Cognitive Dissonance - Episode 905: Iran war and the SAVE Act

Episode Date: March 16, 2026

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No. Well, here, why ask me? We could just ask our fearless leader, our commander in chief, President Trump, who in the same day said, the war is nearing an end. And then later that same day tweeted out, no, bro, I was just kidding. We're at war forever. Nan-Nanaboo. Or something similar. I don't know exactly what it was, but it literally contradicts him. that sounds fun in the same day yeah i i saw him two different interactions with reporters one of which uh someone asked him a question and he snapped on them and called them nasty it happened to be a woman what no disrespectful reporter and then a guy leans over and is like hey you said just said a few minutes ago that it could be a cruise missile from somebody else that that killed that school that blew up that school that killed all those kids uh

what do you mean? Does somebody else have? Like, do you, do other people have our cruise missiles, basically is what they said? And he's like, yeah, some people can get him and he's like kind of hemmed and hawed and back down. It was kind of, this reporter kind of like shoved it in his face and then made him eat it. And then he didn't really say anything afterwards. So it's like, I think, one, I think he's intimidated by dudes. Obviously he's very intimidated. I think he's intimidated by women too, but he just shows aggression to them. Right. I think he's intimidated by women, but he shows aggression to them. But I think he doesn't do that to some dudes because he's just such a weak-shitty human being.

Yeah, he's such a little wimpy bitch. Like, what's so unbelievably clear is they don't even have like a set of wind conditions that they've established for what they want. I think they thought they could just like bomb the regime and then the regime would just fold. Sure. And there's literally no reason to think that

because it's never happened one time ever in all of history that an air war has turned over a regime without boots on the ground. So, and Iran is like, fucking, like, Iran's bigger than Great Britain, France, Spain, and Germany put together. It's 636 million square miles with 92 million people. You're not going to bomb that into submission from the air. And I think he genuinely thought he could. And, like, they just replaced the Supreme Leader with the Supreme Leader's fucking son.

Yeah. who is like this reclusive apocalyptic guy. Like I was listening to a whole like long form podcast about this guy. Very little is known about him except for that one, he didn't do a whole lot of good religious studians. So like for the guy who's supposed to be the head of the religiously led, he's not really qualified for it. Not qualified is the is sort of the key of the day though.

That is sort of like, yeah, that's definitely a theme. Like we're just like, oh, we'll shake hands with that. That's fine. We actually, none of us are, none of us are bothered by that. Give him a position in Trump's camp. But like, yeah, you can be that defense or the, yeah, he's the DHS secretary. It's fine. We're running through those like crazy.

Had a health and religious services. You know, you could fuck Cory Lewandowski. They all do. Everybody gets a Cory Lewandowski. It's fine. But like, like, this guy evidently is like one not particularly religiously competent, but his religious leanings are. are all apocalyptic.

That's not good. Like we didn't create a, we didn't create change. We got rid of an old guy who was like a religious fucking apocalyptic nut. And we replaced him with a younger version of himself.

A younger zealot. Right. Why, like what is, what's the benefit? What are we, like what is, there's no end game, dude.

I don't understand how, what I have to think is that at some point we'll just keep doing the same shit until Trump gets bored and arbitrarily declares mission accomplished. And the lesson we will have taught Iran and the rest of the world is,

if you don't want this to happen to you, you better get nuclear bombs. Yeah. Because we didn't do it to North Korea. Yeah. And there's a reason for that. Sure. Sure.

So like all we've done is made the world less, like vastly less secure and spent billions, tens of billions of dollars already. Yeah. And this is a guy who campaigned very specifically on no wars. Yeah.

Very specifically, people in his cabinet were talking and tweeting about how Kamala was going to get us into World War III, that it was guaranteed that there was going to be a World War III with Kamala. And now it's Trump who's basically, I mean, in a year in, he's basically thrown out that principle 100%. I mean, he did it before then anyway. But yeah, it's not a, not great. No. It turns out not great. Not great, man. Not great.

I think, you know, there's a story that we might cover, too, about Cuba. And that's another thing, too, is that they're now looking at Cuba. I just think he just, what I think he wants to do is he saw the places when he was a kid that were the places that he thought were the enemies of America. And he's gone out of his way to be like, well, I'm going to show them and I'm going to use some bombs and drop them on them or economically strangle them. Yeah. To show them that I'm the powerful guy and that America. I think he has like an idea of what America is and doesn't understand any of the changes that have happened in the last 50 years. Yeah.

And no, no understanding and no respect whatsoever for the complexity of like a different geopolitical environment than what he grew up in. Yeah. I completely agree with you. I think that what he has, what he has in his stupid, tiny little mind is what makes a president memorable over time, right? It's like, well, we all remember. you know, when when we bought Alaska or when we like brought in this territory.

So I'm going to get a territory. Canada. Nobody wants to. Greenland. I think he's trying to do the things that somebody with a high school degree or a high school understanding of history would think that a great president does.

Well, what is a great president to? Well, they lead a country through a war. They acquire a massive territory and add it to the, added to the American landscape, put a star on the flag. If he can do these things, I think he'll think he'll be,

that's his posterity. He'll be remembered as one of the great presidents. But like this is a fucking 1950s understanding of the world. I think the other thing that nobody seems to be talking about is that human beings live over there. Oh my God, I know.

And those human beings get murdered by us. I know. Or they have to live in, you know, cancerous conditions because of us. Oh, I know. And we have to, you know, destroy their livelihood and make them unsafe and make them anxious and make them afraid. And they're getting it from two sides because maybe they oppose the old regime, but now they

just replaced it with it. The old regime is now the new regime. Yeah. Second verse, same as the first. Exactly. And so now we're dropping bombs on them, but then they can't trust into their regime and we're attacking them. I mean, it's, imagine just if you were just a regular person living over there. It'll be a night member. How fucking nine. And how many people do you say 90 million people? Ninety two million. 90 million people live over there.

And there's also, you know, a lot of people like to show the people here over here dancing in the street when that guy died when Kamani died. Right. Everybody was showing at, oh, look, look, Trump did a good thing because obviously someone liked it. So he did a good thing. And they were trying to push that narrative. But genuinely, you know, we're over there destroying their country. Yeah.

