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The REAL REASON The Iran Ceasefire Is Already Collapsing! w/ Col. Douglas Macgregor

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Colonel Douglas Macgregor joins Jimmy to analyze the chaotic Iran ceasefire negotiations, noting that Trump initially appeared to accept Iran's humiliating 10-point plan (including U.S. troop withdraw...

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for all those tickets. See you there. Donald Trump initially seemed to be accepting the ten points that Iran was demanding. It says right here that the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the complete immediate and safe open of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran

for a period of two weeks. This will be a double-sided ceasefire. But that's not how Iran sought. Iran sought that the United States, absolute humiliation for Washington on Algeria, Iranian state TV confirms Trump was forced to accept a humiliating ten-point plan.

The U.S. is withdrawing troops paying reparations and surrendering the Strait of Hormuz

total strategic defeat for Trump, so do you agree that if he accepted the ten-point plan

β€œthat it would be a strategic and humiliating defeat for Trump?”

No. I don't think he accepted the ten points and furthermore, you know, the Iranians, they're declaring victory, you know, obviously, they think, and they're not entirely wrong simply because we're the ones that have been asking for days now for a ceasefire, not the Iranians. Iranians really don't want to ceasefire, they made that very clear, they hold a strategic

initiative, we don't. But on the other hand, you have Secretary of War Higgs said telling us that this is evidence for our great victory over Iran, so you can pick which one you want to believe. I think what's actually happened is as follows, there was some sort of back-door deal under which Pakistan would submit this proposal that we may well have crafted ourselves in some

fashion and said, okay, we'll present this to them and we'll say that this is being presented to you, which is what happened. The ten-point aspect of this whole thing, I think, was simply glossed over by President Trump. In fact, I don't know that any of the details were carefully examined, what they really wanted

β€œwas a pause, and I think that's what you're getting, you're getting an intermission.”

Now how long will it last? I'm hearing from friends in the region telling me that it's already falling apart, it's completely meaningless. On the other hand, I'm being told by friends in Washington that this is going to go forward and we are going to meet in Islamabad.

What are we going to discuss? Well, if you look at the ten-point, so no one has seen a document from Iran that lists these ten-point, but we have a general idea of what's in them. And if you look at them, they're completely unacceptable, totally unacceptable to us, because we have taken Israel's position.

And I think this gets to the real point of the whole issue right now. Arrests and Israel's interests, contrary to popular belief, contrary to what President Trump has said, are not the same. We want this thing to end. President Trump was quote-unquote misinformed. You know, he was told, and a few days this will be over, they'll fall apart, then we can move on to other things.

β€œI think he was told that by Netanyahu, when he still didn't move Netanyahu attacked, and”

we were sort of dragged in to do this. It's been a catastrophe for the world, a disaster for the world, for the globally economy. It's not good for us. And so when you look at these ten-point, it's impossible for us to accept them without effectively abandoning Israel.

And at this point, I don't think that's going to happen. So what do you make of, well, here, let me just show you, these are the reported ten points. Now, again, as you said, we don't have an official confirmation on this, but they wanted a guarantee that Iran will not be attacked again, permanent end to the war, not just a ceasefire.

They want to end to Israel strikes on Lebanon, Israel is bombing the hell out of Lebanon right now, lifting of all US sanctions on Iran, and to all regional fighting against Iranian allies. Iran would reopen the straight-of-pour moves.

Iran would impose $2 million fees per ship, transiting the Hormuz.

Number eight, Iran would split these fees with Oman, and number nine, Iran would establish rules for safe passage through our moves.

Number ten, Iran would use our moves fees for reconstructions instead of repa...

So that was what was, this is being reported by many credible sources that that was the

ten points. And as you say, there's no way that Trump could agree to those, but he did seem initially to say yes. Well, he had to do that in order to get any sort of discussion, you know, Jimmy, if you don't say all right, we'll consider these as the basis for negotiation, which effectively

is what we said, you can't meet with them. Now the point is, the Iranians have just said, until the bombing in Lebanon stops, we're not going to take the ceasefire seriously. In other words, they wanted to be region wide, and it's not region wide right now. We're trying to separate what Israel is doing from the talks that we want to have.

Well, that's not acceptable either to Israel or to Iran. So I don't know where we're going to go from this. Maybe we're still going to have a meeting.

β€œThen again, you have to keep in mind that the two gentlemen, Kushner and Whitkoff, have”

both been previously disinvited from coming back. But apparently, they're going to be there, along with the Vice President vass.

So here is from today, here's the press secretary, and here's what she had to say about

the 10-point plan. And it's already. So let me be clear, and correct the record. The Iranians originally put forward a 10-point plan that was fundamentally unserious, unacceptable, and completely discarded.

It was literally thrown in the garbage by President Trump and his negotiating team. Many outlets in this room have falsely reported on that plan as being acceptable to the United States, and that is false. With the President's deadline fast approaching, and the United States military completely decimating Iran with each passing hour, the regime acknowledged reality to the negotiating

team. They put forward a more reasonable and entirely different and condensed plan to the President and his team. President Trump and the team determined the new modified plan was a workable basis on which to negotiate and to align it with our own 15-point proposal.

