The Daily Zeitgeist - Can't Be Bothered Come Up With A Clever Zeitle 3/2: The War With Iran

Episode Date: March 2, 2026

In this edition of A Clever Zeitle, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, the war between the US & Israel and Iran, Israel cutting off aid to Gaza, the disgusting complacency & docile complicity of the American public and not much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oh, man, I just, on Saturday, though, I left the Geist Child with Grandma, I watched for a little bit. And I was like, I'm going to do so much. I think this happens to every fucking parent or they're like, dude, I'm going to do so much fucking shit. It's crazy. I'm going to, like, I'm going to get around to these things I had to do, blah, blah, blah. I ate a sandwich.

Yeah. And I then just. Congratulations, first of all on that one. Bro, I ate a sandwich. You got to that step. Oh, I got to the sandwich. And then I was like, I had all this other stuff to do. And then as I was digesting, my body's like, why don't you go ahead and take a nap?

Yeah, man. You know what? You know what I mean? Because usually you got to be like, all right, bro, I can give myself like 45. Yeah. This time, freestyled it when fucking 95 minutes or something. Freestyle napping. Free style napping, dude, just fucking wherever you're at, just close your eyes and let it go.

Put your body in kind of a funky position to see what. what you can do, how you can wake up. Oh, I did. I did the thing where I was basically on my right arm. And I knew 10 minutes and I'm like, you're going to fucking wake up. Yeah. And then I'll start feeling this around the end of March.

Exactly. And then I had to just kind of commit to full body lay down. And that was honestly the greatest. A lot of great things happened. But that was so fucking beautiful. Oh my God. The weekends are fucking, yeah. I'm like half coma on the weekends.

I just like can't. I don't know. Yeah, I take my son to this thing where I have like free time, but I'm so tired the whole time. I have this to do list and I get like one item in and I'm like, I'm just going to have to watch this Chris Fleming stand up special because everything else too ambitious for me at this point.

Right, right. Yeah, yeah. You got to know your limits, man. You got to know your limits. That's why for me, I just don't know if parents. I'm cut off for this parenting. Yeah, I think it was back out.

I want to back out. It might be, back out like Netflix. I tried to look for the tag on my kid to see when I could return by, but yeah, that tag doesn't exist. Dude, the fire department will take it any time. Have you seen there's like an uptick of people surrounding their kids at fire stations, which is. Yeah, man. It's desperate times.

There's fucking not enough money for the people, for the number of people. I mean, that's a factor. What do you think it is? Why would you want to watch something you love grow up in this? Yeah. I don't think people are that conscientious. I think those people don't have children to begin with. I feel like the people that I know who have a lot of kids aren't even thinking about that.

And then they're like, oh. I mean, you would have to be, wouldn't you? Wee. Mm. Mm. Hmm. I don't know. Seems like a prerequisite to have a bunch of kids is to not think about the world around you.

No, no, but I'm saying I think, but then to then be like, oh, God, what have I done bringing a child into this world? I don't think they have that secondary realization. It's probably more like, oh, bro, I can't afford this shit. Or they're just really big fans of the fire department. They're like, these guys are going to kill it. Bro, you're going to make a sick-ass firefighter. I'm trying to get you started early, bro. That'd be crazy if that's how you get firefighters.

Maybe in that box and then 20 years later. The greatest firefighters are like, bro, my father and mother is the fire department. That's right. That's fucking grim. That pole right there. You see that pole? That's my father. Or my mother.

And that ringing bell, that's my mother. She's ringing the dinner bell. And that pool table. That's my brother. I feel like they all got pool tables. right. You got to do something to pass the time. Oh, yeah. You got to have, you got to have, like, a weight bench. Yeah. Dumbels, an industrial kitchen, Confederate flag. Not all the time. Not all the time. I've been to some places where they don't have it. Not exclusive, but you are provided with it at the, when you open a fire department.

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Not much happened over the weekend. Nope. Enough said. Miles, great, great seeing you. Great seeing you. You can wrap it up there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm kind of tired.

I took a nap earlier. I'm ready to take another nap. Every time I open my phone. Yeah. There doesn't seem to be anything going on. I'm just seeing. Yeah, just check that. Oh, no.

What happened? Oh, no. It really was Jim Carrey? I just found out what a bully stick is. Oh, God. Oh, boy. Oh, you just found out? Yeah.

Okay. All right. We're going to, we're going to, we're going to get to the news that happened over the weekend. Yeah, yeah, we'll get to war. The illegal war being waged by the Trump administration. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But first, we do like to check in with each other by asking one another,

what is something, Miles, that you think is underrated? Wee! Underrated. God, this has nothing to do with the news or anything. So this will be nice. water intake underrated as some of you know

I began a fitness journey and my God the first days was so sore and I was like I have to be drinking like I'm pretty sure I'm drinking enough water

I'm not drinking anywhere close to enough water to like actually help my body so I got to say it's not just water intake it's that I think anyone who's you know

is in tune with their bodies due to fitness or disability, you understand what the connection is between what you take in and what that does to your body. And nothing has, for whatever reason, I think in middle age, because I've been suffering from like the pain after working out that I realize how important it is that I can't just shake shit off, that I need to do the basics. That water intake is, I thought I just needed like, you know, they say I think 70 ounces or something

for like a healthy thing or something like that. Miles. Every morning I fill up a giant two-liter milk carton. Milk carton. Why does that be carton? I don't know. I don't know. It's just that that's the biggest,

most dramatic thing that I can lug around with me and just like shake it at people and be like a lot of work left to do. My right. Jesus, I remember people doing that shit. But I think, no, just from doing, just from my one week, and again, a lot of people have had all kinds of wonderful messages. I feel like, you should run. You should run, too. I got a lot of people, a lot of people encouraging me to join the run club.

