BOMB BOMB BOMB, BOMB IRAN

The weekend didn’t just bring headlines; it redrew the board. We open with a hard look at the daylight decapitation strike in Iran—how cyber and space jamming blinded air defenses, how precision waves took aim at command nodes and launchers, and why the timing mattered as much as the targets. Then we widen the frame: this isn’t only about Tehran’s ambitions. It’s about oil routes, discount barrels, and the dollar’s gravitational pull. If China’s factory edge rides on cheap, sanctioned crude from Iran and Venezuela, what happens when that tap tightens and the bill comes due at market rates?

We follow the money across oceans, from BRICS rhetoric to SWIFT realities, connecting petrodollar mechanics to everyday prices and election-year nerves. You’ll hear how Gulf positions flipped overnight, why diaspora communities danced in U.S. city squares, and where constitutional questions about war powers meet the urgency of surprise. We don’t dodge the ugly corners: labels like “state-sponsored terror,” border blind spots, and the possibility of sleeper cells in a high-tech landscape where an autonomous car can become a barricade at the worst moment.

It’s not all geopolitics. We wrestle with how AI is already unseating routine work and even creative craft, and we lay out a pragmatic playbook: don’t quit, change the route, own the tools, and build value that software can’t clone. We demystify how elites protect assets with trusts and LLCs, and press into claims that funds still reach the Taliban through multiple “buckets,” reminding ourselves to trust receipts, not press lines.

If you want a clear, unflinching tour through strikes, oil, currency power, and the domestic aftershocks that follow, this is it—fast, layered, and grounded. Subscribe, share with a friend who tracks markets or international affairs, and leave a review with your forecast: escalation or reset?

Transcript

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SPEAKER_02 1:45

It was really tough. It was fun. I enjoyed it. It was definitely a different ballgame, but I had a blast. So thank you.

SPEAKER_27 1:53

You missed the video. Go to the screen with the video.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

It was fun. I enjoyed it. Oh my gosh. It was definitely a different ballgame, but I had a blast. So thank you.

Setting The Table: Why Iran Matters

SPEAKER_27 2:01

That's the Iranian's response this morning. Whoa. Ah, it's just a punch to think. Okay. So we have to talk about it. We have to talk about Iran today. Not that we didn't want to talk about it. It's actually a pretty good topic. I love Iran. Yeah, I love Iran. Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran. I was just going to open with that today. I had to make a choice between the beat up UFC fighter or bomb Iran, but I found that clip first. So this weekend, we we left on Friday talking, listening to Senator Kennedy talk about why it is we have to take care of the Ayatollah. That he controls a massive country with massive weapons and he has nuclear ambitions and he hates us. And it's baked into his religion. It's not something that they've we've successfully been able to negotiate away. And as someone who has studied history, just a little bit, not a I'm no historian by any means, I'm a narrative teller, but uh someone who studied Iran. For me, it all comes back to Iran. Okay. If I go back to college and I learn about 9-11, I didn't learn about it 2001, I learned about it in 1979 and the overthrow of the Shah and the installation of the Ayatollah. And then when you dig back further from that, you realize that the Shah had been overthrown by his people, and we put him back in place in 1917 or 1919. I can't remember. Either way, we've been involved in Iran for a long time. If you look at where they're at on a map, they're kind of at the center of the world. If you're looking at the Asia, African, European continents, right? They're just right there, critical location. And that area is a bad neighborhood. I don't know if you've ever drawn a line from, say, Greece over to India or China. You don't go through countries that you can name. These are not countries that are like high on your list of tourist destinations. Okay. So, in fact, I would venture to say that most Americans, if you drew a line from Europe into Asia, they could not name all the countries that that line crosses.

SPEAKER_30 4:03

That's probably fair.

SPEAKER_27 4:05

But Iran is typically one of those line countries that it's going to cross. So you either got to go just a little bit north of Iran or south of Iran under one into one of the straits. Either way, they're at the center of it all. British Petroleum, way back when in the 1900s, started drilling oil in Iran. And they made a bad deal with Iran. They took a lot more from Iran to support the British Empire than Iran ever got from British Britain, which is why they wanted to nationalize their oil fields. That's what's led to all of this contention. That's what's led Iran to want to be their own independent, sovereign country. And on top of that, and this was what makes it worse, this is an enemy of our own making. Not only did we topple a country, install a puppet king, install another puppet king, all to preserve the oil flow. That's what happened. But simultaneously, in order to preserve that oil flow, they we also created a banking haven. We created different locations around the world where the banking cartel had an off-books balance sheet. You could lose money in Iran, you could lose money in North Korea, in Venezuela eventually, right? These different countries. So it's created and it's created this problem where we can't have law and order on the money side, and we can't have law and order when it comes to respecting sovereignty, and these two things are working against each other. It's two evils, right? And two evils never make a right. Let's just start with that. This is Jeffrey Sachs, who I traditionally have respected for a long time. He's got a contrarian view. He's kind of one of those people that as time has gone on, he has pointed out how the American Empire, not the American Republic, but the American Empire, has overstepped its bounds. And we've played, especially when I first got back from prison, I played a lot of clips from Jeffrey Sachs, and then I hadn't heard it from him for a while. And he popped up again yesterday. So I want to play this from him. Again, this is someone who's steeped in international studies. This is someone who has contacts all over the world. He's been, you know, he's an he's an influential person for diplomats and stuff like that. Let's hear what he has to say we before we get into.

SPEAKER_30 6:05

It's probably good for a base understanding to understand a little bit about Iran before we talk about it all over it.

Jeffrey Sachs Clip And Hegemony Debate

SPEAKER_27 6:10

Yeah. So he well, he's not specifically going to talk about Iran, but he's going to talk about the fallout of this. Okay. This weekend was an unbelievable pivot point in world history, potentially. It could pivot either direction. And that's what I want to point out here. When I listened to Jeffrey Sachs, I got chills going through my body because I realized we woke up on Sunday morning in a different world than we came into the weekend. And there's a lot of things that can happen. So let's listen.

SPEAKER_10 6:42

I think uh both Russia and China will uh try to find ways to sustain the Iranian regime. This is, as I say, an attack on China as much as it is an attack on Iran. This is part of an American hegemonic move. India should not feel comfortable about that, however. It's going to suffer uh directly from this. And the whole world suffers when the United States uh behaves like the British Empire. Uh, we don't need another global empire. This is the most basic point.

SPEAKER_01 7:17

Final question, Professor Sachs. Uh, there was an eight-minute video statement that was put out by Donald Trump. I know you've seen it uh, you know, after these attacks began. What did you think of that? Because he was very clear. You know, even uh even if you accommodate all the hyperbole that you usually grant Trump and his brand of communication. He was very specific about his intended outcome being regime change and the people of Iran rising up and taking back what's theirs. Do you think he's uh painted himself into a corner, or does that not really matter in Trump's world?

SPEAKER_10 7:55

It doesn't matter, but he has painted all of us uh into uh the uh edge of a global precipice. Uh he's a very mentally unstable person. Uh he is delusional and he is a megalomaniac. But on top of that, uh behind him is the CIA and Mossad. So this is not uh Trump alone. These are grandiose ideas, long-standing. Uh so it's not only Trump, but there's no break, uh, there's no foot on the brake. Uh, this is only an accelerator towards expanded war right now. Uh and the only way that it can stop uh is if uh the BRICS countries, and that means India, that means Brazil, that means Russia, that means China, that means South Africa, and others, and it's Iran, which is a member of the BRICS, says this is not the way the world can work. They have to stand up to American hegemony. This is the only way the world can be safe. And so this is actually a responsibility of the BRICS right now, which is the only standing bulwark against America's global empire. And the empire has gotten a lot more violent today, and it's shown it doesn't want to hide anything anymore, it just is in open war.

Weekend Pivot Point And Global Stakes

SPEAKER_27 9:19

That is scary. Let's put this in context. A month ago, the United States of America went into Venezuela and took Maduro right off the throne. Now, we didn't put boots on the ground. Apparently, Venezuela's playing along. Okay, as far as America's concerned, good job. Right. Every other world leader that's you know involved in anything nefarious is double locking the doors at night after Venezuela. Sleeping in Faraday rooms and things like that. Now that I ran, it's not just that we came in and got the Ayatollah. It's that you took out the entire cabinet. They took out 40 of their top leaders in the first 30 seconds. Okay. And then they turn around and they take out all this chain of succession and a bunch of the generals, and they took out a bunch of them last year, too. And they're 90 million people, Ron.

SPEAKER_30 10:12

Oh my gosh, that creates a lot of chaos.

SPEAKER_27 10:15

Yeah. So let's imagine another country was like, you know what, America is the big evil. Let's send our Blackhawks in in the middle of the night up the Potomac River, and let's just take out the White House or take out Mar-Lago or wherever Trump's staying for the night. We've just entered an entire new world where instead of, you know, hey, we're gonna, you know, slowly creep up your borders and give you lots of time to capitulate. No, we're just gonna come in in the middle of the night, jam your equipment, and away we go. That's kind of a scary world we live in because you have to assume other countries are playing around with those technologies. And just like the Manhattan Project, once America dropped a bomb, every other major country had to get one.

SPEAKER_30 10:56

Well, and now they have to act accordingly, too. Yeah.

Regime Change Talk And BRICS Response

SPEAKER_27 11:00

Uh so this is Peak Headsec after the bombing had happened. This was we're gonna play a lot of Pete Hexeth today because Department of War, he's gonna tell us what's going on. This is our team, baby, black, red, white, and blue. Let's go.

SPEAKER_26 11:13

Last June, Operation Midnight Hammer obliterated their nuclear program to rubble. Afterward, we told them plainly, that's it, now make a deal. They arrogantly refused. We said, rebuild it, and we'll stop you again, this time far worse. President Trump, Secretary Rubio, Steve Whitkoff, Jared Kushner, they bent over backwards for real diplomacy, offering pathway after pathway to peace. I watched it. I was there. They tried over and over and over again, earnest attempts at peace. The former regime had every chance to make a peaceful and sensible deal. But Tehran was not negotiating. They were stalling. Find time to reload their missile stockpiles and restart their nuclear ambitions. Their goal hold us hostage by threatening to strike our forces.

SPEAKER_27 12:08

So the thing that kept us from doing anything about Iranian stockpiling for years and years, aside from just political malaise paying them pallets of cash, stuff like that, right? They amassed a lot of missiles and they distributed those missiles to Hamas, Hezbollah, and others. And it was kind of this constant anytime anything happened, Israel's under attack. You know, missiles, missiles, missiles. And then of course the other Gulf states, because you have to remember, Iran is Shiite. The rest of the Arab world is Sunni. There's a big difference between these two religions, okay? They're both Islamic, but they're totally separated all the way back from when Muhammad died. It all has to do with the succession of leadership. This is, Ron, this is no different than Mormons. And the Mormons who followed Sidney Rigdon became the R LDS church, and then the Mormons who followed Brigham Young became the LDS church. They're different churches. Yeah, they have the same book. One drinks coffee, one does not.

SPEAKER_30 13:03

They're very different. But also, hold on, hold on. The rest of America can't tell the difference. And the the rest of the world forgets all about this Sunni Shiite thing all the time.

SPEAKER_27 13:14

Yes. That for the uh we have an analogy. It's easy for us to understand that. RLDS, not us. FLDS, not us. Right. Totally different beliefs. Are they really? You both have the Book of Mormon. Yeah, but we we interpret it differently. That's the same thing. Shiite and Sunnis, not the same religion. Only we're not trying to kill each other. Those days have gone, but you know, the Presbyterians and the Catholics, again, same people, right? Same one God, Christian God, same cross, have killed millions of each other. So this is not like, you know, interfaith conflicts are not a new thing on the planet. So you have to understand that, right? The the Arab world was afraid of Iran, and one of the things they were doing was just arming up. The more missiles, the more missiles, the more missiles, the more missiles, the harder it got for you to do anything about their nuclear ambitions. Now, we also know that Iran has been the number one state sponsor of terror. Now, we say that, and then what does that mean? Anna Paulina Luna went on MS now and she was pressured. How many Americans have the Iranians directly killed?

