Peak Prosperity - Red Wedding Diplomacy: Iran’s Strike and Trump’s Promises

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

This week’s Signal Hour discusses escalating tensions between Israel and Iran, reminiscent of the Iraq War, with ethical and legal concerns over Israel’s strikes on Iranian civilians and scientists. The show critiques the shift from diplomacy to military action, likening it to the Red Wedding from Game of Thrones. It also covers unfulfilled political promises, the military-industrial complex’s role in conflicts, and the potential for catastrophic escalation, including nuclear threats.Click Here for the Peak Prosperity Annual Summit

The following is the audio version of a video released at peakprosperity.com. Visit peakprosperity.com to watch the video and to find other insightful content such as articles, discussion forums, and exclusive subscriber-only content. Hello everyone and welcome to this Signal Hour where we find the signal amongst all the noise. And boy, it's been a noisy week. We have a lot to talk about today and it's going to be a packed show again we're probably gonna have to run just a tiny bit long because we have to talk about this whole crazy drive back to war. It's got all the same flavors that we had back if you're old enough like I am to remember the Iraq War. Oh no weapons of mass destruction it's an urgent thing. We can't ask questions now. We'll bomb now and ask questions later.

We have to, you don't understand existential threat. We're going through another one of those right now. Surprise, coincidentally, the Ukraine war has sort of been given up as a lost function. So we have a new hot one. And we have to talk about Trump's promises. Where are we on the Trump agenda with all that big mandate? And then finally, what's not being talked about here

as we go through all of this? And maybe, maybe with just a maybe if we get there, Evie. Maybe. Maybe. Good afternoon, everybody. Good to be here with you. Maybe we'll take a little cheap shot at Jacinda Arden who deserves every cheap shot. Yeah, let's do it.

All right. Sounds great. Okay, so let's get started here right now. This is our agenda for today. This is where we start right here. Israel strikes Iran, of course, unless you've been under a rock, you know all about this. So this is what happened right here on June 6th. Easy for me to say, June 6th.

Okay, it's the 12th, 18th today. So what are we, six days into this, 12 days into this, right? Right. So no, this wasn't gonna be quick and painless. It was clear Iran had a point of view, which was, hey, we'll just start bombing these things. First, Trump said he didn't know about it.

Then he said he did know about it. Marco Rubio said we didn't, then we did. Right. We were in on it. We were helping, we weren't helping. It turned out we were in on it, I guess if you go with the latest thing, but, but this is an astonishing thing because it meant we were inactive negotiations. Right. And just to this to just bomb and kill a lot of people the night before those negotiations were supposed to actually start. So if any of you have seen Game of Thrones, you'll understand the Red Wedding reference, right?

Where the Stark family is invited in, they're gonna get married, they're gonna get these two warring families finally to agree to stuff. They invite the whole other family in. Right. Yay, we don't have a union, we're safe. The wine is flowing, everybody's enjoying each other.

And then? The knives come out and they killed everybody So this is this to me is the red wedding approach to negotiating such as it is And and here you can see some things on this map. They did a lot of strikes there They hit so those red dots are people Scientists that they specifically targeted. It's not illegal Yes in the Nuremberg like the treaties that came out of that? You would think but you know they said oh oh oh the existential threat is so great what we have to do is we have to

stop their nuclear capabilities. You would think you would bomb the nuclear sites some of those actually got bombed those are okay the yellow dots on there around the tons here let me get like when you say nuclear abilities you're not talking about their ability to make a bomb you're talking about there. That's what they're saying. That is what they're saying. Well, ostensibly, that's the story is we're going to find out as we go through this today, I'm going to make the case. That's not what this was. It's not like an energy center. No, they're producing electricity. They wanted so Iran wanted to have nuclear for a variety of reasons. One, research medicine is one branch,

and the second would be for power. It makes imminent sense. Everybody should use nuclear for power. It's the best thing ever. And we'll all figure that out again at some point. And then they took out a whole bunch of military targets and nuclear, but here's the thing. Here's the thing, Evie.

Here's what they did. So here's who they killed at a minimum. Wow. As a first strike. So major generals, they took out the major generals. These are the top military commanders, chief of staff of Iran's armed forces. Yep. I'm not even going to try to say most of these names. Ten reki, reki, senior physicist and nuclear scientists, another top nuclear scientist, nuclear scientist specializing in chemical engineering, nuclear scientist, blah blah blah. Wow, there are a lot. All right. So, and look, a flight attendant, a painter, they killed at least 78 people

that we know about. 31 deaths on the first day. Yep. Okay. All right. So, so, so let's, so they say, look, it was an existential threat. We had to do it. What if tonight China said, hey, the UK with Bill Gates has decided that they're going

to try and dim the sun. We consider that to be an existential threat to humanity. And so here's what we're gonna do we wake up the next morning and London has been bombed comprehensively, right and Climate scientists have just been targeted specifically in their homes and killed Along with any rocket scientists or anybody who could put stuff up there. We would go wow not how you do this Could you talk to us first? Right, right

You don't just start by killing people because I don't know who needs to hear this stuff up there. We would go, wow, not how you do this. Could you talk to us first? Right, right. You don't just start by killing people because I don't know who needs to hear this, but when you kill somebody, you tend to turn them into an enemy, not into somebody who's open to negotiations. After that, that's true. That's true. You totally closed that door. Well, you do. And it's just, yeah, for generations, unless you're completely tone deaf to speaking what we call human, right? You understand that when you kill people you make them into enemies, they're survivors into enemies, not into

compliant subjects, just how it is. So, at any rate, you know, okay, see this? This is it, Natanz. So this is the nuclear facilities. Here they are, driving bunker busters. People are driving like, boom, like, here we go. And shall we read this, what it says on the side here? Sure. It says Israel struck Iran's Natanz nuclear facility with bunker busters supplied by the United States. Imagine radiation levels rise causing cancer and birth defects. This is what the West and Israel does. Yep. They

have no right to tell anyone they can't have nukes. To be clear, only one country has used nukes in an offensive capability. That's the United States, right? Israel is not a signatory on the Non-Proliferation Treaty. They have anywhere from an estimate of 400 to 400 nukes, probably on the high end of that. So they already have them. They're just saying, we don't want anybody around us to have them unless they already have them. Like Pakistan. What do you can do about Pakistan? They're an Islamist state. They got a lot of nukes.

So nobody says anything. North Korea already has nukes. We're like, ah, what are you gonna do, right? But if you're on the way to getting them, they're like, no, no, no, that's when it becomes totally unacceptable. We have to demonize you and say that, of all the people in the world,

you can't be trusted with these things because you're just cray cray. All right, so at any rate, this is a very long old complicated story, but this is so China. China's senior spokesperson We strongly condemn Israelis' attack on Iran. This is a violation of the Iran sovereignty and territorial integrity and we are particularly concerned that they are attacking nuclear facilities, which is another red line that Israel has crossed. Another red line. Another red line. I'd have to agree with him. Yep.

Yeah, it's another red line. Not one, another, and it's a red line. So China's already involved in this too. They've been sending cargo planes over. We don't know what's on them, but they have an interest in what's unfolding here as well. But from a larger... Backing up Iran. Can we just back up? So the larger diplomatic story here is that Trump came in and said, you have 60 days to come to the table. Look, we've been negotiating with Iran for decades around their nuclear ambitions, right? Yeah, most of my lifetime.

