Iran Ceasefire, Pam Bondi Fired, and California High Speed Rail Failure

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 Welcome back. Well, the blazers to episode 123 recorded this Thursday the 9th of April 2026. I

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 Promised you twice a week. I know I know I'm late. This is the only one of the week thus far

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 As far as this recording on Thursday the 9th of April 2026. I had a technological snap

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 Oh, I tried some new stuff Google locked out my account couldn't get to research. I got frustrated

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 To hell with it. I'll I'll delay it good thing. I did because a lot happened. So this is what's gonna happen in this episode

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 This is what we're discussing. I'm going to discuss the Iran a ceasefire

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 it's supposed to be a

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 Two-week ceasefire, I believe that's happening kind of happening not happening was gonna happen until Israel started bombing Lebanon

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 Lebanon was included but wasn't included apparently according to Israel and the USA so

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 Bombs away again, and then it was pending negotiations that were happening

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 The 10th of April being Friday the next day after this particular recording so the Friday April the 10th

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 2026 and now it's been moved to

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 April the 11th Saturday. So Saturday the 11th of April 2026. I mean we can't keep up with what's going on here

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 But we're still going to discuss that issue the best that I can because listen this situation this conflict's updating

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 Like literally every 15 frickin minutes

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 I mean, I just look at my news feeds that I have all my news aggregators even social media

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 It's like message message message message like something news happening. Someone bombed somebody another death

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 another disagreement

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 Another 10 20 point 15 30 50 point plan. Like I can't even keep up and on top of that

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 Trump runs his mouth which

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 You know anyway, we'll get into that

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 Okay, also we're gonna discuss Pam Bondi she was fired

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 People kind of discuss it but it all got glossed over because of what's going on with the Iran conflict

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 I'm just gonna give my opinion on that. We're gonna talk about a little bit give my thoughts

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 About it and I'm gonna circle back to an old topic something that I've discussed many times on this microphone

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 I've been doing this podcast three years and I've discussed this I've discussed this before I started my podcast

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 I discussed this when I was a guest host or co-host on my brother's show for a while and

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 then my brother and I discussed it when we had ran a box with Manuel and George going and I

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 Mean he's discussed it on his show and we're talking about

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 We're talking about California. We're talking about Gavin Newsom. We're talking about

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 the high-speed rail which

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 Never seems to be completed. This is something that's been going on since 2008

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 Gavin didn't initiate it. I believe this all started under the tutelage of good old Jerry Brown

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 But hey, you know what?

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 We're gonna touch on that because even though independence like me little old guys like me and my brother Manuel Fonz

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 Even though we've been talking about this for years like literally years

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 Even before I had the podcast my brother longer has been doing for like 10 11 years, whatever. But regardless, we've been talking about for a long time

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 60 minutes does a story and suddenly it's like

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 Groundbreaking they're calling it out. Well, I hate to tell you we were ahead of 60 minutes like pile of mile

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 Probably more like a few hundred miles

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 But regardless, I'm glad they did it because it brings national attention back to the mishandling and

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 the manipulation of funds to get the project going the lying to

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 The taxpayers of California the realization that hey this really can't happen

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 But we're gonna try it anyway, just to look good

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 Even though they knew behind the scenes that they really can pull it off

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 So kudos to 60 minutes for getting the attention because you guys are nationally recognized how you recognize worldwide

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 So I'll give you that but make no mistake. It's been discussed before by little old me. So

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 We're gonna address that we're gonna touch on that. But first firstly, I

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 So Iran sees fire, what do we know? What do we know? Well, what we do know is Trump made a statement

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 He made a tweet a truth a post

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 claiming that

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 An entire civilization will die and never come back

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 threatening Iran people lost their shit around the world around the world

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 Iran tried to be tough about it and

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 They went straight to social media look I gotta be honest around get really good at trolling the world here

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 They sent a lot of posts and retaliation to what Trump said a lot of AI videos, etc

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 But in the end Iran called for a ceasefire Iran agreed to call for a ceasefire. They're like, hey, you know what?

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 Maybe we got to cool this off a bit. You know, so let's let's regroup. Let's figure this out

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 So it's supposed to be a 14-day ceasefire

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 So let's kind of go through

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 Let's go through the steps of what's going on here we go ahead and cue up my little presentation get a little fancy today guys

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 the 2026 see fire

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 ceasefire see fire

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 Excuse that look

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 Honestly, this is me getting back to doing more solo episodes

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 I'm gonna fumble here and there but bear with me. Okay, so the

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 2026 ceasefire anatomy of a fragile pause

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 So we're going to deconstruct this 14-day truce between the United States Israel and Iran

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 So what's the trigger the trigger is Trump's statement a whole civilization will die tonight never to be brought back

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 Tuesday will be power plant day and

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 bridge day

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 President Donald Trump that was his 48-hour ultimatum

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 And of course, this was Tuesday of this week or the week of this recording

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 Okay, so those just for me

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 I don't know when you're gonna hear this but but given at the time of this recording right now

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 You're listening to those only a few days ago

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 Everybody on a Tuesday was on edge. They're like what in the fuck is gonna happen. What does Trump mean?

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 What's it good? Is he really gonna wipe Iran off the map like literally just destroy them to the brink of non-existence

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 meaning the entire civilization of Iran like all the people

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 But many people also take them literally which I think is kind of an issue

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 But maybe it isn't in this case was this a negotiation tactic. Well, it kind of worked

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 Because here's the intervention. So Trump sets the 8 p.m

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 Deadline for destruction of Iranian infrastructure, which we're gonna get to because everybody says that's a war crime

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 last-minute back channel intervention by Pakistani PM Sharif and

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 General Munir. I think I said right Munir Munir

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 Apologies meant no offense. And of course, there's the ceasefire secured 90 minutes before military escalation and that escalation being

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 Israel's bombing of Lebanon, of course, why not? Why not Israel? Why not?

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 There here's the deal here part of that back channeling wasn't just

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 Pakistan it was also China

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 China also reached out. There's reports of saying China quietly reached out and kind of pressure to Ron to go look you need to

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 You know kind of like take this opportunity to

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 Chill the fuck out like seriously and so that's what's going on here

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 The reality check in this whole dick play matic hasm is this so US had a 15-point plan

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 Iran has the 10-point plan. You can see those right here and honestly here guys if you are not watching my video of

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 So the reality check the diplomatic hasm so US had a 15-point plan. So

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 Iran countered with their 10-point plan now, we're not gonna go through the whole thing

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 we're to go to the points of contention here and

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 There's really about four major points contention. We got the maritime control which from the US perspective

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 They want immediate safe reopening of the Strait of Hormuz

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 But Iran counters and saying well, no, no, no, there's gonna be continued Iranian military control the Strait and

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 Which recently by the way recently has been restructured a bit. I

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 Don't have it on the slide here

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 But recently Iran said well we have our right to pick and choose who pays a toll since we will control it and

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 With that being said they also said that the toll could start at one dollar

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 Per barrel of oil, but it's not just limited to the toll of oil

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 It all depends on what goods and services are entering in and out of the Strait of Hormuz meaning that toll could

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 Vary depending on the goods and services coming in or out and this is at Iran's discretion

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 So they said what you need to do is you're going to email us ahead of time before you get here

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 You got tell us what cargo it is and we're going to determine which

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 There's the update on that

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 Alright, let's go to the second point of contention nuclear posturing, right?

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 Well, we all know that the US doesn't want Iran to ever have the ability to make a nuclear weapon in fact

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 I mean, let's just be honest. Most the world doesn't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon

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 Actually, I don't think anyone in the world does even though under the breath. They're going all poor Iran

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 They have a right to know listen first off. This isn't about Iran

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 It's about the Islamic regime. Let's just make that distinction. It's not about the Iranian people. It's about the Islamic regime

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 Having a nuclear weapon it's about the IRGC being able to have a nuclear weapon

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 And here's the problem with this nuclear weapon issue here that nobody seems to understand if Iran gets it

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 and let's say they're just going to use it to posture and to hold people at bay because I mean

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 We could argue that having nuclear weapons keeps people at peace because who's going to dare to fire one off

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 I mean the fallout the destruction of humanity

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 I mean can literally lead to the entire destruction of the world as at least we know it

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 I mean, I think the cockroaches and rats and you know, I think they'll be fine, but humanity is gonna be in real trouble

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 So why don't we want Iran to have this nuclear weapon? Well

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 Maybe let's say maybe we can trust

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 Iran with it because we know that they're just could use as leverage to a degree

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 Let me not ever fire it. I mean cuz Kim Jong-un has him. He's not firing him

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 He's another crazy bastard, but

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 What about the proxies what if they put pressure on on the Iranian regime the Islamic regime or IRGC or do some kind of

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 Back-end back-channel deal to get to somebody to go. Hey, you know slides a little cash here back if you give me this nuclear

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 We've got to consider that as well. So Iran obviously they explicit use and

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 Acceptance of uranium enrichment program as part of their 10-point plan. They want

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 specifically the US to allow them

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 to enrich the uranium as they please and

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 If you don't know uranium is what is used after it reaches about 60% or more it becomes

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 Nuclear device you can enrich uranium up to I think 40

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 Considered to be safe and used for power like power plants, whatever so you get it up to 60 or more

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 Area and that's what we don't want for Ron, but Iran wants to be able to do that

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 Okay, so going back to the US on their 15-point plan here

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 So this was the third point of contention. There was the sanctions and assets

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 US is gonna say if you meet these demands

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 We're gonna go ahead and release some of the sanctions lift some of the sanctions, you know

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 Make sure you have some your assets back

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 But Iran says they want a full removal of all sanctions regardless

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 release of all frozen assets pretty much meaning like money and

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 They want payment from the US for all damages in the war. So all buildings infrastructure

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 Whatever it is that has been damaged destroyed. They want the US to pay for it

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 And here's the fourth point of contention here the regional scope

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 So the US wants to stabilize

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 They want a broader Middle East

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 To be stabilized, I mean that's not much to ask, right?

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 So they want to be able to still have a presence the US does so that they can make sure that the US stays stable

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 and peaceful

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 Just as we have been doing although there's a good argument to be made as to whether or not it has stayed peaceful

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 Which I'm not sure the Middle East has seen any peace. I

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 Don't know when there ever was peace to be honest

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 But Iran wants total US troop withdrawal they want all troops out of the area they want

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 An immediate cessation of the war in Lebanon as well and

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 This also extends to as far as Iran has said

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 The removal of US bases in the area, especially out of the Gulf states. So they'd be like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc

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 No more US bases. No more

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 US military presence basically, so that's what they want. So that one the others, you know

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 They're definitely points of contention disagreement, but I think there's negotiating area there

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 But we all know that the US is not going to remove their presence from the Middle East

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 That's just not gonna fucking happen. So good luck with that one

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 Here's what happens in the mediation. So here it is. This is where they're going to go ahead

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 The Islamabad Accord is what they're calling it and

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 Negotiations will have it in Pakistan. Now, there's there's two there's two countries that have to take credit for this

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 firstly Pakistan so Pakistan

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 Prime Minister Sharif and general manure

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 Central conduit balancing Saudi defense pact with 1,000 kilometer Iranian border, okay

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 So they want to go ahead and negotiate this they want to go ahead and base it off

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 Balancing the Saudi defense pact and you know, making sure the Iranian border like everything is just nice

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 Peaceful, let's come to agreement. But regardless Pakistan wants to help be the mediator

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 They want to be the people in the middle saying okay US what do you want Iran?

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 What do you want? Let's come to like let's come to an agreement that makes sense

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 So Pakistan wants to mediate this United States

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 The United States is gonna be on one side and they're gonna send JD Vance and his envoy which includes Steve Witkoff

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 To go ahead and negotiate this with Iran

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 So their foreign minister Abbas

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 Arakshi, I'm horrible at pronouncing that but he's gonna convey the maximalist 10-point counter proposal

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 which some of those items we went over that we know the US will just never agree to so I

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 Don't know what agreement we're gonna come to

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 Between the US's 15-point plan and Iran's 10-point plan

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 Who knows but quietly quietly behind the scenes

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 It has been said and reported that the major player here that forced Tehran's hand to come to the table has actually been China

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 Reports that China actually said hey knock this shit off come to table

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 Why is that? Well, China needs allies to what people don't realize is Iran's major allies

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 In terms of superpowers are Russia

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 China, I believe North Korea is in the mix there, but

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 They don't they don't really have the pull that Russia and China's although they're very formidable

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 I mean, we're not gonna dismiss Kim Jong-un's madness

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 So China gets oil from Iran. They get it at a very very very like very discounted rate

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 Is it the only place China can get oil from? No, they can get it from Russia

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 They can't get it from Venezuela anymore

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 Nope can't get it from that area whatsoever. Nope can't get it from the Caribbean

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 The US stopped that

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 But they can't get it from Russia. So does this cut China out completely? No, does it hurt them?

