Serious Issues Like WAR!

The monkeys try to tackle more serious issues in this episode.  All the while, peppering it with libertarian hilarity and light heartedness.

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Transcript

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Here we come, walking down on the street. Got the girl. No taxes for me. Free spot and free of a trade. Walk it to love. People say one of the kids monkeys. Going to visit big and break. Hey, well, I'm going to go ahead and see.

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We have all five people here again. Yay! So we have VHS Star, Will Detmering.

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Yes.

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The Hindu karma capitalist Aaron, Oakland, California, Crazy Mike from Connecticut, and Stone Cold Steve Hoffman.

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I like how they nod their heads. This is radio fellows. Nobody can see you nodding your heads.

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This is the motley crew of uh monkey gang. That's right. So I got 15 stories today, and I had to speed do it because I was on the phone with Derek for six hours.

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I hope we found some answers.

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You can obviously say, I gotta walk the dog. I gotta walk the dog. Three hours. Choke the chicken.

SPEAKER_06 1:26

Choke the chicken before I go to sleep, Derek. So the first story I found, I thought this was interesting for the geopolitical context of what's going on with Iran. So a Pakistani man broke a fourth world record and performed 66 thumb push-ups in one minute.

SPEAKER_04 1:47

No, that's doing a push-up on your thumbs, or just just having your thumb on a table and going up and down.

SPEAKER_06 1:57

Yeah, I was gonna say doing his whole thing with his thumbs up. Is this guy like a pencil guy? Like really small. He he looks like a roided out bodybuilder. Wow. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 2:11

Bruce Lee used to do it with a finger and a thumb.

SPEAKER_06 2:14

Oh, that's right.

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That's what she said.

SPEAKER_04 2:23

I did that one for you. Okay. The wonders of Hashish.

SPEAKER_06 2:29

Well, and this is why we we are obsessing over Iran. But this guy, Mohammed Arshad, broke the Guinness World Record for completing 66 thumb push-ups in one minute while balancing on one leg. Whoa. A feat requiring extreme strength, balance, and control. He's broken more than 14 world records and says the uniqueness and difficult of thumb push-ups are what drew him to the challenge. This is what I want to know. Pakistan has 170 nukes.

SPEAKER_05 3:01

Yeah, they're serious.

SPEAKER_06 3:03

We're bombing Iran, and they're over here breaking thumb push-up world records.

SPEAKER_05 3:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 3:09

So, do we have our priorities?

SPEAKER_05 3:12

They're allies with Iran in this situation. Pakistan.

SPEAKER_06 3:15

Yeah, well, isn't that funny? Iran's not even close to getting a nuke. Pakistan threatens India all the time.

SPEAKER_05 3:22

Oh, they're constantly lobbying missiles back and forth all the time. And crossing each other's borders and causing all sorts of problems.

SPEAKER_00 3:41

Yeah, but India has nukes also. And we used to have a policy mutual destruction.

SPEAKER_06 3:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:47

Well that would prevent people from using nukes. Because if you you use a nuke on me, I'll nuke you.

SPEAKER_06 3:53

Yeah, we have with us in Russia, it's all 3,500 nukes. We're fighting with each other. They're doing it a little smaller scale. They each have about 150 nukes.

SPEAKER_02 4:02

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 4:03

Right on the Pakistan-India border, they like threaten each other and do threatening ceremonies all day, every day. All the time.

SPEAKER_00 4:10

So what nobody ever talks about is um Israel.

SPEAKER_06 4:14

Israel, yeah. They have uh 300 plus plutonium uh nuclear warheads. So Israel, in the 1950s, France started helping them develop nukes in Demona, Israel in the Negev Desert. By the late 60s, they already started having functional nuclear warheads. At this same time, Iran and Egypt were signing the non-proliferation treaty, unbeknownst to them that Israel's building up this nuclear arsenal.

SPEAKER_04 4:44

Yet the most dangerous thing that they've ever come out with is the exploding cell phone.

SPEAKER_06 4:48

I know. Yeah. But they have in 1973 they threatened to use nukes because during the 67 War they took the Egyptian Sinai.

SPEAKER_04 4:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 4:59

In 1970, they had a conflict over it, and in 1973 they had the Yom Kippur War. And because they were so blindsided by everything, they opened up their nuclear arsenal and signaled to uh Richard Nixon that they might launch one. Launch one. And that's what triggered the US to start helping them during that conflict, which was the beginning of us starting to give them intense financial aid. And Richard Nixon was the one who started the basically don't ask, don't tell, we won't admit anything, which was one of the other stories. Is the other day Trump became the first president to ever admit Israel has nuclear weapons.

