“Just Declare Victory and End It” — The Iran Debate Explained

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Peace in Iran? So you’re saying there’s a chance? Yeah, little Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber. I knew something was up yesterday when Marco Rubio took to the podium and took questions. Let’s just say he has an interesting way, well, not his way, yeah.

very diplomatic way in framing things. And how he, you know, some of the things he was alluding to, yes, we achieved goals because we destroyed their military capacity and we destroyed their Navy. And I’m saying, okay, that’s the bar we’re at right now. That’s the bar. You know, we’ve had different bars. Okay. I’m sorry, I know, super Trump’s can, what?

Come on, come on, come on. Okay, yeah, the various different things. First, it was gonna be regime change and it was gonna be no nukes. didn’t have any. It’s gone all over the place. You’re have the people of Iran rise up. We’re gonna arm the Kurds. I mean, there’s been a lot of different things over the course of the past couple months here. So much so that I, I’ve noticed, I gave up on really covering this thing.

because it’s a waste of time. It’s an exercise in futility. What was the last thing that, what was it? I can’t even remember what it was called. They put that on this past weekend, that Operation Something Freedom, where we’re gonna be escorting ships through the strait. And we got fired on, the UAE got fired.

on we blew up some boats. Iran is claiming that these are just civilians on those boats. South Korean ship got hit. I just a lot of different things. And all of a sudden that operation whoop called it off. Let’s call the whole thing off. Yeah. And then we were told that it was still a ceasefire. Even though we were firing.

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at one another. I actually left. I had a clip sent over to me. Chris Cuomo actually used one of my bits here. He used the Nego Montoya on his program. You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means. Ceasefire. But we’re shooting at one. Ceasefire going on. Anyway, anyway. Basically what I’m getting

what I’m getting at this point in time. Well, Iran has responded to this one page wish list and they’re like, no. So far, they did, they said, but the markets, the markets, they know this. Why aren’t they reacting to this? Iran just said, I’m gonna give you my take.

I’m going to give you my take and my assessment of what’s going on. And you want to go, you know, the old saying you want to go to the videotape. Okay. And you want to look at my track record on the various different calls in regards to this, the things that I’ve commented on, as far as credibility is concerned, go ahead. I’m not I’m not going to do this. Okay. We are in a very

very difficult spot. I’ve been saying this for some time. We keep, you know, we keep using that phrase. We got all the cards. We hold all the cards. We do, huh?

If that were actually true, I mean, again, it sounds good. And again, you’re feeding the masses of people that aren’t going to look any deeper than what you have to say, people that are going to take you for your word. I don’t take any any politician, anyone from Washington, D.C. at their word. Not not one. OK, not a Republican, not a Democrat. know who I Again, I might with.

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No, I might. I would definitely not be that concerned if it’s coming from Rand Paul, Thomas Massey, or believe it or not, Democrats, even I don’t agree with the guy. Ro Khanna. That’s it. That’s it. Anybody else? like, uh-huh. Uh-huh. I just automatically assume that they’re bullshitting me. That’s each and every one of Okay. Every single one. And especially, I’ll even add this on top.

you know, at this point in time, I don’t care enough people calling me an anti semitic all the time anyway, anybody who takes a pack money. Anyway, leave that for another day.

Oil prices, and let’s shout how bad it is, you get stories that you’re not hearing here in the United States, in the mainstream media. The amount of flights that will soon have to be canceled, not just Asia, but Europe as well, the problems that this is gonna cause is it’s going to be significant, significant. The price of fertilizer.

has skyrocketed. The amount of farm bankruptcies has gone to the roof and that number is gonna get worse. What are we gonna do, another bailout?

You do it. that what we’re going to do? Oil goes above $200 a barrel. Barrel. People are like, well, the markets, you they’re up, but they’re not going as high. Trump says it all the time. They’re not going as high. Well, the markets are assuming, OK, you’re not suicidal. That base, I’m telling you what traders are actually thinking. OK, the markets are assuming right now.

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that the United States of America is not, that we’re not suicidal. Because you drive oil above $200 a barrel, you take out, know, we’re gonna bomb the hell out of here. Can we keep hearing that, right? For weeks and weeks now. Ah, and we’re gonna go back, we’re gonna start bombing again. We’re gonna start hitting oil targets.

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You have…

Straight up moron assholes like Ben Shapiro saying we should just blow up all of Carg Island.

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You don’t think that they’re gonna take out infrastructure in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. You know how long it’s going to take to get those things back online. So now that you’re talking $200 a barrel oil, you’re talking prices well above the, for an extended period of time. Like no end in sight type of prices. That’s global depression.

That is the reality that I presented you with this from day one.

Day one.

That is the reality.

Now.

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what looks like is going to happen. And.

It’s almost like could almost like a wish you can get people out there just to kind of like pretend. It’s like you’re trying to appease child to some degree young child. Yeah, you won. Yeah, you won. They’re just tonight even criticize. We know that’s not going to happen. Just just let Trump declare victory because basically the deal that we’re going to end up with here is. Obama’s deal.