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 Yeah, it definitely hurts them. It definitely puts them in a spot for a bit

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 I'm sure they will realign with some allies somewhere or they'll end up honestly

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 Even if they can get the oil somewhere else, you're gonna have to pay through the nose for it. I

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 Don't think any other country is going to drop their pants just to help China out at this point

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 I'm gonna take advantage of the situation most countries would like oh you want our oil? Well, here's your price

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 Where Iran was pretty much I wouldn't say given away, but they were basically well given it away and

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 The other thing here is the removal of China's ability to continue to buy oil

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 For example hurts Iran as well because right now China buys

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 90% that's nine zero folks

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 90% of all of Iran's oil

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 also in this

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 With Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz, even if they go back to selling oil and letting everybody else purchase oil from the other Gulf nations

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 The price may come down on the oil itself, but now you're looking at a minimum two million dollar toll per ship or vessel

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 So this is gonna definitely drastically affect the markets. Is this the first time this has happened? No, Iran has done this before

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 I'm not sure that they did the toll thing with the with the with the ships or the or the tankers

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 But they have controlled and shut down the strait before

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 But this time it seems to be having a bigger impact than it ever did now

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 Here's what's going on here with the ceasefire

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 So if there's there's a disagreement and what was included and this is what led to

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 The ceasefire pretty much ending about as abruptly as Iran said. Hey, let's let's have one

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 So the official ceasefire

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 According to Pakistan PM Shabazz Sharif, it was agreed to an immediate ceasefire

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 everywhere including Lebanon and

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 Elsewhere which was effective immediately only problem is while the loophole is Israel

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 Supports the suspension of the strikes against Iran

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 But they don't seem to think it includes

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 Lebanon. All right, so and this is where I'm a little foggy

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 folks and be honest with you as far as I was concerned renew, I thought the ceasefire agreement was between

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 Iran and the US

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 Now maybe part of this agreement was

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 That Israel gets left alone and in turn maybe Iran was like, well, maybe you leave Lebanon around because you know

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 We need our terrorist proxies Hezbollah to continue to operate so

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 Israel took it upon themselves to say no, I don't believe I don't believe that that was the case

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 So what happened? Well, the real-time military updates that are still going on is

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 Operation eternal darkness was initiated by Benjamin Netanyahu

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 100 Israeli airstrikes executed in 10 minutes

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 across Beirut and southern Lebanon and there were at least

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 254 casualties

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 Reported but it's more than that now which I'm gonna get into here

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 so

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 The global choke point here in the point of contention of this entire

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 This entire debacle here this entire

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 War that is not a war but is but we know it is but even though they don't say it is but it's a war

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 Is really the control of the Strait of Hormuz?

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 There okay. So check this out

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 There are 20 million barrels a day

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 That are trapped that aren't moving in and out. That's 20% of the global

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 Seaborn oil trade 84% of the crude bound for Asia

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 It's only about 21 to 25 miles wide folks

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 So it's it's definitely choke point. That is not hard for Iran to control which they are controlling

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 and as I said earlier the new toll the potential of two million dollar fee per transiting vessel

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 Really adds to the cost of this oil

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 Which really isn't going to be consistent because Iran again, they said it depends on the cargo

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 They're saying it could start at a dollar a barrel of oil

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 So if that fee X can't I mean it it could go beyond two million dollars of vessel

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 It could go beyond and the other thing that people aren't talking about

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 That's hurting this all is as long as Iran controls this

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 Most vessels regardless of whether they have permission or not won't even bother to go through the strait because

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 Insurance companies like Lloyd's of London

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 Raise the rates and or just said we can't we can't insure you something happens. You're screwed is on you

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 Well, these are very expensive tankers. We have lives

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 bodies actually operating these tankers and

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 Without the insurance behind to cover any losses most of these companies are going well

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 We're not even gonna even we're not gonna mess with it. Like we'll just be financially collapsed

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 They may be able to absorb that two million dollar fee

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 It's just gonna be attached to the price of the oil or so their transport fees just gonna have to grow out

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 right just goes up but

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 Not being insured if anything happens as a company

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 Well, that's definitely gonna kill you. It's gonna kill you financially probably just would put you out of business

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 And thus far we cannot trust Iran to keep the word

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 To that point doesn't seem we can trust Israel to keep their word either. That wasn't a dig at Israel

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 It's just going back to them breaking the ceasefire by attacking Lebanon

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 Which they claim ceasefire agreement didn't include but Iran says it did the US says it kind of did but not really

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 I don't recall that

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 Getting back to that mess

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 So

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 What what's next right? Well, let's go back to the Israel strikes on Lebanon because I we got to understand like what happened here and

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 Was it just?

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 254 people that were killed. I believe the tolls higher. Let's go ahead and go over to that

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 Window here. So on ground news here pull this up Israel strikes Lebanon kills 250 Netanyahu

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 excludes

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 excludes excludes

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 country from truce

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 So on Wednesday of this week of this recording, by the way

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 The Israeli Defense Force has carried out its largest coordinated strike of the war hitting over 100

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 Hezbollah targets across Lebanon within 10 minutes. I mean, that's a lot

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 Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, excuse me for that

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 So Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed operations would continue stating the US Iran ceasefire

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 Excludes Lebanon

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 Brokered by Pakistan US President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran on

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 Tuesday, which was just a few days before it's recording while Pakistani Prime Minister Shabazz Sharif

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 Claimed the truce applied everywhere including Lebanon. Now this this is what's not clear

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 This isn't clear if this was actually said or if they're saying this after the fact after Israel struck Lebanon

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 That's what's not clear

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 I mean, there is no definitive proof anywhere that this ceasefire agreement

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 Included Iran and Lebanon because it was never said from the outset

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 I can't find it anywhere in the media where it said this ceasefire includes Iran its allies which includes Lebanon

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 Nowhere this all comes out after Israel attacks Lebanon

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 According to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health over

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 1530 people have been killed

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 4812 were wounded since early March with more than 1 million displace

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 Strikes hit dense commercial and residential areas prompting widespread

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 humanitarian concern

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 Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam

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 accused Israel of utter disregard for international law while world leaders including the European Council

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 Issued a joint statement calling for a lasting truce that includes

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 Lebanon and again, it sounds like it sounds like they're using the Lebanon thing after the fact

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 It's almost like they didn't think about it. Maybe they're like, I don't think Israel's gonna do anything, right?

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 We broke her peace with USA. They're the bigger more powerful country

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 Israel's the ally they're gonna listen maybe there's not anything happening. I

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 Think that when they had this ceasefire proposal or agreement

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 That Iran forgot to explicitly explicitly include Lebanon and

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 I think that this is all happening after the fact, but regardless regardless

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 Why?

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 Is Lebanon being bombed? I'm not quite sure I pulled up a

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 Summary here well AI summary and

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 I'm gonna read through it, but I'm still kind of fuzzy on it

434
00:33:12.320 --> 00:33:16.580
 But let's read this here so as of April 2026 as real is

435
00:33:17.100 --> 00:33:20.740
 Conducting heavy airstrikes and a ground offensive in Lebanon

436
00:33:20.740 --> 00:33:27.040
 Targeting Hezbollah in a conflict that has caused over 1,700 deaths and displaced more than a million people

437
00:33:27.380 --> 00:33:34.760
 Israel continues these strikes to weaken Hezbollah's military capabilities and create a secure zone for northern Israel

438
00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:39.540
 Residents so intentionally separating this fight from the ongoing

439
00:33:39.540 --> 00:33:42.170
 US-Iran ceasefire, so

440
00:33:43.320 --> 00:33:47.860
 the claim the assessment is that this is a

441
00:33:47.860 --> 00:33:53.840
 Conflict but separate from that between Iran and the US and or Israel

442
00:33:53.840 --> 00:34:00.480
 Like this is a completely separate conflict. This is a this is not included. It's a different deal

443
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:05.980
 But that kind of raises the question as to like what with with this major conflict going on with Iran

444
00:34:05.980 --> 00:34:12.900
 The big dog in the area right with all the rockets and missiles the proxies the terrorist groups the money etc

445
00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:21.800
 Why would you even attempt to start another war within a war with another country that makes no fucking sense and

446
00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:24.360
 So as much as people know that I don't hate

447
00:34:25.060 --> 00:34:29.920
 Israelis and Jews I have nothing wrong with Jewish people or people from Israel

448
00:34:30.860 --> 00:34:35.780
 There are many times where I had to question the Israeli government in this case Netanyahu

449
00:34:35.780 --> 00:34:40.100
 like I know Israel has the reasons for what they do and

450
00:34:40.100 --> 00:34:45.520
 If we're being very honest, we know Israel is for the most part attacked

451
00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:48.239
 like constantly

452
00:34:49.020 --> 00:34:54.380
 Constantly ever since their inception ever since they were put together as a nation

453
00:34:54.380 --> 00:34:57.080
 Right out from the outset. They were attacked

454
00:34:57.620 --> 00:34:59.740
 And they've been defending themselves ever since

455
00:35:00.900 --> 00:35:06.380
 But people do disagree with how viciously they retaliate

456
00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:12.260
 And again, you can have your views on that. I have mine. I'm not gonna get into it right here

457
00:35:12.260 --> 00:35:15.240
 But the bottom line is this shit's been going on for a long time

458
00:35:16.060 --> 00:35:18.640
 Israel versus the world it seems or at least the entire Middle East

459
00:35:19.640 --> 00:35:24.050
 For the most part. Well, it seems that way

460
00:35:24.050 --> 00:35:26.810
 anyway, so in Israel

461
00:35:27.330 --> 00:35:34.370
 In Israel's claim here, this is a separate separate conflict separate deal has nothing to do with the

462
00:35:35.290 --> 00:35:37.090
 with the ceasefire agreement and

463
00:35:37.690 --> 00:35:43.190
 Look, we're targeting Hezbollah. They say but the only problem with that is there's plenty of videos out there

464
00:35:43.190 --> 00:35:47.510
 I mean where you see they're not targeting Hezbollah so much

465
00:35:47.510 --> 00:35:53.010
 They're targeting areas where they believe Hezbollah is and are dug in but they're literally destroying

466
00:35:54.390 --> 00:35:57.850
 Entire residential areas entire parts of cities

467
00:35:58.690 --> 00:36:07.540
 The civilian casualties here are huge. And so this is what triggered Iran to say fuck it. No ceasefire

468
00:36:08.620 --> 00:36:11.960
 This is what triggered the whole world to go. What are you doing Israel?

469
00:36:12.660 --> 00:36:19.240
 Like the US is trying to get something done here. They're trying to broker some kind of agreement to get back to peace and

470
00:36:20.300 --> 00:36:21.220
 Israel decides

471
00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:29.140
 Well, I mean you didn't say Lebanon, right? I mean those guys are kind of like open season, right? We're still hunting, right?

472
00:36:29.160 --> 00:36:34.220
 We're still hunting. I mean I got I got tags here for deer. I'm going after it. So

473
00:36:35.860 --> 00:36:41.700
 That's what's going on that is the snafu in all of this so you combine that

474
00:36:41.700 --> 00:36:46.180
 With the control of the strait of Hormuz by Iran

475
00:36:46.180 --> 00:36:48.800
 Which is globally impacting

476
00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:54.680
 Everybody's wallet like really screwing everything up financially economically

477
00:36:55.380 --> 00:37:01.400
 Even though even though the US really doesn't get I mean we don't even get oil from the Middle East anymore

478
00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:03.840
 I mean we have our agreement with Venezuela now we get stuff

479
00:37:04.660 --> 00:37:08.640
 From Canada in terms of oil and crude we get it from Mexico. Hell we

480
00:37:09.480 --> 00:37:13.580
 Overproduce in our own country. I say our because I'm American in the USA

481
00:37:14.260 --> 00:37:19.560
 So it doesn't affect us so much but it kind of does because everything's tied to the petrol dollar and

482
00:37:20.660 --> 00:37:24.140
 The total value of oil and the global market if that goes up

483
00:37:24.140 --> 00:37:27.440
 Well, it does go for the USA to regardless of if we buy

484
00:37:28.220 --> 00:37:29.760
 from the Middle East or not

485
00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:32.340
 So a lot of people are now

486
00:37:33.580 --> 00:37:36.620
 Questioning like what are we doing here Trump because the reality is

487
00:37:38.100 --> 00:37:39.540
 These things were gonna happen

488
00:37:39.540 --> 00:37:45.320
 We knew that if we tacked her and for those for those out there said that Trump didn't know

489
00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:47.960
 He was too stupid to understand the situation. Look

490
00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:56.140
 There are people way smarter than you and I were very well trained in intelligence gathering

491
00:37:57.080 --> 00:38:01.540
 Analyzing and assessing situations who study the history of the area

492
00:38:02.660 --> 00:38:03.260
 Who

493
00:38:03.860 --> 00:38:07.700
 Absolutely know who absolutely know that this was gonna come up

494
00:38:08.620 --> 00:38:15.980
 But I think Trump thought that he would overwhelm Iran was so much firepower that they were just cave and

495
00:38:16.600 --> 00:38:19.700
 I think that the cracks are showing here. I think I think Trump

496
00:38:20.780 --> 00:38:28.260
 Trump thought that they would back down and he wouldn't have to commit to the next step in all of this

497
00:38:28.260 --> 00:38:35.140
 Which is to be quite honest. Don't want to say it. Well, I actually have said before is going all the way

498
00:38:36.220 --> 00:38:38.060
 Wiping out the Islamic regime

499
00:38:39.700 --> 00:38:47.240
 Trump wants to do that, but he doesn't want to take the steps necessary to do that, but Trump would rather see

500
00:38:48.680 --> 00:38:52.660
 being a president who believes in peace as he says and

501
00:38:52.660 --> 00:38:56.880
 Doesn't really like wars and conflicts as he said in the past is he would

502
00:38:56.880 --> 00:39:04.720
 Like a change in the regime now a total regime change while the Iranian people want that in fact

503
00:39:05.340 --> 00:39:10.780
 We all thought that the major reason that this was happening was to liberate Iranian people

504
00:39:11.380 --> 00:39:18.700
 Trump has said many times he said we will support you. Well, we do we do the USA does at least we think we do

505
00:39:20.160 --> 00:39:26.620
 But it seems that Trump doesn't have the stomach to do what he has to do to make sure

506
00:39:26.620 --> 00:39:30.060
 That they are liberated first off. Let's get back to the situation

507
00:39:30.740 --> 00:39:38.400
 People can't do it. They don't have the weapons. They can't organize you see videos of Iranians standing arm-in-arm

508
00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:43.300
 Using themselves as human shields to protect their infrastructure, but we all know that is fake

509
00:39:43.300 --> 00:39:49.200
 We know that is fake. There's no internet out there for one. So how's it all this being communicated?