The President's red lines, namely the end of Iranian enrichment in Iran, have not changed. And the idea that President Trump would ever accept Iranian wishlist as a deal is completely absurd. So now this story, because Trump got a lot of pushback after it was reported that he had accepted these 10 points, and that they were going to work it out further over the next two weeks.

β€œAnd so I think that's what that is about, and they're now saying, "No, no, no, we got rid”

of those 10 points because he was getting so much even Fox News was upset with them over it." And I know, right? And so now they're saying, "No, no, no, we got rid of those 10 points. Nobody can worry about that."

And now we have new points, we're not going to tell you what they are. That's a workable thing. So that's why this Saturday meeting in Islamabad with Kushner, Whitkoff, and Vance, is going forward. Does that make sense?

I think it's as good an explanation as anybody else could come up with. By the way, I didn't know we had a female Ben Shapiro, that's a new development. I speed it up a little. Oh, really, okay, well that's good, I didn't want to think of Ben in drag. Okay.

I, you know, it's very clear that President Trump, and I say this because I had a couple of occasions with him, and he was not enthusiastic about going to war with Iran. And I think President Trump probably, in his heart, and I think he has one country, some people think, absolutely did not want this war. I think he now knows that he's got a stinker, and that this thing needs to stop.

The problem for him is that how does he stop it? Yeah, there's no evidence that the reckless team running the show in Israel is prepared to stop anything. And now he's got a problem with Iranians. They hold this strategic initiative.

They have demonstrated they cannot be conquered.

β€œI mean, literally that's what they've demonstrated.”

They're a mountain fortress. You need a million men to invade the place. Nobody in their right mind wants to be bothered with that. So he's trying to focus narrowly on the Persian Gulf because I think he said every leader in the world, particularly in the global South calling, and say, look, we're headed into

a global economic depression. We have food, feedstock, fuel, and fertilizer problems. If we can't fix this very, very quickly, we're going to have people starving around the world. What are you going to do about it?

So I think all of these things are now driving the show in the White House.

The problem is that I don't think he's going to get free for the reasons that we're

just outlawed because I don't think the Iranians are inclined to compromise very much. Maybe some, but not most. Do you think China, I've heard reports that China has stepped in and is, is pressuring, they pressure to ran to stop it, to do a ceasefire because they need oil.

I mean, it's half of, half of all of its oil from the Persian Gulf, about 13%...

and the rest from the Gulf states. They are now looking around the world for alternatives.

The Russians, of course, they're making more than $250 million a day more than they

did previously because of the demand for their oil and they're selling it to the highest bidder. This has become a bidder's market, the Japanese, the Koreans, and others have outbidden Europeans to the point where tankers headed for Europe turned around and sailed back to Asia. This is a very serious situation.

β€œSo I think that China very definitely put some pressure on Iranians and I think the Iranians”

want to accommodate the Chinese, but in fairness to the Chinese, I would like to point out that from the very beginning, even before the war began, the Chinese had said, "Don't do this. This is a disaster. Don't do it.

We didn't listen." The Russians told Donald Trump, "This will be a disaster. Don't do it." Nobody listened to them and they were right. The Indians have privately said the same thing.

All of them are interested in halting this because of the global economic catastrophe that is ensuing. Here is a little bit more from the press secretary. I can announce that the president is dispatching his negotiating team led by the vice president of United States, J.D.

Vance, special on boy Whitkoff. So there you go. She is reconfirming. And Mr. Kushner to Islamabad for talks this weekend, the first round of-- Oh, this is what's going on.

Those talks will take place on Saturday morning, local time, and we know we look forward to those in-person meetings. So there you have it. So there she's confirming that negotiations are moving forward. There's going to be a negotiation Saturday.

Now, these things are changing by the minute, it seems.

β€œBut why on earth would Iran ever want to negotiate with Jared Kushner and Whitkoff?”

After they've been lied to repeatedly over and over, by the way, they're not even official members of the government. So what do you make of-- what do you make of what she just said? Well, as I said earlier, I had a feeling this would happen. And the Iranians made it very clear that in their minds, they're dealing with two people

who are agents for Israel. These people are not representing the interests of the American people. In fact, they went so far as to suggest that they would be-- they would prefer, frankly, to talk with Vice President Vance, whom they regarded as a truly balanced representative of American national interest.

By the way, the Russians reached the same conclusions about Kushner and Whitkoff. Both of whom were interested more inside deals that they could make that would enrich themselves than they were in the substance under discussion. I think the fact that President Trump is sending the two of them back with Vance suggests that Mr. Netanyahu continues to hold enormous power and influence over President Trump.

What is your Hanshan where they get that leverage? You know, I can't give you a hunch what I would say is the following. If you look at the collection of billionaires, Zionist billionaires, these are people like Ellison and others who are contributing heavily to the power and influence of the lobby.

Remember, the Israel lobby has never been regarded as a foreign lobby.

Why? Well, most of its money doesn't come from overseas. It comes from people inside the United States who resignists. And these Zionists are the ones that help to get President Trump elected. You can go back to Miriam Adelson and to the discussions she had with Trump.

She provided $150 million to his campaign, but she extracted some promises. And those promises included you're going to deal with Iran. Finally, we have to have a settlement with Iran. The Israelis know they can't settle anything with Iran without American military power. So effectively, President Trump is obligated to commit American armed forces in a war against

Iran that is designed to ultimately destroy Iran and make it subservient to Israel. Now why would that be the case?

