Trump Orders SHOOT & KILL Against Iranian Boats After Iran SEIZES Two Ships
Tate Brown analyzes Trump's order to shoot and kill Iranian boats following the seizure of two ships in the Strait of Hormuz, noting traffic dropped below pre-war levels despite U.S. Navy claims of total control. He argues this escalation pushes Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea into an anti-Western bloc while failing to halt Tehran's nuclear program or achieve regime change. The discussion further critiques domestic policy, including rising ICE arrests, slashed refugee admissions limited to white South Africans, and a DOJ indictment against the SPLC for allegedly tracking white population decline. Finally, Brown condemns potential marijuana reclassification driven by Wall Street lobbying rather than scientific evidence linking adolescent use to severe mental health disorders. [Automatically generated summary]
This is Tate Brown here holding it down, and I'm back with you on this beautiful Thursday afternoon.
Obviously, it is now the afternoon on the East Coast, taking you from the morning to the afternoon on the Rumble daily lineup.
We have a lot of big stories to get into today.
Blessed with news, you know, that was kind of the complaint like two or three months ago is that I feel like the news cycle was kind of dying out.
Well, thankfully, the news cycle has been firing on all cylinders for the last two months to the point where when I'm like kind of putting together my stack pre show, I'm having to toss stories to the side because I just don't have enough time to get to them.
And you guys have complained, and rightfully so, that I'll often say I'm going to cover a story at the top of the show and then I never end up getting to it just because some of these take so much time.
But we have some massive stories that we'll get into today.
Obviously, the lead, which you probably saw in the title, is Iran has seized two ships, according to their, well, according to Iran.
They have seized two ships.
They put video out of it.
Now, the White House has kind of downplayed it.
They said, well, they weren't American or Israeli flagged, so this doesn't violate the ceasefire.
But it does kind of hit the point that a lot of people have been criticizing our effort here, saying, well, we don't actually have total control over the strait, especially if stuff like this is allowed to happen.
We've kind of gone tit for tat.
Now we've seized a tanker.
And then two days ago, we'd seized a few more tankers or just various ships that were Iranian flagged.
And so things are, it's just chaos.
It really is.
It's just chaos right now in the Strait of Hormuz and by and large, that entire theater.
So we're going to get into that.
We're going to get into Virginia.
I don't know if you guys saw Turning Point, the Turning Point Action, the statement they'd put out basically on the Charlie Kirk show, which is now hosted by Andrew Colvett and Blake Neff, putting out a statement saying, look, they put together, Tyler Boyer had put together an entire package to present to the nationwide national GOP, kind of giving them sort of a playbook.
Here's the game plan.
Here's how we take the fight to the Democrats in this Virginia redistricting.
And by all accounts, they balked at it.
So we'll take a look at that.
That's quite an interesting story.
We have a few more stories that we'll get to if we have.
Time, which I anticipate we do because as it stands, we don't have a guest today.
We'll probably do like a bit of a mailbag at the end of the show today.
Maybe just chop it up the chat at the end of the show today.
We'll get into all that.
There also is a bumblebee in the studio, which has been causing me a lot of grief throughout my time setting up.
I don't think I'm inherently afraid of bees.
I just don't want to coexist with them.
I do appreciate bumblebees' role in the ecosystem.
There's no denying their importance.
I do love honey.
Guilty as charged.
But when you're trying to read the latest on the Strait of Hormuz, the last thing you want is a bumblebee hovering around your sphere of influence.
There's a lot of talk right now about sphere of influence theory, right?
This idea that.
Look, powers globally need to jostle for position, but they also need to respect each other's sphere of influence.
That is sort of what's going on right now between me and this bumblebee.
As we are, I'd say, respecting each other's sphere of influence, but we will see if this bumblebee launches an illegal invasion of my sovereign territory.
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With that, I just want to jump straight into this first story.
This obviously hit the headlines this morning.
This is from CNBC.
I went with CNBC's coverage here.
Strait of Hormuz remains basically closed as Iran seizes ships after Trump's ceasefire extension.
I'll just go ahead and read here.
Ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remained very light on Wednesday, the first day since President Trump extended the ceasefire with Iran.
Obviously, that was announced Tuesday, that the ceasefire would be extended.
Trump's decision to unilaterally extend the truce has not opened the street.
Iran is still trying to control ship traffic in the sea lane while the U.S. imposes a blockade of Tehran's ports and vessels.
Iran's parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagar Kalabaf, said reopening the Strait of Hormuz is impossible as long as the U.S. blockade is in place.
At least eight ships transited the Strait Wednesday, including three oil tankers, according to traffic data, tracking data from LSEG.
The Iranian tanker Atlantis II appears to have crossed the Strait into the Gulf of Oman despite the U.S. blockade.
That's very key, and that's what a lot of people were discussing.
A big empty tanker named Virgo entered the Persian Gulf through its destination, though its destination was unclear.
Virgo is a very large crude.
Carrier that can transport up to 2 million barrels of oil.
So that is a good chunk of change for the Iranians if that is able to, again, get the job done for them.
Traffic was changed compared to Tuesday when at least six ships made the trip, according to LSEG.
About a dozen commercial vessels of various types transited it on Monday.
The data showed traffic is way below normal levels before the war when more than 100 ships crossed the strait daily.
And they include a nifty little graph here.
This is what I wanted to discuss, although that is, you know, worthwhile, is that, again, Iranian ships, although not at a high volume whatsoever, are still able to transit through the Strait of Hormuz.
It's a mess.
Quite frankly, it's a mess.
The security situation in the Strait remains dangerous.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Wednesday that it seized two container ships as they tried to cross the Strait, quote, without authorization, according to the state news agency Taznim.
What's funny, like covering the Iran stuff, is that you're introduced to all these different outlets that are Iranian state media.
You know, Every time you hear reporting like FARS, I mean, everyone knew FARS, but you're learning of all these new news agencies out of Iran that are indeed state news, which is quite hilarious.
The UK MTO has warned ships that there are, quote, high levels of activity in the street and they should report suspicious activity.
A cargo ship was fired upon on Wednesday and it is now stopped in the water, according to an incident report from the UK MTO.
A gunboat with the guard fired on a container ship Tuesday, causing heavy damage to the bridge, the UK MTO said.
