Badlands Media - Geopolitics with Ghost Ep. 92: Iran, Israel, and the Escalation Question - 3/13/26

Episode Date: March 14, 2026

Ghost examines the rapidly developing situation between Israel and Iran, focusing on the sequence of military strikes, the public statements coming from both sides, and the broader implications for regional stability. He walks through the timeline of reported actions and reactions while questioning how the narrative around escalation is being shaped in real time. The episode also explores how political leaders, media outlets, and international actors frame major geopolitical events while information is still incomplete. Ghost highlights the importance of looking beyond the first wave of reporting and understanding how messaging, timing, and public perception influence how conflicts are interpreted by the public. Throughout the discussion, Ghost emphasizes critical thinking and careful analysis when evaluating fast moving international events, reminding listeners that in geopolitics the narrative surrounding an event can become almost as influential as the event itself.

out of the Badlands. Explain those Badlands. That's a hell of a name. All right. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the show. This is We have politics of the ghost. I am your host, Formuormac, the ghost of base Patrick Henry. This is Badlands Media, March 13th, 2026th. And how's the chat doing? Let's get you on screen. That's up everybody. Yeah, man, so much stuff happening. I doubt we're going to get to everything I wanted to get to because had kind of the agenda laid out yesterday and then more stuff happened as it does. So we're going to kind of, we're going to pivot to the latest breaking information or news because I think it's a relatively short coverage.

like we'll spend a relatively short amount of time on this one. It's developing. And that would be this morning the, make sure I have the right one. Now, I need to make sure I have the English version. This morning, the Cuban president, Miguel Diaz-Cannell, hosted a press conference. And unfortunately, the English version is not. playing very well, but I can at least pull up the press conference here. And I guess late last night, he said, I'm going to host a press conference tomorrow morning at 7.30 a.m.

I think it was maybe 10.30, Favana time. And he said, I have a major announcement to make. And it's important to know about this guy that he is the first non-Castro family member to be president of Cuba since Fidel Castro took over the country, whatever, 70 years ago, 1950s, I believe. And here is what he said. He said, so he held the press conference with Raulito, El Tangerjo, as the, you know, his nickname the Crabb. And basically he said, we are currently in negotiations with the Trump administration. that's the that's the official official narrative and didn't really expand on it didn't give us a ton of

information just acknowledged for the first time that these were rumors that like axios was reporting i think barraved and mark caputo were the ones who are reporting it over at axios which just again affirms that those guys are getting good like they're getting good intel from the white house It doesn't mean everything they report is like exactly what's happening, but I think they report what the White House tells them. And so I'm trying to see if I can find a better source, but it doesn't look like these videos. All these videos are in Spanish, which doesn't really do us much good. There might be some Spanish speakers in the chat. Here's the Guardian article.

Cuban president confirms talks to Trump officials amid U.S. blockade. negotiations aimed to find solutions to the bilateral differences between the two countries. Miguel Diaz-Cannell said, Cuban officials have held talks to the U.S. government, the country's president, Miguel Diaz-Canel confirmed on Friday amid growing pain inflicted by a punishing U.S. fuel blockade and frequent power failures. These talks have been aimed at finding solutions through dialogue, the bilateral differences we have between the two nations, Diaz-Canel said in a pre-recorded statement to senior communist officials. I think it's interesting that was pre-recorded. Those differences are stark

and well-known. Marco Rubio, the U.S. Secretary of State and son of Cuban immigrants has made it clear he wants regime change in Havana while Donald Trump this week repeatedly repeated his calls for a friendly takeover, quote unquote, before then telling reporters it may not be a friendly takeover. That's very Trumpian. After the U.S. military's successful abduction of Venezuelan President and Cuba allied Nicholas Maduro in January, Trump signed an executive order effectively placing the Caribbean island under an oil blockade. Diaz-Cannell confirmed on Friday that no fuel has entered for three months. In his remarks to the Communist Party leaders and subsequently to hand-picked reporters, Diaz Canal was careful not to offer much more information beyond efforts

to increase domestic oil production and keep the electricity grid operating in some form. Recently, large numbers of people have been banging pans on the streets of at night to signal their frustration and a group of students at Havana University stages sit in on the university steps. Whatever we have been, whenever we have been intense situations in relations with the United States, efforts have been made to find channels for dialogue, Diaz Canal told the reporters, I believe, the most recent example, I'm sorry, I lost my place, I believe the most recent example, or the talk to the President Obama. Despite the lack of information, yeah, I remember that.

I remember the Obama situation. Despite the lack of information, there were plenty of signs to read. Most notably, the presence of Raul Hiramot Rodriguez Castro, the 41-year-old grandson of the 94-year-old former president, Raul Castro, during the statement in the press conference. Rodriguez Castro has no official role in government, and until recently, he was best known as a businessman and his grandfather's head of security. I believe his grandfather, so Rodriguez Castro would be the grandson. I've seen him

referred to as Raulito, like little Raul. I guess here they're referring to him as, yeah, here it says. But in the past few weeks, it has been widely leads by Washington that Raulito, as he has often known, has been meeting with U.S. officials, including during February's Caracom meeting of Caribbean leaders in Sant Kitts. Carlos Al-Zuggera, Gere, Cuba's former ambassador to the EU, said it was a clear message of unity from the Cuban government. Quote, it's not the narrative that the U.S. State Department wants to project. He said. That narrative is that this is a government in panic and that the U.S. is in talks with the Castro family,

that Raul Castro is negotiating his exit and is prepared to sacrifice Diaz Canal. That is clearly not the case. The president made a point to say the talks were directed by Raul Castro and himself. Cuba proceeded its announcement with news that will release 51 prisoners in the coming days under an agreement with the Vatican. As yet, it has not announced who will be included. According to prisoners' defenders, Cuba is holding 1,214 prisoners of conscience. According to Michael Bustamante, chair of Cuban and Cuban American Studies at the University of Miami, the names will be important, especially if they include Luis Manuel Otero, Al-Contara, an artist and dissident who was arrested during protests that roiled Cuba in July 2021 and whose incarceration still offends many Cubans.

Quote, that could be taken as a significant adjustment, he said, but the conditions under which they are released is important if they have a sword of Damocles hang over their heads and could be sent back to prison at any point, that doesn't really resolve the point. He also pointed out the 51 prisoners released are fewer than the 53 Cuban Cuba freed during the negotiations with the Barack Obama's administration in December 2014 at the beginning of the Obama administration's thaw in relations. He also suggested that Diaz Canal blundered in comparing Cuba's willingness to proceed in these talks

with how they handled negotiations with Obama, quote, if you know nothing else about the Trump administration, you should know that the president hates Obama. So if you're trying to ratchet down the tension, comparing what you're doing to what you did with Obama is not the way to go. There was no immediate response to Cuba's statement from the White House.

Yeah, so again, not a lot of information out of the pre-recorded statement this morning. We can go back to like with that video. I'll let it play in the background while I just kind of give my thoughts. Make it full screen. There it is. Okay. So this affirms the speculation that we're probably going to see a Castro reinstalled. The castros are coming back into power.

Because again, this guy, I believe Diaz Canup came in office. I want to say it was in 2019. We just confirmed that. 2021. So first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and top leader of Cuba since 2021. So 2021, he comes into power. Now, it mentions that there are riots or protests that were happening at the time. I'll need to dig more into this guy because I'm not deeply, intimately familiar with his background.

and how he came into power. But what's interesting to me, the thing that I find very notable, is that, number one, the Cuba war is not happening, obviously. Cuba has now come out and officially said, we're speaking to the Trump administration, we're negotiating officially. And if Rauliteo ends up coming back, coming into office, becoming the leader of Cuba, which is the most likely outcome, in my opinion, Trump has already said we want somebody who the people are familiar with, right?

And that Axios article, according to officials in the White House who spoke to them, said that the view in the White House was that this, this, you know, I call him a kid because he's my age. So I'm just going to call him a kid, but he's 41. But he's obviously a kid compared to all of these elders that he's working with. This kid has grew up in an era where he doesn't appreciate communism. He doesn't appreciate the way, you know, the collectivism that his grandfather and great-grandfather were about. So the idea is that opening up the markets, introducing capitalism. But again, we need to understand, like, these monikers, Matt Eyre has educated me greatly on what this all, like, how these monikers are weaponized against leaders, as has Colonel Turner Watkins. pretty much anyone who disagreed with the CIA would be called a labeled a communist.

A lot of times, and I learned this more, I became more familiar with this, studying Hugo Chavez in Maduro, is not, when they disallow transnational corporations, oil companies specifically, to exploit their country and exploit their people, they're labeled as communists because they're not allowing, quote, free market economics to take place. they're they're keeping out the big corporations um so you know that's that is i think an important qualifier when you're going around labeling people communists not communist whatever um this is going to piss off the republican party because there's a very large Hispanic wing of the

neocon like like half the neocons are you know the ardent zionists uh like the like the like the Israel first people, the Ted Cruz's, the Lindsay Graham's. The other half of the neocon party are the like Hispanics, like the, you know, and I don't know if it's 50-50. I'm just kind of giving you generalizations here. But Southern Florida is a major, major, like, hub of like neoconservative thought. You know, Marco Rubio was like the darling of that whole, that whole wing of the party for a reason. and was obviously being positioned to probably be president before Trump came along.

And so a lot of them are not going to be happy. Remember, those are the people, by the way, who also nominated Maria Karina Machado. They're the ones who created her. They're the ones who launched her, so to speak, against Nicholas Maduro. I actually have a clip of her that I want to play. so we'll pivot to that here. But I find this very encouraging. I find it very encouraging that we're seeing this play out because, you know, the neocons want to go around and do regime change everywhere.

They got so excited after Maduro got, Maduro was arrested. They were thrilled, thrilled about what Trump had done because I think in their mind, as we went over on Tuesday, going through that article on Tuesday and explaining what Lindsey Graham was saying in these interviews. He said, oh, Trump's really, he really understands the way the world works now. He, you know, after doing the regime change with Maduro, he has so much more confidence. He's so much more ready to like do this. Like, this is what you're supposed to do as a Republican president. And so they all think that I think that Trump's like gotten with the program and Trump kind of understands now that this is how we're going to do it. It's amazing to me. I actually, man, I should I should play that clip I saw the other day of Trump.

in 2016 talking about Lindsay Graham. I think we will play back because that was just so good. But they really have taken the bait, I think. I think they've taken the bait on what Trump, thinking that they think they figured out Trump. And they've dove in headfirst to this narrative, to these narratives, and they've basically adopted them and made them their own.

Okay, let me pull this up. So Maria Karamashado was, I think it was a press conference she was giving the other day, where she said that Maduro was afraid of her. And then like the room started laughing. And it's hard to tell, like, was the room laughing at her? Like, I don't know. But kind of a goofy, a very goofy, this is the way RT presented it. So RT gives the quote, what you see?

And when it's in Spanish, but it does have English subtitles. So RT post this video and says, Nicholas Maduro was terrified of me, Venezuela's Maria Karina Machado, and then it says audience laughs hysterically. So let's just, we'll watch it. We'll watch it once and then it's only 50 seconds long. And then I'll put and I'll, and I'll read it.

