Afternoon Breaking Updates on Iran War with Ben 9/1/2026

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This looks to be targeting the King Hussein International Air Base used by U.S. forces right there. Again, you can see the direct hit. We're showing you this footage also because Jordan, the United States, United Arab Emirates, and some of these other Arab nations always say they intercept these ballistic missiles. And we then find out that's a lie. And so it does appear a direct hit there. Also, it seems that the United States was targeting a wedding because a wedding ceremony in Sirik in southern Iran's Harzgan province was targeted by the United States. Four people are killed. Including a child, the provincial Red Crescent's managing director said. And according to Tasneem, we have the footage there that you're watching right now. The province's deputy governor for security reported at least 50 wounded, many more. But after the early stages of this war where the Trump regime targeted a little girl's school in Manab, slaughtering little girls there, then Limerde Volleyball Hall, where, little girls were killed, the Trump regime targeting a wedding right now, killing four people, including at least one child. We sadly believe that number is going to be increasing as well. But this is a savage, barbaric Trump regime, a regime of criminals like Pete Hegseth, a regime that has gotten rid of the safeguards that used to be in place, which were by no means perfect. But these safeguards to try to stop attacks on civilians. And it does appear the Trump regime intentionally trying to slaughter little girls and little children. But what else would you expect? They're a regime of predators. Donald Trump himself, a sexual predator. And this regime covering up child sex trafficking rings. And so their behavior is that of a predator, right? Their behavior when it comes to Canada. If we torture Canada more, then they'll want to do a deal with us. With Iran. If we torture them more, then they'll stop saying no. And then they'll finally say yes. They'll do what Venezuela did. They'll finally submit. They'll go through a humiliation ritual. We can exploit them. We can dominate them. We can put them through humiliation rituals. That's what we're seeing in Venezuela. Of course, Donald Trump announcing fake deals. There are 65 billion barrels. We're going to create a United States state-owned, government-owned oil company. And we're going to extract 65 billion barrels of oil. We're going to do deals directly with the Delsi Rodriguez regime. And that's going to show, that's what's going to lower the price of crude. We're going to refill our salt caverns, the strategic petroleum reserves in Texas and Louisiana with this incredible oil from Venezuela. Okay, the oil from Venezuela doesn't go into our strategic petroleum reserve. Literally, our salt caverns aren't made to store the tarry, sour, viscous, dense Venezuelan oil. You want to see what's actually happening with the oil, Trump regime idiots? Look right now. You have the price of crude up significantly, approaching $100 a barrel. Oil's up to record highs right now. The Brent is past $95, approaching $100 a barrel. WTI is at $90.50 a barrel. Both are, heading to $100 a barrel. You take a look at the bond market, a absolute freaking disaster right now. Donald Trump destroying the US economy every day. The American people are livid. The American people hate this. The American people are suffering and more war crimes are being committed in our name. Now, the Netanyahu genocidal regime is out there saying, it was actually the Iranians who attacked themselves. That's what they're going with. Again, the Iranians attacked themselves. That's what did it. It was a misfire. Really? I mean, that's, that's, we're doing that. That's what we're doing right now. Donald Trump launches catastrophic and lawful war, slaughtered little girls in Manab, slaughtered little girls in Lamar. We see what's happening in Gaza. We see what's happening in Lebanon. We see what's happening in Syria. And this is what you're going with? Really? That's, we're supposed to, okay, I guess they shot their own children again. Or maybe it's the predatorial regime that's been doing this. We're supposed to, okay, I guess they shot their own children again. Or maybe it's the is doing it again right now. Utterly, utterly horrific. Now, we've been seeing this escalation. These Trump regime further attacks now take place. You know, earlier this week, remember the Trump regime attacked an area on the coast of Iran. And then Iran responded. And then the Trump regime was like, we intercepted it all. We stopped the strikes in Jordan. We stopped the strikes in the UAE. And I told you, that's just a lie. We, Iran was able to, target and strike the US bases there. And then last night, Iran was able to strike two more tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, laden with Saudi Arabian oil. Two VLCCs disabled, attacked by Iran. And the Trump regime's like, we are getting so much oil out of the Strait of Hormuz. We control it, everybody. We control it. It's so good. All of this is going on too. I'm not sure if you caught this. And Jeremy, I think we have it, which is the interview that JD Vance gave also on some bizarre podcast. JD Vance was like, I'm trying to focus on doing as much of God's work as possible. And if that leads to the end of times, I'm okay. If it leads to the end of times, do we have that clip, Jeremy? If we do, let's play that one. What I'm trying to focus on is doing as much of God's work as possible right now. And if that leads to the end times, I'm okay. If it leads to the end times, okay. If that leads to the end times, okay. What the hell are you talking about? Why are all these people such sick human beings? What the hell? If that leads to the end times, you're going on podcasts and you're saying that? I mean, look, and doing that, by the way, I've been reporting for a while on these bigger, broader, international geopolitical moves taking place as the Trump regime shreds to pieces the U.S. economy. And I'm not sure if that leads to the end times, okay. I mean, look, and doing that, by the way, I'm not sure if that leads to the end times, okay. You have other nations who are part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. You have Putin talking about the economic cooperation between Iran and Russia. You have China talking about the economic cooperation between China and