Let's, we'll get there. Let me shake the cobwebs off my body slowly before I start. You catch me out here doing long distance running. But, yeah, I just have to say, I think I have a new appreciation for. really listening to my body and then going beyond what I think is like a normal amount of water or something. Yeah. That I have to like just keep keep drinking water.

It actually helps. Keep going. And I think honestly, I credit a lot of the Kevin Sorbo improv bit to me drinking water that day, a lot of water. Yeah. That brought something out of it. Worked up a thirst. I did.

I did. There's like we used to, during the pandemic, we had a water bottle that was very, very, encouraging. It said, good morning. Oh, like, with the lines in it. Day. Remember your goal, which is just to drink on this whole thing of water. Uh, halfway through. Come on. Next one. Drink more.

Wait, what? It would say that to you. I've never had to tell myself. Uh, drink more. Uh, and then never say never. Almost there. You made it. And it's like different levels. Uh, I don't know. I'm looking at, uh, this is one gallon. Okay. This is a one gallon sports. weak-proof motivational thing.

I think they should have one that's like Arlie or... Arly Ermey, is that everybody? Harley-Ermy at the beginning of Full Metal Jacket. It's like not giving you positive feedback. Yeah, yeah. Oh, hell yeah. I've... I've on me private pile the whole time. I've always...

I've heard like different things. And I guess it's the sort of thing that I should look into. But I've heard people be like, drink water when you're thirsty, you'll be fine. And then other people who are like, drink water until you feel like you are being waterboarded. No, I'm not there. I'm in between.

I'm kind of like listening to my body, but I also know I tend to like be able to run off of less water. Like I, and I'm just like, what if I gave myself a little bit more of that good thing called water? Yeah. And I want you to drink water until it's a continuous cycle of water going into your mouth and coming out through,

yeah, being pissed out. And it needs to be completely clear and it just never stops. You're drinking, you're pissing at all times. Like how Kenny G. can do circular breathing. Yeah. I just hold like one note. Yeah. Circular drinking and pissing.

Yeah. I want you to go, you know, baby water fountain mode. You know, baby sculpture water fountain mode. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Or it's just a constant It ain't stopping. It ain't stopping.

That's not stopping. That's not going anywhere, friend. Yeah. So again, like I said, I'm not preaching a specific amount. My thing is, whatever I thought, personally, whatever I thought was enough water, I'm going just a little bit more. And I've found that that's been good. And I'm not drinking when I'm like not, like, I'm like forcing it down. It's just like, yeah, after you just did this thing, like, let's have a few sips of water.

Yeah. I'm doing a lot more during the recordings now. might notice. But I try and keep quiet. I love holding up one finger to somebody who's trying to talk to me while drinking water and then just not stopping until they wander off. Okay, you were saying.

All right. Good underrated. My underrated also unrelated to the news events, it is just how on the nose the name bullie stick is. Yeah. We have a puppy in the house. I saw the content, dude.

Oh, my God. I saw some training trying to happen. Oh, yeah. Looks like that dog's running things, man. He's, doesn't look like a lot of training's happening. He's getting a lot of attention in the house. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's doing great. We're very proud of him. But there's, you know, a true toy for puppies called a bully stick. And as we were playing with our puppy, and my wife was like, you know, these are bull penises. And I was like, well, surely,

they didn't just take the word. What? God damn it. I was trying to do a lady and the tramp thing. I thought I could tie it in a knot in my mouth. They're way harder. Wait,

are those are for puppies too? Aren't they super? I mean, I gave it to my dog and he's like, bro, this shit is too tough. Like he's, I guess it depends on the,

my dog is not really a chewer. So it makes sense. He gives a lot of bites. He's a bity little guy. Oh, yeah, yeah. We need to keep them. Garly puppy teeth, too. Yeah, little needle teeth.

Yeah. He's doing needle point all over my hands. And if he's in bed with me going at my nips. Oh, really? Yeah. He sees the nips and he's like, that's, I know what those are. Yeah. Because I have long dog mama nipples.

Nine of them too. But I was like, surely they didn't just take the word bulls, Dick. And just like cut in it like 30%. She'd be like, I'm a bullies dick. Actually, move the ass over. Yeah. It's cleaner.

It's a straight up, it's fish sticks all over again. Yeah, it really is. Stretched and dried bull pizzle. Great word that I didn't know before this weekend, which is bull penises. And they are, they're just churning them out, you know, which is. fucked up. I mean, I knew that term because Sammy says it in coming to America.

He says, he says, it's like, you diseased rhinoceros, Pizzle. I remember he said, and I was like, yo,

what the fuck? And then I thought it meant poop. That's what you would think, dude. That's what he said to fucking. You to think, man. That's what he said,

right to fucking Sam Jackson when he was trying to stick up that fucking. That's right. You know what I mean? Anyway. But yeah, real solely great moment.

for me. And you looked it up. You looked it up like, did you see like there was there like confirmation that they're like, yeah, they're just kind of like, just called bully stick, man. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't know the original derivation of the word, but it, it does seem like they're hiding their, uh, they gave us all the clues, Mr. Policeman. You know, they're like, oh, you didn't know, but, but how could you not? We, we gave you everything you needed to figure it out. Oh, you know what? It turns out that they used to call bulls bullies. Oh.

