Reform blowout in UK; Iran War Update | Hour 2

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If they were to win eight hundred seats nationwide, they said that would be a great night. If they were to win one thousand seats, they said that would be success. As of now, and I don't know what percentage of the vote has been counted, it's over fifty percent. I think it may be probably around sixty percent of the votes counted so far. Reform is now at one thy ten, so they have cleared their own bar for quote success at a thousand seats. The coming in number two are the lib Dems, the Liberal Democrats. They're at six hundred seventy so they're four hundred or three hundred thirty seats away. Labor is down to six hundred forty three, and Conservative is at five eighty two. Notable the Conservative Party Kemy Bedenok I think is her name, that leads the Conservative Party, and you know they were tossed out because that was Boris Johnson's party and he made all these promises about stopping the boats and limiting immigration and all of that stuff, and then did not do it, made it worse, and so people punished the Conservatives tossed them out. Labor got in. That's Kure Starmer's party. And this is why people are saying that Starmer's probably not going to survive past today. This was the prediction. Like a week ago, a lot of. People were saying he's done, like his term ends in twenty twenty nine. But the results of the elections are going to be so bad for Labor that he'll probably end up having to resign because at the parliamentary level, you know, they've got coalitions, and you lose this many seats, you don't have the support, and then it's like you're not leading us, Well, you're out the Green Party. I'm trying to remember that guy's name. He's a he's a crack pot Islamist sympathizer, you know, lefty moonbet, but that guy is The Green Party trails even the Conservatives at this point, Conservatives keep losing members. A lot of the Conservatives have gone over to. Reform, like actual politicians, they've gone over to reform because they felt betrayed by the national leadership as well. So yeah, huge day for reform and we'll see if they can if they can actually fulfill these promises. And like once again, just like Brexit and the vote to put you know, Boris Johnson in there and all of it. Like the people of Britain have been screaming for almost probably twenty years now to stop the immigration, stop the votes, and people have paid it lip service and they haven't done it. Keir Starmer included he said he was going to stop all of it. Hasn't and but the people keep saying in their votes over and over and over again that they want to stop this, and their globalist leadership has not. Now will Reform be able to do it? We'll do Like I don't know, but this is a very good day for the Reform Party over in England. Over in Iran. I gotta tell you, it was kind of difficult following what all was going on this week. It seemed like, I don't know, it seems like people are telling us things and then we get reports that those things that they were telling us weren't really. Happening and stuff. So found this timeline pretty useful from Lucas Tomlinson at Fox News. So the US returns this was just this week, beginning of the week through the end. First, the US returns in Iranian tanker that was seized last month. Oh, by the way, I saw a report today and I haven't followed up to see like what the deal is with this, but I saw a report that Iran had seized an Iranian oil tanker, which is weird. That seems weird, right, You're seizing your own oil tanker. Now, like, what's up with that anyway? So first the US returns in Iranian tanker. Trump announces Project Freedom the escorting of the ships through the Strait of Hormuz. Then they put a pause on that as a bunch of rockets start flying all around. Destroyers then came under attack as they were transiting the strait as they were trying to help two US flagged cargo ships exit the Persian Gulf. US forces then destroy six or seven Iranian gunboats. Iran attacks the UAE with fifteen missiles and four drones. Iran attacks UAE again. Chinese, South Korean and UAE ships are then attacked in the Strait of Horror Mouz. Yeah, a Chinese flagged vessel was attacked by the Iranians. So much for that special relationship the giant that the Chicoms have with the Iranians. I don't know. Maybe they thought the flag was wrong, or they misread the flag or something, I don't know. Then the US outlines a new route for commercial ships to transit the straight Pentagon and White House brief everybody on the details of Project Freedom. Rubio says Operation Epic theory has concluded then Trump pauses Project Freedom. Iran announces its plan to control the Strait of Hormuz and wants and puts out an email address for all the ships to send us your info. The White House believes they are close to a framework for negotiations with Iran. A French owned ship then is attacked in the straight after France sends its only aircraft carrier to the Red Sea through the Suez Canal. US Navy F eighteen disables Iranian tanker trying to run the blockade. US destroyers make outbound transit, make outbound transit straight of Hormuse, come under attack