Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Donald Trump's disastrous, unlawful, and catastrophic war in Iran continues to get worse. Matters continue to escalate in the Middle East, while Donald Trump continues to lie and talk about fake negotiations that he claims he's having with Iran, only for within minutes, Iran to mock Donald Trump and the United States and say, we're not having any negotiations.
And Iran also saying the fact that you're making up negotiations, or even if you wanted to have negotiations when you previously were talking about regime change, Doesn't that show that you are in the weaker position here, that you keep on talking about this? Didn't you say we totally surrendered?
So how could there be total obliteration and total surrender if you want to send your highest level officials to try to speak with us and we don't want to talk with you? That's literally what the foreign minister of Iran, Arachi, has been saying. There's no negotiations, and it's showing how desperate you are to negotiate with us.
And it happened again moments ago, right, where Donald Trump posted on his social media platform As per Iranian government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of energy plant destruction by 10 days to Monday, April 6th, 2026 at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
Talks are ongoing and despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the fake news media and others, they are going very well. Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J. Trump."
So then you have GB Ghalibaf, the head of Iran's parliament, basically posting memes back at Donald Trump and the White House of little children looking very confused at some of the deranged statements that Donald Trump and his regime are making. You have Iranian leaders telling media sites like Dropsite and others, Donald Trump is not being truthful.
in his earlier posts on his social media platform, announcing an additional five-day pause on his threat to bomb Iranian energy infrastructure at the request of Iran, with one Iranian official stating, Trump is not being truthful. We have not submitted any requests regarding potential U.S. attacks. Folks, look what's taking place though in the region.
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Chapter 2: What are the latest developments in Trump's handling of the Iran crisis?
Donald Trump and his regime have sent thousands of Marines on the USS Tripoli. Other ships are coming in from San Diego and elsewhere. The 86th Airborne Division is coming in from Fort Bragg. There are special operations forces heading into the Middle East. preparing for a ground invasion of Karg Island.
Previously, you had top Iranian officials saying, we are monitoring the movements of these American ships and soldiers. And then Iran was posting memes like, come closer. We've been waiting for this for two decades. Come closer, American soldiers. We are ready for you. And also posting memes with Donald Trump presenting or getting presents or gifts
from the iranian regime because trump's like they gave me a gift and like the iranian cartoonist in the gifts are showing iranian soldiers kicking donald trump in the face
Also, we know that Iran has stated through their local military outlets and their regime media that more than one million fighters in Iran have been preparing for a ground battle with the U.S., this according to the Tasnim News Agency. And also, you have Foreign Minister Araghchi taking to their regime media over there.
And he said, no nation in history has stood for nearly a month against the greatest nuclear armed power on earth and stopped them from achieving a single goal. This is a point of pride for all humanity. This foreign minister, Araghchi from Iran, said there are no negotiations taking place. The fact that the U.S. is now even talking about negotiations is an admission of defeat.
Didn't they say unconditional surrender? Didn't they say they don't care about the Strait of Hormuz and it doesn't matter? So if this was all the case and we're obliterated, why are they mobilizing their highest officials to even negotiate if we're done, if we don't exist in the first place?
This Iranian foreign minister says, for countries we have identified as friends, we're allowing them to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, China, Russia, India, Iraq, and Pakistan. Meanwhile, Iraq's Shiite militias have been given permission by the Iraqi government to target U.S. forces and to target U.S. interests in other Arab nations after U.S.
airstrikes killed this Shiite militia that is attached and works with the Iraqi government.
army and so the war spreading uh there um in addition uh iran saying there's no reason to allow our enemy to pass through the strait of hormuz the enemy must learn a lesson never to dare attack again and the damages to the iranian people must be compensated international guarantees are not 100 guarantees the intrinsic guarantee we have created ourselves means no one dares to go to war with the iranian people anymore
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Chapter 3: How is Iran responding to Trump's negotiations and military threats?
And especially when you take, for example, that post that he made that Iran just a few minutes later said, yeah, that's a complete and total lie. When Trump said, as per Iranian government request, I mean, when he started it off like that, I was like, probably BS right here. And why even put that lie forward if you know that they are going to refute it just moments later?
Announcements like this, as the trade deals, all this stuff, they're normally announced by both parties at the same time for a reason. You don't just have one side do it and then another side refute you, but here we are. And our troops are being put in harm's way right now. This is just such an absolute disgrace.
There are millions of people being displaced throughout the Middle East due to these wars. So many innocent people getting killed. We have our troops now, I believe 13 bases now, military bases across the Middle East, uninhabitable right now due to Iranian attacks. These are things that the Trump administration, they're ignoring, they're pretending is not happening.
And our troops now are forced to basically fight this war, many of them from like hotels and from remote areas. And that's now endangering the lives of additional innocent people because Iran's going, if your troops are staying in hotels, guess what? Those hotels are now targets because you're using them as military bases.