510
00:39:49.380 --> 00:39:55.120
 Well, the IRGC is knocking on doors and calling people say hey you're coming out here and you're doing this. Oh

511
00:39:55.120 --> 00:39:57.640
 And many people remember that about I mean

512
00:39:57.640 --> 00:40:04.640
 Another real number of 40,000 50,000 civilians who dared to protest against the Islamic regime in Iran

513
00:40:04.640 --> 00:40:07.940
 Were killed. I mean just

514
00:40:07.940 --> 00:40:14.440
 About two months ago month ago where it was. I mean really feels like it was yesterday because practically was

515
00:40:16.860 --> 00:40:23.560
 We think they're gonna do they're gonna go out there and go arm-in-arm and wave the Iranian flags etc and preserve their life

516
00:40:24.980 --> 00:40:27.300
 Right, we're gonna cover their own ass

517
00:40:28.900 --> 00:40:35.160
 So the regime needs to go how are we gonna get there hmm

518
00:40:36.060 --> 00:40:42.160
 That is the question that is the question the negotiations coming up this Saturday on the 11th of April

519
00:40:42.160 --> 00:40:46.760
 2026 is gonna be interesting because neither side seems like they want to give in

520
00:40:48.760 --> 00:40:53.760
 Number one Iran can't have a nuclear weapon number one issue is they cannot have one

521
00:40:53.760 --> 00:40:58.940
 They cannot have the right to enrich uranium to whatever fucking levels they want. It's just not gonna happen

522
00:40:58.940 --> 00:41:06.340
 Why because the Islamic regime is fucking crazy period number one fucking state sponsor of terrorism

523
00:41:06.340 --> 00:41:12.640
 And look guys, I'm sorry. I know I'm cursing a little more than normal in this particular episode, but I mean

524
00:41:13.780 --> 00:41:16.540
 This whole thing's fucked up. Just be honest

525
00:41:17.300 --> 00:41:24.640
 We have soldiers there that don't know what's happening. We have Marines. We have army. We have Navy. I

526
00:41:24.640 --> 00:41:26.060
 Mean, they're there to protect the US

527
00:41:26.060 --> 00:41:29.480
 But why are they there what's going on while we're trying to take out a fanatical

528
00:41:30.780 --> 00:41:35.940
 Theocratic regime that has full authority and power over the region by the way, not just over Iran

529
00:41:37.060 --> 00:41:42.140
 All of their neighbors are scared of Iran all the neighbors all the Gulf states. They all are

530
00:41:43.160 --> 00:41:46.480
 all of them period

531
00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:49.260
 Cuz they're crazy. They really are

532
00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:50.760
 so

533
00:41:50.760 --> 00:41:55.120
 How do we get back to normal? How do we get this to?

534
00:41:56.980 --> 00:41:57.500
 Come

535
00:41:58.780 --> 00:42:04.420
 To peace and for how long because even if Iran agrees in

536
00:42:05.660 --> 00:42:08.700
 Us is like fuck it. Yeah, you know, you're a crazy regime

537
00:42:08.700 --> 00:42:12.060
 You chant death to the West since 1947

538
00:42:12.740 --> 00:42:16.400
 Seems like you have a death toll to the West gathering every Friday in their nation

539
00:42:17.620 --> 00:42:24.480
 Death to America is your actual foreign policy, which was actually said by Khomeini himself

540
00:42:25.340 --> 00:42:27.660
 You know the one that just got killed

541
00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:35.620
 Literally death America isn't just a slogan. It's a policy. He said that he fucking said that it's a policy

542
00:42:37.540 --> 00:42:40.100
 but if they can come to an agreement and

543
00:42:41.560 --> 00:42:44.340
 The Trump administration goes we don't like you

544
00:42:45.860 --> 00:42:50.860
 But we'll leave you alone if you leave us alone if you leave our neighbors alone

545
00:42:50.860 --> 00:42:56.020
 if this happens because look the UAE is a neighbor and

546
00:42:57.060 --> 00:42:59.080
 Tell all of this shit broke out

547
00:43:00.120 --> 00:43:02.640
 No real conflicts right Kuwait no conflicts Bahrain

548
00:43:04.140 --> 00:43:05.060
 No conflicts

549
00:43:05.060 --> 00:43:07.700
 They're all just kind of living

550
00:43:07.700 --> 00:43:15.180
 but what Iran has never done and can't do is stop attacking Israel either directly or indirectly and in turn

551
00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:19.640
 Israel can't help themselves when there is an opportunity presented either and

552
00:43:20.700 --> 00:43:23.320
 Again, we can make the case that Israel is just constantly defending themselves

553
00:43:23.320 --> 00:43:26.140
 But there have been instances where they're like all right

554
00:43:26.140 --> 00:43:30.860
 I think they cool down for about a month or two a stack and that has happened

555
00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:32.360
 so

556
00:43:32.860 --> 00:43:36.340
 the wild card and all this I

557
00:43:36.900 --> 00:43:37.340
 Think

558
00:43:37.340 --> 00:43:40.900
 Ron is in self-preservation mode right now. I

559
00:43:40.900 --> 00:43:45.560
 Think they realize that they I mean what let's just be honest to give them credit. They have lasted

560
00:43:46.040 --> 00:43:49.420
 They're tough. We cannot take that away from them. They're they're pretty tough

561
00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:56.540
 Regime the Iranian people themselves are very tough intelligent people, but

562
00:43:57.860 --> 00:44:05.840
 The wild card here in this agreement is Israel will they be able to

563
00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:09.760
 Hold back will they be able to agree?

564
00:44:10.920 --> 00:44:12.040
 to the terms

565
00:44:13.060 --> 00:44:20.980
 That's that's what we got to watch out for and the other thing is this how can the world?

566
00:44:21.540 --> 00:44:28.540
 Says before my last broadcast. How can the world accept such a evil fanatical authoritarian theocratic regime?

567
00:44:30.060 --> 00:44:30.640
 that

568
00:44:30.640 --> 00:44:36.820
 That's his I mean has a history of killing their own citizens just for questioning the regimes

569
00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:42.400
 Opposing the way of life that that's that's being imposed on them. I

570
00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:44.340
 Mean publicly hanging like hanging

571
00:44:45.460 --> 00:44:47.500
 Olympians like their Olympic wrestler

572
00:44:48.520 --> 00:44:51.160
 Publicly by the neck with fucking cranes

573
00:44:52.620 --> 00:44:56.940
 You know, I mean treating women like literal dogs or pets

574
00:44:57.880 --> 00:45:01.140
 Whipping and beating them in public for things. They didn't even do

575
00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:10.020
 Are we going to be able the Western nations just like keep turning a blind eye? Yeah, you know why

576
00:45:11.120 --> 00:45:12.480
 money oil

577
00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:14.180
 for some reason

578
00:45:14.180 --> 00:45:21.280
 For some reason the comfort of lower gas at the pump and the ability to get the crude oil that is needed

579
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:24.720
 supersedes people's human rights and

580
00:45:24.720 --> 00:45:26.720
 Allows you to turn a blind eye to evil

581
00:45:27.980 --> 00:45:30.060
 That is the reality

582
00:45:30.980 --> 00:45:31.460
 so

583
00:45:33.250 --> 00:45:40.240
 With that being said it's going to be interesting. What happens here at this negotiation. It's gonna be very interesting

584
00:45:42.120 --> 00:45:43.520
 But let's be honest

585
00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:48.280
 Even if they come to an agreement is the peace gonna last

586
00:45:50.660 --> 00:45:51.140
 No

587
00:45:52.260 --> 00:45:58.280
 Why well because Iran indirectly one of their proxies is gonna lose their shit

588
00:45:59.500 --> 00:46:06.780
 Or Netanyahu who's just gonna make up some bullshit and go. Oh look opportunists go bomb these guys because they're looking at us funny

589
00:46:09.220 --> 00:46:09.700
 hmm

590
00:46:10.620 --> 00:46:15.020
 Well, that being said look I brought you up to speed as far as where we're at so far so

591
00:46:16.140 --> 00:46:20.640
 Let's let's hold off and making any more assumptions until after

592
00:46:20.640 --> 00:46:21.740
 This

593
00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:28.940
 Saturday the 11th of April coming up. Let's see what happens when JD Vance and Steve Witkoff and I mean

594
00:46:28.940 --> 00:46:34.600
 When the negotiation team goes to talk to Iran and let's see what happens here. Hopefully

595
00:46:35.120 --> 00:46:37.120
 Something good will come out of this

596
00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:40.480
 Hopefully there will be peace broker, but I think that

597
00:46:41.600 --> 00:46:45.780
 Even if there are agreements made to whatever conditions

598
00:46:46.600 --> 00:46:48.760
 Trump doesn't walk away from this clean

599
00:46:49.920 --> 00:46:50.400
 Because

600
00:46:51.080 --> 00:46:53.800
 It's gonna look like a compromise and a failure regardless

601
00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:59.700
 Regardless, it's gonna look at an unnec it's gonna look like an unnecessary action a big

602
00:46:59.700 --> 00:47:04.080
 Why did we even fucking go there in the first place if we're just back to square one?

603
00:47:04.620 --> 00:47:11.500
 Now if we come out of this if Trump comes out of this after these negotiations, and we actually have peace like Israel says

604
00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:16.900
 Fuck it. Well, we're gonna hold our shit. We're gonna stop fucking blowing people up

605
00:47:16.900 --> 00:47:24.180
 Has blog goes we're gonna stop blowing people up the Houthis are like, yeah, we're not gonna do anything like a run brings their fucking dogs

606
00:47:24.180 --> 00:47:26.540
 to heel and

607
00:47:26.540 --> 00:47:32.120
 Trump just goes to be being goes look stop fucking around or you're gonna find out if all these things actually happen

608
00:47:33.160 --> 00:47:36.240
 then Trump comes out good because

609
00:47:37.560 --> 00:47:43.220
 he decided to act and the outcome was actual peace and

610
00:47:43.220 --> 00:47:47.140
 Something that the entire region needs an agreement that the whole world needs

611
00:47:47.140 --> 00:47:49.620
 To the benefit of

612
00:47:49.620 --> 00:47:55.260
 Everybody not just one party. So then in that case Trump comes out looking good

613
00:47:55.960 --> 00:48:00.980
 But again, everything hinges on what happens with the negotiations and to be quite honest

614
00:48:02.580 --> 00:48:05.940
 Need to see it, but I don't have a lot of faith in Netanyahu

615
00:48:07.700 --> 00:48:13.040
 Keeping us cool or they don't but I hope he does I hope he sees the light I hope he does

616
00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:20.170
 All right with that being said, let's move on to the next

617
00:48:20.870 --> 00:48:22.430
 topic of

618
00:48:22.430 --> 00:48:24.990
 Discussion and Bondi fired

619
00:48:24.990 --> 00:48:31.770
 Pam Bondi fired. Let's talk about Pam Bondi here. So Donald Trump fires Pam Bondi

620
00:48:33.030 --> 00:48:35.150
 Pam Bondi here

621
00:48:35.150 --> 00:48:39.450
 Was fired as the United States Attorney General on April 2nd

622
00:48:39.450 --> 00:48:46.930
 2026 after serving 14 months in the position while President Trump publicly described the move as a

623
00:48:46.930 --> 00:48:51.290
 Transition to a much needed and important new job in the private sector

624
00:48:51.290 --> 00:48:57.730
 Multiple reports indicate her ouster was driven by a significant dissatisfaction within the White House

625
00:48:58.570 --> 00:49:05.810
 Here's the primary factors that led to her firing they include handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files

626
00:49:07.650 --> 00:49:11.510
 Body face intense bi-parts and criticism for her management of

627
00:49:11.510 --> 00:49:18.030
 investigative files related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and everybody remembers when she said she had

628
00:49:18.030 --> 00:49:23.430
 Thousands of files on her desk, right? Like she has all the papers like 10,000 whatever it was

629
00:49:23.430 --> 00:49:26.550
 So here's a contradictory statement early in her tenure

630
00:49:26.550 --> 00:49:30.310
 She told reporters the Epstein client list was sitting on her desk for review

631
00:49:30.310 --> 00:49:35.290
 However, the Justice Department later issued a memo stating no such client list existed

632
00:49:35.290 --> 00:49:39.550
 Which drew backlash from both the media and Trump's own base?

