the left is batting a thousand at being retarded.
Look, I'm not trying to drag literally every liberal, but when you are always against Trump, even when it makes perfect sense, Trump didn't say, we're to go massacre the Greenlandic people and take over their land.
He's like, we're going to give them a bunch of money and welcome them to America.
And they're like, no, that's a bad thing.
And I'm like, what is the argument against negotiating for a territory to join the United States?
I'm really offended by Woke because they renamed Barrow to Utgiakvik.
Oh, it's terrible.
And the way I went to Utgyakvik a couple years ago, and it was beautiful.
It's an amazing place, but everything says barrow, and everyone calls it Barrow.
And the reason why it's called Utgyakvik is that they had a vote, and only like a couple dozen people showed up, and they were progressives, and they said, let's rename it its native name.
They're paying people, but I think it's more than that.
So I'll use Megan Kelly as an example, where I think a lot of people will look at her and say, well, she's not saying this because of any bad incentive because she already has enough money.
Same with Tucker.
All these people at Candace, they all have enough money that they don't have to say anything for the money.
But what people discount is that these people want something more than money.
So money is a component of a lot of the motivations we see for a lot of people.
But the idea that these particular individuals, I would argue Candace is more interested in money.
Megan Kelly, I think, is scared of losing what she has.
And I don't know what Tucker is doing.
Tucker, I view largely as there's a few things he said where I'm like, when he said he didn't know who Tommy Robinson was, I was like, what?
Of course you do.
But you're allowed to have bad opinions.
Megan Kelly claiming that it's good that Candace Owens alleged that Erica Kirk killed or was a knowledgeable of Charlie Kirk's assassination or the U.S. military was involved or that Erica Kirk's actually a machine built or whatever.
Just like Kevin Roberts, just like all these other people that thought that a certain part of the movement, they thought that's where the momentum was going.
And the inertia did seem to be going in that direction.
And they placed a very bad bet because they didn't actually go off of principles.
That's not saying that you could have wrong decisions.
You could have an idea that's bad, like what you just said, for example.
No, I'm kidding.
You can have bad ideas, but we all know that Megan and Tucker, the two of them, I'm taking Candace out because I think she just might be mentally unstable.
But I think the two of them are doing things because of very bad reasons.
It's not because, like, Megan has come out to say, just because you people want me to think one thing, I'm going to dig my heels in and do the opposite, right?
She's openly saying, I'm not doing this out of principle.
I'm doing this just because someone's telling me not to.
Sometimes the tough thing about being a commentator is sometimes you have to give the correct take and people aren't ready for it.
Like on the show today, this in the noon live, me and Amber Duke had to correctly, you know, unfortunately correct the record for people that Karens are a good thing.
Like Karens are the last, really in many ways, the last stand for Western civilization.
And people got angry.
People were, you know, calling us names, but it's like, that's the price you have to pay for being careful.
I want you to just close your eyes, everybody who's listening.
Imagine this, okay?
You're working the return counter at Walmart.
You're working there.
You'll be fatal.
And all of a sudden, all of a sudden in the distance, stomping their way towards you are a bunch of obese, middle-aged women with the haircut, and they're holding receipts.
You're working the return counter at the Walmart, and off in the distance, a bunch of women with big tits and bikinis are prancing towards you, holding receipts while they're giggling, demanding a return.
No, those chopped women you're describing are, I see them as like the calvary of Western civilization arriving to save us from this like third world low standard slop that's like been imposed on us.
They're coming to say, no, you're going to accept this return.
You are going to make an amend for me.
You're not just going to do what the computer tells you.
You're going to call your manager and you're going to make this right because we are a society of justice and order and rules.
And these Karens are like the last thing defending us from these Somalis.
I bet it tastes like, does it taste like fat in like, you know, when you're having like a lamb chop and you have like the fat part, but the fat could be good, actually.
And you sit down at a table and they bring you a gigantic pancake with lamb, marinated lamb on it, and everyone just rips the pancake and makes little burritos.
Israel's like the only other country on earth I can see that's like pseudo-theocracy because it's a Jewish state.
But I feel like you could culturally be Israeli because all Jews come from Israel, Jacob, and then religiously follow Judah's familial teachings and be a Jewish-Israeli.
The only thing I don't like about Japan is like they've got like they've got like octopus like in live in the well alive, but they have them, they have it at the airport like covered in salt and stuff.
