Badlands Media - Badlands Daily: 3/4/26 - Trade Wars, Color Revolutions, and the Polling Illusion

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

In this March 4 episode of Badlands Daily, CannCon and Ashe in America open with a lively morning conversation that quickly moves into the bigger geopolitical picture shaping the headlines. The hosts examine President Trump’s efforts to rebalance global trade and what that means for American workers, while also exploring how entrenched power structures react when their leverage starts slipping. From there, the discussion shifts toward the concept of color revolutions and how intelligence networks historically destabilize societies by exploiting political tensions and media narratives. CannCon and Ashe connect those tactics to the current information environment, asking whether some of today’s domestic turmoil mirrors strategies used abroad. The episode also digs into polling narratives surrounding Trump’s State of the Union and the reliability of political polling in general. With their usual mix of humor, skepticism, and strategic analysis, the hosts encourage listeners to step back from the emotional headlines and think critically about how narratives are constructed and deployed.

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There we go. How you doing this one? What did you? What did you? What did you get? I do not participate in Catholic ideology. All right. I believe in the teachings.

I do not believe in the processes. Hashtag. Hashtag you got to stop dittling kids. When you stop doing that, Yeah, that's fair. It's a fair point. This took a weird turn immediately. I was going to Catholic school and had to hear about all that stuff when that was all getting exposed and I was so pissed. And so yes, I mean, that kind of depravity exists everywhere. So let's not just put it on Catholics because, you know, it's in some in some religions, it's built into their legal system. Yeah, well, yeah, that's true. I also can only clean my own house and that house is well beyond my ability to clean. So I just said, okay, but yesterday you left when your, your housekeeper came. So I'm in need you to use a different analogy because you didn't clean your own house.

You have to. I'm a little discombobulated this morning, man. Jared Polis is like begging. in my opinion begging Tina Peters to apply for clemency and I don't think she's she has or is going to apply for clemency from the state of Colorado because the state of Colorado is illegitimate government because of fake elections so we're caught in this like super cool kind of loop thing the loop the loop all right well let's get into our sponsors we'll get in today's show actually got a some updates on the the quote-unquote selection that took place yesterday in in uh Texas mainly but But before we get into all that, let's talk about our friends over at Benson Honey Farms, where every jar is pure gold. Benson's honey is excited to be back on Badlands Media with their

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badlands media dot tv slash shop all right so let's jump out to just a quick update on some of the the primary elections that took place yesterday in texas was the big one and uh jasmine crock it's out That's right. He is out. James Tala Rico getting 52.8% of the quote unquote vote. Also, interesting, John Cornyn and Ken Paxton will be going to a runoff election as Ken Paxton got 40.7. Cornyn getting 41. No, it's not really, to be honest with you.

I think most of the Wesley Hunt vote is going to fall into Paxton's camp. Paxton only lost by what 26,000 allegedly. Again, full disclosure, me and Ash both fully believe that elections are faking gay. Yeah. Yeah. Which is why. So when I say that surprising, what I really mean is kind of disappointing because I don't, I think it's more proof that it's not real. Yes.

But, you know, they do have the third party candidate on here. So maybe, maybe that's that that accounts for the distinction. But how can how can corn and. be popular with the people of Texas. And why wouldn't Paxton win outright? That's crazy. Ken Paxton has been a fighter for the people of Texas going back to 2020 and before infamously had his rights to investigate elections taken away by the General Assembly of

that state or whatever they call their legislative body of Texas. They refused to allow him to investigate elections because he was going to And so like it's it's crazy. But you know that I mean the best and we can talk about Jasmine if you want, but the best is I patch McCain. No no longer no longer happening here. Yeah. He is out of here.

Texas representative Dan Crenshaw lost the Republican primary to Stephen Toth. He will now be unseated come November in district two. President Trump notably did not endorse Crenshaw. This is from Eric Daughery on X. Upset alert, quote unquote, upset. I don't think anybody's really upset about that, but it is, I guess, technically an upset. Crenshaw's the new Kinshanger.

Yeah, I'm not at all upset about Crenshaw being removed. And that's unfortunate because I remember, remember in 2020 when all the election fraud was going on and he did that motivational video where he's like on the aircraft and he's like where do you need me mr president and he jumps out and he's all do you never see this video no oh my it sounds awesome though it was like i was like okay maybe we're going to get something done you got this navy seal guy going in there uh let me see let me i should have had this pulled up and ready to go because this is absolutely epic here it is oh is it not doing it no

Please don't play it when it says. Sorry, Murph. I haven't seen it, so just power through, buddy. Will be to save tech. You must recruit an exceptional team of congressional candidates. They must be courageous, patriotic, and absolutely fearless. Time is of the essence. The nation's future is dependent on your success.

I don't think this one is in. kind of sounds like the the Avengers yeah he's going he's going for Ironman he's but so so he's going for the Avengers but also sees himself as Ironman which is I mean that's beyond the pale so that's that's very similar to the one but the one that I was talking about was directly like in response to President Trump like he's on the phone he's like yes sir mr president I've got my orders and he jumps out same concept same exact concept like no original ideas from this guy like let me play off my military experience as long as i possibly can uh we'll will completely ignore

the fact that i'm a complete and total shill uh yeah yeah yikes oh well it's all it's all you know it's all history now because he's out gone gone on coast he'll probably jump in like another race somewhere i'm sure at some point no i think he'll end up punditing like you know he's the he's he's like said it before i'm and i stand by it he's the new kinsinger Fox News somewhere. Mm-hmm. Or CNN. All right. So let's jump into this story here.

Washington Post, confusion at Dallas polls causes Democratic voters to be turned away. All right. Now, a lot of people are freaking out about this story because Republicans did not get the extended. There was an extension initially to open voting. And so Republicans are like, hey, Republicans didn't get this. It's unfair. Guys, they're separated primaries. So while I understand that Democrats technically got.

more time to vote. It's not like it's Democrats versus Republicans. So it didn't really affect the Republican race. Now granted, I understand there's I well, hold on, I understand that you could say like, well, a certain demographic of people that were working until 7 p.m. and didn't get an opportunity to vote, you know, now get to vote, that kind of thing. I get it. I get it. The bigger takeaway here is how absurdly stupid the justification for all of this actually was. So it says confusion over new voting rules. So now that's that's, that's, By the way, that's now grounds to extend voting is confusion over new voting rules that were passed over a year ago. Confusion over new voting rules prompted a judge.

It's not just a judge. It's the county judge, which is the executor of the county in Texas. And just into contracts on behalf of the county. So it so it's not technically like a judge in a black robe presiding over the judicial. It's more of an executive function. I mean, it's kind of both, right? There's kind of a hodgepodge of executive and sort of judiciary. no, it's court, court based functions in that county judge.

Correct. They preside over the commissioner's court, but they're mainly like a mayoral executive, administrative type role. So prompted it, so the confusion over new voting rules prompted a judge in Dallas to extend poll hours for the Democratic primary, but the judge's order was quickly overturned by the Texas Supreme Court following a request from Attorney General Ken Paxton. Dallas County judge Clay Jenkins ordered Democratic polling places in North Texas County, in the North Texas County to remain open two hours later until 9 p.m. while Republican polling places were not affected and closed at 7 p.m. Can you pause there for a second? What was the new rule that caused the confusion? You'll see. I'm going to talk about it right here. Jenkins blamed

the confusion on Republicans who said, who he said chose a month ago to hold separate primaries in Dallas County and Williamson County in central Texas. Doing so required voters to cast their ballots at an assigned precinct instead of any polling place, forcing many residents to scramble to find their voting site. Yeah, delting is hard. Now, that's really interesting to me. So in Texas, apparently, there's a rule, or at least in those two counties, that if the Republicans and the Democrats are running completely separate primaries, then you have to go to your specific

precinct. But if they're doing it together, you can vote anywhere. Okay, so I read that as because remember Williamson and Dallas are where they were doing the hand count. And so that would, I think, by definition, mean you need at least the design that we want to see in elections is that your vote is counted where it's cast, right? So you vote at your assigned precinct. You vote locally and it's counted where it's cast. It's not the way I understood what you just read is Republicans in those specific counties. did that that process which created confusion but hold on hold up they didn't do the hand count in

Dallas that got that got canceled okay yeah they can't they couldn't get enough volunteers so that got canceled uh it says crazy shame on all of you in Dallas County Texas the Republican Party decided to throw monkey wrench into the election he said according to Texas procedure if a county's primary is not held jointly meaning if Republican and Democrats do not agree to hold the election together, then the county's residents are required to vote in their assigned precincts. Last year, Republicans in Dallas County said they would not hold their primary jointly with Democrats, but many voters accustomed to joint primaries assumed that they could vote at alternate voting sites and were turned away. Now, why, Ash, do you think if Democrats

and Republicans were running together on the same, you know, joint primaries, why do you think they would want universal precincts, right? The ballot on demand essentially. Well, so being able to vote at any precinct in the state means you have to have reconciliation, means that you have to drive those ballots all over the state. It means that your, your chain of custody is at least a little bit in question. And we've seen extremes of that in certain states, right? But it creates a mechanism for plausible deniability.

Listen, I get it. It's, you know, if you, if it's election day and it's, you know, 6 p.m. You have an hour and you go to the closest precinct you can find and they turn you away. That's frustrating. But as I said, originally, adulting is hard. This isn't, we're not, we're not talking about rocket science. We're talking about voting. We're talking about showing up and casting your ballot and casting your voice.

The minimum you should have to do is figure out where to do that. Yeah. Where to go. Wait, wait. So I live here and I'm driving an hour to vote. Okay, that makes that makes a lot of sense instead of the precinct. Like I mean, every, I've lived in many different places and voted in every single precinct I've ever voted in was within walking distance. Doesn't mean it's comfortable to walk there, but within a mile or two. You know, I mean, mine right now is walk away. I walk to the rec center, you know, at the park next to our community and vote there. You know, when I lived in Southwest, in a, you know, in a, you know, rural area. It was it was like a 15 20 minute walk. Now I drove but but that's my point is that like this is not this is not rocket science like you said. It also centralizes everything and this has been one of the core concepts of voting is centralization, you know, creates the opportunity for corruption and complexity complex complexity and complex complexity breeds and there we see that there's no greater example of that than voting but it's not only applicable Right to voting. And yeah, that's a that's a fact. And there is this, we've talked about this a bunch on why we vote and we've not turned most of our shows into a why we vote lately. So we're not going to do that today. But the, the kind of uniparty regime position on this as carried forward by the uniparty left mostly, but also by Republicans is that access is the most important, you know, criteria for the electoral franchise that we can.

cannot have any limitations on access to voting that might disenfranchises even one lawful voter, Brian. So what that means is that we have to have no controls to do things like all, you know, automatic voter registration driven off of the DMV motor voter. We have to have all mail and ballots. We have to have ballot on demand printing. We have to have precinct counting centers where people can just vote anywhere. and there can't be any limitations on people actually being required to vote in their assigned precinct because all of those things will be seen as suppression. These are voter suppression tactics.

