The Reckoning with Larry Brock (MIDTERM MADNESS - MAY11)

From exposing the hypocrisy behind progressive yard signs to warning against a pre-midterm lockdown strategy, we aren't pulling any punches. Join the host in Prosper, Texas, along with Southern and Dr. A, for an unfiltered look at the forces reshaping American sovereignty and local governance.

 We open this episode with a personal look at Mother's Day family traditions and the foundational role of family bonding before shifting directly into hard-hitting political commentary. The panel deconstructs the popular progressive "In This House" yard slogans—from "Black Lives Matter" to "Science is Real"—exposing the underlying ideological contradictions. Dr. A confronts the frustrating reality of internal establishment backstabbing within the Republican Party, while the host addresses a growing national "Democratic fatigue" and the total absence of political accountability.

Next, we tackle a critical warning: the potential deployment of a new health crisis, specifically referencing hantavirus concerns, being utilized by government entities and Big Pharma to force mail-in ballots and lockdowns just ahead of the midterms. We also break down Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman's surprising cultural shift away from radical leftist orthodoxy and analyze the major legal setback for Democratic gerrymandering in the Virginia redistricting court ruling. Finally, Dr. A delivers a high-stakes geopolitical brief on escalating US-Iran tensions and what to expect from President Trump’s high-velocity summit with China’s Xi Jinping regarding the sovereignty of Taiwan. This episode is your ultimate call to action to stop practicing spectator politics and start commanding local precinct leadership.

TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Mother’s Day Traditions & Building Strong Family Foundations 3:15 - Deconstructing the Narrative: The "In This House" Sign Hypocrisy 7:40 - Republican Backstabbing vs. National Democratic Fatigue 11:20 - Midterm Lockdown Warning: Big Pharma, Mail-In Ballots, and Hantavirus 15:05 - The Fetterman Shift: Calling Out Radical Left Obsessions 18:30 - Virginia Redistricting Defeat: A Major Blow to Gerrymandering 22:15 - Global Friction: US-Iran Tensions & The Trump-Xi Jinping Taiwan Summit 26:50 - Full-Contact Politics: Taking Over Your Local Precinct Leadership

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

All right, everybody, welcome. This is the Reckoning Live on a rainy Monday morning here in lovely Prosper, Texas. Anyway, hope you all had a great weekend and took the time to go and see your mom. I went to see my mom, but did not get to see my stepmom because my father was feeling ill. So it was great. My mom actually liked her present that I got her. So I was surprised usually I'm a hit or miss on those type of things, but I think I did good this one. She is a big Harry Potter fan, so I got her a cup that has her as the mom, manager of mischief. And then it had her four kids on the side. Now I put myself in Slither and Green, and she didn't ask me, Well, why did you do green instead of Gryffindor? I said, Well, the most evil of the four of us, so I think it's inappropriate. So at least the government thinks so, that's certainly for sure. Anyway, so Nick said earlier that his kids went shopping for their mom with his credit card. So he's doing the good dad thing. I would encourage you though to have them actually do something yourselves. All right, Southern, welcome. We're gonna bring you up right now. All right, so one of the things that has stayed a family treasure was a Christmas ornament that I made in the third grade. My mom still has that on her Christmas tree every year. Welcome, Southern. Did you have a great Mother's Day yesterday?

SPEAKER_05 1:31

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 1:32

Good. Now what did the little man get you?

SPEAKER_05 1:34

They got me something I wanted. I don't remember what it was now. And then I got flowers and a hair clip.

SPEAKER_02 1:42

Okay, flowers and a hair clip. Now, was it a special hair clip that they had painted on or just one that you particularly wanted?

SPEAKER_05 1:49

I didn't know I wanted it until they got it for me, but it has mini mouse on it.

SPEAKER_02 1:53

Okay. You don't strike me as a mini mouse type. Is that a hair clip that maybe one of you do you have daughters, Southern? I think you do, don't you?

SPEAKER_05 1:59

I do.

SPEAKER_02 2:00

Is that maybe something they want for themselves?

SPEAKER_05 2:02

No, they said I needed it. So I was like, okay, teach you.

SPEAKER_02 2:06

Okay. Excellent. I think those things are sometimes lost on people. Those gifts from kids that just come. Now, did they do the the hand decorated card or did dad go out and buy them a store bought one?

SPEAKER_05 2:17

I actually do not get a card, and I don't mind that. I don't like a lot of stuff. Because like either then I feel like I have to keep it and then you end up with like 3,000 of them. And I'm like, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:28

So I actually don't mind that they don't waste the money on a card.

SPEAKER_02 2:31

You mean you don't have the crate already established, the clear plastic crate that has all the little things and their artwork in it that you move from house to house to house? You're not there yet?

SPEAKER_04 2:40

Oh no, I do. No, I definitely do. And when you have older children and multiple children, that box just gets really big.

SPEAKER_02 2:48

Uh yes. I am definitely aware of that. It's a good thing, though. Alright, so what else is new? Southern, what else did you guys do this lovely weekend?

SPEAKER_04 2:56

Nothing. It was actually my daughter's birthday, also on Mother's Day.

SPEAKER_05 2:59

So it was more of a combined party. And we just relaxed this week, so it was nice.

SPEAKER_02 3:05

Awesome. And how how's the show been going? What have been the hot topics on your show lately?

SPEAKER_05 3:10

The last couple we didn't do anything last night because it was Mother's Day.

SPEAKER_04 3:14

The last couple nights were pretty interesting.

SPEAKER_05 3:16

A little bit of drama, a little bit of exposing people. We can't wait to see what happens this week.

SPEAKER_02 3:22

Well, sounds interesting. So, and I know you're staying on top of the Carmelo Anthony thing. I was pleased to see that a judgment was rendered in Sarah's favor in terms of defamation, having been defamed terribly by the media and still suffering from that. I'm always happy to see someone get a win in that area. That was actually had I won. And if I win the next time, that is definitely something I want to look at. It needs to be much easier to sue organizations such as the press, as well as individuals who have defamed you the way that Sarah was defamed by that one particular guy. I know there's three people in the lawsuit Tiffany gazillions or whatever, and some other clown with his 8D. And I'm waiting for the prove-up. That's gonna be you the prove-up, that's what I want to see. When we find out the guy lives in his mom's basement and has no money.

SPEAKER_04 4:14

So Well, this the guy should win the judgment against definitely doesn't want to as much these and it definitely has money. So this now it'll have to go to the judge deciding how much. The other two can't wait for it to all be over and then be found just as guilty.

SPEAKER_02 4:30

Nope, I know. And then the onslaught against students here in lovely Texas continues because we're seeing more and more teachers getting called to account for inappropriate activity with children. And it's just I at what point does it stop? I feel like there's a just a satanic epidemic here. I I totally don't get it. I've never understood it. And just a quick insight while we wait for Southern, not for Southern, for Dr. A to join and get started. But in prison, all right, so at least in the federal prison that I'm in, and some of them are far more brutal than the one I was in. Okay, child molesters were not allowed in the TV room. You were not allowed to interact with a child molester at all. If they were in for any type of sexual crime, you didn't interact with them. They were not allowed to sit down, even though there were seats available at meals, and they would get beat up if they did any of those things incorrectly. Now, there's other things that happen in different, different prisons, but the low security that I was at, because of the size of the population that was there, they wouldn't take more active measures against them. All right, welcome, Dr. A. I see that you could not come in on your campaign account. That's a tragedy. All right, and then uh yesterday, I don't know if you guys are following the Texas Senate race, but Senator Cornyn's campaign team just kept putting out these AI love letters from Senator Paxton to the different people that he'd had affairs with. And it was just, I don't know. I get it. It's just funny that the same guy that had a affair with a staffer, a male staffer, is blasting Paxton about this. So it's just more hypocrisy in pop politics. It just gets just numbing. So, Dr. A, have your opponents smeared you yet with anything?