The attacks on ships this week come after a weekend of confusion and confrontation in and around the street.
Iranian forces on Saturday fired upon a tanker and cargo ships in the sea lane a day after declaring the sea lane open to commercial traffic.
The vessels were apparently Indian, with New Delhi lodging a complaint with Tehran.
I don't know if you guys saw the radio transmission, it was made public.
You effectively had these Indian ship workers effectively begging for their lives.
I can't really blame them, they're getting fired upon.
Especially, it was a day after Iran was like, hey, come on, business as usual, everyone.
Come on, come on into the strait.
You know, there's no problem here.
The U.S. Navy on Sunday fired on an Iranian cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman.
The Marines boarded and took custody of the vessel.
Trump said the ship was trying to evade the blockade of Iran.
Iran's attacks on oil tankers before the ceasefire led to a plunge in traffic through the strait, triggering what's been described as the largest oil supply disruption in history.
Almost 20% of the world's crude supplies passed through the Strait before the war.
It will take up to until July for oil flows to reach up to 90% of pre war levels and up to another two months for barrels to arrive at refineries around the world for processing into products.
That is according to Rystad Energy.
So, I mean, look, on the show, we've broken down lots of different potential fallouts from the Iran war, potential different disruptions.
July, August, September.
So, again, if we are able to get out of this war now, so we're two weeks past, it's been eight weeks since the start of the war.
We're two weeks past Trump's initial deadline for the war.
He said it was going to be about six weeks.
Now we're two weeks past that.
And again, if this war continues another month, we're going to look at energy disruption into the midterms.
What's interesting is if you look at President Trump's, I'll get into this later, I suppose.
I guess I can just get into it now.
If you look at President Trump's job approval, now look, I know people in this sphere of the internet hate polls.
They hate looking at approval ratings.
And I do agree.
They're kind of just schizophrenic these days.
They don't really tell you much.
It is worth considering that Trump's approval rating is taking a bit of a dive.
He's at about the same approval rating, if not a bit lower than at this point in his first term.
That is just worth considering.
That's worth considering.
I'm not saying that you should grade the Trump administration based on approval.
I'm definitely not saying that.
You should not grade the Trump administration.
Based off of approval ratings.
And I mean, I wasn't a public commentator at the time, but for posterity's sake, I could say I wasn't even really evaluating the Biden administration on approval rating.
Because approval ratings are really just gauging partisanship now.
That's all they really effectively do.
So 40% of the country.
The basement for President Trump is probably 34%.
If I had to take a stab at it as to what his diehard support would be, it would be about 30, 34%.
If I had to guess.
So 40% means he probably still is about 6% to 8% of.
You know, Republicans that aren't on board with the MAGA thing or independents that are approving of jobs, of Trump's jobs so far.
But again, I mean, we're talking about massive energy disruptions.
This drives costs up across the board.
You're starting to see the rest of the market finally react to, you know, these energy disruptions.
You know, there's some reports coming out of various financial commerce magazines and publications indicating that, yeah, grocery stores, et cetera, are now starting to reevaluate their pricing and, and, Push it upwards.
I mean, in reaction to energy costs still not coming down.
I mean, crude and Brent crude, et cetera, have all come down a little bit from highs.
I mean, we were at like 110 a barrel, like three weeks into the war.
They've come down, that is true, but they're still $85, $90, $95, depending on Trump's last true social post.
So the global market is very volatile right now.
It is very expensive to get any commerce done.
And this is hammering the global economy.
Specifically, it's harming the United States.
I mean, it really is.
It's hurting us.
And this is the thing you know, we've had some Republican strategists come out and they've said, look, I was listening to one talking to, I think it was CNN, and he was like, look, President Trump, like, we're still very early into the second term.
He can turn things around.
And I agree with that sentiment.
And I'll get into it later.
A lot of the white pills coming out of the Trump administration.
But it is true.
You got to have an explanation for the American people when the prices go up.
Because, again, this is what we know.
This is politics 101 is that the number one kind of driving factor for presidents and midterm and democracy, right, is how is their life going?
Like, that's a very real, tangible thing to evaluate.
How are people's lives going?
Are things more expensive than they were a year ago, or are they less expensive as things were a year ago?
I think a large part of why.
Biden slash Kamala lost in 2024.
Yes, Trump ran a fantastic campaign.
Yes, there were a lot of social issues that were sort of a referendum on, in addition to all those things we understand.
But I would argue a contributing factor, if not the foremost contributing factor, was again, the economy was in tatters.
The COVID recovery was slower than anticipated.
The stock market was whatever.
But primarily, we still had these massive sanctions on Russia.
Which, you know, love him or hate him, that's just true.
Those, I'm losing words out of my mouth.
Those sanctions on Russia were in place, and this was driving the global energy supply up.
That's just the reality of the situation.
And I think that harmed Biden and Kamala, because I mean, Kamala was just an extension of the Biden administration going into the 2024 election, and voters reacted quite strongly.
I mean, Trump obviously performed exceptionally in the 2024 presidential election.
You can't get away with high energy prices in a democracy.
You can't get away with high price consumer goods.
People evaluate those things.
A lot of people aren't paying attention to the news.
Probably the majority of voters aren't even really paying attention to the news.
But what do they pay attention to?
Their bank accounts.
What do they pay attention to?
The gas price.
You know, used to fill your car up for $35.
Now it costs $50 to fill up.
That's just, again, people react to stuff like that, whether we like it or not.
So, again, I mean, look, if this war is going to keep, if it's going to be prolonged, right?
Which I anticipate so because, again, the initial goals that were set in this conflict aren't being met.
And I understand the theory around, like, you know, we're trying to rewire the global energy market.
You know, we're trying to, again, curtail Chinese influence by harming them.
I understand all of that.
But what I'm saying is look, you still got to win elections.
That's just the reality of the situation.
And a lot of Americans, specifically within Trump's base, weren't really electing them with the intention of rewiring the global market or achieving these long term geopolitical goals.
You know, they were electing them for domestic wins.
You can make the argument Trump's been stonewalled with domestic wins.
It's impossible to get any domestic policy across the finish line because of the courts, because of Congress.
And in the foreign policy realm, he's effectively able to do whatever he wants.
And that's why he's going as hard as he can on foreign policy.
