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from rebel.com hey everybody, Tim Miller from the Bulwark here. We got some breaking news. The war is back on. Well, for those of us who can observe reality and for whom words have meaning and actions have meaning, the war is very clearly back on. Seeing as we are firing at Iranian ships and assets and Iran was firing at our ships, to me, that is a war by any definition. The administration is desperate to describe it as anything other than that. But we have kinetic action, whatever you want to call it, this evening over in the Strait of Hormuz, I want to just kind of give you a little timeline of what happened and run it down here. We're taping this at about 8:00 Eastern Time, so you know, if there are ongoing developments, we'll obviously be monitoring them along with you. And before I actually read all this, subscribe to the feed if you hadn't. Okay, we're up here doing this for you. Do us a solid and subscribe to the feed. We're going for 2 million. All right. Jen Griffin, the last real reporter at Fox News, posted this a little bit ago. New US Military just carried out strikes on Iran's Kesham Port and Bandar Abbas. Senior US Officials tell her. They also told her this is not the restarting of the war. One thing that these guys are very good about, messaging wise is telling people that they're not in the war. They've not been very good about explaining their objectives. They haven't been very good about explaining their strategies. They haven't been very good about using traditionally grammatically correct sentences, know, subject, verb, predicate. They're not very good at any of that. But they are. They're all singing from the same hymn book. This is not a war. We're still cease firing. We're firing, but also cease firing. You'll see that as we move on. So. So that was. Jim Griffin had that first still. Stewart over at Reuters, I've shouted out before is another guy that is important to follow closely on this. He has this statement from the military. U.S. central Command. CENTCOM says that they've eliminated inbound threats and targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking US Forces, including missile and drone launch sites, command and control locations, and intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance nodes. That sure sounds like a word to me. The military added that Iran had launched multiple missiles drones in small boats at these three U.S. navy destroyers, the Truxton, the Peralta and the Mason. They were transiting the Strait of Hormuz as part of the on again, off, off again Project Freedom getting boats out of the Strait of Hormuz. So these destroyers were fired at for being in the Strait or on, obviously trying to demonstrate they still have control of the Strait. Those destroyers were transiting from the Strait of Hormuz or through the Strait Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman when they were attacked. And then we fired back at the Iranian assets that were attacking our destroyers. It's just kind of a silly aside. Like, one of my criticisms of the West Wing back in the day was like, in order to make the show work, when there were, like, big announcements like this, like, we had a war and here's what happened in the war. Like President Bartlett or C.J. craig would, like, lay out exactly what happened in detail so the viewers would know what happened. But like, in the real world, like, people, like, know what happens from the news. And so that's like not how the announcements worked, but, you know, now reality is imitated art because Donald Trump likes to not only be the President of the United States, but kind of like the nation's news anchor, like the dumbest, you know, kind of like a homeless man's Tony de Coppol. Anyway, he gave us the details of what happened in these attacks. Obviously take this with a grain of salt. This came from Trump, as you'll see here. He uses some, he takes some rhetorical license, I think, with what happened. But here's the story of what happened to the destroyers as told by our president on his social media feed. 3 world class American destroyers just transited very successfully out of the Strait of Hormuz under fire. There was no damage done to the three destroyers, but great damage done to the Iranian attackers. They were completely destroyed along with numerous small boats which are being used to take the place of their fully decapitated navy. These boats went out to the bottom of the sea quickly and efficiently. He goes on. Missiles were shot at our destroyers and were easily knocked down. Likewise, drones came and were incinerated while in the air. They dropped ever so beautifully down to the ocean, very much like a butterfly dropping to its grave. That's official statement from the President of the United States. A normal country here. You might think that the next sentence, that when he starts it with a normal country, he's kind of like contrasting what a normal country would do versus what he was doing right here in this statement. But that's not it. He sees himself as normal. For some reason, he's critiquing Iran here. So this is Trump continuing on. A normal country would have allowed these destroyers to pass. But Iran is not a normal country. They are led by lunatics, all caps. And if they had the chance to use a nuclear weapon, they would do it without question. But they'll never have that opportunity. And just like we knocked them out again today, we'll knock them out a lot harder and a lot more violently in the future if they don't get their deal signed fast. So there's Trump, lots unpack there. You know, again, he's trying to kind of walk this line about how this isn't really a war, this was just another little skirmish. He, I guess, you know, he's very much the, you know, everyone is 12 meme. The president is 12. He's very focused on the things going boom, describing the things that go boom. You know, kind of like a deranged 12 year old. You know, he enjoys killing butterflies and insects and watching them die. So he's describing that vision, you know, something that brings him joy and I think. And then he reverts to kind of this attack language on Iran. You might remember, it wasn't too long ago that he's talking about how the new leaders of Iran are actually pretty sensible guys. They're normal chaps. We're dealing with them. They're not crazy like the other guys that we killed. We can work with these guys. They're smart. And if they're smart, they'll do a deal with me. And they are smart. So they will do a deal with me and we'll get a deal in one to two weeks. So Trump's been saying for nine, 10 weeks now. And, and now you see a little rhetorical pivot here to they're not smart guys, they're not good guys, better guys. Leading Iran now, they're lunatics, lunatics, all caps. And they might nuke us. Even so, you know, if you took the President seriously, that'd be pretty concerning. But since we don't, just seems like, you know, he's trying to do this thing where he, he's trying to be both good cop and bad cop in one person. You know, I'm going to be nice to him, then I'm going to try to rough him up, then I'm going to be nice to him. Has been working so far.