SPEAKER_33 14:16

Where, can you just tell me really quickly, where have they killed thousands of Americans in America?

SPEAKER_32 14:22

I didn't say they killed thousands of Americans in America. I said that they have been responsible for thousands of Americans being killed. And I think that that's easily something that you can verify. I I don't know, state-sponsored terrorism for starters.

SPEAKER_27 14:34

Why don't you are What does it mean to state-sponsored terrorism? Now, I personally have been labeled a terrorist by a government. Like that happened to me. The same government that's labeling Iran, a state sponsor of terror, labeled me a domestic terrorist and put me on a no-fly list and de-banked me and audited me and put me in prison. They didn't sponsor you though. So, what does it mean to be a terrorist? One man's terrorist, another man's patriot. If they're an open war trying to take back their oil rights and trying to take back or have sovereignty or whatever, from their perspective, this is war. How many Iranians have died at American bombs or hands or their allies? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what these definitions mean. Do I believe Iran is bad? Yes. Am I making excuses for them? Never. Okay. But at the same time, yeah, that is a good question. How many Americans have they killed and where?

SPEAKER_32 15:35

Are you serious right now about that whole thing? I'm not gonna list out exact, exactly.

SPEAKER_33 15:40

Are you talking about the Iraq war with the US?

SPEAKER_32 15:45

You can start off by the three that they just killed. Okay, then we'll talk about it.

SPEAKER_27 15:49

So we went bombing, killed 40 of their people in 30 seconds, and knocked off three of ours. I I don't like the fact that we lost three troops. But are we really are we really gonna like blame them for the ones that we sent into their airspace? Your network actually talk about the facts.

SPEAKER_32 16:08

But I'm not gonna stay here and argue.

SPEAKER_33 16:10

It seems like you actually don't have a good understanding of the facts, Congresswoman. You don't have a good understanding of the case.

SPEAKER_32 16:14

Well, I'm the one you don't have a good understanding of the pundit offering your opinion because you want Christians. No, no, not at all. Or do you want to address that because it's not supported by your opinion and your homework? No, not at all. She does make one good point.

SPEAKER_33 16:35

It seems like you just want to filibust. No, it seems like you just want to filibuster. It seems like you don't really want to have a good faith conversation. No, no, we would have invited you on the air. Yeah, you keep coming up every time and you keep stating a lot of things that are incorrect. So the United States launched an attack on Iran. The United States launched a uh war against Iran right now. Iran retaliated, which American members you can call whatever you want to call it, but at the end of the day, the Iranians responded and killed three American service members. So what we're trying to get at is you make an assertion on this air that it's not an invasion when America sends fighter jets and Israel sends fighter jets into the state. The constitution says that in Article I, but I guess you think Article II is more important.

SPEAKER_32 17:26

Article two is when the um the when the U.S. citizens and our military are in direct, imminent threat, the president reserves the authority to the government. Yeah, well, he hasn't made that case for the American public or Congress, and that's the problem. And that's why he's supposed to go to Congress. He's not supposed to give it to me, he's supposed to give it to members of Congress.

SPEAKER_33 17:44

He's supposed to give it to members of Congress. That's exactly why members of the Congress. You're only one. There are 435 members and 100 senators, and others have not been. You're not the only one who gets to speak on behalf of the American. Anyway, unfortunately, we're out of time. This is actually a briefing.

SPEAKER_32 18:00

There you go. You don't want to hear the facts. They got a briefing.

SPEAKER_27 18:03

I'm telling you what other members of Congress have said. So she says, I've got access to the classified intelligence information, and I'm telling you, okay. You're telling us that they're bad. I don't disagree. My my my life experience and my observation is I mean, I've talked to multiple people this week, and they're like, turn it into a sea of glass.

SPEAKER_31 18:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_27 18:23

Right. I mean, you could definitely link Afghanistan, Iran. There's a lot of, you know, Iran was more than happy to help the Taliban and help the ISIS and the ex-Bathist Party members. You know what I mean? There was a lot of Shiites in Iraq that got fueled by by uh Iran. So there's no doubt about that. I mean, the the father of the roadside bomb was their lead general, Solomini, that Trump took out in Trump, Trump term won. So you don't have to like, I can deduce that they're a state sponsor of terror. That's not a problem there. They do not act in the United States of America's best interest.

SPEAKER_30 18:56

You don't need to see the evidence.

Missiles, Proxies, And Sunni–Shia Context

SPEAKER_27 18:58

David Thack would argue that they act in the globe's best interest, that uh a new American cartel and hegemonic power is not what we need. Do you see the difference of opinions here? Right? One of them is like, we're for American citizens, America's interests. And right now, America's interests are controlling the banking process and controlling the money and controlling the petrol dollar and controlling the oil. And that's in America's best interest. So despite how we got here, doesn't matter what the last four, 40 presidents have done in this last century, it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_31 19:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_27 19:30

Right? We're here. They're killing people, they're paying people to strap bombs to their chests and walk into shopping malls, they're sending people down through the southern border. There's not enough time in the day to cover adequately what Iran has been behind. I've got this video clip of this guy sitting literally leaning up against the American side of the border wall. Okay. He's just been given asylum, right? Because he got across the wall, landed on American soil, and went, asylum, asylum, asylum. He's from Iran. He barely speaks English. Interviewers asking him, How'd you get here? I went to Venezuela, I went through Colombia, I went up the jungle, the Darien Gap. Then he starts rattling off Nicaragua, Honduras, and he's on Costa Rica, makes his way to Mexico, and now he's in America, and he's from Iran. Why are why did you do this? Oh, there's there's there's no freedom in Iran. Okay, that sounds legit. There's no freedom in Iran, so you come to America. The problem is if you could make it, somebody that isn't here for economic opportunity but was sent here with a reason, right? AKA a terrorist, could be here. This is the chairman of the Joy Chief of Stance, Dan Kane, telling us how this went down. Obviously, they've been planning this uh decapitation strike for a long time. Trump got out, did the State of the Union speech on Thursday night, and by Friday, he gave the go-ahead order.

SPEAKER_15 20:54

On Friday, February 27th, the United States Central Command, through the Secretary of War, received the final go order from President Trump. The President directed, and I quote, Operation Epic Fury is approved, no aborts, good luck, close, close quote. In the region, every element of the Joint Force made their final preparations. Air defense batteries readied themselves, checking their systems to respond to Iranian attacks. Pilots and crews rehearsed their strike packages for the final time. Air crews began loading their final weapons, and two carrier strike groups began to move towards their launching points. Across the globe, our operations centers came alive in Tampa, Florida, here at the Pentagon, and of course forward in the Central Command AOR. As always, operational security was paramount as we sought to maintain and sustain the element of surprise. This operation was highly classified so that at H hour, uh, the enemy would see one thing speed, surprise, and violence of action. The first movers were U.S. Cybercom and U.S. Space Com, layering non kinetic effects, disrupting and degrading and blinding Iran's ability to see, communicate, and respond.

SPEAKER_27 22:00

Used Space Force, a new entity since Trump won, and they basically jammed everything. This happened in Venezuela as well. You know, Iran, Venezuela, Brazil, India, some major countries, South Africa, major countries have bought Russian and Chinese anti-aircraft launchers and radars. And guess what, Ron? Do you think they kept the receipts? Because I'm pretty sure they didn't work. They got turned off. No. Zap. All gone. All your conventional defenses.

SPEAKER_30 22:34

Okay, hold on. Right there. This is a very important point. This is exactly what everybody in the whole world is afraid of with Taiwan making the chips for everybody. Yep. There you go. Yep.

SPEAKER_27 22:44

Is you can just turn them off. You can just turn off America's transformers right in the Midwest, and all of a sudden 90 million people in America are out of electricity, and we're trying to bomb Greenland.

SPEAKER_30 22:55

Yeah, that's like that's 5G, baby.

SPEAKER_27 22:57

Right, right, right on the precipice of invading Nuke in order to take Greenland. Because you know, Trump's gonna invade Greenland, right? Right at the precipice, boom, the entire Midwest loses power.

SPEAKER_15 23:08

All right, let's keep listening. H hour, the beginning of major combat operations, 0-1-15 local eastern daylight time, 9 45 local a.m. Tehran.

State Terror Labels And Constitutional War Powers

SPEAKER_27 23:19

This is the middle of the morning. People are having brunch. This isn't a midnight hammer attack. This isn't like when the moon is obscured by clouds. This is like the middle of the day with clear skies. Hundreds of planes came flying overhead. As dawn crept up. Imagine how destabilizing that would be if you were a citizen of Iran.

SPEAKER_15 23:41

Trump's a Central Command AOR. The skies surged to life. More than a hundred aircraft launched from land, sea, fighters, tankers, airborne early warning, electronic attack, bombers from the states, and unmanned platforms, forming a single synchronized wave. This was a daylight strike based on a trigger event conducted by the Israeli Defense Forces, enabled by the U.S. intelligence community.

SPEAKER_27 24:03

All right, what was the trigger event? Israel has been sneaking spies into Iran for a number of years. These spies have gone to medical school, mostly dentists. And as a dentist, they would work their way up politically into serve the Ayatollah and his cabinet, right? These trusted dentists. And they would put fillings in their teeth that had trackers, Ron. So these guys have been running around for up to years with trackers in their moles. Oh my God. And guess what? The reason the strike was at 9 45 a.m. was because the IGRC, after Trump said I'm giving them two more weeks to negotiate, they had a meeting and we got them at the meeting. That's how they did it. Right now, the United States military has told United States military service members overseas, turn off your location on your phone, turn off your Snapchat, delete the app. They've given out notices. Because why? Because those are trackers with AI. Those are real time. That's what they used. What do you think Palantir was doing? It was tracking the Ayatollah's molar peaks. We've entered a new world. Imagine one morning waking up and the sky being darkened by foreign jets over the District of Columbia.

SPEAKER_15 25:19

The first shooters at sea were tomahawks unleashed by the United States Navy, closed in on Iranian naval forces, and began to conduct strikes across the southern flank in Iran. On the ground, forces fired precision, standoff weapons, measured, deliberate, precise, and lethal. This was a massive, overwhelming attack across all domains of warfare, striking more than a thousand targets in the first 24 hours. We are now roughly 57 hours into the operation. In the initial phase, CENCOM's focus was systematic targeting of Iranian's command and control infrastructure, naval forces, ballistic missile sites, and intelligence infrastructure designed to daze and confuse them. Coordinated space and cyber operations effectively disrupted communications and sensor networks across the area of responsibility, leaving the adversary without the ability to see, coordinate, or respond effectively. The combined impact of these strikes, swift, precise, and overwhelming, has resulted in the establishment of local air superiority. This air superiority will not only enhance the protection of our forces, but also allow them to continue the work over Iran. Over the course of the last two days, the joint force has launched hundreds of missions from land and sea and delivered tens of thousands of pieces of ordinance. The effort continues to scale. This included American B-2 bombers, which again, similar to Midnight Hammer, flew a 37-hour round-trip sortie from the continental United States, dropping precision penetrating munitions on Iranian underground facilities across the southern flank and slightly deeper. Wow.

SPEAKER_27 26:53

Thousand targets. Thousand targets. All their launchers, they blew up their big naval, they blew up the equivalent of their Pentagon.

SPEAKER_30 27:01

You know, I haven't seen any of the footage of any of this. If there is any, that'd be great.

