Vetoes and bombing Iran (06-23-2025--Hour3)

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Okay, all right, so, but you also cranked out some content as you usually do, and this was regarding the governor of North Carolina. Josh Stein doing his first vetos. I think right these were was this the first round of vetos that he's done. These are his first vetos. He vetoed three bills Senate Bill fifty, Senate Bill one fifty three, and House Bill three eighteen. Senate Bill fifty is the bill that would have allowed for permitless concealed carry, joining multiple other states that have laws like that. I think we would have been like the thirty es states to enact such a law. Then there's a Senate Bill one fifty three in House Built three eighteen, which sort of are tied together because they're both immigration related. One fifty three would tighten up the requirements for state law enforcement officials like sheriffs to formally cooperate with ICE and detained immigrants. It would also restrict state fund benefits and housing for non citizens, and it would penalize local governments and the unc system institutions for adopting any sanctuary policies eight which was backed by House Speaker Destin Hall. He's been very big on the ice front. He's on multiple bills pushing through this woman closed loopholes and existing laws such as the ones that the Mechlenberg sheriff seems to think exist regarding illegal immigrants and custody, and it would require that local officials can find them and verify their legal residency status and be in touch with ICE to let them know that they have that person, to see if there's a entertainer or if they're going to you know, offer a warrant on them. It also mandates that the prisoner is subject to an ICE detainer, be held in trans until he's transferred into ICE custody or released under certain specific conditions which have to be met, you know, bonds, monitoring, that sort of thing. Yeah, so right, So these are the three bills he did sign one into law. Some agriculture bills modernized agricultural voluntarily for certain agricultural districts. There were certain modernizations that were in the law that needed to happen, and nothing ground shattering there. Yeah, nothing controversial about that. But so so now, obviously the question is about whether or not the legislature can override his vetos. In the Senate, they've got the Republicans have a supermajority, so I suspect they will have little problem overriding Stein's vetos on these three items, but over in the House, not so certain because they don't have a super majority. They're going to have to peel away a Democrat or two. And the bill that House Bill three eighteen, one of the immigration bills, the last one that you that you described there, that's the one that the local representative, Carla Cunningham from Mecklenburg, that's the one that she is a Democrat, has voted with Republicans for this bill. So she may she. May be the one that helps override that one. The Senate one might have a harder time unless they can get her to move over into that aisle. Right, So we'll see. But then again, we're talking about a new governor here. We don't know if he's got the same disciplinary mojo that Roy Cooper did, where you know, if you stuffed out of line, he made sure he got a primary challenger. So I don't know if Josh Stein is going to pull that I'm the Democrats and the legislature this time around or not. Yeah, So you could read that at North State Journal Online. And AP's also got to write up at her newsletter more to the story on all of this. And you also you wrote about and you connected in a couple of these, these union groups and these lefty groups that prior to his veto's, the Party for Socialism and Liberation was back out carrying their anti Ice banner this week protesting these bills, trying to pressure Stein. And they've been involved in uh these you know, nationwide protests, the no King stuff, the fifty to fifty one, which is a terrible name because it makes it sound like it's just fifty to fifty one, but it's fifty fifty and then one but whatever. And then you you pointed out we covered a little bit of this last week that the that now you've got the unions that have joined in the afl CIO you mentioned the s CiU, got the teachers unions, they're involved in this stuff. And now you've got the UH workers with the Solidarity Restaurants team. And that's a new one to me. Yeah, it's being launched by a group called One Fair Wage. It's another one of those you know, Raised the minimum wage groups, and yeah, I darked them through their basic social media and through their platform and everything, and it very much looks like this is another one of those you know, Raised the wage groups, and on their website They have a big, big icon there that's got a woman wearing a mask at COVID mass that says fight, don't starve and teacher to read the wage justice is racial justice, so you know whatever. But they seem to be they seem to be operating mostly in Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, and Maryland, New York and Ohio. They're not in North Carolina yet and those are blue states for the most part, so they're targeting their own. We'll see what We'll see what happens there. And it makes sense because after the Supreme Court decision on the force unionization, you know, siphoning