LIVE: TRUMP WAR BACKFIRES… 9/3/2026

Welcome to Benon breaking news. I'm Ben. Marcelis. This is your breaking news. Overnight, Iran struck hard in Kuwait. This follows Iran striking hard at US. military bases, not just in Kuwait, but. also in Jordan, also in Iraq, also in. the UAE, also in Bahrain, also in all of. the surrounding areas. The straight of. Hormuz continues to be under attack uh. by Iran which controls it to the extent. the US is trying to take out tankers,

those VLCC's and other ships through the. southern Oman route. Iran is not playing. around. Donald Trump is playing around. Donald Trump just continues to fabricate. and claim uh we have so much oil coming. out of the straight of Hormuz, you're. not even going to know what to do with. it. We've got 18 million barrels coming. out of the straight of Hormuz. Donald. Trump is posting memes, everybody. So, you know, it must be really true if. Donald Trump is posting some sort of C-. spotrun second grade memes. No offense. to C- spot run. No offense to second.

grade. This is how Donald Trump thinks. American people think. This is how. stupid he thinks he is. Here, put that. graph up one more time there, Jeremy. Donald Trump posts a weird photo of the. straight of Hormuz. Okay. Uh, then a AI. image of a barrel of oil. Uh, then it. says before 20 million barrels a day. Then he posts another uh graph that says. uh 18 million barrels a day. Um and. that's it. And then okay, got it. I. guess I guess if that thing is saying. that, I guess it's true. We know this to.

be false. We know this isn't accurate. One of the easiest ways to know it's not. accurate is what are you paying right. now for your gas? Okay, like there's a. supply shock. Okay, we know the. drawdowns of our strategic petroleum. reserves. those salt caverns in Texas. and Louisiana. It's becoming a major. major issue there. Uh the price of gas. right now is what? It's going to be $5 a. gallon soon. It's creeping up there. The. price of diesel, what going to go up to. $6 uh a gallon soon. You want to talk.

about the paper price of crude, what are. we talking about? 96 $97 a barrel. It's. going to hit $100 a barrel uh in the. next few days. Besson promised that it. was going to have a a three or even a. two in front of it after uh Labor Day. Of course, the Trump regime lies about. everything. The spot price of diesel. right now, you know what it is? It's. about $255. a barrel for the spot price of diesel. So, you've got 255 spot price diesel.

You've got about $100 a barrel the price. of crude. We're talking about both Brent. and WTI as well approaching uh that. mark. So your crack spread, your delta. between the price of crude and your. diesel, often called the 321 crack. spread, the amount of diesel and gas. that can be extracted and jet fuel and. other types of fuel that can be. extracted from that crude, that number. is reaching record highs. And basically. what that means for you, without getting. hyper techchnical and geeking out on oil. uh prices, is your prices are far more.

expensive. You understand what I mean. when I talk about the salt caverns? I. just want to make sure we're on the same. page. In Texas and Louisiana, but. particularly Texas, there's literal. caverns. There are salt caverns, like. geological salt cavern formations, which. uh over time people realized this could. be a good way to store uh excess oil, strategic petroleum reserves. So it was. basically. um used in you know in a way that mixes.

water um with the right type of oil. light sour. um midsweet but light sour that mixes. with the water and they call it sour and. sweet because people used to actually. taste the oil like during like the the. the big oil oil baron days people would. taste the oil go oh it's sweet it's sour. it's sulfur content is is what it's. rooted in by the way that's Why. Venezuela's oil sa very sour very.

viscous very dense type of stuff very. tarry doesn't go into the strategic. petroleum reserves is why Trump's trying. to defraud us all and say ah that goes. in the petroleum reserve that'll fill it. up total lie liar lies about. everything they lie about everything. literally but we now have so much. drawdowns in our salt caverns right now. if you think about it like the the there. has to be a threshold level um in in. order to literally keep the geological. formation and the foundation secure. So,

one of the issues we could be dealing. with, it's why I've been geeking out. about the strategic petroleum reserves, the salt caverns, and all of these. things. It could collapse. It literally. won't hold up. Like, at some point, it. could literally collapse and and like. implode. Okay? And that's one of the. things that people are looking at and. going this is getting very very. dangerous. Not just because we're. running out of the strategic patrol. reserve but the whole thing could.

collapse which could cause a major. catastrophic shock. Um something that no. one is prepared for but we should be. absolutely prepared for. One of the. biggest tells also remember back in. April what Trump and Bessant were. telling you and telling everybody they. said in three days Iran's going to blow. up. is stupid. These people are like the. dumbest people, right? Inject yourself. with bleach. They said three days Iran. had left because the pipes would get so. congested. I don't even understand the. science. It's made up stuff. The.

blockade would cause the pipes to get, you remember this, get congested and all. of Iran would explode late April and. then everyone would be wiped out in Iran. and this was coming Iran's way. Do you. remember Trump said this and Besson said. this and JD Vance said this? They were. pushing this. No, no. what's actually. could happen soon in the United States. And again, I think my predictions have. been fairly scarily accurate in what's. happening right now. If you go back six. months ago, what we were saying is going. to happen is happening. The salt cavern. could collapse. And if it collapses,

then even the remaining strategic. petroleum reserve amounts, which are at. tank bottom, become inaccessible. And. then we lose the concept of a strategic. petroleum reserve in the United States, in Texas. That could be a big big deal. I separately talk about things that go. on in Cushing, Oklahoma. That's another. kind of main hub. And one of the things. you can see in Cushing is the uh the I'm. oversimplifying it here, but the uh the.

productivity that's taking place, the. high level um within which the uh crude. is being transported demonstrates that. the supply shock is incredibly severe. and you look at what's happening in. Cushing and then you look at the salt. caverns, it tells us they're separate. concepts, but they tell a story of a. supply shock like we've never seen. anywhere in history. And it's because. and it's caused by Donald Trump's. incompetence. Folks, Iran knows this.

