In this episode of The Joe Rooz Show, Joe broadcasts live from Eagle Pass, Texas, discussing the previous night's show featuring guest Joshua Spatha, a missionary and author. Joe emphasizes the importance of Rumble as a free speech platform and encourages listeners to join and support the show there. Joe also previews upcoming guests and discusses the show's value-for-value model, inviting listeners to contribute through various producer tiers.
Joe delves into the escalating tensions in the Middle East, particularly the potential conflict between the United States and Iran. He shares his concerns about the possibility of war and the implications of foreign influence on American politics. Joe also discusses the Texas Nationalist Movement and the idea of Texas secession as a means to avoid entanglement in foreign conflicts. The episode concludes with a reflection on the importance of independent thinking within the conservative movement and a call for listeners to engage with the show's content and support its mission.
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Alright. Hey, folks. This is Joe Roos. It is great to be with you again on another beautiful night here on the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass, and we are broadcasting to you live right here, right now at 07:03PM on February from the Asylum Studios and bringing you the best quality talk radio we could muster without all the bluster. This is the Joe Ruse show, and I am he. So how we doing tonight, folks? Hope you guys did okay yesterday. I hope you guys, that were able to actually join us for the show last night. We did the full two hour show.
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Alright? Alright, folks. If I don't see you on Rumble, I'll see you Friday night. Take care. Good night. Alright. Well, now that it is just us, It is just us. So last night's show, we started off pretty serious conversation. We were talking about the, the escalation of hostilities over in The Middle East. We talked about how, The, United States is on the verge of, entering into a war with Iran, which is not something that we really wanna do. Okay? Let's let's put it that way. And and yesterday, I said a few things that, you know, may have come across a little weird, little strange, you know, about the whole thing, may have come across as me not being supportive of president Trump or turning on president Trump. I am not turning on president Trump. I fully support him. I trust him and his decisions.
I don't really trust some of the, folks that are around him, that are advising him. And I'm not talking about his main cabinet people. I'm not talking about, like, Pete Hegseth and Christy Noem and Tulsi Gabbard and, and Bobby Kennedy and, you know, and Marco Rubio, of course. I mean, I you know, most improved player, as far as I'm concerned, is Marco Rubio. I think he's doing a fantastic job as a secretary of state. It's not those guys that I'm really concerned about. It's the other people that are surrounding him, You know? And, you know, I I I get the sense after seeing some of the some of the, stories that I've I've seen today and some of the articles I've seen today and some of the, videos and such that I've seen today and some of which I'm I'm gonna show you.
I don't know if, you know, in some ways, I kinda feel like the president was pushed into this position. You know, like, he's he's kinda boxed in here and he has to do something. And as you know, he we, we and we talked about this more yesterday. President went out, and he he had some some posts that he made on truth social. And, you know, some of them were a little, you know, confrontational, obviously. But, here's one of them. Iran should have signed the deal. I told them to sign. What a shame and waste of human life. Simply stated, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. I said it over and over again. Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran. Now, of course, that made it what made it even more compelling is the fact that, just prior to that, nonessential personnel were ordered to evacuate US embassies, military installations, and so on, in the region.
I guess in it I understand it. I I I I get it. I I understand that you don't want a a state like Israel. I'm sorry, Iran. Probably Israel too. But you don't want a state like Iran, in possession of a nuclear weapon. That it's it's it's not only increasingly dangerous in the region, but, they're they do have capabilities of of reaching Mainland United States. Go to China, Russia. You know, they could they can they have the abilities to do that. I am confident of that. Alright? Now I'm not an expert. I don't have any secret intelligence letting me know what is going on in in the bowels of Iran's government. But for thirty, forty years, we've been warned that Iran is two days away, two weeks away, two months away, two hours away, two minutes away from obtaining a nuclear weapon, and that was thirty or forty years ago.
If they have it, they have it. I don't doubt that they have it. Through Israel's air strikes, they have they pretty much crippled, Iran's ability to, I mean, I said air strikes. I meant, missile strikes. They have pretty much and effectively knocked out their capabilities of launching, talitory strikes or preemptive strikes, for the most part. However, yesterday, they reported that there is a a, a a secret hidden, facility deep in the bowels of a mountain where they're housing their nuclear materials and weapons. And Israel has has asked The United States to use their bunker buster bombs, which are these, like, I I forget the weight on these things. I read it earlier today. It just slipped out of my mind. But these things are huge bombs, and they can actually level a mountain.
Alright? So apparently, that's what we're gearing up to do. Now the president has indicated that if the strikes could you know, American strikes in Iran on Iran could take place, at any time, as and and and as soon as Thursday, meaning tomorrow. We hope not. We don't want an armed conflict with Iran. Not that not that Iran, to me and in my opinion anyway, really poses too much of a military threat to The United States. I I think that The US, technologically is far more advanced, and I think just the, the the the warrior ethos that Pete Hegseth has been bringing back to the military, you know, this is this is not Joe Biden's military. This is this is an actual combat ready machine.
The thing is we don't really wanna use it, and we don't wanna use it to start a war much like we did in Iraq, which we went into Iraq, if you remember, under the pretense of weapons of mass destruction. There are weapon there are WMDs in Iraq, and it turns out that that was all a lie, and there wasn't. Iraq had nothing to do with nine eleven, and yet we used that and we ramped that up as a as the antagonist of the whole thing. So we ended up going into Iraq. We spent billions and billions of dollars, lost thousands of lives, both military and civilian, spent twenty years there.
And that's what we're looking at here in Iran. Because even though even though they're talking about we're just we just wanna take out their nuclear capabilities. This is really about regime change, and that came very clear yesterday. We played a clip for you yesterday. I don't have it right now, but we played a clip for you yesterday of, Lindsey Graham, who is probably one of the more outspoken war, pigs that are out there, talking about regime change. So this is something that they've been planning for a while. They've they've wanted to get the Ayatollahs out, which by the way and the Moolah's out, which by the way were installed by the CIA back in the seventies, eighties when, when the when the when the Islamic revolt revolution took place in Iran. They the CIA helped helped them kick out the Shah of Iran, the rightful ruler of Iran, and install these lunatic mullahs.
And you see where that got us. So the CIA gets involved, messes up the whole thing. And we can talk more about that another time. That's a that's a rabbit hole that I don't I'm not really fully prepared to go down tonight. But now here we are in regime change again. We we we tried regime change in Syria. We tried regime change in Iraq, and look what happened. We tried regime change in Afghanistan, and look what happened. The lunatics take over. So, again, here we are talking about regime change. Well, we'll get into that some clips in a minute. But, so the Ayatollah responded to Donald Trump's, posts, and this was the first one that I saw.
It isn't wise to tell the Iranian nation to surrender. What should the Iranian nation surrender to? We will never surrender in response to the attacks of anyone. This is the logic of the Iranian nation. This is the spirit of the Iranian nation. Went on to say the US president threatens us with his absurd rhetoric. He demands that the Iranian people surrender to him. They should make threats against those who are afraid of being threatened. The Iranian nation isn't frightened by such threats. So, you know, you have to expect that there's gonna be some, you know, some some crap talk coming back.
Alright. But, how about we get to some clips? So, earlier today, Donald Trump was out at the White House, and, I don't know if you remember, but, there was some talk about about him, wanting to install these two one hundred foot tall flagpoles because he was surprised that there were and his reason was that he was surprised that there weren't flagpoles, on the lawns at the White House. So, and and the left is never gonna tell you this. You know? They're they're never gonna acknowledge the fact that, the taxpayers of The United States are not paying for those flagpoles.
Those two flagpoles, about a $100,000 a piece, is a gift from president Trump to The United States. So in other words, he's paying for it. It's not coming out of the taxpayer funds. It's not coming out of our pockets. It's coming out of his own personal pockets. And, again, the left is never gonna tell you that. The mainstream media is never gonna tell you that. They're just gonna rail about it that, you know, a waste of money and so on and so forth, blah blah blah. You know, you know how they are. Alright? But, so while while these guys were out there raising up this, the these these flagpoles, president Trump went out to greet them and talk to them and then took some questions, from the media, that was, that was standing by.
So, this is a bit of a long clip, so I'm gonna play this one first. This is, president Trump at the, at the White House.
[00:25:15] Unknown:
You don't know that I'm gonna even do it. You you don't know. I may do it. I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I'm gonna do. I can tell you this, that, Iran's got a lot of trouble, and they wanna negotiate. And I said, why didn't you negotiate with me before all this death and destruction? Why didn't you I said to to people, why didn't you negotiate with me two weeks ago? You could've done fine.
[00:25:39] Unknown:
You would've had a country. I don't know what patients run out.
[00:25:43] Unknown:
It's already run out. That's why we're doing what we're doing. You just take out Yeah. They had sixty days and a big, you know, sixty days. Plenty of time.
[00:25:52] Unknown:
And they made a mistake. Some of the people in the base don't want a long term war. They're afraid that we're gonna get into a long term war. We're looking
[00:25:59] Unknown:
it's only I only want one thing. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. That's it. I'm not looking long term structure, and I've been saying that for twenty years.
[00:26:13] Unknown:
Alright. So thank you to, Alex Jones and, InfoWars for that, mash up of clips. Now I have those separately that we're gonna be able to look at. And, you know, we'll we'll talk about some of the things that were being said. But what I found to be very interesting in there is, the tone of the responses. It doesn't sound it it to me and again, I I know how I reacted yesterday and, you know, I I I don't regret reacting the way I did because I don't believe we should be involved in Iran. I don't believe we should be going to, going into war, I because it's gonna it's gonna end up being another endless war, just like Iraq.
Twenty years in Iraq, billions and billions of dollars spent, lives lost, lives ruined, and, they're in no better condition now than they were when we were there. So, you know, looking at that possibility of having to go in there. Now, I'm I I take a little a little step back and a little breath when I hear him say, you know, we're not look we're not gonna be there long. We're just going to, you know, it's gonna be quick. I want him to be right. I don't think president Trump is being dishonest. I don't think, he ever intends to be dishonest. So I trust him. I do implicitly.
I implicitly trust him. My concern is getting involved in a war that really doesn't impact us. Okay. You can argue with me about well, you know, if they have nuclear capabilities, they could strike, you know, The United States. Yeah. Yeah. So can China, so can Russia, and so can any other nuclear power. But we're not going in there and and and taking them out. You can also make the argument that, you know, that that, Iran is run by religious fanatics who don't value life the way the West does and would have no qualms whatsoever about using a nuclear weapon. You can make that argument too.
Understood. But it's not our fight. It's not our fight. They're not they were not directly threatening The United States. Were they threatening Israel? Yes. Should this be Israel's fight? Yes. Should we support Israel? No. I'm sorry. No. But, Joe, you're a Christian. You're a Bible believing Christian. You know that Israel is is God's chosen, you know, earthly people. Yeah. And spiritually speaking, yeah, I'm fully in support of Israel. I believe that. I believe that that that the Jew is God's earthly people. He chose the Jewish people. I don't agree with the politics of Israel.
I I don't. And I I you could also make the argument to me that, well, you know, they're surrounded by all of these hostile nations, so they have to be on, you know, they have to be somewhat, proactive and preemptive in in what they're doing, because all of these nations that surround them, these hostile nations have threatened at one point or another to wipe them off the map. Yes. I I I understand that. But that's not our fight. That's theirs. This this is going to escalate into something that no one wants. Well, no one with a rational mind anyway.
You know, you have you do have those folks on the right that, you know, love the idea of this. And, of course, you know, the, the military industrial complex is just salivating over this because look at the money they're gonna make now. But at what cost? At what cost? Human life. My point is, and my point was yesterday, this is not our fight. We shouldn't be do we shouldn't be involved in this. Pray for the pre for the peace of Jerusalem. Absolutely. I do regularly pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Why? Because the Bible tells me to, and I believe the Bible is the word of God, and I'm gonna follow what the word of God says.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Absolutely. Love and support the Jewish people because they're God's earthly chosen people. Yes. Yes. Help them individually? Yes. Support them when they're completely unhinged? I wanna know what intelligence they had that made them feel it was so necessary to strike Iran when they did. Have they made that known? I I don't know. I haven't seen it. It may it might be out there. I just might not have seen it, but I I haven't seen it. So this is very serious. This is this is a very dangerous situation. This is a very dangerous time in the history of the of the world. We are we are teetering on the edge of World War three, and it will be a nuclear exchange if it breaks out that way.