off dues and stuff, the Janus decision. After that, unions have taken a hit, and so it makes sense that now they're like, they're making these efforts with regard to illegal immigrants because they need more people, They need more bodies, they need more people on the rolls. And so, uh, there's been a decide because it used to be the unions were opposed to illegal immigration because it undercut wages for them, and so now yeah, now they're they're captured too. Let's see here. Speaking of being captured, apparently the North Carolina Democrat Party. I don't know what's going on with this drag brunch that they they held again. This what yesterday I guess in Raleigh? Is this the This is not the first time they've done a drag queen brunch at at party headquarters or something. Yeah, I guess for the past three years I've held that. To be honest, I haven't. I hadn't been clocking it regularly. This one popped up though, in my feet a couple of times, so I was like, all right, I'll just I'll drop that in on my substack because you know whatever. Yeah. But yeah, So they held this thing and apparently one of the performers there a guy who goes by S. S. Birdie. His name is Landon bird He calls himself the drag King and the other social media posts. But he posted several days in advance on his Facebook page and Instagram page dressed up like in a in a costume looks like something out of Natcho lebra and he's like, you know, shoving his foot in the camera, saying stomping all fascists in the face. Yeah. And this is the person who was, you know, one of the headliners for this drag brunch. In just a week ago, we were, you know, we had the Democratic Party's chair refusing to condone condemn reports Representative von Hagen's posting of a beheaded Trump from the No Kings rally. So I just found an interesting juxtaposition, and she did it again here. She she deflected again and said that it's the favorite e entity here and they would invite libs of TikTok next time to. It, right, because this one got the got noticed by libs of TikTok, which then you know, pushed it out again. And yeah, so this is now like two libs of TikTok tweets over the last week or so. So it's I'm sure the I'm sure the social media accounts for the North Carolina Democrat Party leadership has been blowing up for the last you know week or so. I did. I did like the uh, the screenshot you got of the Speaker of the House response to all of this, destinhol said, reminder that Democrats tried to tell your Republicans were weird in the last election, which meanwhile they got this this foot stomping, drag king dude performing for their party. Anyway, So this dovetails nicely though into another piece that you had. And we've been covering different elements of this over the last two weeks. The New York Times and Politico both with stories talking about the Democrats in disarray or the civil war inside the Democrat Party. This is not this is not good. They are apparently, I mean for them. It's probably good for America, but it's not good for their party. They've discussed the possibility of borrowing money in the coming months to keep operations fully funded. I did not know that. Yeah, that was that didn't really shock me, given you know that they blew through what, you know, a billion dollars I'm the Harris campaign. Yeah, little to show for it. So yeah, the both the New York Times and uh Politico are doing their their duty and breaking the bad news, uh in a way that's you know, as friendly as possible. The New York Times article goes on for you know, like eighteen hundred words or something like that, describing the internal collapse of the DNC, and my favorite section of that article was titled worse than some high school student council drama. So yeah, yeah, so they they're they're looking around and then we've got. You know, it looks like Bernie Sanders and AOC have broken up. Oh no, he's been out on his noahl oligarchy, you know campaign, and she had been out there with him, you know, doing doing the rallies, and in the last two weeks or so, she's sort of disappeared from that, and it's just Bernie out there now, you know, old man yeltic cloud moment. So well, she's she's doing I think she's she's trying to ride the anti immigrat stuff right then. Yeah, well, and this is the thing too, like because I think it in your piece, you said, yeah, here it is a Neither the New York Times nor the political article seem to connect the dots back to President Biden's disastrous debate as the turning point when the wheels started coming off the DNC bus. And you've got now these camps that are fighting inside the DNC, and you got one that's like we should moderate, and the others like, no, no, full blown you know, leftism and stuff. And that's why like their own voters, their own Democrats, they disapprove of their own party by like seventy percent. And it's because they're like that no one is fighting Trump hard enough. And that's why I think you're seeing these guys going and getting themselves arrested, right, these stunts, because they want to be seen to communicate I'm willing to get arrested, you know, like their own moral Munday movement moment a momo momo and like I'm fighting. Look at me getting arrested. It's why they that's why they're cursing in really cringey ways, like people you know don't curse, and then you just start