Trump Strikes Iran, Again

0:00Welcome back to highly respected. I'm your host, Scott Green. Today we're going to have a very topical and very invigorating episode today about the biggest news that's happened over the week. Obviously we're going to be talking about the latest Iran strikes that have killed Ayatollah Hamani and many other senior leaders and has now led to direct conflict with America and Israel. So we're going to be discussing this as we got three different takes, our three different questions on this from Gillis and Joyer, Nitro and K-Max. Wondering if I can career pill them or you know turn on the president, well Gillis and Joyer seems to like the strike. So we will, so some different opinions here. So my opinion on the strikes is primarily wait and see and terms of like whether we panic or turn

1:06on, or even turn on Trump or what our motivations are. I generally, as I said with the strikes over the summer of the 12-day war, I'm not a fan of them. I don't think that this is the best way to go about things. I even here I don't think that there's a proper plan in place for the strikes. It's unclear what they want. At first they're like, well we're fighting for the people on the streets of Iran and for regime change and it's clear that this isn't spurring regime change at least not in the type that they want. They've now paired down their goals to saying we want to make a deal where they don't have dukes and their neutralizes the threat. I guess that's more realistic but we'll see. And in some ways they seem to have moved to what their strategy was for Maduro where they take out Maduro and hope someone more amenable and more moderate takes over and this is someone they can work with, which I think is fairly realistic. We need to get our points on Iran. Iran, we are driven

2:09to this in large part by Israel. That is unquestionably true. So, Israel is the one who's been wanting to push us, wanting to do us. This is why we got involved in the 12-day war but it's still in our interest to prevent Iran from having a nuclear war. We really don't want more countries having a nuclear weapons. Our nuclear war has meant nuclear weapons. Pretty much the only country I could think that maybe we'd be okay with is Germany or some other European countries but the fact is that the vast majority of Germans would probably oppose to them even having nuclear weapons. They automatically eliminated their nuclear energy. Why would they adopt this dangerous weapon that they already have a hesitancy around any type of military force? I mean, yes, they're trying to build up their militaries and all the things in Europe but they're going against a culture of pacifism that naturally took over following the devastation where we're one and where we're two. And so, they're not as eager to get into this.

3:13Even though Germany is now saying they want to get involved or help out America in this, I guess this is to get brownie points with our country and help out merits. Britain is all over the place with this because they've got military bases in the Mediterranean that are getting struck at. So, they're having... Britain is trying to say, well, we're not helping. You know, Kair Starmer had this very bizarre video statement where he's like, we are not involved in this. Please stop striking, trying to strike us. And they're not there but apparently, Germany is eager, her interest in getting involved. Granted, this is, I saw this from an RT headline, so take that with a grain of salt. But in any case, the main, back to the main point of nuclear weapons, we don't want anyone in Middle East to have nuclear weapons. We shouldn't have... Israel shouldn't have nuclear weapons, but guess what? They already have it. We're not going to go to war to attack Israel. Now, I think we should apply diplomatic pressure onto limiting their nuclear supply

4:15in the same way that we've tried to limit the nuclear sply or make arms deals or arms reduction deals with Russia and other nations, but they have it. And we don't want any more countries to have nukes. We shouldn't, Pakistan shouldn't have nukes either. And guess what they have nukes. Once they have nukes, that's a problem for us because this nuclear proliferation is a threat to American interests. You don't know, these aren't the most stable countries. This can always fall into the wrong hands. Or, you know, many acts could take over the country and then start firing nukes at us or anywhere. And we don't want anyone to use nukes in the world. So it is a purpose that we don't want nuclear proliferation. And we especially don't want in the hands of an anti-American regime is that some people on our side, I'm at this point, I'm going to have an article tomorrow about this about not being joined fond of, where people, whenever there's a foreign policy conflict,

5:15we immediately start siding with the foreign power that's hostile to America. We become, and for a lack of better term, people just embrace being a traitor. And yeah, that's, and this is not an argument to support the strikes. As I said at the beginning, I'm not a fan of them. But my main thing is to wait and see over what happens here because I have seen enough of these foreign policy of us, these having these temporary foreign interventions, and they turn out to be not that big of a deal. Now, this is a much bigger deal than what's happened before, but if you look at the 12 days where, you know, we're all predicting these massive retaliations and that America is going to really suffer from this. And pretty much everyone is forgotten about it. Or at least the general voters have forgotten about it. And it didn't have any repercussions for America. And it's same happened with the bombings in Syria during the first Trump term. This has also happened with the Venezuela raid, where everyone's predicting, oh, this is the end of American

6:18hegemony and blah, blah, blah. This is going to have huge ramifications. And it's been a huge win for America. So I've seen time and time again that we've had these people claim we're going to have World War three. American empire is going to fall because we just killed their leader. And I'm taking a wait and see approach on this. Trump has given a month timeline for this. We'll see if that is that the case. I mean, they're trying to end this as quickly as possible. If it ends in a week, well, and they run makes a deal, then it is a win for the Trump administration. I still don't think this is the way they've gone about it. I think that this is a bit reckless to try to kill the Itolla and have targeted strikes. But in any case, this isn't, you know, Iran is not a friend of America. Iran is is an enemy of America. And you shouldn't be siding with an insane Islamic country that is ruled by the biggest bunch of morons on planet earth. Imagine if our country was ruled by

7:25the kind of lowest brow evangelical pastors along with completely insane war hungry ROTC graduates. Now some people might think this is awesome. And their whole mission and their whole society has been built on these really aggressive military interventions that they can't, that they have trouble paying for and leaves their economy and shambles and their people like mad at that they don't have any money and that they have a broken economy and everything and things suck in Iran and they all want to leave. And that they're obsessed with like bales and all this other nonsense that is deep. Now that's their country. That's their business. I don't care how they rule themselves. It's not America's job to impose liberal democracy and I fully oppose nation building and I was trying to implement nation liberal democracy there. It's why I don't. I'm very skeptical of the idea of

8:27regime change which will go into a moment. But Iran is ruled by these you know insane fanatics both with the IRGC that are extremely anti-Western want to have extreme aggressive military adventures all over the all over the world while their people are not doing well economically and then they have these clerics these clerics who are obsessed with what women are wearing rather than proper economic policy and proper government policy. So this is it's a it's a retarded country where their president gets flown into a mountain because they have lost most of they've had massive brain drain and they no longer have competent pilots and so they end up with these embarrassments where oh Israel is able to carry out assassinations within its country even the 12 day wars embarrassment where they can't even properly protect their their supreme leader like we

