June 19, 2025 • 32 mins
As the war between Israel and Iran escalates, bloodthirsty elites in both parties are demanding Trump send Americans to bleed and die in another disastrous Middle Eastern War. And, from all appearances, Trump is eagerly listening to them. This would be a disaster that would tear the MAGA movement in two, kill thousands of innocent people, and do irreparable harm to the country. But millions of Americans have been brainwashed and emotionally blackmailed into cheering on their country's destruction, because of blind loyalty and favoritism toward Israel and blind hatred of its enemies.
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The Conservative Rebel (00:00):
Today on The Conservative Rebel, as the
war between Israel and Iranescalates, bloodthirsty elites
in both parties are pushingTrump to thrust America into
another disastrous MiddleEastern war.
This would be a calamity thatwould tear the MAGA movement in
two and do irreparable harm tothe country.
(00:21):
But millions of Americans havebeen brainwashed and emotionally
blackmailed into cheering onthis impending bloodbath because
of blind loyalty and favoritismtoward Israel and blind hatred
of its enemies.
We'll talk about all of ittoday on The Conservative Rebel.
(00:52):
As you've no doubt heard by now,
Israel just started a new war inthe Middle East by attacking
Iran on Friday, launching deadlymissile strikes and knocking
out several of its top militaryleaders.
Iran very predictablyretaliated, as countries tend to
do when you launch missiles attheir cities and kill members of
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their military and government,and ever since then the two
countries have been rainingexplosives down on each other,
killing innocent civilians onboth sides.
And it doesn't look like thingsare going to de-escalate any
time soon.
The United States, which ofcourse funds Israel, gives them
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tens of billions of dollars,gives them missiles and military
equipment, paid for the attackon Iran, and Trump said that he
knew about the attack on Iran inadvance.
So we are already indirectlyinvolved in a war with Iran.
We are now waging a proxy waragainst yet another country on
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top of our failed proxy war thatwe are currently waging against
Russia in Ukraine.
The only question now iswhether it will turn from an
indirect proxy war into anall-out war with American boots
on the ground and Americansoldiers dying in the Middle
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East.
And it is certainly lookinglike that is a very real
possibility.
Now, when I first heard thenews of Israel's attack on Iran,
I was shocked just likeeveryone else.
Israel and Iran, who havealways gotten along just fine
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and always been the bestest ofbuddies as countries go, were
fighting each other?
Israel and Iran were being meanto each other?
I couldn't believe it.
And what's more, all of thiswas happening, I was supposed to
believe, in the The famouslyfree, happy, and peace-loving
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region known as the Middle East,where all the countries have
coexisted in perfect,uninterrupted friendship and
harmony since time immemorial, Iwas absolutely stunned.
Now, I'm not going to pretendto have any special insight at
all into the situation in theMiddle East.
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I'm not going to give you somecomplex analysis on what's going
on because I'm not qualified todo that.
What I do know, and what I hopeI am qualified to tell you, are
the basics.
The Middle East is a savage,barbaric, cruel, and merciless
hellhole of a region that hasbeen locked in constant turmoil
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and bloody warfare sinceapproximately forever.
It has always been that way,and there is virtually no hope
that it will ever be any otherway.
The good news is that thecountry you and I live in, the
United States of America, theonly country on Earth we owe any
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loyalty or fidelity orallegiance to, the only country
on Earth whose interests weshould defend and care about, is
as far away from that terribleplace as you can possibly get
before you start to get closeragain.
We are half a world and anocean away from the Middle East.
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We Americans should not have tospend a single second worrying
about the latest conflict ragingover there, because it's no
concern of ours.
The people of Israel and Irancan sort their problems out
themselves, thank you very much.
Or, they can even refuse tosort their problems out.
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They can keep fighting eachother.
It might be tragic, but it'snone of my business, and it's
none of yours either.
My country should have nothingto do with it, not only because
we don't have any moral right tobe the policeman of the world,
but also because gettinginvolved can do nothing but harm
to America and to Americans.
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Think of the world as a moderncity, like Seattle or Portland
or LA or New York or Atlanta orwhatever else comes to mind.
In most cities, there are someplaces that are very clean, very
rich, very well-managed, verysafe.
The types of places that youcould raise a family in.
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But there are other types ofplaces in the inner city that
are filled with crime and drugsand filth and dysfunction.
Places that you would be insaneto raise a family in, and that
you avoid even going near if youcan help it at all.
The Middle East is one of thosefilthy, crime-ridden,
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vagrant-infested, drug-addledinner-city cesspools, and North
America is one of thoserelatively safe, rich parts of
town.
It's seen better days, that'sfor sure, but it's still far
safer and richer than otherneighborhoods.
Our government, trying to getAmerica involved in the Middle
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East, is like a mom living inone of those nice neighborhoods
who decides, for whateverungodly reason, to take her
elementary school-aged kids fora walk past the homeless
encampment in the most violent,crime-ridden area of Gotham City
she could find.
And she does it at 2 a.m.
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in the morning, stepping overdrug needles as police sirens
whine and shots ring out nearNothing good could possibly come
out of that.