633
00:49:39.990 --> 00:49:48.750
 Transparency issues despite the passage of the Epstein files transparency act the DOJ reportedly released less than 2% of

634
00:49:48.750 --> 00:49:51.150
 the total investigative data

635
00:49:51.690 --> 00:49:53.690
 With millions of pages remaining

636
00:49:54.210 --> 00:49:56.210
 Unreleased or heavily redacted

637
00:49:56.950 --> 00:49:59.450
 There was also the congressional subpoena

638
00:49:59.450 --> 00:50:05.700
 Her botched handling of the files led to the House Oversight Committee to issue a subpoena for her

639
00:50:06.150 --> 00:50:09.910
 Testimony which became a growing political liability for the administration

640
00:50:09.910 --> 00:50:11.290
 so

641
00:50:11.970 --> 00:50:14.480
 With that being said there is also

642
00:50:15.990 --> 00:50:21.020
 The failure to prosecute political enemies in air quotes there

643
00:50:22.530 --> 00:50:25.200
 Sources indicate that President Trump was deeply frustrated by

644
00:50:25.770 --> 00:50:29.030
 Pam Bondi's inability to successfully

645
00:50:29.030 --> 00:50:32.270
 Secure indictments against his perceived

646
00:50:32.270 --> 00:50:34.990
 political adversaries

647
00:50:34.990 --> 00:50:39.590
 That that one's up for debate, but regardless plausible

648
00:50:40.870 --> 00:50:48.830
 Dismissed cases for example federal prosecutors under Bondi did indict former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General

649
00:50:48.830 --> 00:50:55.590
 Leticia James but both cases were dismissed by judges because a prosecutor overseeing them had been unlawfully

650
00:50:56.230 --> 00:51:03.050
 Appointed there were unsuccessful probes so efforts to investigate figures like Senator Adam Schiff

651
00:51:03.410 --> 00:51:09.970
 Representative Eric Swalwell and Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell resulted in no charges or

652
00:51:10.670 --> 00:51:17.030
 Quashed subpoenas and then there was the grand jury rejection and several instances grand juries

653
00:51:17.030 --> 00:51:22.790
 Rebuffed efforts to bring criminal charges against lawmakers further in raging the president

654
00:51:24.030 --> 00:51:26.990
 There's also allegations of tipping off Eric Swalwell

655
00:51:28.090 --> 00:51:31.670
 Now this one I never knew all the details of so when I put this report together

656
00:51:32.510 --> 00:51:35.870
 With the help of the good old AI one of the new tools. I'm using here

657
00:51:37.050 --> 00:51:39.250
 This shed a little more light on things for me

658
00:51:39.250 --> 00:51:43.690
 And let's just be honest the world moves fast a lot going on a lot of conflict geopolitically

659
00:51:43.690 --> 00:51:50.050
 So this one slipped under my radar so here we go the allegations of tipping off Eric Swalwell

660
00:51:50.830 --> 00:51:56.650
 Insiders also pointed to a specific point of contention involving California representative Eric Swalwell

661
00:51:56.650 --> 00:52:01.620
 Trump reportedly believed that Bondi who maintained a friendly relationship with Swalwell

662
00:52:02.090 --> 00:52:09.470
 Had tipped him off regarding an FBI effort to publicize decades-old files related to a suspected Chinese spy

663
00:52:09.470 --> 00:52:12.850
 If everybody remembers of the whole fang fang debacle

664
00:52:13.710 --> 00:52:15.370
 it was

665
00:52:15.370 --> 00:52:20.030
 Allegedly allegedly allegedly Swalwell was involved with the Chinese spy

666
00:52:20.050 --> 00:52:24.170
 She was there using him to get secrets, which isn't so much a secret

667
00:52:24.170 --> 00:52:25.410
 I mean she is a Chinese spy

668
00:52:25.410 --> 00:52:33.090
 But anyway the White House was reportedly displeased that she intervened in this matter due to personal friendship and also

669
00:52:33.910 --> 00:52:38.750
 Let's move on to poor performance as a communicator Trump reportedly

670
00:52:38.750 --> 00:52:43.430
 Trump himself reportedly viewed Bondi as a weak television surrogate a role

671
00:52:43.430 --> 00:52:46.170
 He had expected her to excel at given her background

672
00:52:47.250 --> 00:52:53.290
 Poor optics so she was described as looking flustered and weak during contentious public hearings

673
00:52:53.290 --> 00:52:57.670
 And there are many times where she did look like she was being back in a corner

674
00:52:57.670 --> 00:53:00.690
 And she was getting very like upset like not holding her cool

675
00:53:01.270 --> 00:53:04.590
 So I can see what Trump is saying about that. I

676
00:53:04.590 --> 00:53:09.650
 Guess Trump wants someone who's strong pretty much like a rock immovable

677
00:53:10.410 --> 00:53:14.350
 You know they're gonna say what they say and that's just what it is kind of like JD Vance

678
00:53:14.350 --> 00:53:17.010
 He's pretty good at representing himself on the camera to be quite honest

679
00:53:17.010 --> 00:53:23.910
 Someone like that right or even a Tom Homan if we're talking about people that are involved in any kind of like law enforcement

680
00:53:24.830 --> 00:53:26.630
 Judiciary whatever Tom Homan

681
00:53:27.710 --> 00:53:31.010
 Right the rock right there that guy forget about it. Good luck

682
00:53:31.690 --> 00:53:38.290
 So I guess Bondi wasn't living up to the expectations of how she represented herself to the public and how she acted under

683
00:53:38.290 --> 00:53:38.770
 questioning

684
00:53:39.950 --> 00:53:42.810
 There was also some comments that she made

685
00:53:43.530 --> 00:53:51.170
 So there was the stock market comments so during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in February 2026 when asked about Epstein's

686
00:53:52.310 --> 00:53:52.990
 accomplices

687
00:53:52.990 --> 00:53:57.730
 Bondi pivoted to discussing stock market gains now. This one was definitely a weird one

688
00:53:58.970 --> 00:54:03.370
 Watch that questioning not understanding how she could pivot from

689
00:54:04.050 --> 00:54:05.790
 answering about

690
00:54:05.790 --> 00:54:12.210
 Epstein's accomplices or his associates to hey, you know look great question, but the stock market's amazing

691
00:54:12.210 --> 00:54:17.730
 Why aren't we talking about the stock market? Look at everyone's making money or when K's are up. Why are we talking Epstein?

692
00:54:20.810 --> 00:54:24.710
 Okay, another point here. This will be our fifth point here the DOJ

693
00:54:24.710 --> 00:54:26.470
 upheaval and loss of integrity

694
00:54:26.470 --> 00:54:32.910
 While Bondi was an ultra loyalist who purged nearly 16,000 career employees to install Trump allies

695
00:54:32.910 --> 00:54:37.490
 The resulting chaos within the Justice Department may have contributed to her downfall

696
00:54:38.090 --> 00:54:40.290
 There was institutional damage

697
00:54:40.290 --> 00:54:45.490
 Former DOJ officials allege she took a sledgehammer to the department's workforce and

698
00:54:45.910 --> 00:54:52.610
 Independence leading to a massive exodus of experienced career lawyers. There was also contempt of court

699
00:54:53.330 --> 00:54:59.810
 Under her leadership government lawyers were repeatedly held in contempt by judges for defying court orders and

700
00:54:59.810 --> 00:55:01.690
 misrepresenting facts

701
00:55:01.690 --> 00:55:06.410
 causing the DOJ to lose its traditional presumption of

702
00:55:06.410 --> 00:55:08.890
 regularity with the courts

703
00:55:10.830 --> 00:55:11.310
 Now

704
00:55:12.330 --> 00:55:17.370
 I'm not sure how much I'm gonna stretch this particular section out about Pam Bondi because

705
00:55:19.390 --> 00:55:27.770
 this is the way I see it and for everybody who is a die-hard Trumpster, you may not agree with what I'm gonna say, but

706
00:55:29.670 --> 00:55:30.150
 Bondi

707
00:55:30.150 --> 00:55:31.290
 from what I saw

708
00:55:31.990 --> 00:55:35.290
 She looked like she was being very careful

709
00:55:35.290 --> 00:55:41.110
 And what I mean by that she was careful about what she said how she represented herself and I think for the most part

710
00:55:41.110 --> 00:55:47.070
 She was literally only ever doing whatever Donald Trump seemed to be asking of her

711
00:55:47.670 --> 00:55:53.030
 She didn't seem like she ever wanted to cross the line to offend him or put him on a spot or challenge

712
00:55:53.030 --> 00:55:55.430
 Whatever it is. He wanted done

713
00:55:55.430 --> 00:56:01.490
 Her job was to actually well just administer justice and do her job

714
00:56:01.490 --> 00:56:05.650
 but we can't argue that it didn't seem as if

715
00:56:07.190 --> 00:56:08.510
 Donald Trump

716
00:56:10.050 --> 00:56:17.010
 Well had her on a leash playing her like a marionette trolling and pulling the strings, right?

717
00:56:18.910 --> 00:56:25.470
 And so can I blame Bondi for her lack of performance how she was represented what she took on didn't take on what?

718
00:56:25.610 --> 00:56:31.410
 She pursued decided not to pursue now. I don't I think she was doing exactly what Trump wanted her to do

719
00:56:31.410 --> 00:56:34.270
 which was create distraction

720
00:56:36.650 --> 00:56:37.610
 To I

721
00:56:37.610 --> 00:56:40.510
 Look over here, you know the whole sleight-of-hand trick

722
00:56:40.510 --> 00:56:44.890
 It was interesting how we bounced in and out of the Epstein case so fluidly

723
00:56:45.730 --> 00:56:47.650
 especially when being pressed to

724
00:56:48.610 --> 00:56:54.110
 Other conflicts or areas of interest. I think she did the best she could I

725
00:56:54.110 --> 00:56:59.290
 Think Trump knew he had to get her out of the position because people were starting to see right through it

726
00:56:59.770 --> 00:57:05.130
 And I got to say that Bondi was nothing more than a direct reflection of Donald Trump himself

727
00:57:06.190 --> 00:57:06.650
 Meaning

728
00:57:07.690 --> 00:57:12.890
 She was basically being Trump. She was doing what Trump asked doing what Trump wanted

729
00:57:12.890 --> 00:57:19.010
 And I think this is a reflection on Trump more than it is on palm on D. So I think Pam Bondi

730
00:57:19.810 --> 00:57:24.790
 Deserves a lot more credit. I think Trump threw her to the wolves or maybe he has taken care of her

731
00:57:24.790 --> 00:57:28.710
 I don't know. Maybe he set her up very comfortably in a private position somehow with his influence

732
00:57:29.550 --> 00:57:33.410
 But either way it really looks to everyone else that he hung her out to drive

733
00:57:33.410 --> 00:57:37.870
 Something that he seems to have been doing a lot lately within his administration

734
00:57:39.230 --> 00:57:41.330
 Which is leading a lot of people to question

735
00:57:42.650 --> 00:57:45.190
 Where in the hell is Trump going with this train?

736
00:57:46.750 --> 00:57:51.890
 well, regardless, we're gonna see how everything plays out because Trump has a few more years here and

737
00:57:51.890 --> 00:57:56.690
 In the end, we're gonna see if everything that's going down is a good thing in 2028 for

738
00:57:57.710 --> 00:58:02.470
 The Republican Party is it gonna be good for JD Vance the de facto next in line

739
00:58:02.890 --> 00:58:08.250
 Will it be Marco Rubio who steps up? Will it be another dark horse within the Republican Party that comes out of nowhere?