9:30this might not be as big of a win for America as we as we might imagine it might prove to be a very bad move for us but this is not going to be like Iran wins when you're a supreme leader and most of your leaders are immediately taken out in the first 30 seconds of a military campaign this is not a win for you this is a massive embarrassment now they may compensate this for by making America an Israel pay up price but this is Iran is not going to be a winner in this in the struggle as they are embarrassed and also in a lot of their strikes they're further isolating themselves from the Gulf states by having strikes it's not like the Gulf states are like wow we're now going to be friendlier with Iran and they this pen a lot of their food supply depends on UAE and some of these other people that they're attacking so this is not going to be a win for them but they want to make us pay a price and that might happen and we might not have the victory that we have but they're not going to come out with a victory where our Iranians aren't and people just want to imagine they're like if you kill our leader we win it's like all the people when you know

10:30the home they were killing these homos leaders it's like hummus just won because they got eliminated no you don't win by having your leaders continually eliminate people even made this when Heizbollah's leadership got wiped out that that's not how these things work okay but apparently the more times you lose and lose your leaders the more times you win so Iran just going to keep winning but hey guys Iran is a country where anti-Americanism forms core part of their ideology it is not yes they are anti-Israel but they view Israel as our lackey and as an implement of the American empire which probably would there probably be some disagreements over how that relationship works and a lot of the reason hatred towards Israel is seeing it as a lackey of America we are the great Satan in their ideology and we have limited ways to negotiate and want like people are like we should be their friend you know I don't think we should try to force them to do regime change or

11:35dualize unnecessary military actions but they're never going to be your friend unless there was a new government in place like this is a country where mark bar America is they're rallying slogan you know this is not a this is not a death to America is not going the country that proclaims death to America and it's like founding myth of the Islamic Republic is taking the American hostages and and blowing helping Hezbollah blow up Marines in Lebanon and taking Americans kidnapped Americans and even torture some of them to death in Lebanon and then help blow up American soldiers in Iraq in Iraq you know during the Iraq war in the Iraq war you know this is not this is not going to be a friend of ours and they don't have an intention of being our friend and we've tried we're going to have a podcast later this week on the American Iran's relationship but there have been attempts to try to do that and it hasn't worked so this is not a friend of us and they're

12:38deeply you know how many was influenced by France been owned and a lot of these anti-Western anti-white thinkers very anti-colonialist people are like oh he just got into George Floyd because of you know as propaganda nobody generally believes this stuff this is what influences ideology you know anti-colonialism anti-Westernism anti-Americanism is inherent to the Islamic Republic and a lot of guys just decide like that's awesome because they immediately turn into wanting to burn American flags but this is our right winger so they're never going to do anything in real life this is all just internet larping as they're hiding in their room for their parents or their fellow peanut wife and then they they get to play some character you know it's like world of warcraft here and they get to play this character and like death to America and everything and then they go about to their medial job and get bullied by their supervisor so this is you know this they're not going to actually take to the streets on this I don't even think anyone's going to really take

13:40to the streets on this is spite the internet one weird thing about this is that you see and I don't think this is a good thing I'm just saying this is an observation is that you're seeing the entire internet get fixator on this and it's very upset about this and I think it is an important issue and it's a deep concern but you're not seeing anyone take to the streets yet to protest the only people who took to the streets were the Iranian diaspora to support it now I'm not saying that there's a lot of support for it but I'm just saying is that the deep level of care that Americans have would reflect in large scale protests when the Iraq war was in the stages of being prepared and launched there were very large scale demonstration against it all across the country and especially college campuses are we going to see any large scale this demonstration against this latest military strike I doubt it because with even with something like Palestine where

14:41there's been large scale protests they have found a deeply interested group to provide that and it's largely been Muslim immigrants now there of course been Americans who have joined up with the Palestinians but in the Palestine Israel issue there are people with deep connection to the countries involved and those are the people who are leading the protests now others have joined I don't think many Americans have joined the Israel ones but there's been a number of you know Americans who have but it's led by Muslims largely Muslim immigrants who deeply care about this issue or have a connection to Palestine or surrounding areas with Iran the only people with a deep connection to this are Iranian the Iranian diaspora and they're all for it which I don't think that's an argument in its favor but I'm just saying that's who's out there protesting it was even similar to the Ukrainian protests where when we're backing Ukraine and then the people who are primarily marching and demonstrating are Ukrainians themselves Ukrainian diaspora in America and then the one time they

15:44had a opposition war protest against it that was hosted by you know people aligned with Russian interests it was a complete clown show of like a few hundred people who are all like conspiracy theorists so let's take it even here with the you know with the Iran war demonstration I don't know if we're even going to have it there were demonstrations in America over the Salamani strike in 2020 this is right before COVID this is January February 2020 and there were some protests right wingers did like a handful right wingers tried to join and they were kicked out the protests because they didn't Nazis there so I don't think any of the people who are you know posting online about death to America or whatever are going to take any type of action it's just going to be internet posting are there you know they're not going to actually burn America flag but it looks bad when our whole side is just immediately relishing you know aircraft carrier being sunk and like zogbots dying and it's no one's going to pay attention to traders no one has respect for the traders with that

16:50trader mindset it was even with the North Vietnamese where the Westerners and Americans would come there and visit them and talk with them and they'd entertain them and all the things but they at the end of the day looked down on these people had no respect for them even though these people were helping them because they saw them as as traders to their own country and there's not going to be anyone who is won over by these appeals so when you're opposing the strikes you have to remember that you're still an American you should still support America you should want the best for America and you are not fantasizing about zogbots drowning in in you know in the Gulf so I don't know why people are in this but there's a lot of people are in the people will say like there's no one saying this and then like there be like five commoners saying the same things when people are saying and I'm finding plenty of of right-wing influencers or saying that there's even been a guest on my show I won't name who has been having a a crash out over this and has been posting