Nothing.
The mom has nothing to gain,the kids have nothing to gain,
and they both have everything tolose by putting themselves in
that situation.
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But because the mom evidentlyhas completely lost her mind,
she decided to do it anyway.
That's what our interventionsin the Middle East are like.
The only reason you wouldendanger America and Americans
if you lead the country byinvolving our country in the
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Middle East is either becauseyou are insane or because you
don't truly have the interestsof the United States or its
people at heart.
Just like those kids and thatmom shouldn't have to worry
about some drugged-up vagrantsslitting their throats because
they live in a niceneighborhood, we should not have
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to worry about Israel or Iranor anywhere else in the Middle
East because we live in acivilized country in a civilized
part of the world, or at leastwe used to.
But, Worry about thosecountries is exactly what we've
been forced to do for the past80 years.
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Why is that?
Because our reliably corruptand evil politicians have been
diligently doing everything theypossibly can to permanently
chain our country to thatticking time bomb of a place.
They went out into a dangerousneighborhood looking for
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trouble, and what do you know,they found it.
Normal people see Israel andIran shooting missiles at each
other, and they say, That'shorrible.
That's tragic.
I hope those two countries workthings out and stop killing
people.
I hope they can make peace witheach other.
War is terrible.
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Thank God we're not at war likethem.
When politicians see Israel andIran shooting missiles at each
other, they drool.
They say, let's put the UnitedStates of America directly in
the path of those missiles.
Let's send American tax dollarsover there to keep this war
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going as long as we possiblycan.
And let's look for any excusewe can find to send America's
sons and daughters over there tobleed and die for the sake of
some foreign country.
I don't care how many peopledie.
I don't care how muchdestruction and suffering and
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misery it will cause.
And to hell with anyone whobreathes a word of protest about
any of it.
Because we can always just callthem pro-Putin fascists or
anti-Semites or paid agents ofQatar, and then the idiots we
govern will ignore what they sayand support our war.
Now, I've seen a lot of peopleclaim recently that the idea
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that the United States will goto war with Iran is ridiculous
and overblown by fanatics, byanti-Israel fanatics.
Of course, we are alreadyindirectly at war with Iran
because we fund Israel and wepay for the missiles it shoots
at Iran, but people have beensaying that there's no way we'll
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get directly involved.
We're not actually going to goto war.
We're just going to keepanother disastrous proxy war
going, that's all.
So there's nothing to worryabout.
They're wrong.
If you don't believe that waris a very real possibility, you
need to wake up.
Here, for example, is SenatorLindsey Graham of South
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Carolina, who is one of theworst, if not the single worst,
elected Republican in the UnitedStates, seemingly calling for a
full-on US invasion of Iran.
This is the same guy who, justa little while ago, strongly
implied that the United Statesshould drop a nuclear bomb on
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Gaza, and he's not the onlyRepublican to ever flirt with
that idea either.
Anyway, he's got anotherdelusional take, this time on
the Iran situation.
Listen to Lindsey for alittle bit.
Audio Clip (11:24):
I can guarantee you that if the Ayatollah gives a
nuclear weapon, he will use it.
I believe that with all myheart and soul.
So the men and women who serve,they're the ones going, not
people answering the poll.
And if you ask them, would yoube willing to risk your life to
stop the Ayatollah from having anuclear weapon?
All of them would say yes,because it makes their country,
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our country safer.
So we live in a world where yougot to confront problems.
You want to avoid World WarIII?
Learn the lesson from World WarII.
People in World War II appeasedHitler to the point that it got
so much out of hand.
We had a world war and 60million people got killed.
So we live in a world where youpay now or you pay later.
Let's stop this threat beforehe gets a nuclear weapon.
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Let's end this reign of terror.
Let's do it now.
It's not going to take 20months, but I can't guarantee
your freedom and your safetyunless we're willing to fight
for it.
I can guarantee you this.
If we don't fight for ourfreedom, we will lose it.
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It's strange to me how these people
always try to justify war bysaying, World War III will come
if we don't go to war.
We need to go to war because ifwe don't, we might end up going
to war, is the best argumentthese people can come up with.
Lindsey Graham warns that Iranwill imminently attack the
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United States.
It's coming.
Iran will be bombing New Yorkor Los Angeles soon, unless we
start bombing Iran.
Gee, Lindsey, I wonder why Iranmight possibly be angry enough
with America to attack it.
Could that be due to the factthat we have been funding its
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enemy for 80 years andoverthrowing surrounding
governments for decades andputting sanctions on it and
paying for it to be bombed andpaying for its people to be
killed?
Do you think that might havesomething to do with it,
Lindsay?
So the problem, the reason Iranhates us, is obviously because
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of our interventionist foreignpolicy.
And the solution this geniusgives us is more of our
interventionist foreign policy.
The way to avert war is to goto war.
Sane people want to put fireout with water, but Lindsey
Graham wants to put it out withgasoline.
But Lindsey Graham clearly isnot the most cunning and
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intelligent warmonger on theface of the planet.