SPEAKER_04 6:13

Oh my gosh. So the real opponent that would be the incumbent probably doesn't even know I exist yet. His team does, I'm sure, because there's seven candidates running for the space. Another conservative candidate has done her best to lie, smear, and make my life miserable because she was not endorsed and I was. So Eliza Vicious, they went all the way to the state GOP and prevented me from getting the state GOP endorsement. The county central committee is fighting it tooth and nails, but I'm just like, I'm just gonna keep moving. I'm just gonna keep moving.

SPEAKER_02 6:48

So that's the standard answer in the standard answer in politics is if you're answering your opponent's allegations, you're losing. So I do totally get that. But it is it's a little annoying. So how was your mother's day?

SPEAKER_04 7:02

I was block walking, Larry.

SPEAKER_02 7:04

It's funny how you say that. I did that this weekend. All right, so she was block walking, I was block walking, and Nick was block walking this weekend. So we were all getting active politically in Southern's doing the more important thing out of out of the four of us and actually being a good so no, it was interesting because I think I believe, Nick, this was your first time block walking, correct?

SPEAKER_01 7:34

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_02 7:35

All right, so what was your key takeaway?

SPEAKER_01 7:37

I can't say that on the show. I will get I will get phone calls, my phone will go crazy. All right. Well, that's why I videoed you in the way that you speak. That was my most important takeaway. All right.

SPEAKER_02 7:50

Well, again, and I think that's a hit on the campaign for not teaching you how to block water. So, Dr. A, what is your your campaign spiel like when you walk up knowing you've got 15 critical seconds of someone's attention span, what do you say?

SPEAKER_04 8:03

Clearly, I need to come up with a better spiel because my district is so mixed. If I walk up to a house, I am highly likely to have one Republican, one no party preference, and one Dem all in the same house. So I have no guarantee which one of them is going to answer the door.

SPEAKER_02 8:24

That's a good point. Whereas in Texas, I my script is basically towards Republicans. But I'll go ahead and just give you my 15 spiel second spiel. Hi, I'm retired Lieutenant Colonel Larry Brock, and I'm here today to ask you for your vote. The election is on March the 3rd with early voting beginning two weeks prior to that. The issues that are important to me and I hope are important to you are the reduction of your property taxes. I want to see government spending cut in Austin, and I want to stop the spread of Islam. I will do all three of those things if you elect me. Please vote for me. Have a wonderful day and God bless you. Okay, I'm gonna clip that now, right? No, that's fine. That was really good. All right. But I are operate under the theory that you've got 15 seconds to engage them or you're done. So at least that's my thought process. Now, again, I very rarely run into people that want to have long conversations. It's also, can I hand you this campaign information? It's funny because I've always called it propaganda when it comes to my house. And so I had to train myself not to say, can I hand you my campaign propaganda? Because it just doesn't sound right when you when you're saying it. All right, it is 1056, rules of the space, don't talk over each other, don't cuss in the space. My mom doesn't appreciate it. And if you talk too long, we'll ding you, but hopefully it doesn't get too that. I would like to have more people come up and speak. I feel like I've been doing way too much talking lately. But let's go ahead and get to the question of the day. What was the worst present you've ever received? And I have to be honest, I thought about this a lot, and I can't really say the worst present that I ever received because I really care for the person that gave it to me. I'm related to them, and so I can't really say that. So I don't know if this is a good one to ask. So I was trying to think about anything else that I've been given, and I don't really know of a totally bad present. What about you, Southern? Is there a bad present that you've received?

SPEAKER_04 10:18

I'm trying to think. I would say out of all of them, rules for a marriage in a picture frame was probably the worst for a wedding present.

SPEAKER_02 10:28

That's awesome. All right, what about you? Rules for and let me guess, who wrote the rules? Were they rules from a man or a woman having read them?

SPEAKER_05 10:37

I would say reading them, they were definitely from a man.

SPEAKER_02 10:41

All right. What about you, Dr. Ray?

SPEAKER_04 10:45

Honestly, I can't think of any. So to me, I've honestly never really been able to judge something as a bad gift. It might have been a super funny gift, and it's when you re-gift someone else later, like the gift that just keeps on giving. I've had those, but again, it was intended as a joke. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 11:11

Doctor E is so nice. I know. She is so nice.

SPEAKER_02 11:15

What about you, Nick? You think of a bad present that you got?

SPEAKER_01 11:21

I will I'm gonna I'm gonna pass. I'm gonna play the fifth on this one.

SPEAKER_02 11:24

I think uh there's there's certainly a time in my life I gave a bad gift on Valentine's Day to the wife number one, and I learned the hard way well that time.

SPEAKER_04 11:33

But again, is that why she's wife number one?

SPEAKER_02 11:37

No, I know, and but that's a good point. I think one of the funniest things that happened is someone got a gift, and again, they knew that my mom was a big Harry Potter fan, and they gave her a Harry Potter wand, thinking she would like it, but it happened to be Voldemort's wand, the evil guy. So my mom did not appreciate that at all. She again, it's one of those things where she's probably going to be embarrassed hearing about it, but it it as it just so happens, we were going to Universal Studios, or I was with my older two children, and so we got her, I think, either Herma Hermione's wand or Harry's one, I can't remember, and gave it to her, and I took the Voldemort one.

SPEAKER_04 12:15

I have to tell you, real quick, my mom was absolutely beside herself that I read the entire Harry Potter series with my boys, with all my kids. But especially the boys we did the midnight wait in in Hawaii for the release of the new book. Like we were like all over it. And my mom was so super critical. Like, Christians aren't supposed to be into that stuff. And I'm like, Mom, you don't understand. Like it's the it's the deeper picture. Honestly, I felt like there were Christian undertones behind a lot of it, and my kids didn't get into doing spells and all that. They just loved it, and it was such a bonding time for all of us. I'm thrilled to hear your mom was into it too. Yay, mom.