17:53a fairly grotesque fantasies about conservatives and traders and by traders as people who support America of like facing like castration and watching their children being like brutally murdered in front of them just for the sin of hot a foreign leader dying and you know this is this is not appealing to anyone so it's like with what it said if you oppose this if you don't want America to have these strikes you don't turn into full jane fond of begin waving foreign countries and other things because then people don't pay attention to you but it's really just something for internet mouth contents and it's boosted by bots and foreign actors it's not even it's not likely any Americans are into this but unfortunately a lot of our side you know gets into this matter now you know off the side of internet discourse onto these strikes of what's going to be the public reaction to this and I made this point is that there's not well

18:57there's been American casualties they announced this morning that there's been four American deaths that might change a calculation that has happened but in prior military operations were we warned that are going to cause World War III or whatever there have been no American casualties and there's been no real cost for Americans and if there is no real cost to Americans four is for sure right or wrong is probably not a number that is going to really greatly upset Americans now that changes with the more that die and they're also the administration is making a rather uncomfortable statement that there are going to be more casualties and how many more is something that's going to be a problem I would say if there's a hundred deaths that's going to be a major problem for the administration at least it could be fewer but if you have a hundred deaths that's when that's probably when Americans are going to be upset

20:01I would say that that's the bar might happen earlier but I would say that would be a guarantee of it and so that's going to be and that's going to be a midterm issue and that's going to be very problematic for Trump trying to get his administration into Florida and also we have 100 Americans dead which we don't obviously don't want that and this is and it's hard and it's if Americans don't feel that they're these were justifiable deaths are and if for a cause that they supported you know that's going to be a huge problem for us and it's also that the administration's having a tough time communicating this to the public because first it's like we're defending freedom and democracy for the Iranian people and then we don't have the intended result of these people rising up against the regime we may have pockets there is explosions going off in the Kurdish part of Iran there might the Kurds might rise up which that might be a problem but I guess that would be something that they are people rising up

21:03if I first said it's freedom of democracy then they're saying it was a preemptive attack against Iran trying to strike American interests maybe that was a case I mean it could be revenge for the 12-day war I mean I'm a bit skeptical of it but it's not totally unbelievable and then they're wanting to say we want to ensure that Iran is neutralized as a threat and is not going to have nukes which I guess is in our in our interest but the way we're going about it might not be the best way to accomplish that and there's reports that we should that the Iranians were willing to make a nuclear deal I don't know how true that is we'll have to see later on how it is but I think it would have been better for diplomacy to achieve these these means but they've decided that they wanted to drastically hit the Iranian regime and that's how it is there but with regime change no that's a terrible idea because one the the

22:05moa's in IRGC aren't going to really go away without a fight and it's really primarily controlled by the IRGC now which the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps which is a bit more secular is not really that invested with the veils policy and all these things and it's still you know committed shia believers but they're more focused on building up Iran as a serious power within the region and striking against Israel and striking and pushing out America and Israel from the region and having greater power for Iran it's not as interested in spreading their particular form of shia Islam it recognizes shia Islam as a useful form of soft power for the regime to spread its message and to defend and to gather allies who are fellow shiaites such as the shiaites in Lebanon the hoodies shiaites in Pakistan in Iraq and especially in Iraq and so they developed it and then

23:07there's the moals which from most of what I read from most books I've read in articles as the moals have been without with the exception of how many who's now dead have been pushed out and controlling government fairs it's primarily IRGC which is more hardline to the moals and so that presents a problem with us but in some ways you might think the IRGC could be more sensible because they're basing these more on secular practical matters but at the same time they're more firmly committed to an aggressive to an aggressive posture towards American Israel and so they might be harder to negotiate with and they're not going to go away and the only way you could have regime changes that there's some which Trump I don't I hope that Trump didn't fully believe this he just said this is that he believed that you know how many dies and then they're going to topple the government they were falling for these protest videos where they're like oh they set some ministry on fire it's like oh they're they're on they're on their last legs apparently they're

24:12not on their last legs at all and that even if they you know say how many or somebody had to leave the government had to leave the IRGC isn't just not going to disappear overnight they're going to fight to the finish and also they might rally the Persian ethnic majority to their side when they see all the ethnic minorities such as the Azarees and the Kurds rise up and try to declare independence or separate from the rest of the country so it would likely regime change would likely to lead to civil war probably causes a micron crisis is not something we want I think that their new idea of just moving to more amenable leaders is more realistic and it might work if they make a deal this is a winch for Trump but you know it's a very risky move and there might be a chance that Trump's a bit over his keys we'll have to see but I think it's wait and see on this we'll we're probably we're going to talk about this more on Wednesday we'll have more of

25:14opinion there but I think it is more proper to wait and see on this matter I think it's fine to oppose the strikes I think people are a little bit I'm more on the side of being strongly skeptical of the strikes but I've been through this enough to have a wait and see approach because Solomon anything people like World War Three is going to happen or Ron's going to really hurt us nothing happened the serious strikes nothing happened are the 12-day war nothing happened even a lot of the stuff that's been on Gaza war and there's always been this talk over there's me World War Three from Russia and that's not happened and a lot of these things that are you know and it's hard to get fully accurate information over what's happening on X you imagine that the American government's about to fall that actually in fact that are Ron's about to take over the entire Middle East and America's

26:15about to fall and Trump's going to have to go into hiding somewhere that's clearly not true but that's what you hear on X and it's hard to find accurate information and I remember enough from the opening weeks of the Russian War Russia Ukraine War where there is all this bullshit flying around and there was no accurate picture to be found and today there's even it's even harder to find accurate information on it because X is full of bullshit and and AI videos and old videos from like 2020 you know I tweeted out a video that I thought because it's from RT last time I'm tweet I would say it's the last time I'm tweeting out RT video but RT's putting out a lot of content and you know as all these protesters gathered to mourn the IOTOla it's turned out the videos from 2020 for but there's still been large demonstrations in Iran and favor the slain IOTOla in any case that's like you're having to deal with and telegrams much more

27:15unusable today than it was in 2022 the media is you know gathering what information they can but we really don't have a good picture of what's going on and so I think it's a better to wait and see what happens I don't think you need to go on and cheer on this strike I don't think you need to side with Iran I don't think you need to you should absolutely not side with Iran you shouldn't aside with an anti white anti western retarded regime from the third world that you know has killed many Americans there's no reason to sympathize with them just because they hate Israel you know you can still oppose is just because you oppose Israel and you criticize Israel and you want America's relationship with Israel to change does not mean you need to side with Iran or any of the other enemies of Israel that aside you don't need to do that and I don't like how people are automatically

