MAGA Civil War? (Ep. 2465)

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You know, when I was actively involved in politics in Maryland, I'm walking out of an

event one time, right?

And this very, very smart, older gentleman who've been involved in Maryland politics

on the Republican side for probably close to 30 years.

He says to me, I'm going to tell you something, I watched your speech inside.

He said, I liked it.

He said, but one of the things I'd encourage you to do is avoid assertions and ask more

questions.

I said, really, why is that?

He said, because when you ask a human being a question, no matter what, even if they

hate you, the human mind can't stop trying to answer the question.

No matter what, it just engages the mind better than an assertion.

He says, if you're talking to a voter who may lean a little liberal, but maybe open to

voting for you, he's like, if you just make an assertion for them, they big government

sucks.

I don't want to hear it, you're most.

But if you ask him a question, tell me how big of a big government's worked for you.

It'll engage them.

And I thought that's genius.

And I've, for gosh, I don't know how long when they've run for office 15 years ago or

something like that.

I've practiced that ever since.

So I put in the headline today and then on social media, MAGA Civil War or Liberal

Media BS.

And I'll answer for you right now.

It is obviously Liberal Media BS.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is no MAGA Civil War going on.

I don't know how many polls, whether they're CNN, Harriet and polls, real clear politics.

I have a poll coming up.

I'll show you a bunch of them, receipts matter.

There is no Civil War in the MAGA movement.

I'm not telling you that there's not disagreements about significant policies in the MAGA movement.

Some tariffs to Iran, to our dealings with Israel, of course there are disagreements.

But you suggesting there's some kind of massive Civil War getting ready to fracture us like

San Andreas Fault, you have to back that up.

You made the assertion, not me.

If you're telling me there's a Civil War, back it up, show me some substance.

The answer is you can't.

Because the polling data when you ask real people in the real world shows overwhelming

majorities of Republicans support this president's policies.

I'm just telling you, bro, those are the facts.

You make the assertion, back it up.

I've got a bunch of stuff for you today.

And please don't fall for this because the Liberal Media is fertilizing this ground of

the pseudo-magical Civil War because there's nothing they want more.

They want a Civil War.

They want us into cannibalism theory.

You know cannibalism theory.

I talk about it all the time.

How the left, whenever they win elections because there's power in cancelling people, they

start to cancel themselves on the left side.

Don't do that.

Don't pay back to favor by doing that here.

Pete Higgs at Secretary of War with Dan Kane this morning gave an amazing briefing.

We'll play a little bit of that.

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That's Justin Man in the con today.

Guy looking over his shoulder like this, intently watching, observing, watching, judging.

He's got his don't get dead shirt on the judging, watching.

Okay.

So Secretary of War, Pete Hankseth gave a briefing this morning and I want you to pay very

close attention.

Two short snippets from it, but they're I think the most important.

The whole thing was important.

These, I think, are the most important to get out there, folks.

You cannot wage a war as a foreign adversary of the United States.

As any country, you cannot wage a war without command, control, and communications.

Now look at those three seas, command.

Do they have command?

They're all freaking dead.

I'm just telling you the obvious.

We wiped out their entire hierarchy of upper level Mala leadership.

You're now getting into kind of the mid level leadership and they're going to be wiped out

soon too.

President Trump even said as much yesterday, they don't have command because the command of

the IRGC and elsewhere, their special units, their police forces are dead.

So command, no good control.

If you don't have command, you certainly don't have control because there's nobody to control

because the command is dead.

Every time someone steps in to take control, after a previous commander stepped in and

is wiped out, that person dies too.

It is very difficult to maintain command or control without command and no control because

you're dead and the threat of death is on the horizon.

When you worried about dying, you're not so much worried about tactical deployments.

Finally, communications.

They don't have communications, folks.

I can't go into too many intimate details, given kind of the things I was exposed to.

However, it is very difficult and I think this is fairly obvious.

You can read about it in open source.

It is very difficult for Iranian commanders trying to control their military, you get what

I did there, right?

If you can't communicate because every time you communicate, eh, it doesn't really work

out.

They have none.

It is led to total chaos.

Now we're not even a weekend yet.

Again, I don't want to jump to either side, we're not doing mission accomplished bullshit.

All I've asked respectfully, respectfully, and I mean it to opponents of the military

strikes.

I'm not kidding.

I respect your opinions.

I'm glad we're not a bunch of robots.

I've got Sean Davis from the Federalist on later.

I love good friend of mine.

Has some different opinions on me, but the filibuster, other things, that's fine.

That's fine.

That's the best part about being a conservative.

Is we can, we're not freaking robots like the left.

However, all I ask is that if you're going to judge the movie in total, in total, just

wait for the movie to end.

It's fair to you to, and by the way, maybe you think the beginning of the movie sucked.

I saw a movie once about where I forget to a movie I went to when I was in Fletsy in

Georgia.

The first half an hour was terrible.

I almost left and rescued itself.

But I'm free to say it's a good movie, but the first half an hour sucked.

You may not like the beginning.

That's okay.

But if you're going to judge the whole movie, just wait for the movie to end.

And it's, we're not even a weekend.

This is Secretary of War, Hegseth this morning talking about those three seas I told you

about.

Command, control, and communication and how it's like scripting a football game as the

offensive coordinator, basically wiping out the coach and everyone else.

Now they don't even know, no one even knows how to get in the huddle anymore.

This is a great analogy.

Check this out.

We will avenge them.

No doubt.

But I liken Iran's predicament to a football team who scripted the first 20 plays of a

game.

The team knew what plays to run because their first few drives were scripted.

But now that the game has started and the blitz is on, they don't know what plays to call,

let alone how to get in the huddle and call those plays.

Iran's senior leaders are dead.

The so-called governing council that might have selected a successor, dead, missing, or

cowering in bunkers, too terrified to even occupy the same room.

Senior generals, mid-level officers, enlisted ranks, they can't talk or communicate let alone

mount a coordinated and sustained offensive.

That's not great for morale.

The Iranian Air Force is no more built for 1996, destroyed in 2026.

The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.

Combat ineffective, decimated, destroyed, defeated, pick your adjective.

One of many 63 in the chat, Dan, I'm totally anti-war, but some people just need to be blown

up.

Try to pick the best chats of the day, one of many 63.

I'm with you.

Anti-war, I'm not trying to be an asshole about it, but nobody likes war.

Sometimes unfortunately in a complicated world, full of real evil demons, and I'm telling

you that folks, there is evil is real.

It is not some fantasy you read about in some fairy tale and third grade, it is very real.

In a world full of evil, sometimes good men have to step up and stop that stuff by aggression

and violence.

We wish it weren't the case, but it is.

How many people are they going to kill?

How many times are we going to let them threaten us with a potential nuclear weapon?

You understand, this is one of the things I'd like, and I'm going to play another clip

of Secretary Hankseth in a second, so this is a good one too, about what complete control

of the sky is actually means.

Remember, command control communications, you're missing one of those three, your war

efforts screwed, you're missing all three, you are in real freaking trouble.

I'm just telling you, having spent a good year involved in the stuff, folks, these

Iranian mullahs get a nuclear weapon, there's not going to be a negotiation.

There's not going to be a negotiation.

You know that Netflix movie that Catherine Bigelow movie about the nuclear strike, it's

exaggerated a lot of it, I get it.

However, if you watch the movie, it's, I think it's interesting, it's one of those movies

again where that's one of those movies where the beginning is great and the ending I think

was terrible.

So you can judge a whole movie, but you still got to wait till you end, oh, this is awesome

and it ends and you're like, what, you know the movie I'm talking about, I don't remember

the name, but I saw it in DC with Paula, interesting movie, exaggerated if you understand

how the whole system works and everything, but it's about a nuclear, a real nuclear strike,

what would what it would look like and how quickly all this goes down.

If they get a nuclear weapon, there's nothing stopping them from using, they don't practice

or intend on practicing the former Iranian mullah regime, mutually assured destruction.

They're not worried about dying at all.