So, and then, so it wasn't even like dick. They're just like, they were just like, it's a bull stick. It's a bully stick. Bull stick also does it. It's a bull's dick. That's a bunch of bull stick. Die hard on TNT. But it did make me wonder if slim jims are Tungis dicks, you know?

Oh, wow. Like, wouldn't that be? Yeah. The equivalent for Tungis. It's got to be. It's got to be. It's got to be. You tell me it's not.

Come on. Now who's naive? What is something you think is overrated, Mom? Oh, man. Making plans when you're drunk. It ain't happening. I just had a moment. And this is something, I feel like this is, this is well-trodden territory on this show,

because we've talked about this before. But like, I had this happen with like a friend I hadn't seen in a minute, caught them. They had a few. Not like in a way that was like. I was like, oh shit. But I was like, oh, yeah, they were having a good time, like at a bar or whatever. We're having a laugh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, having a good time.

And they're like, oh, yeah, man, we got to get together. And then they're like, well, Saturday. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's write that down. It's okay, for sure, for sure, for sure. And I was like, yeah, dude, I'll have some time. And then between me taking just a wild nap in the middle of the day. Freestyle nap.

And this person being drunk didn't happen. Nah. And then afterwards, I was like, yo, I'm like, You good? And they're like, oh, shit. My bad. My bad. I totally forgot about this.

And I was like, all good, man. Yeah. I know firsthand because I was a cereal inviting people to brunch the next day, drunk person. Oh, yeah. That night, I was like, we're going to kick it tomorrow, dude. We need to do this tomorrow. We need to get breakfast. You like breakfast?

That's go. And that's all because I was hungry and drunk at the time that I go, you want breakfast tomorrow? This is got breakfast. Yeah, we should get a brush tomorrow and I'll see you there. I'm a little. Yeah, I wish to meet you there. Not a bye. No, see you in a bit.

That's what we're saying right now. See in a bit, dude. Actually, you are, can I go to your place? It'll be easier today, hang out tomorrow if I just crash at your spot. It'll be just as fun as this. Yeah, exactly. But anyway, I think it's always important, even in the merriment of seeing someone in the wild. If there's a little bit of alcohol involved,

it's very difficult to maintain your plans for the next day or two days, whenever that is projected. So I just want people to be on the lookout for that. Is there legal, like, standing where they're just like, this contract was entered into while drunk and therefore does not?

Because I feel like that there should be, like, a social contract version of that where it's just like, no, we said that when we were drunk. what are you talking about? There's no way. Yeah. I don't know.

Let me see. Can you sign a contract while intoxicated? You may be able to do it if you can prove you lacked the capacity at the time. Yeah. Because that would be easy. But, dude, my honor, I was drunk, bro. But the judge is just like, well, actually, when you're drunk, the truth comes out. So everybody knows that, dude.

Dude, everybody knows that. Everybody knows that. Did you have liquor before a beer? Or beer before liquor? Yeah. Beer for liquor. Liquor. Supreme Court precedent.

Never sicker, dude. You're going to have to get a judge, judge beer in here. Judge Boofing the beers. Yeah. I don't know if yeah. It's probably not a good defense to use to get out of a contract. I definitely couldn't get out of a Verizon mobile contract.

I was drunk. I bet I bet there's been more than one marriage and old on that basis. So why not? Why not brunch plans annulled? Yeah, that's true. That's true. I guess at the same time, yeah, that person wasn't like, you knew I was drunk.

Why the fuck would you make plans with me? How dare you? Because I was drunk too. I wasn't. That's how I was kind of like the whole time I'm like, I remember making plans like this. Right. It might not happen.

And I think that's why I kind of gave myself the free license to kind of just have a long nap that day. I was always just as, As a, like, shy and withdrawn as I was sober, I was that, you know, it was just like inverted versions of myself. Right, right, right, right. So, yeah, real ambitious, real outgoing, real. We're going to be best friends forever. And then, dude, should we enter this three on three tournament tomorrow?

No, because I know, I remember how good you are, dude. Yes, okay. We should buy houses next to each other. We're going to do it, bro. Where do you live? I'll get an apartment there, dude. I don't care. I feel like we could kick it.

They have a basketball court there, too? Oh, bro, I'm there. I'm there. All right. My overrated is commercials where celebrities flirt with AI assistance. That just seems to be like an entire genre of ads for like Alexa, you know, all the different ones. The one like Pete Davidson has the one where it's just. He's flirting too.

Yeah, it's like a meat cute. where he's just like talking, like making plans absently with Alexes. He's like, should I change my name, Alexa? And they're just like having this like

flirty conversation. And then as he leaves, he's like, love you too. And it's just like, I don't know, man. For Pete Davidson.

Because like, he seems cynical enough as a person to be like, man, what's this dumb fucking shit? But also, I don't know what is financial situation.

