WEBVTT - The Jay Weber Podcast #0005 4-21-26 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:05.080 That Jay Weber Podcast is presented by Creative Plannet, helping 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:09.760 clients simplify their journey to financial wellness, one personalized plan 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:13.520 at a time. That j Weber Podcast is a production 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:15.280 of iHeartRadio Podcasts. 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:19.000 Welcome to the j Weber Podcast, where we consider all 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.720 things great and small pretty good, living off of my 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.279 social commentary and because I'm willing to say things or 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:28.960 see things that others cannot. And Gregory John, my producer, 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:32.120 is here. I've been thinking a lot about the brioche bun. 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:35.760 Have you noticed how the brioche bud that came out 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:36.640 of nowhere on us? 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:40.600 You are sitting in the wood shop thinking about brioche buns? 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:44.360 Is that what you're doing now? I am, because enough 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.080 of them have fallen apart on me now that I'm 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:47.960 thinking that this is just a dirty trick that is 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:49.559 being hold on us by the French. Oh is that 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.200 what that we were? Suddenly We're supposed to get excited 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.560 about our burgers or our chicken sandwiches coming on a 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.600 brioche bud. It's a half pound patty with bacon and 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:59.959 swiss onmbrioge Brioche. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:01.880 Well, I was I was looking, I had to actually 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:03.800 look it up because I didn't really know what a 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:05.680 brioche bun is. And then I saw, oh, I get 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:07.679 these all the time. Now I kind of know. I 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.240 had thought it was like some special pretzel bun or 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.000 something like that, which I detest. I don't like a 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:13.680 pretzel bun. 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:18.440 But first it's it's more I'm agnostic on the pretzel bun. 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:20.440 I would rather not have one than to have one. 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.559 But it's it's basically a white bun with some egg. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.840 You know, it's an egg bakery or something. I think 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.120 they're getting They're trying to get closer to those like 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.600 kings Hawaiian buns or something. I have a stronger opinion 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.360 on this than I should have, because I think the 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.080 brio bun is just a piece of crap that has 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.200 the sandwich falling apart in your hand before you can 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:38.640 eat it. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.880 I talked I talked to ben yaout about this earlier, 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:44.280 about the Brioche bun, and he goes, oh, but it 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.200 makes fabulous French toast ask for the brioche bun for 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:47.520 the French. 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:49.280 I mean, he goes, you know, he is that I 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:51.600 wouldn't do that. I wouldn't that I wouldn't doubt. This 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.200 to me is all marketing campaign. The next time you're 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.640 out with the family and the burger or the chicken 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:58.400 sandwich comes on a brioche bun. I want you to 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:00.800 notice how quickly the whole thing just crumble into your hand. 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:02.520 It's on right after the first bite. 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.240 You're absolutely right. It's basically it just you take a 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.280 fifteen dollars hamburger and you make it seventeen because it 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:09.680 says brioche bun on it, right. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.079 I think that's that's what's going on. It has no 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.720 sandwich integrity. It's not going to hold it shape long 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:16.519 enough for you to get three bites into this so much. 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.520 In fact, I think brioche means evil trick in French, 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:20.600 doesn't it all? 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:21.320 Right? Enough of that? 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.840 What's coming up on the podcast? Oh you want more 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.919 on the podcast? Well, let me see. We have all 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:29.600 sorts of things we I think we do need protests 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:33.239 and congressional hearings into the brioche bun though rfk Junion 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.720 needs to take on big Brioche. We're going to be 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:39.400 talking about the nonlinear nature of this Iran war and 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.080 remind people that when you're dealing with evil mollahs, And 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.519 when you're dealing with Donald Trump, you can't expect anything 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.000 to move in a straight line here, so the overreactions 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.400 to every little move or every little update on that 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:51.920 is interesting to me. I've got some thoughts on the 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:53.800 twenty twenty eight election as it relates to the future 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:55.840 of the Republican Party and all sorts of things. But 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.640 first a shout out to my great sponsor. Have you 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.160 heard about Creative Planning. They're one of the nation's largest 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:05.480 independent wealth management firms, offering fully integrated financial and retirement planning, 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:10.440 investment management, estate planning, tax strategies, business services, and international 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:14.280 wealth management, all in house and coordinated through your wealth manager. 