again. US forces return fire, taken out all of those attackers. UAE air defenses are then active today responding to more incoming Iranian missiles and drones. Okay, so I. Don't really feel like this is what a ceasefire looks like. No, right, yeah, I kind of. I'm not sure this is a ceasefire, guys, I'm not sure what it is. It's not a cease fire though, regarding the pause on the Project Freedom Escort service, I don't like the way that sounds. Actually. Jennifer Griffin Griffith, I think she was formerly of CBS Fox News Security report. I think she's out on her own now. She posted up onto the Twitter machine that President Trump abruptly called off Project Freedom to open the straight of horror moves. This was like a day after hag Seth, Cain and Rubio, We're all out there telling us about Project Freedom. Right, they rolled this thing out, and then the next day they're like, okay, pause on that, and it left everybody. This was I think on Wednesday, and everybody's like scratching their heads, like wait, what's going on here? So NBC News reported that Saudi Arabia had blocked airspace usage for Project Freedom. Believe Kuwait did as well. Both countries were not too happy. Why well, The Wall Street Journal reports that the Saudis and the Kuwaitis reversed course because at first they were like, go right ahead, airspace is open for your Project Freedom escort service, right, like keep doing the escorts, no problem here. And then Iran launched rockets and drones at their neighbors. And remember what Trump said was like, that's not a violation of the ceasefire. Like they're only shot like ten or so, it's like not a big deal kind of a thing. And the Gulf Nations were like, m, that's not what we agreed to. You don't get to run an escort service and leave us out here twisting in the wind. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life, and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video started in nineteen ninety seven and min Hill, North Carolina. 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I agree with that, and I think that's why, you know, Rubio was adamant that Epic Fury is over. Hegseth said, you know that's over. This is Project Freedom. It's a whole different thing. It's to run out the clock on the War Powers Act. That would reset the clock, allowing Trump to order the commencement of Epic Fury part due this time it's personal, which would be a completely new conflict with sixty new days before having to get permission from Congress. Now, Rubio has said he was asked about this on Tuesday during his press conference, and he said that he has been consistent in his belief that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional, and he has held that position since he was a senator, so that he's like, you can go back and you know, look at my comments on this matter for decades, and it's the same. It has just not been tested through the courts, so maybe this is, you know, a way that they do that. But yeah, I think what they're trying to do is to say Epic Fury is over, just like Midnight Hammer was over, because like, if you zoom out, you could probably make a case that Midnight Hammer and Epic Fury were both operations in one war, right, and that war, I would submit, was first declared on US by Iran, So that may be why they're doing it. Regarding the pause though in Project Freedom the Escort Service, when they announced that they were doing this on my day, I guess it was Monday or Tuesday, and I guess it was Monday, and then because yeah, because HeiG Seth and Kin did their press conference Monday, and then Tuesday Rubio did his press conference, and then Iran started flinging you know, missiles and drones at the UAE, and the response from Trump was, you know, something along the lines of like, well, that's it's not it wasn't that bad, And the Saudis and the Kuwaitis and the other Gulf nations were like, that's that's not what we signed up for as part of this escort service. You know, we read the terms of service. We are under the belief that you are going to continue to provide the protection right and if Iran starts attacking us, the response should not be it's okay, We're not agreeing to Project Freedom. If it means then that we get nailed, that's not the kind of escort service. That we were looking for. So The Wall Street Journal reports that the Saudis and Kuwaitis reversed course after abruptly halting permission for the US to use its bases and airspace for Project Freedom, a decision that has now been reversed. Saudi officials reportedly were angry at the Pentagon for downplaying the Iranian strikes earlier in the week, regarding the announcement by Iran to control the Strait of Hormuz, saying here's an email address and that's and will coordinate payment to let you pass. And UN Ambassador Mike Waltz says, the Iranian regime wants to mine an international waterway, attack commercial vessels, charge illegal tolls, block humanitarian aid, and then call America politically motivated for asking the UN to make them stop. Right, This is. This is a violation of the international rules freedom of navigation is a core pillar of global peace and prosperity. Iran treats it like a doormat, is what he said. Regarding