The transcript highlights a critical global and domestic crisis, centered on political instability, economic sabotage, and eroding trust. Wise is presented as a smart financial tool that enables global money management through transparent exchange rates, countering deceptive practices by some providers. Protests across the U.S. against the Trump administration are described as widespread, with demonstrators challenging authoritarian rhetoric and policy failures. A major focus is on allegations that Trump and Elon Musk are intentionally undermining Ukraine’s military communications by restricting Starlink functionality, potentially weakening its defense capabilities. Meanwhile, Iran intensifies attacks on shipping in strategic waterways, with reports of multiple tanker destroyings and possible underreporting. Russia is also deepening ties with Iran, signaling a shift in geopolitical alignment. The narrative critiques false claims about drug trafficking and political leadership, asserting that drug flows have increased, not decreased. In response, Canada is promoting self-reliance, with citizens choosing local goods and services to build economic resilience. The broader message is one of resistance to authoritarianism, distrust in U.S. leadership, and a call for global trust, transparency, and independence. A book titled *WTF America* is promoted as a guide to understanding and overcoming the current political dysfunction.
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Marching past the golden gilded statues. That's what Donald Trump's been focused on while ripping away your health care and as diesel and gas prices surge to record highs, let's play this clip. Meanwhile, you have the Trump regime releasing this propaganda footage of JD Vance, who interviewed with the former press secretary who lasted slightly longer than the latest former press secretary Katie Zakaria. The former press secretary Sean Spicer did a slightly better job than Zakaria, although they're both putrid individuals and JD Vance and you know a reporter will come to me and say can you believe that Donald Trump said this? And then I'll watch it and I'll be like it's amazing what Donald Trump said and you're not even accurately representing what he said. No, this is what the American people want folks. These bootlickers are sickos. Watch JD Vance right here. One of the most vile things that exists here. Play this clip. A number of people that I've spoken to about politics where some reporter will come and say, well, Donald Trump said this terrible thing. Do you disavow it? And then I'll go and look at what he said. I'll be like actually not only do I disavow it, you're lying about what he said and not not only do I not disavow it, you're lying about what he said. And what he actually said is totally correct. It's a hundred percent right. Then he goes on to say Joe Biden bad Donald Trump good and here in the United States, you know, the presidency actually has more power than dictators abroad. This is what JD Vance is saying. It's not the way our system is supposed to work and we're seeing when the power is in the hands of an absolute lunatic maniac, demented, idiot, bankrupter, sex predator. It's also a felon. This is what is happening as our country is being destroyed. Our reputation is fully shattered. But okay, JD Vance, mention Joe Biden because that's all you got Joe Biden bad. You know, when Joe Biden was president, I didn't think about Potash from Belarus. I didn't have to count the tankers in these straight of hormones. I didn't think about, oh, are they going to do a Russian diesel deal because our strategic petroleum reserves are empty. I didn't have to think about, oh, what's the 10, 20, 30 year treasury yield? Those were things on people's minds. And you used the fact that that wasn't on people's minds to sow your discord and disinformation and lies and division. Here's JD Vance so much power in our government. He says, playing this clip in a way so much of the power in our government does flow through the president of the United States. It's a very different. It's actually funny where sometimes, you know, you'll interact with leaders from the PRC or from Russia, where these places that I think the American people think of as these dictatorships. And the reality is that those systems, well, yes, they're dictatorial in terms of electoral power. They don't have real elections. Man, they are so bureaucratic. Decisions get made very slowly in some of these countries. Whereas in the administration, again, when you're Joe Biden is the president, that's bad thing. Donald Trump is the president. That's that's a good thing. But fundamentally, the president just has a lot of authority. Oaks, the latest also of Donald Trump and Musk and the Trump regime's attacks on Zelensky. Here's what we learned this morning. Christopher Miller at the Financial Times, who's been doing a very good job reporting on all things Ukraine. Here's what he reported. Zelensky tells reporters over what's app that restrictions on Ukraine's starling systems remain. Interceptor drones can't function. Logistics and operations are hobbled. The maximum speed that drones can travel that are linked up to starlink and star shield is about 161 kilometers per hour. And exceeding this limit causes the starling connection to cut out completely, resulting in the loss of the drone. Why would they pick 161 kilometer per hour's Trump and Musk with star shield and starlink? That's how fast the drones go. So it effectively destroys the drones, but it sounds like it's a high number. Zelensky says that Ukraine has done tests to determine whether SpaceX is truly facing technical issues. That's what's impacting it. As that's what's been told to keep by Trump and Musk, or if this is a deliberate operation, to restrict Ukraine from using drones and drone interceptors. And so when Ukraine did this test, the drones and drone interceptors worked perfectly fine in Europe. They just don't work in Ukraine and Russia because it's been throttled and capped by Trump and Musk who want to force a Ukrainian surrender. I mean, here's the, here's the gist of all of this. Putin wants to attack all of the power plants, the full power grid, and force the surrender immediately. Putin wants 90 percent of the hydrothermal plants, substations, boiler houses, and infrastructure linked to nuclear plants and others destroyed. He