And one of the things that I wanted to talk about yesterday that I didn't get the opportunity to, and I hope I made that clear, you know, I I hope that, you know, it was, you know, that that you understand that I I I do support my president. I do support my country, you know, and whatever direction that they feel is necessary to go, I may not agree with it. I may not wanna see it go that way, but I support my president. That's one of the great things about, you know, being a conservative, being if you wanna if you wanna say a MAGA conservative, is that we can disagree. We don't walk in lockstep like the Democrats, like the National Socialists do, or the Socialist Democrats do.
We are free thinkers. And because of the fact that we're free thinkers, we're not always gonna agree with everything. And there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with that whatsoever. Well, before I get to the others the other stuff I wanted to talk about, and let me just finish running through some of these clips. So, here's the president, these are some of the clips that just separated from that one mash up that I played for you. So this is the president set talking about it not being too late.
[00:33:56] Unknown:
About, whether you are moving closer or you believe The US is moving closer to striking Iranian
[00:34:02] Unknown:
nuclear facilities. Where's your mindset on that? Can't say that. Right? You don't seriously think I'm gonna answer that way. Will you strike the Iranian nuclear component? And what time exactly, sir? Sir, would you strike it? Would you please inform us so we can be there and watch? I mean, you don't know that I'm gonna even do it. You you don't know. I may do it. I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I'm gonna do. I can tell you this that, Iran's got a lot of trouble, and they wanna negotiate. And I said, why didn't you negotiate with me before all this death and destruction? Why didn't you I said to to people, why didn't you negotiate with me two weeks ago? You could have done fine.
You would have had a country. It's, very sad to watch this. I mean, I've I've never I've never seen anything like it. It's so, you know, everyone thought it was gonna be the reverse. I didn't I didn't think so. And I was telling him, you gotta you gotta do something. You gotta negotiate. And at the end, last minute, they said, no. We're not gonna do that, and they got hit. Remember sixty days? And then came the sixty sixty one's gonna become a very famous number. That was one hell of a hit. That first hit, that was one hell of a hit. Not sustainable, to be honest. That's where it ended it ended on the first night. Yes. Is it too late, though? Do you think it's too late to now? Really? Nothing's too late. The only thing too late is Powell. Powell's
[00:35:23] Unknown:
too late. Too late Powell. Are the Iranians reacting to mister
[00:35:27] Unknown:
So just in that statement alone, I mean, there is the possibility that all of this could be resolved. And to kinda dovetail on that, I came across came across this this little piece here. I'm gonna screen share it. This is on the, Gateway Pundit. So, Iranian government plane lands in Oman. Now what's important about this is an Iranian government plane reportedly landed in Oman on Wednesday. That would be today. This is where The US and Oman officials were holding their nuclear talks. This is a very distinct sign that Iranian officials are worried and that they're backed into a corner. There may be several planes that left for Oman.
Two days ago, Iran reported that numerous top officials were strategic strategically assassinated. I'll get it. Strategically assassinated by Israel since Friday's, first military strikes. And this is some some shots of these, of these planes on their way to, Oman. Now this is where, again, they had the the initial talks between The US, and Iran were taking place. And as you see here in Iran news just in, Russia issues a warning for United States against joining Israel's war with Iran. And the question here that was being asked was, is Khomeini gonna sign a surrender? Oh, I don't know about that.
I'm not too sure about that, but that's interesting that they're on their way there or they were. So we're gonna we're gonna keep an eye on that and see what, what comes up out of that. Alright. And then it was let's see. Let's go to, number five here.
[00:37:37] Unknown:
President, what did you say to the supreme leader of Iran?
[00:37:40] Unknown:
Yes. Yes. Say good luck. What is the endgame? Say it? I know the Say it. I know the location is run out.
[00:37:49] Unknown:
It's already run out. That's why we're doing what we're doing. You just take out Yeah. They had 60 and a big, you know, sixty days, plenty of time.
[00:37:58] Unknown:
And they made a mistake, honestly. They made a mistake. They made a mistake. They made a mistake. Their country's in ruins.
[00:38:04] Unknown:
So many people are dead that shouldn't be dead. It's a very sad thing.
[00:38:09] Unknown:
Yeah. And he's right. It is a sad thing. It could've all been taken care of sooner. But what what I find interesting, though, again, is his his his tone and his body language. You know? Again, I don't think this is really what he wants. I think he really genuinely wanted to have some kind of a deal and, didn't really wanna strike. And you know what? Where he said nothing's too late in the one of the first or second clips that I played, I think he means that. And I don't know. Maybe this this this trip of of from the Iranian government to Oman might mean something. Maybe there is something going on that, we don't have the full story on yet, but we'll see.
We shall definitely see. Then he we wanted to talk about, he's made a very interesting comment here too, by the way, talking about when when he was at the, at the raising of the flag and, let me just play it.
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Give you the idea to do this. I've had it for a long time. The, the first time I had it, you know, you guys were after me. I said I said I had to focus. I was I was the hunted, and now I'm the hunter. It's a big difference.
[00:39:23] Unknown:
You think you're gonna be the son of Yes. You bet? That was interesting. Right? So why did you do this? Well, I've always wanted to do it, but I couldn't do it in my first term because you guys were after me. I was hunted, but now I'm the hunter. That's, that's pretty interesting. It's a pretty interesting way to put it. Very interesting. So anyway, what I wanted to say about all of this too is is this. You guys know that I'm I'm I'm part of an organization called the Texas Nationalist Movement. Alright. That's what this flag is all about here behind me.
Texas independence. That's why I have this flag here. Texas independence. If Texas was its own sovereign state, and I use the term state as a nation state, none of what we're seeing right now with with the beating of the war drums and all of this tension and conflict would really have anything to do with us at this point. Now will we have some kind of a contract or some kind of a a treaty with The United States? Yeah. Probably. Probably. I mean, we're right here. Right? Sharing borders. But as the independent country of Texas, we wouldn't have a dog in this fight.
We We wouldn't have a horse in this race, however you wanna put it. That's why movements like the Texas nationalist movement, the Texas secession movement, Cal exit, I forget what they call it in Vermont, but Vermont has one. New Hampshire has one. We wouldn't have to be sitting here even really concerned about how it's gonna affect us here in Texas. Oh, sure. If there's a if there is a some kind of a a nuclear strike on The United States, yeah, there will be some fallout and and stuff like that. I'm not discounting that at all, and I'm not minimizing that at all. I'm not saying that at all. But in this run up to it, we really wouldn't be a part of it.
Not our fight. A lot of the problems and issues that we have with government would be resolved if Texas was a free and independent country. And it's coming, folks. It it is absolutely coming. It is not far away at all in my estimation. In this organization alone, the T and M, there's there's almost 700,000 active members. That's a lot of people. That's a lot of people. There are members of the Texas House Senate that are Texas first pledge signers that are in support and favor and in favor of Texas's Texas secession. Try saying that three times fast.
The question isn't if it's gonna happen, it's more of a when it's gonna happen. I would have loved to have have had it happen prior to all of this. But maybe now, this is a direction that we can go as an organization. And if there's anybody from the organization listening right now, I'm sure these guys have thought about it because I'll I'll be honest with you. The the people that at that are at the top end of this organization are pretty smart people. They're sharp. They're on point. They got their they got their fingers on the pulse of everything that's going on. They probably thought about this. You know, the Bible says, there's nothing new under the sun. If you thought of it, someone thought of it before you.
But this is a great point to bring forward as you talk to people and as you, as you share information about the T and M and what it's all about and what Texas secession is. It's not a violent overthrow. It's not anything like that. This organization advocates working through the legislative process to bring a vote to the people of Texas, to Texans, on whether or not they want to leave The United States and stand alone. Texas can do it. All the numbers are there. More Texans today are in favor of secession than at any other time, at least in modern history that I know of.
I'm gonna be the typical Italian here. I'm gonna say, but but what do I know? You know? Some of you will get that, some of you won't. That's alright. You're good. So these matters matter. Not to sound weird, but they do. These matters matter. We would be sitting back right now just looking at what's going on up north from us going, here they go again. Not, what are they dragging us into now? It's something to consider. We wouldn't be dealing with this if if Texas stood alone, if Texas was its own country like it once was and like it will be again.
Not if, when. Hopefully, my lifetime, I would love to see it. Now you guys know I'm not a Texan by birth. I'm a transplant for sure, but I love my country. My country is Texas. My state is Texas. This is my home. I've waited my life to get here, and I'm here. I'm proud to be here. You know, you wouldn't see me flying a New York flag behind me. Not something I was ever interested in doing, but yet when I got here, even before I got here, I wanted that flag. That one. Right? Texas needs to stand alone. Texas needs to assert its independence. Now if you want information about the Texas nationalist movement, some really good information, you can head over to texitnow.org.
It is scrolling across the bottom of your screen, and I'm going to fix that right now. Boom. I don't like it scrolling. You visit texitnow.org, and you can get all the information that we just talked about plus some much more specific information. And I think at some point, we're gonna go back to, what we what we did at the very outset of this show. When we first started this thing, we would have that that, that that period of time where we talked about TEX IT and the T and M. And, you know, I do have that location on my website. That page on my website. You can go there right now, joeroos.com/tnm, and you can find out all of the information. There are there are QR codes up there. You can scan the scan the QR codes. You can register your support. You can become a member. You can make a donation.
You can email me, ask me any questions about it. I will be happy to talk to you about it. But we are going to spend more time talking about this in upcoming shows, and, and I hope that I hope that you'll understand where I'm coming from when I talk about Texas needing to be a free and independent country. It has to happen. That happens, we don't get dragged into this crap that's taking place. Texas young men and women wouldn't be hauled off to some foreign country who doesn't want us there in the first place trying to bring the seed of democracy, we wouldn't be shedding Texas blood.
So head over to texitnow.org, get more information. You can go to, tnm.me, tnm.me, and also get more information there as well. Alright. Well, I can't believe an hour's gone already. Wow. Alright. So a few other things, took place over this weekend. We had some really interesting conversations involving Tucker Carlson. Not sure if you saw any of this. This is this is, this is wild stuff. So, this is, from, I think, two days ago, where Tucker Carlson went on to, Steve Bannon show. I think it's, The Real America's Voice, if I'm not mistaken, or The War Room. And, so this is what Tucker had to say, to Steve Bannon about Israel.
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Whether or not you believe in Christianity, whether or not you're a Christian, it doesn't matter. It is true that people who espouse violence suffer in the end. They do. I have seen it a lot. And I grew up in a world that espoused violence. That's what the US government does. My dad was involved in it. And I just I just believe that. And maybe you don't believe that. That's fine. That is my core belief. I I sincerely think that. But why the hate towards someone who's just like, hey, I I'm not. I'm hard If you think, and I said this to an Israeli official, if you think I'm anti Israel, man, you are you have lost the plot, son.
If you think I'm your enemy, not at all. I like Israel. Are you kidding? I've spent a lot of time there. I continue to like it. I pray that Jerusalem is not damaged. I feel so sad for the Israelis who've been killed in the last couple days and the Iranians who've been killed in the last couple days with nothing to do with any of this. But the point is, if you think that saying, hey, let's focus on my country where I was born, where my family's been for hundreds of years. That was the promise of the last election. Please do it. If you think that's hate, you know, you've really lost perspective, I guess is what I would say.
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Then they went on, and he's a 100% right, you know. It's it's not that we you you hate Israel. You don't hate Israel. You don't dislike Israel. You're not being anti Semitic. That's that's not what this is about. This is about running on a platform of putting America first, and by getting us involved in another war in The Middle East, you're not putting America first. Because America doesn't really have a dog in this fight. And they went on to talk about, propaganda, which is very interesting. Let's take a look at this.
[00:51:55] Unknown:
Well, Levin's the funniest because he's terrible on TV.