It's just assured destruction to them, they don't care about the mutual part, they don't

care about their people, they don't care about dying, they will launch a nuclear weapon

at us the second they get it, because they can, that's it, well, why would they do that?

That's dumb, because they're evil, I just said that.

President Trump is clearly laid out with Secretary Rubio and Secretary Hegsat that their efforts

to build a ballistic missile and drone shielded nuclear program that would basically make

it asymmetric warfare for us, taking it out in the future, it's just not going to happen,

we're taking it out now.

You may not like the beginning of that movie in the Republic, but I don't care what

the left these think in the Republican party, that's fine.

Have it out, respectfully, I'm open to it, however, I agree.

Folks, the United States military has completely wiped out, I want you to understand, the battle

damage assessments here are off the charts, okay?

The Iranians had their air defense systems supplied by other foreign adversaries of the

United States, the Russians, their stories in the Wall Street Journal and other outlets

about China's efforts to army run with anti-ship missiles that can take out some of our ships

right off their shores there.

This is a real problem, a real problem.

President Trump acted decisively now to head off what could potentially be nuclear hostilities

and a world war later, and I'll bring China into this mix in a second.

But I want you to understand the complete, I don't even know how to describe it, disappointment

which seems like understatement of the millennia, that the Iranian mullahs and their military must

have, that they invested all of this money and time in an air defense system from the

Russians and weaponry from the Chinese that totally shit the bed, totally, completely.

We have dominated their skies.

They look up in Iran right now and all they're seeing is US and IDF forces.

There are no Iranian forces in the sky of any significance whatsoever.

They have drones and they're still launching their ballistic missiles which is going down

every day because every time a launcher pops up they know the location, big neon lights

go up, boom, dead.

Hyde is my, height is my tactically, height is might if you're a sniper, height is might

from the skies when it comes to airborne bombardment, height is might, you control the skies,

you control the country.

Here's Secretary Hague said just a few minutes ago talking about how we have complete air

dominance right now, check this out in a few days, in under a week.

The two most powerful air forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies,

uncontested airspace.

I hope all the folks watching understand what uncontested airspace and complete control

means.

It means we will fly all day, all night, day and night, finding, fixing and finishing

the missiles and defense industrial base of the Iranian military, finding and fixing

their leaders and their military leaders, flying over to Iran, flying over Iran, flying

over their capital, flying over the RGC, Iranian leaders, looking up and seeing only US

and Israeli air power every minute of every day until we decide it's over.

And Iran will be able to do nothing about it.

Sometimes I say this stuff and I regret not going into it further, you know, why is height

might?

Well, for fairly obvious reasons, I mean, just think about it.

Look at it from a sniper perspective, if you're a sniper behind a wall on a hill shooting

down, the bullets can go down simple physics gravity down, right?

However, if you're shooting up at the sniper in the sniper's nest, the bullets aren't

going to go up in car at least not now until technology gets better if it ever gets.

The bullets aren't going to go up and around and over the wall, it doesn't work that way.

Hight is might also for very simple reasons, if you forget physics, just common sense human

beings can't fly.

You can interdict the target on the ground because you can walk there and at least you have

a shot.

If you don't have the ability to get your aircraft airborne and your ballistic missile

wanchers, silos, and storage sites were taken out, you have nothing to fly into the sky

to interdict that US target.

It's just simple common sense, it's a school of people because it's always got to be like

a Star Wars.

These guys are all Star Wars guys, everyone.

I think it was like on the application process, did we have a box, do you have a fan of

Star Wars?

All of them see if they'd love it.

They should do a Star Wars show in a week under these guys.

Hight is might dominate the skies, you dominate the military exercise.

Folks, the early days of this have gone very well.

The book is still open, the movie is not over, I understand that.

Please do not ever assume on this show that we're telling you, oh, shut your mouth.

I don't want to hear that.

No, absolutely no one on this show is saying that.

I told you, I ran for office against long term, long term presence in Iraq and Afghanistan

and elsewhere.

I've spoken about it at length.

However, we're not in the long term or the medium term stage yet, we're in the short

term.

And I think President Trump has been clear over time.

He does not support nation building.

He has already told the Iranians in absolutely no uncertain terms.

It is yours to take over this country.

This is your opportunity.

Those are his words.

He's not going to be nation building.

Folks, I got to ask a favor of you.

You know, I hate doing that.

I need you to be really, really hyper aware and tena up for foreign influence operations

using social media, trying to divide, divide and conquer the mega coalition from within.

Notice I said in advance, so you don't, please do not confuse the two.

I love the fact that the Republican conservative libertarian old school establishment GOP,

mega coalition, not always the same thing, sometimes they are.

The unissues like taxes, certainly not on foreign hostilities, war.

I love it that we can talk amongst ourselves and check ourselves.

I love that.

What I freaking hate is foreign enemies of the United States taking advantage of that.

And in essence, plumping up divisions within us that don't really exist at that level.

They exist on the issues.

Not oh, this guy's out.

I hate it.

I'm going to bring some receipts and show you exactly what's going on.

Do not fall for it.

The liberal media love this stuff.

There's a symbiote out there of paid doomers.

They don't have any principles at all paid doomers dividing up the right, the liberal media

and foreign adversaries making sure money is flush and available for all those people

to tell you basically to go against the Trump administration on anything they do.

Please don't fall for it.

Now, I told you yesterday, I was going to prove to you that the

MAGA Civil War air quotes is bullshit.

It's not real.

Bring the receipts.

Well, here's a Tom Bevin tweet.

He runs real clear politics.

Oh, good guy.

As a point of reference, five polls are out in operation.

Epic fury.

Pulse.

These are points of reference, folks.

Data.

Correct.

I try to be a smart ass.

It's just true.

On average, 72.2% of Republicans approve of Trump's actions and only 14% disapprove.

The rest are unsure.

Have no opinion.

Guys, ladies, listen, receipts matter.

I know that word drives people crazy, but it's true.

If you can't produce a receipt about your purchase, then you can't prove the purchase

happen.

This is a receipt.

You're asking actual people into a Republican party.

How do you feel about it?

72%.

Okay.

We're at the early stages.

We shouldn't drum the conclusions.

Fine.

But I'm in favor.

That's just a fact.

Would that sound like a MAGA Civil War to you?

72%.

Here you go.

There's the real clear politics average right there.

72% a lot.

Ask a bunch of school kids if they want homework.

You may get more kids.

You always get the nerds in the class, right?

What do you think we are?

Nerds?

Remember Rocky IV?

That's my dad.

I know.

What do you think we are?

Nerds is always nerds.

Always nerds.

I was actually a little nerdy sometimes.

It's seventh grade.

Eighth grade.

I got a little unnery.

Just a little.

72%.

Ah, dad.

That's one tweet.

Five polls.

Here's the other one.

I just saw this morning before we got on the earth.

This didn't take long.

And here's the other one.

New polls show an overwhelming majority of Republicans support the president's strike

in Iran.

Don't buy the media lies.

MAGA is not split on the issue at all.

It's no easy influencers pretending to represent MAGA who have split yet again.

She says again because this is important.

Every single issue President Trump puts out there.

Thank you.

CBS poll on the screen now.

If you're watching Unrumble, check it out if you're listening on Apple or Spotify.

Every single thing Trump does.

You see this conglomerate of liberal media jerk wads, tumors, paid tumors.

I'm not talking about you.

You're free to be a tumor all you want.

I'm talking about the paid tumors.

And you know what I'm talking about.

And foreign money flowing in adversaries to the United States exacerbating these divisions.

Folks, this stuff is real.

Here's a tweet.

I saw yesterday.

Vizagrad.

Foreign adversaries pumping money into this artificial division to make the, the, the

grand canyon seam even wider in the MAGA coalition.

It's not there.

There were tiny little splits.

It's interesting to see this tweet notes how Chinese propaganda accounts marry anti-semitism

and anti-American narratives in their propaganda.

Chinese MSS and its faithful propaganda, they point out this account.

I've gone all out.

China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, truly is the axis of evil.

China loves this stuff.