So this situation continues to expand as Donald Trump tries to pretend like he has a handle on it. He does not at all. We are inching every minute right now towards what looks like Trump is leaning heavily towards a ground invasion of Karg Island. You have Iran saying that they are prepared, that they fortified the island. They have a million troops ready to go.
This could be a very, very bad situation. I mean, taking a bad situation and making it even worse. But, you know, we'll dive into all the details. First, I got to pass it over to Jordi. Jordi, what's the latest?
What's up, brothers? What's up, Midas Mighty? This is bad. Yeah, it's going to continue to get worse. Donald Trump is being played like a fiddle here. He's the world's worst negotiator, and he may be the world's single worst communicator. American troops are dying. That's all that it comes back to for me. American troops are dying because of the incompetency.
that we're seeing from the trump regime it's absolutely appalling and pathetic and it's disgraceful because it also seems like the republican party maga donald trump that they don't give a damn about the american troops and that that to me i mean it should infuriate everyone it looks like this war is about to get escalated brett to your point as well and again there's no plan there's no planning he's not negotiating of how to make this better for everyone how to make it better for you for for america
he is being played like an absolute fiddle he is an incompetent buffoon he couldn't be more of the worst person to be in charge of who's in charge right now leading us into a disaster it's like watching a train in slow motion that's about to like head on to another train and you just want to be able to shake someone and like wake you up from this bad dream but but here we are and we have a lot to get into today benji where do you want to get started
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Chapter 4: What is the impact of the escalating conflict on Wall Street?
Great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It'll go away. It'll go away.
clearly did not go away that reminds me donald trump now just has new language to say the same things donald trump said don't be a panicking don't be a panic everything's going to be fine don't be a panic and we're winning we're winning this thing it's 15 cases it's going down to zero this thing's going to be gone by easter just like donald trump said but it looks like we're seeing
you know, with every passing day, I think you see Trump's frustration through all of this. And that's where you see the desperation coming out of these tweets and all of these, all the commentary and the scolding of the media. You're not covering it right. Why won't you cover the wins?
You're, you're, you're acting like we're losing this thing that people are just covering the truth right now, man. It reminds me of when people say when, when Trump complains, you know,
90 of the you know coverage about me is bad yeah because you do mostly horrible things basically all everything that you do is horrible so the reporting about that is going to reflect you who are who is a putrid human being okay well we're seeing that now and right now there's no real end game for this donald trump's back is against the wall when someone's back is against the wall they tried if you're if
in a if you're if you're playing football what do you do if you are probably gonna lose you're all the way on the other teams you know you're all the way on your goal line you have no other options you got to throw a hail mary and i think donald trump right now is preparing to throw a hail mary in this i think it's why you see all of these troops gathering to invade karg island i think we're now seeing reports that the pentagon thinks that if we just have one more
fatal blow against the iranians they will surrender they will surrender and we will win this thing but we've seen that that's not the case that's not how you get rid of regimes that's not how you do this and it's not how you win the hearts and minds of the people either remember the people who took to the streets the brave iranians who took to the streets to try to fight for democracy who called for trump's help who trump said get out there
protest we got your back and then they did and then they got slaughtered and trump did nothing and then bombed a school of innocent people all of this stuff just plays into the iranian propaganda it further entrenches people with the regime and it does everything against the united states interests in the region so i worry with trump's back against the wall that he is preparing this hail mary he often does things like this on a friday i'm not going to make
a prediction that it's definitely going to happen tomorrow or anything like that. But if passed, you know, as prologue, I think that it's certainly possible that we see some sort of ground invasion this weekend. I don't know. But Trump keeps inventing these fake conversations with Iranian officials that we know through reporting are likely just made up, just total and complete fabrications.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the 'No Kings Day' protests?
And they're not under this spell or this illusion. And they're looking at it like, dude, what the hell is it? What are you doing? Like, this is like some weird deranged cosplay world that you're in because in the real freaking world, Russia is working very closely with Iran to target American military bases with a great degree of success.
The New York Times and others reports 13 American military bases in the Middle East have essentially been evacuated. and American soldiers have now been sent to, as Brett mentioned, various hotels within the region where they've been evacuated. Our entire security umbrella in the Middle East has been destroyed and it barely gets a peep.
I mean, the New York Times writes about it, but it's kind of in passing. It's a pretty big deal that basically what? All of our military bases in the Middle East have been abandoned because the Shahid drones and FPV drone strikes by Iran have been so successful.
I mean, earlier today as well, while Donald Trump is making up this fictitious world that he's living in, where he's speaking with Iran and the conversations are going good, but we've totally defeated him.
and all of this deranged stuff, Iran has designated the Four Seasons, the Sheraton Hotels, the Presidential Palace in the Syrian capital Damascus, and other areas as military targets, claiming the presence of American, Israeli, and British experts inside of these locations.
