Chapter 1: What are President Trump's recent threats regarding Iran?
Hey, everyone. Thanks for joining us again on another Unfiltered here on Truth in the Barrel. We are talking today about the ceasefire in Iran. We're going to be talking about Republican attacks on domestic programs that actually help people. And we'll celebrate some wins in Wisconsin this week and around the country. Back with us again is our favorite Wisconsinite. Yeah. Dr. Chris. Yes.
Dr. Kristen Lyerly. Welcome back. Thanks for having me back. We had so much fun last time that we just couldn't resist. Yeah, the last time we did this, it was all about your work and health care and everything that's going on.
Chapter 2: How are Democrats responding to the ongoing war in Iran?
This time, we're going to talk about current events and everything else that's going on.
Yeah, we have to. have these conversations. Some of this stuff is really hard to talk about, but we have to talk about it. And we have to figure out, we have to get down to the meaning and how it affects us.
Chapter 3: What is the significance of the recent ceasefire in Iran?
Because these things that are happening in the world might seem like they're happening on the other side of the world, but they are 100% affecting our daily lives. And that's what we have to get to the bottom of.
Yeah. And Kristen, the stuff that's happening overseas right now may seem far away, but it is already affecting us and it's going to affect us even more, you know, in terms of gas prices and the entire economy with what's going on in Iran.
Yeah, we're already seeing it. Prices at the pump. I don't think anybody who puts gas in their car can deny that prices are going up. And that really hits home. That hits your budget. Most people are living paycheck to paycheck. So this is really meaningful. And it's not going to be over anytime soon.
Even if everything were to stop and things were to go back to normal, whatever that is, it's not going to be over. There's permanent destruction that is going to take a long time to recover from. from, yeah, I'm really worried, Amy. I'm really worried about what happens next.
Well, and everybody wants things to stop, but the reality is it's not likely to. This latest ceasefire agreement, which just happened in the last 48 hours, might actually be gone by the time people listen to this. There's already signs that it's already gone. But I think it's important for us to start with something even more, shall I say, deep, okay? Which is...
Less than three days ago, the president of the United States tweeted out, communicated to the world that he was going to order the bombing of civilians and civilian infrastructure. Yeah.
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Chapter 4: How is the Trump administration affecting domestic programs?
He tweeted out, quote, that Iran's whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. And now we're learning that the president, you know, threatened the Pope. Okay. Yeah. Threatening to do this is just something I never thought I would see a president of the United States do.
He just keeps pushing the envelope and just keeps defying any sense of a norm or something that you would believe. This was Easter Sunday, remember, when he put that out on Truth Social. And I... I think none of us could believe it. And the language was just so wild. And then to hear for all of us to be thinking, are we about to like really bomb Iran into obliteration?
And then the pope gets involved and pushes back and says, this is not right. And then the government goes after the pope and says, we can take you down, too. I live in a very Catholic part of the country. I grew up in a Catholic tradition. People here are feeling restless because a lot of people have felt like mega and Catholicism go together. They've been told that.
But now they're literally seeing Donald Trump at odds with the pope, who is divine.
Chapter 5: What impact do proposed budget cuts have on American families?
And that is creating a lot of discomfort in populations that have been pretty faithful to Donald Trump up until now.
The president is unhinged. His words are immoral. If he acted to bomb innocent civilians, first of all, I'm not sure the military... would do it, although civilian infrastructure is sort of a gray area, we would be committing war crimes, no different than what Vladimir Putin is doing in Ukraine.
You know, we have said for years to Vladimir Putin, you can't bomb these things that directly harm civilians. And yet that's exactly what our president is talking or talked about doing. And the other thing about this, Kristen, is most Republicans Said nothing.
Yeah.
They said nothing. They're just silent. Happy Easter. You know, there's a congressman from Florida, Brian Mast, who's the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. So he kind of has a role here. He made no mention of the war this week on Tuesday and instead posted on social media about the hatching of the bald eagle, of a bald eagle in Southern California. Don't look at this.
Look over here at this shiny object. I'm just like... We have a war going on. We have the president of the United States threatening to kill civilians, threatening the pope. And you're the head of the House Armed Services or not Armed Services, Foreign Affairs. And this is what you have to offer.
