Ep. 2380 - Iran's Plan To Make You SIMP

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And then there are the liars who literally craft stories out of nothing in order to undermine America. And finally, there are the actual America haters who are often both cowards and liars, but really, really just despise America and her pursuit of our national interest in the world. That coalition is coming together, but it's not going to win because President Trump is going to win this war. But let's start with the cowards. These are the people who pretend that, you know, they didn't like the Iatola very much, but they're really, really upset that anything is done about it. So for example, they're really, really mad that international law, international law, the precious Google of the pseudo intellectuals has been somehow violated. Yes, if we don't have Myanmar's approval of a military strike on the Iatolas or China's, which, I mean, if there is one country, I need approval from it is China currently oppressing a billion people or Russia, which is currently engaged in an aggressive war of conquest in Ukraine while throwing to centers out of random third story balconies at hotels. I need Russia's approval. That's international law. And if we don't have their approval, the Mullahs must remain immune. Here, for example, is the pathetic Mark Karni of Canada. The current conflict is another example of the failure of the international order. Despite decades of UN Security Council resolutions, the tireless work of the international atomic energy agency in the succession of sanctions and diplomatic frameworks Iran's nuclear threat remains. And now the United States and Israel have acted without engaging the United Nations or consulting allies, including Canada. Who gives us? Who? Really? You guys can't even win a hockey match. But I love this stuff from my favorite part of that, I think, is where Mark Karni suggests. International, we've had decades of the IAEA being forwarded. We've had decades of UN resolutions being ignored. And now the United States and Israel won't even go to the UN. So you literally just said why they shouldn't. You explained why those organizations are trash and do nothing. And then he turns around as a guest, but if you don't go to Canada with its vast military prowess, currently, Mark Karni, by the way, is trying to sell out Canada to the Chinese government because he's mad at President Trump's tariffs. So if you don't go to Canada, to can't what for the are we dropping maple syrup on the Iranians right now? Is that the idea? Or it takes Zoran Mamdani who is happy to express support for terror supporters throughout his entire career? You know, I've said before that the Iranian government has engaged in systematic repression of its own people, even killing thousands of Iranians who were seeking to express the most basic forms of dissent earlier this year. It is a brutal government. And I've also said that while I may be a young mayor, I am old enough to remember the devastating consequences of our country pursuing a war with the intent of regime change in that very same region not that many years ago. By the way, the answer there should be yes. And even if you have questions about what comes next, the answer should be yes. Yes, Iran is better off without Ayatollah Khameinei. But according to Mamdani, the important thing is saying that the Ayatollah is bad, like really bad. But the minute anybody does anything, that is so much worse. We have to make sure that he stays in place because, you know, after all, the Iraq war. And again, this Iraq war syndrome nonsense that has been promoted by the left and then the horseshoe right together that every war is Iraq. Every single intervention is Iraq is so a historical and absurd. It is a historical. It is just, it is just, it is nincompupery. The president of the United States ran in 2015, 2016 on the platform that the Iraq war was bad, which was a controversial opinion inside the Republican Party at the time, lest people forget. The idea that he is now going to engage in a new long lasting occupation. Now, like the first three weeks of the Iraq war, where the United States kicked the living hell out of Sinan Hussein and ended his regime. But what came after? That was the part that went wrong, by the way. The first three weeks of the Iraq war was by every available metric, a win for the United States. It was what came after, that was a problem. Do you think that Trump is going to engage in bushing in neo-conservative nation building in Iran? Or actual thought at this point? But of course, this is the argument of the cowards and also the liars. Then they're the cowards who slander Israel in order to somehow imply that Israel is the bad guy in the conflict between Israel and Iran. So Gavin Newsom, who is absolutely slimy, I mean truly slimy, taking every position you could possibly take, as I've said before, the man takes more positions on politics than the Kama Sutra. Gavin Newsom, who in an interview with me, admitted freely that Israel had not committed genocide in Gaza. Now he goes on with the Podsave Bros. And he knows he has to please their Israel-hating asses. And so he immediately comes out and starts talking about how Israel is in apartheid state false. 20% of the Israeli population is Arab Muslim. They're on the Supreme Court. They are in the medical system. Huge percentage of Israeli doctors are Arab Muslim. They're in every area of Israeli society. It is not apartheid for Israel to actually have delegated certain parts of land, to for example the Palestinian Authority, a terror supporting group. But Gavin Newsom knows he has to mal the platitudes to his far left friends if he wants the nomination because the Democratic Party, Senator John Fetterman, said yesterday on the show is moving dramatically away from Israel. So here's Gavin Newsom telling lies and being a coward. He's got his own domestic issues. He's trying to stay out of jail. He's got an election coming up. He's potentially on the ropes. He's got folks the hard line that want to annex the West Bank. I mean, free men and others are talking about it appropriately, sort of in apartheid state. They couldn't even, I mean we're talking about regime change. For two years they haven't even able to solve the Hamas question. Rethinking our military support for Israel? It breaks my heart because the current leadership in Israel is walking us down that path. Where I don't think you have a choice but that consideration. I