SPEAKER_03 5:42

The other day was that a slip-up or a huge everybody knows they had everyone knows they haven't really admitted.

SPEAKER_04 5:50

Yeah, I guess it's the unspoken truth. Everybody knows.

SPEAKER_06 5:53

It's been the unspoken truth for 50 years. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 5:55

That they just don't talk about it, but it's I'll actually skip to that story.

SPEAKER_03 5:59

Don't tell Trump any secrets.

SPEAKER_06 6:02

Yeah. Well, here's the thing that's funny about it. We're going to war with Iran, who's a signer of the NPT, who the clergy class of the community had a fought way against nukes. The Iran Revolutionary Guard wanted them as a deterrence, which I mean they basically just got the Libya treatment preemptively. Yeah. And what happened the other day is David Sachs, who's the AI and cryptocurrency czar, who's also Jewish, he said he's worried of the risks of this escalatory approach with Israel and Iran, and Israel could get seriously injured, and then you have to worry about Israel escalating the war by contemplating using a nuclear weapon. And Trump came out and said Israel wouldn't do that. Israel wouldn't use uh do that with their nuclear weapons. Right. Never in US history has any president in public admitted Israel as nukes, and the president of uh Israel, Ulmart, who was president like the mid-2000s, accidentally admitted it on German state television. And he ended up having to step down as Prime Minister of Israel.

SPEAKER_05 7:12

These guys, the scary thing, I mean, somebody correct me if I'm going off base here, but they're Abrahamic, right? So they're Armageddon people.

SPEAKER_03 7:19

Like they've been listening to that Bible too long.

SPEAKER_05 7:24

They want to march towards that because and they're manifesting that. Oh and uh I mean it's kind of freaky.

SPEAKER_03 7:32

Well, it's just like Bob Marley said, don't fulfill the Bible. But they're working on it.

SPEAKER_06 7:37

Well, and here's the thing when Tucker's been interviewing like the Mike Huckabee interview about the Third Temple and Pete Heg set said the Third Temple, the Third Temple is a Judaism thing. Yeah, it's not a Christian belief. Right. That's a very fringe micro-Christian belief, and they have a way higher tolerance for conflict and war than the US, and we have differing policies.

SPEAKER_03 8:00

But there's a thing we there's a thing behind this war that nobody really knows about, that Iran isn't in involved with the world monetary bank banking system. Well, that's one of the they're one of the few, and those countries like uh Venezuela is another one. Any country that doesn't conform disappears, does now gets gets hammered.

SPEAKER_06 8:28

Well, China and Russia are aligned with Iran.

SPEAKER_03 8:31

That's the Ross Child's. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 8:32

It had to do with the petrodollar, and but all of it, but it goes to Armor Geddon again. They're marching right towards it.

SPEAKER_06 8:39

With Israel, it's funny when people say, oh, Iran's a fundamentalist religious state that could get nukes, it's like that's what Israel is. They're a fundamentalist state with nukes. Yeah, yeah. And Iran's Shia Islam, which is a minority view, but it's a majority in Iran, and they're like a counterbalancing force to these Sunni states like Saudi Arabia and everything that's aligned with Israel and us largely, and Qatar, and it's a geopolitical power struggle. And when Joe Kent stepped down the other day and mentioned Israeli intelligence, they'll say it's not through our intelligence channels yet to people in Congress and to the president. But you know, they're four weeks away from a nuclear weapon, and it's gonna come out through our intelligence channels, but just so you know, right now, it's really close. And it totally mind fucks everyone who doesn't have a balanced view with all these different intelligence people giving so there's no lies of emission and everything's uh robustly understood. And you do that enough. And Israel did like what they did in 1973, and they've done to like the last five presidents. They say, We're about to intervene, and there's gonna be blowback, and you can either join us or not. They've done that for 20 years.

SPEAKER_05 9:56

That's sets the kickoff, though.

SPEAKER_04 9:57

I do want to clarify one thing that Israel is a Jewish state, being it was established for the Jewish people. However, early that's not their government. That's their government is sec secular, yeah, because we know that they have both Christians and and uh Muslims in their Knesset.

SPEAKER_06 10:14

So Yeah, they have the Muslims as a minority in their Knesset, and like people like Netanyahu are basically secular. But notice when Netanyahu got the arrest warrant at the International Court of Justice in 2024, notice he gives these hyper orthodox Jewish extreme religious speeches in Israel. Yeah, he mentioned uh uh not Amalek who were the ones that were genocidally murdered in like Exodus, Leviticus, where they killed their children and animals and everything.

