The David Knight Show - Thu Episode #2220: The Iran War: Echos of Bush’s Mission Accomplished

Episode Date: March 12, 2026

────────────────────────────────────────00:02:10:28 — Federal Officials Accused of Halting Epstein Ranch InvestigationJames Comer says the Trump Justice Department asked New Mexico officials to stop their investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch after Epstein’s death. The shutdown of the state probe raises questions about federal interference and the broader handling of Epstein-related evidence. ────────────────────────────────────────00:05:44:10 — Iran Threatens Global Trade by Choking the Strait of HormuzIran signals it could shut down or severely disrupt shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical artery for global energy and trade flows. Targeting ports, refineries, and shipping routes could cripple global supply chains far beyond the battlefield. ────────────────────────────────────────00:09:32:12 — UN Resolution Condemns Iran While Ignoring U.S. and Israeli StrikesMore than 80 nations support a UN Security Council resolution condemning Iranian actions against Gulf states while omitting criticism of U.S. or Israeli military operations. The move is portrayed as evidence of geopolitical double standards in international diplomacy. ────────────────────────────────────────00:13:33:20 — Trump Claims Victory in Iran War While Continuing Military OperationsTrump declares that the United States has already “won” the war with Iran but simultaneously says U.S. forces will remain engaged to finish the mission. The conflicting messaging raises uncertainty about the war’s objectives and timeline. ────────────────────────────────────────00:15:12:06 — Pentagon Accused of Misjudging Iran’s Decentralized War StrategyIran’s “mosaic defense” doctrine—decentralized units designed to survive leadership decapitation strikes—is highlighted as a strategy U.S. planners allegedly underestimated. The discussion frames this as a major strategic blind spot in the war’s early planning. ────────────────────────────────────────00:18:51:28 — Pentagon Seeks Expanded Domestic Surveillance PowersThe Defense Department reportedly pushes to remove restrictions limiting domestic surveillance, citing supply-chain security concerns. Critics warn the move would extend military monitoring powers into domestic affairs. ────────────────────────────────────────00:20:47:02 — Pentagon Tightens Control Over Media Coverage of the WarMajor media outlets lose Pentagon access after refusing to sign agreements restricting communication with sources. The policy leaves official Defense Department photographers and selected figures as the primary sources of wartime imagery. ────────────────────────────────────────00:40:35:02 — War in the Persian Gulf Sends Gold and Oil Prices SurgingFinancial analysts warn that disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz are pushing oil and gold prices sharply higher. The situation is compared to the 1970s oil crisis and raises fears of global economic instability. ────────────────────────────────────────00:55:37:02 — War and Energy Shock Could Accelerate Collapse of Dollar DominanceAnalysts argue that rising oil prices, debt pressures, and central bank accumulation of gold could accelerate global de-dollarization. The conflict with Iran is framed as a catalyst for major changes in the global monetary system. ────────────────────────────────────────01:07:40:13 — Major Private Equity Firms Restrict Withdrawals Amid Liquidity StressBlackRock, Blackstone, and other firms reportedly halt outflows from certain private equity funds. The move signals potential financial stress tied to commercial real estate and tightening credit markets. ────────────────────────────────────────01:24:28:22 — Reports Claim Lindsey Graham Encouraged Netanyahu to Push Trump Toward WarAccording to reports, Senator Lindsey Graham traveled repeatedly to Israel and advised Netanyahu on persuading Trump to support military action against Iran. The claim suggests outside political lobbying contributed to escalation. ────────────────────────────────────────01:43:29:16 — Oil Supply Shock Could Trigger Global Inflation CrisisAnalysts warn that prolonged disruption in the Strait of Hormuz could drive hoarding, supply shortages, and rapidly rising energy prices. 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of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act it's the david night show as a clock strikes 13 it's thursday the 12th of march you have our lord 2006 well today we're going to talk a look at the astounding vanity and stupidity of a trump regime yeah trump family values and how it extends to the to the cabinet that he has there, the sycophancy, the boasting, the vanity. I'm going to ban all photographers because I don't like the way you made me look. This is what these guys are concerned with as the world is suffering from constipation at the Strait of Hormuz. We have entire world trade is being cut off by these lunatics who didn't have a clue,

the gang who could not shoot straight. he's going to be joining us today. We're going to talk about what's going on with gold as well as what it looks like for the dollar. It appears that the Iranians have a plan to last a long time, but they don't really need to last any longer than the U.S. bond market can last. And that's looking like that's not going to go that well. We'll be right back. Well, let's take a look at the news first before we get into Iran. We've got James Comer. saying that the Trump Department of Justice asked the New Mexico officials to end the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. As I reported the other day, they shut it down at the Zorro Ranch, and that happened during the Trump administration.

Right after Jeffrey Epstein was either killed or escaped, they shut down the investigation. State investigations said, we'll handle it from here. And now, as the state of New Mexico sees some of the statements in these partially, released documents about Epstein. They want to have an investigation, state investigation. So now the FBI is, oh, we'll help you with that. Be careful. Keep your eyes on these FBI guys. They may be stuffing papers into their pants like Sandy Burglar. Remember that guy? The guy who was there with the Clintons and he goes to the National Archives. And they've set up special rules just because of what Sandy Berger did. We call him Sandy Berger.

He was left alone with a lot of these papers that were supposed to not leave the place. And he stuffed a bunch of them in his pants and they caught him outside. He's destroying these documents. Yeah, watch out for your FBI partners in this investigation of the Epstein Ranch. And the guy who's talking about this, of course, is the Republican who was running the Epstein probe that is happening there. I guess you put that in air quotes, a probe. The federal government asked in Mexico to stop their investigation, said Comer, I believe back in 2019 of that ranch, so many questions about how the government failed,

he said. I mean, this whole thing doesn't make sense, says James Comer, a head of the House Oversight Committee. He said, everyone has conspiracy theories on how Epstein was able to get away with it. Was it because he had powerful friends? Was it because he was an agent? We don't know, but we're going to find out. I'm glad they're on the ground now in New Mexico, searching the property.

Again, watch out for the FBI. Meanwhile, when we look at what is happening with the Iran war, Iran is getting more defiant in the face of the U.S. is really onslaught. There's very different pictures that are emerging here, and, you know, how do you tell what is true? We have not only the fog of war, but we have the censorship of visits. Israel, and we have the lies of the Trump administration. They don't even try to make it plausible. I got to give it to Satan Yahoo. At least BB will make things look plausible unless he's talking about Iran's nuclear

war stuff. He puts up his Warner Brothers Acme bomb picture and tells us that they're a week away, and he's done that for 30-some-odd years. But he does it in a very convincing manner. Not so much with Trump. This stuff is prima facie absurd. But in Iran, the foreign minister has further said that a unilateral declaration from Trump that the U.S. had won the war and would soon be over because they don't have anything left

to bomb, he said, well, that's not going to end the conflict. The implication is that even if the U.S. announced a willingness to end its attacks, Iran might be willing to continue the conflict in some form. What form would that take? choking off trade at the Strait of Hormuz. And it's not simple enough to put a bunch of boots on the ground and protect the Strait of Hormuz or something like that, turn it into a Gibraltar type of occupation.

Now, that won't even do it. Because all of these production facilities for liquid natural gas, the oil refineries, the oil fuels themselves, the ports, those are all vulnerable targets. And you can shut those things down as well. You can shut down the source of the oil, not just the transit of the oil. And so they said they're going to keep their chokehold on shipping, seeking to navigate the Strait of Hormuz.

Ron believes that there can be no end of this conflict until it believes that Trump has been shown the economic, political, and military cost is so high that it will not be worth repeating it. It is instead insisting on a permanent deal that, includes a U.S. commitment not to attack Iran again. Can you trust Trump after the treachery that he has shown in these negotiations? The key issue is that they're going to do this folks for the long term until people feel enough pain.

All you hear all this stuff, you know, no pain, no gain, right? All the time, the sound bite that we have of that, which is not firing today. Anyway, the short-term pain for long. term gain. Well, they want a short-term war for long-term gain. That's what they really want. They're not going to get that. Instead, the way you hold Trump's feet to the fire is not by getting an assurance from him or his signature on a piece of paper. He has sworn to uphold the Constitution. How's that working out for us? Reminds me of Russell Means book, Where White Men Fear to Tread. and he said, as an Indian, he said, the U.S. government has broken every treaty they ever made with us.

He said, the treaty they made with you, white man is the Constitution. And they broke in every aspect of that as well. So what would make the Iranians think that Trump's signature would be worth anything on a piece of paper? Or his verbal assurance is even less. Now, the reality is that they've got to make this as painful for the people of the West that they won't elect leaders like Trump again. He has to destroy Trump politically. That would be a good thing, I think, for us.

If he destroys Trump politically, it's going to be very painful. But that would be the outcome. It is a ceasefire to be established, or is the worst stop? There must be a guarantee that aggressive actions against Iran will not be repeated. Otherwise, if another attack occurs in a few months, a ceasefire is meaningless. You know, they've very seen this. You know, they had the bomb strikes and so we took out all their nuclear facilities. We're done.

And then just in a few months, you get this even bigger attack. The defiance is remarkable for a regime that at the start of the war, 11 days ago, was seeking little more than its own survival. But the overall mood among Iranian regime figures is this going to be, it needs to survive. they're in an existential war, and should not at this stage seek any agreement. It's not really surprising when you stop and think about it. The civilian populations, but especially the regime as well, once they are attacked in an act of aggression, and once you start doing civilian bombings, that hardens people's attitude.

And even if they don't win, they're going to die trying. They are a lot more committed to this. than anybody in the Trump administration. The UN Security Council on Wednesday yesterday, more than 80 nations would sponsor a Bahrain-sponsored resolution condemning Iran for its attacks on the Gulf states, but voicing no criticism of the U.S. or Israel. Think about that.

We were the aggressors, but we get no criticism whatsoever. And there is no statement about the bombing of, civilians and young girls, we are absolutely not seeking a ceasefire of the Speaker of the Parliament. Let the enemy know that whatever they do, there will certainly be proportionate, whatever we do will be proportionate and immediate retaliation. And so they said at the beginning of the war, we announced, and we announce again, no vessel associated with aggressors against Iran has the right to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. if you have doubts come closer and find out.