740
00:58:08.410 --> 00:58:09.410
 I have no idea

741
00:58:09.910 --> 00:58:11.690
 Nobody does anybody who says they do

742
00:58:12.350 --> 00:58:15.710
 They're bullshitting you they don't know we don't know the way things are going

743
00:58:15.710 --> 00:58:21.810
 There is no way for us to tell where this Trump train is actually headed and how it's going to get out the other

744
00:58:21.810 --> 00:58:23.630
 end of the tunnel so

745
00:58:24.890 --> 00:58:26.770
 Hats off to Pam Bondi

746
00:58:27.230 --> 00:58:30.830
 We can argue whether or not she was the right pick from the outset, but she was definitely

747
00:58:30.830 --> 00:58:37.410
 Definitely the Trump cheerleader that Trump wanted and needed at the time and

748
00:58:37.410 --> 00:58:39.510
 I hope that she does well moving forward

749
00:58:40.390 --> 00:58:42.150
 Okay, so

750
00:58:42.150 --> 00:58:44.430
 Here we are

751
00:58:44.430 --> 00:58:52.630
 At the California high-speed rail project we're gonna discuss this we're gonna discuss the 18 year journey

752
00:58:52.630 --> 00:58:54.770
 the first proposal in

753
00:58:54.770 --> 00:58:56.910
 2008 the

754
00:58:56.910 --> 00:58:57.870
 2026

755
00:58:59.270 --> 00:59:05.850
 Where we have not seen a completion of anything there's a few concrete blocks pillars

756
00:59:05.850 --> 00:59:12.890
 They're finally laying track. This is a project that was promised to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco

757
00:59:12.890 --> 00:59:19.730
 the idea being that you can live anywhere and you can get on a train that may take you about two hours to get

758
00:59:19.730 --> 00:59:23.530
 All the way from one end to the other being it's a high-speed rail and

759
00:59:23.530 --> 00:59:30.930
 This opened the door to people who could take a job maybe anywhere you could live in San Francisco work in LA you could live in

760
00:59:31.510 --> 00:59:38.270
 the Central Valley, let's say Modesto Merced or Bakersfield and take a higher paying job in either LA or San Francisco not having to

761
00:59:38.270 --> 00:59:39.470
 sit and

762
00:59:39.470 --> 00:59:46.050
 for example commuting from Modesto to the Bay Area in California that would usually run you anywhere from 2 to

763
00:59:46.530 --> 00:59:52.350
 3 3 and a half hours commute in traffic that is in the morning and then when you get off work driving home

764
00:59:52.350 --> 00:59:58.290
 So easily spending about six to eight hours a day out of your life. Just driving back and forth to work

765
00:59:59.710 --> 01:00:00.270
 so

766
01:00:00.790 --> 01:00:04.670
 This was a good thing in 2008 the proposal made a lot of sense

767
01:00:06.150 --> 01:00:14.250
 But it's been a 93 billion dollar cost climb or gap. Well, how is that? Here's a little graphic I got

768
01:00:15.130 --> 01:00:20.370
 So as you can see here in 2008, the original proposal was 33 billion dollars

769
01:00:20.370 --> 01:00:24.670
 The estimate was 33 billion to pull this off. I

770
01:00:24.670 --> 01:00:27.250
 Voted on it the voters approved

771
01:00:27.250 --> 01:00:31.750
 Proposition 1a based on the initial statewide cost estimate

772
01:00:31.750 --> 01:00:33.810
 by 2020

773
01:00:33.810 --> 01:00:40.080
 That estimate or the cost rose to 80.3 billion and here we are

774
01:00:40.390 --> 01:00:46.250
 In 2026 and the reality at this point is the whole thing is now cost

775
01:00:46.930 --> 01:00:48.630
 the California taxpayers

776
01:00:50.430 --> 01:00:53.110
 126 point two billion

777
01:00:53.830 --> 01:00:58.850
 the current estimate for phase one now exceeds the original price tag of

778
01:01:00.350 --> 01:01:06.490
 282 percent of the 33 billion originally estimated

779
01:01:07.350 --> 01:01:09.130
 for the entire project

780
01:01:10.410 --> 01:01:13.810
 financial challenges and drivers so strategic or

781
01:01:13.810 --> 01:01:17.070
 Sorry a staggering 90 billion dollar funding gap

782
01:01:17.070 --> 01:01:18.270
 right

783
01:01:18.270 --> 01:01:22.230
 Federal support drops below 10% already expended

784
01:01:22.830 --> 01:01:32.030
 14.8 billion and the primary drivers are being reported as inflation and labor

785
01:01:32.030 --> 01:01:33.610
 now

786
01:01:33.610 --> 01:01:35.770
 the reality is

787
01:01:35.770 --> 01:01:39.130
 That's some of it inflation. Sure

788
01:01:39.710 --> 01:01:43.750
 Labor I can see that why union jobs

789
01:01:43.750 --> 01:01:48.650
 All these construction projects these major projects anyway, and by state mandate are

790
01:01:49.750 --> 01:01:53.250
 either driven by having to be a union shop or

791
01:01:54.270 --> 01:01:57.190
 union workers or have to be

792
01:01:57.190 --> 01:01:57.990
 standard

793
01:01:58.770 --> 01:02:05.790
 California wages for the areas in which they're working in so if it's to deem that electrician an

794
01:02:05.790 --> 01:02:10.370
 area to a zone, whatever let's just for example, that's how they do it

795
01:02:10.370 --> 01:02:13.250
 They zone it out all these areas

796
01:02:13.250 --> 01:02:17.570
 So they'll say like if you're if you're doing work in San Jose that falls under zone

797
01:02:17.570 --> 01:02:22.430
 One dot I'm just using that as an example falls under zone one B dash y Z

798
01:02:22.430 --> 01:02:26.250
 Whatever and if you're working this area then the prevailing wage is

799
01:02:26.250 --> 01:02:30.570
 $75 an hour so that means anybody whether they're union or not has to be paid

800
01:02:30.570 --> 01:02:33.010
 $75 an hour on the job site

801
01:02:34.150 --> 01:02:34.670
 so

802
01:02:34.670 --> 01:02:37.210
 When these state projects happen, that's how this usually goes

803
01:02:37.210 --> 01:02:41.770
 So I can see where the labor cost comes in but the question still remains

804
01:02:41.770 --> 01:02:48.990
 How do we get from 33 billion to delay after delay 18 years later to a cost of?

805
01:02:49.410 --> 01:02:54.830
 126 point two billion. Well, we're gonna go through that journey

806
01:02:56.450 --> 01:03:00.430
 I've got a summary here that I put together and

807
01:03:00.430 --> 01:03:02.390
 We're to go through it. This may be lengthy

808
01:03:02.390 --> 01:03:07.330
 It may not be but let's go ahead and start from the beginning. So here's the executive summary

809
01:03:07.330 --> 01:03:11.250
 California high speed rail project envisioned as a 21st century

810
01:03:11.850 --> 01:03:19.530
 Multimodal network connecting the state's major metropolitan hubs has transitioned from an ambitious statewide plan to a

811
01:03:19.530 --> 01:03:21.270
 focused regional implementation

812
01:03:21.270 --> 01:03:28.910
 Facing significant fiscal challenges originally authorized by voters via proposition 1a in 2008 with a

813
01:03:28.910 --> 01:03:30.530
 9.95

814
01:03:30.530 --> 01:03:36.990
 Billion dollar bond and an estimated 33 billion dollar total costs the projects

815
01:03:37.330 --> 01:03:43.650
 Project expenditures have escalated to approximately 126 billion as of this year of 2026

816
01:03:43.650 --> 01:03:48.430
 so the critical takeaways include strategic realignment well following a

817
01:03:48.430 --> 01:03:51.850
 2019 pivot the project currently prioritizes a

818
01:03:52.650 --> 01:03:56.370
 171 mile segment in the Central Valley

819
01:03:56.990 --> 01:04:03.250
 Connecting Bakersfield to Merced with the initial 800 miles San Francisco to Los Angeles vision facing a

820
01:04:03.250 --> 01:04:05.490
 $90 billion funding gap so

821
01:04:06.650 --> 01:04:08.090
 As of now

822
01:04:09.230 --> 01:04:10.870
 As of now

823
01:04:11.590 --> 01:04:15.630
 They're authorizing and only moving forward to complete the trek

824
01:04:15.630 --> 01:04:17.730
 Of laying the track

825
01:04:17.730 --> 01:04:21.750
 From Bakersfield to Merced where the fuck are the opportunities there?

826
01:04:22.010 --> 01:04:28.010
 Why would you have a high-speed rail connecting Bakersfield and Merced for those who don't know the Central Valley area?

827
01:04:29.470 --> 01:04:35.170
 Not a lot of high-paying jobs or opportunities between or even in the specific cities

828
01:04:35.490 --> 01:04:42.070
 Of Bakersfield and Merced. Let's just be honest. We're said does have the University which is highly praised

829
01:04:42.790 --> 01:04:48.890
 I do work there myself providing services. It's a great University all put together very pretty

830
01:04:48.890 --> 01:04:54.670
 They bought a lot of land. They have created a lot of jobs, but a lot of jobs within specific areas

831
01:04:56.470 --> 01:05:00.410
 Outside of that what else you got maybe medical I don't know Bakersfield

832
01:05:01.030 --> 01:05:05.450
 What do you have I don't know they have a university there as well or college

833
01:05:07.970 --> 01:05:11.710
 Yeah, not sure the opportunities in Bakersfield either I mean I'm sure they're there

834
01:05:11.710 --> 01:05:18.010
 But nothing that's gonna compel anybody to get on a train and go between or to and fro Bakersfield and Merced

835
01:05:18.010 --> 01:05:19.530
 I'm telling you that right now

836
01:05:19.530 --> 01:05:22.110
 So this right here is a big loss

837
01:05:22.110 --> 01:05:28.130
 This makes no sense what made sense was connecting all the way from Los Angeles to San Francisco, but for us to get there

838
01:05:28.130 --> 01:05:31.810
 We're missing 90 billion dollars to be able to complete that

839
01:05:32.650 --> 01:05:34.690
 hmm interesting, so

840
01:05:34.690 --> 01:05:41.090
 let's continue because how we get from 33 billion to a hundred and twenty six billion and and

841
01:05:41.090 --> 01:05:44.430
 18 whole years of

842
01:05:44.430 --> 01:05:46.310
 Nothing, but delays and excuses

843
01:05:47.470 --> 01:05:48.150
 well

844
01:05:48.150 --> 01:05:55.150
 The infrastructure progress let's discuss that by 2025 the project reached a track laying phase completing only 22 miles

845
01:05:55.150 --> 01:06:02.950
 By the way people 22 miles of civil structures in the southernmost stretch of the initial operating line the regional integration. Well

846
01:06:02.950 --> 01:06:05.990
 the Trans Bay Transit Center in San Francisco and

847
01:06:07.170 --> 01:06:07.810
 Doridian

848
01:06:07.810 --> 01:06:09.730
 stationed in San Jose

849
01:06:09.730 --> 01:06:13.850
 Remains central to the long-term vision intended to serve as primary

850
01:06:14.390 --> 01:06:21.650
 Multimodal hubs though current scaling has led to concerns regarding their immediate utility and of course

851
01:06:21.650 --> 01:06:25.550
 There's always some kind of politics leadership crisis, etc

852
01:06:25.550 --> 01:06:32.570
 So the analysis suggests the project's difficulties stem from a void of political leadership across multiple

853
01:06:32.570 --> 01:06:41.620
 Administrations rather than technical or purely financial limitations to be honest now that I'm reading that statement back

854
01:06:43.160 --> 01:06:49.200
 I'm gonna say sure we have a leadership crisis in California. It's Gavin Newsom himself

855
01:06:51.620 --> 01:06:55.040
 But if we can blame all of this on politics no

856
01:06:55.760 --> 01:06:59.240
 They dropped the ball in many places. There was the constant

857
01:07:00.140 --> 01:07:02.420
 consultant fees that were needed

858
01:07:02.420 --> 01:07:06.460
 the constant environmental hurdles like

859
01:07:06.460 --> 01:07:10.200
 Constant every time anything was done. There was an environmental hurdle

860
01:07:10.200 --> 01:07:15.120
 We're disturbing this one particular blade of grass that decided to pop up here after 25 years

861
01:07:15.120 --> 01:07:19.860
 We can't we can't mess that up. Oh this field mouse is now gonna have to run

862
01:07:21.100 --> 01:07:27.520
 Six more feet around which is a detriment to his natural habitat and his migration or

863
01:07:28.040 --> 01:07:28.560
 hunting

864
01:07:29.140 --> 01:07:36.160
 Standards or grazing, you know patterns, whatever. So we have to halt that we got to do into another 60 to 90-day study

865
01:07:36.160 --> 01:07:42.960
 Which can extend into another year etc, blah blah blah and this is very common in California really is but moving on

866
01:07:42.960 --> 01:07:50.580
 So legislative and strategic foundation so proposition 1a in 2008 approved by 52.6 percent of voters a

867
01:07:51.600 --> 01:07:57.920
 Safe reliable high-speed passenger train bond act establish the legal and financial framework the system

868
01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:06.860
 Mandates trains must sustain speeds of at least 200 miles per hour and connect San Francisco to Los Angeles in two hours

869
01:08:06.860 --> 01:08:10.060
 Like I said while two hours and 40 minutes it says here, but still

870
01:08:10.780 --> 01:08:14.560
 Significant two hours and 40 minutes to get from San Francisco to LA

871
01:08:14.560 --> 01:08:19.010
 I mean come on right and then the funding that was authorized it was nine point nine five

872
01:08:19.800 --> 01:08:21.700
 billion, okay in

873
01:08:21.700 --> 01:08:24.700
 bonds so nine billion for the main system and then another

874
01:08:24.700 --> 01:08:32.200
 950 million for connecting commuter rail systems the requirements at least 90% of the bond funds must be spent on

875
01:08:32.200 --> 01:08:35.689
 construction with 10% going to pre-construction and

876
01:08:35.689 --> 01:08:41.069
 Requires a dollar-for-dollar match from other public or private sources

877
01:08:41.890 --> 01:08:45.290
 San Francisco Silicon Valley corridor investment strategy in

878
01:08:45.490 --> 01:08:52.890
 2009 the Trans Bay Joint Powers Authority or the TJPA and partner agencies developed a two-phase

879
01:08:52.890 --> 01:09:00.109
 Strategy to prepare the Peninsula corridor for high-speed rail phase one focuses on projects ready for construction in

880
01:09:00.109 --> 01:09:04.529
 2016 including the electrification of the Caltrain corridor

881
01:09:04.529 --> 01:09:12.250
 The construction of the train box at the Trans Bay Transit Center or TTC. I'm sorry Trans Bay Transit Center

882
01:09:12.250 --> 01:09:18.729
 Let me take a sip of water. I'm trying my mouth out. Oh, man

883
01:09:18.729 --> 01:09:19.750
 All right moving on

884
01:09:20.590 --> 01:09:26.609
 okay, so construction of the train box at the Trans Bay Transit Center or the TTC and

885
01:09:26.609 --> 01:09:32.890
 Safety upgrades like grade separations and then there was the phase two which was the long-term infrastructure upgrades

886
01:09:32.890 --> 01:09:40.290
 Tunnels bridges additional tracks to accommodate mixed traffic capacity for both high-speed rail and Caltrain now

887
01:09:40.609 --> 01:09:43.470
 What I want to get to is the finances here

888
01:09:44.090 --> 01:09:51.069
 Okay, and I got a video that resurfaced of Gavin Newsom as lieutenant governor from 2014

889
01:09:52.010 --> 01:10:00.110
 basically saying that they bamboozled the public and everybody else because they knew that this wasn't financially feasible and

890
01:10:00.810 --> 01:10:07.390
 That it wasn't really a way to get this completed and that was back in 2014 when he actually fucking admitted it

891
01:10:07.390 --> 01:10:12.090
 I mean, there's a video of it him and yes, it's been verified. It's not AI like it's real

892
01:10:12.090 --> 01:10:18.510
 I'll play that here in a second. So let's go over the phase one project details and economic impacts with video to follow

893
01:10:18.510 --> 01:10:26.830
 The 2009 investment strategy identified 3.4 billion in near-term projects seeking 1.9 billion in federal

894
01:10:26.830 --> 01:10:33.310
 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act or also known as the ARR a or aura

895
01:10:33.310 --> 01:10:36.210
 funds to leverage local and state commitments

896
01:10:37.290 --> 01:10:40.950
 So start with the Trans Bay Transit Center or that train box, right?