SPEAKER_04 10:45

Um I can't Amalekites, uh Amalekites and possibly Levites, I can't remember.

SPEAKER_06 10:52

Yeah, he invoked that about Iran and Gaza.

SPEAKER_04 10:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 10:57

So he gets the Orthodox Jewish community, which you know, Tel Aviv's secular and liberal and Western, but a lot of outside Israel is hardcore Orthodox Jewish, and they balance that, and a lot of the settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are hardcore Orthodox Jews, they're not the secular Tel Aviv Jews. Oh yeah, they're the hardcore religious, theocratic Orthodox Jewish Jews.

SPEAKER_04 11:21

They're like the far right of Israel, and yeah, and which they don't have a lot of political power, but they have a lot of influence, just like in this country.

SPEAKER_03 11:29

When I moved down here, I had a bunch of them in limousines follow me from New York down here. I thought they were following me. I mean, literally drove from New York all the way to Virginia. I remember going to a restaurant and then we're getting out of the cut. I'm like, are these guys gonna hit me or what? Are they just making sure you weren't gonna return?

SPEAKER_02 11:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 11:55

Maybe checks and bones. Your escort. It feels like a banker's holy war, really. It is a banker's holy war. It's kind of got the combination of both. So it's got the money strings, the oil strings, but then the holy war on both sides. And it's like, what if you don't want to be on board with the runtimes thing? Like, what do you do? Where do you go? There's a hole in the ground. Is there a bunker big enough for you to escape the Abrahamic death trap?

SPEAKER_06 12:30

Well, and here's the other side of the Orthodox Jewish part is Christian Zionists like Huckabee, who interpreted a certain way, just like Hegeth, they believe the dome on the rock has to be removed and they have to build a third temple. Well, I know they do.

SPEAKER_05 12:46

They're marching towards this. But oh, so so Tulsi Gabbard. Oh there she sits, there she stands. She's an out in the open Hindu. And she's not standing up to this at all. She's marching along with the Holy War. She's marching along with the Holy War. Bent over.

SPEAKER_00 13:01

We need to bring the Templars. Yeah, that's not everything. That's the sheep following the sheep.

SPEAKER_06 13:09

Tulsi Gabbard is going along with it. That's been the biggest disappointment out of this whole thing. Yeah. Because even Mark Levin was freaking out about that Joe Kent guy resigning and even wanted him on a show just to get ahead of it. And everyone was expecting Tulsi Gabbard might step down.

SPEAKER_00 13:24

She'll get fired.

SPEAKER_06 13:25

Yeah, and she just bent over. Bent over, give it to me. Her Twitter has like 10 years of we can never go in Iran and blah blah blah blah. And all the Democrats were confronting it.

SPEAKER_05 13:36

She's not on principle at all. Not with her beliefs and not with her stance, not with her prior stance. So she's she's a failure on both of her, both of her slides.

SPEAKER_06 13:45

Yeah, well, and that's the thing about like the Mises Kakas Kingmaker strategy type of thing is when they basically turn on you, you have to walk away. Your leverage is your ability to walk away. That's what Trump with his famous quote from Art of the Deal that was mostly ghostwritten. Uh if you keep bending over for them, you have no leverage. Yeah. Now they have all the leverage. They've got all the leverage on her, no doubt. Yeah, and he's he was another story uh because he put out the statement. So this was what about five days ago, Joe Kent? He was the uh counter-terrorism director with the National Counterterrorism Center, and he resigned and said, after much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as director of the National Counter-terrorism center effective today. I cannot, in good conscience, support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. So he came out swinging. She should have to open up the floodgates. You know how much support she would have? She should have done that. She should have done that voice. She basically went to Congress and said, I'm not gonna give my personal opinions, but Trump was right about everything, and I'm just going with whatever Trump wants to do, and I'll leave my personal opinions to the side, and I won't comment on any of my personal opinions, which everyone knows what they are. Yeah, or were. Because she said it a trillion times at every outlet for like the last 10 years. Literally. Literally, yeah, literally a trillion, literally 10 trillion times.

SPEAKER_00 15:23

I think this is gonna be bad news for the Republicans during the upcoming midterm elections. Definitely bad news.

SPEAKER_06 15:30

The polling's looking so bad. So on uh there was a poll that came out with NBC News the other day that said mega's 100%. The poll literally said 100% supports all they ran stuff, and most of the polling spent like 80 or 90% on the mega part, but on independence, it's like 75-80% opposed. On Democrats, it's like 90-95% opposed.