He's also said it will allow ships through countries that expel their U.S. and Israeli ambassadors. And we had two U.S. tankers hit yesterday. At least one of them was U.S. I don't know how they were flagged. But this is pictures of the, when you hit an oil tanker, you get spectacular fires, just like when you hit an oil refinery. And so that is, that was not in the strait. as a matter of fact.

That was close to Iraq. So Iran is planning an attack on California, warns the FBI. So they're planning, we've got a drone attack, we're told. And we'll put a drone attack on some tankers and unleash drones on California. Do you believe that?

I think there will be a false flag attack somewhere by our government. And the same people that told us that men in caves were flying planes into buildings and they just fell down right away. Are you going to trust the people that did everything they could to cover up the JFK assassination, 9-11, that gave us a lies about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Are you going to trust those people? Now they have found a – they put out a memo saying, we know they're going to – you know, they're going to – you know, got like a tanker aircraft carrier for drones that they're going to release these things on.

Quite frankly, I'm very, I think we all ought to be very concerned about what our own government will do. That's the reality. It's not known how Iran could carry out such an attack. Pretty far from home. As a matter of fact, as I was watching some of the interviews, in one interview, you had, I think it was CBS or something, was asking this Iranian official. over and over again. So are you planning on attacking the U.S.? And he says, we need to go there.

We've got plenty of U.S. targets right here. As a matter of fact, you know, the old meme where they said, look at those Iranians. Look at how aggressive they are. They put their country right in the middle of all of our military bases. They got many ways that they could do this. And quite frankly, if they wanted to do an attack, putting a ship out there with drones would not be the way to do it. Like coming across the border and attacking infrastructure or oil refineries or something like that, that would be more like a pattern of behavior that they would really do. If they come after something for a lot of civilian casualties, I would guess my first instinct would be it's our own government,

trying to build support for war that they've gone to war. This is even after we've become the empire that's policing the world, we've never had a situation where there was so little support for war when it started. And it hasn't gone that well, despite all the bravado and lies. So Trump says we won, but we don't want to leave early. He said yesterday, said we won the Iran War, but said the United States will stay with a fight to finish the job. Yeah, right. He's like trying to lay some expectations to get out of there.

He said, you never like to say too early that you won. We won. We won. In the first hour, it was over. That's right. Mission accomplished, just like George W. Bush on the aircraft carrier in Iraq, right? Claiming that 58 ships have been knocked out during the operation. Well, put that in context. Tell us how many mine-laying ships they have, you know, and how many naval ships. And is the Navy really an important part of the strategy? I don't think so. It's widely reported. and I talked about it yesterday, the fact that after they saw Saddam Hussein's military just crumble with the onslaught of the U.S. military attacking them, they thought, you know, we were pretty, had pretty much parity with them, right? They had a very long war between Iran and Iraq. Initially, it was going in Iran's favor, but then the U.S. helped Saddam Hussein because they hated Iran even more. And so they looked at that and said, well, we're going to have to have a different strategy. Their strategy was to decentralize, to have multiple layers of independent, they called

a mosaic, having all these independent cells that can operate independent of a decapitation strike. And you had evidently, in the Pentagon planners, there was no awareness of that whatsoever, even though they had talked about it publicly. So they thought they had it won with a decapitation strike, except they've been working for that for a very long time. It was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they're down, which is exactly how it should be. People like that, folks, are cowards, fundamentally.

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Call him a nationalist if you have to. Don't call him a Christian nationalist. There is nothing Christian about these actions. I stand before you today with one unmistakable message about Operation Epic Fury. America is winning, decisively, devastatingly, and without mercy. So there's nothing Christian about that. The Christian values gave us the just war theory. You don't revel in how many people you can kill, especially in civilians.

The results have been incredible. Historic, really. Only the United States of America could lead this. Only us. But when you add the Israeli defense forces, a devastatingly capable force, the combination is sheer destruction for our radical Islamist Iranian adversaries. Islamist adversaries. This is the ninth crusade.

The difference with this crusade is that they're not trying to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims. What they're trying to do is liberate the entire Middle East for Israel. And we have only just begun to hunt, dismantle, demoralize, destroy, and defeat their capabilities, just four days in. Starting last night and to be completed in a few days, in under a week, the two most powerful air forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies, uncontested airspace.

Hakeseth has vowed to unleash, quote, overwhelming and punishing violence on enemies and promised to dispense with stupid rules of engagement, quote unquote, what he calls it. No one's putting us in danger. We'll put in the other guys in danger. That's our job. So we're not concerned about that. We mitigate it as we need to.

Our commanders factor all of this. But the only ones that need to be worried right now are Iranians that think they're going to live. We will fly all day, all night, day and night, finding, fixing and finishing the missiles and defense industrial base of the Iranian military. Finding and fixing their leaders and their military leaders. Flying over Tehran. flying over Iran, flying over their capital, flying over the IRGC, Iranian leaders, looking up

and seeing only U.S. and Israeli air power every minute of every day until we decide it's over. And Iran will be able to do nothing about it. Death and destruction from the sky all day long. Yeah, that's the Secretary of War Crimes. That really is the, should be the new name of the department. If I change it from Department of Defense, it should be the Department of War Crimes. That's where we are right now. The pride, the hubris of this. God hates a prideful and haughty spirit.

We should hate it as well. Some people put their trust in chariots and horses, F-35s, Patriot missiles. A Christian puts his trust. in God. That's why I say he shows no evidence of being a Christian whatsoever. And so it was so important for the Department of War Crimes to have domestic surveillance that the vindictive wrath of this egotist Pete Hegeseth is now being directed towards Anthropic. And think about this. They're telling us that Anthropic presents an unacceptable supply chain risk for everybody within the Department of war crimes as well as for anybody they do business with.

So they've got to be purged. And yet they're fighting this war right now with Anthropic. And this is something, as I pointed out, it's never been done before to a domestic company. So think about that. Think about the fact that their number one mission is not to go to war and kill other people in other countries. Their number one mission is America first. America first has to be subjugated.

dominated, surveilled. And that's what they want this, anthropic, these, they want these red lines removed. They don't want any red lines that are going to stop them from domestic surveillance at the Pentagon. What do they have to do with domestic surveillance? That would be defending us from foreign threats.

We don't want a standing army. We certainly don't want a standing army of big brother troops, but Pete Higseth does. And think about the vanity and the pride of this guy. He's now banned photographers. Pictures outrageous. It makes me look utterly ridiculous. It's simply not possible to make me look so absurd unless it was malicious. I demand this be corrected at once.

My image is impeccable. That's it. No more photographers at the Pentagon. Yeah. He already didn't want them asking him any questions, right? So we're only going to have people who've signed an oilty oath, oath basically to him that are going to be allowed to be in the Pentagon. So he checked out most of the mainstream media.

It's so ridiculous. He renames it the War Department. He's the Secretary of War. And he's behaving like a preening homosexual. You're the Secretary of War, and you're concerned about how you look in these photos. That's right. And what caused all this was he'd already banned all the major media outlets because he said, we're not going to sign something saying that we can't talk to people.

People, not, you know, these are declassified documents, but if it's something that Pete Hexath doesn't like, he's going to come after you, right? I said, we're not going to sign that. And so even Fox News refused to do that. So they found some people who had toady up to that. People like Laura Lumer, for example, that's the press pool that's there at the Pentagon. But after they invaded and aggressed against Iran, he held a press conference. And he was very upset about the fact that some people asked him some outrageous questions

like, what's the point? When is this going to end? How do we keep this from spreading? He said, this isn't going to be like the past failed wars. How is that going to be different? How dare you ask me questions like that? And he was very upset about the pictures that they took of him. So it already had major outlets like Fox News, ABC News, CBS, CNN, NBC News,

legacy papers like the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, you're not allowed in here because you're going to cover only what I tell you. And we're going to, you sign this piece of paper. That's what you're going to do. And they said, no, we're not going to do it. So he got very upset. He called questions about, you know, what's the purposes for? What's the timeline?

How do we keep this from stretching on and on? He said, those are gotcha type questions. I'm not, how dare you ask the purpose? You expect me to have an answer? You don't ask me an open-ended question that I can waffle on about? Come on. Well, I mean, come on, that's a gotcha question. We all know that the purpose of this war is to kill.

Whoever Israel wants us to kill for however long they want us to kill. So don't ask me a gotcha question like that. Don't put that on record. And so then he got very upset about photographers. Lethality, lethality, lethality. Anything other than that, that's a gotcha. Yeah, no morality, no legality. So the purpose of this is for me to bring and to show off my power and to boast about it.

We've never had a secretary defense do that. I mean, the appropriate way for these people to approach this is with somber spirit and with reluctance because you know that you're killing your own soldiers to some extent. And you know that you're killing a lot of other people. There should not be something that you glory in. It's disgusting. Disgusting to watch. this. So I'm the one asking, what do we do to prevent this conflict from spiraling out?

Did you not hear my remarks earlier? How dare you ask me a gotcha question like that? So now it's only going to be the staff photographers of the Department of Defense. And they'll make sure that he's got the proper makeup. And if they happen to get a picture of him raging like Adolf Hitler, then that won't make the papers. Right. They'll keep that picture and say, but probably for the archives once he starts raving like that. And then we have the other side of this. Nothing unflattering with that. But now the shoe thing that I talked about yesterday,

Marco Rubio and a lot of other people are getting these $145 floor shime shoes from Trump. And folks, this is not a minor story because it tells you so much about the character of these people in the cabinet and the culture of the Trump regime. Because Trump, preened, looked over the shoes with some of these guys,

and some of them had some of them had some pretty expensive shoes because they are, they've got a lot of money. And he said those shoes are, to put it, politely, excrement. What size shoe do you wear? And he wants everybody to wear the same shoes that he wears, right? And so you have this situation, Marco Rubio, comically wearing shoes that are way too big for him.

not just that everybody's got to wear the same shoes, right? This is the kind of stuff that you see with teenagers at high schools. I saw this when I was a teenager in high school, and I still see it with others. There's a picture of the shoes. Look at it. It's even walking those things. They're sticking out like an inch behind his heel. But the, you know, you've seen the situation where you've got all these girls, and sometimes it's guys as well, all dressing exactly alike. And, And I remember going to a party once, and every girl basically was wearing the same white top. It's like, this is crazy, you know. It's like a cult mentality.

