Nick Reed 03.09.26 - Iran Announces New Supreme Leader

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Springfield's talk went over one and a good Monday everyone. Welcome!

And let's see. I know it stays light later, so that means does it get light later?

Is that what's going to happen today?

What?

With the daylight savings.

Yeah, it'll stay dark soon later.

It'll get very confusing to me.

Well, the nighttime stuff I remember.

Yeah.

Because this is the time of the year when I go to bed and it's still light outside.

I know, and it's very difficult.

Yes.

But that's okay.

Yes, that's what blackout curtains are for.

It's also that going from Saturday to Sunday, the switch over that makes some people late for work,

if they work on Sunday or late for church, or no is it early.

No, it's late. Yeah, that's right.

I know I've told the story before, but with the clock's back once when I was a kid, I remember getting dropped off at Sunday school really early.

And then no one else was there except like one person, because we forgot that it was going back or forward, whichever.

That's the one thing.

I can never remember what's standard and what's daylight.

I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know.

In my mind.

I just know spring is spring forward.

Yes, and fall has fall back.

Yep.

That part I remember.

That's what I got.

It's simplified to the point I can remember it, but I still.

Yeah, you don't know when it starts and ends.

Yeah.

But I think that of all of the, I don't know, lessons we can get out of the whole daylight savings time situation is how just unhelpful government is.

At this point, I don't know of anyone of any real substantial cloud in government that says we still have to have this.

It's almost like like voter ID.

The vast majority of people I can't let's get rid of this.

You've got, you don't really have a lot of politician of voter ID, I guess is a bad example when it comes to the politicians because Democrats obviously are opposed to it.

But daylight say it's like everyone agrees.

This thing needs to go away.

Yet it still exists.

Government still somehow is incapable of getting it to go away, even though there's no real lobby that I'm aware of.

I'm sure that there are some groupings of people that for some reason may oppose it, be it financial or cultural or otherwise.

But just overwhelmingly the average person is like, yes, let's do away with this.

We don't care for it. It causes disruptions.

This is the time of year that generally you'll see these different articles pop up about how the first couple of weeks after the switchover, you see an increase in heart attacks.

These other physical ailments just because of the stress on the body that, you know, it can cause evidently this is what these different health reports will pop up and show this time of year.

Yet, you know, well, this is just the way that we do it.

We've always done it this way, not always, but in our lifetime, we've always done it this way.

And I just urge people to look at daylight savings time.

And any time you think, you know what, I think government should be in charge of this thing.

This very important thing, whether it's education as it is, or healthcare as it increasingly is, yet when you see something so clear and so obvious,

as daylight savings time and the switchback and forth that everyone's like, it's way past its usage.

We don't need to have it anymore yet. It's still here. Can't manage to get rid of that thing.

And so is that really the institution government that we want in charge of all things? Some people the answer obviously is yes.

Ironically, those are the people that generally march out into the streets and sometimes turn violent over government entities itself, yet they're the ones who want more government everywhere.

Makes sense of that.

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We're going to get updated on the latest news in Iran, the Ayatollah al-Khamenei's son.

He's been named Iran's next supreme leader. We'll see how long that lasts exactly.

And you know, some of the developments over the weekend, much of it is just

a lot of discussion that really people apparently are starting to get it when it comes to the Democrats trying to position this as an illegal war.

And just even beyond that, these claims that the problem here is that Congress wasn't consulted because one it was, but then you have these Democrats all over the place.

Nancy Pelosi being one of them on social media clips from back when Obama launched the seven-month war against Libya.

That not only wasn't threatening the United States, but that period of time Qaddafi was bending over backwards.

He was trying to be an informant to terrorists or against her.

He really, really wanted to win favor with the United States.

And much of it was people speculated that time he saw how Iran was getting billions and billions of taxpayer dollars from the Obama administration and thought,

I want some of that. What do you want me to do? I'll be a good guy. I'll do whatever you want.

And despite that, the Obama administration decided to launch a war against Libya seven months long for the sole purpose of overturning the regime.

The only argument being made is that he was, you know, mean to protesters would kill protesters the same thing that's been going on in Iran for a very, very long period of time.

And when people realize and remember that, like, and then those same people are out there in their argument against the action in Iran runs exactly counter to what it is that they argued when their guy was in charge, they lose credibility on the argument.

And people begin to tune them out. This isn't to say that there aren't legitimate questions to have and discussions to be had, but the Democrats are always trying to overly simplify things.

And just, you know, oh, it's illegal. It's this. It's that. And the problem always arises when they, particularly something of a large scale, took the exact opposite position just not too long ago when it was their guy.