You've got statements from Araghchi, the foreign minister earlier today of Iran saying, the wise stance of great religious authorities, the government and the Iraqi people must be commended in condemning the aggression of the American and Zionist entities. Your offering of condolences for the martyrdom of the leader of the revolution reflects the depth of strong ties between the two people.
and our hardship. You have Iran and Iraq coming stronger together as relationships, right? By the way, you have Turkey basically supporting Iran and telling others in the Middle East, do not get involved. And Iran's president, Pesachian, thanking Erdogan of Turkey. You have Iraq, as I mentioned before, their government green lighting Iraqi Shiite militias to attack the Americans.
So the war is basically spread to Iraq with the Iraqi army. This isn't being reported a lot attacking, you know, attacking Americans and Donald Trump's out there pursuant to my conversation with Iran. and then Donald Trump like treats NATO and Donald Trump's world, NATO is the bad guy, right?
Donald Trump's post this morning, NATO nations have done absolutely nothing to help me with the lunatic nation now militarily decimated of Iran. The USA needs nothing from NATO, but never forget this very important point in time, right? US has released its sanctions against Iranian oil And then we said, we're jujitsu-ing them. We released our sanctions against Belarusian authorities.
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Chapter 6: How are U.S. military strategies evolving in response to Iran?
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Chapter 7: What role does propaganda play in the current U.S.-Iran tensions?
Earlier this morning also, he posted, the Iranian negotiators are very different and strange. They are begging us to make a deal, which they should be doing since they have been militarily obliterated with zero chance of a comeback. and yet they publicly state they are only looking at our proposal, wrong.
They better get serious soon before it's too late, because once that happens, there's no turning back, and it won't be pretty, DJT. Now, even if what Donald Trump was saying was true,
why why word vomit that out even if it was accurate which i don't believe it is why say that how is that going to actually help negotiations or discussions by behaving that way also donald trump posted this morning chuck schumer a desperate crippled politician who has lost control of radical left democrats will make a deal now because he thinks that if he doesn't
republicans will terminate the filibuster something which they should do whether he makes a deal or not now regardless of what you think about schumer schumer did not make a deal that did not happen democrats are not funding the department of homeland security provided that ice and border patrol get any more money without certain controls that are put on them
my own view what democrats in the senate are asking for is weak i want to see ice and border patrol be abolished that's my position if i was a senator that would be my bright line i wouldn't compromise from that i'm not a senator nonetheless no i don't want to be i don't want to be a senator a congress member or a politician i like what i'm doing here i'm not going to run for office but
Democrats are like, OK, how about can you take off the masks? Can you not show up at polling stations during elections? Can you identify yourself and can you use warrants, actual warrants like the Constitution requires? That's the Democrat position, right? To fund ICE and Border Patrol, which I think we'd all be like.
if the Republicans did that deal or if Trump did that deal, we'd probably be like, that's pretty weak. That's one of those things.
And I want to be just abundantly clear here, and I have to interrupt you. ICE is already funded, okay? ICE already has more money than it's ever had in its history. And by the way, ICE hasn't even been around that long.
so the people who are like how could we possibly abolish ice it's not this institution that's been here since like the beginning of america it's it's not it's like a couple decades old so spare me okay this is not even about that because ice is already funded but you know who did fold it wasn't chuck schumer
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Chapter 8: How is the media portraying the situation in Iran and the U.S.?
Yeah. And that may have to be a device that we use if we can't get to an agreement. Got it. Thank you, sir.
I think there is enough latitude to make the argument that they could and that may be a device we use if we can't reach an agreement. And they couldn't reach an agreement because Trump would not let them, but that ended up being the device that they were able to use.
And it was due to relentless questioning of these lawmakers that they finally had to fold and say, oh, I guess, you know, once you admit that, you admit that you manufactured the whole crisis. And once Trump makes his post that says, I've decided to pay him, It shows again, you've manufactured this entire crisis.
And the fact that he's manufacturing crises here at home domestically, while he has manufactured these crises that are now very real and growing abroad, shows that this guy is just all about crisis. He's all about destruction and pulling everybody into his web of just insanity.
it's chaos for chaos sake and for the life of me i just can't wrap my head around it i really cannot understand it but it just comes back to this central i guess ethos to me and that's the republican party donald trump they don't care about the american person they really don't they're quite literally using tsa they use the american people they they use health care that as as political pawns
They use the American people as political pawns in this like weirdo, dystopian, chaotic game that, again, I don't understand why. Because he's trying to make the Democrats somehow look bad, like this is their fault. And meanwhile, we've known for all of this time that this is just some charade that he's trying to pull over.
It makes no sense to me on such a human level why they don't want to help Americans, Ben.
I will... If you're a nice person, Jordy, yes.
Like, if you're thinking about helping people and improving people's lives... Could you imagine how good this country really could be if we had politicians that actually gave a shit, like, about its citizens?
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