Apparently, what I was told is when the men would go wailing, they'd get salt all over their faces from the salt water and they'd constantly taste salt.
And so they kind of normalized the taste.
So they put salt all over this and it's kind of like they're used to it.
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Let's jump to your Rumble Rants and Super Chats.
Let's see what we got here.
We got not Robbie.
He says, I'm going to be a prude.
The F-bomb has been flying a lot lately, the last few episodes, that my children do hear while I have you all on in the background.
Indeed.
Indeed.
We're going to have to tell people to chill it on the swears.
And it's exactly for this reason.
When we first launched the show, I wasn't really concerned about YouTube.
I got an email and they said, I love your show.
I watch every day, but my kids are in the room when the TV's on, and I prefer if you didn't swear.
Got an email from someone who said, I'm listening to your show while driving the car.
My kids are going to school and the swearing.
I don't want them to hear it.
And I say, Fair point.
Fair point.
So we usually tell people try not to swear for that reason.
I want people to be able to sit in their living room, turn their TV on, watch live, and their kids are like finishing their homework and then going off to bed and not have to be like, I have to pause this and wait till you're.
We want you to be able to watch it.
And, you know, when your kids are old enough, they can watch it with you.
Spike says, Speaking of which, Nick Shirley dropped another fraud video tonight about non-emergent medical transport fraud by guess who, hint hint.
I hit up Seamus about making a cartoon called Somali Dealer No Deal.
So the idea we had the other day was a story about Somalis smuggling wads of cash in suitcases through airports.
And then I told Seamus, I was like, bro, it's dealer-no deal, but instead of hot models to a bunch of Somalis and trying to figure out which one's smuggling $700 million.
Awake Not Woke says, Tim, we love Tate in the Morning.
We've got to ask, are there any plans to return to the 10 a.m. morning show?
Keep it the great work, y'all.
I do a 10 a.m. morning show every single day and I've never stopped.
And that's at Timcast News and Timcast on Rumble.
However, there's an interesting thing going on.
We don't exactly know what's going to happen, but Dan Bon the press release for Dan Bongino, I believe they're having someone take the noon slot on Rumble.
So we don't know exactly what that's going to mean for I'll be in the Rumble cuck chair.
Matt says, no one has been able to answer to me why AI is the future.
What's the end game for AI?
What's the finish line?
Plug.
Okay.
What'll happen is we are already at the point where, let me start here.
Remember when I said in the future, you're gonna have Disney Creative Plus, and you're gonna say, Disney, you're gonna open the app on your TV, press a button, and say, I want to watch Spider-Man fight the Incredible Hulk, and it'll go rendering, boom, the amazing Spider-Man fighting Hulk.
We are, I was like, that's coming soon.
You know what I didn't even think about?
This is how crazy it is.
AI is already so advanced.
You can go on a ChatGPT and say, write me a new Harry Potter novel.
And it'll go, okay.
And then when you want a new page, you just say next page.
And it will literally just write out a new Harry Potter novel cloning J.K. Rowling style.
So you already have infinite books now.
Infinite books utilizing everything everyone's written through these training models.
So we don't know if it's actually going to improve upon or create new things, but it will write you a book.
We're already at the point where you can read any story you want.
We are a couple years away from making any movie you want.
If you can, like you're like this, if I could do that, like and you can record my literally cover and then you can put that into the AI guy it's making you the recording you made of yourself for Sora 2.
All right, my friends, we're going to go to the uncensored portion of the show so we can show you zombie, morbidly obese liberal women invading Greenland.
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I just want to say that being in Florida, I'm the only woman, at least in my building, in my general neighborhood, that has real lips, real boobs, and a real, and a real butt.
Like God said, like the Cohens are going to be like the Koheni, like the Cohens will be the priests of the temple.
And so this, and we still do this today, where there was a Cohen's blessing, like a priestly blessing that we receive throughout the year at like different moments and like high holidays.
And they do it with their hands like this.
And so that's where they got the idea.
But now it looks so weird because you just think of it.
It's like, no, no, they still have like, it's not like the caste system with Indians where it really means a lot, but it is kind of a big deal where if you're religious in any way, being a Cohen actually does mean something.
Like you get like, you get certain privileges and stuff like that.
They used to bring vegetables and sacrifice those to God, but then at some point there was the same woman.
There was a change in that they started sacrificing meat instead where they would like cut the blood over the people and then keep because they would keep the sacrifice the priests would.