And there's no explanation. There's nothing that they can say that differentiates the two. The irony of it is the anti-war with Iran side loses the ability to when people over to their perspective.

When if they actually legitimately intellectually gave reasons as to why it is we should not do this, they might have, they might win some people over.

So they are getting in their own way on this thing.

As usual, they're demonstrating that when it comes to policy and when it comes to messaging on policy, they continue to fail, which is increasingly why they, you know, have to rig elections and they have to frame everything as well. We're just the good guys. So if you don't support us, then you're on the side of Hitler.

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Mochetaba, Kumane the son of slain Iranian leader. I have told Kumane has been tapped as the regime's next supreme leader, according to Iranian state media.

The 56-year-old new leader who has been dismissed by Trump as a lightweight was chosen by the nation's elite clerical panel known as the Assembly of Experts.

Just eight days after his father was killed in the US operation known as Operation of Fury.

So probably not a job that one desperately wants, but never know you always have those people that just get really excited about a title increase regardless of any sort of potential troubles on the landscape.

That you've got. So, okay, Iran had just been, as you know, shooting missiles at everyone under the sun.

And there's two like real approaches, you know, to this like, why are they doing this? What's why?

One is we're just going to take everybody down with us blaze a glory type of thing, right?

The other is the belief that these other countries would, once they came under attack, tell the United States to stop and Israel.

That they would say, whoa, whoa, wait a minute here. We're starting to now get a little bit of this and we don't like it so you need to quit it. You need to stop doing this.

That is not what happened. In fact, the opposite happened and you began to have these other countries that were not just verbally giving aid and comfort to the United States, but even militarily in some instances.

Didn't work out the way that the Iranians were hoping. I can guarantee you.

This is exactly what Donald Trump planned would occur. This has been part of the groundwork that has been laid to not necessarily long game to have to militarily take out Iran, but to do the same thing that he did with the Abraham Accords and Hamas and the Palestinian authority and that is isolate them.

To make them irrelevant or perhaps even counterproductive to the other nations. Now that isn't to say Iran in particular that every one of these Middle Eastern countries loved one another and got along Saudi Arabia didn't like Iran, but when it came down to it, you know,

if Israel was in the fight of the United States was in the fight, then like a family that's dysfunctional, you don't talk about my mama, they all get together and then the enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

And Donald Trump has spent a great deal of time because he knows how to do this stuff. Craft scenarios in which it's beneficial for all of these countries to stop doing that.

I know that I have made this point on numerous occasions, but it is so important to understand not just in order to get a fix on how it is the Trump operates, but why it's successful and it really should be a way forward.

You take how the United States and the world dealt with, you could take two scenarios now because we've got two very stark examples. I ran and Hamas, Palestinian authority, the quote, Palestinian's.

And the key to in the minds of past presidents, past leaders of how to deal with these, how it is to quote, keep the peace in the Middle East was to appease those entities.

So when it came to the Palestinians, they constantly wanted, you know, it was just a game. It was a character stick. Oh, we want a peace deal. We'd come up with a peace deal. They'd reject it.

But it was always about what can we do that the Palestinians will agree to. In fact, when Donald Trump took the opposite approach and we played this audio, John Kerry mocked him, saying that there is absolutely no way.

That Arab countries will independently have these direct deals, direct relations, direct treaties with Israel. They always, they will always go through the Palestinians.

And that was the mindset that you have to win the Palestinians over and then everyone else will come to the table. Trump's approach was, no, let's just make them irrelevant.

Let's create a world in which those other countries began to realize, wait a minute here, it actually benefits us directly to have a relationship with the Israelis as opposed to the way we've been doing things.

Look at Iran. What has the relationship always been when it came to dealing with Iran? Iran acting bad. And then the United States coming to them and saying, what can we give you in order to stop acting bad?

And part of the leverage Iran had was our knowledge and their knowledge that if it really came down to it, even countries like Saudi Arabia that weren't big fans of Iran would side with Iran if there was some sort of conflict with the United States.

And so Iran was, I mean, you think how long they've been just killing off Americans and kidnapping Americans and attempting to assassinate our presidents. This has been going on for years and years and years and years.

It's been this nonstop war against the United States and what has our response always been, what can we give you to make you stop?

To the point of absurdity in which you have the United States dropping pallets of billions of dollars worth of cash in the middle of the night to Iran.

And then just as well, you know, the Biden administration lifting sanctions on them so that they can have that financial lifeline necessary in order to be a relevant player in the Middle East.