wants total blackout in Kiev and Karkev and Odessa and Zeprecia and all the main cities. And that's the goal. And it is to leave Ukraine defenseless right here. Last night, around 9 p.m. on Friday, the Trump regime issued an executive order, as I talked about this morning, implementing the Lindsey Graham sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, the purpose of the act to put massive sanctions on Russia and anyone who does business with Russia. What did the Trump regime's executive order do? I am hereby waving the application of such sanctions, restrictions, and duties provided for in the Graham Act. I'm waving the sanctions, and then Trump says, and I'm doing business with Russia. We're going to do a lot of deals together. So the act is to sanction Russia, Trump waves the sanctions by executive order, and then he does the diesel deal and other deals with Russia. I mean, you have Carill Dimitriov, Russia's envoy to the United States, who's the head of their sovereign wealth fund. Here's what he's been saying, this is what he said this morning. There is a whole range of economic and investment projects now being discussed with the American side that will be implemented. The diesel deal is just one of these projects, and it is extremely important not only for the United States, but for the entire world. We will continue because it's not just uranium that supplied to the United States. We need to supply more fertilizers, aluminum, and rare earth metals. Our list of projects being discussed with the American side also includes various projects in the Arctic, energy projects, LNG projects, and other areas. That's what the Trump regime is focused on right now. Notably, guess who's going to meet with the GCC, and also with Iran in the next day. Yes, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the Gulf Cooperation Council, consists of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov is en route to Manama, Bahrain, to participate in the GCC Russia Strategic Dialogue. He's then scheduled to visit Tehran on Monday, October 19th, for talks with his Iranian counterpart, Farhan Minister Arajji. So think about it. Donald Trump says, "Oh, we're going to make Iran surrender. We're going to make Iran surrender." Then Trump does all the deals with Russia who meets with Iran. It's possible that some of the diesel that Russia may or may not provide to the United States actually comes from Iran. And Russia is one of the main strategic partners with Iran. Also, the other main strategic partner with Iran is China. Overnight, and into this morning, Iran has struck at least three more tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and the region by Gulf of Oman as well. So the Strait, Iran's also striking these tankers in the Gulf of Oman, as I reported before, there was one additional tanker last night. So there have been two more tankers since the video I released.
20 minutes ago. Just think about that. Two more tankers since that video. And as I noted, on the lowest of the low end, Iran has struck 35 tankers since the beginning of October. But because the UK MTO says, and I've agreed with this, the majority of tankers that are damaged and disabled and destroyed by Iran are not reporting as such to the UK MTO, it's possible the number is actually more like 60 tankers have been destroyed. Maybe 75 or 80 tankers have been destroyed in the strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman since October over the past 17 days. Iran is as I'm doing this video, launching multiple missile and drones at the strait of Hormuz, now at Bander Abbas and Syrac. There is a US Navy destroyer kind of close to Pakistan right now that I'm paying attention to. That's part of the USS George Washington carrier strike group. See what's going on over there. But let me just show you, IRGC said this super tanker carrying two million barrels was destroyed play this clip. The IRGC then said this other super tanker was destroyed play this clip. And here's another video of another tanker that was hit this morning, making three vessels in the past say 12 hours or so. Here let's play this clip. You know, Zelinsky's also just said this morning, European countries are rapidly trying to develop an alternative to Starlink because they can see that Trump and Musk put up. He'll switch on it. This is why people don't want to buy weapons from the United States anymore. If you could buy an F-35 or a Gripen from Sweden, who are you going to buy it from? The Trump regime's going to leverage the maintenance and the parts that are required for repairs in order to course. So the question is, regardless of what you think is a better jet, I know a lot of our European and viewers from Sweden will tell you the Gripen's definitely a better jet. I mean, look what they're doing over there. You know, look, you have that debate. Lots of people come on. It's the F-35. Regardless, do you want jets and equipment with kill switches like Trump and Musk are doing with Starlink or do you want reliable and dependable and predictable and honest, trustworthy counterparts? And this is Prime Minister Karnie's pitch. I've been doing a lot of videos on Karnie. What he'll say, first I believe he's the leader of the free world now, shout out Maple Midas. But what he'll say is, we have a commodity here. That's the most important thing right now in the world. It's trust. People trust us. And that's why Canon has been able to have free trade agreements that it's expanded with 1.5 billion people throughout the world. This is what Karnie said during an interview this morning on the Relax podcast or the relay podcast here. Play this clip. Canada in a way that really wouldn't have made sense at everything been going well with the United States. I think it's not about me. It goes more fundamentally. Across this country, the attitude, and I've seen it over the course of last 18 months, you would feel it as well. The attitude is at the start, it was shock and anger in terms of what the U.S. was doing to us, given the historic relation. The U.S. administration was doing to us. And then really moving on, rolling up the sleeves, what can we do for ourselves? I mean, the thing that I, the way I put it is we've got to take take care of ourselves and we always take care of each other. That's what we are as Canadians. We stand up for ourselves. We can give ourselves more than anyone