You're free to have an opinion on whatever you want.

Israel, Iran, gold tariffs, whatever.

But a lot of this stuff is paid bullshit.

And I'm just begging you, get those antenna up and learn to see through it.

Here's another tweet.

I saw about exactly this thing that points out some specific tweets about these agit prop

campaigns meant to divide up by routine.

Jerry Dunleavy.

Jerry's a good reporter.

New CCP run propaganda outlets are promoting the anti-Aran war protests in the US organized

by the Singapore network with CCP Chinese Communist Party, specifically pushing imagery

from the answer coalition and the party for socialism and liberation and quoting people's

forum leaders.

They have the actual propaganda.

Again, how would ever opinion you like?

It's a republic.

But if you're a paid propagandist or a foreign government, I just want you to see through

it.

It's there.

It's just the news.

Chinese state-run media promotes anti-war protests organized by CCP-linked Singapore network.

Folks, the stuff is real.

The stuff is real.

You just have to have a good antenna for it.

And the reason is you're never going to formulate a good output, a solid voting opinion on what

you should do if the inputs are corrupted by foreign money pumped in there.

You can't have corrupted inputs.

These people make stuff up.

I was part of it.

I had this, um, that jerkwad account I pointed out last week, put out some post.

Oh, my damn bond geno ran for office.

He got six million dollars from APEC.

Folks, when I ran for office, we didn't even raise six million dollars total number one.

So it's a fairly obvious math problem.

Second, you know you can go to the FEC website, federal elections commission and look that

up.

And you'll see that that's totally, completely ridiculous observed.

You can look yourself.

Don't take my word for it.

But they know no one will do it.

So they put that out there to try it again.

You're entitled to say, hate my guts.

Go for it.

However, the input that I took six million dollars from APEC is complete total bullshit.

Oh, there it is.

Look, six million dollars, receive six million dollars.

That's interesting.

So go to the FEC website and find that, my six million dollars.

I'll give you six million dollars if you could find it.

That's how confident I am.

I'll try to make it cash.

You got to pay the taxes.

You can get very rich really quick.

It's all made up, the whole thing.

Yeah, that's not a bad picture though.

Can you guys take that picture?

Is it AI generated?

Yeah, Justin just said it.

It's not bad.

I'm actually, I got a face for radio.

Thank you guys.

Except the whole thing is bullshit.

But if you're watching an Apple and Spotify, check that out.

Thumbs up or thumbs down.

Chad, let me know what you think.

I don't know, Justin said the night back.

Here.

Now, video matters, video receipts.

Have tip Nate Friedman from the Nate Friedman show.

He goes out to one of these protests.

Protests to war, all you want.

You have the God-given big alright to assemble.

But don't bullshit people.

A lot of these anti-war protests are not people who are really anti-war.

They're people who are being paid by Soros, Alliance groups and others

to protest the war.

Don't bullshit people.

I'm not being paid to promote anything,

except the sponsors on the show, sponsors the show

and an ad supported show to keep it free.

It's been the business model of media for years.

I am nobody tells me my opinion, no one.

And if you dare, you're off the show.

Period.

Period.

Had tip Nate Friedman.

It's about a minute 30, but it's worth your time.

Watch this guy, this podcaster, it does a great job.

He goes up to these protests and starts asking basic questions,

like, hey, who's funding this stuff?

They melt like cheese on a hot sidewalk in Florida.

Check this out.

All right, so you can see that none of this is grass roots.

This is all paid for.

Hey, how you doing, guys?

Where are we headed with these signs?

We're good, we're good.

Where are we going here?

You guys are saying that this is grass roots,

but this does not look very grass roots.

You guys doing this for free?

Show this to people.

Let's say that any of this is grass roots.

Show it to them, show them this clip.

So all these signs that you see laid out right here

are going to Columbus Circle for a protest

that Roy Neville Singham is paying for, okay?

A CCP billionaire who is trying to sew division

into this country.

He needs to be looked at, Roy Neville Singham.

Oh, here we got more signs.

Oh my God, this is enough, guys.

Wow.

So let's just see how roughly how many signs these are.

They all say PSL, probably George Soros is involved

with PSL.

PSL's fiscal sponsor is the Progress Unity Fund.

And we know from last episode that the sponsor

of the Progress Unity Fund is the Tides Foundation.

George Soros gave the Tides Foundation $40 million.

Answer Coalition, Progress Unity Fund.

If you look at this over here,

you can see answercoalition.org,

which is funded by the Progress Unity Fund,

which is funded by George Soros.

So you got George Soros and you got Roy Neville Singham

funding millions of dollars into this country

trying to sew division.

And now everyone will see that none of this is natural.

It comes from an office that he owns,

called the People's Forum.

It's not, look at me.

Listen, that tip, Nate Friedman.

Please look, I heard a couple of people in the chat

say they really like this guy.

Thank you, man. Don't thank me, thank him.

It's not real.

All this black pill, dumber bullshit, not all of it.

A significant chunk of it is bullshit.

This kid's packing so many receipts,

I just showed you what, five plus polls.

So when you're on social media and elsewhere

and you see the bot brigade out there

with all their bullshit comments,

we ate the juice, whatever.

I'm telling you, it's astroturf.

Folks, we can,

we've been on the air a little over a month now.

We've racked up over 25 million views on rumble alone.

That does in fact are in the videos only on rumble.

But however, we have short little tidbits on places

like Apple and Spotify, some on YouTube.

Apple and Spotify, there's probably another 15 million.

Oh, I'm not, I'm just telling you like all the dumber class

that is like, oh man, that's gonna be an abject failure.

I guess, I guess you're just not correct.

Because I don't bullshit people and never have.

It's happy to serve, I was happy to come back

and I'm happy and honored to have this audience.

However, the other side can't say the same.

They're full of shit.

I'm gonna take a quick break here,

but please don't go anywhere

because this next clip by Peter Schweitzer on Fox

is critical.

I want you to understand why China propaganda outlets,

liberal debags, fake protesters are so committed

to stopping these Iranian hostilities right now

before it gets worse for China.

China, yes, this clip is really important.

Folks, this war right now and it's very, very early stages.

It's not just about Iran.

It's about Russia and China too

and heading off a world war, not engaging in one.

Schweitzer elegantly explains this in about a minute.

So stay tuned, coming up right after this quick break.

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Why do the Chinese CCP align

agit prop artists out there

and other foreign governments as well?

Have an interest in intervening in US politics

and award decision involving Iran.

Because that's their energy supplier, folks.

This is really simple.

You cannot power a China-based war machine

in a war against Taiwan or anywhere else

if you don't have power, no power, no war machine.

You're not gonna fuel tanks and planes with good will

or fancy poems or tweets.

You need petrochemicals, you need nuclear power

which requires nuclear fuel.

You need all kinds of supply chain mechanisms

to translate that power into movement,

in jets and in ships and in people.

If they don't have power, you can't power the war machine.

Peter Schweitzer, Rizan Fox, just the other day

talking about exactly this.

This is why China needs this to stop now.

They lose Iran, they lose access,

not only to Venezuela and power,

which is already gone and petrochemicals,

but Iranian-based oil too,

which is gonna be a big double barrel middle finger

to the CCP, check this out.

Donald Trump not only reshuffle the deck,

he's laid the cards out for the players

and China now has a terrible hand.

Think about this.

China provided them their most advanced air defense systems

to Iran, totally decimated by the United States

and the Israelis.

China has invested more than $100 billion in Iran,

in industrial energy projects, et cetera.

Much of that in loans to the Iranian government,

they're not going to get that back.

With both Venezuela and Iran,

Donald Trump has effectively taken 20% of China's old supply,

oil supply and reshuffled it.

And here's the thing to remember,

they were buying that oil as a discount

because both Iran and Venezuela are sanctioned

and they were able to buy it not with US dollars.

One of their big goals has been to move away

from the US being the global currency.

They're now going to have to go back

into the global oil market and buy things with US dollars.

So this is a disaster for China on multiple stages.