Right. You're destroying their country. There might be some happy people over here. But those people aren't over there. Oh, I know. And that's 92 million of them versus, what, 100 people on the street dancing and screaming and shouting? That's a doubt. Seems like a big disparity to me.

It's a big difference, man. And like, I think that if you, I think that there is a sense of, for a lot of people that were definitely oppressed by the Iranian regime, in the initial stages, they might have thought, okay, like if something can, if there can be a force change, we would like there to be a force change. we would like there to be a force change and maybe they would be willing to suffer some consequences for that force change to occur but like that's not going to happen so they're not going to get the thing

but they are going to suffer and they're suffering terribly they're suffering terribly like they're you know these oil facilities have been bombed all to shit you know so there's fucking like black smoke and fucking acid rain

it fucking looks like fucking Armageddon everywhere now. Like people are dying. Children are being blown up by the scores and, you know, their schools. It's a horror show. And the Iranian people are not going to be safer when this is over. They're not going to be freer when this is over. They just have a new despotic leader.

Yeah. And now death. Now a lot of destruction of death. They have a new despotic leader and we killed their kid. Yeah. So now what? Right. Now what?

And destroy their economy and their culture. Herodage sites. Yeah, so what now? You know, like, what did you fix? What did you do that fixed anything? And you spend a bunch of money, and it's all just because you're a narcissist. That's it. It's the please one fucking shitty person.

This story is from the Huffington Post. U.S. may have committed war crime in the sinking of Iranian ship. The Geneva Convention say nations have a duty to take all possible measures to help rescue victims of shipwrecks. A U.S. submarine left that to Sri Lanka. Nice. That's great. Nice.

So I saw this. happen the day it happened. And Hegsteth is like a creep about it. What a cool. Like a creepy fucking psycho about it. And this was like fucking musicians on a ship. It was like people who were going for a, not a celebration, but certainly like a like a, it was like a, a practice day. It's like, you know, bring your kid to work day. Essentially. Right. They're just going there. And we participated in it too. And then as soon as they left and went in the national orders, we blew them up. And there's literally nothing from this administration that's like, yeah, no, they're like,

yeah, absolutely, we'll fucking blow them up. Absolutely. No problem. We're going to do it. I mean, these are people who are just committing war. Like, just like how they were blowing up people in our more local waters from Venezuela. Yeah. Committing war crimes.

They're doing the same thing other places. These are just like, they just don't care. They're like, hell, in for a penny, in for a pound. The suffering and the damage and the violence and the death is literally the point. Like Pete Heggseth are fucking Department of War Secretary. That's disgusting. I'm actually kind of glad he changed the name because this is nothing to do with defense. This has everything to do with aggressive, assertive, death military action.

Like all he wants. And he's gleeful. When you watch his press conferences, he's gleeful about the lethality. he's gleeful about the death. When he talked about like the sinking of the ship, he's like silent death. It's not silent when the torpedo hits the boat and explodes. Yeah, it's a stupid fucking thing to say. You're an idiot.

And like Sri Lanka is nowhere near Iran. This boat did not pose a danger to anybody. We're not at war. We did not declare war, man. Yeah. I mean, like, it's unarmed. Yeah. So you basically just, it's like somebody gloating.

they went into like a kindergarten and they like broke the jaw of a kindergarten right and they're looking over them and they're like silent death motherfucker how do you look at that person and be like oh man you're so tough dude you're such a big guy oh man

way to go we'd a punch a five year old in the face yeah well Pete Heggseth too he's in a press conference this last week he's like this is not a fair fight it was never intended to be and you're like okay what are we doing man Yeah.

Like, I understand that like war is often asymmetric. Like, I get that. I'm not, you know, I don't have any illusions about that. But like, what are we doing with all of this? Like, what are we hoping to a... If we don't have goals and that we're trying to achieve that are actually achievable, then all this silent death stuff is so you can get a fucking boner about it, man. That's it.

It's so fucking he can hide his stiffy behind the podium. Well, it's not silent death when it comes to a school in Iran, which we blew up. We did. And the New York Times was reporting this and the press secretary was pushing back and saying it was like fake news and that there would still be a full investigation, et cetera. But basically, what do you think happened? Do you think somebody like stored the lunches wrong? Like what do you think happened that blew the school up? What could, what would you possibly think?

Do you want to, well, I listened to, I think maybe the daily this morning and they were talking about the reporting and it is so fucking. Here's what it seems like happened from what I just listened to this morning. They had, so this school is adjacent to an Iranian naval base. And this building used to be part of the naval base. But in 2013, they rebuilt everything. It feels like a long time ago. It's a long time, man. It was like a long time.

Long time. Count of my fingers. Yeah. How many years is that, buddy? That's 13 possible. It could be 12, but it's 13 years. So they rebuilt it. They rebuilt the entrances, the exits of the base.

This building was repurposed into a school. It had public entrances and exits. It was outside the perimeter of the naval base. And they did not update their satellite imagery that they were using to identify targets. They should have sent that little car that Google has. Yes. That looks that with a little thing on the top. That'll fix everything.

We're using satellite imagery that's a decade plus out of date to identify target. Wow. Okay. Why would you do that? Why? All I ever hear from anybody whenever you mention Obama is that he drone strike a wedding. Yeah. That's all I ever hear. That's all I ever hear.

All I ever want to hear about Trump from now on is that he cruise-missiled a bunch of kids. That's what I want to hear. That's what I want to hear. That's the narrative from now on. You cruise-missled a bunch of kids. That should be your legacy. Because Obama's legacy is,

and rightfully keep drone strike a wedding. Okay. Yeah, he did. And that's awful and terrible. And it should have never happened. And it's absolutely abhorrent that it happened. Absolutely agree. But this is a bunch of kids.

A bunch of kids dead because they didn't bother to look up. They didn't, nobody in their fucking in that room. Raise their hand was like, hey, man, you guys think people can build a building in 13 years that's different? Or maybe change the structure into something else? Dude, the idea that we have 13-year-old or 10-year-old or just old at all images, satellite images that we're using to identify targets for these things, why? Literally why?

We have so much of this technology. We have so much fucking technology. We have images like my house, my stupid fucking nothing-burger house. I was a new construction house. It was built two years ago. it's been updated in Google Earth. When I first bought the house, it was a plot of land because they hadn't constructed the house. So when you put my address in Google Earth, it was just a plot of land.