dropping f bombs and stuff like this is this is not a good look, but I'm enjoying it. Yeah. I think I think someone over the weekend said the arrests and everything that they're going on with all these elected officials, it is like they're lining up to get arrested. They think that, you know, it's good publicity. But someone I can't remember, I think it was Scott O God what was his name from CNN. He left out the line something like along the lines of the theater kids have taken over the Democratic. Yeah, yeah, that was that was Scott Jennings. Yeah, Scott Jennings. That's right, that's what it was. That that just kind of stuck with me. I'm like, you know, that's kind of an app description at this point. It absolutely is. We've been using that term to describe these performers for a while. It is completely accurate. Ap Dylan, I appreciate your time. As always, you can read her work North State Journal and more to the story on substack. Thanks AP. We'll talk with you next week. Thanks p. Take care. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. 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They took out the doors off of the Eving Prison, which was the prison where they hold all their political prisoners and regime opponents. They blew the doors off of that. They also blew up the Destruction of Israel clock that they have right in like Palestine Square in Tehran. They've got this clock and it's like, yeah, we're counting down till the destruction of Israel. They blew that thing up. So all right, let's get to the phones. People have been on hold for a while. This is Andy. Hello, Andy, Welcome to the show. Hello Andy. Yeah, okay, I'm gonna put you back on hold and we're gonna go over to Richard. Hello, Richard, are you still there? Yes, welcome, Thank you very much. I'll listen to you. Did you know I watched Pops news at work, Okay, and there was something under the Russia gave permission for other countries to give nuclear warheads. Did you see that? I did not see that. I don't know why Russia would need like what countries would Russia need to. Same here, same here? They need, uh, you know, permission? Right? Yeah, unless it's like Belarus, which is, you know, a client state of Russia. Maybe Belarus has nukes or something, but Russia's got the nukes. If they wanted to give or on some nukes, they could. But I don't know if like again, I I don't know if they would do that. I don't know if Putin would do that, Why you would do it, Why you wouldn't do it? I have no sightline into that, except you know, to just try to take out an American ally or something. I don't know, because if it traces back to him, like that's problematic, you know. Oh yeah, yeah, I don't agree. My question is only that if you've seen that, so you haven't seen it. I have not. No, I have not, but I can I can try and find it. If you say it's out there, there may be a report that's out there. But I appreciate the call. Thanks for thanks for making it. Richard, Thank you much. All right, take care. There is another component to this, and I keep hearing you know, oh, they our intelligence. And this is based off of the Tulsi Gabbard, the clip that made the rounds. I played it last week eighteen seconds where she's like they are not, you know, making the bomb or something. But then everybody chops off the second part of it where they're like, yeah, but they're they're still pursuing all of this and they're not cooperating and they're doing all this other stuff. That part out of the quote. And by the way, the IAEA, the UN's nuclear watchdog, the Board of Governors, found that Iran is not complying with its nuclear obligations. And this was June twelfth, right, this was the first time in twenty years that the UN's nuclear watchdog made this finding. Iran reacted immediately, saying it will establish a new enrichment facility in a secure location and that other measures are also being planned. The Islamic Republic of Iran has no choice but to respond to this political resolution. To the Iranian Foreign Ministry and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, they put out a joint statement. US President Donald Trump previously warned that Israel or America could carry out airstrikes targeting Iranian nuclear facilities if negotiations failed and some American personnel and their families have begun leaving the region over the tensions. This was again from June twelfth. Nineteen countries on the IAEA's board, which represents the agency's member nations, voted for the resolution. Nineteen countries Russia, China and Burkino sorry Burkina FASO opposed it. So three against and eleven abstained. And I don't know why two did not vote. I don't know if they were sick or something. But in the draft resolution seen by the Associated Press, the Board of Governors renewed a call on Iran to provide answers without delay in a long running investigation into uranium traces found at several locations that Tehran has failed to declare as nuclear sites. They are gaming the system. 