So Donald Trump took the approach that he took when it came to dealing with the Palestinian authority and making them, you're not just irrelevant, but removing them as the nexus.

And this trip that he early on in the administration made over there to the Middle East and all the pomp and circumstance and just, you know, the big love fest that was going on and this was all about Trump showing them, this is the new world you can live it.

And the fact that they're moving away from oil, they're smart so many of these, these, these governments in these Arab countries, they understand that the future, they've got to expand.

And some of that is for in sports, international sports, a lot of it is in AI, it's in technology and Trump recognizes that.

And so he demonstrates to them, look at Iran, you really think with what you recognize as the future of your country,

saddling up with that backwards country is going to get you where you need to be.

He got them to recognize the future and got them to recognize Iran's just dragging them down the defense of Iran when it comes to conflict between Iran and Israel and the United States.

And while the end goal wasn't for the administration to have a war with Iran and the point of crafting these relationships was to get these other Arab countries to join us instead of the Iranians, if though it came to a war with Iran, there was the recognition that in all likelihood that would be the result and here's where we are.

Over the weekend, the Secretary General Ahmed Abul-Gief of the Arab League called out Iran's reckless attacks on its Arab neighbors.

Quote this unjustified Iranian aggression reflects a confused understanding and further isolates Iran during this difficult and delicate period.

The Arab League chief yesterday said Iran's attacks on Arab countries in response to strikes conducted by the US and Israel, quote, can't be justified. That's very important.

What he's doing here is he's noting, you cannot use as an excuse any longer like they did once upon a time.

Well, it's because the Jews are attacking us. It's because the great Satan the United States is attacking us. Come on, everyone, you've got to join in.

And now you have the Arab League saying, that didn't cut it any longer. That does not justify what you're doing.

This is 100 percent. These relationships and these reactions. A result of Donald Trump policies and relationships.

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Issued a televised address apologizing to all of its Arab neighbors for, at oh, shooting missiles and things into their countries.

In a pre-recorded five-minute video statement aired on Iranian state television,

possess Shaqian apologized for, I'm sure I'm saying that wrong, for Iranian strikes on neighboring countries,

while simultaneously warning that Iran would never surrender to outside pressure, blamed the attacks on Arab neighbors on just, they were really confused.

There was a lot of confusion going on. You know, we had a lot of people killed. We didn't really know who's in charge. So you got to just understand.

Even if there is confusion, I'm always in, I really, truly genuinely am interested in how this stuff occurs.

Because the way that apparently, and this tracks within authoritarian regime, you really just don't have so much.

I mean, there's a chain of command, but it's more management. It's not, the chain of command isn't necessarily given authority to make meaningful decisions.

And so if you do lose the top leader that passes down the word trickles down, the order trickles down, what happens then?

Now, you and I think, well, clearly the next person in charge, but I don't think that that necessarily works that way over there, because again, you know, just even the mindset of, you know, when you're raised in that sort of environment,

you are trained to not think and to not make decisions. You just follow orders. And so if you are trained to not make decisions, you don't even think about making decisions.

You kind of see this just in everyday life with people that are coddled or, you know, just whatever their environment is that they've grown up in in which decision making, they're never think.

And so they just don't make decisions. They don't do things. And if you have those sorts of people that are in so-called leadership positions in the Iranian military, and they aren't being, there is no one.

There's not that supreme authority that is saying, here's what we do next. And no one is offering up to fill that void during a period of time of chaos, even if it's just a lack of ability to communicate with one another, what do you do?

And so were there people that just, you know, thought, well, let's just start firing in other countries or was that a directive given? I suspect that it was given. And the purpose once again was done in order to get these Arab nations to call on us to stop, because that was what was causing it to occur the United States and Israel. And if we, after all, weren't attacking Iran, then I ran wouldn't be doing that.

Of course, that's not how it worked out. So they instead came up with this excuse that, hey, we just had a lot going on. And we weren't really sure who was in charge. And so that resulted in people like, I know what let's do. Let's it quaint. And, you know, a number of other nations. But nonetheless, the apology didn't seem to go exceptionally far with the Arab League.

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The media had a real decision to, to mull over with the dignified transfer of six U.S. service members killed in that Iranian drone strike. And the rock and hard place, if you will, that they find themselves in is on one hand covering it.

Would for them highlight, look, Trump is getting American men and women killed, right? Cause and if you've watched the media, it's very clear.

That the, I mean, it's their rooting against success.

You could argue it's rooting against success without rooting against success.

Where it's let's highlight all of the things, the negatives that are occurring and, you know, any time there is any question as to, you know, well, was there some an erroneous bombing? Was it our fault or was it their fault? It defaults to it was our fault.