897
01:10:42.390 --> 01:10:44.810
 2009 the cost was estimated at

898
01:10:44.810 --> 01:10:46.650
 1.59 billion

899
01:10:47.230 --> 01:10:49.210
 it was sold as creating

900
01:10:49.210 --> 01:10:52.750
 47 thousand four hundred jobs and

901
01:10:52.750 --> 01:11:00.250
 The status or objective would be constructing the underground level concurrently with above-ground terminal

902
01:11:01.850 --> 01:11:02.570
 Okay

903
01:11:02.570 --> 01:11:05.330
 Corridor electrification so that was going to cost

904
01:11:05.330 --> 01:11:12.850
 785 million of course going back to making sure you guys understand. These are 2009 estimates or estimated costs

905
01:11:14.310 --> 01:11:16.350
 That project there would have

906
01:11:17.050 --> 01:11:20.050
 Created estimated twenty three thousand five hundred fifty jobs

907
01:11:20.050 --> 01:11:26.810
 So that would replace diesel with electric locomotives reduces travel time by 13%

908
01:11:26.810 --> 01:11:27.670
 pretty significant

909
01:11:28.270 --> 01:11:32.790
 And then there was the San Bruno Great Separation here in California. So that would have cost

910
01:11:33.730 --> 01:11:40.090
 275 million again 2009 numbers here would have created an estimated eight thousand two hundred fifty jobs

911
01:11:40.090 --> 01:11:45.190
 And that was going to elevate the tracks at three crossings to improve safety and circulation

912
01:11:45.970 --> 01:11:53.530
 There was gonna be a positive train control or PTC which would have been estimated to cost 231 million

913
01:11:55.090 --> 01:12:02.070
 6930 jobs estimated federally mandated safety system to prevent collisions and over speeding

914
01:12:02.590 --> 01:12:07.050
 There was the SJ or San Jose the ridden station improvements

915
01:12:07.050 --> 01:12:11.950
 So there's a hundred and fifty million dollars in costs according to 2009 estimates forty five hundred dollars

916
01:12:11.950 --> 01:12:16.190
 I'm sorry forty five hundred jobs not dollars four thousand five hundred jobs

917
01:12:17.730 --> 01:12:24.310
 Created or estimated to be created there's design construct a new multimodal hub for the HSR Caltran

918
01:12:25.150 --> 01:12:28.710
 or Caltrain and Bart so I

919
01:12:28.710 --> 01:12:32.330
 Was basically to create a new hub for connecting all those together

920
01:12:32.330 --> 01:12:39.310
 Then there was the TTC platform extension two hundred five million six thousand one hundred fifty jobs estimated extend

921
01:12:39.310 --> 01:12:47.750
 Platforms to one thousand three hundred twelve feet to accommodate four hundred meter HSR trains and there was the fourth King Station, San Francisco

922
01:12:47.750 --> 01:12:51.210
 One hundred million dollar estimate in cost as of 2009

923
01:12:51.210 --> 01:12:58.290
 Three thousand jobs created upgrade existing facilities as an overflow station for a high capacity HSR demand. So

924
01:13:01.090 --> 01:13:01.650
 that

925
01:13:02.550 --> 01:13:09.170
 Was estimated cost for those particular projects in 2009 I want to address something though and I'm sorry

926
01:13:09.170 --> 01:13:14.090
 I know there's a lot like numbers. So if you're still with me, I congratulate you. That was pretty wordy

927
01:13:16.320 --> 01:13:18.620
 the estimated jobs things always bug me because

928
01:13:19.100 --> 01:13:26.880
 They say jobs created but are they creating jobs or these just gonna be filled by people who are already I mean

929
01:13:26.880 --> 01:13:30.400
 Let's just be honest always getting the contracts. Anyway, they already have the people

930
01:13:30.400 --> 01:13:33.480
 so are they creating new jobs for people in the area or

931
01:13:34.680 --> 01:13:35.720
 they just

932
01:13:35.720 --> 01:13:39.200
 Creating jobs for the companies who always seem to keep getting these projects anyway

933
01:13:39.200 --> 01:13:45.800
 And that's another topic of discussion that we can have later on but I don't think it was really creating any new jobs

934
01:13:46.420 --> 01:13:48.060
 for Californians themselves

935
01:13:48.740 --> 01:13:54.740
 Maybe those who already held those positions at those construction companies or for the construction companies who bring their people in from out-of-state

936
01:13:54.740 --> 01:14:02.260
 Which is also something that happens all this money all the numbers going on here that you're seeing on the screen

937
01:14:03.020 --> 01:14:05.380
 for those watching I

938
01:14:05.380 --> 01:14:06.520
 Want to go to a video?

939
01:14:07.220 --> 01:14:08.600
 I want to go to a video

940
01:14:10.240 --> 01:14:15.300
 Because we're gonna get to the fiscal realities the project I

941
01:14:15.300 --> 01:14:21.860
 Think we're gonna skip the technical and operational tech integration here. I'm gonna get the fiscal realities before we talk about that

942
01:14:21.860 --> 01:14:24.680
 Let's watch Gavin Newsom

943
01:14:24.680 --> 01:14:31.660
 Tell everybody what he thought of the project how they handled it how they sold to the public

944
01:14:32.740 --> 01:14:35.960
 admitted in this video in 2014

945
01:14:37.620 --> 01:14:38.140
 I

946
01:14:38.140 --> 01:14:45.500
 Was out there promoting a 33 billion dollar project I was out there promoting ridership that was 55% higher than current projected ridership

947
01:14:45.500 --> 01:14:51.280
 I was there promoting a third of the money coming from the private sector 25 to 33 percent from the federal government

948
01:14:51.280 --> 01:14:57.180
 I was out there promoting the fact that this would generate revenue and not cost taxpayers subsidy

949
01:14:57.180 --> 01:15:03.240
 Was that they're promoting it and none of those things now are taking shape. It's a 68 plus billion dollar project

950
01:15:03.240 --> 01:15:09.160
 They just announced two months ago went up another billion just for the this this new 130 mile

951
01:15:09.640 --> 01:15:14.660
 First phase started with 33 billion. It went to 96. We value engineered it

952
01:15:14.660 --> 01:15:21.680
 So it's no longer quote-unquote high speed rail. It's higher speed rail. We wildly overstayed the ridership projections

953
01:15:21.680 --> 01:15:28.160
 We manipulated some of the revenue projections. There's only one true high speed rail system in the world that generates real profit

954
01:15:28.160 --> 01:15:29.960
 I thought there were two

955
01:15:29.960 --> 01:15:37.700
 Pause in there. Yes, you heard that they manipulated the revenue projections

956
01:15:39.040 --> 01:15:43.900
 Meaning they knew that this thing wasn't gonna make any money and was gonna be a continuous drain on the taxpayers

957
01:15:43.900 --> 01:15:47.420
 You also heard him say that they had to value engineer the project

958
01:15:47.420 --> 01:15:52.860
 So now it's no longer a 200 mile per hour. Whatever high speed rail. It's gonna be a

959
01:15:52.860 --> 01:15:56.040
 higher speed rail so meaning

960
01:15:56.540 --> 01:16:02.220
 Even if it did go from LA to San Francisco, it's no longer to take two hours and 40 minutes. It may take

961
01:16:03.120 --> 01:16:09.850
 Four hours. I don't know. Let's continue the video and I remember when

962
01:16:10.890 --> 01:16:13.450
 President of France was here a few months ago

963
01:16:13.450 --> 01:16:18.310
 I complimented him on being one of the two and he laughed and his ministers laughed

964
01:16:18.310 --> 01:16:22.130
 I said, what do you mean? They said well don't believe what you read about us join

965
01:16:22.130 --> 01:16:29.470
 Grant generating profits are high speed rail. The only one is Osaka it generates and that's a different kind of concentration

966
01:16:29.470 --> 01:16:31.030
 urban concentration

967
01:16:31.030 --> 01:16:36.770
 So this is this is going to be a subsidy the bonds are you double the cost of the bonds is the actual cost

968
01:16:36.770 --> 01:16:40.530
 The taxpayers are repaying them. I mean, it's a burden politically speaking

969
01:16:40.530 --> 01:16:45.390
 Can it lead I was there with Schwarzenegger and Tony Blair on the screen. I'll never forget it

970
01:16:45.390 --> 01:16:50.610
 Governor Pataki from New York State all celebrating cabin trade not one person

971
01:16:50.610 --> 01:16:55.570
 Let me advance that was talking about money going to ice be or talking about energy efficiency programs

972
01:16:55.570 --> 01:16:57.570
 We were talking about retrofitting building

973
01:16:57.570 --> 01:16:58.150
 I was

974
01:16:58.150 --> 01:17:05.270
 Bulkly concerned with my legislative colleagues up there about taking the cap and trade money when you set out a five-year capital plan as

975
01:17:05.270 --> 01:17:06.110
 The governor did

976
01:17:06.110 --> 01:17:11.710
 burden actually read which showed fifty six point seven billion dollars of capital

977
01:17:12.710 --> 01:17:13.230
 expenditures

978
01:17:13.230 --> 01:17:16.810
 25.6 going just for the high speed rail

979
01:17:16.810 --> 01:17:23.210
 Getting close to half that money not for the deferred maintenance needs not for local transit projects up and down the state

980
01:17:23.210 --> 01:17:25.250
 for real jobs real

981
01:17:26.390 --> 01:17:29.210
 That are they're desperately needed analysis

982
01:17:29.730 --> 01:17:32.090
 would conclude that

983
01:17:32.090 --> 01:17:36.830
 There's no private sector money and there's no capacity for this to be built

984
01:17:37.930 --> 01:17:38.570
 but

985
01:17:38.570 --> 01:17:42.930
 That said if that were the process you would kill the project

986
01:17:42.930 --> 01:17:49.390
 Course as you break with the tribe there's consequences. I am doubt very much even the most

987
01:17:50.150 --> 01:17:57.170
 Optimistic assessments of the next decade the facts seem overwhelming that this project is not going to materialize in our lifetime

988
01:17:58.350 --> 01:18:01.530
 Okay, so you just heard him towards the end the video admit that

989
01:18:02.390 --> 01:18:08.390
 This wasn't really going to create any new jobs. There wasn't going to be any revenue going back into the state

990
01:18:08.390 --> 01:18:10.170
 This was going to be a burden on

991
01:18:10.170 --> 01:18:17.950
 The taxpayers it's all admitted they knew this even admitted that given the circumstances you would kill a project, right?