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.040 Their fiduciary wealth managers are here to help you navigate 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.200 every piece of your financial life. Visit Creative Planning dot 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.880 com to schedule your introductory meeting. That's Creative Planning dot com. 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.480 Your team awaits paid for by Creative Planning and SEC 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.960 registered investment advisor. The speaker's statements are not an endorsement 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.200 of the firm. This will make those of us who 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.040 grew up in the nineteen seventies feel old. Alan Osman, 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.680 the oldest of the Osman brothers died Monday at the 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.760 age of seventy six. He'd been diagnosed with MS way 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.560 back in nineteen eighty seven, apparently, but there's no official 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.280 cause of death. Given the older you get the younger, 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.080 seventy six years old sounds and it's sad to hear. 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.720 By the way, Alan Osman had a fifty year marriage 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.240 and eight sons. Eight sons, so he leaves a legacy. 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.040 But for those keeping track at home, this means two 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.400 of the four Osman's dead because the second oldest, Wayne, 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.920 died last year at the age of seventy three. And 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:06.960 even more depressing to some of us, all of the 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.880 bee Gees are dead. I guess we gen xers really 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.800 are getting old. Oh and on a more serious note, 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.120 who among us who grew up in the fifties, sixties, 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.400 seventies or eighties would have thought we'd see a day 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.719 when the Democratic Party of America was the party of 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:24.039 Islamic extremism and anti Semitic hate. I've been warning my 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:26.679 morning show listeners about this for some time now because 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.279 people who are paying attention could see it coming. But 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:33.640 when famous constitutionalist and lifelong Democrat Alan Dershowitz is leaving 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:37.920 the Democrat Party over this. It signifies a milestone. This 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.880 started small, The anti semitism within the Democrat Party started 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:46.360 smaller with yesterday's young and extreme socialists finding a kinship 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.400 with Islamic terrorists and any group of people who claim 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:53.400 grievances against the United States of America. This is intersectionality. 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.560 Remember this is the intersectionality bull crap that the rabid 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.800 leftists of this era preach. It's basically that anyone who 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.599 was wronged or abused by America, the white man the 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:07.240 Western world, needs to ban together in kinship and fight 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.800 back against them. This is what links the gay agenda 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:14.200 to the Islamic terror agenda, to their pro abortion agenda, 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:19.200 to the trans agenda, etc. Intersectionality, and it has led 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:22.159 to today's Democrat Party being taken over by socialists and 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.359 anti semites. I mean no exaggeration. The loudest voices in 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.680 today's Democrat Party are the America haters and angry kooks 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.279 who used to be on the fringes of the Democrat Party. 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.160 But as I explained to my radio audience over the 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.120 last twenty years or so, when Barack Obama and Nancy 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.839 Pelosi and the Democrats managed to get back into power 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.960 after the George Bush era. Instead of keeping the Kuk 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.760 fringe at bay, as every other Democrat leader had been 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.680 doing for decades, Obama and Pelosi in that group of 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.559 lefty leaders in the early two thousands, was worried about 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.640 continuing to win national elections because they had already driven 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.400 so much of the working class out of the Democrat Party. 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.520 And so they invited the biggest kooks, America haters, and 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.240 grievance mongers to have a seat at the big table. 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:05.560 And you can now see the result. This is what 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.560 I was talking about way back in that day. The 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.159 Democrat Party is now controlled by what used to be 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:15.320 the extremist Kook fringe, and that includes rabbit anti Semites 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.239 and supporters of Islamist terror groups like Hamas and has Blah. 