Iran. Putin talking about the economic cooperation between Russia and Iran. India talking about working with Iran. And what does Treasury Secretary Justin Trudeau do after threatening economic D-Day? You all know what he does, right? I mean, you have Russia at the meeting saying, we are doing everything we can. to help Iran's nuclear program. They literally said it. I mean, is that being covered on corporate news here? Is that, no, they literally said we're helping Iran with their nuclear program. And it's happening. The Bushir plant is a Russian-Iran joint venture. And Russia says it's going to be injecting billions of dollars and wants to do so on an expedited basis to help Iran further build its nuclear capabilities and nuclear facilities in the region. And so what does Treasury Secretary Besant do? He invites the Russian finance minister to the G20 finance summit in Asheville, North Carolina. Did you all see this? You have Anton Sulyanov, the Russian finance minister. None of the European countries would take a photo with this guy or pose with him or meet with him. But Treasury Secretary Besant, oh, you would like to meet with me, Mr. Sulyanov. Anton Sulyanov, we're going to talk about our cooperation between our nations. That's what we're going to talk. I was doing the, I was doing my best impression, Jeremy. We're going to talk about how can we bring our nations closer together? That's what I meant by economic D. That's what I meant by economic D-Day. How could we be more closer with Russia? Meanwhile, Russia was striking the hell out of Kiev while that meeting was taking place. Russia was striking the hell out of Kiev while that meeting was taking place. Did you see some of those strikes on Kiev? Russia's preparing for a massive winter offensive. You have Donald Trump tapping Zelensky along saying we would get Patriot interceptors to Ukraine. And of course we didn't saying we'd give Zelensky interceptor licenses. Of course we didn't. And I did a video this week about spheres of influence. Donald Trump's view that the United States should have the Western hemisphere and dominate it. That China should have all of Asia and dominate it. And I did a video that the United States should have all of Asia and dominate it. And I did a video that Russia should have all of Europe and Ukraine and Europe and dominate it. That's Trump's view. And Trump's out there like, it's pretty clear that that's what Trump's doing. Meanwhile, you have Xi Jinping talking about multilateralism, multipolar world, bringing countries together, a new era, the Thucydides trap. And Donald Trump's out there like, oh, Iran's stupid. Stupid, stupid, crazy. You're stupid, crazy. I'm going to bomb you, Iran. I'm going to bomb you, stupid, crazy country. Seriously. I mean, I'd like to be, I'd like for you to say, Ben, cut it out. This is matters of war and peace. You're being immature. Why are you saying stupid and crazy and all of these? That's what Donald Trump said. He called up regime propaganda media in the United States to announce these strikes against Iran earlier today. And he said, Iran is a stupid and crazy country. And if they do anything, and if they do anything, then we're going to strike them. We're going to even hit him harder. Trump threatens to wipe out Iran as a country during the call with Fox. Let's play it. But again, the latest information that we have, John, U.S. strikes are ongoing against Iran, hitting the southwestern part of the country. And the president, once again, in a call with Fox News, warning the Iranian regime, if they respond to these strikes against the southwestern part of Iran, that they will be hit much harder. And again, he goes on to say, if this goes for a third time, they will be wiped out as a country. He described the Iranians as crazy and stupid. And again, the region is waiting to see if there will be an Iranian response already in Iranian state media. They are threatening retaliation against U.S. forces in the region. Of course, there's going to be an Iranian response and there is an Iranian response. But do you notice the theme here by Donald Trump? You have to recognize and you have to just call it Trump regime is a nation of predators. That's what Trump is. Trump is a predator. So the way his regime operates is the way a predator would operate. Frankly, it is the way a sexual predator would operate. If we make Canada suffer more, this is their idea, if you try to destroy them, that will finally make them stop. Stop saying no. And that's what will make them say yes. When you're rich, they let you do it. It's what Donald Trump has done in his life. If you're rich, you get away with it. They let you do it. If you're America, you should be able to do it. If you're Trump, they let you do it. And Canada says no. The hell are you talking? No, what do you what the hell are you even doing? No. What's the what's the whole point? It's not even a plan when it comes to Iran. If we bomb harder, if we economically devastate him, that's going to make him say, please, can we do it? Please, let's do a deal. We want to do what Delsey did in Venezuela. And we want you to be able to say that you are exploiting our resources for the next 100 years. Like this is the 18th century. By the way, how'd that work out in the 18th century? And then what the other day, Trump regime was like, we're going to do a mowing operation of Iran. We're going to mow them. You're going to mow. You're going to do a mowing operation. I mean, in addition to the fact that a mowing operation is a genocidal war criminal thing to say, but it is a genocidal war criminal regime. You know what happens when you mow? I know maybe Donald Trump doesn't know this because he's probably never mowed grass in his life. And also, if you look at his properties, they're pieces of shit. But if you actually mow, guess what happens? The grass comes back. Did you know that the grass comes back? The grass comes back in a week. And then you have to mow it again. Then you have to mow it again. And then it comes back sometimes even thicker. So that's the game plan. And the American people don't want anything. We don't want his trade wars against the world. We don't want the stupid trade wars against Canada. We definitely don't want the catastrophic war in Iran. Waking up and seeing we're bombing weddings. We're bombing little girls' schools. We're slaughtering little freaking girls. In Manab, we're slaughtering girls playing volleyball. The hell is going