β€œWell, you have to look at the larger picture for Israel.”

Israel will never feel safe in the region until it dominates all of it.

Hence the greater Israel project. If you look at the greater Israel project, it's patently obvious what's going on. Now even in the last few weeks, what's interesting is that people like Naptali Bennett as well as Mr. Netanyahu have stood up and said, "Well, you know, there's another problem. It's called Turquia.

Those Turks will have to be dealt with." So I guess if you're sitting in the armed forces right now, the United States, you say,

"Well, once we finally destroyed Iran, I guess we'll be committed to destroy ...

I mean, this is the sort of madness that is going on.

And President Trump is caught. He's caught in this not just in this escalation trap, instead of looking for ways to ameliorate conditions, improve relations and talk intelligently. He's taken this bullying approach, which is what he learned. I'm sure in the real estate market in New York City.

And this bullying approach is putting ministerial position. I mean, on one night, he says, "I'm going to destroy an entire civilization." And we'll be nothing left. The next day, he says, "Well, I really want to help you running in people." What the hell is this?

It makes no sense. So here's the big sticking point.

β€œI think this is what's ruining the ceasefire.”

So here was the original deal from Pakistan. It said that we have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon and elsewhere effective immediately, and then Israel just starts pummeling Lebanon after this.

And here's what JD Vance had to say about it.

He's in Hungary for some reason. And here we go. I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding. I think the Iranian thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it just didn't. We never made that promise.

We never indicated that was going to be the case. What we said is that the ceasefire would be focused on Iran, and the ceasefire would be focused on America's allies, both Israel and the Gulf Arab states. So he said it was just a big misunderstanding. Max Blumenthal said that, "Oh, you know, Trump got his call from his Zion masters."

And that's what happened. Max is right. What happened was exactly what Max stated. Again, I go back to the original drafts of these messages.

β€œAnd I think the original message that we instructed the Pakistanis to send did not”

exclude Lebanon. And when it became clear that we accepted it because after all, we told them what we wanted them to send, Mr. Netanyahu got on the phone and called Trump and said, "You can't do this. We have to finish off Lebanon." And so then we backed off of it, he said, "Oh, we're sorry.

We can't include Lebanon." And I think Max is right. And so here's the response. The Iran U.S. ceasefire terms are clear and explicit, U.S. must choose ceasefire or continued war via Israel.

It cannot have both. The world sees the massive, the massacres in Lebanon, the ball is in the U.S. court. And the world is watching whether it will act on its commitments. Do you think that? So if they don't stop Israel from bombing Lebanon, Iran will not agree to a ceasefire.

So do you think that this war is going to go on? I've heard people say that it's going to go on for two more years now. What do you think? Well, it's going to continue. There's no question about it.

β€œThat's why I said if anything, this will be an intermission in a very bad play.”

This is not going to be any sort of lasting ceasefire. And Israelis don't respect ceasefires anyway. We have a long history of that sort of thing. Well, if you ask chat, GBT, which I did, how many ceasefires has Israel broken? Number only, 273.

That's according to chat, GPT. Well, I'm sure that Larry Ellison will get control of chat at some point and change that.

But the bottom line is now, this is going to go on now.

You say, how long will this last a year or two years or something else? I think the world is going to intervene in this. And I say, the world, I'm talking about economic reality. I'm also talking about financial and economic reality here at home. I mean, how much longer can we go on like this before the financial system finally buckles?

We have people talking privately now about the 10-year bond and saying that this yield is going to rise. Once that yield hits 5%, we're finished. We can't sustain the debt. We've already added another trillion dollars to the national sovereign debt.

So it's 39 trillion. I don't know what the current debt to GDP ratio is. It was about 140% debt to GDP, I think it's rising quickly. At some point, you hit a brick wall. And I think that's where the U.S. financial system and our economy are sort of headed down

the road in a very fast truck without any breaks, right towards a concrete wall. So I think that's going to have an impact and I think overseas for the reasons I've already cited the rest of the world is going to demand it into this thing. The real problem is not so much us because I think privately President Trump wants to end

This war.

No question to my mind. The problem is Israel.

β€œSo speaking to your point about the rest of the world is going to try to do something”

to end this.

This is from today more than 15 countries planning to facilitate straight-of-war moves

access. Macron says about 15 countries are currently mobilized and are participating in the planning under France's leadership to enable the implementation of the strictly defensive mission and coordination with Iran to facilitate the resumption of traffic. Macron said on Wednesday speaking at the start of his meeting on defense and with advisors

and members of his cabinet. So it seems like the rest of the world is negotiating without Trump in a sense with Iran. Is that the sound like what's happening? Absolutely.

Because at the same time, you have the Iranians who said if you're not affiliated with the United States, in other words, you're not supportive of the United States and Israel in this conflict and you're willing to pay the toll that we're charging and you're going to pay it in rubles or yuan or rupees and so forth, in other words, not in dollars. You can go through the straight.

They've made that very clear. So the rest of the world is looking at this and saying, well, how does it help the world

β€œand help us for the United States armed forces to bomb Iran into the Stone Age?”

And I think the answer is it doesn't.

So I think the rest of the world is moving away from us at very high speed and, by the way, Europeans have more incentive now than they've ever had before to launch out on their own away from us. I think that's pretty clear. Hey, you know, here's another great way you can help support the show.