And if you impact access, then you're engaging in voter suppression. Well, what is the tradeoff for that position on access? The tradeoff is accuracy. The tradeoff is verifiability. The tradeoff is free and fair and real elections. And it's one of the biggest reasons. that we say elections are fake is because we don't have any of that you don't have visibility we don't have transparency it's a black box and if you ask questions you get punished so elections are fake yep and there's some guy in the chat preek 62 says wait is this daily or why we vote I know sorry yeah it's gonna happen though man we're coming we're coming to that we're there's election stories like every day so yeah

stop working all shows are why we vote now stop working so are so you know speaking of of clay uh you know the the ballot on demand printers in maricopa county 19 inch ballots printed or 20 inch ballots printed on 19 inch or the other way around excuse me but created a huge problem and that was something that was able to be targeted in that attack that and that's what i call it i call it an attack because there's no other description for it and it primarily went after conservatives in that particular uh you know in that particular case but again this this creates an opportunity for that and you know it's not lost i mean that doubt Dallas County and Williamson County, especially Dallas County, are places that there's a lot of concern with that.

And that's why they wanted the hand count in this primary. And unfortunately, they couldn't get the volunteers in order to do it. The last thing I want to note on here, though, is it says the El Paso Elections Administrator also extended voting hours in El Paso County due to equipment issues. Polls will remain open there until 8 p.m. Following reports that voting check-in pads in some polling places were malfunctioning. Shocker. The check-in pads do not affect the voting machines. Now, why is that a problem? Because I know this from, you know, the report I dropped in Dallas County two years ago, where the polling pads were just randomly increasing at the end of the day, going up hundreds of voters, showing his hundreds of voters checked in. And the excuse that they gave us was, oh, well, they have a paper backup by law or by rule.

They have a paper backup of the voter, you know, the voter rolls. So they don't, you know, they don't have to worry about what's on the poll. pad they have the paper backup okay so why were they disenfranchised in el paso did they not have the paper backup that they could go to you know why why why was there a delay in el paso county first and foremost second what was the malfunction and you know this is technology technology either does its job or it doesn't do its job right this is something that's supposed to be tested beforehand go ahead yeah it's technology but it's technology in a human system and um so what they said the pole pads don't affect the the voting machines meaning the county machines i think right

the tabulators. So what they're saying is the fake voters don't impact the fake counts. Well, that's not true. Also, these machines are networked as I understand it. And Clay is in the chat. So Clay, please correct me if I don't have this accurate. But the machines are networked. So if you have an issue with a poll pad,

you ostensibly have a door into your local area network and your election infrastructure that can be exploited by bad actors. Now I know in elections, we don't believe in bad actors because bad actors are a threat to democracy, so they can't exist. But it air gap, Cleopreeks has got jokes. He's got jokes. So he's got jokes this morning. Yeah. So it's opening a door.

So you have so, so the assertion that any issue with the poll pad does not impact issues with the tabulators or with the broader election architecture is bullshit. Sorry. I just saw 330-065 said that the DS200s in Sebastian County, Arkansas, malfunctioned and would not print results at the end of the election. Question mark. You got more on that. Put a link in the chat, and I would love to check that out. In the meantime, moving on from that story, we'll just get a quick word about Jasmine Crockett being an election denier.

Big old election denier. All written has already stated. We encourage each and every one of you to remain. resilient. We cannot allow this type of behavior to be rewarded because so long as they know that they can win, even if it means cheating, then they will continue to do it. Ah, okay. That's an election conspiracy theorist right there, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, man, I lean all the way into it. I support you, Jasmine, fight it all the way. Go all the way and expose all of the issues that took place in your election, my girl.

So do I. I support her all the way in challenging the election. That's about it. And that's the only issue of which I support her all the way. So Fox News, Fox News is Brooke Taylor put this out on X yesterday and changed her tune on it. But I want to read this because this is kind of an interesting story. Dallas police arrested a man outside Attorney General Ken Paxson's election watch party and found a large amount of ammunition in his car. Police said no gun was found. The suspect was wearing a camouflage hat, mask, and gloves. Police say around 5.30 p.m. officers were notified of a suspicious person. He got into a car without license plates and left the area. Officers conducted traffic stop. Now the driver is facing charges

related to traffic, blah, blah, blah. Now you follow that up very, you know, within hours. In an update from Dallas PD, it turns out the man who was arrested and found with what looks like hundreds of rounds of ammo in his car ended up being a delus. delivery guy. Quote, after being interviewed, investigators determined the individual was at the location to make a delivery to an employee. He was transported to the Dallas County Jail without incident. Now, it doesn't, let me go back here, because this one actually shows some images of what was found. And again, it's just ammunition. You've got some one, two, three, four, five, six, seven AR magazines, it looks, three of which are loaded, maybe four. That looks like it

might be a handgun ammunition there. Some 223 hunting rounds, shotgun shells, and the guy in the back of the car. Now, what's interesting about this story is if it had just been a guy, it was the rest of the possession. No, no, no, no, no. So hold on. So again, if he just had ammunition in his car, big deal. I've got there's probably ammo in a lot of my cars, you know, well, a lot of

ammo in my car, I should say. Not a lot of cars. A fleet of cars and almost all of them have. have ammo in them. I have two. I have two. Um, and they probably both have ammunition in them at some point at some in some place. I don't drive around without license plates though and I don't drive around with gloves and a mask that that's the kind of suspicious thing about this and you say he's a delivery guy. He was dressed in all black, which is fine. Again, nothing here is except for the license plate is is breaking the law, right? But when you break the law by not having your license plate and you

get your car searched and you're wearing gloves in a mask and you have a surplus of ammunition in your car and you're at a political watch party for a guy that's really not liked by the establishment politicians and there's a lot of political violence from minnesota to president trump and everything else it's kind of interesting i might want to figure out exactly what he was delivering yeah yeah i think it's fair point you can call it r t jones said probable cause in the chat i think it's probably fair yeah it's kind of strange but he is taken to jail so i guess they'll find out if there was anything going on there all right so harris uh put out this harris data harvard poll the hypothetical congressional

ballot is now a dead heat with 50 to 50 percent to 50 percent democrats losing four points according to this poll some of the specifics are kind of interesting now granted this poll is before the iran war so we don't know what kind of impact that is going to have on everything here februaries uh the the trump state of the union address gets a 60% favorable rating. I've heard anywhere from 58 to about 66% on that. Again, polls are incredibly gay, but we still got to call, you know, and fake.

And fake and gay, yeah, they go hand in hand. But you still got to cover them because they are, they are the narrative. Yeah. 52% of voters say the economy is better today than under President Biden. Again, that's not a very high bar to cross. I also think we're going to see the economy skyrocket in the next, you know, five or six months. So. And the, and the, the conflicts, right? Like, people are really, really upset that there is this military conflict with Iran.

Trump called it a war. Exf called it a war. Rubio seems to not want to call it a war, but that, you know, whatever semantics. We're in military conflict with Iran. If that is still going on in a couple of months, I think it hurts him. But I don't, one, don't think that's going to be the case. And two, I think I think there are a thousand stories that are going to happen between now and election day. I agree with the latter part. I'm not completely one way or the other yet on how quickly this conflict is going to be resolved. And I'll explain why when we get to the segment on the war.

But yeah, I think it's going to initially this will have a little bit of a negative impact on the numbers, but not as much as people will think. It depends on if the loss of life for our service members continues. I think it's at six right now. Although there's this report going around. I don't know if you saw RT put out that we got bombed and lost 650 U.S. personnel. I did not see it. Yeah. They don't source it.

They don't source it. They just put out that claim, you know, claims of this. Now, I've had people send me claims as well that the number is that high. But again, no official reporting or anybody claiming that. So back to the poll, 65% of voters agree with the Supreme Court decision limiting executive power to impose tariffs. It should actually be a lot higher than that because it was the correct decision in my opinion as well and by the Constitution. 85%. But again, it's not a big deal.

Like that's. Trump didn't get his way, bro. Brian, why are you supporting? What's her name? Katanji Brown Jackson. Well, you're also supporting Barrett and Gorsuch. Or not Barrett. I stand by it, man.

The most interesting conversations that Skodas are happening between Trump's three picks. Yeah, I agree. I agree. 85% of voters say only U.S. citizens should be allowed to vote with 71% supporting the Save America Act. I don't know how you go from 85% saying only U.S. citizen should vote. And then literally a bill where the most stringent thing on there is making sure that people have to prove citizenship.

And that it drops 14%. I don't get that. Yeah, that's a matter of trust. We agree on the problem statement. We disagree on the solution. But also you have to, but you have to understand that, you know, Democrats and that where they consume their news, where they get their information from. So they're politicians, the legacy media, their favorite voting NGO, all of these people are screaming about the SAVE Act being a massive weapon to suppress voters. So that the 85% is notable and important.