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.480 It's incredible, but this is where we are. It includes 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.000 all sorts of leaders and activists who are rooting for 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.120 Iran's evil mulas to defeat Donald Trump's effort to finally 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:31.440 deal with that evil regime. And it has a man 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.440 who's been a significant and influential voice in Democrat and 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.640 American politics over the last forty years, saying that he's 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:41.159 leaving the Democrat Party and registering as a Republican. Former 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:45.640 Harvard Law professor influential constitutional law expert Alan Dershowitz has 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.880 written an op ed to The Wall Street Journal saying 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.080 I'm done with the Democrat Party and I'm becoming a Republican. 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:56.039 He makes it clear he's becoming a Republican reluctantly, but 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.160 his party has abandoned and betrayed him. Among the things 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:02.120 Dershowitz right, he says, I first registered as a Democrat 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.360 in nineteen fifty nine. I'm a lifelong Democrat. I started 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.400 campaigning for the party's local candidates as a teenager in Brooklyn, 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.400 New York. Have been a registered Democrat for sixty seven years. 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:13.920 But he says the Democrat Party has become the most 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.200 anti Israel party in US history. There's no denying that 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:20.080 the hard left anti Israel wing of the Democratic Party 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.440 has moved from the fringe to the mainstream. Until recently, 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.000 there was an age gap, with younger voters more strongly 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.440 opposing Israel, but recent polls suggests the trend now includes 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.360 Democrats of all ages. He says Republicans have their own 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:36.720 antisemitic fringe, but for now, it remains a fringe. Dershwisz continues, 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.760 I believe the Democrat Party's hostility to Israel represents a 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.880 deeper and more dangerous shift away from the center and 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.440 toward a radical approach that's bad for America and the 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.200 free world. So, he says, I intend to work hard 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.440 to prevent the Democrats from gaining control of the House 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.960 and Senate, and I urge those who share my concerns 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.040 about the increasing influence of radicalism in the Democrat Party 0:07:56.120 --> 0:08:00.000 to vote, campaign and contribute for continued republic control of Congress. 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.240 He says, I will contribute money to Republican candidates, campaign 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:05.840 for them, make speeches at Republican events, and urge pro 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:09.360 Israel Americans to change party affiliation or at least vote 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:13.720 against Democrats until something changes. Dershowitz concludes, I will vote 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:18.000 Republican for representative, Senator, and president. This is a diehard 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.720 Democrat like Alan Dershowitz finally acknowledging that he simply cannot 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.680 support today's Democrat Party. It's simply not the party that 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.360 it was in the seventies, eighties, or nineties. It's now 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.760 clearly being run by elected officials and activists who increasingly 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.480 and openly hate this country and what it stands for, 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.680 what our founders and generations of Americans have stood for. 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.160 It's not hyperbole anymore to say that today's Democrat Party 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.679 leaders want to destroy this country so that they can 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.760 turn it into something that they can support and most 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:53.840 importantly rule over. Another ominous harbinger of things to come. 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.360 If having someone like Alan Dershowitz leave the party isn't 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.960 enough for you, is the outrageous statement we got from 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:02.480 James Carville. This is an angry old trump deranged fart 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:06.400 who's lost all ability to edit himself. Yes, I've suggested 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.000 that someone in his family needs to really seriously pull 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.320 him out of public life because he can no longer 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.640 do anything without embarrassing himself. But Carvill also conducted a 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:17.920 public service the other day when he blurted out what 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:22.080 the modern day agenda of the Democrat Party really is. This, too, 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:24.600 is something that I've been warning listeners about for quite 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.960 some time. The true agenda of today's Democrat Party leaders, 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.199 if they ever have the opening to force it onto 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:34.120 the American people, is mortifying, and the opening, of course, 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.360 would be the next time they get full control back 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:40.680 in Washington, d C control of the House, Senate and presidency. 