It has since been updated so you can actually see the structure of my house. That's not even important. And nobody's like making an order saying, hey, go take pictures of Tom's house. If you're like going to send missiles into a foreign country like an adversary, they can take pictures when they need them, they could just do that when they can get updated images anytime they want them. And they just didn't, man.

Well, this is a great time to try. Mind your own fucking business. With mind your own fucking business, you'll be able to grow the fuck up and act like a decent fucking human being. Our patented technology allows you to pull your head out of your ass and see the world beyond the brim of your MAGA hat.

This is from LGBTQ Nation. GOP senator allegedly breaks Marines hand during protest against Iranian war. Did you watch this video? I don't want to watch it with the... No. Because it is... It's graphic in the sense that, like,

he breaks his hand. You can hear a crunch. It's bad. I watched this. But essentially, there's a guy who basically says there's a genocide going on and, you know, doesn't think that we should be at war. And he gets grabbed by two people that are, you know, supposed to take people out there,

the, you know, the security in the venue. and there's a senator there or a congressperson, I'm not sure, I can't remember which one he is, and he sees this happening. And so he decides to insert himself and pick this guy up and start dragging him out. Well, the guy tries to hold on

and wedges hand into something. And this guy just fucking brute forces pulls him and breaks his hand. And then goes on to call him like a deranged individual and hopes he gets help. It's disgusting. And I just wish, like,

there were some sort of repercussions. This isn't your job, right? It's not your job. Imagine if there was something going on with somebody who was, you know, having a seizure or something. And a couple of cops were, you know, trying to hold them. And you ran over and you kneeled on their neck. Yeah. Right. And you killed them, right? Should you be liable for killing that person when it's not your job to do it? And I think you should, right? You're not trained to do any of this stuff. You just chose to insert yourself in there to be the big man in the situation, to drag this guy out because he's saying things you'd want to hear. Well, now you heard him and you heard him pretty bad. And there's no repercussions for it. None whatsoever. In fact, this guy's going to get charged. Yeah. And like, just to be very clear, like, when, when, and I know this isn't right, but like when the cops grab you and

detain you and, you know, push you to the ground, all that stuff, they have an explicit legal authority to do that. You can't just join in the fun. Now you're assaulting somebody. Because you don't have any explicit legal authority to perform that same, you know, detention or arrest. So this senator is literally just committing assault. You know, how would they feel if somebody came into a Democrat like AOC and they had a maga bullhorn and they were screaming? And a couple of police officers were holding the guy and trying them out. And a bunch of people just jack the person in the face a bunch of times.

How would they feel about that? Yeah. Right. How would you feel about that? Would you think that's a proper use of force by the people who have. are around there. Or if AOC like fucking did a ninja kick on the guy. Like would that be okay. Is that all right? Is that what you would? You know, they can never put themselves in that situation. They could never be like, well, what if I was on the other side of this? What if, what if somebody who I think is in the right was doing

something like this? What would happen to, what would happen to my brain if that happened to them? How would I feel about this? What kind of rule do we need that is, that that doesn't choose aside, but instead is a rule for everybody. What's that rule look like? Yeah, yeah, man. And they never can do that. They instead can only go for their selfish, the way in which their selfish brain thinks, and then reject everything else. Yeah, this is okay because they did it. Yeah, it's okay because our side did it.

That's how their morality works. It's like everything, all this political shit that they're doing is obviously only okay because they're doing it. When this senator assaults somebody, it's okay because he's a senator. But it's not just because he's a senator, it's because he's my senator. He's a Republican senator. So it's okay to assault people. Because, like, you're right. Like, if it was just some random Joe that did the same thing, they'd be arrested.

They'd be arrested for it. Why does a senator get to, like, does they get an assault card? I think you should force somebody to arrest them, right? Like, use the levers of government if you get back in to be like, no, that person needs to be arrested or we're going to cut off your funding or whatever. Yeah. Like, you need to arrest that person and you need to charge them and they need to go to court or we're just going to cut your funding off. Yeah. We don't get to just run in and be vigilantes.

The thing is, is like, they are treating the government as if it doesn't exist when it's anything that they, that is going to, in any way, shackle them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It doesn't exist. So, and they've been doing that since the beginning of his presidency. They've been essentially ignoring

any of the pressures that the government would put on them. Right. And so this isn't going to get any better. No. Well, I mean, I think they've, they've, what they've done is they've pointed out that like if you control the enforcement mechanisms for government, so if you control the police and the executive branch and the arms of the government that are designed to enforce the laws, then what that means is you don't have to follow the laws. Because if you don't, there's nobody to enforce them.

Yeah. So I think very smartly, they've figured out that the first and most important tool to gain control of is not the legislative branch. It's not, it's the enforcement branch. And as long as they control all those enforcement arms, then like, there is no repercussions. I think that's a great point, Tom, because how over the years, how often have we seen them try to, try to court the police union, try to court all the police officers, push the police officers to be more and more conservative, then we've seen that shift. The military, too. Yeah.

You know, they've done their, they've done their job to make it. Like, I think, I think that that might be the way in which you break this, is that you go after those people to try to convince them that that's the bad, that's a bad thing. Right. You know, you're on their side and you want to try to help them somehow. Because how? Because they're all bastards. I don't know either. Yeah. Because like, what you have essentially is

governance at gunpoint. Yeah, that's exactly it. I have the Ike and Tina tuna. Plater platter. I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it. We talked about this a little bit last week. Independent Trump fires Christy Nome as DHS chief and then she thanks

him for new Shield of the America's job. That's not a real job. Well, I mean, it's certainly going to pay or something. Maybe she can still siphon $143 million out of it. Jesus Christ. Literally, it's a made up, nobody even knows what it is. Yeah.

It was made up. She wouldn't have even known what it was. It's just like, hey, help protect the Western Hemisphere. The best part is, what? The best part is, is that her replacement is Senator Mark Wayne Mullin. That's one name. Mark Wayne. Hi, y'all, I'm Billy Bob Thornton.

Okay. Well, you say it like that, you're discounting that he is not college educated and he's a former MMA fighter. My favorite part about this guy is there's a part, there's a thing. There's a clip going around and it was something we talked about when it first happened. But there's a union guy. Yeah. And he's talking to this senator.

