June 20, 2025 • 25 mins
Trump is acting as the President of the United States first and foremost, not as the President of Israel, taking a measured approach to Iran while considering broader global implications. His careful deliberation demonstrates a chess player's strategic thinking rather than impulsiveness, focusing on preventing unintended consequences.
• Trump has ruled out US troops on the ground and nation-building
• "A people hire A people, but B people hire C people" - Trump has assembled an A-team cabinet
• Israel has established air superiority over Iran and is likely targeting the Ayatollah
• Iran poses an existential threat to both Israel and America with its nuclear program
• Trump is considering all scenarios, including regime collapse and regional power vacuums
• The situation connects to China's oil dependency and Russia's economic challenges
• Unlike previous administrations, Trump prioritizes strategic thinking over political grandstanding
• Trump's legacy depends on this critical decision about Iran's nuclear facilities
Remember that in complex international situations, there are no solutions—only trade-offs. Trump is carefully weighing these trade-offs to ensure American interests are protected.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Happy Friday everybody.
It's me, herbie K, your host ona Radical Reset, and today
we're going to continue ourdiscussion on what's going on in
the Middle East, because howcould we not?
But at the same time, I'm goingto perhaps share a little
different perspective, which isthat President Trump is acting
like the president of the UnitedStates, not the president of
Israel.
Now let me explain what I'msaying, and, by the way, I
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couldn't agree more.
Even though I am Jewish and aZionist, I, like most American
Jews, put the word Americanfirst and if push comes to shove
, we're going to take America'sside.
Now, in this particularconflict, there is no side to
take.
America and Israel are on thesame page, but not in the same
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position on the page, sounderstand this.
First of all, let's go throughsome of the objections of people
who I consider to be usefulidiots of the Iranians, like
Tucker Carlson.
Tucker Carlson might be theking of the useful idiots for
the Iranians and he makes thecase that we're going to get
drawn into another forever warand we're going to have to, you
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know, get involved andultimately end up having to
rebuild the country, et cetera,et cetera.
You've heard this the foreverwars.
Now, those of you who havelistened to me for any prolonged
period of time know thatnobody's been a bigger opponent
of forever wars than me.
Nation building is an enormousmistake, but in this case,
president Trump has alreadyruled that out.
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There will not be US troops onthe ground.
There's just no possibility ofthat.
Okay, so there's not going tobe any nation building.
Unlike Iraq War Two, where westupidly went into Iraq and
tried to rebuild it from theground up in a culture that we
knew not next to nothing,absolutely nothing about, and
created a mess.
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Unlike Afghanistan, where wedid exactly the same thing.
In this case, we are resistingthe urge.
There are no American troops onlanding ships or anywhere else
getting ready to land, nor areany European powers looking to
line up troops.
So let's take a look at thesituation and let's just reject
that as the useful, idiotargument.
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So here's where President Trumpis and here's why I think he
laid down the two weeks that hesaid he's going to think about
it and act.
And the key word is he wasgoing to act within two weeks,
because President Trump isnotorious for not telling people
his plans before he does it,because only a moron would do
that.
You know, when the press asksthings like when's the attack
going to be, that's a moronquestion and President Trump's
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not going to answer it.
Now, president Obama would haveanswered it and President Biden
, the senile, would haveanswered it, because they were
both incompetent.
But one of the reasons, one ofthe ways to judge presidents and
put aside whether you agreewith them on the issues or not
okay, there's an old managementaxiom I've used it before, I'm
going to use it again in thiscontext, and then I'm going to
continue my thoughts which is Apeople hire A people, but B
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people hire C people.
When I say an A person, I mean aperson secure in his or her own
ego and so secure that they cansurround themselves with
advisors that are smarter thanthey are, or at least as smart
as they are, and not feelthreatened and their egos be you
know, somehow overwhelmed.
Now I know you Trumpderangement.
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People are going to scream outthat Trump's an egomaniac.
But this is because you arestupid.
Now remember the definition ofstupidity that I've used.
This doesn't mean you'reunintelligent, it means you're
stupid.
Stupid means you're unwillingto consider any other piece of
evidence except those thatconfirm your own inherent bias,
which you've picked up by beinga member of a group, in this
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case progressivism, and you'reafraid to put your hand up, even
if you know you're full of shitor even consider that you're
full of shit, because you simplycan't deviate from your group
and you have lots of reasons whyyou don't want to destroy your
career.
Yada, yada, yada, whatever itmight be, but the point is
you're stupid.
So when I say that Trump is anA person and is unthreatened by
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his ego, I'm basing it onevidence, not on hyperbole from
the moron fringe.
And the evidence, I say, islook at his cabinet.
Scott Pessant was one of theforemost finance managers and
hedge fund managers in the world, respected by everybody on Wall
Street, left and right, almostpositive was a one-time Democrat
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, if not possibly still aDemocrat I don't think he's a
Democrat now, but I think he wasbut clearly a powerhouse.
Marco Rubio, the senator fromFlorida, with a deep foreign
policy background and certainlymore experience than Donald
Trump has in the area, and yethe still made him Secretary of
State Okay.
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Howard Ludnick at CommerceAgain a huge hedge fund manager
from Wall Street.
David Katz, who's the head ofAI Okay.
Again.
Same thing, big guy fromSilicon Valley, billionaire,
extremely smart.
Again, trump surrounds himselfwith it.