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.680 This is their agenda and it's just a precursor to 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.280 them and their party leaders moving to take permanent control 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.040 of this country and never let it go. This is 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.199 the plan. Most of the moves Carville was spouting off 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.160 about have been on the longtime wish lists of Nancy Pelosi, 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.839 Barack Obama, Eric Holder, etc. Others have been added by 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.880 today's young, angry se socialists. But if you missed it, 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.880 Carvill said, if Democrats win the trifecta of control in 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.640 DC in twenty twenty eight, they should simply impose their 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.120 dictatorship onto the American people. He said, if the Democrats 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.360 win the presidency in both houses of Congress, I think 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.199 on day one they should make Puerto Rico and DC estate, 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.320 and they should expand the Supreme Court to thirteen effet 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:23.040 eat our dust. He also called for reopening the US 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.520 Mexico border and granting mass amnesty to every single illegal 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:30.120 alien currently in the US. His advice to Democrat politicians 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.400 was don't run on it, don't talk about it, just 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.880 do it as in surprise everyone, and just ram at 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.600 home when you have the chance you know, other right 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:42.640 wing pundits immediately labeled carvill as unhinged over this. But people, 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.000 this is the intentional agenda that I've been talking about 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.320 for some time. Some of these things date back to 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:52.319 Teddy Kennedy in his era. They've had plans on how 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:56.120 we can take permanent control of Washington, DC and flooding 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.640 this country with illegal aliens and then turning them into 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.440 Democrat voters after you've put them on the welfare rolls 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.320 has been a big part of that plan. Joe Biden 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.400 did his part in really trying to accomplish that and 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.160 make it a reality. This is the intentional agenda of 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:14.240 the Democrat Party, with the exception of reopening the border. 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.760 These are the moves that Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.680 in this era's top Democrats have been talking about forcing 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.800 onto the American people for the last twenty years. They 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.280 just haven't gotten the chance. And you know, if leaders 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.080 like Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin only spoke about killing 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.760 off the Senate filibuster in order to ram this agenda 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.120 home in whispers over the past decade or so, they're 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.400 now saying it out loud. Two crowds. They're now promising 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.720 their voters exactly this when they speak in front of 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.680 crowds these days. Chuck Schumer now has ending the filibuster 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.760 in imposing their will onto America as an applause line 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:51.439 in his speeches. No one's whispering anymore. They are certain 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.400 they'll soon have full control of Washington, DC and will 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.560 finally have their opening, and their excuse will be Trump 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:01.280 was so extreme, we got to be extreme. Their convenient 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.760 excuse is going to be to blame Donald Trump and 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.520 claim that he did all sorts of extreme things so 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.280 they can end the filibuster and do these really extreme 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:13.160 things to try to get America back on track. And 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.400 by the way, if you're wondering how outrageous and how 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.360 dangerous this really is for the health of America, you 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:22.240 have longtime Democrat Senator Joe Manchin. So certain the Democrats 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:23.880 are going to do this if they get the chance. 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.520 He said this week he's rooting for Republicans to keep 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.679 control of the Senate. Manchin is retired now, but he 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.040 was one of just two Democrats who kept Schumer and 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.360 Harry Reid from ending the filibuster and forcing the dictatorship 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:39.680 onto America in the Biden era. Folks, Joe Manchin was 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.520 on the inside for years. He sat in all of 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.720 those Democrat Caucus meetings through the Biden and Trump eras. 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.480 And if he says the Democrats will destroy the filibuster 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.320 and impose their twisted will onto the American people the 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:56.080 first chance they get, we should believe him. And that's 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.679 what he's saying. These are highly motivated America haters a 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.080 top this modern day Democrat Party and what they stand 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.360 for has every Democrat who has become before them spinning 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:10.280 in their graves. The cliche is, well, this isn't Jfka's 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:14.760 party anymore. Look, this isn't JFK's Democrat Party. It's not 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.240 lbj's or Jimmy Carter's Democrat Party. And for those younger 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.640 listeners who didn't live through it, this isn't even close 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:25.120 to Bill Clinton's Democrat Party. Today's Democrat Party is being 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:32.080 controlled by America haters, socialists, grievance mongers, extremists. Today's Democrat 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:36.160 Party has become its longtime kook fringe. The kooks, the haters, 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.360 and the extremists are no longer fringe. They're controlling the party. 