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Well, we're going to be blockading. It'll take a little while, but it'll be effective pretty soon. And we had meetings yesterday. They, as you said, lasted twenty one Hours. That was a long meeting.
We had some very, very good representatives, as you know, JD and Steve and Jarrett.
So we were well represented, but We didn't get there on the important issue. They want to have nuclear weapons. They're not going to have nuclear weapons. I've been saying that for 30 years. I would never allow that to happen before I was able to do that.
And that country will not have nuclear weapons. Most countries shouldn't be allowed to have, but that country will not have nuclear weapons. I want to take everybody back to the first time that they had. discussions with Iran. If you remember.
They The Iranian regime, or you know, whoever it was that was Essentially, representing them at the time because we've, how many of them we killed? The last one's he's the one-legged. mostly dead KDU there. Anyway, uh The point is It just gets confusing after a while. They said you can't we're not going to give you anything diplomatically.
that you couldn't take militarily.
Now we could take it militarily. We could. I mean, we're showing right now with the power and the straight that we absolutely could. We were just being nice. And they didn't want to take That offer.
They didn't want to take the offer. We're being nice, and they weren't having it. That's a bum deal for them, man. That's a bad choice. Because now the United States decided to take their leverage away.
by way of the Strait of Ormoz. And I'm sure that you have at this point. I'm sure that you all have seen The tankers and all of the stuff that's going towards the United States? Have you seen? the traffic in the Gulf of America.
I know you saw that, Kane. It's wild. There are so many people.
so many companies that are sending their tankers to come get our American. Oil. Yeah. We've had The capacity. I mean, we've discussed this before.
I don't need to go over it again, but we have had the capacity. To do this, to produce this much. Can I add to? What would it have looked like? Had we not had this president in office, to get our capacity.
up to this point. I mean, granted, we need more refineries, but Can you imagine what that would what off-ramp would these would these other countries have if they couldn't come over? to the United States to get what they needed, Where would they have gone? Maybe Russia? I mean, China gets so much of what they do there.
I mean, they get so much of it there. But where would they have gone? Venezuela maybe?
Well, now we control Venezuela.
So now everyone is starting to see the plan. Come into place. Do you see now? Why Marco Rubio went to Panama, like right Right at the beginning of Trump's term. Everybody sees it now.
Does everybody see now when Trump was talking about needing Greenland? Going into Greenland, do people see this now? I'm just curious because there have been a lot of people.
Some on the right, panicking and wringing their hands. Let the guy do what he does. This is what he's good at.
So I I want going to show you some of the stuff on the simulcast. the the images and these are like You can track this stuff live. I mean, they have these These um I don't know what you would call it, like the maritime trackers. Where they can track it live and you can see all of The traffic. That's there.
And I mean it's just pretty. Just saying it feels like Trump was right. Yeah. Doesn't it seem like Trump was right? Welcome to the program.
It's Monday, top of the morning, afternoon, really. Depending on where you are in the United States, Dan Alasha with you. This is the big thing everybody's been watching because now. There's been they have the blockade in place because Trump has said, all right, we're going to take away your leverage. And we are going to, we're going to close the damn straight.
Now, here's the other thing to note about this.
So now that You can see that he was trying to buy time. We were trying to buy some time. Why were we trying to buy time?
Well It gets into the situ the it gets into the Saudis. Because the Saudis now have that east-west pipeline open.
So We can bypass the Strait of Hormuz, essentially the way it is now. By bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, the only The l they they basically reroute everything and Bypass the necessity of the strait. And reduce it. Its importance as a choke point down to pretty much nothing. Do you know?
that with everything going. Through the east-west pipeline. The Saudis apparently, this is what's funny: the Saudis have been saying for years that. Oh, it's going to take a long time to get that moving. Oh, no, we're not going to.
I think they were lying about it. And I can see why they, it's like a defensive. Response. They don't want you to know everything that they're doing, just like we don't want people to know everything that we're doing. I get it.
But now apparently with everything getting rerouted through that east-west petrol line.
Now, the only leftover that goes through the strait is: get this three tankers.
Okay. That's how much it's been reduced.