Iran realizes this, okay? And they know. that what they got to do to establish. deterrence is every time Trump strikes, they got to strike hard at the military. bases in the region. They need to take. out tankers um each day or as many. tankers as they can. And that keeps the. overall world economy in a state of. paralysis. And Donald Trump's lies make. things worse at this point. Donald Trump. gets more deranged. What did Donald.

Trump threaten two days ago when he. struck Iran? He said, "If Iran, if you. respond, we're going to hit you so hard. We're going to blow up your whole. civilization. So, do not respond." What. does Iran do? Boom. Responds right away. Also, we've talked about this. And this. gets like no attention on corporate. news. I mean, like or or like a blip. The Trump regime struck a wedding in. Sirk and they killed five people. including a four-year-old who was. attending this wedding. about 74 people. were seriously injured at a wedding in.

Sirk. And you may go, did they, it was a. slammer missile. Um, we know it was a US. missile. Um, it was geoloccated by both. the New York Times and the BBC. They did. a good job covering this um with their. verify um teams uh that confirmed that. the footage coming out of Iran is indeed. accurate. The hospital footage is. accurate. The area that was hit um it. was indeed hit by the US slammer.

missiles. So there's a. telecommunications tower nearby in Sirk. And so the Trump regime though in going. for the telecommunications tower um. didn't just hit the telecommunications. tower, it hit the private residential. area nearby. And this is why you. probably want to have a robust. infrastructure to avoid civilian. targeting that Hegsith and Donald Trump. gutted. When you talk about Manab in the. elementary school where the Trump regime. slaughtered 168 little girls or you talk.

about La Mer where the Trump regime. slaughtered 17 little children at a. sports hall. One of the commonalities is. that they're somewhat near facilities, telecommunications towers and other. things. Um but the Trump regime just. would go in there and they'd blow up. blow up everything, you know, nearby. By. the way, a tactic we see Netanyahu use. in Gaza with the genocide there in. Lebanon and elsewhere. Okay, you see a. whether or not we feel these.

telecommunications towers are military. targets or not, I I don't think the. telecommunications tower is even a valid. military target if I'm being totally. honest. But you but you would say okay. there is something that we view as being. used by the IRGC or you know Netanyahu. would say that's something I believe. Hamas is you just blow up everything. around it okay and then you just. slaughter little girls and innocent. people and all of these people and you. murder every you you murder everybody. you know I mean I'm just trying to think. of a correlary in my life I used to live.

in downtown Los Angeles right you live. in downtown Los Angeles and um I lived. in a a a tall building, lots of. apartments, uh in the apartment that I. used to live in, you know, 10 years ago. And I remember there was once a drug. dealer in the building. Um I remember. there was a whole story about a drug. dealer in the building on one of the. floors and blah blah blah blah, you. know, and I and the drug dealer had. fentinyl and it was a whole had it was. it was a scary story that someone in the. building, you know, was was doing that.

But under the kind of Netanyahu hegsith. Trump approach, got it. There's someone. right there. narot trafficker, blow up. the whole building, murder everybody in. it, slaughter everybody in it, and then. say, "Oh, we were going after Hamas. We. were going after this person or that. person." So, we just murder everybody. But then I think it gets one step worse. because then they just view everybody as. a narot trafficker or everybody they. just label as Hamas or everybody who. doesn't agree with their fascism all of. a sudden gets the label. And in fact,

the narot traffickers are the ones. getting pardoned by the Trump regime, right? The Orlando Hernandez's and the. uh Juan Orlando Hernandez, the the the. worst of the worst, those people get. protected by Donald Trump. I mean, once. upon a time, Deli Rodriguez of Venezuela. was viewed as a bounty, you know, on on. on her arrest. I mean, she was viewed. as, you know, in the Maduro regime and. all of the individuals that were there. were viewed as these people were working.

for doing the narco trafficking just. like Orlando Hernandez. Also, a lot of. the people Trump is installing in these. South American countries have lots of. red flag links to uh a lot of bad. activity. that this is who Trump's. actually promoting because he his view. is you basically create the issue. You. create the problem and under the pretext. of the chaos that you cause the people. and that you inflict. Then you assert. your fascism, you come along and say, "I. alone can fix it. I'm the one who can.

save the day. I'm the one who's the. savior." I mean, we're going to show you. in a little bit JD Vance's disastrous. press conference in the Oval Office when. he was playing the role of Caroline. Levit. JD Vance is like it's only. because of us that there is not a. massive energy crisis in the world right. now. I mean what what in the hell kind. of predator ass thing is that for you to. like you're saying like you're a bunch. of predators. You're crazy people. You. created the issue and now you're like. and we're the only ones who can save it. I mean they are the arsonists who then. say but we're the firefighters. It's.

really shameful stuff and the rest of. the world sees it. The rest of the world. sees how weak and pathetic the United. States is. And just look overnight Iran. attacked last night Aljabar air base in. Kuwait and the Almanad air base in the. UAE with missiles and drones. That. follows all the other strikes I was. talking about. There was no comment from. military officials or Trump yet. SenCom. hasn't responded to Iran's retaliatory. operations from the previous day. And if. SenCom doesn't conduct strikes, it will.

further highlight how the US military is. unwilling and unable to even engage in. another tit fortat round. The US is out. of weapons. I don't know how many times. we can say this. I know Donald Trump. wants to post it's treasonous or. traitorous to say that we're out of. weapons. We're out of weapons. We're out. of weapons. We're out of weapons. We're. out of weapons. We're out of weapons. because Trump and Hexith are idiots. And. they shouldn't have been involved in. this catastrophic war. But then they. depleted all of our freaking weapons, our munitions, our THADs, our patriots, our tomahawks. It's probably good not to.

