Fourth Reich Archaeology - #086 - Contra Iran, Part 2

Episode Date: March 6, 2026

We are coming in hot this week to give you our take on the “war” with Iran. We cover the Official Narrative (inasmuch as there even is one—and if there is it’s utterly incoherent), and a number of the alternative narratives. We call out the criminality and cruelty of the murderous plot against the Iranian people, and detangle the respective roles of Israel and the U.S. ruling class.While many critical discourses around the war against Iran pay lip service to the condemnation of Ayatollah Khamenei, and even celebration or mockery of his death, we consider the actual consequences of this sort of dehumanization. The propaganda machine—the spectacle—is operating on all cylinders to cook up new ways to blame the cravenness and psychopathy of the ruling class on the patsy-du-jour. Will the mainstream, or even a major presidential candidate, follow Tuckkker Carlson’s lead in blaming “the joos” for controlling Trump and the American government like puppets? Alex Jones and Nick Fuentes have, as are increasing numbers of observers justifiably biased against the genocidal Israeli state. Of course blaming Jews for the crimes of the ruling class is a psyop that dates back to Tsarist Russia, and was detailed in depth by Lenin.Here on Fourth Reich Archaeology, we always seek to analyze events through the lens of the immortal science of historical materialism. Dig in and shovel up: this is no joke.Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/FourthReichArchaeology

Just three years ago, the world was shaken up by a political earthquake that's far from over yet. Outwet the Shah of Iran, in came the Ayatollah Khomeini, his mullahs and his fanatical Muslim followers, all ready to do some pretty amazing things in the name of Allah. Wholesale executions, the taking of US hostages, bombings and counter-bombings, and war with neighbouring Iraq. The headlines portray some kind of dark ages augy, a place too unsafe for foreign visitors. The fact is that for some months, most Western news teams have been banned, but we were able to get in to see for ourselves, Iran marking the third anniversary of its bloody revolution. Mr. President, it's three years since the overthrow of the Shah.

How have the people of Iran benefited from your Islamic revolution? One of the writers in our country in answering this question, what benefit did the people gain from ousting the Shah, said that I got my, our benefit was the day that the Shah left Iran, the fact that we no longer have a Shah. That's the greatest benefit that has befallen the people from the revolution. How important also is it that the American presence is now no longer being felt in this country? Shah. The Shah was an example of foreign rule within Iran.

And once the Shah is no longer here, then it's very clear that American interests are no longer here. The Imam, the Ayatala Khomeini himself, has said that your faith, Shiism, is a school. of blood and the sword, and it will remain that way till the end. That sounds very much as though the Ayatala himself is predicting more violence and bloodshed for this country. The nzharam is that, that's a human-rism be done if a people are faced by an enemy who is an aggressor, they must stand against that aggressor to the end, even if it means bloodshed.

Now that your country is an Islamic Republic, it's anti-American, Anti-Soviet, anti-Israeli, and anti-Saharab countries. Who are your friends? All of the countries that are in the world are other than those who are you've been good to be good ones. All of the countries except the ones that you have mentioned, it could become our friends.

Who is your worst enemy, Mr. President? The enemy is the President's the President fear that he may be assassinated, that there may be yet another attempt upon his life. General Ali, I feel that, God not do, but then they'll be able to try and then they're terror to,

John Mawai. We're always we're always we're always they're going to they're going to how much they're going to

be so much we are always prepared for these events but the question is whether they would be successful on that. The imperialism, as the slave system of the West is called, is not something that

that's just confined to England or France or the United States. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. It's one huge complex or combine. Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. And this international power structure is used to suppress the masses of dark-skinned people all over the world and exploit them of their natural. We found no evidence of a conspiracy, foreign or domestic. The Warren Commission was science.

I'll never apologize for the United States of America. Ever. I don't care what the facts are. In 1945, we began to require information which showed that there were two wars going. His job, he said, was to protect the Western way of life. The primitive simplicity of their minds were in their minds were in the United States. of their minds, vendors the more easy victims of a big lie than a small. For example, we're the CIA. He knows so long as I.

Freedom can never be secure. It usually takes a national crisis. Freedom can never be secure. Pearl Harbor. A lot of killers. You get a lot of killers. Why you think our country's so innocent? The CIA.

I can be a national. This is Fourth Reich. I'm Dick. And I'm Don. Welcome back, everyone. Welcome to our humble little show here in the pod sphere. We are so glad to have you here with us today. Before we get into it, as always, I want to just thank everybody. Thank you so much for continuing to support the program week after week for continuing to spread the word. And here's something I've been doing lately, Don. It's sort of been working out, so I'm going to do it again. Everyone, right. now. I know you got your phone in your hand or in your pocket or you got your computer opened up right in front of you. Please, whatever platform you are listening to us today, please, please, please, pretty please with cream cheese. Do us a great big favor. Head on over to the Fourth Reich Archaeology page on that platform that you're listening to us and give us a five-star review and leave us a kind comment, a positive review about how much you love to listen to the show.

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And do spread the word because that is really critical to helping this project grow. Don, how you doing this week? What are we going to talk about? you know, I think we would be remiss given that our ultimate goal here is to oppose imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism, as Lenin so aptly described it. We've got to address the elephant in the room. The new imperial war of aggression launched against the people of Iran. Do not believe what they say that it is solely against.

against the government and on behalf of the people of Iran, you know that these people couldn't tell the truth if they had taken an overdose of sodium pentathol. These people are inveterate liars and they are waging war against the people for death and destruction. They're barely concealing it and we would be remiss to not weigh in you know i think our iran episode contra iran that we dropped recently really unfortunately once again kind of had the finger on the pulse of the direction that things were headed in and now the horse is out of the barn and the dogs of war are barking once again. So that is what we've got on the agenda for today. You know, it's again, one of these situations where there's plenty of coverage. You'll find plenty of good takes,

a lot more bad takes, but we still feel like we have something to offer not only because you, Dick, have the background and the knowledge personally of, of the Iranian people, you know, having been to Iran, having your family network in Iran, I think that that is a good point of view to bring to our listenership because not to engage in the sort of standpoint epistemology that tells any critic of the war to shut up and listen to the diaspora freaks that are carrying pictures of Reza Pahlavi and of the M-E-K leadership as potential new overlords of a feudal vassal state of Iran as the powers that B would like to see things. But our very own diaspora dick here, I think you've got a lot to bring to the conversation.