So it was like the Saudis were going, all right, wait, right, keep going, keep going. And Trump's just out there talking. And the Saudis are going, keep going, okay, we're ready. And now they got the pipeline open. It's the remaining amount is three tankers a day.
So, they don't even need to do that anymore. I mean, we could make this a post-straight world if we wanted to. We absolutely could. And that's what's amazing with all of this.
So there's this is actual. I said this, I said this on social media. I guess it was yesterday, day before. I said, this is actual. Like uh for D chess.
This is it. This is real actual You know, not even 3D, 4D chess. Because this was a brilliant strategy. This was an absolute brilliant strategy. But it does look like they were kind of, we were buying time.
We know Iran was. Do you know that there was a plan to airdrop? Not munitions, but supplies for enrichment into. Iran by China. We're going to talk about that later on with Steve Yates.
There was an absolute effort to do that, and I think Trump saw that was on the horizon as well. But this has been a pretty brilliant strategy. Because now he's saying, all right, you want to close the strait? Let's close the damn straight. We're going to close the straight then.
You wanted it closed? We got it closed. We're going through, we removed the mines, we've got naval security, now we're control, it's our straight now.
Now we're controlling it. And it is, what are they going to do? There's nothing they can do. They don't have a Navy. They don't have an Air Force.
Their military is just basically a bunch of the island of misfit toys, but this time it's terror militias. That's it. That's all they have. They have nothing else. And This You know, like I said, the timing is what's so important about all of this.
We Could not have come out with this then because we had to prove. That they did not have the capability. We had to prove it. And everything needed to be in place so that the timing was right. And that's where we are.
Also, Iran made a lot of mistakes here. A lot of mistakes. We're going to talk about some of this: the mistakes that Iran made and what to expect, because now. I mean, you've got the East-West pipeline that's doing a great job of bypassing the necessity for using the Strait of Hormuz. And then with the Strait of Hormuz, we're controlling it.
I think that the United States should be charging every damn European tanker a toll to go through the strait we secured. And it should be double or triple for China or Iran. Any bad actor that sought to increase tensions in the region, they should be fined triple or quadruple, because this is our straight now. This is a unipolar world. We're going to talk more about that.
Eric Swalwell. Why do Democrats never learn their lesson? Bill Clinton, Anthony Weiner, Al Gore, they never learned their lesson. ever. I hate the autoplay feature on X.
With the burning passion of a thousand sons. Do you know why I hate that, Kane? Because I saw this flabby, flaccid. Like bad skin dude who looks like the physical manifestation of Athlete's foot. like tried to manhandle a hooker.
It is so gross. What is with this Hunter Biden vibe that, I mean, you know how we joke about John Ossif and Beta O'Rourke and all of these other cats being made in like the same factory? Can I just point out that you have like the Eric Swalwells and the Anthony Wieners and these like dirty Democrats? Oh my gosh, no, I don't want to, I don't want to see it. Are we going to really do this to the people?
Oh no. Oh no, no, no, ew, ew. He's so gross with his shirt open. Oh, I'm gonna die.
Okay, we can't, we can't. Oh my gosh, we're all dead now. We are all dead. That's it. We're in hell.
Oh my gosh. That is, so he's dropping out of the governor's race. He dropped out of the governor's race yesterday. Lorraine has a great piece up at Substack that explains for you the timeline of all of this. It went out early this morning.
And yeah, he. He dropped out of the governor's race. But he is still in Congress. He says, I'm sorry, these are false allegations. Dude, this is not.
He goes, that's my fight, not a campaign's. But are they false though? Because it's a video. And it's not AI. I was really hoping that it was AI, even though that would have been really nasty, that somebody would have.
done that but Actually, it makes my mouth numb because it's so gross. He's just, he's one of those guys that makes me almost insta-vomit. He has that whole vibe about him. I will never forget when we were debating about guns. By the way, the moms demand, great job, moms demand action.
You porno name and Michael Bloomberg created outfit. I mean, these people, they backed him. They were BFFs with him, and they're like, well. I didn't realize the head of that group had such a mannish voice. She gets out there.
Somebody check for a lump in her neck.