on? And that's where our taxpayer dollars are going to while we see a mass exodus out of our military because we have another freaking low-life piece of trash lunatic in Pete Hegseth. Couldn't even run a nonprofit for veterans. Ran that into a ground. Despicable war criminal, vile human being who's like, we need to inject ourselves with testosterone and we need to get out of this. We're being led by the dumbest people. And we're being led off the freaking cliff by these people. You had Army Secretary Driscoll formally resign. He gave a massive warning to Donald Trump about Hegseth. But hey, Driscoll, I hate to break it to you, but Donald Trump wants people like Hegseth. That fits the profile of exactly who Donald Trump wants. He doesn't want people like you. By the way, Driscoll had this whole, you know, he's a J.D. Vance guy, Yale guy, veteran, you know, he came with all of his right wing, Pierre Poliev talking point. He's bullshit. He's that kind of guy, right? You know, but kind of knows how to find his way to the nexus of power. Dude lived in Pasadena, California. Okay. Let's be clear about Driscoll. Okay. He worked for a was competent, formed bonds with top military generals like Randy George, who was pushed out, the four-star chief of staff of the army, Christopher Donahue, other four-star general out of Europe. And Driscoll wanted to modernize the army. He got into these fights with Hegseth when Hegseth refused to promote black people and women. And when Hegseth would do like the Apache helicopter, Hegseth would do the Apache helicopter flights by Kid Rock. And, you know, Driscoll was with the Randy George, Donahue traditional crew, conservative, you might say, conservative, you might say crew, you know, who was against all of this Hegseth crap and Hegseth and Trump, you know, purged the army of these people. So Driscoll's gone. Driscoll's deputy is about to be gone. The Navy secretary's gone. And you just have a, you know, you have this regime of just the most incompetent, dumbest, you know, most idiotic peoples, most idiotic people. Here's what Trump posted. The United States is, as we speak, striking Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz. The strikes are large and powerful and in retaliation for the Iranians' attempts at adding sea mines to the Strait, which currently has no mines. They have been completely removed or detonated. And the Iranians shooting eight missiles, all successfully knocked down at our military bases in Jordan. If the failed nation of Iran retaliates for the very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level. But it will not be the biggest attack of them all that is waiting in the wings. And when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Donald J. Trump. You know, the thing about Trump is that he's a lifelong bankrupt or piece of shit human being. And he's going to bankrupt everything. He's going to wait until he loses all of the chips and then goes bankrupt and then steals your chips. That's who he is. That's his personality, loser, and he always finds the bullseye of losing. And so my own view about where this thing ends is he will always fall into the escalation trap. Iran is never going to submit, and Iran knows we've run out of weapons. The U.S. is out of weapons, okay? You know the strikes the other day that Iran actually did hit Muwaffiq Salty Air Base in Jordan and the other base in Jordan, the Hussein base in Jordan as well. The U.S. probably used at least 50 to 60 PAC-3 Patriot interceptors. So every time Iran launches its ballistic missile strikes and its drone strikes, and I'm sure Iran's also launching some dummy ballistic missiles as well, that don't actually even have explosive capabilities, just draw out the PAC-3 interceptors. Just draw them out. I'm sure that's part of their strategy too. Come on, let's be real here. But every time that happens, the U.S. is now depleting 10 to 20% of their remaining interceptors, and it diminishes and it diminishes and it diminishes. Why do you think that all of our top generals and admirals- I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. In the Secretary of Defense order book, put a do not concur with the war plans, which is unprecedented. Not a do not concur. That's happened before, but on smaller issues, not the actual war plan generally. You usually have the buy-in of your war plan from your generals and your admirals. The only people going along with this right now is you have Hegseth. You have that stooge, that humiliate, that embarrassing Admiral Cooper, who's turned CENTCOM into the laughingstock of the world. Oh my God, what he's done to CENTCOM? He's turned it into a Trump MAGA account. They post the most ridiculous things. We control the Strait of Hormuz. True or false? It is false that the United States launched aggressive action against Iran because this was targeted strikes. What are you even talking about, Cooper? What are you even talking about? Remember Cooper's testimony? Back in May, before the House and the Senate, it was like you had veterans who were members of Congress and in the Senate who had a grill Cooper because he came in there as like a hostile witness, which is so rare for somebody in the military, for someone at CENTCOM to come in as like a hostile witness, parroting MAGA talking points. The hell's wrong with that guy? Again, for those just joining us right now, the recent updates are. The Trump regime launched massive strikes against Iran. Iran's launched massive retaliation against the United States. The United States targeted a wedding, struck a wedding, killed four people, killed children. This is the wedding we're showing you right now that was targeted by the United States. 