Ep2 - Media Incompetence & the Iran Deal

Welcome to the Public Perspective. I'm Jim Perrin, and last week we talked about incompetence and comp— named a few professions like doctors and weatherman and all that kind of stuff, but I forgot to, to bring up mainstream media and how many of them are very incompetent, and some of our elected officials sadly are very incompetent. They spew all this hatred all the time, and I don't know under— I don't understand it. Just if you're keeping up with current events, just last week at the White House, there was a UFC event, and I guess they arrested 5 guys, had a terror plot to go ahead and they had drones, they had snipers, they had it all planned out. And 5 of them are in custody in there. I guess there was 23 altogether.

They're still looking for the others.

But the thing is, they got one of the guys' phones, and on his emails— and his text messages, I should say— to each other, he talked about illegitimate government, illegitimate president, and all this kind of stuff to do as much damage to to the wealthy people, to the oligarchies. Where does this come from? This comes from the mainstream media and our elected politicians spewing this nonsense that our president is illegitimate and rich—

being rich like Elon Musk is bad, is a bad thing, not a good thing.

Used to be celebrated in this country. Now it's a bad thing. Okay, they got these guys anyway, and I hope they go to jail for a long time. But the thing is that, like I said, it's a Democratic talking point is basically what it is. And it's just gotta be put a halt to it at some point. I don't understand because when they do all this, they are radicalizing our youth in particular.

Okay.

They're telling them all this nonsense. And some of them are act like lone wolves and take it into consideration.

It's always been dangerous. Abraham Lincoln, for example, was shot by a Democrat. John F. Kennedy was shot by a Democrat. Robert F. Kennedy, his little brother, was shot by a Democrat. Martin Luther King was shot by a Democrat. Yes, that's right, he was shot by a Democrat. Okay, Ronald Reagan was shot by a Democrat. Donald Trump has been shot by a Democrat. Charlie Kirk was shot by a Democrat. Even Steve Scalise, playing softball or baseball game for the Capitol, was shot by a Democrat.

So this notion that the right wing all has all the violence is just fake news media.

It's not true.

Is there violence from the right?

Sure, no doubt about it.

White supremacy is bad. Are there groups out there that are racist and white supremacist?

Sure, sure there are.

But all the bad is coming from the right.

That's just not true. That's fake news.

That is totally fake news. Just so you know what Donald Trump's talking about and what he's had to deal with, the stupid media. They are so incompetent, it is incredible. But they have Trump Derangement Syndrome. And that's a problem. Even some Republicans have it. And I can't wait, but pretty soon I expect to see some claims made and some people put in for some prescriptions from, and have Medicaid and Medicare pay for it for TDS. I guess if it happens, it'll, the doctors will prove it's a real condition. It causes people not to be able to relate to one another. It causes hate.

It's divided our country in half.

Half the people love Donald Trump, half the people hate Donald Trump.

I don't know the answer. I just know that it should be America, especially coming up on the verge of our 250th birthday.

This country's been great. The truth is that more people have come in this country this racist, terrible, awful place. More people have come here over the last 250 years than any other nation in history. And we are a total nation of immigrants. But we, we're legal immigrants. People come here legally. They don't come here illegally and break in and then cause chaos. And our kindness has been betrayed a little bit because because we've let a lot of people in, and some are very good people. Most are very good people, but you get some bad apples in here who don't— who are in the country that don't like this country. They don't like America. They don't like Americans. They don't like our way of life.

They take advantage of it, okay? They take advantage, complete advantage of it.

Anyways, I don't know what's going on, but it seems the Trump Derangement Syndrome is Like I said, very real. Now we're going to get into the Iran thing a little bit later, but see, the— when he was bombed, when, when Trump administration was bombing Iran, and the Democrats and the media hated war, they hated it. Now we signed a peace agreement and they hate peace.

I don't—

I'm confused. I don't know which is it.

You hate war or you hate peace?

You can't have both. See, Donald Trump was bombing and then he stopped, and now you hated the bombing. Now you hate— you can't— you just can't go both ways with this, okay? Even a lot of Republicans— there's some congressmen like John Cornyn down in Texas and Bill Cassidy in Louisiana, and another one over in North Carolina, Tom Tillis in North Carolina. They're on their way out and they're doing everything they can to bash Trump and badmouth Trump. They never liked him in the first place. Heard me an idea the other day from a guy I like, and over in Europe, I didn't know this, but in Europe they have four, four different parties. Like we've got independents here as a third party, but it never does nothing as far as elections go.

It's either Democrat or Republican.

We know that. But he had an idea.

Why don't we go ahead and split and make it four parties?

