Buck Brief - Swalwell Was 2 Weeks Away From a Nuclear Weapon
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1:58your podcasts. Swarwell has the worst week of his political career.
2:04Maybe the worst week of his life, honestly.
2:06Certainly the worst since Feng Feng left him.
2:09So, here is the situation.
2:11The guy was going to be the next Democrat nominee for governor of California, our
2:17biggest state by population, our biggest state by GDP, and, like, the fifth largest economy
2:24in the world or something like that, which Gavin Newsom always loves to tell everybody.
2:28And, sure enough, he is now toast.
2:31He is done. Swalwell has been pushed out.
2:34Who ordered the code red?
2:36Who pushed this through? Who made Swalwell a thing of the past now, at least
2:43in the governor's race? Because we still have the question of whether he can keep
2:48his seat in Congress. I think, by the way, the answer is yes, they will
2:52try to allow this because he is politically useful to them in the Congress.
2:59And that just shows you how absolutely ruthless these Democrats are, how little they actually
3:05care about principle or these women who have come forward or anything else.
3:09By the way, to add insult to injury, some billionaire who was letting Eric Swalwell
3:16stay in his mansion, that's good to be the next big political thing in California,
3:24he has said that he wants a million dollars back and he wants Swalwell out
3:30of his, out of his, I guess he donated a million to the campaign, and
3:33wants him out of his mansion.
3:36So, yeah, this guy has been completely and utterly nailed.
3:43They've also got him, to give you a sense of how thorough this is, we
3:48didn't talk about this on the radio, they have him on a paying an illegal
3:54Brazilian live -in nanny off the books and under the table with campaign funds, according
4:03to a complaint. So they're hitting him with everything.
4:05It's not just saying that he has former staffers who have accused him of sexual
4:10assault, although that is certainly in the allegations here.
4:15It's not just that he sent photos of his private parts, his genitalia, to people
4:24who were certainly not asking for that, which is unsurprising.
4:28I'm sure there are a lot of them who really didn't want to see that.
4:32No interest in seeing that.
4:35But now he's got also, they're going after, it's almost like they're going to find
4:38out that he owes money on a library card or something.
4:41They are trying to fully destroy this guy.
4:45And I'm just going to say this, I saw a photo of the Brazilian nanny
4:50who was staying with him.
4:52I wonder, I mean, I think we're all wondering the same thing.
4:55Really? All these other women but the live -in Brazilian nanny?
5:00If you see a photo of her, I'm telling you, you wouldn't want, you wouldn't
5:05want her hanging out around Swalwell if she was your wife or your daughter.
5:09I can assure you of that.
5:12So, yeah. And then there's also this video of Swalwell with a sex worker that
5:20has been sent around. this guy is a troll.
5:24mess. And here's what should be known about this.
5:29Everybody knew about this guy being a scumbag and Democrats didn't care at all.
5:33In fact, I would argue for all intents and purposes, Democrats, if someone is politically
5:41useful to them, they do not care what that person has done, what kind of
5:46person they are. It does not matter at all.
5:50They don't care at all.
5:52But the second you cross over to the other side of that equation, as Swalwell
5:56did, he was messing things up for them in the California Democrat primary.
6:01He was creating issues. They will.
6:05There's they're ruthless. They are absolutely ruthless.
6:10And yeah, that is certainly what we saw here.
6:13That is the reality of what it means to be a Democrat.
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7:30Let's talk about this for a minute, shall we?
7:34Uh, the Trump administration, the, uh, I, I told you this, that the negotiations, I
7:41don't know if I said it on radio or here on this podcast on the
7:43buck brief, uh, but the negotiations have no chance of succeeding as long as both
7:51sides have the same non -negotiable, which they currently do.
7:57Both teams here, so to speak, both Democrats and Republicans, I'm sorry, whoops, thinking about
8:03domestic politics, both Americans and Iranians, the Trump administration and the mullahs say that you
8:10have to get rid of, Iran has to get rid of its enriched uranium because
8:15that is a critical step in its process of getting to a nuclear weapon.
8:21This has been at issue for a long time.
8:23The Iranians, I might add, are just saying absolutely no way, no how, no chance.
8:29And that means that Trump and his team are saying, well, we're not going to
8:32come to an agreement here.
8:33We're not going to have a deal if this is where things stand.
8:37And that is where it will end up.
8:42And so this is why there's discussion already from Trump today, in fact, saying that
8:47we're going to have to go and take it, take the enriched uranium.
8:51That doesn't mean deal. That means we're going to have a major military operation, a
8:57major military operation that will result in hopefully just the complete and utter elimination of
9:06all of Iran's stockpiles and therefore really set them back years.
9:12Now, I hate to be the one who has to bring this up.