That might be true, but so far, this has just seemed to harm him and his party's electoral projections, his viability and the Republican Party's viability at the polls.
I think that's just the reality of the situation.
In addition to that, I mean, Okay, it is true that China, you know, their economy is, you know, struggling now, but ours is too.
So it's like, I guess oil exports are booming, but again, gas prices aren't coming down super hard.
Now we're starting to see the rest of the market react.
That's a problem.
In addition to that, you know, the whole point, you know, with Ukraine, the whole reason why a lot of people on the right were sort of opposed to just dumping money into Ukraine for a variety of reasons was because, again, it further creates this rift between two great powers, which is the United States.
The greatest power, this really still the sole superpower, I would say, in the world, in Russia, right?
Like the whole point of sort of this opposition to throwing everything we have into Ukraine, one of the factors, one of the theories that was proposed by a lot of people was look, we don't want to be further antagonizing Russia.
We want to have a good relationship with Russia.
You know, we don't have to be friends.
We don't have to be allies.
We don't have to be in any sort of packs.
We don't have to be in any sort of, you know, transatlantic organizations.
And I don't want that for a variety of reasons.
But It is true that, again, the further away you push Russia, the further away you antagonize them, they have to look for partners, right?
They have to form a power block in order to curtail sort of this Atlantic alliance that's been stitched together for 70, 80 years at this point, but especially since the end of the Cold War.
And that's going to push Russia and China close together.
It's going to put Russia and Iran close together.
And now we're seeing it.
Russia is shipping all sorts of things to Iran.
Russia is further deepening the relationship with Iran.
And Russia has an obvious interest in Iran surviving.
This war.
So, this is just another geopolitical play by the United States that has pushed Russia, China, and Iran together, and North Korea for that matter, into a sort of Axis power, I guess you would say, or a united anti Western power block.
I just think it's a serious miscalculation.
For one, we can't depend on our NATO allies.
I think that is obviously true.
I mean, we saw, you know, if you go back a year ago to the meeting with Zelensky, you know, the famous one where Trump said, you have no leverage, and JD Vance is chewing them out.
That was Zelensky just fumbled that.
Zelensky.
You know, he had an attitude.
He hates JD Vance.
I mean, that's obvious.
I mean, JD Vance, I think when he ran for Senate, you know, he said, We have zero interest in Ukraine.
You know, Ukraine's a waste of time, that sort of thing.
And Zelensky had been saying, you know, he'd been attacking JD Vance for that.
And when he came over, he stumped for Josh Shapiro in the Pennsylvania governor's race.
And he was attacking JD Vance again for not, you know, crying, you know, shedding tears at the mere thought of Ukraine having to cede territory to Russia.
And so that whole relationship between Zelensky and JD Vance, Zelensky hated JD Vance.
So he came into that meeting already with a chip on his shoulder.
And you can see JD Vance in that meeting, not to like rehash all of this, but it's worth noting is JD Vance in that meeting, when he said, you know, something along the lines of, you're not even drafting your entire population, because Ukraine, this has been a major point of contention between the Western powers and Ukraine, is that they refuse to drop their draft age down.
So the average age in the Ukrainian military right now is like 35 or 40.
They have very, very old military because they know if they drop the draft age, two things are going to happen.
One, most of the young men are going to flee.
And for the most part, they're still keeping the economy somewhat running.
And then two, a lot of them would die.
And you need those men for after the war to rebuild your country.
So that's primarily why Ukraine, from their perspective, doesn't want to drop the draft age.
The problem is, yeah, it's just frustrating because we're not getting, you know, from the Ukrainian, you know, from our perspective with our interest in Ukraine, whatever that may be, we're not getting the best possible outcome here if we're not using the full might.
You know, Zelensky and all these guys are saying we're throwing everything we have in there.
It's not true.
That's just not true if you look again at the draft age, other metrics that indicate that.
And I did understand Zelensky, you know, he's been fighting this for a few years now, quite a few years.
He's seeing a lot of men die.
That's got a way on his conscience.
So when JD Vance said that, he crashed out.
And then that's when that whole debacle happened.
Zelensky walked away.
The mineral deals was in tatters.
The mineral deal was a great deal for Ukraine.
I mean, there was no guarantee, but it was basically a rehashing of the Budapest memorandum, which was like, hey, if we can intertwine Ukraine, that's how geopolitics works it's all market driven, it's all resource driven.
And again, if we can sort of intertwine Ukraine's resources with the Western economy and plug that in, then yeah, we would have a bit more of an interest in resolving this conflict.
But he crashed out, and it's very unfortunate.
Unfortunate thing.
Things have changed a little bit, but it's kind of a stalemate as it stands in Ukraine and Russia.
But that's besides the point.
My initial point was again, this war does sort of stitch this rising power block, this sort of BRICS power block, closer together.
And that's just going to cause problems for us.
Do I think that BRICS is a viable adversary to the United States?
No, I've made that very clear.
China has no fighting experience for the most part.
I mean, North Korea, the primary reason why North Korea was sending soldiers to the Russian front line was because they wanted to get.
Experience fighting.
They have one of the largest militaries in the world, and it's again virtually untested.
So they wanted to get experience fighting.
That's just the reality of the situation.
So I think the United States still fully is in the driver's seat on the global stage.
But again, with Iran, what were our initial goals in the war?
It was regime change.
Hasn't happened.
Pretty much the exact same ruling ideology exists in Iran.
You kill one of their leaders, they just swap out another apparatchik who, again, believes all the same things.
The Strait of Four moves, controlling that.
Still up in the air.
I mean, if Iran is seizing ships, if ships are passing through, it's still like, Okay, what's going on here?
There's mines everywhere that we can't find, which is a nightmare.
Again, just completely decimating their military.
He has done that.
The Navy is true.
Their Navy is decimated.
We've drained a lot of their munitions.
That is true.
Obviously, they're not able to really inflict much damage on Israel and other regional allies and our bases as well.
But their nuclear program can be rebuilt, especially if the Chinese step in and help them rebuild it, because now China and Russia have a vested interest in the survival of Iran and a vested interest in rebuilding Iran.
And that's the difficult thing.
We have all these goals for our conflict in Iran.
Iran has one goal survival.
Survival for the Iranians is a victory.
You can't really negotiate with that.
I mean, you got to think from the Iranian perspective here.