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Thanks for everybody who was already a premium member and if you haven't, you're missing out. We give you lots of bonus content. Thanks for your support at the announcement of the Trump accepting the ceasefire and accepting the 10 points, immediately the chugs, most of the rational thinking people have abandoned

the manga movement, people like Tucker Carlson, people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, people like Thomas Massey, people like Candace Owens, people like Joe Rogan, Theo Vaughan, Andrew Schultz, Tim Tim Dylan, everybody has, everybody has abandoned the manga, except the hardcore manga chugs and manned, they really Zionists and conservatives who were in open relationships with their wife.

That's what you mean. Yes, at least we found out that they're still our cross-dressers. That's right, by the way, Christy Nome, anyway, we're happy that they're still alive. So can we be in shopteach or a husband?

So here's how the Zionist Israel first people were responding to the idea that Trump is

going to do a two week ceasefire. You want to hear, here's Randy fine, now you know who Randy fine is, right, he's the biggest craziest Zionist congressman from his Israel first, Hunter, he's, I don't even think he cares about the United States at all, let's see, he's Israel first, he tweet. So here's Trump saying, saying, hey, we're going to accept these 10 points and we're

going to go have a negotiation and end it in a two week ceasefire. Randy fine retweets and said, it's called the art of the deal for a reason, panicans and leftists, nobody does it like President Trump. So first of all, so they're trying to spin this as a win for Donald Trump and you know, the old sailor rhyme, it goes, if you please, Randy fine, that's not a good sign.

Yes. Okay, I made it up, but it's as good as a compass, it really is.

β€œThat's how you know there's something real bad, if Randy fine, aka the state puff mass”

murder man is happy, that's a bad omen, it's not good. So what, what, Randy fine's trying to take credit for the rest of the world having to undo the mess that Trump has created, like a ringmaster for a flee circus, saying he intentionally wanted the fleece to just jump and randomly all over the dog's ass. That's right.

Here's another one. Oh, here's a friend of the show, my old pal Dave Ruben, he said, the panican is the word of the day, which panican wants to hand me my, I told you, so they're literally

Trying to say this ultimate military defeat by Donald Trump and the United St...

still controls the straight of our moves.

Right, they hit us one out, they didn't know it for the government, they didn't control it before we didn't overthrow their government, they didn't get to uranium, that Mark loved one, it didn't get the uranium, had a complete failed military operation, but these

β€œpeople, they were sworn to God, the way their mind works is God's own secret mystery, but”

it's being paid, but they should as well. See you guys, how you guys were panicking over, you're panicking over Trump, starting this war, but looking, Trump won. They're calling me Hispanic, the straight of our moves is closed, yeah, Trump has been has run, Trump has been running the same negotiation playbook forever, pressure, escalation

chaos, then leverage a deal. We've watched it happen again and again, this wasn't complicated, it was basic pattern recognition to, to chat GBT right this for him, well, some people were panicking, others were paying attention, now we move to phase two, Iran is largely neutralized, no, it isn't

you idiot, and he'll be the first one to forget he said that once this is, there's no

not a chance, Jimmy, and I would be delighted to be the one who's wrong, there's not a chance Israel is going to allow a ceasefire with Iran when they didn't get everything they wanted, no, and we're, they're crashed, dummy, this is not so country, so they're going to crash their dummy, in case you haven't noticed, Israel keeps sabotaging every piece, deal, ever, and then did it to this one already, it went to the third temples there,

you know, and what did over till they rebuild that dumb shit temple? What is a panicking? So, so it's okay to panic and preemptively blow up school girls and lose all our bases in the Middle East and lose all remaining credibility as the good guy country who supposedly doesn't grate and eat their own children, but don't panic, once our stupid plan that

we lied about sucks, is that what a panicking, Jimmy, calm down, do you send us there? Stop panicking, panicking, it sounds like a panicking, it sounds like a pharmaceutical pill for people who are too calm and centered, are you just waltzing through your days with no awareness of the world coming down around you, try new panicking, side effects may include

β€œyou entering a state of irrational panic, or rational panic, which you should have, here,”

from like the last three months you should have. Oh, he keeps with, there's more to this evening. Oh, good. Iran is largely neutralized, yank yank, the straightest reopening, the war is de-escalating, markets are already reacting, that's not a small win, that's a globe, but this is unbelievable.

If this is the global reset, the global reset is now Iran is a global power. That's what the reset is. Iran controls the global economy right now. That's the, that's what's happening right now. Come, don't worry, Israel won't stand for it.

And Dave Rubin will do his job in act like it's a win. And then Israel will do whatever sneaky she said. So I think if I was Iran, I would keep an eye out for earthquakes and weather events. If I was Iran, uh, this forces movement everywhere else.

β€œRussia and Ukraine get pulled closer to a real negotiation.”

China has to rethink twice about Taiwan when the U.S. just proved it will apply. We just took all of our military out of the, our pivot to Asia because of this war. And it, you know, what this war also proves that it having Navi's doesn't matter. Having pickup basketball, Jim. Having air suddenly, yeah, aircraft carriers doesn't.

We had to retreat away from the coast of Iran because they could strike us whenever they wanted. And they didn't have a blue water navy, Jim. A blue water navy. If you quit playing, you'll like pick a basketball middle of the game and ran home because you shot your pants and then claimed you won that game.