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Linda McMahon, again powerfulwoman, founder of an entire
business empire in the fightingbusiness, a real killer, and you
couldn't be around her if youwere weak of ego.
Doug Burnham, major self-madebillionaire, a former governor
of North Dakota, now theSecretary of the Interior.
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The point I make is that Trumpsurrounds himself with A-level
people.
Tulsi Gabbard, his nationalsecurity advisor.
She is anything but a wiltingviolet.
All of these people have bigegos and the reason it doesn't
bounce off Trump or doesn'toffend Trump is because he's an
A person.
A people hire A people, but Bpeople hire C people.
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Now, before I go on to explaina B, because you're going to
think I'm being partisan, I'lljust name another A person, only
this time a Democrat.
President Clinton was an Aperson.
He surrounded himself withpeople like Robert Rubin, okay,
and Robert Reich at Labor, who alot of people don't like, but
he's not a dummy by any stretch.
Larry Summers, the Treasuryafter Robert Rubin, you know,
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was Larry Summers in thatadministration?
I think he was.
Anyway, these are formerpresident of Harvard, yada, yada
.
President Clinton was anythingbut a shrinking violet.
It's been a while so I can'tremember the names of everyone
in his cabinet, but it struck meat the time and it strikes me
now that he was and is an Aperson.
He is unthreatened by otheregos.
He was always the best and thebrightest, and so surrounding
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himself with more best andbrightest didn't threaten that
in his mind.
He's just a very, very secureguy, not necessarily the
smartest guy, although verysmart and President Trump is
very smart, but not necessarilyAlbert Einstein, but unafraid to
listen to people, especiallywith expertise in areas they
don't have.
Both the Democrat Clinton andthe Republican President Trump.
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Now, when you take a look atPresident Obama, who had a
notoriously thin skin, he pickedJoe Biden.
Oh, that's another thing.
President Trump picked JD Vance, who is anything but a B person
.
He's an A-plus person.
But President Biden?
President Obama picked the Bperson, which was Biden.
Biden was a longtime mediocrity.
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He was a failed presidentialcandidate since the 70s.
He was a lightweightintellectually, by all evidence,
and he was just, and on top ofthat he's mean and corrupt.
But that's who Obama pickedbecause he knew he could
dominate him.
And then what he did is whatmost presidents do with their
vice presidents is he shovedthem off in a corner and forgot
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about them.
In fact, it was Obama who oncesaid never underestimate Joe's
ability to fuck things up.
Feel free to look that up.
That is word for word, a quotefrom Barack Obama.
But Obama then hired the Cperson and then the Democrats.
Because they manipulated thesystem.
The C guy gets nominated aspresident of the United States
while senile.
I believe the greatest scandalin US history yet to unfold by
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the way slight digression, thoseof you who are wondering why
Pam Bondi another A person atAttorney General has not yet
filed charges against any ofthese people is that it takes at
least a year to build up astrong case in court before you
bring it.
Patience, people, patience,grasshopper.
The Trump administration's onlybeen in office five months.
Calm down, calm down, it'scoming.
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Just be patient.
Okay, so we get a C person.
He hires a D person KamalaHarris as empty as, I'd say, a
suit, but as empty a dress ordress whatever you want to call
it that there's ever been.
And of course, she manages topick an F person Tim Walz is her
vice president.
Think about what I'm tellingyou.
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So Donald Trump is a verysecure person who surrounds
himself with other very, verybright and talented people,
which is not to say he alwaysgets it right, but he always
gets the best advice possible.
Now, in this instance, he'sacting again, as I said, as the
president of the United States,not the president of Israel, and
I, as an American, putting myJewishness and my Zionism aside,
find it reassuring that thepresident is taking his time to
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think this all the way through.
Look, israel has establishedabsolute air superiority over
Iran.
America doesn't have to attacktoday.
It doesn't have to All thecrazies who want to go out and
attack immediately and haven'tthought about the next step and
are all playing checkers.
I've told you before and I'llsay it again Donald Trump plays
chess, and what he's consideringis, after we create the
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potentially by bombing a Fordoand taking out the nuclear
program and with Israelconsciously targeting the
Ayatollah himself.
And Israel is going to kill theAyatollah.
He's a dead man walking.
There's going to be a powervacuum, and so Donald Trump is
taking his time to find out whatthe plan is on the part of
Israel and the other Arabcountries.
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Saudi Arabia, the UAE, oman GodAlmighty, I can never think of
the name where the negotiationshave been taking place, because
everyone pronounces itdifferently Not Oman.
Anyway, it'll come to me.
All of these Arab countriesthat are part of the Abraham
Accords Jordan, now Syria whichIsrael, by the way, has been
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flying over as friendlyterritory now that the Assad
regime is gone, and that's howthey're getting to Iran, in case
any of you are curious, they'reoverflying Syria All of these
countries are going to beinvolved in what happens if
there's a power vacuum createdby the fall of the Ayatollah.
So what Trump is looking at iswhat if the government, the
regime, falls?
And what if the regime doesn'tfall, and what to expect next,
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because it's a much morecomplicated issue for the United
States than Israel.
Israel is concerned with anexistential threat to the
country itself and, to a lesserextent, iran is an existential
threat to us.
Because, folks, if you haven'tthought it through and I'm
speaking particularly again tothe useful idiots like Tucker
Carlson who say that Iran is nota threat to us because they're
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too far away you don't need aballistic missile to attack with
a nuclear weapon.