mean, to say this is an America's interest. At a time when affordability is at crisis levels where you had administration literally got elected saying this is exactly opposite of what they would ever consider doing. The fact that we are in this now regional war, all these proxies. He is a coward and he is a liar. My goodness. And the fact of the matter is that blaming it on Benjamin Netanyahu as the prime minister. There's complete solidarity in Israel from left to right on agreement on what Israel is doing right now. Yeah, Erol Lapid who is on the left, center left. He agrees with Netanyahu on this. Now, Tali Bennett, the chief rival to Netanyahu agrees on this. Even yet you're going on far, far far to the left. Can't openly say he disagrees with what's going on. So this is just nonsense. But again, when you are a coward and you are afraid of your own party, you have to start lying. You have to do the actual liars, the people who are making actual stories up out of nothing. Stories they know aren't true, but they push them anyway. So, the catastrophes who aren't actually worried about World War III or a longstanding boots on the ground occupation, but try to lie to Americans that they are Senator Richard Blumenthal who has had his own shady history with the truth. When it comes to his purported military service, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, he says, you know, he's worried that we're going to put boots on the ground now. Does he mean that there might be special operators on the ground? Because if we're talking about special operators on the ground, welcome to the real world where the United States has special operators on the ground all over the world everywhere from Asia to Africa to the Middle East. But that's not what he is implying. He is implying a gigantic airlift of hundreds of thousands of troops, gigantic boots on the ground footprint. It's again, it's a lie. It is untrue. And again, it's astonishing to watch this while he is wearing the American flag Ukraine flag pin on his lapel. I am more fearful than ever after this briefing that we may be putting boots on the ground. And that troops from the United States may be necessary to accomplish objectives that the administration seems to have, but I also am no more clear on what the priorities are going to be of the administration going forward. These are lies. It's not true. Senator Elizabeth Warren, directly from the Native American reservation from her T.P. She says that there is no plan. And she would know, because after all, she is a military leader and expert. I just left a classified briefing on Iran. And here's what I can say. It is so much worse than you thought. You are right to be worried. Trump administration has no plan in Iran. This illegal war is based on lies and it was launched without any imminent threat to our nation. Donald Trump still hasn't given a single clear reason for this war. And he seems to have no plan for how to end it either. Like a lot of you, I am really angry. I am angry at what Donald Trump is doing. And I feel grief for those already killed in this unnecessary conflict. And I will keep doing it. Oh my God. I am going to fight to end this war. What a liar she is. What a true liar. President Trump hasn't explained it. What's been happening for the past? You know, 50 years. This notion that no one knows why. It's a mystery. It came out of the blue. What happened here? No one believes that. No one. Or the idea that there's no plan here. As we'll get to in a little bit. Yeah, there actually is a plan here and the military is laying it out. The liars are going to lie that of course includes Jimmy Kimmel, the worst late night host. That's saying a lot because Stephen Colbert is still tragically on the air. Jimmy Kimmel, when's the last time this dude told a joke? Well, he says the president Trump launched this war to distract from Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah, that's sure. Sure, that must be it. It must be wagged the duck. All these people who pretend they know anything about foreign policy or politics. He's late night host who know nothing. He doesn't know his ass from a hole on the ground. I mean, like unbelievable stuff here from Jimmy Kimmel. He once watched a Robert's in your old movie, wagged the dog and now thinks that that's real life. Now here's Kimmel. Trump is suddenly all about toppling regimes, which is interesting because I remember time when the idea that a president would start a war because he couldn't make a deal was seen by some as a negative. Our president will start a war with a ran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective. Look at that. Another prediction he got right. That's no strict dumbasses. Done it again. Hey, you know what? When your best friend was a pedophile and you're losing big Lee in the swing states with an election coming up, what do you do? I'll tell you what you do. You fire the weapons of mass distraction. What an idiot. I mean, so much so much joking. Oh, the lies. Oh, the lies. Welcome to the America haters in a moment. First, quick reminder, please subscribe over a daily wire so that we can continue to bring you the kind of content you want. Obviously, our coverage of the war is continuing. It is live. It is all around the clock. We will bring you the scoops full time. Plus the commentary that you want all the debates about, all the hot issues, only available at daily wire. Right now, go check it out. We really appreciate it. We couldn't do this without your help. In a minute, we're going to get to the people who actually hate America, but you don't want people who hate America at your company. In fact, you just want the best people at your company. That's why you need zip recruiter. 