SPEAKER_02 12:56

All right, so I will tell you, J.K. Rowling, if you ask her, she says her faith absolutely underpins the series. And if you look at the last book, there's biblical imagery and verses through there. Harry Potter sacrifices himself to save his friends. Anyway, let's get started. All right, everybody, welcome. It has been a crazy week in politics. This is the reckoning, 11 May 2026, show number 325, and one hour of unfiltered political truth starts now. Now, one of the things I hate about politics is pithy sloganeering. So over the weekend, someone posted on the Frisco group again. Hate has no home in Frisco. I can practically see their blue hair and nose piercing as they sit at their computer while they type this and post. So if hate has no home in Frisco, does that mean you're joining the conservative movement and calling for the mass deportation of its Muslim population? You do realize their holy book calls for jihad no less than 40 times, that jihad is one of the pillars of their faith. But it's not the ridiculous sign or that ridiculous post that I want to talk about. Nor is it the equally stupid coexist bumper sticker that I despise every time I see it, which is always right next to a Hillary or an I'm with her sticker and a Beto sticker here in Texas. I mean, let's be honest. The C wants to blow up the O, the E, the X, the I, the S, and especially the T portion of it. But I don't want to talk about that one either. Today I want to talk about the granddaddy of all pithy political signs, and that is the in this house sign. So let's talk about it for a second. In this house, we believe black lives matter. I'm pretty sure that most Americans agree with you that black lives matter, and even more that all lives matter, especially police lives that are having to stop the insanity that is going on in our nation right now. Currently, my city has had to impose a curfew on one of our shopping malls because of the fighting that's been going on amongst black American youth inside its mall. That's the simple truth. Do I think it has anything to do with the color of their skin casing? No, but it certainly has to do with the bad parenting that they're getting. Now, the next statement is women's rights are human rights. Now, I think what they're trying to say here is that a woman's right to murder another human is more important than that tiny human's right to live. I would argue that the 14th Amendment, which states that every American has a right to life and liberty, is more important. But I absolutely do agree that women's rights are human rights. So I again welcome the left and joining me in denouncing sharia in Islam. That's gonna happen, right? Sure it is. Now, let's go to the next little statement. No human is illegal. I agree with that. No human is illegal, but they certainly commit illegal acts, or we wouldn't have a prison system. And ever since the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, man has been a sinful being. And to walk across a country's borders without permission is an illegal act. Now the next statement is science is real. Oh, this is so rich for the left to tell us that science is real. How about the fact that there is an X chromosome and a Y chromosome? And those combine into either XY or XX. And yes, I know they're rare genetic anomalies. Don't hit me like I don't know science, but mostly there is either XY or XX, meaning there are two genders. Or how about the science of putting on a cloth mask to defeat a virus that is so small that it can go through an N95 mask? Or the science of social distancing. So just stop. Your party cares nothing for science, nor does your ideology. All right, what about love is love? I agree with that one. Love is love, but sometimes love is also saying that something is wrong. Telling someone that you deeply care about that they are erring from the path that God intended for them to go down is an act of love. Kindness is everything, is the last one. They say that kindness is everything, and that's an interesting one because to me, it is very kind to tell someone a hard truth or to be unwilling to give someone a hand out rather than a hand up. Now, that may sound oxymoronic, but I'll give an example. I do believe it's my Christian duty to help those that are less fortunate, and I do give to them that I see that cannot work or cannot help themselves. But when I see an able-bodied man choosing not to work, I'm not going to help him. I am going to give him the gift of not giving him anything and telling him that he needs to work for his own things. You might see that as unkindness, but I am holding him accountable for his failure in his duty to provide for himself. That is an act of kindness. So I guess what caused this rant is that I'm just tired of the left. You know, there's a racist saying, and I do think it is racist, that people have black fatigue right now. All right, I don't have black fatigue, but I have a raging case of democratic fatigue. All right, I am just tired of them trying to beat us over the head and shoulders about our lack of compassion. Conservatives in this country give 50% more than liberals in this country, and Christians give four times the amount of the non-religious to charity. So you can take your pithy little slogans and put your money where your mouth is. Because until you do that, it's all just a bunch of wind coming out of you. So do what is right, obey the commandment to help those that need help, but you don't have to provide help for those that won't help themselves. And for God's sake, do not let them guilt you into feeling bad for standing up what is for what is right against evil. That's it for the day. All right, go ahead, Doctor.

SPEAKER_04 18:49

So I heard all of your slogans and reasons for being frustrated with liberals, but I'm gonna tell you, after what I experienced on Saturday, I am equally disappointed with many Republicans. I sat in a room full of Republicans who did nothing but backstab one another. Like a literal act. How are we ever gonna get together and support one platform, one group of people, when all we can do is sit in a room and backstab? I was blown away. Disappointed and just suck the energy out of me.

SPEAKER_02 19:23

This is terrible. Are you talking with your mic closer? Yes, because I'm a bone. Alright, so I know I this is a national audience, so we're not trying to rat anybody out about you know interparty politics. And we have the same thing here in in Texas. Just I mean, right now there are there are games being played that you know, not being in the midst of it, uh smiling about. But give us an example of some knife fighting, and I'll I'll give you one that I saw.

SPEAKER_04 19:51

Well, it was specifically one individual who was just nasty. See, the entire time two different individuals who were speaking, he picked and choose, like who he was gonna pick on. And my guess was is he is a a proponent of my opponent, my conservative opponent, who didn't even bother to show up, by the way. So she's not there to speak for herself, and so he's going to attack another woman in order to defend a woman who didn't even show up. So he went after me while I was speaking, and I was polite, and I I basically went and sat down. What I wanted to say to him was just because you picked a weaker candidate, don't come crying to me. Again, hello, yes, I just said it on a national stage, but I didn't say it to his face, even though I wanted to.