That is roughly the equivalent of this. We'll keep going. The world is safer today than it was yesterday. What is it? And it's about to get even safer over the next few months.

As this locks in. Oh, yes, let's be very clear about this. This happened because of Donald Trump, not the partners, not the podcasts. There's not the panic merchants Trump. Now comes the real opportunity with global stability improving.

We can finally refocus in for again, the effects of what has happened already.

Haven't been felt. They don't have no idea what's coming. No, we can focus. This is against what Trump said, which we can't afford to do. Because you know, we have to kick the military up another 1.5 trillion.

I don't know if you got that news. Yes, we don't have time for this shit. We don't have feelings lying about it. Immigration, housing affordability, health care, infrastructure, AI, rebuilding America's strength for it, actually matters.

Yeah, none of that.

Trump just gave a speech for he said we can't afford to do it either.

Yeah, when the guy does a couple Gotham, bring your shows and start saying he's a former stand-up comic. I should be a clue right there that he's fortunate. I mean, I don't. I wasn't New York a long time.

Don't nobody know who the fuck he is. Dave is a funny guy. But this is definitely the funniest thing he's ever read or said, I'm sorry. Yeah, I think you just say whatever. I mean, we are entering a new American era.

Economically, technologically, and yes, even in space, I'm sorry.

β€œSo that's what the start of a new frontier feels like.”

Look at the region. It's no longer just Israel. You're seeing alignment across the, the alignment is the rest of the world coming together against Israel. And technically none of it is Israel on a legal basis.

Technically none of it is. You correct, correct. Uh, American, this, let me. America is Melinda Gates and our government is Bill Gates trying to sneak antibiotics into our food after giving us multimedia without our knowledge.

That's what that will work. Uh, here's another one. Here's some more here. Cattard. Cattard.

Love it. When you hear panicking, love it. Well, are we, we're not doing woke right anymore? Because this one's not better than that. That one sucks as.

Uh, here's another guy. I don't know who this is. Brillin Holley hand. Holley hand. He was the replacement for Charlie Kirk after he was murdered by a

prison wife and T.P. USA might be. Oh, was that that guy? I remember how he didn't have what it took to replace Charlie Kirk Brillin Holley hand.

It sounds like something you made up to mock T.P.

β€œUSA, but no, that's what they don't know.”

Ran has caved and agreed to a ceasefire and to open the straight of Hormuz is every panicking who called for the 25th amendment to be used going to apologize now. Holy cow. I apologize for not bullying you with AI sooner, Brillin.

It's really special and extra precious level of unrealistic expectation with someone goes on social media and demands mass apologies, right? I love they're all pretending it has Trump and not Israel's orders that we're following here fucking jerk off.

Bernie Sanders is is personally going to present him with a free pony before he hears back from anybody else apologizing. Even Benny Johnson. Oh, another closet to the ordering. Trump got the deal done stock market exploding oh prices tanking ceasefire and

play tanking. Do you mean tanking? You mean like Mike the tank on my lawnmower? Is the only tank people going to afford to fill up now? You mean that kind of tanking?

Yes, how does Jeremy manage to have the worst take and also I don't believe it in its insincense here? How does he do it? How does he pull it off? We won.

Here is Blue Georgia Tom Sauer. I think it's really a let's let's play it. I don't have to read it let's just play it. Tom Sauer is a professor of international politics at the University of Antwerp.

Let's listen.

β€œI think it's really important keep in mind that so many of President Trump's”

detractors around the world and even here at home and this is the Democrats, the left, this is haters around the world. They all need to read the greatest geopolitical strategy book of my lifetime. It's called the Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump.

Now who is the artist Jackson Pollock? What the heck?

And of course now we learn that all really important deals are always

signed in blood and usually the blood of the innocent people who have nothing to do with it. They're really tight. This is an amazing, I haven't seen a spin cycle like this and I don't know. I got to go, oh Eric Dorety also jumped in. He says holy crap, press secretary Carolyn Levitt reveals President

Trump literally threw in the trash the 10 point plan from Iran that's spread like wildfire is fake news. The idea that President Trump would ever accept that a radiant wishless is a completely absurd. This one circulating is not the one Trump said was workable for

negotiations fake news. The Iranians originally put forward a 10 point plan that was fundamentally unsurious on acceptable and completely discarded. It was literally thrown in the garbage by President Trump and his negotiating. Many outlets in this room. So there you go.

Let's all save our opinion for when Israel violates the ceasefire where right back to where we were because Israel did not achieve. And we are right back to where we started.

Yeah, like, it's amazing that they keep commenting because the genius from the quartering.

He also last time, Trump announced he one goes, "See stupid left wingers, we won't." So do they forget every time this is a lie? Yes, they forget every single time. Thank God, though, that this is inspiring Dave Ruben's funniest work. It's funny when it's quite amusing. I mean, if the Israel of the Bible of all that some

Halfway thinks is their supporting was real, they wouldn't allow Dave Ruben.

So you know, they're putting up these data centers.