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And now try it for free at zip recruiter.com/dailywire. That's zip recruiter.com/dailywire. Meet your match on zip recruiter. Finally, there are the America haters. We've talked about the cowards and the liars and then there are the people who really truly hate America. And yes, there are a lot of people who live in America who truly hate America. Now, there's an easy way to tell who hates America. They kind of say it. If you call America a terrorist organization for killing one of the world's most evil dictators, for example, I'm not a hate America. That doesn't seem that controversial to me. Call me crazy. But if you say that the United States is the worst terror organization in the world, you don't like America. Period. Because that is such an over-it lie. That is such a moral calumny that there can only be one explanation and it is your deep and abiding hatred for America's role in the world. So last night, I'm Pierce Morgan, which is the Jerry Springer of political television, where people gather to throw chairs at one another and determine paternity. Pierce Morgan, who has sort of made a mockery of the entire industry by putting on screen whatever drags are still willing to go on screen with Pierce Morgan. He had on Dave Smith, who has apparently his job is never to tell jokes, but to instead give poorly informed foreign policy takes. And also to hate America. Here we go. The IDF is the worst terrorist organization in the region. Let's get real. The United States of America is arguably the worst terrorist organization in the world. If you want to look over the last 25 years, how many innocent civilians we have slaughtered, you're getting us, you're getting us into the neo-con. Yeah, that's right. You're getting us into the neo-con seventh war. Well, Ben Ferguson rightly notes at that point that he might want to take down the American flag behind him. That is right. It doesn't matter. It turns out how many times you appear on Joe Rogan's show or how many times you're going to show or how many times you hide behind your title of comedian who holds the Guinness book of world records for fewest jokes told or how many times you spew pure aisle analogies that demonstrate nothing but unbelievable, willful ignorance of the nature of war. I'm sorry, but you hate the country. If you say America is the worst terrorist organization in the world, you just do to make that argument, you have to deliberately obscure the difference between actual terrorists who actually are seeking deliberately to kill innocent people in the name of politics. Not collateral damage deliberately seeking to kill innocent people and nation states who are seeking to avoid civilian casualties, often while fighting those actual terrorists, which of course is the point for people who hate America to reduce America to the level of its enemies in order to uphold those enemies. That is the goal. Now, I know that Dave Smith is super duper excited that his name was mentioned here and he's sitting there shouting at his TV screen in his basement, "Dubate me, bro!" To which I answer, "Nah. I don't debate with trolls who claim that America is the biggest terrorist state in the world because that is idiotic." I didn't debate the Lyndon LaRouche followers who sat in Harvard Square carrying anti-war cardboard signs back in the day, and I feel no necessity to debate, debate a completely intellectually dishonest interlockener who spends his days cribbing Noam Chomsky and then immediately retreats to his pose of ignorant comedian every time he is confronted with a fat. Dave Smith is the kind of fellow who says that Donald Trump should be in jail for life as a war criminal, legitimizes every single scourless figure on the internet from Nick Flentess to Candace Owens, and then demands that everyone treat him as though he is some sort of honest, worthy intellectual opponent. He's not. If you would like to hear a complete dismantling of Dave Smith, I highly recommend Coleman Hughes' interview with Smith over at the Free Press. Just go check that out, save yourself some time. And by the way, you also hate America if you claim that the president of the United States is merely a tool of foreign interest without any evidence whatsoever, like none. You are promoting lies directly mirroring those of the Iranian terrorist government in direct contravention of truth and of the Trump administration's own words. So Senator Jeff Markley, you never heard of him, he's a relevant Democrat from Oregon. Here he was suggesting that basically Israel is leading America around, meaning the Jews are leading Trump around like a leash, like a leash puppy. Is it, is a sender sitting in the United States Senate? My goodness. That is a profoundly disturbing explanation. First, Netanyahu came and asked for American support for in its Rayleigh action, indicating that they wouldn't be acting unless America supported it. So that just violates what Rubio just said, that somehow we didn't have any agency in this conversation. And in fact, think about this. What essentially he's saying is that Netanyahu was leading Trump around by a nose ring. This is like, basically, we're like, we're the puppy on the leash and Netanyahu yanks the leash and we have to act. That is, that is horrific. What's happened to this great United States of America that Netanyahu decides what we do and we have no influence over what Israel does? I don't take that explanation for a moment. Ridiculous or Jeffrey Sachs, frequent Tucker Carlson guest and Chinese frontman who apparently appears only on horse shoe right shows to explain that President Trump is actually a puppet of a, you know what? And then, Mr. Jeffrey Sachs were saying it out loud. All of his buddies who have monsoon say it, so Jeffrey Sachs has it for them. It had nothing to do with nuclear weapons all this time. The Iranians reached out constantly to negotiate and in 2015, they concluded an agreement with the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany, the P5 countries plus one, it's called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. And it put Iran strictly under UN supervision in the International Atomic Energy Agency, BB Netanyahu had a fit because he wanted to overthrow the government. He did not want peaceful relations with a non-nuclear Iran. So Donald Trump, who is a puppet of our CIA Mossad and Miriam Adelson in the rest, ripped up the JCPOA in 2018. Okay, Jeffrey Sachs, it should be noted is a world economic forum, globalist show, true globalist show. It believes thoroughly in China, which is why he is constantly a guest on all of the programs of all the people who really kind of despise the country. But by the way, again, this is a lie. He was president Trump being asked directly whether it was Israel who was leading him around here in his Trump's response. "Israel forced your hands to launch these strikes against Iran, did that go up with the whole United States into this war?" I mean, I might have forced their hand. You see, we were having negotiations with these lunatics and it was my opinion that they were going to attack first. They were going to attack. If we didn't do it, they were going to attack first. I felt strongly about that. We have great