And we also, you know, the other sort of Fourth Reich archaeology promise is, listener, we will never, we will never, ever, conceal or undermine or underestimate or deflect away from the ultimate villains in every story of imperialist aggression and colonial plunder. That is, of course, the global ruling class. You hear it every time that you start playing our episodes right from the mouth of the great, Malcolm X, that it is not so much an American power structure or a British power structure or what might be more relevant today in Israeli power structure, but a global power structure that goes by the name of capital, that goes by the name of the ruling class and who is behind every single one of these crimes against humanity.

And hopefully, listener, the analysis that we bring will help you to see that forest while not missing the trees. I love that nickname Diaspora Dick. That'll be one I carry with me from this day forth. I think before we say the magic words, I think we could cover in about two minutes if you will just indulge me all of the takes that have come out in the last week and we could just get it right out there because this will not be a podcast about your standard takes and I you know to tell you how easy it is to just sort of spit it out everyone is saying the same thing they're saying

this is clearly an Israeli war Israel is leading the charge and Donald Trump is nothing more than the opportunist that is taking the side of the Israeli government working hand in hand to see if this king Don can get another, topple another government. And the take usually goes along the lines of, like, of course, the Iranian people want this intervention. Just look at the protests in Europe and look at the protests in L.A. and look at what the Iranian people in America are saying. Of course, they want to have these imperialist powers liberate them.

And that is not the time. take we're going to give, right? Of course, there is going to be some element of that, but I think the listener will know better to know that this take in the next hour or so. It's going to be one that is rooted in history. It's going to be one that's rooted in context, and it's going to be one that's rooted in this grand theory of ours where we are focusing on this society of the spectacle, focusing on the spectacular result that is coming out of the region that is coming out of the region, that is coming out of the United States, coming out of Israel, and coming into Iran. So, yeah, ultimately rooted in the immortal science of dialectical historical materialism.

And that's the name of the game. That's what's up. That's what's up. What do you say? You want to do the honors? I say, Alex, get digging. Iran's senior leaders are dead. The so-called governing council that might have selected a successor,

dead, missing, or cowering and bunkers, too terrified to even hide the same room. Senior generals, mid-level officers enlisted ranks that can't talk or communicate, let alone mount a coordinated and sustained offensive. That's not great. We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against the American forces and we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those.

Somebody asked me a question. Did we go in because of Israel? And I said, you asked me, are you from that follow up? And I said, no, I told you this had to happen anyway. When we say the throttle's going up, the throttle's going up and it's going to stay on high. We've known for a long time that Iran had intentions on trying to kill President Trump and or other U.S. officials. Let me explain to you guys this in simple, English. Okay. Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics. They have an ambition to have nuclear weapons. They intend to develop those nuclear weapons behind a program of missiles and drones and terrorism that the world will not be able to touch them for fear of those things.

The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost and we may have casualties that often happens in war. But we're doing this, not for now. We're doing this for the future. And it is a noble mission. We pray for every service member as they selflessly risked their lives to ensure that Americans and our children will never be threatened by a nuclear-armed Iran. We ask God to protect all of our heroes in harm's way, and we trust that with his help, the men and women of the armed forces will prevail. We have the greatest in the world, and they will prevail. The Iranian Air Force is no war built for 1996, destroyed in 2026. The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.

Combat ineffective, decimated, destroyed, defeated, pick your adjective. In fact, last night, we sunk their prize ship, the Soleimani. Looks like Potus got him twice. Iran cannot outlast us. We are going to ensure through violence of action and our offensive capabilities and defensive capabilities, as I said, that we set the tone of this fight. That's why stories and speculation about different things that try to make it look like, we're limited in what we can do. The only limits we have in this is President Trump's desire to achieve specific effects on behalf of the American

people. Their Navy, not a factor. Pick your adjective, it is no more. In fact, yesterday in the Indian Ocean, and we'll play it on the screen there, an American submarine sunk in a Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters. Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo, quiet death. The first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II. Like in that war, back when we were still the war department, we are fighting to win. So Don, I wonder if you could just let me know, what is the administration saying? This past week has been exciting.

to say the least, war with Iran, the day that we all sort of saw coming for many, many years. And in some respects, I will say we've been at war with this country. The United States has been at war with this country for over, I don't know, the last 30 years, the last 40 years, since the revolution, you could say that we have had some type of war going on. But what's really interesting is what has been going on within the administration in the last time. week after the initial strikes that, I think, fittingly killed a bunch of school children in Iran. Yeah. So, I mean, I think the Democrats and the sort of liberal mainstream pundits that you see out there and the likes of Thomas Massey and your kind of libertarian elements, they're not wrong

when they say that there's no straight answer from the administration. There's no cohesive, coherent narrative that they're giving that explains what they're doing. But I do think it's worthwhile to understand exactly what they are saying. And, you know, there is a certain incoherent coherence about what they're saying. So as far as I can understand from having consumed a, harmful quantity of discourse from the members of the Trump administration over the last several days. And I say harmful because, I mean, good God, these fucking pigs, these fucking absolute disgraces to the human race that really do a dishonor to the very air that they breathe

and belong in no civilized society among human beings, which, you know, this is, don't give them an inch of sympathy, of credence, of good faith, because they have absolutely none. But what they're saying is essentially that Iran, its nuclear capabilities were destroyed in Operation Midnight Hammer, again going to Reddit to name these fucking operations, when, of course, the U.S. struck from the air with bunker busters all of these alleged underground nuclear facilities and obliterated or decimated or insert the most destructive verb you can think of here, the nuclear capabilities of Iran, which, according to the Trump

administration were being mobilized towards the creation of a nuclear weapon. And nevertheless, that did not temper in the slightest, according to their narrative, the Iranian desire to develop a nuclear weapon. But because they didn't have the capability to develop a nuclear weapon, they first needed to create a safe bubble within the, which they could create a nuclear weapon. So that's why you're hearing so much talk about Iran's conventional weapons capabilities, their ballistic missile capabilities, their mobile launch capabilities, their offensive drone manufacturing capabilities, all of the, what you'd call conventional. Even their, even their improvised weapons capabilities, right? What's in Caroline Levitt talking

about IEDs at some point? Yeah, oh yeah. They're just throwing everything in there. Yeah, exactly. So this, I'm first starting with like the most coherent narrative about it, which is simply that, you know, in order to prevent the inevitable Iranian nuclear weapons capability, you have to actually strike the regime and destroy its conventional weapons capability. that also includes to destroy the Iranian Navy and prevent the Iranians from exercising any authority over their territorial waters to disrupt global trade flows,

particularly their ability to close the strait of Hormuz, which is obviously the central vein for much of the world's oil traffic in and out of the Persian Gulf, and all of those oil-rich nations there. So that's kind of the Marco Rubio, the Elbridge Colby, of course, the grandson of William Colby, the director of the CIA, and former Southeast Asia chief of the CIA, in which capacity he oversaw the Phoenix program, a genocidal mass assassination program, to eliminate the potential resistance to the South Vietnamese puppet regime. So you see all of this family history, another topic that has been a major feature of our podcast, right? It's still playing out.