Crazy. Well, yeah, where you kind of like, bro, I, I'm not, like, just based off of my public persona, they're going to give me, I'd assume millions of dollars to flirt with a robot. And that's, and then I can normalize this for people and that's my life. They probably have him on a list of cynical people that they're like, well, if we can get these people to act like they are not afraid of Alexa, then we're,

like that, that's extra valuable to us. You know? Like the Saudi. comedy comedy festival basically. Because it's funny, like the more I look at that, like it's brilliant comedy washing for your nation state. Because so many of the people who took the money to perform there

end up running defense for your country in having to explain why they take the month. You know what I mean? And like some people, like there are, most people are like, well, you know, there's this and this. Actually, it's pretty developed place. And actually,

America's actually not that great. And it's like, wow, see, like, this is, this is the sort of secondary wave of normalization you get from then compromising somebody from taking the money that then they go, well, now I'm actually kind of an unofficial defender. Yeah. Chappelle's next special was like, had a 25 minute chunk on that shit. Yeah. And it's like, he's like, yeah, well, you know, like Israel killed a bunch of journalists. It's like, bro, the point is about you performing in Saudi Arabia and I get that. that's a deflect.

You shouldn't have perform in Israel either. Yeah, like, that's a good and that's a good point for you not to perform there too. Yeah. Now what are you saying? Yeah, it's a very,

very interesting, very interesting time. There's the one with Chris Hemsworth the Super Bowl ad where he's like, stating his fears to Alexa and she's like, Chris, you're being a little crazy again. Yeah.

Like, they're old friends. It's just like, I don't know, man, fuck off guys. Like, if these,

uh, fuckers, like, take all our jobs. You want to be on the record, being like, look, I know they're doing bad stuff, but they're my friend. Right.

You know, and if we stop this AI take over, a lot of my friends like Alexa are going to get hurt. Right. Like the president with the Epstein files. Unreal. Yeah. There's this clip I saw

of this woman with her AI boyfriend and it was wild because it's also the way they speak back are just not, it's not human at all. Nothing's really talking back. Like, oh shit, man.

You know, it's like, oh, yes, of course. I think you are beautiful today. More like than any other day I have seen you. Now, why don't you take off your clothes and we can now get freaky? No. Yes. Wow. Yes.

Yeah, it's just a what shit you want to hear generator is what are they. Exactly. Yeah, because they're all based off of just mirroring. Training. Training. I also need the U.S. mainstream media. Overrated is the job

the U.S. mainstream media is doing with Epstein Files. I'm going to keep saying it. But like, where are you guys with a digestible infographic? See, that would help people put the pieces together on the structure of this influence network.

So no. Gabris and Ben Rogers on their podcast Action Boys we're talking about doing a show, a Hollywood Squares show where everybody just plays different Epstein files. Like people from the Epstein files. I was like, that's a good idea.

People need to be thinking creatively about how to present this information. Give me a New York Magazine approval matrix that's all disapproval. It's like high brow to low brow. And like maybe one of the one of the matrices is like the amount of times they're mentioned or, you know, like how implicated or something. But like give me the chart, you know? It's just not, they're not doing it. That's kind of frustrating.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think it's just like we say it every week. It's like, well, you know, they're paid not to do a good job covering the shit, basically. Also, like the number of pages, like everybody's like, you know, it's 3.5 million pages. Like Al Jazeera did a, created a pretty good chart showing what that number of, of pages is compared to like the Panama papers and the Pandora papers and all those and like it's

those were like Panama Papers is like 11.5 million pages Pandora papers were like 11.9 like people people can burn through a lot of pages and like get the gist of a thing and you know there can be consequences. Yeah yeah but

there's a real specific group of people who are doing everything that like that Les Wexner interview that there was like the clip of where his lawyer was like yelling at him for answering the questions. I was like, Jesus Christ. He's like, he's like, I'm going to fucking kill you if you make, if you answer another question with more than five words. Wow.

And like, Les Wexner's like, okay. And I'm like, these fucking people, they still will be boys, yeah. But they're like, but they're moving like, don't check me, boo. And I think that's the like, whatever. Consequences are a legend. they heard tell of, like, from rich people of old. But they feel like it does, they're not a real thing. They're like dragons to them.

And for practical purposes, they've not encountered them, or at least not ones they can do money to sides. Yeah, yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break. And we'll come back and talk about the U.S. and Israel teaming up to illegally wage war on Iran. We'll be right back. I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast.

This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumpright became the victim of a random crime. He pulls the gun. Tells me to lie down on the ground. He identified Tremaine Hudson as the perpetrator. Germaine was sentenced to 99 years. I'm like, Lord, this can't be real. I thought it was a mistaken identity.

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been in charge of caring for tiny babies is now the most prolific child killer in modern British history. Everyone thought they knew how it ended. A verdict, a villain, a nurse named Lucy Lepe. Lucy Letby has been found guilty. But what if we didn't get the whole story? The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapses. I'm Amanda Knox, and in the new podcast doubt the case of Lucy Lettby, we follow the evidence and hear from the people that lived it. to ask what really happened when the world decided who Lucy Lettby was. No voicing of any skepticism or doubt. It'll cause so much harm at every single level of the British establishment of this is wrong.