They looked at what happened when Libya gave up their nukes.
They looked up what happened with Iraq, right?
This is what happens when countries give up their nuclear weapons.
Ukraine, I mean, that's obviously not American related, but again, Ukraine sort of dismantled the nuclear program, and the Russians kind of said, yeah, maybe we'll invade, maybe we won't.
And then they did.
So, again, you look around the globe, nuclear power, nuclear.
Weapons is really what gives you an insurance policy.
That's the whole reason North Korea survived as long as it has.
Again, their internal situation is a disaster.
Everyone knows how horrible of a country North Korea is, but they have nuclear weapons, and that's what forces people to take them seriously at the global stage.
That's just, again, it's just how the world works.
I hate it.
I hate that that's the arrangement, but there's nothing you can really do about that.
And so, from Iran's perspective, they're like, we would rather just fight to the last man than give up our nuclear weapons.
And then the problem is in our negotiations, we just saw the negotiations.
Pakistan blow up.
JD Vance didn't even get on the plane.
They're not going to agree to release, you know, relinquish their nuclear program to dismantle it.
And that's our hard line where the whole point of this entire conflict is to decimate their nuclear program.
So I project what's going to be happening is we're going to have these long, protracted ceasefires that get blown up, or we'll just every six months have to do, you know, flybys and bomb their nuclear program.
Not a favorable outcome.
It really isn't.
So I understand all the kind of the complex theory about the rewiring of the global economy.
That may be circumstantial.
That may have been a secondary goal of the Pentagon.
Regardless, we got to get out of this.
We got to get out of this.
We're getting hammered in the polling.
Again, people are reacting.
I'm not even really concerned about the whole Tucker, Candace, Joe Kent thing.
That's an online thing that does matter.
It does matter that the base is demoralized.
But if you're looking at electorally, people are mainly reacting to the market, people are mainly reacting to energy costs.
And that's why they're souring on this entire conflict.
Carolyn Levitt, you know, she was kind of hand waving away the ship seizures, the ships that were seized by Iran.
She was saying in this segment she did with McCallum, she said, look, these weren't Israeli or American flagged, so it doesn't violate the ceasefire.
I believe it says right here, yeah, they were Greek flagged, Greek and Mediterranean flagged.
Well, I think they were both Greek flagged ships.
So, again, it sucks, but it doesn't really involve us.
That's kind of the official position from the White House.
And that may be true, but again, it.
Sort of makes you ask questions about the situation in the strait.
Iran is saying we're open for business, but then they board ships and seize them.
The United States saying we control the strait, but some ships aren't turning around.
We're having to shoot at them or board them.
I mean, it's just kind of like, what are we doing here?
Trump put out a statement here this morning.
I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be.
Their naval ships are all, 159 of them, at the bottom of the sea.
That is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz.
There is to be no hesitation.
Additionally, our mine, quote, sweepers are clearing the street right now.
I am hereby ordering that activity to continue, but at a tripled up level.
Thank you for your attention to the matter.
Again, this is just a very tenuous situation.
But yesterday, he had kind of softened his tone.
He was saying, for example, Iran, according to reporting, had six female protesters on death row.
They were going to execute six female protesters.
And then Trump came out and he said, I talked to the Iranians.
They're backing off of this.
They're going to release some, or I think three of them would be released, and then three of them were just going to face a small sentence of some sort.
But then the Iranian judicial system came out, the judicial committee or whatever, and Iran came out and they said, actually, no, that's not the situation.
We're potentially going to have to execute them.
I think they said they were going to release two of them or something like that.
So again, it's just unclear.
And then Trump put this out again this morning, which indicates that this is the situation.
We can kind of read between the lines here.
There's that B. Can you see it?
I think it's a Persian B that has come after me.
I'm trying to further the war effort for the Iranians.
Iran is having a very hard time figuring out who their leader is.
They just don't know.
The infighting is between the, quote, hardliners who have been losing badly on the battlefield and the, quote, moderates who are not very moderate at all, but gaining respect is crazy.
We have total control over the Strait of Hormuz.
No ship can enter or leave without the approval of the United States Navy.
It is, quote, sealed up tight until such time as Iran is able to make a deal.
Thank you.
For your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.
So, again, it's just a very, very tenuous situation right now in the Strait of Hormuz.
I think we just, I mean, I've maintained this position and I hear all the arguments, but look, it might be time to cut our losses here.
Again, you can cut your losses here and claim victory and communicate that to the American people.
Energy prices will drop back down.
We can say, well, we decimated their Navy.
We took out all their leadership.
We did set their nuclear program back to the Stone Age.
So, again, you can lick your wounds here and then, again, try to solve this diplomatically or potentially with another conflict.
Further down the road.
Maybe, I don't know.
It's just tough to say.
But right now, as it stands, I don't think we're going to accomplish our goals in the region.
And again, a rewiring of the global market, again, when you're in a dogfight, you know, and in a democracy, this is just not sort of something you want to undertake.
And again, I'm skeptical if that is even the case as it is happening.
Because again, well, I won't get into it.
Let's move on to other stories.
I think you guys are probably tired of hearing about Iran.
And I will tell you that we, you know, Tyler would tell the story.
I'll let him tell it because he was more directly involved.
He put together a whole group of people that are based in Virginia, that are based in DC, conservative groups, and put a proposal together to train those groups to deploy our ballot chase efforts the way we do it.
Time frame it would take.
And there was a big proposal put forward and it was turned down.
And people didn't want to fund it.
So it is what it is.
You know, until our side invests the same amount of money and enthusiasm in GOTV and canvassing and voter relationships, voter reg, as it does with consultants and media buyers, we're going to continue to come up just short.
And the country's going to really be damaged as a result.
That's just the bottom line.
We have to be demanding more ballot chase, more canvassing, because, yeah, you've got to have the media spend.
You've got to have the air war and the ground war.
They have to come together in the middle.
Because, listen, you can't do one or the other.
And by the way, if you're going to continually get outspent when you're sitting on mountains of cash, which, if you kind of tally it together, all these PACs and all these groups on the right, we have a lot of cash right now.
And you can say, oh, we're keeping our powder dry for the midterms.
And if you look at where the money is getting spent, I mean, Nick Sortor pointed it out on the show yesterday on Tim Kest IRL.