And Donald Trump has shifted the discussion

that he's going to have with President Xi

when they meet in China almost entirely.

This is critically important.

Couple of pieces of information that came out of that.

Tattoo on the brain.

Now instead of buying discounted sanctioned oil,

they got cheaply because the Russians and others

couldn't sell it anywhere else.

So China said, well, you're going to sell it to us at this price

or you're not going to sell it at all.

They're flipping them the double barrel.

Now all of a sudden in Venezuela and Iran, that's gone.

They still have the Russians.

And the second part of it is just as important.

The whole idea of a replacement currency

for the United States dollar.

The United States dollar is the world's reserve currency.

Most major global transaction finds transactions economically.

Find their way somehow through the US dollar.

Every time that happens, it's like a free loan

to the United States.

You have no idea how bad it'll be

if that were to collapse.

Not in danger of collapsing anytime soon.

If it did, interest rates would go through the roof.

And it forces the Chinese Communist Party

to have to deal with us and give Donald Trump

another shit to go and shit with the sea,

to bargain with when he meets with China's leadership in Xi.

That's why they're so interested in agit prop

and shutting this war down now

because they're seeing right now how badly

this is going for them, no less the Iranians.

This is why the fake bullshit narratives out there

really ticked me off.

The narrative out there that won the left

and the foreign money and all the other bullshit

is now tried to impose upon us

that is totally fake, who's a war for Israel.

That's total bullshit.

I tweeted this out last night and all the bots,

and I get it, I've seen you,

I know what you're doing.

I understand how the whole process works with you losers.

The bots came out and full.

Paid for propagandists.

I tweeted out last night,

if you really believe like Donald Trump

is getting walked into anything against as well,

you don't know him.

You've never worked for him

and you really suck at reading the tea leaves.

Folks, Donald Trump's a lot of things to a lot of people,

to his friends, his family, people who work for him,

getting walked into anything.

I'm sorry, you're just a moron.

He's going to do what he wants to do

based on his analysis of the situation.

And that's a fact.

You're just spouting off on, on ex elsewhere,

you know, elsewhere, just because you have,

you have no evidence to back that up.

So ABC and others are jumping on this bandwagon now,

taking a totally out of context Rubio statement.

I'll show you in a second, in a side by side,

so as Nate Livingstone account put up,

I'll show you how they took it totally out of context

and they take this fractured little bullshit line.

It's a war for Israel.

And now they're exacerbating it everywhere

and you see all the Duma crowd running with this too.

Here's Mary Bruce from ABC yesterday,

still with this bullshit line.

You can actually watch the Rubio clip yourself.

We're going to play it side by side

because he answered it again yesterday

and so did President Trump.

It doesn't matter.

They're still going to run with this

because they think they can fracture the mega coalition

on it, check this out.

President, first and foremost,

is pushing back in that question by our Rachel Scott

to this notion that Israel forced the US's hand here.

And in doing so, he is directly contradicting

what his own secretary of state, Marco Rubio,

told reporters yesterday.

Marco Rubio said that the US faced an imminent threat

because Israel was about to attack Iran

and then Iran was poised to retaliate against the US.

So the US decided to strike first.

The president is saying that's actually not the case.

He says he might have forced Israel's hand.

He says that Iran was going to strike first,

saying, quote, my opinion,

it was my opinion that they were going to attack first.

You see how they can't stop.

They have to just keep going with this.

Rubio answered the question in the negative.

Is this a war for Israel?

His first words were no.

She keeps going back to this.

Well, Rubio said otherwise,

you're just making that up.

About a minute here, but this is worth it.

Here is a side by side.

If you're listening on Apple and Spotify,

this is two days ago when the Rubio statement happened.

And then yesterday where Rubio again,

for like the umpteenth time,

has to educate these idiots

that he never said this was a war for Israel at all.

Just listen to what he said.

Is this hard?

I don't understand, guys.

Like out there are the tumors.

Is this hard?

You can actually listen to what he said

because he said it and it's been recorded digitally,

forever.

Here's the side by side.

You decide for yourself.

Check this out yesterday.

You told us that Israel was trying to strike Iran

and that's why we needed to get involved.

And so the president made the very wise decision.

We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.

We knew that that would precipitate an attack

against American forces.

And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them

before they launched those attacks,

we would suffer higher casualties

and perhaps even hire those killed.

And then we would all be here answering questions

about why we knew that in the end.

No?

Iran was going to get destroyed.

So that's not what I was asked very specifically.

Did we go in because of Israel?

And I said, you were asking me, are you from the follow-up?

And I said, no.

I told you this had to happen anyway.

But one is, no matter what, ultimately,

this operation needed to happen.

That's the question of why now.

But this operation needed to happen

because Iran in about a year or a year and a half

would cross the line of immunity.

Meaning they would have so many short-range missiles,

so many drones that no one could do anything about it

because they could hold the whole world hostage.

Look at the damage they're doing now.

And this is a weakened Iran.

Imagine a year from now.

So that had to happen.

Obviously, we were aware of Israeli intentions

and understood what that would mean for us.

And we had to be prepared to act as a result of it.

But this had to happen no matter what.

This was a question of timing.

Of why this had to happen is a joint operation.

Not the question of the intent.

Once the president made a decision

that negotiations were not going to work,

that they were playing us on the negotiations

and that this was a threat that was untenable,

the decision was made to strike them.

That's what I said yesterday.

And you guys need to play it.

And if you're going to play these statements,

you need to play the whole statement,

not slipping to reach an area that you want to do.

Had to milk bar TV on that.

Folks, when you add the full statement,

it's clear he said the opposite.

Does not award for Israel.

This action was going to happen.

The timeline may have moved up

because of the very fortunate circumstance

that the Mullah class of idiots

decided to have a class meeting in one place in one day

so we didn't have to go hunt them down all over the country.

That does not mean this is a war for Israel

unless you're a credent and too stupid

to process information in a complex manner.

How many times do they have to say this?

Do you ever notice how the Duma class,

they latch on to these issues

in the exact same way the liberal media does?

Does that not like urke you a little bit?

Why are liberal media people who hate us

saying the same thing as the Duma's?

Because the Duma's hates you too.

It's not true.

Here's President Trump yesterday.

And by the way, I love how the Duma's,

they are such, I always say,

Ben Shapiro addresses yesterday.

I love how the Duma's and the Panicans,

they're just so afraid

because they're such cowards and chumps

and you get the rest.

They're so afraid to take on President Trump

because they're over the balls

because they wanna keep their grift going.

That they dance around the edges again,

like President Trump has no agency whatsoever.

President Trump is controlled.

He's a puppet, but they'll never say that.

Israel, Netanyahu, Israel.

Well, who are they controlling?

Somebody, is it Trump?

Oh, no, somebody.

The man, who's the man?

They won't say it.

Because they have no balls.

So they attack surrogates, Rubio, Hegseth.

They do this all the time I saw it for a year.

They have no balls.

They mean President Trump,

but they won't say it because they know they'll get crushed

and they wanna keep the grift going.

Here's President Trump yesterday telling you directly.

It's a war for Israel, it's a war for us

and they've been a pretty damn good partner in it.

Check this out.

The real force you're having to launch these strikes

to get surrogate in the whole United States

into this war.

No, I might have forced their hand.

You see, we were having negotiations

with these lunatics and it was my opinion

that they were gonna attack first.

They were going to attack.

If we didn't do it, they were going to attack first.

I felt strongly about that.

And we have great negotiators, great people,

people that do this very successfully

and have done it all their lives very successful.

And based on the way the negotiation was going,

I think they were gonna attack first

and I didn't want that to happen.

So if anything, I might have forced Israel's hand.

Have balls, you coward grifter bums.

Just say what you mean.

Just say it.

Just say what you mean.

Grow a pair of testicles, you losers.

You don't have the balls because you don't want the grift

to dry up and you know it.

He's being walked around really by who?

What evidence do you have of that?

By the way, if you read Open Source 7,

I'm just telling you what I read in the Wall Street Journal,

it's not any inside information at all.