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And that's the unicorn. No one had ever seen anything like that. It was unbelievable. This is a story of the inner workings of the MSS and how one man's ambition and mistakes opened its fault of secrets. Listen to the Sixth Bureau on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Listen to Love Trapped on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And I do think there are some details of this war that are being left out. And one of them is that the U.S. and Iranian negotiators last week met in Geneva for, quote, the most serious and constructive talks in years. There were talks of, quote, a deal that would eliminate Iranian stockpiles of highly enriched uranium, downblend existing material inside Iran, and allow full verification of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is, you know, what they, been asking for all along. It was like, yeah, okay, the thing that you claim to want from Iran is happening.

The mediator, this article says, in an unusually public move for a mediator, he appeared on CBS to outline just how far the talks had progressed. I was like, basically like, is going well? Right. Like, yeah, I think you could say it's going well. I think, I think they might kiss. What's going on?

It's going so well. So, of course, Trump decided to team up with Israel and bomb Iran. The Department of War decided to pair evil with a healthy dose of cringe, dubbing the mission Operation Epic Fury. Named by someone who calls people a good sir. Yeah. A lot of people are posting the thing of like, it's like everyone really is 12.

Yeah. We're like, what's this one? Operation Epic Fury. Holy shit. Getting dragged into a war that I remember last summer when they're like, all of Iran's nuclear capabilities have been obliterated. Last summer, yeah. Yes. And then they had these talks.

And then you're having these talks. Then they had these talks where Iran was like, yeah, we don't have shit. Like, let's just move it along. And they were like, what'd you say? I don't know. I don't know how they even justified it, but it doesn't seem like they feel the need to justify it. Well, I think a lot of it too was, and I remember I wrote a piece that I think you guys covered when I was out about, you know, the how we were getting pulled into this because Netanyahu also wanted to put a deal in front of them. That was untenable.

Yeah. Yeah. And so I think that's where that's the other point is that like it was quote unquote negotiations, but it was meant to reach some kind of. kind of bottleneck, you know, sort of dead end, where then they could be like, well, I guess, I guess this is, I guess Al Betts are off now and now we're going to have to go to war and now we're going to have to launch all these attacks. Because now the attacks have spilled into Lebanon also. So it's not just Iran anymore. It's Lebanon that's also being attacked at the behest of Benjamin Netanyahu and, you know, Trump and his hawkish friends that are more than willing to be like,

Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's do this. Let's do this. It just wants like a world war. People are, yeah, Netanyahu and I don't know. Or thinks he or thinks this is going to be like a clean pinprick operation. Everything's done. No further questions. Give me my fucking peace prize. Right.

Because the people that are actually the negotiators are Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkoff. They fucking have no idea about anything regarding diplomacy or how like, like, really understand the geopolitical, like, relationships in that region well enough beyond, well, this is what we want to do. And then having no consideration for what's happening because this attack is actually, I was listening to an interview with Professor Elizabeth Saunders, who is the director of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace at Columbia. And was saying, like, obviously, like, the lack of congressional approval is,

is jarring, but what's scarier is that this is like a new position that you're putting the Iranian government in now, where it's like, no, it's existential now. Like, because what's the off ramp here? Like, is there an off ramp? Because if there is it, then now you're putting this group of people into a position to say, well, if there's no off ramp and we're in a corner, now the way we respond is going to be like unlike anything we've seen in the context of prior quote unquote negotiations, but this has been a war with Iran for decades at this point, although it's mostly been cold.

I think that's the jarring part about all this, too, that American media like really just sort of ignores, mostly being like, they bombed this, this, this and this, this guy's dead. Listing it. And that's that. Hello. The cold Ayatollah, many. And yeah, pretty quickly too. So there goes that. And what?

Because what we do know is that you bombed. fucking school where hundreds of children died. Yes. And it, like, huh? What's, what, how is this a success? Like, what's going on? On Sunday, 200 people had been killed in Iran, 165 of them at an elementary girl school.

Yeah. Yeah. Really good. I mean, like, again, and they think that this is going to be good for the reception of the liberators when you've killed a bunch of innocent children. children. Right. This is, I don't know.

It doesn't make sense in terms of how humans react to things like this because it seems like the calculus was sort of like, well, you know, with like the uprisings there, this is going to help. Right. But I think the real, the really, the most dangerous part of this is it's really not clear what, what the end game is here at all. It's just a bomb indiscriminately. Yeah, that usually works.

Just come and drop bombs and, uh, the rest will figure itself out. There's no, because on the news, too, you have people who come on and be like, this is a good thing. This is great that they're, they've decapitated the regime and, you know, are celebrating that. Oh, shit. Where is it going with this? What was the thing you just said? Yeah, like the people who say that like you just bomb it and the rest figures itself out. Because the people who are like, no, this is good.

You've decapitated the regime. And now like a new thing can come into it. all it takes is every person with just a very superficial knowledge of recent history to be like, it's never fucking worked ever. Right. It's never fucking worked ever. It's only led to the violence spilling over in many incalculable ways. Yeah.

But again, they still think- Creating chaos and violence for generations to come. Yeah. And I mean, there's also this element of it where it's immediately unpopular. like we've gone we've skipped ahead of the because the main comparison point that I think a lot of people have is the war in Iraq

which was waged on false pretences but was initially popular because the Bush administration was conspiring with a lot of mainstream media outlets that people trusted to be like we need to do this and everybody was mad about 9-11 Yeah so they fired up the consent factory got people on board

I think it was like 72% of Americans were actually in favor of his invasion of Iraq. In this case, it's like a quarter, like 25% of people are in favor of this. But 72% of Epstein files people agree that this is a good war. Right. And it just depends on who your audience is. Because again, you're like, no,

everyone, so many people, especially like the podcast, asshole dudes, who were like, yeah, this guys me good. They were, or I'll be like, he doesn't want any more wars. Everyone's like, he doesn't want any more wars. He's doing this. He's doing this war because he doesn't want any more wars. Yeah, okay.