He says, I'll give you 60 days, right? But he didn't say, I'll give you 60 days, right? But you say I'll give you 60 days or we're gonna start killing you in your homes and Bombing you as much as possible. So but this is not how you do negotiations. This is not diplomacy, right? Right. Yeah, plus they thought they were coming the next day To meetings. So what do you mean? You didn't come to the table? It's not that you didn't come to the table. So you didn't come to the table fast enough? Right. They were already at the table. That's bad faith right there. Very bad faith. That's not. Israel is not agreement capable either. I think the US has has shown itself to be that. Not agreement capable, meaning you're just going to do whatever you're going to and of course Putin is accused the US of the West generally and he has good reason to

yeah but so go back on our word Israel just did yeah all the time we okay so let's just go through now the FAFO I hope everybody understands what that means but this is what it looks like when they're inbound. Did you see all that? Look. Look at that. This is what it's like in Tel Aviv. That was an interception. But you see those little lines coming up? There's some rising. Yeah, I guess we lost her.

All right. So A, there's lots and lots coming in. And Iran has. A there's lots and lots coming in and is Iran has We got here Don You're a liar Israel has not targeted civilians the people were given warning and time to leave to Ron They targeted Don Don stop just stop you're being a moron here. They targeted scientists. Those are civilians These are people they have jobs, they have families, they have dogs and cats, they get up in the morning,

they go to work, Dawn, so stop with the lies. Just, we're, the whole world, Dawn, you need to hear this, we're all sick of the lies, okay? If you're targeting civilians, you're targeting civilians, and that's what happens, so just own up to it, don't try and pretend like I can't believe my own lying eyes all right get out of here with that all right so I'm carrying on and by the way Iran now has a lot of what are called both supersonic and hypersonic missiles okay those are

things traveling faster than sound hypersonic being a another layer beyond supersonic traveling Past a certain level of mock mock one being the speed of sound mock two being twice that on up to mock Ten twelve thirteen fourteen even fifteen now, but this is what it looks like when Crap that was fast. Let's try that again Like a shooting star, I mean they just come in so fast. I mean like... Right? And one of the ways you can detect that that's supersonic at least, faster than the speed of sound, is you can't hear it coming because it's traveling faster than the sound. Right, right. Yeah. So you can't hear it. It sounds like, why

isn't that thing not... why is it not making noise? Well, that's because we're not used to things traveling supersonic It's like planes you hear the sound before they get to you because we usually write less than it's like a bullet And it has a similar thing. Yep Right like shooting a gun, but this is so this was just from last night. So we ran You know part of the cope we've been seeing out on the Twitter sphere is that Iran is just gonna run out of missiles We're gonna run out of launchers, they're completely degraded, they're almost out of everything, but this, that's the kind of trail you see right there when Elon Musk

is launching something into outer outer space. This is a big missile when you see that kind of a contrail on the back of that thing and you see it's lit up, so this thing is now, even though it's night sky, that's because it's already above the thing. And you see it's lit up. So this thing is now, even though it's night sky, that's because it's already above the curvature of the earth and it's receiving sunlight. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's why it's lit up like that. So this is a big missile.

This is a big giant, can carry a whopping payload. You know, this is an exo-atmospheric missile. So they've dragging some of those out. That's just last night. We don't know what the damage is. Yeah, where did that go? Well, we don't know because Israel a couple days ago completely forbid anybody taking pictures and and getting them out Israel's locking the story down and we all know why you lock a story down is because it's not the story you want to have told And so it's not a good sign when you lock down the narrative and say you can't talk about any damage. Now,

interestingly, we had the first night when Iran fired back, we got those first images of those fast missiles coming in, all the little starry lights coming in. We've seen fewer of those since maybe Iran's firing fewer, maybe we're just not getting the pictures out. Hard to say. But we only saw pictures of the aftermath if something struck a residential house or apartment building, right? And again, there could be a couple things that happen there. Could be a missile that hits that was specifically trying to target somebody's house, doubtful. More likely it was a missile that missed its target. Even more likely it's an errant defense missile that got shot up that came back down again because we saw that over and over in the Ukraine war Ukraine tried to say oh look Russia is targeting these

apartment complexes which makes no military sense and in fact when we did dig into those more often than not we found those were struck by errant missiles you know it's hard work right you're shooting missiles at missiles coming in and they miss and then they come down again it's like when you shoot a gun right Evie yeah you have to be aware that the bullet goes up and comes down, right? Right. Right. You got to be aware of the down range. Yeah. Aspects of this whole thing. All right. So we don't know what the damage is at this point. And we know Iran has been specifically targeting military bases. I've seen exactly zero pictures so far, videos of that so we have to believe either Iran's hit some and been effective

Or it's completely missed entirely and it Israel's decided just not to show show us that and crow about it So I know where I fall on what's most likely in that particular story as well Israelis are now completely blocked from leaving close the borders They said we will not allow Israelis to travel abroad in the near future, according to the Israeli Transport Minister, Miri Ragev. Ragev.

Ragev. Well, yeah, I mean, it makes sense. It's a small country. People serve in the reserves or the military. And so I think they're just saying, hey, we might need all hands on deck here. So you can't leave, right? A little awkward though,

because when Bibi decided to launch all the attacks against Iran, apparently he jetted out of there. He left. Yeah, he went to Cyprus for the night. Safer that way. He's important, you understand. Oh yeah.

He's important. We should at all costs protect him. Yes. All right. So that's what's going on. Now, I think Trump, this strikes me as just a little unhinged here okay because because the unconditional surrender this isn't very diplomatic right mm-hmm you know unconditional surrender to Israel I mean yeah conditional surrender to who

that's a good question actually to whom I mean how does he Unconditional surrender to who? That's a good question actually. To whom? I mean, how does he have a right to ask for their unconditional surrender? Well, an unconditional surrender is something you ask when an adversary has been so hopelessly defeated, they have zero other options left. Unconditional means I have no conditions. Right. Right. No conditions like, hey, you're not going to, can just stop dropping bombs on us? Like no conditions like with no conditions when you surrender, the other side might say, okay, well, we're just going to keep bombing you, but you can't do anything because you've surrendered. Right, right. So a condition might be, okay, we both lay our arms down.

Right. Unconditional surrender is not something you call for six days into the war. It's just diplomatically this is retarded. Is that what he really meant by it or did he is he just flinging words around? Well okay let's find out unconditional surrender and Trump when did he tweet this yesterday? I don't I can't remember when a couple days ago I think now. We know exactly where the so-called quote supreme leader is hiding he is an easy target, but is safe there. We are not going to take him out or kill at least not for now, but we don't want

missiles shot at civilians or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin. Thank you for attention to this matter. Who's that addressed to? Well, so this is, this gets more dire because remember a little while ago in Ukraine, right, we've been we NATO, United States have been providing all kinds of targeting information plus the missile systems plus the guidance telemetry data all of that right probably plus the strike target packages which is like here here here right you know so we've been doing

all of that but but it was a little while ago right before Putin took the gloves off We sent 40 plus Ukraine sent 40 plus drones Exactly where Putin's helicopter was at that point in time in Kursk So this was a targeted attempt to take Putin out now normally in these things I'm not saying we should have rules that say leaders are more important than the people but normally trying to target a leader is Not something we've done in the past. But now gloves are off. Well, we've done that as a U.S. But the CIA has done that.