I mean, we know how this game is played. It's the same way that they covered and they have been covering for years, any sort of conflict going on between Israel and Hamas.

You know, it's always the fault of the Israelis and that's the perspective from which it's presented and we're seeing the same thing occurring over in Iran.

CNN is, is they're allowing CNN? I think it's CNN is one of the networks. They are allowing to broadcast this being the bad guys, the terrorist. They're like, you guys are cool. You can come in. We kind of like the stuff you're saying. What does that tell you?

There is a made for an HBO made for TV movie. I've talked about this before called live from Baghdad and it was regarding the first military action that took place.

We're not talking about the George Bush, but the George Herbert Walker Bush back whenever the invasion of Kuwait took place and this wasn't the weapons of mass destruction Iraq war.

This was the one that preceded it that everyone loved and thought was awesome and ticker tape parades when it was over. It was this massive victory and no one really descended on whether or not we should have done it because it turned out nicely.

That tends to be how you know a war was a good war. If it turns out really great, then everyone's like, yeah, we supported that. That was the right kind of war.

And when it was all when it was launching all of these different networks were getting out of there. They were all getting out of there and what ended up occurring. And this was before anyone even news like CNN was the little network that could.

It was the very, it was the only 24 hour news network and it was really mocked because you cannot, I mean, this is such crazy thing to think about.

The idea of having news on for 20, like there's not enough news to do that. You cannot do that. That's ridiculous. You're going to have to just find things to make news.

And so CNN was really disregarded as a joke by all of the other major news networks.

Well, they ended up and I forget all the details, but they were able to communicate with the outside world through like an underground cable of sorts that had not been disturbed by the bombing. That was occurring over Iraq.

And Saddam Hussein decided that he was going to allow CNN to continue to broadcast.

And there is a Michael Keaton is in this Michael Keaton plays a CNN producer by the name of.

I forget the character's name.

But it's all, you know, based off a true story. You got Bernard Shaw. He's portrayed in this. You've got.

Peter Arnet. He's portrayed in this. These all were people that weren't known until this all occurred.

And it was really kind of the story itself is kind of a neat one, even though it's CNN that it focuses on because what you find at one point is that every other network that mocked and belittled CNN suddenly is carrying CNN's broadcast.

So you've got Dan Rather. You've got Tom Brokall. You have all Peter Jennings. These these faces of the real serious guys, the big heavy hitters when it comes to news.

And they are carrying and they're having like this is, you know, for many people in the country for the first time hearing about this network called CNN because they have to attribute the information they're getting to CNN.

But there is a there's a scene in the movie in which Michael Keaton's character is having a discussion with some of the other CNN folks there on the ground where they're there openly acknowledging the problems with the fact that Saddam Hussein.

For whatever reason is allowing them to continue to broadcast knowing that he has an information ministry and that he that there is no freedom of the press in Iraq. And so why is it what what is it about us?

That Saddam Hussein likes so much that he is allowing us to continue to broadcast. And they make some concessions along the way in order to keep broadcasting kind of rationalizing to themselves. Well, you know, okay, we make this concession here.

But if we don't, then we won't be getting any news out at all. And some truth is better than no truth. And so there's there's a lot of, you know, just real internal discussions and questioning about what this means. And and and are they.

Why are they there? Are they there to report the news or are they there to quote make a difference?

It's an interesting move. It's interesting for a couple of different perspectives one to see that self analysis play out at least the way that it is portrayed in the film. But also just, just a portrayal of the first days and and what it was like there in Iraq, we have all of these networks. And then they're like, we got to get out of here.

But you know, this thing's getting ready to start. It's called live from Baghdad. I kind of recommend it. I think it's an interesting movie. But that means said.

Now that you have or at least as of I think it was Friday, one of the networks that I again, I believe CNN once again is the only one that the Iranian authoritarians are allowing to continue to broadcast from the country.

I don't, here's what I think the potential honest self reflection that may have taken place amongst the people in a network like CNN during that first war in Iraq about, you know, the the internal struggle they had is to whether they were being used by the bad guy and what that meant and why they were being used.

I don't think any of that struggle exists with these media outlets any longer that they're all on board for it because they think we're the bad guy and the Iranians, the people who rape women for showing their hair, who gouge out their eyes for wearing eyeliner, who just treat women.

Because like property because they consider them to be property that those are the good guys that we just won't leave alone.

And the the willingness of that sort of regime to allow them to broadcast from their country because they apparently are pretty okay with the way that they're covering things is not something that I believe probably bothers that network.