negotiators, great people, people to do this very successfully and have done it all their lives very successful. And based on the way the negotiation was going, I think they were going to attack first. Okay. Meanwhile, Marco Rubio, who, again, was taken out of context for the past 48 hours. I played you both clips yesterday of what Rubio actually said. Rubio actually said is that the Iranians were building hardened facilities for their ballistic missiles and nuclear and that over the course of the next year would be impossible to actually take out those facilities. And so that would likely cause Israel to launch some sort of strike and that that would drive some sort of action by Iran against American bases in the region. So those are two separate questions, the why and the why now. And that was immediately taken by truly dishonest people to suggest that actually it was Israel who forced the Trump administration into war. Here was Marco Rubio pointing out that everyone was lying yesterday. Dad, but I had a very specific question from that gentleman, right? The president said, well, no, I'm a second. I asked a very important Israeli question. Okay, but let me answer because this is my press conference. Okay. The, you asked me, I was asked a very specific question. So you guys can mirror up from this representative, but I was asked a very specific question yesterday. The bottom line is this. The president determined we were not going to get hit first. It's that simple, guys. We are not going to put Americans troops in harm's way. If you tell the president of the United States that if we don't go first, we're going to have more people killed and more people injured, the president's going to go first. That's what he did. That's what the president will always do. He will always put the safety and security or a men and women in uniform and of all Americans before anything else. He's always going to do that. And that's what he did here. In addition to that, I would argue that this threat from Iran, they are hiding behind these missiles and hiding behind these drones. They wanted to reach a point where you couldn't touch them and then they could do whatever the hell they wanted with their nuclear program. And there is no way in the world that this terrorist regime was going to get nuclear weapons not under Donald Trump's watch. And Rubio, by the way, happens to be correct about the missile stockpiles. We actually have a chart showing the Iranian missile stockpile versus US interceptor capacity and the basic idea here is that Iran was rapidly ramping up its missile supply in order to overcome the response capacity of allied nations in the region. So it was also asked by the press about the fact that they had cut up his statement here he was chastising them yesterday. Once the president made a decision that negotiations were not going to work, that they were playing us on the negotiations and that this was a threat that was untenable, the decision was made to strike them. That's what I said yesterday and you guys need to play it. And if you're going to play these statements, you need to play the whole statement, not slipping to reach an narrative that you want to do. All right. Now, he is right about all of that. Now, there are of course, again, for the 1,000th time legitimate questions to be asked about any military operation goals, costs, strategy, risks, all of that isn't just legitimate. It is necessary. So let's take one question that's been posed a lot by our listeners and others. Why don't we solve all our problems at home before solving any problems abroad? Very often this is expressed as what are we doing in Iran when we haven't deported all the illegals or why are we bombing Iran when we haven't paid for prescription drug coverage or something like that. Okay. This is sort of an intellectually dishonest question in a way because it's actually two questions that are weirdly linked. One is should we go after Iran? That's a yes or no question should the president do what he is doing and two does going after Iran somehow inhibit us from pursuing whatever other goal it is that you are standing. So for example, going after Iran, does that somehow inhibit us from doing deportations? Now when we ask the question like that, the answer has become a lot clearer because the essence of the federal government when it comes to national defense and domestic priorities is to walk and to gum at the same time. Should we go after Iran? That's a legitimate question. We've been dealing it with it all week. And again, I've been spending years explaining why Iran is a threat to the United States. This has been true for legitimately decades. I mean, decades, decades, decades. In fact, here is a man named Donald Trump in 1980 explaining why Iran is a threat. That they hold our hostages is just absolutely and totally ridiculous. That this country sits back and allows a country such as Iran to hold our hostages. To my way of thinking is a horror. And I don't think they do it with other countries. I honestly don't think they do it with other countries. Obviously you're advocating that we should have gone in there with troops, etc. and brought our boys out. Absolutely feel that. Yes. I don't think there's any question and there's no question in my mind. I think right now would be an oil rich nation. And I believe that we should have done it. And I'm very disappointed that we didn't do it. And I don't think anybody would have held us in a bane. I don't think anybody would have been angry with us. And we had every right to do it at the time. I think we've lost the opportunity. Donald Trump said that 46 years ago, 46 years ago, and he's making the same argument today. So then the question becomes, is somehow going into Iran inhibiting our ability to deport illegal immigrants or pay for health care or whatever else? The answer here is no. If you ask the borders are Tom Homan, whether the effort in Iran has somehow redeployed our border patrol to Iran or the Middle East, the answer is quite obviously no. DHS is not redeploying from Minneapolis to Iran. And this sort of ass-in-eye suggestion that all areas of the government are the same, it's sort of like saying that if you staff up the police to police crime in a city, are you somehow taking money away from your hospitals? And the answer is those are two or the police officers being redirected from the medical care they normally provide. What in the world, in fact, if you wish to have a secure country in the future, getting