have tomahawks in the hands of these. freaking sickos. Um but they depleted. them. They're we're out. We're at a very. limited level right now. I should say. that makes it impossible if there is and. there is conflictration wars throughout. the world. There's a there is a war. going on in the entire world right now. Can we all agree? Can we so stipulate. that that's actually what's taking. place? The US is unable to project. strength like it did before throughout. the world. It's done. The Asian security.

umbrella done. European security. umbrella done. Of course, the Middle. East security umbrella done. Donald. Trump just wants to install his little. dictators in South America, Central. America, focus on exploiting the people. there. That's his game plan. That's what. he cares about. Meanwhile, Russia. prepares for its winter offensive. against Ukraine. Trump taps Solinsky. along, says, "I'm going to give you. Patriot interceptors or interceptor. licenses." Donald Trump doesn't do that. Lies to Zalinsky. Makes Zalinsky. incredibly vulnerable for a Russian.

winter offensive. Russia meanwhile. testing the resolve of NATO seeing NATO. has no resolve at all. A drone incident. that took place in Germany. Uh Russia. struck a ship in the coast of Romania. Uh Russia has been um you know hit. hitting certain types of targets. I mean. there was areas of Poland which were. subject to a a Russian uh missile strike. um in the area that at least went into. NATO territory. Um, and with all of.

these incidents, uh, of course, none of. these countries are invoking, uh, article 4 of NATO because it don't exist. anymore, folks. Hate to be the bearer of. bad news, Trump's destroyed NATO. Trump's destroyed uh, article 4, article. 5, it doesn't exist. I mean, we can. pretend it does, but uh there's a reason. why these countries that have been. subject in NATO to attacks by Russia, I. mean, there's there was an attack in. Poland recently where a Russianbacked. arsonist blew up a facility linked to.

Ukraine. I mean, we're we're seeing this. happen fre there are incidents almost. every day happening where Russia is. sending people across Europe in various. locations uh where NATO is based and. where there's uh American military. plants. I mean, a Coca-Cola factory was. smashed today in Ukraine by uh Putin. You won't hear a single peep from Donald. Trump or uh Treasury Secretary Bessant. or anybody in this regime, but Article. 4, Article 5 is effectively dead.

Instead, Donald Trump wants to spend his. time attacking Canada. Canada this, Canada that. We hate Canada. We hate. Canada. Or can we're going to teach. Canada a lesson. They're going to know. They're going to pay Prime Minister. Carney. We're going to make you suffer. I mean, what are you doing, you freaking. sicko? What the hell are you even. talking about? It's the most ridiculous. thing. I want to give a hat tip, though. Did you all see this moment? I covered. it earlier today. Make sure you check. all the morning videos that uh that that. we did here at the Mightest Touch. I try. to curate everything for you. that is.

kind of not being covered in other. places. After all, Senator Bernie. Sanders told me the most important. issues, Ben, are the issues that the. media is not discussing discussing. I. couldn't agree more with Senator Bernie. Sanders there. But I believe the guy's. name is Admiral Pero. I think that's his. name. Um, and he is the top admiral, top. commander of the US Indo-Pacific Fleet. Did you see this? He was at an. Indo-Pacific conference in British. Columbia yesterday in Canada and he was.

with his counterpart uh the leader of. Canada's military and a member of the. press uh a member of the press asked. this admiral this very decorated admiral. if Donald Trump gives you the order to. invade Canada or to strike Canada are. you going to follow through with it and. the admiral the US admiral very. dismissive over it. I I think that's a. ridiculous question. I think it's a very. emotional question and uh I I I really.

don't want to even uh give it the. attention that and the reporter pressed. The reporter said, "Well, Admiral Pero, I think you're being very disrespectful. to the people of Canada by dismissing us. that way when you have your commander, your commander, Commander Paparro, your. command. We hate that he's the. commander-in-chief, but he is. He talks. about annexation every day. He says, "I'm going to make Canada 51st state.". He uses the language of Hitler, visav. Canada every day. He uses that type of.

denazification language is the language. that Trump uses. He uses the language. He uses the language of someone who. would be invading another country. So, the fact that you go, "Oh, he's not. going to do it." I think we all know, you know, I think here's here's what we. know. If he could do it, he would do it. Do we all agree with that? if he could. do it, he would do it. Um, he's he he. shouldn't do it. I mean, I could go on. and on, but he he he lost the war to. Iran big time. Not even close. Iran.

wiped the floor with that uh orange. blob. Was it was not even And they're. mocking the out of him. Iran's. doing mind sweeper memes against him. right now. Just mocking the hell out of. Donald Trump. You've got um you've got. Iran's parliament leader MB Galab doing. uh memes of wildy coyotes. That was a. wild coyote being chased by the road. runner. You know, remember and uh you've.

got he's like, "Sorry, cutie. You're not. going to get you." They're calling. Bessant cutie. They're call they're. mocking him so much. They're saying, "Sorry, sweetie. Sorry cutie. You. struggling struggling much?" Yeah. Wy Wy. E Coyote. WY Coyote. I watched that. growing up. The editors are producing. Wy E Coyote. Um, yeah. I mean, but but. it it is actually, you know, I I used. that analogy or metaphor, whatever you. want to call it, before that, uh, you.

know, Trump, it does seem like it is. like wildy coyote out there, like. because, you know, it's it's a predator. It's a predatorial whether it's Canada, whether it's Iran, whether it's V, it's. it's predatorial. And that image of Wild. Coyote doing that is is is an apt uh is. an apt example. So, you know, Trump's. making all of these threats. So, it's a. fair question to ask Commander Admiral. Samuel Papero uh who leads the US. Indo-Pacific fleet, what what what would. you do? And stop being so emotional with.