I think most Americans, evenAmericans who are very inclined
to hate Iran and unconditionallylove Israel, would see through
this because it's just sostupid.
It's so off the charts, soobviously stupid.
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Anyone can see that.
Anyone can see that the way toprevent war is not war.
Anyone can see that this is notin the United States' interests
at all.
But notice this.
You do not see these peopleclaim that war with Iran would
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be in America's interests thatoften.
Sometimes you do, with LindseyGraham warning about World War
III.
But they don't really have anysolid argument that it's in
America's interests.
They know it's contrary toAmerica's interests.
They know it can do nothing butharm this country.
And it would be about asdifficult to convince anyone
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otherwise as it would be toconvince someone that 1 plus 1
equals 4.
Iran has never attacked us anddoesn't pose a threat These
people can't name one actualproblem in the lives of average,
middle-class American familiesthat is related in any way to
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Iran.
They just can't.
A far-distant country half ofpeople probably couldn't even
find on a map does not affectthe lives of Americans at all,
and everyone knows it.
Instead, the argument they willmake is that it benefits
Israel.
It benefits our ally Israel.
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So, we need to go to war onbehalf of Israel.
This is how they justify wars.
They say that it is in thebenefit of our allies, or in the
benefit of the people ofanother country.
So, we need to go to war fortheir benefit.
Here's the thing, though.
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You were not elected by thepeople of Israel to represent
the interests of Israel.
You were not elected by thepeople of Ukraine to represent
the interests of Ukraine.
You were elected by Americansto defend the rights and
interests of Americans.
You serve America, and yoursole moral duty is to the people
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who live in America.
Period.
End of story.
but instead they play on ourfavoritism.
They play on...
on our emotions.
A lot of people have a very,very strong emotional attachment
to Ukraine or to Israel, and alot of people have a very, very
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strong negative feeling towardsIran or towards Russia or
towards China, and power holderscan manipulate those emotions,
manipulate those favoritisms,make them worse with propaganda,
and use that to emotionallyemotionally engineer and
emotionally blackmail us intogoing to a war that is obviously
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against America's interests.
and can do nothing but harmAmerica.
And this is what GeorgeWashington warned about in his
farewell address.
A lot of people think that theAmerican way is to defend
freedom abroad, that America isexceptional, therefore it has a
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duty to be the policeman of theworld.
You have a lot of people whosay it's the conservative,
pro-American position to go tothese endless wars and that
anyone who thinks otherwise issome stupid soy latte sipping
weed smoking hippie.
Nothing could be farther fromthe truth.
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Just look at what GeorgeWashington, one of the greatest
men, one of the greatestconservatives in American
history, had to say about thisin his farewell address.
He understood...
exactly what I'm talking about,which is that when you have
blind favoritism towards certainnations, you are going to be
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able to be convinced to go...
Here's what he said.
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the jealousy of a free peopleought to be constantly awake
since history and experienceprove that foreign influence is
one of the most baneful foes ofrepublican government but that
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jealousy to be useful must beimpartial or it becomes the
instrument of the very influenceto be avoided instead of a
defense against it One wonderswhat Washington would have to
say to the fanatic pro-Ukraineor pro-Israel partisans that
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dominate our national discourse.
One trembles to think what hewould have to say to these
people.
But we actually don't have toguess what he would have to say
to these people, because he madethis speech at a time when
America was absolutely overrunwith pro-British and pro-French
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partisans who thought we shouldgo to war on behalf of Britain,
which was fighting againstFrance during the French
Revolution, or that we should goto war on behalf of France,
which was fighting againstBritain, and ideology in favor
totally blinded these peoplethis is the exact same situation
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we have with Israel we have thepro-Israel fanatics the
Palestinian fanatics the Iranianfanatics the Ukrainian fanatics
we have all these fanaticsrunning around who have
completely dedicated themselvesto foreign countries and to
foreign peoples and are notdedicated to the United States
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here's what Washington calledthese people those Americans
who, quote, became popular andgot a large following and all of
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the people with their pom-pomscheering them on, the principled
Americans who stood in theirway would become hated and
shunned.
Here's what Washington said.
Real patriots who may resistthe intrigues of the favorite
are liable to become suspectedand odious while the favorite
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nation's tools and dupes usurpthe applause and confidence of
the people to surrender theirinterests.
It's almost frightening howclose this speech is to our
country today.
Washington is almost describingthe modern United States of
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America.
We have seen precisely this.
Real patriots like TuckerCarlson, like Candace Owens,
Like Thomas Massey, like RandPaul, like all of these people
who have been smeared asanti-Semites, as kooks, as
anti-American.
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That's what Washington wastalking about.
But these are the realpatriots.
These are the people who areactually defending the interests
of America.
These are the people who arespeaking out for you, and for
your kids, and for your country.
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The other people, the tools anddupes of the favorite nation,
as Washington called them, hateyou.
That's why they give you allthese stupid warnings, all these
dumb false prophecies aboutIran going to start World War
III if we don't go to war withit.
This is how they do everysingle thing.
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Everything is going to be WorldWar II all over again.
I've even seen this...