rid of regimes that support global terrorism is, in fact, an excellent way to help secure the homeland. And listen, if you're worried we're spending too much money on the operation in Iran, and that somehow we can't pay for our social welfare programs right now, let me remind you, we couldn't pay for them before and we are living on debt. So I really don't kind of want to hear from you if you have been making the argument to dramatically cut domestic spending before the attack on Iran. But now you find yourself tempted to argue that deploying our military to take out the world's leading terrorist regime is just too expensive. Now let me suggest why that is wildly disingenuous. Here is the reality. This war, this war will cost far less, far less because necessarily it will. It's going to be a lot shorter and a lot more contained. This war will cost a lot less than a rock in Afghanistan. And neither of those two was the major driver of our debt. According to the Defense Department and Congressional Research Service, the United States spent roughly 1.6 trillion to 2.1 trillion on a rock in Afghanistan. During that exact same period, we spent over $18 trillion on social security, $15 trillion on Medicare and Medicaid, trillions more on social welfare programs like SNAP. If you want to make the argument, the action in Iran is not in our national interest and go ahead and make the argument. But people who are suggesting that this is a spending problem with new reality, they just don't like the action against Iran. That's a misdirect. So what comes next? Well, the president explained the state of play this morning. What was the president had to say? "They have no Navy, it's been knocked out. They have no Air Force, it's been knocked out. They have no Air Detection, it's been knocked out. Their radar has been knocked out. And just about everything's been knocked out. They're going to be in for a lot of hurt. These are bad people. These are people that killed. I guess it's 35,000. It's coming out 35,000 over the last three weeks. Protesters. 35,000 violently killed. So these are bad people and the leader of the pack is gone. And as you know, 49 people were taken out in the first hit. And I guess there was another hit today on the new leadership and it looks like that was pretty substantial also. So yes, actually the United States and Israeli militaries are doing extraordinary work. Meanwhile, Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War, he said Iranian Air Force is trash, which, by the way, first actual kind of dog fight between a plane from the Iranian Air Force and in Israeli F-35, I will let you guess who won that. Spoiler alert, it was not the Iranian Air Force. Here's Pete Hegseth explaining the Iranian Navy is in trouble, the Iranian Air Force is basically by planes at this point. Here he is. Iran's senior leaders are dead. The so-called governing council that might have selected a successor, dead, missing or cowering in bunkers too terrified to even occupy the same room. Senior generals, mid-level officers and listed ranks, they can't talk or communicate let alone mount a coordinated and sustained offensive. That's not great for morale. The Iranian Air Force is no more built for 1996, destroyed in 2026. The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. That ineffective, decimated, destroyed, defeated, pick your adjective. In fact last night, we sunk their prize ship, the Soleimani. Looks like POTUS got him twice. Their Navy not a factor, pick your adjective, it is no more. Again, they've been declaring, yeah, RGC, that they shut the Straits of Hormuz, that's not true. In fact, it is so not true that the President of the United States is actually offering to ensure shipping going through the Straits of Hormuz, just to get the shipping going, again, he put out a statement on truth social about that yesterday, he said effective immediately. I've ordered the United States development finance corporation to provide at a very reasonable price, political risk insurance and guarantees for the financial security of all maritime trade, especially energy traveling through the Gulf. This will be available to all shipping lines, if necessary, the US Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Straits of Hormuz as soon as possible. No matter what, the United States will ensure the free flow of energy to the world. The United States economic and military might as the greatest unearthmore actions come. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Again, that is a good move. That's a good move by the President because again, there are a lot of people who are worried by the Iranian propaganda, he's saying, listen, we're willing to put our money where our mouth is. And that is right. Meanwhile, Hegseth says that very, very soon, there will be complete control of this guy's effectively, there already is. The United States has been flying, not B2s, which is a stealth aircraft, B52s, which are just gigantic, gigantic planes that don't move all that fast. They're kind of like passenger airliners. They move like 650 miles an hour. The flying nose over Iran right now is basically a blimp in the sky and nobody can touch it. Here's Hegseth this morning. Starting last night and to be completed in a few days, in under a week, the two most powerful air forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies, uncontested airspace. I hope all the folks watching understand what uncontested airspace and complete control means. It means we will fly all day, all night, day and night, finding, fixing and finishing the missiles and defense industrial base of the Iranian military. Finding and fixing their leaders and their military leaders. Flying over to Iran, flying over Iran, flying over their capital, flying over the RGC, Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only US and Israeli air power. That is right. Hegseth also pointed out that actually the IRGC, Special Operations Commander, who was in charge of trying to kill President Trump in 2024. And yes, there was an assassination attempt on President Ratchie. Two separate assassination attempts on Trump that were in the planning stages when those Iranian agents were arrested. Well, here is Peter Hegseth saying that the guy who is behind all of that is now dead. We've known for a long time that Iran had intentions on trying to kill President Trump and or other US officials. And while that was not the focus of the effort by any stretch of the imagination, in fact, never raised