And the senator, him are going back and forth. And the senator says, will you want to stop? step outside. And the union's like, sure, I'll step outside. And then the center goes, well, you stand your butt up. And the union guy goes, you stand your butt up. And they're like, who you want to go? And they're like, I want to go. And they turned the Senate into the fucking

parking lot of the Waffle House. Dude, yeah. He's like, you want to go? You want to go? You want to go? You want to go? You want to go? We'll be back. He'll be there. And Bernie Sanders has to calm everybody down. Fucking cringe, dude. That's that guy. That's your guy. It's like,

Do you want a gold guy? That's your guy. That's our DHS chief. Jesus Christ, it's fucking, it's Marky Mark with poor impulse. Like, are you kidding me? Yeah, man, this is crazy. Like, we are literally at a place Cecil where there's going to be a UFC fight in the White House. Our DHS chief is an MMA fighter without any fucking college degree or background in this whatsoever.

He owns, like, just so to people understand, I'm not shitting on him because he doesn't have a college degree. I'm shitting him because he's un-qualified. qualified. He doesn't know anything about this job. He owns a plumbing company. That's his background. He was an MMA fighter and he owned a plumbing company. Then he was like, I'm going to run and I'm going to be a senator. He ran. He became a senator. Now he's the fucking DHS chief. And he's a DHS chief because the last person who was unqualified, the fucking dog murdering weirdo that was in charge before, the only reason she got fired is she pissed off Trump by being like

yeah, Trump blessed this $200 million spend. He said I could spend it. And Trump was like, wait a minute, I don't want to get in trouble for that. You can't use my name. And that's why she got fired. Not because she was fucking her underling or whatever. Not because

she fired. Did you hear about her firing the pilot on her airplane? Yeah, so they fired him, but then they had to hire him really quickly back. What was the interview process the second This is so funny, guys. So she's such a, like, horrible, vindictive, petty, shitty, shitty human being that, like, they landed this airplane and they had to, like, change airplanes because there was some mechanical issue. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So they landed the airplane. Because I saw it in, like, some fucking, like. Oh, no.

This is, like, legit. So they landed the airplane. They had to change airplanes because there was some mechanical issue. The pilot did not remember her blanket. Yeah. She had her own special blankie. So the pilot didn't remember her blanket. She was so fucking mad that she didn't have her special blankie

that they fired the pilot. But then they didn't have a pilot to get home. So they had to rehire the pilot so they could go back home over a blanket. It's like yelling at your Uber driver, canceling the Uber and then pressing the button and being like, shit, it's a 15 minute wait. I'm sorry. Yeah, I know. It's the same thing.

Like we have one national embarrassment. now we have a different national embarrassment. Yeah. I mean, of course that happened. Yeah. Right? Of course that. These people are, they are not connected. And that's the thing that makes me crazy is that, you know, there's all this common, that like these are the common people, et cetera, that really love them, right?

They can go to like a Trump rally. It's all just regular old people, right? These are people who are just real simple, you know, nine to five probably pretty average people. And they just fall in love with Trump. but then you see this person who is, you know, like a fucking Bridezilla, basically, right? Somebody who's like so caustic and shitty and entitled that you would think it would turn someone off. Right. You would think that this level of entitlement that you're seeing from some of these people.

And this, you know, blatant misuse of funds for, you know, the smallest FBI director in history to go travel somewhere. Yeah. and then travel back, you would think that that blatant use of the office for their own gain would trigger something. Because these are people who can get super worked up over what's in your cart when you're on Snap. These are people who are ultimately the most judgey, shitty, people in the world. I mean, if you look at middle America, right, your average nine to five guy, these are people who would kick their trans kid out of their house. They're the most judgy people in the world. So, but somehow they can see something like this happen where somebody is literally

siphoning off money and it's reported over multiple news outlets broken by ProPublica and then multiple news outlets find that she's essentially siphoning money to a company that nobody's really heard of for something that is, doesn't really, shouldn't cost as much as they're charging. Right. And nobody says anything. She fires people patulently for a blankie. Yep. Use the, this guy uses his private jet that's for the office to do personal shit all the times, assigns security to his girlfriend

specifically, and you're just like none of that stuff should be coming out of our pocket and they don't seem to care. They don't seem to care. But they're going to go line items somebody's fucking soda purchase when they're on snap. Yeah.

And these are supposed to be people too, remember, that are these like huge moral judgey judgeers. Yeah, right. Yeah. And like, Christy Noam is married. Yeah. Corey Lewandowski is married.

Just not to each other. Yeah, not to each other. Christenome was asked in the congressional hearing, hey, are you fucking Cory Lewandowski? And she's like, I'm not answering your question. I'm not going to dignify that with an answer as well. And her husband was sitting behind her in the hearing. Nice.

Corey Lewandowski also was like, maybe he's into it. I mean, look, he could be in. But all those Middle America people. Yeah. Right. They're supposed to be the, like, oh, you can't do any. Everything that, like, somebody does if you dyed your hair, blue is immoral, you know? And like, these guys are like stealing and committing adultery and, like, doing all this stuff that, like, they're supposed to have an issue with.

But they don't because they've never cared about that stuff. Never once cared. They've never really cared. All that stuff is fucking window dressing for them to get their agenda done. Yeah. Or to make you feel bad. Yeah. Right?

Like, the people, the thing is, like, like, the people. who would be upset about something like that are only ever upset about it performatively because it makes you feel bad. Yeah, or they're upset when you do it, but if I get the abortion, right, then there was a reason for it. And if my DHS secretary is doing it,

I'm sure there's a good reason for it, right? Because when my team is doing it... That's a good point. That's a good point. It's only immoral when the wrong guy's doing it. That's right. You go Montoya. You kill my father. Go Montoya. You kill my father.

Prepare to die. Stop saying that. You killed my father. Prepare to die. Offer me money. Yes. Power two, promise me that. All that I have and more, please.