[00:52:00] Unknown:
Just, I'm gonna restart it, but, Tucker Carlson and Mark Levin have been having this battle back and forth online, on the on the on the air for a while now. And it's in some ways, it's kinda hilarious, but in some ways, it's it's really sad too because Mark Levin I used to have a lot of respect for Mark Levin, but, honestly, he's becoming just a pro war, well, I I can't think of a nice thing to say, but he just he just becoming he's he's just become a pro war blowhard. That's what he's become. Now, let's get back to the clip. Start it again.
[00:52:42] Unknown:
Well, Evin's the funniest because he's terrible on TV. And again, I never had any problems with him at Fox. He kind of controls Hannity in this weird way. I never understood what that was about. I never really cared to learn. Sean was great to me, always nice, and so was Levin. So I just, like, kinda stayed away. But they didn't wanna put him on TV because he's, like, screechy and he's just not a coming present. Come in on TV. Like, unless you're literally floating in and out of consciousness and the attendant has taken the remote to go have a cigarette, you're gonna flip the channel when my my colleague gets on TV. It's like listening to your ex wife scream about alimony payments. It's like not appealing. So So they wouldn't put him on TV and then, you know, Sean pushed and they gave him some kind of weekend show that nobody watched. Now, I don't have a TV, but someone was just who had loans the TV was just telling me that he's like all over prime time.
So what is that? That's not by popular claim. It's not like their viewer surveys. Like, you know, we need a lot more Mark Levin. Less Jesse Waters, more Mark Levin. Mark Levin. What they're doing is what they always do, which is just turning up the propaganda hose to full blast and just trying to, you know, knock elderly Fox viewers off their feet and make them submit This is this is
[00:54:02] Unknown:
Tucker's hilarious. I I I don't know. He's he's one of those guys that just loves to laugh at his own jokes even though you might not understand them, you know? Kinda like me. Yeah. I I I I'll accept that. But I guess that's the way us highly intelligent people are. Right? Yeah. Okay. But, yeah, he's right, though. I mean, Mark Levin is is better on the radio than he is on TV for sure. I've I've only seen his show a few times. But to me, that's the sense that I'm getting too is that they they're rolling him out because he is so pro war, interventionist war. He is so pro Israel in that regard that they need a voice like that to try to persuade people that this is the right direction to go. Even though, you know, with somebody with common sense knows that this isn't really the fight that we should be in.
Alright? Well, Bannon asked Tucker a great question. He asked him, do you think that The United States is gonna get involved? Now, again, this is prior to our buildup over here, but, but this was the question that, Bannon asked Tucker.
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Like, all of that is now ignored because a leader of a country who does not have majority support in that country, probably 30% support, wants a course of action that includes The United States. And I just disagree,
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And, anyway, I think it's gonna happen. I don't you know, who cares what I mean? You think that do you think we're enjoying the combat offensive combat opera well, we have to we have to we can't assume that we have to stop it.
[00:55:40] Unknown:
I wish that Steve Bannon really had a position within the White House this term, simply because he is a voice of reason. I don't agree with him in everything. I'm not saying that's but in matters like this, he's definitely not a war hawk. He's more of a a diplomacy first person, and I think that that's what the president needs. That's what I think he needs. Now just to go back to what I said before somebody says, well, you know, you just said something else a few minutes ago. I I'd honestly believe that president Trump did not wanna go to war or start a fight. He I think he would rather have had the deal made, but I think a lot of people are pushing him in this direction, and he kinda got boxed in.
And that's what I said before, and that's what I'm saying now. And I think that if you had more men like Bannon around, I I don't think we'd be where we are right now. So for what it's worth. And then, Tucker rounded it up with this.
[00:56:46] Unknown:
I actually really love Trump. He's a deeply humane, kind person. And I am saying this because I I'm really afraid that my country's gonna be further weakened by this. I think we're gonna see the end of American empire, obviously. Other nations would like to see that, and this is a perfect way to scuttle the USS America on the shores of Iran. But it's also going to end, I believe, Trump's presidency and effectively end it. And and so that's why I'm saying this. What do you mean by that? That's that's coming from you. That's You get look, I knew Bush. I knew George w Bush. We, you know, family connections to Bush. I knew Bush. Personally, I still see Bush sometimes. And, you know, of course, he he hates me, and he does because I criticized him on Iraq. And that war is the sum total from historical perspective of his administration. But I knew him, and he had all kinds of plans for the things that he wanted to do. But once Domestically.
Domestically. Right. To improve the country. Right. And you may agree or disagree, but, like, in his mind, he wasn't just about the invasion of Iraq in March of twenty twenty. He was gonna redo social security. He had all of this. A 100%. AUG types of he was gonna take care of the entitlements issue. And he really thought it was gonna work. Yep. And you could laugh at that or whatever, but the point is the second you get enmeshed in a real war, not a fake, let's go bomb the villagers and declare success. But we don't even have a good track record, like, why the Houthis stole there? I mean, I mean, so There's a whole other question, which is how prepared is the US military for a real conflict, and the answer is totally unprepared. Scary unprepared. I don't think people understand that. But anyway, the only reason I'm saying any of this is because I really, really care.
[00:58:30] Unknown:
Sorry. So, yeah. They were talking about George Bush, like, the whole compassionate conservatism. I don't know if you guys remember that or if that was, you know, a little bit too too far back for some of you. But, yeah, George Bush campaigned on this whole idea of compassionate conservatism, and he was planning on doing those things. Now I supported the president back then. I was wrong. I shouldn't have done that. I didn't have a platform or anything like that to talk about it at the time, but, if I did, I probably would have been out in support just like all the other guys were. Because we all got swept up in that whole nine eleven, you know, attack on America.
Ethos that kinda just swept across the country. So yeah. You know, we were looking for a pound of flesh, and we did it. But, I think nine eleven I don't wanna say derailed him because, in a lot of ways I know you're gonna roll your eyes, say, oh, I conspiracy theirs. I don't think that, I don't think they had clean hands in that. So, leave that for another time too. Don't you love all these little teasers that I'm giving you these days? Yeah. So, I I also disagree with Tucker on the military's preparedness. I I think we're a lot more prepared than he might assess, but it but are we, like, top of the game right now? I don't think so. I think we're still dealing with a lot of the woke bullshit.
We're trying to get that cleaned out still, but technologically, I think we're there. I think and I think that warrior the warrior ethos is is is is back, and I think that, you know, the troops are ready for for for whatever comes their way. I just don't wanna see it have to happen. Okay. Does that make sense? No? Okay. Alright. Well, Tucker was on fire after that interview, and this was a very interesting exchange. I only have a couple of clips on this one, but, Tucker sat down with Ted Cruz. Now I don't know if you've seen any of this yet, but you wanna talk about fireworks. You wanna talk about explosive.
And to be quite honest with you, I was really surprised when I watched I didn't see the I didn't watch the entire, interview yet. I have it right here queued up that I'm gonna watch it tonight. But I was really surprised at Ted Cruz and how he reacted during the course of this interview. And, yeah, I I think I think that, I think Tucker Carlson was a bit antagonistic in it. But I I I I don't have an explanation, or maybe I do, for Ted Cruz's reaction. So so Tuesday, yesterday, Ted Cruz sat down with Tucker Carlson for a one on one interview that just got completely out of control heated.
And, basically, the the whole interview is about, what actions, if any, The US should be taken, in toppling the Iranian government, you know, regime change, like we said earlier. So this was really interesting to see. This is, and I I I came really out of left field. Like, I didn't see this coming in the in the portions of the interview that I did see. I did not see this coming at all, but he decided at at one point, he wanted to test the knowledge of senator Cruz, And this is what happened.
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How many people living around, by the way? I I don't know the population at all. No. I don't know the population.
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You don't know the population of the country you seek to topple?
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How many people live in around? 92,000,000. Okay.
[01:03:22] Unknown:
Yeah. How could you not know that? I don't sit around memorizing population tables. Well, it's kind of relevant because you're calling for the overthrow of the government.
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Why is it relevant whether it's Well, because it's 90,000,000, or 80,000,000 or 100,000,000? Why is that relevant? Well, because if you don't know anything about the country I didn't say I don't know anything about it. Okay. What's the ethnic mix of Iran? They are Persians and predominantly Shia. Okay. No. No. It's not even you don't know anything about the country. No. You don't know anything about the country. You're the one who claims they're not trying to murder Donald Trump. No. I'm not saying that. Who can't figure out a thing that I did kill general Soleimani and you just said it was bad. If they're trying to murder Trump. Yes. I do. You're not calling for military strikes against them in retaliation. If you really believe that carrying out military strikes today. You said Israel was. Right. With our help.
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I've said we. Israel is leading them, but we're supporting them. Well, this you're breaking news here because the US government last night denied, the National Security Council spokesman Alex Pfeiffer denied on behalf of Trump that we were acting on Israel's behalf in any offensive capacity. We're not bombing them. Israel's bombing them. You just said we were. We are supporting Israel as well. You're a senator. If you're saying the United States government is attack now we're with Iran right now. People are listening.
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Well, what do you think of that? And it's it's it's a like, at first, the first time I I heard the interview, I didn't catch that, that he said we. Now I know you can go through the nuance of of language and say, well, yeah. Well, we're in a supportive role to Israel. We're helping them. But he distinctly said we. Words mean things, folks. I've I say that all the time. Words mean things. And then, senator Cruz posted on, on x. Let me, see if I could screen share this for you. I should've grabbed it. Gotta love it. All the soundproofing and everything that I have. These people with these cars here.
Let's see. Ted Cruz's response, did a long interview with Tucker. He released a snippet playing a gotcha on the population of Iran. I declined to play that silly game, watched the full two hour interview where Tucker attacks Trump, attacks the APAC lobby, and falsely claims Iran is not trying to assassinate Trump. So, actually, somebody asked how much money did Ted Cruz take from APAC, which is the the Israeli, political action committee. $562,593. Interesting, right? Very, very interesting indeed. And then, let's see what else we got here. This was this I found very interesting.
Tucker brought up, foreign influence over American politics. And, Senator Cruz, who, by the way, you know, one of my senators, I'll I I do like Senator Cruz very much. I don't I don't agree with him on everything, but that's normal. You can't agree with everybody on everything. I like him, you know, I I like what he stands for, for the most part. I'm I'm just not a neo con, like, I'm not into these forever wars, but on the whole, I like Ted Cruz. And if he was a Republican nominee for, for for president when he ran against Donald Trump, I would have happily cast my vote for him. But he got so defensive when Tucker brought up foreign influence in American politics. It it it again, this whole interview was just, like, surreal to watch.
But here's a clip. It's about two minutes. Very, very interesting. Check it out.
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Does Massage share all of its intelligence with us? Oh, probably not, but they share a lot.
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We don't share all of our intelligence with them, but we share a lot. It's a close alliance. Do they spy domestically in The United States? Oh, they probably do, and we do as well. And and friends and allies spy on each other, and and I assume I assume all of our allies spy on us. That's okay with you? You know what? One of the things about being a conservative is that you're not naive and utopian. You don't think humans are all Part of the reason socialism doesn't work is the mantra from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs doesn't work. As a conservative, I assume people act in their rational self interest. So why does it bring it to worse? To pay people to spy on you?
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It's conservative to recognize that human beings act in their own self interest, and every one of our friends spies on us. And I'm not Do you like it? That's my question. I'm not asking whether they have motive to do it. Of course, they do. I understand that. And I And by the way, I'm not mad at them. You're an American lawmaker, so I just wanna wanna know hold on. I wanna know your attitude. You said that your guiding principle, in fact, the only principle, the only criterion I said guiding. The the overwhelming. I wouldn't say only. Is is it in America's interest? Is it in America's interest for Israel to spy on us, including on the president?
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It is in America's interest to be closely allied with Israel because
[01:09:26] Unknown:
we get huge benefits for it. And you wanna wanna see the clear But I just wanna stop on the spine for a second. That it it takes place, as you know, including on the president of The United States and several precedents, and I just want to know if that's okay, and why is it okay? Wouldn't an American lawmaker say to a client state, you're not allowed to spy on us. I'm sorry. I know why you want to. I'm not mad at you, but you're not allowed to. Sure. And I don't care for it. I don't wanna be spied on by you. Is that it's kinda weird not to say that, but you don't seem able to say that.
