More reaction to the failing MoU | Hour 2

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And so everybody is, you know, speculating about is this thing done. For all the people that thought it was a bad deal, this is proof that it was a bad deal. Iran's Foreign ministry now says that talks for a permanent deal with the US will only start after the following clauses in the MoU are fulfilled. So remember, for the last two days, whatever we've been told, this isn't a deal, this is a framework for a negotiation. And now the Iranians are saying, you do have to fulfill all of the terms, all these clauses, a permanent end to the war in Iraq or in a Lebanon complete lifting of the US blockade. You got to issue waivers for all of our oil. You got to release all of our frozen assets. They're making all these demands, and again, like I keep, I keep pointing out right that there are there are I heard somebody refer to Donald Trump. They say, like he's Harry Houdini's like he puts himself in these boxes. He puts himself into various boxes and then everybody thinks that's it, he's done, and then pop out he comes, and you know he somehow, you know, escapes. But he's also like a juggler, right like people think, oh, he's you know, playing chess. No, he's he's more of a juggler. And sometimes he drops stuff, and he's juggling grenades. Sometimes he drops these grenades. So the question I have now is is he going to move off of this position? I thought Glenn Beck made a pretty good point, a very good point, actually, he said, I understand why so many people are frustrated or skeptical about this, MoU, but what were we expecting when one on one side, Trump is facing an apocalyptic regime that wants the world to burn, and on the other an American public that has no stomach for war. He played the cards that were actually on the table. I'm sick and tired of the politicians and podcasters who complain and moan no matter what Trump does. Yeah, I'm like, I'm right there with Beck on this. It makes it so much more difficult for me. And that's really what this is about, all these geopolitical issues and such. It's really about me. Trying to but trying to sift through to get some clear eyed analysis or you know, even just baseline reporting. You know, because I do when I tell you, when you get online, you are entering the informational battle space that there is a war going on for our minds. Not to sound all Alex Jonesy. But there is this battle space has literally billions of participants, right, and so they want us to think certain things about various topics about our country, about our leaders, our institutions, about ourselves, right, all of this. And I have tried, and I don't always succeed, but I have tried to give Trump the benefit of the doubt. I have tried to, you know, wait and see how things develop, because I have learned over the last decade. Because when Trump first came onto the scene, I was not on board. Did not like him as a candidate. He was fine as the host of The Apprentice. I enjoyed that show. We would watch it. So I was. I grew up in New York. I remember this guy all over the news all the time. I was well acquainted with Donald Trump, the larger than life personality. And then he would say stupid things as a politician, and I would get into arguments with his supporters because they would say, oh, he fights, he's not a politician, so he's. You know, this is the way he speaks. There's always an excuse for him, and it would be very, very frustrating for me because I would try to hold Trump to a similar standard, and everybody was just like his supporters would just forgive everything that he does. And it was very easy to just proceed down that path and become never Trump, to become you know, afflicted with TDS. It's very easy to go down that path. But that doesn't that doesn't serve any other purpose for me, because now I would have to. It's why I warn everybody to, you know, not view everything through this lens of Donald Trump. And by that I mean your opinion of him. You can like Donald Trump, you can love him, but the guy doesn't get everything right. And you can hate Donald Trump, but he doesn't get everything wrong either, right, So don't view every single thing through the prism of I guess I should say your feelings towards Donald Trump, so I try very hard not to do so. But then when you go out and you're trying to get an accurate read, so I can actually give you what I feel like, I'm like, I am trying to give you the best information that I can glean because you are living a productive life. I am really not. I am. I'm just reading news. I'm reading analysis all day long, and it's like that's what I do, and I enjoy doing it. So I don't mind doing it. It pays the bills. But I recognize that most people are out there contributing to society in far more positive ways than I. And so I'm just trying to give you some information as best I can tell. This is as accurate information as I can I can give you. And when I constantly encounter these media people, you know, definitely politicians, right, but their views have just become so corrupted by this prism of their feelings towards Trump, and no matter what he does, they complain. And I have no use for it, because now you're entering black Pill vill and I don't live in black Pill Vill. Rush taught me a long time ago. You want to live in Realville. Deal with things as they are. Right. Beck goes on to say, they scream that the war has to stop, but the second that he stops it, they turn around and yell, what kind of a deal is this? I've noticed that as well. If the goal is to actually end to Ron's regime, history shows there's only one model that works, total World War II style defeat, occupation and denotification that requires American boots on the ground and an Iranian people ready to build a free country from the rubble. But no one, myself included, wants boots on the ground. Is the MoU what Trump wanted, he says, I doubt it. But he did exactly what a leader of a republic should do. He listened to the people and found a way to end this. A dictator would have kept