I'll read it, but I want to keep the audio on so you can hear the audience laugh. And we can kind of judge, were they laughing with her? Were they laughing at her? And when I mean, Nicholas Maduro, because me tenia terror with reason. Rightfully so. He prevented me in the election. So, and we played the clip, like back in January, we played the clip of her confronting, if you go watch the Book of Trump episode on Hugo Chavez,

She like went and confronted Hugo Chavez and Hugo Chavez was just like laughing her face. He was like he treated her like the way Trump treats the CNN reporters. He's like you're a nobody. I don't care about you. Get out. Like like you're not even worth my time. And so she is working overtime trying to inject herself back into the Venezuelan narrative. And so she's talking about she says he prevented me. I'm going to turn off the sound so I can just read her subtitles.

back up a little bit. He prevented me from participating in an election. What did we do? We looked for someone else and found Karina Yoris, a 74-year-old philosopher spectacular. She had been part of the board of the National Primary Commission. No one could say she was a biased person, and they didn't even allow her to register. Why? I think it was because she was a woman and her name was Karina. among other things. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Also, she, because she was a very strong woman, and finally, they accepted an extraordinary man like Edmundo Gonzalez because the election was very close and they said, nobody knows this gentleman. Yeah, so that's all a bunch of nonsense. Yeah, we'll do a book of Trump episode on Maduro and we'll cover that whole situation,

the Edmondo Gonzalez, as well as the, what was his name, Guido. Remember, Guido was the guy that they ran in, I think it was in 2018. And they were like, oh, yeah, this guy won the election. This is during Trump's first term. And they're like, oh, yeah, this guy won the election. And he was all of the politicians in the West, not just America, but the Europe. But they were all like, this is the actual president of Venezuela, not Nicholas Maduro. And then once Trump sent people to go.

meet with the Venezuelan officials. It was, who was it? It was, why am I blanking on this? It was Eric Prince went and met with Delci Rodriguez in Mexico City, and it was, I'm, I'm, I'm, not rack, not rack-cliff, but what's his name? What's his name, everybody? He went and met with the brother Jorge. So he went and met with Jorge and his name will come back to me. I'm embarrassed that I am not that I, Richard, Rick Rennell. I'm sorry, thank you. Rick Rennell. Rick Rennell went and met with Jorge Rodriguez. And right after that, the Trump administration backed off of Guido and they're like, yeah, Guido, kind of a loser. No thanks. So from here, let's pivot to Gustavo Petro because Gustavo Petro saying interesting things, saying very, very interesting

things. He gave some commentary on the Shield of the Americas, the thing that we covered on Tuesday. And let me go pull up what he said. He said that the Shield of the Americas was basically a clown show. And the way he described is he described it as an effort to subvert President Trump in his real efforts to actually take down the cartels. This is Gustav Petro saying this. And he said that when him and Trump spoke, they had a real conversation about taking down the cartels. And then basically what this thing is, is basically bad actors trying to subvert Trump and trying to take the reins. on that situation. And again, if that's true, like, we don't know if it's true or not. This is just

what the president of Columbia is saying. By the way, they had an election this week, and Petro's party swept. Like, Petro's party swept. So Petro gain even more power. I'm not really sure what the situation is in Colombia, whether he's going to be able to remain president. I think they might have, like, term limits there because they've been making it sound like he's leaving office this year, but his party, like, gained way more seats in their legislature. And apparently he's very, very, very, very popular. So, let's see, man, he posts so much stuff. He posts, like, every hour multiple times. Okay. And, you know, one of the things that we kind of talk, like, Chris Paul and some of us were talking about, like in our private chat is, like, the Shield of

America's thing was kind of cartoonish. Like, there was, like, a, comic book kind of element to it. There is like an uns seriousness to it. But if all of that is true, then, you know, it kind of follows a template that we're seeing everywhere else, where Trump is kind of letting bad actors run with their little agendas and then, but he's doing his own thing. And so like the bad actors are kind of busying themselves, spinning their wheels, trying to take control of like these narratives, but Trump is actually going the other way. We're seeing that with Iran. We're going to get to Iran, of course. So here's one post. This is, he had a phone call with Trump yesterday. He posted about it. And he said, this is he posted about it at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, Eastern time and said, today we had a cordial phone conversation about specific, several specific topics. It is important to reactivate the borders without OFAC and without mafias. And OFAC is the office of foreign asset control. That is the the office of the Treasury where that imposes sanctions, like when we talk about Executive Order

13818 and all the sanctions, the sanctions that are imposed on Iran, on Russia, on Maduro, on Gustavo Petro, it's always through OFAC. And so, and he said in his one hour press conference after meeting with Trump last month that he was not a fan of OFAC, that he thought OFAC was actually an impediment to diplomacy. and he would like to see OFAC take a back seat to other other uh methodologies to negotiate so to speak but Trump's you know Trump's been using the sanctions narrative negotiation otherwise okay so let me see if I can find this exact post this was okay so he's been posting so much about coffee like and he almost is like a fespian like the way

the way he talks, the way he presents himself, like here he is, this is like a TV commercial. Look at this. This is a... ...wasing to start the first part. When you have a dream that you parece impossible, and a day decides to overcome, discover that that dream, that's a sonia, and that's a plan, so that's transform in a dream collective. He says, this is how it all began.

I proposed a change, and we were making it happen. Now the decision is very clear. Either the transformations continue, or we go back to Duque's going. government, they've already put their old officials back in place to take us back. So he's referring to the guy who was president before him. He came into office in 2022. This is his last year in office. And let's see, he, the thing he's been posting about nonstop is coffee because he has been going, he's been flying around the world, speaking to leaders and negotiating these big coffee deals where he went a few months ago to the Middle East,

He met with the Qataris, you know, and one of the things in Arab culture, and we saw this with Trump when he went and got the sword dance, is they're big on coffee, right? They're huge on coffee in the Middle East. And so when you arrive somewhere, there's like a ritual that's performed. And part of the ritual was you brought coffee, right? And then I think you're probably served coffee throughout your visit. But it's like a tiny little cup of like, it's like an espresso. And Trump, like, held it and basically didn't drink it because he didn't drink coffee. So he, like, held it. You know, for the picture. And then he handed it to somebody, didn't drink it. But so he went and negotiated and announced that they were like Qatar and Saudi Arabia were going to be using just Colombian coffee for everything.

Everything they do, it was going to be Colombian coffee everywhere. And so he went and was and has been negotiating all week or for the past several weeks with all these other governments about getting. more and more coffee, bilateral agreements on coffee. And then also he's been posting videos about farmers because he's been big on talking about how, how do you shut down the drug cartels? Will you go to the farmers who are growing the cocaine? You teach, you know, you incentivize them to tear up the cocaine plants by the root because he said if you put pesticide on it that doesn't kill the plant, it kills everything else but the plant, but the cocaine plant. And you can't burn it either. That's too dangerous. Again, it's not effective. As long as the root is there,

plant will grow back. So he said, you have to rip it out by the root. We've learned this in time trying to fight the cartels. And so he's been going around, and I think it's like 30,000 or 40,000 hectares of cocaine farms have been, they've torn up the roots. And then the Colombian government has helped them plant the coffee. It's coffee and chocolate. There's the two things they're growing. And I think it's also coconuts is the third crop. But coffee is number one. Chocolate's another big one. Qatar is huge into chocolate. They're big into chocolate. So he's shipping chocolate to Qatar as well.

But this is how he's pulling Colombia out of the mafia. Like this is how he's saving Colombia. And it's really, really interesting. Here it is. Here's the post. So he's responding to this post from Juan Esteban Silva. And it says, attention. President Trump responds to me directly,

saying he considers Colombia and Mexico, just like Brazil. Yes, we're invited to the summit of the shield of Americas. He says he has a very good relationship with these countries. Remember, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico didn't attend. Like, notably they were absent. Let's listen to Trump. Mr. President, there were three countries that were not invited to the shield of the Americas. Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia were not invited to the shield of the Americas.

Why was that? And could they come in the future to the event? Okay, so he says, yeah, they were invited. Like, maybe they didn't come. He's like, I don't know, I get along with everyone. He was being asked a lot about Iran. So that was kind of like a random question, right? And so then Gustavo Petro posts, like quote posted, and his response is this.

I think there's another broken phone situation. And I think, you know, this is translated from Spanish. He doesn't speak English. So I think what he's referring to is like there's a broken game of telephone happening. I think that's what the translation is supposed to be. It says, transforming an anti-drug trafficking alliance into an ideological alliance is a substantial mistake. That's what he refers to the issue of the Americas as.

He says, we, all nations together, defeated the mafia regardless of political differences. That was the purpose of my meeting with President Donald Trump. And from what I can see, he agrees with it. Neither Brazil nor Mexico nor Colombia, key players in the fight against drug trafficking were invited. And it wasn't by President Trump's decision. That's a really important point to make it there. He's saying it wasn't Trump's fault.

We must rescue Latin American and Caribbean integration above the ideological differences between governments. The alliance against drug trafficking must include all countries of the Americas without exclusion. The magnitude of the problem demands unity and not ideological fundamentalism. That's why I maintain my invitation to President Trump to meet in Cartagena, Colombia. So I think that we want to keep an eye on whether to see if and when Trump goes to. in South America. I could see a situation where Trump suddenly goes down there and he goes to Colombia and Venezuela. But I think we have some narrative hurdles to get through before that happens. And maybe even some military operations against the cartels. But then he goes on to say, it says,

let's see, he didn't reposted that same post later to make sure people saw it. And then the other post that he made, about it. I want to say. Basically, he, he was responding to people and kind of going back and forth. And I appreciate, like, how Kennedy is, like, making these responses. But the thing that he was describing when he talked about the Shield of America, is he basically said there are people, they're bad people who are trying to take over this thing, trying to take over Trump's efforts to fight the drug trafficking with him in South America. And the way I could see this playing out like just how did this happen how did that happen that they weren't invited to this to shield the americas and then remember trump spoke him and trump spoke and i think the next day he made this

post on march 11th if i'm not mistaken yeah march 11th he reposted it on march 12th and then that day he spoke to trump that was yesterday on the phone and then and he said it was a it was a cordial call and they talked about the mafia getting out getting the mafia getting the mafia out of the Americas and in getting rid of OFAC and so that the office of foreign asset control out of it. He then later it was posted that he he reposted a post from somebody else says Claudia Scheinbaum speaks with Gustavo Petro by phone and confirms Mexico's attendance at the select select Africa summit and Bogata both leaders spoke by phone to discuss the strengthening of economic relations between the two countries in particular expressed their interest in deepening

bilateral ties in the areas of energy. So Mexico and Colombia speaking. And then again, he – so this guy loves going after fake news. He's quote posting a Spanish outlet that says Brazilian media revealed that the true content of the phone call between Gustavo and De Silva, the president of Brazil, was related to Lula's concern over the possibility of the United States government designation of groups dedicated to drug trafficking as terrorist organizations could lead the potential military incursions by the Trump administration into Brazilian territory. They also reportedly discussed common strategies to combat drug trafficking at the Latin American level. So Gustavo Petro quote posted this, calls out the specific author of the publisher of the

of the report. It says it's Caracol Radio, which has three point. million followers, so it's not a small account. Looks like it's followed by Maria Karina Machado, Nicholas Maduro, and Gustavo Petro. What they say is not true. I invited President Lula to Bogota to the Celak Africa meeting, and he accepted, I think that's like the Caribbean Africa summit. He said, we will sign a joint statement with Mexico and the countries that

join requesting a ceasefire in the Middle East war so that the peace dialogue can begin. So he's basically saying this is not true. Like we weren't, we weren't shit talking President Trump, which is what they were trying to, I think, convey. And again, this is a pattern. We're seeing patterns where the fake news media is trying to drive wedges between Trump and these sovereign alliance bros, in my opinion. But the way I could see the whole sheet of America is playing out is if we have neocons in the administration who are trying to take this thing away. Anna Paulina Luna is hosting this thing this month. I think it's this month or next month.