And I'm 16, so I didn't livethrough the terror wars or
anything like that.
But this is what they said whenPutin attacked Ukraine.
Putin is Hitler.
He's going to take over Europe.
Hasn't happened.
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Has not happened.
And I know from reading historythat this is what they told the
people when they were going tooverthrow Saddam Hussein.
He's another Hitler, so wegotta overthrow him or we're
gonna have World War III.
This is how they justify it.
They emotionally manipulateyou.
They think you are stupid.
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And that really makes me angry.
It makes a lot of people angry.
But something that really,really ticks me off is when
these morons dare to claim thattheir pro-war, imperialist,
insane foreign policy is theconservative, America-first
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position.
When they smear everyone aswoke right, who dares to object
to their stupid idiotic ideas.
They are lying.
Non-interventionism has alwaysbeen the conservative
pro-American position.
That's why Washington said,What do we have with Israel?
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An entangling alliance.
We have an alliance that doesnot serve the United States of
America or its interests at all.
It is a one-sided relationship.
What have we gotten out ofthis?
Ask yourself that.
What have we gotten?
We send them tens of billionsof dollars.
We go to war for them.
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What have we gotten out of thatrelationship?
Nothing.
We've gotten nothing.
This is one of the entanglingalliances Washington warned
about.
We need to stop going to war onbehalf of other countries and
focus on our own country foronce.
And yet we're supposed to thinkthat's a bad thing.
We're supposed to think thatit's bad and chauvinistic and
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nationalist and all of thesescary words to...
To care about our own countryand to put its interests first.
That's bad.
That's greedy.
We can't do that.
No, not only is it not bad, itis morally required of you.
It is a moral requirement thatyou put your country first.
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This is an analogy lots ofpeople have used.
If there are two kids drowningin a pond, one of them is your
kid, one of them is someoneelse's, you have a moral
obligation to save your kidbecause that is your kid.
And that's how it works withforeign countries.
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You are supposed to put yourcountry first.
Why?
Because it is your country.
It is disordered.
It is immoral.
It is freakish.
It is strange and weird andcreepy to be so dedicated to
another country that you elevateit over your country, just like
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it's immoral and creepy andweird if you care about someone
else's kid more than your ownkid.
That's just not the way humanbeings are supposed to work.
And this is the exact samething we talked about last week
when we talked about how all ofthese immigrants are destroying
our culture and destroying oursovereignty and tearing our
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country apart.
We have nothing in common witheach other.
And we've been convinced to dothat by people manipulating our
emotions to think that caringabout our country first and our
culture first and our interestsfirst is a bad thing.
That it's selfish.
This is the exact same thingthey're doing here.
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They are trying to get us tocare more about Ukraine, more
about Israel, more about Taiwan,more about all of these places
than we care about the UnitedStates.
It's the most insane,unnatural, and destructive thing
ever.
This is globalism.
And yet you have all of theseidiots.
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Idiots or nefarious people.
Some of them are very smart andscheming.
So not all of them are stupid.
Some of them are just evil.
But all these people who aretrying to get us to think that
it's a liberal, bleeding heartthing to not want to send money
to Israel, to not want to fightwars for Israel and stuff like
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that.
It's the conservative positionthat we must sacrifice No,
that's not what's conservative.
The conservative position is tocare about your family and your
community and your country andyour people first.
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That is the conservativeposition.
It is the globalist, socialist,utopian position to try to
redirect all of your love andall of your affection away from
the ones closest to you and outinto this abstraction known as
the world.
That is not conservatism.
Do not believe anything.
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Anyone who tries to convinceyou that it's woke right to
support the interests of yourcountry, they are lying to you.
I want to leave you with thisquote by John Quincy Adams.
Only of her own.
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She well knows that by onceenlisting under other banners
than her own, were they even thebanners of foreign
independence, she would involveherself in all the wars of
interest and intrigue, whichassume the colors and usurp the
standard of freedom.
The fundamental maxims of herpolicy would insensibly change
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from liberty to force.
The frontlet upon her browwould no longer beam with the
ineffable splendor of freedomand independence, but instead
would soon be substituted withan imperial diadem, flashing in
false and tarnished luster themurky radiance of dominion and
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power.
She might become the dictatressof the world.
She would no longer be theruler of her own spirit.
With this war with Iran,America faces another choice.
Will it go abroad in search ofmonsters to destroy?
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Will it protect the liberty ofits people, or will it result to
the force of empire?
Will it entangle itself inanother war?
preventable, stupid foreign warthat has nothing to do with us?
Will it send more of America'ssons and daughters to die bloody
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deaths for the sake of aforeign country?
Or will it finally put ourcountry and our people first
again?
That is what America First issupposed to be.
That is why the American peopleelected Donald Trump, and he
cannot betray us now by sendingus to war with Iran.
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As many people have said, if hedoes, that will be the death of
MAGA.
It will splinter MAGA.
The entire movement will betorn in two over foreign policy.
This is a make-or-break moment.
Will Trump betray the voterswho elected him on the promise
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of no new wars?