28:18going into this and like saying that this is the you know this is another reason to be anti Trump and it's at the end of the day is that Trump is I still stand by my position of people are wanting to say like how could we support Trump is like Trump is still our only option or only political option and when people say oh that's not true once we drop him we'll have plenty of options like who who the fuck are we gonna have even some people have suggested people in the admin you know Rubio advance or just as tied to this is there some people want people outside of it who the fuck do you want messy Marjorie Taylor Greene like these are completely clouds there's no serious alternative to Trump who is yet to emerge if there was a serious alternative like I would even say if we had the Britain option you know I'm a bit skeptical Rupert Lowe and Restores chances of winning elections I still think the best chances are with reform but I know there's problems will reform it's not my country so I'm not telling Brits to vote for but I think even if it case if you did have a say a

29:21Rupert Lowe figure to rally behind and to vote you know if there was like a serious Republican Senator you could imagine as emerging as the you know non Trump alternative then you could go with that but right now we've got Ted Cruz DeSantis and these are people outside of the admin Massey Marjorie Taylor Greene I don't know if Bannon's gonna run because Bannon is gonna have to run on the people most committed to Epstein while having a personal relationship with Epstein you know close a closer relationship with Epstein then Trump did at least after you know the his conviction you know Trump had very minimal interaction with Epstein after his first conviction and meanwhile like Epstein you know Bannon is like a sheep PR guy so I don't know what you want I don't there's not for Americans there's not an answer and you want this him things to end up successfully now if this thing ends up with a disaster that's not just bad for Trump where it's

30:23like okay we slog off Trump now we can advance no this also brings us down because our fortunes are tied with Trump whether we like it or not no matter if you're critical of them no matter if you're supportive of them you the online rights fortunes are tied with Trump as if Trump fails that doesn't somehow benefit someone who's more far right because everyone the public perception in that of Republican institutions conservative institutions is the fact the what went wrong with Trump was his two right wing might have been the Iran strike but it's gonna be we need a more reasonable classic conservative to comment we need someone like Ted Cruz and that's gonna be your real alternative it's not gonna be super right wing base guy it's gonna be Ted Cruz tight that's what's gonna be the anti-Trump alternative so far so you want this to not turn into a disaster you want this to end up being another thing like the Venezuela raid where it's reasonably

31:26successful you have a negotiation Iranians make a deal Trump gets the win and we move on and as long as that's what happens you know that casualties are kept to a minimum and Americans don't really pay a heavy price for it now if not only with heavy casualties if there's long gas lines at a major oil disruption and you know Americans are gas prices go through the roof you know that could be an issue that's why it's wait and see on what to determine what the matter but I think it's that there's a rush to just think that the Trump's the worst and that we don't want this but I think the ultimate matter for why we need to be skeptical I do I am a merely rated to extent that there no longer seem as eager to do regime change is that it's more about these particular objectives regime change is terrible for American interests because it's

32:32gonna lead to a civil war destabilize the region and that some people have been making the point that I'm very much worried about further strengthening Israel which you know that's also a problem in itself is especially if Israel feels that we can just do you know be called on to do whatever they want you know we're trying to have good relations with the new government in Syria so they can take him migrants and you know stabilize the region but sometimes Israel seems to want to to to overthrow them so they can have complete chaos there because they feel that's in our in their interests that's not the case I mean the one thing if you're worried about Israel controlling the Middle East is that they're still Turkey in the Gulf states which are not controlled by Israel and still present problems for Israel it's why Israeli leaders are now talking about Turkey which but Turkey is not Iran Turkey is going to be it's a NATO it's part of NATO it's not going to go away they can't really do the same things against a Turkey against or that they could do against

33:35Iran and I think it's necessary to have other countries stand as Boris Israel because Israel acts like Iran they also act in saying on the foreign on the world stage so you do want them hemmed in to keep them in check you don't want Israel controlling the entire Middle East but we still have the Turkey in the Gulf states there to prevent that so with but I think if you did have a destabil it's not in our interest to have you know another Syrian civil war erupt and Iran you know because that could spread all of that's going to spread into Pakistan that's going to spread in Iraq that's spread potentially into Turkey it's going to cause problems for you know there could be some maniacs who are there and then they try to block all oil supplies coming from them at least or do something and then there's a migrant crisis that comes up you know there's a lot of things we want to prevent but I think keeping some stable regime in there that's more willing to work with us that's a that's a fine objective to have

34:40but I am skeptical that strikes are the way to achieve that but we'll wait and see if I do achieve that we get a deal it's it it is what it is so now it's going to stand as another win for Trump and we can move on and focus on the primary issues that we care about but if it doesn't then things are bad and it's not and it's not going to be as easy for us to extricate ourselves by simply saying we're turning on Trump and then we're going to go vote for Democrats that's that's not going to help the online right whatsoever that we are going down with a ship no matter what or we're going to be affected by we're going to be negatively affected by that ship by the Trump ship going down regardless and if the Democrats win and take power in 2028 or in 2026 this not going to be good for the online right even if we think that it sends a message to Republicans the message is going to send to Republicans is that it's time to get rid of Trump and the right wing elements he's brought in and to return back to the Paul Ryan era of the GOP that's why you

35:41don't want I so I think it's fine whatever positions I think it's necessary to credit if you're criticizing Trump strikes that's perfectly legitimate I don't think people should be attacking each other on the strikes and I and you know I sympathize with that view I think I have a certain leariness to this I think there is skepticism is warranted I don't we it's too early to be cheer leading and saying this is excess wait and see approach but I think the most important thing is that you need our side the online right needs to stop turning into traders and stops stop admiring these crappy governments whether it's Assad which Assad you know we got taken out in a week of operation and then fled Russia to Russia not a not a hero I at least with the home I mean he died you know in his own country and meaning you know that is I guess a way to sympathize with him I'm not going to turn him to a hero because he hated you know he is an enemy of us despite even