that question. How about you tell the. freaking traitorous treasonous. commanderin-chief, stop threatening. Canada. Why why don't you actually. listen to what Canadians feel? Because. Canadians don't just feel it's a trade. war that was launched against him. against them. Canada feels like it's an. actual war. It's a hybrid war that was. launched against them by Donald Trump. because it is. It is. That's not being. emotional. These all these people who. are you being emotional? Stop with the. hyperbolic. Stop with what what world.

are you living in right now? I live in a. world where ICE and Border Patrol. Gustapo are killing people in this. country. where the Trump regime is. posting torture videos of Haitians who. used to work and live in the United. States productively shackled being sent. to their deaths back in Haiti. That. that's the world I mean that's the world. that I'm living in right now where the. Trump regime slaughters children and. people attending a wedding in Sirk. They. bombed that what was the their.

escalation before that was a home in. Keshum. And and and by the way, the. these sick these sick you know. what they do? Excuse my language. These. you know what they they test the new. weapons on the little girls. They test the new weapons. They tested. on the volleyball hall in La Mer this. new plet weapon the first time it was. really used that spread these little. pellets a thousand or 5,000 pellets on.

the little girls playing volleyball. and then they do the same story. Oh no, it was Iran who killed their own people. It was Iran who killed their own people. No, it was it was you. You that was your. new weapon. This is your slammer weapon. That was your new pellet weapon that. just explodes these little pellets. everywhere and killed the little girls. You dropped a $5,000 B. It wasn't a. mother of all bombs, but it was. basically like a Moab. You dropped one. of your biggest bombs on just a on a.

home in Keshum and and you killed a. family. Uh, you know, and and then you. you did it. Of course, you slaughtered. the little girls in Manab and then and. then they go so freaking cavalerely. The. JD Vances and all of these freaking war. criminals. It's Iran that would target. their own people. We we don't do it. No, you do. You do. You do. You do. You do. You are war criminals. And JD Vance and. Donald Trump and Hexa, you definitely.

deserve to be tried in the Hague. And. frankly, I don't give a I don't. want if a Democratic candidate doesn't. say that they will ensure that they turn. over these war criminals to the Hague, do not elect any of the Democratic. candidates unless that's part of their. position. For real. For real. They need. to say, "Hey, that that that's what it it needs to be. ruthless accountability." Period. Full. full stop. That's it. What are you going.

to do? Hey, what are you going to do. with the ballroom? Destroy it. What are. you going to do with the money Trump. made? Take it away. How you going to. take it away? I'm going to go into his. bank accounts and I'm going to. rip it away. If a Democratic candidate. isn't saying that, then don't run. Don't. run. We We don't want you. Get the hell. out of here. Seriously, you're not doing. deals with Donald Trump. I don't want. Oh, we're going to do deals on. affordability. You're not doing a deal. with the guy. Okay? You're not going to. do a deal with the guy. The American. people are psychologically tortured by. this regime. What the hell are you going.

to do for the people right now? Seriously, how are you going to hold. these war criminals accountable? It's. hey or don't run for office. It's. destroy the gold. What are you going to. do with the golden ballroom? I'm going. to demolish it on day one. How are you. going to demolish it on live TV in front. of everybody? I'm going to put a. ton of dynamite and I'm just going to. blow it up. Obviously, we're going to. remove the people from it. We're going. to make a national spectacle of blowing. up the Golden Ballroom. That's what. voters want to see right now. Period. Full stop. Anywhere that Trump's name,

we're going to rip it off. That's what I. want to hear. a Democratic candidate. say. We're going to rip it off. We're. going to broadcast it. We're going to. live stream it on the Midas Touch. Network. They don't have to be in the. Midas Touch Network, but I'd love to. live stream it here. That's what I want. to hear a Democratic candidate say. If. not, don't run. Don't run. Because the. American people have been so freaking. traumatized right now by what this. regime has done. And not just the. American people, the Canadian people and. the whole damn world who just wanted to. go on and live their lives with their. family and just get on with it and try.

to make memories and enjoy their time. here, our short time on Earth without. these freaking predator leeches out. there just trying to destroy our. happiness, our solitude, the little time. we all have together on this beautiful. planet. These predators want to pollute. it. They want to put data centers. everywhere. They want to make people. miserable. They want to spread diseases. They want to spread their diseases. It's. sick. It's freaking sick. And so, stop. acting like this is normal. I want to.

see ruthless account. That's what the. Forget what I want to see. Who cares. about me? The American people want to. see ruthless accountability. Period. Full stop. End of story. Sorry, I went. on that rant. This is what that Admiral. Paparo had to say. Let's play it. >> Story career. So this is a question that. is asked with all due respect. Under. what circumstances would you obey an. order to launch military action against. Canada? >> Um I I'm you know I I find that I find.

that scenario to be uh absolutely and. utterly preposterous. Uh and so uh I follow the I follow the. orders of the commanderin-chief. But uh that is a needlessly emotional. question. I I don't find forgive my. forgive my saying it too is that uh is. that uh. >> uh Canada is a close ally.

>> Thank you. >> I'm sorry. I I didn't mean to be insult. you, but. >> No, no, but it. but you did answer the question. >> You didn't answer the question. But. >> I said, I follow the orders of the. president and I find it to be a uh you. will you would you ask me please also. what my attack plans are for the. Martians. [laughter]. >> You want to dismiss it by all means? >> Yes, sir. >> You're dismissing it. >> I don't dismiss you. I don't dismiss. you, but uh I do dismiss the question.

>> You belittle it. I'm sorry. >> You belittle it and that's I don't think. that's the right approach at all. This. is a serious question, but a serious. issue. We've had threats of annexation. I know it's not. I know it's a. hypothetical, but nonetheless, if you've. not thought about it, >> maybe you should. >> We'll go to Jody. >> Yeah. Horrible, horrible, horrible. response. And you want to know why the. people of Canada hate this regime right. now? I mean, that dismissive answer. right there. It's like the Martians.