Will he cave into the neoconswho are bloodthirsty and craving
another contest, another MiddleEastern war that will drag on
for 20 years?
Or will he follow what I hopeare his instincts and keep
America out of this and put ourcountry first?
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Thanks for listening to today'sepisode of The Conservative
Rebel.
Please like, subscribe,comment, and leave a review.
I'll talk to you next week.
Today on The Conservative Rebel, as the
war between Israel and Iranescalates, bloodthirsty elites
in both parties are pushingTrump to thrust America into
another disastrous MiddleEastern war.
This would be a calamity thatwould tear the MAGA movement in
two and do irreparable harm tothe country.
(00:21):
But millions of Americans havebeen brainwashed and emotionally
blackmailed into cheering onthis impending bloodbath because
of blind loyalty and favoritismtoward Israel and blind hatred
of its enemies.
We'll talk about all of ittoday on The Conservative Rebel.
(00:52):
As you've no doubt heard by now,
Israel just started a new war inthe Middle East by attacking
Iran on Friday, launching deadlymissile strikes and knocking
out several of its top militaryleaders.
Iran very predictablyretaliated, as countries tend to
do when you launch missiles attheir cities and kill members of
(01:15):
their military and government,and ever since then the two
countries have been rainingexplosives down on each other,
killing innocent civilians onboth sides.
And it doesn't look like thingsare going to de-escalate any
time soon.
The United States, which ofcourse funds Israel, gives them
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tens of billions of dollars,gives them missiles and military
equipment, paid for the attackon Iran, and Trump said that he
knew about the attack on Iran inadvance.
So we are already indirectlyinvolved in a war with Iran.
We are now waging a proxy waragainst yet another country on
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top of our failed proxy war thatwe are currently waging against
Russia in Ukraine.
The only question now iswhether it will turn from an
indirect proxy war into anall-out war with American boots
on the ground and Americansoldiers dying in the Middle
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East.
And it is certainly lookinglike that is a very real
possibility.
Now, when I first heard thenews of Israel's attack on Iran,
I was shocked just likeeveryone else.
Israel and Iran, who havealways gotten along just fine
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and always been the bestest ofbuddies as countries go, were
fighting each other?
Israel and Iran were being meanto each other?
I couldn't believe it.
And what's more, all of thiswas happening, I was supposed to
believe, in the The famouslyfree, happy, and peace-loving
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region known as the Middle East,where all the countries have
coexisted in perfect,uninterrupted friendship and
harmony since time immemorial, Iwas absolutely stunned.
Now, I'm not going to pretendto have any special insight at
all into the situation in theMiddle East.
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I'm not going to give you somecomplex analysis on what's going
on because I'm not qualified todo that.
What I do know, and what I hopeI am qualified to tell you, are
the basics.
The Middle East is a savage,barbaric, cruel, and merciless
hellhole of a region that hasbeen locked in constant turmoil
(03:47):
and bloody warfare sinceapproximately forever.
It has always been that way,and there is virtually no hope
that it will ever be any otherway.
The good news is that thecountry you and I live in, the
United States of America, theonly country on Earth we owe any
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loyalty or fidelity orallegiance to, the only country
on Earth whose interests weshould defend and care about, is
as far away from that terribleplace as you can possibly get
before you start to get closeragain.
We are half a world and anocean away from the Middle East.
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We Americans should not have tospend a single second worrying
about the latest conflict ragingover there, because it's no
concern of ours.
The people of Israel and Irancan sort their problems out
themselves, thank you very much.
Or, they can even refuse tosort their problems out.
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They can keep fighting eachother.
It might be tragic, but it'snone of my business, and it's
none of yours either.
My country should have nothingto do with it, not only because
we don't have any moral right tobe the policeman of the world,
but also because gettinginvolved can do nothing but harm
to America and to Americans.
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Think of the world as a moderncity, like Seattle or Portland
or LA or New York or Atlanta orwhatever else comes to mind.
In most cities, there are someplaces that are very clean, very
rich, very well-managed, verysafe.
The types of places that youcould raise a family in.
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But there are other types ofplaces in the inner city that
are filled with crime and drugsand filth and dysfunction.
Places that you would be insaneto raise a family in, and that
you avoid even going near if youcan help it at all.
The Middle East is one of thosefilthy, crime-ridden,
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vagrant-infested, drug-addledinner-city cesspools, and North
America is one of thoserelatively safe, rich parts of
town.
It's seen better days, that'sfor sure, but it's still far
safer and richer than otherneighborhoods.
Our government, trying to getAmerica involved in the Middle
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East, is like a mom living inone of those nice neighborhoods
who decides, for whateverungodly reason, to take her
elementary school-aged kids fora walk past the homeless
encampment in the most violent,crime-ridden area of Gotham City
she could find.
And she does it at 2 a.m.
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in the morning, stepping overdrug needles as police sirens
whine and shots ring out nearNothing good could possibly come
out of that.
Nothing.
The mom has nothing to gain,the kids have nothing to gain,
and they both have everything tolose by putting themselves in
that situation.
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But because the mom evidentlyhas completely lost her mind,
she decided to do it anyway.