36:46that doesn't mean we need to wage war on him but I'm not going to see him as an allies and then people want to like celebrate North Korea our Maduro who Maduro is even more of a villain and more of an enemy to American interests than even how many is so our direct because it's in our backyard Iran is at least not in our backyard so people need the most important point is that for us to remember most of our listeners are American we are Americans we want the best for our country it's we're not going to you know larp and pretending we're now flag burners and throwing up the Iran flag or anything of that sort we're standing with our country we want the best for our country we do not want Americans to risk men to die and I think with whatever your stance on the strikes is you admire that so it's for guys who are supporting the strikes and saying 100 Americans are necessary are more are necessary to die for these objectives I think that's reason that's a reason

37:50called them out and say that you shouldn't be doing that and it's the same with those who you know relish that idea to bring down the American the American empire or something but there's far more people within our sphere who are relishing the idea of thousands of Americans of our zogbots dying to advance their petty concerns I guess we can finally test the thesis that if a foreign power sinks an American aircraft carrier that that the American constitution requires us to give power to podcasters but we'll see if that happens but I think with the our the final conclusion mark is what how Americans are we act they're not going to care about this unless they have it affects their life so if we begin to have gas lines if a lot of Americans come home dead then they will care and this will be very bad for Trump and it will affect the midterms if none of that happens it's not going to affect midterms we can even see this with there was this very important bit of

38:51news this week where I think it was ABC or CBS one of the major networks they cut from a hockey game to announce the news of how many steps this is a major world leader okay this is important news and hockey fans were living that they cut to this news I think that explains how Americans are reacted to this and they've reacted to this to every foreign policy matter that Trump's been involved with whether it's whether it's a 12 day war or the Maduro rate they're like oh okay well how does that affect me if they feel it doesn't affect them they're not going to give a shit and we've realized this from Obama onwards is that we were able to do intervention in Libya without any real real repercussions in America because we had no casualties there was no cost up until Benghazi and then a migrant crisis started with Europe but once again that a lot of Americans didn't feel that affected them and this is not saying a good thing and then our intervention against ISIS

39:52few casualties were taking out dangerous terrorists had no repercussions in American elections or American electorate Trump's serious strikes and the Salamani strikes didn't affect Americans at all because like what did affect and then also people forgot about that they killed Salamani due to COVID and all the things that happened in 2020 Ukraine war that actually did somehow to affect but more for the Democrats because there's this wave of support for the Ukrainians which maybe wasn't so wise but Americans didn't care that about the abilions that were sending over there because they feel it didn't affect them and then there were convinced of arguments by a lot of these defense contractors that it's good for the American economy it's employing Americans for us to build all this this stuff for the Ukrainians and send it over there and now we're witnessing that is that American leaders both Republicans and Democrats have realized that there's no costs real costs to Americans they'll be fine with a foreign enrichance the polling shows that Americans are not

40:52probably for good reason that excited for the mill for the strikes but as long as it doesn't personally affect them this isn't going to matter for elections and they're just going to shrug their shoulders and they're likely going to forget Biden November but there's a big but it begins to affect them and I would say 100 or more American casualties are dead and gas prices skyrocket and we see gas lines and and there's economic disruptions that Americans will care and Trump will pay the price during the mid our Trump and Republicans will pay the price during the midterms but we'll have to wait and see what happens so that is my takes on that on the strikes girls enjoy it was wanting to know who's the last president if I had the balls do something like this yeah probably never actually because we generally didn't do these targeted strikes on serious

41:56four leaders before probably really just Trump but it's America power is that of unprecedented level of just strength I mean we couldn't have done this during the Cold War and we couldn't have done this prior to the World War so it's probably just willing with Trump he's benefiting with the massive amount of power that America has on a global stage so we'll go with his second question he said I saw a theory that the foreign policy actions in both Venezuelan Iran are part of a larger objective to starve China of oil do we think this is a sign of the great power conflict where ink is going to escalate in the years to come I don't believe that it's not about China I mean it's another thing to throw an end to defend it this is about it's about Trump feeling that Iran is a as a deadly threat he wants to show that he's tough and aggressive and can do things against foreign enemies but it has more to do with Israel and Middle East I don't think it has much to do with China they do see them as part of you know China thing but I don't think this is about starving China of oil because most likely they're seeing with a new regime that they're

43:01having that same whatever regime they're going to have they're probably going to provide oil to China that's it so I don't think that's going to actually starve China of oil and I think that's going to be a bridge too far in the negotiations for us to you know we're like completely disemble your nuclear uh aren't your nuclear projects and also stops owning oil to China that's that we're not going to get a deal with that so I don't think that that's I don't think China's playing a role at all I think people just want to throw it in there because they're imagining that we're now in a new Cold War with China and they're backing all these shitty uh their world country but China's just not backing anyone China's a terrible ally to have they'd never back anyone they're extremely risk averse and they don't do they don't risk their neck for anything they're barely they're doing hardly anything to help Russia they did nothing to help Maduro and they're doing they might be doing something for Iran there is reports that they're helping them out with satellite imagery and positioning American bases and air and air power and other things there are reports

44:09of that but that's all they're going to do they're not going to really help out um Iran and some people who are worried that World War 3 is going to happen like Russia and China get it is like China doesn't risk their neck for anyone China is never going to risk their neck for anyone like people say America's bad ally China's even worse about coming in and helping anyone they don't help anyone everything is narrow solely focused on them and they even they have you know even Iran's been leery of having a lot of dependency on China and having all these economic investment from China because they realize like not only is China get greater control the country they're not going to help them in times of crisis it's like you can look at that Russia and Russia's not going to come help either because Russia didn't do anything to help Assad because their all the resources are tied up with Ukraine they're trying they're focused on Ukraine they don't have the ability to help to help Iran Russia is more inclined to help it allies I mean they did a lot this they saved Assad but they're you know they're not they

45:10don't have that ability to do that anymore do the Ukraine war so I don't think that that's uh I don't think it's part of a great power conflict with China it's more about um it's more about Israel the Middle East and even more about nuclear arms with with Iran which still is an American objective it's something that we share with both Israel sometimes we can have a line interest but it's also it's also it's real it's real sees its main problem as Ron right now and we also view them as a problem and that's why we're taking them out the China thing is just a way to sell it to America another way to sell it to American right wingers but I don't buy it uh James had some questions um um trying to think of what is uh