You can sail a boat into NewYork Harbor and detonate.
Now.
A ground blast won't kill asmany people as an air blast, but
it'll still kill a million ortwo people, and that would be
plenty bad enough.
So please don't tell me thatIran is not a direct existential
threat to the United States.
If you say that again, you area useful idiot for Iran.
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Now Trump is considering all ofthat.
If the regime doesn't fall,trump has to consider is their
entire nuclear ability taken out?
Will they have the ability toreform at least a crude nuclear
warhead and will they try todetonate at New York Harbor or
some other place where there area lot of Americans?
He has to consider that.
What happens if the regimefalls?
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What's likely to take its place?
How will that fit into ournegotiations?
For example, china gets 43% ofits oil from Iran alone.
It gets all of its oil from theMiddle East.
Well, not all of it.
It gets some from Venezuela andsome I don't think we sell to
it.
Do we sell oil to China?
We might.
I'm not positive, but I'm surewe're going to.
Under the deal and that's theother element here the Chinese
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play into this.
Not that they're going to comeinto the side of Iran, but this
is heavily affecting theirenergy supply when their own
economy is teetering on thebrink.
Consequently, xi you'll notice,president Xi has not made any
bellicose comments about Israel.
He's issued a few lukewarm.
We support Iran and we supportnegotiations, and he's
supporting the negotiations thatsupposedly are going to go on
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today between the European Unionand the Iranians in Oman.
And that's fine, that's alltheater.
None of that is going to cometo anything.
The Iranians are playing astall game.
The Ayatollah can't possiblysurrender on the nuclear issue.
I don't think, because if hedid, the regime would lose its
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credibility among its own peopleand would probably fall.
But we don't really understandthat culture.
We just think we do.
Trump is wise enough, not.
He has made it crystal clear weare not going in there
whatsoever.
But that doesn't mean he's notconcerned about what is going to
go in and what is going to takethe place of the regime,
because it will directly affect,for example, as I just said,
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our negotiations with China.
Okay, will the Iranian oilsupply continue to be a reliable
source of energy for China?
And if not, will the UnitedStates want to negotiate to
provide more oil to China fromus and make more money on our
side?
And what are the ramificationsof all of this?
That's part one.
Part two is Russia.
Now, if those of you who, again, I'm sure that everyone's been
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transfixed by this MiddleEastern thing.
But the day before yesterday,the those of you who, again, I'm
sure that everyone's beentransfixed by this Middle
Eastern thing.
But the day before yesterday,the head of the Russian Central
Bank came out and said in a veryunusual statement that Russia
is slipping into a recession.
Now, russians don't usuallyadmit that in public, so for
that to be admitted.
That explains why suddenly, ifyou haven't noticed, putin has
become more reasonable.
He said a couple of days agothat he's willing to negotiate
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with zelensky, even face to face, or any ukrainians.
He's willing, he wants to, tostart the negotiations as soon
as possible.
He's pushed this thing as faras he can go and he's in the
country, is in terrible economicstraits and trump, of course,
wants to settle that war as well.
Trump would like.
Trump hates war.
Anyone who understands donaldtrump has known for the last 20
or 30 years at least, he hasbeen consistently anti-war, even
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during the so-called popularwars, when most people were
falling for the joke of regimechange.
Donald Trump was even thensaying stupid, stupid, stupid.
So everybody needs to relax,including my fellow Jews,
because he's acting in aresponsible, thoughtful way as
President of the United States,considering his options,
listening to his A-list advisorsbefore he makes a decision.
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Now, ultimately, do I thinkwe're going to take out the
reactors?
I'm positive we're going totake out the reactors, but will
that mean take it out bymissiles?
Well, another possibility ofthis two-week delay is that
we're moving special forcesbetween Israel and the United
States in to try to take itwithout sending in the missiles.
What if we send in specialforces, which is not the same as
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landing troops that do regimechange?
And what if we you know, israelhas so completely infiltrated
the Iranian regime?
It is likely that they'veinfiltrated Fordo as well.
What if they've got somebody onthe inside who is going to and
I'm speaking in the mostsimplistic of terms.
I know there's more to it thanwhat I'm about to say but what
if someone's going to unlock thedoor and leave the front door
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open for the Israeli commandosto come in and take out the
facility?
Well, and then, of course, theycould be certain of destruction
.
One of the problems is thatwe've never actually used the
30,000 pound Moab bomb to takeout a deep bunker like this
before we blew up a mountain inTora Bora and it fried the
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mountain, but there was nothinglike the facility there that
what's going on underneath Fordo.
So we think we'll take it outby using multiple bombs, one
after another, to get down to300 feet and blow it up, but
we're not 100% positive.
However, if we did it bycommando raid, it would be 100%
positive because once insidethey could evacuate everybody
out of the structure, plantbombs, set the timer, walk out,
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close the door and, kaboom,that's the end of it.
So that's another possibility.
Everybody has got to stopspeculating without any
knowledge whatsoever.
So my advice to everyone istake a deep breath, be happy
that we have a president who'ssecure enough not to be forced
into making a rash decision forpolitical reasons, like I'll
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tell you, one of the most viledecisions of any president in my
lifetime After Barack Obama wasthe president lucky enough that
the intelligence people foundOsama bin Laden and he gave the
order to take him out and wecaptured all of that stuff.