Don't do that against an armed nuclear superpower. Right. If they did it to us, we would just go off our rockers. Right. Absolutely off our rockers with anger. Right. So I don't know why So I don't know why I don't understand why they don't understand both sides of the story. If you speak human, when you say to somebody, Hey, I'm going to kill you. The first thing I do, if you tell me I'm coming out, I'm just going to kill you unless you do everything I want, unconditional surrender. I'm like, Hmm, let's, let's tangle it up. Right? I'm going to like get, I'm going

to double down personally, but that's how I'm built But that's how people are built. It just is all right so anyway this this just struck me as like ridiculously tone-deaf and Unacceptable and not actually what you should be calling for at this day, right? so like if they jump the shark the right to we're just gonna bomb you right before a You know these meetings right? We're gonna kill a bunch of your people a lot of your top people Mm-hmm, and then we're gonna immediately demand that you unconditionally surrender. We're gonna keep killing all of you right, right? It's such red wedding. It's it's listen. That's where we are

Diplomacy is completely broken down Well, that's what I want to ask you about. Mm-hmm I want to ask you about it seems like they're doing diplomacy in public with social media, but I don't know what to believe. Like Trump saying that, who is he saying that to? When he puts out a tweet like that, is that count as his actual legitimate communication with Iran? Like to him it does. Like, like tweeting on truth social. Yeah, no, it's weird to me. And you know how it is like, when you have a really sensitive conversation to carry on with somebody you typically you don't do it by email or text Yeah nuance gets lost. That's right. Like these are people involved. These are complicated issues

This is like a death. This is and by the way, it's also saying hey Iran We don't think you have any cards in this story right no cards right they sit right off like the Strait of Hormuz 25% of the world's daily oil passes through that choke point Oh, we don't need oil. Oh, we got solar and wind If the Strait of Hormuz gets closed down folks I'm telling my subscribers and run do not walk Buy everything you can because it is over at that point in time. Oil spikes are super debt cycle comes to a crashing halting end our complicated economy starts to

break down and that's when probably a lot of old grievances sort of bubble up and people say you know we don't really want to do a lot of trading with y'all anymore while you while you go crazy over there turning boys into girls girls into boys and and basically operating like a death cult injecting yourselves with poison yeah the jabs all the rest of it it's just it's gross it's gross gross gross gross all right so um so here we go so this just came up today this morning on sky news so let's listen in questions about whether you are moving closer or you believe the U.S. is moving closer

to striking Iranian nuclear facilities. Where's your mindset on that? I can't say that, right? You don't seriously think I'm gonna answer that question. Will you strike the Iranian nuclear component? And what time exactly, sir? Sir, would you strike it? Would you please inform us so we can be there and watch?

I mean, you don't know that I'm going to even do it. You don't know. I may do it. I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do. I can tell you this that Iran's got a lot of trouble and they want to negotiate. And I said, why didn't you negotiate with me before? All this death and destruction. Why didn't you negotiate? I said to the people, why didn't you negotiate with me two weeks ago?

You could have done fine. You would have had a country. So there's something really wrong with the story. We're not getting the, to the bottom of it. You think so? No, not, not yet. There's something really wrong with this story. And, and it's about Israel's power

over the DC war machinery apparatus and leadership. We have to talk about that a little bit. So, I mean, this is crazy, right? So just from top to bottom, and this all just came out today, right? Okay. This is hot off the press. German Chancellor Mears, quote, Israel is doing the dirty work for all of us, end quote. This is a full German endorsement of Israel's war of aggression and violation of Article 56 of the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions, which prohibits targeted strikes against nuclear facilities. Okay, I don't know who needs to hear this, but striking nuclear facilities is not a good idea.

I'm not like, how did we jump that shark? Like, oh, well, they've just normalized it. Like, oh, you know what you do when you're concerned that somebody's doing something, you blow up their nuclear facilities, you just bomb them. What a terrible precedent has just been set. What a terrible precedent and Germany's down for that particular malarkey. I mean, it's like blowing things up. They're like Nord Stream getting blown up. Yeah. Like all sorts of self punishing Germany. Germans. You all got a problem on your hands. You're going to have to wrestle it back from the likes of MERS, the ultimate beta male and other people.

It's frustrating though, because this isn't about like the everyday people in that country just like this isn't nobody's asking us whether we want to be involved in this right in the US. No we'll get to that too in just a second. Okay. This is crazy how how insane this is but go ahead and finish up the middle and the bottom there. Breaking Germany's MERS if Iran returns to negotiating table there would be no need for further military intervention so apparently there's a come to Jesus being asked to to negotiating table there would be no need for further military intervention. So apparently there's a come to Jesus being asked to be had. Oh yeah they just come to the negotiating table. No need.

George says they were at the fucking negotiating table when this started. What is the point of even saying this? Anyone moved by this bullshit lacks the capacity to remember things that happened more than a day ago. Exactly. And I think he's right. Exactly. They were at the negotiating. Oh, if they just come back to the negotiating table, we'll stop killing them. We promise. But here's the thing. We're not agreement capable at this point in time. So this is the issue is like, why would they come back to the negotiating table? They were at the negotiating table and we killed them in their senior leadership. We're like, oh no, this time totally this

will be different. Trust me, bro. The wedding will, oh, no, this time totally. This will be different. Trust me, bro. The wedding will go off without a hitch this time. Literally, that's insane. I know this is so broken. Right. It's really bad. It's really broken. So you can't analyze this through any sort of like,

oh, we had to do it because it was an emergency. Now, I'm old enough. I remember this whole story. You remember? There were weapons of mass destruction. They were in Iraq who had nothing at all to do with 9-11, but somehow the United States had a document that they'd prepared even before 9-11 in 2001 that they said we wanted to go into seven countries

in five years and Iraq was on there. And of course Iraq is on there, so then after post 9-11, things seemed more possible. So we just went into Iraq anyway because they had weapons of mass destruction. Colin Powell with his little vial of fake white anthrax We had mobile weapons labs. Look here. They are CNN on there probably is coke And they were like, oh we have mobile weapons labs. They're moving them around. That's why we can't find them And it was all lies. It was all bullshit hundred percent. It was an emergency. We had to do it right now

We'll ask questions later. Yeah, it's all the neocons. And we ended up killing a million Iraqis. And remember, they were supposed to greet us in the streets as liberators with flowers at our feet. And none of that happened. You know why? Turns out people don't like getting bombed. Hmm. You don't like losing mothers and brothers and daughters and sons? It's the same lies. We are getting the same lies all over again but you want it you want to see like the ultimate Evie and just how retarded this is right now sure for that we have to turn to Ted Cruz how many people living

around by the way I don't know the population at all no I don't know the population you don't know the population the country you seek to topple how many people living around 92 million, okay Yeah, how could you not know that I? Don't sit around memorizing population tables. Well, it's kind of relevant because you're calling for the overthrow of the government What why is it relevant whether it will be because 90 million or 80 million or a hundred million? What why is that? You don't know anything about the country. I didn't say I don't know anything about the country. Okay, what's the ethnic mix of Iran? They are Persians and predominantly Shia. Okay, no, you don't know anything about Iran.

So, okay, I am not the Tucker Carlson expert on Iran. You're a senator who's calling the government. No, you don't know anything about the country. You're the one who claims they're not trying to murder Donald Trump. You're the one who can't figure out a good idea to kill General Soleimani and you said it was bad. You don't believe they're trying to murder Trump? Yes, I do. Because you're not calling for military strikes against them in retaliation. If he really believes that. We're carrying out military strikes today.

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oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, just happened Israel is leading them but we're Tucker got him all like like all his panties in a twist yep by the way I don't know it went back to the beginning I have no controls on it hmm that's weird hold up maybe it just lost the thread and I will just come back to it maybe I can. How many people live around my country? Where are my controls? I don't know the population. Well, whatever.

At all? We're going to listen to it again. No, I don't know the population. This is astonishing. You don't know the population of the country you seek to topple? How many people living around? 92 million. Okay.

Yeah, I don't know that. This is an astonishing exchange. It is. I don't sit around memorizing population tables. Well, it's kind of relevant because you're calling for the overthrow of the government. Why is it relevant? Whether it will be because 90 million or 80 million or 100 million. Why is that?

Well, because if you don't know anything about the country, I didn't say I don't know anything about it. What's the ethnic mix of Iran? He's got a they are Persians and predominantly Shia. OK, this is you don't know anything about Iran. So I am not the Tucker Carlson expert on Iran. You're a senator who's calling the government. No, you don't know anything about the country.