So they were like keeping whatever they were given.
It's not nice, but it's kind to force someone to have to stitch together their own clothing and to not be able to walk into a Lululemon where I'm subsidizing your leggings because I get size small and you're getting XXXL and it takes more fabric and I'm paying for your fat.
My daughter, she got rear-ended, so I know what you're going through.
My question for the panel is the we've all talked about the filibuster.
And if the Democrats get back in power, how they want to remove the filibuster and push their agenda through.
But lately, I've had this thought that the Democrats don't want to pull the trigger because of what happened with Obamacare when they had full control and they forced something on the American people.
Do you believe that the Democrats want the Republicans to do it so that way they can just say, oh, we're just doing what the Republicans are doing or not?
But yeah, like we were saying, I don't think, I think that it all depends on the policy that gets passed, not about the actual filibuster itself.
Average person doesn't care about how the sausage is made, and the filibuster is just one more thing in Washington that people don't really care about unless there's a bill that passes that affects their life.
My question for you guys is with the election integrity or with election integrity remaining a top priority for Republicans as we approach the 2026 midterms.
So I was thinking just the general conversation about election integrity, because if we do another election and they have a much more robust digital system that they can flip votes 5149, we're fucked.
I think, Phil, I think your answer was the best one of them and probably the most realistic is good news and small victories don't really make for good, you know, viral videos.
And I just, I want to get the information out there because I feel like election integrity is really an important thing.
So will an economic crisis and a possible unrest towards the midterms push Trump to cross the Rubicon and finally activate the Insurrection Act and fulfill his agenda?
I think that the behavior of the protesters is far more in, will be far more, will have far more impact as to if Trump has the, you know, passed the Insurrection Act.
I don't know.
Like I, the stuff that I've been seeing in the past couple of days is that the direction of the economy is actually looking better.
It doesn't mean that it's good now.
It doesn't mean that people feel good about it.
But the numbers that I've seen lately seem to be signaling improvements.
So I don't know if that means that there's, Jesus Christ.
I don't know if that means that there's going to be an economic issue to really kind of be the catalyst.
So I think that it really boils down to whether or not the, you know, whether or not the protesters decide that they want to continue the protesting into the summer, into the historically historic riot season.
I was thinking if I'd known, like when I was a kid, that one day I'd be listening to you talk about the Insurrection Act, watching this fat fucking woman fall down over and over again.
If someone came to you and said, Ian, 20 years in the future, you're going to be sitting there talking about the Insurrection Act and like Donald Trump is president again.
And then you're watching this video, it's like a fat woman and she's rolling around on the ground, you'd be like, sir, you need help.
Sorry, so with your follow-up, I did not mean to interfere or interject if you had a follow-up to what Phil was saying.
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Oh, it's okay, Bossman.
So basically, my follow-up to that basically is: do you think that possibly the other reason why he's not doing the insurrection ad is because he's basically waiting for the midterm selection.
If he sees that he's probably going to lose and get impeached, he's just going to go, I'm the Senate, and basically I need to finish my agenda and try to rally support behind him at that point.
My complaint, my official complaint, is that the women are just so morbidly obese and I had to look at morbidly obese people for an extended period of time.
I just want to know: now that we're up to like, I believe 19 billion and fraud discovered in Minnesota, what do you guys think or suspect would be the overall contribution of fraud to the national debt?
I've gotten spoofed phone calls from prominent high-profile conservatives that I know, and they used AI to spoof their voices, and I caught it immediately and hung up.
Dude, if someone posted a photo like that to X right now and said, I met this woman protesting in Minneapolis, people would be like, just assume it was real.
We should use that when we a lot of like a lot of these AI guys.
Like, I talked to Nate Fisher, he's an AI VC expert, and he's like, We're going to return to pre-modern sort of civilizational structure because people won't know what's real, and so the only thing they know is real is a face-to-face interaction.
Um, so he's like, he predicts that, you know, maybe the generation after Gen Alpha will be like completely allergic to technology because they just can't trust it.
Well, to a degree, you're seeing like an interest again in DVDs, vinyl.
Like, Zoomers, it's more of like an aesthetic thing, but Gen Alpha, they literally find like practical use out of like having tangible objects in their hands.
Because people try to go all off the wall and they'll post a picture of everyone in a train car reading a newspaper and they're like, see, we've always been distracted.