50 people injured at least over here in the Syrac area. The United States launched massive strikes throughout Iran. Iran striking back, hitting the U.S. bases in Jordan right there. Being right here, King Hussein International Airport used by U.S. forces over there. Donald Trump posting earlier today has noted that this much harder, bigger attack is going to be coming, referring to, and Trump says, we're going to totally annihilate them. We're going to wipe Iran off the face of the earth. And Trump's like, there's no mines. The Strait of Hormuz is perfect. Two tankers, two Saudi tankers laden with oil, fully laden. We're hit in the Strait of Hormuz last night as well by Iran. Iran is launching its retaliation right now. Should be noted as well. And hat tip to the USA today for this report. Iran has also been able to develop this new weapon, which is referred to as the Castle Breaker. Josh Mayer from USA Today reporting, a defense expert telling USA Today that Iranian missiles have significantly damaged U.S. bases. And these are some of the new missiles that they are using over here. Some of those analysts believe Iran used what's being referred to as a Castle Breaker missile. And unlike conventional ballistic missiles that travel a fixed path, defenders can track and try to intercept. This is called the K-bar Shaikhan, can quickly change course in the final phase of its descent, potentially slipping past air defenses and targets with devastating precision. U.S. military bases in the region are essentially abandoned because Iran's been able to strike them. The reason we've had so much issues with logistics and getting food and supplies aboard those aircraft carriers, they would normally be supplied from Bahrain. And the Bahrain base was destroyed in the early days of the war. So now, supplies are coming from Diego Garcia, which is very far away. And so that takes a long time for the supplies to reach the aircraft carriers. And, you know, who would have thought Donald Trump, a lifelong bankruptor, bankrupts casinos, bankrupts Trump's stake and Trump this and Trump that and Trump this and Trump that. Who would have thought that? Yet you put bankruptors and lifelong losers in positions of power and they behave like bankruptors. And so you have that going on, you have the Shanghai Cooperation Organization going on with this multilateral meeting between Russia and China and Iran and India and all these world leaders who were there meeting in Kyrgyzstan and Bezheshkin over there. You see them all over there. Look who's in the middle right there. Xi Jinping, basically with China now becoming the main global hegemon right there, circled as President Bezheshkin of Iran. He held many major meetings with world leaders. And the response from the Trump regimes is let's invite the Russian finance minister to North Carolina in Asheville and welcome Russia back into the G20 summit for the financial ministers. And that's what went down yesterday. At the same time, Russia was striking hard in Kyiv. Remember when Donald Trump would say, if you don't elect me, there's going to be a world war. There'll be world wars. Let's be clear right now. Okay. The only thing that's, I mean, I believe that there is a world war going on right now. I mean, there's a war involving the world right now. Okay. And NATO is not invoking Article 4 or 5 simply because they know that Donald Trump won't honor it. Okay. There's multiple grounds why Article 4 or Article 5 should already be invoked. Did you know that off the coast of Romania in Romanian waters, Russia struck a tanker? That would be grounds for Article 4, Article 5. What about Russia's drone mayhem in Germany? What about that? Which is traced back to Russia. Is Germany invoking Article 4, Article 5? No. Why not? Because they know that Article 4 and Article 5 is dead. And Donald Trump won't honor Article 4 and Article 5. So what's Russia doing? Poking along the lines, showing that Article 4 and Article 5 is dead, preparing for the winter strikes on Ukraine. And, you know, I think that Lukashenko is going to play a major part in that as a northern front is going to be open. Russia's been building up its ballistics. Russia's been building up its Shahid drones with even a more ferocious capability. These new Shahid drones that they create, 300 miles per hour, 350 miles per hour, which the Ukrainian drone interceptors struggle at that speed. You need to sometimes shoot them down with other things other than the those interceptors, which were used to the like the propeller drones. And so those Shahids also could be used by Iran as this war escalates in the Middle East. And you take a look at all of this. And to me, it all goes back to the weak, pathetic loser, the sexual predator, the guy covering up the Epstein files in the Oval Office right now. It is sickening. It is sickening to me as an American that yet again, the United States struck a wedding today that the United States killed a child and killed people at a wedding. It pains me. It pains me that this is what the United States is doing. And then Donald Trump soothes his ego by coming up with fake deals with an authoritarian from Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez. By the way, we all realize that what this means is that there's never a chance of democratic elections in Venezuela. Obviously, there isn't because the fake fraudulent deal with Delcy falls apart. If you do another region, if you have other people in power, both in the United States and in Venezuela, right, if they're once a new administration comes into control in the United States, we're going to be like, yeah, we're going to do this 18th century imperialistic deal. Of course not. Of course not. And the companies that there are truly really aren't many, but if there are companies who are doing business in all of this, okay, they're going to be subject to massive shareholder lawsuits for being a part of this sham. Okay, that's why a lot of people view it as Venezuela's uninvestable, both because the oil underneath is tarry. not the type of oil that is easily refined but also you can't do business with the delce rodriguez regime and then on the venezuela side you think delce is going to give up power now you you think the bully chicos the rich young people who are part of these chavistas who are making all the money on this you think they're going to give up power to who machado like maria corina machado you think that's you think that's what's going to happen you think there's you know you think that's going to happen absolutely not let's wake up people about what's happening here and that's also you know we've seen the whistleblower letter right that was sent to the united states senate warning that the trump regime is ignoring court orders blocking their uh attempt to federalize the elections with with requiring that a federal barcode be used um for people who donald trump claims are eligible you a vote not um what the state voter rolls say trump has his voter rolls right and so if you have to be on trump's voter rolls and if there's a discrepancy between someone on the trump voter roll based on this barcode system that trump wants to roll out the trump regime will destroy the entire batch of of um ballots so if