And that's what the Trump administration is. It's like a bunch of people in high school who haven't grown up yet. And so, yeah, little Marco. If you could see you through my eyes, instead of your ego, I believe it be, I believe it be, surprised to see. But you've been blind. Little Marco does what I say. Walk a mile in my shoe. There's a walk a mile in my shoe.

Who's criticized and accused? It's a walk a mile in my shoe. Trump. That's all. Look at this. I thought, did he not ask these guys what shoe size? And this is the other part of this story, right? This is the other shoe to drop, okay, of this story.

He goes around the table. He goes, okay, we're going to get you guys some good shoes, because I'm the one who wears the good shoes. You know, all of you wear a red tie and a blue suit because that's what I wear. And they imitate him voluntarily. But then he wants them to all wear these same $145 floor shime shoes. And some of them are kind of upset about that. I said, well, I got some really nice Louis Vuitton shoes here.

And, of course, Melania wears Prada, right? That was what was on the billboard of that movie theater when they're going to play the Melania documentary that said, well, on Friday, we find out if Melania wears Prada, right? Because that was the double-wheres Prada movie that was playing there. Anyway, he goes around and he says, so what shot his shoe do you wear? Write this now and everything. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now,

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Sprinker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. And Marco's got small feet. He doesn't want to be trolled for small feet. So he tells him a bigger shoe size than he actually is. And then he's got to be humbled by walking around with these shoes that are too big for him. And evidently, just as we see with this war, he can't figure out, well, I could buy some floor-s-shime shoes. It would be the right size.

And Trump would never know. Instead, he's going to walk around his shoes that don't fit him. This is the way these guys operate with the Constitution. This is the way Mike Johnson and the rest of the GOP operate in Congress. They are so afraid of this bullying thug, this mafia don, that the mafia family of the GOP and the Trump regime will humiliate themselves wearing these things. It truly is amazing, a perfect metaphor for Congress, the cabinet, and the Trump mafia family values that you've got there.

It's also indicative of the type of sycophantic subservient losers we have in power. Marco Rubio and Vivek Ramoswami have both been pictured wearing shoes that are much too large for them, simply for their own vanity and to appease Trump. And remember the Rondasanta's picture so they had, we had some kind of elevator shoes that built up the heel in the back to it. ridiculous amount. And he was basically on his tiptoes. And he's kind of nice that he'll be doing the, uh, the Marlago face with all the lip filler and all the rest of the stuff.

These are not serious people. Uh, this is much worse than the powdered wigs that everybody was wearing at the time of Washington. Um, one person who was, uh, white house female white house official said, all the boys have them.

Notice that she says boys, not men. They're not men. All the boys have them, she said. It's hysterical because everybody is afraid not to wear them. Because the master said so, kissed the ring. The president kind of holds up his hands and says, no, no, no, hold on a second. There's something much more important here. Shoes, Vance recalled.

J.D. Vance said, he peers over the resolute desk and he says, Marco, Jady, you guys have crappy shoes. to get you better shoes. He goes out and grabs a catalog. This happens to be another politician in the room and he actually runs us through this incredible shoe catalog. The president is gifting us with four pairs of shoes each. Marco, what's your shoe size? Marco apparently in 11 and a half, Vance adds, he says, JD, what's your shoe size? And my shoe size is 13. He asks this other politician that he's in the room, I don't want to embarrass him. Maybe it was Marco really. Who knows what his shoe size is and he says seven says vance the president kind of leans back in his chair and says you know

you can tell a lot about a man by the size of his shoe probably you know how hard he is to knock over i guess but this is this is like the this is like uh stanley kubrick and his eccentric presidents that he has right uh clueless right jack de ripper the general you know he can tell a lot about a man because of his shoes. Like, I can tell a lot about a man who thinks that he can tell a lot about a man about the size of his shoes. That's the key thing.

So, anyway, they're all afraid to tell him the truth. Because he mocked the guy who had small feet. So then Marco Rubio ups his size and then he walks around in shoes that are too big for him. So pathetic. This guy wants to be president. He's not even his own man.

You know, how can he tell other people that when he's such a subservient, sick event. The question is, like Bob Dylan said, you're going to serve someone, right? Who's he going to serve? Dylan meant that. You're going to either serve God or the devil, right? And, of course, we know where that choice is as well.

Some sources told Wall Street Journal, they've heard in a cabinet secretary grumbling about feeling pressure to set aside their Louis Vuitton shoes to wear floor shimes. When they visited the, White House. And those receive a pair from the president feel compelled to wear them in his presence. I want to know if Tucker Carlson does that. He's one of the people, by the way, who got the shoe. You know, he got some shoes from Trump, part of the inner circle like Sean Hannity and some of

these other people. So does Tucker Carlson humiliate himself to wear the shoes? Is he too afraid not to wear them? And I've got a list here. Here it is, I think. I know that's not the list. But U.N. McDonald said, Trump buying shoes for his cabinet is a way of belittling them and humiliating them. Rubio even had such a lack of dignity and self-respect before Trump that he's willing to humiliate himself by shuffling around his shoes that are too big for him. That's right.

Conservative columnist Matt Lewis said, well, these shoes could cause blisters. Well, these are guys who evidently are not chafing when their politics. don't fit in the Constitution. So I don't know if they hate get chafing and blisters from their feet. Their policies and being a Zionist sock puppets, I guess they've got to just get a thicker sock puppet to wear on their feet. And everything will be fine. Well, we're right to the point.

Tony's ready to come on. I want to talk about what's happening with gold and where this all heads. I mean, this is, things are accelerating very rapidly. And we've seen a lot of this is rhyming with the history of the 1973 oil embargo. Except this time it's the Trump oil embargo, not the OPEC oil embargo. But a lot of things are lined up. And a lot of things that are lined at the things that are different are things that are going to make it much worse this time, quite frankly. Real quickly, though, before we go, we do have some tips and comments that we should get to.

Star Barkley, thank you so much for the tip. We really do appreciate it. knows the hour or the day he will return. So keep your lamps trimmed and burning. Be vigilant and pray always. That's right. And we've got a lot of people telling us that they know exactly what's going to happen. Disregard those people. Yeah. Jesus said he didn't know. So these people have got some inside scoop that even Lord Jesus Christ doesn't have. So ignore those people. You can safely disregard IRS machine gun. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. So just filled up my diesel work truck, 32 gallons, cost me 160 bucks.

Where can I get some Trump? I did that stickers. Yeah, yeah. Do we still have that in here, I think? I don't think we've got that in here anymore. Let's put that back in. Yeah. An IRS machine gun again, thank you very much.

Says them shoes are made for walking and they're going to walk all over you. It's nice to think that maybe they're giving themselves blisters as they destroy the country. That's right. And then we have K.S.O. 585. My sister-in-law is a maga cultist and a Christian, there is no talking to her. Her cult actually believes there is rainbow money and a debt jubilee for the people coming. So none of this is a concern. Wow. Well. There's a lot of people that are totally out to lunch about this stuff. Yeah, I know. It's, yeah, there's not really too much that we can do to reason with people. And sometimes you just have to do things that are going to try to help you. And that's what we're going to be talking about with Tony. And North American House Hippo. He says, I've seen this movie so many times before. This is worse than Beverly Hills Cop 3 and men in black four put together.

And that's real, real bad folks. Dyer times. Yeah, we're in dire straits. And I don't mean the group either. We're going to take a quick break, folks. We'll be right back. You're listening to the David Knight Show. This episode is brought to you by Spreker.

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The big swings happening all the time. So getting it over a period of time is a wise way to accumulate this at Wise Wolf. And he has Wolfpack that you can sign up and set up a particular savings program to extend, you know, just budget a certain amount that you're. You want to set aside in gold each month. That's a great way to accumulate. Thank you, Tony, for joining us today. Well, it's great to be back, David.

Good to see. I'm wearing shoes that fit, by the way. I buy my own shoes. I've got some actual some moccasins. They're nice and comfortable. I don't have to impress anybody, except for my dog beans. She does. Them golden slippers?

And golden slippers. Oh, them golden slippers. Well, a lot of people are looking at this chaos. And right away, we had gold shoot way up. over the weekend. On Monday, it was way up. And then the American market is open. As Gerald Slinty said, goes down. Same thing happened with oil. Oil was way up because people were reacting to the reality of it. And then apparently there's some manipulation that's happening in the American market somehow, the plunge protection team or whatever, this spike protection team,

I guess, trying to make sure that gold and oil don't spike. Nevertheless, the reality is there. It's the same type of thing that people, we've been talking about for a long time. We look at what the federal government is doing with debt and deficit. And when you look at the inflation and the money creation, all the rest of the stuff, those are real factors that are going to have and, in effect, they can manipulate it in the short term. They can try to play games with it. But it's going to win out in the end. And so I went back and looked at it. I thought, you know, there's so many parallels between 1973 and the OPECold embargo. And I was kind of curious as to how gold had taken off. And it took a while before it started taking off. And it took a while before it started

taking off because everybody was focused on oil. And we see that happening again this time. It was the average price in 1973, even with the OPEC oil embargo, was $97. But then by the time we got to 1979, it went from 225 to 560 something that year. And then by the beginning of 1980, it jumped up to 800 and then went back down to like the 560 level after that. But that's kind of the pattern that we're looking at an eight and a half time, you know, the peak was eight and a half times larger than where it was, even after the embargo had started. And so I'm looking at this and thinking, well, if history rhymes, you know, we could be looking at something that's like eight to nine times higher in a couple of years as this stuff is percolating through because gold was reacting

not just to the immediate oil spike, but it was reacting to the fact that it had to percolate through the system. And we're going to see the effects of the oil price increase percolate through the system. And the inflation and the stagflation that was happening with all that was percolating through. And so it may take a while, but we're seeing articles here on Kitco. One guy said, well, you know, $6,000. Another guy says $10,000. But if it went up anywhere close to what it did in 1973, from 1973 and 1980, it'd be up to $40,000, $45,000 is crazy. And of course, past performance doesn't bring that out. Those similarities between those timelines.