That's what our interventionsin the Middle East are like.
The only reason you wouldendanger America and Americans
if you lead the country byinvolving our country in the
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Middle East is either becauseyou are insane or because you
don't truly have the interestsof the United States or its
people at heart.
Just like those kids and thatmom shouldn't have to worry
about some drugged-up vagrantsslitting their throats because
they live in a niceneighborhood, we should not have
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to worry about Israel or Iranor anywhere else in the Middle
East because we live in acivilized country in a civilized
part of the world, or at leastwe used to.
But, Worry about thosecountries is exactly what we've
been forced to do for the past80 years.
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Why is that?
Because our reliably corruptand evil politicians have been
diligently doing everything theypossibly can to permanently
chain our country to thatticking time bomb of a place.
They went out into a dangerousneighborhood looking for
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trouble, and what do you know,they found it.
Normal people see Israel andIran shooting missiles at each
other, and they say, That'shorrible.
That's tragic.
I hope those two countries workthings out and stop killing
people.
I hope they can make peace witheach other.
War is terrible.
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Thank God we're not at war likethem.
When politicians see Israel andIran shooting missiles at each
other, they drool.
They say, let's put the UnitedStates of America directly in
the path of those missiles.
Let's send American tax dollarsover there to keep this war
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going as long as we possiblycan.
And let's look for any excusewe can find to send America's
sons and daughters over there tobleed and die for the sake of
some foreign country.
I don't care how many peopledie.
I don't care how muchdestruction and suffering and
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misery it will cause.
And to hell with anyone whobreathes a word of protest about
any of it.
Because we can always just callthem pro-Putin fascists or
anti-Semites or paid agents ofQatar, and then the idiots we
govern will ignore what they sayand support our war.
Now, I've seen a lot of peopleclaim recently that the idea
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that the United States will goto war with Iran is ridiculous
and overblown by fanatics, byanti-Israel fanatics.
Of course, we are alreadyindirectly at war with Iran
because we fund Israel and wepay for the missiles it shoots
at Iran, but people have beensaying that there's no way we'll
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get directly involved.
We're not actually going to goto war.
We're just going to keepanother disastrous proxy war
going, that's all.
So there's nothing to worryabout.
They're wrong.
If you don't believe that waris a very real possibility, you
need to wake up.
Here, for example, is SenatorLindsey Graham of South
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Carolina, who is one of theworst, if not the single worst,
elected Republican in the UnitedStates, seemingly calling for a
full-on US invasion of Iran.
This is the same guy who, justa little while ago, strongly
implied that the United Statesshould drop a nuclear bomb on
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Gaza, and he's not the onlyRepublican to ever flirt with
that idea either.
Anyway, he's got anotherdelusional take, this time on
the Iran situation.
Listen to Lindsey for alittle bit.
Audio Clip (11:24):
I can guarantee you that if the Ayatollah gives a
nuclear weapon, he will use it.
I believe that with all myheart and soul.
So the men and women who serve,they're the ones going, not
people answering the poll.
And if you ask them, would yoube willing to risk your life to
stop the Ayatollah from having anuclear weapon?
All of them would say yes,because it makes their country,
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our country safer.
So we live in a world where yougot to confront problems.
You want to avoid World WarIII?
Learn the lesson from World WarII.
People in World War II appeasedHitler to the point that it got
so much out of hand.
We had a world war and 60million people got killed.
So we live in a world where youpay now or you pay later.
Let's stop this threat beforehe gets a nuclear weapon.
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Let's end this reign of terror.
Let's do it now.
It's not going to take 20months, but I can't guarantee
your freedom and your safetyunless we're willing to fight
for it.
I can guarantee you this.
If we don't fight for ourfreedom, we will lose it.
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It's strange to me how these people
always try to justify war bysaying, World War III will come
if we don't go to war.
We need to go to war because ifwe don't, we might end up going
to war, is the best argumentthese people can come up with.
Lindsey Graham warns that Iranwill imminently attack the
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United States.
It's coming.
Iran will be bombing New Yorkor Los Angeles soon, unless we
start bombing Iran.
Gee, Lindsey, I wonder why Iranmight possibly be angry enough
with America to attack it.
Could that be due to the factthat we have been funding its
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enemy for 80 years andoverthrowing surrounding
governments for decades andputting sanctions on it and
paying for it to be bombed andpaying for its people to be
killed?
Do you think that might havesomething to do with it,
Lindsay?
So the problem, the reason Iranhates us, is obviously because
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of our interventionist foreignpolicy.
And the solution this geniusgives us is more of our
interventionist foreign policy.
The way to avert war is to goto war.
Sane people want to put fireout with water, but Lindsey
Graham wants to put it out withgasoline.
But Lindsey Graham clearly isnot the most cunning and
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intelligent warmonger on theface of the planet.
I think most Americans, evenAmericans who are very inclined
to hate Iran and unconditionallylove Israel, would see through
this because it's just sostupid.
It's so off the charts, soobviously stupid.
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Anyone can see that.
Anyone can see that the way toprevent war is not war.
