Breaking Afternoon Updates with Ben Meiselas 9/24/2026

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2:05Looking at Donald Trump during this state visit, as Donald Trump is showing him the, I don't know, this demented walk of fame thing that Donald Trump created. This fake golden monstrosity where he mocks former presidents of the United States and thinks that looks strong. While I think Xi Jinping looks at it not laughing at the images, but just how we can pathetic the United States looks where they have to attack former presidents the way Donald Trump does. That's what Trump's doing. But Xi Jinping is talking about the Thucydides trap. The idea that the declining, I mean, this is a Trump space. The Thucydides trap was basically a concept of Thucydides. It was reframed in modern times to talk about this concept of China's rise. The United States decline. And how the declining power may have an inclination to start wars or conflicts with the ascending power.

3:10It's not like the United States, China, but you just need to back off and let the ascending power rise. And that's the Thucydides trap, if you will. It referred to, you know, Thucydides wrote about the Peloponnesian War. Athenian, he was talking about the rise of Athens, scared the existing powerful entity at that time, Sparta. It led to the Peloponnesian War, which lasted over two decades. And while Sparta, temporarily won the Peloponnesian War in the short term, Sparta ended up being a long term degraded. And you had everybody loses in the Thucydides trap. So anyway, you have Xi Jinping talking about that. And you have Donald Trump just freaking falling over Xi Jinping. It was such a bizarre thing from the posts in the morning about how good Xi Jinping looks and how handsome he is. He looks vibrant. He looks strong. He looks fit. He looks better than ever.

4:11And Madam Xi, Xi, of course, beautiful. She's beautiful. He's strong and tough and powerful. And meanwhile, when Donald Trump greeted Xi yesterday at joint base Andrews in Maryland, it's like 65 degrees, maybe even a little warmer. Trump full coat, dude wearing gloves, like it's 30 degrees, probably to hide his hands that are rotting. And then Donald Trump does the flyover. You all saw that right by now. Midas was one of the first, I think we were probably the first to clip that because all of the right wing propaganda counts like, look how tough he looks. And Donald Trump's reaction to the loud noise of the B1 that flew over. Trump was in agony. Trump was in so much damn pain in his face, Winston. The notable control variable group here, if you will, is if you look at Xi's reaction, doesn't move, doesn't blink, just.

5:16It's loud, but you know, it's a plane. Donald Trump, you would think that it got, like, where he was was like bomb me. Just watch for yourself. What took place? Let's play. Now, one of the signs of dementia, I'm just giving you my opinion, of course, loud noises. The auditory process is all garbled. And the pain, at least again, giving you my opinion, and for, I've spoken to people who are in the field. You know, they can't diagnose, obviously, without actual diagnostics. So they're always very careful and cautious about that. And so, you know, there, that was his reaction, just a painful and it's because of all of the kind of inputs and processing. It was very telling right there. I'll just show you what Trump looked at, like, look how he looked. Like it was 64 degrees.

6:19I think we've got this clip also. Let's play. Right. I mean, it was, it's not winter. I mean, I was thinking like, was it, is it that cold now? It was like 65. It was like 65. Then, you know, today, Xi Jinping talked about the Thucydides trap that I just mentioned. Here's what she said. Let's play. We have a dialogue and improve mechanisms for crisis communication and prevention. The Thucydides trap can be overcome. What deals were being worked out today. Well, you did a big deal, maybe something. I don't know, the American economy is just. crushed right now. Thiesel surging even higher. You saw the price of crude went up vertical

7:21today as Iran struck more tankers yesterday as the Houthis were able to strike lots of refineries and tankers and pipelines in Saudi Arabia everywhere from Yanbu to Abkhiyah to further south as well. I was thinking about more southwest, Taif, Moka, and other areas over there. So what deal Donald is as Xi Jinping was proud to announce? By the way, I'm happy for this development I suppose, but not exactly great deal making on other fronts. Pandas, folks, they're coming to the Atlanta Zoo. Here, let's play it. The giant panda has been an envoy of friendship between the Chinese and Americans. Here I have a piece of good news. In a few days, two pandas, Pingping and Fushuang will come to their new home in Zoo Atlanta and meet with the American people. Pingping and Fushu, I'm very

8:30glad that Pingping and Fushuang will be here. If I'm in Atlanta, I'll probably stop by. Give a little fist bump to Pingping, but this is what we're doing over here. I mean, for Xi Jinping, I mean, do you see that they're trolling us? Like, do you see that they're coming in here talking about Thusidides trap and pandas and all these things? Donald Trump's out there saying how good-looking, G-lux, and how strong and fit we are things to say. Just odd behavior. We'll get back into what happened today, but I want to zoom out, talk about the global landscape, and then we'll zoom back in because at the United Nations General Assembly, one of the things that Rubio was very proud to announce, very proud, was the invitation of Putin to the G20. Putin to the G20, where's it going to be? Doral, Miami, one of Donald Trump's clubs or

9:35resorts or whatever you call them, over there. So Rubio announces that, very happy. And Putin responds, well, we've received the offer. We will deal with it through diplomatic channels. That was their response. Meanwhile, you had Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, say, at the UN Security Council yesterday, the special operation is not going to end anytime soon. That's what they refer to the invasion of Ukraine. We're going to keep going. There's no sign of peace anytime soon. We heard Zelensky speech as well yesterday. We covered that. I mean, but we're seeing massive escalation in the war in Ukraine. From Kiev to Odessa to Zephrishia, Russia has built massive stockpiles of its ballistics and different types of ballistics and cruise missiles. And we cover them every morning from the Iskender's to these North Korean style.