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:43.800 And increasingly from the top down. Yeah, it's a scary 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:48.400 inflection point for this country. Okay, next topic, Iran. I 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.520 assume that if you listen to this podcast, you know 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.840 the latest when it comes to Iran. People want a 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.760 very linear, simple end to this conflict, and you're simply 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:57.640 not going to get it, and you shouldn't expect it. 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.719 I'm annoyed by and sort of getting a kick out 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.960 of it at the same time, how everyone's living and 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:06.080 dying by every pronouncement and every change going on related 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.040 to the Iran War. In the best of situations, war 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.760 is unpredictable. How both sides are going to react in 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.679 the moment is unpredictable, always right. But when you've got 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:18.040 the duplicitous and evil Iranians on one side and Donald 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.280 Trump on the other, why would anyone believe that whatever 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.120 we're being told in the moment is accurate. It was 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.560 great to hear the Iranian leaders claiming they were reopening 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:28.960 the Strait of Hormuz and their waters last week, and 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:30.840 it was of course very great and positive to have 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.840 President Trump announced the initial parameters of a peace deal. 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.720 But who didn't expect that to change within hours? I 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.600 know I did, folks. The best thing we can do 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:42.840 here is cheer any potential progress toward resolving this thing 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.840 without getting too caught up in the details, because they're 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.680 going to change. Some on the left were rolling their 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.480 eyes and blasting Trump again when the Iranians declared their 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:53.880 waters open on Thursday or Friday, only to have their 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.720 military menacing ships again on Saturday, Well, it was to 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.520 be expected. The Trump haters wanted to blame this Iranian 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.200 one eighty on Trump too, obviously, because they just want 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.080 to blame everything on Trump. But what happened last week 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:08.120 is this. The more moderate factions of whatever semblance of 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.240 leadership is now leading Iran. They cleared those waters open 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.360 because they do want to move forward and at least 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.360 retain the little power that they do have in their 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:20.320 remaining regime. This had the hardline leaders of the Iranian 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:24.040 military saying bull crap, rejecting that and keeping menacing those 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:28.600 commercial ships on their waters. The so called Iranian Revolutionary Guard, 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:32.680 this is the Mulla's personal army. They fired on two 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.200 ships on Saturday and escalated things and they made it 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.480 clear that there will be no reopening of the waters 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.000 that they control. You have to back up and realize 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.080 that what really happened here is that the US and 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:46.200 Israeli militaries have wiped out several layers of Iranian leadership now, 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.840 and they've done so so effectively that no one in 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.720 Iran really knows who's ultimately in charge. The global news 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.000 media's acting as if there's a clear government that's still 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.880 in place in Iran, with a set group of men 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.520 making these calls. Apparently it's not the case. There's far 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.680 more disagreement over who's in charge, as the military leaders 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.960 who remain in charge of that Revolutionary Guard flex their 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.320 muscle and act as if they're running things instead of 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.480 the Mullas who aren't dead yet. This is what happened 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:15.720 late last week. This was an outward display of the 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:17.920 sort of chaos and struggle for power that's going on 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.160 behind the scenes in Iran. There's no clear chain of 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.680 command anymore, and that's going to complicate things when it 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.320 comes to any final agreement or wrapping this thing up. 