Anyone can see that this is notin the United States' interests
at all.
But notice this.
You do not see these peopleclaim that war with Iran would
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be in America's interests thatoften.
Sometimes you do, with LindseyGraham warning about World War
III.
But they don't really have anysolid argument that it's in
America's interests.
They know it's contrary toAmerica's interests.
They know it can do nothing butharm this country.
And it would be about asdifficult to convince anyone
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otherwise as it would be toconvince someone that 1 plus 1
equals 4.
Iran has never attacked us anddoesn't pose a threat These
people can't name one actualproblem in the lives of average,
middle-class American familiesthat is related in any way to
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Iran.
They just can't.
A far-distant country half ofpeople probably couldn't even
find on a map does not affectthe lives of Americans at all,
and everyone knows it.
Instead, the argument they willmake is that it benefits
Israel.
It benefits our ally Israel.
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So, we need to go to war onbehalf of Israel.
This is how they justify wars.
They say that it is in thebenefit of our allies, or in the
benefit of the people ofanother country.
So, we need to go to war fortheir benefit.
Here's the thing, though.
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You were not elected by thepeople of Israel to represent
the interests of Israel.
You were not elected by thepeople of Ukraine to represent
the interests of Ukraine.
You were elected by Americansto defend the rights and
interests of Americans.
You serve America, and yoursole moral duty is to the people
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who live in America.
Period.
End of story.
but instead they play on ourfavoritism.
They play on...
on our emotions.
A lot of people have a very,very strong emotional attachment
to Ukraine or to Israel, and alot of people have a very, very
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strong negative feeling towardsIran or towards Russia or
towards China, and power holderscan manipulate those emotions,
manipulate those favoritisms,make them worse with propaganda,
and use that to emotionallyemotionally engineer and
emotionally blackmail us intogoing to a war that is obviously
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against America's interests.
and can do nothing but harmAmerica.
And this is what GeorgeWashington warned about in his
farewell address.
A lot of people think that theAmerican way is to defend
freedom abroad, that America isexceptional, therefore it has a
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duty to be the policeman of theworld.
You have a lot of people whosay it's the conservative,
pro-American position to go tothese endless wars and that
anyone who thinks otherwise issome stupid soy latte sipping
weed smoking hippie.
Nothing could be farther fromthe truth.
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Just look at what GeorgeWashington, one of the greatest
men, one of the greatestconservatives in American
history, had to say about thisin his farewell address.
He understood...
exactly what I'm talking about,which is that when you have
blind favoritism towards certainnations, you are going to be
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able to be convinced to go...
Here's what he said.
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the jealousy of a free peopleought to be constantly awake
since history and experienceprove that foreign influence is
one of the most baneful foes ofrepublican government but that
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jealousy to be useful must beimpartial or it becomes the
instrument of the very influenceto be avoided instead of a
defense against it One wonderswhat Washington would have to
say to the fanatic pro-Ukraineor pro-Israel partisans that
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dominate our national discourse.
One trembles to think what hewould have to say to these
people.
But we actually don't have toguess what he would have to say
to these people, because he madethis speech at a time when
America was absolutely overrunwith pro-British and pro-French
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partisans who thought we shouldgo to war on behalf of Britain,
which was fighting againstFrance during the French
Revolution, or that we should goto war on behalf of France,
which was fighting againstBritain, and ideology in favor
totally blinded these peoplethis is the exact same situation
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we have with Israel we have thepro-Israel fanatics the
Palestinian fanatics the Iranianfanatics the Ukrainian fanatics
we have all these fanaticsrunning around who have
completely dedicated themselvesto foreign countries and to
foreign peoples and are notdedicated to the United States
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here's what Washington calledthese people those Americans
who, quote, became popular andgot a large following and all of
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the people with their pom-pomscheering them on, the principled
Americans who stood in theirway would become hated and
shunned.
Here's what Washington said.
Real patriots who may resistthe intrigues of the favorite
are liable to become suspectedand odious while the favorite
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nation's tools and dupes usurpthe applause and confidence of
the people to surrender theirinterests.
It's almost frightening howclose this speech is to our
country today.
Washington is almost describingthe modern United States of
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America.
We have seen precisely this.
Real patriots like TuckerCarlson, like Candace Owens,
Like Thomas Massey, like RandPaul, like all of these people
who have been smeared asanti-Semites, as kooks, as
anti-American.
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That's what Washington wastalking about.
But these are the realpatriots.
These are the people who areactually defending the interests
of America.
These are the people who arespeaking out for you, and for
your kids, and for your country.
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The other people, the tools anddupes of the favorite nation,
as Washington called them, hateyou.
That's why they give you allthese stupid warnings, all these
dumb false prophecies aboutIran going to start World War
III if we don't go to war withit.
This is how they do everysingle thing.
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Everything is going to be WorldWar II all over again.
I've even seen this...
And I'm 16, so I didn't livethrough the terror wars or
anything like that.
But this is what they said whenPutin attacked Ukraine.
Putin is Hitler.
He's going to take over Europe.
Hasn't happened.