there's five thousand people who are going to vote for him he's going to have four thousand or ten thousand in a batch of ballots and there's one person who doesn't meet the uh trump voter roll list as trump defines that under the trump view that gives him um you know that that gives him the ability to um to destroy the entire batch of uh of of of ballots and so that's a pretty big freaking deal the whistleblower called this out there is a federal injunction blocking this from happening but the trump regime is going to want to do as much havoc as possible on mail ballots and they're going to want to try to create confusion so mail ballots don't arrive that's trump's plan okay he's a dictator he's a sexual predator he's a piece of trash we have to understand what the plan is here it is dictatorship it is destroying america it is forging alliances with putin and i mean in my opinion that seems to be what's clearly happening right here um but you know you you know you you tell me we're going to take our first break of the show um want you to check out scott mcfarlane reports which launched to which launched today anywhere you find podcasts so check that out scott mcfarlane reports i'm so honored to have scott mcfarlane as part of this uh network great to have him of course all right let's take a quick break we'll be right back make sure you subscribe on audio to scott mcfarlane reports uh pre-order wtf america as well it's the book i wrote with my brothers it comes out october um but pre-order now the pre-orders are very important let's take our first quick break of the show we will be right back with a lot more show we return life insurance we all 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aggressor operation asserting a large number of american personnel were in the vicinity and that a attack helicopter was destroyed we need to get confirmation on that but we did see we have the footage i believe of a strike in jordan at least by a kaba right there where you can see a missile getting through um and uh i think yeah there it is right there you can see um clearly a at least one apparent ballistic missile was able to hit its target um one of the issues of course is uh trump lies about everything and jordan and these arab nations often claim everything's intercepted um centcom lies about everything and you can't always get accurate information from iran sadly for me to have to admit this as an american is something that i'm never thought i would ever do um iran's has name on occasions on occasions has been more accurate on more than occasions i'll just say has often provided information that i go oh wait that actually happened and send com saying it didn't happen and then i'm like damn it i mean i'm still you know i'm still an american you know i i i want to see competent i don't want to be in this catastrophic and unlawful war at all um it just it pains me to see what's happening to our country it's a failed state we're a failed trump organization right now um and uh every day getting weaker and weaker and weaker it's a that's why i also highlight i'm like focus on what's happening with these international meetings it's not a coincidence right here that you have the shanghai cooperation organization iran china russia standing side by side bricks is going to be taking place in the next week and a half two weeks in new delhi you have the mecca defense alliance meeting that just took place uh in the past 48 hours with pakistan saudi arabia and turkey and this mecca alliance is going to be opening up to more countries i suspect egypt i suspect bangladesh i suspect um other nations are going to be joining the mecca alliance who's in egypt right now oh xi jinping's in egypt they just launched a series of of uh military drills together china egypt joint military drills uh taking place there with the new j-16s um which also means that other arab nations allow China access over their airspace for the purpose of doing these training exercises in Egypt. So yeah, Xi Jinping will be there. Then he'll be going to BRICS to meet in New Delhi. A new order is forming and you got Donald Trump attacking Canada. You got Donald Trump attacking NATO. You got Donald Trump attacking Greenland. You got Donald Trump behaving in this sickening, sickening way. And Trump's statement, as I said earlier, was, this is a direct statement from him, that Iran is a crazy and stupid nation, he said, and if they retaliate, we will basically wipe them off the map. We're saving for them the bigger option, is what he's saying that is going to happen next. And again, you have that, you have J.D. Vance saying, I'm trying to focus on doing God's work. If that leads to end times, okay, that leads to end times. Just play the J.D. Vance clip one more time, Jeremy, okay? Saying end times. And if that leads to the end times, okay. Okay. Okay. If it leads to the end times. So Kai, we're a regime that covers up child sex trafficking. We're talking about the end times while engaging in a catastrophic war, while Donald Trump threatens to blow a civilization off the map. Okay. We have gas prices surging right now. The price of Brent, the price of WTI crude, both approaching $100 a barrel, as we predicted would take place. You have these salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana at tank bottom right now, which we said was going to happen. Take a look at what's happening in Cushing, Oklahoma there, where you see how big of a supply shock actually exists as they're trying to run this oil through Cushing at such a pace, which, again, shows the overall crisis that is in on an international basis. I'm sure you know what you're paying for gas. You sure know what you're paying if you have to use a diesel. We know the price of gas and diesel is at record highs right now. Everything's at record highs. And you've got J.D. Vance talking about, this is an interview that the vice president of the United States gave, oh, there was a video circulating on X where a woman, jumps off a diving board, and she's a very large person, and she has weight problems. I'm cool, right? Do you like me, Gen Alpha? Do you like me, Gen Z, millennials? I'm J.D. Vance. What a freaking phony loser. Here, play this clip of J.D. There was a video that was circulating on X a couple of years ago where it's like this woman jumps off a diving board, and it's a very large person, a person who clearly has some weight problems, to put it diplomatically, and goes into the pool. The