SPEAKER_02 20:36

No, I totally get it. I you know, we we've got we've got a committee man I consider to be the biggest piece of human filth, but I'm gonna save the best dirt that I've got on him, and I've got some good stuff uh for when it counts the most. But you know, this is a guy that actively backstabbed me. And I no, I think I have I have more respect for somebody that will shoot you in the face politically than somebody that will run around and pretend to be for you with when with one group, but just absolutely backstab you with another. I mean, that's the type of thing that really bothers me. And you know, again, I I'm telling you right now, I'm gonna be an undervote in House District 106. I cannot put pen to paper. I will not vote for a Democrat, and I will not vote for a Democrat that's wearing Republican clothing, and that's what my opponent is doing. So anyway, they can criticize me for that all they want. I'll be happy to vote for almost every other Republican on the slate, but that guy I'm not voting for. All right, everybody, let's get into some topics here, and I want to talk specifically about the midterms and the midterm virus. Now, I gotta admit, most sequels don't live up to their previous movie. For example, we have I think Rocky II outdid Rocky I really dislike the second avatar, loved the first one. I think The Godfather Part Two actually is a better movie than The Godfather, although there are many people that will disagree with me. The Empire Strikes Back is certainly a better sequel. Than the pre in Star Wars I. So let's talk about what's coming to us. Obviously, Hollywood loves a big sequel, but you know who else does? Big Pharma and the Democratic Party. Now, since COVID, there have been several attempted disease scares. I mean, they tried to scare us with monkeypox until we all realized that was a disease amongst one tiny little segment of society. They've tried to scare us with a swine flu, with a bird flu, with a chicken gunya flu, with measles, and now they have a new one. The Hontavirus. Sounds scary. Pretty good. Marketing is not bad on this one. All right, so now it's interesting how this thing rolling it out. All right, it says first we had an actor's wife dying of it. And I think that was Gene Hackman's wife, and I can't think of her name right now. But then a cruise ship apparently gets affected with it. And now we have a flight attendant. All of these are great vectors for disease spread, who came in contact with a dead body and is now hospitalized and in rough condition. Now, again, I don't know what that means. Are we talking rough condition like in the ICU or rough condition in that she's having to share, you know, two beds in one room? It done matter. And no, so we don't know. And they are suggesting that even coming close to a person with hontavirus is risky stuff. Here we go again to quote Ronald Reagan. All right. Now, the question I have though is in this sequel, who is gonna play Fauci now that Fauci's gone? Well, let's cue the entrance of Dr. Maria von Kirchhoff. She has a Stanford University pedigree and is now widely quoted as the go-to authority. So she is reprising the role of Fauci from the original COVID movie. Now, in case you don't remember her, she wrote the World Health Organization's report following her February 2020 junket to Wuhan. She wrote, and let me quote, achieving China's exceptional coverage with an adherence to these containment measures, she wrote of the CCP's extreme lockdowns, has only been possible due to the deep commitment of the Chinese people to collective action in the face of this common threat. At a community level, this is reflected in the remarkable solidarity of provinces and cities in support of the most vulnerable populations and communities. So after she wrote this, what happened? All right, many worldwide nations cite her and disreport in locking down their countries. All right, all but four did this. She is still working at the World Health Organization. All right, so what else about this sequel do we need to know? Well, is there a cure for the hantavirus? Nope, there's no cue, but here they come to save the day. We've got Moderna working on a modern vaccine. And guess what the platform is for it? If you had to guess, it would be MRNA, our good friends coming back to alter our genome even more. Yay! I know lots of people in this audience are gonna rush out and get it. Now, Moderna's stock, which has been down dramatically from its highs from the original movie, is now starting to recover as the sequel gears up. It is now 100% year over year, and many rate it as a strong box. So now looking back at the prequel, there was a lot of a flaw with it. All right. The coronavirus was never really that big of a threat, and that's based off of its short period of latency, which was roughly that of a cold or a flu. And it just didn't kill at the rate that they needed it to kill for. You need to be infected for a while, that way you can be an adequate disease vector. And really, you need to be infected for a while so that they can rationalize shutting you down longer, and so that more importantly, they can get to those all-important mail-in ballots so they can steal another election. Now, the Hontavirus does have a very long period of license, according to the Harvard School of Public Health. Again, I gotta be honest, and sorry, Doctor A, don't mean to impugn your uh profession here, but I absolutely don't trust anything any doctor says anymore. I need lots of them. And I want to see the science myself in such a way that I can actually understand it. And if you're saying, well, you can't understand it, you're a layman. Albert Einstein said, and I don't think I've got that quote, but I did look it up earlier. He said, if you can't understand stuff, if you can't explain it in simple terms, it means you truly don't know enough. That's Einstein saying that. But anyway, the Harvard School of Public Health said it usually takes two to three weeks, but maybe as long as eight weeks. So now we've got our latency period. I still don't think it's lethal enough for them. Now, I'd love to tell you that, hey, cue the music, Dr. Fauci actually performed gain of function on it, but I don't know that yet. I'm not saying he hasn't done it. I'm just saying I don't know if he has or has not. Maybe they need to delay that part of the marketing rollout for a little bit later. You know, just like they changed Return of the Jedi, or I'm sorry, Revenge of the Jedi to Return of the Jedi, maybe they're gonna need to change the latent or the lethality of the Hontavirus. So, now here's the crazy thing about this. But again, it makes sense if you consider the fact that we have a Uniparty that is dedicated to only preserving its own party. There is no higher institution in the United States that has repudiated lockdowns. Now, two-thirds of the American public believes that they were pointlessly damaging. Now, does that mean that two-thirds of the American public will resist it? No. It is my argument that only two to three percent of Americans will engage in active civil disobedience. If two-thirds of us would engage in active civil disobedience, our government would actually change. So I will advocate right now, publicly, if they tell us to lock down, tell them to What's the first part of the FAFO equation? I'm sorry, the the second. That's what we need to tell them because they are definitely FAing with our civil rights again. So do not lock down, period. Now, to this day, the plan of the World Health Organization, which is already practicing for the next put pandemic, is to push for mass lockdowns until when until there is actually a vaccine produced. Okay, one, we don't even know the COVID vaccine worked. I don't think it did. So they just want to keep you locked down. Guess how long the illegitimate and criminal, and yes, I will always call them that because they are Biden regime plan to lock you down. The Biden regime planned to lock us down for 130 days in the event of a new pandemic. Now, I will tell you, I am prepared for a 130-day lockdown because I happen to have enough food for that long. Do you? If you don't, that's what your government may be trying to do to you. Now, who precisely is directing and producing this sequel? I don't know for sure. Will it be a box office hit like the last time, or will it be only a limited release to test market interest? We just don't know. All the ingredients are here. We have rodents, we have a long latency period, we have it spread through co casual contact uh with the dead people already and with workers in hazmat suits. No one knows whether or not, or I'm sorry, there's no known cure and there's a vaccine in rush development. The only thing that's missing from this right now is they need to tell us it's fate. That way they can have their excuse for mail-in ballots and a repeat of the 2020 theft, which is the sequel the Democrats most want and need. All right. I will not be playing with this. I will not cooperate, I will not flatten the curve, I will not social distance, I will not wear a mask, I will not take your jab, I will not accept your stolen election, and you should not either. So will the state and federal governments try this again? What do you think, Dr. A? And then we'll come to you, Southern.

SPEAKER_04 30:06

Yes, we absolutely know they're still trying it again, and you've already had Tedros from the World Health Organization taunting the U.S. and other nations to get back in line with the World Health Organization so that they could take care of this.

SPEAKER_02 30:23

Okay. Southern, do you intend to cooperate with us? I mean, cooperate the first thing. How did I know that? God bless you. Outstanding. All right, Dr. A, go ahead. You said there's a post on this?

SPEAKER_04 30:33

Uh there's multiple, but the one I wanted to read is by Martin Vivi. And he said, Hontavirse, cruise ship, and false narratives go lower. My scientific and medical opinion as a scientist who did research on hontivirus is that an inquiry into Dr. Burke is warranted. Please share massively accurate information. One, first and foremost, we've studied hontivirus in my lab for many years and published about it. So, what follows is accurate by someone who did this. It is a zoonosis monitored by many defense and I was I think of end departments, and I was one of those army scientific officers. I was CSO of B E D O D, actually, not the coffee machine guy. Type my name and controversy, and you'll see non-classified peer-reviewed research. This woman, Dr. Burke, is guilty as charged because she was one of the architects of the first two debacles, where she forced with her friend Professor Neil Ferguson, Imperial College London, the policy of zero COVID, aka as a suppression policy. Zero COVID for unosis, it was not possible. Not even a policy. Only a ploy to bring about a technology that was not ready to market for an A vaccine. One could never eradicate equal zero COVID a uonosis when 600 plus mammalian species, cattle, or pests. New animals, deers even may share a virus with us and may play pink games. That is getting it from us and giving it back to us. Now she does it again with the famous lives and misconceptions. Human-to-human contamination is very rare. For EU strains, one gets infected crawling in the woods and literally inhaling rodent poop urine, a bit like snorting coat. LOL. The operation army personnel is at risk because that's part of their training and jobs. It has essentially no lethality, but one can get sick and can get complications if not treated like a bacterial colonization of our leaves. For the US train, the numbers there is a slightly increase in human-to-human transfer, but it remains risk and requires continuous contact with symptomatic people for a while, like in a family or in a confined room with the HVAC of that of a cruise ship, for example, where they're kept where they kept people in their cabins for a while, which is the ultimate stupidity. Just passing by someone who coughs or giving a honey, like in the case of the flu, will not do it. Mortality nearly only when non-treated. That is an important point. Very important. Why no PCR to find out? The PCR testing can never be used for a fishing trip because it is. And it's known for age. It has very low pretest predictive value. After symptoms, however, in order to ascertain andor to differentiate between different passages, it is perfectly legit. So symptomatic PCR will create fake cases like the 80% false causes obtained for those during COVID. Contagious controversies have a long incubation period of red. A few weeks that can only be contagious. And fluid. So before any symptoms, no contagion. Vaccines, no matter what they tell you, haunter viruses or zoonoses. So offering a mass protection, unless I explain that a vaccine is useless, ineffective. This is true for any zoonosis. Because to really mitigate such transmission, vaccinating humans only would be used. What do you think? So vaccines non-needed, and besides not those RNA-based ones. Treatment exists. First of all, we have when confronted with symptoms, treat those like when fluid symptoms, and if bacterial infection arises in a body in order, do not exist. Ribovirin is an enzyme blocker of the enzyme of the hunter virus. But there's any medication or drug which interferes with the acidification of late endosomes will prevent hunters to reach the biochemical interior of the cell. And here we find hydroxy. Chloroquin HCQ, yes. And it's been published. Chloroquine, an antimalarial drug, is effective prevention for haunter virus infection. The author list is ironic is tempting temporary non-specto from a lab of one birth friend, also responsible for the CR2 debacle in EU. So it goes on, and I want to tell you there's another one that I shared on my feed here under this profile that goes on to say they should have known from the beginning that mRNA vaccines were unwarranted and should not be called for because the first one they tried was for Hontavirus. It was an mRNA vaccine, and the trial failed greatly. There were so many side effects and things, and that one wasn't even with the lipid nanoparticles. So again, I shared that one in my profile, and I can share this article in the uh purple pill.