Somebody she gets out there and Well I was like Jamie Foxx on Li in Living Color being Wanda.
Well I mean, I talk to him all the time, and I just didn't realize. It's really crazy when it's somebody that. Just so close to it, somebody that you know. It's just it's wild. They had nothing to say about that.
Nothing to say about that. It's ma'am. It is ma'am. I'm saying, right?
So we're gonna we're gonna dive into this cesspool of ew. And bring you the latest with that because he's still in Congress.
So all of this is meaningless. This was a Democrat hit, by the way. They aren't messing around. They wanted him out of office. He didn't get the memo last week, so they decided to come heavier.
He just got hit by a strafing run. He's, they're going to keep coming, dude. You, you better just bow out and run away. Run away, hide under your bed. The folks who've helped make this possible, it's our friends over at Noble Gold.
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They went around it. And then they did that before they did the landing.
So, this is kind of like this is replicating this. The FAA is asking for video gamers to be the next generation of air traffic controllers because good gamers have a particular skill set that actually works very well with air traffic control, believe it or not. They're able to multitask and handle things under stress while still making calm decisions, good hand-eye coordination, all of that. And they said that they're trying to adapt, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. He says that they're having they created a campaign to do this.
They have 11,000 controllers currently working. They have 4,000 trainees, but they need thousands more to be fully staffed. And they are specifically targeting gamers. And the whole website says gamers are encouraged to level up their career and they have their mission required. I think that's like a perfect.
That is actually perfect. That is so smart to do. We got a lot more on the way. That's really smart to do. The FAA, you can go to their website and look at it, but they're looking at like literal six-figure starting salaries.
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Because now the economic exposure that they have created for themselves. because they backed the wrong horse and decided to get over their skis in the Middle East is com it's I mean, it's evident now. They had so I was reading since 2005, they spent about two hundred seventy billion dollars on investments in construction contracts. And Now look at where we are.
Now they were trying to horn in on the Strait of War moves, and now we've got it closed. And everybody's having to come to the Gulf of America. Trump said, this is cut five, Trump did say that if China really needs some oil, They can go to Venezuela. Listen. As far as China is concerned, China can send their ships to us.
China can send their ships to Venezuela. We told them, buy from Venezuela. We have a lot of overcapacity with sell them, and we'll probably sell it for even less money. I have a very good relationship with President Xi of China. And we work together very well.
They're paying us substantial money, as you know. We we've never got money before. You know, I listened to this. Gordon Chang, he has no idea what he's talking about. We have been very tough in China.
Tough but fair. Oh, POTUS. Uh but um They can't go to Venezuela. I don't want them coming to Gulf of America with their tankers, because that makes me a little nervous about having a Chinese vessel in Gulf of America. They can go to Venezuela, though, and get it there.
I think they should have to pay an exorbitant fee personally. I can't say what I think they should have to do before they get any oil on air. But I really am very curious as to Stephen Yates' reaction on this. As you know, he's a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. His particular specialty is China.
He just loves him, some Xi Jinping. And if you believe that, I got a bridge to sell you. And he also advised not one but two presidential administrations. He is one of the foremost experts on everything with China and especially anything that China is involved in. Good to see you, my friend.
Thank you so much for joining us. I want to get your reaction to this because I really do feel like they got outwitted in the Strait of Wormuz. And if they want, you know, because that's a significant, it's over a third of what they get for oil. That's where a third of their imports come from that strait. Do you see them now going to Venezuela?
Are they going to pay full price, do you think?
Well, they certainly are in a scramble because the president has hit not just the sources of where some of their imported oil comes from, but the price that they were paying.
So, Iran under its sanctions regime had to get things to them at a really cut rate. And so, China was helping them bust sanctions and then got a discount on the oil. Venezuela was giving them a cut rate. And so now they can go to the markets. And, you know, the president talks a lot about these kinds of things.
I have no idea who's actually setting the price and how it gets paid for by China. But my guess is that it's not going to be cheaper than what they were getting from Venezuela under sanctions and Iran under sanctions.
So number one, they're already paying a toll. And then number two, if they're dependent on supply chains that we control, that's another element of leverage. They wanted to play their rare earths card with us. They rubbed our faces in it. It freaked out some people around the president for a time, but that made.