β€œWe were talking about this with Whitney Webb and she, you know, there's a lot of horror surrounding”

them. They use up all the water in the area. It drives up everybody's electricity, all kinds of bad things. So they tried to stop it. And there was one they're proposed, this is from Wall Street

Apes. This is literally insane. So many people showed up to oppose a six billion dollar data

center in Missouri that they had to use bleachers. The whole crowd yells and chants. They don't want the data center. Festus City Council voted to approve the data center anyway right in their fricking faces. Wow. Here it is. Let's listen to it. Let's watch a little bit. Here's the Festus Council approved a six billion dollar data center plan despite public pushback.

β€œSo CRG the data center arm of area developer Claco, hopes to build the data center on roughly”

360 acres north of Highway 67 and they're all chanting both them out. Okay.

And they did it. They proved it anyway, right in their face. They don't care.

Look how unreasonable these people are about having their land, water and private information and power stolen from them. How unreasonable. Uh, here's another one. This is the noise. This is the noise coming from the hyperscale data center in Doaziac, Michigan. Residents who live nearby say they can no longer open the windows in their homes because of the noise and are very worried about their property values. The data

center. So let's listen. One resident says the noise is made. I'm unable to open as windows in the summer and it's worried about what it will do with property value. The property hikerscale data is planning to expand. And the summer time breaks. So we like to have our windows open and it's hard to listen to the value of the time. Yeah, I worry about that. It's property value because

β€œwho's going to want to, if we want to resell the house, who's going to want to buy the house?”

With that noise, no one's going to want to buy it. There'll be like no way moving there. I mean, you know, and we liked it here. We've been here since oh, oh nine, and we love to hear, but now I don't know. Not that quiet country city living that we're, we've been used to. I think that you think of this little piece. I don't know if you're, if it has, I don't know where. I couldn't tell you where. All I know is they said, I don't even know for sure, you know,

they painted it at one time and then they changed it up and they did that. They put the screens up there and they just make a noise over it. They're just too much noise. Can you imagine living next door to that? Is you imagine that you got a house on all the sudden they do that to your neighborhood? I guess you don't have to imagine it. It happened.

That makes me sick. Here is a massive 18 million square foot data center is being planned north

of Amarillo, Texas, along with a nuclear power plant to power it's cotton farmer says the Texas panel is the largest U.S. cotton producing region and water needs of the data center. It's going to wipe out the cotton industry. Many residents in the area rely on well water to which will be like also likely wiped out the initial agreement with the city of Amarillo supplies 2.5 million gallons per day from municipal sources under a 20 year contract. They can use 912.5 million gallons

of water per year. That's like a billion gallons of water per year. This will be devastating to the people who live there and rely on the water. No kidding. Well, maybe if they use the Flint Michigan water, it will poison the company and drop dead. How about that? Here's a cotton farmer.

Man, the Texas panel, you might want to pay attention to this one.

of y'all heard about project Matador. And if you have, I don't know how many of you heard

β€œall of it because quite frankly, I've heard enough that it scares the shit out of me.”

For those that don't know what project Matador is, it is an 18 million square foot data center

plan to be built north of Amarillo, Texas. Now, the problem that I have with this place and the reason it scares me is the cooling because it's not just cooling the data center itself. It's also the cooling for the nuclear power plants they're planning on building to power this place. Now, the cooling for that area is going to have to come from one of two places. And both of them are underground. It's either going to come from the Odalala aquifer or the Santa Rosa aquifer.

Either way, it's going to dry up a lot of water to the south of that power plant on the southern end of the panhandle. For those that don't realize the panhandle region of Texas is the largest cotton producing region in the United States. You want a quick way to put it into that,

dry up the well water because there's a lot of us that rely on those to grow what we do.

β€œThe panhandle region with irrigation we can grow between two and four bail cotton depending on”

how good your wells are and where you're at, how good your soil is. You dry up those wells. We're going to go from that two to four bail region, which is about a thousand to two thousand pounds down to about a half a bail acre, which is about 250 pounds per acre. You do that, you do it with irrigation for us and we can't grow what we grow. It's also going to hurt the people that live in the rural areas that rely on well water

for their homes. People that live out here in the country, you dry their wells up and they don't have a choice. They either have to haul water in or they have to move period. Now, this place claims are not going to use a whole lot of water. They claim that, oh, it's going to be a closed loop system. We're just going to get a little bit of water out the start with and then we won't need anymore. They're going to use cooling ponds and I've

β€œread through all their proposed plans. Well, those cooling ponds, what they don't understand is”

West Texas is also very hot and a lot of water gets lost due to evaporation, which is why a lot of guys have done away with pivots and gone to subsurface drip irrigation to try to mitigate evaporation loss. When the water evaporates out of their pond, they're going to have to refill it. They don't have a choice, which is going to drain more water out of the aquifer. I don't know how well our politicians are paying attention to what's going on with that and

all the other data centers around the area. There's several. There's one being built about five miles away from where I'm standing right now. I don't know how well they're paying attention to these data centers and just exactly what's going on, but if they would listen to the people of Texas, especially the people of rural Texas who are affected by what these guys are doing, they would understand that we don't want these things. We don't need them. We don't want them.

They can be built in different places where they're not going to affect agriculture. In our state law makers, I don't know if they're going to do anything to put a stop to this or try to pull the reins back on it and say, "Hey, hold on. Let's investigate this a little more." I don't know if they're going to do that. I don't know if the guys in Washington even care. You know, our president claims to be a friend of the farmer, claims to support what we do out here.