And that's what we should focus on because that's the common ground on having the problem statement. We still have enough of a majority to pass the proposed solution there. But as you and I have discussed many times, the SAVE Act is not the is not it's it's not a silver bullet that saves our elections we can pass the save act save act and still have fake elections yeah makes it a lot different a lot more difficult though because of the the mail-in balloting aspect of it is more aspect of it yeah yeah well the citizen as aspect of it is is more significant to me because it essentially requires you to dump the voter rolls and and re-register and

that's the more appealing side it's not so much the the citizenship aspect. But the other thing about it is that the citizenship aspect is also going to, you know, broadly do away with automatic voter registration because who's going to register to vote and, you know, bring their, or excuse me, go to sign up for a small business administration loan or, you know, get a new driver's license, get registered to vote, but also bring their birth certificate. Well, I guess for a driver's license, you might, but you know what I'm getting at is, is it's the resetting of the voter rolls and building that infrastructure. back up again. Well, remember when they were getting ready to pass real ID or the,

the, the, the real ID deadline was going into effect. And what we heard from Democrats was a, just hysteria, hysteria across the board about, you know, mothers and wives are, you know, not going to be able to use their meaning. Like all of, all of that, all of that was tied back to this, right? It's tied back to. having to prove not only that you are who you are, but that you are eligible to vote. And voter eligibility, voter eligibility requirements are seen, like things like proving that you're 18 years old and a citizen of this country are viewed as voter suppression. And of course, we see, you and I covered Mark Elias not that long ago,

wigging all the way out about the administration's focus on elections. they've had a lock on this suppression thing. They've been trying to expand the suppression statute, the federal statute that defines voter suppression. They've been trying to expand it. They've failed, roundly failed in federal court, happy to have played my part in that. But now what they're doing is trying to do voting rights acts at the state level,

trying to bring those suppression statutes into the state level. We're going to see it. We're going to have to fight it at the state level. So, you know, it's really disappointing to hear about like the Williamson Tennessee or the Dallas County, Tennessee. They had to cancel a hand count because they couldn't find enough volunteers. Like get off the freaking couch people. We got stuff to do.

Yep. The midterm horse race is tied, but Republicans have a four point messaging edge among likely voters. 76. This one's kind of shocking to me. 76% of Americans support free enterprise over socialist policies with strong consensus

for private homeownership, property rights, and privately run grocery stores i didn't know there was a concern about private home ownership i mean i guess the the communists they they want communal living spaces but uh yeah i i'll keep my private home fifty nine percent of voters now support meduro's arrest and venezuela intervention a five point increase and 62 percent say that the trump administration should push venezuela towards democracy ash we're reading stolen elections right now which is all about democracy in Venezuela and Venezuela has always been a democracy.

It's as real as any other democracy. Yeah, exactly. At least other democracies, but they vote. They have representatives, you know, they have representatives that legislate for them that are elected by them, allegedly elected by them. I thought that was kind of interesting. Like that to me, that is the, the low education rate of the people that were polled here. like pushing Venezuela towards a democracy is I mean is that means stolen elections is is is anchoring with you know the majority of the GOP and Republican Democrats that are that are polled in this they're like

hey hey hey there there's actually there's stolen elections in Venezuela we need to get down there and and insert some American democracy maybe Dan Crenshaw can air drop into there and bring some dominion or Liberty vote voting machines with him to free them. Well, if you listen to the current CIA rewrite of Venezuelan election fraud, Venezuela is responsible for democracy in 72 countries around the world. Brian and I think that's bullshit. And the book that asserts it is real dumb. It wasn't proofed, rushed to market, full of factual errors, and it has the obvious intended effect of rewriting the CIA. CIA's role in Central and South America and in election fraud around the world.

So and drug trafficking around the world and and other thing. It's kind of a choose your own bad guy as long as it's not in the Americans is the the purpose of CIA. Yeah, as long as we don't tell the truth about the CIA, you can say whatever you want about elections is basically the premise of that book. And they're really trying to sell that story. But I don't know. Watch.

Bitcoin's going on. The Americans that stole our election. because it was not Venezuelans that certified, uncertifiable infrastructure that enabled fake voters, fake ballots and fake counts that paused counting in five states and pulled out pallets to pallets of ballots to run through multiple times. None of that was done by Venezuelans. It was done by Americans and there must be accountability for it.

Some of it was done by a Nigerian. Serious. There's always a few foreigners involved, but we should be, listen, there were a lot of foreigners. We've been told our whole lives that they hate our freedom, right? These enemies, his vicious enemies around the world, they hate our freedom. So in my, in my mind, we should, in my mind, then we should expect that foreigners are going to try and interfere in our elections. We should be real, real mad when Americans help them. All right.

So last part of the little polling here, voters continue to support most of Trump's policies that were expressed during the state the union. Trump's most popular policies are lowering prescription drug prices, 80% support. I can't believe that that's 80%. Who are the 20% that are like, yeah, I want to continue paying $1,500 for this pill instead of $200. Who are those 20%? Because those people should be excommunicato. They're brainwashed globalists, Brian, that believe that Americans must pay more so that the other places in the world can pay less. No, they're probably all the people that are propped up by big pharma. There are all the people in the mainstream media. There are all the people that work for the pharmacy. 20% of the country? I mean, if you think about it. Oh my gosh. If you think about, I mean,

one in five America. Oh, well, actually, when you put it like that, it works. It's not just the mainstream media. It's the pharmaceutical companies themselves. It's all the health insurance companies. It's all the Medicaid medical professionals. These are all people that benefit from these exorbitant pricing. And so it's not lost. I mean, these people are like, oh yeah, our industry is so, is so necessary that if we lower these prices, next they might come after the Medicaid and Medicare cost and the actual cost to go to a hospital and we're next. So we better stand in unity with the big pharma right now

and pray that we can continue charging $1,500 for a pill that they charge 20 bucks for in London or England. Piss off. Deporting illegal immigrants who have committed crimes, 75%, eliminating fraud and government. That's a shocking one, by the way. I said since the, I said this yesterday, since the Iran war started, the ice people are completely gone.

You know, didn't see a single ice protest this entire weekend. Maybe it's getting a little warm out there and they're like, yeah, I'm done with this stuff. I want to go and live my life and actually be a normal human being. Eliminating fraud and government expenditures 71% and capping credit card interest rates at 10% for one year, 69%. Trump's least popular policies, removing information about civil rights and climate change from public websites. only 32% support for that. What? I don't know what.

Hey, if that is the least. How dare you stop brainwashing me about the carbon monster? If that is the least popular of his policies, so be it. Medicaid cost cuts, 42% support. I don't think they know, like, are we talking about the Obamacare cuts? Or are we talking about like cutting the cost of what. Medicaid is paying to doctors. We're talking about the story that people have been told about Trump ripping Medicaid

away from vulnerable people that need it. So most likely we're talking about the waste, fraud, and abuse. And the story that that has been told about eliminating waste, fraud and abuse, which is a story told by people like, you know, Mark Elias and others that, you know, it's, it's targeted. Trump just hates black and brown people. So he wants to remove their health care from them and women. Yeah.

And then lastly, hiring additional ICE agents to conduct immigration raids at 45% support. If that, if those are the top three policies and they come in at 42 and 45% support, that's, he's doing pretty damn good. Yeah. Right. He's doing pretty damn good. The Republican Party approval is at 48% while the Democratic Party approval is at 45%. uh, congressional approval is at 34 percent. Uh, Republican support is up four points and Democrats are up one point.

So who is a who is increasing their approval of Congress right now. Yeah, that's up two points. I don't know. Maybe the Epstein files some you know, the normies out there like, hey, we finally got the Epstein files. Maybe. Yeah. All right. Let's jump into this story here. Supreme court blocks the read bra of the loan GOP held district. in New York City, a win for the GOP here. The court sided with Representative Nicole Nalio Takas, who had asked the justices to block a ruling

from a state judge this year that her Staten Island-based 11th district was unconstitutional. The judge said the district deluded black and Latin voting power and ordered New York's independent redistricting commission to redraw it. Republicans had also appealed the decision

in the New York state court system, but Alito wrote that the Justice Alito, you could, oh, they did call him justice up there. Okay. Justice Alito wrote that the Supreme Court had to act now because, quote, there is an unacceptably strong possibility that the applicant's appeal in the state court system will not conclude until it is too late for us to review the ultimate decision, end quote. Now, Sotomayor criticized this majority ruling saying that it's still working its way through the New York court, New York state court system. Quote, by granting these applications, the court

thrusts itself into the middle of every election law dispute around the country. It's a good point. Even as many states redraw their congressional maps ahead of the 2026 election. It also invites parties searching for a sympathetic ear to file emergency applications directly with this court without even bothering to ask the state courts first. I like it. Okay, I didn't know if you were going to go to the California thing. So similar. I like bypassing the state courts because they're corrupt.

I agree with that. But so this is kind of along the same lines, but in the opposite, in the opposite ruling, you know, way with what happened in California. So Supreme Court, this was back in early February, Supreme Court refuses to block California's Democratic. friendly map this is the problem you know the word democratic in that way please do not refer to that party as democratic because there is nothing democratic about the democrat party i am literally i know do better i i can't because then i could get sued do you want to be so for saying democrat

instead of democratic no you won't get sued and if you will you'll defend yourself i'll help you and you'll win i know i'm just kidding but i am going to read it as it's written a one sentence order without any noted dissents the Supreme Court declined the emergency application to halt the design for the midterms. It is not a final ruling and the case could return to the justices and impact future election cycles. The decision was not entirely surprising given the court signaled in a separate ruling related to the use of Texas's GOP favored House map ahead of the 2026 election that both Texas and California had drawn their new set of congressional lines for partisan game. So again, it's not that different, but they basically appealed straight to the Supreme

Court. And SCOTUS was like, no, we're not going to hear it. This is a partisan battle. It's an election battle. It's a partisan battle, though. We're going to let it run through the courts first. It's kind of like, I know they're not exactly the same, but so do my order does bring up a good point, is that by the justices allowing that case in New York to be heard and make a ruling on it, they are, you know, converting the normal process that they would go through, which is something I said in the 2020 election needs to be done. I said all of these cases should not be when you have, you know, obviously state versus state, the Ken Paxton lawsuit, Texas versus Pennsylvania at all. That case needed to go directly to the Supreme Court. But I also think that like when you have President Trump suing a state over something like that as the U.S. government, that should go straight to the Supreme Court.

because that's ultimately where a case is going to land and that could take years to do it. And the last thing I'll add, because I was waiting for you. I thought you were going to jump in there. But the last thing I'll add is, you know, I looked at the, I don't know if you remember the, the Roberts review, Justice Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts, the review that he put out last year, the state of the Supreme Court or whatever it's called. He said specifically in that, no, excuse me, excuse me, it wasn't in that. It was in the, I think it was the Oklahoma ruling where Clarence Thomas said as a court of a, what is it called, original jurisdiction, we do not have a lot of these cases. And so we're not overburdened by these original jurisdiction type cases.