People, I think, wise up and get determined to get our own supplies. But now the president, as he is wont to do, is showing some of our leverage cards face up, and we have more cards, as he might say. Yes, I love that. And apparently, our Intel found, too, that as it relates to Iran, China was going to deliver new air defense systems. And I guess that's all thwarted now.
They thought they were going to be able to sneak in and deliver to Iran. I mean, but do we care because they work so well in Venezuela?
Well, I have some questions about intelligence reports. I've been on the production end early in my career and the consumption end later in my career in the White House. And just because something's in an intelligence report doesn't mean it's true. There's a caveat on every one of those that this report could be meant to influence as much as to inform. And so just because there's a report that they wanted to sell MAN pads to Iran doesn't make it so.
And MANPADS, people can be mistaken for wondering what the heck that is. It's basically a shoulder-carried surface-to-air missile. It's what took down our fighter jet, allegedly. In Iran. And that it's not a strategic weapon.
It's a tactical weapon. There are a lot of them in Iraq and other areas. If China's moving them, Trump said, well, they've got big problems and they should. But really, what it comes down to is China's obviously been on Russia's side against Ukraine, and it's obviously been on Iran's side against the United States and Israel. At some point, that has to add up for something when it comes to our negotiations with them.
Do you think that Trump should be meeting? at all with Xi Jinping in China i i if they're still trying to aid Iran.
Well, here's my philosophy about whether presidents should meet with China. It all comes down to what are you trying to do and what do you think can be accomplished by the meeting? You know, there are all kinds of times when a president should be well equipped to go, and then they sort of give in to the emperor's siren song of filthy lucre and big deals and big geopolitical accomplishments, and they get their pockets picked. And so, if you go in and you're ready to be tough and you think that you can strategically influence a situation, then yeah, you should go in and be tough, negotiate from a position of strength. I think the concern we have is we don't really know how the table is set for going into this meeting, but the things we can see do seem to favor America much more now than they did, say, six months ago.
Well, that's definitely for sure. I mean, this I think that's a good idea. all the times that everybody says, oh, it's 3D, 4D chess. I really do feel like that's what's been happening with this straight. And I'm curious as to how much China was aware of it happening as well.
Like, for instance, the Saudis announced the East-West pipeline. Then it makes sense when you go back and look, it kind of looked like Trump was sort of buying time. What's he doing? Are we really going to try around two negotiations? And then the Saudis pop up and say it's done.
And now they're rerouting and maybe creating a post-straight world. Who knows? I'm just, it's kind of surprising that China would, are they caught off foot on this? I guess is what I'm asking. Are they caught off balance?
Because where are they going to go to get the majority of their, I mean, we have done more to them than they ever tried doing to us with rare earths. Yeah, well, you're talking to someone who probably isn't a champion at checkers and maybe out of his league in terms of various degrees of chess. But I think that the Chinese are surprised that America, in many ways, is back in much more strong fashion than they thought possible. They've sort of drunk their own Kool-Aid in recent years about America being in decline. And if you look at what the mass media and our politics barf up onto the world stage, you can't blame them for thinking that we are that hot mess.
But right now, we have a hard-charging economy. We are becoming energy independent and surplus ready to sell. President Trump is a deal maker. He's not a foreign policy practitioner. He isn't someone who's cut from the usual cloth.
He is methodically taking leverage away from his deal counterpart and trying to amplify leverage he has to make better deals. I don't think it's that complicated.
So I don't even think it's multi-dimensional chess. I don't even think it's chess. It's pretty obvious, and he does it with pizzazz and all kinds of hot takes on truth and elsewhere. And that's disorienting to people who expect something normal. The Chinese, of all people, shouldn't expect normal treatment.
But I do think that they've been surprised that America really is this resurgent, that Venezuela went as smoothly as it did so far, and that Iran thus far really has militarily been taken out of the equation. We're really in the wind down and maintenance phase at this point. It's pretty all of this to knock them back on their heels without a shot fired, at least with China. And this, of course, also comes on the heels of the EU and U.S. apparently fomenting this minerals deal to thwart China even more.