I think that many people see Elbridge Colby, this wasp-looking piece of shit on TV, and they don't necessarily clock that this guy is a multi-generational, genocidal ghoul of the U.S. deep state. We'll get back to that a little bit later when we start talking about all of the blame gaming going on, but suffice it to say for now that he is one of the more, let's say, sober and quote-unquote adult voices in the room who is discussing the military objectives. And you can think, like, you hear a lot about the generals and the brass of the military and well if the generals are on board then i guess it can't be that crazy and i guess it can't be that insane you know and with zero long-term objectives vision or leadership

you'd be wrong because the entire theory that those generals are going by is exactly what i just said which is fucking bullshit obviously because if indeed the nuclear weapons production capabilities are decimated, and as the International Atomic Energy Agency, the IAEA and the United Nations have confirmed, there are in fact no efforts underway for Iran to build nuclear weapons. The negotiations that preceded the invasion made clear. I recommend listeners check out the interview that the Omani foreign minister, who was mediating those negotiations gave on one or two days before the invasion, where he said that the Iranians had agreed in principle to zero stockpiling of fissile material, which means no nuclear weapons program full stop. So the threat that this was ultimately designed to prevent did not exist at all.

Now, the clown show of Trump and Hegseth and the goofy motherfuckers, Caroline Levitt, etc., they're just saying whatever the fuck they want. Like Trump said at some point that Iran was responsible for millions of deaths. Don't know whose. They're talking about Iran having bombed the USS Cole, which was an al-Qaeda attack carried out in the late 90s. or early 2000s, pre-9-11 al-Qaeda operation, that for those of you who've not listened to our contra-Iran first episode, you should check that out because you will understand, if you didn't already, that al-Qaeda, the Sunni extremist terrorist organization that was largely infiltrated, if not controlled by the U.S. CIA,

has nothing to do with the Shia Islam of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Government. So they have no shame about the lies that they will tell in order to justify this assault. It is not 2003 where Colin Powell goes before the UN and shakes his little test tube to put on the show for faux justification. They are just saying whatever. And for the most part, they are not being seriously challenged by the media. So I'll leave it there, Dick, and please feel free to add anything that I might have left out. Yeah, the threat I want to pick up on is this new era of war mongering and the way that the Trump administration has been going in and attacking these key figures and then going on social media. and calling on the people of the country to say, all right, the time is now.

People of X country rise up. And it's happened in Venezuela and it's happening in Iran right now where it's almost like the gig economy of revolutions or something where it's like they do a little bit of the dirty work and then they just leave it to the people of the country. And I'm wondering like what has happened in Venezuela since Nicholas Maduro was taken out other than excess profits being extracted from the country in the intervening time. And what will happen in Iran based on these calls? Absolutely nothing, right? And to me, it's like there's obviously no end goal in sight. A lot has come out in the news about how there is a total sort of

miscommunication and chaos at the level of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp, that the military in Iran and the levels of leadership are unable to coordinate effectively with each other, and that's because of these attacks that the United States and Israel has done. Well, no one's attacked the United States, and it seems like they don't need an attack to have complete chaos among the ranks because no one is giving a straight story about what they're doing in Iran and what the end goal is. Because based on who you ask, it'll be anything from, you know, nuclear disarmament, which, by the way, Iran has never had uranium enriched to the level of, you know, whatever it's required for it to be considered weapons grade and has outright said it never

intended to do that. And the people of Iran never wanted that or never want that. And, you know, the other part of it is that it's just outright regime change, right? And it's no longer something that's happening in the shadows and cloak and dagger shit. It's like outright going out, murking the leaders and telling the people, hey, go about, you know, the time is now, go about and topple the government because they're at their weakest. I don't know what Donald Trump said. He said something like, you won't get a chance like this for many, many decades to come. Yeah. And to bring it back to what the administration has been saying, too, you know, there's this artful dodge that they have deployed repeatedly where they'll be asked, what, how long are they going to be

there? How long are we going to be engaged in military operations? Are there going to be boots on the ground? Is there going to be an occupation? And consistently, the non-answer that they're giving to those types of questions is, look, we don't know what. going to happen because that depends on the Iranian people. And what we know is that we have these short-term military objectives to, in the words of Pete Hogsex, rain down death and destruction from the skies and punch them while they're down. And this guy, seriously, I loathe him. I mean, this guy doesn't belong anywhere near a school, much less a leadership of the Pentagon. position, much less near even his own wife whom he has abused repeatedly.

So as far as I can tell, the only place this guy belongs is at the pool bar at some janky resort in Cabo San Lucas. That's like the only place I could see this guy at home. Yeah. Or like trolling Daytona Beach or something. Like old school, white trash, spring break, Destin. destinations, just like tramp stamps everywhere. Yeah, you know, stepping on cigarette butts with your bare feet type of shit.

But he's, I mean, he's a great jumping off point because, you know, someone like him, and let's just turn to Rubio for a second, when Marco Rubio is saying that the government of Iran is run by fundamentalist religious fundamentalist lunatics, there's that saying, right? It's like every accusation is an admission. I think that applies here because someone like Hogshead, what is he if he's not a fundamentalist lunatic? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The whole lot of them. I mean, the Trump Council of Faith

that is populated by all these billionaire private jet flying megachurch TV personalities, just like his cabinet, it's atrocious, right? And they're talking about an apocalyptic war. You have these reports coming out from service members that are reporting on their superiors that are making reference to the book of revelations and saying that Trump has been anointed by God to set off a war of the end times of the apocalypse. You have all of these federal and state-level governmental projects to inject religion into public life everywhere, from the schools to the public square to, you know, the military, obviously. And it's the same type of shit.