So we could be hearing more of these, but they don't. So I'll let him that there. Do we have an answer? And I don't, I should know the answer to this, but I don't. Do we have an answer in the Louisiana redistricting case? I don't know, but if you want to look that up real quick. Yeah, I am, I am currently pending. So that's the one where they took like separate districts because they,

they wanted to make it have a specific ethnic composition, a racial composition. And so they took like these, they're not, it's not a compact district. It's not, you know, like based on the criteria that is used to draw districts and the expected, outcome of that they prioritize racial composition and selected kind of this really weird geographic collection of geographic locations to make their district and when we say so that was a voting rights act section two case so it's it's federal law it's not a state court thing i personally think that these have to be federal cases these district drawing cases because the states that are in charge, the state level at that's in charge of this are also the primary beneficiaries of the outcome of it.

The districts are different. Your congressional, house congressional and your state legislative districts are different. And you know, in the state, certainly. Yeah. So, so when when we say the elections are fake, we're not just talking about the mechanisms of the administration of a election. elections, right? Or ability to have transparency into the couch. We're talking, I am, at least I don't want to speak for you, but I think you agree with me. Talking about go, go, where does it start? What's the, what's the journey of how we end up on election day? The drawing of districts is in there. And one of the things that we heard in that Louisiana case, which blew my mind and still

pisses me off is this idea that the state executive can, can, can influence. influence that the, sorry, the majority party can influence the drawing of districts with the stated intent of preserving the Speaker of the House in his seat. For example, that came up in Louisiana. They were talking about Speaker Johnson and that is, that was oral. It was argued at the oral argument before the Supreme Court and everybody was just fine with it. All the justices were just fine with it. That brings up the point. We don't have the will of the people. we have the will of the party and we have sort of delegated although i would argue in modernity not into not intentionally or with any informed consent delegated the the will of the people to the parties despite the fact that the parties are less popular than they've ever been and um you know

depending on your state can fall to less than a quarter of the electric the electorate supporting that party there's something very very broken in how this this entire political ecosystem is developed at the beginning, executed in the middle, and preserved without any ability of inquiry at the end. I agree. I agree with that. So wait, did you, did you end up getting the ruling? I don't think you. Oh, it's still pending. It's still pending. Okay. Okay. Um, all right. So we're going to move on from that topic before this goes full blown, although it pretty much is full blown why we vote at this point. So tune in Friday. Um, let's talk about this story here it's going to stay on elections kind of generally speaking uh the governor of colorado has put this post out and i'm going to read this post and then i'll hand it over to ash to explain this so governor jared polls put this out on his post personal x page last week former

state senator sonia jacquez lewis was sentenced to probation community service after being convicted of four felonies including attempt to influence a public official heard that case before or that charge before he made a horrible mistake and she was wrong i hope she learns from this and can rebuild her life as someone who has known sonia as a friend for many years on a personal level i was glad to hear she isn't going to prison which is a hard place for anyone no less a 68 year old pharmacist but it is not lost on me that she was convicted of the exact same felony charge as tina peters attempting to influence a public official and yet tina peters are A nonviolent first time offender got a nine years sentence.

Justice in Colorado and America needs to be applied evenly. You never know when you might need to depend on the rule of law. This is the context I am using as I consider cases like this that have sentencing disparities, which is why I have extended the deadline for clemency applications until April 3rd. I will be making decisions on these cases throughout the remainder of my governorship. It's like Jared Polis is saying, Tina, apply for clemency. What are you doing? Here is your, but I'll hand it to you.

I mean, I think this is just proof that he reads my substack. I wrote this a couple days ago after we found out that Yacquez Lewis was given probation. So Sonia Yacquez Lewis was in an ethics situation. She had had a bunch of complaints about her conduct of her in her office. She was a state senator. And she had an ethics hearing coming up to support her case before the ethics hearing. She forged a bunch of supporting statements for her. So she like made up a bunch of.

So three were tried. There's three felonies for forgery and one felony for attempting to influence a public official. So we are all familiar with the Colorado attempting to influence a public official statute because Tina Peters received three charges, three felony charges, one for each person that she made the misrepresentation that Conan Hayes was Jerry Wood. She made that representation to three people. They charged a felony for all three of them and then an additional felony for conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation. Now, as we found out at the appellate court, that conspiracy charge, was briefed before the jury presented, the jury tried as a misdemeanor,

but called a felony and sentenced as a felony, and it's a felony on her record. So that's under, that's, that's one of the main issues on appeal in Tina Peters case. But for right now, they're both for felonies. They both violated the same statute of attempting to influence public servant. In Tina Peters case, they maximized multiplicity. They took one statement to three people, made that three felonies, added another, you know, in the conspiracy. In Sonia's case, they minimized multiplicity. So Sonia made three, at least three false statements to a ethics panel that is four people.

They charged the panel as one person to give her one felony. they charged the three forgery felonies and claimed that multiplicity was appropriately captured. They claim that the difference, these are both jury trials, they claim that, or they're both trials. I'm actually not sure if Sonia Casillas went to a jury. But they both went to trial. The advocates for this not being politicized weaponization of government claim, well, Tina Peters wasn't repentant, but Sonia was repentant. they were convicted at trial the level of repentance shown justifies the disparity she received probation sonya yuccas lewis four felonies same statute for tina peters minimized the the charges

whereas with tina peters maximized now there is the repentance thing tina peters maintains her innocence and that is unacceptable to the people that love their their narrative about election deniers being the greatest evil that the world has ever seen. But there's also the difference that one is a Democrat and one is a Republican. And this all comes down to prosecutorial discretion. It is the discretion of the prosecutor how they bring these cases, both approaches, maximizing multiplicity by splitting it apart and every person, or minimizing it by, you know, counting the one body as one attempt to influence, as opposed to all. all of the people on the body, there are hairs you can split there.

But when you get to, for the four felonies, eight years and three months in prison for Tina Peters and probation for Sonia Yacquez-Lewis, we are not dealing with justice. We are dealing with political theater. And it's pretty clear. We have, I think I pulled up just so folks are aware. I'm just going to read, if you cool with me taking one more minute on this. I'm going to read the quotes from the appellate court that heard Tina Peters appeal last month. This is Judge Tao.

The official misconduct charge was charged as with the intent to receive a benefit for herself. Why is it not relevant to the jury for her to say, I didn't intend to receive a benefit for myself? I intended to do what I thought was my job and protect the election process. Why was that evidence not relevant, at least to that charge? Of course, Brian and I did like nine hours, almost nine hours with Alpha. on on this so so if you watch that then you understand what we're talking about but the the state presented character characterized the state characterized Tina Peters intent before the jury and the judge refused to let her dispute that and defend against it that's manifestly unjust and this is you know

as what i just read was from appellate judge uh tau in colorado um on the sentencing uh with you know we We heard the snake oil, you know, you've been peddling snake oil that's been proven time and time. Again, you're a charlatan, right? Really, really nasty, judge. As we've said repeatedly, his bias came through before the jury. Sentencing isn't before the jury. The jury's done at that point, but it did come through before the jury. But at the end, it's like he couldn't help himself.

And when he was doing her sentencing came down to it such that even the appellate judges in the state of Colorado have, you know, notice it. Lapinski, Judge Lipinski said, didn't he consider uncharged conduct as he referred to snake oil? Wasn't he considering uncharged conduct in sentencing? And isn't that an error? Yes, of course it is. State said, oh, no, it's not a big deal. It's totally fine. And then the third example of due process violations for Tina Peters, I will point out is that felony. I said, you know, I talked to you about the misdemeanor that was kind of characterized and charged as a felony. Judge Tau again said, is it your, all three of the judges come in on this part. This is the last part and then I'll hand it back over to you.

Is it your position that a person can still be convicted of a crime with which they were never charged and with which the jury was never instructed as long as the evidence is sufficient, asked Judge Tow. And he was pissed when he said this. Yes, I think that is what the case law indicates said Michaels. It was one word, might and it was already. And Judge Welling interrupted and said, yeah, but that one word distinguishes it. from a felony to a misdemeanor and judge tow again said in this case it made an extra sentence 15 more months in the department of corrections that could be given it had it been a misdemeanor and it clearly

affects a substantial right and you finally got unfroze at the end of that little second right you you you could your audio was coming through but you had like this mean mug face like well that's fine i'm fine with the mean face as long as you heard by said we did hear what you said um and so what's remarkable about this and Let me jump into a comment that was the first comment, Colonel Sean Smith. Tina didn't make a mistake. Or excuse me, Lewis didn't make a mistake. It was deliberate and it was for personal gain.

Tina Peters was doing her duty as an elected official, obstructed by the Secretary of State's office and her own county. Judge Barrett deprived her of her due process and defense and gave inappropriate jury instructions, which is what Ash was just getting to there. Now, again, going back to what. I said in the beginning about this. It's interesting that Polis is bringing this up, invoking Tina Peters, and then basically saying, hey, Tina, I'm extending the time for you to apply for clemency because he wants her to apply for clemency. And I don't think she's going to do it. And you can talk more about that and, you know, wanting to write this wrong rather than just kind of get the freebie handout, get out of prison. Yeah. So I think in part,

that Polis's post yesterday is begging her to apply so that he can commute her sentence. I don't think she's going to. And I have a request for comment out to her team. See if anybody responded yet. Not yet. I have a request for comment out to her team. But the last I spoke to them about this, she was not planning on applying for clemency to the state of Colorado at all.

her appellate hearing, there was the two issues. There was the pardon issue that was raised and then the actual appeal proper. And you'll remember that Peter Tickton didn't want to argue the appeal issue before the Colorado Court of Appeals. The next step from that is the Supreme Court. That's where they're going. I think they're going for the president's pardon to hold up on state level crimes. That seems to be the legal question they're pursuing. But Tina Peters maintains her innocence. And, you know, that's, it's a tough spot because the, the violation that led to the four felonies, the representation of Conan Hayes as Jerry Woods is not disputable. That was done. She stipulated to it at trial. And so, so the, you know, maintaining of innocence, you can say, I did it, why, the why I did it is very important. I think that's true. You can say, I was denied due process at trial. That's true. I was over-sentenced. That's true. I am innocent. You can't really say when the violation that's being discussed and that you were charged and convicted of is lying to public officials because that was done and it was admitted to. Stipulated to means the state didn't have to prove that at trial. She's she admitted to it before the trial started. And so that that to me is kind of the this it's it's it's angsty to think about polis being ready to to commute her sentence and get her out and her not applying for it because she has a bigger, you know, a bigger plan and play. It's kind of tough to swallow, but I think that is possibly where it's going. Well, you can also speculate that Polis is doing it for political gain as well.