Offer me everything I ask for. Anything you want. I want my father back, you son of a bitch. This from PBS. how Trump's Save America Act and reshape voting and why critics are concerned. Yeah, so basically this act

would require people to prove citizenship. And this is the thing that a lot of people when they talk about voter ID don't understand is that, one,

getting an ID for somebody is a lot of people think it's trivial. It's more work than necessary. But what people don't ever get whenever they talk about voter ID is, the point isn't necessarily for you to have an ID. The point is so that they can look at your ID and tell you no, right? So they can be like, well, this isn't the right one. Or this one isn't, you know, this isn't one we're using or whatever it is. And so that they can then throw it out, which is what they're trying to do here. They're trying

to say like, a driver's license isn't good enough, right? That's not good enough. What we want, they want to skip over just having a driver's license. They want to go to passport. Well, passport costs you money. That's now a poll tax. I got to pay a poll tax in order for that. Or I've got to have my birth certificate with me. And then other forms of identification to prove that I'm that person. So there's multiple steps that I've got to do to get that thing. And we talked about it a couple weeks ago. I guess some places don't require you to travel down there. You can get it through the mail from some jurisdictions. It depends, I guess, on the jurisdiction. But so your birth certificate you can get in certain cases. But yeah, but yeah, like this is extra

work, more time, more effort to go out and have this stuff with you so that you can do what we call a basic right. If it's a basic right, why do I need all these other conditional things attached to it? Well, I think, you know, like this feels so much like a means reductions attempt. Like we know, we know with certainty that if you make things even a little bit harder, if there's a little friction in the system that people will be less likely to do the thing that they were otherwise going to do. And this is like true of all kinds of different parts of human nature. So like one of the, one of the most famous things that I've read is that there was a spate of suicides among farmers in India. And one of the one of the ways that people were committing suicide was by consuming this

very poisonous pesticide. And they changed the pesticide to a pesticide that was nowhere near as poisonous and wouldn't be as effective of a way to kill yourself. Suicides went way down. And people would always say, well, why? People just choose another method. But that's actually not how people work. And everybody who's in sales and marketing understands that one of the most important things that you want to do is reduce the amount of friction between the consumer and the purchase. If you make things one extra step harder, you'll reduce the amount of people who are willing to take that extra step. If you make it one extra step easier, more people buy your shit. We know that because Patreon changes

their model. Everyone's. Yeah. Any little amount of friction, even if it's like, well, there's an easy workaround. People are not built like that. Even for things that they're highly motivated for. And we know this. And that's why means reduction is a significant way to make change on a population level. And I think that what they understand here is that if they make voting a little harder, a little more of a pain in the ass,

a lot of people who otherwise would vote just won't vote. That's the goal. Yeah. The goal is to get, not even just to get, you know, the goal was never to get undocumented people not to vote. They don't. They don't. The goal is to get you not to vote. Yeah.

I think, well, and you're right. But I also think like, this is taking three steps forward. Whereas before it was like, oh, we're going to have voter ID. And the voter ID might be like, you know, a piece of mail or something where you live or something. Right. or, you know, because if they did something like that, that would be a lot easier than

go to a place and get a thing, which is another layer, right? So like, let's say they started saying you need a state ID or a driver's license. That's another layer I've got to have on there. Some people don't have state IDs in driver's license. But even if you did, like, let's presume, let's just make the argument that like,

okay, in order to participate in this democracy, you need to do that. I don't want people to send me a message and be like, well, that's the point. I know what that's the fucking point. point. Okay. But I'm just, I'm saying for the sake of argument, let's say that that's the next step that they took. But they're not taking that step. They're going over that step. Yeah, yeah.

Into another area, which is now you've got to take time out of your day in order to find, so that's time is money. So you've got to spend money or time to find your birth certificate, have that ready, and then have another photo ID that they will accept, which they could be very finicky on, right? They might not take a school ID. Right. So it might be that they're like, you come in with a school ID and they're like, oh, we're not taking school IDs. You're like, well, I don't drive here.

So I don't have a driver's license that's local. I only have my state one. They're like, well, we won't take anything that's out of state. Right. Okay, well, now what? Well, now I've got to go get a driver's license a day of voting or I've got to figure out that out ahead of time. Even if I don't drive here, well, whose car do I use when I go do that?

Because I need my own car to go do a driver's test or whatever. You know what I mean? Like, those other things that would necessarily have to be. There are other obstacles that are involved there. So they're not just taking one step. They're taking like three steps forward to try to eliminate this sort of thing. And this would be a nightmare for people who might have changed their names, people who have changed their genders.

That's also very calculated, right? So all these things matter. And they all make it harder and make it more difficult and make it so that you just look at the poll, the voting booth, and you think, is it worth it this time? Right. Is it worth it? If I'm a trans person, is it worth being harassed by the poll?

whole worker there about my gender when I hand them my ID? Is it going to be worse for me? Is it going to be embarrassing for me to stand there while they're questioning who I am in front of everybody else while they're calling out who I am? Of course it's going to be awful for you. Right? So I think I think like they're specifically trying to like you say, there's definitely a reduction, but I think that they're cranking that throttle. I think it holds. I totally agree. There's not a little friction they're adding. They're adding maximum of my mind. As much as they can. As much as they can.

You know who else will be really disproportionately affected by this? I mean, obviously we talked before about like how, what a dramatic impact this has on women, specifically women who change their name and have been recently married or, you know, have to have a name change, maybe divorced. Yeah. Like, women are disproportionately affected. Also, the elderly. I can't tell you from, I can tell you from personal experience, like in my job,

one of the things we have to collect at every transaction is an ID. So many people have no idea that are elderly that their IDs are expired. Expired IDs is not an ID. So if your ID is expired, it's the same as not having one at all in many cases. So, and I cannot tell you how many people come in to like buy or sell a house, like an important thing. And they've not had a need to look at their ID in so long. It has expired years and years ago because maybe they're not driving anymore. So they just... Maybe they are. They just didn't pay attention.

Yeah. But like, you know, if you're just like not driving, driving anymore or, you know, you haven't driven in a long time. Like, why do I need an ID? Like, no one's carding me. You know what I mean? Like, it is like 40% of... What was the last time you showed somebody your driver's license?

Yeah. What was the last time? Think about the last time. Only when I got a ticket. You have to show somebody your driver's license. So last time I had to show somebody my driver's license when I was applying for something online. And it was specifically an AdSense thing for a YouTube page.

Sure. Like that was the last time that I did it. I didn't do it any other time. Like I can't remember the last time that I used my driver's license for anything other than that. Yeah. It's totally useless. So there's going to be all of these groups which are going to be disproportionately impacted. And they're all marginalized groups.