going at the That's a great point, by the way, right for all of the people out there. Screaming no kings, no kings. A king would have instituted a draft and sent everybody over to invade and occupy Iran. Right, That's what a king would have done. That's what a tyrant would have done. But he did not. At the end of the day, I hate that term. A president can only go as far as the people will carry him. Right now, our appetite for war stops at the gas pump, And I think Beck is exactly right on that. I had so many people telling me that gas prices are too high. They're just too high, and that was the reason why they objected to the attacks. That was it. Nothing else mattered. Tens of thousands of people slaughtered in the streets, Nuclear proliferation in Iran, right, missile barrages against all these countries in the Middle East, which by the way, destabilizes the very place that generates that oil that then you know, leads to the higher gas prices. And I've said this before. We had a call from Spencer. He talked about the straight upfor moves. Now as you know, they're gonna toll it and this and that. I went over all of this yesterday. But quick recap. You're gonna have new infrastructure going. We already see it. 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You can email Katie Katie at group travel videos dot com. Group travel videos from old memories to new adventures, preserving life's moments for a lifetime. Joel Pollock, he is with. Yeah, the California Post, he's the opinion editor, and he's talking about JD. Vance's appearances on all of these talk shows. JD. Vance is the face of the MoU Okay, he is out there selling this thing in podcast to stand on the view. He's on all of the. Major networks right He's hitting all of the podcasts, all of the news shows. He's doing interviews all over the place. Call me JD. I'll put you on. And Joel Pollock says that Vance's potshots at Israel are still circulating a day later, are still circular leading throughout Jewish and pro Israel communities. People will swallow a deal, they distrust and forgive or even enjoy Trump's outbursts against Bibbi. But Vance's attacks come across as means spirited and may not be forgotten. And you're free to disagree with this. I don't know it to be true. I'm just giving you this sense that is out there that in you know, Jewish and pro Israel communities, like they're seeing these clips of Vance and as he takes these shots at Netsan, Yahoo and Israel and whatnot, it's rubbing them the wrong way. Now you may not care, like, well there is real first or something whatever, and I don't. I don't care about that. But the point is that you've got people that this goes to their their willingness to go along with Trump versus Vance. And what does that mean for Vance's prospects in twenty twenty eight, Because this is his moment. Okay, he is out there selling this thing. He is tying himself to this. MoU and Dan McLaughlin from National Review he responded to Pollock's post, and he points out among pro Israel voters, as with pro life voters and other factions, Trump has earned enough credibility that people are disinclined to turn on him right away. And I think that's true. I think that's true. Right. Trump came along and he didn't I believe he. I think he was the first president that spoke at like the pro life March, the March for Life. I think that's right. He right, he built up a lot of. Capital in the relationship bank with pro lifers, and I mean his Supreme Court appointee overturned Roe v. Wade, Right, and then what happened? He immediately pivots away, right, He doesn't make abortion a topic of his next run. Right, and the pro lifers, though, had already he had already earned their trust. He had already gotten enough credibility with these voters that they're not going to turn on him immediately if he says something or does something, because he has already earned that credibility. Right. But McLoughlin points out that vance he is spending capital that he has not earned. He has not made those types of inrows. He's not earned that kind of credibility or that trust, particularly with pro Israel voters or pro or Jewish voters. He hasn't earned it. And so if this is the first time you're seeing him, and he's out there and he's he's selling this MoU as good for America, good for Israel, this is going to end the hostilities. This is the way forward. It's going to be bumpy, but we're going to keep negotiating, right, all of these things, And then he turns around and starts taking shots at the Jews. He's taken shots at Israel and Netta Yahuu and stuff. He's making comments about the Israeli cabinet and all this. You know, you don't have that built. Up Cachet yet with those voters, Now, maybe he doesn't care. Right, that's possible if you're just trying to play to the Tucker Carlson base, to the Candice Owen's base. You just want those people to know that you're cool with them and their groperism and such like. Okay, but I don't think that they're going to be a big part of your coalition. They're not going to trust you going into a presidential run. Now, maybe the alternative is some Democrat anti semi that is a very real possibility, in which case then I don't know who they're gonna. Pick, right, I don't know. I'm not a you know, I'm not one who bases his vote on Israeli policy. Okay, I don't follow Israeli politics. I don't follow any of that stuff. I but for people who do and they care about this issue, and if you were hoping to get a chunk of their support their donations, whatnot. If you if these voters are presented with, you know, two candidates that both have the same position when it comes to Israel, I don't know where, I don't know what they just how they decide on their vote, Like that's going to be a tough spot for them. By the way, the DOJ announced it's investigating JP Morgan and City Group over money flows tied to Iranian Supreme leader Machaba. Come any I say it like that because it sounds like the uh Jawas from Star Wars. That's what his name sounds like to me. The probe is focused on how Kamani built a large investment portfolio