else can take away. And you look at what Canadians have decided to do. Yes, part of its buying Alberta, buying Alberta whiskey, right, instead of Kentucky bourbon. Part of it said, I'll go for a whole days in the Rockies instead of going to Vegas. I'll use Canadian suppliers. And you said you were going to talk about the U. Also is like, well, where else in the world can I trade instead of going north, south? Why don't I go east and why don't I go west and build more independence, more options for myself as a business. And meanwhile, you have JD Vance spewing his nonsense, you know, if a kid goes to the playground under Biden, they would see candy and it would be fentanyl. And we stopped the fentanyl candy. Let's, let's, let's talk facts. Just so you know, y'all are promoting the dictators and y'all are promoting the puppets and stooges in South America, who are responsible for the drugs getting into the United States at the highest level. It's actually, when we talk about drugs, there's actually more drugs getting in right now, not less drugs getting into the United States. There have been just changing tactics of how drugs are getting in. So you don't, you guys just like lot, I mean, just everything they say lie after lie after lie. But up, but okay, JD, hear and play this clip, condition that if if a kid goes to a playground and they see a piece of candy, it's not going to be a piece of fentanyl that was imported by the Mexican drug cartels because that was one of the craziest things we saw during the Biden administration. It's kind of easy to forget that one of the ways these cartels were importing these drugs is by masking them as children's candy. Now folks, I'll be at a no Kings protest today. Hopefully I see some of you there. And we'll keep you posted every step of the way. Appreciate you. Grateful for you. Oh, the book is out. WTF America is out. Well, that's out on Tuesday. It's less than one Katie Zakaria away. So order your copy right now. WTF America. It'll arrive the day it's released on Tuesday. Put in the comments if you got it. Can you recommend it to other people as well? WTF America the way out of this hell and back to democracy. Thanks. Appreciate you. 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Wise offers transparent, fee-free currency management with exchange rates matching those seen on Google, helping users avoid hidden fees.
The U.S. is facing widespread protests against the Trump administration, with demonstrators marching in cities like Washington, D.C., criticizing policies and leadership.
JD Vance and Trump's rhetoric falsely portrays Biden's administration as weak, while downplaying real issues like supply chain disruptions and rising energy costs.
Allegations suggest Trump and Elon Musk are deliberately sabotaging Ukraine’s Starlink systems, impairing drone operations and military effectiveness.
Russia and Iran are expanding strategic cooperation, with Russia meeting Iran and discussing energy deals amid increased attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran has reportedly destroyed multiple tankers in the Gulf of Oman and Strait of Hormuz, with experts suggesting the actual number may be significantly higher due to underreporting.
Canada is strengthening domestic trade and independence, promoting trust, local products, and regional alternatives as a response to U.S. instability and distrust.
The documentary and commentary critique false narratives about drug trafficking, emphasizing that drug flows have increased, not decreased, due to evolving tactics.
Summary:
The transcript highlights a critical global and domestic crisis, centered on political instability, economic sabotage, and eroding trust. Wise is presented as a smart financial tool that enables global money management through transparent exchange rates, countering deceptive practices by some providers. S.
against the Trump administration are described as widespread, with demonstrators challenging authoritarian rhetoric and policy failures. A major focus is on allegations that Trump and Elon Musk are intentionally undermining Ukraine’s military communications by restricting Starlink functionality, potentially weakening its defense capabilities. Meanwhile, Iran intensifies attacks on shipping in strategic waterways, with reports of multiple tanker destroyings and possible underreporting.
Russia is also deepening ties with Iran, signaling a shift in geopolitical alignment. The narrative critiques false claims about drug trafficking and political leadership, asserting that drug flows have increased, not decreased. In response, Canada is promoting self-reliance, with citizens choosing local goods and services to build economic resilience.
S. leadership, and a call for global trust, transparency, and independence. A book titled *WTF America* is promoted as a guide to understanding and overcoming the current political dysfunction.
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Wise is a platform that helps users send, spend, and receive money in over 40 currencies. It offers transparent exchange rates similar to what you'd see on Google, helping users avoid hidden fees and save money on overseas transfers.
Some providers claim no fees but hide additional costs like exchange rate spreads. Wise avoids this by offering fair, transparent rates that match standard market rates, ensuring users aren't overcharged.
Ukrainian officials report that Starlink-connected drones lose functionality at speeds above 161 km/h, leading to drone loss. This has raised concerns that the U.S. and Elon Musk’s actions may be deliberately restricting Ukraine’s drone capabilities.
The Trump administration has issued an executive order to waive sanctions under the Graham Act on Russia, despite the law’s purpose being to impose heavy sanctions. Trump also announced business deals with Russia, contradicting the act’s intent.
Iran has attacked multiple tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman, with reports indicating at least 35 tankers damaged since October. Some estimates suggest the number could be as high as 75 to 80 due to underreporting.
Canada is promoting trade independence by sourcing local products, such as Alberta whiskey instead of Kentucky bourbon, and encouraging domestic travel and business, showing a shift toward self-reliance amid U.S. policy concerns.
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