You know, it's not new to the Trump administration to be sure in Iraq and Afghanistan. I mean, the infiltration of the military by the far right-wing evangelical Christian fundamentalist movement is a longstanding, long-standing project. I mean, if anybody has ever been to Colorado Springs, for example, you'll see the marriage between religion and military might in real life out there. And apparently that's going on in all the bases, and it is disturbing to say the least. But the Christian fundamentalist, oh, I would be remiss not to mention Mike Huckabee, right? Was he like ambassador or something at this point? What's his deal?

He is, yeah. Jesus Christ. Ambassador to Israel. She's and rice. And, you know, they're not wrong. When they say that this is a holy war, they're absolutely dead on right. But it's one of their own making. It's a fabrication.

It's all make-believe, right? Because you have a country like Israel, you have a country like the United States. It's plain as day that these are very much like charged religious countries, right? With the United States, you have this Christian fundamentalist bullshit. And with Israel, of course, you have this Zionism bullshit that's going on. And, you know, they're basically picking the fight. They're basically provoking the war, this holy war, against the people of the region.

And right now, the focus is, of course, on Iran. But it's beyond that, right? Let's not forget what is going on in Gaza at the moment. Let's not forget the shit that is still ongoing in Palestine. Let's not forget all the shit that's happening in Lebanon, right now, right? It's a broader regional war that's going on, this destruction that's going on, and it's 100% a one-sided thing, right? Yeah, I saw that Israel was telling the people of South Lebanon, and like, you look at the map, their definition of South Lebanon, it's like half the country,

like basically everything south of Beirut to evacuate the country to the north, signaling, a war of conquest, a war of occupation and absorption, territorial expansion of greater Israel, something that Mike Huckabee has explicitly endorsed the conquest of the territory from the river to the river. And I'm talking about the Nile all the way to the Euphrates. That is what they mean by Greater Israel. So all of Jordan, all of Syria, all of Lebanon, all of Palestine, part of Iraq. It's all going to be resort towns and pool bars for as far as the eye can see.

Skyscribers with the name Trump on them. Yeah, golf courses, McDonald's, all that shit. That's what they want. That's what they want. They're literally going out and opening up or attempting to. literally open up new markets to do their dirt, to sell their bullshit ass wares. Because apparently it's not enough to keep every single person in the United States under the thumb of the powers that be. No, they need to go out and find new markets and new people to keep under their thumb.

I think that's a good point to zoom out a little bit and talk about who's to blame for this insanity. Because it's too easy, like you said, right? It's too easy to simply take the blame Israel tack, right? the Zog, Zionist-occupied government narrative, like a Candice Owens, for example, and just say, this is Bibi Netanyahu's war, or this is Israel's war, and he dragged the U.S. into it, unwittingly or unwillingly or against U.S. interests or whatever. Or like tricked Donald Trump or whatever, yeah. Yeah, it's a real.

effective way of covering up the nature of the system that allows this type of thing to happen. What does that mean? That means that, yes, obviously Israel has a very strong interest. You know, you said Iran has never been close to having nuclear weapons, yet that hasn't stopped Netanyahu from lying and saying that they have been a week away, a month away, two weeks away, whatever. Didn't he address Congress once? He, like, addressed Congress with a bunch of, like, pie charts, and he did, like,

his bullshit Colin Powell moment where he, like, was like, they're a day away, they're a week away from enriching the uranium. Oh, many more times than once. If not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon. in a very short time. It could be a year. It could be within a few months. They have the wherewithal,

the stored up preserved knowledge to make a bomb very quickly if they wanted to do it. Iran is so dangerous. Weeks away from having the fissile material for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs. They're very close. They're six months away from being about 90% of having the rich uranium for an atom bomb.

Iran is gearing up to have to produce 25, bombs, atomic bombs a year, 250 bombs in a decade. Ladies and gentlemen, time is running out. Iran will be capable of producing alone, without importing anything, nuclear bombs within three to five years. And again, like, how can you call this the only democracy in the Middle East? Like, typically don't democracies not have the same fucker in charge for 30 fucking years? Because, yeah, sure, he's like cycled in and out a few times, whatever, but he's been,

at the seat of power going back decades upon decades, and it's always been the same old shit that Iran is on the cusp of having nuclear weapons, and a moment that they do, they're going to use them irrationally to wipe Israel off the face of the map. Utter fucking bullshit. So we're not trying to minimize the role of Israel or the strength and vehemence of Israel, of Israel's desire to do this thing, to change the regime, to turn Iran into Iraq, to turn it into a civil war hellhole, war of all against all, inciting ethnic tensions, inciting religious tensions, inciting whatever will keep the people of Iran suffering and unable to pose any

sort of challenge to Israeli hegemony in the Middle East. Yes, that is absolutely a fact. However, it's not as though anybody in the U.S. ruling class is forced with a gun to their head to support the irrational actions of a rogue state that happens to be a ally and a proxy for the U.S. military machine. And in fact, like you were just saying, there's tremendous money-making potential in the region for the same reason that there was in 1953, oil, and for the same reason that there is in all of the Gulf states where all of this billionaire money is going, where billionaires from all over the world are moving to flee taxes and to live it up on the influencer lifestyle. And you hear just horror story after horror story of the enslaved workers from India, Pakistan,

and Bangladesh, right, in the Gulf Arab states like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, whatever. that is the type of economic model that the ruling class is intent on expanding. It's the same thing that they have attempted with these so-called prosperity cities in Latin America, in Honduras, right? It's a libertarian fantasy come to life in a lot of ways that has been in the works, in the laboratory for several decades by now, and this is yet another opportunity to essentially steamroll swathes of new territory. What really I can't quite wrap my head around still is the fact that it seems so unrealistic

that fantasy in a place like Iran, home to 90 million. inhabitants with thousands of years of culture, thousands of years of history behind them, and a strong will to independence, just can't really see them rolling over and paving the way to the burger rickification of Iran. So I don't know, you know, how rationally these people are thinking, but then again, I also don't think that they have long-term plans. They are operating on a shortened timeline. What do you think, Dick?

Exactly. I don't think that there is a goal inside. I think right now the idea is to just go in and bomb some shit and get oil prices to go up to help the oil interest to turn some profit real quick. And of course, the stated goal is regime change. I don't see a reality where that regime change is anything different than what we're getting out of Iran right now. You mentioned, you know, it's a country with 100 million people, something close to 100 million people, but also very nationalistic, right? There are people that love their country very much, their country over any sort of foreign interest.