A four-party system like they have over in Europe. We could have the Democratic Socialists, okay? They seem to have taken over pretty much the Democrat Party, so they can have their Democrat Socialists. And then you can have the moderate Democrats be another category, be another party. And then you can have the moderate Republicans, okay? Or the— that, that's one group. And then you can have the MAGA Okay. See, MAGA though makes up about 40% of the country. The Democratic Socialists, maybe 25%. The Democrats, maybe another 20%, the moderates. And the moderate Republicans, the Trump haters basically, they take up about 10% of the space. So if we had those, that system in place, the MAGA Republicans would win just about every election. But until then, I don't know what we're gonna do. Damn it, man, I'm bummed. Anyway, a lot of the Democrat Party has been hijacked pretty much by the Democrat socialists. Margaret Thatcher probably said it best when she said the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. Capitalism has raisen— risen more people up out of poverty than any other form of government or anything ever. Like I said about Margaret Thatcher, okay. And anyway, the Democratic socialists, they're— Zoran Mondame won, and now we've got another one in D.C. Now Mondame can do what he wants. It's New York City. And if you want to vote for that, go ahead and vote for it. That's your New York. You're on your own. That's your business. As far as this, whatever her name is, George, George or whatever, I don't know. She looks like she's going to be the next mayor there, succeeding Muriel Bowser. And she's a Democrat socialist and she's going to abolish this and give away free and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. She's got one little problem. The federal government still has jurisdiction in Washington, D.C. So. That's just one thing she'll have to worry about. But I'm going to wrap it up about the thing we always call everyone— the Democrats call Trump a Nazi and fascist, and the MAGA Republicans fascists and Nazis, all that kind of stuff with their rhetoric. It's nonsense. Fascism, if you look at Wikipedia, it's a far-right theory, a far-right ideology, is what to how they claim it. Okay, that's not what it is. It can be far right, it can be far left. What it is, basically, you stamp out any kind of dissent whatsoever. You don't let people speak. What does that remind you of? They don't want to have a conversation. That's fascism right there. A lot of people spouting fascism, you fascist, they don't even know what the word means.

Okay, so I'm gonna wrap that—

this section about that and the TDS thing right now up, and we'll maybe talk more about it, and we'll have a little history lesson at one of these podcasts coming up. But I want to switch over to the Iran situation because last week when we talked, I also talked about the Iran situation. We talked about— I didn't approve of a lot of things. I agree with Donald Trump for going over there. I agree that they don't, they don't, they can't have a nuclear weapon. I agree with all that stuff. The world's a better place when they're behaving and they're nice and they're not paying their proxies to murder Jews or shoot missiles into Israel or anywhere else. Okay. So, as far as I can see, this MO is a pretty good deal. Far as I can tell, I've been talking to a lot of the people that I trust, and frankly, that I believe and are usually spot on correct. They say it's a good deal. I still have some reservations, which I'll talk to you in a second about, but the Strait of Hormuz is open. Oil was down just today. It's around $70-some dollars a barrel, which is low. All these people They, they said the oil was going to go up to $200 if we did this war with Iran, Trump's war, they call it, that it was going to go up to $200 a barrel. It didn't. They said that the stock markets were going to crash and go plummet. They didn't. They actually set record highs. Okay. So all these things, they said this is going to be World War III.

It's not.

They said a lot of things, and now all these people, the mainstream media mostly, is saying, oh, this is a bad deal, Iran got everything they wanted.

I don't know.

We did trillions of dollars of damage over there, and I'm going to get into some dissent on my own part where I don't know and I'm not sure about. I think there's some confusion in the communications. I think different people are saying different things within the Trump organization that are contradicting each other a little bit and it's giving them, the media, their red meat that they want. Now, Donald Trump's been very hard on Bibi Netanyahu as of late. And me, I think Netanyahu has every right to go ahead and attack Hezbollah. After they've been lobbing bombs and missiles into northern Israel, the kids can't go to school there. The schools are closed. If the shoe was on the other foot, if Mexico was shooting missiles into Texas or Arizona, what the hell do you think Donald Trump would do? I know what he would do. And so you can't be hard on Bibi Netanyahu.

He has a right and Israel has a right as a sovereign nation to defend themselves.

Period. And if Hezbollah is going to be acting up, they're a sponsor, a proxy of Iran. And I understand Trump doesn't want them— this going on between Hezbollah and Israel because he's trying to make this deal with Iran. See, people think this MOU is the final thing.

It's not.

It's a signed deal that says they're going to talk for 60 days and discuss all the little finer details. The parts I'm afraid of, and like I said, I trust a lot of people who've told me it's a good deal. And we're keeping an eye on them. We're like babysitters, and we'll be watching them very closely. And they got to comply, and they got to do what, what's in the deal, or they'll pay for it. We can always— we're not— nobody's leaving over there. The military is going to stay. Will stay in place. We can put embargoes back on, we can put sanctions back on. But I am a little concerned about them really releasing some of the frozen assets. That's money that they have. I don't know if we can control that, or if they get that money, or who gets that money. I don't understand where that's going to come from. I'm concerned though about the frozen assets. And now we've opened the Strait of Hormuz. That's good news because that gets the global economy going and that gets the oil flowing all over the country. I like that. That was a main objective and that's good that we got that done and the oil prices will come down, which maybe the food prices and we can work on all that stuff. But I am concerned because I'm a little worried. Iran is now selling oil, and that money will go right to them. And I'm not so sure they're going to behave. I'm not so sure they're not going to take that money and the IRGC isn't going to take that money because they're really the ones in charge. And that's not who we're negotiating with. We're negotiating with other leaders who probably don't even really run the country. They're probably more like spokespeople. I don't believe they're actually in charge. I could be wrong, and I hope I'm wrong. I hope that this all works out and we've got good peace and it'll bring peace in the region. Qatar is supposedly going to spend $300 million on the recon—

help to help reconstruct Iran, and they're going to need it.

