To the regime in Tehran, the blockade is tightening by the hour. We are in control, nothing in, nothing out. Iran's battered military, the IRGC specifically, has been reduced to a gang of [00:00:15] pirates with a flag. They cloak their aggression in slogans, but the world now sees them for what they are, criminals on the high seas. They don't control anything, they're acting like pirates. Yeah, I got the pirate thing the first time that you said it and they do [00:00:34] control the strait. That's why you can't open it up. It undercuts your point a little bit. But I love hearing about how someone else is a pirate from a guy who spent the last year blowing up ships in the Caribbean. But anyway, so supposedly Iran has been making some [00:00:50] new overtures about potentially like here's what we'll give you if you open up the strait or whatever. And Trump's not satisfied with it right now. So why is he not satisfied? What have they offered? Let's jump into it. Iran has presented regional mediators with a new offer to stop its attacks in the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for a full end of the [00:01:07] war and a lifting of the US blockade of Iranian ports. It would see discussions about Iran's nuclear program shell. So Trump apparently sees that as not being enough. I mean, that basically brings us back to kind of the status quo before the war. The Strait would be open. They're not claiming control of it. We wouldn't have new discussions about their nuclear program, [00:01:25] but we double obliterated it, so that should be worth something. And we murdered a whole lot of Iranians, so you'd think that would be enough for Trump. But it isn't, and we don't know exactly why. It's not clear precisely, the Washington Post says, why he's satisfied, well, not satisfied. But he has repeatedly insisted that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons, [00:01:41] which of course they don't, and we're not close to. A US official also said that accepting it could appear to deny Mr. Trump a victory. And again, his fee fees of victory are more important than what you're paying in gas every day. Never forget that. So let's jump to a [00:01:59] slightly more responsible and sane member of the administration Marco Rubio and see what he has to say about it. I would start out by reminding everybody that the level of sanctions on Iran are extraordinary. The pressure on Iran is extraordinary and I think more can be brought to bear. But I hope that in the aftermath of this conflict, whole world's eyes have been [00:02:15] opened to the threat Iran poses. And what they mean by opening the straits is, yes, the straits are opened as long as you coordinate with Iran, get our permission, or we'll blow you up and you pay us. That's not opening the straits. Those are international waterways. They cannot normalize, nor can we tolerate them trying to normalize a system in which the Iranians decide [00:02:34] who gets to use an international waterway and how much you have to pay them to use it. The Straits is basically the equivalent of an economic nuclear weapon that they're trying to use against the world. And they're bragging about it. They're putting up billboards in Tehran bragging about how they can hold 25 % or 20 % of the world's energy hostage. Imagine if those same people [00:02:52] had access to a nuclear weapon. Yeah, you know why you have to imagine it? Cuz they don't have one and they've never had one and they're never gonna stop telling you that they're close to it. But use your imagination, isn't it fun? I like my imagination. So yeah, by the way, [00:03:09] who taught them that they could hold the world's energy supply hostage with the straight-forward mousse? Cuz they weren't doing that before your stupid war. Now you might say, well, but we had to do the war cuz we have to stop them from getting the nukes. I mean, we need people on the ground confirming it. But of course, we also had that before Donald Trump's stupid [00:03:25] decision in 2018 to destroy the JCPOA. So I feel like this isn't actually an issue of Iran. I feel like this is an issue of repeated horrendous miscalculations by one Donald Trump. But Jackson, what do you think? I mean, the reality is, the only thing that can happen to end this conflict [00:03:41] is if Donald Trump concedes to the demands of Iran and not the other way around. Because they're the ones who have all the cards, and they're the ones who are in the right in this situation. We came up in their backyard, started blowing them up. We're making all these threats [00:03:57] against them constantly. We've already gone back on our word with them. We've been doing that for years. We did that in Trump's first administration. He went in there and he ripped up a perfectly good agreement that Barack Obama put into place just because he's a racist and an idiot and he wants to. And right now, he just doesn't have any leverage to get any type [00:04:17] of W out of this. So he's gonna end up looking like the loser he is. He's gonna end up looking like an idiot. And at this point, we're really all at the whims of his ego. mean, Marco sit up there talking about some imagine if this country had a nuke. Well, imagine if a lot of other countries had a nuke. Why didn't we stop North Korea from developing nuclear weapons? [00:04:35] could have. North Korea came into existence in the 50s. We could have stopped them then. And they didn't have nukes that early. What about Pakistan? Why didn't we go in there and stop it? So it has to be something else. It's- What about Israel? Exactly, about Israel. And [00:04:51] I was just getting to that. We're doing this because this is what Israel wants us to do. Because if you look at anything else, it just doesn't really add up. We've already lost and unfortunately, until Donald Trump can accept that, which I mean, he still has yet to accept [00:05:06] he lost the 2020 elections. This just isn't gonna stop. Yeah, I think all of us should just come out and all post simultaneously that Donald Trump has already won so we can just get out of the war. I think it can save us a lot of trouble. Take one for the team. Yeah. We got to. But by the way, that is basic. He's kind of doing that. I'm gonna read just one [00:05:25] more graph. First of all, gas prices are now 418 on average, a new high. during the war. So thanks, wonderful, wonderful. By the way, administration officials are saying that if we maintain this blockade for a couple more months, we might do uh not permanent, but multi-year damage to Iran's ability to uh produce oil. And you might think, well, that's good, [00:05:42] it's Iran. Yeah, but we also want them to produce that, cuz if not, the price is gonna go up even more. So there is a cost to continuing this, a literal cost, like in cost. But Donald Trump, don't worry, Donald Trump says, Iran has just informed us that they are in a state of collapse. They want us to open the Hormuz Strait as soon as possible as they try to figure [00:06:01] out their leadership situation, which I believe they will be able to do. Thank you for the attention this matter President Donald J Trump. Yeah. I-. you keep putting the Hormuz Strait in quotes? I don't, because he doesn't know what a quotation mark is. Why? And they informed us there in a state of collapse. Yeah, that's a thing that happened. That is based on something [00:06:23] that happened in reality and then Trump. went to true social and told us about it. My God, we are governed by insane people.