Again, we got spent, outspent like one to three, one to four in the Virginia redistricting race, which is just unacceptable because you have four House seats on the line there.
And with showing how close that race was with minimal investment from the national GOP, that shows you that could have easily been swung.
I mean, I live in Virginia.
Every time I'd watch a YouTube video, I would get hit with an ad.
And like one out of every three times, it was Obama telling me to go vote yes.
So, you know, we could have put up a fight there.
We put up zero fight, zero fight from the GOP.
And Lacevita, Chris Lacevita, who is, again, would be the guy you would look to as to where money is getting moved, which are for rich races.
There's that B is back.
Goodness gracious.
It's a GOP apparatchik B who is upset about me criticizing their spending practices.
Anyway, Crystal Civita, you know, tons of money allocated to John Cornyn, not in a general election, by the way.
It's not like John Cornyn is in a tight race with Tallarico for a primary, for a primary with an AG, Ken Baxton, who is very popular within the GOP, especially with the conservative base.
So not only is it a misallocation of money, but it's not like we are using that money to primary like a troublemaker or something.
No, that money was being allocated to oust or to defeat a candidate that's really popular to defend a career politician who everyone hates.
A lot of people within the GOP hate.
And I have under good authority that a lot of congressmen hate, Senate and House.
No, let's give this guy tens of millions of dollars to defeat, again, a very popular Republican before the general elections even occurred.
And then let's give some pennies over to the Virginia redistricting.
This was a text that he received from a high powered figure and conservative, you know, policymaking, think tank, you know, foundation world.
It's like you're reading my mind on X today, man.
Went to a few orgs to fund field and VA, and nobody wanted to touch it.
It's insanity.
And then Tyler says, Yep, they're too lazy.
You're scared of getting involved.
Scared is what I got.
The left uses C4 and even C3 dollars constantly, and we are afraid of our own shadows.
That is absolutely true.
Again, with all the conservative organizations that exist, we all know them.
Again, you got to look at where that money's going.
Oftentimes, they'll give it to the GOP just in a lump sum and say, allocate this how you see fit.
And of course, they're just rewarding their buddies.
It's just completely unacceptable to the point where, like, you know, I mean, like, you know, when Red exists, you can just donate money straight to these candidates.
Like, if you have a, again, that would be my recommendation is instead of, I don't know what you're, you know, how you guys spend money on politics or in political donations.
But yeah, maybe just use WinRed and give it directly to the candidates rather than giving it to some of these organizations or the national GOP because, again, they just completely piss the money away.
It's a total joke.
So, with that, I'm going to get to this next story.
This is on the border.
We saw a report this morning that Trump was looking to.
We've seen this reporting for a while.
Nick Sortor talked about it on the show.
Is that there's been direction given to Republicans running for Congress to stop talking about mass deportation?
So, that's kind of been the question is this a.
Directive because they're intending on winding down mass deportations or sort of abandoning it altogether?
Or is it more, hey, this is kind of not playing well in the press, so stop feeding the fire.
Still going to conduct this operation?
That is kind of the question.
Now, as we know, DHS and really precisely ICE is what the primary concern is.
The funding bill for, or sorry, the funding has been frozen.
It's been frozen, Senate, the Senate, and it refuses to act on it.
Trump put this statement out in Truth Social.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senator Lindsey Graham have taken a critical first step to passing another reconciliation bill to fund our great Border Patrol and ICE agents.
The radical left Democrats and their so called quote leader, crying Chuck Schumer, one of the most incompetent senators in American history, that is true objectively, will try to offer quote amendments during this process to divide Republicans.
Republicans must stick together and unify to get this done and to keep America safe, something which the Democrats don't care about.
Thank you for your attention to this matter and make America great again.
Again, like President Trump, you know, there's a lot, you know, pretty accurate, like people want to see deportation numbers far higher.
There's no question about that.
Even moderates in the GOP want to see this.
But, you know, look at his teammates.
I mean, look at his teammates.
This is what he has to deal with.
The fact that he's having to depend on John Thune and Lindsey Graham to get domestic policy across the finish line.
I mean, it's a total joke.
And, you know, there's plenty of criticism to go around on Trump's end to say, like, well, stop endorsing them.
You know, stop giving them your blessing.
Start endorsing, you know, more hardliners in immigration.
And that's true.
I've kind of said this for years.
Sort of, I think the biggest Trump's biggest flaw, so to speak, would be, again, his endorsement, you know, the way he endorses the candidates he chooses to endorse.
I mean, a great example is he almost endorsed John Cornyn.
Over Ken Paxton, which would have just been a train wreck.
It's a huge blind spot of his.
I think primarily is because he just doesn't really, he's not really on Twitter anymore.
You know, he's primarily on Truth Social.
So, you know, the way he can evaluate people, the way he evaluates people personally is based off of his actual in person interactions.
We know that President Trump's on the phone quite a bit.
He's constantly calling people.
And so he's having to take people's word for it.
And again, these apparatchiks can come out and say, Lindsey Graham's fantastic.
You should throw all your support behind him.
Oh, John Thune, he's great.
You know, he's great.
He's fantastic.
And, you know, Trump, again, this is a criticism.
Isn't really plugged in to the sort of inner GOP infighting.
He's just presuming when these people tell him, Yes, sir, Mr. President, I'm on board with your agenda, he just kind of takes them at their word.
Again, he's not surfing ballotpedia and looking at their voting record near the voting history.
That's just not the reality on the ground.
But these guys, again, there's criticism to be had for Trump for not endorsing the best possible candidates in some of these races.
But To his defense, John Thune and Lindsey Graham are in red states and they should be behaving how senators in red states behave.
So, this is more of a personal transgression of theirs that, again, they're just completely, they're acting completely out of line, quite frankly.
They're not acting in accordance with the domestic agenda that is popular within their states, among their constituents.
And so, they just, again, drag their feet.
They just tweet all day.
I mean, this is what was really annoying seeing after, and you probably saw me on Twitter chimping about it, is after the You know, after the Virginia redistricting battle, we lost that.
So many of these congressmen just came out and started talking.
They just started talking.
Sort of tweeting, talking a big game.
Unbelievable.
It's like, guys, can you read the room here?
I mean, Chris Lacevita, who fumbled this entire thing, was attacking random people on Twitter for criticizing him.