All of them. Like none of these are the mainstream, you know, guys that the Republicans, who do they want to have vote? They want, like, white landowning males to vote, right? That's who they want to vote. that's not the groups that are going to be demographically most affected. And they're probably not going to be as,

like the other thing too is like they're not going to be as shitty to people who are, you know, that are in their group, right? They're not going to be as shitty to those people.

And they're not going to turn those people away. And they're not going to, they might, oh, your, your thing's expired. Well, that's fine.

You can just vote. Well, I also think about like how much more time it will now take to vote and how much longer those lines are going to. Sure. Because when I go now, unless they,

dramatically increase the number of poll workers. I know, like, this is like something happens to me and my workplace all the time. Like, if you have something that has to be done, and it now takes 31 seconds to do it, and I increase it to 45 seconds, it seems like nothing. But that 45 seconds is iterative times the number of people that show up. And you've now created a backlog of time

that can stretch hours and hours long before anybody blinks an eye. There was tiny little things, little wrenches, in the polling place I was at downtown, would turn that line into a 45 to an hour and a half minute, wait. Yeah. Tiny little things would throw it off. So, yeah, absolutely. You're 100% right.

Somebody having to scan through, okay, what did you bring? Well, I've got my marriage certificate, my birth certificate, and my driver's license. They've got to look at each one. It's not like they can just be like, okay, that's good. They've got to be like, what's the name on this one? What's the, this isn't simple stuff. And you got to train all those poll workers, you know? And like, who's paying for that?

This is specifically put in to make it harder for you to vote. And I know there's, like, I listen to Joe Rogan. So every fucking time this comes up, he's like, I can't even steal man why you would want, not want voter ID. I can't even steal man it is what he says over and over and over again. It's because he never thought of it. He never thought about it. He never once thought about it.

He thinks it's so people can trick people into saying there's somebody else to vote. But that, like, that is such a tiny amount. even if you were to do that. It's one vote. Like it's nothing. I'd have to go to multiple. I think about it like this. Let's say I'm a nefarious guy.

And I got a hold of a person, a person's name in each county nearby. And I'm going to go cast a vote for Kamala Harris in the next election. And I'm going to do it by pretending I'm that person. So I've looked at their signatures because we don't require voter ID. And I've mastered their signatures. So I had to do that ahead of time. Now I'm going to get in my car and I'm going to travel to each one of those places

to say I'm so-and-so, use their ballot, and then I'm going to get in my car and I'm going to travel to another county to take that vote and to do that throughout the day. Or let's say I do it in multiple different polling places even in the same county. How much time do I have to spend

traveling from place to place? Because if I go back to the same place I went to earlier today, what they're going to know me. And if I collect a bunch of ballots and I send them in and then someone else goes to the polling place when I stole their ID, they're going to be like, oh, those don't match. There's checks and balances in place to stop all this. Very simply.

It's why they've never encountered, despite having all the tools of the government to use at their disposal, they've not encountered or uncovered any massive voting for all. It's like 0.02%. There's no Ocean's 11 type scam that you can do to. somehow influence. The way you would do it is be a poll worker and like destroy ballots or something. Right. Like that's how you would do it.

It's like you would be somebody who would be involved in the actual counting of the votes. And you would have to do it in a big scale in a big place where there's a ton of people around you. Like if you're in the middle of somewhere, like Chicago or something. And then you're like, oh, I accidentally burned all the Trump ballots. Well, yeah. And it's like even that, even all of that,

the personal risk against potential impact calculation doesn't make any sense. Yeah. Every time you interfere with the election, each moment of interference is a felony. Yeah. So like, let's say in your first example, I drove around to the seven county region in the Chicago metro area. I voted seven times.

Okay. I've had a... Hell, let's say it's 70, Tom. Let's say you did a 10, 10 different people each section and you went to 10 different polling places each place. First off, I don't think you'd go to 70 different polling places in a day, but let's just say you did it. Let's just play.

Let's just play. I've still had a like on a scale on a statistical level I've had no impact on the election I've had no impact on the election and not in a real sense right statistically

that I've had no impact whatsoever you can't even like write down the number it would be absurd that those 70 votes in Illinois counted as so I've had no impact but I am risking

a dozen at the like I'm risking like a lifetime in jail felony after felony after felony after felony after felony after felony after felony after felony. Why would anyone do that? Well, and even if, like, let's say that there was some mastermind that had 500 people that did this sort of thing. Are we expecting that those 500 people are going to do 70 votes on their own in that same day? Right. Are we expecting that that's what they're going to do? Why have none of those

500 people come forward and said, hey, this guy coerced me to do it or paid me to do it and then get that person in trouble? Why haven't we seen anything like this? Right. If you're saying like, it's like this massive amount of voter fraud, where is it? It's like where is it? They did a search for it. They hired their own guys. They went out and they went all the way to Japan to hire Cyber Ninja. And they couldn't find anything, man.

Well, to be fair, they just do shiricans at all the machines and damages. Actually, they were discs. They were CD-ROMs that they sharpened up. There's copy served desks from back of the 90s. $400 off. $400.00. Hey, Carlos. The game's over.

Your careers in the international terrorist has been well documented. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I don't know. No, I sell cars, that's all. Come on. I'm not a terrorist. I'm actually a complete coward.

If I ever saw a gun, I don't. Oh, no, please don't, don't, don't, don't kill me. I'm not a spy. I'm nothing. I'm navelin. I have to lie to women to get laid. And I don't score much. I got a little dick.

it's pathetic. Oh, oh, oh, God, oh, would a spy pee himself, huh?

Huh. Oh, God. NBC News, Senator John Cornyn flips on the filibuster to pass Save America Act as Trump weighs endorsement.

Yeah, he's afraid of his seat. Yeah. And he wants to get the Trumpers down in Texas to love him. So he wants to try to appease Trump right now

and he wasn't for it. before the election and now he's like, man, I really want to beat Paxton in this special election. So I guess maybe I'll say yes. I don't know that they still have enough votes for this. Yeah. But scary if they do flip the filibuster, because then you got three years of them having no filibuster.