10:37There's a whole array and cadre of ballistics and cruise missiles that they're using. But also, the drones have gotten much more advanced in a very short period of time as well. They do Shahed drones, which were advanced for the time. Ukraine developed anti-drone interceptors to stop the Shaheds. A lot of them, and they would have like an 85 to 90% drone interception rate. But Russia's been able to do these kind of new jet-powered drones. And also, the Shaheds have become more advanced and they're much harder to strike as well. So there's a lot more of the drones that are reaching their targets inside Ukraine. And Russia's stockpiling all of these ballistics and all of these cruise missiles. Using some now in concert with the drones. But even Zalinsky said during his speech before the general assembly, we're preparing for a very dark winter ahead.

11:37You know, Trump tapping Zalinsky along, promising he was going to get interceptors, patriot interceptors, fads, and that never materialized. Zalinsky really never got the interceptor licenses either. And Russia was aware of this. I mean, go back to the phone call that Putin had with Trump on July 4th. On America's 250th, Putin spoke with Donald Trump for 90 minutes. What, 910 days later, Donald Trump met with Zalinsky at the NATO summit, publicly announced that interceptor licenses would be given to Ukraine. And I speculate, I wonder if that's what Putin and Trump were talking about. Just say you're going to give these to Zalinsky, tap him along for a month. Let us build up our ballistics. Let us build up our Shaheds. You have Putin had always been saying, we'll be able to take all of the Dhanets. We'll be able to take over the whole area, which has never materialized, you know, what Putin said he was going to do. But now are we seeing the

12:41implementation of, you know, that conversation back on July 4th? I just want to share with you what a day in the life looks like of someone living in Kiev right now. So, so you know, and I know, when I grew up, I'm sure when you grew up too, you know, coverage of war on TV. I mean, we never wanted to be in wars, but it was what the media was what news covered. They they they would pride themselves on having reporters in war zones, right? So we would get the visuals and we can see what was happening, right? They would embed the reporters. By the way, we do that at the Midas Touch Network, right? Go to drone hunters up Kyrgyzhan. It was a documentary, a short film that we put out Ken Harba from the Midas Touch Network. He runs Midas Defense on the front lines. He was embedded and he was shooting drones that were trying to kill him and trying to kill Ukrainians. He was there on the front lines bringing that to you. Go watch drone hunters. Midas Touch film. But in

13:47addition to that, I think it's important, especially with all the open source video that's out there about what's happening that we showcase that what this means. It's not some abstraction, right? When Donald Trump sends Wiccoff and Kushner who be clown themselves in the United States when they go to Moscow, when Wiccoff's like, oh, it's such an honor. Our potent debate with you. And then they go to key for the first time when they visited Moscow like nine times before that. And they said, we're confident that Putin wants to make a deal. And he's you know, he's told us that. And we, you know, when we view this as a business transaction as a win-win and we can make a great real estate deal between Russia and Ukraine and then you hear what Rubio's been saying and how Rubio's like, what we want Putin to be at the G20. We want him to be at the G20. I just want you to think about it from this perspective as well, though, too, right? You have best-entannounced economic D-Day and said, if anybody does business with Iran, we're coming after you. The most serious

14:48and severe secondary sanctions while China has made it very clear they're doing business with Iran. And then best-ent's like, but you can't let their planes inside. And China's like, we're going to let their planes inside. Right? You have Russia doing all of this business with Iran. And what best-ent said was economic D-Day, economic D-Day. You can't do business with Iran. The countries that do the most business with Iran seem to be getting the most concessions. Adam, okay, just objectively, out of the United States right now, getting the most concession. And especially China gets the biggest state visit of anybody right now. Where Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet for she and had our air personnel or air force personnel and our army personnel get down on their knees. Did you see this video? I think we got the video salty of them getting down on their knees for she and they were on the red carpet and they're scrambling and they're pleading up the different, you know, specks of dirt so that it's perfect when she's there. Let's watch for yourself so I don't look like

16:05there's a question that I have. I think it'd be odd even if you hired a contractor to do that to get down on your knees like that for a foreign leader. But like why was that was our army personnel there before it was air force personnel had to bring the red carpet. Like why? And by the way, we saw this when Putin arrived in Alaska also. I mean, our service members got down on their knees for Putin's arrival to lay out the red carpet. Why why even the visual of that is so conscienti- shocking for an American that that's what you're doing you're having a service. I couldn't you hire somebody else to do that or plan that. And again, I think nobody should have to do that. But like you're going to have our army get down on their knees like that and clean it with their hands. I mean, what kind of bizarre hazing ritual is that? I mean, it's some strange stuff. Anyway, I digress. I want to share with you though what it's like what's happening in the world

17:07right now, right? I mean, I try to bring as many images as I can to show you what's happening in Gaza, what's happening in Lebanon, what's happening in Syria, what's happening in the Middle East. As a result of Netanyahu genocide and atrocities, try to show you what's happening there. So in Donald Trump's like, Oh, there's a ceasefire or that there's a stop at stop the BS, right? We bring you the war footage of what's happening in the catastrophic war. I constantly show here are the little girls who are slaughtered in Minab here are the little children slaughtered in Lamar, which was the sports hall. Here's the family. Here's you know, we we we show you the footage. We show you what's actually happening. So you can see for yourself. And here's what's happening in Kiev. So I'll show you some footage right here. This is yesterday during the day in Kiev every day is like this now. This is what a every day is basically like in Kiev. Let's just play one.

18:07Play the next one. You can play the next one also. You Play the next one.