Sometimes in the next few weeks, she calls it the alliance of sovereign nations. It's like the sovereign alliance, right? But she's going to be like the head of it. Like her and a few other Republicans are going to be the head of it. And I don't know. It just feels like they're trying to take away Trump's like control over it. Like Trump's ability to control the story and tell the narrative. And this will all come back when we get to Iran.

But again, if that's true, if somebody else, President Trump is doing so many things right now. Like, does he really care about this shield of the Americas thing? I don't think so. Again, the fact that I think I conveyed on the last show, maybe last week, that what's her name? Christy Noam was fired or, you know, she was reassigned to the U.N. Somebody in the chat, forgive me, forgot who it was, corrected me after the show turned off, after the show was already doing the outro, that she wasn't reassigned to the UN.

She was reassigned to the shield of the Americas, which might be effective. the same thing, like getting sent off to this international organization that may not even be relevant soon. But again, if these people are trying to subvert Trump and they organize this thing and they're like, hey, Mr. President, this is on your schedule. Like, you need to go attend this. You know, we're getting all of these central and South American leaders together. And Trump's like, okay, great. Yeah, I'll be there. But it's not like President Trump is responsible for putting together the, putting together the guest list or, you know, calling the people and inviting them.

I mean, there's other people who do that, right? That's the staffer's job. So, you know, as far as President Trump knows, they were invited and then, you know, maybe he's told by these people, oh, yeah, we invited them, but they're not coming. They're busy. Okay, whatever. Doesn't matter to me. Like, this thing isn't even really that important.

Shield of the Americas, who cares? Like, we don't need the shield of the Americas. We don't need more organizations, right? We don't need more UNs. We don't need to create, like, the EU over and over and over again, layers. and layers of transnational government in order to control situations. We just need individual countries to act in their own best interest and to cooperate with us to solve mutual problems, problems that affect both of us. The drug cartels would be one of them, right? The financiers who

launder and steal all the money would be another one, right? Kind of a connected problem. But what these communists in government, specifically in the Republican Party, like to do and the Democrats, is they like to create regulation. They like to create governments, like layers of government to control situations. They like to create the TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. That was a Republican creation. That was created by the Republican Party. NAFTA, right? Remember NAFTA?

the World Trade Organization, like they're, when Kissinger brought, brought China into, into like the global marketplace, right? They like to create these layers of government to control individual nations from being able to exercise their sovereignty. So the Shield of America's thing was always kind of goofy to me. I'm like, okay, cool. But what Petro is telling us is that it's a clown show. We shouldn't take it seriously.

but it's not President Trump's fault that it's a clown show. It's other people's fault. It's a clown show. And he is still speaking directly to Trump. And Trump's the good guy. And him and Trump are working together. And there's fake news narratives out there that it's not. That's not the case.

So anyway, wanted to cover all of that because we did talk about the geography of the Caribbean on Tuesday. And how important Cuba was. And now we have Cuba admitting that they are in negotiations. with Trump. Here's the post, I think one of the posts I was talking about says he's saying, oh God, this is Gousabab Petra. Oh, God, there they go with like 50,000 hectares of land altogether and just two people from this video without producing a single cassava plant. And that's how they want to govern Colombia again. So I think he's really, these are like the neocons or whatever of Columbia. I think he's ridiculed. The duke, the duke crowd who are basically trying to steal his thunder

and trying to act like they have solutions, even though they had no solutions when they were controlling Columbia. So anyway, let's, so a little too early to do a commercial break, so we'll just go ahead and pivot. Let's pivot to, actually, you know, we're going to pivot to a Rumble rant because I believe I have a Rumble rant from Eleanor. I can't remember Eleanor if that was from breaking history or from this show, but I'll go ahead and read it. Waiting for that to load up. But yeah, chat, if you have any questions on any specific topics, happy to, happy to wait, the chat saying I'm not using the good mic. Yeah, this has been happening ever since I got this new camera. I got a new camera and the camera wants to take over my mic automatically.

Yeah, so let me see if this is better. How's that chat? Is my mic better now? Stream Yard keeps automatically switching it to the camera. Relaya goes, change your mic. Yep. Just checking in on the chat and see that. All right, so I see a Rumble rant from Jack 71113.

Intra music is still playing Badlands Daily playing over you. That might be on your end, dude. I don't know. I don't have any music playing on my end, so I don't know. Yeah, everyone else is saying no music playing. See if you have Jack a second tab open because if you have two tabs open, sometimes the music will play. I don't know.

Or just refresh. Appreciate the rant. And then let me just grab this rant from Eleanor. Eleanor, appreciate your generosity. Don't know if we'll see you in Nashville, but it was great seeing you and Coco. And the Mero Mind Map, I can tell is getting too big because it just takes forever for it to load. Okay. And so the rant is not going to have the, okay, so it was a breaking history, but I'll go ahead and read it anyway.

From Eleanor 2000, been lurking, listening, Matt and Gordon. I can't tell you how incredible this particular breaking history has been in words. Thank you, Matt, where can we learn more about London's role? I did, I saw that right as we had signed off Eleanor, and I conveyed that to Matt. and so he's going to have all of his notes ready on Wednesday. We'll start with that. We agree we were going to start with that on Wednesday. So he'll have some resources that he can refer you to for London.

And yeah, we were talking about in the context of that, the Promethean action people because he used to work with them. So if you want to go listen to his thoughts, you can go back and listen to the breaking history from Wednesday. Yeah. So, you know, I was going through. And I was going through and pulling, been making some clips the past couple days.

And I stumbled on the one that I wish I'd found this before we did the, um, I wish, I wish I'd found this one before we did, uh, Mike Huckabee shows with, with Ash. Unfortunately,

I didn't, but I'll go ahead and just play this because I think that this, this is playing out now in real time and it's, uh, it's encouraging. Um, and it's one of the reasons that I have been like, following the Tucker interviews,

pretty closely because not all of them, but the ones that are that I find interesting. Because, well, I don't necessarily agree with every single thing that's being conveyed on their shows. I do think that the Mike Huckabee one was very powerful for a reason. And this is, so this is from back in November at Cocoa Beach. Things that allows us to people is accountability and responsibility. And by the way, this is our, this is our friend, Lieutenant Colonel Oak. So he's asking the question. The things that allows us to people is accountability and responsibility.

And those two words have become dirty words in our society. And we have to change that. Everybody has to be held accountable for what they do, their performance, what they say, what they don't say. And I think we all agree with that. And our leaders, we're not going to respect them until they take responsibility for the things that they do. And we don't see that right now. So how do we get back? How do we change? And I don't know that there is an answer or an easy answer, but how do we change so that we do have accountability and responsibility? And that's not a dirty word in a society anymore. What's a good question. And again, I go back to the friction and the confrontation and, you know, being able to question things and being able to confront Megan Kelly and being able to confront whoever the public figure is. It's a great point.

Because holding them accountable means being able to ask them hard questions and put them in a position where answering the question that they don't want to answer is going to make them either look foolish or maybe look like a fraud. If you don't have the opportunity to ask that question, then how are you ever going to get that moment? How are you ever going to have accountability? And the problem is that when they only go and speak to CBS or Fox News or MSM or whoever, the questions are not the questions that we actually want to ask them. And so if you don't have those opportunities and there is no confrontation and there is no accountability, then you're never going to break out of the system that Donald Trump is trying to break us out of. Yeah. Yeah. So I think that that's exactly what happened with the Mike Hockaby situation is that he was put in a situation where he had to answer questions, real questions, right?

And it exposed, exposed him. He was totally exposed. and his ideology was also exposed because he was John, appreciate that, John texted me at the beginning of the show and said, I think you're using the wrong mic. Yeah,

so totally exposed. I was trying to pull up this video that Rise and Tire had made, but for some reason it's not loading you an X. Adrian, I know you're listening. If you can, send it to me in Telegram, if you don't mind,

or send me the Dropbox link, drop box link, because for some reason it's not, It's like just a spinning wheel of death in X. And I really didn't want to play that video you all made. Okay, so we're going to go ahead. It's a few minutes early, but we're going to go ahead and do the half time. And we will come back, reorient and shift to the Middle East.

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This one's going to be in Nashville, April 9th through 12th. So we're less than a month away now. Really looking forward to this. I've never been to Nashville. So really excited to get to that part of the country. You can go to Badlandsmedia.com. You get either your in-person ticket or your virtual ticket. I know we typically do one day passes, single-day passes,

but I think that's based on availability. So you'll have to go, you know, that's above my pay grade, whether or not those are available. But I'm sure that all the information on whether they are will be, it will be on that page. I know they did the first exclusive live stream yesterday. And we're going to do one every Thursday at 2 o'clock Eastern until the event. I'll be on the one next week. And I believe the ticket price for virtual tickets goes up on Sunday. So they're at a discounted rate right now.

So go ahead and buy them right now if you're planning on doing it. And you should be planning on doing it. That's, again, badlandsmedia.tv slash events. Really excited about this one. I'm going to have Jonathan Drake there, Josh Reed, Matt Trump. So, you know, looking forward to meeting those three. And we will, well, I mean, I met Josh and Coco, but I feel like I didn't get to talk to him nearly enough as much as I wanted to.

Yeah, excited for that. Excited for that. And I think we got this. Did you get this video downloaded? Yeah. Okay. Maybe we'll play this as the outro. Because I think this is a good video.

All right. Appreciate that, Adrian. We will play this as the outro. So you have that to look forward to. Let me just make sure I have that loaded. All right. So let's see. now pivot to the Middle East. Now, I want to play this video that I saw because it kind of, I mean,

it affirms a theory that I've had for a while now. It doesn't, well, I wouldn't say it affirms it, but it is another brick in the wall, so to speak, of supporting this theory. I came across this the other day. And this is Chris Christie on some podcast. I don't know, but it's posted by We the Fifth is like the outlet I saw post it, which is, I think it's in reference like fifth column infiltration. So, and of course, I think they're presenting it as like Jared Kushner being a bad guy, right? But let's watch the video and then I'll remind you of what my theory is. So here's Chris Christie.

I think the single biggest reason Jared got into the Trump White House was to ensure that his father would be pardoned. But people who don't know who's his father? His father was when I prosecuted him in 2004, the second richest man in New Jersey. He hired a prostitute to seduce his sister's husband, videotaped it. And then on the day of his sister's son's engagement party, an engagement party that he was going to attend, he had the videotape, delivered to his sister's house so she could see her husband having sex with someone else you are the head of the transition in 2016 there's going to be some interfacing with jared kushner i'd imagine right much to his chagrin yes the day that trump was naming me he went into trump's office and said you

can't do this in front of me in front of you oh yeah and what was the argument i'm immoral i'm a bad person and said that it should have never been prosecuted it wasn't a crime it was something that should have been handled by the rabbis. Because it was a family dispute. Oh. And I just sat there and didn't say anything. And finally, Trump looked at me and said, are you going to say anything to defend yourself? I said, I wanted to defend myself to him.