Now for a couple months, they were actually planning

an attack, it appears a month or a couple weeks ago

and I guess the conditions on the ground were not great

so they called it up.

What was that Israel too?

Folks, I can't say this enough too.

Wait until the movies over until you judge the whole movie.

You can't judge a book when you're only in chapter six of 12.

You can't judge a movie 20 minutes in,

it's an hour and a half long.

Lesson item.

I did kind of a crazy show.

I'm upstairs and I just had had a channel on a movie channel

and I wasn't paying attention

because I was doing something work related

and the next movie just comes on,

whatever it was, stars or whatever.

And Stephen King, me and Stephen King

have had some epic fights on Twitter, the author of course,

that Stephen King was at the long walk

and I'm like, I pull up to the movie after like 20 minutes.

I don't know if you've seen it or not.

These kids have to walk and they can't stop

or they stop walking, they get shot

and only one person, whatever.

So I'm only starting paying attention

about a half an hour and so I see the ending in the movie.

The movie was mildly interesting.

One of the worst endings I think I've ever seen in my life.

Now I can tell you, I'm not even telling that

because it's Stephen King, whatever.

I don't like the guy's politics

but if he writes good stories,

it just would have made a good short story.

It just didn't translate onto a movie screen at all.

But I waited to the end,

but I'm telling you also I missed most of the beginning.

Fair analysis, okay?

So don't take my word for it.

Maybe the beginning is so awesome.

It overrides the shitty ending.

Can you at least wait till the movie ends

before you say the whole thing's a failure?

The Jews did it.

We did it for Israel.

Donald Trump's got walked into this.

Jesus, yes.

Here's what I mean.

Here's Kayleigh McEnany, yes, on yesterday on Fox.

Folks, the early stages, we're in the beginning stages.

We're not even, we're still at the beginning of the beginning.

We're not even in the middle of the beginning.

We're just a couple days in.

People who have wanted to kill,

first we get the Saturday people,

then we get the Sunday people.

People who've wanted to kill us,

who've wanted to kill freedom-loving countries

around the world for decades are now being unalived

and an unprecedented rate.

And it's not just Iranian mullets.

This was an important story yesterday

about a general level, upper level hierarchy,

Iranian proxy lunatic who was wiped out in Lebanon.

And now the Lebanese government is fighting back against

Hezbollah.

We haven't seen that in theions.

What's, I don't understand what's wrong with that.

You want Hezbollah that's actively killed hundreds

of U.S. service people over decades.

You want them to stay in existence for what?

What do you want to play monopoly with them?

Did you miss this yesterday?

This is big dude, tell me how this is a bad thing.

Check this out.

Breaking news, the IDF telling Fox moments ago

that they have eliminated Iran's top commander

overseeing the coups forces in Lebanon.

Now, this individual is described as at the Brigadier General

level, as I mentioned, one of the highest commanders there,

connecting Hezbollah with the Iranian terror regime.

So this is a significant take down in the strike on Tehran.

And it's just the latest out of the Middle East.

That sounds terrible to me, guys.

What are we going to do now?

I mean, unaliving Lebanese Brigadier generals

in Hezbollah that's killed hundreds,

if not in casualty,

why thousands of innocent citizens and U.S. soldiers

and U.S. citizens throughout the years.

That sounds really awful.

We haven't, we're not even in the middle of the beginning.

I'm just trying to keep you updated daily

on the status of these war efforts.

So you can formulate through inputs

and honest opinion about where we stand.

I'm going to take some outside of this show

and some other conservative shows out there.

Everything you're hearing on the media

is complete total bullshit,

outside of like Fox and Newsmax and other shows.

It's total BS.

I saw a guy last night on a,

when he's networks talking about a guy McGregor.

He's been wrong about just about everything.

I don't know, Iranians are performing quite well.

Really, dude, how are they performing quite well?

Dead, bro, performing quite well.

How do a freaking seance and a Ouija board?

Are you on planet Earth?

Is that guy ever been right about anything?

I think I had him on a show once.

I was like, what?

Of course, the Iranian started was a good idea

to attack the Saudis as well.

Let's start another Sunni Shia war.

That's going to work out.

And they figured, I think that the Saudis would come out

and say, oh my gosh, there's so much chaos.

The United States, stop what you're doing.

We can't take this.

Well, that's not working out either.

You've got Hezbollah proxies, Brigadier generals,

unalived, the Mullahs all six feet deep,

probably more than that after these bunker busters

hit their facilities.

Probably about 25 feet deep.

And now you've got the Saudis saying,

hey, man, if we get in this,

we're going to start hitting those targets too over in a minute.

How is this working out for them?

Please explain.

You don't have to believe me.

Here's some news reporting on it from Fox.

Check this out.

Military and diplomatic sources in the region tell me

Saudi Arabia is very close to allowing its Air Force

to strike targets inside Iran after facing unprecedented

missile and drone attacks on its civilians,

including incoming missiles today targeting Dhamman,

its fifth largest city.

Quote, the next 24 hours is going to be intense, I'm told.

A line has been crossed.

A well-placed official in the Gulf tells me.

What's truly extraordinary, Harris, about this development

is that it would not have been possible

if Israel had not been brought in under U.S. Central Command

at the end of the first Trump administration.

Carrying out airstrikes takes tremendous deconfliction

and coordination.

Senkham used to be attached, or excuse me, Israel

used to be attached to the European command

due to sensitivities with the Arab states

that did not recognize Israel.

That changed with the Abraham Accords.

Folks, regardless of your opinion about the war,

the point Jennifer Griffin just made at the end is critical.

The U.S. Senkham distinction.

I don't have a ton of time to go into it today,

but look it up.

It's not a small thing.

There's a big message being sent there.

This has not worked out in the beginning of the beginning.

The movie's not over.

I understand that at all for the Iranians.

There is no portion of this they are winning.

None.

They're not winning the propaganda war.

Receipts, I showed you the polling.

They're not winning the air war.

We own their skies.

There's not a single Iranian fighter jet

getting off the ground without being blown out of the skies.

Yes, they've had some attacks against our diplomatic facilities

overseas in Saudi, which is only encouraged regional partners

to go in attacking run, not us.

There is nothing about this working out

in their direction at all.

Command, dead, control, gone.

Combs not existed.

Someone said, well, why don't they just do Zoom

after the leadership council was trying to pick a new leader

and then they got on alive too.

Because if they do Zoom, maybe people

kind of use that too.

They have nothing.

Thank you, Samantha Costa.

So happy you're back then.

Everyone buy a rumble style.

Let's give poo to the boot, Samantha Costa.

Thank you, $20 tip.

You don't have to tip the show folks.

I say it all the time.

I really appreciate it.

You guys are nice, but go buy yourself a good cup of coffee

and one of those with a Starbucks has egg white sandwiches

with turkey bacon, I like.

But thank you, Samantha.

That's very nice to you.

We appreciate it.

Thank you guys for highlighting some of the great listeners

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It shows about you guys too.

Folks, here's some video.

We'll just play as voiceover material.

I want you to show again how poorly this is going.

So the Iranians have this problem, right?

They have these ballistic missiles

that they're using as a tactical gun to the head

of regional partners.

You mess with us.

We're going to launch a ballistic missile

and blow up portions of your country.

That's what they're saying.

The problem is we own the skies.

So every time one of these mobile launchers pops up

and launches a missile, the mobile launcher

and the driver, as you can see, are on a live, too.

This is unclassified video from the Department of War.

This did not work in the car.

I love how they play the engine.

Here's another launcher.

That's gone, too.

You basically get one shot at this

and then it's over.

You not only have no more missiles.

You have no more launches.

There's another one.

If you're missing this on Apple and Spotify, watch the video.

There's the mobile one.

Now, let's get away.

We'll drive down this road.

Ah, no more road.

No more launcher.

No more dude driving the car.

Well, maybe it was a woman.

I don't know.

Maybe they have weird pronouns.

G, J, Joe, Joe.

And they're dead.

Here's another one of the airport in Tehran.

You're not going to see a lot of airport.