19:18I mean a constant bombardment of drones and ballistic missiles and I try to bring you the coverage every morning. The strikes in Ukraine, the strikes in Russia, and increasingly what we've been hearing from European leaders, Baltic leaders, just leaders in the region in general, you know, who are saying that they believe that there will be hybrid warfare in the form of potential drone strikes and areas that may be, whether it's Estonia or Romania or in certain European countries, there's been reporting that the CIA has warned European countries of the possibility

20:22of this hybrid warfare taking place with potentially even like drone striking areas, like whether it's in Estonia, whether it's in Romania, whether it's I mean there already have been incidents. I mean in a German airport there were drones of Russian origin that were allegedly found over there in Romania, there have been tankers that were hitting the waters and Romanian territorial waters, but Article 4 Article 5 wasn't invoked because NATO realizes that Donald Trump's not going to abide by Article 4 and Article 5. So Russia's testing and probing Article 4 Article 5 and whether even Article 4 consultation of NATO would be invoked and it hasn't, you know, we'd even seen, you know, drones that land in Poland and of course there's a lot of also sabotage activity throughout the region that has taken place that obviously seems to be in connection with the war and by the way, here at home, we've been covering this as well, there's been numerous hacking incidents that have

21:27taken place where the FBI has been hacked. You know, there's there's a recent hack by a group called, I think it's called shiny hunters, and they've been able to hack all the personnel information of FBI agents, including a team within the FBI that's one of the FBI's elite hacking units, and this hacker group, they first of all, they posted that they were able to do the hack. They got all the information. The FBI's response was basically like an AI response with like those dashes. It was clear that they used AI to like write their response, but there's hacks like that, and then we also have seen what in Minnesota, dozens of water treatment facilities in Michigan in about seven other states. There have been hacks that lots of people wonder if it's Hondala, the Irani and hacking group, or other groups associated with Iran, but just think about it,

22:29you know, if you have this group that's able to hack the FBI, think about all the other foreign governments that have been able to hack the US equipment. I mean, you have China, while while this trip involving Xi Jinping, a few data points that we learned about as well. First off, they've got access to F-35 equipment that they didn't even have to hack. It seemed basically like the equivalent of UPS sent F-35 parts from Australia that were supposed to go to the United States to Hong Kong, which then found their way of course to Beijing to reverse engineer it. It's always giving them the F-35 parts, okay? Then China also made it very clear that they stand with Iran. They made it very clear at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization a few weeks back. They made it clear at the BRICS meeting, if you, whatever that was, two weeks ago, week and a half ago. We were covering that here, but while Donald Trump's talking about this, you know, the presidential walk of fame with the

23:36ridiculous photo of the auto pen and where he mocked Obama and all of that, here's what China's foreign ministry spokesperson is saying regarding Treasury Secretary Bessons, threat that China should not, or any country, should not be allowed to allow Iranian planes to land in their country here. Play this clip. Good afternoon, question from AFP. I know I ask about this yesterday, but the US has threatened to punish countries that allow Iranian flights to land on their territory from today. Can I ask if China will keep receiving and accommodating flights from Tehran? Thank you. China's position is consistent. We firmly oppose it listed unilateral sanctions without basis international and the lack mandate from the UN Security Council. Next question.

24:42Yeah, I mean, they're making it very clear. Solving, do we have the video of Rubio inviting Russia to the G20? If we have that clip where he says, you know, Russia's going to be coming to the G20. Let's play that clip. Or the people you might have some issues with. So we've invited President Putin to the G20. We think it's an opportunity for him to engage not just with the President, but with other world leaders. We hope that's an invitation he'll accept. There's an opportunity in December. If that happens, if there's another opportunity for them to meet and there's a purpose behind the meeting that that would be good. I'll show you this as well. This is Rubio saying, look at the international system right now. Let's play it. Yeah, look, I mean, the international system is not in good shape right now. And these international norms people talk about. I think the limits of international norms is your national interest. At the end of the day, the President, and I reflected this going back to the very beginning. The view of this administration is that the number one obligation of every government is the national interest of their country.

25:46Yeah, we understand that. But also the national interest of the country can't be viewed in a vacuum or connected to an international system. So if you want to understand why is the price of oil surging, why is the price of gas surging, why is the price of diesel surging, why our treasury yields the way they are, why is the mortgage rates, the 30 year fixed over 7 percent, why is it that all of this massive inflation is happening? Why does Oracle need to claim a forced measure? Why did all of these Middle East countries have to declare forced measures on certain other critical products that come out of the Middle East, which we rely on here in the United States, which increases the price here? Why is all of this happening? Why are our ranchers being screwed and our farmers being screwed? Why don't they have export markets the way? I mean,

26:47I heard Xi Jinping talking about pandas, but they're still not buying soybeans at the rate they were under former President Biden. So Donald Trump can think it's funny to show Xi Jinping a copy of an auto pen on the walk of fame and mock the former President, but under the former President, China was buying double the amount of soybeans. And we don't have to think about soybeans. We didn't have to think about potash, you know, and no, Belarusian potash, you know, why are all of these things happening? It's because the Trump regime has pursued this idea that we can be completely isolated. We can treat all these other countries like crap. We can go and invade places without consequences and repercussions and there are consequences and repercussions. So when we come back, I want to talk more about that. I want to talk about the consequences and repercussion of the catastrophic war. And you know, now the Trump regime is mulling over. They say they're going to do it. We'll see, but it could be disastrous and export diesel band, which sounds like, okay,

27:49well, we're going to, that'll be great. And a lower the prices here are probably raised the prices, not just of diesel, but of gasoline as well. And some of the other stuff that comes from a barrel of crude and we have to understand what is a barrel of crude from a barrel of crude. You get diesel, you get gas, you get jet fuel. How is that made? And why would it be harmful to refineries? I'm not cheering on the refineries here. I'm just saying, if you changed the ability of refineries to reach export markets, and you have the government control that precipitously, and it just happens in this emergency setting, it can have a cascading effect that could result in prices actually going up and then losing long-term export markets because people aren't going to do deals with companies. If ultimately the Trump regime or future presidency is going to say, nope, we're not going to send it over abroad. All right, let's take our first quick break of the show. We'll be right back. We've got a lot more to discuss. I never realized how much I needed a power bank