You're the one who claims they're not trying to murder Donald Trump. You know, I'm not saying that who can't figure out a good idea to kill General Soleimani. And you said it was bad. They're trying to murder Trump. Yes, I guess you're not calling for military strikes against them in retaliation. I'm not saying that. Who can't figure out if it was a good idea to kill General Soleimani and you said it was bad. You don't believe they're trying to murder Trump? Yes, I do. Because you're not calling for military strikes against them in retaliation.

And if you really believe that. We're carrying out military strikes today. You said Israel was. Right, with our help. I've said we, Israel is leading them, but we're supporting them. Well, you're breaking news here because the US government last night denied,

the National Security Council spokesman Alex Pfeiffer denied on behalf of Trump that we were acting on Israel's behalf in any offensive capacity at all. We're not bombing them. Israel's bombing them. You just said we were. We are supporting Israel. This is high stakes.

You're a senator. If you're saying the United States government is at war with Iran right now, people are listening. People are listening. And I wish I knew how that went from there on out. That's what that's what journalism actually sounds like. It does. He hit him hard, asked questions, he was prepared. Right? That's actual, I did, like most people will be confused, like what did I just hear? That's what we used to hear back in the

day. Yes, and this is why people used to trust mainstream media, because they were doing pieces like that that were evocative and they were having discussions. And it wasn't these stupid softball questions where everybody already knew the answer and they were just trying to give golf claps when they got it. Like, yep. Wow. Yep. Wow. Okay. So, um, I love Tucker Carlson. He's become a favorite person of mine. But by the way, even John Stewart is sort of on point. Is he? No. But what happened with Iran? Weren't we about to make a nuclear deal? Wasn't our dealmaker in chief making a deal to keep Iran from enriching uranium? Actually, didn't we have a deal before

our dealmaker in chief so wisely pulled us from that deal? Why did this have to go balmy on Iran now? And by next spring, at most, by next summer, at current enrichment rates, they will have finished the medium enrichment and move on to the final stage. Iran is months away from having a nuclear bomb says Netanyahu in 2012. Why do we have to bomb Iran now? Iran is so dangerous, weeks away from having the fissile material for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs. Holy shit that's why Iran's only weeks away from having an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs. Holy shit, that's why.

Iran's only weeks away from having an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs, says Netanyahu. In 2015! 2015! Think about that! Back when we all thought, oh no, the Republicans might nominate that madman Jeb Bush. Should have gone with the question mark.

No, seriously, I'm not being facetious. I really want to know why we had to bomb Iran now. We're going to show you Iran's secret nuclear files. Here's the warhead. Right. Here's the bomb. And that's from 2018. Really?

I don't know if Iran is any closer to having a bomb, but it is clear Israel now has the capacity to enrich their drawings. A hot war between Israel and Iran could threaten the United States. It's best we stay out of it. Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying Israel took unilateral action against Iran and that the U.S. is not involved in strikes. Yep, we're not involved. That's good.

That's good. The US says it was informed beforehand. What? Good neighbor policy. We were informed. Let us know. Still not being involved really. President Trump acknowledged yesterday

that he was aware of the Israeli operation and he gave it a green light. No! It's still Israel's game. Israel used American equipment during its initial strikes against Iran. What the f*** are we doing? Alright, so we knew and we approved

and we gave them all the shit to do it Hmm what? Sometimes you need you need the comedy humor to sort of break through Yeah, but but this is very serious like like Trump is not driving this show the United States Decision-making apparatus is not driving this show. Okay, and what's driving this show, you think? I don't know, but remember now, Trump was elected with this huge mandate, right? And a lot of people voted for things,

but among the key platform planks that I can remember being very attractive to me was the fact that he didn't want to get us into any more wars, right? But almost immediately, we were bombing Yemen and tangling it up. And now this thing with Iran. So this whole idea, so you're going to be treated to a lot of propaganda. Some of it's coming out of Israel itself. It's sort of Mossad propaganda that says, oh, you know, Iran has no control of its skies. We're bombing them at will. And they're running out of rockets

and rocket launchers. And, you know, this is costing them a lot more than it's costing us. You'll hear that right on the other side, you won't actually be allowed to see how much damage a rain is causing. But I will tell you their missiles, there was a big miscalculation here. If it turns out Israel has to fight this all on its own, right? And the whole idea was that Israel wasn't going to do that. They were going to do a couple things, drag in daddy Warbucks, the United States, and have us finish the job. And so that's the tail wagging the dog,

unless you understand how politics actually works in this country. And then you realize that's sort of modus operandi. And there's a lot of tangled up interests in this story, right? The military industrial complex. Watch what happens. A lot of people are going to die. When the dust finally settles, and Maybe it's radioactive dust. Right? Surprise. A whole lot of people got very rich who lived

in Bethesda and who own, you know, defense stocks like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin and all of that other stuff. It's just how this game is. It's been my whole life. I voted for Trump because I wanted, I didn't want more of the same. I actually voted for him, not for any particular policy, but particularly as a wrecking ball to come in and to start to dismantle that machinery. That's why I voted. That's what I was looking for. I was just looking for disrupting status quo business as usual, right? As business as usual makes my country poor, makes my everything stupid expensive to live in this country with almost nothing to show for it, right? Really bad infrastructure, crumbling bridges.

We've got like, you know, terrible like health care. We have the worst health outcomes of any nation. Like it's just like the whole thing. I just wanted that to change. No, I know. Because meanwhile, permanent Washington walks away with millions in their pocket after being after serving. You know, some of them are congressmen and women.

Exactly. And senators and all of that. Right? Yeah. So that's what I was hoping Exactly. And senators and all of that. Right? Yeah. Absolutely. So that's what I was hoping for. I'm losing that plot line. But you want to hear it spelled out, Evie, in gross detail?

I know you're well aware of Iran's influence on groups, terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah. In an interview, though, last month, you said this when asked about how to treat Gaza. In World War II, we did not negotiate a surrender with the Nazis. We did not negotiate a surrender with the Japanese. We nuked the Japanese twice in order to get unconditional surrender. That needs to be the same here.

There is something deeply, deeply wrong with this culture and it needs to be defeated. Did you really mean to say that the US should use nuclear weapons against the people because there's something wrong with their culture? Of course not. What I was saying is that we didn't negotiate with evil in World War II.

We defeated the Germans, we defeated the Japanese using any means that were necessary. And the same needs to be done in Gaza. Nuking Gaza would be a terrible idea. The fallout would drift into Israel. It would kill the hostages. The point that I was making was- But you're not worried about it killing, for example, women and children in Gaza, who, you know, the innocents? I think war is a messy thing. And I think that-

That's all I can listen to this guy. Oh, God. Who is he? Nuking Gaza would be a terrible idea because some of the fallout would drift over Israel and that would hurt Israel. What about the women and children? Oh, you know, war is a messy thing. This is disgusting, absolute trash heap of a human being. He's a nasty human.

Representative Randy Fine is a disgusting human being, full stop. That's all I have to say about this guy. I could see him. Sometimes I picture people in their is not normal this is not true they're trying to normalize it oh you know they are oh you know maybe we should just nuke and you heard him say unconditional surrender that's how you get unconditional surrenders by nuking so you can feel the thread that they're trying to build here this is what's happening people you got to pay attention

to this they're saying it's normal to kill women and children it's normal to target civilians it's normal to blow up nuclear facilities in another country because they weren't negotiating fast enough for your particular flavor of negotiating speed and it's okay to use nukes if you really disagree with the people because they're they're not humans they've been dehumanized these aren't actual other humans but they are actual other humans. They're cattle. All humans are the same, right? We have families, we love each other, we hate each other, we go to work, we live the arcs of our lives. You go to Tehran and it's a beautiful city.