SPEAKER_02 35:51

Okay, thank you for sharing those. You know, it's stuff like this that makes me think that I need to take the red pill and just exit the matrix completely. I mean, this is unreal. So we've got Hontavirus. Okay, so they tried that originally and then they migrated to COVID. We have HCQ working. You didn't cover ivermectin. Does that help us? And then are we going to demonize the doctors again?

SPEAKER_04 36:14

He didn't get into ivermectin in this article, but Dr. Mary uh Ty Mary Tallybowden has been discussing it quite a bit. There's no research on it, but historically speaking, ivermectin works for this type of a virus. So I'll leave it there.

SPEAKER_02 36:32

All right. It's just again, I I do think they're going to try it again. It's their only method of winning, especially, you know, when we get into something I think topic number three will cover. But I want to talk about, you know, something that I consider to be as unique as a unicorn. Uh there is a Democrat who actually thinks, um, and that is Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman, who I would have told you couldn't think uh, but he clearly does. He has stated that he is done with the insanity gripping his party in a series of appearances on Bill Maher's show as well as an op-ed inside the Washington Compost, hat tip Rush Limbaugh. Fetterman is torching the Democratic Party for being anti-Trump obsessed and for normalizing radical ideas he that were once dismissed as smears. I mean, calling someone a socialist or a communist used to be a terrible thing, but now they are not only calling themselves that, they're proud of it. And he also talked about the sloppy 24-hour news cycle that literally lists opinions as news, which I'm down with that completely. So he said, and I quote, My colleagues and people that are running, whether for the Senate or the House, are literally running on a blank track agenda. Yes, okay. And then he said this I was two tables away at the White House Correspondence Dinner. I witnessed this. All right. Yeah, I had to see that, meaning the assassination attack. Like the entire line of succession was right there and realized that we've put that there's a real danger there. We got really lucky there for a lot of reasons. We need to have a more secure place, kind of events. They were talking about the ballroom being built and basically saying, hey, I don't I don't care if it's built or not. And I, you know, again, I have real problems in this day and age with the president and the vice president being in such close proximity to each other, you know, other than in a cabinet meeting in a secure location like the White House. Uh I just you know, I'm sorry, but it's too risky in this day and age with weapons. I'm gonna call it area weapon. All right. Now he he went on to say people who are proud to be labeled as a socialist, that was like a smear. They're morons if they think that socialism is the answer, he declared. Totally agree with. Uh tell it to Bernie Sanders, tell it to Zaron Mamdani, and tell it to I would say probably about 25% of the youth inside your party. You know, Marr noted that even communists is no longer viewed as a dirty word on the left, pointing to a New York official tweeting, elect more communists. Or I'm sorry, elect more communists. Now, before we get off of that, I just want to say again, other than Islam, communism has killed the most human beings throughout human history. So it's those two things that are a threat to our way of life and a threat to all of humanity. Now, Fetterman continued by ripping the 24-hour news cycle for turning opinions into facts. Opinions have become actual news now, and opinions are not news. Totally agree with him. Again, he said there are many horrible, paraphrasing for mom's sake, takes out there in the world right now. Like what why are people still talking about Tucker Carlson or any of these people? Even Alex Jones is back. I have to see that guy, again paraphrasing, in my feed. You know why? Because they're criticizing. So now it's okay to criticize, but when you can't find anything that the other side is doing right, you risk becoming a character couture, which is what I thought I'm becoming in that I speak so ill of Islam and of the Democratic Party all the time. So I want to ask my two co-hosts and anybody else that wants to speak on it, what is one thing the modern Democratic Party believes or is doing right that isn't absolutely insane? So, me being me, I dialed up the Democratic Party platform. And it took me 63 pages before I found something I could actually say isn't completely insane. I loved it beginning with the land acknowledgement. That's when I knew I was in trouble right off the get-go. But I scanned it because I don't have time to read through all their drivel. Now, again, inside each little nugget, there will be a piece of it I could pull out and it would be okay. Even the one I'm gonna give you is that. But this was a quote from the platform. This is why the president has called for the immediate unconditional release of journalists who have been locked up abroad for doing their jer jobs. He is taking action to combat combat crimes against journalists, strengthen security for independent media outlets, and provide legal support for inject investigative journalists around the world. He was talking about free speech. But honestly, when I think of Nina Jankowitz and the the censorship they were trying to impose, when I think about their penalties and fines on, you know, that they would have put on F again, I just I I'm trying to find something good about the Democratic Party, and I really can't. I I just can't. They don't cooperate on anything that's logical to Let me get to my two co-hosts. All right, and we'll start with you, Southern. Is there anything that the modern Democratic Party that is doing or that they advocate for that the Republicans don't that you agree with?

SPEAKER_04 41:53

So I love how they want to cut taxes, but I then I disagree on their part where they say the wealthy would pay their fair share when they pay more than their fair share. So kind of like a hooky-fookie with me. So I would say I love to cut taxes, but when they go after the wealthy, that's when they leave me.

SPEAKER_02 42:12

Now, do you believe that the Republicans or the Democrats are more likely to cut taxes?

SPEAKER_04 42:16

I believe the Republicans most likely, I would love to see them be long-term instead of short-term solutions. Yes, ma'am. All right, what about you, Dr. Um, I like how they all get behind candidates and have a machine for marketing elections and campaigns that they want to support. Um, because Republicans don't.