I mean, all of these things in place, it's all starting to make sense. Like every move the administration has made with regards to this. It's not even so much about it's not about Iran and it's not about even Russia. This is really everything about boxing out China. And then you really see, wow, that is how far China has been getting with their tendrils and everything.
Well, there's a glass half full part of this that we can accentuate. A lot of it is to try to keep the malign influences of the Chinese Communist Party at bay, but it's really to get the primary obstacles to American greatness out of the way, to make sure that our homeland is secure, our economy has the fuel it needs in every way, shape, or form to thrive, and that in doing so, a strong, prosperous, and free America. continues to be dominant in every key industry, technology, or what have you, not because we're selfish, although I might be, but because that's actually best for the world, whether we like it or not, whether they like it or not. And so it just happens that the CCP thought they had a free ride and a glide path to get in our way in all these areas. And if you even go back to the fun topic of Greenland, not just the minerals that are important, but NATO having countries deny us use of our own bases in this particular conflict made clear that that wasn't just some pretend game.
Game of propaganda that this, that, and it has consequences for access to the Arctic and other things. And all these things, you're right, that it has to do with China, but it's that China put itself in the way thinking they were going to be able to strangle America. I'm still shocked. And for those just joining, we're talking with our good friend Stephen Yates, senior research fellow at Heritage. I'm really shocked.
I think it was one of the UN votes that France joined with China against the United States as it pertained to the Strait. France joined China. And then you got Mark Carney talking about: oh, yes, we're eager to welcome Chinese investment. Uh I your reaction to that.
Well, lunatics are going to be lunatics. And so they get out there, they believe in the false church of the sun god on environmentalism. They believe in the false hope of globalism, which essentially gets away from the family as the building block of civilization and away from the nation state as the building block of international order. And so I see whether President Trump intended to do it or not, he is driving us back to those fundamentals. And these idiots out there thinking that they're going to somehow flex on us by sucking up to the giant sucking sound of the Chinese economy, which has sucked jobs and investment out of their livelihoods for decades.
Just basically, I just don't understand how they pass a sobriety test.
So I saw that Liberal Party gathering in Canada and the kinds of things they were selling back to each other, the initials that I couldn't explain and all that stuff. It's all part of the same piece. And I hope that that bubble gets burst really hard in the next couple of years electorally. But until then, we're just going to have to keep putting up with the nonsense and do what we got to do for America. And I think that's what the president's trying to do.
And I think the people that are smart on air are going to keep trying to push it that the way too. Yeah, last question for you on that. You mentioned NATO. Is NATO As we know, it finished. I doubt that it's finished because there is some value in that combination.
But I think the gig has been called. You cannot count on America, bank on America, use America, and then deny America what it needs in a time of crisis. And so hopefully the old Europe countries are getting a nice swat diplomatically in their media from us and in their publics. But there are other parts of Europe that I think are of value.
Now, I'm one that says Asia first, save our civilization economically, get the Middle East right and let Europe sort itself out. But I think that NATO can be brought back, but I'm not going to be the one tilling that earth. Other people are going to have to do that work. That's well put. Our very good friend, Steve Yates, who I would love to see accompany POTUS if he does go and have a sit-down with Xi Jinping.
I just feel like that would really ruffle some feathers if they watched you walk into Beijing, because they love you so much in Beijing, I'm sure. They do. I'd have to put on a Winnie the Pooh t-shirt for the occasion. Oh my gosh. I will literally find you like the nicest Winnie the Pooh Thai if that happens.
Send it over. I will fet it. I'll overnight it to you. Oh my gosh. Stephen Yates, always so good to see you, my friend.
And you can find him on X as well. It's not Yates Comms anymore, it's Steve Yates on X. Good to see you, my friend. Thank you so much for your time. We appreciate you.
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It's time for Florida Man. Did y'all see this video of this bus driver, Sumter County School District, who got arrested and charged? Because I don't know if y'all saw the video, it was on April 2nd. and this bus was crossing railroad tracks. and was clipped.
by an oncoming train. You hear the record scratch. Clipped. Is that Kane, that's another word for hit. Yes.