whole building collapses. And my initial reaction was like, oh, my God, that must have been a very poorly constructed building. J.D., you're so funny. I mean, who's the idiot interviewing the guy, too? I mean, that's, oh, my God, J.D., that's so funny. I'm going to launder your cover-up of child sex trafficking rings to my audience. J.D., I'm so funny. These are matters of war and peace, folks. This is some freaking weird-ass behavior that's going on. These are matters of war and peace, national security. Can we please have freaking grown-ups in the room? Can we please just have adults in the room? What is this behavior? J.D. Vance goes on to say, you know, with Donald Trump doing these AI photos of Jesus, he's like, we all get it. Trump's like a ball buster. So he likes to have a good time. We just want to party. We just want to have a good time. We just want to party and chill, like, and have a good time doing Jesus memes and doing memes of blowing up Carg Island. That's what we do, right? This is what the kids like, right? No, you've destroyed the future of the person who you're speaking to, his generation. You know, when he sits there laundering your shit, shame on him. And people are like, what the hell is this? Bunch of freaking losers. Again, this isn't like, oh, Democrat, Republican. Loser behavior from the war mongers covering up child sex trafficking rings with the Epstein files. Here, play this clip. The media tends to exacerbate the division by treating things that the president does as humorous and saying, this is him being serious, or this is him pretending to be Jesus or whatever the case may be. And I think in reality, the president is just, he's one of these guys who, he's a back slapper. He's a bit of a ball buster for those of us who work with him. And he just likes to have a good time. And I think that if people appreciated his humor, they would recognize he's not trying to offend people. He's trying to keep things light. Backstabber. He's a ball cupper, a ball buster. The first one was not Freudian. That's Donald Trump is able. We'll just say he's a bootlicker of Putin and Xi Jinping. We'll leave it at that. Well, what does Prime Minister Carney have to say about all of this? Meaning how Donald Trump and his regime are, are memeing attacks on Canada, memeing ducks being, launching military strikes against Canada and this behavior. Is this, as JD says, is this something that we shouldn't take all that serious? I mean, the media, the media just exacerbates all of these issues. They take it, they take it serious. Why would you take the president of the United States seriously? I mean, it's not like blowing up weddings in Iran and causing millions of Americans to be hungry and not be able to afford things and causing inflation to surge. Is it, this is all funny. This is all one big, it's like a game. This is like, why would you take anything we say seriously? Here's what Prime Minister Carney had to say. When the Americans stop doing memes, maybe we'll like, we will have adult conversations, but, but okay. It's, it's your democracy, America. This is how you want to behave. Wish you the best, bud. But it must, it must have those characteristics. And when the Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough and start being serious about having those discussions, we can have those discussions, but it's like, it's not constructive, but, but that's, that's their democracy. I mean, this is, it pains me. It's humiliating. This is like, this is humiliating. It's humiliating. It's like, I don't know how I could give so many different examples, but like, I don't know if you, if you've been involved in sports and imagine you're playing baseball and you're down, you know, 20, nothing. And, you know, it's still the fourth inning. And then the other team keeps running up the score and you're, on the losing team. Like you're, you're, you're the losers. You're, you're, you're, you're the nothing and you're struggling. And you're like, maybe we should put in like our best players and not have people who don't know how to play the game, continue to have us lose even more. And then the captain of your team is just like, uh, no, we're winning. We're winning this game. We're up. We're, we're, we're destroying them. We're destroying them. And then you keep watching the score, get 20, nothing, 30, nothing for you. And you're like, okay, we're not just losing, but we're losing in like record fashion. There's never been a worse loss. No, no, we're winning. We're winning. And every day I wake up, I'm just like, I don't view it again, even through a political lens. I'm just like, this, we are losing so badly. Our alliances, our strength, our economy. It's we're losing. We're getting our asses kicked everywhere. The way Donald Trump has gotten his ass kicked everywhere. We're getting our objectively, we're getting our asses kicked by Iran, by Russia, by China, by former allies who were making not them, the former allies like Europe and Canada who are making mid power alliances now and forging ahead without us. And we're, we're, and we're up there freaking with these losers, meaning talking about ending the war. And we're, we're, we're up there freaking with these losers, meaning talking about ending the war. And we're, we're, we're up there freaking with these losers. And we're, we're, we're, we're up there freaking with these losers, meaning talking about ending the war. I'm I think that's the piece of I was I was speaking with my speaking with my pops about it today. We try to get out of the house for a little bit with all the home. this stuff. That's why the new background. And so we took our daughter somewhere. And, you know, I'm just like the part for me pops. That's just so, you know, I never was a political person before all of this. I was a litigator. I was a lawyer. I probably represented more Republicans than I represented Democrats. I don't know. I didn't look at people's political identities, but I represented a lot of people in Bakersfield and Fresno where I spend a lot of my time. So I assumed that in retrospect, they were probably Republican. I didn't know what freaking party they were from. I just represented them again, you know, fought for my clients at the end of the day. But I just, I just see the country of the United States as a country of losers right now under Donald Trump. We keep on losing every day and I don't want to be a loser, but that's just what they, that's what it is. It's