46:12well he added another he had a question is like has the anti-war right loss as marbles when it comes Israel thing I would say they're a bit too focused on Israel above all other things when it comes to losing them I don't know what do you mean by losing the marbles on specific thing I think it's necessary if it's you know if there if this leads to a catastrophic foreign policy failure for America then they're vindicated so I don't it with this matter so I think it's too far to say that they've lost their marbles prior to this I think they're too focused on the on these things because they're you know they're up everyone who's like very concerned about Israel for the most part there's been exceptions you know Fuentes and a couple of other people but a lot of people who were Israel's become their main issue is that they were on the wrong side of the ice shootings were on the wrong side of Maduro raid or relishing the idea of Democrats coming

47:18to power because apparently that'll help you anti-war right the Democrats are going to still do the same things that they hate meanwhile pushing DEI and wokeness so I don't know how that's a win so I think that they've become too fixated on this to the neglect of any other issues a lot of them not everyone but a lot of them have and it's also turned a lot of them into anti-American they're just like burn America kills off bots blah blah blah this is what they some of them have gotten into so when you become I think you know I'm a Israel critic even though people think I'm not I am I criticize Israel long before it was popular you know I got docs for criticizing Israel and criticizing Jewish influence and pushing immigrate and mass immigration to Europe and I was doing this you know under my own name and and pseudonyms long before all these people were here but you know if you're not there's a demand that this becomes your sole issue to the detriment of anything else

48:22and I think that's an idiotic position to take his his other question is is he's talking about Nash reviews Dan McLaughlin talking about how he would laugh at us from the gulag when we're a stain on president for life's AOC's tank treads I think what he's getting at is the worry of the old conservative guard of setting precedence this was much of their excuse for not doing anything my question is how do these guys expect to get the policies they want we point out the online rights problems with winning but how do these guys expect to win with their methods it depends on what he's talking about with you know with these guys helping AOC for life some of it is like an aggressive immigration policy that well that's going to help AOC you can't do that and that's stupid sometimes you do need to do aggressive policies there is a problem with if you I'd have to see what the context of this is one thing I do have to say is that if you're talking about a tweet it if it's not my tweet then please send it please send the tweet so I'm

49:29not quite sure what the context of this is here of what issues primarily respond to there is a problem with setting precedence which I've been saying with people is like look like people are like oh they've already set precedence and that's why we just should round up all Democrats and antipover Charlie Kirk shooting it's like look you have to have an actual action to charge them with and you have to and you know with January 6th which I think was wrong they went over their skis with that there was an action that they committed they gone into Congress and then they said it's a crime with us we didn't even have an action that we that we could tie them into we're like we need to arrest them and charge them the crimes and this is all and we wanted to do this when we're already struggling to convict or even hold up charges against people where we actually have acts and crimes that they've committed so I think you're setting a precedent that they could just like arrest us for I don't know being racist they'll set racism as a crime and then they'll just round up people I mean they're definitely going to declare racism or white nationalism a domestic

50:32terror threat which was always something to worry about by us declaring antipod a domestic terror threat but it's more of a rhetorical flourish foreign specifically demand is demand uh listing specific foreign groups as terror groups hat comes with specific actions so when you declare them a foreign terror group that means of the you know that restricts them banking the travel there's a lot of things that comes with that with the domestic terror it's more just a domestic policy prerogative but they're certainly going to focus on this and create problems for the right uh with the rest and stuff I'm not sure if that was what he's replying to AOC is not going to be president for life just they're not going to have the ability to implement the type of dictators they want I do think that there is a problem where they say we can't do certain actions we want like an aggressive immigration policy because like well what

51:35up Democrats coming to power there is a problem with like being a little too eager to arrest political enemies on flimsy charges and we can't say well this is punishment for J6 but you know Democrats are going to have much greater power and ability to do these type of arrests and they and they're already pledging to do this and go after corporations and I imagine that this is actually response to the paramount um warmer brothers deal but they already have Democrats openly relishing that they're going to go after any corporations or any entities that work with Trump but they might have already started to do that and a lot of these corporations and entities it's not like they're doing anything on precedent it's simply that they're complying with Trump's directives on DEI or immigration as they should and then Democrats are like well when we get power we're going to make sure you pay a price for that so sometimes you just have to do those things like if you're implementing DEI and you're trying to prevent um Netflix which is from the

52:40focus entertainment companies from owning a even bigger chunk of the entertainment market it's fine to utilize the power you have to prevent that uh at the same time there are you should be leery of trying to arrest people on flimsy charges and then when they come to power they can do the same thing but they're going to have a greater success rate uh let's see so Nitro had a Nitro and I think someone else renowned also had my questions on the dispute between the Department of War and Anthropic and wondering what's going on there from what people have asked is that Anthropic is trying to look into the future are trying to set itself up for the future they expect the Democrats are going to come take power and they're leery of I'm using leery a lot but they're not wanting to be fully associated with the Trump administration and what their contractual dispute is

53:43they're trying to claim like oh they're wanting us to have killer robots that just kill civilians which is apparently not true and they made hay out of that as a part of a PR move to say like we're one of the good tech companies we're one of the woke ones we're not like these other tech companies that are rushing in to support the administration but then the administration overreacted and you know put a you know the risk of supply chain in this ban which may have been a little heated but it was in response to Anthropic being intentionally difficult in order to boost their public reputation and so that is what I've gathered from it it's with Renault was asking with picking another fight with for the upteenth time it's not that they picking a fight it from what I'm told it's it's Anthropic that was interesting in this fight and being difficult now Anthropic didn't ask for the over the top response for the administration

54:47but they were looking to be a difficult partner for the administration to promote themselves with Democrats in the future and their you know their leaders are very still committed to wokeness and leftism more so than a lot of the other tech guys I mean a lot of these guys were extremely leftists and wokeness but they now know it's good for their business interests to move away from that so they're having singing a different tune but Anthropics people are not so Anthropic picked the fight and maybe Trump administration didn't quite do the proper response but they've now moved to open AI to be their replacement and it wasn't even that big of a contract it wasn't you know something that you know the Department of War was extremely keen on that was like essential to Department of War activities but Anthropic wanted to make a big deal out of it they're like we're not going along with this like other tech companies and we see what happened with results so both them Nitro and them asked about this and he also Nitro made note that they're