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32:03and that one, that they were productive mediation, conversations taking place, and things that there may be a phase settlement that was reached, the usual bullshit. That usual bullshit. What happened, there was a slight dip for a moment in the oil prices. It didn't impact us because that's not the way oil ultimately reaches the gas stations that we're at and becomes gas because we're dealing with the price, the futures price, and then we have to look at, okay, from the price of crude, now what are the refiners charging when they send out the refined product, when they send out the gas and the diesel and the jet fuel, the difference, the delta between the gas and diesel and the oil from the barrels of oil that we talk about, right, when we talk about, what is it? $75 to $100, $107, a barrel, you know, is turned into gas and diesel and jet fuel, the difference between though the paper cost

33:05of the barrel of oil and the refinery price, that's called a crack spread. I've been talking a lot about that now for months to kind of warn you for this moment about what was going to be happening. We'll get there. I want to talk about the export ban, what that actually can mean. I did a whole video on it, which I think was very detailed where we really broke down, okay, what's in a barrel of oil and what does it mean? No. But Sebastian Gorka, top person in the Trump regime, he's been giving interviews and here's what he had to say, let's play this clip. When he sent that first letter to the former Ayatollah, you can't have nuclear weapons. I mean, think about, think about everybody's obsessing with the price of gas. This is much bigger than the price of gas and think about what would happen to the price of gasoline if those missiles were nucleotiped? The idea that you're experiencing problems now would be just absolutely incomparable to what would happen if

34:11an Islamophascist regime that literally has been at war with us since they took our diplomats hostage in the revolution of 1979 since they killed all those Marines in the Beirut bombing, since they supplied the squash head IED technology to the Shia militias. What would happen if Islamophascist islamophascist? Why are people even care about this oil? Why do you care? Because we're suffering, man, this isn't a political fricking talking point. People are really suffering right now. People can't afford things. People can't afford rent. They sure as hell can't afford homes right now. People can't afford gas. The price of everything when you go to a supermarket is, again, it's unaffordable. People have had their healthcare ripped away.

35:11And you're out here aslamophascist. Aslamophascist. I mean, you know, Trump and Netanyahu went into Iran and invaded slaughtered children in Minab. They're still covering it up, the war crimes. They still refuse to take accountability. It doesn't shock you when it comes to Trump and Netanyahu genocide, Almaniacs, Lamar, little children. And by the way, we're slaughtered there at a sports hall. And the US tried a new weapon to kill those children in Lamar. They used these tungsten pellets and this weapon that the missile right when it's above its target. It opens and it disperses tens of thousands of these like tungsten little pellet balls. And they tried it out on the sports hall in Lamar and killed over a dozen children in Lamar. And then in the recent escalation about a

36:12month ago, they dropped bombs on a wedding in Syrac. You know, like, oopsies. No, it's not. These are freaking war crimes right here. And as a result, the Strait of Hormuz is closed, which everybody warned Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz. It's not a shock. You know, I heard Marco Rubio saying recently, if Iran got nuclear weapons, they would control the Strait of Hormuz. They're going to they're going to control it right now. They control the Strait of Hormuz now. On Surala, the Houthis control Bob Milman Dob Strait. They control all of Western Yemen. Today, one of the other reasons why you see the price of oil surging and thus the price of gas and diesel surging is the Houthis successfully struck more sites in Saudi Arabia. Again, they can do this at will at this point. Kind of really demonstrated how reliant Saudi Arabia is on the United States. And when the United States security umbrella is broken, Saudis ability to

37:16project any strength is severely hampered as well. And it's also, you know, people say this too. So if you're in the Saudi military right now, like what you're fighting for, NBS, like you're fighting for like Netanyahu and a security umbrella based on protecting Netanyahu's words, like that's what you're being asked to die for if you're in the Saudi army right now. I mean, and that's I think an issue in terms of the morale and what we're seeing in the war between the Houthis on Surala and Saudi Arabia also just should be noted historically and especially now the Saudi royal family keeps their military intentionally very weak because they're terrified of coups. So they make sure they have a weak military. They depend on the US arms to enrich their royal families. And then that money basically swish swashes back and forth between, you know,

38:22the American oligarchy and the Saudi royals and it goes back and forth. And the Saudi keeps a weak military, but the idea is that the US would have protected it and now we're seeing what happens when you have a Trump. What happens over there? Treasury Secretary Besan though, he goes on state regime media of course and he says folks at a lobby okay soon he says because Iran will cry Uncle soon. He was they're going to cry Uncle. You're going to cry Uncle? Isn't it going to be giving nougies? We're going to cry Uncle. You're going to cry Uncle. You're going to give us swirly. You're going to give us like who the hell is this guy. What do you mean they're going to cry Uncle? Why do we have people talking like this? Did you see the video I did on Adabro, McCraven? If not go back and watch did a video of Adabro McCraven speech at the LBJ Center. It was great. It was a great Texas. It was a great speech and he was I don't even have to ask. I don't even know what political party McCraven is. I don't care. This was an adult. This was a grown up. Did I agree with him on everything? He said no,

39:27but I said that's a leader. That's a grown up. That's an adult. That's someone who leads men and women and people and war and in be know and it's like I'm going to make them cry Uncle. This is best and I'm going to make him cry Uncle is what he said about Iran here play this clip. In terms of constricting and cutting off the financial oxygen to them and I don't know whether it's going to be a week a month or two months, but they're going to yell Uncle and the goal here can be one one of three states of the world. One, the regime turns on each other, the not impossible. Two, we get some kind of uprising for the Iranian people. They probably killed 50,000 of their own population. So very very difficult. And then three, to get the Iranians to if they want to make a deal to stick to the deal. As President Trump said at the beginning of August, he didn't think the Iranians were ready for a deal. We gave the MOU a try on June 3rd and then

40:33the Iranians a few weeks later began firing the on ships in the strait and being very aggressive. And this time if there is a deal, I guarantee you they're going to stick with it. I mean, it's as stupid as people. These are the dumbest dumbest people that that's the lesson. The lesson that you've learned since invading in late February, the lesson now, September 24th, is they're going to cry Uncle. If we torture these civilians of Iran more and we focus on inflicting pain on civilians, that will make the civilians like us more. You know who says things like that? The Epstein class. Predators say the predatory people say things like that. If we just inflict more pain than maybe they'll love me. Maybe they'll like me then. No, you've actually