SPEAKER_27 27:04

But I just it doesn't the footage is unreliable. Okay. So we had some initial images come out, and then they're like, oh, this is AI, oh, this is from 25 years ago. This is the the footage is like very difficult to do.

SPEAKER_30 27:16

I guess what I was trying to get to is I was trying in my mind trying to envision what a modern day desert storm attack look like. I don't think it looks the same. Hornets in the sky. Right.

SPEAKER_27 27:30

But remember, I think we just sent as many jets into Iran as we sent takes through Kuwait. You know what I mean? Like it's right.

SPEAKER_30 27:36

That's the difference is boots on the ground.

SPEAKER_27 27:38

Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't appear that we're putting any boots on the ground. This is all aerial strikes on their facilities.

SPEAKER_30 27:45

Right.

SPEAKER_27 27:46

Now we're going to talk about what I believe the strategy is here, but let's listen to Trump. So operation this operation gets started. They make their strike. We're for the we're through the first weekend. As of right now, I think we're at a total of four U.S. casualties.

Operation Details: Cyber, Space, And Daylight Strikes

SPEAKER_34 27:58

And uh three service members were killed in those strikes. Right before that announcement, the president told Fox, at some point you will have casualties. Things will happen. Trump also tells Fox News he knows how many targets are left in Iran, but would not say where those are. He has indicated, though, that these precision strikes we're watching will continue uninterrupted throughout the rest of the week or as long as necessary, really. And he's warning Iran not to escalate things as becomes clear overnight that Iran's president is still very much alive. He is vowing revenge for the death of the Ayatollah. Keep that in mind because the president is also telling the Atlantic today that they want to talk. And I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them. The president also releasing a video in which he offered immunity to the IRGC and security forces if they give up. A move that some experts believe could be used to avoid a power vacuum like the one we saw in the Iraq War. Uh Trump is also encouraging the Iranian people, of course, to rise up when the time is right. The president is expected back here at the White House uh later.

SPEAKER_27 29:07

Yeah, so what in his speech, which I don't have queued up, at the end of it, he says to the Iranian people, take back your government. This will be your last chance, probably in generations. And what it looks like they're doing with all the strikes they're doing, and they've said it's gonna last for four weeks, is they're taking out every single missile launcher, every single jet, every single piece of equipment or military hardware that they could use to project force outside of their borders.

SPEAKER_30 29:32

So they're neutering them.

SPEAKER_27 29:34

They're neutering them. And then I think what they're gonna do is step back and go, Okay. It's your country, you know, and I think this is truly Trump's agenda. This is your country. As soon as you put it back together, we'd be happy to trade with you.

SPEAKER_30 29:49

So we're just gonna kick the piss and vinegar out of them and then let them live their lives peacefully, hopefully. We can only hope. Right?

SPEAKER_27 29:57

But Mike Tyson says, everybody's got a plan until you get punched in the face.

SPEAKER_29 30:02

This just sounds like a pretty ridiculous strategy, but it might work. I don't know.

SPEAKER_27 30:07

Well, what did David Sachs say? These are visions of grandeur.

SPEAKER_29 30:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_27 30:10

These are people that think they can draw a state straight line from the beginning of kinetic action to the completion of it, and that we're not going to take a couple left turns and U-turns along the way. Okay. That is what David Sachs is expressing, and that's what we as peasants have to be aware of. This very easily, especially if China or Russia gets involved, becomes a multi-generational conflict. It could give rise to a new Cold War, it could give rise to a new hot ward. It could turn this planet to a sea of glass before this episode is over. That's the world we've just walked into. This concept of detente becomes can you protect the leader? This is now an international game of capture the flag. And the flag is El Presidente. Okay. This is scary. Pony Boy says it's about to get real busy out here in West Texas. It's been maintaining ever since Trump took office. I know Texas has been the open door for many of these sleeper cells that we know have come through the border. Pony Boy also says, I don't know if you remember that guy that walked across the border under Biden. He told the reporter, soon you will know you're going to know who I am is a sleeper cell. He was a Venezuelan Turn Deagua gang member. I do remember that. One and he says, you know, you're going to have to protect your women because we're going to take them on the bus. We're going to take them on their way to school, you know, making all kinds of threats. Pony Boy, wonder if he's still here or got rounded up. I don't know. Um, Ferrazier says, note on the Islamic calendar. And this is true, the date of attack was Ramadan 11 or their 9-11. So this is their 9-11. It was on Saturday. Very weird. Yeah. So what's dude, in prison, Ramadan was the worst because half the prison in DC was Muslim. And so you have to eat before sun up and after sundown. And so because we were the white boys that didn't weren't Muslim, we would get our breakfast first and then they would give it to the Muslims right before sun up so they could hurry up and eat. And it was like, yeah, but you could just feed us last after sun up. They were giving us breakfast at like 3 45 a.m. Oh jeez. Okay. I'm not really hungry at 3 45 a.m. So then we wouldn't get dinner till after the sun went down. Well, all those guys from Ramadan that have been fasting all day, they had to get their food served right when the sun went down because you know they hadn't eaten since the sun before the sun came up. And so they would get their food served first and we would get our food served last. So we were getting dinner after 8 p.m., almost 9 p.m. sometimes. We were getting locked in with our food trace for nighttime lock-in. And it's like just six hours and just breakfast again. It was Ramadan sucks in prison. Okay, so this is because they force everybody to do it. I shouldn't say prison, in jail. In prison, it was not a big deal. Okay. This is Donald Trump. This is after the bombing has taken place. He's got people from all over Iran calling up trying to get immunity.

SPEAKER_19 32:50

Last night, all over Iran, the voices of the Iranian people could be heard cheering and celebrating in the streets when his death was announced. The entire military command is gone as well, and many of them want to surrender into saving their lives. They want immunity. They're calling by the thousands. Combat operations continue at this time in full force, and they will continue until all of our objectives are achieved. We have very strong objectives. They could have done something two weeks ago, but they just couldn't get there.

SPEAKER_30 33:31

Last night, so they're going to continue through. What I just heard was the beatings will continue until morale improves.

Trigger Story And Human Tracking Allegations

SPEAKER_27 33:39

Now, now the Washington Post, memorializing the death of Ayatollah Khomeini, said this. This is real, okay? This is real. This is not satire. Okay. Okay. With a bushy white beard and an easy smile, Ayatollah Khomeini cut a more avoncleer pub figure in public than his perpetually scowling, but much more revered mentor. He was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels, especially Vister Hugo's Lame as Rob's. Oh, I bet the Iranians are just absolutely saddened by the loss of their cleric, their their supreme leader who loves Lame's Robb and Persian poetry. I mean, oh my goodness, can you believe that nonsense about the New York State sponsor of terror? Meanwhile, in San Jose, the media had to admit that Americans that are ex-Iranians are pretty dang happy about that.

SPEAKER_23 34:35

South Bay Iranian Americans letting out a sigh of relief to the reported killing of Iran's Supreme Leader. MBC Bay Area's Marianne Favreau was at the demonstration at San Jose City Hall. She joins us in the newsroom with the details. Marianne.

SPEAKER_37 34:55

Draped in flags, more than 250 Iranian Americans celebrated at San Jose City Hall this afternoon with many hugging and dancing as they reacted to what they consider the ouster of the Iranian Islamic regime. Many here also say they consider President Trump a hero for ordering the military strike.

SPEAKER_12 35:31

But now, with the I don't know, with the help of uh Natanyahu and for his persistence, uh President uh Trump decided to make that happen.

SPEAKER_37 35:43

Some told us they finally have hope that Iranian people will be able to enjoy the same freedoms Americans have. Some voiced support for Prince Reza Pavlavi to become Iran's new leader. Others we spoke with say they haven't been able to return home to see their families in Iran for decades. And they say they're hoping a change of leadership in Iran will help them finally reunite with their loved ones.

SPEAKER_27 36:10

I was in jail in DC with two Iranians. Oh, a pony boy, you said so in jail everyone was Muslim by default on Ramadan. In the DC prison, it sure felt that way. Uh when I when I got to prison, the very first thing I did was request a Bible. Then the second thing I did was request a Bible. Then the third thing I did was request a Bible. And then the fourth thing I did was request a Bible. And then the fifth thing I did was request a Bible. And then the sixth thing I did was request a Bible. The seventh thing I did was request a Bible. The eighth thing I did was request a Bible. And on the ninth day on my birthday, they let me out of solitary confinement and I went to the pod and I found a Bible. I couldn't get a Bible. They would not grant religious requests from Christians. But if I wanted a prayer rug, I'd have it in an hour.

SPEAKER_30 36:59

Snippy snippets.

SPEAKER_27 37:00

Prislam is a problem. Prislam is a problem. It's converting our black youth and our black young men to a different way to see the world of aggressor, you know, victim oppressor, and that you take your victim status and you fight against the oppressor until you win, and then you apply Sharia law. Oh, prison.

SPEAKER_30 37:17

Prison is the classroom.

SPEAKER_27 37:19

Prison is a breeding ground for Islam.

SPEAKER_30 37:21

Prism is what they call it.

SPEAKER_27 37:23

When you when people come out of prison and practice Islam and they're covered in tattoos, they probably convert it in prison in prison. Okay. Because I think most Islamists are not going to have a bunch of tattoos. But in prison, it's a different, it's a different brand brand. And it's pretty extreme, right? Because they're be actively being oppressed by the great white devil. It's a problem. BLM and Prislam are just the same thing. They're they're tied at the hips. Okay. So this Iranian regime, when I was in DC, I had two, it was a father and a son. And I've told this story before. I can't remember their name. The the the the father's name was Joseph. Joseph. I I honestly can't remember their last name because it was just Joe or Joe, you know, Joseph is what we called him. But he was from Iran. Like and he was in Iran when the Shah was overthrown and they installed the Ayatollah. And he protested on behalf of the Shah and was arrested by the Ayatollah's people. Okay. And he was put in prison for uh three years. His wife was in prison for two years. Of his little group of friends, the six of them that went to prison, only two came out. The other four were killed, they were tortured, fingers ripped off. It was absolutely horrible. Okay. He spent three years in an Iranian prison, got out, took off across the border, went into Pakistan, got asylum there, lived in Pakistan for a few years with a Catholic priest who gave him asylum and shelter in a church, made his way to France, made his way to the United States, had a family, named his children after the priest that helped save his life. Okay. Now he's a U.S. citizen, asylum, the whole thing. His children have been raised up as Americans. I don't, I did they do speak uh Iranian, farsi, whatever language they speak, I don't even know. But they did speak it. And we were always like, you know, like but, anyways, they were not Muslim. They they practiced uh kind of a quasi-Christianity Zor Zoroasticism thing or something like that. Anyways, they uh he the son told me, he says you have to understand about Iran how oppressive this regime is. If you speak out against the regime, your relative, right? What'll happen is your relative will get shot, and then they will go collect the bullet out of the mountainside or out of their brain, and then they will bring that bullet to you and give it to you, and they will give you a bill to pay for the bullet. And if you don't pay the bill, then they'll come for you and they'll collect. That's how oppressive, and they they rub it in your face. Your relative spoke up. You gotta pay for the bullet we used to kill him with. That's that's the regime that they were dealing with. Oddly enough, he protested the Shah being overthrown by right? He protested his countrymen being overthrown, and the big thing was they wanted to institute the taxation system there. And anyways, and now he goes to January 6th to try to stop another overthrow of a government, ends up in prison again. They got the same sentence, three more years. And I was like, where do we go? He's like, How is this happening here? Yeah, in Austin, a local CBS reporter got a text live on TV reporting on people thinking Trump, and they told him to stop reporting, and he said he wouldn't, and they cut his life fee. That did happen. So this was on CNN. They had a couple of Iranians on to talk about this, and they set CNN straight. They said, Listen, there's Iranians that are Republican, Democrat all over, but if your stance is taking out uh the Ayatollah was bad and everything Trump does is bad, you got another thing coming.