They've got the most incredible mosques there with the most incredible artwork. They're very cosmopolitan people. But they're just people. So this is the dehumanizing thing that has to happen in representative Randy Fine is on there not necessarily to make the case but to cram open the Overton window to say it's okay now to discuss just let's nuke Gaza why not it's faster and cheaper more efficient we've we've been flattening it with conventional weapons but why not well you know some of that fallout would drift into Israel might kill the hostages. That's his concern. This is disgusting

Yeah, that's really gross. There is no other way to talk about this. Mm-hmm It's more reprehensible But how about this Mike Huckabee who is the ambassador former you remember he was yeah was he the governor or is he a senator I can't remember who this guy was anyway he's the ambassador he's over in Israel right now and he tweeted or texted yeah looks like a text huh this to the president mr. president God spared you in Butler Pennsylvania to be the most consequential president in a century maybe ever the decisions on your shoulders I would not want to be the most consequential president in a century, maybe ever. The decisions on your shoulders I would not want to be made by anyone else. You have many voices speaking

to you, sir, but there is only one that matters. His voice. I am your appointed servant in this land and am available for you, but I do not try to get in your presence often because I trust your instincts. No president in my lifetime has been in a position like yours, not since Truman in 45. I don't reach out only reach out to persuade you only to encourage you, only to encourage you. I believe you will hear from heaven and that voice is far more important

than mine or anyone else's. You sent me to Israel to be your eyes, ears and voice and to make sure our flag flies above our embassy. My job is to be the last one to leave. I will not abandon this post. Our flag will not come down. You did not seek this moment. This moment sought you. It is my honor to serve you. Mike Huckabee. So not since 1945 is clear. Not that was Truman was the

president in 1945 who used nukes. Oh, right. Right. You didn't pick Truman in 44 or Truman in 43. Right. Or Lincoln in 65. You know, he chose Truman in 45. So, so you can feel they're working all the angles now.

Now, Mike Huckabee, I believe, has some of that good old-fashioned evangelical Christian sect, the splinter sect of evangelicals who believe that if we can really mess stuff up in the Middle East, Jesus Christ will come back. And I happen to think they're nuts. I happen to believe that having read through the entirety of the Bible as much as I can, that I never found the place where Jesus said, hey, go ahead and kill a lot of people so I can come back. I think if they're praying to a God who calls upon them to kill women and children and nuke people, they're praying to their own God.

Yeah, they are. They're not praying to the God in the New Testament. That's for sure. Absolutely not, 100%. That's scary. But they believe this. They actually believe this. This is...

Religious wars are the worst, by the way. It's where things go really, really pear-shaped very, very quickly. That's true. So I'm not happy with this, but I just put these dots together because we have that going on, right? We want to talk about failed humans, though. We have to talk about this failed human. So, Evie, read Jedidiah's first. This is a mother. This is a mother expressing a normal mother sentiment saying, Mm-hmm. She's saying, Hey Israel, I'm not interested in a war with Iran. I'm also not sending my kid to fight in it. The end. And the Zionist, John Potter, it says,

No one asked you, you piece of shit. There you go. And, and, and, and, and I'm pretty sure this guy isn't going to be doing any fighting or dying, but she, he's going to call this mother out for being a piece of shit because she's not willing to send her children to go and die for something he wants to get. That is the very definition of psychopathic, disgusting, immoral behavior. Full stop.

That's who that guy is. Right. Right there. He will sacrifice other people for what he wants. He's willing to sacrifice other people. willing to sacrifice. He wants. Yep Just just for fun This came out the Senate GOP Senate Republicans seriously. Yeah, they said oh look at this 83% of Republicans support Israel's strikes against Iran only 10% oppose No way. This is really weird. You can see at the bottom, they got 2 million views

down there. Yeah. Yeah. It came out on yesterday, June 17th. Today is the 18th. So what's interesting is that, you know, Charlie Kirk, it very much is on the mega conservative Christian Republican side of things very much. Sure. So he ran a poll and I think he legitimately was surprised he changed his tune afterwards but look how the poll turned out 489,266 votes. Wow 90% of people actually said no we don't want to get involved in Israel's war against Iran and only 10% said yes which is exactly opposite to that pretty much. Right. Wow. So next thing is you see down on the bottom down there? Mm-hmm. Says Greyhouse polls. I'm like who's that? Yeah who is that? Thank God for Twitter. Somebody dug it up for us. Turns out says here a

Greyhouse is polling some newly created GOP shill firm seeking to manufacture consent for Israel's wars. Their ex account is two months, and it's run by one man, Landon Wall, seen here on LinkedIn, using a post-praising palantir in Alex Karp. Alex Karp is like the worst of the worst. He is also a trash human being. So the Senate GOP is running bogus polls to try and support their bogus positioning, which told them to have this

position. I mean, no, this is, this is really not good folks. Because the truth of the matter is, is that the vast bulk of people don't want this in America. We don't want this. Listen, um, you know, we have other problems on our hands, right? Like we do a lot of things we can attend to here. Lots of things we could do besides spending blood and treasure on something. But this this is it is gross. It is gross. And you know what I see here is I see people just like with people that were owning pharma stock or whatever, they're not able to see clearly because of where their investments lie. I don't know about Republicans and why they would ever say this or what their where their investments lie. I don't know about Republicans and why they would ever say this or what their, um, where their money's tied up and why they would want to invest

in something like this. I don't see how they have anything to gain honestly, unless they're, you know, there's something they're not disclosing. I don't know. I just war is awful. I don't know why we would want to go, go back there. But speaking of which, you know, all all wars are started with deception. Right. We just didn't. The Lusitania. Oh, no, they ran into the time Germany sank this boat of innocent people. They totally didn't have U.S.

munitions on it headed to Europe, which Germany told us not to do. And of course, now we know it was totally full of munitions. The Gulf of Tonkin incident in Vietnam was complete BS because people don't want to go to war sort of harkening to that idea our favorite rector is Here hey rector. Hey, I'm saying just like prior to World War two That's why FDR allowed the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor. It will happen again if Trump doesn't go in So it's a big problem Maybe is is that we're all worried about another false flag because we don't want this like the polls are very clear

right, this is what we see 90% of like heck no and You know, yeah, I would say it's probably 70% heck no and another 20% F no right stronger even Yeah, probably right so but this is true and people don't want the war and and so that's why They do come up with false flags and we have to be careful and we have to watch out for that And of course, that's a very old and storied tradition is you think they're gonna do that? I do create a flag. I do get us all wound up Well here was the actual plan so so India today is reporting this here. Mm-hmm, right and this is from January 10th, 2025 so it's in India today and they were outraged it turns out because is reporting this here, right? And this is from January 10th, 2025.

So it's in India today. And they were outraged, it turns out, because Israel has a greater Israel map. And it sparked massive outrage in the Arab world. And so they're talking about it here. The greater Israel map includes significant portions of modern day Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. Hmm, what's been happening in Lebanon and Syria?

By the way, Jordan, I know you're very US aligned right now. Trust me, you're next on the chopping block. You should figure that out relatively soon. And you can see here, Bibi standing up in front of the UN saying the curse and the blessing, the curse. Here's this axis of evil. But it turns out, mysteriously, a lot of that country in black is just stuff that Israel wants.

Um, you know? Exactly. And so here, this was the map that got put out here. A diplomatic uproar has erupted across the Arab world following the release of a controversial map by Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The map, published on its Arabic language social media account, depicts what it claims to be the ancient kingdom of Israel. This depiction includes significant portions of modern day Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria sparking widespread condemnation from Arab nations.