[01:10:01] Unknown:
Like I said, this this was a very, very surreal interview. I I like, I I can't explain other than the maybe that Senator Cruz takes money from APAC, AIPC, PAC, which again is the, Israeli political action committee or the American Israeli political action committee, something like that. So we know he takes money from them. Is that why he's so defensive of it? And how are you okay with a foreign country Knowing that is that if that that country is spying not only on congressmen, senators, but the president of The United States. And that doesn't seem to bother you. I I agree with Tucker on that. I mean, that's that's interesting.
It's very interesting, actually. And then last one I have, this one's a a bit of a longer one. Let me, let me let me roll this one for you.
[01:11:23] Unknown:
Do you think that it's just interesting because what you're now describing in a very defensive way, I will say, is foreign influence over our politics. No. And you began, and it's so transparently obvious to everybody. I don't know why you'd be embarrassed of it. You've said that you are sincerely for Israel. I believe you. I don't think you have some weird agenda. You seem to be sincere. By the way, Tucker, it's a very weird thing.
[01:11:47] Unknown:
The obsession with Israel. When we're talking about foreign countries It's probably an obsession. You're not talking about Japanese. You're not talking about the Brits. You're not talking about the French. The question is, what about the Jews? What about the Jews? Oh, I'm an anti Semite now. Senator, you're asking the questions, Tucker. Me. You're asking,
[01:12:03] Unknown:
why are the Jews controlling our foreign policy? Senator, I am hardly saying that, and I have That is exactly what you just said. Well, actually, I can speak for myself and tell you what I am saying. Good. On behalf not simply of myself, but on my many Jewish friends who would have the same questions, which is to what extent and I it's interesting you're trying to derail my questions by calling me an antisemite, which you are. I did not. Of course you are. And and rather than be honorable enough to say it right to my face, you are in a squeezy feline way implying it or just asking questions about the Jews. I'm asking questions about the Jews. I have
[01:12:35] Unknown:
there's nothing to do with Jews or Judaism. It has to with foreign government. Isn't Israel controlling our foreign policy? That's not about the Jews. You said I'm asking And by the way, you're the one that just called me, I think, a sleazy feline. So let's be clear. It's sleazy to imply that I'm an antisemite, which you just did. No. I just We're not asking you Why is that the only question you're asking? You answered. Give me another reason. If you're not an antisemite, give me another reason. I will. The obsession is Israel. I am in no sense obsessed with Israel. We are on the brink of war with Iran,
[01:13:02] Unknown:
and so these are valid questions. But you're not just admit me if I can finish. You asked me why I'm obsessed with Israel. Yep. Three minutes after telling me that when you first ran for Congress, you elucidated one of your main goals, which is to defend Israel. Yes. And I'm the one who's obsessed with Israel. I don't see a lawmaker's job as defending the interests of a foreign government, period. Any government, including the ones that my ancestors come from. So that's my position. That does not make me an antisemite. And shame on you for suggesting otherwise, and I mean that. And that's low, and you know it's low. So why don't you just answer my questions straight forward, rational way? You certainly have the IQ to do it.
Shame on you is is cute, by the way, Tucker. It is. It's not cute. I'm offended. You're you're upset. With the Jews. You just told me that you called me a sleazy feline. It is sleazy to imply that I'm an antisemite for asking questions about how my government is You wanna count how many questions you asked about? What about the Jews? What about Israel? What about You never asked about the Jews. I I have this has nothing to do with the Jews, whatever that means. This has to do with a foreign government. And once again, shame on you for conflating the two.
[01:14:09] Unknown:
Yeah. So yeah. So two and a half minutes or so of of that. Yeah. So he is conflating the two. The the, you know, Israel, the country is not the Jews. Jews are not the is it's it's he's mixed he's he doesn't understand the difference between the two. So a lot of fireworks among the conservatives, the MAGA crowd. So I think Ted Cruz considers himself in the MAGA crowd just as Tucker did. But you see, this is a healthy thing, though, where a lot of people are are on the left are talking about how, you know, oh, that it's you know, the MAGA move is fractured. It's split. It's crumbling. It's falling apart, and that's not the case at all. This is normal.
What's not normal is walking lockstep off a cliff because the party tells you to. This is normal. This is free thinking conservatism. This is how you this is how we deal with issues that we don't necessarily we don't necessarily agree with. We don't just say yes, sir, and move on. We do we talk these things out, which is perfectly normal. So as you listen to the news and as you listen to the mainstream stuff and read stuff in the mainstream media, you're gonna see that, you know, oh, MAGA's split, MAGA's fractured, MAGA's falling apart, MAGA this, MAGA that. That's not the case. This is normal, healthy debate within the movement itself. So rest assured, this is all good.
And at the end of the day, I I guarantee the two of them got up, shook hands, had a laugh, and moved on. Now could something like this potentially hurt senator Cruz for reelection? Yeah. It could. It could. Let's hope it doesn't. And if it does, let's hope that someone conservative comes in behind them. Alright. Let's see what else. Let's, let's pivot somewhere else. Well, this is interesting because this is something that people have been talking about for quite some time. Quite some time. The FBI, according to Kash Patel, FBI director, has located documents which detail alarming allegations related to the two thousand twenty US election, including allegations of interference by the CCP.
I have immediately declassified the material and turned the documents over to the chairman Grassley for further review. So, the FBI gives Congress intel on alleged Chinese plot to create fake mail in ballots. FBI director, Kash Patel, reveals Chinese plot to create thousands of fake mail in ballots in the twenty twenty election, and Chris Wray hid this like he did the Iranian breach of the twenty twenty election system. The article goes on to say this. FBI director Kash Patel announced on Monday that the FBI has located documents that detail alarming allegations related to the twenty twenty US election, including allegations of interference by the CCP.
According to Kash, the communist Chinese were involved in a plan to, listen to this, create thousands of fake mail in ballots in 2020 using fake voter registrations. And it should be clear that China was not creating fake ballots to assist Donald Trump. The CHICOMs detested Trump and what he had done to their economy. Trump was the only US president in decades to take on the Chinese Communist Party. Cash tweeted out, this report, from Just the News on Monday, which I just showed you the clip from. This information was regard disregarded by the FBI in August of twenty twenty, and this is the article from Just the News. The newly declassified Let me see if I can do this.
The new newly declassified intelligence reports from August 2020 weren't corroborated or fully investigated, and instead were recalled from intelligence agencies at about the time that then FBI director Chris Wray testified that there were no known plots of foreign interference ahead of the twenty twenty election in which Biden defeated Donald Trump. The new documents were turned over to senate judiciary committee chairman Chuck Grassley, who at first raised concerns to the bureau that the intelligence hadn't been fully vetted and instead was just dismissed even though there was evidence of fake licenses. Grassley said, thanks to the oversight work and partnership of I'm sorry. That was Patel.
Thanks to the oversight work and partnership of chairman Grassley, the FBI continues to provide unprecedented transparency at the People's Bureau. To that end, we have located documents chairman Grassley requested, which detail alarming allegations related to twenty twenty US election. Specifically, these include allegations of plans from the CCP to manufacture fake driver's licenses and ship them into The United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail in ballots, allegations which, while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public. But this is something that we all knew already, and people were shut down on social media.
Accounts were, banned. Posts were forced to be people were deplatformed. Show hosts were demonetized. We were told we were all conspiracy theorists. We were told to shut up and accept it, that that that somehow, some way, a doddering old fool who campaigned from his basement got the most votes in US history. The intelligence source claimed the plot was specifically designed to benefit Biden. They also said the intelligence reports were recalled within a few weeks and allegations never fully investigated on the grounds that the source needed to be reinterviewed. But in fact, another agency, US Customs and Border Protection, had intercepted nearly 20,000 fake licenses around the time that the intelligence came in as a possible corroboration of the report.
Unbelievable. Let me see. I'm looking at another another, piece here. Fake voter identities could be created for Chinese residents living in The US in order for them to cast mail in ballots in favor of Joe Biden. Now, of course, they did that for Joe Biden because Joe Biden was in their pocket. Joe Biden was was making millions for his family and associates. They needed Joe Biden in the White House, And you heard what the last piece mentioned, the last piece even said, because of Donald Trump. Because Donald Trump confronted China and seriously hurt their economy.
Former intel from Gateway Pundit. Former intel officer drops truth bombs. CIA and ODNI covered up the twenty twenty CCP election interference and then fired him. A former national intelligence officer for cyber under president Trump and Joe Biden has come forward with explosive allegations. The CIA and the office of the director of national intelligence deliberately buried evidence of Chinese Communist Party interference in the twenty twenty presidential election and fired him when he refused to play along. The whistleblower's damning post came in response to general Mike Flynn's tweet on Monday questioning why foreign election interference by the CCP wasn't exposed back in 2020.
So this is the post, from Michael Flynn. Mike Flynn, so there was foreign interference by the CCP in the twenty twenty presidential election. Who was running the USIC at the time and why didn't this get exposed back then? Can we get four years of our lives back? And then this, Christopher Porter, responds, sir, I was in charge of election analysis and did call it out. CIA and ODNI tried to cover up the evidence, and when I wouldn't go along with it, terminated me. Now according to Boston College, from 2019 to 2022, he was the National Intelligence Officer for Cybersecurity for Cyber, leading The US intelligence community's analysis of foreign cyber threats and threats to US elections. As a member of the, National Intelligence Council, Porter oversaw production of national intelligence estimates, was the primary cyber intelligence adviser to the director of national intelligence, developed the analytical portion of The United of the Unified Intelligence Strategy, and led the IC Cyber Analysis Leadership Council made up of other cyber leaders and so on.
This revelation is gaining steam following Monday's bombshell from FBI director, Kash Patel, who confirmed that newly declassified documents reveal alarming CCP involvement in a backed by fraudulent voter registrations and Chinese manufactured driver's licenses. So let that sink in. That's what he says. The Chinese Communist Party actively worked to rig a US election, and The US intelligence community knew it and covered it up. How about that? According to Patel, these damning intelligence reports were dismissed by FBI leadership in August of twenty twenty.
That's the same month disgraced former FBI director Chris Wray testified before congress that there was, quote, no known plots of foreign interference in the lead up to the election, but Wray had the receipts and he hid them. So folks, a foreign government, a foreign government actively worked to influence and rig a US presidential election. And not only that, not only that, but the intelligence community looked you in the face, the American people in the face and said, there's no there there, when in fact they knew that that election was stolen, when they knew it and they had the documentation to back it up.
And yet, people like me who questioned it and others. Again, at that time, I didn't have a show going on, so I didn't I wasn't able to do it this this way. But people who did have shows were deplatformed, demonetized in their accounts. They had their lives turned upside down. They were called conspiracy theorists. All kinds of stuff investigated, prosecuted, being accused of spreading misinformation, disinformation, election denier, and yet they all knew. Every one of them. The intelligence agencies, and I guarantee you, not just the intelligence agencies, but I guarantee you Schmucky Schumer, Nancy Pastavatka Pelosi, Obama, they all knew.
The only one who probably didn't know was Joe Biden because he was a vegetable, basically. I shouldn't say that because that's an insult to vegetables. Folks, do you have any idea how bad this is? This is horrible. This is absolutely horrible. It's at that point where, you know, The whole thing needs to be taken down. It all does. The CIA, the FBI, all that stuff needs to be taken down, stripped down, shut down. Man, I'll I'll even go as far as saying abolished. Because if they were able to get away with that, What's gonna happen when people like Kash Patel, Bongino are gone?
Off the scene, what else are they gonna do? It's time to really again, this all falls back to Texit. Independence. This system is broken. This system is like being in an abusive relationship. There comes a point in every abusive relationship where the where the abused says that's enough. It's time to go. When Bongino had his radio his radio show and his podcast, he used to say a he used to have a a a great little, little saying that he would do when he was talking about things like this, which another story. He would he would often ask the question, talking about bringing about change. Right? People aren't gonna change things until it gets bad enough.
Well, let me ask you a question. Has it gotten bad enough On the precipice of another unending war, on the precipice of a world war, one that's probably gonna end up costing us billions, if not trillions of dollars, and who knows how many thousands of lives, if not more, Intelligence agencies knowing full well that there was a steal going on, a rigging of and foreign influence in a a US presidential election and did nothing about it. And I can sit here and I can probably list on and on and on and on and on. When is enough enough?