the US destroyers that were attacked. Sentcom put out a statement saying US forces intercepted unprovoked Iranian attacks and responded with self defense strikes. As US Navy guided missile destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman on May seven, yesterday, Iranian forces launched multiple missiles, drones, and small boats at the USS Truxton, the USS Raphael Peralta, and the USS Mason as they transited the International Sea passage. No US assets were struck. Iran says that they made contact, that they had hits on these vessels, and sent Com says, no, you did it. Sentcom eliminated in DOOWND threats and targeted Iranian military facilities that were responsible for attacking US forces, including missile and drone launch sites, command and control locations, and intelligence surveillance and recon nodes. Sent Coom does not seek escalation, but remains positioned and ready to protect American forces. And this is a common message I've seen Sentcom say that we do not seek escalation. These are defensive attacks. If you strike at any of the ships in the strait, we are going to blow up your launch pads and your facilities, so you don't do it again. From the text line, Mike says, Pete is calling Project Freedom and escort service really the best choice of words. Yes, yes, it is. I believe it is. I mean, that's what it is. It's an escort service, right that we are providing to the world. We have lots of partners here. So regarding the attack on the three naval vessels, that the attacks were repelled and then strikes were run against Iranian facilities from where the attacks came from. Trump put out a truth social post and he says, three world class American destroyers just transited very successfully out of the Strait of Hormuz under fire. There was no damage done to the three destroyers, but great damage done to the Iranian attackers. They were completely destroyed, along with numerous small boats which are being used to take the place of their fully decapitated navy. These boats went to the bottom of the sea quickly and efficiently. Missiles were shot at our destroyers and were easily knocked down. Likewise, drones came and were incinerated while in the air. By the way, I saw a company has they put out a video, although it was like an AI generated video, but they say that they are they've now completed their lasers. So these lasers are going out into the field to shoot down the drones. And so it takes the cost of defense from like ten thousand dollars to take out a drone, takes it down to like two dollars, which is a game changer, right if you can have like the Jewish space lasers, but like mounted you know, on the Earth or on a boat or something, so not in space, they can pew pew, you know, they can just shoot them all down. Anyway, back to Trump's social post, they dropped ever so beautifully down to the ocean, very much like a butterfly dropping to its grave. A normal country would have allowed these destroyers to pass. But Iran is not a normal country. They are led by lunatics, all caps, and if they had the chance to use a nuclear weapon, they would do it without question. But they'll never have that opportunity. And just like we knock them out again today, we'll knock them out a lot harder and a lot more violently in the future if they don't get their deals signed fast. Our three destroyers with their wonderful crews, we'll now rejoin our naval blockade, which is truly a wall of steel. President Donald J. Trump. Jennifer Griffin goes on to say on Twitter that a senior US official tells her that it was a US military strike on Iran at the cussom Port. I think it's how they say that as well as Bondarabas, but that this is not a restarting of the war, nor is it an end to the ceasefire. Okay, so just because we're blowing stuff up doesn't mean that the ceasefires. We're just firing a little bit on some targets in the ceasefire. The strike on one of Iran's oil ports comes two days after Iran fired fifteen ballistic and cruise missiles at uase fujaira port, eliciting anger from Gulf countries. After top Pentagon leaders said that the Iranian strikes did not rise to the level of breaking the ceasefire, calling it low level attacks that didn't rise to that level, and that's what prompted the halt on Project Freedom Escort service, because when the Pentagon and Trump is saying, oh, these are just low level attacks, and u aes like, they just struck one of our oil facilities. That's not a low level attack. And so they were like, you know what escort service, call you know, call them back, cancel the escort service, not going to happen. And that sent everybody scrambling. And now you see the American response, which I suspect is probably as like a nod to the gold Golf Coast countries or a golf country's coalition, the GCC that now they're like or America's like, okay, look sorry about that. It's not low level. Our bad will blow up some of their stuff too, all right, so we good to go. Now, can we resume the escorting now? The Iranian Tasmin news service, so take this with a grant of salt, they reported signs of hostile action by the UAE, so they were blaming the UAE for the attack on their Cushiam Port and bundar Abbas. Some sources