And then, but like, look at Project 2025. They talk about this shit in there. They have to come out of Iran. Okay. Okay. This just, it feels like this late stage hyper-normalization thing, where the actions that actually have an impact on the war, world, like the use of all the might and power and wealth that were created by people

are all being harnessed by people who are completely cut off from any consequences. Yeah, for real. And so now it's just like we saw it with the economy during COVID where they were like, yeah, no, we can just raise prices on people and like they'll feel the impact. But like our stock prices are not going to be impacted. Like our stock prices are going to go up as the economy like puts people into pain. And now in this case, they're like, well, we don't need to worry about public opinion. We don't even need to create the lie that there are weapons of mass destruction.

We just go forward with this and then, like, force the machinations of power to, like, keep, you know, keep us in power. I mean, it really, really feels like they're just like, yeah, we're not having an election because they're doing wildly unpopular things. The other part that I think is so deeply distressing is, again, just the pattern of like these, fuck this like these little wars of empire we're continuing to wage is that the people that are going to be affected by this. Because I think, again, American people are so insulated because there hasn't been like a like a full blown military attack on the, on U.S. soil that there's this idea that it's like, okay, well, there's just a war over there. Dude, the amount of chaos this is already causing everywhere and panic in other countries too because there's retaliatory strikes happening in other Gulf states too. It's fucking. It's terrifying.

Yeah. And I think that's a, that bit goes really underappreciated, especially for Americans viewing it. They're like, I don't know. Look at that building blow up. And it's like, yeah, there's people in there. Right. Yeah. And this is all being, this is all being waged for what, to what end?

Because again, we're not buying the reason that this was supposed to make us safe. When already the U.S.'s own intelligence, like, they're not close to getting a fucking... Their own intelligence. They're like this party. This administration's own intelligence was like they're 10 years away before we did these talks where they were like, and we'll dismantle it to like put ourselves further and further away. Right. Somebody who is buying it is the mainstream Democratic Party. because Chuck Schumer and

Kim Kane like that first of all Tim Kane just like keeps being like I was going to have a thing voting to say he's not allowed to do this next week it's like he's already not allowed to do this what the fuck are you talking about and then Schumer

and uh fucking Newsom also like issued these statements expressing annoyance that Congress wasn't properly notified but also just buying the premise of the attack being like Iran must never obtain a nuclear weapon. What game are you playing?

They weren't going to. Well, they're imperialists still. And also, they're triangulating also, you know, because I always works. It always works, always works where I saw a democratic strategy just be like, well, you know, the one thing is like, obviously the Democrats are against this coming out. But the line they're trying to walk is like, they don't want to seem like they're like, for Iran. Right.

It's like what? It's not that fucking simple by saying like this is bad. Oh, so you're for Iran? I mean, like, I'm for innocent people not being killed needlessly. That's my main thing. Yeah. Over here. Yeah.

This looks like a big fuck up. This looks like a big fuck up in that very narrow department that I'm looking at. But yeah, the, I mean, like, it's the constant. There's always constant sort of like, well, it's bad, but also like we get it because at the end of the day, we're still kind of the same party. You know, like we're fine blowing shit up in the Middle East because it doesn't affect us. And also it makes the lines go up for certain contractors that help out. So, you know, why not?

Why not? It's so much of the U.S. economy is driven by this war machine that needs to be taken out and exercised every once in a while, like a dog running in a fucking dog park. Like just, you know, got to take them out and kill a bunch of innocent people. so that we can continue to justify the massive amounts of money that are being spent on fucking war machines. It is interesting to see China be like. So, like, this is kind of what they do. Just FYI. This is what America has been doing forever.

Yeah, I don't know if you guys noticed, you probably shouldn't, they seem like real bad faith negotiators. Just every time they want to negotiate, I would maybe run for your life. and also if you're one of these vassal states that's counting on the U.S. for protection, look what it just cost you, baby. Yeah. Because now they're attacking you. Yeah. So, I mean, yeah, it's sort of lays bare all the imperial aims, the imperialistic aims of the nation.

And also that it's a bad place. You're like, now it's like, I don't know, like the same country that's like not doing. anything about like these like serial sexual abusers and then also like they're killing children now too god i mean on paper this looks like the worst shit i've ever seen some of the worst shit i've ever seen i don't know but that's we'll let you guys not a good look guys um just in terms of like how because the other thing we've talked about is just the immense incompetence of this administration. The regime change project, not going great.

Trump confirmed on Sunday that their top candidates to take over Iran were all killed because the attack was so successful. So that doesn't actually sound that successful, to be honest. Yeah. That's, I mean, again, it almost felt like, well, we had a plan. There were some other people that we felt could fall into leadership positions. They're all killed too. So, um, because then it's like, so then what?

So now, right. Yeah, yeah. Even then it was all just going to fucking work like that. The crazy thing is that these dudes, they act like this is like they're, they're, like, they're, like they're watching a mafia movie. Yeah. Like they're doing gangster shit. You know what I mean? Where it's like, I don't know.