You view it as an affront to their sovereignty. So we have to consider this as a possibility. Israel said, look, we're not comfortable with the land we have, we want more. And some of it belongs to other people, which is never a popular sort of a possibility. Israel said, look, we're not comfortable with the land we have. We want more. And some of it belongs to other people, which is never a popular sort of a move. And so we have to consider the possibility that it's not really about Iran having atomic weapons. It's actually about Israel not wanting any opposition to anything. Right. It doesn't work if somebody can oppose this. So Thomas Massey, I think is our is our hope here. Once again,

he's speaking truth. Thomas Massie for the win. This is not our war, but if it were, Congress must decide such matters according to our Constitution. I'm introducing a bipartisan war powers resolution tomorrow to prohibit our involvement. I invite all members of Congress to co-sponsor this resolution. That would be good. There you go. Look at that. 15.8 million views, 188,000 hearts, right? Mm-hmm. 26,000 retweets. I was one of them, right? Yeah.

Because, well, actually I did retweet it. But what's interesting here now, Ro Khanna, a Democrat. Hmm. Good. Are we actually going to... So bipartisan support? Could Thomas actually get bipartisan support? That would be amazing. Rokana says no war in Iran. It's time for every member to go on record. Are you with the neocons who led us into Iraq or do you stand with the American people? Oh, are you a neocon or an American? That's the, that's the decision you have to make right now.

Are you for America or are you not for America? That's it. That's it. And he goes on to say I'm proud to co-lead this bipartisan war powers resolution with representative Massey that is privileged and a must receive and must receive a vote. And of course libertarians like Dave Smith also the redheaded libertarian down there saying thank you. Mm-hmm. Thank you. Right. So this is important. It's really really true at this stage that the Americans don't want this war. That makes this very dangerous right now. Either we just do it anyway. That destroys the Trump presidency right there on the spot. He's gonna fracture the so-called MAGA base. There'll be people who are like Trump, you know, I trust him in all things and I get

that. There's going to be a huge number of people who are going to say, no, did not sign up for that. Now, if you understand my position, it's not just that I think war is bad and I was totally against every war that's come out so far because I see them as being destructive to my country. They don't serve my needs, my ends. They don't serve me. Plus they kill people.

They're immoral, they're unethical, And by the way, they're illogical. Because if you take a look around, just drive some time and look at the bridges, look at the state of our infrastructure in this country. It's a disaster, we need to spend money on ourselves. So that's my sort of provincial sort of thing. But second of all, strategically, I speak human, I know that there's two ways you can get things from people, with vinegar and with honey, right? The United States has been pursuing this MIC, bomb everybody into submission, big club. If you don't give us exactly what we want, we'll kick and scream and then bomb you. And that's one way to do things. But the other way is to work with people

and find the win-win. Like China does with its diplomacy. Right. Yeah, well, China does that a lot. And I think it's a better thing. So this is me caring about my Jewish friends who care a lot about Israel, which is to say this current policy of BBs and the Zionists

and all that stuff is they're just going to bomb everybody into submission. How does that tell us how that goes for another hundred years or a thousand years? Just just paint that out for me because a you're gonna be outbred There's gonna be more of them than you right and either you get locked into a perpetual You have to constantly always be on top of the situation bombing them into a violent cycle Or eventually you lose it The other way is to actually find ways to get along with the people around you so my position is Israel can be however it wants to be that's its own arc of history I can give it some

strategic advice which is like dude this ends badly just think it through but even if they don't take it my point would be well then you be you if Ukraine can't figure out how to get along with its neighbors it's gonna have some problems anybody who can't figure out how to get along with its neighbors, it's going to have some problems. Anybody who can't figure out how to get along with their neighbors ends up with problems. That's true. That's just it. Not my problem, though. Not my monkey. Not your monkey and definitely not your problem and not the American people's problem. Yep.

Right? That's what you're saying. And for some reason, our lawmakers have a tendency to think about what Israel needs before they think about their own country. And that's what I'm curious about. How do we get here? Why are we here? We have children we need to be taken care of. We have to pull these awful shots from the market. We have so much we need to be managing on our own soil. We'll get to that in just a second because it's not good but very quickly, I disagree with it. This is the whole... You disagree with that? Yeah, well, you know, regime change, freedom, here's what happens. We just, in my lifetime, like Lemuel Pitkin here is saying, 46 years after Islamic theocracy, freedom can be seen. Here's the thing, Lemuel, that's not your business.

If Iran wants to get rid of their theocracy, that's up to them. That's up to them. It's not your business. It's not yours. Their freedom is not your concern, right? Just like I know it's, nobody cares about what's the freedom people enjoy in Lesotho or Gambia. Nobody cares, right? But this, you care probably because you've been told to care and so we're gonna change this. Here's the thing, we've tried regime change seven times in my lifetime and it's never worked out. It's always been a complete disaster. So the Neocon point of view is regime change is a good thing. We're just trying to help people get freedom and it always ends in

disaster. So, you know, if somebody does something and screws up once, you're like, okay, it happens. But twice, you're like, that's kind of a pattern three times, dude, that's their thing. That's how that is now. Believe them. So this whole idea that, oh, it's up to us to help the people of Iran, you know, shake off the yokes of theocracy. Not no, it's not. It's just not. Is it? It's not your business. That'd be like saying, you know what, Evie? The neighbor's next door. I don't think they're raising their kids right. You got to go over there and if they don't raise their kids right, beat them up. Attack them until they do it your way. Right? Right. Not your biz. Right. Just is

not your biz. This should be so simple and it is for most people now So the Washington Post just reported today that Israel is only going to be able to maintain shooting down these Iranian missiles for 10 or 12 More days, so this is getting desperate when we talk about the possibility of a false flag attack or something like that, right? so And they say here in most cases a small wave of three to five Iranian ballistic missiles is enough to prompt the launch of ten to fifteen Interceptor missiles with each one costing 12 million dollars Not Israel that bad the the th a ad

That's my tax money if you're a United States citizen, it's yours. 12 million bucks, well, let's throw up 10 to 15 of those. You know, 120 to 170 million dollars, just shoot that up, right? And Wall Street Journal just reporting today as well that Israel is now running low on these interceptors. And by the way, this is what it looks like. Here's what you're gonna see. You're gonna see a whole bunch of things rising up each one of those is one of these very expensive

missiles yeah and Oh look I can get the controls on the other screen see all these missiles coming up They're shooting all these things like fireflies and the 12 million dollars there they go just flying off into space by the way they come down again when they miss if they don't have a self-destruct feature and then that's what happens right from about here they're blowing up oh no they just missed it entirely here it comes in and it's going down and you're gonna see the little bright flash okay so that's because these missiles the Idea somebody posted this and said this is one of those Fata missiles and the Fata missile is

This thing right here. They cost about 200,000 bucks a pop. They're capable of reaching Mach 14 to 15 So so I mean very hard it's a hypersonic weapon Um, and so very very hard to hit. But if they cost $200,000, and you're lobbing them against, and somebody's shooting $100 million to try and knock it down, this is called a math problem. And sooner or later, this breaks. And it breaks the budgets of those attempting

this sort of stuff. This is just not an acceptable thing. Now, this is important to notice here. This is just yesterday, Peter says, I think. You're familiar with that, Rachel. And one of the questions was asked is, hey, did you move some of your counter UAS, counter unmanned aerial systems defenses

from Ukraine to the Middle East? Which I answered, yes, we did. We're using all assets available to protect our people in that region and around the world. Oh, so in case you were wondering, Zelensky, we love you, but not as much as Israel. We pulled all those things out of Ukraine towards Israel. And oh, wouldn't you know it now we're seeing the most massive You know Russia's been sending large amounts But now they know they have the offensive on this and they sent 440