It's like the Well, you you realize in. saying that, too. Then what you also are. admitting is that Donald Trump's words. don't matter at all which we all know to. be the case but when Donald Trump uses. the I mean the word annexation. you realize that that has a me if. another could you imagine if Obama said. annexation of Canada what would be the. response why because we have some. psychotic orange blob does that change.

the equation because he was a failed. bankrupt reality. scumbag that now oh well he he says it. so it's still the commander and chief of. the United States military. and that requires that we well I don't. know I don't understand what when it was. that we don't treat the. commanderin-chief. like their like their words have meaning. or matter. I mean, and that's what Trump. and corporate news and trillions of. dollars in brainwashing, I I think has.

done where it's like just which they. just works. He just says what annexation. 51st state. He just says he works. He. just says he's going to blow up the. whole civilization to smithetheriness. He just posting AI memes of himself. bombing Car Island and engaging in. genocide and mass law. He's just It's. just a guys, it's just a meme of him and. Netanyahu building a Trump Gaza Hotel. and dancing with uh uh bearded naked. women in a Do you remember that one? It.

was like a bearded naked woman. I'm not. sure why the naked women have beards, but you know, the dancing with Deta and. Trump with naked bearded women in Gaza. um while they sit martinis. That's what And Ronald Reagan did it and. George W. Bush did it and George HW Bush. and Obama and Clinton and Carter and. Nixon and Ford and JFK and uh FDR and. Truman and Eisenhower. We all we all. remember that this was there. No, it's. not, folks. Folks, this behavior is.

crazier than Kim Jong-un. I I I actually. I don't like when people go, "We're. behaving like North Korea." Oh my gosh. No, no, no, no, no. North Korea seems. like compared to us right now, North. Korea seems like a place of discipline, right? At the despite all of the. derangement, it at least appears they're. working towards some sort of national. interest. I mean, Donald, I mean, truthfully, and I'm not saying this to. even be facitious, right now, Trump.

regime, United States, Kim Jong-un, North Korea, what would I view as a as. having a crazier leader and a more. unpredictable and deranged uh United. States by far, but not even I wouldn't. even I wouldn't even put it close to be. honest with you. I mean, we got a guy. who wakes up, starts posting the the. most deranged memes, makes threats, doesn't follow through with the threats, makes more threats, doesn't follow. through, talks about how he thinks he's.

the greatest, starts putting his face on. money every day, and talks about golden. ballrooms, and then I mean, could you. imagine what we would be saying about. Kim Jong-un if he hid in a catering. container? Could you imagine what we what the world. Could you imagine what the world what we. would be saying if we found out you know. that Xi Jinping hid in a catering. container after leaving a NATO summit. when he was on the most protected plane. but decided to hide in a catering.

container or if Putin did that or I mean. if any leader did that at all could you. imagine oh my god this is a stuff that's. out of the worst types of parodies that. wouldn't even that wouldn't even be. believable. And this is the this is the. United States. I I don't know. I say this truly as. someone who loves this country. I still. love the country. I say this believing. that this is ultimately what patriotism. should be about.

I I I I. mourn what's happening to our service. members right now under this reckless. Trump regime. as Hegett says, "Well, we're gonna deploy them to 2027." And. Trump says, "I don't think they've been. out long enough." I mean, I literally I. literally shed a tear when I saw the USS. Abraham Lincoln pulling into Thailand. and seeing the condition of that ship. and then hearing about the experience of.

those incredible sailors and marines who. were tortured by the Trump regime, tortured our service members. I've heard I hear from their families. what they're going through. They don't. even want to go to Thailand. They want to go home. They want to be. with their families. They want to be. with their kids. They want to be they. they don't want they don't want to be in. Thailand right now either, you know. But this is part of the Trump. regime twostep to kind of cover it up.

Put them in Thailand. You know, who the hell even knows, you. know, between Israeli intelligence there. and. Chinese intelligence and Russian. intelligence and the hell's even. happening. JD Vance press conference. I want to. talk a little bit about that when we. come back from our first quick break. Have you ordered WTF America, the book I. wrote with my brothers? It comes out. October 20th. I hope you will purchase.

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I said in the first half of this show as. background with Iran striking back hard. at US military bases in the region, um, and then striking again yesterday in. Kuwait in response to the US striking a. wedding that was taking place in Surirk. Um, you know, oil prices skyrocketing. right now, Treasury yields skyrocketing. right now. MB Galibah, Iran's parliament.

leader, again mocking the Trump regime, uh, and the manipulation that Iran sees. at a very micro, I mean, Iran sees it at. a very specific level what's happening. They they know very, their knowledge is. fairly extensive about what's happening. here. and the US munition situation and. Iran knows just keep this going. You. know what's happening right now. You. think about it this way. The Trump.

regime likes to say we've been at war. with Iran for 47 years. It's ridiculous. statement, but that's what they that's. what they go with. This isn't a new war. This is just part of 47 years of war. Okay, sure. Um but let's accept that as. true. So Iran's been able to. survive and build this massive massive. weapons cadre, this ballistic missiles, the drones, the shahids, all this stuff.

over the course of, you know, 50 years. of the toughest sanctions. So, you think that in the next two weeks. they're going to be like, "Ah, enough. Enough. We're out. We surrender. Please, we want to make a deal with you now, sir. Tell us about your terms. Make us. submit." I mean, is that like in what. delusional.

predatorial world do you think the. response from Iran after 50 years is. going to be, "Uncle, I give up. I give up." No, that's of course they're not. If. anything, they see what we see what. people with the brain see, which is. they've got the US. trapped. They got the US stuck.

You better believe that Russia knows. that, that China knows that, that the. other BRICS nations know that, that the. nations at the Shanghai Cooperation. Organization know that. And they got to. be careful because the US architecture. still is. there. It's been pulled apart. it's no.

longer. um the security umbrella no longer. holds. So, it's dismantled. You can't. just if you rip it apart so quickly, the. fear is that could cause even more. global chaos. But if you. just like a what's it like a Jenga board. or maybe it's not a good example but you. just. keep on picking at it. Take another one.

