C (5:00)

Okay, so I see all this and it does not surprise me that Donald Trump, who has been humiliated by this war and just the lack of success to this point, humiliated by allies. Prices are up through the roof. It does not surprise me. He wants to say, it wasn't me, I didn't do it. It's somebody else's fault. But when, and it doesn't surprise me that both of these governments are backstabbing each other even though they're in bed together. Like, none of that surprises me. But at this point in my mind when I see this big breakdown between Trump and Netanyahu, my thought is what happens if Trump says, I, I'm out. This is your baby. Is the compromising information that is real has on Trump released. So they keep him in it like,

B (5:56)

I just, we don't know that there is that information in my mind, to be, to be fair.

C (6:02)

But I just, that's so true. But in my mind, there's no way you would have this much control as a foreign government over the United States President if you did not have something big on him.

B (6:16)

But I mean, here's the thing. Look, historically, American foreign policy, it's not that big of a jump that we went to war with Iran. It's not like we're like these big peacemakers and we're not all about regime change and destabilization. Historically, my entire life, that's what the United States has done. All of the, A lot of the immigration problem that we have in the United States is because we have destabilized. I, I don't know if they have something on him or not. I, you know, I don't know. But more realistically here, I think from a foreign policy standpoint, I go back to what Colin Powell told George W. Bush, the Pottery Barn rule. You break it, you own it. And this is what happens with Republican presidents, whether they're compromised, paid off by lobbyists, enriching the military, industrial comple, servicing their apac donors. Whatever it is, whatever the reason is, they always go to war. This is not unique to Donald Trump. Democrats brand this, this happens every time, every time Republicans promise everybody's going to be rich. Donald Trump implicitly promised no more wars. He would not shut the up for a year about, I solved eight wars. I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. I mean, talk about the pivot to end all pivots that 100 eightied and then starts bombing elementary schools. I mean, and it was just like a month ago, I'm sitting right here in this chair and we're talking about the Nobel Peace Prize. But it's important historically to have established here, this is not new. The United States destabilizing places around the world is not unique to Trump. And if Trump tries to tap out of this, I just think he's got major, massive problems because his diplomats, according to the UK are Russian. I mean, are Israeli assets. And so I, this is that aspect of it. I don't know what happens. And I do, I think they're going to release like this Hollywood style, you know, Trump video. I doubt it. I mean, in my mind, I, the way we want to think of the world order is nobody would kill little kids unless you had a horrible video of them doing something. We fucking funded Gaza. We're funding Beirut right now. And I think I read that there's like 200 kids dead in Beirut. That's before you even get to the adults. So I think we all have to come to terms with we're not the good guys. And it doesn't take this overwhelming compromising information for the American military to kill people. I mean, I really opened my eyes up to it and it's my whole adult life. Then I go back to before I was born. My dad's fighting in Vietnam, you know, and how many people died there, both Vietnamese and American. And so I think that we have this foreign policy problem that always comes to fruition under Republicans and then Democrats help to continue those policies. As much as I love Barack Obama, he's the drone president. I mean, he killed, there's, you know, huge issue that he drone strike an American citizen and that just, we never even talk about that. And so I, I, I, I think. Does Putin have stuff on him? Yeah. Does Israel have some stuff on him? Yeah. But if they didn't, does it take a mastermind to manipulate Trump into doing something stupid?

C (10:18)

That's a fair point.

B (10:19)

Do you know what I mean? Okay, moving along now. He's talking about deploying thousands of troops into the Middle east. And I don't think he's going to tap out, you guys. I think this type of personality quadruples down. Pop this up. Newswire's reporting Trump administration considering deploying thousands of additional U.S. troops to the Middle East. This is just, this is, this is what happens every time in my life when there's a Republican president and these kids are going to go over there and, and they're going to fight in these wars and they're going to kill other kids who nobody chose to be an American, nobody chose to be an Iranian. But it's just where you're from, where you, you know, get your cultural identity and then you go over and kill these other people and then you come back home, if you make it home. And if you make it home with all of your limbs, then you have major psychological issues. It's always these draft dodging Republicans that don't blink. I remember Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, the biggest draft dodgers on the planet, sending all those kids over there to rock based on lies. And here we are again. It's crazy.