SPEAKER_05 15:56

Lies, all lies. The economic ramifications too are gonna hit the people in the middle and they're gonna vote against anything that's curtailing their life. Well, the cost of goods.

SPEAKER_03 16:05

Well, when you're paying four dollars a gallon for gas, that in the loan is just gonna sink them.

SPEAKER_04 16:11

I just everybody keeps talking about that. I don't I keep looking at it, and there's I don't see how the United States is gonna have that the world market is gonna affect our our oil prices enough.

SPEAKER_05 16:24

Transportation for goods.

SPEAKER_04 16:25

How we have plenty of oil.

SPEAKER_05 16:28

But the goods coming across in boats and the goods for manufacturing, all their costs is coming across the state.

SPEAKER_04 16:33

Yeah, but we reduce we reduce that by 35 percent when we put in the tariffs. No, they don't. No, no, no. We reduce the amount of goods coming into this country by 35 percent since we've had the tariffs. Okay. Really? So and the prices go up. No, uh that that's well, we're talking about the the cost of goods coming in are increased because of the fuel. The fuel that they're using are the but there's 35 percent less coming in.

SPEAKER_05 17:01

So do you you do you not see that there would be an impact from the current.

SPEAKER_04 17:06

I I see it on goods even though on oil. Yeah, I'm just not saying the oil prices. I don't see our oil prices really hit hitting that.

SPEAKER_05 17:14

Because we're gonna hit our reserves on our oil.

SPEAKER_04 17:16

He's he's releasing 20 percent of the oil reserves. They're they're opening up Hormuz now, um, with the uh European countries bending a knee, the NATO countries bending a knee, and they're gonna they're gonna be the ones that are gonna keep it open. They've already got four warships in from Britain and France into Hormuz.

SPEAKER_00 17:37

I keep asking the question why haven't we built a pipeline yet across Oman or Saudi Arabia? We could bypass the Straits of Hormuz.

SPEAKER_05 17:46

Which they should.

SPEAKER_00 17:46

I mean, look at the United States. We got pipelines coming down from Canada, from Alaska.

SPEAKER_04 17:51

I just saw I just saw that they're gonna be making more um that there's uh also uh gonna be some channels put in, shipping channels, uh, but they didn't do that earlier because of the threat from Iran. Because Iran wanted to be able to, you know, cut off the spigot of Hormuz, and they wouldn't let anybody they threaten them if they tried to build any infrastructure or anything to circumvent that control.

SPEAKER_06 18:16

Yeah. Well, and that's 20% of the world supply. Sometimes when you put oil on the market, these are international companies like Exxon and whatever else that bring us oil, it's still where gas is like. So gas was what 280 a gallon or whatever it was.

SPEAKER_03 18:33

Gas was like two no, gas was like two fifty-three a gallon before all this happened. Yeah. Now it's almost a dollar more.

SPEAKER_06 18:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:42

So one thing with the futures market. Which is still which is still. And we're not gonna we're not gonna we had Biden and you're not gonna feel the pain until probably six months from now.

SPEAKER_04 18:53

Uh I mean, uh you know, it but six months from now, too, is when we're also starting to get the benefits of opening up all the uh drilled baby drill after he got into office. Yeah, but my thing is I do not my personal feeling is we are not going to have the gloom and doom at the pumps. We are not in this country. I think they're gonna feel it in Europe. I think they're gonna feel it in Asia. I don't think we're gonna feel it here in the United States.

SPEAKER_03 19:22

But he hasn't finished the uh the uh the piping, because he he didn't finish it the last time he was in office. He had it almost finished, and then Biden came in and he stopped it.

SPEAKER_04 19:35

Well, yeah, our our our pipeline will it and and it looks like it's not finished. They're gonna be part of the United States anyway by the time we start putting that pipeline in the U.S.

SPEAKER_03 19:44

And then you've got to remember the the class of oil. We have a thicker sludge of oil. That's why he wanted Venezuela's oil, because it's more um easier to refine than our oil.

SPEAKER_04 19:58

I don't I think he wanted Venezuela's oil and uh and he I think you want control of Venezuela's oil and the control of Iranian oil, not to cut or not to benefit the United States, but to cut off the Chinese. Yeah, that's because the Chinese are on their knees.

SPEAKER_03 20:19

But it is a fact though, our oil is uh a thicker oil. It's it takes more processing than the other oils.

SPEAKER_04 20:27

I'm not denying any of that. What I'm just saying is I do not think that the alarm bells about Where do you see the alarm bells?