with exposure to Wall Street banks. No, that's a brain buster. The ceasefire between Hesbelah and Israel in Lebanon, in southern Lebanon already violated. Okay, so this thing was supposed to start. The ceasefire was supposed to start at four pm local time there at four fifty one, So let's give Hesbelah some credit here. They were able to restrain themselves for fifty one minutes. That's good. Good job, guys, good job. Yes, four fifty one, Hesbela fired onto Israeli forces and then Israel struck back. So ceasefire going as well as the MoU it seems. Let me go over to the text line. John says jd Vance, in charge of selling the US ERONMU for the president is like vice President Harris being in charge of the southern border. The president is positioning Marco Rubio endorsement for twenty twenty eight presidential run. So this is an interesting This is an interesting theory. So have you heard? You know who Maggie Haberman is. For some reason, Donald Trump trusts her. She's a reporter for the New York Times, and he sits and gives interviews with her and makes all of these people in his administration available to her. Look the guy to see. Here's the thing, right, you can take the New Yorker out of New York, but you can't take the New York out of the New Yorker. And Donald Trump is a New Yorker. Okay, there is old He's going to be a place in his heart for the New York Times. I believe there's just no way around it. As much as I loathe The New York Times, I still want it to be this thing that is like respectable and like the leading newspaper. And all that. But I know it's not. I trust me. I know it's not. But there's a part of me because I was born and raised in New York, well on Long Island, but that counts. And Newsday was never I mean, it was never the New York Times, but there is this certain level, especially for the Boomer generation. The New York Times has this position of like royalty, you know. And I suspect that's why Trump keeps talking to Maggie Haberman, even though she has burned him repeatedly. Anyway, she's got a new book coming out, and I saw an interesting passage from the book, and I don't have it in front of me, but I read it this morning. So from my memory, Trump was asked about all of the you know, you've seen what he's done in the Oval Office, right, They've. He's added like all of these I don't know. What they're called, but these like adornments to the walls, and they're all gold, you know, And he's got all these gold He's got all this gold stuff all over the walls. And I don't know if it was Haberman, I forget, but somebody asked him. I mean, it may have been Susie Wilds. Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, somebody asked him, you know, uh, mister President, like the next occupant of the Oval Office, they could just take all of this stuff down. And you know what he said, he said, Now I hear Cubans like gold adornments, right. There is. There was another story I read some time ago. I forget who the leader was. I think it was. It may have been like one of the tsars. I think it was one of the tsars in Russia, but I forget who. And the guy had like two sons or something, and the sons were jockeying for who would be, you know, named the heir to the throne kind of a thing, and there were maybe it wasn't two sons, maybe it was a bunch of maybe he had no sons and it was just a bunch of his you know, his his top lieutenants or whatever. I forget, but there was there was this expectation that this leader would name somebody as the heir apparent, and he did not. He refused to do so, saying basically, y'all fight it out amongst yourselves, thinking that that would be the best way to have the best leader arise. And what it actually resulted in was a civil war, violence and all this other stuff. And so as the story just stuck with me because like, if Trump doesn't name an air apparent to Maga, I suspect that's what we're gonna have. I think we're already seeing it. It kind of bear out, and there are gonna be people that are in the mix on this right. And I think that's what Tucker Carlson's political project is about. It's about getting JD. Vance to be the nominee. And if the president were to endorse JD. Vance, then there wouldn't be any challenge to him. But if Trump does not endorse Vance and just you know, lets everybody fight it out amongst themselves and let the next leader arise from that fight, do you end up with essentially a Maga civil war? So yeah, John, it's a yeah, I mean that could be it. Maybe Trump, and maybe Trump is giving Dvance exactly. What he wants. This is what you wanted, JD. Go sell it. Danny says Trump most certainly does not get everything right. However, he's the first person in my lifetime that the only political office he's ever had is the presidency twice, and that is exactly why he won. Our country reached the boiling point for lying, blatantly deceitful politicians who very rarely get even the smallest trivial things right. Trump is far from perfection. But he's doing what he said he was going to do and asked for our votes to get those things accomplished. He's the first in my life to do that. So I'll take him over a politician any day to week. Danny. You know, it's a fair That's what people said back in twenty fifteen. He's not a politician, That's what I want. He fights, but make no mistake about it, he is a politician. Now, when you hold political office for as long as he has. You're a politician. So Keith from Shelby, I have I have a thought. Does Trump have the geriatric attention to detail to deal with the regime in Iran? Yeah? I don't know. The guy, Yeah, I don't know. I said this the other day. I mean he's eighty whatever years old. He's definitely older. You can tell that he has slowed down. His speech is a little bit you know, raspier and such, no doubt about it. However, the guy still only sleeps I think like a minute a night. It's nuts. So he still has this ability to do all of this stuff. We definitely appreciate all your digging and expelling explaining what is going on. Thank you. Rick, I appreciate it. Seven oh four says, so it was never