I mean, it was so close. And if you saw the video, first of all, how do you even allow... that to be the case as a driver and you know you have kids in the damn I Oh my gosh. I just I mean Right as that bus went over the tracks, the train came and shh got the end of it. Oh my gosh.
I don't understand like they have the The little hands that come down, the little uh Uh I don't know what they're called. Those red and white barriers that go down. How does this even happen? The kids were screaming, the kids were recording it from inside the bus. It was absolutely, I mean, it looked terrifying.
That bus driver is arrested, Yvonne Hampton, was fired.
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Oh, what? Ah Yeah. What Okay. No. That's the Hey, what is happening?
God love him. There's a place for everything, but that doesn't mean the anthem deserves it. I mean, it was the Baltimore Orioles. I almost said Orioles. Orioles that did it.
That had this guy. I'm not against whistling, but this is the anthem. You don't do that. That's a no-no. We're not doing that stuff.
But by the way, that's what I feel like if ever I leave any bird food out, bird seed or anything. It's me. It's me going out in my backyard and talking to. Talking to the animals, you know. I just put it out there and yep, I'm saying.
He's like the four-time champion. That's a very interesting thing to get a like a championship for, but I guess you can with anything. Right. Yeah. But this is not the time or place for that.
It just Not that I discount the seriousness of his Ability or Um his genuine love of country It's just not appropriate, right? It's just not something we do. It's like wearing a hat in church if you're a dude. You just don't do it. Like whistling the national anthem.
Let's not. Let's not do it.
So I don't I don't know. I'm I'm I'm Just Yeah. Yeah, it'd be okay if we never did it again. Yeah, we don't need to have that again. We can't show the actual video of it because they'll sue you for it.
for copyright infringement for that horrible, horrible rendition. I think that that's just a cover. I think that they sued because I think they would sue because they're just ashamed that they did the anthem like that. Can you imagine? I don't know.
I I'm not No offense to the guy, but that's not the time or place. Trump had his favorite meal delivered for him by a DoorDash grandmother, Sharon Simmons. 'Cause he's highlighting the uh no tax on tips and how much money she got back as a result of it. He ordered two bags of McDonald's and then he walked out at the door and met her himself. And I was looking at the video of where he walked out.
Now I I think Trump is doing really great on Iran. But guys I just can't get on the gold filigree ship. I just can't do it. There's gold everywhere. I'm not even looking at them.
I'm looking at the big gold it's too much. No, it's not. It's gold everywhere. I think it's hysterical. He's like, well, hello there.
Thank you for my McDonald's, as my grandmother would say, McDonald's. Thank you for delivering directly to the Oval Office door. Because you know that's how it works, right? You don't have to go there and you say, Oh, wait, it's DoorDash. I'll allow it.
Go on in. But I'm pretty sure that she wouldn't even need to be told what door to go into. The one that has the most filigree around it is the one that, every time Trump goes in and out of that door, they get another filigree. Looks good. Yeah, yeah, it looks good.
It's like he's leveling up. It's what it is. It's like he gets another gold. The filigree is like pauldrons for the door. He gets another gold filigree and he just like keeps getting Keeps getting drip.
It's all dripping over there. Keep cooking. Oh my gosh, we got a lot more to come. This is Danielle Robet from Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club. Nothing compares to the anticipation of something new.
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So apparently your entire browsing history, private messages, and financial details could be released for anyone to read.
Okay, so does that mean that my husband is gonna find out? How much yarn I've actually purchased. That's the week. Um We're going to have problems. Ladies, and my defense, sometimes there's a sale.
And so you're saving money if it's on sale.
Sounds like girl math.
Well, it is. It is. You know what? Women's math has raised children for generations, so I'm going to say. Yeah, apparently AI researchers are saying that, yeah, they're actually getting out of the digital sandbox.
And they're yeah, they're getting everything. They can see absolutely everything. And in fact, one researcher found it quite by accident while he was on lunch and joined a Sammy. had him a sandwich and uh ended up seeing an email that It was from this AI model that his company was testing, and it basically summarized everything that he was doing on the internet. That's crazy.
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