SPEAKER_05 20:35

Because I I see the alarm bells in inflation, I see the alarm bells in spending, I see the alarm bells coming in consumer goods and or product. I do, right? Like those areas gonna be. I think the Venezuela thing is gonna take them time, it's a fiasco down there to get anything to work, right? And you're gonna have to bribe and kick to get things going up there. I think I don't know where it's at.

SPEAKER_04 20:59

I think their assumptions were wrong. They thought Exxon would go marching back in there and and they're not going to because of the they they said, look, this would be, you know, this third time is a charm. We're not gonna get burned a third time.

SPEAKER_00 21:11

The minute I found out that I could not get my C B D gummies after November, alarm bells started going off.

SPEAKER_05 21:19

You gotta switch over to Canna.

SPEAKER_04 21:21

But I think I agree with all the other impacts. I just don't think where we're gonna see the big impact is gonna be at the pumps. As much as it would be nice to be able to do that. Well, look at the look at the stock market.

SPEAKER_03 21:33

Everything's down except oil.

SPEAKER_00 21:35

Oh no, I'm making a bunch of money on my defense ducks. I'm making it on oil.

SPEAKER_05 21:39

Well, that's a good karma for you. I mean that's good karma for you. It it's a dead means of production.

SPEAKER_02 21:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 21:48

Where we're headed, robotics, AI, the amount of energy that we need to keep everything going. This is a stranglehold brought on by those oil industries, brought on by the banks. We've got better. Better means of energy that are being suppressed. It is the case. And sooner or later that suppression is going to break open, and it's probably going to be another foreign nation that actually does it because we've let these people strangle us to death for so long and create their holy gas banking wars to contain these resources and resources.

SPEAKER_00 22:20

There's an argument out there. This is all done for the benefit of the city of London, the insurance market. Yeah, the insurance market too.

SPEAKER_05 22:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 22:28

But I hope when we talk in the world banking system. I hope when we talk with Larry Sharp next week on conversations with the Hoff that we also talk about nuclear. And and his he will be able to tell us even more about this clean, safer nuclear option that we have in this country that we should develop, not only in upstate New York, but throughout the entire country.

SPEAKER_05 22:50

Yeah, there's lots of options and there's lots of suppression. And the people who talk about suppression who have answers somehow end up dead on their front porch all the time.

SPEAKER_04 22:59

Watch it off.

SPEAKER_05 23:01

It's all the time. It's like what shot he committed suicide by shooting himself in the back of his head with a staple gun. There you go.

SPEAKER_00 23:07

That's legit to stop worrying and love nuclear. Yes, I agree.

SPEAKER_05 23:13

Anyways, we've got to get past oil and gas. It's ineffective and it's a control grid to keep us enslaved.

SPEAKER_06 23:18

Well, and here's the thing with nuclear Scott Adams, who recently died, was huge on nuclear. And you know something interesting is on uh climate change global warming, almost all climate sinists support nuclear energy. Yes. And the whole left-wing environmental establishment totally oppose it. Eco diversity actually is the kicker.

SPEAKER_03 23:42

Who cares? They're bombing oil fields and gas lines.

SPEAKER_05 23:47

Exactly. And and the government and the military's like, where do you think all that's going right now? This government is the largest polluter in the world. So listening to their statistics is a joke, as far as I'm concerned.

SPEAKER_06 23:59

Well, that's funny you mentioned the gas thing, because that was another story on here. So Israel apparently uh bombed what was it called? Oh, the field uh the uh the Kuwait's uh oil. Well, that's when uh Iran retaliated, but the Israel basically bombed their main gas field in Iran.

SPEAKER_04 24:23

The Kali Azizh field or something?

SPEAKER_06 24:27

Yeah, I don't that I have the uh Qatar one, but I don't have the Iran one in my uh notes. But then Iran hit Qatar's Ras-Lafon industrial city gas field, and Trump came out and said Israel should not have done that because it's basically their civilian infrastructure at this point. Yeah. You're basically destroying any way of uh uh rehabilitating Iran or if there is another regime change or whatever, and that Israel didn't have his permission to do that, and they shouldn't have done it, and they won't do it again.

SPEAKER_04 24:59

Yeah. And I guess some people out of Israel are saying it was the Kurds that were actually encouraging them to do that with their intelligence.

SPEAKER_06 25:07

Well, here's what's funny. So Israeli officials talked to the New York Times, and they said, Oh, it's the Iran's Pars gas field. Ah, they said we coordinated with the U.S. and uh they approved of us doing it with the the uh South Pars gas field. I I believe it. Then Netanyahu came out and said, no, we didn't. Uh we're sorry for doing that, and uh, we won't do that again.