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Has not happened.
And I know from reading historythat this is what they told the
people when they were going tooverthrow Saddam Hussein.
He's another Hitler, so wegotta overthrow him or we're
gonna have World War III.
This is how they justify it.
They emotionally manipulateyou.
They think you are stupid.
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And that really makes me angry.
It makes a lot of people angry.
But something that really,really ticks me off is when
these morons dare to claim thattheir pro-war, imperialist,
insane foreign policy is theconservative, America-first
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position.
When they smear everyone aswoke right, who dares to object
to their stupid idiotic ideas.
They are lying.
Non-interventionism has alwaysbeen the conservative
pro-American position.
That's why Washington said,What do we have with Israel?
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An entangling alliance.
We have an alliance that doesnot serve the United States of
America or its interests at all.
It is a one-sided relationship.
What have we gotten out ofthis?
Ask yourself that.
What have we gotten?
We send them tens of billionsof dollars.
We go to war for them.
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What have we gotten out of thatrelationship?
Nothing.
We've gotten nothing.
This is one of the entanglingalliances Washington warned
about.
We need to stop going to war onbehalf of other countries and
focus on our own country foronce.
And yet we're supposed to thinkthat's a bad thing.
We're supposed to think thatit's bad and chauvinistic and
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nationalist and all of thesescary words to...
To care about our own countryand to put its interests first.
That's bad.
That's greedy.
We can't do that.
No, not only is it not bad, itis morally required of you.
It is a moral requirement thatyou put your country first.
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This is an analogy lots ofpeople have used.
If there are two kids drowningin a pond, one of them is your
kid, one of them is someoneelse's, you have a moral
obligation to save your kidbecause that is your kid.
And that's how it works withforeign countries.
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You are supposed to put yourcountry first.
Why?
Because it is your country.
It is disordered.
It is immoral.
It is freakish.
It is strange and weird andcreepy to be so dedicated to
another country that you elevateit over your country, just like
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it's immoral and creepy andweird if you care about someone
else's kid more than your ownkid.
That's just not the way humanbeings are supposed to work.
And this is the exact samething we talked about last week
when we talked about how all ofthese immigrants are destroying
our culture and destroying oursovereignty and tearing our
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country apart.
We have nothing in common witheach other.
And we've been convinced to dothat by people manipulating our
emotions to think that caringabout our country first and our
culture first and our interestsfirst is a bad thing.
That it's selfish.
This is the exact same thingthey're doing here.
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They are trying to get us tocare more about Ukraine, more
about Israel, more about Taiwan,more about all of these places
than we care about the UnitedStates.
It's the most insane,unnatural, and destructive thing
ever.
This is globalism.
And yet you have all of theseidiots.
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Idiots or nefarious people.
Some of them are very smart andscheming.
So not all of them are stupid.
Some of them are just evil.
But all these people who aretrying to get us to think that
it's a liberal, bleeding heartthing to not want to send money
to Israel, to not want to fightwars for Israel and stuff like
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that.
It's the conservative positionthat we must sacrifice No,
that's not what's conservative.
The conservative position is tocare about your family and your
community and your country andyour people first.
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That is the conservativeposition.
It is the globalist, socialist,utopian position to try to
redirect all of your love andall of your affection away from
the ones closest to you and outinto this abstraction known as
the world.
That is not conservatism.
Do not believe anything.
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Anyone who tries to convinceyou that it's woke right to
support the interests of yourcountry, they are lying to you.
I want to leave you with thisquote by John Quincy Adams.
Only of her own.
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She well knows that by onceenlisting under other banners
than her own, were they even thebanners of foreign
independence, she would involveherself in all the wars of
interest and intrigue, whichassume the colors and usurp the
standard of freedom.
The fundamental maxims of herpolicy would insensibly change
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from liberty to force.
The frontlet upon her browwould no longer beam with the
ineffable splendor of freedomand independence, but instead
would soon be substituted withan imperial diadem, flashing in
false and tarnished luster themurky radiance of dominion and
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power.
She might become the dictatressof the world.
She would no longer be theruler of her own spirit.
With this war with Iran,America faces another choice.
Will it go abroad in search ofmonsters to destroy?
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Will it protect the liberty ofits people, or will it result to
the force of empire?
Will it entangle itself inanother war?
preventable, stupid foreign warthat has nothing to do with us?
Will it send more of America'ssons and daughters to die bloody
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deaths for the sake of aforeign country?
Or will it finally put ourcountry and our people first
again?
That is what America First issupposed to be.
That is why the American peopleelected Donald Trump, and he
cannot betray us now by sendingus to war with Iran.
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As many people have said, if hedoes, that will be the death of
MAGA.
It will splinter MAGA.
The entire movement will betorn in two over foreign policy.
This is a make-or-break moment.
Will Trump betray the voterswho elected him on the promise
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of no new wars?
Will he cave into the neoconswho are bloodthirsty and craving
another contest, another MiddleEastern war that will drag on
for 20 years?
Or will he follow what I hopeare his instincts and keep
America out of this and put ourcountry first?
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Rebel.
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