Krystal Ball
speaker
517 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 4 May
Krystal Ball’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, Treasury Secretary Scott Bassett, the way he originally came to wealth and power was basically by attacking alongside George Soros, actually the currency of the U.K.,
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And that's what he knows how to do.
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And he's out there bragging about all of the economic difficulty that he was creating in Iran, which did trigger an Iranian currency collapse, which was part of what helped to spark the mass protests.
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And then, you know, they were you you have various indications that we may have been a little bit more than hands off in terms of, you know, encouraging those protests from the inside.
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And when that failed to succeed,
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You know, you have, you know, Trump with the pressure of Netanyahu.
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You have Trump with pressure from within his own administration.
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You, of course, have some major donors, including Miriam Adelson, who not only funded his last campaign, but also promised, hey, if you want to go for that third term, I got 200, I think she said $250 million waiting for you.
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And I think you add to that the sort of fevered climate after Venezuela, where I think it's going to be a disaster long term.
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They see it as this great, incredible victory.
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So Trump, you have to think about his mindset.
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He's got all these tweets from the past about how Obama is going to start an Iran war in order to rescue his approval rating.
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He thinks that wars will be good for his popularity.
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He thinks that they will create a rally around the flag effect and certainly distract from the negative economic news, from the scandals contained in the Epstein files, and the fact that his political coalition is falling apart.
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So I think that's part of the calculation for why now.
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Remember, the Israelis, Netanyahu in particular, constantly working on him, flying to D.C., constantly working on him.
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It only takes him saying yes once for us to end up in this situation.
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Yeah, and there was reporting from Dropsite indicating that, you know, Schumer and top leadership and the Democrats were, you know, low key in support.
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They know that the base is wildly opposed, so they can't come out and say, yes, we're except for Fetterman.
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Yes, we love this.
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