Strategy: Neuter Force, Push Talks, Risk Of Escalation

SPEAKER_47 40:54

I think that it is imperative the Democratic Party wake up and get past their dislike of Donald Trump, the president Trump, and uh their feelings of international conflicts going on. This is about national security. This is about what is possible in the Middle East. This is about being a good neighbor, good partner to our the Gulf states and what their aspirations are. This is about supporting the people of Venezuela. This is about dismembering our relationship with uh, or not dismembering, but resetting our relationship with China. Right now, 55% of the oil production that Iran produces goes to China despite sanctions. You want to support the people of Ukraine, you want to end that war, you have to, there is no getting around dismembering this Islamic Republic. It is non-negotiable, it is not a want to have, it is a have to have, and it's not just for the Iranian people. I think you have to trust the Iranian people. We know this government better than anyone else. When you dismember and decapitate this regime, look at the images of the streets of Tehran there. You are going to see a change in the Middle East, in Venezuela, in China, in Ukraine. And I think, quite frankly, their ideology has really it's caused a lot of problems for us worldwide. We need to take it seriously. And I think at this point, we have a tremendous opportunity. This will be like ending the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall. This is a transformational moment for humankind, for security, and as an American, as an American, this is an emp this is in our interest to complete it. So I I am a Democrat. I have been a huge Democrat. I am incredibly disappointed with my party. I do not see myself in them in this moment.

SPEAKER_27 42:26

I think And we're coming into the midterms, folks. Because remember, in America, most Muslims are Sunni. So it's the the big critical mistake that the Democrat Party made is they don't know their constituents very well. Okay. The gay rights movement, the log cabin Republicans, the T on the LGBTQ T movement, the Q and the T, they don't like that. They've disenfranchised their original gay voters, right? They don't like that. I I just talked to someone this weekend. Explain that to me very clearly. Like I would otherwise be a Democrat, but they're pushing transgenders. And that oppresses the gay man or whatever it is, okay?

SPEAKER_30 43:08

The celebrations in the street that you were pointing out, it looked like they'd won the Super Bowl. I know. I mean, they were partying.

SPEAKER_27 43:15

So like Dearborn, Michigan, the Democrats thought that Kamala Harris would just get those votes because they voted Democrat all along the way. And all of a sudden they voted for Trump. Why? Because Muslims are not going to vote for a female president. Oh. They can't lead the quorum. Oh. Okay. It was like the biggest miscalculation the Democrats ever made. They could have run probably any male that was just as dumb as Kamala and Dearborn Michigan would have voted for him. Okay. But they've elected a man and they put a woman in there. Same thing here, right? Listen, if you're if you're thinking you're gonna rally is Islamic America around the Democrat Party because they oppose taking out Iran, you got another thing coming. Iran is a threat to all the Gulf states. Okay. Remember, this is a they are actively in the middle of just like in the Middle Ages, the Catholics and The Protestants killing each other by the millions. Catholics and Protestants killed way more of each other than Romans ever could kill Jews or Christians by orders of magnitude. Okay. So this is not in their world, like the struggle over the Middle East has been Islamic tribes fighting each other. That's been the story of the Middle East. Nothing's changed. What do we got, Ron? We got a we got a nice blackout copy. Oh, no, not even that. All right, as soon as you get one to go, just start talking. I'll stop talking. Unless we're in the middle of a video. Okay. So Donald Trump said something that was very critical to understand. Anna Paulina Luna implied that she's been in classified briefings. What have they been saying in those classified briefings? They've probably talked about all the acts of war that Iran has engaged in. They've got all kinds of stuff. And one of the things that Donald Trump said casually as he was walking off the uh helicopter to go to the White House last night was he told an ABC News reporter, they tried to take me twice, but I got them first. Who? It's talking about Iran. Okay, does that mean Ryan Ruth and Thomas Crooks came from Iran or were somehow supported by Iran? I don't know the answer to that question. But I do think this. We knew from the campaign Iranians had hit squads in the United States and that they had a bounty out on Donald Trump. So whether or not they were behind Ryan Ruth and Thomas Crooks, or whether they've just been waiting quietly for their opportunity, we don't really know. But Trump does. He said this.

SPEAKER_14 45:31

It's Iran uh and their Razis will threaten to retaliate against you and your team by killing you guys for taking out the Old Homer.

Diaspora Reactions And U.S. Political Fallout

SPEAKER_19 45:41

Well, they haven't done that. And uh that would be a terrible thing for them to do. Not because of me. If they did that, they would be obliterated. That'd be the end. I've left instructions. If they do it, they get obliterated. There won't be anything left. They shouldn't be able to do it. And Biden should have said that, but he never did. I don't know why. Lack of intelligence, perhaps. But he never said it. Uh if that happens to a leader or close to a leader, frankly, if you had other people involved also, uh you would call for total obliteration of a state that did it. That would include Iran. So I'm citing Iran.

SPEAKER_30 46:23

Is it possible that they're talking about other um attempts on his life that we just don't know about and they just took care of?

SPEAKER_27 46:29

Probably.

SPEAKER_30 46:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_27 46:30

And he's like, Yeah, it'd be bad if they did that. But yet what have we done, Ron? Oh, well, I don't know. We've done just what he was saying. They better not do that, otherwise, there'll be retaliatory strikes. Now, as soon as we bombed Iran, almost within an hour or so, missiles came flying out of Iran and they hit seven Gulf states: Bahrain, Omen, Saudi Arabia, I can't, all of them. All their neighbors. This is the Iranian foreign minister. Now, in the first 30 seconds, we took out essentially the entire top-tier chain of command. We already took out a bunch of their generals last year. We took out more of their generals minutes later, 40 of them in one spot. And this is what the Iranian foreign minister says about that whole missiles getting launched to all of our neighbors because an amazing thing happened. As this happened, all of the Gulf states who originally remember we left on Friday with the Gulf states being like, you can't refuel the Gerald Ford battle uh aircraft carrier in one of our states, you're gonna have to go all the way to India, right? To pluck your toilets and stuff.

SPEAKER_30 47:31

All of a sudden they changed their mind.

SPEAKER_27 47:32

They allied with Israel. They said we're behind it, we're sending jets. Okay, so we went from you can't park your stuff here to we're in on it.

SPEAKER_31 47:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_27 47:42

The Iranian foreign minister goes, oops, our bad.

SPEAKER_05 47:46

Well, there might be a risk. I have been in touch with all of them, as I said, especially with uh Qatar and Oman foreign ministers. I explained for them what happened in Oman was not our choice. Uh, I we have already uh told our uh you know Army uh armed forces uh uh to be careful about the targets that they they choose. Um as a matter of fact, you know, our uh you know militaries, uh military units are now uh in fact uh independent and somehow isolated, and they are acting based on instructions, uh, you know, uh general instructions given to them in advance.

SPEAKER_27 48:26

If they kill me, do XYZ. Okay, so Trump just said the same thing. If they kill me, I've left instructions. We're living through the I left instructions part plan. And what are those instructions?

SPEAKER_30 48:39

Well, it sounds like some of them are too dumb to understand that they shouldn't bomb all their neighbors.

SPEAKER_27 48:45

This is why Trump says they're calling by the thousands. Every colonel, lieutenant colonel, general, every captain is like, I'm out. What where do I go? Where can I hide until we're safe?

SPEAKER_30 48:57

What do you think the chances are that we sent in some teams to use their missile sites to shoot their neighbors so that we could get the filling sites?

SPEAKER_27 49:07

Fortunately, fortunately, we didn't have to do that because they're too dumb. No, fortunately, the foreign minister put that theory to bed. I thought that. I was like, uh, is this like when Germany took Polish prisoners into from took Polish prisoners to a German radio tower, killed all the radio tower operators, took their uniforms, put them on the Polish soldiers, shot the or the Polish prisoners, shot the Polish prisoners, and then came back the next day with news cameras and said, Look, the Poles invaded our sovereign space and killed these guys at this radio station. Let's invade Poland. Like, could it have been a false flag to involve all these? But what the foreign minister says is no, our guys hit the buttons because this is Pete Heggseth who's talking more about the strike.

Gulf States’ Shift And Iranian Misfires

SPEAKER_26 49:57

To the media outlets and political left screaming endless wars. Stop. This is not Iraq, this is not endless. I was there for both. Our generation knows better, and so does this president. He called the last 20 years of nation-building wars dumb. And he's right. This is the opposite. This operation is a clear, devastating, decisive mission. Destroy the missile threat, destroy the navy, no news. Israel has clear missions as well for which we are grateful. Capable partners, as we've said since the beginning, capable partners are good partners. Unlike so many of our traditional allies who wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force.

SPEAKER_27 50:50

America regard to the media outlets and so you know Pete Hexeth is setting the standard. We're not just gonna go, let's do it, Ron, go for it.

SPEAKER_30 51:01

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SPEAKER_27 52:27

Awesome. You know, if you've been listening to Robert Kennedy Jr. at all, you've pretty much come to the conclusion the only thing that's healthy to eat is meat. Everything else is polluted and tainted and poisoned. All right. So years ago when Barack Obama was just bombing everybody he wanted to bomb, the constant question from Congress and the American people is don't you have to have a vote of Congress and you know declare war in order to go bomb and overthrow countries? And Nancy Pelosi answered this question pretty succinctly.

SPEAKER_24 52:54

So Madam Speaker, Madam Leader, you're saying that the president did not need authorization initially and still does not need any authorization from Congress one Libya.

SPEAKER_09 53:06

Yes.

SPEAKER_30 53:08

Okay, so it's pretty simple. I know.

SPEAKER_27 53:17

Yes. And that's the case. The War Powers Act that was created in the 1970s was declared unconstitutional by every president that has served since then. And they have ignored it. And you know why it's never been brought to court or challenged? Because it's unconstitutional on its face and would be thrown out. So it becomes something that the legislatures, plural, since it was passed, can chirp about. Every time the president takes military action to protect America, if it's in your political interest, you can be like, you didn't come to Congress and get a vote. It's never going to happen. And the reason you're not sending Norm Eisen or one of these law fair lawyers against Trump to go uh create this precedent is because then you would lose the act, the War Powers Act. It would be declared unconstitutional and you wouldn't be able to campaign on it or talk about it or raise money on it ever again. So just FYI, there's no legal reason why we can't be doing what we're doing.

SPEAKER_30 54:10

I also like that, hey, we want to plan a surprise attack and let's talk about it for three months.

Not Endless War? Hexseth’s Framing

SPEAKER_27 54:15

Yeah. Who we're gonna play here 60 Minutes this weekend tried to do a little, they did a hit piece on Trump. They had a bunch of judges that are like in senior status. Trump is a dictator, he's breaking all the norms. I know when you're a district judge trying to put nationwide injunctions, you're the you're the emperor that has no clothing. Not Trump, okay? But, anyways, they had the crown prince of Iran. Now, who's the crown prince of Iran? He is the son of the Shah who was overthrown. That's their prince king or whatever. He's been living in the United States around DC for, you know, 30, 40 years. He's known as a playboy. He's not someone that probably is going to be able to just rush back to Iran and they're gonna be like, oh, we love the Shah and his son who hasn't lived here for 40 years. Okay, but either way, he's very connected to Iranian politics, and he's been lobbying and advocating for the replacement of the Ayatollah with an interim government in order to give power back to the people. And he was on 60 minutes talking about that. What is so this might be your first ever introduction to the crown prince of Iran?

SPEAKER_16 55:16

It's your message to President Trump.

SPEAKER_03 55:18

My message to President Trump is that I'm here to echo and join millions of my compatriots inside and outside of Iran to thank him for having done and having the courage to do what is not easy, but intervene. And he will go down in the annals of Iranian history as the most celebrated foreign leader that changed the ballgame and changed the world as a result.