Yeah. Freeing billions of dollars in frozen assets. Opening up a pet. Yes, they’re still going to be able to enrich uranium at the levels. At the levels they were allowed to under Obama’s agreement. That’s that’s what we’re looking at right now. So that’s what we’re going back to.

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Quite frankly, again,

We should all be praying for that.

We should all be hoping and praying that we can go back to the Obama deal and walk the hell away.

I just wish we would learn.

Because again, it’s amazing. It truly is extraordinary to me. With all of, and I’m sorry, I like saying it, all of our failures when it comes to the military post-World War II, and Eisenhower warned us about this, yeah, blow the hell up out of Vietnam, can go nuts.

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do all sorts of blow up crap in Korea and we can blow up stuff in Afghanistan better than anybody else blow up Iraq better than anyone else. And man, we just blew up Iran better than anybody else.

What have we achieved from any of those things? At what cost? What has been our return on investment post World War II? Actually, I had this conversation with somebody the other day. The size of our military prior to World War II.

Prior to World War II, our military was actually smaller than Romania’s. That’s just what we were capable of doing by flipping a switch here in this country and what we were capable of accomplishing. truly an amazing feat. Again, we had a smaller military than Romania’s prior to World War II. Am I saying that we have to go back to those levels?

No, I’m not.

but perpetual war and acting like an empire. Again, you can take a look at the history of the Roman Empire. You can take a look at what we’ve done. How has it benefited? How has it benefited the average American outside of people that work in the defense industry?

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You think about it, you know how many hundreds of billions of dollars we’ve sent to Israel how much all we spend all we spend on our military here and Yesterday I did a podcast talking about, you know, San Diego and the pollution all coming from there I said billion dollar, you know water treatment plant solve the problem. We can’t afford that

We’d rather have our beaches destroyed in one of the most beautiful areas in the country so we can either send more aid to a foreign country or buy more bombs.

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Again, don’t get angry with me for what I’m saying, okay? You wanna basically prove me wrong or give a counterpoint? Go ahead.

Go ahead. I’m all ears. Everyone, I’m all ears. I haven’t heard it.

And yeah, yeah. The notion out there what what the constant what constantly being prevented. We don’t want Iran. Iran. It’s a it’s a death cult. It’s a death cult. They can’t have a nuclear weapon. They have a nuclear weapon. They’re gonna they’re gonna set it off in New York. We’re gonna set it off in in Rome. They’re gonna set it off in Jerusalem. No, they’re not.

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No, they’re not. Anybody who goes on TV or anybody repeats that is, they really just don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. They’re reading a talking point. They haven’t read a book. They haven’t done anything, they haven’t done any sort of study of history.

Alright.

Look, look, look at Kim Jong-un, one of the one of the most tyrannical regimes in the world. I don’t know how many nukes they have at this point in time. Are you anybody out there the slightest bit concerned? Slightest bit concerned. About North Korea, I’ve heard the argument, well, you know, China’s not going to let that happen. What do you think China’s going to allow? That’s the freaking neighbor.

Iran is their freaking neighbor. Russia is Iran’s freaking neighbor. Well, you think that that benefits China? Somebody dropping a nuke off? Are you out of your mind? We’re their best customer.

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And again, it plays to, again, it’s a Jedi mind trick playing on weak-minded people. Obi-Wan Kenobi, these are not the droids you’re looking for. Yes, yes, yes, the Shia Muslims, the Iranians, it’s a suicide death cult over there. Huh?

No, it’s not. They’re not a good regime by any stretch of the imagination. And I’ve been hoping and praying for years that they, you know, they, they, could turn back from the way that they do. And I hope that they change. I hope it gets, but I would love to go there. I’d love to see the history there. 4,000 plus years of history. Love to see it at some point in time.

But the line of bullshit that they’ve been trying, that they’ve been pushing on you, come on people. the funny thing is, they constantly parade. And I’m sorry, you’re constantly parading all these generals. All these generals, one general after another. General Jack McKean, got this one, we got this general, we got that general, all over there talking about these things. not a fricking one of them.

There’s not not one winning general. What? Guys, know, well, those what did you win anything? We want anything again. You know what? Truth hurts. But am I wrong?

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Am I wrong?

You know, funny thing about real winners. need to, you know, puff up their chest. They don’t, they don’t need to do that. It’s just, it’s just, we kind of, we’ve lost, as far as foreign policy, we have lost our freaking way. The last, you know, last war we won, the last great freaking victory that we won. No, not World War II, Cold War.

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Cold War, Ronald Reagan, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. And he had, again, you read the history, he had all of the neocon people, you’re meeting with him and raking, you can’t do that, he just doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Yeah, whatever, whatever.

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I’m hoping. Saying there’s a chance.

Yeah, let Trump declare victory. Let him declare victory. Let him hold a parade, which he’ll probably try to do, because that’s who he is going to put on a show. Let all the folks at the magazine, all the villages, let them have fun with this thing. Let’s just end it, because I don’t want to see more pain. I don’t want to see more farms go out of business. I don’t want to see more people suffer because of higher oil prices and higher food prices.

I just want to do business. That’s all.

I just want to do business. I just want peace. Peace in world, I want peace and fricking quiet. How’s that? Peace and quiet.

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