And that has been the case for very long time. And if you listen to our contrary Iran episode, the very first one, it's been the case for the entirety of the 20th century and well into the 21st century now. But this idea that they will bend the knee to outside influence, it is just such an a historical way of looking at things. right and you can just take a look at what has happened in the last hundred years in the country and that move towards having some sort of self-determination of the Iranian people and having an actual democracy an actual a government that serves the people of Iran and you'll see right like the supreme leader may be dead right al-a-homene may be dead it's not like all of a sudden next week we're going to get a secular Iran, right? That'll never. I don't think that'll happen in my lifetime. I would be

very surprised if I see something that is, you know, looks like the UAE or looks like Qatar or whatever, where you have this ruling class. And then for by and large, you know, the Europeans and the Westerners can come in and live their sort of decadent Western life. Yeah. And you've been doing some research on Iranian public opinion too, which I think is pretty interesting. And perhaps now is a good time to bring some of that up. Yeah. So, you know, there are very, it's, as you can imagine, there are very few sort of public opinion polls that are out there. And I was able to find one study. It's this organization called Gammon. I don't know much about the guy that does it, but it's this guy out in Europe in the Netherlands that is apparently doing these opinion polls of people in the country through the internet.

And I think through VPN, right? So these are like unofficial reports coming out of the country. They're not state sanctioned. And so I take it with the grain of salt. But some of these numbers, I very much believe. And the first couple of things I'll talk about, it like makes me. It sort of reinforces this notion that, like, yeah, maybe the Iranian government will one day be something different than what we're seeing today. But it will never be a situation where they will openly accept the Israeli government or openly accept the United States as a power that is able to sort of foster or cultivate within the country.

And the main one is, if you ask overall, this population of Iranians in Iran, something like 30,000 people were polled of them, nearly half, something like 47% said that they had a somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable view of the country of Israel. And 38% said that they have somewhat favorable or somewhat favorable or very favorable. favorable view of Israel and 13% abstained from, you know, rendering any opinion. But to me, when I look at that, it's like clear as day, right? Like almost half of the country. And I bet, you know, it's probably even more than that. They'll never be in a place where they view the country of Israel favorably. Yeah. And I would just add, like, you know, you mentioned that this was limited to online people, so people with access to a VPN, which already kind of cuts out a lot of the rural population, a lot of the poor population, and obviously class considerations

will skew such that, I would guess, that that is substantially over-representative of, you know, the rich people in Iran or, you know, people who have that access are going to be more favorable towards Israel and the United States than would the rural population, the poor population, the people that don't have access to a VPN. Yeah. And the reason I sort of believe this polling is because when you look at like these people were asked how they view countries like Russia. in the UK. And the responses there are what really lend me to believe, like, okay, these results

have some truth to them because it's something like 70% of respondents said that they viewed Russia somewhat unfavorably or very unfavorably. And the same number, right, like 60, 67, 65% viewed the UK somewhat unfavorably or very unfavorably. And if you listen to, our first episode in this series, Contra, Iran, and you listen to our sort of take of the historical take, you will see why that is, right? Why the Iranian people view Russia and the UK so unfavorably. Interestingly enough, they also view China unfavorably at a rate of close to 60% of respondents saying that they view China either somewhat unfavorably or very unfavorably, which I think a lot of what's coming out in the news nowadays is, you know, if they're not talking about this regional

war, this, you know, Christian Zionist Islamic war, they are mentioning how this is really a play for China. And I, you know, looking at these numbers, it's hard to see how the, you know, how Iran will play into that. Yeah, I mean, if anything, it seems like China is just sitting back and watching the U.S. expend its military stockpiles and watching the U.S. burn whatever remaining international credibility it had. Although that's a point that I think we should also discuss a little bit because the people of the world seem to be pretty much lined up against this war. But the governments, with the exception of the of, I think, Spain, the European Union governments are all on board.

And nobody else is making much of a peep. Yeah. I think it's like Canada and Australia have both made public statements saying that they're not taking anything off the table, right? Fucking Mark Carney, yeah. Mr. the unipolar U.S. era is over if you know what I'm talking about. Never trust a central banker or president. But just going back to these like public appearance.

Indian, the polls, there's a stark contrast between these numbers and what we're seeing in the media narratives, right? Like, if you were to just look at what the diaspora is saying in the United States, you would think that, like, the Iranian people have been taken hostage for 40 years, and now this is this grand moment of liberation. And actually, the truth is, is that the Iranians love Israel and they love the United States. And while it's true, right, like the people of Iran certainly have, like, a fondness towards American culture. and Americans, it's also definitely true that they have a real disdain towards these governments. And, you know, the one, like, solid truth is that if you're looking at just the sort of diaspora take in the United States,

you're looking at a very skewed take, a take that is of the upper echelons of Iranian society. It's the people who were quite well off during the monarchical. times and the people who would very much like to go back to that, right? And so what I'll say to you, listener, is that you should always take that with a grain of salt. A heaping grain, a very large spoonful. And I can say that, you know, I did spend a little bit of time over the weekend among the diasporaids in their manifestations, in their protest in a major American city, where they came out in numbers, in numbers, I would say in the low hundreds, but, you know, talking triple digits here. and many Israeli flags among them, many photos of the Shah among them. And when I would try to engage folks in conversation, it was pretty interesting because this was, you know, after the girls' school had been bombed.

And of course, if you don't know already, right, one of the largest casualty centers of this war so far, was the bombing of a girl's school where the last I saw was like over 150, which of course very on brand for Israel to target children and murder them and on brand for the U.S. too, to be sure. But I was leading with that question, right? Like, okay, what do you make of the fact that they blew up a girl school? You know, how do you justify that? And besides being called a terrorist and a rapist and a murderer and everything, right? Because, you know, I was out there wearing my kofia. So after receiving insults, which was all I got from many people that I tried to speak with. So you mean not even, no one had the decency to even say freedom isn't free?

How fucking crazy is that? That's what that's... It's pretty crazy. They didn't have the decency to say that. And instead, what they did say was simply, that's the fault of the Ayatollah. That's the fault of the Islamic Republic. That's the fault of the Iranian government. You know, it's the exact same playbook that the Hasbara, the Zionist lobby and its media assets have used to attribute the mask.

casualties, the mass murder of children and civilians in Gaza to say every single one of those is the fault of Hamas, right? That's what you hear over and over and over again. And they just took the exact same structure and superimposed it on Iran already. The ones who engaged past exchanging insults, they were eager to say, so I would ask them, you know, what's going to happen next? Like, you know, do you have a long-term vision for this? Like, or is this just going to be World War III? Is this just another Iraq war? And the response that I got to that prompt was largely, no, it's going to be a democracy. It's going to be like it was before the Islamic Revolution.