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.160 It's not going to be wrapped up cleanly. Donald Trump 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.840 and Ben Netanyahu's attacks have wiped out the first two 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.760 or three layers of leadership in that regime, and now 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.520 their diplomats are trying to negotiate with whoever is left over, 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.440 which is under the heading of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.320 but the political leaders in that ministry don't agree with 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.920 and can control what the remaining hardliners and the government 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.920 and the military are going to do, and they just 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.760 want revenge on the West for everyone who's been killed 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.960 over the last few months. Apparently, some longtime pragmatist and 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.880 veteran Iranian diplomat is the one who pronounced Iran's war 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.160 reopened on Friday, only to have the head of the 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.760 Revolutionary Guard order his military to ignore that order and 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:11.880 keep patrolling those waters. Meanwhile, President trump ceasefire expires tomorrow. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:15.160 If these Iranian leftovers can't credibly agree to a deal 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.800 and give their nuclear materials and other concessions, the West 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.600 needs to see the details changed daily with several people 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.640 insisting they're in charge on the Iranian side and President 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.919 Trump in charge on the other side. And he, of 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.399 course is playing this game of three D chess or 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.440 whatever you want to term it, where he intentionally keeps 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:36.200 people off balance and all of us. Trump often says 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.320 things that are less than credible or that are only 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:41.320 meant to confuse the media or our global enemies even more. 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.440 And so no, there hasn't been a wealth of reliable 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.560 information day to day coming out of this conflict or 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:49.920 in terms of when it's going to resolve or how. 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:54.360 But the important bottom line is the blockade is clearly working. 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.040 Iran's economy is said to be losing about half a 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:00.240 billion dollars each day, of which, by the way, way, 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.240 half of that is said to go to the Revolutionary Guard, 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.480 and so Trump's also bleeding Iran's military funding as he's 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:10.840 harming its larger economy. This blockade is working, and everyone 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:14.040 globally seems to agree. The international observers seem to agree 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:17.199 with this. The Iranians are really feeling the pressure. That 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:20.199 much is clear. And so in short, the president and 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.760 his administration have played this brilliantly. And I have no 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.159 doubt that Trump's willing to order additional bobbing and the 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.399 resumption of air attacks if he feels necessary, and to 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.600 what extent he feels necessary. I also have no doubt 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:34.000 that he's quite willing to extend the naval blockade to 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.680 keep harming Iran's economy if these leaders on the other 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.800 side cannot get their act together and agree to something. 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.720 Over the weekend, President Trump said that the economic blockade 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.480 might be working even better than the military campaign did 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:50.080 to force these Iranian leaders to capitulate. And he's probably right. 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.480 We talked about this on a podcast two weeks ago. Now, 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.159 how if Trump and Bbe play this right, and the 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:59.760 Iranian regime simply refuses regime change, then we can cripple 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.679 their economy for decades as a final step before easing 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.200 back off of this effort and really put them back 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:08.160 in the stone ages, so to speak. But I'm getting 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.240 a kick out of all the naysayers and all the 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:12.720 yipping dogs and the media on both sides of the isle, 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.760 who have done nothing other than trash the Erronian effort 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.560 and insist Trump was losing it, etc. Only to do 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:21.560 a one point eighty last week. Now, if you notice, 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:23.960 most of them are saying Trump can't take his foot 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.479 off the gas. This blockade is working, he'd be stupid 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:28.720 to end it. But these are the very people who 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.159 are trashing Trump and offering all sorts of terrible advice 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:33.520 over the last two months or so. And they just 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:36.280 keep offering their unsolicited advice, of course, based on what 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:38.600 they think puts them on the right side of this 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:42.920 issue or harms Trump the most. It's also annoying Trump 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.600 and Netanya, who have now so clearly won this though, 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.159 that the Trump haters and the pundits, both here and 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.119 in Europe are now pretending as if they have something 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.720 to offer. In the final days of this campaign, these 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.200 people went from Trump stupid and never should have gone 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.720 in there to He's stupid if he lets up on 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:02.800 our own. Now it just proves that advice from the 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:06.240 cheap seats here hasn't been helpful, and it proves that, 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:09.120