Donald Trump is having a major meltdown this morning starting at 4 a.
They don't know how to sign a non-nuclear deal. They better get smart soon exclamation point out Donald, are you going to try to win this war based on memes?
“Are you going to win this war based on social media post? 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 congestion.
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.
“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 going to get so congested and so full that there was going to be a over-pressurization and that was going to 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,
you know, a widely viewed cable news program and then it doesn't happen. Again, that's Donald Trump. He just lies about things, you know, it's just Donald Trump being Donald Trump. You know, 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, had about 70% and regain most of its pre-war capacity within a few months. Other Iranian commentary that's out there, a scene at Tonsi, or Tosi 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 VLCCs, 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. And, you know, keeps some of the exports moving. You know, I'll be at constrained by the naval blockade, but, 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 Donald Trump never went to Congress before even in form Congress as
Julian 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 Bessent 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. Minimize impact on American
“consumers. That's what Donald Trump is discussing with the Chevron CEO, Mike Worth and other”
major oil and gas CEOs. We all know that consumers are not alleviated right now. In fact,
Gas prices continued to rise.
and the American people are suffering, but it's good to know. I'm being sarcastic here. The
“Donald Trump is planning all of this out with oil and gas executives. And while this is taking place,”
you have Pete Heggseth testifying right now on Capitol Hill before the House Armed Services Committee. I'm going to do a whole other longer take on the testimony by Heggseth in a little bit. So stay tuned for my longer take on Pete Heggseth's disastrous testimony. You know the thing about this Trump regime, they're quite literally wrong about everything. And every answer is some attempt to blame former president Biden as well. And I'm sure you saw the video I did earlier today on
Biden's final revenge. So you have the ranking member of the committee, Democratic Congress member Adam Smith, he asks, "How are you in Trump so wrong about Ukraine?" You all said 14 months ago
when you testified here that Ukraine was never going to make it that Russia had all of the cards.
Ukraine had no cards and Ukraine had to cut the best deal it possibly could or else it was going to be completely obliterated. You were wrong about that. You seem to be wrong about everything. What say you Heggseth? Here play this clip. So on Ukraine, a year of 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? Well, 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 to President Trump's crush. So he pulled out our -- you guys want to
talk about that. Ultimately, President Trump believes they're okay. He's still between Russia and Ukraine. So you didn't expect Ukraine to be where they're at right now. I'm asking you just from a strategic
“standpoint. What I think Ukraine's have shown a great courage. I appreciate that Europe is now paying”
for the web. Anyone that we provide? All right. I'll go back. Thank you. All right. Now, I want to revive. And then you can see over here, Heggseth tries to pull that line. He always does on state regime media, which calls itself Fox when being cross-examine by Democratic Congress member Anna 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 is like, whoa, whoa, okay. So if it was obliterated,
then why did you say it posed an imminent threat? And then Heggseth's all like all over the place. And he's like the fast-talking liar. Right. Fast-talking liar. He's like, 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, Heggseth here play this clip. Who's hell bent on getting a nuclear weapon
and get them to a point where they're at the table giving it up in a way that they haven't haven't. So they haven't broken yet. Okay. We haven't gotten there yet for all of the well, their nuclear facilities have been obliterated. Underground, they're buried. And we'll watch you. We'll want to force that. So we know where any nuclear material will be climbing anytime for watching a second here. We had to start this war. You just said, 60 days ago,
because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat. Now you're saying that it was completely obliterated. They had not given up their nuclear ambitions and they had a conventional shield of thousands of operation midnight and a week is something nothing of substance that we've seen in the point place we were before. So much so their facilities are enamored and obliterated. Their ambitions continued and they're building a conventional shield. Let me try again. It's the North Korea strategy.
You know, this very well, the North Korea strategy was used 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. And yet when sure they'll have an event in the field, was probably one of the ways we've done if I could get to it. So on this Mother's Day,
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Also, Higgsith was protested when he was showing up. Let's just show you a brief clip of the protest. When Higgsith was arriving to that hearing today in the house of representatives, let's play this clip.
