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Chapter 1: What triggered Donald Trump's morning meltdown?
Donald Trump is having a major meltdown this morning. Starting at 4 a.m., he posted this photo of himself where he's holding an AR-15-style rifle with AI images of explosions in the background in Iran. And Donald Trump writes, no more Mr. Nice Guy of this AI photo of himself with this AR-15-style rifle. And then he writes, Iran can't get their act together.
They don't know how to sign a non-nuclear deal. They better get smart soon, exclamation point. Oh, Donald, are you going to try to win this war based on memes? Are you going to win this war based on social media posts? I'm sure it's making Iran very, very scared.
here's what iran is warning this morning iran has warned of unprecedented military action against continued u.s seizures of iran-linked vessels state-run press tv says citing senior iranian security sources as i reported earlier this morning Donald Trump's plan, as he has told his aides, is let's just prepare for an extended blockade indefinitely.
Let's just extend it however long until, you know, something happens. Donald Trump doesn't want to escalate with ground forces, nor does Donald Trump have the capability or willingness to negotiate with Iran and actually make concessions. So Donald Trump's plan, extend the naval blockade forever,
gas prices continue to rise in the United States, something catastrophic happens, and then Donald Trump will blame whoever, as he always does.
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Chapter 2: How does Trump's social media behavior reflect his political strategy?
Now, I think it's important to also note that on Sunday, Donald Trump went on state regime media, which calls itself Fox, and Trump said, by Wednesday morning, the oil pipelines in Iran and the oil storage was gonna get so congested and so full that there was going to be a over pressurization and that was gonna lead to an explosion and Iran would be destroyed this morning. that didn't happen.
We know that Donald Trump lies about everything. We know that was a ridiculous lie. I just find it interesting that he can say something like that on Sunday and say it on a widely viewed cable news program, and then it doesn't happen. It's like, yeah, that's Donald Trump. He just lies about things. It's just Donald Trump being Donald Trump.
When you actually dig into analysis about Iran's oil production, Take a look at this. This analysis by Robin Energy suggests that the U.S. blockade of Iran's oil exports will not cause catastrophic or even very serious damage to its upstream oil industry.
If and when the blockade is relaxed, Iran will probably be able to resume production promptly at about 70% and regain most of its pre-war capacity within a few months. Other Iranian commentary that's out there, as seen at Tonsi, Artosi explains points to several ways to mitigate storage pressure from this U.S. blockade without even shutting the wells in the first place.
You could use these VLC sees these very large container ships and you can use some existing large tankers to kind of put
excess storage you can scale down production you could rely more on fixed roof storage you can increase refinery runs to convert crude into other products um and uh you know keep some of the exports moving um you know albeit constrained by the naval blockade but uh you know we've been seeing iran be able to you know get around that naval blockade one of the things that we're learning as well
is that over the past 24 hours, Donald Trump's been coordinating this plan that I just mentioned with oil executives. Oil and gas executives are now basically Donald Trump's cabinet. I mean, we knew that before when it came to the invasion of Venezuela. It was Donald Trump and oil and gas executives mapping it out together before Donald Trump ever went to office.
Donald Trump never went to Congress before he even informed Congress. As Julia Manchester says, this is what the White House is telling people. This is not some like super secret meeting. Like they're saying, this is what we're doing.
She writes, a White House official tells me that Trump met with oil and gas executives on Tuesday, along with chief of staff, Susie Wiles, treasury secretary, Scott Besant and Vance. The official said the group discussed steps Trump has taken to alleviate global oil markets and steps we could take to continue the current blockade for months if needed and minimize impact on American consumers.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Trump's indefinite blockade plan?
You seemed to be wrong about everything. What say you, Hegseth? Here, play this clip.
So on Ukraine, a year plus ago, your advice, the president's advice was Ukraine had no cards to play. They should go cut the best possible deal they could. Clearly that was wrong. What did you miss? What did you miss about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine that you didn't see that Ukraine was going to be capable of doing what they've done in the last 14 months?