He posted the mugshot of this guy who was critiquing.
Again, this is a young guy who was frustrated with a lot of operations in the GOP, specifically in regards to the funding.
And he dug up the guy's mugshot and posted it and was like, is this you?
And it's like, dude, who are you to talk?
You just fumbled four House seats almost single handedly.
So, zip it for a moment and show a little humility.
Maybe just get off Twitter at that point and just like go to your job.
Unbelievable seeing that.
I mean, that was just scandalous.
But yeah, all across the House, you're seeing, and guys that I generally like, like Jim Jordan.
I mean, I think he's a good congressman, but he's like tweeting fraud here, fraud there.
What's next?
And it's like, I don't know.
You tell us.
You're the one in Congress.
I'm starting to notice.
I can't remember who said it.
You can go look at the replies.
Someone was like, I'm noticing you guys don't really do much.
Like, you tell us what's next.
You're the one in the House.
And if you guys aren't willing to do the job, put us in charge because I can promise you, I'm not even saying this like I'm super smart, like I should be a congressman.
I'm just saying, like, I would push a little bit harder than these guys are.
I think there's no question about that.
And I think everyone in the audience could probably second that.
It's just unbelievable what's going on.
Trump, to his credit, I mean, look, the deportation numbers, you know, there's questions, but I mean, this is a great account, Prowler at Dersum underscore.
He just combs through data all day long.
He's like one of these guys that has autism, and his particular Fixation is on deportation numbers.
You know, some people get really into phone books, some people get into Magic the Gathering.
This guy, his, is combing through ICE numbers, deportation numbers, et cetera, et cetera.
This is just one sort of thing that I caught.
You know, he said ICE arrests have increased in every state, regardless of media spotlight.
Missouri, for instance, has seen ICE alone arrests triple, and 287 agreements are starting to spread.
Missouri GOP has a series of bills which could mandate integrated immigration enforcement statewide.
This is something else that Will Chamberlain pointed out when he was on the show look, It takes a while, but we're starting to get a lot of these local agreements across the finish lines, even these statewide agreements across the finish line, which allows further integration, either full integration where ICE can now just be deputized effectively and operate within these jurisdictions, or at the very least, these law enforcement agencies are now communicating with ICE and they're attempting to get these deportations across the finish line.
That is a white pill.
That is a serious white pill.
Another white pill was, again, President Trump putting this out.
He was effectively quote tweeting a Matt Walsh tweet here.
Where this was this graph that went viral a few months ago, basically just showing food stamps by ethnicity.
And I mean, you can just see here, again, like some of these foreign groups, the amount of food stamps that they're taking by a percentage of their population.
And then Matt Walsh said, We import the third world and force working class Americans to feed and house them at gunpoint, civilizational suicide.
Trump read that and said that's worthwhile to put out.
And I think that's a huge white pill.
I think that indicates that Trump, for all the flaws around mass migration, We have to cut the guy some slack.
We have to give him a little grace here.
Bear with me because, again, he's been an awful lot for the second term.
I mean, he's decided to try and rearrange the entire geopolitical scene, which is neither here nor there.
But even with all the domestic stuff going on, it's a lot to handle for one guy.
This indicates when he put stuff like this, that indicates to me he knows what's going on.
He understands, he still understands those things that he was saying during the 2016 election cycle.
He still, in his heart of hearts, firmly believes that, again, we're being ripped off.
That's kind of how he thinks in terms of economics, in terms of transactions.
And he firmly does believe that we're being ripped off through our immigration system.
He'll come out and he'll say, Well, we're going to like maybe like loosen up visa restrictions here or there.
But again, when you look across the board, I mean, just oops, stuff like this.
I mean, again, ICE arrests are increasing.
Asylum cases have tanked.
I mean, they're virtually at the bottom, like all time lows.
Visa grants, like for even student visas, which people were chimping out over, you know, rightfully so.
Visa, yeah, student visa grants are down.
I mean, everywhere you look, pretty much every visa is down.
So again, we're issuing less visas.
Because legal immigration is just as big of a problem, if not more so than legal immigration at this point.
The whole refugee system's been completely slashed.
We're only accepting white South Africans, which is just hilarious, quite frankly.
So, again, like there's a lot of progress being made.
Is it enough?
No.
I mean, what, 30 million came in under Biden?
That's a start.
I think 30 million is the basement of what needs to be done 30 million deportations.
But, like, we're making progress.
We're making progress.
These things take a lot of time.
We're trying to reorient 80 years of policy that was basically targeting right wingers.
And reorient it the other way.
It's going to take some time.
It doesn't help when they get in their own way.
I'm not denying that.
I'm just saying there's no need to fully blackpill here.
And then also, he's the only show in town.
So even if you blackpilled, even if you said, nope, Trump's not the guy, he's not the guy, it's not going to happen, et cetera, et cetera.
What other show is there in town?
Tell me the more viable political option here.
Let the Democrats win.
I think South Africa has demonstrated that people kind of just get used to how bad things get.
Also, I mean, Yeah, we had James Carvel come out and say, like, we would just make DC a state and Puerto Rico a state and pack the court so the Republicans would never get power again.
Which, you know, I hate their GOP and national GOP, but like they're a lot more amenable to our policy positions than the Democrats are.
So, again, good luck trying to reorient the Democrat Party because they're basically just the we hate white people party.
In addition to that, I mean, this is another white pill.
This is coming from the New York Post.
This is obviously on the SPLC indictments that dropped from the DOJ.
I won't read the entire thing, but how the SPLC is a $520,000 per year CEO helped turn civil rights group into a partisan smear machine.
Again, we saw multiple commentators come out, multiple different people in the political sphere come out and show these sort of dossiers that were put out on them by the SPLC, just basically trying to ruin their lives.
Again, even the initial, you know, the New York Post obviously says they're a respected civil rights group.
Even the initial promise of the civil rights era was reneged on.
And that shouldn't be a surprise to anyone because, again, the civil rights era kind of, the civil rights movement kind of gyrated out of leftism.
So you're going to get, this is going to happen every single time with civil rights groups.
This is just nine times out of 10, this is going to be your outcome as they just start targeting conservatives, start targeting specifically right wingers.
You saw a lot of bizarre stuff coming out.
I mean, especially around Charlottesville.