And by the way, I looked at him and said, by the way, your father pled guilty to all 18 counts. So there's some credit to Trump in this that he said, aren't it fine? Yeah, he named me anyway. Of course, he fired me because Jared just continued to pound me. But that was Jared, you think, that precipitated that firing. Oh, I know it was Jared. Okay. Because both Donald Trump and Steve Bannon told me it was Jared.

Okay. So again, there's a lot of interesting, a lot of interesting things happening in that, in that clip. Number one, the, you know, I had read some version of what, of what Charles Kushner was charged with. 18 counts for what he just described doesn't sound right. I thought that I was on the impression that it was election campaign. It was like election campaign finance stuff. But I did recall reading about this this infidelity aspect of it. I mean, look, at face value, I need to go dig into this and like really understand better

what specifically happened to Charles Kushner and what the allegations were and how that all unfolded. But the, the. At surface level, it sounds like the husband was like his brother-in-law was cheating on his sister, and he was basically exposing that to his sister. And I mean, hiring a prostitute, like, okay, that's definitely a crime. So, yeah, I get that. But here's where it gets interesting. Jared Kushner, like, if that's all true, everything that he says is true.

And I'm not, like, validating or saying that what Charles Kushner did was okay. but I mean, I get it. Your family is your family and you're going to protect your family however you can. If what he says is true and Jared Kushner walks into the room, Jared Kushner does not come off as that kind of guy. He doesn't come off as the kind of guy who, yeah, he comes off as very quiet and like unassuming and very like mild mannered. So if he actually did walk into the room when Chris Christie was meeting with Trump and he just

totally disrespected Chris Christie and said, this guy's a scumbag, you can't hire him. And then Trump turns to Chris Christie and says, what do you have to say for yourself? Defend yourself. And Chris Christie just goes, I'm not going to, like doesn't say, doesn't defend himself. I've seen this play out, by the way, on the apprentice. Like I was never an apprentice watcher. I'm not a reality television guy. But I did watch a few, several episodes of it, like primarily the Dennis Rodman episodes

in preparation for the episode of The Apprentice. It was episode two, chapter two of the book of Trump. We did The Apprentice. I did with Patrick Gunnells, who was a big apprentice fan back in the day. And that's what Trump would do on the show. So what Trump would do in the apprentice is he would always bring people in and he would say he would put them in really uncomfortable situations just like that. And he'd be like, how are you going to respond to that? the whole time you're like i was watching it i was kind of like does trump actually care about this stuff like

i thought the show was about like business acumen and like being his assistant and i come to find like watching several episodes of it he didn't even really care about the business acumen because these were all celebrities there's like a celebrity apprentice i don't think he really cared about their business acumen he cared how do they uh um handle pressure how do they handle a curveball can they keep their composure like do they have integrity like can they defend themselves in a situation can they like are they a fighter or do they have the fight inside of them. That was what he was looking for at all times. And he would even send Amarosa, who was like from the very first season when it was not celebrities.

He would send her in all the time to cause to stir up trouble. She would come in and she would, she would start talking rumors and like just do like, you know, catty kind of like Machiavellian cloak and dagger kind of stuff to cause problems. And then Trump would kind of sit back with her like she would come sit in the limousy with Trump. And they would talk about like what was happening. and like the like the dynamics that were unfolding because of her like orchestrated chaos. And I take that template and I'm like, I mean, he was doing that on the apprentice on television. You got to think he's probably doing that in politics as well as president.

Trump probably orchestrated that entire moment. He probably was like, hey, Jared, I'm going to hire Chris Christie for like a minute for a short period of time. Let's see what happens when you come in and disrespect him. And he probably used Chris Christie, et cetera, to get information, whatever. I think Trump did that all the time. He would bring in people that he didn't actually like. Lindsay Graham is a great example. But the fact that Jared said the rabbi should have handled it.

The rabbis should have handled it. That's speaking to like the Sharia law of Judaism, like Orthodox Judaism. Like the Jewish, like the Jewish judicial system, justice system should have handled that situation, not the actual justice system because this was a family dispute. that's really interesting. But that also speaks to a deeper issue here. And my theory has always been with Jared Kushner. Once I learned about Charles, because I didn't know about Charles until several years ago, back during the Biden administration, who created Chris Christie, the Zionists, right? Like the APAC wing of the Republican Party, you can, there are, there's no shortage of clips of Chris Christie.

running around with like a flack jacket on running around like Israel groveling at the feet of all the of all the Israeli leaders and doing the thing like and this is even before October 7th he was doing that stuff but after October 7th he was all over the place doing that he is a Zionist lap dog he is a lap dog of Israel okay and the importance of that is that he is controlled by those people like you you would imagine that any one of those Zionists whether they're an American Zionist or an Israeli Zionist, a Christian Zionist or a Jewish Zionist, they control him because they're his donors, right? Any one of them could pick up the phone and say, hey, man, Mr. Attorney General, Charles Kushner is our friend, lay off. Like just, you know, give him a slap on the wrist, cut him a sweetheart deal, lay off. Conversely, how does Charles Kushner in that situation second richest man in new jersey like we're told that all of politics is corrupt and that the rich never get prosecuted for anything how does a guy in that situation who is a loyal member of the diaspora he's been he's on all these like holocaust remembrance alliance like boards or whatever

prior to his arrest after his arrest um how does he not get the benefit of that network how nobody picks up the phone his his good friend b b b bd net and yahoo doesn't pick up the phone and call Chris Christie and say, hey, man, don't give this guy prison time. Instead, they throw the book at him. They give him 18 counts. He pleads guilty to all of them probably because his lawyer told him that that's the smart thing to do. I've been in that situation, not on the criminal side, but on the victim side, right, the guy who murdered my brother. I understand how this all works.

Like, you have the evidence, and if you're going to get convicted at a trial, then the best thing to do is to go cut a deal as early as you can. because if you make them go to trial, then either a jury or a judge is going to decide, and you're going to get way more time. So if you plead guilty, then you're going to get, you know, you can, like you go to a sentencing matrix and then basically it comes down to precedents, like cases that have already happened with people who had gotten the similar convictions to you, and also recommendations from the prosecutor. That's a big one. And so Chris Christie, I guess must have recommended two years in prison, which is outrageous for a middle-aged man who's with no criminal record, who's guilty of effectively a white-collar crime. Outrageous, right?

So you got to wonder, why did Chris Christie do that to Charles Kushner? I mean, from Chris Christie's standpoint, I wouldn't describe that as low-hanging fruit. You're making an enemy of the second richest man in New Jersey, as he just said. So why would you? do that. Well, maybe somebody told him to do that. Maybe Charles Kushner has enemies in the diaspora, enemies in the Zionist network, right? And the point is, is obviously, according to Chris Christie, Jared Kushner has a vendetta against him. He had a grudge. He held that grudge for years. That happened in 2005, right? Kushner went to prison from 2005 to 2007, I believe. And now we're talking

2016 is when Trump is You know, 2017 When he gets into office, That's when he's meeting with Chris Christie. And that's when Charles Jared Kushner walks in and says, Don't hire this guy. He's a he's a scumback.

He's a POS. And then Chris Christie doesn't even defend himself. He doesn't do the thing that Trump looks for on the apprentice at all times. He does it. He squirms. He basically, he wilts in that moment and just shows pure weakness. And then Steve Bannon later telling Christy that Jared Kushner did this, that feels a little strategic to me.

That feels a little strategic. Like you're giving Chris Christie a reason to now hate the Kushners even more and maybe even hate Trump even more. Right. And then we see Trump over the years since then. Again, this is back in 2017, especially during the Biden administration, talk about, like, do you remember how much he ridiculed Chris Christie on the campaign trail in 2024? before. Like Chris Christie is not a fat pig. I would never call him that, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Every single rally, he was making fun of Chris Christie. So the point is, is that Trump obviously has a negative view of Chris Christie. Kushner obviously has a negative view of Chris Christie. Trump

then pardons Charles Kushner of those 18 convictions in 2020 and then gives him one of the cushiest jobs in the world, which is the ambassador to France. That's what he is right now. Again, I think Jared Kushner has an axe to grind against the people who did. that to his father. And the people who did that to his father have to include the Jewish diaspora, have to include an Israeli network. Because the Israelis, the Zionists, whether they're Jewish or Christian, controlled Chris Christie. They made Chris Christie. He's one of their puppets. So anyway, I find that fascinating. I think that that was, I did not expect that on my, I didn't have that on my bingo card, so to speak.

and that kind of sets up everything happening with Iran now because we have so many different elements of this narrative. We had Monday, Trump gave the, you know, we talked about this on Tuesday, but Monday,

over the weekend, the price of oil spikes to 119 a barrel, right? I have the chart right here. The IAE, which is like the internet, international consortium of energy producers, OPEC, and plus others, they announced that they're going to release 400 million barrels that they have in their reserves onto the market to help the supply because of the strain from the Strait of Hormuz. That drops the price. You can see right here.

So the price spikes up over the weekend, like late last week, the price spikes. This very large red candle right here represents the – let me pull this up. I'm sorry. I don't think I have it on screen. this very large red candle, it crashes from 119, I guess maybe it was 120, close to 120, something like that, crashes down to like around 100, like 104. Okay. And then it kind of, it kind of like is stepping down for a day or two throughout Sunday. And then Trump does the phone call with Vladimir Putin on Monday. And then right after the call, he does, it was either a press conference or I think it was an interview with CBS News.

He was on television. I remember it being everywhere. Monday afternoon. And he says, yeah, the war is basically over. Like, we basically completed our objectives. And that causes the price of oil to crash back down to $82. Now, it's like bounced around from the low 80s, like the 90s. Let me check and see where it's trading right now.

But the point is, is that Trump, it looks like today it's trading at 99, at 99 a barrel. So it's back up around $100. We don't want it that high. but I think the IAE announced yesterday that they were releasing another 150 million barrels. I think it was 150, maybe 130 million barrels. And all of this, by the way, is being driven by speculation. This isn't being driven by actual supply. This is being driven by the speculation of what the supply is going to be based on the conditions of the Strait of Hormuz.

And so, which means this is artificial, which means bad actors, you can assume. assume are leveraging this moment. I mean, there's definitely market conditions for sure at play, but there's also bad actors, I think, at play who are battling Trump. And so Trump is using narrative warfare to manipulate the markets. We saw him do this so many times last year with Russia. We even saw him do this with Biden, right? During the Biden administration, like Trump as a private citizen would say something and it would impact the markets because he, and that's what drove everyone to be like, oh yeah, he's the real president. Like he actually says something and impacts the markets.

And Joe Biden's words matter far less. And that was something that Trump always said during the Obama administration that the president is the one person in the world who can speak and impact the markets. So here's Trump two days ago at a rally. I think he was in either Kentucky or Georgia. But here's what he said. Is that a great name? Well, it's only good if you win. You know, you can only do.

And we've won. Let me say, we've won. You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won. We won the best. In the first hour, it was over. But we won. But they gave me a list of names.