And to borrow Bongino's phrase or question, has it gotten bad enough yet to where something like this is a logical alternative. Something to think about, something to chew on. Alright. Well, I've gone on long enough. I'm sure you're tired of listening to me. So, I'm gonna say goodnight here at this point, and I'm gonna remind you that, no show tomorrow, so don't forget that. And then we will be back on Friday with episode number 100. Can you believe that? 100 episodes coming up this Friday. Alright, folks. Don't forget. Head over to our website, joerooge.com, leave us a message, let us know what you think.
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Alright? Alright, folks. If I don't see you on Rumble, I'll see you Friday night. Take care. Good night. Alright. Well, now that it is just us, It is just us. So last night's show, we started off pretty serious conversation. We were talking about the, the escalation of hostilities over in The Middle East. We talked about how, The, United States is on the verge of, entering into a war with Iran, which is not something that we really wanna do. Okay? Let's let's put it that way. And and yesterday, I said a few things that, you know, may have come across a little weird, little strange, you know, about the whole thing, may have come across as me not being supportive of president Trump or turning on president Trump. I am not turning on president Trump. I fully support him. I trust him and his decisions.
I don't really trust some of the, folks that are around him, that are advising him. And I'm not talking about his main cabinet people. I'm not talking about, like, Pete Hegseth and Christy Noem and Tulsi Gabbard and, and Bobby Kennedy and, you know, and Marco Rubio, of course. I mean, I you know, most improved player, as far as I'm concerned, is Marco Rubio. I think he's doing a fantastic job as a secretary of state. It's not those guys that I'm really concerned about. It's the other people that are surrounding him, You know? And, you know, I I I get the sense after seeing some of the some of the, stories that I've I've seen today and some of the articles I've seen today and some of the, videos and such that I've seen today and some of which I'm I'm gonna show you.
I don't know if, you know, in some ways, I kinda feel like the president was pushed into this position. You know, like, he's he's kinda boxed in here and he has to do something. And as you know, he we, we and we talked about this more yesterday. President went out, and he he had some some posts that he made on truth social. And, you know, some of them were a little, you know, confrontational, obviously. But, here's one of them. Iran should have signed the deal. I told them to sign. What a shame and waste of human life. Simply stated, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. I said it over and over again. Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran. Now, of course, that made it what made it even more compelling is the fact that, just prior to that, nonessential personnel were ordered to evacuate US embassies, military installations, and so on, in the region.
I guess in it I understand it. I I I I get it. I I understand that you don't want a a state like Israel. I'm sorry, Iran. Probably Israel too. But you don't want a state like Iran, in possession of a nuclear weapon. That it's it's it's not only increasingly dangerous in the region, but, they're they do have capabilities of of reaching Mainland United States. Go to China, Russia. You know, they could they can they have the abilities to do that. I am confident of that. Alright? Now I'm not an expert. I don't have any secret intelligence letting me know what is going on in in the bowels of Iran's government. But for thirty, forty years, we've been warned that Iran is two days away, two weeks away, two months away, two hours away, two minutes away from obtaining a nuclear weapon, and that was thirty or forty years ago.
If they have it, they have it. I don't doubt that they have it. Through Israel's air strikes, they have they pretty much crippled, Iran's ability to, I mean, I said air strikes. I meant, missile strikes. They have pretty much and effectively knocked out their capabilities of launching, talitory strikes or preemptive strikes, for the most part. However, yesterday, they reported that there is a a, a a secret hidden, facility deep in the bowels of a mountain where they're housing their nuclear materials and weapons. And Israel has has asked The United States to use their bunker buster bombs, which are these, like, I I forget the weight on these things. I read it earlier today. It just slipped out of my mind. But these things are huge bombs, and they can actually level a mountain.
Alright? So apparently, that's what we're gearing up to do. Now the president has indicated that if the strikes could you know, American strikes in Iran on Iran could take place, at any time, as and and and as soon as Thursday, meaning tomorrow. We hope not. We don't want an armed conflict with Iran. Not that not that Iran, to me and in my opinion anyway, really poses too much of a military threat to The United States. I I think that The US, technologically is far more advanced, and I think just the, the the the warrior ethos that Pete Hegseth has been bringing back to the military, you know, this is this is not Joe Biden's military. This is this is an actual combat ready machine.
The thing is we don't really wanna use it, and we don't wanna use it to start a war much like we did in Iraq, which we went into Iraq, if you remember, under the pretense of weapons of mass destruction. There are weapon there are WMDs in Iraq, and it turns out that that was all a lie, and there wasn't. Iraq had nothing to do with nine eleven, and yet we used that and we ramped that up as a as the antagonist of the whole thing. So we ended up going into Iraq. We spent billions and billions of dollars, lost thousands of lives, both military and civilian, spent twenty years there.
And that's what we're looking at here in Iran. Because even though even though they're talking about we're just we just wanna take out their nuclear capabilities. This is really about regime change, and that came very clear yesterday. We played a clip for you yesterday. I don't have it right now, but we played a clip for you yesterday of, Lindsey Graham, who is probably one of the more outspoken war, pigs that are out there, talking about regime change. So this is something that they've been planning for a while. They've they've wanted to get the Ayatollahs out, which by the way and the Moolah's out, which by the way were installed by the CIA back in the seventies, eighties when, when the when the when the Islamic revolt revolution took place in Iran. They the CIA helped helped them kick out the Shah of Iran, the rightful ruler of Iran, and install these lunatic mullahs.
And you see where that got us. So the CIA gets involved, messes up the whole thing. And we can talk more about that another time. That's a that's a rabbit hole that I don't I'm not really fully prepared to go down tonight. But now here we are in regime change again. We we we tried regime change in Syria. We tried regime change in Iraq, and look what happened. We tried regime change in Afghanistan, and look what happened. The lunatics take over. So, again, here we are talking about regime change. Well, we'll get into that some clips in a minute. But, so the Ayatollah responded to Donald Trump's, posts, and this was the first one that I saw.
It isn't wise to tell the Iranian nation to surrender. What should the Iranian nation surrender to? We will never surrender in response to the attacks of anyone. This is the logic of the Iranian nation. This is the spirit of the Iranian nation. Went on to say the US president threatens us with his absurd rhetoric. He demands that the Iranian people surrender to him. They should make threats against those who are afraid of being threatened. The Iranian nation isn't frightened by such threats. So, you know, you have to expect that there's gonna be some, you know, some some crap talk coming back.
Alright. But, how about we get to some clips? So, earlier today, Donald Trump was out at the White House, and, I don't know if you remember, but, there was some talk about about him, wanting to install these two one hundred foot tall flagpoles because he was surprised that there were and his reason was that he was surprised that there weren't flagpoles, on the lawns at the White House. So, and and the left is never gonna tell you this. You know? They're they're never gonna acknowledge the fact that, the taxpayers of The United States are not paying for those flagpoles.
Those two flagpoles, about a $100,000 a piece, is a gift from president Trump to The United States. So in other words, he's paying for it. It's not coming out of the taxpayer funds. It's not coming out of our pockets. It's coming out of his own personal pockets. And, again, the left is never gonna tell you that. The mainstream media is never gonna tell you that. They're just gonna rail about it that, you know, a waste of money and so on and so forth, blah blah blah. You know, you know how they are. Alright? But, so while while these guys were out there raising up this, the these these flagpoles, president Trump went out to greet them and talk to them and then took some questions, from the media, that was, that was standing by.
So, this is a bit of a long clip, so I'm gonna play this one first. This is, president Trump at the, at the White House.
[00:25:15] Unknown:
You don't know that I'm gonna even do it. You you don't know. I may do it. I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I'm gonna do. I can tell you this, that, Iran's got a lot of trouble, and they wanna negotiate. And I said, why didn't you negotiate with me before all this death and destruction? Why didn't you I said to to people, why didn't you negotiate with me two weeks ago? You could've done fine.
[00:25:39] Unknown:
You would've had a country. I don't know what patients run out.
[00:25:43] Unknown:
It's already run out. That's why we're doing what we're doing. You just take out Yeah. They had sixty days and a big, you know, sixty days. Plenty of time.
[00:25:52] Unknown:
And they made a mistake. Some of the people in the base don't want a long term war. They're afraid that we're gonna get into a long term war. We're looking
[00:25:59] Unknown:
it's only I only want one thing. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. That's it. I'm not looking long term structure, and I've been saying that for twenty years.
[00:26:13] Unknown:
Alright. So thank you to, Alex Jones and, InfoWars for that, mash up of clips. Now I have those separately that we're gonna be able to look at. And, you know, we'll we'll talk about some of the things that were being said. But what I found to be very interesting in there is, the tone of the responses. It doesn't sound it it to me and again, I I know how I reacted yesterday and, you know, I I I don't regret reacting the way I did because I don't believe we should be involved in Iran. I don't believe we should be going to, going into war, I because it's gonna it's gonna end up being another endless war, just like Iraq.
Twenty years in Iraq, billions and billions of dollars spent, lives lost, lives ruined, and, they're in no better condition now than they were when we were there. So, you know, looking at that possibility of having to go in there. Now, I'm I I take a little a little step back and a little breath when I hear him say, you know, we're not look we're not gonna be there long. We're just going to, you know, it's gonna be quick. I want him to be right. I don't think president Trump is being dishonest. I don't think, he ever intends to be dishonest. So I trust him. I do implicitly.
I implicitly trust him. My concern is getting involved in a war that really doesn't impact us. Okay. You can argue with me about well, you know, if they have nuclear capabilities, they could strike, you know, The United States. Yeah. Yeah. So can China, so can Russia, and so can any other nuclear power. But we're not going in there and and and taking them out. You can also make the argument that, you know, that that, Iran is run by religious fanatics who don't value life the way the West does and would have no qualms whatsoever about using a nuclear weapon. You can make that argument too.
Understood. But it's not our fight. It's not our fight. They're not they were not directly threatening The United States. Were they threatening Israel? Yes. Should this be Israel's fight? Yes. Should we support Israel? No. I'm sorry. No. But, Joe, you're a Christian. You're a Bible believing Christian. You know that Israel is is God's chosen, you know, earthly people. Yeah. And spiritually speaking, yeah, I'm fully in support of Israel. I believe that. I believe that that that the Jew is God's earthly people. He chose the Jewish people. I don't agree with the politics of Israel.
I I don't. And I I you could also make the argument to me that, well, you know, they're surrounded by all of these hostile nations, so they have to be on, you know, they have to be somewhat, proactive and preemptive in in what they're doing, because all of these nations that surround them, these hostile nations have threatened at one point or another to wipe them off the map. Yes. I I I understand that. But that's not our fight. That's theirs. This this is going to escalate into something that no one wants. Well, no one with a rational mind anyway.
You know, you have you do have those folks on the right that, you know, love the idea of this. And, of course, you know, the, the military industrial complex is just salivating over this because look at the money they're gonna make now. But at what cost? At what cost? Human life. My point is, and my point was yesterday, this is not our fight. We shouldn't be do we shouldn't be involved in this. Pray for the pre for the peace of Jerusalem. Absolutely. I do regularly pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Why? Because the Bible tells me to, and I believe the Bible is the word of God, and I'm gonna follow what the word of God says.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Absolutely. Love and support the Jewish people because they're God's earthly chosen people. Yes. Yes. Help them individually? Yes. Support them when they're completely unhinged? I wanna know what intelligence they had that made them feel it was so necessary to strike Iran when they did. Have they made that known? I I don't know. I haven't seen it. It may it might be out there. I just might not have seen it, but I I haven't seen it. So this is very serious. This is this is a very dangerous situation. This is a very dangerous time in the history of the of the world. We are we are teetering on the edge of World War three, and it will be a nuclear exchange if it breaks out that way.
And one of the things that I wanted to talk about yesterday that I didn't get the opportunity to, and I hope I made that clear, you know, I I hope that, you know, it was, you know, that that you understand that I I I do support my president. I do support my country, you know, and whatever direction that they feel is necessary to go, I may not agree with it. I may not wanna see it go that way, but I support my president. That's one of the great things about, you know, being a conservative, being if you wanna if you wanna say a MAGA conservative, is that we can disagree. We don't walk in lockstep like the Democrats, like the National Socialists do, or the Socialist Democrats do.