The Shah is going to return. And prosperity and democracy will once again, prevail in a U.S. allied Iranian government. That sounds like some bullshit. Well, exactly. This is why I bring it up because you just went through exactly why that is way off the table. Like, there's no fucking way. Well, first of all, that was a monarchy, right?

Where very few enjoyed the trappings of the Western sort of elite. And everyone else was very poor and very hungry all the time. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And the reality is, is there was, you know, the people didn't have that self-determination. They didn't have that voice. They didn't have that representative democracy. And that's the very reason why they stood up and did what they did in in 79, right? And that's why I think that, like, I would be shocked if the outcome of this is a complete regime change. I think the most realistic outcome is something. far worse than what we've seen out of the region. Exactly. And that's, I think, a moment where we can kind of zoom out on it and look to what might happen next. I think, obviously, you know, Hegeseth has been clear that the goal is maximum destruction, right?

He's using this just vomit-inducing language of hyper-masculine, you know, conquest and destruction. It echoes the pro-colonialist agenda that Marco Rubio articulated in his Munich speech. And listeners to this program, if you want an encapsulation of what it means to be the Fourth Reich, look at the entirety of Rubio's Munich speech, because that is World War II Nazi level bullshit fascism on full display, full display talking about how the problem with the post-colonial world order is not that it was not equitable towards the victims of the slavery,

trade and of colonial exploitation and conquest and rape and plunder no the problem is that the perpetrators of colonialism the perpetrators of imperialist domination they were too soft started to feel bad about it yeah I'm not even exaggerating a bit you're talking about the it's like the Munich Security Council speech right is that the one yeah yeah but listener bonus points if you listen to it at 1.5x speed, because that's when it really gets funny. When he starts talking, he starts speaking like Mighty Mouse, that's, that's the, that's when it gets really entertaining. Yeah. And this, you know, Cuban guy talking about how his ancestors were in the kingdom of Sardinia.

Just, just totally identifies with the white, conqueror and excuse any possible identification with the people of the third world of the victims of colonialism. It's really unbelievable. And this is the mentality that they're bringing to this Iran operation, the same that they did to the so-called Don Roe doctrine and the Venezuela operation. and ultimately what I think that they truly believe off Mike and, you know, out of the camera view, is a combination of what they're saying, right? I think that they do have no regard for the humanity of the people under their bombs, of the people that they are murdering and conspiring to murder en masse, right? Do not forget. they're committing mass murder.

They're committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. And this is yet another round of criminal activity that if there's any semblance of justice in the world, all of these people need to be brought before a Nuremberg-like tribunal and, you know, strung on up for their fucking crimes. There should be no quarter given to these absolute criminals. But what they're thinking outside of the reach of the cameras is that the same thing that they're thinking about what they're going to do with an American population that can no longer support the continuous inflation caused as a result of the whims and the disorganization and insanity of. the ruling class and an American population that will inevitably realize that the spending of the tax dollars that they're paying to their government is not being used in their interest, is not being

directed towards their well-being, but towards the enrichment of this extremely, extremely violent and psychotic. And I don't mean that metaphorically. I mean that literally psychopathic, diagnosable psychotic ruling class. And that vision is, you know, you'll have total surveillance, you'll have total informational awareness, you'll have Palantir everywhere, and you'll have a large mercenary force to enforce in any areas that the robot killer drone, bones can't. And you will essentially live under the lash with the carrot on offer of bullshit, of, you know, unlimited AI slop streaming right into your eyeballs.

Cheeseburgers, literally cheeseburgers. Literally bullshit ass cheeseburgers and, you know, your six inch by three inch, screen device that you prefer over anything else in the world. That might have sounded like a crazy conspiracy theory a year ago, five years ago, 10 years ago. Now I don't think that even your man on the street or woman on the street would think that that's crazy. I think that you go up to anybody and say, hey, would you agree that our ruling class

wants to put us all into little pods to consume AI slop while they suck our life force and profit off of it so that they can live out deranged and ultimately extremely stupid and banal fantasies. I think that, you know, nine people out of ten or eight or seven at least, depending on where you're at, would say, yep, I agree. I think that's what their end game is. Nothing I can do about it. And that is, I think, what we need to change. That is what we need to target.

That there's nothing I can do about it. Peace of the thought process. Because I really, really? Just going to put up with this shit? No, be who's going to put up with this shit? So, Godi, Delah Dile be

So, so that's scenario, right. So that's scenario one, right? And I think that is very much

the end game. It's very basic folks. They want you to continue scrolling on your phones to collect as much data about you as possible so that they can keep you scrolling on your phones and to extract as much of your hard-earned dollars on the day to day and feed you nutrient dense and very very caustic foods. And they want to do that very much so. And that is definitely an end goal. But let's say things don't work out the way that they wanted to work out. Let's say that this thing takes a turn. The war, the so-called war, drags on for a little too long,

and the American people start to get a little sour on the dynamic duo that is the American-Israeli alliance. What happens next on? Well, I think that for that answer, we could ask the enemy of the pod, not friend of the pod, old Tucker Carlson. Because this is precisely the lane that he is trying to carve out for himself and whatever segment of the population aligns with him even when it butts up against the, Republican Party and the Trump administration, which, you know, he still, I think, supports fundamentally. He was in the room at the White House, after all, when they were talking about options in Iran. He is always courting favor with Trump, obviously spoke at the Republican

Convention, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? Like, the guy is not an outsider, much less a dissident, nevertheless, he is parting ways from the administration on Iran. And I, once again, so that you don't have to listen or subjected myself to the unpleasant experience of listening to his recent broadcast about Iran. And essentially, his point of view is that the evangelical Christian Zionists are not only insane, no disagreement there, they are antichrist, they are demonic. He actually said, I don't know what Mike Cuckabee's theology is, but I know it's demonic, which, you know, that's the closest, it's maybe the closest I've come to respecting something that Tucker says.