“you need to be arrested. Why is more bad news for the”
Trump regime on Capitol Hill as well? Democrats forced Pam Bondi to
testify before the House oversight committee. As you know, she was
required to testify last month via a bipartisan subpoena. She just refused to show up and she said, well, I'm not the attorney general anymore. So I don't need to show up and testify to anything. Well, Democrats issued contempt charges earlier today against Pam Bondi. Democrats wrote the following, Pam Bondi
has illegally defied our committee, skipped her deposition and refused to cooperate. Today we have filed contempt charges and then a Democratic Congress member Garcia issued a statement regarding the contempt charges. And then Republicans respond
“at boom within 15, 20 minutes. The Republicans on the House”
Oversight Committee then right. This is all theater and completely unnecessary. They were happy giving the Clintons a free pass for months. We have secured Bondi's appearance for May 29th today. We're marking up legislation to tackle fraud and federal level at the federal level and all Democrats can talk about his
abstine. In other words, Republicans are like stop talking about abstine and they bring up the Clintons. The Clintons, the Biden, the Lama, Pam Bondi is literally the person involved in the cover up. Okay, not the Clintons. Hillary Clinton's not even in any email and noting a metagye. Okay, 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 AR15 style rifles and saying 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, trading on all of us. That's it. It's just that it's just that simple right there. 45 minutes after the content charge is Pam Bondi gives a
date. I want to give a shout out also to Governor Gavin News, some 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 Newsome posted this that all new California drivers license will have Newsome's face on it. In honor of California's 175th anniversary, we'll be rolling out a very special driver's license for every California in the summer. It will feature a handsome high quality photo of me, Gavin sees Newsome. Many people are saying
it's the best license ever made in the history of the United States. So with the American people, absolutely, live at this Trump regime, what is the Trump regime need to do cheat? They need to work with their fascist right wing Supreme Court, sick offense. That's six to three right wing Supreme Court majority. I'll do a longer video on this as well. We're
all breakdown the ruling for all of you, but the Supreme Court issued a very bad ruling today in the case, Louisiana versus Colis, and in a six to three decision, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's congressional map
that added a second majority black district ruling
at unconstitutional as a racial jerry mander. 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 in doing jerry mandoring. And what the Supreme Court essentially
“says in its ruling is that we've moved past racism, that racism really isn't”
a thing anymore. So by having even a consideration of black populations, for example, in a district in order to avoid racism, you are actually being racist by ensuring that black votes are not diluted by saying we need to create a majority black congressional district with the Supreme Court saying that's a racist thing by
protecting the black people who suffered from segregation and who suffered from slavery in the past and who suffer racism right now
“that even making those considerations is racist. And so”
what state should be able to do is just call their racist jerry mandoring political jerry mandoring. And if you counter it and say no, no, no, you're being racist by just calling it political jerry mandoring, but you're diluting all of the black vote. The Supreme Court says no, no, no, you're the racist for saying that they should
not be able to politically jerry mander to dilute black voting.
That's basically the ruling in a nutshell. So what this is going to encourage all
“states to do is draw the most racist maps imaginable and just say”
political and they're going to cite this case. So we'll keep you posted every step of the way. I'll do a longer take on it to really break it down. Of course, legal AF will do some good takes on it as well until that you know the implications. But this is what the Trump regime does. They're losers. And when they're back into a corner,
they rush to their right-wing Supreme Court justices for help. They have a very dark, fascist disgusting vision for this country that you see right now. We could either live in a loving, empathetic, supportive place, or you can live in this mega hellhole. It's really, you know, to me, it's really, it's really a basic. It's really a basic thing
we're at. I don't want to wake up in the morning to see the president of the United States posting weird AI memes of himself with AR15 style rifles and AI images of a country being blown up after war crimes were committed in said country against little elementary school girls. Okay. I don't want to see that. I don't want to wake up to that in the morning in my
country in the United States of America. You tell me how you think.
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