You know, this guy was putting this out, you know, in 2024, Ken Silva.
You know, he's a, you know, he's a, you know, I guess you say a journalist, kind of, you know, he's a writer, that's safe to say.
And he was kind of talking about these FBI informants that are operating in the dissident circles, you know, the radical circles, so to speak.
A new, it's from Ken Silva, a new socialist movement member was funded by the SPLC according to a new DOJ indictment.
As I showed two years ago, an FBI informant founded.
The National Socialist Movement, that's Nazi, neo Nazi.
The group also had numerous informants in leadership positions, including Jeff Shoup, Hal Turner, David Gledi, and others.
Now, this is again according to Ken Silva.
But it does indicate that the SPLC not only had infiltrated sort of these dissident groups, but in many cases they just founded them out of thin air.
I mean, now we're kind of seeing, and this is why we need a sort of truth and reconciliation committee for Charlottesville, they're seeing that Charlottesville from the get go may have just been organized by feds in conjunction with the SPLC.
Are sort of established by the SPLC in conjunction with the Fed.
It doesn't matter which way you put it, they're both involved.
Purposely to, again, just pick off a lot of these guys who, if they would focus, if they would sort of channel their energy into maybe more viable political projects, they probably wouldn't have, but they're just picking off vulnerable people.
So you got to look at who the SPLC gives money to versus who they attack.
They attack guys like Matt Walsh, they attacked guys like Charlie Kirk, and they listed Turning Point as like a hate group.
But then they gave money to these more like dissident organizations, these dissident programs.
As I see it, it's because they viewed people who we consider like normie commentators, like Charlie Kirk, like Matt Walsh, they viewed them as actual threats, right?
They viewed them as potential opposition, potential opponents to their sort of agenda, to their goals.
Because these guys, you know, they're not far right, you know, they're not dissidents, you know, they're not super based, they're not, you know, whatever radical.
No, but they were able to step into the mainstream and then single handedly shift the conversation, single handedly shift the policy proposal, single handedly shift the mindset of the Trump administration.
They were targeted by the SPLC.
The SPLC was actively trying to tear those guys down.
Now they're cutting checks to these dissident groups because they're trying to sop up all of the guys that otherwise would be working in these spheres.
Instead, they would prop up these dissident groups to sop up all of those guys and basically take them off the market and trap them.
Throw them in jail, just ruin their lives through federal courts, the federal courts, et cetera, et cetera.
Because the SPLC is not really threatened by these dissident groups.
They're not really threatened by a super based radical guy, 444, who says whatever and it's super based and gets some Twitter likes because that guy is not able to actually effectively dictate the terms of what is mainstream and what's not.
The people who are, again, guys like Matt Walsh, who was extensively targeted by the SPLC.
That's just the reality on the ground.
The guys that are able to, again, occupy the mainstream and then move it in the direction that they want it to go are, again, going to be far more effective and far more scary to these leftist organizations than guys who are dissidents and they have big online presences, but it doesn't really translate into political victories.
This whole SPLC saga is kind of proof of that.
This one is really shocking, and this kind of tells you what the mindset was among the SPLC's leadership.
This is via Patrick Casey.
Flashback to when the SPLC's Mark Potok, or Potok, Potok, Um, Podic maybe did an interview, and on his wall was a handwritten note tracing the decline of America's white population.
I mean, it's like supervillain stuff going on here.
It isn't an exaggeration to say that the SPLC and other left wing organizations hate most Americans.
Well, I would say specifically white Americans, I think that's like specifically who they hate.
Left or right didn't matter to them, they just wanted to see the white population go down.
It's like, look at this clip.
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Hood, uh, and my bosses insisted that we move out of the house for a week.
This is him tracking the non Hispanic white proportion of the U.S. population.
So 90% in 1920, 85% in 1960.
Obviously, the Hart Seller Act passes, and then now the white population is just dropping like a rock.
And he is, with Giddy, tracking the decline.
He is.
Ultimately, wanting to see it drop as far as possible.
Why?
Because he hates white people.
He hates America.
And like America has always been, I mean, you saw there in 1920, overwhelmingly white.
All the founders, pretty much every figure in American history up until recently was white.
That was kind of the central culture of the United States, kind of the core population.
This isn't to say that other people aren't Americans.
This isn't like a racial point.
I'm just thinking that's an objective fact.
I don't think that's really up for contention.
And this guy wants to see the demise of that population.
Why?
Because he hates the United States.
He hates white people.
It's just done.
Open and shut case.
So, with that, I got one more story to get to.
And I think you guys will hate this one.
Maybe a lot of you.
Some of you will love this, but a lot of you will probably hate my take on this.
But I stand on business.
I often will take positions that I believe is truly the right wing position on any given instance.
And I will receive a lot of flack, and I'm fully aware of that.
But I think there's some people in the crowd that will.
Sort of agree with my position on this.
The Trump administration is expected to reclassify marijuana as soon as today.
This is via Axios.
This was yesterday, right around noon, so I couldn't get it in the stack in time.
Now, before I get into the story and my personal opinions on all of this, I think everyone, whether you're the biggest pothead in America, you can agree that the way this all came about is a little bit shady.
I think we can all agree, you know, because there's guys who will rant and rave all day long about lobbyists and special interest groups in the United States and Washington, D.C.
Some people are saying, well, this is a play to boost his, you know, his numbers in the midterms.
No, it's not.
They've been talking about doing this for months now.
That is not why this is happening.
This is happening because of lobbying efforts, everyone getting in line.
Because again, it's these weed companies.
It's these weed companies that are receiving massive or really a lot of pressure from Wall Street to, again, get marijuana reclassified.
That is why this is going on.
Because, again, if they change the schedule, if they sort of downgrade the schedule here, that will allow banking access for these weed companies.
That will allow them to give them banking access.
That will allow for, again, investment coming in from Wall Street.
And that's going to shoot the stocks through the roof.
I mean, that's primarily what's going on here.
There's a myriad of things.
It doesn't actually affect the legality of marijuana.
If you live in a state where weed's already legal, this doesn't even impact you.
No one's in jail for smoking weed anymore.
This isn't 1990.
I promise you, there's not a single person right now in federal prison or even state prison that is there solely for smoking cannabis.
That's just not true.
You can go through the number yourself.
I'm not making that up.