41:36made the Iranian people more against the United States. When you started this catastrophic war and you blew up the elementary school in Minab and the sports hall in La Mair and picked a number of other sites that don't get enough attention where innocent people were actually killed. And then you beamed your face or Trump's face and Netanyahu's face and said, everybody, we're here. You don't think they look at what Netanyahu did in Gaza and say, we don't want that here in Iran. You don't think they look at what Netanyahu did in South Lebanon and they root in the area and say, we don't want that in Iran. And even if the people are against the Iranian regime, even if they're against them, they're more for them than Netanyahu. And when you bring the people together by torturing the people, you're not building love for yourself. It's the exact

42:42opposite. I don't understand how we could be run by literally the stupidest fucking people. Excuse my language. But these are the dumbest fucks in the world. I can't excuse my language. I watch these people and I'm like, why are they? I go, it's not a Republican or a Democrat or an independent. I'm like, these people are just idiotic. Just give me smart people who can actually be thoughtful and plan and say intelligent things. I don't even know what the hell that even is right there. And it's like when they talk about the export ban on diesel, right, the export ban on diesel, that's going to solve the issue. It's like the stupidest thing you can do. And all you have to do is take one course and show up in your first day to economics 101. Okay, you show up and they teach you about supply and demand, right? And what happens if all of a sudden you decrease the supply of something? What will happen to the potential price when there are supply shocks?

43:45Hint, hint. When you blow stuff up like you do in a war and you have less of the ability to transport oil and the pipelines are destroyed and the entire straight of horror moves is shut down and you have all of this, hint, what is happening to the price? And guess what? They're whether the Trump regime wants to admit it or not, oil is sold on an international market. It's why we talk about Brent and WTI. And there's lots of other grades we could be talking about as well. But there is an international market and guess who was the president who resulted in the United States making a shit ton of money off of exports of oil or exports of diesel rather. Who, who was that?

44:45Obama. Obama stopped basically a 40 year ban or a 40 year serious limitation on U.S. exporting diesel abroad and started having the U.S. become a major exporter of diesel. Obama. He didn't have to say drill baby drill. It was an Obama and it was done on a bipartisan basis, you know, at the time looking at the global landscape. Okay. And the U.S. accounts for what, 1520 plus percent of the global diesel market, the biggest exporter of diesel out there. So if the U.S. does an export ban of diesel, then what will happen? Well, you will create an immediate supply shock even more than before on the price of diesel internationally. And guess what?

45:47The U.S. also imports diesel, international diesel. So the states that import a lot of international diesel, guess what's going to happen to that? The prices are going to go higher. But guess what also happens as well? Well, maybe we should look at what we even mean when we talk about a barrel of oil. What's a barrel? A barrel of oil doesn't get converted into pure diesel or it doesn't get converted into pure gas or pure jet fuel, right? The barrel gets sent to where a refinery, what does a refinery do? Refines it into what? Into oftentimes it's referred to as kind of a 321, but you have gas and then you fill up your tank with gasoline. Diesel, right, trucks and lots of machinery and heavy industry, right, relies a lot on diesel, agriculture, diesel. So you get from a barrel, gas, you get diesel,

46:57you get jet fuel, and there's other things that you get, but those are the main things that you can extract. So if all of a sudden you put an export ban on diesel, what's going to have to happen is the refineries are now going to have to adjust because they're now losing an export market. And so they then have to figure out, well, what should we be making in order for us to keep our businesses running here? And so do we now have to decrease because we can't sell this anymore? So why would we make excess? And it's not like this diesel can easily just go everywhere. It's not like it's just immediately gets to go everywhere else, you know, in the United States. So what else has to happen? Well, then if you start lowering the ability for you to refine diesel, it also impacts gas. So what could potentially happen? The price of gas can go up because the supply of gas decreases

48:03as well. So it ends up hitting you everywhere, basically. And by the way, you don't have to take my word for it. This is actually a week ago, a week ago or so. Energy Secretary Right, I think we have this clip salty, and he was speaking, and energy Secretary Right was talking about this exact issue. And he was saying, look, here is here is the issue. We'll get that in a second. But in the meantime, while we pull that up, let me show you what MBGALA BATH posted around parliament leader. MBGALA BATH posted this earlier. Happy 5.1% 10 year America celebration emoji. Celebrate. It's the floor two years out. You wanted Iran drag back to 1970s. Nobody told you Iran isn't for arrogant amateurs will return you to 1970s rates plus high gas prices, diesel shortages, and bell

49:06bottoms. Enjoy the nostalgia. And he posted this graphic again of wild E. Coyote. I think on the left that's that photo of that magameem that's been going around. And it's best in saying, I'm the house. I'm the house. But what happens is these treasury yield soar. And these treasury yield soaring means the government has to be paying a lot more money to service the debt. Right, they have to give a much higher return and much higher yield on the bonds that are being sold. Because people don't view the United States as reliable and predictable anymore. And that puts us further and further into debt. And the 10 year yield is just like a direct as a direct vertical line up at this point. The 30 year yield is a direct vertical up right now. And this impacts you in all of your day to day borrowing

50:07and makes it very difficult. Then you layer, then you layer on top of that. The fact that interest rates are up as well. And we expect another interest rate hike. And clearly Trump and Bessent and this crew of idiots, they just don't have a plan. They don't know what they're doing. They're just they're not they're they're just fraudsters. They're con artists. And I know you don't like me saying con artists because artists, they're just like cons, they're frauds. And they don't know what they're doing. And it's like we just need smart people like to come up with like an actual plan to get us out and these people are just dumb. Here's what energy secret actually, you know what we'll take our last quick break of the show. Then I'll show you what energy secretary Wright had to say. Get your copy of WTF America. Right. WTF. What the F is this? What the F is this? The way out of this hell and back to democracy. Did you get your copy? It comes out October 20th, but preorder now if you can. All right, let's take our last quick break of the show. We'll be back. I want to show you that clip of energy secretary Wright.