You take another one while Donald. Trump's like Canada Greenland. Putin likes me. They just take a little. bit more. Take a little bit more. Surgical. Oh, are we hot? Are we are we so hot. right now? 920 trillion dollars. Okay. Do a little bit of this. Do a little bit. of that. They are so outmaneuvering us. every damn day. It's why I cover the. Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

meetings. It's why I cover the trip of. Xi Shingping to Egypt right now where. he's meeting with Elsissi where there. were military exercises in Egypt the. other day. Heck, Xi Jingping when Trump. visited Beijing talked about the the. Thusidities trap and when she visited. Egypt where they just did military. exercises together the last few weeks. He talked about the new security. architecture in the Middle East which is. also implicitly saying US out, China in.

but China's pitch is not we're going to. do what the US did. China's pitch is. create your own structures, Arab. nations, and then lean on us to. have your back, but you take control. What do you think the Mecca Pact is. really about? It's about the new. security architecture with China leading. the world. That's what the Mecca Pact is.

about. And Trump like, I like the Mecca. Pack. Good work. Good work. Really? I. mean I I just don't you don't realize. what's actually happening here. I mean. that it's not like Xi Jinping isn't. saying it. He said there's a new. security arch he used the words new. security architecture for the Middle. East during his Cairo visit with. Elsissi. Shouldn't this be the main. story. like on on the news, right? I mean I. mean I guess I guess I am the news. So. it is my main story. It is our it's our.

collective main story. What happened at. the G20 summit that took place in. Asheville, North Carolina this past. week? Well, in addition. to the Trump regime inviting Russia, Russia's finance minister was there. Uh, China blocked the US resolution on the. straight of horos. would have been just. a. symbolic resolution anyway, but China. blocked it with the US vision for the.

straight of Hormuz. And Besson's like, "Well, I think that China actually gets. what we're doing. I think that they. really understand and they are on our. side." Like, stupidest people ever. It's. like the dumbest. It's the dumb. It's. dumb and dumber and dumber dumber and. dumber dumber dumber dumber dumber and. dumber dumber dumber dumber dumber. dumber dumber for real. I mean what are. you what are you talking about? They're. on they're on our side. What what world.

are what world? They're pursuing a. long-term plan that they just pressed. fast forward on that has a geopolitical. vision of a world order structured. around China's hegemonic leadership. multi-polar with the US being one of the. weaker polls in China's ascendancy. And. they're very closely allied with Russia. and North Korea and Iran. And Iran got a. hero's welcome at the Shanghai. Cooperation Organization in Bashesque in.

Kyrgystan. Iran was treated like a hero. When Iran. goes, when Peski and Iran's president. and Arachi go to these world summits, they get standing ovations right now. because the whole world sees that they. beat the United States. Remember when. Trump would be like, "The whole world. was laughing at us before me." No, no, no. They are now. They are now. That's. That's for sure. and you invited the Russian finance. minister over. At the same time that.

Russia met with Iran in Kyrgyzstan, Putin met with Peskian and said we are. economically supporting you. He said that he goes we are here to. economically support Iran. And then. Donald Trump will be like, "Well, I. think that Putin and Russia love me and. they're and and and they are helping me. and they are they are great allies, but. I'll tell you who's really bad. Canada,

NATO. I mean, you know, so so when our. admirals out there, Paparro being like. that question's ridiculous and may have. been ridiculous 10 years ago if you were. asked such a question when Obama was in. office or it may be a ridiculous. question when Biden's in office. It. ain't a ridiculous question. You and. when you say that, Paparro, ask the. Canadian people how they feel. Ask the. people of Greenland how they feel. You. you may be living in your ivory tower or.

you're living in your delusional world. that's disconnected from what's. happening on the ground, but the people in Canada, the people in. the United States, the people across the. world truly view. Trump statements as a threat, as a. threat of war. I think people recognize. Trump's a loser and that he's lost to. Iran. So, if Trump even dared try to. invade Canada, Trump would get his ass. kicked a thousand times worse than what.

Iran's doing. That's for sure. That's. for sure. But. I think people take the threats as. threats. Let's take a look at what JD Vance had. to say. JD Vance, what's your advice to. the Iranian people right now? This is. what he said during his press. conference. He filled in for Caroline. Levit. Let's watch what he said. Let's. play it. and started. So my advice to. the Iranians is stop acting like crazy. people and stop shooting at commercial. shipping. And in the meantime, we've got.

to do what we've got to do despite what. a foreign country is going to do in the. straight of wonders. >> Stop acting like crazy people, Iran. That's my You are acting like crazy. people. You invaded their country. They. didn't invade your country. You invaded. their country. What are you talking. about? They're supposed to do nothing. They should do what Deli Rodriguez did. They should do what Venezuela, by the. way, the people of Venezuela are pissed. They just just subject themselves to a.

humiliation ritual. And and that isn't even a real deal, but. it's just announced. Like it's like. literally the Venezuelan deal is. literally just Trump is such a predator. He wanted to announce submission of the. other. He wanted to see them just. behave so obsequious. He needed it. because he was getting his ass kicked so. badly in the rest of the world. It ain't. a real deal. I've gone over it a million.

times. It ain't going to It ain't going. to put oil in our strategic reserves. It's not the way oil works. It ain't. going to be refined anytime soon. It's. not the way oil works. Um, that's Trump for you. That's why he's. bankrupted most of the things he's. touched. A reporter goes and asks JD. Vance on Iran. Will the war be over by. the midterms? Fair question. Will the. war be over by the midterms? Let's let's. let's watch what JD has to say. Let's. play it.