What we didn't miss, and we're here in this committee, is that Joe Biden, with no accountability, gave hundreds of billions of dollars of our weapons to Ukraine, to an outcome that never would have happened if President Trump was president. So he pulled out our, you guys don't talk about that. Ultimately, President Trump believes there should be a peace deal. between Russia and Ukraine.
But you didn't expect Ukraine to be where they're at right now. I'm asking you just from a strategic standpoint.
I think the Ukrainians have shown great courage, and I appreciate that Europe is now paying for any weapons that we provide. All right. I yield back. Thank you.
And then you can see over here, Hegsiff tries to pull that line he always does on state regime media, which calls itself Fox, when being cross-examined by Democratic Congress member Adam Smith. And he's like, I want to be clear. We obliterated Iran's nuclear capabilities last June. So Adam Smith, Democratic Congress member, Smith's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, okay.
So if it was obliterated, then why did you say it posed an imminent threat? And then Heg sits all like all over the place and he's like the fast talking liar type, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? Fast talking liars. He's like, uh, Well, they had ambitions. They had ambitions like North Korea, like North Korea. You want to bring up North Korea as example? Yeah.
Donald Trump exchanged love letters with the guy and then allowed the guy to get nuclear weapons. Great example, Hegseth. Here, play this clip.
Who's hellbent on getting a nuclear weapon and get them to a point where they're at the table giving it up in a way that you should never have it.
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Chapter 4: Why did Trump's predictions about Iran's oil infrastructure fail?
All right, let me try again. It's the North Korea strategy. You know this very well. The North Korea strategy was use conventional missiles to prevent anybody from challenging them so they could slow walk their way to a weapon.
President Trump saw Iran at its weakest moment, took an action to ensure, in a way that only the United States of America could do with our Israeli partners, to ensure their conventional shield-
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Also, Hegseth was protested when he was showing up. Let's just show you a brief clip of the protest when Hegseth was arriving to that hearing today in the House of Representatives. Let's play this clip.
You should be disgusted with yourself.
You need to be arrested.
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Chapter 5: How is the U.S. blockade affecting Iran's oil production capabilities?
In other words, Republicans are like, stop talking about Epstein. And they bring up the Clintons, the Clintons, the Bidens. Pam Bondi is literally the person involved in the cover up. OK, not the Clintons. Hillary Clinton's not even in any email. No one even met the guy. OK, Pam Bondi is the person.
If you don't see the distinction there and you just think you're going to go Clintons, Biden, Obama. It's why people hate politics. We just want you to stop covering up a damn child sex trafficking ring, please.
We just want you to be normal and not post photos of yourself with AR-15 style rifles and say, no more Mr. Nice Guy, like it's some horrific Rambo movie, but we're all non-consensual extras in this dystopian reality TV show. We just want to be able to afford our rent and buy groceries and live normal lives with our families and live in peace without you Trump mega maniacs treading on all of us.
That's it. It's just that simple right there. 45 minutes after the contempt charges, Pam Bondi gives a date. I want to give a shout out also to Governor Gavin Newsom mocking Donald Trump mercilessly and perfectly. You know that Donald Trump, in addition to putting his face all over the National Park passes, well, Donald Trump wants to do that on the newly issued passports.
Trump's face on passports coming soon. That's what the State Department is pushing. So California Governor Gavin Newsom posted this, that all new California driver's license will have Newsom's face on it. In honor of California's 175th anniversary, we'll be rolling out a very special driver's license for every Californian this summer.
It will feature a handsome, high quality photo of me, Gavin C. Newsom. Many people are saying it's the best license ever made in the history of the United States. So with the American people absolutely livid at this Trump regime, what does the Trump regime need to do? Cheat. They need to work with their fascist right wing Supreme Court sycophants.
That's six to three right wing Supreme Court majority. I'll do a longer video on this as well, where I'll break down the ruling for all of you. But the Supreme Court issued a very bad ruling today in the case. Louisiana versus Calais.
And in a six to three decision, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's congressional map that added a second majority black district, ruling it unconstitutional as a racial gerrymander.
the opinion the opinion written by right-wing fascist supreme court justice samuel alito narrows how the voting right act is interpreted moving forward it basically guts all of section two in the voting rights act which prohibits discrimination
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