But in the same breath as allowing places like Project Maddador to be built, which is going to kill farming in the Panhandle region of Texas. So I don't know what's to be done other than call your elected officials and I don't know try to get them on board with putting a stop to this. I've talked to a few guys that are running for state office and the best response I've got from one of them was,

"Well, we're, we're, I've talked to guys and we're planning on building a pipeline down from Kansas or Missouri somewhere up north. We're going to build it off the, off one of the rivers and we're going to pump river water down to the Panhandle field and irrigate river water." And I was nice when they told me that, and I didn't say anything, I bet my tongue. I hate to break it to him, but that plan was talked about 50 damn years ago. It wasn't viable then,

and it's not viable now. A, it would cost way too much money to do. B, river water, the river levels going to fluctuate. When you pump in that much water out of that damn river, it's going to fluctuate a lot. And then you just get to the viability of the entire length of the Panhandle. When you get to somebody like me on the southern end of the Panhandle, I'm allowed to not get any water at all. Like I said, a big pipeline coming down off a river,

that's been talked about for a long time. It'll never happen. When it comes to the water here in

West Texas, we have fought to protect it. We fought tooth and nail in the past. T-boon pickings. I don't know how many y'all remembered that name. Yeah, that carpet bagger came down here and

Planned on building and drilling a bunch of wells up around Amorillo and buil...

pump fresh well water down to Dallas and sell it to the folks of Dallas. That got shut down.

And last I heard there was somebody else that was trying to do the same thing, and they

β€œpretty much told him the same thing, not know, but hell no. So why they are allowing this data center?”

After they've shut down multiple guys that are trying to drain the water after underneath our feet, they're allowing these guys to do it. I don't know. But it needs to come to a stop. Water is the most precious resource we have in an area where we don't get a lot of rainfall.

We rely on that water that comes from underground to grow the crops we grow and just to sustain

life out here in rural Texas. So call you politicians, call you elected folks, put the bug in their air. We don't need project madador. We need to protect our well water. Good luck to you. Here's from Common Dreams, a big FU to Big Tech, New Jersey residents defeated an AI center. It's time to build communities, not data centers, said one local activist. Well, let's see for them. The New Brunswick New Jersey City Council voted, wow, we've done comedy,

β€œNew Brunswick New Jersey City Council voted Wednesday to cancel plans. What's the date on this?”

This from February 19th. To construct an artificial intelligence data center, instead, build a new public park where the 27,000 square foot facility would have gone artificial intelligence data centers, which housed the servers and other infrastructure needed to train and power AI models have major environmental and climate impacts as they consume massive amounts of electricity and water, as well as rare earth metals and other resources. So, according to the

New Brunswick patch, hundreds of people packed into Wednesday evening city hall meeting to voice concerns that the proposed data center would send their electricity and water bills skyrocketing

β€œand that the facility would harm the environment. Many people did not want this in their neighborhood.”

New Brunswick and WACP president Bruce Morgan said during the council meeting, we don't want these kinds of centers that's going to take resources from the community. The site of the next data center 100 Jersey Avenue is already slated for development including 600 new apartments, 10% of which will be affordable housing units and warehouses for startups and other small businesses. Now, thanks to Wednesday's vote, a park is on the agenda too. This is

great news. No data center. New Brunswick resident Ann Norris told patch. My kids went through the public school system. We didn't pay for lunch because we have so many families under the poverty line. Norris said before taking aim at what she said was the birth of affordable housing approved for the site. Given the economic status of the people who live in New Brunswick, I don't think 10% is really sufficient. Following the council meeting,

jubilant residents celebrated the data center's cancellation chanting slogans, including

the people United will never be defeated. We say big f_u_ to big tech. Local organizers Ben Diazabek

shouted to the crowd. We say a big f_u_ to private equity and it's time to build communities not data centers. A data center in New Brunswick was canceled tonight when hundreds of residents showed up. When we fight big tech and private equity, we win. Let's watch a little. We are going to be fighting against data centers, everywhere in New Jersey. And we say a big f_u_ to big tech. We say a big f_u_ to private equity.

And it's time to build communities not data centers. We're here today because there's a proposed data center popping up here in New Brunswick.

There are hundreds of concerned residents showing up.

They don't want big tech in their community. They do not want these data centers popping up.

β€œThey black and brown majority neighborhoods. It has done like that for a reason.”

These billionaires and financiers at Amzac Capital Management know exactly what they're doing because they are doing it everywhere. So we are asking the city council tonight to do the fucking right thing and stop this data center for moving forward. Energy rates have gone off by 20 to 30%. 70% of that is being caused by data centers built in the PJ Amz region. Okay? Water bills, right? New Brunswick residents know water bills

doubled in 2025 to handle the infrastructure. It's going to go up another $10 on water and sewer this year. So this project is going to raise sales with for your energy and for your water. Be fired up.

So that's very true because the whole game is always divided in conquer.

And when the people do come together, they often win. The problem is that the establishment knows very well how to divide and conquer. And they're good at it. They're good at it.

β€œSo that's why the message of this show is don't blame your neighbor, your neighbor is suffering”

under the same oligarchy. You are don't allow them to divide us. What what unites us is far greater than what divides us. And if we don't come together, we won't have anything to fight for in a little while. So fantastic. That was great. It's good to see that happen. Sad to see it happen. What happened in Michigan? So but that's what happens if you come together. Okay, boy, hopefully they do vote those people out in Michigan. We'll see what happens.