I know, man. And this just goes to show when I was reading this story, I was immediately like, this just shows you that none of this is about principle. Yeah. None of this is about what people actually think or believe. So when people stand up and they tell you what they think or believe, you should not care about that at all. That sounds, that's nothing.

It's only what people do. It's only what people do when they're in politics. It has nothing. All the rest of that stuff is just bit, bit, bit bullshit. It's fucking Chihuahua barking. It's nothing. This guy does not have a strength of principle. He's not about anything.

He doesn't stand for anything. He was opposed to the filibuster, to breaking the filibuster, until all of a sudden, now he has something to personally gain if that happens. Come the fuck on, man. My abortion is the most ethical abortion.

Exactly, dude. Fuck you. My abortion of justice is the most... I want to start an abortion company called Abortions of Justice. Oh, gosh. Yeah, that actually sounds like... Sounds great. It actually sounds great.

It does. It really sounds like a nonprofit that has some wheels. This is a guy, though, that's afraid for his seat. Yeah. And this is the problem, too, with people being attached to their seat, with people fighting for this job. instead of fighting for the people. And what should be is,

I fight for the people and they save my job, right? If I fight for the people right, and I do right by them, then a majority of the people, and they vote me back in, then I did all the right things I was supposed to do, because that's what I was supposed to do, right?

I was supposed to do the things that got me voted back in. Yep. So, yeah, I think, like, if you do those things and your policies are the best and your positions are the best, great.

But we've created a system where they can't even show any of that stuff because nothing happens. Yeah. So we've created a stagnated, a stagnated system that doesn't allow them to go back to their constituents and say, I did all these things because they didn't do anything. That's really important, I think. Like, that's, I haven't thought about that, but I think it's really important. When you don't achieve anything, what do you hang your hat on?

Yeah. And you hang your hat on relations. Yeah. Right? This is relational. Oh, my God. I'm never going to financially recover from this. This story is from Fortune.

Conflict triggers unprecedented supply disruption. So this is the closing of the strait of Hormuz. About one-fifth of the world's oil supply travels through that straight. Iran controls that. It's sandwiched between Iran and the UAE. And it's like an enormous choke point. It's only 21 miles across at its largest point. And most of that is not navigable.

so it's very easy to close that off. And it's essentially closed off right now. And it's a fucking train wreck. Oil, the cost of oil is surging right now. So I think futures went up at one point to $120 for a barrel of oil. They've come down a little bit from there, from their high. But like, they're absolutely surging. The oil was about $70 a barrel when this started.

What's interesting is I thought I saw Trump this week talk about how maybe we would have to remove some sanctions on some countries. Are there any oil-producing countries that have sanctions on them right now? Let me think. Russia. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. That's interesting.

What would they use that money for, you think? Let me think. What would they use it for? I don't know, maybe the Ukraine war to attack Ukraine and, yeah, destroy. Seems like a bad call. It doesn't seem good. Terrible. Yeah.

Why would you back yourself into that position? Every day since this happens. You just hold Ukraine there and I'll back into it. Amazing. Every day since this happened, Putin is just getting up and jerking off to it. He's just like, oh, God, I love it so much. Send me another barrel of oil in here. Burning through it.

Amazing. And like, the other thing that's happening, too, is these oil producing countries that use the straight, they are not only not able to use the straight, but they're also having to shut down their oil production. Because they've run out of places to store the oil that they can't ship. Yeah. And the problem when you shut down the oil production is it can't turn it back on very easily. So it's not like you go out and you just flip a switch and you're like, oh, just flip to switch the other direction. That's not how these things work.

In some cases, that can render, like turning the oil well off can deplete the pressure and that you may not get pressure back. So that well may not be able to be brought back online without a huge investment of time and money. Sure. So like, and then same is true in these refineries. when you turn off the refineries and you have to shut off the reeds refineries, it's not a quick and simple process to turn these refineries back on. So even if the straight reopens tomorrow, once these countries stop producing oil because they've stockpiled enough,

it can take weeks or months for the oil that they're producing to come back online, which makes the impact of this oil disruption last longer than the actual disruption itself. Will it last till the midterms? I think it will last to the midterms, yeah. I don't think, I am very, very pessimistic about this. I don't think that we're out of Iran this calendar year. I can't see how that could happen. That seems cool and chill.

I don't. Maybe I'm wrong. I feel very pessimistic about it. I cannot see how that, maybe there's a path out. Maybe I'm being stupid, right, because I'm looking for a path out that makes sense. but the thing is like, maybe we just stop doing it. Maybe the path is the friends we made on the play. Cecil, I have had some dark thoughts since this thing started.

Like, there is a part of me that's like, I don't know that Trump wouldn't use a nuclear weapon to end this war. Oh, no, I don't think that that's up there. No, absolutely. No, you kidding me? Come on. Yeah. I'm not convinced. at all.

There is nothing in me that thinks that Trump wouldn't use a nuclear weapon tomorrow. Or at haggsas urging, use it. Right. Yeah. So like I don't understand. The thing I am seeing,

how do you get out of Iran now? The thing that I am seeing, though, is that he is sort of in some of the tape that I'm seeing. And it's hard because you don't, Trump doesn't have like one thing that he thinks. Right.

Right. He's all over the place all the time. That's what dementia does to you. You're just all over the place all the time. So he's all over the place all the time and he'll make a statement sometimes that's very different than the statement like you suggest later in the day.

Right. But I did see him when the sun goes down. I'm sort of trying to do a duck, dodge, dive, weave, duck and dodge about the blame on this and blaming it on other people. Yeah. And I've seen this administration not know how to explain that they were sort of goaded into this by Israel.

right not know how to explain that to other people right the press so this administration knows this isn't super popular not with their base and nothing they do is going to be popular with the other side right because the other side hates them for myriad of reasons this is just a reason to jump on them even if you never cared about any of the foreign policy stuff it's a reason to jump on them so they they've made so many enemies doing this it's such a bad call they don't know what to do now and there's a of people who do not like this. I mean, like, people who have been dyed in the wool Trumpers don't like this. Yeah. This is because like there's no upside to doing this. Like oil, and the other thing to think about too is like oil prices are going to go up. We're going to

see that first at the pump. So like people are going to see that at the pump. But keep in mind too that we are a petro-state. So we are a petrochemical state. All of our food that we eat, the fertilizer is petrochemicals. All the stuff we ship in. All the stuff that we ship in. everything that you own that's fucking made a plastic, which by the way is everything. Clothes that have artificial fibers are often, not always, are often petrochemical fibers. Petrochemicals run the whole world. So if you think inflation is bad now, this isn't just going to be about gas prices. Give it a minute.