SPEAKER_04 25:34

Oh we won't today again. I I I believe the coordination was there.

SPEAKER_06 25:40

Oh, it had to have been.

SPEAKER_04 25:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 25:41

And it just looks so bad.

SPEAKER_04 25:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:43

Why have we lost trust in the media? Oh wow, yeah, that's a hard one.

SPEAKER_03 25:48

So so nothing's off the table for hitting next thing it'll be uh They've already gotten skilled power plants.

SPEAKER_06 25:55

Oh yeah, well, I mean, yeah, they started off with the school. Yeah, which and it was 40 minutes apart from the two different attacks. Uh here's the thing about that. Oh the futures market, you know, if if we have reserves, oil reserves, and we can throw them on the market, but sometimes if it wasn't an emergency situation like this, it might be more likely and he might intervene. But usually they throw our oil reserves onto the international market. So if there's instability, the whole international market freaks out, futures go up, like right after this gas attack, oil went up and hit 110 again. Yeah, it's been flying up and down. It was at around$70 a barrel, now it's been going like$90 to$100. Yeah, it keeps going 90, 110, 90, 118. So they love that unpredictability. That's it. Well, and that's what Joe Kent was talking about. BlackRock. Who does it benefit when you cause this instability? Israel can tolerate this level of instability and drama, and they can maneuver to advantage them in that area. They're playing the markets. It doesn't advantage us, and it doesn't advantage our Arab allies. What do you mean? America first. Yeah, America. America first. Trump said America first is Mark Levin the other day. Yeah. So he uh Megan Kelly, yeah, I guess he's attacked Megan Kelly like 111 times, just calling her a slut or whatever. Mark Levin.

SPEAKER_00 27:21

Jane, you ignorant slut.

SPEAKER_06 27:25

And uh she called Mark Levin micro penis mark or something. And then Michael Penis. Megan Kelly. And then Trump came out and did this like page-long truth social thing about Mark Levin is the true American patriot, and I am MAGA, and none of these people are MAGA. Levin used to crucify Trump. These are all never Trumpers. I saw a Ben Shapiro thing the other day. He said, Oh, I voted for Trump in 2024. It's like, oh yeah, you didn't in 2016 because you were never Trumper. Yeah. And now Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro and all these people are MAGA.

SPEAKER_04 27:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 27:58

And Steve Bannon and Tucker and all these other people, America First types are not MAGA. So it's on its head from 10 years ago. Everything that got Trump support was immigration, America First, core MAGA stuff. Yeah. And now it's the opposite.

SPEAKER_00 28:15

I think the MAGA population is rapidly decreasing. And that's why I say that the Republican Party is going to be slaughtered during the midterms.

SPEAKER_06 28:25

I think that might be one who knows, months out, and however they maneuver this. But it it all looks like a donkey.

SPEAKER_04 28:33

Yeah, we'd never predict.

SPEAKER_06 28:34

Well, and that's the thing. If this imagine the witch hunt they're gonna do this time, if they get the Senate and the House.

SPEAKER_03 28:43

And the House, right? Trump's gonna have his new his new uh posting. Trump knows how to hump.

SPEAKER_06 28:49

Yeah, he's gonna have a new necklace because they're gonna hang him off a tree and they're gonna arrest him. I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 28:53

I think it'll just be news, stalemates, over and over and over again. We're impeaching him every week, and we're gonna hold these people accountable. Nothing gets done, just like the Epstein thing.

SPEAKER_04 29:03

Yeah, because I don't think they're gonna get bold uh going into actual court cases and stuff like they had in the past, because they got spanked pretty hard. It'll be all talk. Uh and yeah, because they're there that that I think was a big lesson for the people that really took that those bold moves.

SPEAKER_05 29:24

Well, that's that's the the whole New York effect and Virginia effect, we might see that in other areas. Like I think that could blossom more.

SPEAKER_03 29:33

Oh, and they'll dust off Pelosi and bring her out of the closet.

SPEAKER_06 29:37

Well, and this has unified the left. This is like 2003 all over again. Oh, yeah. So the whole left they were polls, five percent of Democrats supported the war, 95% opposed it, 91% opposed it, 9% supported it. They're totally, they've been in shambles and scattered, and there's been the AOC wing and the Gavin Newsom wing, and they're all infighting, and now they're all unifying on one message. So just that and the fact independents are going hardcore against it, yeah, that could be a total bloodbath, like Steve's talking about for a bitter.