Instead of keeping it a secretuntil after we had a chance to
analyze the intelligence, heimmediately announced it to the
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world, rendering all of thatintelligence we collected
completely worthless, becauseonce al-Qaeda knew that we had
it and that we had gotten binLaden.
We didn't even have a day toanalyze it.
Obama came out and crowed tothe world I got him, I got him,
we got him.
Look how brave we are.
Yeah, we got him.
And then we flushed all thevalue of that intelligence right
down the toilet and God onlyknows how many American lives
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that wasted.
By the way, my background oneof the many things I've done in
my life is I worked at theNational Security Agency as a
Russian linguist and I have astrong background in
intelligence and I know thefirst thing.
Rule number one is don't tellthe enemy you've got their stuff
.
I mean, you've got to be out ofyour mind.
You might as well just announceto the world we have your stuff
and now it's useless because wetold you.
But that's what Barack Obamadid.
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That's why he was a B person.
He needed his ego stroke.
He needed the approbation ofknocking off Osama bin Laden.
But Trump is nothing like thatat all and Trump is going to say
yes, trump is hyperbolic.
But, as I've told you guys,with Trump derangement, the man
is an honest liar.
He lies about stuff that ismeaningless.
He's hyperbolic.
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It was the biggest crowd.
It was the biggest, the mostimportant bill, it's the most
people that ever loved me.
I have the highest.
That's all.
Yeah, a lot of that's baloney,but it's all just hyperbole and
it means it's unimportant.
It's like it's.
It's on the same level when yougo over to someone's house and
you're served dinner and it'sabsolutely vile, and yet you
tell whoever cooked it thehusband or the wife or both of
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you loved it and how deliciousit was.
I call that therapeutic lying.
Trump does a lot of therapeuticlying, but it doesn't mean
anything.
It's just talk about anythingthat matters.
I can't think of a singleinstance where Trump has lied on
a major issue and I invite youto email me if you can, but I'll
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save you a lot of time.
He doesn't lie on anythingthat's remotely important.
He's not a politician, he's anexecutive who happens to be in a
political position and that's avery, very different thing.
And his first term he waslearning how to be political and
now he knows and he had fouryears to plan for it and he's
been extraordinarily effective,whether you love him or you hate
him.
And I don't agree with him oneverything, as you guys know, on
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immigration, I have a strongdisagreement on a lot of it, but
overall the man acts prudentlyand has definitely got the
A-team on board.
Just because I disagree withsomeone like, for example, tom
Holman at ICE doesn't mean Ithink he's an idiot or a fool.
I disagree with the way he goesabout things.
I don't think he's stupid andthat's because I'm not deranged.
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Okay, there are people in theprogressive wing that I'd like
to say I don't think are stupid,but I think progressivism
itself is stupid, because theobjective evidence, regardless
of the position they take,whether it's national healthcare
, whether it's opening theborder, whether it's all this
multiple gender crap, it's allbased on nonsense.
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There's no objective realitybacking up progressivism.
It's a philosophy of stupidityat its root.
And then it's like progressivesare like toddlers, sticking
their fingers in the ear so theydon't want to hear anything and
going la la, la, la, la la lawhen they don't want to hear
what their parents have to say.
Okay, on the other hand, on theright, we have a very similar
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thing forming the Tucker Carlsonmoron wing of the Republican
party.
I knew Tucker Carlson was amoron when he went to Russia and
had to go on and on and onabout how inexpensive and
beautiful everything was inRussian stores, without
informing his viewers that a lotof the the reason it's less
expensive is the statesubsidizes it, because the per
capita income in russian inrussia, pardon me is, uh, about
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20 of what it is in the unitedstates.
You know, figures lie and liarsfigure.
My friend and morons or stupids, I should call them lie
stupidly.
Tucker carlson is a stupid andhe's an anti-Semite and that's
all there is to it.
But anyway, let's review thepodcast and I will close for
today and send you on your merryway for the weekend, and me too
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, trump, to my relief andapproval, and reinforcing what I
thought I already knew, to makeme know that I already know it.
Does that make any sense?
That was a really bizarrosentence.
Forgive me if that made nosense, but you get the drift of
what I'm saying.
He's reaffirmed to me that he'sa thoughtful chess-playing man
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and he's playing chess here andhe's thinking through the moves
after the fall and that's justplain smart and it's in the US
interest to do that, because ourinterests are far greater than
Israel's interests worldwide, asI, as I said, I just say this
in review, not that you don'tremember it already, but the
Chinese.
The Chinese and Russia'ssituation all links in with this
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for different reasons, andTrump is making sure that.
Remember he's in his last term.
This is this is his second term.
He's not going to be able torun for re-election.
This is about his legacy, too,and the world he leaves, and the
decision that he makes in thenext couple of days or so to
take out that reactor and thenfrom there go on or that
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facility, I should say and thengo on from there and what's
going to happen next will be themost important decision he has
ever made in his life period.
His entire legacy rests upon acorrect decision, and the fact
that he's taking a moment to doit is reassuring, and so all of
you out there who are like meand are Zionists are wondering
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why doesn't he go?
Why doesn't he go?
This is not taco.
Trump doesn't always chicken out.
Trump is playing chess whileall the checkers players are
yelling chicken, chicken,chicken.