You said, sir, you could pick the name you'd like, sir. I said, the name of what? The name of the attack on our end, sir. And they gave me like 20 names. And I'm like, paulin or sleep. I didn't like any of them. Then I see epic fury. I said, I like that name.

I like that name. Is that a great name? Okay. So, again, every time Trump gets up and speaks, he changes the narrative. He changes the story. Nobody can grab on to the story and make it their own. You can't, like, Reza Pavlovi can't do it. Maria Karina Machado can't do it.

Lindsay Graham can't do it. Ted Cruz can't do it. Nobody can do it. Bebeenayu can't do it. do it because Trump Trump is a better storyteller than Alderman and he's obviously the president so his words mattered more than BB Netanyahu's

and BB Netanyahu would not be wise to publicly defy Trump especially considering how dependent he is on Trump we'll get to that in a second so here's Trump today speaking to Brian Kildmead on Fox News I'm doing something about it and I had to take an excursion we had the greatest economy in history we do we still do oh this will

bounce right back when it's over and i don't think it's going to be long when it's over this is going to bounce right back so fast when are you going to know when it's over is when i feel it okay i feel it my bones will you ask anybody in particular would that be some of these a joint decision with people i have great people yeah i'm doing something about it when i feel it my bones when i feel it in my bones it'll be over um again this is just is there something happening in the East, ostensibly, yes, there's kinetic action happening in the Middle East. We have the story of the KC-130s collide.

I think it was two of them collided. At least one of them went down and we'll look at that for a second. But, you know, the narrative element of here, whatever actually is happening against Iran, we'll get that story maybe, maybe not one day. speculating on that like too much uh you know there's a lot of wheel spinning there that is kind of a i think a waste of energy um but understanding the like what's the bigger play here because right now the analysis against trump by like earnest trump supporters like people who are going on podcasts who uh you know are pro trump but are very like dismayed by the optics of all this

i by the way came out and immediately the day like the day of or day after when i when i was on a show and just said, I'm disappointed by this because I'm disappointed that the neocons got what they wanted. The Zionists got what they wanted, right? They got this war. But I also was, quick to say that Trump knows what he's doing. I don't think Trump's a fool. I don't think he, like, was tricked into doing this, right? I don't think I, like, there's got to be a bigger play here. And now they're all getting rug pulled. Now that this, this thing is winding down. And, the Israelis are saying it's not winding down. The Israelis are like, there's no timeline on this.

There's no, like, that's what their official position is. There's no timeline on this, right? And Trump said, of course, we played it on Tuesday. Maybe I'm the one who forced Israel. Like, Israel didn't force me to do this. Maybe I'm the one who forced them to do it. Right. So, again, you have, you have things that are unfolding right now that I think are running in parallel

to the Iran narrative. happening with Iran. We'll get to Iran in a second. But before we do, let's let's go to some of these other parallel narratives that are happening. One of them is the domestic attacks, right? We have domestic attacks that occurred yesterday at a synagogue in Detroit, or I'm sorry, I think it was in Michigan. And then the one at ODU, Old Dominion University, I'm far more familiar with that campus. I've driven through that, I've driven through that campus many, many, many times. And let me play this clip of Alisa Slocton. You'll remember her because she was part of the Seditious Six.

Here is her take on, on this situation, right? Because they were very quick to assign, the Uniparty was very quick to assign. the Uniparty was very quick to assign like a narrative to those developments. Let's listen to this. And I think it's just important to be clear, as the governor said, that whether anti-Semitism is coming from the left or the right, whether it's coming from some group that you like or don't like, you have a responsibility to call it out.

Because when you don't, it gives permission for people to climb that escalation, and that ladder of escalation that goes from saying hateful things online, to saying them in person, to graffiti, to ultimately violence. And the Jewish community suffers 10 times the number of hate crimes than any other community in this country. So it is an epidemic. And until we push back on that permission, we're going to see incidents like this continue to proliferate.

The Jewish community spends over a billion dollars across the country securing their houses of worship, their schools, their institutions. No community in America should be fearful of having their own kind congregate for things like education and worship. Yeah. So, and this is, there's coordination here, of course. So as soon as this happened, like Laura Lumer wasted no time at all. It says, so here's, I mean, she posted so many, so many things. about Tucker. And Tucker was the person in her, this is from today. Let me see if I can find

the original one that she posted. The original one she posted is, and then Tucker actually responded, which she almost never does. She never posts anything. So she says, Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens both said everyone needs to know where their local Kabat is. I said their hatred would lead to people shooting up Jews and synagogues. It will likely end up being a Muslim. The Trump administration must start deporting these Islamic savages from our country and we must start holding people accountable for inciting violence. This is very sad. And so this is important because, again, first of all, we need to understand what happened with these shooters because apparently, apparently at this synagogue in Michigan of a month ago, I think it was, and we pull that up,

there was a active shooter training drill with the exact people who were involved in like the school officials who were basically the ones like involved in this in the shooting so and I have that right here oh they they deleted the post nope no they didn't here this and I could see this is earlier video of smoke okay we're told it's an active shooter we can't or could see this is earlier video of smoke coming from the synagogue and there's a fire appears to be a fire smoke coming from the synagogue what appears to be a fire is all we can say at this point yeah there's also some video coming into fox two here of Oakland county sheriff's members with with assault rifles that appear to be approaching the area so this this does look like That does look like an active shooter situation here. We're told it's an active shooter. You may not be able to see this top part.

There's a still image on the top part of the video. But I'll read to you what it says. It's a still image of two men standing in front of like a presentation screen. They're giving a presentation, obviously. The post from Shadow of Ezra says the FBI led active shooter training at Temple, Israel, in Detroit less than two months ago. We're an attempted attack today took place. The synagogue's clergy.

and staff participated in the FBI led training, which specifically used scenario-based exercises similar to today. You can clearly read behind these guys. It says active shooter, attack prevention and preparedness, instructors, special agents Timothy Hurl and Andrew, I can't make out of his second name, or his last name because it's behind his head, but like Matata, maybe. And then in the bottom corner of it, it says the overall classification of this briefing is unclassified, updated, 9 to 2025.

So I think it's saying that this briefing is unclassified as of September 2nd, 2025. So again, this is a pattern that we've seen and patterns are very important. Patterns are how we identify threats, right? So how we identify behavior. And oftentimes with these operations, we always see in false flag operations that there is and there is a training a training seminar either the day of or right before it happens right and like on 9-11 there was like a there was a training exercises happening and so what happened was the air traffic control people were told oh this is just a this is just a training exercise disregard disregard

the fact that these planes have been taken over this is just part of a training exercise right oh sorry the the jets that could have shot down the planes before they reached before they reached new york city were elsewhere because they were doing a training exercise and they didn't realize that in time that this was happening, right? That was 9-11. And we've seen many, many, many other examples of school shooter shootings and other shootings where right before the FBI came in and did an active shooter situation

and even put out like advertisements requesting, what are they called? like the the actors right the the the crisis actors to come hey we'll pay you whatever 50 bucks 100 bucks we need crisis actors to come help us with this training seminar that we're doing so that you know we have real actors involved people injured or whatever um so that we can try to recreate realistic conditions so that is very suspicious like i don't know now again i'm not saying one way or the other what's happening here but we were told for days that we were going to see active we're oh hey there's there's there's there's a iran sleeper cells in america

they're about to start doing terrorist attacks we better we better watch out here they come and then on the same day we have two of them happen one in michigan and one in virginia one at one at at at at this uh temple israel place in michigan that doesn't make a lot of sense like again a trillion dollar budget for our military right uh how much how much how many billions do we give to the intelligence community, they're sitting there telling us, hey, there's going to be a terrorist attack here in the next couple of days. And yet they aren't able to stop it. That doesn't make any sense. And then the terrorist attacks happened at the exact same moment in two different states on different sides of the country. This feels like a coordinated false flag. This feels like

something that was orchestrated by people who need American support for boots on the ground in the Middle East. That's what this. feels like. It doesn't mean that's what happened, but that's what this feels like. It's absolutely what this feels like. And so now we can kind of pivot to the situation with Israel and what's happening with Israel. Because I guess going back to Laura Lumer, before we get to, I guess before we get to Israel, I want to finish this Laura Lumer thing. The reason that I'm concerned about what they're doing to Tucker right now is because as I've said for a while, the content. that Tucker's putting out right now is content that I put out two years ago.

Okay. So if they're saying that Tucker needs to be held criminally liable for the content that he's putting out, then what they're saying is that I need to be held criminally liable for that content as well because this is my fault as much as it is. Obviously, I have a much smaller audience than Tucker does. But if he can be taken down for it, then any of us can be taken down for it. And so I don't really care what Tucker is. I don't care if he's a CIA asset. I know that there's opinions vary on what he is. That's not really what this is about.

What this is about is the First Amendment. This is about whether or not we are going to allow this to happen. And I warned everybody about this two and a half years ago on Badlands Daily at the end of 2023 when Glenn Junkin was the first Virginia or the first Republican, the first governor to sign into law. the IHRA, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism, which included effectively criticism of Israel, you know, comparing the IDF to Nazi Germany, saying that the Jews killed Jesus, which is written in the Bible, you know, outsourcing the definition of a hate crime to a third-party NGO called the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. and then 38 states did that. And I said back then, I said, here's the problem, guys.

And this is when very few people were even concerned about Israel or talking about the Middle East or even cared. Right. I said, here's the problem, guys. This is going to be a Trojan horse because it's going to start with the criticism of Israel. And then it's going to transform into the criticism of Jewish politicians, politicians who support Israel. And then ultimately, like once you get years and years and years, down the road, the slippery slope, it's just going to be criticism of the U.S. government. It's dangerous to criticize the government. Why? Because you might incite a politician.

So you know what? Anyone who says anything mean about the government should be held criminally liable. That is, by the way, how it works in Israel. They consider it a national security threat if you damage the reputation of Israel. That is considered a national security threat. And you can be held accountable in different ways. You can be sanctioned as a news outlet. You can be arrested as a journalist. If you report information that they feel compromises their ability to operate as a military,

if you're reporting what the IDF is doing, right? The IDF has to approve anything that the media and Israel puts out. It has to be run through an office at the IDF to make sure, like from their perspective, to make sure that you aren't putting out classified information or information that's going to, that the Arabs are going to use to run, you know, kinetic operations against the IDF. So that is their value system.

That is their way of doing things. That's their culture. And they're now trying to import that culture here to America. And you heard Bibi Net and Yahoo say it months ago when they were, remember that day that there was like an attack at Brown University? There was an attack, I think, in Europe and there was an attack in Australia. And it was all anti-Semitic attacks happening on the same day. Yeah, I'm sure that wasn't coordinated. And then Bibi Netanyahu said,

our job as the Israeli government is to protect Jews wherever they live. So we have jurisdiction everywhere that Jews live. Anywhere that there is a Jew, we have jurisdiction as the Israeli government because Israel is the Jewish people. It's one and the same. We are a religious ethnic empire, ethno state. And so this is very concerning to me.