And you're also right to point out there's some sort of plunge protection team here in the U.S. when the financial sector trying to suppress these prices that are running away from us, the price of gold and the price of crude oil. As a matter of fact, I was spending some time with a friend of mine. I've known for over 30 years, who's now a high-up executive in an oil drilling company. He travels all over the world. This is a very smart guy. And we were watching in real time the foreign markets as they opened up on Sunday what the prices of crude were.

And he just looked at me and said, I've been doing this for 25 years. He's like, I've never seen anything like this has never happened. This percentage and jump and the price accrued that fast has never happened. and he said it may just start running away where they can't stop it, where it's going to get to $200 a barrel. He said, that's a real possibility. Yeah. So given that and his knowledge on that, I looked at the markets as they opened up, you're exactly right. But the difference is, David, if you go back to the 70s, in 1973 was the last year that the United States ran a trade surplus.

We never ran a trade surplus again. After that, it was trade deficits into the trillions. and that's a massive transfer of wealth that went to places like China. But at the end of the 70s, you're right, gold was near $600 an ounce and then hit $800 an ounce in 1980. But you had the ability for the United States and the financial sector to suppress that. And they did. They had they raised interest rates to the teens.

There was a lot of financial maneuvering to take focus away from the loss of purchasing power of the dollar. and they used that system for a long, and it worked for a long time. They can't do that anymore. The debt of the U.S. in 1980 was one trillion, and it took us from the beginning of our history in 1776 to 1979-80 to get there. Now we do a trillion every 90 days or so, and you and I have covered that. I don't think they have the ability to suppress that runaway gold price anymore like they did in 1980.

And you're right, the predictions of $6,000 and $10,000 gold, I don't think that's off the mark at all, given our current economic climate. Last week, we talked about, and again, I looked all over to try to see if any major network covered this, but you and I talked about it. The dollar got surpassed by gold as the world's reserve asset. And we've talked about that for years. And it was always number one was the dollar, but because of the massive accumulation by central banks of physical gold and then the reason, pricing going into, you know, 5,000 plus, that creates a holding that gold is higher than the dollar in the reserve holdings of the central banks. So we've crossed a lot of boundaries with

the de-dollarization and the world, you know, monetary system. So there's no way they can suppress what's truly happening, which is de-dollarization across the board. That's right. As a matter of fact, this article that's talking about $6,000 goal said, well, you don't have to be. You don't have to beat the U.S. militarily. All you have to do is beat the bond market. Heavy reliance on U.S. dollars by foreign nations that are concurrently dependent on imported energy. And when all oil price spikes and the dollar strengthens, foreign entities are forced into a difficult position. He points out that they have to have energy, they have to have food, they have to have these commodities. And so they will sell their dollar assets, starting with treasuries, because they're

the deepest and the most liquid, to essentially buy oil. The dynamic creates a cycle where foreign nations effectively use the U.S. pawn market to finance their energy deficits, driving yields higher. And so that's what, it starts to become a cycle, feedback cycle with that as well. And so it's going to put pressure on them to basically more pressure on them to dump their treasury bills, which they really don't like because of the actions of both Biden with his sanctions and Trump continuing those sanctions and adding tariffs and other things like that. So people are already trying to move away because we are the mad hegemon. Sounds like some kind of a Pokemon thing.

The mad edgemonds that's out there. And so everybody's trying to pull back away from this anyway, but they'll have to do it out of necessity. So time is really on Iran's side. and they've thought about this from a strategic standpoint, which obviously the planners in the Pentagon never thought about anything other than we have the most planes and the most bombs, and we can, you know, the kind of stuff that you hear Pete Hakesha boasting about all the time. Well, it reminds me a little bit of the Von Schleafen plan from World War I with the Germans.

They had all this time and decades to draw this thing up. They were always looking into the best way to use troop movements and whatever they're trying to keep up with technology. And it was, it wasn't even about any sort of real goals other than just defeating something. But they just kept drawing up this plan and drawing up this plan. And finally, it got into action, the Von Schleifen plan of World War I. And they thought it was about a quick victory. And of course, you fast forward, you know, four plus years. And we've just had the great Civil War of the West and millions died. And it's a wasteland, just an utter carnage and evil. So, you know, these military types, when they, they have this. And it's also the aggressors,

too, isn't it? It's like the people who started off, they always want to blitzkrieg or something, right? That's exactly right. The lightning war, shock and awe. Remember shock and awe? I followed behind shock and awe. Didn't shock that are all very much in effect. You know, I can attest to that. There was a, there was, I think, a delusion behind this type of thinking. and it's demonic, in my opinion. Yeah. They always have some arrogance or eubris behind them that the rest of us are just, we don't think this way.

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from within with bad policy? Does anybody really think that we're going to win this in some way and what is winning? When the world markets, you know, how fragile this system is, you look at the price of crude, it's going to destroy whatever, if you had any economic growth

or any sort of progress, It's being destroyed right now. That's right. How long is it going to take to recover? War Pete thinks we're going to win this because he doesn't think about anything other than destruction and death. And what a clown he is. I saw a clown. I saw, you know, a couple of retired colonels and generals, Gregor was one of them and another guy, not in one interview, but in a couple of different ones.

And they were saying, look at this press briefing that's being given by. War Pete and by Dan Kane, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And he said, Dan King gets up there. He starts giving the standard presentation. Well, we got this many planes and we sunk this many ships and all the rest of the stuff that's kind of like what Warped does. But he says, I've set through those briefings, you know, through these different wars we've had, you know, Vietnam and Iraq and all the rest of the stuff. And it's meaningless. You know, this is like Robert McNamara's body count. It really doesn't mean anything in the bigger picture of things.

And they've lost the bigger picture, as you point out. Well, there's a lot of echoes of McNamara and Rumsfeld here, but we've reached a new level of stupid. We're in a new, and I'm sorry, it is terrifying. This is the Secretary of War. I mean, you renamed it, you own it, and you're right, a Secretary of War crimes. I mean, just to start off the war by killing, what is it,

177 members of a girls' school in Iran. That's confirmed at anti-war.com, and that's been confirmed. They can deny it all they want, but that's what they did. That's right. And this is just... And more importantly, Tony, they don't have the decency to apologize for it. And they don't have the respect for the intelligence to the American people, to even come up with a plausible denial, right?

That's what Trump is doing. Oh, Tomahawks. Everybody's got Tomahawks. Iran's got Tomahawks. I'm sure Iran did that to their own people. You know, that kind of stupidity. You know, oh, well, our missiles are accurate. Well, if you're saying it was a Tomahawk, then that's an accurate missile. Like I said when I was talking about this earlier in the week, I had a friend who was in the military, and he said, yeah, we talk about the cruise missiles.

We can pick which window of the Kremlin we want to put it through. That may have been a little bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. And so he says, yeah, everybody's got Tomahawks, absolute lie. I mean, they don't even sell those to Israel. and then he proceeds from there. There's the same kind of lies we saw in Minnesota. They have no respect for intelligence. And why should they?

People voted for them. Well, it's all based off a lie, whether or not they intentionally did it or they just skipped over the fact that they're doing their due diligence of what target. Both are lies. Both have ill intent. And every aspect of this, I've seen in real time, I've seen, you know, their so-called smart bombs that hit civilian targets. And it is so awful.

You have to imagine if you're hitting civilian targets, and maybe it's not on purpose, but they are collateral damage, you are exacting a toll. And you are creating death and destruction. It should be such a solemn thing that you have to, you're forced to do it. We just went and did this with no provocation, with no reason. And there's no strategic or defense advantage to this. So, I mean, the people that did this, in my opinion, I mean, somebody like Pete, this is just a devoid of any sort of Christian character or understanding of the real consequences of war.

And I'm afraid from my country when I see stuff like this is complete arrogance. Well, Senator John Kennedy apologized for it. And he's the only one Democrat and Republican who's apologized for it. Now, some people, some Democrats applauded him for apologizing for that. So we got it wrong. We didn't mean to do that. But that was not the response of Trump, not the response of War Pete. War Pete says, you know, uses it as an occasion to boast about the fact, we don't target civilians.

And our missiles are accurate and so forth. So, you know, that's his response. Couldn't possibly happen. Now Scott Ritter when he was talking about it said, you know, he is still haunted by one particular case like this that he was involved in. He said, we did our due diligence. We had really good reason to believe that that was where some of Saddam Hussein's people were. But he said, it turned out we were wrong, even with all the due diligence. He said, I live with that every day, I think about the consequences of that.

But he said, what's happening with this? They've got so many targets. It's kind of like what they did in Minnesota. They said, we want X number of arrests every day. Just go out there and grab people. And he said, that leads to sloppy work. and yet, you know, it might be something, might involve this anthropic, uh, Claude's AI because they were using that in terms of targeting.

And yet when you look at that, uh, what Pete Hexeth wants to do is give even more discretion to AI. If AI made the mistake or if it was old data that they had or whatever it was. He wants to, he's already shut down a lot of the oversight and he wants to shut down even more oversight of this. And he has the audacity to say, we don't target. civilians. Yeah, they just kill everybody, right? It's crazy. Yeah, we'll tell that to the people in Dresden and the firebombing of Tokyo. That's right. You know, me lie. We had, we had, you could go on and on if you know,

history. And that happens, that's all countries. This happens to, in any sort of military power that's fighting a war, there's always some sort of darkness behind. Nobody gets out of that unscathed. But to fight this war, you have to, I have not seen a plausible, other than this is Operation Epstein Fury that we're acting on behalf of a foreign government during their bidding. That's all I see. Yeah. So this is not in the American interest. It's despicable. And it goes against everything he promises on voters. I don't understand why there hasn't been a bigger price. But there may be a bigger price to pay by the time they get to the election. I don't know. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker. The platform responsible for a rapidly

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podcast might someday pay for, well, more microphones. Start your show today at spreeker.com. Sprinker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. So that was one person saying, you know, $6,000 by mid-year in terms of gold based on what he's looking at. You've got another analyst saying he thinks $10,000 by 2029. And he said, you know, everybody talking about $10,000 gold just a year or two ago, everybody thought you were crazy. Now it doesn't look like crazy, does it? Because it's spiked up to what? 5300. Was that about 5300? Is that about 5300 or something? Yeah, over the first at the weekend of the

strike on the 28th going into the first part of March, it was 5300. And then there's some profit taking and some sell off. But we've crossed so many boundaries here, David. It's hard. We're not going to go back to, you know, the way that gold pricing used to be. And there's a few different times when 2011 is another great example of when they were able to suppress gold again by outwardly showing that there's going to be fiscal responsibility and that the Fed's not going to do massive quantitative easing and tarp and all the rest of that stuff and bail out these banks anymore and people calm down silver sold off gold sold off I don't think that'll happen again I don't think that they can truly suppress either crude anymore or the the the the

The gold markets, I don't think they can suppress. And so $10,000 gold, very plausible within this decade. And all we would need is just to continue down the path that we're on right now. I mean, I remember I went to the trading floor in August of 2024. And I was leaving and I did a post about it. And I thought, this is really historic. There's $2,500 gold. That's so crazy.