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But if Iran fails to cooperate, an extraordinary extraordinary IAEA Board meeting would be held in the summer, during which another resolution could get passed that will refer the issue to the Security Council. Like there you can tell like they were ticked off with Iran because like they were going to do another resolution. We're going to meet again and we're going to do another resolution on you. But when the IAEA, that is supposedly the one that is monitoring Iranian compliance, when they say they cannot give assurances that the nuclear program is for peaceful purposes exclusively, like that's a pretty big deal because obviously it's not for peaceful purposes. The IAEA's comprehensive report circulated among member states before their vote, and it's said that Iran's cooperation with the agency has quote been less than satisfactory when it comes to uranium traces discovered by agency inspectors at several locations in the country. One of the sites became known publicly in twenty eighteen after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nintonnaho revealed it at the United Nations and called it a clandestine nuclear warehouse hidden at a rug cleaning plant. Iran denied it, but in twenty nineteen when the IAEA inspectors all lickety Splits showed up for their investigation, they detected the presence of uranium as well as at two other sites. And Iran won't tell them why because it's not for peaceful purposes obviously. Here's the uh. We had a eget who was I think it may have been David was his name? Maybe this was from Dmitri Medvidyev, So not Putin, but the deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, former president. He had suggested that other countries would transfer their nuclear warheads to Iran. Trump then responds on truth social to this report, and he says, did I hear former President Medvidyev from Russia casually throwing around the N word nuclear and saying that he and other countries would supply nuclear warheads to Iran. Did he really say that or is it just a figment of my imagination. If he did say that, and if confirmed, please let me know immediately. The N word should not be treated so casually. I guess that's why Putin's the boss. By the way, If any by the way, if anyone thinks our hardware was great over the weekend, far and away, the strongest and best equipment we have twenty years advanced over the pack is our nuclear submarines. They are the most powerful and lethal weapons ever built, and just launched the thirty Tomahawks. All thirty hit their mark perfectly. So in addition to our great fighter pilots, thank you to the captain and crew. Medvidyev has now responded quote regarding I'm not going to read the whole thing like that, but that's how that's the voice I'm hearing in it. I condemned the US strike on Iran. It failed to achieve its objectives. However, Russia like, I don't think that's true, but Commi's lie. So however, Russia has no intention of supplying nuclear weapons to Iran, because, unlike Israel, we are parties to the nuclear non Proliferation Treaty. I know quite well what this would entail, having overseen our nuclear forces as president, but other countries might. And that's what was said. And we definitely shouldn't be arguing over who has more nukes, all the more so because the new Start Treaty, which I once signed with a US president, is still in force for now. The question is what comes next. So I don't find this to be particularly helpful. That's just that's just me. I I don't like. I don't like the mean tweets like we're in high school, like going back and forth with with the Russians about start treaties and use of nukes and all this other stuff. Now Trump did not start this, Okay, this was Medvedyev. He was the one that was talking about somebody could give Iran a nuke. I don't know who would do that. Pakistan maybe, sorry, Bukistan, Like maybe I mean that who else has them that would give them one? China U. Bill Malugin from Fox News. He reports, per a senior Customs and Border Patrol source, there were one thy five hundred four Iranian nationals caught crossing the border illegally during the Biden administration. Forty eight percent of those were released into the United States fifteen hundred half of them were released into America. It's unclear how many of these Iranians were on the terrorism watch list, as the Biden administration repeatedly denied my Foyer requests and appeals for that data, citing the privacy concerns of the people on the list and minimal public interest in disclosing the data. That's what they told him. That's what the Biden team said, privacy concerns for people on the tech watch list, and that there's minimal public interest. There were over two million known godaways at the border during the Biden administration. Because they were never caught, there's no way of knowing where they were from. All Right, if you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why. Well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. 