say that the sound of several explosions in bundar Abbas was related to air defense countering two drones. Also, some sources report hostile action by the UAE government acting as a tool of the Zionist regime and Baham or at the Batwan Cusham doc. I believe they relied on Tucker Carlson for that one. This issue has not yet been officially confirmed or announced. If this matter is confirmed, the UAE will pay the price for its hostile action. So once again Iran continuing to threaten UAE, which, by the way, Iran has hit the UAE more times than it has hit Israel. According to information received by Iran International, the news of the President of Iran, Masud Pezeshkian's meeting with the Ayatola. Right there was this report that Pozeshkian had a meeting with Muchaba Khameny the Nepatola. Well, now Iran International reports that was fake, that did not happen. The meeting did not take place. Iran International sources say that Pizeshkian's request for a meeting was rejected five times by Comedy's office. Dude, I don't think he's into you. I don't think the Iyatola is into you. Pozeskiin he doesn't want to talk with you, right, if he's even alive, if he can even talk, So what does that mean to me? It means to me that like the IRGC, the guy Vahiti I think is his name, like he's actually in control. He's doing the weekend at Bernie's with the Ayatola. And so you can't have a meeting with Pizeski in because then you would realize like it's just a corpse, like literally or maybe he's in a coma, but he can't meet with anybody because he's probably not conscious. So the report that they had this friendly meeting pozeski and had sent just a few hours prior that they had a meeting. It was held in a friendly atmosphere and lasted about two and a half hours. So the president thinks he had a meeting with the Ayatola or he is lying or Iran International and their source inside the presidential cadre there is incorrect. Right, not really sure what to believe, but considering the actions of Iran continuing to launch missiles everywhere, that's the IRG IRGC's desire. I think they are actually the ones calling the shots, and like literally but also politically and the civilian leadership, like Pozeskian, they are completely shut out. They can't even get a meeting with the dead Ayatola, and I think the IRGC like is actually running the show. I think there's a coup right now that has occurred. They have and that's why nobody can see the cardboard cutout anymore. Let me see here go over on the text line and I don't know where that just went. Oh my gosh, it's moving all over the place. It's crazy. Okay. This is from UH seven O four number, who says, your mastery of Iranian name pronouncing is awesome. Thank you, seven O four number. I appreciate that. I've worked very hard to get them right. Brad says, somebody should tell the UAE to stop throwing their refineries at the Iranian drones. They may they may not be aware of that that that's not effective. Eddie says, oh again, my pronunciation of Iranian names is impressive. Thank you, Eddie. Mm hmmm, oh my gosh. I don't understand what's going on. It's acting old wonky. It's like bouncing all around and stuff. This is from Kenny. I am young, twenty five years old. I just wanted to weigh in my opinion, so take it as such. We need to stop putting presidents on pedestals. I concur I have said for years, do not fall in love with politicians. They will break your heart. Right, people project onto presidents and any number of politicians, all sorts of things, and it crosses over from like support to this sort of you know, fieldy and I'm not a fan of it. He says, if we're going to blame anything, the House and Senate are as much to blame as the President for poor decisions. But I will contradict myself by saying this. Honestly, the blame game is only adding more frustration to the issues at hand. If you ask me, yeah, I mean, look the House and Senate. If they wanted to pull up, you know, a declaration of war against Iran, they could obviously do that. But you know, we haven't declared war on anybody since I believe World War two that was the last time there was a declaration of war because members of Congress are cowards. You know, they don't want to have their fingerprints on stuff. They want to be able to deny. They want to be able to to run away from, uh, you know, any kind of effort that is failing and then say, oh, I didn't vote for that, right, Kevin says, Uh, Pete kid Rock said, we started this escort service for all the right reasons. Yes, the uh yes, the noted historian uh kid Rock and uh Beth's favorite Russ says Pete, the audio you just played of the new Jewish space lasers was so realistic. Was that an actual real world use? It was? Not? Here is the actual real world use? Wah pew? That was That's what it sounds like, wah pew? Right, alrighty, So I feel I have to address this because I have dragged Megan Kelly and Tucker Carlson and Candice Owens, to a lesser extent, Piers Morgan. I've commented on their their odd sorts of shifts that have occurred. And now. I will play you some audio because if you are not following these people, if you're not listening to them, first of all, good for you. Second of all, you