Like, because I've followed this for so many years. and I was like, 2,500, what a milestone. Well, here we are, and it's 2026, not quite two years later at all. And we're looking at talking about $10,000 gold at the end of the decade, I think completely plausible because in $6,000, definitely within striking distance. Just let this keep going. Yeah. You got to remember.

Oh, it will. That's the thing. It will. They have wargamed this out. We didn't plan this, but they did. They planned the response. Absolutely. All they have to do, like Iran right now.

And think about the oil exporting countries and those who rely, they're going to get a windfall profit from this. Of course, there's going to be massive downturns in other parts of the economy. But think of the amount of margin that these countries are going to be able to bring in just the price of crude alone and the fact that the Strait of Hormuz is blocked 90%. And that's where what 20% of the outflows used to come from globally. So all bets are off. And it's 25% of all shipping that goes through the straight-of-horse moves.

Because there's a lot of other stuff besides oil that goes through their food, clothes, electronics, all the rest of the stuff. And so it is a massive, massive oversight to have the arrogance to think that we're going to take them out so quickly. We don't even have to worry about that. We don't even have to plan about that. Hatchcar, 61 said, please send a thank you to Tony and his crew received my Wolfpack package today. stacking made easy well I'll tell you he was not having

an easy time of stacking and that is Dubai they said their gold flows have been crushed because it's not just a straight of her moves these are flights you know they're putting the they're not putting the gold on a tanker it's not that heavy but they're putting on

airplanes and there's so many problems with air flights being restricted as well it's not just sea freight that's restricted it's air freight that's restricted as well. And so it's created a just like we see these tankers are all full and setting there in the water. They said that's a record amount. Never had that much oil sitting on the water in tankers. And they don't have any onshore storage facilities left with this stuff either. And so you're getting the same type of thing with

gold. And it is stacking up. And so ironically, you're getting these places like in Dubai and other places where they are so heavily stocked with gold, they're getting desperate to move the inventory. They're discounting it there. So that's kind of a crazy way to look at it. I've got a question here, Tony, for you, from Jason Barker, Nice of Storm. He said, ask Tony what the sourcing challenges for silver are

compared to a couple months ago. I hear it's getting really hard to get inventory. It's getting harder and harder. And what's crazy about that is that there's two prongs that. The one side, the refiners mostly aren't melting. the silver, which that would help with supply. I'm not sure exactly why they aren't, but there's a lot of the, and I think maybe the price volatility is one reason, but a lot of the refiners are not melting. This rise in prices and then the turn back of those prices, the volatility has hurt a lot of people.

It's hurt a lot of the supply chains, hurt a lot of dealers. And luckily, Wise Wolf, we came through that pretty much unscathed, but I have to pay attention. attention to it. 24, I have to dream about it and where I'm going to land because it's like it's all over the place. So my mind is constantly calculating what the next, uh, buy batch is going to be and what I'm going to sell off and what my percentages are. But I know it, I know for a fact it did hurt a lot. So it's, it's really disrupted supply. Yeah. Well, I mean, you're living in an environment of hyper inflation, you know, like the Weimar Republic or, uh, the, uh, what was the, the African nations involved?

I think they had. Zimbabwe. Yeah. And, you know, so we see that, and we've seen the tales of people. It was even happening in Argentina there, you know, people talking about how merchants would have bread on the shelf. And they would have to constantly be changing the price throughout the day for this kind of stuff. That's the environment that you live in.

I don't envy you at all at Wise Wolf. It's difficult, but I'm glad that I have this opportunity. I think it's a good puzzle to solve. and I get to help a lot of people. Because if you've been buying from Wolfpack for a while, like you've protected the purchasing power of your dollar, even with paying premiums, even with, you know, shipping and all the rest of the stuff that we have to charge,

you've done well to protect yourself. And I think that will be the case for many years to come. If you're putting your dollars and fiat into metals, I think you've still got a long way to go to protect yourself. That's right. Yeah, there was a comment from a guy who worked for Goldman Sachs in terms of commodity things. And he says, we've always seen this type of thing in the past.

Big movement out of soft stuff like technology stocks and things like that into the real stuff. And so we're at a switching point right now where that is happening again. The pendulum is moving again towards commodities like oil and base metals and precious metals and stuff like that, infrastructure. And you better believe there's going to be a lot of spending on infrastructure because There's nothing chews up infrastructure like wars, especially now. They can target the infrastructure so precisely. And we've seen that already in Russia and Ukraine.

And already in the Gulf War, we've seen that. People, you know, we have the U.S. and Israel targeting the oil refineries of Iran, and they're returning the favor. So even if this war were to end tomorrow, the knock-on effects of this are going to be very, very long. It's going to be a big bottleneck of constipation. from these tankers, just like we saw when Trump took the boot off of our necks with a lockdown. It created all kinds of a train wreck and derailments with the supply chain and took a long time to iron that out.

And a lot of the effects of things that happened back in 2020, it's still not been ironed out. North American HouseIPO, he says, for all of Trump's bluster, isn't interesting that he hasn't taken credit for doubling the price of gold? because that's a metric of failure for him, isn't it? That's a good point. Well, you know,

the saddest part about all of this is it's so predictable. Yeah. We talk about this for years. Like, this is what, you know, you have currency wars and trade wars,

and then you have kinetic actual wars. You could have avoided all of this. It was a choice. Like we, it's, you know, the only thing we learned from me. He's more interested in who's wearing floor shine shoes.

And what, what is the size of? your foot. That's how I size up a man, right? And was, why do we have to have Trump? Was Nero not available? Can we not get that guy? Burn the whole thing down. I just

I think he's more like Caligula, you know? Very much, yes, because very much on the spectrum of that. It's really sad to watch, David. And who knows where all these prices are going to go? I mean, I think the most, something that sticks with me and what,

when I look at prices or price predictions for metals or it could be Bitcoin, too, is just how small the markets are. I mean, gold's like a $20 trillion market cap, but the world is like a $600 trillion asset pool. So, I mean, you're talking about just a small amount goes into gold. And I think silver is like a, what is it, $3 trillion market cap, something, maybe four.

It's a small thing. Bitcoin's like two compared to the hundreds of trillions that are supposedly floating in currencies and sovereign wealth funds and bonds and real estate. state and other things around the world. And when that stuff, and you're right, the Goldman Sachs trader is right, volatility and then uncertainty, all those funds are going to migrate into something else that's more stable that you can count. I mean, you don't know where tech's going to go. You don't know where any of these, like even medical or any of these stuff is going to go. Well, even tech is

going to be affected by this stuff. They were saying, you know, the Gulf states have been big purchasers of this stuff. And they were ramping up data centers, not just buying Nvidia chips, but, you know, entire data centers that they were in the process of budgeting to build. That ain't going to happen now because they're going to have to, they've got other things on their plate that's going to happen. It's, it's amazing when you look at how complicated all this stuff is. And it just comes from the hubris of central planners who think that they understand the way the world works. Nobody does. You know, it's like Leonard and what's the guy's name that did eye pencil. Leonard Reed, was that his name? And, you know, he talks about how nobody's planning a pencil,

but it's all this kind of invisible hand of Adam Smith type of thing. And that's the problem. You know, Trump and his planners have shown that they don't understand the first thing about how the global economy works. If he did, he wouldn't be trying to throw a monkey wrench into it all the time with his egotomics of tariffs. You know, I don't like this guy over here who's leader. of that country. So I'm going to put, you know, 100% tariff on them tomorrow, you know, that type of thing. It's stupid. It's beyond stupid. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like,

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in danger of dying in the dark and cold next winter. Yeah, and of going broke as well. In the U.K., one guy was talking about how liquid natural gas is something they've been pushing them toward. They said, oh, we don't want to have coal and we don't want to have oil. They're too dirty, so you're going to burn gas. Well, now they don't have the gas. And they said they're going to pay a lot more for it. That's why Lindsay Graham is rubbing his hands together like a conniving fly and saying, we're going to get rich. You know, he's going to, his military industrial people are going to get rich replacing the bombs. And then they're going to get rich, he thinks, because they're going to control 31% of the world's oil.

But you can't get it out. You know, if Iran blows up the refineries and the ports and the oil wells, oil fields and things like that, how are they going to get to that oil? They can't get to the oil in Venezuela. So, you know, all of this. stuff is stupid. Yeah, it's stupid. I mean, what's good of being rich at the world's on fire? I mean, really, have they, do they think of these things through?

I don't know. You know what we didn't talk about. And they have their finger on the button as well. That's exactly right. And that's terrifying. And people like Lindsey Graham that actually have power. Yeah. I think that's, we get the leaders that we deserve, I think, at some level like the American people.

What they deserve? I'd deserve to get him. Like South Carolina. It's like, well, he does support his. rail. That's what you get, folks. You get Lindsay Graham. You know, we didn't talk about David is we didn't talk. There was one thing in all of the news headlines that I thought, uh-oh, we better highlight that. And that was the fact that Black Rock and Blackstone stopped the outflows of some of their private equity funds. And they're not the only ones. There's others, J.P. Morgan,

Morgan Stanley. Yeah, the contagion is spreading. I think it's up like three or four of them now. that it put limits on that. That is something to watch. Again, that's another thing. It didn't make a lot of headlines, just in the circles that you and I'd pay attention to and some of the things. But I think that is a good indicator of possible credit crunch

and liquidity issues, bank runs. I've had some people text me, ask me about banking. And, you know, I'm very cautious. Yeah. Looking at how much liquidity you've got in a bank at any given time. Always be careful of that. And when you look at the private equity state, I just yesterday I looked it out because I asked

Gerald Slynti on air, said, so it's this tied together with commercial real estate? He goes, oh, yeah, oh, yeah. I looked it up after the show. And it's like, that's a huge part of this private equity fund. The things that Gerald Sinty has been talking about at Trenton Journal for a long time, the commercial real estate bust because of what happened with 2020 and what Trump did his first round of chaos and control. And so the, you know, this, this ongoing, very slow-moving juggernaut of disaster is starting

to now manifest itself through some of these hedge funds that are there. Absolutely. A citizen of America, Akas says, I remember not too long ago we had a flash flood and a bunch of our young schoolgirls were washed away at Camp Mystic. And I thought to myself, how horrible. And the nation grieved. But somehow they can't be horrified by this and they can't accept any responsibility for it either. And that's the key thing, isn't it?