You're going to see a whole lot of smoke coming from the airport.

As they hit the airport, they now have no airport.

They don't even have the ability to get some jets

or commercial aircraft off the ground

and even resupply.

So it looks like a lot of smoke.

How is this again working out?

I saw that again, an analyst, eh,

I ran into you performing quite well.

Really, bro, where exactly?

Their fire extinguishers aren't even working out well.

Here's another one I just pulled a few minutes ago

in the Indian Ocean.

One of their ships that runs performing really well.

Really, one of their, I guess, frigates

was out there on the Indian Ocean.

They thought, ah, it's safe.

It's the Indian Ocean.

Just a one classified video by the Department of War.

You'll see, oh, look at that shit.

Wow.

Is that the bow with the stern?

That looks like the bow.

Look at the, wow.

Justin's like, is this video from Battleship?

The movie, no, no, this is real.

Oh my god.

Wow, look at that slow mo, what is that?

A water plume coming up.

Yeah, we're going to be able to perform

in quite well.

What a freaking moron.

Yeah, it looks really, they're doing great.

They're doing just great.

You're sitting there in the Indian Ocean.

You want these Iranian, you know,

terrorists, mullah losers sitting there

sunning your nuts on the bow.

And then look at that.

Look at that done then well.

That done then well.

Folks, this war is not going well for Iran.

It is the beginning of the beginning.

Can't say it enough.

It doesn't go well.

There are going to be tragically a very serious note

and already have been death and casualties.

And thank you to these heroes and patriots

for your eternal sacrifice.

But this is not going well for Iran.

And anyone telling you that is absolutely full of shit.

They have no evidence to back that up at all.

Folks, I want you to understand something,

a little bit of a deeper analysis here.

I saw this post yesterday by Joel Berry on X.

And as I'm putting together this show,

I just like to put together people

who have interesting ideas and this was interesting.

And it harkens back, leave this up for a minute, guys.

Back to what I discussed in the opening week of the show,

having been at the principal deputy level,

how everything that gets to that level is a level 10 decision.

He says in this X post,

he says in this X post,

foreign policies, one area where everyone,

no matter how brilliant they are on domestic issues,

seems to have an equal chance of getting it wrong.

Bingo.

He says there were just too many variables we don't know.

But it's astounding how many times Trump is turned out to be right.

Okay.

I need a second on this one.

You can take that down, but I need a second on this one, guys.

I'm going to explain a couple of things.

He is 100% correct.

How is it that so many brilliant PhDs over the years

who've worked in the department of state,

department of defense, department of department of war,

who've worked in international organizations,

done diplomacy, took the FSO test.

So many brilliant people have just made

apocalypticly bad decisions on foreign policy.

It's got to be a reason, right?

I'm going to explain you what it is.

First, everything at that level,

decisions to go to war or not are level 10 decisions.

I can't say it enough.

Level 10 decisions at that level are shitty decisions

and shitty your decisions.

Deciding which one is the shitty your decision

and avoiding it is really hard.

We've talked about that.

Everything at that level,

the Ruby O level, Patel, Ratcliffe, Gabbard,

Bondi, the president, everything's level 10.

At level 10 decision making,

a lot of times your batting average just isn't great,

but no one else has been great either.

Trump is an unusually high batting average

and I'm going to explain to you why.

But I want to just kind of elaborate a second

on what Joel Barry said.

This is really important.

Please don't go anywhere.

The reason foreign policy is so difficult

compared to domestic policy.

Two things I took note on from just my experience over time

is both an activist and then on the inside there.

Number one, you're dealing with human beings.

You just don't know.

So when you're the deputy secretary of state

dealing with a upper level Russian diplomat

on the start treaty or open waters or open skies

or whatever treaty it may be,

you're dealing with someone, you just don't know.

You don't know.

It's not a constituent in your district

that knocks on your door every five minutes

to talk about the fair tax.

You may not want to talk about the fair tax,

but you know what the person's about.

You have a pretty good idea, correct?

When you're dealing with minister Lavrovsky

or whatever it is, you don't know shit about him.

Which segues to point number two,

what you do know about him is probably a lie.

So you're basing your game theory decisions.

If I do this, then he is going to do that

on someone you don't know

who everything he tells you is probably a lie.

What are you saying?

International diplomacy is about lying?

Of course it is.

You think they tell you they're true intentions?

How is it Vladimir Putin to snuck up on the whole world

and invaded Ukraine?

He never told anyone,

hey, I'm gonna invade Ukraine tomorrow at noon.

He didn't announce it and put a neon sign up.

Everything they tell you is a lie.

That's why diplomatic batting averages

on foreign policy are so low.

It's not that PhDs are worthless.

I mean, I think experts expertise is overrated,

but it's not worthless.

You're dealing with variables you can't control.

You don't know people

and what you do know is a freaking lie.

I mean, I sat in probably 20 or 30 meetings

with foreign partners, not bad people.

They're protecting their countries.

Country X just like I am.

You know, many high level meetings

we had about drones and other things,

but I fully understand they're not there

always to tell me the truth.

So why is Trump's batting average so unusually high?

Abraham Accords, move in the embassy, Maduro.

Why everybody, all the experts at World War Three,

all of this stuff is gonna cause regional hostilities

and World War T, but it didn't, but it didn't.

Trump didn't have a PhD.

Here's your answer.

I saw I was watching a clip of Michael Nolz's money

and he hinted at this.

I wrote this yesterday, so only I think I'm stealing his stuff,

but I do like the hat tip.

How Trump deals with people, not institutions,

but this portion I wrote yesterday,

I was gonna take it from a different angle,

but I like his take on it.

Trump is a New York transactional businessman, folks.

He does not give a shit about what prior people did,

what the institutions and white papers say.

He is a New York business guy who I grew up,

when I said I grew up with, I don't mean we were friends,

I mean, when you grew up in New York like I did,

from 1974 to I think 1999 when I left,

most of my adult life was spent in New York City.

I need you to understand, Donald Trump was a fixture,

almost like the de facto mayor of New York for decades.

Everything he did from woman rank to Trump tower

was in the newspaper all the time.

Everything, Donald Trump to build in New York,

which was his business, real estate and construction

and building and managing, he had to deal with really

unsavory people.

He had to deal with some union folks who were not,

some of them were not about, I'm just talking about the workers,

I'm talking about the management.

He had to deal with mob figures who would come in

and try to shake them down.

He had to deal with mayors and their staff who were terrible.

Ed Koch, David Dinkins, I know I grew up with these buffoons

before he had Giuliani in there, thankfully save in the place.

He's dealt with unsavory cats his whole life.

He just has a different antenna for dealing with people

while he disregards institutions that have failed,

had tipped the knolls on that portion of it.

Folks, bookmarked this segment of the show

because when I'm telling you, it's true.

He has an unusually high batting average

because he is really, really good

as simply as stated as this at sniffing out bullshit.

He just reads people better.

Folks, doing business in New York City is just different.

I'm not telling you it's better or worse, I grew up there.

My brother's a local three electrician up there,

my father was a plumber up there, I spent my whole life up there.

Doing business in New York is different.

If you can't handle, at least back in the 80s

before Giuliani cracked it up, unions, bureaucracies,

the mayor, the mob, and everything else,

you better get out of New York.

I never forget the owner of a bagel store

and I lived in middle village telling me

that someone came in and told him,

hey, what kind of, you know, in New York,

these businesses have to have private sanitation.

The city doesn't pick up your garbage.

You have to pay for a private company to do it.

So he told me he's like, yeah, this guy came in last week

and he said, hey, what sanitation are you using?

And he said, whatever, sanitation company, why?

And the guy who was connected mob guy, by the way,

some kind of soldier and a local mob in middle village,

told him, I think you should use our company.

And the guy was like, well, that's really expensive.

And the guy said, yeah, you know what's expensive?

You're place burning down.

I'm not kidding.

I tell you the guy's name and the bagel store,

but I don't want to cause him any problems.

That's what it's like.

That's who Donald Trump had a deal with.