992
01:18:18.250 --> 01:18:19.890
 but even here in 2014

993
01:18:19.890 --> 01:18:23.970
 they continue to push it forward now he becomes governor later and

994
01:18:28.350 --> 01:18:33.010
 He's still going forward with the project so here's a current status

995
01:18:35.310 --> 01:18:37.210
 Of the fiscal realities between

996
01:18:37.210 --> 01:18:44.150
 2019 and 2026 so the video you just saw and heard of him talking about all this was 2014. Let's get down to

997
01:18:44.150 --> 01:18:52.480
 2019 here. Okay. So now, you know, we're very much under the watch and tutelage of Gavin Newsom and his administration

998
01:18:53.950 --> 01:18:59.230
 So the fiscal realities and project evolution between 2019 and 2026 the cost

999
01:18:59.230 --> 01:19:02.430
 Escalation and funding gaps the project has faced

1000
01:19:02.430 --> 01:19:07.630
 Severe criticism regarding bait-and-switch tactics due to soaring costs and shifting goals

1001
01:19:07.630 --> 01:19:12.750
 just as you heard in the video of Gavin stating so and

1002
01:19:14.290 --> 01:19:17.770
 2014 the cost growth

1003
01:19:17.770 --> 01:19:25.050
 Estimates rose from 33 billion in 2008, which we already discussed to 45 billion around 2006 and 2009

1004
01:19:25.050 --> 01:19:31.950
 Then to 80.3 in 2020 and then they reached a total of 126 billion as of this day

1005
01:19:32.390 --> 01:19:34.490
 Or the year of 2026

1006
01:19:34.490 --> 01:19:40.570
 So what were the funding shortfalls? Well as of 2026 the project faced 90 billion dollar funding gap

1007
01:19:40.570 --> 01:19:44.550
 So that's what they needed to connect from frisco to la or san francisco to los angeles

1008
01:19:45.770 --> 01:19:48.960
 It's not going to happen. They don't got it. They don't know where they're going to get it

1009
01:19:49.430 --> 01:19:52.820
 They can't squeeze it blood out of a stone. So to speak. It's not going to happen

1010
01:19:55.110 --> 01:19:57.770
 Federal friction so during the trump administration, of course

1011
01:19:57.770 --> 01:20:01.930
 They always blame trump for everything in california, even though newsom you've been in charge

1012
01:20:02.690 --> 01:20:06.510
 But anyway during the trump administration 929 million

1013
01:20:07.070 --> 01:20:14.610
 So nearly almost a billion dollars in federal grants were cancelled though. These were later restored by the biden harris administration in 2021

1014
01:20:16.330 --> 01:20:21.280
 Okay, but in 2019 there was a scaling decision this is where he said they

1015
01:20:22.270 --> 01:20:24.350
 basically move forward and

1016
01:20:25.150 --> 01:20:26.390
 like deciding

1017
01:20:27.490 --> 01:20:33.770
 Are we going to have to I can we afford should we connect la to frisco or just cut our losses and just finish this

1018
01:20:33.770 --> 01:20:35.670
 track here in the valley which

1019
01:20:35.670 --> 01:20:39.630
 From bakersfield to merced makes no sense. But hey, they can say they did it

1020
01:20:39.630 --> 01:20:46.330
 So the 2019 scaling decision in his 2019 state of address or state of the address

1021
01:20:46.330 --> 01:20:49.380
 Sorry for california governor gavin newsom announced a

1022
01:20:50.310 --> 01:20:54.450
 Truncation of the immediate project scope. So the focus area

1023
01:20:54.450 --> 01:21:01.650
 Priority shifted to completing a 171 mile link between merced and bakersfield in the central valley

1024
01:21:01.650 --> 01:21:04.690
 Which again is a waste of money like this isn't needed

1025
01:21:06.550 --> 01:21:11.650
 Postponements so expensive for that segments such as tunnels under the pacheco pass

1026
01:21:11.650 --> 01:21:15.750
 Well, that's going to be that's going to be some work if you guys don't know and you're not

1027
01:21:16.030 --> 01:21:19.810
 In california that pacheco pass stretch is very mountainous. You have a

1028
01:21:20.310 --> 01:21:24.070
 Major reservoir the san lewis reservoir right over there off to the side

1029
01:21:24.450 --> 01:21:30.430
 Huge body of water. This would have been an um, yeah, this would have been interesting right here. So

1030
01:21:30.430 --> 01:21:35.670
 Tunnels are in a particular pass and the tahachapi mountains were indefinitely delayed. Well, yeah, I can see why I mean

1031
01:21:36.290 --> 01:21:38.270
 Did we not think how much that would cost?

1032
01:21:38.810 --> 01:21:42.290
 And there was a critique of orphaned infrastructure

1033
01:21:42.910 --> 01:21:47.830
 So critics argue this scaling leaves the 2.2 billion dollar

1034
01:21:47.830 --> 01:21:49.830
 Transbay transit center and the

1035
01:21:49.830 --> 01:21:54.230
 $288 million anaheim regional intermodal transportation center

1036
01:21:54.870 --> 01:22:01.050
 Has overbuilt bus stations really nothing more but bus stations without their intended rail connections

1037
01:22:01.770 --> 01:22:03.450
 Valid criticism, right?

1038
01:22:04.110 --> 01:22:05.790
 And so here's the current status

1039
01:22:06.830 --> 01:22:11.930
 Current status 25 through 26 here the years of 2025 2026

1040
01:22:11.930 --> 01:22:18.890
 So by early 2025 state officials marked the transition into a track laying phase. Wow after 18 years. We're in a track laying phase

1041
01:22:19.530 --> 01:22:23.790
 After 18 years since 2008 to 2026 or 2025

1042
01:22:24.670 --> 01:22:26.590
 They're now going to start laying track

1043
01:22:26.970 --> 01:22:29.870
 Which I still haven't seen the construction package

1044
01:22:31.090 --> 01:22:37.810
 A 22 mile stretch south of kern talari county is substantially complete. Okay

1045
01:22:38.290 --> 01:22:40.910
 I don't recall that but maybe

1046
01:22:40.910 --> 01:22:44.830
 Including 11 structures viaducts and overpasses. Okay

1047
01:22:44.830 --> 01:22:50.130
 So the rail head development ground was broken on a rail head near baker's field

1048
01:22:50.130 --> 01:22:55.370
 To receive materials and stage upcoming track construction. Yay

1049
01:22:55.370 --> 01:23:03.130
 Jobs again here they go with the jobs created over 14,500 jobs have been created since the project's inception

1050
01:23:03.130 --> 01:23:08.250
 With 3200 attributed to cp4 alone, which is the construction package

1051
01:23:09.510 --> 01:23:13.710
 Which goes to construction companies who already have the employees who keep getting these

1052
01:23:13.710 --> 01:23:17.590
 Big state and federal projects anyway, so yeah, you didn't create any new jobs

1053
01:23:18.190 --> 01:23:24.830
 And then uh the regional connectivity current strategy aims to integrate the california high-speed rail authorities work with other projects

1054
01:23:25.770 --> 01:23:29.650
 Partnerships coordinate with brightline west las vegas to south

1055
01:23:30.270 --> 01:23:35.290
 Southern california. Okay, that's interesting and the high desert corridor to create an

1056
01:23:35.850 --> 01:23:40.170
 Interoperable southwest regional network. So it seems like this is going from high speed

1057
01:23:41.010 --> 01:23:42.370
 rail to

1058
01:23:43.210 --> 01:23:46.340
 A vast train system that can interconnect with other

1059
01:23:49.850 --> 01:23:50.390
 Trains

1060
01:23:50.390 --> 01:23:55.530
 Maybe i'm not understanding but it seems like it's no longer going to be necessarily a high speed rail

1061
01:23:55.530 --> 01:23:57.330
 Maybe it will be I don't know

1062
01:23:57.330 --> 01:24:02.310
 Uh, so here's the timeline passenger service for the initial operation for operating segments

1063
01:24:02.310 --> 01:24:06.510
 It's currently projected to begin between 2030 and 2033. What the fuck, man

1064
01:24:06.510 --> 01:24:08.750
 This thing was initiated in 2008

1065
01:24:08.750 --> 01:24:12.290
 We're not going to even see the stretch from bakersfield to merced till 2033

1066
01:24:16.570 --> 01:24:17.130
 Look

1067
01:24:20.860 --> 01:24:21.840
 this whole thing

1068
01:24:22.540 --> 01:24:28.320
 This whole thing just just stop we don't need this just cut your losses. Just admit this isn't working

1069
01:24:28.320 --> 01:24:34.780
 It's costing money. It's not really creating jobs to be quite honest if we're being honest with ourselves. It's not just not it's not

1070
01:24:35.320 --> 01:24:36.920
 and you think that

1071
01:24:36.920 --> 01:24:43.940
 A completing track between bakersfield and merced is a fucking win. No, it's a fucking loss dude. It's a miserable stretch

1072
01:24:43.940 --> 01:24:50.020
 There's nothing there worth the shit what stop in fresno. Ooh, okay bakersfield gay

1073
01:24:51.280 --> 01:24:55.260
 What else merced tillari hanford what what?

1074
01:24:56.580 --> 01:24:59.000
 Oh, yeah, those are the fucking lands of opportunity, right?

1075
01:25:00.970 --> 01:25:06.170
 No, no the valley is where you you pass through to get to the destinations like alts angeles

1076
01:25:08.010 --> 01:25:10.190
 Anaheim, you know all the cities going into la

1077
01:25:10.190 --> 01:25:16.210
 And then once you get past the valley and then you get into the bay area where the other opportunities are going into frisco

1078
01:25:16.210 --> 01:25:17.630
 Yeah, that's like

1079
01:25:18.730 --> 01:25:21.210
 Central valley is a stopgap man

1080
01:25:21.210 --> 01:25:23.230
 Yeah, it's not the destination

1081
01:25:24.250 --> 01:25:27.450
 It's where people are getting on the train to go to and fro they're not

1082
01:25:29.410 --> 01:25:32.670
 They're not they're not coming here for the opportunities man

1083
01:25:33.290 --> 01:25:38.050
 So this whole thing is a loss and yeah, it didn't start with newsome but newsome you've been in charge

1084
01:25:38.050 --> 01:25:42.710
 You've been in charge this whole time your administration has been in charge and 60 minutes didn't expose on this. They like

1085
01:25:43.710 --> 01:25:47.030
 His own administration admitting to fuck-ups

1086
01:25:47.650 --> 01:25:49.710
 They even talk about

1087
01:25:50.370 --> 01:25:53.590
 The environmental hurdles in fact, let's just go there

1088
01:25:54.130 --> 01:25:57.670
 So here's some of the environmental hurdles. Okay

1089
01:25:57.670 --> 01:26:04.350
 One extensive regulatory and permitting requirements. Okay, there's two protection of threatened and endangered species

1090
01:26:04.350 --> 01:26:07.690
 There's three habitat and rescue impacts

1091
01:26:08.050 --> 01:26:11.600
 Four community and aesthetic hurdles. Yes, even aesthetic girls

1092
01:26:12.290 --> 01:26:14.530
 And five legal hurdles and litigations

1093
01:26:15.830 --> 01:26:16.450
 um

1094
01:26:16.450 --> 01:26:23.490
 The thing about that is you know, you have everything from environmental to literal farmers the farmland fighting the project

1095
01:26:23.490 --> 01:26:26.220
 Which is very interesting because usually in a in a california

1096
01:26:27.290 --> 01:26:32.610
 Highway project for example, if they deem it's a benefit to the community they will literally

1097
01:26:33.310 --> 01:26:36.930
 Tell the owners of the land like hey we're taking this now they'll negotiate with them

1098
01:26:36.930 --> 01:26:39.930
 They won't just try to take it and impose imminent domain

1099
01:26:39.930 --> 01:26:45.010
 They will negotiate they'll give them, you know fair market value in some cases from what I know and heard

1100
01:26:45.510 --> 01:26:47.110
 Some of these guys make up very well

1101
01:26:47.110 --> 01:26:51.830
 They get higher than market value depending on how important the project is or how long they want to drag it out

1102
01:26:51.830 --> 01:26:57.070
 But when pushcups of california just could take the damn land and whether you agree or not

1103
01:26:57.070 --> 01:27:01.110
 So take the money run let it happen when it came to this high-speed real

1104
01:27:01.110 --> 01:27:03.430
 Project though for some reason

1105
01:27:04.070 --> 01:27:06.010
 That's not happening necessarily

1106
01:27:06.890 --> 01:27:09.110
 So that's been very interesting

1107
01:27:10.090 --> 01:27:10.730
 um

1108
01:27:10.730 --> 01:27:13.170
 and then there's the uh

1109
01:27:13.170 --> 01:27:15.970
 the expenditures of the money in terms of like

1110
01:27:16.490 --> 01:27:17.130
 consultancies

1111
01:27:18.390 --> 01:27:25.370
 So if we're looking at this report here as december 2025 the california high-speed rail authority has spent a total of one. Um, i'm sorry

1112
01:27:26.510 --> 01:27:30.290
 14.8 to 3 billion on the project

1113
01:27:30.290 --> 01:27:36.790
 Because the authority has historically operated with a very small internet staff. Oh, i'm sorry internal staff man

1114
01:27:36.790 --> 01:27:37.970
 I am fumbling like crazy

1115
01:27:37.970 --> 01:27:43.030
 Let me uh start that over. All right, so as of december 2025

1116
01:27:43.830 --> 01:27:46.810
 California high-speed rail authority has spent a total of

1117
01:27:46.810 --> 01:27:53.610
 14.8 to 3 billion on the project because the authority has historically operated with a very small internal strap

1118
01:27:54.830 --> 01:27:55.590
 Staff

1119
01:27:55.590 --> 01:28:01.930
 Staff it has relied on private contractors and consultants for the bulk of the project work meaning

1120
01:28:01.930 --> 01:28:07.930
 A significant portion of these expenditures consist of consulting and contract service fees

1121
01:28:07.930 --> 01:28:14.570
 While the sources do not provide a single updated consulting fee, which is very very very suspect

1122
01:28:14.570 --> 01:28:18.530
 Like they never they never itemize and really go

1123
01:28:18.530 --> 01:28:22.510
 Here's how much went to this consultant. Here's who went to this one

1124
01:28:22.510 --> 01:28:24.790
 It's just kind of like here's the total number

1125
01:28:25.450 --> 01:28:31.130
 So anyway, uh, there's no light item for the entire 14.8 billion

1126
01:28:32.440 --> 01:28:34.260
 14 8

1127
01:28:34.260 --> 01:28:36.560
 14.8 billion spent

1128
01:28:38.320 --> 01:28:40.320
 on mostly consulting fees

1129
01:28:40.860 --> 01:28:42.880
 And there's no light line item breakdown

1130
01:28:43.480 --> 01:28:45.240
 To who where it went to?