may not be aware of the shift. And I noticed it a while ago. And actually the thing that got me because I used to watch Megan Kelly's program on YouTube before I got terminated by YouTube. I used to watch her show like almost every day. She had good guests and stuff, and I found it informative and entertaining. But I also noticed that she was constantly talking about ratings or in YouTube land viewer, you know, views, subscribers, that sort of thing. Any times she would talk about somebody else in like the cable news business or even the network news business, she would always like slam them for low ratings. And I've been around people in TV my entire career, and I know that ratings drives a lot of the decision makers processes and thoughts and stuff, Like they're constantly looking at like the overnights to look at what were the ratings from last night's eleven o'clock newscast or show as they call it, what did the eleven o'clock show do? And then you get the overnight ratings. You show up in the morning and you look at it and you're like, oh my gosh, Like we see a decline in ratings when we started talking about this one story, so don't talk about that story anymore. And they would make all of their decisions based on the ratings. And that's not news to me, Like, that's not what you should be doing. If you are trying to deliver information to people, you got to give them information that that you feel is important. You are an aggregator. I am an aggregator, right. I look at as many different news stories as I can, and then I picked the ones that I think are most important to bring to you, So you don't have to You're welcome. But she's always been this way with ratings. I never found it to be palatable to me. I didn't. It wasn't anything I was too interested in. But I think that's what's happening now. I think she is chasing clicks. She has succumbed to audience capture. So there are a couple of There are a couple of ye clips here from her chat with Believe. This was with Piers Morgan the other day. She's got strange, mad new respect for Islam. For Islam is not consistent with the values of America of the West. They should stay in countries that don't care about keeping church and state separated. They should stay in countries that don't care about protecting free speech, in countries that don't care about women's rights. Right. This is from January, Okay, January of this year. That's where Islam confessed her and grow it's great. I mean, I'm sure if that's like your thing you don't care about, like genital mutilation, you might really enjoy living in an Islamic country. Okay, So that was her take in January. Now he or she says. Once he said that he's sorry. She's responding to Tucker Carlson's interview and his comments about Islam. Sorry that he endorsed Trump. He regrets it and feels like he has to make amends. And his show is doing fine. It's not like he's hurting for audience. But I think he's understanding there may be some new listeners over here, you know, like like he's gotten very very popular lately, I read with Muslim viewers because he's been standing up for Islam, you know. And I have to tell you, Mark, it's been something I've noticed just since I've got a sort of more clear eyed on Israel that a lot of the anti Muslim rhetoric that's put out there originates with people who are very very pro Israel who kind of need us to demonize them. And I've taken a look recently at my own rhetoric on this to say, like, have I been manipulated? To make sure I'm not getting manipulated, but maybe he's having a lot of Muslim viewers flock to him. I know for a fact he has a lot of young men. Flocking to him. And so while he may have lost some contingent of the Fox News audience that's very very pro Israel and you know, pro Trump, and you can't say anything about Trump. For every one of those who leaves, there is another newer, younger audience member who does want to hear these traditional lines challenged and hear just. New independent thinking. I mean, I'm experiencing some of that myself and Tucker probably times ten mm. See, I see, so you got clear eyed on Israel and then you started thinking you were being manipulated and ooh, look at all of the audience that Tucker was pulling young Muslims. They get me some of that. M h. By the way, according to Social Blade, she's hemorrhaging like thirty She's like as of like four weeks ago, three weeks ago. I guess she's hemorrhaging like ten thousand subscribers and viewers. Every week she's down like thirty thousand. I just wonder what other opinions or philosophy or principles she will reconsider next out of fear of being manipulated, because she's not being manipulated now by anything. It's all I guess it was the Jews that were manipulating her opinions about Islam. It's not Islam, it's not the history of Islam, it's not the behavior of Muslims. Right, it's none of that, None of that ever factors into this. It's just that people who are pro Israel notice these things about Islam, and so therefore I don't want to be manipulated. So I have to buddy up to the audience that's becoming more Islamic or something very clear eyed thinking here. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.