Tucker replied to this and said, I rarely read the filthy published and I've never responded to it for the same reason I avoid pornography. It's unhealthy and I don't want to encourage it. But in this case, I understand exactly what you are doing and I like to stop it now. I have never said or suggested that everyone needs to know where their local Kabat is or anything remotely like it. I didn't attack or even criticize Kabat and the organization I've mentioned precisely once in my life. Last week I said, I believe that IDF soldiers in Israel have received third temple patches for their uniform. from Kabad. I believe it's true. Let me know if I'm wrong, not that you care. The point of your post is to blame me preemptively for violent attacks on American Jews that you believe are coming. This is an absurd slander, of course. I abhor violence against innocence, which is why I am disgusted by what Israel has done in Gaza and why I argued against the current war in Iran. As a Christian and an American, I also vehemently opposed punishing anyone on the basis of bloodline. The concept of Amalek has no place in Western civilization and certainly not in my country. I am therefore strongly opposed to anti-Semitism, precisely as much as I am to the anti-Arab hate you promote or the anti-white

bias embedded in the U.S. government in our largest institutions. It's all immoral and indefensible. I believe in the inherent rights of the individual because I believe in God. What you're doing divides this country more than you likely understand. I hope you'll, you will stop. And yeah, I agree with everything that Tucker says here. The Amalek, you know, the theological aspect of this, if you're interested, that go listen to Ash and I show from Wednesday, the Tucker Bee and the Jew show. We go much deeper into that and talk about that. I will just address the political side of this. Obviously, this like makes this foreign conflict very much a domestic issue.

For people who say, well, I don't really care about that wretched desert on the other side of the world. Who cares? It's not my problem. And I would agree with you that it's not actually our problem. and we shouldn't have national security interest over there outside of just cultivating good diplomacy and making sure that like the energy markets are stable. That's really always at the end of the day, that is our the essence of our national security interest in the Middle East is just making sure that the energy markets are stable so that the global economy isn't like brought to its knees by a war, which is essentially what's happening right now.

Now, what Laura Lumer is doing here is she's adopting the exacting. exact playbook of the left from a few years ago when when except instead of instead of anti-Semitism it was racism it was it was a misogyny it was bigotry it was you know all of the uh DEI stuff right all of that stuff the woke stuff and that's because laura lema works for the same people that those that did all that it's all the same people it's a uniparty and she's one of them of course she's one of their agents she's probably massad i mean that's strikes me. But if I go to Laura Loomer's post sheet posted today, she says,

Tucker Carlson should be held accountable criminally for every shooting that happens at a Kabat or synagogue. He needs to be forced to own the consequences of his words. Every Jew hater needs to feel the weight of their words. Muslim jihadists are listening to Tucker. They are taking in what he says and they are taking action. As I exposed the Texas or the Austin, Texas Islamic terrorists who murdered three three people two weeks ago followed and watched Tucker Carlson.

I cannot stress enough how big of a national security threat Tucker Carlson is. He is radicalizing Muslims and those Muslims want to kill Jews. Tucker has said has so much blood on his hands. I believe he deserves the blame for what happened at the Jewish Day Day School in Michigan. He is sick. Everyone knows it too. So again, what she's actually saying here is that Tucker should be held criminally liable for the actions of what somebody else did. okay now there have been supreme court cases on this issue of incitement um i'm not familiar

with the case law um but what what i understand is i i think it might be wrong but like the screaming fire in a crowded like movie theater i think that's actually not even on like i don't even think that's considered illegal um even though that does incite like a panic and that could lead to people being injured um but again here and In America, as Tucker has said many times, we believe in the individual. We believe in the individual rights that is rooted in Christianity, which believes in the individual soul. And we believe in individual accountability. You are, you are liable for your actions.

You are not liable for the actions of other people. You're not liable for the actions of people in your ethno group, in your religious group, that are of the same color of you as you or the same religion or whatever, same nationality, whatever it is. like all Muslims are not collectively punished because one Muslim does it does a bad thing one all Jews are not collectively punished because one Jew does a bad thing etc right except what laura luma is saying here she is she is taking the israeli view because what israel did when it was created is it inverted that that idea and said the the community is actually more important than

the individual we will sacrifice individual Israelis and let them die in order to preserve the group. That's a collectivist mindset. That is how the Israeli culture is set up. Whether that translates to the Jewish communities in America, I can't say because I'm not part of those communities. But that is how the Israeli community views it, is the collective over the individual.

And so now that is being imported here. That is being forced onto us. You can bet your last dollar that we're going to see Republican, politicians and lawmakers call for this. You can bet your last dollar that you're going to see and I have actually a clip of Ted Cruz that we're going to play here, that they are going to talk about how dangerous it is to criticize Israel because that is effectively criticizing

Jews and that is going to get somebody killed. We saw the video of the sheriff in Miami who went to somebody's house and suggested that they take down a post on Facebook criticizing the mayor that he was a shill for Israel. And the sheriff said, the concern is that somebody's going to read this and then go out and do something violent.

And you're going to incite violence. That is not how this works. And this is the hill to die on right here. And actually, the hill to die on is the one that I'm going to play right now with Ted Cruz. Because, again, like, as Ash always says, you just heard of Lus Slotland from the Seditious Six. She basically just said that, that we need to be vigilant against, you know, Jew haters or whatever.

So here is Tucker, I'm sorry, Ted Cruz talking to the Christian Broadcast Network, which is a CIA cutout, a CIA front group. That was the thing created by Pat Robertson, who is a family member of mine, and not a nice man, a scumbag. and I have that on anecdotal authority that he is a scumbag. Cut off the whole family in 1961 when he created the Christian Broadcast Network and pretended to be a Southern Baptist. He was raised in Episcopalian in Crozay, Virginia and cut off the whole family when he was recruited by the CIA to create the Christian Broadcast Network and became a billionaire televangelist.

Not a good man. Here is Ted Cruz putting out propaganda on the Christian Broadcast Network against Jesus Christ. It is being used, although it is being used online in a way that is meant to say, screw you, Jew. It is being used in a context very directly to say, I hate Jews, and that's almost an online code word. Christ is king is.

I hate the Jew. Is that your view? Why do you say that? Because you see the people who are saying it, and they're saying it in that context. They're saying Jews are horrible. like they're attacking Jews and they end with Christ as king to make it sound like somehow there's a biblical basis for attacking Jews. Look, Jesus was a Jew. And by the way, the twisted theology that says Jews are Christ killers, and that's been used to justify anti-Semitism to justify persecution and murder, look, as I read the Gospels, Jesus went to the cross willingly.

He made the choice to go to the cross, and it was not the Jews who killed Jesus. It was me. It was you. Look, Jesus died for our sins because man is fallen, and the wages of sin is death. And Jesus took on the punishment that you deserve and I deserve so that we could be covered in his blood and receive salvation, not through. works, not through what we do, but through the gift of God. It's really important to understand what Ted Cruz is doing here, because Ted Cruz is laying the groundwork for hate speech laws that basically target people who preach the good word of

Christ. That is being pushed in Israel right now. There have been multiple attempts, and you can get in trouble, by the way. If you prostitulatize, I think is the word. word to anyone under the age of 18. You can be arrested and put in prison for I think seven years. If you preach the word of God, the word of Jesus to a minor in Israel. And they're trying to expand that to, I think, anyone. There was an attempt three years ago to do that. It failed.

Netanyahu said he wouldn't sign it. But what Ted Cruz is doing here, this is a slippery slope. He is laying the groundwork for others in the future to come in and say that saying the words Christ is king, which is the one truth in the universe, is that Jesus Christ is the king of the universe. But saying that one truth is inciting violence because of 2% of the population find that offensive. And really, it's much more than 2% of the population. It's the 40 million whatever Christian Zionists finding the defensive. Apparently, apparently Ted Cruz finds a defensive.

So this is the hill to die on, guys. It's not a war in the Middle East. It's not a war in the Caribbean. It's not even election integrity. This is the hill to die on because not only is this a free speech issue, but this is an issue about Jesus. And this is defending the right to recognize the one truth in the universe and that's Jesus.

So Ted Cruz is obviously a fraud and obviously a scumbag. As is Mike Huckabee, because Mike Huckabee, I think, believes us too. And we have to call these people out. We have to confront them in a very peaceful way. But that's why I played the clip earlier of Cocoa Beach, where Oaks got up and asked, how do we hold these people accountable? We hold them accountable by sitting them down and asking them hard questions. and making them answer the questions.

And then when they refuse to answer the questions or they squirm in the chair, everyone will know that, okay, they're a fraud. Because what Ted Cruz is saying right here is indefensible, absolutely indefensible. And so let's go now to Israel. Before we get to Iran, we will talk about this development, which I wrote about in the news brief. back you will recall that I think it was two years ago it might have been it was there I think it was two years ago

there was a group of soldiers who were who were arrested by the IDF military police for gang raping a Palestinian man a Palestinian prisoner Hamas fighter purportedly Hamas fighter and there's there is video there was video online that was leaked online

by the top lawyers at the IDF they were later persecuted for doing that. But the video, it was like CCTV footage of them dragging the sky away and then they all held the ballistic shields. And I'm not going to get graphic right now with what happened. But the reports are out there. Gang rape, sodomy, objects, including a knife. And so much to the extent the guy required surgery.

I'll just leave it at that. The guy required surgery. So there were police reports from the IDF because four of the men were arrested. there were hospital reports because the guy required surgery. He had to go to the hospital and get surgery. So there were medical reports. And affirming all of this. This wasn't made up.

And then there was obviously video footage of them doing it. Okay. That was leaked online by the two top lawyers of the IDF. And then I think a year later, this was sometime last year, those lawyers were exposed because they did an investigation. they figured out who leaked the footage and then you'll recall that woman like the woman it was a man and the woman and they both had to resign and then they were both persecuted uh and ultimately arrested by the Israeli government because they damaged the reputation of the Israeli government and the IDF um and there was even for like it for like a few hours uh it was believed by the woman's family that she had killed herself because they found a suicide note and then they and then they and her phone and then they found her like on a beach somewhere um very sure strange. It was a very strange development. But the point is, is that

yesterday, it was announced that those charges against those soldiers were all dropped by the government. This was like an airtight, about as airtight of a case as you can get. And in the aftermath of that, let me just pull the Badlands News brief because I have

all the videos there. In the aftermath of this situation, there were riots that they called them the right rape riots. You had Israeli settlers go to the military base

where these men were being detained and attack attack like the military base and try to rip down the the barriers to get in to free these men, these four men. And it wasn't just

Israeli settlers. It was members of the Knesset. It was Ithamar bin Gavir who was the minister of national security. He was there. He was leading like the riots and the protest. I mean, these people were extremely violent. They were like physically getting into altercations with the, with the IDF soldiers. And I think even a few of them may have been arrested for it. But pretty repulsive stuff, like in terms of like a reaction, because they were outraged that these guys had been had been arrested. And then very, very, very sure.

strange. They took one of the guys was willing to go on television without a mask on the three others. There are four guys who were arrested. One of them, I think his name is, uh, shitrick. And I'm not kidding, that's his name. Uh, my ear shitrick is his name, right? So, so here's a video of, of them, like, slamming the, uh, like slamming their hands on the, um, on the walls, like on the doors, right? Like, they're attacking the, like the doors are trying to get into the, to the, um, military prison. And this person posted says, what are they doing? It says,

these are Israelis breaking the doors demanding the right to rape the Palestinian prisoners inside. Yes, it really happened. And then somebody asked, is this, Grock, is this true? And Grock responds, yes, this video shows far right Israeli protesters storming the Sidae-Tamain military base on July 29, 2004 to demand the release of soldiers detained for allegedly gang raping a Palestinian prisoner.