>> with Iran. Will this war be over by the. time of the midterm elections? >> Well, Caitlyn, again, I I don't I. wouldn't call it a war. Right now, there. is no active shooting. I recognize there. is there have been places where this has. flared up. uh major combat operations. Again, major combat operations lasted. for about 6 weeks. And since then, we. destroyed, of course, their nuclear. facilities with midnight. Caitlyn, I. wouldn't call it a war. I would just. call it a uh.

what are you talking about? I mean, this. is clowns. No offense to clowns. JD. Vance on Iran. When will the Iranians. stop shooting at ships? I don't know the. answer to such a question. Usually. things that happen in war, skirmish, play this clip. >> But when you ask when will this end, you're asking me a question like when. will the Iranians stop shooting at. ships? I think the reality is I don't. know the answer to that question. You. would have to ask the Iranians. When. will the Iranians shooting at ships stop.

having an effect on world energy. markets? And the answer is it has less. effect dayby day. So, what we're going. to do is not depend on the Iranians. behaving responsibly or negotiating in. good faith. What we're going to do is. use the tools that we have at our. disposal to ensure that the American. people, one, never have to deal with the. threat of an Iranian nuclear program and. two, that world energy markets are. properly supplied. >> I'm going to go out on a limb here, so. forgive forgive me going out on a limb. here. Iran.

is going to stop blowing up ships in the. straight of Hormuz. when you ready for this JD. Can you. handle it JD? When the US leaves the. Arabian Sea and the straight of Hormuz. Wow. Oh my gosh. Perhaps. when you invade somebody.

they and say we want regime change and. kill their leaders and slaughter their. children. Maybe they respond and they get angry. and maybe they say, "Well, we don't want. more of this." Maybe they say, "We see. what you did in Gaza and in southern. Lebanon. We know what you're going to do. here. We don't want that here. We want our way of life. And that may be.

different than our way of life, JD. But. believe it or not, there are other. nations who have their own national. interests and identity and religion and. beliefs and history. And like I know it's so crazy and so. crazy, but why don't you just get out of. the area and then you can follow theou. which says that Iran and Oman control. the straight of Hormuz.

Why don't you maybe work out small. nominal fee. to pay Iran because you started the war. and you fix it. It is it'll be far. cheaper than what's happening right now. be by the magnitude of possibly. trillions of dollars. So pay him the. small fee of $10 billion or 12 billion. It's fine. You lost. Pay him 12 billion, maybe more. It's cheaper than what's.

happening. Get out. And guess what'll. happen? Prices will start going down. again. We can fill up the strategic. petroleum reserve. that's going to be the outcome anyway. It's going to matter what that's what's. going to happen. So, what are we doing? Just stop wasting our time. And then JD. Vance goes, "But if you look at the. Iranian ability to disrupt the lives of. American people, it's quite limited." He. says, "Very limited." Here, play this. clip. You know, if if you look at the.

Iranian ability to disrupt the normal. lives of of Americans, I think it's. quite limited. It's not zero, but it's. quite limited. I'd be much more worried. about cyber attacks from other actors, but again, we're doing everything that. we can to stay ahead of this stuff. >> We first off, they were able to. successfully hack Minnesota, possibly. Michigan's water systems and in the UK, but Trump hates Minnesota, so he denies. that they did it, even though we know.

that they did. But of course, our lives. are being impacted by this war. It's. being impacted because Trump and. Netanyahu launched this never-ending war. that nobody wanted and they responded. But look at the price of oil today. Look. at the price of diesel today. It's at. record highs right now. What are you. talking about? Things are getting things. are getting worse. You know, when they. were doing better, JD, I know this is. going to blow your mind. This is going. to be a crazy concept. after theou was.

signed and we can all read the words in. theou. and yes theou was a document of defeat. that the United States signed. You can't. win at all. You lost. It's you shouldn't. have done it. You lost. But. paradoxically. the US was actually getting rewarded for. it in terms of lower prices for losing. And you're such you're so bad that even. though you were getting an undeserved W.

by losing. I mean, just think about the. like think about privilege here. I. seriously think about privilege. Like. crazy privilege. The craziest. It's like. Game Genie privilege for those who. played Nintendo growing up. You lose the. war. You sign a surrender document in. theou. and then you get rewarded with the. markets going up and prices going down. and it being viewed as the right.

decision. And the only people who were. railing against theou were your usual. neocon wararmmonger suspects, right? Your Mark Levin, your net and yahoos, your Marco Rubios, your Brian Kilme on Fox. There was a, you know, group of people who always. want these neverending wars. But even though we lost, they were. getting rewarded. Like it could have.

even going into the midterm. This is. what a kind of crazy country we live in. sometimes like like it actually could. have stopped the bleeding for what these. MAGA Republicans are going through in. the midterms had they just gone through. their loser document. It would have been viewed as a win. Crazy, right? Even though it was clearly. a loser do because people didn't want to. be there. So it's like all right. And. once again, Trump could have potentially.

have gotten credit for being the. arsonist and then pretending to be the. firefighter and lighting a smaller fire. I mean, think about it. Obama did the. deal. JCPOA. stopped Iran. Also deterred North Korea. Let's not forget the JCPOA had a dual. purpose of being used as a template for. international coalition against North. Korea. And when Trump ripped it apart, it sent a message to Kim Jong-un. It.

sent a message to other world leaders. Got it. We need nuclear weapons. By the. way, that's the message being sent now. to every world leader. We need nuclear. weapons or else we need we need nuclear. weapons. So. Trump couldn't even take the he's such a. loser that he couldn't even take the dub. from being the loser. That's kind of. crazy. Like he's so pathologically crazy. that that's the case. And then J. D. Vance says, "But for the leadership of.