100% he is. And I mean, I called I called this exact thing since her sentencing. Polis is going to try to commute her, not pardon her, I don't think. He will try to commute her sentence, but not because he thinks it's wrong, right? Because he's running for president. In my opinion, he hasn't announced yet, but in my opinion, he's running for president. And when Jared Polis runs for office, he pretends to be a libertarian. He attacks to the middle. He cares about everybody's rights all of a sudden. And he pisses off his base. I said this right in January, you and I were talking about this on one of the chats and said that, you know, he's, he's going to let her, he's going to have her stay in there long enough to appease the base. But I always, but I always,

also think that Jared Polis is going to piss off his base a lot this year because it's the last year of his eight years in office at the state level he's got a big mess to clean up he is he wants to run for national office he wants to be seen as a serious contender maybe not for president but to be selected for VP right he wants he's going for that but the biggest problem that he has and this funny like local press here is discussing about whether or not he can't be elected president because he's gay or because he's Jewish it's like is it are we too homophobic Are we too anti-Semitic? And my position to that is Jared Polis is not electable as president because he is responsible for turning Colorado into a national meme. We we we Colorado is a is a punchline to the nation because of the policies and leadership of Jared Polis. That's his biggest problem. It is not because Americans are still so racist. I'm sorry. I forget my language apologies.

All right. Yeah, you broke your, you broke your, uh, your banner ready. You're supposed to be like using like tittle sticks or something or sugar sticks. sugar sticks fiddle sticks sugar sticks would have been appropriated actually on that eat a bag of sugar sticks all right representative james komer put this out on x epstein investigation update i'm calling on seven individuals to appear for transcribed interviews bill gates kathy roomler leon black leslie groff sarah kellyn ted wait and doug band and uh just a quick rundown of who's who we all know who bill gates and if you don't know who room roomler is yet she's uh former obama

White House Council and General Counsel at Goldman Sachs who just stepped down. Leon Black is the co-founder of Apollo Management and billionaire Leslie Groff, longtime executive assistant to Epstein. Sarah Kellan, who's now Sarah Kellyn Vickers, married to the race car driver, was a former personal assistant to Epstein. And then Ted Waite, who is the billionaire co-founder of Gateway, Inc. And Doug Band, who's a former advisor to Bill Clinton and co-founder of Tenio. and we'll see if anything comes to that and that's all I got on that so um before sorry I know

we moved on from Colorado but can I just make one this is a new Jenna Griswold scandal go ahead have you heard about the new Jenna Griswold scandal I did so she's claiming that she argued before the Supreme Court and she's talking about the 14th Amendment case right Anderson versus Griswold she claims that she argued before the Supreme Court the Democrats here They don't want her. Nobody, nobody likes Jenna. One of the common grounds that we have is that we all don't like Jenna.

So they're calling here out on it, but the reason that I wanted to bring this up is because Kyle Clark, who is the, you know, kind of commie anchor, news anchor here, he did a segment about this last night. And he's actually done the research to see how many federal cases has Jenna Griswold actually argued. There might be one, but they can't confirm it. meaning it is quite possible that I have argued and won more cases in federal court than Jenna Griswold. All right. Mike drop moment for Ash.

Moment of personal privilege. All right. From the New York Post, Russian mogul who called Galane Maxwell his quote unquote soulmate is found dead in his luxury Moscow pad. Umar Zabreliov, de Zabrilyov, a Chechen businessman. and we're just going to call him Umar, a Chechen businessman and former senator was discovered lying in a pool of blood with a gunshot wound who's head at 3 a.m. Police sources said, they're calling it a suspected suicide. Umar Zabrelov, who had tried to take his life back in 2020, did not leave a suicide note.

This comes after he was among the Russian names that appeared in the Epstein document dumps with emails showing him trying to me. I'm not showing what you're reading just FYI. Yes, I am. Not the part. That's the part you're reading. Your screen's frozen then, because I'm watching it move up and down, too. All I see is it comes after he was among the Russian names, but all the stuff that you read after that did not show up on the screen, is my point.

Yeah, it's working for me. There's something wrong on your end because I just checked the actual live feed and it's working. This comes after he was among the Russian names that appeared in the Epstein document dump. Email show him trying to meet the pedophiles, madame. in Moscow in 2001 quote dear Galane I'm back in London I'm back from London planning to be in Moscow really want to see you because I guess that's how we wrote back in the early 2000s but I need to know exactly where you arrive because I want to take care of you and arrange welcoming things wishing you all the best umar read the email Maxwell responded umar sorry that we

did not come last week got sidetracked and ended up in france however we geoffrey tom and i are coming next week arriving friday will you be around and can we get together let me know hope you are well galane the extent of their relationship or how they initially met was not immediately clear umar had previously addressed his close relationship with maxwell after she was convicted saying i regret that galane the most charming woman got a life sentence calling her a soulmate he's now dead so there we go rest your peace yeah and then uh let's go ahead and get before we get into the iran stuff i know ash had really wanted to talk about this particular story boom look who's back oh just play the clip and then we'll talk about it mr burns this is a young mr burns if

this is anthony weiner former husband of huma abedine who um was you know came up in the hillary Clinton testimony because you've probably covered that already. Creepy dude who is sexting with a teenager while his infant son was sleeping on his chest and he was naked with an erect sugar stick. Gross. Play the clip. Disgusting. You resigned from Congress in 2011 over a sexting scandal.

Two years later, you stepped down from the mayoral race after sexting again under the alias Carlos Danger. And then in 2016, you sent lewd text to a minor. and served 15 months in prison in addition to becoming a registered sex offender. So just to lay that out, Ash, what crime has one of the highest recidivism rates in, you know, violent felony? Pedophilia, pedophilic crime. Parapheric, I think, is the way you categorize the whole, the whole domain of them. But yeah, can't be, can't be rehabilitated. Sex crimes broadly narrow narrowing it down to pedophilic.

The most mind-blowing thing about this is that he's not just coming out here to talk about, you know, his way back from that dark period of his life. MFR is running for office. Let's keep going. Let's keep going. So with all that said, why do you think or why should New Yorkers give you a chance at a political comeback? Well, let me just say this. I mean, all of that happened, and I accept responsibility for it. You won't hear me do what some other people in public life have done Donald Trump or Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams. I'm a victim. They persecuted me for no reason. I was dealing with very serious problems.

I was dealing with what I now understand to be addiction. I lost my brother Seth to addiction. And I accepted, I didn't ask for a trial. I pled guilty, served my time in prison, served in a half-way house, served probation, went to try to do good work. for the formerly incarcerated. And I guess what I'm saying to people is maybe don't vote for me in spite of what they know about me, but maybe consider that journey, that idea that we all go through things and we come out the other side. And also what does it mean, you know, I'm Jewish, but they have this notion in Catholicism around you suffer for a reason so you can be of service at the other end. So I'm not asking people. I'm doing the opposite of what a lot of politicians doing you the the one suffering weiner you suffered for a reason the Catholics say that I had to

suffer that for a reason so I could be of service so please elect me again even though I'm a registered registered sex offender you're not the one suffering weiner your your victims were the ones that suffered and now he's asking to be reelected to offer he's Give me power. Ignore. Maybe don't vote for me in spite of the fact that I'm a pedophile and a registered sex offender. Maybe vote for me because of it. What is happening?

It wasn't the, so the first time I got, you know, I got accused of this. It was, it was, you know, a mistake and whatever. The second time, I still didn't really learn from it. The third time, I think I started to learn. And now I'm ready to run for office. Now I've got the resume built up behind me a thrice accused and I think only once convicted, sex offender. But now I'm ready to go. Now I've changed this time.

I've really changed. Don't ignore the three times prior to this. This time is different. And I'm going to show it to you by taking responsibility of being a representative of constituent. It's fucking bonkers. Yeah. Give me this reward because yes, I'm a registered sex offender, but I'm honest about it after getting caught, apparently. What? No. No, dude. You shouldn't show your face and shame on the view for platforming this nonsense.

Do you want to keep playing it or is that good? Yeah, I think we should play. I think we should play it to the end. They're in my position. Ignore that problem, pretend it didn't happen, blame someone else. I am saying, yes, I did these things. I got into recovery. I try to make my life better. And now if I can be so of service, and I'm a damn good politician, I come up with answers. I talk to people directly. You are. I don't try to butter over things.

I try to be direct. Then why shouldn't I? And if it's just because I have bad things in my past, that's not a good enough reason. I mean, look, all I can be, all I can ever be is who I am right now. And that brought me to this thing. This is like saying I did some really heinous shit. it. And so when you're getting together with your political consultants and your consulting team, like, how are we going to brand this? How are we going to message it? Because it's going to come up.

Well, let's not ignore it. Let's just hit it head on. And if we win, we win. If we lose, we lose. But we're not going to allow this to be used against us. No, use this against him. Do not let him say, well, I'm admitting to that. Yes, you are admitting to that. And you're sick son of a bitch and nobody should trust you anywhere near anything having to do with any responsibility whatsoever you should be the things that you did with an underage person sexting whatever you should be cast to the there there is no especially because it's a thrice you know three times uh uh accused individual of the same crime just get out there is no there is no uh there is no um uh uh a uh a Apology, right? There's no forgiveness. Well, I mean, forgiveness between you and God is up to you.

Sure. I don't think you'll get it. Pedophiles can definitely have can definitely be forgiven by God. They do not have to be forgiven by us. And even if they are forgiven by us, it doesn't mean that we give them access to commit the same crimes. And Rizant tire has a great point in the chat. Oh, I was suffering from addiction. I lost my brother to addiction. He's a victim appeal to sympathy for his loss and suffering. That is 100% what he's doing. But let's take his assertion as true, right? If he was an addict suffering from addiction, let's say you're a Coke head or a meth head or a heroin addict. You're always going to want Coke, meth, heroin. You're always going to want it. It's going to be an ongoing battle for you not to go back to the substance that you're addicted to.