Some Israeli officials defended the soldiers with one stating such acts could be legitimate in wartime. So here is the one guy who was willing to go on camera without a mask on. The other three went on like new shows with masks on and refused to release their identity. This guy's name is Maire, Shitrick. I kid you not, that's his name. And this is all in Hebrew, so we're not going to understand it. But they're basically trotting this guy out as a hero.

They're like, this is a hero of the IDF. He looks like a creep in my opinion. Yeah, so this is Israeli Channel 14 news, right? And then here is Israeli Channel 12. I just took a screenshot. There's like a five minute or a two and a half minute clip of them like debating whether or not this should be legitimate. One of the panelists says right here, the quote is, I told my friends that I don't

give a rat's ass about what they do to a guy like that, like saying like, yeah, this is totally acceptable. Totally acceptable for a bunch of men to gang rape another man because he is a prisoner, a prisoner of war. And then here there was a public debate in the Knesset that was posted online. There's a video of it on YouTube. I link it right here. You can go watch the whole debate yourself, right, with English subtitles. Here are two screenshots from it that I'll share with you.

One of them, a person asks, one of the Kinescent members asks, to insert a stick into a a person's rectum. And I apologize for the graphic nature of this, but this is just the, I'm relaying the information. Do you insert or stick into a person's rectum? Is that legitimate? And then this guy whose name is Hanak Milwitsky, he's of the liquid party, he's one of Benjamin Netanyahu's buddies. And he screams, shut up, shut up, yes, if he is a nukeba, which I don't know if that is, but I guess that's a derogatory term they use for the Palestinians, everything is legitimate to do. So this is pretty awesome. awful. B.B. Netanyahu, of course, he rejoiced yesterday when he's like, this is a great day for

Israeli justice. So happy that the Justice Department or whatever it's called, the Ministry of Justice dropped the charges against these guys. I guess maybe it was the IDF who charged him. All these guys were let go. This is, by the way, a pattern. Like, we see this happen all the time. These Israeli settlers who get arrested for, you know, attacking a Palestinian farm and trying to take their land. they get arrested for taking it too far and then they get released like six hours later with no charges or a slap on the wrist. This is a pattern of behavior.

And again, I'm sure there are plenty of really good people in Israel. I've never been there so I can't say for certain. But I'm sure I've certainly met Israelis. There have been Israelis at Garts and they have said very nice things to me and I appreciate their kind words. But there is obviously a cultural rot

that is on the scale of like Sodom and Gomor here when you are talking about when the Knesset, their Congress is holding public debates and they're saying that, yeah, this is legitimate. We should, we should allow our soldiers to gang rape men who are prisoners of war. That should be totally legitimate. It's really, really just, and the prime minister is celebrating that these guys didn't get in trouble. This is depravity on a level that is hard to wrap your head around. And when I hear guys like Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee and Lindsay Graham talk about Israeli values are American values, I'm sorry, but these are not my values. And when Laura Lumer is saying that me reporting this to you on this podcast right now could incite violence against Jews in America and therefore I should be held potentially criminally liable for it, that's a real problem that we need to talk about.

Like that like I'm not the problem. Laura Lumer is the problem because that's a Trojan horse for an expansion of that idea to basically protect the U.S. government from criticism. That's where we're going. That's where this is heading. And we need to be very, very aware of that. So I'll climb down off the soapbox and pivot off of this. But that happened. I'm sure Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee and Lindsay Bramble finds ways to defend this.

But the next time somebody interviews one of those guys, this should be put right in their face and said, what do you think about this, Mike Huckabee? What do you think about this, Ted Cruz? Are these our values? Is this our value system? See what they say. I'd be very interested to hear what they say.

Now, the other thing that happened yesterday, that is somewhat related to this, not the incident, but related in the sense that these guys were let off of their crimes, B.B.N. Yahoo was not because the pardon's department. You'll recall President Trump has been calling for pardons

of Bibi Netanyahu is facing three charges and I know that for a fact at least two of them are slam dunk cases. The third one I think is going to require litigation in the trial but two of them I think are, you know, there's a recording of him doing what they're accusing him doing. Right.

So there was a review process that I reported on this back in December and I said this review process is they said it's going to take 16 to 90 days, so maybe like the end of February, early March, we're going to get a response. Well, the response came yesterday. And they said, we cannot recommend it. Official review advises against accepting

prime minister's pardon request. And we don't need to read the full article, but the TLDR is that they are not recommending charges against Netanyahu. I'm sorry, they are not recommending a pardon for Netanyahu. And Trump, of course, came out and said, you know, what you would expect Trump to say,

is outrageous. Y'all are a bunch of cowards. You know, Hurtzog is a coward. He should absolutely B.B. is a war hero and he should absolutely get a pardon while so he can focus 100% on the war. So Trump said, I want him to focus 100% on this war. Now, the interesting part about this is I, as I written the news brief today, is that this is like Groundhog's Day because the Groundhog comes up and does he see, does he see a shadow? Do we get six more weeks of winter? The Groundhog saw a shadow. So we are going to get six more weeks of winter, so to speak, winter being war, because there is an election now in October. And B. Netanyahu is facing, getting ousted from office because the people he's up against Yaiyr Lapid and Nathali Bennett,

among others, have adopted his warlike stance against Iran. They want the war against Iran, right? Now, they're willing to negotiate on other things. They're willing to negotiate on two-state solution. They're willing to negotiate with Palestine. I mean, they say maybe they wouldn't once they got into office. But, you know, they're basically like, we can be reasonable. Netanyahu is not reasonable. We can be reasonable.

That's their whole position, right? And so Netanyahu, of course, was like, I've gone through that whole history that Lapid and Naftali Bennett took office away from Netanyahu in 2021. And then that forced Netanyahu into the arms of the, of Itimar Bingavir and Bezal Smotric, who came from a wing of the hardcore, of the most hardcore religious zealots in Israel who were not allowed to serve in the Knesset because of a law from 1994 that said, if you are a Jewish supremacist who advocates for the supremacy of Jews over Arabs, over Muslims and Christians, then you cannot serve in the Knesset. That was because of Maire Kahane from the 80s, who openly called for violence against Christians and Muslims. And Netanyahu amended that law in December of 2022 to say that if that belief system is part of your religious beliefs and not your political beliefs, then you can still serve in the Knesset.

And that's what brought all those guys back in to the fold. and the agreement was Netanyahu would get the law changed. In exchange, these guys would be brought back in. They would be appointed to the highest levels of the government, the security council, which they have been. And that was basically their ticket to control Israel. So Netanyahu basically handed the keys to the kingdom over to the most radical religious zealots who, of course, support the right to rape and all that stuff. and kind of brought out the worst elements, I think, of Israeli society and Israeli culture. And again, I think this is the 5D chess.

This is the 5D chess, in my opinion, for Trump. Because as I said on my show, I think I'm breaking history on Wednesday, this was going to happen. This war with Iran was so much bigger than President Trump. This is something that, as B.B. Netanyahu has said, has been in the works for 40 years. Right. And if it wasn't going to happen in 2026, it would happen in 2036. It would happen in 2036. It would happen at some point in the future where you don't have the sovereign alliance. You don't have President Trump. You don't have Vladimir Putin. You don't have Xi Jinping. You don't have Mohammed bin Salman around. You don't have the strong men, benevolent leaders who don't want to see the world destroyed in World War III, right?

Who don't want to see this empire, this neo-Babolonian empire, this greater. Israel thing that they're trying to make, they don't want to see that happen. So they're going to stop it. And so I think what Trump has done is he has put Israel in a position, these radicals, Netanyahu, Netanyahu, the manifestation of it all, the personification of it all, to accelerate that timeline and condense it down so that whatever was going to happen in the future, instead of a 10-year war, we're getting a 10-day war, right? Instead of a, you know, instead of Netton Yacobes, you know, instead of Netton being able to bide his time and do this strategically and be smart about it and like work with the optics so that the world doesn't turn against Israel too quickly right until it's too late um

net and yahoo basically has had to haphazardly do this over the past few years and just kind of plow forward with all this right the october seventh event in my opinion was a false flag um to what extent Israel was involved in the planning i think that's that's to be determined but um it was absolutely allowed to happen they knew was they knew it was coming just like the Americans knew Pearl Harbor was coming and they were going to use it as a reason to get into the war. They knew October 7 was going to happen and they let it happen. And then they use it as an excuse to invade Gaza. And then they use that to incite hatred against Israel in the Middle East, which they then used to legitimize a campaign against Hezbollah and Lebanon, Syria, etc.

And so what's happened since the war in Iran has kicked off? And whatever makes you feel better, like, is it real? Is it fake? Is it narrative? Is it kinetic? Whatever makes you feel better? Like, leave whatever you want. I don't know.

I don't know for certain. But what we do know has happened for certain is that a war in Lebanon is now underway. You will recall the golden pager incident, or I'm sorry, the pager incident where they blew up the Hesbillah leaders right after they negotiated a ceasefire with them. And that ceasefire was never broken. I mean, there's been, I think, a few little, like, incidents here and there. But overall, like, the ceasefire has held. Hezbollah has not broken the ceasefire. The IDF has broken in a few times, but it didn't result in anything major.

That is now out the window. The IDF has taken this opportunity to go full bore into Lebanon and wage real war. And Matt Erritt, as he said on the show on Wednesday, interviewed Vanessa Beale. I think it's Vanessa Bealey. who lives in Lebanon, and she confirmed that there is like a war happening. There are missiles flying over overhead, and the IDF is operating there, and it is like a serious situation. And there are plenty of videos of, you know, whether they're real or not, but there's plenty of reports and videos of Hezbollah attacking northern Israel. And basically what's being determined is that Hesbolo was far more prepared for this than the IDF. The IDF really underestimated what condition that Hesbolo was in. They kind of assumed that Hesbolo was not going to be much of a threat.

And it turns out they are very much a threat. And they can fight. And Iran as well. So let's just hit a few more things because we're at 4 o'clock. want to just get to a few more points here. So again, what is Trump's play here with Iran? Well, again, speculation. I don't know.

But what I do believe is I do believe that, unlike some of these other analysts out there who think that Trump is basically tripped over himself and made a massive political miscalculation that's going to basically destroy his legacy and end his political career, I don't believe that's what's happened here. I think something else has happened. And I think what's happened is that Trump is now, he's driving the car down the interstate and he's basically with another car next to him, Israel, and he's basically put his turn signal on and he's heading towards the off ramp.

He's getting off the highway. And Israel is like, nope, we're not getting off. We're going full tilt. We're all in against Lebanon. Now this is our one chance because from Bibi Netanyahu's perspective, he's not getting that pardon from the government, which means as soon as he's out of office, he's going to be prosecuted for those three charges. And he's facing 15 years in prison if he's convicted in all three charges.

Now, will he serve 15 years? Probably not. Maybe he gets 10. But at his age, that's a life sentence. 10 years in prison? I mean, hell, five years in prison at his age could be a life sentence, right? So he's fighting tooth and nail. Like, this is it for him.

Like, this is his last, this is his swan song. You know, whatever happens, this is. his last shot at this. And so his political calculus is this. If he can expand the borders, this is just me speculating, but if BB Netanyahu can expand the borders of Israel

between now and October, he, in his own mind, he probably has a good shot of winning this election, right? Of getting a public mandate to stay in office where Yaya Lepid and Naftali Bennett will get behind him because they're like, okay, like, we can buy it our time. We're young. I mean, Yai Lepid and Nathali Bennett are younger than Netanyahu.