SPEAKER_16 55:42

In January, President Trump said this about you quote, he seems very nice, but I don't know how he'd play within his own country. I don't know whether or not his country would accept his leadership. And certainly if they would, that would be fine with me. You don't seem to have President Trump's wholehearted support.

SPEAKER_03 56:06

Well, first of all, I don't think that somebody in my position will ever expect to uh to have an official endorsement of a foreign government or a foreign leader. What I do know now is that millions of Iranians inside Iran and outside of Iran are calling my name and recognize in me the person uniquely placed to play a role of transitional leadership. Not running for office, because that's not what I'm doing, but to be a bridge to that destiny.

SPEAKER_27 56:33

Okay. So everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the face and he gets back to Iran and they're like, we don't like you. We'll see. Uh so that's a good aspiration, right? If everything goes smooth, four weeks, they've got no military, they're on their knees, they're like, okay, let's let's play ball, let's get into the world order. Do you think that's gonna happen? I don't know.

SPEAKER_31 57:00

We have no idea.

SPEAKER_27 57:01

Now, let's listen to Pete Heggseth some more how this went, you know, let's listen to some more.

SPEAKER_26 57:05

It turns out the regime who chanted death to America and death to Israel was gifted death from America and death from Israel. This is not a so-called regime change war, but the regime sure did change, and the world is better off for it.

Sponsor Break: Chicago Steak Company

SPEAKER_27 57:27

Turns out the regime So the regime changed, the world's better off for it. Sounds great, but what's really going on here? Let's zoom out. Iran, bad, gotta take care of it. What are the consequences of taking care of this problem? We talked about how they're an off-books balance sheet for the big bangers. They're a place where you can launder all money, drugs, guns, oil, all kinds of money can get laundered through Iran, Venezuela, North Korea plays a part in that, right? These these rogue states, so to speak. And what are they all connected to? What are all of these nations ultimately connected to? One country, one big fat bread country, communist China. Oh period. Okay. All of these countries that are off books that are not part of the banking cabal, the banking cartel, the world thing, they all tie back to China, which is part of it, right? They have access to the swift wire transfer. You can transfer money from bank to bank, but obviously China has tight controls over their stuff. They use these off-books countries as well, including to get one of their most precious resources, energy via oil.

SPEAKER_04 58:38

Vice Chair Reva Price said the CCP is one of the key supporters of Iran, who is one of the top destabilizing forces in the region.

SPEAKER_00 58:47

Buying 90% of Iran's sanctioned oil, meaning it effectively pays for almost half of Iran's entire government budget.

SPEAKER_13 59:03

China can get what they want from Iran.

SPEAKER_04 59:05

Commissioner Aaron Frederberg described how the CCP is trying to keep the U.S. busy with conflict in the Middle East.

SPEAKER_13 59:11

That China had an interest, in a sense, in keeping the pot boiling, but not have it boil.

War Powers, Precedent, And Surprise

SPEAKER_27 59:16

Vice Chair Rebel Price. Can we buy their oil? Well, here's the thing: you know that sanctioned oil is coming at a discount, right?

SPEAKER_31 59:32

Oh.

SPEAKER_27 59:33

And then what does China pair that energy to run their big factories with? Cheap slave labor. So here you go, factory worker in America. Here's your problem. It's the one-two punch. It's the slave labor in China and the cheap energy. Because the slave labor doesn't happen if the lights aren't on and the machines aren't running. Do you see what I'm saying? And China is one of these massive nations that cannot provide for its own energy needs through conventional means. So what have they done? They've been buying oil from Iran. They've been up buying oil from Venezuela. This is Peter Saint Ong. He's got a PhD in economics, and he breaks this down. What exactly this conflict's all about when it comes to oil and the flow of money.

SPEAKER_25 1:00:15

Is the decapitation of Iran about ending its nuclear program, or is it about China and the future of the dollar as reserve currency?

SPEAKER_27 1:00:23

Okay. So as he explains this, we're going to listen to a couple videos on this because this is the thing. This is what's really happening. This is why Iran could not continue to just exist. Because, you know, if knocking out Solomini didn't solve the problem, if knocking out their nuclear facilities didn't solve the problem, what's the real problem? This is it. This is the real problem. And I would hearken you back to the beginning of World War II. What did the United States do to Japan that created the impetus for the attack on Pearl Harbor? What did we do, Ron?

SPEAKER_30 1:00:58

We cut off their oil supply.

SPEAKER_27 1:00:59

We cut off their oil supply. We gave them a ticking clock to when they would run out of power in an industrializing planet that needed what? Power. Okay. We cut them off and then they had to strike because it became a life or death situation for them. For us, we're just sitting back, like, oh well, we want to protect those shipping lanes, and you know, we really want this petrol dollar thing to work out for us. They didn't have the petrol dollar at the moment, right? But still, it was that was the whole thing there.

SPEAKER_25 1:01:39

Trump hopes this sets off a scramble for power. Critics call it bomb and prey, with candidates including the deposed prince, a military junta, or low echelon regime officials who might have very short life expectancies. What happens in Iran does not stay in Iran because of the millions of barrels of oil Iran was exporting, 90% of which was going to China. Even higher than the 70% of Venezuela oil that was going to China, and none of it was being paid in US dollars, since both Venezuela and Iran are sanctioned on the SWIFT dollar payment system. Now, this is raising questions whether Iran was actually a Do you get it now?

SPEAKER_27 1:02:14

This is about money. They could trade money, which is what oil is the petrol dollar, without interacting with the banking cartel.

unknown 1:02:23

Hmm. Huh.

Crown Prince Of Iran And Transitional Hopes

SPEAKER_25 1:02:34

The background is China has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Ukraine war, gobbling up Russian oil and gas that used to go to Europe and getting it at a fat discount since it is sanctioned. It's turned Russia into China's biggest oil and gas provider. And China now buys nearly half of Russian oil, which is about double its pre-war share. China was doing the same with Iran and Venezuela, buying their sanctioned oil at a fat discount, essentially buying shoplifted groceries on the street instead of going into Walmart and paying like everybody else, which gave it a big cost advantage. For scale, 25% of China's pre-war oil imports came from Russia, Venezuela, and Iran. That's risen to 40%, of which half were Venezuela and Iran. Now, the last time America strangled oil on an Asian country it led to Pearl Harbor, that was 1940s Japan, which was forced to either walk away from its China invasion or seize oil-rich European colonies. Today, the most likely outcome is China has to outbid the other half of Russian oil, most of which today is going to India, which also re-exports a hefty chunk black market to Europe. Almost all of this oil is by ship from the Arctic since Ukraine bombed Russia's oil pipelines, meaning it is very easy to switch. So China loses its cheap oil, India and Europe will have to scramble for supply, perhaps they'll even buy American. There's a final D to the 3D chess saying Iran was not about mules, it was not about China, it was about the petrol dollar. The idea that the US punishes countries who don't price oil in dollars to defend the dollar as reserve currency, which allows 38 trillion in debt. His entire industry blaming US wars on petrol dollar defense, essentially, when a regime stops pricing oil in dollars, his days are numbered. Trump knocking out the two biggest non-dollar oil exporters would be right on cue. So as export to buy i trust capital in a single morning Trump took away China's cheap oil, he may force India and Europe to buy American, and if the petrol dollar was part of the deal, it means Trump's gone from wanting a weak dollar to promote exports to wanting a strong dollar to finance trillion dollar federal deficits. Listen to all last week's videos in a single 20-minute podcast. Search Peter Sadons, wherever you enjoy your podcast.

SPEAKER_27 1:04:32

So the only way to avoid Russia, China, and India getting involved because they're all wrapped up in this oil trade, is to provide enough oil to replace the sanctioned oil, maybe cheaper than market rate now, so everybody gets oil a little cheaper. But if not, could you imagine if the lights go dark in India? Could you imagine if the lights go dark in China? You don't think that China might go, hey, they they checkmated us on oil. Let's checkmate them on silicone chips.

SPEAKER_14 1:05:02

Right.

SPEAKER_27 1:05:03

Do you see the game? Do you see it laying out ahead of you? Move, counter move, move, counterword. This is war. This isn't just a quick hit. This is war. This is China going, you're you're killing our tentacles.

SPEAKER_30 1:05:19

What was the first thing that went across your mind when he went? Well, number one was Venezuela. Number two was Iran.

SPEAKER_27 1:05:29

Cuba. Which by the way, they're talking with Trump. We want we want the Venezuela treatment. Come and run us. That's happening. Okay. So there are good things happening. Venezuela falls. Cuba falls. Iran gets taken out and falls. What's what's China got left? North Korea? Russia? Oh, by the way, Russia called. They want to make a deal. That happened. I didn't even cover it because there's too much to cover on just the Iran thing. They want to make a deal. They're like, hey, we we want to enter the banking thing. We want to sell oil to the market. They don't want to be the only Only source of black market oil because guess what? Midnight comes every night, and sometimes it's a hammer, sometimes it's a tomahawk. I mean, who's to say we couldn't have Operation Midnight Tomahawk from the Arctic into Moscow? What's to stop it? The Russian air defense didn't help Venezuela. The Russian air defense didn't help Iran. The Chinese jets didn't help Iran or Venezuela either. The Cuban intelligence embeds didn't tip them off that the attack was coming. Fuck freaking the Iranians had molars with tracking jets. I want to make a deal.

SPEAKER_29 1:06:35

That's so crazy.

SPEAKER_27 1:06:37

This I cannot remember her name. I I can read it. She's got uh I don't remember her name.

SPEAKER_29 1:06:42

I don't know.

SPEAKER_27 1:06:43

But anyway, she's a common pundit, she's Jewish. Um, and she was on News Nation talking about a lot of the same thing about this is about the oil.

Oil, China, And The Petrodollar Chessboard

SPEAKER_42 1:06:50

The president, Iran is not just Iran. We have this sort of new access of evil of Iran, China, Russia, Venezuela. What the president seems to be doing to me anyway is isolating them from each other and then sort of taking them off one by one, forcing them into a more conciliatory posture because of the United States. Honestly, what could be more American forced than that? China was getting 10% of its oil from Venezuela and 10% of the oil from Iran, 20% of its oil supply. So the president is really playing for each other. I think it's really funny to be wrong. The president is saying anyway from the Iranians. So the president's creating governments that are like your regime change. I mean, you can look at Dolce Rodriguez and see he didn't do that in Venezuela. They're playing a much more mature, limited game, no boots on the ground. I just don't see how Iran can even afford to keep this up for the four weeks the president has said it's going to take. And I think the same thing with Russia and China. It's amazing that neither Russia nor China has lifted a finger to help Iran. You had a phone call between the the Chinese and Sergei Lavrov, where they they all, you know, they they they rattled the saber. They said this is terrible, this is terrible, but they haven't done anything.

SPEAKER_27 1:09:20

Nobody can afford it, and they can't afford to take so Russia Putin was asked, Why aren't you intervening in Israel? Because you're allied with Iran. He goes, Well, it you know, Israel's practically a Russian country at this point. They've got like three million Russian Jews over there. I can't, I can't. They're more Jewish than they are. They're more Russian than they are Jewish. So I'm not doing that. But uh again, huge miscalculations by these people. They don't understand basic. Adam Smith understood this in the wealth of nations. He said, you know, at the end of the day, you go overseas to make a profit, but you're never gonna replace your countrymen. You're never gonna replace that natural sense of patriotism. And that's what's going on. Even Putin is like, well, yeah, they're Jews, and I don't like a lot of what Israel's doing, but those are our cousins, those are our brothers, that's our family, right? It's pretty interesting. Pete War uh was asked a question what about sleeper cells in America? So you saw the images while she was talking there, all of the strikes.