So if he's going with addict, right? If that's his framing of why he did what he did, then even more so, he should never be allowed in public again. Because, you know, when he falls off the wagon, he doesn't just go on a bender and hurt himself. When he falls off the wagon of his addiction, he hurts kids. So he can't, so using his own framing about addiction on this issue, he needs to. to be removed from society because you know we can we can have we can have the the addict centers where we give them needles and clean safe places to shoot up but we can't have that for pedophiles that we don't we can't treat pedophilia as an

addiction and treat it in the same way i personally don't think we should treat substance abuse in that way i think it's enabling and despicable and keeps people trapped in bondage but But yeah, for this, for for pedophilic behavior, absolutely not. Absolutely not. There's a power dynamic that comes with people in that, you know, regard. And there's also a very narcissistic borderline, you know, well, I can't think of the word. Psycho, but, br-b-b-b-b-b-b-narsestic.

We can land it there. That goes along with this. And his ability to go out there and tell people like, hey, I'm admitting to it. So therefore I'm worthy of your vote in this is just playing on to that narcissism right there. It's playing on to that. And I can't why can't I think of the freaking word? What's the what's the psycho word one step beyond narcissist? Anyways. All right.

Let's land that there. Anything else you want to add? Sociopath. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, let's move on there. We got to talk about a sponsor before we do. And we're going to talk about the Iran War next. Got some more stuff there.

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A lot of fun. All right. The world is changing. So we have now the first four U.S. service members that have been killed. We have their names and pictures and information. This is the photos released. You have Captain Cody Cork, Sergeant First Class Noah L. Tijians, Sergeant First Class Nicole Amor and Sergeant Declan Cody, who I believe Declan Cody was promoted from specialist to Sergeant.

after he was killed. And from what I'm told, they all died. Let's see. This is the official statement from the DOW Department of War. They were killed in Port Tauiba, Kuwait, during an unmanned aircraft system attack. All soldiers were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command out of Des Moines, Iowa, incidents under investigation. And of course, pray for those.

we don't know the other two just yet so the Kuwaiti incident that was a friendly fire incident right no the that was an unmanned drone allegedly again there's concern about this because the drones that Iran has we've imitated like we've taken the drones and made an exact copy of it you reverse engineered it and i don't know if any other countries have gotten access to this as well and reverse engineered it and created duplicates but allegedly we What's reported right now is that it was an Iranian unmanned drone that hit Kuwait. Now you're thinking, probably thinking of the F-15s. Yeah.

We were shot down by, allegedly, again, this is a very bizarre thing. We were talking about this with Colonel Towner yesterday before Book Club. It's rare enough that an F-15, you know, a U.S. aircraft gets shot down by enemies. nonetheless friendly fire once it happened three times yeah that's bizarre very strange and they haven't identified which friends right no it was quaint they don't know any specifics about that yeah and i i think it's um we would expect to hear so on this incident with the with the drone right we would expect i think to see drones ghost and i were talking about this yesterday um we would expect to see drones play a significant role in this conflict because the power projection

that we've been told about Iran and their capabilities is drone swarms, the Iranian drones all over the world being used in Russia, being used in South and Central America. That's one of their, beyond, aside from always striving for a nuclear weapon, we are told that Iranian drones and their ability to do drone swarms is kind of one of their they're the cutting edge right iran is the cutting edge on drone technology i'm surprised we don't see more um you know the drone swarm apparently in this conflict means like five drones which in my head it was you know a sea of drones and whatnot so it's interesting to see some of these capabilities that we've been threatened with and told about for long long time come to life and you know how does how does what we're being told now measure to

what we've been told before it's all very interesting rest in peace to the US service members and why are all of the US casualties happening in Kuwait? Is that just a coincidence? They're not going to be happening in Iran. I mean, that was probably just a successful strike where those people got hit. You know, they're attacking our bases in Qatar and Kuwait in the Saudi Arabia like all over the they're attacking our bases, other bases and so forth. So you're not going to see, you know, any it's not going to be like shot down over Iran. I at least not that I've seen so far. Let's jump into this clip here. So Marco Rubio yesterday, me and Ghost played the clip where he said, you know, Israel, we knew that Israel an Israeli attack was imminent and so we decided to preemptively

go in attack. Well, they're walking that back. I mean, President Trump came out shortly after that and said, no, no, no, if anything, I forced Israel's hand. If anything, it was me that pushed this. So here's Rubio being questioned about that and kind of walking it back. Well, I want to just clarify what you said. I want to clarify what you said. But you said, you're going to read the whole thing. But your quote is about we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that would precipitate an attack.

Yeah, I know, I understand. But listen. All right. Let me understand. But I had a very specific question from that gentleman, right? The president said, but the president said that. Hold on one second. I asked the, okay.

Okay. But let me answer because this is my press conference. Okay. You asked, I was asked a very specific question. So you guys can misrepresent. I was asked a very specific question yesterday. The bottom line is this. The president determined we were not going to get hit first.

It's that simple, guys. We are not going to put Americans troops in harm's way. If you tell the president of the United States that if we don't go first, we're going to have more people killed and more people injured, the president's going to go first. That's what he did. That's what the president will always do. He will always put the safety and security or men and women and uniform

and of all Americans before anything else. He's always going to do that. And that's what he did here. In addition to that, I would argue, that this threat from Iran, They are hiding behind these missiles and hiding behind these drones. They wanted to reach a point where you couldn't touch them and then they could do whatever the hell they wanted with their nuclear program.

And there is no way in the world that this terroristic regime was going to get nuclear weapons, not under Donald Trump's watch. So the U.S. attack? All right. Hold on. Go ahead. There's a general question of why the president gave the brain light. And then there's a question of why did it happen this weekend?

I'm saying how to happen this weekend because of that is really accurate. No, this weekend presented a unique opportunity to take joint action against this threat. And we wanted this to have maximum success. We want this operation to be successful at achieving its objectives. I'll repeat the objectives. The president laid them out yesterday. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. It cannot have, and therefore it cannot have the things it was hiding behind to have a nuclear weapons program.

What are those things? Number one, we are going to destroy their missiles and their missile launchers. We are going to destroy their capability to make these missiles and these launchers. and we are going to destroy their navy. Those are the objectives. And this weekend, acting at this time, gave us the highest probability of success in achieving those objectives.

And as the Department of War will brief you, we are on or ahead of schedule to do that. This is getting kind of crazy to me. Getting that Marco Rubio is out there saying, and granted, I understand that this is the objectives that are put out by everybody, but these objectives are absurd. The idea that we can go in there

and tell another country, you can't have a missile defense or a Navy. Or a Navy is fucking insane. I don't care. And also, didn't we already destroy their nuclear capability? I mean, we did this once, right? The last time we did it, we had Benjamin Netanyahu speaking in English to ostensibly the American people. Quoting the Babylonian Talmud Sanhedron 72A, if your brother rises up, is your brother is going to rise up against you, rise up and strike him down first.

I'm paraphrasing, but that's the gist of it. And he didn't say that in Hebrew to the people of Israel. He said it in English. He called it the Bible. He said, as the Bible tells us, it's not the Bible, it's the Talmud, which is not the Bible. It's rabbinic commentary going back to Babylonian captivity and the oral tradition. But we were told that to bomb them the first time, to get the justification to go in and do the maverick top gun, strikes that we did to take out their nuclear capabilities. And then we did a victory lap. And we were

told, you know, we've stopped Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Now we're told that we have to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Hang on a second. And also, we have to eliminate the things that they hide behind in their pursuit of a nuclear weapon. So missiles, missile launchers, and a navy. So this country has to exist in a very contentious region without any mechanism of self-defense because we're really scared that they might one day have a nuclear weapon. I get it. I get not wanting Iran to have a nuclear weapon. I don't have any love loss for Iran. I have a real problem with inconsistent stories being told to the American people with their religions being weaponized to justify war.

or ostensibly on behalf of the military industrial complex. Meanwhile, if I go on X right now and type in, Israel has a right to defend itself, how many ex post do you think would pop up? A couple hundred thousand? At least, yeah. This is really crazy to me. And this is totally counterintuitive to, you know, President Trump's national security assessment that he put out, you know, just a couple months ago, the Don Roe doctrine, right?

Regional spheres of influence. How is the United States going in there and telling a Middle Eastern country, you know, South, Southeast Asia or Southwest Asia, South, yeah, West Asia, telling that country, you don't have the right to any of these things because it could be used to defend your nuclear capability, which, oh, by the way, we don't have evidence that you've resumed that. We were in negotiations with you, which I don't know if you saw the segment we did yesterday, but, you know, the day before this strike, they were meeting with Omani, the Omani foreign minister in Oman to do these negotiations with Whitkoff and Kushner. And then they had an agreed upon meeting for Monday. Then the strike happens. And now all of a sudden you have, you have Aragshi, the foreign minister of Iran, saying that, yes, we were willing to go down to 1.5% enrichment under IAEA guidelines and supervision. We were willing to do that, but it must also, we must be able to pursue a civilian nuclear program.

Then you have Whitkoff coming out on Hannity after the war started saying they absolutely weren't going to do this and they, you know, we were going to give them 10 years of free uranium to enrich and of enriched uranium to use and they didn't want it and blah, you know, all this stuff. Well, then you go and look and there was one guy there that was kind of neutral in all of it, the Omani foreign minister, but also there was an IAEA weapons, you know, advisor, you know, advisor that was there who says he thought that they were contentious talks, but they were making making progress. And so, you know, I again, I really think that Israel did jump the gun on this. There absolutely was a plan to attack Iran, but I think, I think Israel realized that they were

going to be successful or they were progressing in the talks and they had to stop that from happening. They could not, this, this has been the goal, the pivot after the operation Midnight Hammer for Israel, for Netanyahu specifically, was we blew up their nuclear infrastructure. They're, you know, decades away now from being able to rebuild this mission success and then just a couple weeks later net and yahoo's like well they've got these long range ballistic missiles that we've got to shoot them down we can't have iran having nuclear ballistic missiles now because it's just the pivot is moving along and uh what i'm hearing from rubio man is it's is it's fucking concerning yeah i mean it's all what i so rubio's going to say what he has to say what i'm more concerned about brian is um the

rhetoric, including from people in our chat right now, that are parroting the Iran has been a threat for 47 years. Iran has been a threat for 47 years. They've been declaring war on us for 47 years. We have to finally stop it. And now is the time that we have to finally stop it. Well, I mean, if you were if you were a principled person making that case with facts and justification, I might listen to you. I mean, I probably would hear you out and then debate you. on it. But we're just repeating the damn talking points that we're getting from the warmongers right now. People are very excited. There is a, the war, the war drums are banging along. The, the lust for blood is apparent and the glee on people's faces about it is, um, that's,

that's what's most concerning to me is that very, very, on a dime, people who claim to to be America first, who claim to want to protect American sovereignty and not be dragged into forever conflicts are without any sort of critical thought just jumping on board. That's what's concerning to me. Rubio's going to say what he's going to say. I'm on the fence about him, you know, in general in terms of, you know, little Marco and where it's all going with him. I think he's doing a, he's doing the best job he can. And I think that it's, you know, with how this administration approaches foreign policy, he's got a very big job, which is why those memes are hilarious.