You know, that's one of the first things that happens in war, first casualties, truth. But it's also the second casualty is the humanity of the people in the other country. Yeah, we treat them as some kind of subhuman. They're on a different team now. You know, they've got a different flag and different leaders, so they're no longer human. and we don't regard them as human. And that's a good example of it, I think. Yeah, and imagine how horrifying it is years later

when you realize they probably weren't the enemy to begin with. That's right. Even if you did dehumanize them, and then we learned about, yeah, there was any dancing Iranians that I remember from my research on 9-11. So there's so many lies, but you're so right, the first casualty of war is the truth. And then your humanity goes as well.

And then you join into the ceremony of things. And that's why I want to be a thousand miles away from whatever this is. Just comically, spiritually, don't want any of it on me. That's right. And I don't want anybody in my audience. Anybody listens to this to be pulled in it all from this propaganda. It's so predictable what's going on. But it's also really sad.

We get in these seasons of war and this bloodlust. kicks in for everybody, which is truly insane. And, you know, when you look at it, the lies that this all began with, you know, completely ignoring our history with Iran. I could understand why Iran would think of us as Satan. When you look at the fact that we've been coming after them for 73 years, I mean, we not only, we don't leave them alone. We overthrow their government.

We put in a king with a horrific secret police. The arrest, tortures, and kills people, and trained by the CIA and Assad, they suffer under that for a couple of decades. Then we start pushing in Planned Parenthood and all of our disgusting values into the country. And then when they overreact in both of these ways and they come in with a very strict Islamic government, what we do is we ally ourselves with Saddam Hussein and try to wipe them off the face of the map. When that doesn't work, we do the kind of stuff we're doing now. We assassinate one leader after the other, and then we attack the country. Like, what's going on?

All of this is being done from our perspective, and not from their perspective. But the American public looks at it, and all they know about with Iran is, well, they kidnapped people at our embassy. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now. I'm editing audio. If this sounds familiar, you're probably already a podcaster.

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They kidnapped and held these people. And if you understand the history behind Iran-Contra, you know, just how involved Ronald Reagan's campaign manager, Bill Casey, while Bill Casey from the OSS, who was one of the founders of the CIA, and how he told them, you know, cutting deals with these people that were supposed to be unapproachable, we'll give you spare parts. You give us money and we set up a secret war. Because that's what they always want.

You know, we get black market money for a secret war. We sell you parts so that you can kill people and oppress your own people. It's just insane when you look at it. I thought it was funny. Somebody played clips of Condoleezza Rice and she was saying, well, Iran has been our enemies, you know, for 47 years. And I thought, well, except for some brief interludes, like when you dealt with, you know, hostages for missiles,

whether Iran-Contra, you know, things like that, or the flight that supposedly George H.W. Bush took over there secretly to meet with the Iranian officials to hold the hostages a little longer until after the inauguration of Reagan. That's right. There's all sorts of history that goes back. Yeah, wasn't enough to win the election. You had to keep the hostages there until the day that Reaganists went in. Yeah. Absolutely. You know, and I saw one of these Iranian officials, and he was, he teaches school now.

He wasn't really in the government. but he was very much a part of the regime. And he said, I tell this to the younger Iranians that they don't believe me how evil America is. And he says, and he was so convinced. And I think what happened with that Iranian jetliner, I think that was an accident. I think it was exactly the same kind of accident that took down Flight 800. It's just that they couldn't cover it up when it happened to a foreign country's commercial airliner. But he thought that was deliberate.

because that's his opinion of America. And I can understand that. But, you know, when we get upset with the Iranians because they don't like their government or whatever, their government leaders, just understand what the rest of the world might think about Americans and how this national security state has undermined the security and the safety and the peace and the prosperity of you and your family. Because these chickens are going to come home to roost. You talk about terrorist attacks. I don't think that this FBI document is credible. But I think the U.S. government is perfectly capable of doing a terrorist attack, false flag.

And I think there's people around the world that would love to do this and not have it be a false flag because of what we've done to people for so long. We're just making this country so dangerous by the actions of the CIA in the Pentagon. multi-factor danger in there because people, once there is a false flag or attack, they will fall in line. And people like us that will see through it, we're going to be, we might have a little while right now where things are like, oh, I agree with David or I agree with Tony. You know, because we're not real popular when it comes to, you know, analysis because people want to have their delusions. and it'll be even harder for us, especially if there's some sort of galvanizing thing

or an attack. God forbid, I don't, I mean, it's such an awful thing. I don't want any of this. We don't have time for it. And I'm afraid of what it'll usher in. Well, I've already seen some of that, you know, when it comes to the border. You look at what's happening in Minnesota

while the Trump regime was doing. And I said, you know, I've seen where this is headed for the longest time. Alex did documentary after documentary about the police state, did four of them. And yet, when it's being done by Trump, everybody cheers it. When it's being done to throw out these dirty foreigners that came in here, then everybody's foreign. And again, that's the dehumanizing of this.

Well, they're not citizens. So I don't care what happens to them. It's like, well, we don't have citizens' rights as much as we got human rights in the Declaration of Independence. It's because we are created in the image of God, not because somebody in Washington has said that you're a citizen or not. and if we allow them to get rid of our humanity, if we allow them to get rid of the humanity of people who have committed a crime and came into this country illegally, but they still get due process,

and it still needs to be proportional. And it is not just the act of coming into the country illegally does not make them a rapist and a murderer. I mean, there are rapists and murderers who came in as well. But even they get due process to make sure we got the right people. And when you throw that stuff out the window and you throw the humanity of people out the window. That is an incredibly dangerous thing.

And I've seen that with this Trump administration, whether you're talking about ICE, or are they talking about Venezuela and the machine gunning of people in the water who was shipwrecked. I'm disgusted with this country. And I don't want to have anything like you're talking about, I want to stay a thousand miles away from that. I want to disassociate myself from that.

And I want Americans to disassociate themselves from that. It bothers me when I see people cheering it and saying, I voted for this. Well, I think even with a false flag, the prices of things and the economic consequences will override that. I think people will get tired on it a long enough time. I think they're going to get tired of it real soon, by the way. This is not going away, and you're about to see the midterms and everything else. I don't think this is going to be popular.

And perhaps the Trump administration knew this already, and they're just doing it because they're acting on behalf of a foreign nation. That's right. There's no upside for them here in the short run or the long run. I don't know if there's any other way to explain it. But unfortunately, we're tied to this and we're along for the ride. So in my estimation, you know, to look in it from what I do in the precious metals business, there's probably never been a better time to get out of the system and into something that is yours without counterparty risk, not to do an infomercial, but that's a good time to do that.

And, you know, I look at this and it's the same kind of stuff that when Trump pumped and dumped crypto, right? I was saying at the time, I said, it's on sale. Get your gold and silver, right? And so I see this as another one with them manipulating the market to try to keep it from spiking really huge with both gold and oil. Now is the time to try to protect yourself. And, you know, there are some measures that you can do to protect yourself and your family. And from a financial standpoint, I don't think you can do better in terms of protection than gold. Nothing is perfect and nothing's going to go straight up and to the right always. But it is averaging that out over a period of time.

And just trying to stick with what is real. I think that's the most important thing. Well, Tony, thank you so much. Is there anything else you like to tell us about what's going on at Wisewolf? Well, I'm going to be traveling next week, so I won't be able to do the show, and I always love coming on and talking to you. It seems like every time we're experiencing some new fresher totalitarian tiptoes of something into the dystopias. You live in interesting times. I'll miss next week because I'm going to be traveling.

I'm working on a new podcast episodes, so I'll be out of my normal. jurisdiction. But yeah, just, you know, we're doing everything we can. The crew is great. And I'm sourcing as much product as I can. I put out an email about a week or so ago, just letting people know, like we're trying to get some of the smaller silver items. I've ordered stuff.

We had some stuff lost in the mail. There's always something going on with this business. But we're excited about some of the cool stuff coming out in Wolfpack. So appreciate everybody who's stuck with us. That's great. You're talking about a podcast episode. Do you have a podcast episode today after this show? I do. I'm going to do the Arterburn radio transmission. Once a week on Thursday, it's 11 a.m. Central Time. Go find me at Tony Arterburn on X. And America unplugged a channel over on Bumble. We'll be live here in about 40 minutes. Right, right. Right after this show. Well, thank you very much, Tony. Again, wise wolf, gold and silver. And you can get to Tony through David Knight.

dot gold, and let him know that you're coming through us. Thank you so much, Tony. We'll talk to you then in a couple weeks. Yes, sir. Thanks a lot. All right. Bye-bye. Making sense.

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We should change the voice to that. the Lindsay Graham given him instead of a German accent, give him a South Carolina accent. Well, I love sieges. I love charges. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain.

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And he goes on Fox News and he's got a little hat for every one of his wars that he wants to have with every one of these countries. You know, Trump is out there threatening countries economically. He's threatening to kill people. Absolutely insane. And, of course, you know, he's doing a lot of this for Israel. We got a rabbi who's claiming that the Messiah is coming this year. It's about 2026 years too late, I think. You're a bit late, bud.