We are free thinkers. And because of the fact that we're free thinkers, we're not always gonna agree with everything. And there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with that whatsoever. Well, before I get to the others the other stuff I wanted to talk about, and let me just finish running through some of these clips. So, here's the president, these are some of the clips that just separated from that one mash up that I played for you. So this is the president set talking about it not being too late.
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About, whether you are moving closer or you believe The US is moving closer to striking Iranian
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nuclear facilities. Where's your mindset on that? Can't say that. Right? You don't seriously think I'm gonna answer that way. Will you strike the Iranian nuclear component? And what time exactly, sir? Sir, would you strike it? Would you please inform us so we can be there and watch? I mean, you don't know that I'm gonna even do it. You you don't know. I may do it. I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I'm gonna do. I can tell you this that, Iran's got a lot of trouble, and they wanna negotiate. And I said, why didn't you negotiate with me before all this death and destruction? Why didn't you I said to to people, why didn't you negotiate with me two weeks ago? You could have done fine.
You would have had a country. It's, very sad to watch this. I mean, I've I've never I've never seen anything like it. It's so, you know, everyone thought it was gonna be the reverse. I didn't I didn't think so. And I was telling him, you gotta you gotta do something. You gotta negotiate. And at the end, last minute, they said, no. We're not gonna do that, and they got hit. Remember sixty days? And then came the sixty sixty one's gonna become a very famous number. That was one hell of a hit. That first hit, that was one hell of a hit. Not sustainable, to be honest. That's where it ended it ended on the first night. Yes. Is it too late, though? Do you think it's too late to now? Really? Nothing's too late. The only thing too late is Powell. Powell's
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too late. Too late Powell. Are the Iranians reacting to mister
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So just in that statement alone, I mean, there is the possibility that all of this could be resolved. And to kinda dovetail on that, I came across came across this this little piece here. I'm gonna screen share it. This is on the, Gateway Pundit. So, Iranian government plane lands in Oman. Now what's important about this is an Iranian government plane reportedly landed in Oman on Wednesday. That would be today. This is where The US and Oman officials were holding their nuclear talks. This is a very distinct sign that Iranian officials are worried and that they're backed into a corner. There may be several planes that left for Oman.
Two days ago, Iran reported that numerous top officials were strategic strategically assassinated. I'll get it. Strategically assassinated by Israel since Friday's, first military strikes. And this is some some shots of these, of these planes on their way to, Oman. Now this is where, again, they had the the initial talks between The US, and Iran were taking place. And as you see here in Iran news just in, Russia issues a warning for United States against joining Israel's war with Iran. And the question here that was being asked was, is Khomeini gonna sign a surrender? Oh, I don't know about that.
I'm not too sure about that, but that's interesting that they're on their way there or they were. So we're gonna we're gonna keep an eye on that and see what, what comes up out of that. Alright. And then it was let's see. Let's go to, number five here.
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President, what did you say to the supreme leader of Iran?
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Yes. Yes. Say good luck. What is the endgame? Say it? I know the Say it. I know the location is run out.
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It's already run out. That's why we're doing what we're doing. You just take out Yeah. They had 60 and a big, you know, sixty days, plenty of time.
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And they made a mistake, honestly. They made a mistake. They made a mistake. They made a mistake. Their country's in ruins.
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So many people are dead that shouldn't be dead. It's a very sad thing.
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Yeah. And he's right. It is a sad thing. It could've all been taken care of sooner. But what what I find interesting, though, again, is his his his tone and his body language. You know? Again, I don't think this is really what he wants. I think he really genuinely wanted to have some kind of a deal and, didn't really wanna strike. And you know what? Where he said nothing's too late in the one of the first or second clips that I played, I think he means that. And I don't know. Maybe this this this trip of of from the Iranian government to Oman might mean something. Maybe there is something going on that, we don't have the full story on yet, but we'll see.
We shall definitely see. Then he we wanted to talk about, he's made a very interesting comment here too, by the way, talking about when when he was at the, at the raising of the flag and, let me just play it.
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Give you the idea to do this. I've had it for a long time. The, the first time I had it, you know, you guys were after me. I said I said I had to focus. I was I was the hunted, and now I'm the hunter. It's a big difference.
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You think you're gonna be the son of Yes. You bet? That was interesting. Right? So why did you do this? Well, I've always wanted to do it, but I couldn't do it in my first term because you guys were after me. I was hunted, but now I'm the hunter. That's, that's pretty interesting. It's a pretty interesting way to put it. Very interesting. So anyway, what I wanted to say about all of this too is is this. You guys know that I'm I'm I'm part of an organization called the Texas Nationalist Movement. Alright. That's what this flag is all about here behind me.
Texas independence. That's why I have this flag here. Texas independence. If Texas was its own sovereign state, and I use the term state as a nation state, none of what we're seeing right now with with the beating of the war drums and all of this tension and conflict would really have anything to do with us at this point. Now will we have some kind of a contract or some kind of a a treaty with The United States? Yeah. Probably. Probably. I mean, we're right here. Right? Sharing borders. But as the independent country of Texas, we wouldn't have a dog in this fight.
We We wouldn't have a horse in this race, however you wanna put it. That's why movements like the Texas nationalist movement, the Texas secession movement, Cal exit, I forget what they call it in Vermont, but Vermont has one. New Hampshire has one. We wouldn't have to be sitting here even really concerned about how it's gonna affect us here in Texas. Oh, sure. If there's a if there is a some kind of a a nuclear strike on The United States, yeah, there will be some fallout and and stuff like that. I'm not discounting that at all, and I'm not minimizing that at all. I'm not saying that at all. But in this run up to it, we really wouldn't be a part of it.
Not our fight. A lot of the problems and issues that we have with government would be resolved if Texas was a free and independent country. And it's coming, folks. It it is absolutely coming. It is not far away at all in my estimation. In this organization alone, the T and M, there's there's almost 700,000 active members. That's a lot of people. That's a lot of people. There are members of the Texas House Senate that are Texas first pledge signers that are in support and favor and in favor of Texas's Texas secession. Try saying that three times fast.
The question isn't if it's gonna happen, it's more of a when it's gonna happen. I would have loved to have have had it happen prior to all of this. But maybe now, this is a direction that we can go as an organization. And if there's anybody from the organization listening right now, I'm sure these guys have thought about it because I'll I'll be honest with you. The the people that at that are at the top end of this organization are pretty smart people. They're sharp. They're on point. They got their they got their fingers on the pulse of everything that's going on. They probably thought about this. You know, the Bible says, there's nothing new under the sun. If you thought of it, someone thought of it before you.
But this is a great point to bring forward as you talk to people and as you, as you share information about the T and M and what it's all about and what Texas secession is. It's not a violent overthrow. It's not anything like that. This organization advocates working through the legislative process to bring a vote to the people of Texas, to Texans, on whether or not they want to leave The United States and stand alone. Texas can do it. All the numbers are there. More Texans today are in favor of secession than at any other time, at least in modern history that I know of.
I'm gonna be the typical Italian here. I'm gonna say, but but what do I know? You know? Some of you will get that, some of you won't. That's alright. You're good. So these matters matter. Not to sound weird, but they do. These matters matter. We would be sitting back right now just looking at what's going on up north from us going, here they go again. Not, what are they dragging us into now? It's something to consider. We wouldn't be dealing with this if if Texas stood alone, if Texas was its own country like it once was and like it will be again.
Not if, when. Hopefully, my lifetime, I would love to see it. Now you guys know I'm not a Texan by birth. I'm a transplant for sure, but I love my country. My country is Texas. My state is Texas. This is my home. I've waited my life to get here, and I'm here. I'm proud to be here. You know, you wouldn't see me flying a New York flag behind me. Not something I was ever interested in doing, but yet when I got here, even before I got here, I wanted that flag. That one. Right? Texas needs to stand alone. Texas needs to assert its independence. Now if you want information about the Texas nationalist movement, some really good information, you can head over to texitnow.org.
It is scrolling across the bottom of your screen, and I'm going to fix that right now. Boom. I don't like it scrolling. You visit texitnow.org, and you can get all the information that we just talked about plus some much more specific information. And I think at some point, we're gonna go back to, what we what we did at the very outset of this show. When we first started this thing, we would have that that, that that period of time where we talked about TEX IT and the T and M. And, you know, I do have that location on my website. That page on my website. You can go there right now, joeroos.com/tnm, and you can find out all of the information. There are there are QR codes up there. You can scan the scan the QR codes. You can register your support. You can become a member. You can make a donation.
You can email me, ask me any questions about it. I will be happy to talk to you about it. But we are going to spend more time talking about this in upcoming shows, and, and I hope that I hope that you'll understand where I'm coming from when I talk about Texas needing to be a free and independent country. It has to happen. That happens, we don't get dragged into this crap that's taking place. Texas young men and women wouldn't be hauled off to some foreign country who doesn't want us there in the first place trying to bring the seed of democracy, we wouldn't be shedding Texas blood.
So head over to texitnow.org, get more information. You can go to, tnm.me, tnm.me, and also get more information there as well. Alright. Well, I can't believe an hour's gone already. Wow. Alright. So a few other things, took place over this weekend. We had some really interesting conversations involving Tucker Carlson. Not sure if you saw any of this. This is this is, this is wild stuff. So, this is, from, I think, two days ago, where Tucker Carlson went on to, Steve Bannon show. I think it's, The Real America's Voice, if I'm not mistaken, or The War Room. And, so this is what Tucker had to say, to Steve Bannon about Israel.
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Whether or not you believe in Christianity, whether or not you're a Christian, it doesn't matter. It is true that people who espouse violence suffer in the end. They do. I have seen it a lot. And I grew up in a world that espoused violence. That's what the US government does. My dad was involved in it. And I just I just believe that. And maybe you don't believe that. That's fine. That is my core belief. I I sincerely think that. But why the hate towards someone who's just like, hey, I I'm not. I'm hard If you think, and I said this to an Israeli official, if you think I'm anti Israel, man, you are you have lost the plot, son.
If you think I'm your enemy, not at all. I like Israel. Are you kidding? I've spent a lot of time there. I continue to like it. I pray that Jerusalem is not damaged. I feel so sad for the Israelis who've been killed in the last couple days and the Iranians who've been killed in the last couple days with nothing to do with any of this. But the point is, if you think that saying, hey, let's focus on my country where I was born, where my family's been for hundreds of years. That was the promise of the last election. Please do it. If you think that's hate, you know, you've really lost perspective, I guess is what I would say.
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Then they went on, and he's a 100% right, you know. It's it's not that we you you hate Israel. You don't hate Israel. You don't dislike Israel. You're not being anti Semitic. That's that's not what this is about. This is about running on a platform of putting America first, and by getting us involved in another war in The Middle East, you're not putting America first. Because America doesn't really have a dog in this fight. And they went on to talk about, propaganda, which is very interesting. Let's take a look at this.
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Well, Levin's the funniest because he's terrible on TV.
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Just, I'm gonna restart it, but, Tucker Carlson and Mark Levin have been having this battle back and forth online, on the on the on the air for a while now. And it's in some ways, it's kinda hilarious, but in some ways, it's it's really sad too because Mark Levin I used to have a lot of respect for Mark Levin, but, honestly, he's becoming just a pro war, well, I I can't think of a nice thing to say, but he just he just becoming he's he's just become a pro war blowhard. That's what he's become. Now, let's get back to the clip. Start it again.
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Well, Evin's the funniest because he's terrible on TV. And again, I never had any problems with him at Fox. He kind of controls Hannity in this weird way. I never understood what that was about. I never really cared to learn. Sean was great to me, always nice, and so was Levin. So I just, like, kinda stayed away. But they didn't wanna put him on TV because he's, like, screechy and he's just not a coming present. Come in on TV. Like, unless you're literally floating in and out of consciousness and the attendant has taken the remote to go have a cigarette, you're gonna flip the channel when my my colleague gets on TV. It's like listening to your ex wife scream about alimony payments. It's like not appealing. So So they wouldn't put him on TV and then, you know, Sean pushed and they gave him some kind of weekend show that nobody watched. Now, I don't have a TV, but someone was just who had loans the TV was just telling me that he's like all over prime time.