what it comes down to. And all of these qualities of him being a predator, being, you know, the coverups of, this and that, you know, it's, it's, it's loser, it's war criminals, it's rogue. And it's, it's sad. It's sad. I love this country. I do. I still love the country. I just, I just observed this behavior and I go, the hell is going on here? Prime Minister Carney was asked by a reporter. What do you make of a U S cabinet secretary, multiple plural secretaries insulting the Canadian military treasury secretary Besson said, what's kind of going to, what's, what's Canada going to do with us with their two submarines? No, they don't pose any threat to us. Dude, you couldn't manage your own $5 billion fund. You have a loser MAGA arc Besson. You couldn't handle it. You had 90% redemptions. You don't know what you're doing. You try to bail out the end that fails your bond buyback scheme fails. Your former mentor is out there saying that you don't know what the hell you're doing right now. Okay. And this guy, oh, so dude, shut up here. Play this clip of Carney. It's free trade. Prime minister. Prime minister. What do you make of U S cabinet secretaries insulting the Canadian military? It's beneath their office, sir. Yeah. That's a grownup right there. That's a grownup leader in prime minister Carney. That's an adult. It's an adult. We used to have leaders like that. I think, I don't know. I think we used to have leaders like that. Treasury secretary Besson on CNBC on Iran. We're telling people either you're with us or you're against us. Everyone says to me, what about China? This is what he said earlier today. Play this clip. It is over. And we are telling people either you are with us or against us. And everyone says to me, well, what about China? He said, we have more in common with the Chinese on Iran than we disagree with on the Chinese agree. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. The Chinese agree that there should be free, the freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. So we have had private discussions with them in terms of achieving those goals. He's just so dumb. He's just so dumb. Yeah. China was part of the JCPOA. Before Donald Trump destroyed the deal. It's not a shock that China would be for the deal that they were before. You know who was also for the deal? Iran. They signed the deal with Obama. And guess what? They weren't making nuclear weapons. That was clear from all of the countries that were involved. Russia, China, the United States, all of the stakeholders that were involved. But guess what, Besson? You know where China is right now? You know where Xi Jinping is right now or where he was? He's in Egypt right now. But he was at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. There he is right there, right in the middle, right in the middle. And guess who's right next to him, two people away from him? Guess who's right there? Yes, Pozeshkin is right there. There he is, the president of Iran. Guess what they were talking about? Economic cooperation, and guess what Russia was talking about? Economic cooperation. They're very clear about it. And you said that you would sanction China. That was your threat. Don't talk shit if you're not going to back it up, bud. I mean, you know, that's your, we should never have done it, but you said you were going to do it. And yet again, you don't do it. And it just puts us through a humiliation loop. Don't threaten it. Don't get, don't, don't do the war. Don't threaten it. Stop, stop saying these things that we shouldn't be doing and don't do them. But then, but, but, but why stop lying about everything? Just stop. Everything's a lie. Literally every damn freaking utterance is a lie. Here's what Besson says about Iran too. Oh, the reason that the MOU didn't work is Iran wasn't ready. So my job is to force them to be ready. Make a deal with us around, please. I'm going to force you to do a deal. You know, that's the deals don't work like that. You can't force someone to do a deal with you. It doesn't want to do a bad deal with you. Again, this is a predator mindset here. Let's play with, let's play the predator mindset. Seeing this regime. And as president Trump said, the reason the MOU did not work, they were not ready for a deal. My job is to make sure that they want to have a deal and they will want to have one. You will want this. I mean, think about what he's saying. It's a predator. That's what predators. My job is to make sure that you will want to deal. You will. That's what crazy people say. We, we will bomb you into making deals with us. We will bomb you. We will bomb you into submission deal. And then we will do a deal with you. And then we will break the deal. The deal fell apart because Donald Trump, as soon as the deal was signed by him, uh, in France, in Versailles, then started saying, well, aha, I'm going to open up my own route in the Strait of Hormuz. I wasn't able to achieve that during war. Yes. The MOU says Iran is responsible for administering the Strait of Hormuz, which most people would take to mean that Iran is responsible for coordinating with Oman and the travel. But Trump's like, I will interpret that as saying the U S controls the Strait of Hormuz. And Iran says, that's not, well, don't you think it would say that in the agreement, if that's what it was. And then the U S didn't do sanction relief that was promised to Iran, mocked what was in the agreement, promising Iran $300 billion. The U S then made a deal basically between Israel and Lebanon, which would give Israel de facto permanent control of major swaths of Lebanon, which undercuts the very first article of the Iranian MOU, which says Israel get out of Lebanon. It's not your country, but Israel's like under Netanyahu, it's our security zone. That's we're just calling it the securities. It's not your land. It's Lebanon's land. It's not, it's not yours. You can't just call it a security zone. And, and, and the destabilizing impact of all of this, of Trump and Netanyahu, it, it, it, it is, it is, is a sickening. And then the human impact. I don't want to, I don't want to ever lose sight of the fact that there is a genocide in Gaza and there are kids being killed to this day. There are children being killed. And what does Trump do? There's a ceasefire going on in Gaza. No, there isn't. No, there isn't all of Donald Trump's this, that, that it's just a framework for his own predatorial interests. That's all this is about. And then you've