Yeah. They use the same fucking chemicals for all that shit, dude. You know, sometimes I wake up at night down in the alley and wonder. Is this held? The stories from NPR, Democrat Sean Harris to face Trump-backed Clay Fuller in runoff to replace Marjorie Taylor Green. So I want to put this on the big screen so we can look at it. So you can see the actual numbers. The Democrat won more votes.

But if you look down the line at all the different like 60 red people who were running and you add all those numbers up, doesn't look at the Democrat wins. Right. If you add it all up, it does not look like, you know, because you're at 43. to 40 are the two big ones. But the second size red one there is 13,000. You're already at 53 if those two guys vote for the one guy at the top. Right. So it's not indicative that this seat's going to flip.

I just want people to know that Marjorie Taylor Green's seat, the guy who got the most votes in the first run is a Democrat. Yeah. The guy who gets the second most, because they're going to now have that. Now they're going to have a next election because they're going to kick everybody else. out. They're going to take the top two and they kick everybody else out. Now you only have the top two. And that's where I think the rubber is going to hit the road. And I don't think you're going to see this seat flip. I don't think I don't think you're going to see this. I don't think so either.

And I don't think like we should ever have thought that like a rural district like Marjorie Taylor Greens in Georgia was going to flip. I will say the fact that it's even competitive feels like really good news. It's us. It's us. I don't want to I don't want to downplay that. So like that's all that I take from this is like that seat should not have even been competitive. Yeah, because it wasn't when Marjorie was in there. Right. It wasn't a competitive seat. It wasn't like there was, even when she was at her worst. Right. It wasn't at her, a competitive seat that people were like, oh, yeah. Maybe. Maybe we can, you know, funnel a bunch of money in there and that will flip it. No, that's not going to happen. It wasn't a thing that

was going to happen. I am hopeful, Cecil, for the midterms. I am scared for the actual day of the election. Me too. If voting goes, most unmolested, then I think that things could possibly turn around in the midterms. I hope so. And it could at least be a stagnation and a pushback against policies. You might not be able to change much, but you can at least stop him from doing any more damage and maybe stop him from like entering wars without your consent and things like that. That's important stuff, right?

Important baffles to his power. Right. I don't think that if things, if there's some major fuckery on that day, then it's all over. I mean, I'm just saying like, it's all over. There's not going to be another, because I do, I 100% think if he can fuck with the midterms enough, he won't step down in four years. If he's still alive, he will not step down in four years. He just sticks around. He'll say, he'll say, I'm running again and then he'll just count the votes and win, just like Putin does it.

God, I hope that fucking neck virus gets him, dude. Yeah. Well, even if it does, then the next person's in charge. charge and they're just younger and more like we we let this zealot go for a younger and more robust sell it and you're just like well that's cool we've replaced your previous zealot with this younger zealot let's see if you noticed we noticed we noticed yeah he's fucking a couch right now we noticed yeah uh it's it's not great but if if somehow people can keep their claws off the voting process then there's a possibility that you can have some sort of push back in what is that

now seven months, eight months. So, yeah. My kids are old enough. I've got two kids old enough to vote in midterms. Oh, that's great. Are they going to do it? Oh, fuck yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're going to go. Like, Donovan was able to vote in the presidential and he was very happy to go. Finn just missed it. So, yeah, they both actually already asked me, they're like, when are the midterms? I'm like, they're in November, bro. November every year. We're going together. It's a fucking family party. Yeah, November every year. So I, I, uh, the other thing, too, is that they might start cutting off. vote by mail because that Save Act would also shift against vote by mail. So vote by mail might go. So I might have to go to the polls. I voted by mail again this time. Wonderful.

Yeah, you really like it. Love it. And I had a great, Sarah and I sit down on Sunday morning. We had our coffee after breakfast and we open up the computer and start doing research and we spend about an hour and a half looking at the ballot, figuring out what we're going to do and then just go from there. So, yeah. I found that if I can do it this way, I actually do the research. but often I would put the research off and forget sometimes when I was downtown to do the research and I just show up and there's like fucking 60 judges. And I'm just like, I know,

I know you're allowed to bring stuff in, but I never did the research ahead of time. So you're just like, well, I might as well have not, just because I can bring a piece of paper doesn't mean I'm going to do the work on that piece of paper. Is that friction idea, man. So having that ballot at home is amazing for you. Because I just sit down, open the computer and be like, all right, let's look up these stories on these people. Okay, well, this person is this or this person does this.

and then we talk about it, and then, you know, we make our decisions. And it's pretty cool. I'm such a shitty, shitty old. Like, I just like going to the ballot. Like, it just feels like, I don't know, almost like a holiday to me. Like, it feels like, oh, I'm participating. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I don't know why, but I, it's nothing.

It's literally nothing. But I just like the feeling of it. I think it's a cool feeling. And I did enjoy doing it. But I love the convenience of being able to, like, be a really responsible voter. That's objectively better. Yeah. Like I'm so just going on vibes.

I like the feeling because I know for sure my ballot is 100% exactly what I wanted. Right. Right. And I know that I've cast ballots in the past that I, that were not that. I think I'll just guesses sometimes. I think I mentioned this on the show before. I remember asking my dad when I was 18, I was voting. I was like, what do you do for all these judges?

And he's like, I just vote them all out. To be honest, if that was an option for everybody, I would probably do it. Yeah. My dad's just like, I don't know what anybody is just vote a lot. Let's just start them all out. Let's start in a brand new system. All right, well, that's going to wrap it up for this week. I'll have a patron show coming out a little later this month,

and we'll have another show on Monday, but we're going to leave you like we always do with the skeptics creed. Credulity is not a virtue. It's fortune cookie cutter, mommy issue, hypno-babelon bullshit. Couched in Scientician, double bubble, toil and trouble, pseudo-quazi alternative, acupunuating, pressurized, stereogram, pyramidal, free energy, healing, water, downward spiral, brain dead, pan, sales pitch, late night infoducatainment.

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