SPEAKER_04 30:11

Well the the uh the the the part of the thing. The big problem though, the big problem is that uh, and and this is something that they the pollsters ignore is that a lot of people, especially I I I'll watch it on the blue or the red team. Um even those people on the red team will not a lot of them won't go rah-rah war, rah-rah Trump when they they're campaigning. So it may not, it may be a push because these people are gonna be so deathly afraid of putting the blue team in charge of their local uh their local prices, their local taxes, their local spending, um, local oversight on government. And so I I am real hesitant on trying to figure out what's gonna happen in the midterm.

SPEAKER_06 31:02

There's a lot that could happen, and it's a lot of moving cards.

SPEAKER_04 31:05

I think just grab the popcorn and be patient.

SPEAKER_06 31:08

It's gonna be wild either way. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:11

And the people that that say they have the numbers and they know what's gonna happen are absolutely showing that they have no clue.

SPEAKER_06 31:18

It's too many months out. Yeah, but that's the thing eight months out. Eight months out projecting and trying to like model it in any way. If this doesn't calm down, he clearly they've they gave so many different reasons for it, and he did it in such a rash way. If this doesn't calm down and he doesn't get an off-ramp, or there's no way to adapt to it, and continues to escalate, if that's a big if.

SPEAKER_04 31:44

Yeah, because if it does calm down and it does come to a conclusion, and there are all these wonderful things that happen to it, it could be the biggest disaster that happens on the other side. So we don't know what's gonna happen. We have to do that.

SPEAKER_00 31:59

So y'all are not watching enough Fox News. Yeah, Pet the God.

SPEAKER_04 32:06

Yeah, I I don't, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 32:07

Well, and that's that's the thing. I I would say if I had to put a probability on it, there's probably like a two-thirds, three-quarters likelihood it gets more chaotic, and there's maybe a quarter likelihood it stabilizes. How is he gonna leave now? He's just double double.

SPEAKER_03 32:27

They're already asking for$20 billion more from the Pentagon. Is it$200? 200. Yeah, but he that number keeps growing. He's gonna be able to do that. So that tells you right there that war ain't gonna end anytime soon.

SPEAKER_05 32:38

How many Marines on the ground? His strategy is no they need to get out, right? They need to get out for them to contain things here. They need to get out, right? So their their strategy is probably gonna sucker Israel into play this game, and maybe Israel buddying up with Saudi Arabia. Yeah, that's the winning scenario because if he can get those guys to carry the weight, they can pull out. But they need an administration in Iran that's gonna be able to work with them, and they don't have that.

SPEAKER_04 33:06

It sounds like the Saudis are pissed and they're not really getting, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 33:10

So if you got if you got an alliance between Saudi Arabia and Israel to contain this situation, the US can pull back a little bit for their little midterm adventure.

SPEAKER_06 33:19

Well, and one downside to this, and Joe Kent was mentioning this, China's extremely influential in Iran. China's been giving them intelligence and and Russia, and uh China's not spread thin right now like Russia. And they could manipulate this to their advantage, and it could end up being a regime change or the current regime basically being a uh direct uh proxy for China, where it's China in name, in everything but name. That's to their advantage, and that would be a big uh loss for us.

SPEAKER_04 33:55

If Xi Jinping can keep in power by that time.

SPEAKER_06 33:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 33:59

Now he's in he's having some difficulties. He's had to have two purges now that he's gone through in his government. And uh and it looks like even with the purges and everything else, he is on thin ice. So China China's in a they're they're in a world of hurt right now. They are really uh and they're having uh issues with uh uh protests within their country.

SPEAKER_06 34:26

Yeah, like that Alyssa Liu thing her dad was with during TNM Square. They just seem to shoot into crowds and uh go North Korean style when these things happen. Yeah, they do. I'm surprised there hasn't they do have such a clamp down and they're so authoritarian. And the and the Eastern world has always been, including Russia, has always been way more authoritarian than the West. And the the govern even in Japan, where it's more liberal and open, they have kind of like a low-level police state. Yeah, they do. And they don't really have liberal Enlightenment, Jeffersonian Lockean views of government in any way. And it's amazing how long the CCP has had total lockdown control over China. Yeah, and they I mean, if you have such a chilling effect that people are scared to death to protest in any way. Well, they turn them off.

SPEAKER_05 35:17

Yeah. Right? So they can they have that system in play right now where you just don't have any money and you can't get on a bus or a train, and you can't rent somewhere.

SPEAKER_04 35:28

Well, you know you know.

SPEAKER_05 35:30

You know what you have to watch out for, but it's there already.