SPEAKER_02 42:36

That's about it. I will tell you, they are an incredibly disciplined party. I absolutely agree with that, is the one thing that they do right, and we're gonna talk about that here in just a second. So let's go ahead and move on to uh the third topic today, which was a big loss in Virginia. Now, after the Virginia governor and I believe the Vidj Virginia citizenry passed a bill allowing them to be ridiculously gerrymand dollar store Obama or Timu Obama. I kind of like Timu Obama better, but I just don't that that many Americans know Timu. Maybe I'm being silly. But Hakeem Jeffries said F around and find out. He tweeted this after Virginia passed it. Well, how's that how's that working out for you, Hakeem? All right, so on Friday, uh the House Mal uh uh majority minority leader went to the find out phase when the Virginia Supreme Court uh was not quite as gleeful as he was about their attempt to eliminate Republican representation in the Purple. The uh cooked the party's infamous lobster. Now, again, I don't have a picture of it, but they literally drew a district that looked like a lobster with two claws sticking out. And so it was over a hundred miles long and was designed to devour the GP GOP's slender majority in the House of Representatives. It also dealt a blow to Governor Abigail Spanbarger, the new Democratic governor, and the Democratic Assembly. Establishment, which pretty much tossed aside any pretense of principle in a raw political game. And again, this is where I, you know, it's kind of talked about it, you know, based off what Dr. A said. This is a thing I admire and hate about the Democrats. They absolutely know how to use power when they have it, and we pussy foot around and do nothing. The Save America Act would have been passed were Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer driving the agenda. I mean that in that I respect their ability to ramrod bills through the Senate and the House. Okay, I don't think they anything they did was good. I'm just telling you, they know how to use and we we're not good at it. We're just I mean, even President Trump's DOJ is nothing but a clowner. All right. They just don't who's the actor, I can't think of his name, former actor. And he said, I don't know what's more frustrating, the fact that the Democrats actually committed treason against a standing president, or the fact that the Trump DOJ won't do anything about it. I agree with him. The Democrats, they had locked up over a hundred J6ers within two weeks, meant they do not play around. All right, so James Carville is another example of a Democrat that, again, don't like the but this is what he had to say. He said democratic politicians have no choice but to pack the Supreme Court, declaring, blanket, just do it. He suggested that they don't want to tell the voters about it, don't run on it, don't talk about it, just do it. Did you hear what the man just said? This is who the Democrats are. This is why I can't stand the guy I ran against. Okay. They do the things they say they're gonna do, and they do things that they will not talk about the fact that they were gonna. So before assuming power, the governor of Virginia had denounced gerrymandering as being detrimental to democracy and weakening the individual voices that form the electorate. She said that. She ran as a moderate, but what happens when you give a Democrat power? BAM! Hard left immediately. They go hard left as soon as they are in office. And she called for the most extreme gerrymandering in the next. Now, the court found that the effort was not only unconstitutional, but they also added this little disclaimer on it, kind of a chastisement, saying it was wholly unprecedented in Virginia City. Now, on top of the fact that the GOP has more room for partisan gerrymandering, the Virginia Supreme Court decision, along with the United States Supreme Court's decision on racial gerrymandering, is setting up a hurricane of redistrict redistricting that will hurt the Democratic Party. There is a belief that more than a dozen or more Democratic districts will now be deemed unconstitutional. Louisiana and Mississippi are already moving to redistrict in line with the Supreme Court's decision. And even Texas is probably going to redistrict some more in line with this. If we could actually get the GOP to wield power for the common good of Americans, wouldn't it be nice? You know, do we have any hope that the Republicans will actually do as we want? Or, and this is kind of getting to something that happened over in the UK, is it going to take a third party that is actually going to do the will of the people? I am a Reagan Republican. I have been a Republican my entire life. And what I hoped would happen is that the MAGA movement would consume the Republican Party for the inside and move the party far to the right to where it would, we would basically take it and make it the MAGA party. That's not happening. As Dr. A said, there are resistors in Texas, resistors in California, resistors all across the state. Now, I don't know if it's just that they are anti-Donald Trump or they're just really what I'm going to call the controlled opposition to the Democratic Party. All right, but I've had enough of it. Now, overseas in the UK, we just watched both Labor and the Tory party lose 1,400 seats and the reform party of Nigel Farage, the UK Reform Party, gain a thousand seats in what are called council elections. Be interesting to see if Starmer is able to hold on to the leader or hold on as the leader in the House of Commons. I think he will, but I'm not certain of it. And we'll talk about that probably next week. That's why I'm not covering it today. But with that in our mind and as a backdrop, do you have any hope, Dr. A, since you have your hand up, that the Republicans will actually start to work for the people, or is it going to take a third party to get both of them to actually do what we need them to in answer to your question?

SPEAKER_04 48:42

I don't know. In California, we have this category now called NPP, no party preference. Since we went to primaries, it doesn't matter what party you are. And I think there's a lot of angry, frustrated, or felt like they were abandoned Republicans in that category in California because of the ridiculousness of the Republican Party. And honestly, not just from the county level, like I described the meeting last this past Saturday, but also at the state level. We saw it when I went down to San Diego and I felt it with this uh again, nasty bitter loser from my county who went to the state to complain, and the county did absolutely nothing wrong. They did everything for the bank, and the state allowed the back county. Again, it's a lot, you know, people are gonna be disappointed. But listen to the lies because it goes all the way up to the state level, Larry. And I really think that that's where in California they've already lost a lot of the Republicans to the NPP um green, you know, it's not a party, it's just a category where people put themselves to get away from the parties. So yeah, if they figure it out, I when we say a third party, so many have tried, so many quote unquote third parties have tried. I was a huge Perot fan. I really because the man was rational. If there was ever gonna be a third party, I think it was then and they killed it. They killed it.

SPEAKER_02 50:09

Yeah, there's no doubt. I think that so that gets to another question. Southern, I want you to answer this one. Is there I'm gonna say amongst independents, uh let's just call it a common sense party. Do you feel like that there's I would I'm gonna say forty to forty percent of the electorate that moves to whichever party is mostly common sense these days? Because I do. And I think Trump was showing more common sense and was a you know reply to the Biden regime excessive democratic insanities. So I think basically everyone was hoping Trump would basic would bring more common sense into the government. Southern, what what are your thoughts? I mean, do you think we're gonna need a third party to get some actual common sense?

SPEAKER_04 50:52

I don't think a third party is ever gonna be successful. I think the only time that it was going to be successful was undercom with him going out now. I don't see it ever coming about. I would love to see the GOP just be totally disbanded and redone. The people that we have in there running it now are a bunch of do nothing.

SPEAKER_05 51:11

But other than that, I really don't see the third party ever working. You're not gonna get enough support behind it, and definitely not enough.

SPEAKER_02 51:17

Yeah, I think our actual system of government, and I'm certainly not advocating for that to change, uh, is not as responsive as the British parliamentary system is. And again, remember these were council elections, not national elections for for uh MPs. So again, that's we'll we'll see what happens uh in that regard. I do think that the Republican Party's civil war, and I'm real interested, and again, guys, if we haven't said it, uh I believe Nick and I are going to be down, and we're going to do during the Republican Party State Convention in Texas from June 5th, um, actually Monday right after I'll I'll get the exact dates to you, but we're going to broadcast every day. Now I'm hoping to have a lot of different guests uh from the party while they're down there. I'll be honest with you. I have a flavor of political of the Republican, so I don't anticipate myself inviting Speaker Burroughs to come. You know, yes, I would. Speaker Burroughs, I would out of respect for the position that he's in. Now, my opponent, absolutely not. I don't want to be anywhere near that clown. All right, he wouldn't debate me during the election. I'm not gonna have him come on and trash my show. But I will try and get a whole bunch of different people uh while I'm down there to come and speak on the record, and we'll see. We're working on some names, and hopefully we'll get there. And I've also invited the conservative candidate for mayor and Frisco uh to come on the show because I think it's important for him to get his voice out. And I would like to have, you know, if he makes the decision to come on, I will put it in the local Republican groups. And I do want to say thank you to both Dr. A and to uh hopefully I see Gen X down there. Hopefully she followed through and became a precinct chair down there. But listen, guys, the Republican Party needs people like us uh going in and driving the agenda to the right. And it's it's just gotta happen. You've got to get involved. Iron Patriot down there. I know you hosted something recently in Virginia uh to try and move your party to the right. Everything, you know, you gotta get in you can't just be a key warrior. I mean, I guess you can, but there's nothing in it for just talking. You know, get some skin in the game and try and actually make it happen. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_05 53:22

The meetings for state convention for Texas weekend.