And as long as that money goes, and my understanding of the deal is that The Arab countries control that money, okay? It does not go right to the Iranians.

It will go to the contractors that are over there.

It will go to the contractors that are in charge over there of rebuilding and doing that kind of stuff. They have also allowed the— look at the International Atomic Energy Agency. I had to look that one up because I had never heard of it. But they've allowed them to go over and do inspections, and they've also going to— they agree to let US people go in and inspect as far as their nuclear program and all that. They promised not to enrich and during this time, and they're going to— that's what they're discussing over the next 60 days. So there's a lot of promise there. And again, some problems. We, far as I know, we took out 80%, 90% of their ballistic missile capabilities and all that kind of stuff. But there's some subterranean ballistic missile program we didn't get to. That has me a little bit concerned. And also, I'm a little bit frustrated about the fact that they killed over, reportedly over 50,000 of their own people. Their own people.

What kind of sick people do that?

But that's who they are.

That's who we're dealing with.

That's who we're trying to make an agreement with. But there's no penalty for that. It's, ah, you killed 50,000 people, but no pen— that's okay. As long as we can get a peace agreement in place. I, that doesn't sit good with me. I would have kind of liked to see a regime change, but it's probably a little harder, easier said than done. But that's another thing. The Democrats said, oh, he's going to have boots on the ground. We didn't have no boots on the ground, so there was no major war and all casualties. I think we lost 13 Americans. Now, God bless all of them for their sacrifice, and it's a shame that we lost even one. But the fact is, we didn't have boots on the ground. We didn't have all the turmoil, all the things that everyone said we're going to have, all this. It's just That was pure nonsense. And like I said, I still have a lot of reservations. I, there's also talk about they're going to charge tolls of some sort. And now there's where the White House and the Trump administration is having a little difficulty in communicating with the American people because I've heard they're not allowed to have tolls. They'll have fees. And I've heard there's going to be no fees, no tolls. And I've also heard that, yeah, they're going to allow them after 60 days to charge fees.

So I—

environmental fees. Nobody should control the waterways in this country because once one, one country starts doing it, there's other waterways as well. The Panama Canal. There's waterways. The damn world's 75% ocean. Okay. So when you start letting one country take dominance or domain over the waterways, I don't know if that's going to work out too good. Cause why won't everybody start charging tolls? Then the prices will go up and then people, other countries won't want to send theirs that way. They'll send them around and it's just chaos. And so I I don't like that.

Depends on—

but again, I don't know what's in the agreement, what's in the deal, and nobody does. They're just spouting off like they— everybody's talking about what they know what they're talking about, and I'm not sure anybody does. I hope Donald Trump does, because I learned one thing about Donald Trump. I do trust him, okay? And if he says something I tend sometimes to disagree with him, but then in the long run, he sees a bigger picture than most people. Most people don't see down the road. It would have been easily— easy politically for him, without a doubt, just to concentrate and keep the oil prices down. We produce more energy than anybody. We don't even really need the Middle East anymore.

We used to be dependent on their oil. We don't need them anymore.

The Western Hemisphere is starting to produce a ton of oil. United States, we're the biggest, largest exporters of oil, right? And gas and natural gas in the world right now. Yeah, the largest in the world. Venezuela, we're getting tons and tons of oil from them. Our hemisphere, the Western Hemisphere, is putting out plenty of energy. And that is, that's national security. Regardless of what you think, if you like the Green New Deal and electric this and windmills and whatever, elect—

national security depends on energy independence.

Okay? It just does. It keeps our Navy going. It keeps our military. It keeps our planes in the air.

It's all run on fuel.

Okay? It's lighting this room right now. It's, it's more important than anybody could even imagine. The energy that, that is— provides so many different things that we just take for granted here in this country. So I'm going to go ahead and trust Donald Trump on this one and see how it plays out. I, again, I have my reservations, but maybe they'll be answered, and this may be the long-term deal where he's right again. So, because He's, he's definitely bucked the system and every time they've tried to do this or that, he comes out and shows them that he's usually right. So anyway, I'm going to, I'm going to end it right there. I've had a long day and thanks for everybody watching and God bless everybody. And be sure to check us out and follow us on Facebook. And now we're now on YouTube and Spotify. And wherever else, maybe you get your podcast. We're working on that right now. We're just up and running. And like I said, make sure you follow us on Facebook at Public Perspective.

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And like I said, God bless everybody. And we'll see you next week.