It gives them banking access.
Again, it gives them IRS access, which allows them to write off business expenses.
That's a big reason because a lot of these weed shops, these smaller ones, you know, they'll run at a deficit of $900,000, but then they profit a million dollars.
Well, they're on the hook for a million dollars of taxes, where now, again, with this reclassification, now they can write off that $900,000.
That is true.
It's just, it really is dirty how this has all come about because, again, the intention here is to allow Wall Street to flood into the market on this.
And it's just, it's really, this is corruption, quite frankly.
I mean, my case in point for this, there was an article in the Wall Street, or sorry, it was in the Washington Post.
You know, a few months ago when this was first sort of being kicked around, this idea of reclassifying marijuana.
And what happened was a lot of cannabis industry figures had a meeting in the Oval Office with President Trump and they're, you know, pressuring him saying, let's reclassify this.
It's this miracle drug, et cetera, et cetera.
And President Trump, you know, was like, okay, maybe.
So he calls Mike, this is according to the Washington Post, he calls Mike Johnson.
Mike Johnson goes, I don't know.
I think it's a bad idea.
I'm against this, et cetera, et cetera.
President Trump gives the phone to Kim Rivers.
Now you may be asking, who's Kim Rivers?
There's this company called TrueLeave.
They're one of the biggest cannabis companies in the United States, TrueLeave.
Kim Rivers is the CEO.
This company is based in Florida.
And Trump hands the phone to her.
And then he's like, You explain it to Mike.
You explain to Mike why this needs to be reclassified.
So he doesn't really care.
This is not really an issue for him.
This is, again, the result of massive lobbying in the United States, specifically targeting President Trump here.
Kim Rivers, what's interesting about her, how does this tie in?
Well, Susie Wiles, I don't know if you are familiar with Susie Wiles, the chief of staff of the White House, one of the most important people in the country.
Susie Wiles consulted for TrueLeave.
She was working for a lobbying firm, I think they were called Ballard, in Florida.
She was heading up a lobbying firm in the state of Florida, and they took on TrueLeave as a client, right?
They represented TrueLeave in lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C.
And then now Susie Wiles becomes chief of staff.
And all of a sudden, Kim Rivers is getting personal meetings with President Trump to, again, reclassify marijuana.
And then, in addition to that, Kim Rivers gets not just a direct phone, you know, directly to President Trump to make her case.
She gets on the phone, you know, on the horn with Mike Johnson, is able to lay out her case.
Mike Johnson's probably, you know, takes the classical sort of conservative position on this, which is, I don't know.
I mean, look, do I need to get into this?
I mean, this is from JAMA.
This is the studies.
You know, everyone's saying, well, we should declassify.
You know, I agree that, you know, there's a lot of corruption here.
But if we declassify it so we can study it, then, like, you know, that's going to be.
That's going to be fantastic.
We can finally study it.
Like a third of the country smokes weed.
We can study it now.
Like, it's not a problem, isn't it?
We don't have studies on it.
I mean, this is from JAMA.
They've come out here.
Again, they're saying adolescent cannabis use and risk of psychotic, bipolar, depressive, and anxiety orders.
Again, this is all like settled.
It is bad for you.
And I'm saying the same thing with alcohol.
You know, what about alcohol?
Yeah, alcohol is bad for you too.
The thing is, it's much easier to sort of make something legal rather than to make something illegal.
So that's why, again, weed is kind of where everyone's going to the mat right now on.
Mike Johnson understands what the implications are of cannabis, again, the social implications.
So, rightfully so, he's a little hesitant.
In addition to that, reclassification of marijuana as it stands right now doesn't even really impact the legality of marijuana.
I mean, this is just absolutely ridiculous.
Sagar and Jetty, he's been a vocal opponent of weed just broadly.
And I would recommend checking out his stuff on weed.
He does an excellent job kind of breaking down his opposition to it.
And specifically, he breaks down this whole Saga with Kim Rivers, why this is just like stinks.
This all stinks.
The DAJ framing rescheduling weed as medical is so utterly ridiculous.
Have the courage to say what you're doing, giving a massive tax break to weed peddlers and bailing out Mar a Lago weed investors.
And I unfortunately think that's true.
I think that's what's going on here.
Again, this is a play, again, by Wall Street to open up an entirely new market.
We've already seen the sports betting.
The sports betting industry has been putting a lot of weight to sort of pressure the Trump administration to go to the mat for sports gambling, sports betting.
Again, probably not a good thing to legalize if we're just evaluating society.
We're not liberals, at least I'm not.
I don't believe that everyone should just have the right to destroy themselves.
No, I believe in hierarchy.
I believe in rules.
I believe in the betterment of society.
So, therefore, the government should pursue policies that sort of make life better for everyone.
And according to, again, it's like settled science at this point.
I know it's kind of a cringe thing to say, but it's true.
I mean, you just go through all the different studies.
Again, Universally screened for cannabis use.
Past year cannabis use was associated with significantly increased risks of incident psychotic, bipolar, depressive, and anxiety disorders by age 26.
Again, the study found that adolescent cannabis use is associated with increased risk of psychiatric disorders in adolescents and young adulthood, highlighting the importance of early prevention effects, effective public health messaging, and policy development to limit youth exposure as cannabis legalization expands.
We're seeing all this, it messes with your hormones.
That's another problem.
But my, I guess what I'm trying to say is even if you reject all this, even you say, no, no, no, it's a miracle drug, et cetera, et cetera, it cured my glaucoma or whatever, even if you're like in that camp, first of all, like a third of weed users say they use it every day, which is addictive.
Sorry, there's no way around that.
But all that aside, let's just say you still believe that weed is like this amazing thing, et cetera, or you just fall in the camp of like everyone should have the right no matter what.
You have to admit that the way that this has gone down is very slimy.
This is like a great example.
This is what Maha is dealing with.
Maha is having to deal with all these big pharma.
Creeps lining up basically lobbying the government to just poison Americans.
Maha is already having to throw down with the big pharma lobby, and now we're just cracking the door right open to just another vector of Wall Street to again dictate policy in the United States.
This time through kind of using the cudgel of big weed, so to speak.
So, with that, I'm sure that will upset some people, but it is what it is.
You know, I'm not here to make friends, I'm just here to evaluate the news as I see it.
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