I live in a place where a bald eagle lives in my backyard pretty much. So I get to watch it circle sometimes. And I do. I watch it and I think, why? What is happening to this world? You are so majestic and beautiful. And this government is falling apart.
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Chapter 6: How does the current political climate affect local elections?
And we are, it's the culture war. It's distractions. It's social media wars. While our president is I don't even know what reality he lives in. But Republicans, as you said, Amy, just fall in line. Don't push back. This is how we know it's a cult. There should be people with different opinions having lively debates about what's going on because nobody has fought. full control.
Nobody has the idea of how to lead everything all the time. So there needs to be that tug of war. But that's not happening right now. And the Republicans are just laying down. And that is how we got into this situation. And that's how we continue to be in this situation. And until our leaders will stand up against this, we're going to continue down this pathway.
Yeah. Let's talk about this ceasefire because we're now in this two-week ceasefire in Iran. Is it? What? Well, maybe.
Maybe.
But I really have a lot of, not problems with the ceasefire, of course. We all want the ceasefire, but where are we at right now? We are focused on trying to get the Strait of Hormuz open that was open before we started this war. And if you look at the ceasefire, what have we gotten out of this?
I don't even know that it's a ceasefire because from the very beginning, there was a misunderstanding about whether Lebanon was part of it or not. And Israel and the U.S. seem to think not.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the U.S. military's actions abroad?
Everybody else seems to think yes. So this is a fundamental piece of what the ceasefire needs to be. And I don't know that we've resolved that issue. And there have been continued attacks. So is there really a ceasefire or is that just something that people are talking about?
Yeah. And the Strait of Hormuz is still closed. The only ships that are moving are container ships that are Iranian, basically. I mean, they're the only ones. And as you said, you know, the strikes are still continuing. But it's almost unbelievable to me to watch the Secretary of War go up in front of the world in his briefings and say, you know, we've won this thing.
And Donald Trump to say, you know, we won. They begged us for a ceasefire. And where are we? This is now the worst strategic defeat as it stands at the moment in my lifetime. Because what did we get out of this war that we started? Yeah, why did we even start it? We still don't know that. Did we get regime change?
No.
Chapter 8: What are the consequences of America's foreign policy decisions?
No, we didn't. We replaced the Ayatollah Khomeini with the Ayatollah Khomeini, his son, who's even more radical. Did we get nuclear program destruction? No, you cannot destroy a nuclear program Militarily, it requires inspections. It requires diplomacy. You can't destroy knowledge. So we didn't destroy that. Did we get unconditional surrender? No.
Did we stop Iran from funding or arming terrorist groups? No. Did we do the near destruction or destruction of their Navy? Okay, yeah, sure. We destroyed their surface ships. I saw a map this morning of the Strait of Hormuz and how much...
the irgc the iranian navy still controls the strait they don't they don't need the same warships that we they have they can control it from the land and they have underwater drones and they have speed boats they have mines do we destroy some of their missile capacity sure not all of it And meanwhile, what did we lose here? Iran still has control over the Strait of Hormuz.
Now, Kristen, Iran is profiting, wants to profit off the Strait of Hormuz. So they're going to charge for ships to go in there. We are going to start paying them now. And we've given them sanctions relief. And the United States' standing and credibility in the world is tanked. Our allies have left us. You know, the Chinese have gained here. The Russians got sanctions relief. NATO's fractured.
We spent billions of dollars. Gas prices are up. I mean, I feel like the list is so big of all the shit we've lost.
in this America first, which has turned into America alone. And to see Pete Hegseth standing up there, you know, with his chest puffed out and his tight suit on, talking about this victory, this is what the Trump administration does, is they give you these big, bold statements and they tell you what they want you to believe, but the truth is something entirely different.
And, you know, if you're watching what Iran is doing on social media, some of the Lego videos that they're sending over, the propaganda, the way that they're trolling us, it's pretty obvious that they are up for the long fight. They are not going to lose this.
They understand that public sentiment across the globe is with them, that we have not defined what our objectives are or why we're there in the first place or what will end this. I guess when Trump feels it in his bones, isn't that what he said? Yeah, but he can't control it.
He can't control an ending. He can say, I'm out. But that still leaves the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iran in arguably better shape. We still have a war going on, even though we've said, hey, cease fire. Guess what? Israel's not listening to us anymore. We have thousands of people killed. Hundreds of kids have been killed. U.S. troops have been killed and wounded.
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