Because they would have acted,and then we would have done what
we always do, which is create amountain of unintended
consequences that we nevercontemplated to begin with that
end up causing more problemsthan the ones that we thought we
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solved, as Thomas Sowell has sofamously said, and I've said it
before and I'll say it again asThomas Sowell has so famously
said, and I've said it beforeand I'll say it again, there are
no solutions, only trade-offs.
So Trump is carefully weighingthe trade-offs that we're about
to undertake to make sure that,in the end, they are heavily
weighted in favor of the UnitedStates.
And so with that I close thispodcast.
I wish you a happy, happyweekend.
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God bless your family and Godbless America.
Talk to you next week.
Happy Friday everybody.
It's me, herbie K, your host ona Radical Reset, and today
we're going to continue ourdiscussion on what's going on in
the Middle East, because howcould we not?
But at the same time, I'm goingto perhaps share a little
different perspective, which isthat President Trump is acting
like the president of the UnitedStates, not the president of
Israel.
Now let me explain what I'msaying, and, by the way, I
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couldn't agree more.
Even though I am Jewish and aZionist, I, like most American
Jews, put the word Americanfirst and if push comes to shove
, we're going to take America'sside.
Now, in this particularconflict, there is no side to
take.
America and Israel are on thesame page, but not in the same
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position on the page, sounderstand this.
First of all, let's go throughsome of the objections of people
who I consider to be usefulidiots of the Iranians, like
Tucker Carlson.
Tucker Carlson might be theking of the useful idiots for
the Iranians and he makes thecase that we're going to get
drawn into another forever warand we're going to have to, you
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know, get involved andultimately end up having to
rebuild the country, et cetera,et cetera.
You've heard this the foreverwars.
Now, those of you who havelistened to me for any prolonged
period of time know thatnobody's been a bigger opponent
of forever wars than me.
Nation building is an enormousmistake, but in this case,
president Trump has alreadyruled that out.
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There will not be US troops onthe ground.
There's just no possibility ofthat.
Okay, so there's not going tobe any nation building.
Unlike Iraq War Two, where westupidly went into Iraq and
tried to rebuild it from theground up in a culture that we
knew not next to nothing,absolutely nothing about, and
created a mess.
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Unlike Afghanistan, where wedid exactly the same thing.
In this case, we are resistingthe urge.
There are no American troops onlanding ships or anywhere else
getting ready to land, nor areany European powers looking to
line up troops.
So let's take a look at thesituation and let's just reject
that as the useful, idiotargument.
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So here's where President Trumpis and here's why I think he
laid down the two weeks that hesaid he's going to think about
it and act.
And the key word is he wasgoing to act within two weeks,
because President Trump isnotorious for not telling people
his plans before he does it,because only a moron would do
that.
You know, when the press asksthings like when's the attack
going to be, that's a moronquestion and President Trump's
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not going to answer it.
Now, president Obama would haveanswered it and President Biden
, the senile, would haveanswered it, because they were
both incompetent.
But one of the reasons, one ofthe ways to judge presidents and
put aside whether you agreewith them on the issues or not
okay, there's an old managementaxiom I've used it before, I'm
going to use it again in thiscontext, and then I'm going to
continue my thoughts which is Apeople hire A people, but B
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people hire C people.
When I say an A person, I mean aperson secure in his or her own
ego and so secure that they cansurround themselves with
advisors that are smarter thanthey are, or at least as smart
as they are, and not feelthreatened and their egos be you
know, somehow overwhelmed.
Now I know you Trumpderangement.
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People are going to scream outthat Trump's an egomaniac.
But this is because you arestupid.
Now remember the definition ofstupidity that I've used.
This doesn't mean you'reunintelligent, it means you're
stupid.
Stupid means you're unwillingto consider any other piece of
evidence except those thatconfirm your own inherent bias,
which you've picked up by beinga member of a group, in this
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case progressivism, and you'reafraid to put your hand up, even
if you know you're full of shitor even consider that you're
full of shit, because you simplycan't deviate from your group
and you have lots of reasons whyyou don't want to destroy your
career.
Yada, yada, yada, whatever itmight be, but the point is
you're stupid.
So when I say that Trump is anA person and is unthreatened by
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his ego, I'm basing it onevidence, not on hyperbole from
the moron fringe.
And the evidence, I say, islook at his cabinet.
Scott Pessant was one of theforemost finance managers and
hedge fund managers in the world, respected by everybody on Wall
Street, left and right, almostpositive was a one-time Democrat
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, if not possibly still aDemocrat I don't think he's a
Democrat now, but I think he wasbut clearly a powerhouse.
Marco Rubio, the senator fromFlorida, with a deep foreign
policy background and certainlymore experience than Donald
Trump has in the area, and yethe still made him Secretary of
State Okay.
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Howard Ludnick at CommerceAgain a huge hedge fund manager
from Wall Street.
David Katz, who's the head ofAI Okay.
Again.
Same thing, big guy fromSilicon Valley, billionaire,
extremely smart.
Again, trump surrounds himselfwith it.
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Linda McMahon, again powerfulwoman, founder of an entire
business empire in the fightingbusiness, a real killer, and you
couldn't be around her if youwere weak of ego.
Doug Burnham, major self-madebillionaire, a former governor
of North Dakota, now theSecretary of the Interior.
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The point I make is that Trumpsurrounds himself with A-level
people.
Tulsi Gabbard, his nationalsecurity advisor.
She is anything but a wiltingviolet.
All of these people have bigegos and the reason it doesn't
bounce off Trump or doesn'toffend Trump is because he's an
A person.