by the President or anybody else, I insured and others insured that those who were responsible for that were eventually part of the target list. It wasn't the beginning of the effort focused on missiles and launchers, and that's the focus. But ultimately, if we had the opportunity to get at those who are trying to get at Americans specifically, we would. And so we eventually had the opportunity to do that from the air. That person says, "Rachman Mokitam, who is head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Special Operations Division." As far as status of the war, US and Commandor Admiral Brad Cooper explains the status of the operation. More than 50,000 troops, 200 fighters, two aircraft carriers, and bombers from the United States are participating in this operation, and more capabilities on the way. These forces bring a massive amount of firepower, representing the largest buildup by the US in the Middle East in a generation. In the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury, US Central Command Forces, together with Israel, delivered overwhelming and unprecedented strikes into Iran. Many of you may remember the shock and awe strikes of 2003. The first 24 hours of this operation were nearly double the scale, and we continue with 24/7 strikes into Iran from sea bed to space and cyberspace. Now we're less than 100 hours into this operation, and we've already struck nearly 2,000 targets with more than 2,000 munitions. We have severely degraded Iran's air defenses and destroyed hundreds of Iran's ballistic missiles, launchers and drones. And in simple terms, we're focused on shooting all the things that can shoot at us. Our B-2 bombers and B-1 bombers have executed uncontested surgical strikes against multiple missile facilities deep inside Iran, and then just last night, a B-52 bomber force struck ballistic missile and command control posts. We are also sinking the Iranian Navy, the entire Navy. Thus far, we've destroyed 17 Iranian ships, including the most operational Iranian submarine that now has a hole in its side. For decades, the Iranian regime has harassed international shipping. Today, there's not a single Iranian ship underway in the Arabian Gulf, straight of more moves, or Gulf of Oman, and we will not stop. Well, that's a pretty good synopsis of where we are. By the way, it's just the beginning. Secretary of State Marco Rubio yesterday, he dropped a phrase that has a storied history with Trogs playing in a moment. He said that we are about to unleash Chang on Iran. There's a lot more to come. I'll explain what the hell he's talking about because it's actually really funny. What's about to, you know, you're about to see, you know, we're going to unleash Chang on these people in the next few hours and days. You're going to really begin to perceive a change in the scope and in the intensity of these attacks. Frankly, the two most powerful air forces in the world take apart this terroristic regime and defang it and take away its ability to threaten its neighbors. We're hide behind a zone of immunity that allows them to develop their nuclear ambitions. So this is legitimately hilarious. When he says the only Chang, you know what that means. Okay. So if you go back to the 50s, when China had been taken over by Mao and Shanghai Shaq had moved over to Taiwan, there was a conservative point of view that we should allow and fund the reinvation of China from Taiwan. So that was the only Chang. Hey, that became a sort of meme pushed by George H. W. Bush when he was president of the United States, apparently when he was playing tennis or I guess this is even, you know, when he was VP, when he was playing tennis and he had a really weak serve, he would yell unleash Chang before hitting the serve. And that was then picked up by Jabb, exclamation point jab former governor of Florida, who would use that phrase all the time, only Chang. And when he was the governor of Florida and Marco Rubio was the senator from Florida, he gave him a sword that he called Chang and he described Chang as a mythical conservative warrior. So that's where only Chang comes from. Okay, it's a little funny. Just admit it is funny. And meanwhile, the Iranians are basically relegated to firing the salt to read ballistic missile attacks, most of which are being shot down and drones. So they are firing successfully. Some drones are able to escape some missile defense systems because they move so slowly. Some of them are moving so slowly that people actually in the radar centers think they're birds or other aerial objects. And so here was a some footage of the US consulate in Dubai, which was hit by an Iranian drum. There was no one there at the time. How do you know that Iran is really losing his Qatar has turned so Qatar, which has always played the sort of middle ground between the United States and Iran. Well, now they are turning on the IRGC and actually arresting members of the IRGC in Qatar. Remember, this is the country that housed Hamas. And suspects, according to Al Jazeera, were arrested in these terror cells, according to Qatar news agencies. Seven had been assigned to spy on vital and military facilities in Qatar. Three were tasked with carrying out sabotage operations. Hardest hit, Tucker Carlson, who of course has been standing for for the Iatolese now, his friends in Qatar for whom he has been running interference. They're a greatest ally. Of course, well, now they're actually acting like allies and arresting members of the IRGC. The desperate counter arguments right now that Iran somehow is going to pull off some sort of military miracle here, being led by the repulsive at Changweiger, who says, quote, "Iranian drones cost $35,000. Our missiles to intercept them cost between $500,000 and $4 million. Uh-oh. They have tons of drones who we are starting to run low on fat and patriot missiles. We spent 25% of them defending Israel in June. And then, of course, he calls out Glenn Greenwald, who is most famous for sucking the toes of male prostitutes and wearing bizarre lingerie and then taping it. But in any case, Changweiger, he is making a point that it happens not to be true. The vast majority of Iranian drones are not being shot down by fat. That is the terminal high altitude area defense or patriot batteries, but actual American and Israeli aircraft. At 15s and F-16s, for example, shot down more than 80 drones in one night in April 2024 when Iran attacked Israel. F-35s, F-A-18s do the same thing. Pilots are generally using 70 