And I hope they never stop. But, yeah, it's, I, I wish the American people were being more deliberative and principled in their positions on this thing. If you ever needed any proof that something is a foul right here, when National Review is defending the Trump administration over something like this, mainly because it may, perhaps because it, you. you know, cast shade at Israel, you know something's up. No, Marco Rubio did not claim that Israel dragged Trump into war with Iran. Although, I guess that could also be a shot at Trump, too, saying that it wasn't Israel that did it. It was Trump's own decision making. It very well could have been.

We don't know. We don't know. There's a lot of stuff we don't know. And I'm willing to accept that. But at the same time, I'm going to tell you what things look like on its face. And this looks like shit. This looks like absolute shit. What's going to happen when we decide like Egypt?

shouldn't have a military or you know just name any country in the world and you can now justify war by saying that they should not have ballistic they should not have ballistic missiles short range missiles or a navy and because of that we are now going to bomb the shit out of them that's not how it works man the navy the navy thing is super discreet like you're not allowed to have a navy what like who who the hell do you think you are do we believe in sovereignty guys do we do we believe Do we believe that every nation should be putting their own nation first? Right? Well, you know, we're now saying it's kind of, it makes me very uncomfortable.

And I'm not even saying that there's never any justification for any kind of conflict with Iran or with any other nation. I'm saying I'm not going to like it either way. I'm not going to cheer for it. I'm not going to be gleeful and lust for blood and beg for it to continue. And that is a lot of what we see happening. And I find that concerning. I think people need to turn their brains back on. And so this person says, you are wrong if you think you have better intel than Trump.

We're not claiming to have any intel. Literally. We're not trying to have the intel that. Yeah, we don't have. We don't have the intel. And we're not claiming to have any intel. And I trust President Trump. And President Trump told us that, I mean, you know, we've been talking about this since election day that, well, I characterize his position says, we're in a.

a transformation program. And as I've said since election night, a transformation program requires you break it all down so you can rebuild it. And that that means foreign policy as well as domestic policy. I'm not saying that this isn't justified. I'm not saying that President Trump doesn't need to do this in order to bring about the golden age. He may. And I support President Trump and I trust him. But I'm not going to like this. I'm not going to pretend like this is what we've all always wanted, right, which is what you guys are doing. You guys are pretending a 40-7, years we've wanted this this is meant to happen for 47 years eat every last dick you came up with that talking point yesterday when you heard it from fucking fox nose yeah i agree with that um

again the the optics that they're putting out there the public image of this war i do not in any way shape or form support now could there be ulterior motives absolutely absolutely and given trump you know everything i just laid out from the meetings with whitkoff and kushner with irauchy and and Bousai'i in Oman with all of that stuff with you know the the IAEA guy but most importantly with Trump's own national security assessment from just a couple months ago the Monroe Doctrine not allowing those outside influences not us not influencing them and them not influencing us it completely you just crumpled it up and through in the trash can if what we're looking at right now is the actual case

now let me I'm gonna play this clip here so first and foremost The first little segment of this clip is just the hilarity of war and not of war, but of these war correspondents. War is not hilarious. But this part, the way the media reacts to it is hilarious, but then listen to what they say moving on from that. And so we are going to just un-mike. We can on mic and then go downstairs. Yep, I want to show you exactly where you go. That's pretty dramatic.

Move quick. Put on your gear. Get your helmet on. Just going to get onto this camera. All right. The CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to stage. Reminds me of a major ground up. Geraldo Rivera live from a cave.

Do you remember that? You probably don't remember that because you were in that war. But reporting on that war was real dumb. I remember, you know, Zach posted the guy that was like, you remember the fake green screen thing where the guy was putting on all the gear. I remember that, uh, fakeness. I remember the, uh, when Ukraine kicked off and everybody was doing. that same thing they all had their vest on that said press and their helmets their little goofy helmets and their microphones and they're like there's bombing going on right over there man

it's totally real over there but it's not here and i got to make sure that i can show you guys this imagery because that's the most important thing right now is being able to see this so that you believe it is real yeah all right so let's get a lots of opso in there because the actual story here There's definitely a few people that are going to get that reference. If you watch the intro, the last thing that you hear in the intro is Chris Paul saying the color revolutions that we see going on time and time again. Guys, this is a color revolution that we are full blown orchestrating. But the only difference is they're openly saying it. Listen to this.

to see exactly where we go. All right. That's pretty dramatic. You need to move pretty quickly. There we go. We're just going to get onto this camera. All right. The CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to stage some sort of a major ground operation going inside Iran.

They want to spark an uprising. The details are incredible. What are you learning? That's right, Erin. It's a lot to unpack. Honestly, this story continues to develop at a break, neck speed and often in mind-bending ways. We spent some time this evening with a senior Iranian Kurdish politician here in Iraqi Kurdistan who basically told us that he, the expectation among Iraqi, sorry, Kurdish-Iranian opposition

forces is that they will be going into Western Iran as part of some kind of a ground operation over the course or at some point during the next few days. that they will have support from the U.S. and from Israel, though he would not be drawn as to what exactly that support will look like. He also told us that President Trump himself had called the leader of the KDPI, which is one of these Iranian Kurdish opposition parties today, and that they had what he categorized as a, or characterized, I should say, as a positive conversation, though again he did not give any details.

and he said that we should be prepared for some surprises, potentially tomorrow. Again, not giving details, but this is all coming at the same time as our colleagues, Natasha Bertrand, Elena Trin and Zachary Cohen are learning that the CIA has been working to arm Iranian Kurdish opposition forces with the goal of fomenting civil unrest in Iran. Okay, so let's just pause there for a second. Well, we can kind of cut that right there. So she invokes the name Natasha Bertrand. She's your favorite.

She's my favorite person. I'm so happy for you, the liar, the 51 Intel spies who lied, you know, that thing. I don't know what's going on here. This, you know, this report that the CIA is going to arm the Kurds and the Kurds are going to go in there at the behest of the American government. No, at the behest of the CIA and, and overthrow the Iranian regime and, and, and, and, and, and, be the organization that rises up. We have a horrific track record with the Kurds.

Horrific. Granted, there are allies, but they're like the little CIA guys that, you know, whenever we need to overthrow somebody, whether it's Iraq, Iran, Syria, we just go and arm the Kurds, and then we send them in, and then we completely leave them alone,

and they become something else. This is like the history of the CIA right here. We are watching, this is just the fucking we are why i said two days ago on monday i said guys that speech right there is very reminiscent of everything the united states has done for the last 30 40 years and we're we're sitting here rooting this on the cia arming and surges trump said we're going to bomb them remove this regime and then say here it is it's all yours not here it is cia go put your people in there and then allow them to take it back no no

no, no, this super duper good guy CIA this time, Brian. Well, the fact that Bertrand and those other folks are the ones that are putting this out there, I don't know if this is coming from President Trump directly or if this is an op. You know, who knows what this is. And again, we don't have any of the details that they have. But just the fact that this is what they're putting out there in the mainstream is, is not, this is not what we signed up for. Yeah. As our. As our friend and colleague, a friend of me and colleague, Burning Bright, says the war is a story. The story is a war act accordingly.

I want to go back to the President Trump thing because there's still people in the chat. Well, I trust Trump. If you don't trust Trump, what's your alternative? So first of all, we both have said that we trust President Trump. As much as we trust any politician, he gets the most, right? We transfer the most trust to President Trump of any government official. anywhere in the nation, but also President Trump said, what truly matters is not which party controls our government,

but whether our government is controlled by the people. President Trump said, we're giving it back, we're transferring power from Washington, D.C., and I think by extension, that means the military industrial complex, and giving it back to you the people. And unfortunately, what we still see is a bunch of domesticated cucks that want some, come on, We have to go after this war.

We have to do this thing. We have to let the government do X, Y, and Z. That kind of posture is not American. That kind of posture is begging to be saved like you're some kind of Canadian or European. So in my opinion, put on your American pants and act like an American. The point you made earlier about whether the government is of formed by the people, right? It is spot on. And it's a question of whether or not the same.

CIA is going to be able to run this operation at the behest of President Trump or whether they're doing it on their own, whether they're the ones that are going in there. And again, they can do this without the amount of, what would you call it, freedom of operation that the CIA has is very concerning. And this is an example of it here. Is President Trump the one that is bringing the Kurds in there to overthrow Iran? Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? knows again there's a lot of fog of war going on here but just the idea of the the CIA is the same thing that's happened with every war that we've been into the muja had Dean right fighting the russians cia arms them turns into al-Qaeda and turns into the Taliban the syrians turns

into is it just never stops and so you know i'm hoping again benefit the doubt because we're we don't have boots on the ground because you know we are calling this a short-term operation until a short-term operation slowly becomes a medium-term operation to a long-term operation, you still get the benefit of the doubt. But again, nothing about this fucking thing is sitting right with me. Agreed. All right. We did get this here from foreign minister speaking of Arakshi, which is very interesting

that this guy speaks pretty damn good English. Also was educated in London. But this is the foreign minister of Iran basically saying that the Irish. is no longer under any centralized control. Well, there might be a risk. I have been in touch with all of them, as I said, especially with Qatar and Oman foreign ministers. I explained for them.