A people hire A people, but Bpeople hire C people.
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Now, before I go on to explaina B, because you're going to
think I'm being partisan, I'lljust name another A person, only
this time a Democrat.
President Clinton was an Aperson.
He surrounded himself withpeople like Robert Rubin, okay,
and Robert Reich at Labor, who alot of people don't like, but
he's not a dummy by any stretch.
Larry Summers, the Treasuryafter Robert Rubin, you know,
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was Larry Summers in thatadministration?
I think he was.
Anyway, these are formerpresident of Harvard, yada, yada
.
President Clinton was anythingbut a shrinking violet.
It's been a while so I can'tremember the names of everyone
in his cabinet, but it struck meat the time and it strikes me
now that he was and is an Aperson.
He is unthreatened by otheregos.
He was always the best and thebrightest, and so surrounding
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himself with more best andbrightest didn't threaten that
in his mind.
He's just a very, very secureguy, not necessarily the
smartest guy, although verysmart and President Trump is
very smart, but not necessarilyAlbert Einstein, but unafraid to
listen to people, especiallywith expertise in areas they
don't have.
Both the Democrat Clinton andthe Republican President Trump.
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Now, when you take a look atPresident Obama, who had a
notoriously thin skin, he pickedJoe Biden.
Oh, that's another thing.
President Trump picked JD Vance, who is anything but a B person
.
He's an A-plus person.
But President Biden?
President Obama picked the Bperson, which was Biden.
Biden was a longtime mediocrity.
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He was a failed presidentialcandidate since the 70s.
He was a lightweightintellectually, by all evidence,
and he was just, and on top ofthat he's mean and corrupt.
But that's who Obama pickedbecause he knew he could
dominate him.
And then what he did is whatmost presidents do with their
vice presidents is he shovedthem off in a corner and forgot
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about them.
In fact, it was Obama who oncesaid never underestimate Joe's
ability to fuck things up.
Feel free to look that up.
That is word for word, a quotefrom Barack Obama.
But Obama then hired the Cperson and then the Democrats.
Because they manipulated thesystem.
The C guy gets nominated aspresident of the United States
while senile.
I believe the greatest scandalin US history yet to unfold by
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the way slight digression, thoseof you who are wondering why
Pam Bondi another A person atAttorney General has not yet
filed charges against any ofthese people is that it takes at
least a year to build up astrong case in court before you
bring it.
Patience, people, patience,grasshopper.
The Trump administration's onlybeen in office five months.
Calm down, calm down, it'scoming.
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Just be patient.
Okay, so we get a C person.
He hires a D person KamalaHarris as empty as, I'd say, a
suit, but as empty a dress ordress whatever you want to call
it that there's ever been.
And of course, she manages topick an F person Tim Walz is her
vice president.
Think about what I'm tellingyou.
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So Donald Trump is a verysecure person who surrounds
himself with other very, verybright and talented people,
which is not to say he alwaysgets it right, but he always
gets the best advice possible.
Now, in this instance, he'sacting again, as I said, as the
president of the United States,not the president of Israel, and
I, as an American, putting myJewishness and my Zionism aside,
find it reassuring that thepresident is taking his time to
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think this all the way through.
Look, israel has establishedabsolute air superiority over
Iran.
America doesn't have to attacktoday.
It doesn't have to All thecrazies who want to go out and
attack immediately and haven'tthought about the next step and
are all playing checkers.
I've told you before and I'llsay it again Donald Trump plays
chess, and what he's consideringis, after we create the
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potentially by bombing a Fordoand taking out the nuclear
program and with Israelconsciously targeting the
Ayatollah himself.
And Israel is going to kill theAyatollah.
He's a dead man walking.
There's going to be a powervacuum, and so Donald Trump is
taking his time to find out whatthe plan is on the part of
Israel and the other Arabcountries.
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Saudi Arabia, the UAE, oman GodAlmighty, I can never think of
the name where the negotiationshave been taking place, because
everyone pronounces itdifferently Not Oman.
Anyway, it'll come to me.
All of these Arab countriesthat are part of the Abraham
Accords Jordan, now Syria whichIsrael, by the way, has been
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flying over as friendlyterritory now that the Assad
regime is gone, and that's howthey're getting to Iran, in case
any of you are curious, they'reoverflying Syria All of these
countries are going to beinvolved in what happens if
there's a power vacuum createdby the fall of the Ayatollah.
So what Trump is looking at iswhat if the government, the
regime, falls?
And what if the regime doesn'tfall, and what to expect next,
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because it's a much morecomplicated issue for the United
States than Israel.
Israel is concerned with anexistential threat to the
country itself and, to a lesserextent, iran is an existential
threat to us.
Because, folks, if you haven'tthought it through and I'm
speaking particularly again tothe useful idiots like Tucker
Carlson who say that Iran is nota threat to us because they're
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too far away you don't need aballistic missile to attack with
a nuclear weapon.
You can sail a boat into NewYork Harbor and detonate.
Now.
A ground blast won't kill asmany people as an air blast, but
it'll still kill a million ortwo people, and that would be
plenty bad enough.
So please don't tell me thatIran is not a direct existential
threat to the United States.
If you say that again, you area useful idiot for Iran.
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Now Trump is considering all ofthat.
If the regime doesn't fall,trump has to consider is their
entire nuclear ability taken out?