55:54very left-wing comedy which is true which is true so we will see with that no New England refugee question today from all the people so we'll see if they come back for the for the mail bag Charles asked a question which unfortunately amiss last week he said how wise that despite the online right small size and oftentimes historical fits that the admin seems elicit to us and parent some of our ideas if not actually implement them is the online right important enough for the admin to take us seriously or is it more of a coincidence when they do things we like it's that the new way of conservative media is extremely online is an extremely heavily influenced by the online right we live on x and this is where a lot of administrator staffers and where they get their news and information and opinions on they get it from x an online right has an outsize influence due to that now people then mistake that outsize influence due to you know our our prevalence on social media

56:59with being representative of a mass constituency which we don't have we punch well above our weight thanks to online social media and our influence over most conservative media now because conservative media like if you look at micha noles mawosh the blaze is doing they're taking ideas from us and even I go and visit my old website daily caller it's very much more influenced by the online right now that it was in the past you know in the past they would have fired you and called you an evil loser like they well they didn't fire me I was already gone but you know they condemned me but now they take all these ideas that I got docs for was ahead of the curve on and now they're parodying them so conservative media and even a lot of the institutions are much more influenced by the online right and this is where Republican Party in the Trump administration is getting its ideas and it wants to be seen as popular online right they see that it potentially helped them in the in the in the 2024 election so they want to cultivate this support base but that doesn't mean that we

58:02represent a huge chunk of voters which a lot of people want to imagine that we do and then we could just turn on the admin and then make them pay a price and that there would be well represented in you know at polls and ballot box but it's not because we we punch well above our weight as always like to say as we don't have a mass constituency constituency we don't have money and we don't have organization mobility is that anytime people try to organize something it falls apart in embarrassing fashion so what we do have is creativity and energy and internet savvy and just you know new ideas and we're able to have a tremendous influence over conservatism despite not being having a mass constituency despite not having these attributes that has benefited other political interest groups so and the admin a lot of staffers their young staffers come from the online right you know and

59:03they they are very eager to implement these ideas in the admin and so most in advance cares a lot about this Rubio cares about it not as much as he did but still to an extent and some of the people around Rubio cares about it no him is more focused on Fox News but a lot of the young staffers it's like why they keep appropriating our memes for their social meat social media pages where they are turning to for ideas and energy and memes they turn to us and that creates a lot of influence but it is limited by the fact that we don't have a mass constituency and the majority of mega voters when forced to pick between or not force but when when having to pick between Trump and the online right they go with Trump so silly Billy asked have you done your yearly pilgrimage as a white man I went skiing this year I have a confession I don't ski so I have not done that

1:00:05I do support skiing if you do it but I just didn't grow up doing it my family didn't take a skiing that's a it wasn't as big in the South when I was growing up people would go but you know because we people there were places in the Appalachian Mountains where people could go ski and elsewhere but it wasn't as big of an activity in my areas in the South I know that's probably different now so I support skiing I salute those who do it but I don't engage in it and generally with like if I'm gonna do you know relaxing travel activities in the winter I'm gonna do somewhere warm I guess it's the true Southerner Hermi is like I don't like you know bitterly cold weather I mean I'll put out with it more than other people you know if it's like 10 degrees I will walk outside and all the things but if I'm wanting to you know do some type of relaxation I'll try to go to the beach rather than go to the skiing so but I support it I endorse it if you do

1:01:07it I am into it but I don't ski so sorry to disappoint those who are into it we've got a ethnic well we've got three questions from Mark well I'll probably I always say I have to make this point it's two questions but his one question they're pretty quick questions so I don't want to make any more exceptions but I do need to say this is generally you should try for one for the regular episode and then two for the mail-back if you have three really good ones we'll accept the email mag but I might say this third one for the mail-back we'll see you on time but I have to get to this one from K-Max K-Max in an all-time K-Max question today he says uh he he realized that I got more uh he's been asking a lot about doing IQ supplements and I went off on him uh or maybe didn't that went off on him but I uh was a little bit peeved by continuing to ask for

1:02:09IQ supplements on a specific request and I said that you know people request all these IQ supplements all the time but then they forget that most the audience isn't gonna be fans of them and he's like well why don't you do a movie review so I suggest the movie Philadelphia and then he uh I guess he got something from uh ChatchyBT on the description of it um which if you guys don't know Philadelphia he's from the early 90s it's about a lawyer gay lawyer who gets AIDS Tom Hanks and he has to get uh help from a black lawyer to represent his case maybe it's relevant because it feels like early 90s attitudes around this stuff but I generally don't find the gay stuff as interesting as a race stuff and views on AIDS and it's a real middlebrow cheesy heavy-handed drama I don't think there's enough for me to say on IQ supplement if I watch it again and I find that there's some aspects about it I would I would do it I think what Matt would would make more sense if I'm going to do

1:03:12something about gay films are films depicting it is stuff from the late 2000s early 2010s I think the Adam Sandler Kevin James and I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry I think it's Chuck and Larry and is probably it's a really stupid horrible movie but it's very indicative of how the general public was viewing this matter prior to the legalization of gay marriage and both James and Adam Sandler voted for Trump and are considered conservative actors compared to the rest of them and they did a whole pro gay marriage movie which in the movie they're like two firefighters that in order to get health care or something they they marry each other I haven't seen it in like 15 20 years or whenever it came out I think came out 2008 so that would be a little bit more interesting to depict even though it's a very stupid movie I'm not saying on a hand I'm going to do Philadelphia but probably not now what makes this the most came acts as he suggested I should

1:04:14start doing Pride Month specials he said maybe this one would be good for Pride Month which is in June which I didn't know well thanks for letting us know when Pride Month is I have to let you know we're not going to be doing any Pride Month specials I don't think our audience the last thing I need to do is to have Pride Month IQ supplements everyone would fucking hate that and everyone would be calling me gay if I did that so why the fuck would I have Pride Month specials like let's think before asking requesting these things like I don't want to celebrate the reason why I do Black History Month is it's built into our culture and it is a new tongue and cheekway to say like you know I was like a race feels podcast to have Black History Month specials because everyone else is focusing on that Pride Month is a little bit different if you're celebrating Pride Month with podcast you you are celebrating that month you're you're not wanting to be a part of that so we we're not having any Pride Month specials and it's very different like no one's going to think I'm Black for doing Black History Month specials are endorsing the Black Paws but you know when you're like