SPEAKER_30 1:10:17

Yeah, the whole time I was thinking, you know, Desert Storm was way more awesome because it was only in a green DOS.

unknown 1:10:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_27 1:10:26

So, anyways, they you're showing they're they're blowing up the aircraft, they're blowing up like the little sheds with equipment precision.

SPEAKER_30 1:10:35

It wasn't like Desert Storm where it was just rain down death.

SPEAKER_27 1:10:39

They obviously are going after military equipment. If you're in Iran and you're listening to this, which I doubt you are, don't stand near anything with a military logo on it. Okay, it's probably gonna get struck. They're gonna they're gonna bomb you back into the military stone age. What is the one weapon, Ron, that is immune to you know, space force and computer chip jamming?

SPEAKER_29 1:11:01

Machetes.

SPEAKER_27 1:11:02

Machetes and pew pew.

SPEAKER_29 1:11:04

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_27 1:11:05

Conventional black powder rifles, maybe. Right? So P Exeth gets asked a question. Okay, maybe you've neutered Iran. You've got nine of their ships sitting at the bottom of the Suez, or not the Suez, they're in wherever, you know, they're in the bottom of the sea. They've blown up their equivalent of the Pentagon building. So, you know, are we really worried about attacks or what attacks we get? Missiles are just rogue missiles. Some lieutenant colonel somewhere that's like, let's do it, hits the red button and runs for the hills, you know. Maybe. But then there's the other thing. We've already mentioned the border, and we've already mentioned the you know, the sleeper cells in America. We know for a fact there were his squads running around America trying to hunt Trump down during the campaign. I doubt they've left, unless Tom Holman grabbed them. You'd think there would have been a press release on that one. So Pete Hexus gets asked.

SPEAKER_26 1:11:50

Of course, we're paying attention to any potentialities there. Um, there this is a former regime, a regime uh that seeks to export that ideology and try to uh sow terror. Um we're ready for that. We've we've we've seen these types of folks before, and the American people can rest assured that uh we're we're vigilant on that. The question was we're paying attention.

SPEAKER_27 1:12:10

The question was, which you didn't hear the question, I thought it played the question. He says, uh weighs in on the potential threat of Iranian sleeper cells activated in the United States. So that's really the concern. Oddly enough, guess what, Ron? We had two of them activated this weekend.

SPEAKER_16 1:12:24

What?

SPEAKER_27 1:12:24

So the first one was a Senegalese man, and this was in Austin, Texas. He went into a nightclub right after the firing started, and notice what his shirt says. Oh.

SPEAKER_45 1:12:34

We have a picture. Property of Austin. Um, and this is what we're finding out from multiple federal law enforcement sources to our own Bill Melusion. The Austin Mass Shooter is a 53-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Senegal and was living in Pflugerville, Texas. Material recovered from his person and inside the vehicle give possible indications of a nexus to terrorism, as the FBI announced earlier today. And remember what we said he had in his possession and was also wearing. The shooter was wearing clothing that said Allah on it. His sweater said property of Allah. And um, and there's also known to be an undershirt with an Iranian flag and other materials inside. And remember what and in his car he had a Koran.

Cutting Off Cheap Energy And Supply Realignment

SPEAKER_27 1:13:20

Okay. Now here's where it got a little weird. China's kind of involved in all this, right? But I assume this guy's like watching TV. Oh my gosh, I love Iran, and I'm being paid by some you know, Iranian terrorist money, and now I've got to do my job and I've got to go shoot up a club. Cause terror. Right. There was something weird that happened though when the first responders came. This is verified. I had to verify this because I didn't want to say it if it wasn't real. See that car right there? Yeah. What kind of car do you think that is? That's a Waymo car. It's actually a Jaguar, but it's a Waymo self-driving taxi. Waymo taxi. Jaguar. A Wiimo Jaguar. Wow. Now, Wiimo, you know, everybody knows, is kind of the Chinese competition to the Tesla Seth driving cars, and they do the taxi thing. There's the first responders. There's a self-driving car blocking the road, and it won't move. Of course. A self-driving car is sideways in the road right after a terror attack, and it's blocking the first responders, and it's a Chinese product.

SPEAKER_30 1:14:27

I wonder who's controlling it. Who knows? It moved. It's moving.

SPEAKER_27 1:14:37

All those self-driving cars suddenly become missiles. Imagine a self-driving car just being like, hey, drive into that crowd. If it can just park sideways on the road. I mean, this could just be blocking traffic one day. It's a problem. This is blocking first responders. Is this part of the operation? Is this like, hey, there's an attack? Let's send our self-driving cars to go block the roads. Okay. Obviously, that's a big deal. Then there was another attack in Riverfront, Cincinnati, Ohio. 13 people shot. So 14 people shot in Austin, three dead, and 13 people shot in Cincinnati, Ohio. All in a response to this attack in Iran. Are we prepared for this? Are we prepared for self-driving cars blocking traffic for first responders so shooters can just have more time? Are we ready for this? Do we have any idea the world we're walking into that's completely dependent on technology? I mean, we can't even control our elections or our self-driving cars, apparently. This is Patrick Ben David, who is an Iranian, and he was on Fox News talking about again how big of a deal this decapitation strike on Iran is. But at the same time, just like Mike Tyson says, everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the face.

SPEAKER_21 1:16:01

You have some personal history here. You want to uh tell us how you're feeling tonight?

Sleeper Cells, Domestic Attacks, And Tech Risks

SPEAKER_44 1:16:07

I mean, this is a very special day today, and I'll tell you why, because since 1979, when these guys took over, Iran's been chaotic for people that live there. 81% of the people there do not want the IRGC. Uh, I left Iran July 15th of 89. June 3rd, 89, Khomeini died. Not killed, died. I was in school at the Gulbengian. We're in the streets, I'm trying to find my parents. It was absolutely insane. Eventually, we did six weeks later, we escaped, went to Germany. Fast forward from 89 till today. Now, the Supreme Leader Khomeini being taken out. This isn't like taking out the president or general of the army or even the prime minister or even the pope. You took out the number two to God in their religion. You took out the supreme leader. This is a statement to everybody. Bret Bear put out a post about the fact that they took out 40 of their leaders. Think about what that conversation looks like right now to say, listen, guys, you have a couple options. You can either work with us or you're next. Does anybody want his job? Does anybody want to be a supreme leader next? Because the target's on you. What do you guys want to do? So that conversation, I believe, is taking place right now. But the world just got safer today because of all the leaders that we're taking on. And God willing, if the mission is done, the world's going to be a safer place. How do the Iranian people feel about this? Ecstatic to say the least. They're dancing, they're parading, they're crying, they're emotional. You see the celebration amongst women. Women feel free that finally this cloud that they have over them that they can't do anything and don't put this on and don't put that on. I mean, this is a massive, massive uh moment for them. They've been waiting for this for 47 years. And you have to realize for 47 years, we've had a lot of different presidents, we've had a lot of different Iranian leaders that have tried to make this happen. But the one thing that's very different is the president. President made this happen. The Iranian people, I wouldn't be surprised if moving forward in the Iranian community, a lot of the people that couldn't stand the president because they were liberals or oh my God, he so this, he saw that. Watch how many Iranians who were Democrats could overnight become Republicans saying, I support this man here.

SPEAKER_21 1:18:08

How do you think this changes the political dynamic here in the United States? You've kind of seen some wishy-washy comments from Kamala Harris from Gavin Newsom, yeah, Ayatollah is a bad guy, but this is an illegal war, and I don't support it. How do you think that's gonna play?

SPEAKER_44 1:18:25

I mean, they have to play their politics. I'm not surprised. We're gonna get a lot more of that. And by the way, here's the part that we have to realize. You know, for viewers that are watching this, I want you to think about this. What is the heaviest decision you had to make that nobody knew about? What is the most recent heavy decision that you had to make? Maybe kids, maybe marriage, maybe finances, maybe you lost a client, maybe you lost a business, and it's carrying all this burden on you, right? Think about everything that we're dealing with. So a few days after the Supreme Court rules against the president, publicly everyone's talking about, you know, you got to give this money back, and then he goes to the State of the Union, calm, cool, collected, has a blast calling him crazy, enjoying himself, celebrating with the you know, the hockey team that just won. He talks for an hour and 48 minutes. And while he's giving the speech, this is what we have to realize. He knows they're about to attack Iran, but no one knows it. I mean, this is not an easy thing to do for a leader. When a leader's carrying a burden, you typically will feel something from them. You felt nothing. This is why Iran, the IRGC, was shell-shocked how it happened. It's not like they did it at two o'clock in the morning or three o'clock in the morning. 8 15. It's like in your face, we're gonna do it when you're awake because we want you to know we went inside, you had a mole. The same way many years ago, we've all seen a movie Donny Barasco with Joe Pistone that went into the mob for five years and 10 months, and then all of a sudden, every one of the mobsters gets caught because this guy started leaking all the information. If there was a mole inside IRGC that's leaking information now, this may be the most humiliating thing that ever happened to these guys. It's a massive loss for the massive victory for America and the world.

SPEAKER_21 1:20:00

Yep. Hopefully, this continues to go as well as the first 24 hours have.

SPEAKER_27 1:20:04

Hopefully, it continues to go as well as the first 24 hours have. But he's right about Iranians who are Democrats, might hate everything about Trump's policies. They want high taxes. Absolutely, just this issue alone could be enough to be like, I'm in. In fact, this is happening more and more. There's a lot of voters that have been anti-Trump at all costs that are like, hey, actually, Trump was right about everything. You know, it's funny, I was in Goodwill yesterday behind this chair here, and uh, there was a guy in there with a mega hat on. Make Iran Great Again hat. I saw it. I was like, what? Already? I just couldn't believe it. Okay, so this is CNN. They have visited this particular suburban mom six times. Okay, six times over the years, tracking her uh in her anti-support for Trump. They went back for a follow-up. Trump bombs Iran. Let's go see how she feels about it, right? They got this is like Punk Satani Phil. They got not the response.

SPEAKER_39 1:21:01

There's that saying Trump was right about everything, and that's kind of how I'm feeling right now.

SPEAKER_36 1:21:06

This breakfast conversation, our sixth visit with Betsy Sarkon dating back to August 2023. Her shift beyond dramatic. A DeSantis than a Haley voter said she would vote for Joe Biden if Trump won the Republican nomination, but she changed her mind.

SPEAKER_40 1:21:22

I think Biden probably changed me more than Trump. I think watching nothing be done, you know, for four years about an open border.

SPEAKER_36 1:21:30

Now she gives Trump an A-, loves the immigration crackdown, just closed a big real estate sale, and thinks the economy is picking up. Sarkon laughed at Trump's 2020 election fraud claims when we first met. Another big change.

SPEAKER_39 1:21:44

I'm starting to question the election of 2020, right?

SPEAKER_36 1:21:46

He lost the election in 2020. He lost the election in 2020. The suburbs revolted against Trump in his first midterm, and Democrats are banking on it again. But Republicans don't have to worry about Sarkon.

SPEAKER_27 1:21:58

Well, you've got to realize is she has a peer group. Okay. Her peer group has probably always been MAGA. She was the holdout. CNN found her. Suburban moms, they're all rejecting Trump. They want Nikki Haley. Reality is that's really not the case. When people come to be concerned about the midterms, we should always be concerned about elections. But I don't believe our elections have been fair. Okay. I don't know if I don't know if Republicans are 80% of the population, but I'm pretty sure they're 51%. Okay. I'm pretty sure we could win an election when you don't have you know 40,000 extra voters in a little county like ours. Right. And so that's that's what is happening. Like Trump is right about everything. Now, this deal in Iran is not over. So Sunday, or it was this, yeah, this was uh yeah, this was a this might have been Saturday clip on War Room. 24 hours. No, it's must have been a Sunday. Maybe War Room had I don't know. It was either yesterday or Sunday or Saturday, but they're talking about how this isn't over. Iran has not capitulated yet. They haven't said, hey, we're we're down for the count, we're good, we want to deal.