Still not going to let him off the hook, though, because his big thesis, His overarching point is that Israel is the tail wagging the dog of the United States, of the Trump administration, pulling, kicking and screaming, you know, the victimized American government into a war that is fundamentally contrary to U.S. national interests and to U.S. national security. and, you know, he, as he always does, right, makes a lot of accurate points, not just those points about the demonic nature of Mike Huckabee, of Trump's spiritual advisor Paula White, and of the whole Christian Zionist click. He also accurately connects this to the historical suppression of information. about the deep state. He talks in his episode about 9-11, about the JFK assassination.

But of course, the sort of scratch, keep scratching, keep scratching. And underneath it all, the picture is once again, like, insinuating that all of these things were done by Israel, were done to pull one over on the United States, and that eventually it's Israel that's going to jump. ship, abandon the United States, join up with Asians, with India, and with China to form another block whereby Israel exercises hegemony in the Middle East, thanks to its successful manipulation of the American armed forces in its favor. And it will then, you know, rely for trade relationships and for economic relationships and whatever on the ascendant superpower of China

and to a lesser extent India, which is obviously home to a lot of pro-Israel enthusiasm. So what's wrong with that picture? Well, you know, you could see a scenario where the actual war fighting goes horribly wrong for the U.S. and Israel, where, or more so for the U.S., but also for Israel, you know, where Iranian bombs are hitting civilian or even worse, like, potentially important major strategic targets. And more than that, you know, drawing U.S. troops into another quagmire situation. and waking up the populace that, oh, hey, while you were going about your daily activities, without really even knowing what's going on, we did another Iraq war.

Like, it's been commented on a lot that the lead-up to and execution of the initiation of this war happened a lot faster than, and a lot more kind of behind the scenes than did the lead-up to the war. in Iraq in 2002, 2003. And I think that, you know, there is a delay where at some point when things drag out, when prices start to go up, when global commerce flows are affected, when oil prices increase, when the price of everything that you buy goes up even more once again. and the reason for it is because the U.S. started an unnecessary war in Iran, they want to set up a fall guy, a patsy, if you will, or trying to think of what the Yiddish equivalent of patsy would be. A schmuck.

Yeah, yeah, a schmuck. A putz. A putzy, there you go. A patsy. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. Like, you know, and they're already, to some extent, we're seeing some of that, right? But you see more of this, like hitting the data centers, hitting the airports, hitting the oil fields, hitting the economic channels that are so critical for making this postmodern capitalist hellscape operate and creating enough discomfort. seeing soldiers coming home in body bags never never downplay that right seeing enough soldiers coming home in body bags and not to mention perhaps even an attack on American soil right that shit goes down and things could turn pretty quickly I think especially because as you say like

they don't this isn't like the Iraq war hell for the Iraq war they had congressional approval right they're sort of getting the negative of that with the war powers resolution uh this time around where it's like you know congress tried to push through a war powers resolution bringing a halt to this and that can't happen right they couldn't get that through and so it's sort of the negative of that um but to your point it's like time will tell uh but i think from from my standpoint i think from your standpoint, it's very easy to see how things could get ugly as the weeks turn into months and things sort of continue on the path we're on. Yeah. Yeah. And that could result in somebody like J.D. Vance or even other members of the administration throwing Israel under the bus and saying

they gave us bad intelligence, blah, blah, blah. I mean, you already saw Rubio kind of let the cat out of the bag and say, Israel told us they were going to attack Iran no matter what. And so we preemptively attacked to prevent Iran from retaliating against Israel. So there is already like the factual crumbs that lead to the narrative of this is Israel's war and they strung us along into it. Absolutely. And not only that, like, I'm not even convinced they necessarily need to do any of that, like, throwing them under the bus on the official line, right? I think the public sentiment will be such that the people will have sort of soured on this war and soured on the nation of Israel, that it doesn't matter what's coming out of the administration. Like the American people will have turned on it in such a way that there wouldn't necessarily even need to be some public statement about, you know, whose fault? it is because you have the people, because you have the mouthpieces like, you know, Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and all the, um, terrible, terrible pundits out there. Even Alex Jones and Nick Fuentes, I saw came to agreement that, yeah,

yep, it was Israel. I didn't want to believe it. I didn't want to believe it. But I can't come to any other conclusion that Israel was Israel, bringing the U.S. into the war. So what do we do now, Nick Fuentes? And so it is the infrastructure is being built to roll out that narrative. And playing it forward in time, right, it's not necessarily, and I think it never would, lead to an actual break of the U.S.-Israeli relationship.

Instead, I think that the fomensual. of Jew hatred as a proxy for actual structural critique of the colonial project known as Zionism has always been a project of the global ruling class in the interests of capital. Of course, the critique that Alex Jones, Tucker, and Candice are all putting forward is it's the Jews, global jury, whatever you want, and that that can easily, lead to some kind of a major false flag, perhaps against a civilian Jewish-American target. You know, we've seen it in the past, certainly with targeting of synagogues and not saying that those are necessarily false flags, but you could see how that might come out of this

and gin up, one, more surveillance, more repression, more anti-Semitism boogeyman to crack down on descent, and two, to reaffirm and reinforce and re-ignite the love fest between the U.S. and its bulldog of the Middle East, the Israeli regime, maybe under the leadership of somebody who's not Netanyahu, who, you know, you also see a lot of scapegoating of him personally. And I think that that in itself is a very thoughtful ploy to permit the continuation of the exact same policies. And of course, the Israeli political spectrum does not veer far away from Netanyahu's politics, right? It's not like there's an Israeli peace movement waiting in the wings to take over. It would be continuing the same shit under a different face.

Yeah, if anything, he's just trying to get the, you know, he's just trying to get the last little bit out and be sort of the sin-eater, so to speak, of this era and get as much dirt done. and I think he's fully aware and probably down with the fact that he's going to go down, you know, as a sacrificial lamb in this whole thing, right? Internally within the country. Yeah. But meanwhile, you know, this could be an opportunity for the end of the evil empire of the Amerisraeli regime. because as we've kind of been hammering home throughout this entire discussion,

there is not a really rational plan that looks palatable to the average person. It's going to get much, much worse over time, and there certainly is not a democratic horizon at the end of this thing. There certainly is not a reality where the global economy does not take a massive hit, right? Who knows if it will rise to crisis levels? But I think that this is something that all of us should think very, very seriously about of, you know, what do we do when our enemies, are weak, you know? And I think for one, right, the biggest enemy of progress right now is silence.