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Then we're back now after a period of time, we're like a deal. Like, Brett Baer had the exclusive last night. Let's just get this clear. Last night before the war started. You got to trust him. He's the straight newsman at Fox News. Brett Baer had the exclusive. He spoke to the president. The president's been talking to his Iranian counterparties and man, this deal's coming any minute now. I believe Brett said that he was told that it was gonna happen within the week. We're gonna have a deal move in the right direction. I had a phone call with the President a short time ago and he is optimistic about this deal. This memorandum of understanding thinks it is going to lead to things. He's cautiously optimistic, I should say, but thinks and I asked him what the timeframe would be. He puts it getting everything wrapped up 24 hours after that report by Brett Baer. We have destroyers getting fired at in the Strait of Hormuz. We're sinking their ships. There's also some ancillary fire in the uae like, doesn't seem like, it doesn't seem like we're a week away. You just keep trusting those reports from Brett Baer. So we've now gone away from that. You know, again, last night, Trump was talking to Bret Bear about how close we are. We're on the, on the 10 yard line. It's going to happen. Now it seems a little less so. The lunatics, we're going to have to knock them out again. Now we're not doing civilizational threats anymore, but very serious threats. We're going to knock them out a lot harder and a lot more violently if they don't get the deal signed fast. And, you know, I just want to throw this up here. This was the best tweet of the week for me, for any wrestling fans. You'll enjoy this. This really tickled me. I got a big, big kick out of this. This is a meme account on social media. Not Jerome Powell posted this. Here's a picture of Trump threatening Iran for weeks. Is that Triple H? Who is that? I don't know. Chris Jericho. I think that's Triple H running back and forth. I'm gonna jump on You. I'm gonna jump on you. I'm gonna give you the death drop. You know, you're gonna get pinned any minute now. What the. What is. Why is Michael just lying there? Well, why don't. Help. Please slow down and stop. What is it? It's a mockery. Since this threat, Trump has done a phone call now with ABC News tells them it was just a love tap. The ceasefire is still on. So simultaneously, we easily knock down all of their things. They dropped like a butterfly dropping to its grave. We completely destroyed their small boats. They had a decapitated navy. Like that's happening. And also, it's just a little love tap. Nothing to see here, guys. Nothing to see here. Don't tell me it's war, because then I'm going to have to go to Congress or then I'm going to deal with the fact that I've created a total disaster that I thought was only two weeks and turned out to be 10 weeks. It's really still a ceasefire, but we're also just kind of doing a little bombing here and there. Just a little love bomb. I like getting love bombed. The Iranians have a little bit of a different take. This is via Jeremy Scahill. It's a statement from the spokesperson of Iran's armed forces. He said that the U.S. has violated the ceasefire. Lengthy statement. Key part here at the end. The criminal and aggressive America and its supporting countries must know that the Islamic Republic of Iran, as in the past, powerfully and without the slightest doubt, will respond decisively to any aggression and evasion. So seems like they think they're in a war. We'll see how this stuff all shakes out. I think this is. There's been a little, you know, there's been some action, cannot action since the ceasefire started. This is, you know, the most significant that we've seen. I do think, as I led, I think that all of us here who are on earth, one living reality, could just call this what it is. We are in a war. The war is still on. The President might not want to be conducting the war in the most aggressive way possible because he knows he's gotten himself into a total quagmire and he doesn't really want to escalate because, I mean, he's weak. Like, again, like, if this was Jimmy Carter or Joe Biden, we'd know what to say about this. The President is weak. That's what the Republicans would be saying about them. President is too weak to back up his talk and he's too weak to do what is necessary to open the straits so that people aren't suffering with higher prices. So because he's too weak to do anything and because the Iranians aren't giving him what he wants, he's just going to do these random little bombings and then pretend like we're not in a war when we are. So that's the state of play. Final takeaway. I don't know if Malcolm Nance originated this line, but he's where I saw it, so I'll give him credit. I think that the net net of the news tonight and what's particularly relevant for viewers in America but across the world who are suffering from higher gas prices and higher prices on other related items Is this nacho not a taco? It's a nacho. Not a chance. Where Moose opens and that's kind of where we're at right now. So we'll leave it there. Like I said, we'll continue to keep our eye on this. I'll be back and on the pod tomorrow, of course, and discuss any additional developments and enjoy your evening. Subscribe to the feed Appreciate you all. We'll see you soon. A vacation rental shouldn't come with surprises. It should come with verbo Care and 24. 7 Life Support. If the hot tub is broken, that's a verbo care thing. If my teen teenager starts calling me Leslie, that's a family thing. Leslie, Verbo Care and 24. 7 Life Support. If you know you verbo terms apply. Seeverbo. Com Trust for details.