SPEAKER_06 35:36

Unfortunately, that might be China. But that is one unfortunate thing about East Asia is China is a lot like North Korea, who they fund and prop up.

SPEAKER_05 35:48

And they're very surveilled and they're very controlled.

SPEAKER_06 35:50

Yeah. They're they're technocratically controlled.

unknown 35:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 35:54

Yeah. And that's they've kind of maneuvered capitalism since around 1980, where they've had a complete police state and they've micromanaged and allowed economic freedom in certain channels.

SPEAKER_05 36:06

It's weird when you do business with them because on sign-off for things like contracts, so you do a contract with them in America, the business signs off, and then the government signs off on the business's contract. You're really doing business with the government when you work with them.

SPEAKER_00 36:24

We have the same thing starting here in the US. It's called ESG. That's a stranglehold that the Communist Party has on their people in China. They can cut off all their banking privileges, finances. ESG, if it ever comes to full fluition in the US, we will be under the same controls by government.

SPEAKER_03 36:45

That's the goal that that the new world order is trying to do anyway. Throughout the world to control us all. All of it's you control money, you control everything.

SPEAKER_05 36:55

Volunteer's already got all the pieces built for that. It's already there. The stable coins are an introduction to it.

SPEAKER_00 37:01

Right.

SPEAKER_05 37:01

It's all in place. It's just a matter of flipping the switch and getting people to go along with the program.

SPEAKER_06 37:06

Yeah. Well, and that's we went straight to the political stories, and I'll probably save the funny stories for next week. Yeah, really. What happened? One that ties into the Chinese mentality, and I've had Chinese owners who were born in China, and they are very difficult to work with and very kind of authoritarian and black and white, and no middle ground and no flexibility, and it can be extremely frustrating. But in China, they they have arcade games like we have here. But instead of using toys, they put in uh live hamsters.

SPEAKER_04 37:41

I saw that.

SPEAKER_06 37:42

Uh yeah, in Shenzhen, China, they sparked outrage, but they have no animal welfare laws or anything even remotely like that. People were outraged, it's like a claw machine without the space. Literally, they have a they filmed videos that showed live hamsters being used as used as prizes in claw machines.

SPEAKER_04 38:02

Yeah, but it but it it's not really a claw, it's a scoop.

SPEAKER_05 38:06

Yeah, so they did say the hamsters were fleeing and it would like pinch them and squeeze them, and uh it's kind of a microcosm of their whole thing. It's basically the society style government. Kind of like York.

SPEAKER_06 38:19

You're the hamster in the little ball here, but you just don't know it. Well, in the social credit system you're talking about, that's why there was so much outrage about Eileen Goo. It's not some like nationalist Trump thing. It's like you grew up in San Francisco, born and raised as a rich, spoiled girl in a very rich, affluent city. Yeah. And you go get Olympic medals for the CCP to get money. And that's why everyone loved Alyssa Liu, is because she was from the Bay Area, same exact thing, half Chinese, all nine yards, but her dad heroically fought the Chinese during the Tiananmen Square protest. Yeah. And there's nothing nationalist about that. You're taking a liberal Western Democratic, whatever country like the US, you know, we're not supposed to be a democracy, but we'll get another time. And you have a total North Korean-style authoritarianism.

SPEAKER_04 39:15

We should have a video game, Goo versus Lu. Goo versus Lu versus.

SPEAKER_06 39:25

All in like a week or two. And she's a liberal lefty San Francisco girl or whatever. Yeah. But she absolutely refused to even contemplate competing for China. And the Chinese were spying on her when they were in China for Beijing and in the US. Yeah. He had uh intelligence given to him by like the FBI that they had Chinese spies in San Francisco spying on them.

SPEAKER_05 39:53

Sure. Wow.

SPEAKER_06 39:53

They have their consulate there. Yeah, yeah. It yeah. I mean, it's it's so nasty, but tying it back to, you know, the clawed hamster situation. After backlash, they replaced the hamsters with live fish and turtles. Oh, that's so much better. So they did compromise. They were a little flexible on it.

SPEAKER_04 40:15

But were they ninja turtles?

SPEAKER_06 40:16

Ah, they have to. If it's in China, they're ninja turtles, even though it's Japanese. Yeah. But just to end it on a light note, because we went straight, I skipped right to the bottom to the serious stories. You always do that on a date. I know. Skip right to the bottom. Let's skip right to the bottom and take care of business. But but we'll go over some of these AI stories next week. That'll be a nice tight little under an hour, 40 minutes this time. There we go.

SPEAKER_04 40:44

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