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Marco Rubio is on Meet the Press yesterday, and I watched this just because I was trying to anyway, I watched it. I usually don't watch the Sunday shows anymore, but I watched this and this is Chef's kiss. Oh on a phrase you just word weaponization ambitions? Are you saying there that the United States did not see intelligence that Supreme leader had ordered weaponization. That's irrelevant. I seek that question being asked in the media. That's an irrelevant question. That is me point in US intelligence assessment. You know it's not yes, it was, that's the political decision. Well, I know that better than you know that, and I know that that's not the case whether the order was given. And the people who say that it doesn't matter if the order was given. They have everything they need to build nuclear weapons. Why would you bury Why would you bury things in a mountain three hundred feet under the ground, Why would you bury six Why do they have sixty percent in rich uranium? You don't need sixty percent in rich area. The only countries in the world that have uranium at sixty percent are countries that have nuclear weapons, because it can quickly make it ninety They have all the elements they have. Why are they Why do they have a space program? Is Aron going to go to the moon? No, they're trying to build an ICBM. No, But that's a question. That's a question, that's a question of intent. And you know in the intelligence assessment that it was that Iran wanted to be a threshold. See you use those I'm talking on what the intelligence March assessment, and that's why I was asking you if you know something more from it? That's also an inaccurate representation of it. That's inaccurate and representation of it. That's not how intelligence is read. That's now how intelligence is used. Here's what the whole world knows. Forget about intelligence with the IAEA knows they are enriching uranium well beyond anything you need for a civil nuclear program. So why would you enrich uranium at sixty percent if you don't intend to one day use it to take it to ninety and build a weapon? Why are you developing ICBMs? Why do you have eight thousand short range missiles in two to three thousand long mid range missiles that you continue to develop. Why do you do all these things and just everything they need for a nuclear weapon. They have the delivery mechanisms, they have the enrichment capability, they have the highly. Enriched uranium that is stored. That's all we need to see, right, Well, the regime's our. That's our enemy. There you go. I am convinced that people seek out her program to appear on because she is not very good. I really do. Like that's the only explanation. I don't know how she has that job. Let me talk a little bit quickly about the mission. So there was trickery involved. The level of trickery we don't even know. We're not sure how Like how much was Trump working with Israel? Like how how long? How far back did they start this plan? Was it all part of the plan over like weeks or something? Or they flew one set of bombers west, they flew another set east. The one that went west was a decoy. The one that went east was the real package, as they called it. The AP reports it was an unprecedented attack years in the making, with some last minute mister meant to give the operation a powerful element of surprise. US pilots dropped thirty thousand pound bombs early Sunday on two key underground uranium and Richmond plants in Iran, delivering what American military leaders believe is a knockout blow to a nuclear program that Israel views as an existential threat and has been pummeling for more than a week. American sailors bolstered the surprise mission by firing dozens of cruise missiles from a submarine towards at least one other site. Iran denied that any significant damage had been done. The B two bombers delivered a total of four hundred and twenty thousand pounds of explosives. So does that make sense to you that there was no significant damage? Right? Almost half a million pounds of explosives and no damage, okay? US official set Iran neither detected the inbound jets nor mustered a shot at the planes. They didn't even fire a shot. So destroyed is the Iranian air force? So complete is the Israeli dominance of their airspace they couldn't even fire a shot. After setting parts of the plan in motion, Trump publicly announced Thursday that he would make a decision within two weeks on whether to strike Iran, ostensibly to allow additional time for negotiations, but in actuality masking the impending attack. One group of B two stealth bombers traveled west from Missouri on Saturday as decoys, drawing the attention of amateur plane spotters, government officials, and some media as they headed toward a US air base in the Pacific. At the same time, seven other B twos carrying two bunker buster bombs a piece flew eastward set, so you had seven B twos, each of them carrying two bombs. They kept communications to a minimum. They refueled multiple times in flight. It was a thirty six hour round trip. And in case you are interested, the stealth bombers are equipped with toilets and microwaves and a cooler like a little fridge. Yeah, so you could put snacks in there, you know, because it was a thirty six hour trip. The high tech bombers have their cockpits outfitted with mini fridges and a microwave to keep the crew fed and alert. And they've got the toilet as well, which, yeah, you would have to have that thirty six hour flight. This was Operation Midnight Hammer. They flew in complete radio silence, with their two man crews taking turns to sleep during the night. And it marked the first time that the US used the man YIV fifteen ton GBU fifty seven bunker buster bombs in a military attack. It was the longest B two flight since nine to eleven, since after nine to eleven. 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 dpetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.