Unmanned aerial vehicles and 30 missiles of various types in a single night into Kiev Wow and did extraordinary amounts of damage In just one night and they've kept that up ever since because Ukraine is now undefended. Right? And if you want to see something really sad about that, this was at the G7 meeting that just happened when Trump left over here. Oh, look who sat right in his seat. Come on guys. Can I get some love? So this is this is the other part which I'm putting this a little bit sarcastically but but this is the lesson to the world. We we lured Ukraine like

we got your backs kids you know you go do all this stuff throw a million of your young men into this cannon fodder and fight because it's really important into this meat grinder as soon as we lose interest we just leave you. We'll abandon you. Europe's got to learn this lesson lesson we've promised them all this LNG that's gonna happen to help them because we blew up the Nord Stream pipelines yeah yeah yeah they're not gonna get it soon as we need it more we'll just abandon them yeah this is the thing that Trump just showed we will betray and abandon you whenever it's in our interest that makes us not agreement

capable mm-hmm right how can you negotiate with somebody like that? You can't. You can't. You just can't. So you're not gonna keep their word. In our time we're gonna have to go over a little bit here but Trump is not getting to his mandate as we discussed E.V. so I just want to tighten that up a little bit. So here's Wall Street Apes. They're saying it has been 225 days since Republican voters handed the GOP control of both this House and Senate. 225 days with full control and the GOP still hasn't passed. A nationwide voter ID mandate, arguably the most important issue for their voters, is beyond comprehension. Yeah, because you know what, if you just had

vote, if you had voter ID, if you just had voting systems you could count on, this is really important. Everybody agreed. Like, we'd stolen elections have consequences. They do. Right? We just proved that. And it's usually not the good guy wins.

Nope. Stolen elections have really bad consequences. So let's make sure that we're having fair votes. But for some reason, both Democrats and Republicans are in agreement. They like our voting systems to be completely insecure. was gonna come in and change this nothing has happened nothing Why have people changed so much since they got into office? Why has that happened to so many have seen files is the only thing I can think it has to be something like that There has to be some program you're read into. Yeah, they say oh

What I wanted to do. I'm not allowed to do that right it trumps everything Yep, you're being threatened at some existential level right or your children or your family or whatever Yeah, or you're being promised something. That's just too fantastical to resist or or There is an area 51 and they introduce you to the men in black break room And there's the guys all the aliens getting coffee and you go, oh, this isn't even remotely what I thought it was. Totally different situation. Yeah, right. We're gonna we're gonna need we can't we can't afford voter ID right now. It has to be something. I hope it's a good reason because I'm really sad about this actually. This is frustrating and depressing. Well, I mean, this raises a larger question, this idea if we, if they're supposed to be, it's not technically written into the constitution

or any of the bills, but the idea was no taxation without representation. Right? Well, you could reasonably argue that we don't have representation because you can't prove that we had valid elections. You can't prove that. Right. It's true. So if enough of us got together and said, that's it, we're not filing our taxes. We're not paying them. Tax revolt is a revolt. There's a revolution that could come right. So that would be one people go on buyer strikes, they could go on worker strikes in the sense don't just strike and stand out with placard, just go to work and get get f all done all day long or whatever right which isn't fair to your employer employer but the contract is broken the contract is we elect people they go and they represent us mm-hmm we have some say in the matter we might not always like how it turns out but it balances out over time when you have illegitimate voting systems it's just illegitimate top to bottom it's fraudulent yeah that's all none of that's happening, so how about this then?

February 2025 Trump repeatedly vowed to audit for Knox. He made statements on Air Force One and during speeches, Elon Musk called for a live stream by March. Both men were silent. The narrative was shut down at the highest level with no follow up at all. I added that last part. Well that's true. And here's why I think this happened. The reason, Ian Yeager says here, the reason Fort Knox has been audited, duh, is because

gold isn't there. If it was, they would have audited it by now. Right, and they would have been sure to show us proudly. If Iran was having no success striking targets, we'd see pictures of that, to that effect effect but you don't so that that's just my rule in life is that okay so if they won't tell you you can you're free to assume that the reason they're not telling you is the worst reason you can imagine that that's just rule of life it's a good starting point um Thomas Massey again for the win here I think let's see, I have to

go over to this screen. Joining me now, Congressman Thomas Massey from the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky. Congressman, good to have you with us. And let's just let's just cut right to it. I want you to explain why you are a no vote on the big beautiful bill. Well, it spends way too much money. Look, I'm for the tax cuts, extending those tax cuts. I voted for those in 2017. Here's the problem. We're cutting more taxes and we're increasing spending.

And to the extent they say we're cutting spending, that doesn't happen in these first few years. They're saying, we'll do that in the later years The problem is the later years never come is That's that's the bill like oh we'll cut spending just not now it's never now is never a good Drinking tonight because I really have this awesome party. I will quit drinking next week. It's always manana Manana manana manana. Always always always. So yeah, they'll cut spending

just not this year. Some poor future jimokes will have to like rescind all those spending cuts later. That's for later. But we don't have later in this story folks. You have to understand we are hurtling towards economic, financial, and historical disaster at this stage.

We just are. It's an objective truth, right? Nobody is doing anything except putting more, as Thomas Massey said in an earlier piece we ran a couple weeks back, we're on the Titanic shoveling coal into the boiler and aiming straight at the iceberg, right? I mean, it's just, there's-

What could go wrong? What could go wrong? Everything, so prepare accordingly. That's what could go wrong. What could go wrong? Everything. So prepare accordingly. That's what we do in peak prosperity. And by the way, Evie, I'm going to have to do this because we have to hear now, I think, from one of our favoritest, favoritest sponsors. We're going to be right back with more of the Trump issue right after we hear from. Hi, I'm Chris Martinson, and I am thrilled to invite you to Peak Prosperity's

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Well, about that summit, this is one of the most important years we're ever going to have, right? It's really important that people get together and that we talk about what's going on. I mean, yes, we're going to talk about how to become resilient, how to become prepared, financial preparation and health are two big themes this year. We've got extraordinary presenters this year, but it's more important than ever is going to be talking about what we really have to talk about as this is going down. I know it's happening and we either accept that or not.

We either prepare for it or we don't. And depending on how you do or do not prepare is gonna really shape your future. And your children's future. And your children's future and all of that. This is really, I'm really looking forward to this year. By the way, one of the things we do on Saturday night because it's Friday Saturday Sunday Saturday night. We we leave all the electronics out of the big room Mm-hmm. No smartwatches. No phones. No tablets all gone and we have real conversations in an unmonitored

Fashion. Mm-hmm. And it's very important and a lot of other stuff. All right, it is so Evie They're backtracking on the shots now. So disappointed to hear this. Okay Subverting the efforts of President Trump and Defense Secretary has got to Peg Seth excuse me to restore the military at least one senior official appears to have made a promise He had no intention to keep appears to have made a promise he had no intention to keep. Without intervention, Chief Warrant Officer 3, Brandon Budge will be separated from the Army on September 1st for his objection to the safety

and efficacy of the COVID-19 shot in 2021, which was determined by Defense Secretary Hegseth to be unlawful as implemented. So the COVID shot was unlawful as implemented. Chief W shot was was was unlawful as implemented. Chief Ward officer Brandon Budge said I have no interest in that and now now they're gonna he'll be separated from the army that's it he's like we're gonna lose a Chief Warrant Officer from a Black Hawk he's a Black Hawk you know crew guy and we're gonna lose highly trained people because they didn't obey the

ch the illegal unlawful is implemented is illegal. They didn't obey the illegal shot mandates. Okay. Wow. And you got to go because you're not a team player or something like that. So that's a backtrack. That's bad. But this one, Evie, this one bothers me even more.