He's just better at this and his track record proves it.

We'll see what happens with this.

But so far, no, the Iranians are not doing well.

That guy's totally full of shit.

I don't know what part of that, where he got that from.

That's just agit prop bullshit.

Folks, the media continues to crash out of course

because the public is on President Trump's side

that the Iranians are an enemy in the polling data

proves it, the Republican party is united over it

and the media crashes out because they hate that

because they along with the CCP and other foreign adversaries

and the Doomer class here wants to divide our movement.

We built it, you and I, and we're not going to let it happen.

Here is the most ridiculous segment of the day.

Here is Chris Hayes at MSNBC, just a moron.

Another one of these white paper-looking writing debags

who knows nothing about nothing.

I'm not sure this guy's ever had a significant job

as an entire life, ridiculously making the comparison

between air power dominance over the death

to America, Mullah class,

trying to build a nuclear weapon to kill people

like Chris Hayes and everyone else,

making a comparison between us being attacked on 9-11

and us attacking someone trying to achieve a nuclear weapon

to kill us using the same ideology used on 9-11.

No, this actually happened.

Check this out.

But outside these borders,

war is having a bomb dropped on your daughter's elementary school

seeing some alert or getting a panic call

or on your apartment building or the hospital

where you are receiving care, death from above.

And when you only view war through our perspective,

the understanding the bombs are never coming for us,

it becomes nothing more than abstraction.

It gets far too easy to wave away the loss of human life.

It's priced in, it's the cost of doing business.

Remember, there was one instance in my lifetime

when we in America experienced death from above.

September 11, 2001, one of the darkest days

I've ever been through that we've all ever been through.

The shared trauma from that one day

caused a decades-long shift in American culture

and foreign policy and American politics

to define multiple generations.

For us, that kind of violence is an anomaly.

It is a once in a lifetime tragedy.

For other people in other countries,

the terror is commonplace.

Because, in part, of the kinds of war of aggression

that Donald Trump just started.

Folks.

All right.

I took a few notes on this yesterday as I watched it.

This is such third grade level at best analysis

of the complexities of war and hostilities.

That, honestly, if you ever took this guy seriously,

which no one in my chat did,

I saw a couple of people in the chat

just fill in this city.

You should now disregard him now

as an unserious person.

Number one, nobody, me, 100% included,

is downplaying the cost in human lives, no one.

However, when you're analyzing war now

or throughout human history,

where Indian tribes have gone to war,

countries have gone to war, nation states have gone to war,

tribes and clans have gone to war.

This has happened throughout human history.

We're not living in some ASAP's fable

or some polyanish world or utopia you dipshit.

We're living in a world full of evil,

full of complicated decision making

where good people have to do sometimes

complicated and difficult things

like choose violence to stop greater violence.

This is such a third grade level analysis.

He absolves himself of asking basic questions

like first, comparing us,

engaging in hostilities in Iran,

and war actions to stop them from potentially creating

a nuclear weapon to destroy us,

comparing that to us being attacked brutally

on 9-11,000s of deaths.

Number one, when you're analyzing violence,

nation state violence, who's doing the killing?

I can tell you who killed us on 9-11,

a bunch of Islamol radical fanatics

who deliberately targeted innocent lives.

The World Trade Center was not a military facility.

Not that that would make it any better,

but who was killing us?

A bunch of radical crazed lunatics.

Who is doing the killing on Aaron?

A trained professional army,

trained to do their best to avoid civilian casualties?

Is that even matter, Chris Hayes?

Are you too stupid to process that?

Number two, who's being targeted?

Does this matter in your work, calculus?

9-11, I can tell you who was being targeted,

a bunch of innocent people who went to work one day,

and thousands of them died.

Some of them fell to their deaths

from hundreds of stories up, burned alive.

Many killed on impact, civilians.

Who's being targeted?

By our military and the IDF over there?

Military targets.

Civilian casualties are secondary and not wanted at all.

And there's at least an attempt to avoid them.

Are you too stupid to process any of this?

And who's being killed?

We have a bunch of Iranian mullahs

declaring death to America

where if this deep egg Chris Hayes

went and tried to record his show over there

and Iran, he'd be flayed and decapitated in 10 minutes.

Those are the people we're killing.

Who were they killing?

I remember the Akile Laro,

where all the planes they've taken down, the IEDs,

the VBIEDs, the Beirut Embassy, the Marine barracks.

I mean, does this idiot not know about 9-11?

I mean, is he serious?

Folks, this stuff is bush-league amateur hour bullshit.

And these people's opinions,

whether it's the other guy,

yeah, Iran's doing quite well.

You're an idiot.

Or this guy, we should compare this to 9-11.

We're doing the same thing.

You're a dipshit.

Your cerebral cognitive network

has about one functioning neuron left.

It's the dumbest thing I've heard all day.

All right, folks, I'm going to take a quick break

and then I've got a guest for you coming up,

my good friend Sean Davis from the Federalist.

We're going to talk about a lot of things here.

We're going to talk obviously about what's going on in Iran.

We're going to talk about CCP influence

and how they're trying to lay down a big schism in our movement.

We're not going to let them.

We're going to talk about the Save Act and the filibuster.

I know Sean's got a different opinion than I do,

but I know he articulates it well.

We're going to talk about that.

And we're going to talk about 2028,

because the Democrat lineup in 2028 looks pretty shitty to me.

But he's talking about the Republican,

schism in the Republican part.

Are you going to run Newsom?

What's he going to run on?

California, the U-Haul rates, Kamala Harris,

are you going to run the Kackler?

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Welcome to the show today.

For those of you who listen to Dan Bungino show,

you know he's my good friend,

one of the best analysts out there.

A guy really appreciate thefederalist.com.

The website he runs out there to book market.

It's really great for analysis.

My friend Sean Davis.

Sean, thanks for spending some time with us.

We appreciate it.

Thanks for having me back.

Yeah, of course, man.

We had you all the time in the radio show.

You're one of our most popular guests.

The hostilities and the war and I run going on right now.

Obviously we are Republicans.

We're not Democrats.

We're not automatons.

I actually appreciate that there are wide swats of opinion

within the party.

It keeps everybody honest.

However, one of the things I covered earlier in the show

is foreign governments are clearly taking advantage

of the situation.

I played a video earlier in the show.

Some funded protests by liberal groups

that are really trying to take advantage of divisions

within the Republican party.

Divisions great, but I think we can all agree

that this CCP propaganda exercise, you know,

this is kind of out of bounds.

Yeah, and I don't think it's just the CCP.

I mean, you see all these accounts in Europe

and in Asia, post an AI slop fake videos of...

Right.

I saw one this morning which had huge traction

of allegedly I ran sinking the US Navy.

Like it's so absurd, it's so obviously fake.

And yet you have these scores and scores of obviously

foreign accounts posting things that are obviously fake.

It is a problem and it's been a problem we've had

for a long time, which is foreign governments

who hate us posting nonsense and trying to divide us

by posting lies and getting us to buy into them.

And one of the reasons I mean,

it's obvious why I'm concerned about foreign influence

in our politics and we're rules against that.

You have fairer and other things.

You know, you're allowed to have an opinion.

You're actually legally, of course, allowed to lobby

on behalf of foreign government.

It's a republic.

You're just not allowed to do it without registering

if you're doing that.

You just have to tell every woman

and a lot of that is not happening

and the democratization of information on social media

has made it really easy to put agit prop out there.

One of the things that concerns me though,

specifically about China is this attack on Iran

where we've really kind of decapitated their leadership.

And now we've kind of iced out China's

and one of their energy suppliers, them in Venezuela.

This is kind of a proxy fight too.

China obviously has goals, someone say by 2027

to jump the street and take over Taiwan.

I think this is going to make them

hopefully think twice about that

because to power a war machine, as you know, Sean,

you need power.

And now outside of Russia and some small deposits

they have with other countries,

they're really gonna have an issue

getting their energy supplies to do that.

And I'm sure that factored in to the president's analysis

on when and how to decapitate this regime.