SPEAKER_30 1:23:01

Well, do they have a leader left that they can all say that's the guy?

SPEAKER_27 1:23:04

That is exactly what I was gonna say. There might not anybody be left anybody to surrender. Right. And if you raise your hand and say, I'll surrender, and then one of your rogue generals launches a missile. So we're probably gonna have four weeks of Iran never back down, and then on the four weeks, one day mark, someone's gonna come board and be like, Well, that's we quit.

SPEAKER_30 1:23:26

It'll be it'll be after we designate someone.

SPEAKER_17 1:23:30

Yeah. What's happened in the last 24 hours, sir?

Iranian Voices, U.S. Politics, And Voter Shifts

SPEAKER_28 1:23:33

Well, in the last 24 hours, uh, Iran has managed to survive. Uh, they have avoided having a kill shot. Obviously, we got the Ayatollah. Uh, but as I reported when I was writing at the national interest a year ago, the Ayatollah was not an operational control guy. After the 12-day war, the control of the regime shifted directly to the IRGC and military uh leadership. The Ayatollah was essentially a figurehead. Uh, so we've the United States and Israel has not yet gotten a kill shot in on the regime yet. The Iranians have also um failed to.

SPEAKER_17 1:24:10

Hang on one second. There is reporting, though, from Israel that they have taken out a number of secret military commands. They have of ITRC. Just talk to me for about that for a second. Who are actually hitting the operational side?

SPEAKER_28 1:24:22

So so basically, we've gotten some top IRGC leaders, and by we, I should say specifically the Israelis. And this is another interesting story, is that the Israelis really took the point yesterday with phase one strikes. We provided a lot of the suppression of enemy air defenses and a lot of sort of supporting role, but it was really the Israelis who did a lot of standoff weapons, a lot of standoff attacks, BVR attacks, and they clipped a lot of IRGC commanders. So there's no doubt that the U.S. and Israelis have destroyed a lot of the regime's leadership, but we've not gotten the kill shot in yet. And I think that we're still going for that, but we haven't gotten it yet. The isra- the Iranians, meanwhile, are also trying to get in significant kill shots. They've gotten some hits, but we've been able to sustain them uh so far. Uh, I want to make it also very clear the majority of these strikes have been done, as far as I can tell, from beyond visual range, which is very interesting because it indicates that we are still concerned about the Iranian overall air defense systems. We've we've certainly degraded it, but we haven't finished it off yet. Another issue is related to those uh ballistic missile strikes or attempted ballistic missile strikes on the carrier. Uh, I was told yesterday, and I'm still trying to confirm this, but if it's true, and I think it might be, um, if Cameron wants to pull up that satellite photo I sent him before we got going, uh, basically there's an open source intelligence uh group. They took they took satellite photos of Bandar Abbas and they identified many of Iran's uh diesel electric submarines. Uh there's one missing, which is a Fatah class air-independent propulsion diesel electric submarine. And I was reporting at 1945.com last week that that single submarine is a very significant threat to the carrier group because in 25 years of war games, the U.S. Navy has shown that it cannot always detect diesel electric submarines within torpedo range of the carrier. And I was told that last night or in the last 24 hours, and it's related to those ballistic missiles, Steve, that the Iranians attempted to, with that submarine, get uh torpedo hits into the carrier USS Um Abraham Lincoln, and our carrier group managed to sink the submarine. Now that is not confirmed, but as I wrote at 1945.com last week, uh, if the Iranians really wanted to try to hit the carrier, they're gonna need to do both ballistic missile swarms plus the diesel electric uh attempted attack. So it looks like this might be connected to that. Thus far, the uh Iranians have not gotten in that kill shot they got.

SPEAKER_27 1:27:07

And there's a lot of fog of war because there was reporting that one of our care our battleships was hit, our resupply ship, the ship that has all the tomahawks that goes from boat to boat and resupplies them with missiles, got hit. It's unconfirmed. I mean, there's an image of it of a drone coming in, going past all these other boats and hitting that boat. I don't know. Maybe Grok was like, I'm sure what this is. Okay, one thing we can be sure of is the geopolitical impact of this. This is Gordon Chang, renowned China hawk, on on um this is American Thought Leaders. This is an Epic Times production. And he's again talking about how we've cut off China.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:42

The thing about Xi Jinping is he knows what Trump is doing, um, but he can't stop him.

SPEAKER_18 1:27:50

So tell me more about what he he he knows what Trump is doing, and because I don't think everybody knows what Trump is doing, I don't think everybody's clear on that.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:00

Well, the narrative is that uh Trump is um sort of gone soft on China and on certain things he has. But if you look, for instance, at the national security strategy, it's very clear that China is a high priority. It may not be the number one priority, which is the Western Hemisphere, but if you look through that short document, it's clear that China is foremost in President Trump's mind. So, for instance, uh on the towards the end of it, it talks about how the United States must not allow any hostile power, the phrase that it uses, to either uh close off the South China Sea or impose tolls on traffic uh over or on the South China Sea. Well, there's only one country that fits that description, that has that ambition and has that power. So that's true when you look through the entire document. I believe that President Trump is going after the Chinese, and he's not doing it directly, um, but he is doing it indirectly, and he's cutting off their sources of support. Oil, for instance, Venezuela supplies maybe three to four percent of China's imported oil. But Iran was somewhere between 15 and 23 percent, depending on the year. And that's important because when you put those two numbers together, you get a significant portion of China's imported oil has now been taken off the board. President Trump may allow the Venezuelans to sell oil to China, but not at the discounted, heavily discounted rates that China was benefiting from. And Chinese factories are now dependent on cheap oil. Well, they're not getting it anymore. If they get their oil, they're gonna have to pay market prices.

Fog Of War: Sub Risks And Carrier Threats

SPEAKER_27 1:29:48

There's a good chance that they're gonna pass on the increased oil price to Walmart.

SPEAKER_30 1:29:52

Now, isn't isn't this uh couldn't you sell this as we're just trying to make the playing field level? Like buy gas at the same dollar amount that everybody else in the world's buying it at, dude.

SPEAKER_27 1:30:06

Be the world's police for economic for economics, like you know, a good one-world communist government. Yeah, I don't know the right answers here, Ron. I know China very bad, Iran even worse. Venezuela, bad too. Let's take out the bad guys. Well, what's that gonna do? Well, my trinkets cost more. My tea, you know, those cheap TVs? Those trinkets. China's in a tough spot. They have a demographic problem, they have now an oil supply problem. They're building solar like crazy. Why? Because they want to get off oil. Clearly, that's their that's why they're building solar, right? They're trying. Kudos to them. You know what I mean? But you see how precarious this is. Now we have the onset of uh we have the onset of AI coming. It probably go ahead, Ron, do your thing.

SPEAKER_30 1:30:55

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SPEAKER_27 1:32:46

We should check it out. Okay. So I'd like to go to private, but I really want you guys to hear the next couple clips. So we're gonna go ahead and do this.

SPEAKER_14 1:32:56

All right.

SPEAKER_27 1:32:57

Changing topics just a little bit. The AI revolution is upon us. Okay. So this is what order do I want to do this in? That's the real question. Let's let me go ahead and show this. So we've talked a lot about AI and about jobs and you know the coming tsunami and stuff like that. This is a little video that kind of depicts what our future in America and around the world as we institute AI and robots and all these kind of things into our workplaces.

SPEAKER_09 1:33:30

It took me years to learn this, and now anyone can just type button.

SPEAKER_08 1:33:38

I'm sorry, Chloe, it's just more efficient this way. The robot makes a perfect cup every time. But I love working here.

SPEAKER_36 1:33:46

They don't need me anymore. AI can create stunning visuals now. Cheaper too. It's over.

SPEAKER_08 1:33:53

Well, he always remembers our anniversary, and he never complains about my cooking. After three human husbands, that's a refreshing change.

SPEAKER_22 1:34:02

Now my camera just gathers dust. A single prompt and the AI creates what took me a lifetime to learn.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:10

I used to design logos, websites, you know. Now some program does it in seconds. Funny how the future works, isn't it?

SPEAKER_30 1:34:19

Brought to you by AI.

SPEAKER_27 1:34:21

Could you imagine being those people that are just getting fired because the robot makes a better cup of coffee?

SPEAKER_30 1:34:26

Yeah, it's gonna be me someday. Yeah.

SPEAKER_27 1:34:30

Well, just put your site plan into put your site into AI and come up with something. Yeah, exactly. So here's the thing: you have a choice. You can either capitulate and let it go, or you can be the shop owner who owns the shop that has the coffee machine. You can be the smiling face that just takes it from the robot and hands it to the customer, right? But you gotta probably own it. Otherwise, there's no money in it. You know what I mean? This is Donald Trump. This is the attitude we have to have going forward. This is the American spirit. This is why so many high testosterone males are drawn to Donald Trump and why so many females are drawn to him too. It's because of this. It's this indomitable spirit. To overcome the challenges we face going forward, you have to have this spirit. One of the most important things, never, ever quit.

China’s Dilemma And Indirect Pressure

SPEAKER_19 1:35:16

I've watched some of the most incredible, brilliant students. And they didn't make it like other people made it because they didn't have that drive, they didn't have that never give up that ability. You have to also have flexibility though. Uh you can't necessarily say, I'm never giving up, I'm gonna and you gotta be able to weave and bob. You don't have to go through a a concrete wall when you can go over it or around it or under it or something. You have to have flexibility. You have to always be able to change course a little bit, maybe always with that same goal, but don't quit.

SPEAKER_30 1:36:02

Yes, good advice.

SPEAKER_27 1:36:03

Over, under, around, you don't have to hit the concrete wall, don't quit. And this is important to remember because the world is offering solutions that I don't think are good solutions. Canada's had this program to kill yourself, right? Doctor-assisted suicide. And to qualify for it, you're supposed to have a terminal illness or stuff like that. But they've really expanded these definitions. This is a gentleman in Canada who's decided that he's gonna take his own life. Listen to the reasons why and tell me if the AI revolution isn't gonna make this a problem an epidemic problem.

SPEAKER_41 1:36:35

Amir Farsood has applied for medically assisted dying, known as MAID. He lives in constant agony due to a back injury, but has started the process for end of life because his rooming house is up for sale and he can't find anywhere else to live that he can afford. He barely survives on Ontario disability support payments, which are just over twelve hundred dollars a month. He doesn't want to die, but being homeless is not an option.

SPEAKER_43 1:37:00

I know in my present health condition I would survive it anyway.

SPEAKER_41 1:37:04

Farsoud meets the criteria for MAID, physical suffering due to disability that cannot be relieved. His doctor, who knows Farsoud's real reason for MAID is his fear of being homeless, signed off on the application in August. Farsood needs a second to do the same. There's a 90-day waiting period, he believes he could potentially access MAID in about a month.

SPEAKER_43 1:37:27

I don't I wish to be dead. Um even with the pain, even with the meds. Um I still want to be here.

SPEAKER_27 1:37:35

But you've already had a doctor sign off. Times are gonna be tough. You've got to take self-reliance in your own hands. You have to survive this. We have to live here. AI might take your job. You still have a family. You have to become indomitable. You have to start using the tools and technology to create value in others' people's lives. The reality is you're gonna have to create more value than you did yesterday because AI is gonna create a lot of that value. Be that guy. Figure out a way. Don't give up. If you want to live, live. I would suggest to him write a book. You have great transcripts. Tell your life story, write a book, put it on Amazon, figure out something.

SPEAKER_30 1:38:15

Yeah, the future will be people that can figure out how to add value that AI can't. Yep, how to add value that AI can't.