1:05:21wow happy Pride Month we've got podcast for you I don't think that is a lot I think a lot of times I think some people are requesting me to lose even more of my audience with these IQ supplements so this takes the cake for IQ supplement requests where it's like Scott we want you to lose more subscribers by our take and I think asking for Pride Month specials might be might be I actually might not be is at the top of of concerning IQ supplement requests so but the movie itself probably not but I mean it depends it's not like when I watched a big chill recently I was not planning on doing an IQ supplement on it but then I realized how boomer it is so then I did an IQ supplement on it if I watched it and there was something for me I felt that there was I could talk about this for 45 minutes maybe but I don't think I could talk about it for 45 minutes

1:06:23so we'll go to Mark now Mark his first question is in your Obama IQ supplement mentioned that he isn't really culturally black at all and shared nothing in common with most black Americans if say Obama was half Asian or half Hispanic or something else but had a similar upbringing in the same maternal family to what he had in our lifetime in our lifetime plus the same IQ in political talent what would he have been like what do you've gone places or been as successful but is basically an entirely different politician would he have been leaned into his ethnic identity much he probably wouldn't have been as successful as a politician no being black but being a white guy and a black guy's body are not a really white guy but being a non black guy I'm very close to being a white guy and a black guy's body really was beneficial to him as a politician in the 90s and 2000 it was unique he had to have been black to have had as much success as a politician being multicultural multiracial and having that background he probably would have been successful as

1:07:27a lawyer a law professor maybe could have gotten a congressional seat but likely not because he would have been his traits that were beneficial for him as a black politician is being you know smart articulate you know being like a like a black guy the white people like hey he's just like us that doesn't really benefit you if you're multiracial or in non black and not seeing this black so he would have not been this Messiah like politician but he could have still been you know maybe in a suburban area maybe if he had specifically chosen he would still have been successful in America but he would have never been president of the United States and would have probably never been a senator he had to have been black in order to have had as much political successes he had because whites were eager for that type to emerge and he also had a natural political base that would support him simply because he's black and there's not that case for any other ethnic group

1:08:27in the same way so uh second question if Jasmine Crockett wins against Heloriko what does this mean for the 2028 primary oh yeah no if Crockett wins she is likely going to run in 2028 it doesn't matter if she if she loses the center right she is gonna I think she'll run and she'll be a competitive candidate if South Carolina is the first primary I would think she has a strong chance of winning she's much more appealing candidate to black voters than Kamala and West um Westmore so and if she if Paxton is who she's running against she's going to lose by a small margin so she'll and Beto Rouric ran for president after losing against Ted Cruz so losing a Senate prime a competitive Senate primary in Texas is actually a boost to your political career so I think Crockett would make I think she would make a run I don't think Taloriko will make a run there's gonna be a mill there's there's gonna be like 20 Taloriko's running in the 2028 primary I don't think he's gonna run

1:09:33but Crockett would run Taloriko has a better chance of winning I don't think Crockett will win no matter who she's voting for running that's about it Taloriko could potentially win against Paxton so she would absolutely run in 2028 and Kamala endorsed her with 2028 mine because she knows she's got a win over black voters and she knows that if she endorses Crockett and Crockett doesn't win the primary she's gonna go out and campaign for her or if she even loses the Senate race maybe she decides after on but she will go out and be a surrogate for Kamala Harris so that's smart and she'll get black voters for Kamala but I think she might as well just challenge Kamala she's a better politician more interesting politician than Kamala and has a better way with winning over black voters than her mine as well run um I need to make a point we're gonna we're gonna save the third question for the mailbag I can't I can't bend the rules anymore so we're gonna the third one will be for the mailbag so we will return to that um let's see let's double check

1:10:41to make sure we've got everyone um Michigan engineer just sent a comment on an article so I think we're just down to Mr. LK Rourke I'll do it do it one double check make sure we didn't get anyone we miss anyone so yep we'll go to Mr. LK Rourke okay Rourke's question today is how bad is animazon for the entertainment industry theologically you've made your standing on Netflix goes for clear but I asked this because amazon has lately produced a god awful tv show based on the video game series fallout I accept it longer though that one new Vegas will be the only good games in the series and Bethesda will keep turning out trash over some reason the show is a claim as you can guess it's shocked it's also a chock full of subversive themes entertainment wise I would say they're better than Netflix but they produce they haven't produced as good of a show that's a real problem with amazon as amazon seems to have lower quality shows and documentaries

1:11:47Netflix produces much higher quality shows and documentaries amazon has not had a show on the cultural level of stranger things house of cards you look at a lot of the other things Netflix really sets this their original content is a higher quality the issue and but the real problem is is that people I think turn to their original content for children programming much more amazon it seems to be more content from other providers that they that they show on their thing so but amazon thing is is bezos is much more interested in being making amends with conservatives far more than Netflix is bezos sees democrats as a problem for his business industry that doesn't mean you need to think bezos is awesome but bezos is more willing to be a conservative ally a right wing ally than anyone at Netflix and so amazon is ideologically better but I think that they in terms of

1:12:54their ability to turn out high Netflix makes higher quality content or at least content that connects more with americans i haven't i've seen right wingers like the fallout series i don't know much about it i didn't play fallout so i don't know much about the lore i've watched clips of it and looks stupid so i have not bothered to watch it at all so i imagine that is a bad show but they frequently produce bad shows in the first trump era they produce some real horrible stuff i forget this is first first term trump or the very beginning of biden where they had a show about it was a multi-racial Nazi hunting group that was going out and killing all these Nazis who are apparently in control of the government and it was insanely insanely anti-white show and i think it had alpuchino and others i think i had canceled after one season but i'm pretty sure that was an amazon original production where they had if i if it was not i'm mistaken but i'm pretty sure

1:14:00it was because this was first trump term and they were the only ones doing amazon and Netflix were the only ones really doing with the ones primarily doing original streaming content but they've changed with bezos bezos is much better than anyone at Netflix they're not ideal but you have to take what you have so um but then turning out trash even with better ideological content they're might turn out trash like paramount turning out all this terror tailor shared in crap which conservatives love but i would probably rather watch uh whatever netflix is producing than anything tailor shared and produces so that is it for this highly respected hopefully you guys enjoyed we're going to be back with more great content this week so be on look out for that so until next time stay respected