millimeter laser-guided rockets, which cost about 25 grand about the same as one of the drones. And you know who's going to run out of $25,000 iterations more? And faster, the US or the Piss-Pour Iranians, we have a lot of $25,000 missiles that we can spend, like munitions that we can spend, actually. If we get into spending more with Iran, Iran don't have no money. It is a problem for them. They can manufacture a lot of drones and we can shoot down. A lot of drones, plus, they're not going to have a command and control center to even deploy drones in the very near future. President Trump put out a statement on truth social quote, "The United States munitions stockpiles have at the medium and upper medium grade, never been higher or better. As was stated to me today, we have a virtually unlimited supply of these weapons. Wars can be fought forever and very successfully using just these supplies, which are better than other countries finest arms. At the highest end, we have a good supply, but not where we want to be. Much additional hybrid weaponry is stored for us in outlined countries. Pleapy Joe Biden spent all of his time in our country's money giving everything to PT Barnum's lensky of Ukraine hundreds of billions of dollars worth. And while he gave so much of the super high end away for free, he didn't bother to replace. Unfortunately, I rebuilt the military in my first term and continued to do so. The United States is stocked and ready to win big. So, while I disagree with his characterization of Ukraine and Zalensky, the reality is that we do have significant stockpiles and again, the munitions we are using to shoot down the drones that is not actually the fat and patriots for the most part. Now, President Trump is also making the point that the Iranians are running out of missile launchers. It's a major issue for the Iranians. So, the Iranian pace of fire has slowed dramatically in terms of their ballistic missile launches. Why? Well, because they're basically trying to drip and drop their way to exhausting the Americans. If they fire all their missile launchers, they're toast and they know this. So instead of shooting off hundreds at one time, which are then immediately destroyed by the United States and the Israelis, instead, they're firing off two, three at a time, hoping to basically make it last like a kid eating a cookie really, really slowly. So, President Trump says that defense companies are under emergency orders. We're making it fast. We have unlimited as stupid as former President Joe Biden was. He didn't use it. So, again, the status is pretty good. Things are moving pretty well. So, what is coming next for the Iranians? Well, apparently they are planning to name Ali Khameenaiz Sun, Mosh Taba, Iran's new Supreme Leader, which is pretty amazing, pretty amazing. So, their move is not to select someone who might be more moderate to negotiate with the Americans. Instead, they're selecting someone who apparently is even crazier than his dad. And we'll see how that works out for them. The Israelis have already said that dude's on the target list. Unsurprising. So, one of the games that the coalition of scavengers is playing here with regards to President Trump, the people who are the liars and the cowards and the people who just don't like America very much is that somehow President Trump, what he's doing right now is wildly unpopular with the American people. Okay, let's start with the Republicans. You've seen a ton of headlines, many, many headlines. The war inside the Republican Party and then it's the same people who are always cited. The same clown crew. The same clown car. The same exact people always. It's Tucker Carlson, it is Megan Kelly, it is Candace Owens, it's the same group of people, always and forever. How many Republicans do they actually represent? Well, fortunately, we have numbers on this. According to CBS News, 85% of Republicans support the president's strikes on Iran. According to Fox News, 84% of Republicans support the strikes on Iran. According to the Washington Post, 81% of Republicans support the strike on Iran. According to Reuters' Ipsos, 82% of Republicans support the strikes on Iran. So it doesn't sound like a gigantic split inside the Republican Party, actually. It just sounds like a bunch of podcasts host or programming it into the algorithm. And that's the most, I would say, generous view of what they are doing. Well, how are people feeling about the midterms right now? There's about 50/50 split. There's pre-Aran strike, Harvard Harris said there's a 50/50 split on the midterms. So it's not clear Republicans are going to get shalacked. Obviously, it's an off-year election. The chances are Republicans don't do great economic issues are the main voter concerns. At the same time, 53% trust president Trump to manage the economy and there's large scale support for Trump's policy proposals at the state of the union. Now how about, again, the impact of the war? Well, according to this new CBS poll, asked whether they approve or disapprove of the actual military operation. The question is answered by the duration of the war. I told you this. I said this. Americans don't mind short military actions that are successful. They don't like long, long military actions that are unsuccessful. So if it lasts days or weeks, days or weeks, which is what it's going to last, it's not going to be a months-long thing. It certainly will not be a year's long thing. Days or weeks, 76% approval rating. That's not Republicans. It's all Americans, 76% approval rating if the conflict last days or weeks, 24% is approval rating. So this idea, this is sinking Trump. American people can't stand it. They're at their breaking point. It's nonsense. It's not true. If it lasts for months, there's still 46% approval rating. Hey, not month, like five weeks, like months. That's if it lasts for two months, three months, four months. Hey, then it has a 54% is approval rating. Years, obviously, 87% is approval rating. So the question is completely reliant as Ben Domenic, our opinion editor said yesterday. Just another reason you should go subscribe over at Daily Wire because he's ahead of the game. It turns out that if this is a short, successful war, Americans like it. And if it is a long, unsuccessful war, then Americans don't like it. I know. Crazy talk. Utterly predictable, obviously. As far as a general approval of the current US military action against Iran, approve or disapprove net approval in the GOP, according to Fox News, 