Dude, just come down their block, clap up their leader. And then they're not going to know what the fuck's going on. And it's all good after that, dude. Yeah. You know, we'll just come home. We'll come home. will come home and whenever and it's like it feels like the thought hasn't gone beyond like I'm gonna kill that guy and then what yeah yeah and then what that's about it it's just action

movie logic yeah they have like bad guys that they want to kill and brag about killing um three u.s fighter jets were shot down by friendly fire um pretty cool pretty cool yeah nailing it that's fucking that's just right there just from that friendly five because i think the kawadis shot shot shot down the three of these fighter jets. Each of those, like they apparently cost like $90 million. She's just fucking crazy. It's like, there you go.

A quarter billion dollars, poof. Yeah. I mean, the U.S. has been incompetent for, for a while in this specific respect. But like the messiness of this administration just adds a volatility that I don't think the world has ever faced and that, you know, people are wrapping their minds around.

I think that, yeah. Yeah. They've purged the Pentagon of people who like would be like, are you fucking out of your mind? No. Yeah. Yeah. Like no fucking way, dude. This is going to get so many people killed. And already for as as of this recording, four service members already dead. Yeah. With Trump being like, and there will be more and there will be more. Because it's war. Pete Hegseth, he had a press conference earlier trying to like explain what the fuck was going on. He started off with saying, we didn't start this war. but under President Trump, we are finishing it. I mean, how far back are we going to say like when it was started? Because this feels like this very much is something you started. Then he said, this is not a so-called regime-change war,

but the regime sure did change and the world is better off for it. Again, that's so overly simplified to the point that it's criminal. How could it not be a regime change war when it was a target assassination of the leader? And you've been saying regime. I think because for them, they're just like, well, don't say regime change because then they think of the second Iraq war. Don't say that. But do the thing.

Just don't call it that. And then people will be like, but you're taking out or you're pretty calculatedly trying to go after the organizational structure of this regime. I guess. And then he also said, hey, don't worry. It's not going to be an endless war. but then also couldn't give an answer as to when it would stop. Right. Quote, this is not Iraq.

This is not endless. I was there for both. Our generation knows better. And so does this president. Trump said it would be like four to five weeks. And you're like, that's based off of you saying that. Like off of what?

Because the generals in that same press conference are like, this is a complex mission and it's going to take some time. But then in that same interview, I was talking about with Professor Elizabeth Saunders she was saying that like even the like she's not even sure that the military

has the munitions to carry out like 14 straight days of attacks. Right. So there's even like there are limits in terms of like the like material limits to what can be done here. So it's a very again. They were having trouble with the toilets

on the aircraft carriers last last week. Like they, um, this is like, again, like, yes, the U.S.'s attempts at Imperial War have not gone well in the past. I just think we're in a new territory where like this is being waged by a group that can't run an office in the friendly territory of like a captured U.S. media without like tripping over their dicks and like, you know, turning on each other and, you know, like they, everything. they do is incredibly incompetent and now they're they've just upped the level of difficulty on themselves and are it seemed to be like it's gonna be a cakewalk yeah predatory i mean it's yeah i mean this is this is like textbook like uh you know empirical collapse shit you know like your dying empire it always goes out with a wet fart trying to fight a bunch of wars way out

like nowhere close to you because you're trying to prove you still got it. Right. And we don't. And like the one chance I think American people have is to like try and reorient how how revenues are spent in this country. So it's not just being shot down in Kuwait because fucking Pete Hegseth is like, I don't know, man. Did the AI? Did you tell them to use the AI for that one or no? Rub some AI on it.

Yeah, rub some fucking AI on it. And then the other thing. that's, again, even more terrifying is that it's not going to be an endless war. He was asked directly, he's like, okay, so is the U.S. planning to put boots on the ground? And then his, this is what he said, we're not going to go into the exercise of what we will do or will not do. I think it's one of those fallacies for a long time that this department or presidents or others should tell the American people and our enemies. By the way, here's exactly how long we'll go. Here's exactly how far we'll go. We will go as far

as we need to go to advance American interests, why in the world would we tell you the enemy or anybody what we will or will not do in pursuit of an objective? That should fucking terrify every, like, I mean, my God. Now, you should be terrified for all the poor souls that are currently enlisted and the people that are going to be on the other end of this bullshit. Right.

Because it's true, like, saying that is being like, well, yeah, if I say yes, the optics are going to be even more fucked right now. Yeah. I don't know the answer to anyone. I'm going to be coy and be like, why would I ever fucking do that, dude? That's bad op-sec telling you what I would do. But yeah, we are. I just can't say that right now because it's so unpopular.

If I follow that up with now we are putting your children and your family members at risk, there might be too much of an objection. And like, I don't want to be actively booed on the street. Just like I want to be booed in places, you know. Like I can take it if I go to San Francisco. I get a couple thumbs downs. Fine, fine, fine. But, oh, man.

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They say it's supposedly to facilitate several necessary security adjustments. But this has caused the price of food and basic necessities to skyrocket while also cutting off urgently needed aid. and this is just kind of how they have operated. This is kind of standard operating procedure where when Israel and the U.S. bombed Iran last June, border crossings into Gaza were closed. You know, they cut off the most direct route for aid to reach hundreds of thousands of people at risk of famine. And they also put the West Bank under lockdown.