SPEAKER_02 53:26

Okay, so June eighth that weekend. Um, I think you know, the week I'll I'll take a look at it, but thank you for that. Art Patriot, what was it that you did in Virginia?

SPEAKER_00 53:35

Well, we did a space um with our local precinct chair who wrote a book, right? And that's our like our normal show, like guest show, a new kind of show that we do once a week. And that kind of had a spinoff space because you know, we had a the Virginia gerrymandering election that just came and went, right, and wasted all of our tax dollars. Um so we had a spin-off space. I talked, I called our local precinct chair because I'm like, I need to do something more than just get on X and post a um, and interestingly enough, Katie Gorka called me back, and then we had a Zoom call between myself and uh both of the our prefene chair and vice-prete chair for Fairfax County with Fido, and we got a good portion of the pre teams together on a space um to get out the effort to volunteer and go walk, you know, form volunteers. Um, I since decided that I'm gonna join until May 19. Um that's sort of my first step into local politics to at least be a voting member. I mean, I think we made a difference. You know, I have uh I'm now followed by a lot of northern Virginia, you know, statewide people in politics. So I'm looking forward to taking my first step and getting more involved on a regular basis. So the voting member status means I just have to physically be at the meeting to vote on the different volunteer and but our new loud representative, he's really trying to form this regional coalition, apparently. Um, I'm looking forward to seeing if Northern Virginia can maybe unite and really get out volunteer efforts and get people out to vote, especially with the state of affairs in the state. Yeah, they a lot of them got on there. To your to answer your question directly, we had uh at least a representative or a vice chair from almost all the Northern Virginia precincts, and that was just me trying for a month. So asking uh obviously Katie Gorka being a new our newly elected precinct chair, I think made a big difference. I I'm really looking forward to seeing her lead us into uh Les Rhino Republican to answer your question.

SPEAKER_02 55:27

And and again, guys, that's what it takes. You know, you just gotta put some time and effort into it. And even though I didn't win, I didn't quit all right, got on the priorities committee and I put the things in like I wrote the Ninton County's resolution, the anti-sharia resolution. Now, when I say I wrote it, I don't get the credit for it because the the chairwoman of the priorities committee, she has a final say in it, and everyone else did as well. And we took some advice from a senator's aide that was on the committee as well. So again, I yeah, I wrote the original document. It got tweaked by people that were smarter than me, and now it's going forward to hopefully be endorsed by the state GOP, which I will be at the convention as a voting delegate. So again, I am continuing my involvement, and that is exactly the way that you've got to do it. Again, it the time for spectator politics is over. Put on the pads and get in. It's a full contact game. Now, speaking of full contact, um, I have to admit, I'm very, very jealous of my A-10 brethren right now because I always wanted to smack a boat with a missile. There was a specific missile design. It was the Maverick G missile to where you could actually hone on a specific point below the water line where you could just absolutely smack a ship. And I would have really liked to do that, or if it was a speed boat, and you know, I'm not gonna waste a $70,000 missile on a speedboat when I can kill it with a $50 bullet. So again, I would have loved to have strafed a speed. And I'm not gonna lie to you, we used to practice that occasionally. There's a lake down here in Texas called Possum Kingdom Lake, and I led a fort uh one time uh over Possum Kingdom Lake in, shall we say, relatively comfortable altitudes through what's called Hell's Gate in Possum Kingdom Lake. So uh the people were quite happy to see us fly there. But that's back in the days before cell phones could record you doing chicanery that you should probably not do. All right. Speaking of chicanery, when is Iran gonna get the message? Dr. A, could you tell us what the latest is on the ongoing conflict over Well, they're never gonna behave.

SPEAKER_04 57:31

Um, so Iran conflict and US peace efforts. The US under President Trump has been engaged in a limited war with Iran involving strikes, Operation Epic Fury, uh, and disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, driven up global oil prices and gas prices. The US sent Iran a 14.2 ceasefire proposal aimed at ending hostilities, reopening the state, and addressing Iran's nuclear procedure. In other words, halting uranium enrichment or Iran responded via intermediaries, like Pakistan, focusing on lifting DKs, releasing assets, and other demands reportedly re-addressing nuclear issues, publicly called Iran to be totally totally unacceptable in social media, rejecting it while something short of immediately resuming major things. Israel PM sorry Israeli PM that you have signaled. There have been US casualties reported. There were thirteen killed, hundred wounded in related activities. Um and Trump's upcoming this is fast-moving diplomacy, military posture, but ceasefire is fragile and not fully inefficient. And as I started it, I don't trust that they would even follow what they say they agree to.

SPEAKER_02 59:00

Is that correct? Yeah, you're absolutely right. That's the real issue with Iran. They're not gonna do anything we say. You know, you can say that regime change is possible, but if it hasn't happened now, it's not gonna happen. And what I wish is we had an armed, like a I'm gonna call it a Bay of Pigs type scenario where we had Iranian expats that we could send back into Iran with weapons to actually arm them and let them fight their own war. Again, I want to create a headache for them, but I don't want to necessarily, you know, not provide them air support and other things that are needed to win a modern war. But again, that there is no peace with Iran. They've there never will be peace with Iran. I I they're not gonna honor any peace treaty we have with them. Again, it's it's that religion. Okay, they're just gonna keep practicing takia, keep doing the things that they've said. And you know, the more that I've looked at it, and I just got another good book from a great man named Fred Pontius over the weekend on Islam that I need to learn. Iran used to be a fairly progressive, and when I say liberal, I don't mean in the nut job sense I mean traditional Western liberal society in that women had you know, Afghanistan the same thing before they went back to this insanity that is modern Islam. I just don't see any hope for peace with them. I saw that Qatar had turned a tanker around that had made its way through the strait. Now, again, that tanker was going to provide Pakistan with gas. I don't know why it turned around. I suspect that Pakistan paid Iran uh to let it through and that we got wind of it and said it's not getting through, and so they turned around rather than be embarrassed by having the United States boarding a Qatari-based tanker. Don't know that for sure. But here's what I all right, I filled up my gas tank yesterday after I left my mom's for mother. All right, I paid $120 for about 20-something gallons, 26 and that's not gonna cut it. If gas stays at this prior, the midterms will go Democrat because they will beat the affordability drum uh like insanely. So gas has got to go low. To do that, the strait has to open. To do that, something needs to be resolved in terms of peace. Uh, I don't see any hope for it anytime soon. Uh, Dr. A, thank you for that report. But what is interesting is how it ties to China, because China gets a ton of their oil from Iran. So we shall see how this summit actually works. And speaking of that, go ahead, Dr. A, and tell us about our summit with, and I've got to say it this since I'm on video now, China. I used to love it when he said all right.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:36