68% that is net. That's not 68% approved. That is the gap between approved and disapprove. That means it's like 84 to 16. If I am doing my mental math correctly here. Among a wide variety of groups, it is overwater that includes white voters, people with no degree, people aged over 45 men, white evangelicals, Catholics, Protestants, rural voters, union households, and remember all these people out there who are saying they speak for the military household. They speak for the military, right? These are the people who say, no foreign wars, American boys and girls are going to die in the military household, approve of the current action against Iran by a 20 point margin, meaning 60, 40 they approve. That's military household. And one of the great ironies of all the people on the left and the horseshoe right who claim to speak in the name of the military is that they very rarely actually talk to people who are in the military. It turns out the military is quite conservative in hawkish when it comes to actual effectuation of American foreign policy. Okay, so that's part of the electoral story. And then you get to the midterms. Okay, so yesterday there was some big primaries over in Texas. There was a Texas Senate primary. It faced John Corn in the incumbent senator from Texas against Ken Paxson. Ken Paxson is the attorney general of Texas and Wesley Hunt, congressman. And the way that it works in Texas is that if you do not get 50% in a primary, then you have to run in a runoff. So worst case scenario seems to be materializing for the Republicans. Republicans don't want in Texas and maybe it won't matter because James Talleriko will get to in a moment on the other side is very, very, very much to the left. However, if you were to game this out, the worst case scenario for Republicans, the riskiest, shall we say, scenario, electorally for Republicans is Ken Paxson versus James Talleriko. That is the that is the most risky scenario. So in the primaries last night, Corn and slightly like very, very, very slightly be Ken Paxson, 42% to 41%. Wesley Hunt came in at 13.5%. Unclear if Hunt is going to turn around and endorse Paxson or something. Meanwhile, Talleriko beat Jasmine Crockett, who I think performed shockingly well for a person who probably should be in a psych ward somewhere. So Jasmine Crockett won 46% of the Democrat vote. Talleriko, who is again, the new Beto Oakruz, the the darling of the late night talk show hosts and some of the coastal donors, he won 53% of the vote. So Talleriko got a majority. That means he's the nominee. And meanwhile, Republicans are going to have a runoff, which means that that Corn and Paxson are going to be the living hell out of each other. And Talleriko is going to sit there and just wait for whatever happens next. Now normally that would be great for Talleriko. However, there is a lot of tape of Talleriko coming out demonstrating that he is indeed far to left for the Texas population. So Talleriko, here's Talleriko on economics. He says that the reason rich people exist is because they are taking money from poor people, which is I'm just so ignorant. The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on earth is not because we can't feed the poor. It's because we can't satisfy the rich. Elon Musk is about to become the first trillionaire. He's about to make more money than every elementary school teacher in America combined. Do we really believe one man is worth more than every elementary school teacher? Why do we have a trillionaire when there are kids without enough to eat? Why do we have a trillionaire when cancer patients are going bankrupt? Why do we have a trillionaire when veterans are sleeping out on the street? I'm all for success, but this is not success. This is hoarding. What the hell? Elon Musk is not only enriching an enormous number of people and also basically running our space program at this point. This notion that rich people get rich by somehow taking from the poor, that is a very feudal motion. That is going back to middle ages England basically. Rich people do not get rich by taking things from the floor. Rich people get rich by providing better goods and services to tons of people who want them. That's how they get rich. But again, that is the least of the Tallahuretko radical left sins. A clip has now emerged of Tallahuretko arguing that God is non-binary. Yes, he's gender non-binary as it turns out. My favorite part when Democrats like Pete Buttigieg or Tallahuretko talk about God is insane. They can't just shut up about God, which would be the smart move. They start talking about God as though God is a rainbow-haired lesbian. Why? It's bizarre a world. Why you have. No one's making you do this, dude. But here he was. The first two lines of the Bible, the first two lines in Genesis, use two different Hebrew words to describe God. One is the masculine Hebrew noun for divinity. The second is the feminine Hebrew noun for spirit. God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non-binary. What in the world? What in the world? I think using gender categories for God is a real weird move there, and no one's making you do it, except that again, this is part of Tallahuretko's entirely weird recapitulation of religion. Tallahuretko, by the way, also says the border should be welcoming. Maybe the Republicans are overconfident in Texas because they're running against how do duty over here. LGBTQ+ minus divided by sign advocate how do you duty who has a very weird take on the Bible? Here we go. Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front. Then of course, after declaring God is non-binary, he says America is not a Christian nation. Here he was. I guess Texas, I suppose, might vote for him, but I don't really see why. America is not a Christian nation. It is a nation where you are free to be a Christian or any of those other faiths or no faiths that are. I mean, of course you're free to be any of those things. I'm a Jew. I'm pretty happy that I get to be a Jew in the United States. Pretty great. But to suggest that America is not historically a Christian nation is also ignorant and silly. So we'll text this move in this direction. I have some doubts. I have some doubts. Alrighty, guys, coming up. The show continues for our members. We have a lot more that is coming for you. Much more material. Some of it's spicy, but you have to be a member. Use Coach Appira, check out for two months free on all the annual plans. 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