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55:21before the break, I wanted to show you even Trump's own energy secretary, basically before Donald Trump said, we may do export diesel bans. He was saying what I was saying, you know, and it's not a complicated concept of supply and demand, you know, which is if you ban the export of diesel from the United States, you create a supply shortage and that could run up the prices when we import diesel from other countries and it can cause our refineries to basically slow down, which would also lead to less gas, which can then jack up the price of gas and it could have a cascading effect, even if it may provide temporary relief for a very short period of time in the long run, it could create problems. And I'm all for coming up with solutions. And I think it's important that we actually have these kind of detailed discussions, but they should be fact-based and methodical and calm and not like this crazy shit that we see every day from this Trump regime. So

56:21let me show you first what energy secretary right had to say. This was a week ago, here I play this clip. Some people have watched the supply shock to the American markets and said, well, we need to keep more of the US supply here at home and have advocated for things like export tariffs or export bans. Why does the administration think that those would not be proper solutions and wouldn't actually lower prices? It's just an amazingly interconnected network around the world. Fortunately, the United States is in a great position. We're an exporter. We supply the world with diesel, but often we get gasoline from the rest of the world. We consume a larger percent of gasoline out of each barrel of oil than a barrel of oil yields. So if you said, hey, diesel prices are really high, let's stop exporting diesel from the United States. Pretty quickly, our refineries would have to refine less, because what would they do with the diesel? We could fill up storage in two or three weeks, and then we'd be producing less gasoline, and we'd have more expensive gasoline right away.

57:27So it's a global interconnected system. The thing we need in the EU and prices are high is more supply. We need to do everything we can to grow supply, and if you start putting barriers on flows, pretty quickly you will reduce the production, and you'll have less supply. We need more supply, not less supply. Supply and demand, and if you didn't do this catastrophic idiotic war in Iran, the straight-of-form moves would be opened, like it was before. And Obama had a deal with Iran, the JCPOA, Iran's supreme leader who we murdered along with his daughter and his granddaughter and his son-in-law and his family, while they were having dinner together, and little grandkid killed in this Israeli Netanyahu Trump strike, we would not be in this. There was, by the way, there was a fatwa against nuclear weapons. There was an Iranian religious edict, a fatwa against

58:31from Ayatollah Khamenei against nuclear weapons. And there was an international mechanism. Look, you know how easy it's not a complicated situation right now to actually resolve what's happening in the straight-of-form moves. You want me to solve it? You ready? Everybody, are you ready to solve what's happening in the straight-of-form moves? You ready? Leave. That's it. It's actually a very simple solution. You take the aircraft carriers that are there, the USS George H.W. Bush, and the USS George Washington, or the two ships that are doing the blockade of civilian tankers, and they're preventing Iran from getting food and medicine and things, the same thing that we're doing with Cuba. That's impacting the civilians. It's it's it's it's attacking civilians, we're starving civilians, but here's how you resolve the the situation right now in Iran. This catushok, what you leave? You take the aircraft carriers and here's what you say. You say, okay, we're calling your bluff.

59:32We've removed the aircraft carriers. We're gone. Okay? Now open up the straight-of-form moves. Then what you do is you go to the international community and you say, look, we left as a sign of good faith. Okay? We're out. And so now we believe that this is what the argument would be, you know, whether you agree with it or not, I'm just giving you an argument. We believe that international law should not allow fees or tolls to be charged. If Iran wants to charge some sort of voluntary fee, that tankers agree, you know, that that these VLCCs and other tank that they can do that, but we don't support that. And we will now go back and rally an international community in the event Iran continues to shut down the straight-of-form moves while we're gone. And so Iran would then have to make the decision. Okay? Well, what do we do? Like at this point, they're gone. They said they would leave. Are we now going to not open up the straight-of-form moves until we get $13 billion

1:00:34of unfrozen funds? Are we going to stand on that? Or what are we going to do? And I think it would put pressure on them to basically say, hey, well, we're going to open up the straight-of-form moves for at least three months while we'll negotiate all that. As you know, we can shut it down again. But you left with your aircraft carrier. So the simplest solution is the US leaves. And ultimately, if Iran does what it didn't do, like we know what happened before the catastrophic war, the straight-of-form moves was open. Iran did not assert that it controlled the straight-of-form. So we actually know what existed before. It was when Trump and Netanyahu invaded that Iran said we're going to control the straight-of-form. So take your aircraft carriers and leave. And then if Iran keeps it closed, then try to, I don't know, actually do the work of what US used to do, you know, rally other countries and bring people together and say, hey, that's not right anymore. It's actually the simplest solution in the world. And by the way, Iran telegraphs it when they give their speech. They're

1:01:34like, do just treat us with respect and dignity. Just treat us like a country. Treat us like we're living people. Treat us like we're part of humanity. I understand you feel like, Zima. But stop saying you want to kill us all and you want to blow up the civilization. We're not going to deal with you. We can't do deals with people who say they want to murder us all and who say even if we do a deal with you for a little bit of time, we're then going to kill all of you. I mean, it's crazy. We don't we're not able to deal with that. So that's the solution. It's actually very simple. It opens up the straight-of-form moves and it's done. That's it. It's, it's, it truly solves everything. But you know, you got this demented guy in the Oval Office. I mean, you saw this when Donald Trump was with G. You saw what Donald Trump, I mean, you have she talking about Thucydides trap and you have Donald Trump saying she's an expert on stone and he loves, he loves the decor outside of the White House. I'm like, what are we watching here folks? What what is this here? Play this clip. Very good. We had a great meeting and he is great. He likes, he likes, he likes