Yeah. a backtrack that's bad but this one Evie this one bothers me even more. Yeah. Yesterday I met with Starbucks CEO Brian Nichol who shared the company's plans to further maha its menu. I was pleased to learn that Starbucks food and beverages already avoid artificial dyes, artificial flavors, high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners and other I guess it's probably saying ingredients. So. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But really, so we're going to get rid of, I mean, yeah, get rid of this stuff. But we have a much bigger problem, which is those mRNA vaccines are just killing

people. Japan's coming out with crazy data about this. We have all the data we need. I know Bobby knows this. I know he knows this. I know he does too. And I know Marty McCary knows this. I'm not sure about Vinay Prasad. He may or may not. And Jay Bhattacharya. I know Jay knows about it. Like they all know about this. Yeah. And still it's there. Speaking of the other. But you know, and here we are about to go into another big war for all the same stupid reasons as before, right? Which is, oh, it's an existential threat. It's an emergency.

Don't ask any questions. Regime change will be greeted as liberators. They'll love us. Like, um, no, no, we've been down this path before. It doesn't work out. I just want to afford it now. We can't afford this. We can't afford it now, especially not as energy is about to get way pricier and way more scarce going into our children's lifetime. Right? Well, the next generations are really going to have it rough. I've been talking about peak oil forever and ever. Just in January, the EIA energy information agency in the US came out and said oh, you know

Shale oil peaks in 2027 just yesterday's June what's called st. EO the short-term energy outlook report. Yeah, what did they say? It's it. Actually we have less of it come out of the ground in 2026 So that we're going down over the top of the hill like now right now basically yes and we have no plan no plan none none okay great and all we're going to do is spend whatever money resources we have building objects of destruction to send over to somebody else's war is that what you're saying yeah i want to opt out of this is there like a box i can check somewhere me too and by the though, I have to point this out again, even Dervelt pointing out here that, you know, now, guess what?

Russian troops have broke through the fourth line of defense, as they called it, which in some places was only barbed wire. Oops, call that a fourth line if you want. And Ukrainian brigades are in critical condition and they're out of ammo. Guess what? This old tire wars already been lost. And so that's why it's time for a new exciting one. And when the Iran malarkey settles down, there'll be another one. It'll be Somalia, Evie. It'll be... it won't matter. This is the pattern. We should be able to recognize it by now.

As soon as the old war is dying down, it doesn't look like a big grift machine to make millions and billions off of anymore. A new one fires up like right magic, right? Right magic So no, that's the pattern. It's the grift. It's so gross. And by the way, they would do that We're still here still no arrests for anything important that happened in this country Massive crimes were committed, right? Unbelievable massive crimes. Nobody's getting arrested for any of that stuff. I know. We've violated things. We've made agreements that we were never gonna do. Yep. And by the way, can I just keep on this? No, Epstein did not kill himself. Okay. I mean, this just couldn't be any

more obvious. Remember the hostage video with Dan and Cash? Just like, oh no, everybody has an opinion. I've seen the files. Did you see them blinking a few times? Do they need our help? Like, it was the weirdest. My PhD is in pathology and toxicology. That means I performed autopsies. I know a little bit about what I'm talking about, but this is just dead easy, right? The ligature marks on Epstein's throat were in around 90 degrees front to back. And when you hang yourself, you slump like this and it pulls up, right? So you could see on the red lines, there's just like, you can't, like the one thing you'll never see them do, Cash and Dan, oh no, we saw the files, is show you with a recreation, with a dummy or a live person that rescued in time, show you how you get that ligature

mark that was found on Epstein's neck by tying a crazy little bed sheet that's designed to tear around a bunk and Settling into it and he by the way He was described as being found with his buttocks about an inch and a half off the ground and his feet out straight So it was a straight vertical hanging with feet out with with ass off the floor You cannot create that ligature mark with that full stop simple. It's like building seven. Nope free fall for two and a quarter seconds. I'm very, very sorry. That's not a progressive collapse.

That's freefall. Totally different concept. So that's that's quite easy and so we're entertaining ourselves with all these lies basically and and I could carry on but it turns out even just a huge number of things that Trump came in January very promising Now there's our by the wayside and this whole thing that's about to go with with Iran Michael Yan my good for our good friend. Yeah. Yeah, he said wars do two things. Mm-hmm. They grow and they grow unpredictably

So we're at the unpredictable stage and this could lead to who knows what China deciding to get involved The straight of her moves being closed down to oil traffic A wider rebellion and insurrection that suddenly rises up because the Arab world has finally had enough and and you know all that whatever Something's gonna happen right easy prediction to make or Israel decides. It's just not getting its way fast enough Mm-hmm, and there's a bright flash in the desert right hopefully a warning shot way out in the desert but you know that you can see there's laying the groundwork to pave the way to breach the barrier to allow nukes to be used again in combat because somebody wants that for some reason right I think it's a

very bad idea it's probably the same people that want population reduction and, you know, want to keep the energy for themselves in their private jets. Yeah. Right? No, that tracks. It seems like they're at every turn. It's like, it feels like everything's trying to kill us. And I think it's because it is actually, right?

Right. it's because it is actually, right? Right, and let's not forget, there may be, make a number up, thousands of what we might call sleeper cells in the United States, ready to do things. So the chance of all of this not going pear-shaped is close to zero, it's closing in on zero. It's already kind of pear-shaped, right? I think, for what it's worth, Israel bit off more than it could chew chew and it wasn't prepared for the muscular and highly accurate response of

Iran to lob missiles in but I don't know why because October 24 they got their warning shot remember they did some stuff and then Iran said oh we have to respond so they did some stuff but in that stuff that Iran shot back they put in a bunch of drones and they all the Israel's all like oh look with the United States and Jordan's help, we shot down 89 or 95, whatever. We shot down all these things and they released little drones coming in, remember them?

But you know what Iran also did? They lobbed in four or five of those missiles and we all got to see that they were highly effective. Israel knew they were effective. Anything that's happening in Israel right now is because the leadership of Israel already knew what it was fighting off. They can't act surprised now and say,

oh, we had no idea they had that many, right? I don't trust Bibi. No, I think he needs to get out of there. Bibi's just trying to stay out of prison, right? He's an absolutely corrupt war criminal. He's an awful human being, awful human being. And that's easy to say right they happen I mean yeah I Yeah, well anyway, Evie we are at the end of our time here today

Well bring it home. I will make us feel settled would you all right? I'm trying I'm trying so Part of what I like to do at the end of these is talk about or read something that brings me back to Earth. So this is my back to Earth moment. And by the way, we all have important reasons that we're here on this planet. And in spite of or, you know, regardless of what's going on in the rest on the rest of the planet, we know our souls know what those jobs are. We know what we're here to accomplish.

And we know what those jobs are. We know what we're here to accomplish and we know what's really important. And I urge you to do what you can to make those things that are important to you a priority and to protect those things with your life and as if your life depended on it. Because I actually think that that's where we're headed. Where we won't be living in this lavish easy world the way we've known it. Easy in the sense that we don't have to work our butts off for very basic resources. And I think that's going to change. So plant a garden. It'll it'll put your mind at ease as well. This

is by Wendell Berry, and it's called The Piece of Wild Things. When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound, in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water and I feel above me the day blind stars waiting for their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world and am free. Thank you for that. And um, Charles Mopar giving a nice ending to that.

Plant a garden, even if you are a carnivore, amen. Do plant a garden, go out there, get your hands dirty. There are health benefits to just getting your bare feet in the soil if you do nothing else. Rebalances your whole electrical system that is your human body and get some friends together. It's fun to chat and sit there and pull weeds together. Go help somebody that has a garden if you don't have one and come to Peak Prosperity if you want

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