C (11:39)

Well, in the Defense Department is, well, the Department of War is asking for more money for this war and we're not even a month in. I mean, the cost of this with human lives should is the most alarming. But the fact that the deficit continues to rise and we're saying we can't have health care, we can't have, you know, we can't help with child care, but we can give an additional $200 billion to this war that nobody is going to walk away from. Better like, except maybe Israel, but I don't know that. But like, they won't.

B (12:16)

I mean it's just like to me, pumps, I think they just keep perpetuating because they have this expansionist idea. And you heard Mike Huckabee talk about like, oh, the Bible says that we can have all this land and then they have this patch on the IDF soldiers uniforms where they want to take over all of that land. And I think the point is, you know, Iran actually has natural resources. Israel's a tiny little country. Iran has major natural resources, is a huge country, 100 million people, horrible regime, Horrible. And I think Israel wants to Balkanize it and I think they want to build an Israeli hegemony in the region. And you know, these hegemonies historically don't stay together because you have to in order to keep it. You have to exploit people and you have to commit war crimes. And to your point, puns about what can happen between this BB. If BB's alive, I mean, half the Internet thinks he's dead and Israel's putting out all this AI, like bump flooding the zone with AI. That's where we are right now that the truth is so far to grasp on. I don't know if he's dead or alive. They keep putting out these proof of life videos the same way they kept putting out videos. Hey, we didn't kill Charlie Kirk. Weird. Weird. For a, a a serious country to behave in this manner. All right, you guys, at the beginning of this year I decided to like prioritize self care. And sometimes I do this at the beginning of the year and then I never follow through. But the great thing about Irestore products is they're so easy to use. I purchased the Eye Restore Elite. It's comfortable and I use it while I'm watching TV and relaxing with my dogs. It has this powerful clinic grade red light therapy for th stronger hair at home. Irestore Elite, this happens to be their most advanced laser hair growth system. It uses 300 lasers and 200 LEDs to help regrow thicker, healthier hair in less than three months. It's effortless. Just wear it while working, reading, unwinding, binge watching tv. It doesn't matter. Listener Iris store is kicking off their spring savings with some big discounts. And right now you can get the Elite plus Illumina face mask bundle at an exclusive deal when you use code news@irestore.com that's newsirestore.com Please support our show and tell them that we sent you. Give your hair and skin the upgrade they deserve so you can feel confident and refreshed.

D (15:10)

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B (15:41)

But here the White House officials this is some reporting from the Daily Beast. Daily Beast is reporting White House officials are bracing for a dramatic rupture between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. And so I think we're seeing that with the tit for tat tweets. And we already have the guy from inside the Death Star, right, who went over to Tucker Carlson. We already have Tucker Carlson and a huge portion of the right wing that are 100% against the United States continuing to to co sponsor Israel in a multitude of different ways, weapons, wars, etc. So I mean Benjamin Netanyahu is far from more intelligent than Donald Trump and less impulsive. I mean I think he's more evil and I think Donald Trump is evil. But like Benjamin Netanyahu is like a maniacal, evil, homicidal like I think the world's biggest terrorist on the planet right now is Benjamin Netanyahu.

C (16:50)

So if Trump and Netanyahu have this big breakup, I look at somebody like Larry Ellison who owns so much media in the United States. How does that work if Trump and Netanyahu are broken up?

B (17:06)

Well I think if we looked at Larry Ellison pumps he he's a huge donor to the idf. And so there's this really interesting conversation happening on both the left and the right. On the right it's all packaged as these policies are not America first. We seem to be doing Israel first. And then you have like Miriam Adelson who has given Trump hundreds of millions that if he ran for another term should give him hundreds more millions. She got him to move the embassy. Etc. I think the Barry Weiss's, the Larry Ellison's of the world, when push comes to shove are going to take BB side and Israel's side. I just, I don't see a planet where number one Trump's really easy to hate. Really easy. I mean, look at how they're already all jumping off the Trump terrain. And I just think that this indoctrination and a lot of people that are Zionists are so deeply indoctrinated. It's, it's difficult for them to hear one negative thing about Israel. It's, it's, it's been packaged to them at a very young age that this is the ultimate place of safety and it's an integral part of that we have to have. And I think that that indoctrination is just so deeply embedded and that indoctrination is going to win out. Okay, that's all we have. It's really fascinating stuff. Please, like, subscribe, comment and we'll be back later.

E (18:50)

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