SPEAKER_27 1:38:22

All right, guys, it is time for us to jump over into private. We are gonna talk about Elon Musk and his companies. For those of you that are in the 1776 live.us community, this is gonna be kind of interesting. And then we're gonna talk about how we're still paying money to Taliban. There's still money going overseas, even though it was allegedly stopped. And then we're also gonna be talking about Thomas Massey and how he had just accepted this nice little award from the Quincy Institute, which is a George Soros institution. All right, guys, we'll see you over in private. Bye. Okay, so here we are. This is Elon Musk, and this is coming from uh I can't remember the these uh this is the New York Times doing investigative reporting into the richest man on earth, Elon Musk. Now, obviously everybody knows about his big companies, but what about his hundreds, if not thousands, of other companies? And again, for the 1776 live.us crowd, I'm gonna point a couple things out in here.

SPEAKER_38 1:39:19

Multi-million dollar condos, more than a thousand acres of land, two airplanes. We found that the companies that own these assets and about nine Okay, I'm pausing this right now.

AI Displacement, Resilience, And Suicide Policy

SPEAKER_27 1:39:32

I want to show this to you. So there's Trey Trust, Bast Up Alpha Land Trust LLC. That is a trust that created an LLC. Okay. So he's using trusts consistently to basically all these trusts are tied, all these LLCs are tied back into trusts. Over at 1776 Live, I'm we're constantly talking about wealth and creating wealth and holding wealth and keeping wealth. Guys, that's how you do it. That's it right there. That's the only way to really do it. Otherwise, you're just a figure of the state, a creation of the state. You've got to use trust. You've got to own things privately, and trusts are the only way to actually privately own something. The richest people in the world have networks of trust to hold all these public businesses that we're aware of. Those public businesses are what you see. Their wealth is behind those trusts, which is why it's so hard to calculate the real true wealthiest people in America. The only reason Elon Musk makes it on the list is because a lot of these trusts own LLCs and public entities that you can see. But the actual wealth and the intricacy of what they own is ties all the way back to these trusts.

SPEAKER_38 1:40:42

The billionaire Elon Musk. Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. But very little is known about what he's actually spending his money on. And that led us to look at Texas, where he had moved in about 2020 and where he is building this very secretive network of companies. My colleagues and I created a database with millions of Texas business records. Most of the companies are what's known as limited liability companies or LLCs. This is actually a pretty common strategy for ultra-wealthy people. There are a lot of benefits of using an LLC, and those benefits include tax savings. You're limiting both your financial risk and your legal risk. And a big one is privacy. And by buying something through an LLC or another company like it, you are making it much harder to track. When Elon Musk lived in California, he actually filed quite a few of these in his own name. When he moved to Texas, it started getting a bit harder to track. That's because he stopped using his name quite so much and instead started using the name of his personal money manager, Jared Birchall. Accession LLC is one of Elon Musk's main LLCs because it's his family office, which is actually organizing his money. But Elon Musk's name isn't on this document, it's only Jared Birchall. This one Group America LLC. It was used to help provide services for Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign. But again, it's not Elon Musk's name on here, it's actually Jared Birchall. There were LLCs that weren't attached to Elon Musk, Jared Birchall, or for the 1776 Live group.

SPEAKER_27 1:43:01

That money manager is his trustee. Okay. So that's why, as trustee of Elon's trusts, probably at least one of them, he's able to go start these LLCs, and they tie they Jared Birchall's starting it as if he's the owner. It's in his name, it's not. He's doing that as trustee. So just again, I'm just showing you this is how they're doing it. There's no reason we, the little guys, the peasants, shouldn't be doing it too.

SPEAKER_38 1:43:27

So Stratford House LLC, it's a house that Elon Musk bought for one of the mothers of his children. And we only know that because of our reporting. There's nothing on this document anywhere that attaches Elon to it. This whole investigation really just speaks to Elon's secret of nature when it comes to spending his money, when it comes to setting up companies. It's interesting, you know. Elon's secret of nature.

SPEAKER_27 1:43:59

Have you ever looked into the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Fords, the uh the Carnegie's still got money floating around? Uh, you know, it's George Soros. Have you ever looked at that? It's pretty fascinating. Anyways, I point that out because And they all use their names too. Yeah. Well, they eventually Elon was dumb. I mean, you gotta, you know, he was an immigrant, wasn't really schooled in law. He's a physicist engineer, right? But he figured it out, he figured it out pretty quick. Had he not opened them in his own name, they wouldn't be able to track him. But because, you know, he opened one in his own name, there's a a paper trail that led to Jared Birchall. But interesting stuff. Okay, changing topics again. Now, this is coming from the Sean Ryan podcast. I don't listen to his podcast all the time. Um, I do quite often, but this one was kind of interesting. So this lady is kind of an intelligence in bed, and she's talking about the money that we send to the Taliban that allegedly was cut off. Guess what? It wasn't. And she literally went and took delivery of the money to prove that it wasn't cut off. That wasn't true.

SPEAKER_46 1:45:00

No, of course it wasn't true.

SPEAKER_27 1:45:01

He lied.

SPEAKER_46 1:45:01

Well, it gets better. So then he goes and tells, I don't know if you saw this a month or two ago, Anna Paulina Luna, who's my congresswoman, that the money stopped and he ended it. She goes out and gives like a press conference. So then I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. So I actually got really pissed because she's like, Micah, we're gonna say we stopped the money. So I was like, screw it. So I actually put my own resources into collecting the next payment. And that's how I got the January 12th payment that we dropped off in the Doha office, 87 million cash. But I invested my own funds into collecting that payment to prove that was a lie. But can you imagine Americans are having to go overseas and collect intelligence to prove our government's lying to the American people?

SPEAKER_35 1:45:43

How did you hold on? How did you find that info?

SPEAKER_46 1:45:46

Uh I collected it myself.

SPEAKER_35 1:45:47

How?

SPEAKER_46 1:45:48

In the Doha Taliban office. Um yeah, so good luck sending the next payment, America. Don't tell Americans you haven't you've stopped because I'm collecting the next payment too.

SPEAKER_35 1:46:02

And I'm almost to the point of the case.

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SPEAKER_46 1:46:04

I think there's actually seriously, I'm getting really pissed off because what they do is the money goes there and then it goes out in multiple ways. Oh, I'm I'm being so you can basically hijack it and steal it. So I'm at to the point, I'm like, I might just steal 20 million for fun.

SPEAKER_35 1:46:21

But I th I think that the this whole we're not paying our taxes movement is getting bigger and bigger and bigger by the day. I mean, I saw like the Somali stuff. You've seen that?

SPEAKER_46 1:46:32

Of course.

SPEAKER_35 1:46:33

Funding the Taliban, funded pretty much all of Somalia and the terrorist organizations that are there.

SPEAKER_46 1:46:40

Remember, that's just our domestic programs that go to people in America. But remember, we also fund the Somali government. So that you're only seeing one pot, even when we talk about the programs here and the scams here. We're also just giving billions to a failed state of Somalia. And some of that money goes to Al-Shabaab as well. So the other thing people forget too is there's not just one pocket. So let's let's talk about the Taliban for a minute. So we talk about, and legend talks about humanitarian dollars, 40 million. Then, of course, I told you the 47 million in counterterrorism dollars. We fund the Taliban through the UN on top of that, through the World Bank, through IOM, which is migration, World Food Program, you know, the World Food Program, as I said, brings all the food to Al-Qaeda's terrorist camps. So we fund the Taliban in multiple additional buckets, in addition to the 87 million a week. So we have to go find every bucket and stop the money to every bucket. I mean, this is gonna take years to end this money. It's insane.

SPEAKER_27 1:47:41

Which would be easy if they could just cut it off at the source, but apparently they'll tell us they cut it off and still send the check.

SPEAKER_30 1:47:47

Do you got any friends that want to go pick up some American money?

SPEAKER_27 1:47:50

Apparently it's that easy. Show up in Doha and be like, I'll just put on my G6 costume. I'll be like, uh-uh, I'm a terrorist. No, no, no. Overthrow the government. Can I have a payment?

SPEAKER_30 1:47:59

Burkas.

SPEAKER_27 1:48:00

Um, how about I'll just dress up as an American terrorist, you know, puppy jacket, red scarf, reflective sunglasses, and a nice MAGA hat. I'll be like, American terrorist to take down the government. Please give me the money.

SPEAKER_29 1:48:13

How much does a million dollars weigh?

SPEAKER_27 1:48:16

Maybe I can get Taliban to fund me. You know what I'm saying? All jokes, all jokes, no treason or sedition in my body, okay, folks? Okay. I love our country. I love our country so much that I definitely wouldn't take an award from George Soros, who's opposed to America seemingly in every possible way, or at least everything that I consider America. This is Thomas Massey accepting award from the Quincy Institute, which is funded by George Soros.

SPEAKER_30 1:48:45

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_27 1:48:46

Oh, so happy. Look at this guy.

SPEAKER_30 1:48:48

Oh yeah. Oh, it's Q. Q I.

Elon’s Web: Trusts, LLCs, And Secrecy

SPEAKER_27 1:48:52

Q I. That's well, now we know who Q is. Yeah. Oh my goodness. So he accepts the story. Let's see what he says here.

SPEAKER_30 1:49:02

Oh yeah. Okay. I can't wait. I'd like to thank my producer.

SPEAKER_20 1:49:09

Benefactors. Yeah, I'll use your talking points. Um, no, uh, it's an it's a great honor to be here with Rokana, first of all.

SPEAKER_27 1:49:18

It's pretty bad when the George Soros is giving a Republican a war an award. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_20 1:49:22

Like, hey, thanks for helping me out, buddy. Um, he's not a fair weather friend. He is he's there regardless of who the president is. Like you you can find anti-war Democrats.

SPEAKER_27 1:49:34

He goes on. Oh, again, you know, it's that whole thing with Thomas Massey. He's very likely to lose his primary here in a month or two, which it'll be sad. Honestly, Thomas Massey's one of the good ones. Let's be honest. He is one of the good ones. He cares about truth. The problem is, is right now, this is team play. And I and I hate to say that. As someone who doesn't want to acknowledge that or admit that, it's team play. One side has to win, one side has to lose. I went to prison over this nonsense. If we don't win what happens, what happens to people out in a very patriotic concrete live sense of what happened? Okay, guys, that's it for us today. Thanks so much for joining us. Appreciate it. We get we did it. So now we've got to live with the consequences. Here to watch it unfold. All right. Talk to you guys again tomorrow. Bye.

SPEAKER_11 1:51:02

Man. Man, sorry. What night lives in that castle over there? I'm 37. What? I'm 37. I'm not old. Well, I can't just call you man. You could say Dennis. I didn't know you were called Dennis. Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you? I did say sorry about the old woman, but from behind, you looked. What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior. Well, I am king. Oh, king, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there's ever going to be any progress. How'd you do? How do you do, good lady? I'm Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that? King of the Who? The Britons. Who are the Britons? Well, we all are. We are all Britons. And I am your king. I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes. Oh, there you go, bringing class into it again. That's what it's all about. If only people would. Please, please, good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? No one lives there. Then who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What? I told you. We're in anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.

SPEAKER_35 1:52:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_11 1:52:26

But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting. Yes, I see. By a civil majority in the case of purely internal affairs. Be quiet. Or by a two-thirds majority in the case of the quiet. I order you to be quiet. Or does he think he is? I'm your king. Well, I didn't vote for you. You don't vote for kings? Well, how do you become king then? The lady of the lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I'm your king. Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Be quiet. Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tarp threw a sword at you. Shut up! Oh but if I went round saying I was an emperor, just because some Moisson bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they put me away. Shut up, will you? Shut up! Ah! Now we see the violence inherent in the system. Shut up! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed! Bloody peasant! Oh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Do you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about. Do you see it repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?