Yeah, I think I've read that China gets something

like 15 to 20% of its oil combined

from Venezuela and Iran.

So it's not all of it, but it's also not nothing.

That's a really big chunk.

Now the question is, are they able to just go

on the open market and buy it?

Are they gonna be able to get it from Russia?

Does Russia have the type of crude that they need?

In China because obviously there's different types of oil

that can create challenges in refining.

And you nailed it.

You said a country has to have energy

to power its war machine.

It also needs money.

And one thing we've not done a good job

in the US of doing is starving China of that money.

And over the last, I'd say 50 years,

we've actually been the number one funder

of that war machine.

They have built their war machine

with American dollars sent to them

through offshoreing and outsourcing

by cheap Chinese crap.

I really, really wish the politicians in our country

were serious about tackling China

and more than just a military means.

You have to cut off the thing that's making them

that behemoth they are,

which is international trade and American trade.

And so I think we need a multifaceted effort.

You can't just be going after the energy.

You have to do all of the above.

And I think Trump has done a wonderful job of that.

I think that's a major reason he's had a lot of his terrorists.

Unfortunately, we have a Congress

that doesn't seem to be interested in doing much of anything

other than just sitting back and watching

and hoping for the best.

You know, Sean, I'm glad you brought that up.

It wasn't one of my intended questions,

but me being a conservatorian,

especially on the economic front,

obviously I'm a believer in free and fair trade.

The problem we've had with China

is you can throw that model out the window

because one, the trade isn't fair.

They steal our IP or intellectual property

all the time.

So I think fair about that.

But second, whether it's the WTO

or their entrance into a very specific trade agreements

and world trade in general,

they've used that to create a war machine

specifically targeted at one taking over Taiwan

and potentially starting a real World War III.

That's what really concerns me

is if you don't take that national security component

into the trade situation,

especially with regards to quantum computing and AI,

you can talk all the stuff you want about.

Oh, great, you know, free and fair trade, whatever.

You're not gonna sell swords to your enemy

in a common seizure castle,

and essentially that's what we're doing.

Yeah, and not only that,

not only have we been selling them the things they need

and giving them maybe not intentionally,

they steal it, the technology they need,

we've been giving them all this money.

And even worse, we're dependent on them for things.

We're dependent upon India for a lot of pharmaceuticals.

We're dependent upon Russia and Ukraine

for a lot of fertilizer and farm goods.

You can't have national security

if you're not able to manufacture your own food,

your own medicine, your own weapons, your own vehicles

in your own country.

And it's a thing that's just driven me absolutely insane.

It is so obvious that if everyone else controls

your ability to make something,

then those countries control you completely.

And the sooner we become an independent country again,

the sooner we make things in America again,

the sooner we'll be able to actually confront

with strength, the threat that China poses to the world.

That's a great analysis.

I mean, when you start discussing things like antibiotics,

an ability to at least make steel.

We don't have to be the world leader in steel,

but an ability to make kind of important in combat.

We have to look at it different in this now polarized world.

And that's why I think President Trump's focus

on what they've kind of jokingly called the Don Roe doctrine.

I think it's smart.

If we can't even dominate our own hemisphere,

we have no chance of taking on Russia, China,

and formally the leadership of Iran.

Sean, I'd be remiss.

You worked up in the Senate.

You understand the mechanics better than anyone.

The SAV Act and the filibuster,

the SAV Act, which would institute voter integrity measures

across the country.

And I'm not going to say prevent cheating,

but obviously dramatically reduce it.

Critically important, we can't seem to get passed

this 60 vote hurdle in the Senate known as the filibuster

and then cloture votes.

The Democrats have already said multiple times.

They're going to scrap the filibuster.

Again, I understand there are differences of opinion.

I've said, I think we scrap it before them.

I know you're opinion on it

and others I've had on the shows a little bit different,

but I want the audience to hear both sides of it.

Your thoughts on first the SAV Act

and then dumping the filibuster to get it passed

or dumping the filibuster in general.

Yeah, so the SAV Act, the SAV America Act,

whichever version you're looking at,

is essential.

You really can't have homeland security

without election security.

And right now, Democrats are being able to block it,

not by filibustering, but by doing nothing.

And there's this culture of laziness in the Senate

where you have cloture to end debate.

The problem is debate never actually begin

because the Senate allows itself to operate on

what my friends and I called the zombie filibuster.

All the Democrat has to do is pick up the phone

and call the cloakroom and say,

hey, I want you to put a hold on this

and they say, oh, okay.

And then the Senate, the Republicans will look at the numbers

and say, oh, well, some Democrats want to filibuster this.

So I guess that's it.

We're not going to do anything.

And that's not the traditional practice of the Senate.

And there actually is a means by which

you can break this 60 threshold

and preserve the filibuster at the same time.

And the way you do this is by forcing Democrats

to come down, control the floor,

and actually speak on and on and on.

And you can actually exhaust their filibuster

because under Senate rules,

a senator can only give two speeches

in one legislative day and in the Senate

when you're debating a bill,

you can keep it in the legislative day.

So you can actually force them to come down

once they've each made their two speeches.

They probably don't even come close to that.

Debate just naturally ends.

I liken it to waking up from a nap.

When you wake up from the nap, the nap is just over.

You don't have to do something proactive to end it.

And with this procedure called a talking filibuster,

you make them filibuster and you make them exhaust it

until the process naturally ends.

And when it ends, you have a vote on the merits.

And that's a majority vote.

And so one reason I actually support

keeping the filibuster right now

is if you can change the culture of the Senate

to actually make people have to talk,

you can preserve that bit of obstruction

that you might want to have to make it hard on them

without eliminating it entirely.

And I understand that people say,

oh, Democrats will just change it when they get in.

They might if they have the votes.

They didn't previously have the votes,

even though they had a majority.

And I would rather raise the possibility

of keeping it to above zero

than just getting rid of it entirely

in an environment where Republicans

don't even want to do anything anyway.

I'm not sure there's 51 votes for much of anything

if we were to nuke it overnight.

And I would hate to make it so easy for Democrats

that they can just waltz in

instead of actually having to work to get rid of it.

Yeah, I understand and I respect a lot of opinions

on Brandon Gill, great congressman from Texas

has a similar approach.

Mike Lee has led down that pathway

to Hugh Hewits wrote some interesting op-eds on this.

The only issue I would have with that

and everything you said by the way

is absolutely accurate.

Given the perfect world,

you definitely want the Senate

to be a cooling chamber against big government

because the Democrats are better.

They're just better at big government than others.

Just be honest.

We haven't been great on it either,

but they'll spend anything all the time.

Is cinema and mansion, the two senators,

I don't know, you know this,

who were against it and stopped it,

you know, are no longer there.

Now, I see I think we're going

and tell me if I'm right or wrong.

I think what you're saying is I think they kind of always knew

cinema and mansion would be against it.

So what some of them can comfortably vote to scrap it.

But now without them there,

are you hinting that they may be uncomfortable now

that they know their votes would matter

to these Democrats that they may air towards

a talking filibuster rather than scrapping it?

I think so.

I mean, I look at Federman.

I'm not sure Federman is a guaranteed vote

to kill the filibuster.

And given that JD Bansis will still be vice president,

Republicans will still hold.

Democrats don't need 50.

They technically need 51.

They may need 52 or 53,

depending on someone who kind of gets gold feet

when nuking the filibuster gets real.

And if we go ahead and nuke it now

and they only end up with say 50 or 51 votes,

they may not have had the ability to nuke it.

And instead we went and did their hard work for them.

And again, it comes from,

I just don't trust Senate Republicans to do anything.

If you put the save act on the floor right now,

I'm not sure there actually would be 50 votes for it.

I think that's why they're doing this hamming and hawing

and trying to rig it against it

is that John Thune doesn't want to put people

like Lisa Murkowski or Susan Collins on the hot seat

and watch them vote against it.

So I think there's a lot of dishonesty

coming from Senate Republicans.

I just don't want to do the easy work for Democrats

so they don't have to pay any penalty

for what they're wanting to do.