Trump, we would have had an energy. crisis because the Iranians refused to. stop acting like terrorists." Dude, you're the terrorist. You are the. terrorists. You are. It pains me to say this. You. think I You think I like being. part of this regime of like like being. in this country where that I'm led by a. regime of terrorists, but that's just. that's just the reality. And you know, again, I I hear so many people talk. about it this way about, you know, okay,

the political messaging, you know, what. could they be messaging? What do you. mean messaging? What are you. [clears throat] talking about? We're. we're run by terrorists. We're run by. people covering up a child sex. trafficking ring right now. The Epstein. file who are doubling down. Message. that. I don't I don't message that. Don't message that. I really don't care. Um, but we all know that that's what's h. like like this is a crazy this is crazy. Listen to what JD Van says over. here. Let's play. >> Worldwide energy crisis. I can't repeat. this enough. But for the leadership of.

President Trump and the hard work of our. troops, we would have had an energy. crisis because the Iranians refused to. stop acting like terrorists in the. straight of Hormuz. >> We have an energy crisis now. But for the actions of your regime, you. caused the energy crisis. You caused it. But for you, we would have been in one. No. Before the war,

20 million plus barrels a day were. getting out of the straight of Hormuse. Before this, I didn't even know how to. pronounce the straight of Hormuz. I was. calling it the straight of Hormuse. because I never thought about it. Maybe. that's because I'm ignorant. Maybe I. should have thought about it more. Because when I learned my history and I. learned about what took place in the. late 80s, I learned also that under the. Reagan regime, under the Reagan. administration, the US shot a commercial.

plane filled with Iranian innocent. people and then boasted about it and. gave the commander an award when we put. ships in there. Maybe I was, you know, the re we all can learn more. We all can. learn more is the truth. But I was in my. state of you know what? I'm focused on. this. This is my lane. Here's what I'm. focused on. Like I never focus that much. on salt caverns, right? I wasn't Mr. salt cavern guy or.

Cushing Oklahoma guy or light sweet. versus very sweet crude guy or sulfur. ratio guy of of the crude you know I I. didn't I didn't do I didn't do deep. dives into treasury yields and the 30. the 20 and the 10year and the 2year. that's not you know I was a litigator. before all of this and did trials and. deposit I had to learn a lot of material. real quickly and I would get thrown into.

depositions in different cases and so I. I'd have to learn a lot of things but it. wasn't really a political thing and then. I think I took for granted a lot of. these things a lot of these geopolitical. events in the world like logistical hubs. for our service members you know I never. specifically knew that we had the. importance of the logistical hub in. Bahrain and why not having logistical.

hubs in the area is a disaster for our. troops and why having the only. logistical hub in Diego Garcia is deeply. problematic. I I wasn't thinking, you. know, I I I wasn't I I'm sure I knew a. little bit about this stuff, but. when the Trump regime but but but they. were experts. They were people and it. wasn't. I think a lot of.

the way I think I coped with or. dealt with the ignorance is at least. some general view that I could be an. expert in this area, the law mostly. um and an expert in adjacent areas, but. that there would be experts in this area. and that area and that area who I could. trust to implement very basic and. complex functions in governance and.

generally. But seeing the destruction of. experts and seeing the destruction of. facts and truth and all of these things. for me knowledge isn't simply power. Knowledge is survival. and this YouTube channel and this. network. of knowledge and getting the knowledge.

out there, not in a gamified political. way, but getting out the knowledge of. how these things are connected, how these things are manipulated, how these things are executed. is truly critical. and become matters of life or death. No. hyperbole, no exaggeration. And so that's the moment that we're in.

right now. And that's what I think we're. all duty bound to be doing here. Anybody. and everybody. that's affiliated with the Midas Touch. Network is is that that's our mission. That's our collective mission with you. as well. It's getting out good data, good information, truthful information. because these propaganda forces are. deadly. And you got people like JD who go up. there.

psycho chameleon just we said whatever. there'd be an energy crisis if it wasn't. for us. We saved you. We saved you. We're saving you. Truly crazy crazy stuff. So, here we are. September. 2026. We made it this far. Seriously, we made it this far. They've thrown everything at you.

Literally everything. [clears throat]. this that you remember when we would. think about during the first Trump term, what if. what if that would have happened or. okay, we are. at a point where all of those. most dangerous and deranged things that. would be floated in Trump one. are thrown at us already and we've had.

to fight it. We've had to maneuver and. there have been people who have stepped. up. private life, public life, internationally. There have been people. who have folded. But here we are and we look ahead. to the midterms. to 2027. to 2028 and we think to ourselves, we got to hold on. We got to we got to.

lean on each other right now because we. could get through this. I truly think we. could get through this. I think we will. get through this. I'm confident we will. But I also know that it's going to be. very very difficult. because. these demonic forces and I mean that I. I'm not being hyperbolic. I believe. demonic forces, the the evil, this evil.

that's on this earth, people like Trump and JD and Hexith, they're not going to give this up. easily. They have a design. They have a vision. The way they view the straight of Hormuz. and Iran, the way they view Venezuela, they view humans. as things to be subjugated for their own.

domination and their own. perverted gratification. They're sick. They're sick. It it's it's not about anything other. than them. and how sick they are and how they want. to take and take.

And so they're going to pull in the. midterms. No doubt about it. They're going to pull in 2028. No. doubt about it. they are with the male. the male ballots. We have made it this far. If you study. authoritarianism, you know that almost. all authoritarian regimes,

take over in the first 100 days, and. break the people's spirits. And Trump broke a lot of people in the. first 100 days here. A lot of. institutions fell. But the people rebuilt, whether it's. independent media, whether it's some of. these incredible organizations that have. brought these lawsuits, whether it's. just the people who show up to know. kings or the people who have spread the. word of truth.

And that's the force that they didn't. anticipate. But just as we see. their fascism, they see the power of the people. So. they're not done yet. They're going to. keep on throwing wave and wave and wave. of hate and venom our way. So we have to. stand strong together. And we will and we'll prevail. And by. the way, when we get through this all,

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