Will they have the ability toreform at least a crude nuclear
warhead and will they try todetonate at New York Harbor or
some other place where there area lot of Americans?
He has to consider that.
What happens if the regimefalls?
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What's likely to take its place?
How will that fit into ournegotiations?
For example, china gets 43% ofits oil from Iran alone.
It gets all of its oil from theMiddle East.
Well, not all of it.
It gets some from Venezuela andsome I don't think we sell to
it.
Do we sell oil to China?
We might.
I'm not positive, but I'm surewe're going to.
Under the deal and that's theother element here the Chinese
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play into this.
Not that they're going to comeinto the side of Iran, but this
is heavily affecting theirenergy supply when their own
economy is teetering on thebrink.
Consequently, xi you'll notice,president Xi has not made any
bellicose comments about Israel.
He's issued a few lukewarm.
We support Iran and we supportnegotiations, and he's
supporting the negotiations thatsupposedly are going to go on
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today between the European Unionand the Iranians in Oman.
And that's fine, that's alltheater.
None of that is going to cometo anything.
The Iranians are playing astall game.
The Ayatollah can't possiblysurrender on the nuclear issue.
I don't think, because if hedid, the regime would lose its
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credibility among its own peopleand would probably fall.
But we don't really understandthat culture.
We just think we do.
Trump is wise enough, not.
He has made it crystal clear weare not going in there
whatsoever.
But that doesn't mean he's notconcerned about what is going to
go in and what is going to takethe place of the regime,
because it will directly affect,for example, as I just said,
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our negotiations with China.
Okay, will the Iranian oilsupply continue to be a reliable
source of energy for China?
And if not, will the UnitedStates want to negotiate to
provide more oil to China fromus and make more money on our
side?
And what are the ramificationsof all of this?
That's part one.
Part two is Russia.
Now, if those of you who, again, I'm sure that everyone's been
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transfixed by this MiddleEastern thing.
But the day before yesterday,the those of you who, again, I'm
sure that everyone's beentransfixed by this Middle
Eastern thing.
But the day before yesterday,the head of the Russian Central
Bank came out and said in a veryunusual statement that Russia
is slipping into a recession.
Now, russians don't usuallyadmit that in public, so for
that to be admitted.
That explains why suddenly, ifyou haven't noticed, putin has
become more reasonable.
He said a couple of days agothat he's willing to negotiate
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with zelensky, even face to face, or any ukrainians.
He's willing, he wants to, tostart the negotiations as soon
as possible.
He's pushed this thing as faras he can go and he's in the
country, is in terrible economicstraits and trump, of course,
wants to settle that war as well.
Trump would like.
Trump hates war.
Anyone who understands donaldtrump has known for the last 20
or 30 years at least, he hasbeen consistently anti-war, even
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during the so-called popularwars, when most people were
falling for the joke of regimechange.
Donald Trump was even thensaying stupid, stupid, stupid.
So everybody needs to relax,including my fellow Jews,
because he's acting in aresponsible, thoughtful way as
President of the United States,considering his options,
listening to his A-list advisorsbefore he makes a decision.
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Now, ultimately, do I thinkwe're going to take out the
reactors?
I'm positive we're going totake out the reactors, but will
that mean take it out bymissiles?
Well, another possibility ofthis two-week delay is that
we're moving special forcesbetween Israel and the United
States in to try to take itwithout sending in the missiles.
What if we send in specialforces, which is not the same as
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landing troops that do regimechange?
And what if we you know, israelhas so completely infiltrated
the Iranian regime?
It is likely that they'veinfiltrated Fordo as well.
What if they've got somebody onthe inside who is going to and
I'm speaking in the mostsimplistic of terms.
I know there's more to it thanwhat I'm about to say but what
if someone's going to unlock thedoor and leave the front door
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open for the Israeli commandosto come in and take out the
facility?
Well, and then, of course, theycould be certain of destruction
.
One of the problems is thatwe've never actually used the
30,000 pound Moab bomb to takeout a deep bunker like this
before we blew up a mountain inTora Bora and it fried the
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mountain, but there was nothinglike the facility there that
what's going on underneath Fordo.
So we think we'll take it outby using multiple bombs, one
after another, to get down to300 feet and blow it up, but
we're not 100% positive.
However, if we did it bycommando raid, it would be 100%
positive because once insidethey could evacuate everybody
out of the structure, plantbombs, set the timer, walk out,
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close the door and, kaboom,that's the end of it.
So that's another possibility.
Everybody has got to stopspeculating without any
knowledge whatsoever.
So my advice to everyone istake a deep breath, be happy
that we have a president who'ssecure enough not to be forced
into making a rash decision forpolitical reasons, like I'll
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tell you, one of the most viledecisions of any president in my
lifetime After Barack Obama wasthe president lucky enough that
the intelligence people foundOsama bin Laden and he gave the
order to take him out and wecaptured all of that stuff.
Instead of keeping it a secretuntil after we had a chance to
analyze the intelligence, heimmediately announced it to the
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world, rendering all of thatintelligence we collected
completely worthless, becauseonce al-Qaeda knew that we had
it and that we had gotten binLaden.
We didn't even have a day toanalyze it.
Obama came out and crowed tothe world I got him, I got him,
we got him.
Look how brave we are.
Yeah, we got him.
And then we flushed all thevalue of that intelligence right
down the toilet and God onlyknows how many American lives
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that wasted.