And the Democrats have been, once again, pathetically feeble revealing their identity, not as an opposition party, but as a controlled opposition, as a spectacular opposition, as a mere water carrier for empire that perhaps uses a more attractive vessel to carry that water in, or at least a vessel that appears more attractive to a third of the population or half the population or whatever. But essentially, the Democrat line is, well, you know, it's objectively, undeniably a good thing that the evil Supreme Leader of Iran is dead and the world is a better place now that he's dead. But Trump didn't go to Congress and therefore he broke the Constitution. Like, fuck all the way off with that bullshit spineless ass of a narrative.

We need to call this filth for what it is and we need to keep it on the tip of the tongue. Like, seriously, never miss an opportunity to bring. bring up the fact that with absolutely no justification, with no legitimate pretext, with no long-term plan, and with a high likelihood of massive cost, not only in lives, in dollars, in suffering, in pain, in destruction, this criminal, criminal regime of the United States, a fanatical religious regime of the United States has dragged the U.S. into yet another endless regime change war in the Middle East after having campaign. I mean, obviously we didn't believe any of the campaign promises at the time, of course,

but after having at least ostensibly promised to not do the thing that they're doing. like silence is their friend silence is their they're relying on it in fact to just stay out of people's consciousness so that it's diminished as an event to the equivalent of the academy awards the Super Bowl the Olympics whatever right it's like just another thing that's happening totally and to sort of keep their hands clean of it when this cycle this new cycle is over with, they can sort of just sweep it on the rug and move on. Right, right. So be prepared, you know, because the economic consequences will come. So get your narratives in shape, you know, sharpen up the analytical lens, and speak, speak to the people that you know,

and try to do something about it because, you know, it's not going to be your big mass mobilization and marches, which never have happened to some small degree, but on orders of magnitude, smaller scale than what we saw in 2003 with Iraq, right? Like, this is, there's nothing like the global response. This has got to be something different. It's got to correspond to this moment, and we could all use some time and some energy that we have in our lives, set it aside and spend it thinking about taking advantage of this moment, of imperial overreach, of imperial hubris. I mean, if anybody is a fan of Greek tragedy, you know, it's the inverse. of the, you ever read those ones, the, the Persian war tragedies, like the tragedy of Xerxes.

Sure. Yeah, the Peloponnesian War. Yeah. And there, you know, the moral was that the Persian emperor over did it, overshot his load. And he met an ignominious fate as a result. and we've got to make sure that that happens to these fuckers. We can't let them get away with this. Yeah, and never forget, the answer to a regime that is killing thousands of its own people

is not to go out and kill another thousands of their own people, right? This is, they can never be a good result because it seems like that, I mean, it seems like that's what is going on, but the utter hypocrisy of that, of that is, it cannot stand. What we need right now is a little more love and a lot more understanding. Yeah, but the kind of love that, you know, friend of the pod, Jesus Christ, brought to the money changers when they set up shop in the temple.

The kind of love that looks like a sword. Yeah, yeah, don't be afraid to rage. before we sign off there was a take so obviously everyone's talking about how this is all just a cover-up for the Epstein files and how Trump is doing this to protect against the Epstein file release and all that bullshit but there's a take that no one is talking about and it's my take and I'm going to give it to you all right now and that is that it's not lost on me that we are I think a hundred days away from the World Cup and if you know anything about the World Cup You know that the United States and Iran have a glorious rivalry on the world stage.

I think the U.S. has beat Iran one time most recently in Qatar. But before that, the Iranians were undefeated. And if there's one thing I know about my man Trump is that he is a big time cheater. He likes to cheat. and I would not put it past this motherfucker to have started this bullshit to make sure that the Iranians don't face off with the Americans in the World Cup this summer. Maybe among other, among other,

nefarious aims. And but when you told me about this take, what I said was to, confirm or deny it, check out and see because we know that Mossad is and has been deeply embedded in Iranian society. It was deeply embedded in those protests, some of which were indeed violent, you know, to provoke the type of violent response from the government that we saw. And so look out because you've got to think that Mossad is doing a lot of the targeting. here and so check and see you know it are athletes getting killed targeting not only nuclear

scientists but coming soon they're going to be targeting the uh midfielders yeah yeah yeah and and you know it didn't come up at all in our discussion i feel like it's it's a important thing to just mention before we sign off sorry to keep on extending the end here but you know Another thing to rage against and to really exercise zero tolerance for is this notion that has been peddled in the mainstream media, including the liberal, quote unquote, liberal media, right? Or at least what Trump calls liberal media of CNN, NBC, et cetera, et cetera. that the crazy actor here, the irrational actor here is Iran for launching strikes against the Gulf Coast, the Gulf Arab states, and hitting quote-unquote civilian targets like hotels.

So for one, obviously, those hotels are not civilian targets when they're housing massive numbers of military personnel. And for two, all of the targets, it's not it's not like a a random lashout or crash out that iran is engaged in they are hitting military targets because the u.s has surrounded their entire country with military bases all over the place in several different countries so like i don't know if you saw this dick John Stewart with like a spray tan was on a fucking rant about how Iran is just like attacking all of its neighbors and going totally 80. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Without mentioning that all of its neighbors are like tightly allied with the United States and Israel and are housing their soldiers and are housing their bases and all of that. Exactly. So like I'll give him the benefit of the doubt to John Stewart and just.

just say that he's a fucking idiot, fucking moron, as he always has been, but is now just like doesn't even try to learn a goddamn thing and just is high off the smell of his own fucking farts. But that's another thing that like if, you know, I've found it to be a good jump off point in conversation over the last few days if somebody's like, oh, like, I have a relative who was supposed to go to Dubai and had to cancel their trip because of this. And, you know, it's like, oh, yeah, it was so reckless and insane for the U.S. and Israel to start this absolutely unjustified war of aggression that is blowing back on your relatives' poor little vacation to Dubai. You know, you know what's reckless and insane? Having slave labor in order to have like an indoor ski resort in your country.

That's reckless and insane. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean, just, it's intuitive. I think people get it. I think most people aren't that fucking stupid. And a lot of times it just takes a little push to get past the layer of fear.

that the propaganda machine, that the society of the spectacle, has imposed in the minds, in the mental architecture, in the very neurological synaptic circuitry of the American brain, all it takes a little push, and underneath that is the capacity to, if not take action, at least be open to that sweet, sweet, communist truth that all the global working class, all the workers of the world have to lose is their chains. And with that, I'm Don. I'm Dick.

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