got these other weirdos in this regime. You have Sean Duffy, on Fox this morning with all of this going on with all of the chaos in the world right now going on, right? What is the transportation secretary focused on this morning? He's with his wife and his wife is a host of Fox also. And so he and his wife do the following on Fox this morning. I'm going to come back and give you my take on Sidney Sweeney's breast right after this break. All right. Welcome back to, uh, from the kitchen table. Um, Rachel, uh, decided to bring up a question about, uh, Sidney Sweeney's boobs. Yes. Um, and the end of wokeness. If we're honest, we go men appreciate women and men that appreciate women are not toxic. God made us a certain way to, uh, okay. And then what about Kelly Luffler, small business administrator? She hates small business. I mean, she married a billionaire. They hate small businesses in my opinion. Um, but what did, uh, what is Kelly Luffler? What, what's their initiative? Because small businesses are struggling right now with Trump's tariffs against the world here. Let's play this later. You got something else pretty exciting coming down. Small business administrators saluting small business in a major contest with some high profile judges. Tell me about it. The million dollar pitch competition is really amplifying the importance of small businesses across America. You think about 36 million small businesses, 98% of our manufacturers are small businesses. And so we're really excited to, uh, highlight their contribution to main street. This is what the Trump administration. Oh, I wouldn't want to want to, wouldn't want to want a competition. don't want a reality show competition of small business. I just help small businesses. Your job isn't a reality show. We don't want any of this. We don't want these wars. We don't want you aiding and abetting genocide. We don't want our money being wasted away on a military industrial complex that engages in war crimes. I thought we should have a robust military, but you wasted $1 trillion in the aggregate, $9 trillion or so. If you go back from even just the past several years in military spending to only run out of weapons, you can't fight the war with those massive military budgets. It's just enriching your oligarchs. That money can go to healthcare. That money can go to housing. That money can go to help feed people and lift people out of poverty. That money can go to actually support infrastructure. That money can do a lot of things. For the American people, but instead it's being flushed down the toilet for a military industrial complex that is not even able to, that can't go head to head with Iran. And now, because we lost a war we shouldn't have been involved in to Iran, now Trump just goes into the, we won. We controlled Australia. We did it. Moving on, Venezuela. Did you hear about the 65 billion barrel deal I did with Delcy Rodriguez? Did you all hear about that deal? The biggest oil deal in history. We're going to create the Trump state-owned oil company inside the Pentagon with all of our MAGA influencers who are secretly feds inside the Pentagon now. Apparently every right-wing MAGA influencer is like a secret fed, you know, the deep state they warned about. They are the deep state, actually, and they're not going to tell you that they actually are getting our taxpayer dollars. Maybe that's where some of that military industrial complex money is going, to their feds. Yeah, their feds. And this is what we're going to be focused on. What the hell is going on here? We're going to be the, because private business is not going in there because it's uninvestable, we're going to have the Pentagon launch a Trump oil company, but we're going to call everybody else communists, despite having a Trump oil company. That's going to work with Delcy Rodriguez. And that's how we're going to do it. A hundred years. And Delcy Rodriguez is like, it's 25 years. And Trump's like, it's a hundred years. And we're like, okay, where's this agreement? Where is it written down? Doesn't this require congressional authorization? Isn't this against every law here in the United States? And law, laws, don't be woke. Sidney Sweeney's breasts. That's what Duffy wants to talk about. Sidney Sweeney, are you a wokester? You are focused on things like this war in Iran where the US just killed people in a wedding today and killed more innocent people. Are you woke? It's like, dude, we're not woke. We just think you're weird for talking about Sidney Sweeney's breasts. Y'all are bringing up these issues. We're calling you fricking weirdos for bringing up these issues. Oh, you're woke. You're woke for you. I don't care. I really don't care about any of this stuff. All right. Your behavior is loser behavior. And I think we all, not out of being Democrats or this or that, if we're self-respecting people, if we care about our communities, if we care about this country, if we care about the world, we got to fricking get tough, people. We got to get fricking tough. And we got to just call this shit out. And we just, we can't normalize these weirdos. And it may make our lives difficult. It may intrude on our solitude or our peaceful and our tranquility that we have to call out these people. But there are sickos. There are demons amongst us. Seriously, these are demon, demented, vile creatures right now controlling the United States government. I don't view it even as a Republican. These people are inflicting pain on us because they're predators and they hate America and they hate you. They hate our military. They hate our service members. They hate our farmers. They hate our ranchers. They hate our lobstermen. They hate America. They hate it. How do you know? They think this is good. They think right. I'll give you the proof of it. They think this is the golden age. Right now, right here. They think this is their golden age, that this is the culmination of what we've all wanted right now. And they'll say things like, could you imagine what would have happened if Trump lost? It would have been so much worse. How? Truly, how? We're essentially in a world war right now. Everything is worse. Everything's more expensive. Everything. This is your mission accomplished moment. That's what they say. Mission accomplished. Yeah. Deep down, they hate themselves. Deep down, they hate everything. They're haters. They're haters. All right. Good audience today. 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