So what is that? That's not by popular claim. It's not like their viewer surveys. Like, you know, we need a lot more Mark Levin. Less Jesse Waters, more Mark Levin. Mark Levin. What they're doing is what they always do, which is just turning up the propaganda hose to full blast and just trying to, you know, knock elderly Fox viewers off their feet and make them submit This is this is
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Tucker's hilarious. I I I don't know. He's he's one of those guys that just loves to laugh at his own jokes even though you might not understand them, you know? Kinda like me. Yeah. I I I I'll accept that. But I guess that's the way us highly intelligent people are. Right? Yeah. Okay. But, yeah, he's right, though. I mean, Mark Levin is is better on the radio than he is on TV for sure. I've I've only seen his show a few times. But to me, that's the sense that I'm getting too is that they they're rolling him out because he is so pro war, interventionist war. He is so pro Israel in that regard that they need a voice like that to try to persuade people that this is the right direction to go. Even though, you know, with somebody with common sense knows that this isn't really the fight that we should be in.
Alright? Well, Bannon asked Tucker a great question. He asked him, do you think that The United States is gonna get involved? Now, again, this is prior to our buildup over here, but, but this was the question that, Bannon asked Tucker.
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Like, all of that is now ignored because a leader of a country who does not have majority support in that country, probably 30% support, wants a course of action that includes The United States. And I just disagree,
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And, anyway, I think it's gonna happen. I don't you know, who cares what I mean? You think that do you think we're enjoying the combat offensive combat opera well, we have to we have to we can't assume that we have to stop it.
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I wish that Steve Bannon really had a position within the White House this term, simply because he is a voice of reason. I don't agree with him in everything. I'm not saying that's but in matters like this, he's definitely not a war hawk. He's more of a a diplomacy first person, and I think that that's what the president needs. That's what I think he needs. Now just to go back to what I said before somebody says, well, you know, you just said something else a few minutes ago. I I'd honestly believe that president Trump did not wanna go to war or start a fight. He I think he would rather have had the deal made, but I think a lot of people are pushing him in this direction, and he kinda got boxed in.
And that's what I said before, and that's what I'm saying now. And I think that if you had more men like Bannon around, I I don't think we'd be where we are right now. So for what it's worth. And then, Tucker rounded it up with this.
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I actually really love Trump. He's a deeply humane, kind person. And I am saying this because I I'm really afraid that my country's gonna be further weakened by this. I think we're gonna see the end of American empire, obviously. Other nations would like to see that, and this is a perfect way to scuttle the USS America on the shores of Iran. But it's also going to end, I believe, Trump's presidency and effectively end it. And and so that's why I'm saying this. What do you mean by that? That's that's coming from you. That's You get look, I knew Bush. I knew George w Bush. We, you know, family connections to Bush. I knew Bush. Personally, I still see Bush sometimes. And, you know, of course, he he hates me, and he does because I criticized him on Iraq. And that war is the sum total from historical perspective of his administration. But I knew him, and he had all kinds of plans for the things that he wanted to do. But once Domestically.
Domestically. Right. To improve the country. Right. And you may agree or disagree, but, like, in his mind, he wasn't just about the invasion of Iraq in March of twenty twenty. He was gonna redo social security. He had all of this. A 100%. AUG types of he was gonna take care of the entitlements issue. And he really thought it was gonna work. Yep. And you could laugh at that or whatever, but the point is the second you get enmeshed in a real war, not a fake, let's go bomb the villagers and declare success. But we don't even have a good track record, like, why the Houthis stole there? I mean, I mean, so There's a whole other question, which is how prepared is the US military for a real conflict, and the answer is totally unprepared. Scary unprepared. I don't think people understand that. But anyway, the only reason I'm saying any of this is because I really, really care.
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Sorry. So, yeah. They were talking about George Bush, like, the whole compassionate conservatism. I don't know if you guys remember that or if that was, you know, a little bit too too far back for some of you. But, yeah, George Bush campaigned on this whole idea of compassionate conservatism, and he was planning on doing those things. Now I supported the president back then. I was wrong. I shouldn't have done that. I didn't have a platform or anything like that to talk about it at the time, but, if I did, I probably would have been out in support just like all the other guys were. Because we all got swept up in that whole nine eleven, you know, attack on America.
Ethos that kinda just swept across the country. So yeah. You know, we were looking for a pound of flesh, and we did it. But, I think nine eleven I don't wanna say derailed him because, in a lot of ways I know you're gonna roll your eyes, say, oh, I conspiracy theirs. I don't think that, I don't think they had clean hands in that. So, leave that for another time too. Don't you love all these little teasers that I'm giving you these days? Yeah. So, I I also disagree with Tucker on the military's preparedness. I I think we're a lot more prepared than he might assess, but it but are we, like, top of the game right now? I don't think so. I think we're still dealing with a lot of the woke bullshit.
We're trying to get that cleaned out still, but technologically, I think we're there. I think and I think that warrior the warrior ethos is is is is back, and I think that, you know, the troops are ready for for for whatever comes their way. I just don't wanna see it have to happen. Okay. Does that make sense? No? Okay. Alright. Well, Tucker was on fire after that interview, and this was a very interesting exchange. I only have a couple of clips on this one, but, Tucker sat down with Ted Cruz. Now I don't know if you've seen any of this yet, but you wanna talk about fireworks. You wanna talk about explosive.
And to be quite honest with you, I was really surprised when I watched I didn't see the I didn't watch the entire, interview yet. I have it right here queued up that I'm gonna watch it tonight. But I was really surprised at Ted Cruz and how he reacted during the course of this interview. And, yeah, I I think I think that, I think Tucker Carlson was a bit antagonistic in it. But I I I I don't have an explanation, or maybe I do, for Ted Cruz's reaction. So so Tuesday, yesterday, Ted Cruz sat down with Tucker Carlson for a one on one interview that just got completely out of control heated.
And, basically, the the whole interview is about, what actions, if any, The US should be taken, in toppling the Iranian government, you know, regime change, like we said earlier. So this was really interesting to see. This is, and I I I came really out of left field. Like, I didn't see this coming in the in the portions of the interview that I did see. I did not see this coming at all, but he decided at at one point, he wanted to test the knowledge of senator Cruz, And this is what happened.
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How many people living around, by the way? I I don't know the population at all. No. I don't know the population.
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You don't know the population of the country you seek to topple?
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How many people live in around? 92,000,000. Okay.
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Yeah. How could you not know that? I don't sit around memorizing population tables. Well, it's kind of relevant because you're calling for the overthrow of the government.
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Why is it relevant whether it's Well, because it's 90,000,000, or 80,000,000 or 100,000,000? Why is that relevant? Well, because if you don't know anything about the country I didn't say I don't know anything about it. Okay. What's the ethnic mix of Iran? They are Persians and predominantly Shia. Okay. No. No. It's not even you don't know anything about the country. No. You don't know anything about the country. You're the one who claims they're not trying to murder Donald Trump. No. I'm not saying that. Who can't figure out a thing that I did kill general Soleimani and you just said it was bad. If they're trying to murder Trump. Yes. I do. You're not calling for military strikes against them in retaliation. If you really believe that carrying out military strikes today. You said Israel was. Right. With our help.
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I've said we. Israel is leading them, but we're supporting them. Well, this you're breaking news here because the US government last night denied, the National Security Council spokesman Alex Pfeiffer denied on behalf of Trump that we were acting on Israel's behalf in any offensive capacity. We're not bombing them. Israel's bombing them. You just said we were. We are supporting Israel as well. You're a senator. If you're saying the United States government is attack now we're with Iran right now. People are listening.
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Well, what do you think of that? And it's it's it's a like, at first, the first time I I heard the interview, I didn't catch that, that he said we. Now I know you can go through the nuance of of language and say, well, yeah. Well, we're in a supportive role to Israel. We're helping them. But he distinctly said we. Words mean things, folks. I've I say that all the time. Words mean things. And then, senator Cruz posted on, on x. Let me, see if I could screen share this for you. I should've grabbed it. Gotta love it. All the soundproofing and everything that I have. These people with these cars here.
Let's see. Ted Cruz's response, did a long interview with Tucker. He released a snippet playing a gotcha on the population of Iran. I declined to play that silly game, watched the full two hour interview where Tucker attacks Trump, attacks the APAC lobby, and falsely claims Iran is not trying to assassinate Trump. So, actually, somebody asked how much money did Ted Cruz take from APAC, which is the the Israeli, political action committee. $562,593. Interesting, right? Very, very interesting indeed. And then, let's see what else we got here. This was this I found very interesting.
Tucker brought up, foreign influence over American politics. And, Senator Cruz, who, by the way, you know, one of my senators, I'll I I do like Senator Cruz very much. I don't I don't agree with him on everything, but that's normal. You can't agree with everybody on everything. I like him, you know, I I like what he stands for, for the most part. I'm I'm just not a neo con, like, I'm not into these forever wars, but on the whole, I like Ted Cruz. And if he was a Republican nominee for, for for president when he ran against Donald Trump, I would have happily cast my vote for him. But he got so defensive when Tucker brought up foreign influence in American politics. It it it again, this whole interview was just, like, surreal to watch.
But here's a clip. It's about two minutes. Very, very interesting. Check it out.
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Does Massage share all of its intelligence with us? Oh, probably not, but they share a lot.
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We don't share all of our intelligence with them, but we share a lot. It's a close alliance. Do they spy domestically in The United States? Oh, they probably do, and we do as well. And and friends and allies spy on each other, and and I assume I assume all of our allies spy on us. That's okay with you? You know what? One of the things about being a conservative is that you're not naive and utopian. You don't think humans are all Part of the reason socialism doesn't work is the mantra from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs doesn't work. As a conservative, I assume people act in their rational self interest. So why does it bring it to worse? To pay people to spy on you?
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It's conservative to recognize that human beings act in their own self interest, and every one of our friends spies on us. And I'm not Do you like it? That's my question. I'm not asking whether they have motive to do it. Of course, they do. I understand that. And I And by the way, I'm not mad at them. You're an American lawmaker, so I just wanna wanna know hold on. I wanna know your attitude. You said that your guiding principle, in fact, the only principle, the only criterion I said guiding. The the overwhelming. I wouldn't say only. Is is it in America's interest? Is it in America's interest for Israel to spy on us, including on the president?
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It is in America's interest to be closely allied with Israel because
[01:09:26] Unknown:
we get huge benefits for it. And you wanna wanna see the clear But I just wanna stop on the spine for a second. That it it takes place, as you know, including on the president of The United States and several precedents, and I just want to know if that's okay, and why is it okay? Wouldn't an American lawmaker say to a client state, you're not allowed to spy on us. I'm sorry. I know why you want to. I'm not mad at you, but you're not allowed to. Sure. And I don't care for it. I don't wanna be spied on by you. Is that it's kinda weird not to say that, but you don't seem able to say that.
[01:10:01] Unknown:
Like I said, this this was a very, very surreal interview. I I like, I I can't explain other than the maybe that Senator Cruz takes money from APAC, AIPC, PAC, which again is the, Israeli political action committee or the American Israeli political action committee, something like that. So we know he takes money from them. Is that why he's so defensive of it? And how are you okay with a foreign country Knowing that is that if that that country is spying not only on congressmen, senators, but the president of The United States. And that doesn't seem to bother you. I I agree with Tucker on that. I mean, that's that's interesting.
It's very interesting, actually. And then last one I have, this one's a a bit of a longer one. Let me, let me let me roll this one for you.
[01:11:23] Unknown:
Do you think that it's just interesting because what you're now describing in a very defensive way, I will say, is foreign influence over our politics. No. And you began, and it's so transparently obvious to everybody. I don't know why you'd be embarrassed of it. You've said that you are sincerely for Israel. I believe you. I don't think you have some weird agenda. You seem to be sincere. By the way, Tucker, it's a very weird thing.