Yeah, he says, the war against Iran that Trump is prosecuting alongside Israel, then begin as a Pentagon situation room, according to Rabbi Kesson, one of the most original incisive Torah thinkers alive today. What the world is witnessing right now was written thousands of years ago as prophecy. You see, they got nuts like that on their side as well. We got all these Christian Zionists, but they've got Jewish Zionists as well who are pushing this apocalyptic video. And of course, you've got people like Donald Trump, who is more than happy to jump into that kind of insanity. As a matter of fact, it might be one of the reasons why you've got Lindsay said this about what the world thinks of Trump, BB, and the Ayatollah.

used to be this way. If you polled Europe, who's worse for the world, Trump, B, B, B, or the Ayatollah, the Ayatollah would finish third. This hatred of Israel and Trump is insane and dangerous. Why do you think that is, Lindsay? I'm with Israel. And of course, the way he pronounces it, he doesn't ever say Israel. He says, Israel, R-I-L. He said, going to send your sons and daughters to die in the Middle East. I'm going back to South Carolina. people, they need to go into the fight. Of course, he's not going to do it himself. You're not going to see the Trump boys

get involved in this. And as a matter fact, it was J.D. Vance who was pledging to people, hey, if you are of draft age or something, you need to vote for Trump because you don't want to go to war, right? Honest guidance to those young men, and I think their concerns are very legitimate.

But if you're worried about the world spending out of control, if you're worried about a military draft, if you're worried about God forbid a world war, the best way to prevent it is to vote for Donald Trump. And I really believe that. Yeah, that's one of the reasons why Trump has gone down in people's esteem, lower than the Ayatollah.

The Ayatollah may be crazy, but he didn't attack us, so we attacked them. So you got Lindsey Graham talking about sending your sons and daughters to go die in a war. This is from the New American. They said, this is an interview we had with Sean Hannity. And it followed a report from the Wall Street Journal that, Graham went to Israel several times, he said, recently to coach Prime Minister Netanyahu on how to push Trump to start a war with Iran. Think about that.

As I said before, he's like Jonathan Pollard. He's a traitor to this country. It truly is a traitor. And then declaring that if you are not with Israel, as he puts it, then you're an anti-Semite. I think you mispronounce that as well. you're obviously a racist if you just want to have peaceful trade with people and leave people along like George Washington. You know, George Washington's anti-Semitic, you know, right?

Because he didn't want to go to war for companies. He didn't want to go to war for foreign alliances and that type of thing. As frightening as Graham's comments to Hannity are, perhaps more disturbing is what the Wall Street Journal disclosed about his recent junkets to Israel. During an interview with Wall Street Journal, Graham called military advisors who opposed bombing Iran the non-entanglement crowd. I'll accept that label, yeah. We don't want foreign entanglements. Maybe you might call us the pro-George crowd.

I'm not saying pro-Washington because I despise that place. Betting on Trump's second term, he said, was worth it. For the president's military interventions alone, I love war. Lindsey Graham. He says, Second term, Trump has different instincts than first term Trump. Yeah, he said, I agree with it. He does stink a lot more than he did the first term already.

Other Republican presidents, he said, would not have greenlighted the Iran operation either, he said. Something that he keeps reminding Trump of. He said, Trump, with U.S. forces having captured Venezuela and Maduro, is now more inclined to undertake further Interventions. Yeah, he was puffed up with pride. That was very dangerous, how easy that was for them to do. And again, he thought he could just go in and out. I can go in and decapitate. They're all going to be running around, won't know what to do, and all those people in the streets are going to rise up. It's like,

you didn't count on what happens when you kill 160 children. We start bombing civilians. then at that point, people see you as a greater enemy than the Ayatollah with his secret police or the Shah, right? He said, people don't understand how much more confident Trump is, said Graham. Again, emboldened by committing crimes and getting away with those crimes. I remember the statement Winston Churchill said. He said there was nothing more exhilarating than being shot at without result. And that's basically what exhilarated Trump and accelerated him as well, accelerated him into

channeling Adolf. Graham traveled several times to Israel in recent weeks, he said, they'll tell me things our government won't tell me. And he said he spoke with Netanyahu coaching him on how to lobby the president for action. Netanyahu showed the president intelligence that persuaded Trump to go ahead. In other words, I mentioned, he goes in and goes, yeah, we pull the wool over his eyes with these two smart people, Fauci and Burks, about the fake pandemic. So yeah, just show him a bunch of, you know, made up charts or whatever. Maybe pull out that chart with the Acme bomb on it from Roadrunner and Coyote. Show him that. Tell him how close they are to a nuclear bomb. And so he says he visits them bi-weekly. I guess to pick up his paycheck, right? I'm not,

They paid him $4.6 million a PAC has. Who knows how much money he's getting from Assad on the side. I just want to say I feel good about the Republican Party. I feel good about where we are going as a nation. Because we're going to war, right? He always feels good about going to war. We're killing all the right people, he said. And we're cutting your taxes.

No. As a matter of fact, Eric Peters on his site, as he's got like every other day he's putting something up about a comment about the state of the war and he puts it up with a date and he calls it war taxes because war is expensive

you're not going to be cutting our taxes you're going to be raising the debt which is going to be paid for in taxes he said this is my favorite president we run out of bombs we didn't run out of bombs in World War II I love Israel he said yeah you like

bombs and like attacking companies, countries, you're going to love Israel. He should move there. During his interview of fellow Chicken Hawk Hannity, says New American, a booster of war in which he has never and will never fight. Graham declared that the fight against Iran is a fight against Adolf Hitler. No, it's against the people who fought Hitler and then became Hitler. Donald Trump, he said, save us literally in the nick of time. If we'd wait another year, they would have had 11 nuclear bombs and they would use them.

I believe with all my heart and soul, if the regime in Iran still stands, and this is over, we have made a mistake. Well, guess what? It is going to be standing when it's all over. You're not going to overthrow Iran, just like you didn't overthrow Iraq or Afghanistan. You've had one failure after the other. Have we learned a lesson? No. I think Iran did learn a lesson about us.

But we didn't learn a lesson about ourselves. We're led by people like Hegsseth who are too proud, too full of hubris to actually look at themselves in the mirror. They don't like seeing themselves in the mirror or in photographs. He's not like the guy who looks in the mirror and then walks away and forgets what he looks like. No, he doesn't even want to do an inspection of what he is doing of his character or anything else like that. He said, so this is going to be another one of these Pyrrhic victories. I don't know what kind of a victory they're going to try to get out of this, but it's going to backfire on them if their idea is that they're going to do regime change.

Aside from professing his own loyalty to Israel, writes a new American, Graham expects Americans to send their kids to die in the Middle East. I go back to South Carolina. I'm asking them to send their sons and their daughters to Middle East. Known as Lady G in LGBT circles, Graham is a childless bachelor, a homosexual. He served in the Air Force as a lawyer and as a judge. He's one of a triumphant of Republicans like Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee, whose principal loyalty is to Israel.

And it's based on an unfortunate interpretation of the Bible, I would say in a misinterpretation of the Bible. And it is based on political idolatry. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker, the platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio. If this sounds familiar, you're probably already a podcaster. news is Spreaker makes the whole process simple. You record your show, upload it once, and Spreaker distributes it everywhere people listen. Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and about a dozen apps

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well, you know, God's made some promises. We'll trust him to, if we understand his promises, we'll trust him to deliver it, miraculously, if necessary. But we're not going to try to make it happen on our own. You know why there are Arab nations? Because Abraham, nobody's perfect, right? Abraham made the mistake of thinking that, you know, God had given him a promise.

And it's like, well, I don't see God fulfilling his side of the promise. And so he and Sarah decided that he would have a child with her maid. And that's how you get Ishmael. For the longest time, You could see in Western civilization in the British and American, they would refer to Muslims as the Ishmaelites, right? Or they would talk about them being the Mohammedans or something like that. Long before they talked about Islamic, this or that, there were always Ishmaelites. The very existence of the Arab nations is a testimony to the fact that you can miss you can miss it.

interpret God's promises. And you can take things into your own hands to try to make these things happen. And you can create a world of problems. And that's basically, we can see that in the state, the nation state of Israel as well, the political state, taking this stuff into their own hands, becoming terrorists, becoming aggressors, becoming like the Germans that they fought. Graham put it in August, he said, if America pulls the plug on, Israel, God will pull a plug on us. No, actually, just the opposite. God will pull the plug on homosexuals like Ms. Lindsay. So, Huckabee said, the entire Middle East from the Euphrates River to the Nile, be fine if the Israelites took it all. And this is one of the reasons why the entire world

is set against us. Because, again, you have a promise from God. the means that you use, first of all, you don't need to fulfill God's promises for him. Secondly, the end does not justify the means. And even people who don't even acknowledge the existence of God have a moral understanding about that. That's why there's so much pushback against the state of Israel. And their response is to censor everything, to censor speech, to censor protest. to accuse people of being racist.

And so Lindsay Graham says, I'll be with Israel till our dying days. Yeah, that's exactly what he says. Who knows how long that's going to be. The anti-Seminites to all the Issenmanites. I don't believe. Forget it. I'm not with you.

I'm with Israel. I'll be with Israel to our dying day. They're the best ally we could hope for. So we have a commander chief in President Trump, who I think is Ronald Reagan plus plus plus. what a childish idiot he is. He doesn't even know how to pronounce the name Israel. And he doesn't know what anti-Semit does. He does not how to pronounce that either. He calls it anti-Seminarian or something, right?

I guess I could say since I'm against this theology that I think they got it wrong, and it's taught at most of the seminaries now in America. I guess I could say I'm an anti-Semitian. Not an anti-Semite, but I'm an anti-Semitian. Be careful what you, when you trust these, people. Do your own investigation. And so I think maybe we should start calling Lindsay. We should give him a new nickname. So I looked it up. Is there some Hebrew word for, that sounds like Lindsay that I could use with this. And it turns out there is one. I could call him Lanoi Graham. Lanoi is Hebrew, which basically says, you are mine. They own him, lock, stock, and barrel.

And we know the price tag as well. Somebody needs to embroider that on his leather jacket. $4.6 million. That's the price tag of Lindsey Graham. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Using free speech to free minds. It's the David Knight Show.

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So they've only got 33% after they release this next amount that they're about to release of their gas tank. So we'll see how that works. Meanwhile, let's talk about the egonomics, because that's really what this is about. First, real quick, I'll remind people that we do have some companies that support the show. Yes. And we want to make sure that we support them. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker.