So this is a story from April 1st. I just want to let, you know, we didn't get to it, but he'll get into it now. So Trump had four big defeats at the Supreme Court. The biggest one, you know, he wants to get rid of the birthright citizenship. And so he showed up at the Supreme Court, which I'm guess that pretty sure there was unprecedented to try to intimidate the justices didn't work. And then he humiliated Trump's storms out of catastrophic. So then he

just stormed out. That actually happened. So Donald Trump abruptly exited the Supreme Court on Wednesday after some of his own conservative justices did not appear convinced by his bid to up and birthright citizenship in America. Trump made the unprecedented decision to sit in oral arguments. So I guess it was unprecedented. Starring, staring down the court's nine justices as they quizzed his lawyers on one of the most consequential constitutional

questions they've faced this year, whether all children born in the United States can continue to automatically receive citizenship. But after less than 90 minutes of watching several of his own hand-picked justices, tear his arguments apart, the president abruptly left. His motorcade exited the Supreme Court and zipped out and depended its avenue at about 1125 AM. We are the only country in the world stupid enough to allow birthright citizenship, he posted on true soldier,

after returning to the White House, ignoring the fact that dozens of countries could first

citizenship at birth with no conditions. So, okay, there you go. So apparently Trump knows less about how the real world works than those people who look like an idiot during a man on street quiz. With questions like, "Hey, who's buried in Grant's tomb?" I don't know. The Arnold soldier,

β€œremember you, he'd seen people. The president, that was, you know, Jay Leno used to do that.”

That was his best segment. He should just do that. He said, "Just go out Hollywood Boulevard and ask basic questions." He was great at that. That was great. Anyway, the president who believes that the Constitution does not guarantee automatic citizenship to all individuals born on US soil sat silently as justices, including several of his own appointees, openly questioned the legal foundation of his claims. At the center of the skepticism was

Trump appointee Amy Coney Barrett, who pressed Trump's lawyer John Sawyer on the historical understanding of the 14th of him. So his own appointees are against him on this. Just keep that in mind, okay? Justice Neil Gorsek, who was also appointed by Trump, added to the pressure sawer was faced, asking the season solicitor general, "Do you think Native Americans are birthright

Citizens under your test?

think that through." And Chief Justice John Roberts, another conservative on the bench,

β€œalso had something of a mic drop moment when Sawyer tried to make the point that we're in a”

new world where eight billion people are one plain right away from having a child,

who's a US citizen. Roberts replied, "It's a new world, but it's the same Constitution." Well said. A ruling at Trump's favor while highly unlikely, according to legal scholars, could fundamentally redefine the meaning of citizenship in the United States, affecting as many of the quarter-million children born each year. Behind the legal push is John Eastman, who's that, he's a conservative attorney,

who has long promoted a fringe theory that the Constitution does not guarantee citizenship

β€œto children of non-citizens. Eastman, who was disbarred over his role in efforts to overturn”

the 2020 election, was spotted outside the court on Wednesday. And this is from the new republic.

Even the new republic going against Donald Trump, Trump suffers his fourth and worst legal blow in just hours. So, President Trump has been dealt his fourth legal loss in less than 24 hours. So this is, as the federal judiciary, rebukes his various abuses of presidential powers. On Tuesday evening, US District Judge Amit Mehta rejected Trump's claim on presidential immunity regarding his actions on January 6,

ruling that he can be held liable for the violence that day. Mehta decided the FBI should really be held liable and Nancy Pelosi. Mehta decided that Trump's speech to his supporters at the ellipse and his communications with other officials can all be considered campaign activity. The ruling allows a lawsuit from police officers and democratic politicians to continue and

β€œopens the door to other similar lawsuits. Honestly, they should soon say Pelosi. She admitted”

it was her fault. She didn't call out the National Guard and she didn't do that on purpose. It's a brutal blow for the president who suffered three other losses just hours earlier. Also known also on Tuesday, US District Judge Timothy Kelly allowed a lawsuit to continue against health and human services, which is alleged to have illegally closed its freedom of information act offices. And US District Judge Randall Randolph Moss ruled that President Trump's executive order

last May ending federal funding for NPR and PBS was illegal, writing that the first amendment does not tolerate viewpoint discrimination and retaliation of this type. I would disagree with that judge on that. Against, because anyway, again on Tuesday, US District Judge Richard Lee on

temporarily black president Trump's $400 million White House Ballroom Construction. After, uh oh,

is that me? A $400 million White House Ballroom Construction after a lawsuit from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which argues that Trump acted beyond his authority when he demolished the East Wing to build said ballroom. March was a rough month for President Trump as his plummeting approval ratings caused by his war and Iran and immigration crackdown showed these consecutive legal losses won't help either. While the judiciary has certainly been pushed

around by Trump administration for years, small district level victories like these remind us of the power in basic checks and balances. Wow. So that's from the new republic. The new republic, let me check something on this article is from April 1st just so you know, this, oh, that's when this is from. So there you go. Um, the courts pushing back even Trump appointed Supreme Court justices pushing back on Trump, not a good day for Trump. Hey, become a premium member. Go to Jimmy

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