[01:11:47] Unknown:
The obsession with Israel. When we're talking about foreign countries It's probably an obsession. You're not talking about Japanese. You're not talking about the Brits. You're not talking about the French. The question is, what about the Jews? What about the Jews? Oh, I'm an anti Semite now. Senator, you're asking the questions, Tucker. Me. You're asking,
[01:12:03] Unknown:
why are the Jews controlling our foreign policy? Senator, I am hardly saying that, and I have That is exactly what you just said. Well, actually, I can speak for myself and tell you what I am saying. Good. On behalf not simply of myself, but on my many Jewish friends who would have the same questions, which is to what extent and I it's interesting you're trying to derail my questions by calling me an antisemite, which you are. I did not. Of course you are. And and rather than be honorable enough to say it right to my face, you are in a squeezy feline way implying it or just asking questions about the Jews. I'm asking questions about the Jews. I have
[01:12:35] Unknown:
there's nothing to do with Jews or Judaism. It has to with foreign government. Isn't Israel controlling our foreign policy? That's not about the Jews. You said I'm asking And by the way, you're the one that just called me, I think, a sleazy feline. So let's be clear. It's sleazy to imply that I'm an antisemite, which you just did. No. I just We're not asking you Why is that the only question you're asking? You answered. Give me another reason. If you're not an antisemite, give me another reason. I will. The obsession is Israel. I am in no sense obsessed with Israel. We are on the brink of war with Iran,
[01:13:02] Unknown:
and so these are valid questions. But you're not just admit me if I can finish. You asked me why I'm obsessed with Israel. Yep. Three minutes after telling me that when you first ran for Congress, you elucidated one of your main goals, which is to defend Israel. Yes. And I'm the one who's obsessed with Israel. I don't see a lawmaker's job as defending the interests of a foreign government, period. Any government, including the ones that my ancestors come from. So that's my position. That does not make me an antisemite. And shame on you for suggesting otherwise, and I mean that. And that's low, and you know it's low. So why don't you just answer my questions straight forward, rational way? You certainly have the IQ to do it.
Shame on you is is cute, by the way, Tucker. It is. It's not cute. I'm offended. You're you're upset. With the Jews. You just told me that you called me a sleazy feline. It is sleazy to imply that I'm an antisemite for asking questions about how my government is You wanna count how many questions you asked about? What about the Jews? What about Israel? What about You never asked about the Jews. I I have this has nothing to do with the Jews, whatever that means. This has to do with a foreign government. And once again, shame on you for conflating the two.
[01:14:09] Unknown:
Yeah. So yeah. So two and a half minutes or so of of that. Yeah. So he is conflating the two. The the, you know, Israel, the country is not the Jews. Jews are not the is it's it's he's mixed he's he doesn't understand the difference between the two. So a lot of fireworks among the conservatives, the MAGA crowd. So I think Ted Cruz considers himself in the MAGA crowd just as Tucker did. But you see, this is a healthy thing, though, where a lot of people are are on the left are talking about how, you know, oh, that it's you know, the MAGA move is fractured. It's split. It's crumbling. It's falling apart, and that's not the case at all. This is normal.
What's not normal is walking lockstep off a cliff because the party tells you to. This is normal. This is free thinking conservatism. This is how you this is how we deal with issues that we don't necessarily we don't necessarily agree with. We don't just say yes, sir, and move on. We do we talk these things out, which is perfectly normal. So as you listen to the news and as you listen to the mainstream stuff and read stuff in the mainstream media, you're gonna see that, you know, oh, MAGA's split, MAGA's fractured, MAGA's falling apart, MAGA this, MAGA that. That's not the case. This is normal, healthy debate within the movement itself. So rest assured, this is all good.
And at the end of the day, I I guarantee the two of them got up, shook hands, had a laugh, and moved on. Now could something like this potentially hurt senator Cruz for reelection? Yeah. It could. It could. Let's hope it doesn't. And if it does, let's hope that someone conservative comes in behind them. Alright. Let's see what else. Let's, let's pivot somewhere else. Well, this is interesting because this is something that people have been talking about for quite some time. Quite some time. The FBI, according to Kash Patel, FBI director, has located documents which detail alarming allegations related to the two thousand twenty US election, including allegations of interference by the CCP.
I have immediately declassified the material and turned the documents over to the chairman Grassley for further review. So, the FBI gives Congress intel on alleged Chinese plot to create fake mail in ballots. FBI director, Kash Patel, reveals Chinese plot to create thousands of fake mail in ballots in the twenty twenty election, and Chris Wray hid this like he did the Iranian breach of the twenty twenty election system. The article goes on to say this. FBI director Kash Patel announced on Monday that the FBI has located documents that detail alarming allegations related to the twenty twenty US election, including allegations of interference by the CCP.
According to Kash, the communist Chinese were involved in a plan to, listen to this, create thousands of fake mail in ballots in 2020 using fake voter registrations. And it should be clear that China was not creating fake ballots to assist Donald Trump. The CHICOMs detested Trump and what he had done to their economy. Trump was the only US president in decades to take on the Chinese Communist Party. Cash tweeted out, this report, from Just the News on Monday, which I just showed you the clip from. This information was regard disregarded by the FBI in August of twenty twenty, and this is the article from Just the News. The newly declassified Let me see if I can do this.
The new newly declassified intelligence reports from August 2020 weren't corroborated or fully investigated, and instead were recalled from intelligence agencies at about the time that then FBI director Chris Wray testified that there were no known plots of foreign interference ahead of the twenty twenty election in which Biden defeated Donald Trump. The new documents were turned over to senate judiciary committee chairman Chuck Grassley, who at first raised concerns to the bureau that the intelligence hadn't been fully vetted and instead was just dismissed even though there was evidence of fake licenses. Grassley said, thanks to the oversight work and partnership of I'm sorry. That was Patel.
Thanks to the oversight work and partnership of chairman Grassley, the FBI continues to provide unprecedented transparency at the People's Bureau. To that end, we have located documents chairman Grassley requested, which detail alarming allegations related to twenty twenty US election. Specifically, these include allegations of plans from the CCP to manufacture fake driver's licenses and ship them into The United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail in ballots, allegations which, while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public. But this is something that we all knew already, and people were shut down on social media.
Accounts were, banned. Posts were forced to be people were deplatformed. Show hosts were demonetized. We were told we were all conspiracy theorists. We were told to shut up and accept it, that that that somehow, some way, a doddering old fool who campaigned from his basement got the most votes in US history. The intelligence source claimed the plot was specifically designed to benefit Biden. They also said the intelligence reports were recalled within a few weeks and allegations never fully investigated on the grounds that the source needed to be reinterviewed. But in fact, another agency, US Customs and Border Protection, had intercepted nearly 20,000 fake licenses around the time that the intelligence came in as a possible corroboration of the report.
Unbelievable. Let me see. I'm looking at another another, piece here. Fake voter identities could be created for Chinese residents living in The US in order for them to cast mail in ballots in favor of Joe Biden. Now, of course, they did that for Joe Biden because Joe Biden was in their pocket. Joe Biden was was making millions for his family and associates. They needed Joe Biden in the White House, And you heard what the last piece mentioned, the last piece even said, because of Donald Trump. Because Donald Trump confronted China and seriously hurt their economy.
Former intel from Gateway Pundit. Former intel officer drops truth bombs. CIA and ODNI covered up the twenty twenty CCP election interference and then fired him. A former national intelligence officer for cyber under president Trump and Joe Biden has come forward with explosive allegations. The CIA and the office of the director of national intelligence deliberately buried evidence of Chinese Communist Party interference in the twenty twenty presidential election and fired him when he refused to play along. The whistleblower's damning post came in response to general Mike Flynn's tweet on Monday questioning why foreign election interference by the CCP wasn't exposed back in 2020.
So this is the post, from Michael Flynn. Mike Flynn, so there was foreign interference by the CCP in the twenty twenty presidential election. Who was running the USIC at the time and why didn't this get exposed back then? Can we get four years of our lives back? And then this, Christopher Porter, responds, sir, I was in charge of election analysis and did call it out. CIA and ODNI tried to cover up the evidence, and when I wouldn't go along with it, terminated me. Now according to Boston College, from 2019 to 2022, he was the National Intelligence Officer for Cybersecurity for Cyber, leading The US intelligence community's analysis of foreign cyber threats and threats to US elections. As a member of the, National Intelligence Council, Porter oversaw production of national intelligence estimates, was the primary cyber intelligence adviser to the director of national intelligence, developed the analytical portion of The United of the Unified Intelligence Strategy, and led the IC Cyber Analysis Leadership Council made up of other cyber leaders and so on.
This revelation is gaining steam following Monday's bombshell from FBI director, Kash Patel, who confirmed that newly declassified documents reveal alarming CCP involvement in a backed by fraudulent voter registrations and Chinese manufactured driver's licenses. So let that sink in. That's what he says. The Chinese Communist Party actively worked to rig a US election, and The US intelligence community knew it and covered it up. How about that? According to Patel, these damning intelligence reports were dismissed by FBI leadership in August of twenty twenty.
That's the same month disgraced former FBI director Chris Wray testified before congress that there was, quote, no known plots of foreign interference in the lead up to the election, but Wray had the receipts and he hid them. So folks, a foreign government, a foreign government actively worked to influence and rig a US presidential election. And not only that, not only that, but the intelligence community looked you in the face, the American people in the face and said, there's no there there, when in fact they knew that that election was stolen, when they knew it and they had the documentation to back it up.
And yet, people like me who questioned it and others. Again, at that time, I didn't have a show going on, so I didn't I wasn't able to do it this this way. But people who did have shows were deplatformed, demonetized in their accounts. They had their lives turned upside down. They were called conspiracy theorists. All kinds of stuff investigated, prosecuted, being accused of spreading misinformation, disinformation, election denier, and yet they all knew. Every one of them. The intelligence agencies, and I guarantee you, not just the intelligence agencies, but I guarantee you Schmucky Schumer, Nancy Pastavatka Pelosi, Obama, they all knew.
The only one who probably didn't know was Joe Biden because he was a vegetable, basically. I shouldn't say that because that's an insult to vegetables. Folks, do you have any idea how bad this is? This is horrible. This is absolutely horrible. It's at that point where, you know, The whole thing needs to be taken down. It all does. The CIA, the FBI, all that stuff needs to be taken down, stripped down, shut down. Man, I'll I'll even go as far as saying abolished. Because if they were able to get away with that, What's gonna happen when people like Kash Patel, Bongino are gone?
Off the scene, what else are they gonna do? It's time to really again, this all falls back to Texit. Independence. This system is broken. This system is like being in an abusive relationship. There comes a point in every abusive relationship where the where the abused says that's enough. It's time to go. When Bongino had his radio his radio show and his podcast, he used to say a he used to have a a a great little, little saying that he would do when he was talking about things like this, which another story. He would he would often ask the question, talking about bringing about change. Right? People aren't gonna change things until it gets bad enough.
Well, let me ask you a question. Has it gotten bad enough On the precipice of another unending war, on the precipice of a world war, one that's probably gonna end up costing us billions, if not trillions of dollars, and who knows how many thousands of lives, if not more, Intelligence agencies knowing full well that there was a steal going on, a rigging of and foreign influence in a a US presidential election and did nothing about it. And I can sit here and I can probably list on and on and on and on and on. When is enough enough?
And to borrow Bongino's phrase or question, has it gotten bad enough yet to where something like this is a logical alternative. Something to think about, something to chew on. Alright. Well, I've gone on long enough. I'm sure you're tired of listening to me. So, I'm gonna say goodnight here at this point, and I'm gonna remind you that, no show tomorrow, so don't forget that. And then we will be back on Friday with episode number 100. Can you believe that? 100 episodes coming up this Friday. Alright, folks. Don't forget. Head over to our website, joerooge.com, leave us a message, let us know what you think.
Shout outs to our executive producers, Wayne and Rosanna Rankin, our producer, anonymous Angela. Thank you guys so much for all that you guys do. Folks, make Texas independent again. Go podcasting. Keep a steady stride, and pray. Pray. Alright, folks. Have a great night. Good night, And goodbye.
Introduction and Show Overview
Recap of Previous Show and Technical Issues
Promoting Rumble and Social Media Platforms
Upcoming Guests and Show Format
Political Segment Introduction
Discussion on Middle East Tensions
Texas Independence Movement
Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz Interview
FBI and Election Interference Allegations
Closing Remarks and Episode 100 Announcement