1:02:41the, he's an expert on stone inside from many other things and he loves good granted. Thank you very much. The hell are we talking about? What is that? What is that for real? That's the United States of America. Yeah, it is. It's sad. I don't know what the hell that is. It's not funny. Sick. He likes granted. You know, those, he likes gratitude. She is out there just punking you. Just punking you, you know, just thinking about this time period. I mean, the humiliation ritual that we're put through as a nation because of this loser. It's ridiculous. Go back to the UN General Assembly. Let me just share with you yesterday. Iran's president, Pzezskin, echoing what I said. Here's what, here's what he's in addition to holding up photos of the little girls slaughtered

1:03:43in Minab and Lamar and the teachers who were slaughtered all that. Here's what he had to say. That's what Pzezskin said. Let's play it. Iran must be understood by Mr. Trump and those who seek to bully us that we are ready for dialogue and diplomacy and negotiations without accepting the language of force. I truly appreciate your time and presence here. May God bless you all. Like saying it, like saying it, like just literally telling kids not this is not a actually a complicated situation to resolve. It is because we have these loser idiots in the white us is actually not, we shouldn't have done the catastrophic war. You still have Iran's president saying, like you can't see that as an overture. Seriously, you don't realize what he's saying right there. He's saying, just stop saying you're going to blow us up to the stone age and you're going to eradicate our civilization and treat us with respect, stop using the language of bullying, stop talking like that. We can try to reach some resolution. He's just saying it out loud.

1:04:48But then you have like, best it. Oh, we're going to make you cry, Uncle, I'm going to give you nookies and I'm not going to be satisfied until I give you a wedgie. There's going to be nookies and wedgies and you're going to cry, Uncle, and there's going to be swirlies. What are you saying? What are you saying? What are you saying? Like crazy people. Just literally, just, you heard what Besson said. It's not Donald Trump. You like stone. It's like we're run by the stupidest people, not political. These are the stupidest people in the world. I mean, did you Republican Senator Kennedy? You see his take on all of this? Magger Republican Senator Kennedy is like, they're reptiles. They're like reptile hookers with the same damn dress. They're hooker reptiles. These awesome hooker reptile reptilian. They're hooker reptiles wearing the same dress. I think I didn't know what you're talking about. Just take the aircraft carriers and leave the Arabian Sea and let's get oil prices down and

1:05:52let's get treasury yields under control. They're hooker reptiles. We have like literally the dumbest people because like crazy humans. He's like, he's a crazy people. Listen to what he says. You're play it. I think that the people running a run are reptiles and they're part of a colony of reptiles. China, North Korea, Russia, and as I said, a run. The chief reptile, the quarterback, is President Xi in China. You can't trust any of them. All four of them are the same. It's like the same hooker in different dresses. They all lie like time share salesmen. You can't trust them. I wouldn't turn my back on any of them. Even if I thought and knew

1:06:57they were two days dead. I've lost the sentence. Okay. Iran is a reptile. The king reptile is apparently really good with stone. He's at the White House and Donald Trump makes our Air Force personnel and army apparently bend down on their knees for the king reptile amongst multiple reptiles. Also, the reptiles are hookers and they wear same hooker but different dresses. They also sell time shares. I wouldn't turn my back on these Iranian reptile, multi-faceted dress, hooker, time share salesmen. Thus, we wonder why America is declining the way we are. He's good at stone. He's good at stone.

1:08:03Here's Salty. Play that clip of Donald Trump greeting Xi one more time with the B1 Lancer. Xi has his normal face. She has his normal face. Then the B1 Lancer flies. It's a loud plane. You arrange the fly over and it is a big Donald Trump's like, he's stupid. I mean, you can watch it. I just genuinely don't get what the hell is happening. What is going on? You're playing this clip. My God. Salty, do we have the video for moments ago when Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, this guy who goes on state regime media all the time, he goes on Fox and he's always like, we're going to blow up Iran. We're going to destroy the Iranian regime. We're going to destroy

1:09:05the Iranians because every day he's like, it's like, okay, I get it. You want to bring us into endless, I understand. We understand. This guy, he walks up, everything's like a gimmick. It's like some weird shit. He walks up with a star link in his hand to the Iranian delegation, or to the Iranian ambassador to the UN. He's like, you want to, you want a star link? I'm trolling. You want a star link? And the Iranian guy is like, not even looking at him. Like, what are you doing? What is this? Seriously, what is this? And by the way, this kind of sums up everything in a way. It's like, what are you doing? Why are you provoking? Why are you going up and doing that? And it doesn't look strong. It just looks freaking, it looks weird and deranged and predatory. You're watching what just happened moments ago. Let's play it.

1:10:07I thought it's appropriate to give you the star link. If you heard the prime minister, it can be very useful for you to allow the Iranian people to get their freedom after what you did to them. So you want to take it and deliver it back to the Iran? It can be very useful for you, anyone. We love the Iranian people and we pray for the regime change there. It will come that day. That's what you're doing. Like, that's like, that's what you're doing. You know, and then you have Netanyahu devoting his speech to attacking mom Donnie. You saw that and he calls New York City Mayor Mom Donnie anti-Semitic. The mom Donnie this and mom Donnie that mom Donnie mom Donnie. It's like mom Donnie is a popular mayor. He's delivering for the people of New York City. Like, I didn't hear a single other unless you did tell me for real. And then you wonder why,

1:11:10you know, people walk out of Netanyahu. You wonder why. I mean, obviously, in addition to the genocide in Gaza and slaughtering people who live in them. But it's like, you know, you came into the United States. You're in our country. What about America first? You're in our country. Understand? You're in the United States of America in New York City. A proud city. You're in New York City. No other world leaders out there attacking the New York City Mayor. The hell are you to attack the New York City Mayor? And then say the New York City Mayor's anti-Semitic when the New York City Mayor is not anti-Semitic and inject anti-Semitism into the New York City Mayor. This or that because the New York City Mayor stands against genocide in Gaza. And you, and by the way, even if you think this way Netanyahu about Mayor Mamdani, which you're wrong about, you come into our country.