1131
01:28:45.920 --> 01:28:47.280
 and and this is why

1132
01:28:47.280 --> 01:28:54.160
 Many californians feel like this has been nothing but a giant money laundering operation like people are just getting their pockets filled

1133
01:28:54.160 --> 01:28:57.100
 Like hey, you know i'm greasing my buddy's pockets

1134
01:28:57.100 --> 01:29:00.740
 He's gonna give me this kickback like you can't trace anything because it's not itemized

1135
01:29:00.740 --> 01:29:04.380
 You just know the total number going in and out and you're just saying hey this went to consultants

1136
01:29:05.400 --> 01:29:05.880
 Okay

1137
01:29:08.000 --> 01:29:09.700
 and so

1138
01:29:10.500 --> 01:29:11.460
 There's also

1139
01:29:11.460 --> 01:29:12.820
 as I just said

1140
01:29:14.970 --> 01:29:19.330
 The allegations of the mishandling of money by the trump administration. Sorry the trump

1141
01:29:20.250 --> 01:29:25.610
 By kevin newsom's administration. I do not know why I said trump was that a slip

1142
01:29:27.650 --> 01:29:33.470
 But anyway, there's been the mishandling of money the allegations of the mishandling of money by gavin's administration

1143
01:29:33.470 --> 01:29:39.230
 So newsom himself in charge his administration and look anybody living in california can see

1144
01:29:39.690 --> 01:29:40.550
 has seen

1145
01:29:41.230 --> 01:29:46.190
 That things don't always add up. I mean if we're talking about karen bass mayor of los angeles

1146
01:29:46.190 --> 01:29:49.850
 She was in hot water for many things. She has ties to gavin. She has ties to miss

1147
01:29:49.850 --> 01:29:53.590
 I mean, they're all like patting each other on the back and helping each other out

1148
01:29:53.590 --> 01:29:57.630
 And you know we have the the great water debacle here

1149
01:29:57.630 --> 01:30:01.050
 That gavin knew some claims like well, it didn't start under me

1150
01:30:01.050 --> 01:30:03.150
 But well, you've been in charge for quite some time man

1151
01:30:03.570 --> 01:30:07.590
 You knew everything evolved with the whole delta smelt debacle. I don't want to bring that up again

1152
01:30:07.590 --> 01:30:12.930
 but listen a lot of what's happened with the transfer of water to get down to

1153
01:30:12.930 --> 01:30:17.410
 Southern california areas without water have been held out or held up by this

1154
01:30:17.850 --> 01:30:23.290
 Another environmental thing here that the the fish the smelt the delta smelt very important

1155
01:30:23.590 --> 01:30:24.730
 held up for years

1156
01:30:24.730 --> 01:30:30.770
 And so there's a lot of things like this in california that waste taxpayer money

1157
01:30:31.490 --> 01:30:38.590
 That when you go to audit these things you can't because they're not itemized. They're just kind of lumped up into one giant expense

1158
01:30:39.110 --> 01:30:40.510
 Kind of like the homeless

1159
01:30:41.810 --> 01:30:46.390
 Debacle the homeless program debacle right all that money 20. I think it was 24 billion

1160
01:30:47.830 --> 01:30:52.890
 Yeah, 24 billion or so that nobody can account for nobody knows where it went what happened to it

1161
01:30:54.270 --> 01:30:56.430
 I mean, we got some tiny homes

1162
01:30:56.430 --> 01:30:59.450
 sitting in frisco that never were deployed

1163
01:30:59.450 --> 01:31:01.710
 uh some in la I think

1164
01:31:02.390 --> 01:31:04.750
 But like where's the fucking money gavin?

1165
01:31:05.350 --> 01:31:07.250
 Like you are responsible

1166
01:31:07.250 --> 01:31:11.890
 and when it comes to high-speed rail trying to blame everything on politics

1167
01:31:13.940 --> 01:31:15.760
 and the fact that

1168
01:31:15.760 --> 01:31:21.460
 Oh, well fiscal funding kind of got pulled. No, no, no, no this whole thing this whole thing was mismatched in the beginning

1169
01:31:22.100 --> 01:31:25.220
 You sold the people a bill of goods, okay

1170
01:31:25.220 --> 01:31:30.220
 Now I I understand this started before you were even lieutenant governor. This was in 2008

1171
01:31:30.220 --> 01:31:33.860
 You were mayor of san francisco. It was funny is back in 2008

1172
01:31:34.400 --> 01:31:40.600
 Gavin even was he was opposed. He was opposed this but when he became lieutenant governor, he was very much for it

1173
01:31:41.180 --> 01:31:43.500
 But you sold everybody a bill of goods

1174
01:31:43.500 --> 01:31:48.380
 You literally in the video from 2014. We got you

1175
01:31:48.380 --> 01:31:48.920
 saying

1176
01:31:49.480 --> 01:31:56.400
 You manipulated the numbers you lied to the public you guys estimated 33 billion

1177
01:31:57.620 --> 01:32:02.800
 And you all knew it wasn't possible you all knew it wasn't profitable. You knew it was gonna be a taxpayer burden

1178
01:32:03.420 --> 01:32:08.320
 You knew that it was gonna take a long time to complete in fact, it's been 18 years

1179
01:32:10.350 --> 01:32:12.850
 So at what point does california?

1180
01:32:12.990 --> 01:32:14.570
 Get a break man

1181
01:32:14.570 --> 01:32:16.490
 Like when do we get a break?

1182
01:32:17.130 --> 01:32:22.830
 Do we get that money back can we hold the state responsible is there any accountability whatsoever? Well, that's a big fuck

1183
01:32:22.830 --> 01:32:24.950
 No, you know what we get

1184
01:32:25.690 --> 01:32:30.550
 We get wages for jobs being stagnant. We get higher cost of living

1185
01:32:30.550 --> 01:32:35.950
 We get housing so outrageous that the average working person a blue collar person

1186
01:32:35.950 --> 01:32:38.730
 Can't afford to buy their own home anymore

1187
01:32:39.470 --> 01:32:46.010
 We got large companies coming in and buying up real estate so they could just rent it to everybody and they're renting it at

1188
01:32:46.010 --> 01:32:50.650
 Whatever market value they perceive to be, you know good for their pockets

1189
01:32:51.390 --> 01:32:53.810
 I mean california is

1190
01:32:53.810 --> 01:32:58.890
 It's hard man. It's hard to live out here. I mean, I know that new york is also extremely expensive

1191
01:32:58.890 --> 01:33:01.630
 So, you know, it's not just us in california, but

1192
01:33:02.170 --> 01:33:04.810
 The state's been mismanaged mishandled

1193
01:33:04.810 --> 01:33:10.550
 There's been billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars pilfered from the taxpayers

1194
01:33:10.550 --> 01:33:18.570
 That have gone to projects that never seem to come to fruition from the homeless issue to the high-speed rail

1195
01:33:20.530 --> 01:33:25.330
 Like we have no recourse. We just take it in the proverbial ass

1196
01:33:27.410 --> 01:33:35.310
 Because there's nothing else we can do and if jobs run out and you can't find one, for example

1197
01:33:35.310 --> 01:33:40.870
 You're told you're lazy and not applying yourself. You're told that well, maybe you should have got that degree

1198
01:33:41.650 --> 01:33:44.390
 Well, how about you make cost of living fucking reasonable

1199
01:33:44.390 --> 01:33:48.090
 How about you stop taking so much money from everybody at the fucking pump?

1200
01:33:48.650 --> 01:33:50.130
 That's another issue, right?

1201
01:33:50.510 --> 01:33:58.470
 Everybody doesn't realize that california gas is so expensive because of all the fees the environmental fees taxes, etc that california fucking

1202
01:33:59.370 --> 01:34:01.310
 tax onto it

1203
01:34:01.310 --> 01:34:04.710
 The other day I went to go fill up 650 a gallon for regular

1204
01:34:04.710 --> 01:34:11.810
 I mean, why is it costing me about 85 dollars or 90 dollars to fill up my transit connect fan that I use to drive back

1205
01:34:11.810 --> 01:34:15.910
 And forth with my tools and shit like seriously not the big one not the big transit fan

1206
01:34:15.910 --> 01:34:19.110
 You know, it's a work van, but it's the smaller one. You know, you guys seen him see them around

1207
01:34:20.270 --> 01:34:21.070
 85 dollars

1208
01:34:21.610 --> 01:34:27.330
 For that fucking thing really it's only getting worse diesel is out of control

1209
01:34:28.650 --> 01:34:34.130
 And oh I know they're gonna attribute the gas thing to the iranian conflict, but I mean, let's just be honest

1210
01:34:34.690 --> 01:34:37.850
 We've already had some of the highest gas prices

1211
01:34:38.450 --> 01:34:39.770
 in the entire nation

1212
01:34:40.510 --> 01:34:44.590
 So, I mean not really much as a much of a surprise there

1213
01:34:44.590 --> 01:34:48.490
 I mean we're used to getting fucked over when it comes to gas especially when summer comes around because

1214
01:34:48.490 --> 01:34:54.770
 Oh, wait, everyone's traveling. Let's raise it up because it's more in demand and california themselves does that

1215
01:34:55.790 --> 01:34:57.870
 Not not the oil markets

1216
01:34:58.790 --> 01:35:00.850
 No california does that

1217
01:35:02.260 --> 01:35:03.020
 so

1218
01:35:03.840 --> 01:35:05.860
 Back to the high-speed rail

1219
01:35:05.860 --> 01:35:08.080
 Cut your losses, man

1220
01:35:08.080 --> 01:35:14.240
 Get out of this bullshit gap and we deserve better like it's not even worth finishing fucking bakers filtramer said

1221
01:35:14.820 --> 01:35:19.980
 Like it's not going to make a fucking difference. There's no opportunities between those two cities

1222
01:35:19.980 --> 01:35:24.560
 And that stretch of land not really nothing that's going to make anyone get on a train and fucking

1223
01:35:24.560 --> 01:35:28.520
 You know say oh look I can take this job in fresno now. Look at the opportunity there like

1224
01:35:28.520 --> 01:35:35.240
 And I could really find too much more in fresno versus modesto to be quite honest and if you're in modesto

1225
01:35:36.580 --> 01:35:42.080
 I mean you might as well just drive a little further up and get the next job. I mean, I I don't know

1226
01:35:42.080 --> 01:35:44.280
 All I know is gavin newsom

1227
01:35:45.750 --> 01:35:50.090
 You fucked up. You've been fucking the state of california for years

1228
01:35:50.090 --> 01:35:55.270
 We all can't wait for you to move on and you and your administration have no answer for anything

1229
01:35:55.270 --> 01:35:58.330
 And it seems that the public can't hold you accountable

1230
01:35:59.330 --> 01:36:05.930
 And what's sad is we all know you're going to be running for president and probably more than likely will be the democrat nominee

1231
01:36:07.130 --> 01:36:08.890
 democratic nominee anyway

1232
01:36:08.890 --> 01:36:17.030
 Which is even worse and I hope that americans don't get fooled into putting your ass in office because damn

1233
01:36:17.990 --> 01:36:23.610
 You think it's crazy under trump this motherfucker is going to literally financially destroy the country

1234
01:36:24.530 --> 01:36:27.010
 Just look at california

1235
01:36:27.010 --> 01:36:33.830
 Gavin cares about nothing but himself period and gavin. It's high speed real thing

1236
01:36:34.810 --> 01:36:39.110
 Can't blame anybody else man. It's been too long. This is all you period

1237
01:36:40.010 --> 01:36:44.070
 All right, with that being said i'm going to end this particular show

1238
01:36:44.850 --> 01:36:46.410
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1239
01:36:46.410 --> 01:36:47.830
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1240
01:36:47.830 --> 01:36:52.850
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1241
01:36:52.850 --> 01:36:56.210
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1242
01:36:56.210 --> 01:37:02.170
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1243
01:37:02.950 --> 01:37:04.810
 And as always

1244
01:37:04.810 --> 01:37:07.030
 Have a great day and listen

1245
01:37:07.030 --> 01:37:12.830
 Always go beyond the headlines. All right, stop living on the surface of your information go

1246
01:37:12.830 --> 01:37:13.870
 beyond

1247
01:37:13.870 --> 01:37:14.930
 the headlines

1248
01:37:15.570 --> 01:37:21.890
 Devils hide behind redemption. Honesty is a one-way gate to hell

1249
01:37:26.430 --> 01:37:27.410
 Shh