about doing what is right. It's about doing whatever it takes to stay in power. I guess I don't know what that means. I don't know what that was a reference to Mike says I love Spencer's call I don't necessarily agree with him on every point. However, he's much better than that caller named Mike. Every time he's put on the air, I want to punch myself in the brain. I think the US is whizzing into the wind with negotiating with Iran. The people need help to overthrow the nuts running their country. That's from TP. All right, let me get back to the text line. I'm gonna move off of this topic. I was only planning on doing it for one hour. But people have a lot of a lot of comments and reactions to this. Kirk believes that the leader I was talking about was Ivan the Terrible. That yeah, I think that may be right. I knew I knew it was a Russian even the Terrible was terrible. I heard a story about this guy back in high school. He had some palace built or something, and so he asks the the architect whether he could you know whether he would be able to build another palace as beautiful as this one? And the architect, thinking that he was going to get another gig, said yeah, I could probably do another one for you. Sure, And so. Ivan the Terrible had his eyes gouged out, so he would never be able to make another palace as beautiful. People don't think like we do. Okay, there are other cultures from different times. They have completely different ideas about humanity. Ian says that his wife has been reading too much town hall dot Com certain that Donald Trump and JD. Vance decided that Vance's public stance is the bright shiny object taking attention off of Trump. That's possible too. He goes on to say he does he cannot stand Trump's pensant for gaudy baroque chotchkes and French grandiosity, like the proposed arts. I like the arch idea. There's nothing in that traffic circle right now. We could put an arch there. He's like school in summertime, no class. Yeah, I've never been a well, let's just say this, Donald Trump and I have different opinions about interior design, right, and that's okay. I have different opinions about interior design than a lot of people. Laurence says. The left got all in a tizzy when Trump started this bombing campaign despite fifty years of aggression. The left demanded the bombing stop and the war end. Trump shows mercy under Democrat pressure, declares a ceasefire and works out a loose deal to end the fight, and Democrats freak out that it's ending. Let's just declare war and treat Iran to the German special of the day and level everything once and for all. I don't, yeah, I don't think. I don't think they're going to do that. And I think that so far, the military operations that occurred in Iran have been highly targeted, very specific right. They have intentionally not destroyed infrastructure that the nation would need post regime if that day ever comes, and if that day comes, it will be at the hands of the Iranian people. I have been saying that from the very beginning, like we can do so much here, but at some point, the Iranians are the boots on the ground. They're the ones that have to take it back from their their kidnappers, their hostage takers, their regime. They're the ones that have to do that. That's the thing about Marxism. You can vote it in, but you have to shoot your way out, okay, And nobody can do that for you. That we can give you guns. We are Americans. We got a lot of those. Jeff with a G says, perhaps if we put maximum emphasis on labeling the Mullahs as the oppressors of the oppressed Iranian population, maybe the Democrats and media, but I repeat myself, would be more inclined to rally against them. That's a good idea. Yes, I mean they are. They are an oppressive Islamo Marxist regime. They are a revolutionary regime. And the one thing they have in common with the Western left is that they hate Western civilization. They want to usher in the revolution. Now they have different ideas about what comes next after the revolution, of course, but the left useful idiots, as they have always proven themselves to be in these situations. They are all in with the Red Green Alliance. Just look no further than the Democrat Party in America. The people that they are putting up, the candidates they are electing through their primaries and such. It is a testament to the rot that has taken over in that party and I've talked about this many different times. I've actually got a topic here in the stack of stuff about the Democratic Socialists of America and their emerging militant network. Right, they are prepping for violent revolution, that's what they're doing, right. And there are all sorts of left wing groups that have already activated in this space. I talked about one earlier. This week, we had an indictment of fifteen ANTIFA people up in Minnesota. Let me see here. Seven four number says I think the US is low on munitions with all of the support to Ukraine and Israel the last several years in this battle with Iran. Also, Trump likely expected other allies to help and they did not. Never was a long term strategy and get out now before exposure of low munitions and of course the midterms. Right, that's a possible theory as well, that may have some truth because the I forget what the exact numbers were, but we went over some of this data a couple weeks back. The amount of money it takes to produce the interceptors and the time it takes to produce them is more lengthy and more expensive than manufacturing drones. You can crank out hundreds of drones and even ballistic missiles. You can crank those out at a much more rapid rate than you can crank out the interceptors, and so you got to find a way to balance that cost differential right defense against these types of swarms. That's the new modern warfare, and that's what the Ukrainians are perfecting. I mean they've been shelling the bejeebas out of Moscow. I mean, if you haven't seen the videos out of Moscow, it's apocalyptic. All right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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