Now I got way off track and I got to get a traffic update because I was talking about the media and having a real decision to make in terms of covering the dignified transfer of the service members that President Trump and First Lady Melania attended.

But why that was probably a difficult decision for them that next time.

President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attended the dignified transfer of six US service members killed in that Iranian drone strike and there was there has been word that there is though we don't know many details as seventh American who has also lost his or her life.

But this dignified transfer took place on Saturday and the conflict if you will that media had and

determining how much focus to put on this because on one hand, hey, this is proof. Look, Donald Trump's getting Americans killed.

But on the other hand, it

brings back up the imagery of Joe Biden looking at his watch constantly during the dignified transfer of

American women who lost their lives because of the disastrous withdrawn Afghanistan, the complete and other 100% unnecessary.

Total military debacle.

And that's that's the tough decision that they had to make here like all right, we want to make sure to highlight the deaths we want people to understand that Donald Trump is getting Americans killed.

But by focusing on it, Americans will remember how horrible the previous commander in chief was and how whenever lives were lost, it was because of complete total embarrassing

orders, not liberating unoppressed people and overturning a Islamic terrorism authoritarian regime.

And just the the the transfer itself Biden looking at his watch constantly like when is this thing going to be over?

Apparently they did find a way to that they're trying to paint Trump as being Biden-esque in his disrespect and that is because Donald Trump had a USA hat on.

And it's a ball cap which he has really taken I think this is very interesting and everything Trump does in terms of visuals is deliberate.

I mean, I don't know if you've seen the clip of him getting ready for some I don't think it was an interview but some statement he was going to make on video this is from years ago and he he was sitting there trying to decide whether to have a napkin under a glass of water.

Have you seen that before? Yeah, it's interesting and I think it was circulating for a while and the point of it was how much detail Trump really pays attention to detail when it comes to the visuals of things and understanding perception.

And he's sitting there while they're setting up the lights and cameras and there's a and he's like bring the glass of water over and he's like give me a napkin.

The napkin goes under it and he's like, well, no, no glass or no, bring it back.

And it was all about the details that Trump does not put on a ball cap without some deliberate message or reason being tied to it.

And I think that it's an interesting thing to speculate what what is he thinking on it.

Part of me thinks that his message is that, you know, the suit and tie. Yes, it's very presidential.

When we're talking about getting into military action, oftentimes there is this sense of disconnection people have with the presidency.

The guys in suits and their cozy offices and that the ball cap is signaling that you know that that I don't know there's there's a record is trying to maybe bridge that that disconnect that oftentimes people see and that this is Trump, you know, and that Trump is this authentic guy that can put on a ball cap just like anyone else.

He's comfortable that way and so I don't know if that's the thinking behind it, but the one thing I do know is that it is deliberate and he did this when he was making one of the announcements regarding the strikes.

He had a ball cap on again, something that is totally different than we've seen from any past president and that may have been the point of it.

It is to even in these more subtle ways demonstrate to the world, hey, this is a different guy in charge now. And so all of the things that you've been accustomed to in terms of manipulating or using psychological warfare, the United States when it comes to war, that stuff is gone it's over with Donald Trump is not these past guys.

I've got the grit and and that means all right we're getting in there it's time to get down it's time to get dirty let's put on the ball cap we're going for it.

The media is jumping all over this to portray him as disrespectful Gavin Newsom what was it that gem posted.

Gavin Newsom said that quote take your hat off you disgusting little man which Trump is actually quite tall going on to say this fool is absolutely no sense of dignity or appreciation for the moment it's called dignified transfer for reason take your damn hat off and honestly he may have done this partially to evoke that sort of response knowing that people will remember Joe Biden looking at his watch because he was bored.

So the same media that dismissed or straight up lied let's not forget Jen Sockie in her book claim that he never looked at his watch and because it was such a clear lie and I think part of it was because she was on MSNBC at the time and so I don't know if she did it herself for the publisher but she would any subsequent books that were published had that portion of it taken out in which she claimed he wasn't looking.

And as watch but that those people who covered up and dismissed it and and acted like it was no big deal are the same people that are pitching a fit because Donald Trump wore a hat I thought it was interesting one of the articles also referred to it as let's see this is from the Washington examiner which generally isn't that left wing but referred to it as a personally designed hat which I think a lot of people infer that means it said Trump.

But unless I'm missing something the footage I've seen he's wearing a hat that says USA.

And I suspect when it comes down to the family members of those who's who you know who are there for the dignified transfer that's probably not a top concern for them.

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