Cal Thomas
speaker
1,490 appearances
21 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Cal Thomas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So it's going to be uh, you know, fate accomplished
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Well, let's remember that the strategic petroleum reserve was virtually emptied under the Biden administration in hopes that gas prices would decline, which they did for a short period uh leading up to uh the election.
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Uh I I think a lot of companies, Chevron among them, but Shell and others, have been very reluctant to go back into Venezuela because of the unstable government.
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The uh president of Venezuela now, who uh replaced Maduro not by election.
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election, but just because she was next in line, uh, has said that okay, she's fine with selling this uh this oil to the United States, but I think Marianne is right, it's not going to trickle down uh to the gas pumps any time soon.
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So I think any political benefit, certainly of the midterms coming up in just three months now, uh is is just not going to happen.
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Well, several things, Matt.
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Uh first I've as you will not be surprised, I don't agree with your assessment that the war is a failure.
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I think uh the United States has destroyed their military capability, set them back uh possibly for years on obtaining a nuclear weapon.
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Many of the critics of the war don't say what uh
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they would have if Iran was allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon.
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They just criticized the administration.
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Now your point about China, which uh gets uh must most of its oil from Iran is a good one.
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President Xi is scheduled to visit Washington next month, and I suspect the administration didn't want to single out China, fearing that she might cancel and that would uh cause a major political uproar.
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But I uh I I think that uh Besson was
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He asked twice, by the way, at this news conference yesterday about China, and he suggested that uh Chinese banks would not be immune from uh economic uh retaliation.
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So what that means in the long term we'll uh we'll have to see, or even in the short term for that matter.
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Well we'll see.
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Iran's economy is in uh is in the in the toilet.
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Uh I think it's uh two thousand uh reals now to the US dollar.
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