1:12:12I mean, could you imagine if Xi Jinping was like, you know who I really don't like mayor bass of Los Angeles? You know, you know, who I really don't like? I don't like this governor of whatever. You know, I don't like the governor. It's like, well, you're not from our country. You have no right to stay in. Whether I like the mayor, I don't like the mayor, or whether it's a Republican or a Democratic who, you know, you're a foreign leader. This is America. Don't come in and lecture me about the leader. Like, who are you? Right? I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, to me, even if you don't like Mamdani, you should not want a foreign leader, whether it's the leader of Israel or any country to come in here and attack other like people in the United States who, you know, who are not in the world for a like this, right? How is this here? Watch, I'll show you one clip of

1:13:16Netanyahu saying that here. Play this clip. You refuse to condemn any of that. You falsely, repeatedly accuse Israel of genocide. Mr. Mamdani, you try to stop me from coming here. You tired, you try to silence me. Well, you can't silence me. You can't silence the truth. And here's the simple truth. Here's the simple truth. Israel didn't commit genocide. Israel prevented genocide. And that's exactly, that's exactly what Mr. Mamdani's Hamas buddies would have done to us. Had we not stopped him? Mr. Mamdani's Hamas buddies. I mean, who the hell are you? The hell are you to come into New York City and attack the New York City mayor and defame the New

1:14:23York City mayor like that at the United Nations? And then you wonder why you're despised amongst a lot of other reasons, but that's that's your behavior. And didn't she, I mean, isn't it just so interesting? Perhaps not the right word when you looked at like fat Elvis Javier Malay, the Argentine leader. I mean, the guys looks like he's out of, you know, you saw the way that guy like looks. He's got like the hair that looks like he's got some like, you know, he came out of a bathtub with a toaster oven in it. It's like, I hate the United Nations. This globalist scumbag, you know, you've got like that guy saying that, right? You've got Netanyahu behaving that way. And then by the way, Javier Malay was also saying yesterday, like, I love being in this club with like Israel and the United States and Argentina and you know, and you've got Trump. We need to stop

1:15:26globalist organizations like UNESCO, like the United Nations, like scientific research, you know, arm. We want all of you to make sure that you get out of the terrorist ICC, the international criminal courts are terrorists. I mean, while we learn here more cover up deaths in that people killed an action in Trump's catastrophic war in Iran, we learn that there were eight suicide attempts on the USS Abraham Lincoln alone. You have all of this, all of these hacking incidents taking place here. You have our country, you know, suffering, you know, in the United States on a day-to-day basis. And this is what Trump's doing and what I am and having she here and rolling out the red carpet and making our service members go on their knees and talking about the stonework and then freaking talking about hooker reptiles, reptile hookers, condo salesmen, a time share salesmen, and then Netanyahu attacking mom Donnie. He's like, like, the like, that's why I called

1:16:33the book WTF America. I mean, these people, these people are lunatics and WTF, like, how did we, how do we get here and how do we get the hell out of here? And I do think there's a way out of here. And I think the way out of here, though, is understanding that this ain't a game, this eight reality TV. And when politics is framed as this team and that team and, you know, who's going to win? Winning doesn't matter if the winning side is another version of the other side. Winning doesn't matter if you're going to win temporarily and then go right back to a worse version of what existed then before if you're just catapulted to the status quo and then politics is treated like the Mets versus Yankees or the Lakers versus Celtics, that's deeply problematic and that's at the root of the problem because we no longer think about any of this as values and principles and we have to get back to that and understand the more existential question about why do we even have

1:17:35politics in the first place and what's the goal of all of this? It's not for us to be non-consensual extras in a dystopian reality show where we're all like feeling like who are these people stop doing it? You know, it feels like we're in an escape room at this point. We're all just trying to get out of this madness while the Trumps and the Javier Malays and the Netanyahus and all these crazy lunatics are out there inflicting suffering. You know, what's so notable is I've been able to have conversations and interviews with people from other countries far and wide whether it was inside Iran or inside Yemen or inside Canada or in Europe or in South America or I've had conversations with people in Ecuador and all over and what we recognize is that we have shared humanity. We really do and people want to just be able to live with other people. I think at its core and peace, but we have all of these demagogues and hateful disgusting weirdos and lunatics out there who keep bringing us

1:18:39and dividing us and putting us on these paths and we saw that in a display like I think this week we see it more than ever. What I hope in this election, what I hope the message it sends more than this political party winning or that political party winning, which is important though for a system of checks and balances, but I hope the message that's truly being sent is that we aspire to some core values and principles beyond the gamification of I win so you lose. I want us to win and when I say us, not just as Americans, as people who share this earth together for a short period of time together, so we pass to the future generations a better world. That's it. That's what this is all about. That's what it's all about. We have to recognize our collective agency, what we can accomplish and that's what we'll be able to do together every damn day. I don't say this to sound corny. I truly believe in this to my core and this doesn't get talked about enough, but I know that this is how you feel. I know this is the feeling how most people are, right? Whether you're here in the United States or

1:19:44Canada or in Yemen or in Iran or in Asia, whether you're in China or South Korea or North Korea, whether you're in Mexico or Ecuador, whether you're in Greenland or whether you're in Nigeria or South Africa or I could keep on going and name every freaking country. But the point remains, I think we genuinely want to live in peace. We want to smile. We want to have hobbies. We want to actually live productive lives. That's what we want. We want to get out of this hell. We want to get out of this madness. Anyway, that's what you watch the show with my brothers tonight. We'll focus more on some of the news we missed. But the book is called WTF America. Go get it right now, the way out of this hell. And back to democracy. It comes out officially October 20th. But if you were planning on buying, which I hope you are, do the pre-order. The pre-orders are really important and they help a lot to plan. Are we going to travel here? Where do we go to? So please pre-order now if you can. Tell others about the book. I want to keep that momentum going. It's almost October 20th

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