They can afford to wait for their turn. If Net and Yahoo is being effective in creating greater Israel, let him cook, right? But that's what Netanyahu has to deliver between now and October is he has to deliver southern Lebanon, I think. He has to deliver parts of Syria. He has to deliver, I think, Gaza. I think he needs to deliver maybe the Sinai Peninsula. I mean, whichever direction he can go in to expand.

A war against Iran, like if he can defeat Iran, that would be a major victory. But here's the problem. The problem is this. All three of them, Netanyahu, Trump, and Gideon, Saar, who's the Israeli foreign minister, are all saying Iran's not. doing a regime change. Netanyahu here's the headline. Netanyahu says he doesn't know if Iranians will oust regime threatens new

supreme leader. And he said, the quote is, you can lead someone to water, but you can't make him drink. And that's what he said in his first press conference of the war. He scossed the IRGC puppet Majtabi Khomeini. Can't show his face in public.

Says Israel killed top nuclear scientist. I believe the reporting right now is according to Trump. I think Trump said this on true social. that Kamani was potentially injured, but he's still alive in an attack. And I do find it interesting, though, that like all these people are saying, well, he hasn't been seen publicly. He's just putting statements out.

Excuse me, sir, but Kameney, like the father who allegedly just died, I don't think he's been seen in public for at least a year. As far as I know, I haven't seen any videos of them. I've heard they've relayed like his messaging, but I haven't seen any videos in public or anything like that. So and it is being disclosed now that he had a cancer and so he was willing to martyr himself. That's what they're saying is that he basically knew he was going to die. And so he basically went and held this meeting where he knew the missiles would hit him,

but he was going to die anyway because of cancer. I think I think he probably died a while ago. And this is just a convenient moment to say, okay, the is he told is dead. He's been martyred. You know, now he's a, he's a, now we can rally behind that, right? but according to Trump we have this post

Trump says that's interesting he's posting some Claudia Shinebaum quotes so Trump just posted okay I got to say this Trump just posted Claudia Shinebaum admits that Trump called her to eradicate the cartels

and she rejected his request and said that's right we said no proudly no and they say they are they they're not a narco government so yeah that that's a but we'll talk about that more on Tuesday um but let me let me get to this post there's two posts i wanted to read one of them is this one it says the united states is the largest oil producer in the world by far so when oil prices go up we make a lot of money but of far greater interest and importance to me as president is stopping an evil empire iran from having nuclear weapons and destroying the middle east and indeed the world i won't ever ever

let that happen. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President Donald J. Trump. So yeah, that again, I think when he puts stuff like that out, I think he's kind of baiting people to attack him. Like I think I think a lot of that's just narrative bait because he's saying things that okay, like yes, the price of oil goes up like we make more money. But if the price of oil goes up, like the price of the pump goes up. And, you know, for the average American, that's not great. but Trump's also demonstrated that he can say something and just bring the price right back down. He can do things like get millions of barrels released at once. So that is interesting.

The FIFA thing is really interesting because the head of FIFA, who's a very good friend of Trump's, is welcoming the Iranian soccer team, the national team, to come to the World Cup, which is going to be played in the United States this year. And Trump says the Iran national soccer team is welcome to the World Cup, but I really don't believe it is appropriate that they be there. for their own life and safety. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. And he says, the United States of America looks very much forward to hosting the FIFA World Cup.

Ticket sales are through the roof. It will be the greatest and safest sporting event in American history. All players, officials and fans will be treated like the stars that they are, President Donald J. Trump. So, yeah, the Iranian soccer team being in America is going to be interesting. We have that coming up, by the way, in the next few months. And then here's the last one. Trump says, we are totally destroying. We are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran militarily, economically, and otherwise.

Yet, if you read the failing New York Times, you would incorrectly think that we are not winning. Iran's Navy has gone. The Air Force is no longer missiles, drones, and everything else are being decimated. And their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth. We have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition in plenty of time. Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today. They've been killing innocent people all over the world for. 47 years and now I as president as the 47th president of the United States in killing them.

That is interesting too, like the way he worded that. They've been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years. And now I as the 47th president of the United States am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so. Thank you for your attention in this matter, President Donald J. Trump. Again, it's a little like this all feels a little cartoonish. It feels like he's baiting. You know, he's baiting. This is him baiting and his enemies, his enemies basically read this and then they get very angry and then they kind of run off and they

do something they act impulsively. They respond emotionally, right? He's throwing off the enemy. He does it all the time. He's been doing this for 10 years where he puts out a post and it's designed to get the other, whoever is going to oppose him here. Angry.

And I don't think by the way that's necessarily Iran. Because my reading on this is that this is going to unfold the way Cuba has unfolded and the way Venezuela unfolded is that we're going to see in Colombia for that matter because remember

Gustavo Petro was once the head of the cartels and now he's working with Trump against the cartels right? So I think that we're going to see something develop here where America gets out hopefully and Israel stays

in. Now I did just see right before we went live that the Pentagon has approved 2,500 troops to be sent as a expeditionary force. So we will get more into that narrative on Tuesday, as well as we'll look, you know, we'll talk a little about the KC130 incident.

You know, my take on a lot of this stuff is, you know, just general, a general skepticism, but I'm not going to like jump in here and say, oh, well, that 100% didn't happen. or, you know, that did happen, but it was part of some plan. I mean, accidents happen, right? I mean, accidents and incidents happen. So, you know, an aircraft getting damage and going down during a war, assuming that there is actual kinetic conflict occurring to some extent.

I mean, that stuff happens. So, you know, I'm not going to read too into it. I'm really looking more to how the leadership is reacting to all this stuff. How is Lindsay Graham responding to it? How is Netanyahu responding to it? How are the Iranians responding to it? Because the official narrative, and we'll land it here, is that, or the official narrative, according to rumors,

is that Steve Wickoff has reached out to the Iran. This is what the Iranians are saying. The Iranians have said, and I'm seeing a clip from JD Vance of one-minute clips. Maybe we'll watch this as we wrap up. But I'm seeing that the Iranians are saying this. and there's some rumors around, you know, leaks, people familiar with the matter, White House aides, whatever, that Steve Wickoff reached out to the Iranians and asked for a ceasefire,

asked to negotiate me, and the Iranians told him to pound sand. And they're like, you know what? No, too late for that. We're not going to do it. We're going to keep firing missiles into Israel. And we did get reports from Haaretz, which is the oldest newspaper in Israel. It was sanctioned by B.B. Netanyahu because it criticizes him tremendously. it's an anti-Netanyahu paper. But they did report today that Thursday night, 11 Iran, now they're calling them cluster missiles.

Just one of them dropped 70 bombs over Central Israel. A cluster bomb, as I understand it, is basically a bomb that has a bunch of dumb bombs, meaning there's no guidance system inside. It opens up the smaller bombs all dispersed over a large area. And it's illegal to use those. They're banned internationally from use. Israel has been accused of using them in Gaza all over the place, but the reason is that there's no precision with them. And if you fire them into an area that has civilians, you're going to kill a bunch of innocent people.

Now, Iran claims that they have developed a smart missile, a smart version of this where, and there's diagrams of this. I think I might have one of these diagrams here, that the missile opens up and then smaller bombs that, all have individual independent guided systems shoot out, and they can all hit, I think there's 70 and one missile, 70 to 80, and each one can hit a different target. So they're not cluster bombs. So again, like one side's saying one thing, the other side saying the other,

I don't really have a dog in the fight. So that's just the information. But Haaretz is reporting that 11 of these missiles penetrated Central Israel last night. Just one of them dropped 70 bombs in Central Israel. They have video and I think this is just one of them. That's what they're saying. So again, like it seems like Israel is getting pounded. There's a, I'm always very hesitant to like share videos.

Here's a video of somebody's claiming that this is what one of these things looked like this is from a week ago. Hard to say if that's, if that's a missile being broken up, like getting intercepted or not. but there is this video that I wanted to play which is because it has BB Netanyahu walking through the rubble and then I'll play the JD Vance thing we'll wrap up we're going to we're going a little longer day but there's a lot to discuss let's see where is that video so many tabs open

yeah here it is okay so this is like a reporter and the person who posted this I think posted fake news saying this is like Netanyahu's house dead or something, but clearly Netanyahu's in the clip and the guy even references them. So there's a lot of fake news going around that Netanyahu's dead and the Israeli leaders are all dead. Right now in one of the locations that was attacked, you can see just behind me, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has visited this place.

This is one of the locations where a deadly attack took place. Nine people were killed and they were, in fact, more than 25 who were injured out here. You could see Netanyahu, in fact, visiting this particular location out here. And this is the latest that we are picking up in Bet, Shemesh, where, these are the visuals of the right now in one of the locations. The reports are that text messages were sent out the other night from the Iranian government to Israeli phones that said, We've just destroyed the last radar tower in the region.

Your government can't protect you. They can't even warn you of the missiles incoming. Leave this land now and sign the IRGC. And then we did get reports from like the BBC and other outlets that there were that there were missiles coming in without the warning sirens going off. The warning alarms going off. All that's notable. And then we do have RT is reporting that the IRC spokesperson. has said that Iran is now bombing 10 hiding places of U.S. and Israeli commanders in Israel.

So is that true? We will find out soon enough. So we'll talk about all that on Tuesday. I see J.D. Vance is giving some sort of a press conference. Looks like it's about the economy, but he is asked about Iran. So we'll play this last clip and in the show. What did you advise the president initially as he considered his actions in Iran? And what are you urging him to do now, especially with Americans seeing higher prices at the pump and some of the fallout from that across the economy? Do you express any concerns like those you've expressed in the past on the possibility of these extended wars? Well, Bill, I appreciate the question. I know you guys have to ask it, but imagine the situation. We're in the situation

room where you can't even take your iPod in there or your AirPods, I guess what they're called. you can't take your iPhone in there. You can't take anything in there because it is the most classified space anywhere in the world. And I sit there with Pete Hague Seth and General Kane and Marco Rubio and the entire White House team.

And the president and I and the entire senior team are talking about the options and about what we need to do and about how we must best protect the American people. I hate to disappoint you, but I'm not going to show up here

and in front of God and everybody else. I tell you exactly what I said in that classified room. partially because I don't want to go to prison and partially because I think it's important for the president of the United States to be able to talk to his advisors without those advisors running their mouth to the American media. Okay, I'm seeing that for the first time. I think that's a fantastic answer. That's exactly what I would expect. That's what I would say in that situation. I think that's ridiculous to think that people are going to give you that kind of intel at the podium.

But anyway, that won't stop people from asking. They're just doing their job. Okay. Man, I could go in there are two hours. There's so much more to discuss about this. And maybe we'll have to do like a special show on Monday. Don't see any rants. But let me check the boosts.

Should have done that while we were watching that video. But I do have this video from Rise and Tyre. I'll play that as the outro. It's humorous. So it's a good lighthearted way to end kind of a heavy show that we were talking about some pretty heavy stuff today as we go into the weekend. Yeah, I think we're all caught up on the boosts. So, awesome. All right, guys, we'll hit the thumbs up, and we will see y'all on Monday evening.