By the way, my background oneof the many things I've done in
my life is I worked at theNational Security Agency as a
Russian linguist and I have astrong background in
intelligence and I know thefirst thing.
Rule number one is don't tellthe enemy you've got their stuff
.
I mean, you've got to be out ofyour mind.
You might as well just announceto the world we have your stuff
and now it's useless because wetold you.
But that's what Barack Obamadid.
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That's why he was a B person.
He needed his ego stroke.
He needed the approbation ofknocking off Osama bin Laden.
But Trump is nothing like thatat all and Trump is going to say
yes, trump is hyperbolic.
But, as I've told you guys,with Trump derangement, the man
is an honest liar.
He lies about stuff that ismeaningless.
He's hyperbolic.
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It was the biggest crowd.
It was the biggest, the mostimportant bill, it's the most
people that ever loved me.
I have the highest.
That's all.
Yeah, a lot of that's baloney,but it's all just hyperbole and
it means it's unimportant.
It's like it's.
It's on the same level when yougo over to someone's house and
you're served dinner and it'sabsolutely vile, and yet you
tell whoever cooked it thehusband or the wife or both of
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you loved it and how deliciousit was.
I call that therapeutic lying.
Trump does a lot of therapeuticlying, but it doesn't mean
anything.
It's just talk about anythingthat matters.
I can't think of a singleinstance where Trump has lied on
a major issue and I invite youto email me if you can, but I'll
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save you a lot of time.
He doesn't lie on anythingthat's remotely important.
He's not a politician, he's anexecutive who happens to be in a
political position and that's avery, very different thing.
And his first term he waslearning how to be political and
now he knows and he had fouryears to plan for it and he's
been extraordinarily effective,whether you love him or you hate
him.
And I don't agree with him oneverything, as you guys know, on
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immigration, I have a strongdisagreement on a lot of it, but
overall the man acts prudentlyand has definitely got the
A-team on board.
Just because I disagree withsomeone like, for example, tom
Holman at ICE doesn't mean Ithink he's an idiot or a fool.
I disagree with the way he goesabout things.
I don't think he's stupid andthat's because I'm not deranged.
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Okay, there are people in theprogressive wing that I'd like
to say I don't think are stupid,but I think progressivism
itself is stupid, because theobjective evidence, regardless
of the position they take,whether it's national healthcare
, whether it's opening theborder, whether it's all this
multiple gender crap, it's allbased on nonsense.
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There's no objective realitybacking up progressivism.
It's a philosophy of stupidityat its root.
And then it's like progressivesare like toddlers, sticking
their fingers in the ear so theydon't want to hear anything and
going la la, la, la, la la lawhen they don't want to hear
what their parents have to say.
Okay, on the other hand, on theright, we have a very similar
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thing forming the Tucker Carlsonmoron wing of the Republican
party.
I knew Tucker Carlson was amoron when he went to Russia and
had to go on and on and onabout how inexpensive and
beautiful everything was inRussian stores, without
informing his viewers that a lotof the the reason it's less
expensive is the statesubsidizes it, because the per
capita income in russian inrussia, pardon me is, uh, about
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20 of what it is in the unitedstates.
You know, figures lie and liarsfigure.
My friend and morons or stupids, I should call them lie
stupidly.
Tucker carlson is a stupid andhe's an anti-Semite and that's
all there is to it.
But anyway, let's review thepodcast and I will close for
today and send you on your merryway for the weekend, and me too
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, trump, to my relief andapproval, and reinforcing what I
thought I already knew, to makeme know that I already know it.
Does that make any sense?
That was a really bizarrosentence.
Forgive me if that made nosense, but you get the drift of
what I'm saying.
He's reaffirmed to me that he'sa thoughtful chess-playing man
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and he's playing chess here andhe's thinking through the moves
after the fall and that's justplain smart and it's in the US
interest to do that, because ourinterests are far greater than
Israel's interests worldwide, asI, as I said, I just say this
in review, not that you don'tremember it already, but the
Chinese.
The Chinese and Russia'ssituation all links in with this
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for different reasons, andTrump is making sure that.
Remember he's in his last term.
This is this is his second term.
He's not going to be able torun for re-election.
This is about his legacy, too,and the world he leaves, and the
decision that he makes in thenext couple of days or so to
take out that reactor and thenfrom there go on or that
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facility, I should say and thengo on from there and what's
going to happen next will be themost important decision he has
ever made in his life period.
His entire legacy rests upon acorrect decision, and the fact
that he's taking a moment to doit is reassuring, and so all of
you out there who are like meand are Zionists are wondering
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why doesn't he go?
Why doesn't he go?
This is not taco.
Trump doesn't always chicken out.
Trump is playing chess whileall the checkers players are
yelling chicken, chicken,chicken.
Because they would have acted,and then we would have done what
we always do, which is create amountain of unintended
consequences that we nevercontemplated to begin with that
end up causing more problemsthan the ones that we thought we
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solved, as Thomas Sowell has sofamously said, and I've said it
before and I'll say it again asThomas Sowell has so famously
said, and I've said it beforeand I'll say it again, there are
no solutions, only trade-offs.
So Trump is carefully weighingthe trade-offs that we're about
to undertake to make sure that,in the end, they are heavily
weighted in favor of the UnitedStates.
And so with that I close thispodcast.
I wish you a happy, happyweekend.
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God bless your family and Godbless America.
Talk to you next week.
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