What happened in Oman was not our choice. We have already told our army armed forces to be careful about the targets that they choose. As a matter of fact, you know, our, you know, military units are now in fact independent and somehow isolated and they are acting based on instructions you know the general instructions given to them in advance okay so this is coming on the heels of allegedly allegedly and i'm being very careful in reporting these because there's a lot of misinformation fog of war and all that but oman is allegedly getting hit which oman is like the

the Switzerland of of the of the of the middle east they're the neutral party always you know they're the ones that people go to to negotiate these deals cutter our our largest base al-udid has been hit in cutter again nobody was there there was a CIA station in where was the CIA station hold on I got this pulled up here right there that's L I you lead an Iranian drone hits a CI station that's all it says Let's, we'll play this real quick. Fox News Alert, an official source has confirmed that a suspected Iranian drone has hit a CIA station in Saudi Arabia's capital. Jennifer Griffin is live in Washington. Jennifer, what do we know?

Well, Jessica, we've confirmed with an official source that, in fact, it was an Iranian drone that struck the station, the CIA station in Riyadh. It was part of that U.S. Embassy compound, part of that drone strike last night that led to damage at the embassy. This is certainly a symbolic victory for the IRGC. Nobody was injured. Nobody was at the embassy at the time. The Washington Post was the first to report on the incident and that it was, in fact, the CIA station that was targeted and hit. But what this indicates is that drones, the Iranian drones are going to be a big problem.

They can take out the missile launchers and even the missile stockpiles, but they have thousands, if not tens of thousands of these drones, and anyone completely can put them in the back of a truck and fire them. These are really the new suicide bombs of the next phase in the Middle East. And they're going to be a problem for some time. I mean, if that's not like mockingbird media at its finest right there, I don't know what is. They have tens of thousands of these drones and they can use them anywhere and they can put them in the back of a truck and bring them anywhere. So every single time that we say this place got hit and nobody could defend it, it's got to be true because this is the new roadside bomb.

This is the new IED of Iraq and Afghanistan. Now granted, I have a lot of experience with IEDs and they suck and they are a total mind fuck. That's what they are. They're mind fuck. That was kind of before your time. Your time was before drones, right? I mean, we had.

That's terrible because it is terrifying to me. We're going power projection. Iranian drone swarms, the idea of think about walking down the street and have five drones come upon you and like, you know, they're armed. Like that, that power projection is. terrifying and the kind of mothership aspect of it right we can move some sort of boat or truck or airplane or whatever into place and then open up the hatch and like all the drones come out and all the thing that from a story from a power projection standpoint the drones are um significant

and uh you know but but my question on that is why aren't they being discompobulated because in Venezuela, all the technology didn't work, right? It was jam, discombobulated. Why can't we discombobulated the drones? Why can't we discombobulate everything over there right now? If you don't know what a discombobulator looks like, this is what it looks like. This is the discombobulator. That's declassified intelligence from Tone Ranger and Quilting Queen.

Yeah. Thank you for clarifying the discombobulator weapon. Yeah, I don't know. drones were not really used when I was when I was in I mean we had like overhead UAVs and stuff like that but we didn't have the drones that they're seeing like these small attack drones that would one way one way drones that kind of stuff so again I do think we are seeing a perhaps a battle between President Trump and the deep state intelligence in this war and the narrative over this war and you know I again this is a daily show so I please play all of this stuff and opine on this stuff because that is what they want us to see. That is the narrative that they want seated in our brains. But I also appeal to the people like Marco Rubio, President Trump and the quote unquote officials in all of this because they're the ones that are giving their narrative. And I think all of it's bullshit or not completely bullshit, but you get a lot of bullshit in what we're being told on this.

But you got to disseminate. Yeah, you got to distinguish between their bullshit, your bullshit. and you got to try and take out the confirmation bias, right? Just because you hear something you like doesn't mean that that's what's actually right. You have a tendency to say, well, that's got to be right because it sounds like the right thing to do. It's the appropriate thing. Just like just because it's the wrong thing, you know, going after the Navy and going after the ballistic missiles. That is so absurd on its face that that has to be an opt to me.

Like that has to be a direct and deliberate deployment of a of a specific piece of information that is meant as a psychological operation. There's no other way around it. That's so absurd on its face. Yeah. And I mean, I'm quoting Sun Tzu, right? All war is deception. All sides of war engage in propaganda. And this is, you know, it's just a fact, which means that if you're a thinking person, you should approach these stories cautiously.

and not have an emotional reaction to headlines. That is what my biggest hope is that people will turn their brains on. And I do think that this conflict, because triggered people are more likely to turn their brains on, I do think that this conflict is going to move the needle on people being awake. And that's a good thing. I am never going to cheer for war. Not going to do it. They did that to me once in the wake of 9-11.

They had me cheering for a war, which my... My buddy Brian here then was sent to fight in. And we were all discombobulated in that. And they're not going to do that to me again because I try to learn from when I've been hoodwink before I try to learn from it. So I'm not going to tear for it. It doesn't mean that I'm anti-Trump or that I'm anti-military or that I don't love America or that I'm anti-Semitic or whatever else you want to throw at me. As John said yesterday, my first principles are mine. And I'm going to consistently deploy them.

And as Bernie Bright says, first principles are last principles. We need to be principled, especially when we're getting, you know, bombarded on every single front with hyper-emotional propaganda. We have to be principled. We have to turn our brains on a moment of personal privilege. Brian, today at 2 p.m. Eastern time, we are doing the second installment of Tuckabee and the Jews, the breakdown of Mike Huckabee and Tucker Carlson. talking about the state of Israel and religion and the Bible and all of that kind of stuff.

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bold beans clean fuel and a morning routine that stands for something just like rumble does all right so the the one thing i want to say on that real quick and then we'll get into rants here is um you know i still fully support president trump and i believe that given his track record staunch anti-war first president you know like myself staunchly anti-war especially after fighting in the war president trump was avidly against that war i was avidly against it once i got out and realized the truth of what that war was this war to me is no different there he he could know something that makes it it is different but again given his track record i'll give him the benefit of the doubt but you know just because you disagree with something on this uh with with with the action that's being taken by the

administration right now uh there is no better out there, period, than President Trump, not even close. And somebody said the other day, well, I'm done with Trump. I'm going to do, okay, and move on to what? What are you going to move on to? Are you going to capitulate on everything that President Trump has done over the last, you know, 10 years going back to 2017? Are you going to capitulate on all that and just say, okay, you know what,

give me back the Bush era Republicans. That's what I want back. Or are you going to continue to fight for this? And, you know, I'm going to continue to fight for it. And this could end up being a nasty hiccup where he got some really, bad freaking intel who knows who knows again could also be an absolutely justified necessary part of the critical path to get us to the golden age i think the point is not to cheerlead i actually think the point is not to trust trump because what if he changes what if his

position changes what if you disagree with it what if we get the vaccine again right like that whole thing everybody should take the vaccine vaccine's great you know warps weed great etc a lot of us believe that that was something different entirely however are you are you are we bad are we bad people are we bad people if we don't agree with everything that the president of the united states says no we're americans that's how it works and that's how it's supposed to work and i think there's a not insignificant chance that trump is final boss on these things because people moving from trusting the government to i don't trust the government but i trust trump and cheerleading for whatever happens without critical thought without you know engaging your first principles and and taking a principled position on what's happening

that is not that that is not the american electorate populace that we need in the post-Trump era right if we're giving it back to the people and the goal is to make Americans American again then um you know trump final final boss might be the thing all right katherine and 65 i have more stories i'll save those for tomorrow with alpha also on sit rep tomorrow night we're going to have j b's going to be joining us for the first time on sit rep and we're going to talk about all of this stuff so it'll be interesting if you need um tips on how to trigger him let me know did you not watch wychromes i did i participated and actually i posted the thing about the black hebrew israelites in the chat before he got like super mad and then i'm like oh

shit i hope i didn't like going to think was holding worse okay john's going to kill me now uh Catherine Ann 64, because it's two, one o'clock or 12 o'clock. Catherine Ann 64, thanks for sharing the wake up moments. You're welcome. Makes sense to me. Note of caution for sit rep, in my opinion, you need a moderator to keep the peace. Matt Erritt, also in my opinion, the foundation of sovereign alliance versus regions of responsibility are similar. Just the powers.

Power players differ. That's one of two. And then Big Daddy Trump and MBS, you agree. But Putin and G, you disagree. Definitely disagree about Ukraine, Nazis. At least watch J.B's episode. episode from this morning to see where you disagree. Sorry for the long rant.

Oh. That's actually good feedback for you to watch J.B.'s show for this morning, from this morning. It makes sense to me, too, is telling you that it's relevant for the discussion you're going to have tomorrow. So it sounds like he's trying to get out in front and garner support before he gets into sit rep and gets into it with mainly Alpha. I mean, I see some of J.B.'s points.

I see some of Alpha's points. I disagree with Alpha on a lot of points. But yeah, it'll be an interesting show for sure. And I'm pretty much going to be the moderator, I think, because I think I'm the moderate out of the two of them. Anyways, those are you usually end up in that role, though. Well, I try and ask questions. I try and ask questions and try and see both perspectives. Villis 34.

I voted in Dallas County yesterday. They checked my photo ID twice, had two lines, one Republican, one Democrat side was mostly empty. Republican side had a line. This is supposedly heavy blue area. I've heard that from several people and several clips online and stuff showing that Republicans had a much bigger turnout than Democrats did in the primary. Probably because Ken Paxton versus Cornyn is much more interesting than Crockett versus Talarico. What about Crenshaw. But that's he's not Dallas.

He's a representative. I don't know what his district is. Jenel Coates, thanks for being a main source of daily news for me. Yeah, you're welcome. We're just trying to decipher the news for you. And thank you for the RAN. It's incredible. Yes.

Thank you so much. EC was here. I get on my knees and pray. We don't get fooled again. We don't get fooled again. That's right, man. All right. Well, thank you guys all so much for joining us.

Stay tuned for breaking history. I think is starting right now. Speaking of Matt Arrit and Gordon. So that'll be a fascinating show. So we'll rage you guys over there. And yeah, thanks. always guys we'll see you guys later hi guys thank you so much for joining us and don't forget to hit the thumbs up on this video and a special thank you to all of our advertising partners

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