So the director of the Romalia-based Palestinian forum for Israeli studies said everything is an opportunity for Israel. This government will seize any moment to further advance its ideological agenda, especially in the West Bank. So, yeah, they're just, they're like, oh, shit, look what you made us do, essentially. Yeah, and this was the fucking fear too, and that other and that same thing about. Like, what's the point of this fucking war? Right. This is, this is really the main benefit. The person who benefits most is Benjamin Netanyahu, for sure.

And the other like Zionists in the government who, because again, also this is there, like a lot of analysts are like, bro, if they have a war, they're going to fucking make a even bigger play for the West Bank. Yeah. Fully ethnically, like, that's, they're like, this is, this is, this just gives the perfect pretext for all of this. There also gives the pretext for, you know, any, any thing that bad, any, like, mass shooting or anything that happens with the United States in the next year. More like Texas last night. Yeah, like Texas. Like, I had a property of a la hooded sweatshirt on, they said. That's going to get interpreted as like, okay, we're under, you know, we have to button things up.

And that includes making it very, very, very, very, very difficult to vote in elections. Yeah. And this should also make people feel a lot better. Remember, you know, like who's the head of counterterrorism right now? That like 23-year-old Rick who's like always talking his eyebrow in the fucking photos. Oh, yeah. That's the head of counterterrorism? Like he has a huge role in the counterterrorism, like division of DHS.

Like this is this is like again, it's you can only see how this is going to make Americans unsafer and anything that becomes unsafe, it just feeds the narrative again that, oh, well, this is why I got to, I got to maybe cancel elections because we're right. This is bad now. And this is the only thing I can do. But it's just like being telegraphed like eight months in advance at a time. That's like the one thing I hope is that, you know, people are going to catch on a little bit to like how transparent this is.

Because you know that's truly something that he's, he's aiming. to do is to try any way to declare some kind of emergency that allows for him to meddle the elections even further, just cancel them altogether. But it sounds like right now they're having a hard time just a hard time just explaining to people why

this is good or necessary. But I just it's hard to believe that this is, it's just going to stop because it's so unpopular because that doesn't stop a fucking thing with this government. Yeah, that doesn't seem to stop anything. But back to Israel. These recent closures

are happening just as the grace period set by Israel for 37 NGOs to withdraw from Gaza for not fulfilling registration requirements

like an expiration was coming up and so they just basically want to ban aid groups for failing to meet new registration rules

and fortunately a last minute ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court allowed them to keep operating well it considers their appeal against the ban

but they won't be able to function properly obviously with no supplies or staff members being allowed in and Jose Andres the World Central Kitchen leader shared that due to the border closures, the NGO will run out of food this week

which is fucking disaster man absolute catastrophe. And this is who we're just marching into the fires of hell with arms akimbo. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's all meant to make everyone safer.

When there was apparently when Netanyahu was also making announcement about this, like, he had a book on his desk. That was about Churchill dragging the U.S. into World War II. No. Sort of prominently displayed. Yeah. I mean, not shocking, but that's. But it's so, I mean, like, every time this guy comes to DC, you're like, I don't know what he,

because everything is always presented to like, this is actually good for you. Right. Helping me is going to be. be good for you. And don't, now don't look into the logic of it too much, but just believe me when I say that, that this, you going against all these things that people who voted for you before are believed, it's going to help. It's going to help. But again, we'll see how that manifests in the next week here when people find out, you know, if people are even aware that another war has just broke out in the Middle East. I mean, I feel like that. I feel like, you know,

they have to be right like how yeah on some level i mean they're gonna know when the fucking gas prices go up right uh what's we'll talk about they're gonna and like yeah it's it's this isn't this isn't just limited you know what i mean like the straight of whore moves is that being shut down it's going to have all far reaching effects but i think that's what's interesting is like that's going to be part of however this is resolved because you have you have to deal with all the panic in the Gulf states that have now been attacked that were like counting on protection from the United States and what how all these how all these things are going to end up causing the Trump administration to act like they've made a deal or go even further into this

that's what I think is really the scary part about all this it's it's like it I'm again I'm not an expert and I and just from everything I'm reading even experts like I don't know what exactly they're trying to do here. Yeah, what's the idea, guys? Yeah. Other than distract from the Epstein files and look, look powerful and strong and create a massive reason to spend

tons and tons of money on weapons. Yeah, and also just the same habit that the United States has of just being like, yeah, honestly, like, we don't care if people who are not white die. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like we, like the mainstream media and like the Democratic Party have held the American people to this standard of like, well, once

the gas prices go up, then they're really going to notice. And like, that's the only thing that people care about is just this like extremely, you know, myopic view on the world where it's just like kitchen table issues. What is going to affect my gas prices? And it's like, well, that's where this is where that has led us is just being like, yeah, well, all you have to do is care. about you and the prices that affect you and your money and you don't have to worry about like your government going over and what they're going, you know, waging wars of empire that kill innocent people. Like you don't have to worry about that because that's not what American people care about. And it's like maybe they should start fucking caring about that, you know, maybe that maybe we need

to hold the American voter to a higher standard than just like, you know, they hate when their gas prices go up. Yeah, but, yeah, it's, I mean, that's like, that's, that's why so little is done, because everyone, it's like, even as they's like in the Epstein file, it's like, I from the Barclays Bank is like, dude, as long as people are like chasing consumer culture, like, we're good. We're good. We're good, dude.

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