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because they don't want to get a long-mose. drawn-out thing. They want to declare victory and say they've achieved their their goals, but they haven't. And if they want to do regime change, then he will get us drawn into a quagmire of quicksand. But the bottom line is that the Iranians want to keep us there. The longer they keep us there, the more painful this becomes for the politicians who initiated this act of aggression. He said the system simply cannot accommodate such a shock. leading to extreme hoarding, upper price pressure, and potential inflation spillovers. Yeah, we saw how this all worked with the opaque olenbarg and the stagflation.

As Gerald Slinty has been talking about this for quite some time, he said, this will be dragflation. And he was saying that even before the trigger became this insanely stupid Middle East War. He was saying just based on all the quantitative easing, the easy money, and the, low interest rates and the other things that the government had already done, he was predicting dragflation. But when we go back and then add to it essentially an OPEC oil embargo to kick this whole thing off as a trigger, it's going to be very severe, I think. He says, going back to the Goldman guy in terms of oil, he said, no effective policy response from governments, from any strategic petroleum reserve release or from any other interventions can halt or

meaningfully reverse the upward trajectory of oil prices, which the Strait of Hormuz has disrupted and remains blocked. He said, risk to global energy supply chains are at unprecedented highs. Market optimism versus reality. He said financial markets appear to be wildly optimistic embedding against prolonged disruption. And we saw this. You know, what did it take? It took a fake tweet from the Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright. He said, yeah, we're now escorting, our Navy's now escorting people through the Strait of Hormuz. And boom, the oil prices dropped like 10%.

The W2EI as the, as well as the Brit crude. And it was all based on a lie. But even after people said, oh, I don't see that happening. And after the Trump administration admitted that, that that was wrong and had him take that tweet down, then they still went down that path. I mean, they're wildly optimistic, as he pointed out. They're completely detached from reality.

They want to believe what they want to believe. He also emphasized the revenge of the old economy theme. He said, when you look at hard assets, particularly energy, things like oil and natural gas and metals, whether it's copper and base or precious metals like gold and silver, agriculture, other real physical commodities. They are entering or reasserting a commodity super cycle driven by things like chronic underinvestment in traditional supply chains.

Oil and metals have been substantially underinvested for years, he said. And then there's structural demand shifts of AI data centers and energy needs. I mean, we've got this massive new energy consumer coming online with the AI data centers. And that's the reality of it. I don't like the AI data centers, but that's the reality of it. What they're going to do with it. Capital rotation from tech and financial assets into things that are real. He said, we're going to see that.

Hoarding and strategic stockpiling by nations like China and India, amplifying the upside and physical commodities. And then geopolitical security factors of writing efficiency. just in case stockpiling, which is what we've had, versus just in time, which is what we've had just in time. But now they're going to start stockpiling more in terms of just in case. So this chaos has been released. It's getting everybody paranoid.

And so people are going to start hoarding stuff, as they always do, with an emergency, even if it's a man-made problem like this. He said, the tangible old economy, physical companies and sectors. are going to start on the rise again. He said, amid geopolitical shocks like disruptions and straight-of-hormuz, every major inflection point over the past 50 years has triggered a capital rotation from asset light sectors like tech, which is now 53% of the standard impores, to asset-heavy sectors.

He said, they wrongly priced energy is declining, and they priced to, tech as perpetual. So he said commodities, energies, metal, and mining and infrastructure. Things like pipelines, railroads, utilities, other real assets are what people are going to start looking for right now. Once the bombs start flying, things start to get real. So oil prices jump, stocks dump as two oil tankers explode in Persian Gulf.

That's what happened yesterday. And then Hezbollah hit Israel with the largest missile attack of the war. I guess that was an answer to the boasting of War Pete saying, oh, you just wait, you know, on Wednesday, we're going to, Tuesday, whatever the day was, because they have a, you know, their time frame is so much different. They said, we're going to have the biggest barrage you've ever seen. And so what happened was the allies of Iran, Hezbollah and Lebanon, unleashed their biggest barrage in answer to that. And so probably both sides were unleashing the biggest number of, of death from the sky. So we were told that Iran was out of missiles,

and yet they had the biggest barrage yet. Largest wave of missiles since the hostilities began, was launched into northern Israel by Hezbollah. And so War Pete was boasting about the biggest day of the war on his side was coming. Then it turned out that I guess it was incoming. He actually misspoke, I guess. Kind of like Lindsey Graham. President of Iran has demanded reparations and guarantees against future aggression.

Trump says the war with Iran will end soon. As he said, there's practically nothing left to target. Yet U.S. and Israeli officials plan at least two more weeks of strikes. Even though he says we've destroyed everything, they're still going to do it for another two or three weeks, right? I mean, that was the, that's if you go with their initial time. time frame, which is four to five weeks, they said. Then Pete Higgs has said, doubled that. I don't know, eight to ten weeks, I don't know. And then somebody said they were told by a source inside the Trump administration that they've been told to plan for September. What is it? We don't know.

Because we still can't get an answer from them as to what their objective is, other than it's vaguely defined, we want to make sure they don't ever produce nuclear weapons and we want to change the regime. And it's like, those are both fools errands, right? You're jousting at, windmills. You can't accomplish either one of those goals. The way he talks about it, you know, there's nothing left to Target shows a very narrow and myopic view of things as well. A country is not buildings. A country is not statues. The country is the people. And if the Iranian people want to fight, you know, they'll fight. You'll have to fight them until there are none left. That's right. And they have motivated them to fight at this point. As night fell across the Middle East,

Hezbollah launched a huge wave of at least 150 rockets on northern Israel, marked the largest Hezbollah attack on Israel since hostilities intensified earlier this month. It's followed by reports that two oil tankers have been hit by explosive boats and were on fire in the Persian Gulf. I showed that to you earlier. This is what it looked like there. They said two foreign tankers carrying Iraqi fuel oil have been subjected to unidentified attacks within Iraqi territorial water, causing both vessels to catch fire. Again, this is not in

the strait. This is in Iraqi territorial water. Authorities have successfully evacuated 25 crew members from the two ships, but the fires have remained ablaze on both vessels. One tanker, which was flying a foreign flag, is believed to be American. The attack took place within Iraq's territorial waters. Just remember that. So perhaps the area is not as safe as Trump said it was, comments Zero Hedge. Meanwhile, oil prices are surging higher. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker.

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Actually, I checked it this morning, it was $97. It had gotten down into the 80s because the false information and the irrational exuberance of Wall Street, wanting to believe that the U.S. government knew what it was doing. It jumped 20% higher, says Zero Hedge, than the previous day's lows. Very volatile. Shortly after the spike in crude oil, the Department of Energy sent out the following statement. The United States is going to release a lot of the United States. 172 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Well, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the U.S. is 714 million barrels. You know, the one that the IEA has, which encompasses European nations, and also you throw in Australia and New Zealand, South Korea and Japan, and the U.S. and Canada, and then the rest of it is European nations. That amounts to $1.2 billion, which again, if it's just, if it's 32 different countries, that's not a lot of a strategic reserve. But we went into this. We didn't have our gas tank full.

It wasn't 714, but it was 414 that we had. Our tank was 58% full when we went into this. And now they're starting to release 172 million barrels. So you take that out and that gets us down to 242 million. That is about a third. of what the capacity is for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. And again, the Republicans all said, what about Biden?

You know, he dumped this stuff out just so he could look good at the pump. It wasn't any emergency. And you're absolutely right. And yet, why didn't Trump, as he was bragging about low oil prices? And he said they were lower than they really were. Why didn't he fill it up when he had the chance? And if he's going to start a war, why didn't he fill it up again? This is all based on this fantasy that they had sold themselves,

that it's going to be in and out. It's going to be quick, just like Venezuela. So the president of Iran said the only way to end this war is to recognize Iran's legitimate rights, payment of reparations, and firm international guarantees against future aggression. So Hegsa said,

we saw the most fighters, the most bombers, the most strikes of the war yet. And the result of that was to send the price of every, higher as this guy is idiot, rebels and carnage. Who knew? So Trump says the U.S. took out just about all of Iran's mineships and then oil reversed its lower position. Then Trump says oil companies should use the Strait of Hormuz. It extends the drop. Then Trump promises great safety for oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. Further drop. Then at some point, we,

realize that all that stuff he was saying and his administration were saying, it just lies. And it jumps by 20%. As volatility, all of this is in the lap of Donald Trump. And it's what happens when markets realize that Trump always lies. They need to start to factor that in. The most significant development in Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday was the start of naval mining operations. It was met with massive U.S. firepower that destroyed. 16 mine-laying vessels.

But the people who are commenting on this say they still have about 80% of their mine-laying vessels, and they don't even need to lay mines in order to make the route impassable. They destroyed these two tankers in Iraqi waters with drones. There's a lot of different things that they can use. Since the Houthis have produced drones under bombardment, one would think that the Iranians could also do the same thing, right? So this long-standing war between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia and the Houthis kept producing these drones, even as they were getting shelled by the Saudis

who have the expensive weapons that we make. But they kept up production. Ukraine has kept up production. You don't think that Iran can keep up production with this stuff? So that was a research fellow UK-based Royal United Services Institute, the Wall Street Journal reported that Saudi Arabia's kill-to-cost ratio. The neutralizing $20,000 drones from Iran with $2 million-plus missiles has spurred talks with a Ukrainian counter-drone company for cheaper interceptor drones. Yeah, there is a huge... It's not only the fact that these interceptors are a lot more expensive than what they're trying to kill. But you've got to use several of them. typically two to three of them for each of these incoming missiles because it's a difficult problem to solve.

So War Pete boasted that the most intense phase of U.S. strikes was expected on Wednesday. Tehran responded with retaliatory strikes against Gulf neighbors and the most number of missiles fired into Israel. So Trump and his advisors have miscalculated Iran's response to the war completely. In the lead up, Trump downplayed the risk to the energy markets. of a short-term concern that should not overshadow the mission. They just completely disregarded that. We're not to worry about the price of oil. We're not to worry about the straight-of-or moves.

It's set aside the morality as well. But they also set aside the practicality and the planning. And the results are going to be seen. On February the 18th, Trump weighed about whether or not launch attacks on Iran. His energy secretary, the same guy that, falsely move the markets worldwide with lies about the Navy escorting people through the Strait of Hormuz, Chris Wright, the Energy Secretary, told an interviewer that he wasn't concerned with a looming war would disrupt oil supplies in the Middle East and wreak havoc in energy markets.

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