So the Trump Z summit. President Trump is heading to Beijing this week to meet high stakes, first U.S. presidential visit in nearly a decade. The summit was supposed to be held in late March, early April, but was delayed by roughly 16th. Specifically because of the escalating US-Iran conflict, and Trump decided to stay focused in Washington on managing it. The White House and Trump themselves cited the need to prioritize the Iran situation, including efforts to reopen the street. Both sides have now agreed to move forward despite the war still being a live. This is a high-stake two-day working summit with a crowded but pragmatic list of expectations are for modest, tangible outcomes rather than a sweeping grand. This is dominating the preport. And pressuring Iran towards a feature of nuclear. China imports a lot of Middle East oil, so both sides have been in the game. Extending the current trade possible purchases of US toybeans and doing aircraft, rare earth control, critical supply chains, and restrictions, including a US case is pushing for concrete deals to reduce the temperature. China wants to predict the next issue is going to be Taiwan and regional security. Beijing has made clear this is a topic. Expect discussions on arms sales, cross-state stability, and Indo-Pacific tendency. In addition, they're likely to discuss things like entity, AI tech competition, nuclear issues, and broader bilateral stabilization. A reciprocal Z visit to Washington is already being planned for later this year. The analysts describe this as a modest step towards managing the world's most important relationship amid global headwinds, more about de-risking than breaking but myself and others have been exceptionally concerned about Trump's travel to safety. Right? But the trip is proceeding with full presidential level protections in place, and there's no public indication of any credible threats that would be when Stealth and I have discussed it in the past, it's more about the um biotech uh issues that were concerned uh one shake of the hand was uh aerolized in front of him. Like I there's too much of that happening right now between and among and the US, that it is a great concern.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:28

No, I totally get that. But I think any type of biological weapon used on the president of the United States, if we found out about it, you know, again, is that cost wrong? I'm gonna give you the answer for the Terran Mobile Infantry, and the answer is yes, one man is worth it. I don't think they would really do that there, but you never know with them. And and if they were smart, they would pay somebody to do it. Then they would kill the guy in the process so that he couldn't talk and say it was a setup. Again, just exactly what we suspect would happen. You know, in terms of of time, you know, something that struck me recently, and again, it's one of those things that hit just kind of turn uh you may not know this, but there were competing strategies on how to win the war in the Pacific in World War and the Navy wanted to seize Taiwan and turn it into a major American base and stepping off point for the invasion of whereas MacArthur and the Army, because he had promised to the Filipinos I shall return, wanted to go through the Philippines. Now, there was a conference with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Hawaii where it was decided to go with the Army's strategy that made Admiral King, who was commander-in-chief of naval forces for the United States, absolutely livid with Nimitz, who said that he had surrendered. So again, I wonder in my own little heart of hearts, had we adopted Admiral King in the Navy's plan to turn Formosa into a giant American base, would we have then been linked more to China and not let Chiang Kai shek's Government fall to the communist. Again, it's just those little things in history that that you don't know about that my brain goes, I wonder if, and maybe I just have a crazy brain that way, but I do think Taiwan is a big uh if we were smart, we would be selling Taiwanese government all types of weapons under the table so that Beijing doesn't really know in the more that I've thought, you know, massive, not massive drone technology, but I'm gonna call it a mid-sized drone with enough to sink a shi and the ability to do what is called unman to unmanned teaming together. You know, I launched three or four thousand drones that maybe cost me a thousand bucks to two thousand bucks apiece, and I can each one of those drones can take out a Chinese landing craft. I don't need to worry so much about their invasion anymore. So again, I think that is a great place for the US to be ready to test its weapons as well as its laser weapons to go in and with landing fleet. So, you know, I think we basically tell the Chinese that there is no negotiation on Taiwan, that Taiwan is and will remain free and and you hear uh the FA put uh put a missile right down the smokestack of two Iranian tankers.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:14

No, that's nice. Yes, like and you and when you watch the the video slow down, like you can see the entry.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:20

It's guys, it is it is literally crazy but what we can do. I remember that just with the old laser gutted bombs and the old uh you know laser pods, you know, it was capable to put or e even someone like me could put a bomb through a or through exactly the top of a building and exactly what's called the dimpy desired mean point of impact that I wanted. And you know, I'm a dinosaur, and so technology has gone where in the last 10 years. So again, I'm not optimistic of anything coming out of this summit. What do you think the actual outcomes uh, Dr. A?

SPEAKER_04 1:07:52

And then we're gonna close with some Honestly, I think it's just gonna be more showmanship, smiles, nods, and then turn around and go back and do your same thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:00

What about you, Southern? You you feel the same way we're not gonna get anything out of this? Yeah, I don't I don't see really room for they're executing their game plan of a long-term war on and we're executing our game plan to stay the global health. Yeah, it makes perfect sense to me. Uh but we'll both smile and play nice and blah. I want to close with a oh I'm sorry, I didn't see your hand. Uh Lucky Dog, I'll give you about 30 seconds, Serg, and then we gotta wrap because I got a job to go do. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:28

Yeah, yeah, I've sorted sorry to sum that up, but I guess I was gonna try to ask uh Japan reassert and what kind of wild card that's gonna be, especially their other allies, the Koreans, don't really like the Japanese. Uh but I'll back off on that. Uh I'm just wondering if that's gonna be a wild card.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:44

Uh yes, absolutely it will be. But I don't think that much, you know, to change a country's political culture, you have to stay there for more than 40 years. You have to stay there for more than a gym. And I think the United States' involvement in uh World War II and our occupation of Japan afterwards and our I'm gonna say very smart assimilation of Japanese practices and keeping the Emperor in power, uh, has led to changing the way the Japanese think in some regards. Now, I very much welcome them coming back online as a contributing partner in the defense of the Pacific. I love the fact that their helicopter carriers are big enough to put lots of F-35. So, you know, for those of you that are students of history, I absolutely recommend the series that is for free. Uh on it's a podcast I listen to right now on Spotify. I've listened to it before, but I'm wrapping it up again. Um, it's uh Dan Carlin, and it's called Supernova in the East, and it is a great podcast about the Japanese war machine that came into power and about World War II. But I think we've broken uh Bushido, uh, and I don't know that they're gonna be that much of a problem, but I think they could be a tremendous asset and partner with us now. But you never know. We'll see what happens. So we're gonna wrap with a couple of quotes. I I briefly highlighted one from Einsteiner. You know, I haven't done a lot of research into him, but I I probably ought to. Uh, because somebody that is like him has always fascinated me in that I consider myself to be smart and I'm like a child, you know, literally I I feel like a toddler around uh a person like Einstein. And so here's some of the things that he said, because to me I was wanting this show to be basically about common sense. He said that common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen. And I think there is a lot of uh that go but the second quote is the one I want to end the show with, and that's this one. He says, It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems. I don't know that that's true. I don't think my brain could have ever computed E equals M C squared in the other things that Einstein came up with. But you know, I do that him saying that to me means stick with a problem a little bit longer and maybe the solution will become. So as we go through the week, I want you all to figure out what your problem is and stick with it and concentrate it on it on it just a little bit. All right, that's got all I've got for the day. I do want to say thank you. We broke a thousand today in terms of our live viewers for the first time. So again, Southern and Dr. A, I want to thank you guys for being great co-hosts and and for the two speakers that came up to join in. I appreciate that. And again, you're more than welcome to come up anytime. And I would like to mean it, I want the show to get back to being a little bit more interactive with the audience. Uh, Dr. A, I wish you the best of luck this week as you can. And Southern, as you do the most important job in America and raise your all right, that's it for the day. God bless each and every one of you.