9:16Uh, but even in that situation, even in that situation, there is the Iranian going
9:26forward, the Iranians are going to try to get back to making this stuff and
9:30everything else. The ultimate problem here is that the people who control Iran and its
9:35resources are enemies of the United States.
9:39that's the real, everything else is kind of a distraction from that reality, or I
9:46should say is insufficient until we confront that reality.
9:50Uh, the Iranian regime is the problem.
9:54Yeah. In the, in the immediate term, it's nukes and everything else.
9:56But you see what I'm saying?
9:57Even if we take out the enriched uranium, if the straight opens up and the
10:01oil is flowing, the Iranians are going to start playing this game again.
10:04They're going to start trying to get, they're going to build back their ballistic missiles
10:08and everything else. This is why Trump's position on this is, I think this is
10:14a, this is a once and for all finish this situation.
10:17He's not going to play any games with this.
10:19So let's talk about the military side of this equation and what that will look
10:23like. And with the straight of Hormuz and how I see this blend, but I
10:26just want to be clear, there is no future.
10:28There is no world in which the Iranians let us take their enriched uranium.
10:33We'd have to go in there militarily with force, kill a lot of people, which
10:38is, you know, what we would do, kill a lot of Iranians in the military
10:42and take the stuff. There is no, I do not see a world in which
10:47they say, you know what?
10:48We're finally going to get this stuff up.
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11:34U .S. has imposed a naval blockade.
11:37Trump is demanding the end of the Iranian nuclear program.
11:39The peace talks have failed.
11:41So are we able to enforce this blockade militarily as part one?
11:48And then part two, do we have the political will to continue on with this?
11:51Does the Trump administration. You got oil surging past $100 a barrel.
11:57The ceasefire set to expire in nine days.
11:59I'm calling this right now.
12:01The ceasefire is going to expire, and we are going to extend the talks.
12:09Just mark down that I said this.
12:12Because we don't really want to keep bombing them.
12:14And we'd rather talk. And they're going to give us just enough excuse, if you
12:19want to call it that, on our side to continue on the talks without hitting
12:23them harder. So that's what I see happening.
12:27But this is going to be a real, this is the ultimate game of chicken.
12:31You know, chicken with two cars on the road, they're driving each other full speed.
12:34It's my impression of cars.
12:36Sorry for those listening on podcast.
12:39And the cars are going, and they're getting closer.
12:41And then finally, someone has to pull off the road, or they're still going to
12:44collide. It's essentially who blinks first, if you will.
12:49And in this one, I think the Iranians believe, because of the pressure on Trump,
12:54with the midterms looming, we will blink first.
12:57The Republicans, Trump, America, we will blink first, which means conceding to endless, fruitless negotiations
13:07instead of militarily decisive action.
13:11That's what Iran wants. They want their oil to flow, and they want, through Hormuz
13:18and other ways, and they want to be able to build back up, and then
13:25go into all kinds of talks with us.
13:26Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.
13:27With none of their actual goals for Iran, pertaining to the nuclear program, pertaining to
13:33ballistic missiles, any of that changing.
13:35That is what they want.
13:36That's their desired end state now.
13:38Other than like, death to America, and destroying Israel, and the whole thing, right?
13:41They want that too, but that's unrealistic right now, for them, thankfully.
13:45What do we want? We want to finish off, those of you who remember Mortal
13:52Kombat, finish him. We're trying to finish him, when it comes to their nuclear program.
13:57Like, really end this thing.
13:59And that means taking the enriched uranium, and destroying the rest of whatever is left
14:04of their nuclear facilities, stuff buried underground.
14:08And I think that's going to require not just the sustained aerial campaign that we've
14:12had, being kick -started once again, but also, it would require a major U .S.
14:21military deployment of troops. Now, I don't mean 100 ,000 for years.
14:25I mean, whatever at these sites would be required to secure the site, destroy the
14:31site, take the enriched uranium out, fly out.
14:35This is something that it seems Trump is certainly considering.
14:38And I think it's going to come to that.
14:40The wild card, as I see it here, is, do the Iranians, if we continue
14:46with this blockade, and Trump doesn't flinch, doesn't blink, because of the pressure here at
14:52home, gas prices going up, going up, going up, do the Iranians decide, you know
14:58what, screw it. If I can't have the straight, no one can.
15:02And then they just, they, all they have to do is send a couple of
15:06these low -tech, low -cost, high -speed boats, just full of dum -dum explosives, at
15:12a, at a oil tanker that's actually slowly making its way through the straight.
15:17Remember, the Strait of Hormuz is, is a few dozen miles at various points.
15:23It is not a big waterway.
15:25And so, I mean, not a wide waterway at some of the choke points.
15:30And so, they just decide, you know what, we're going to go for it, and
15:32they blow up an oil tanker and just create a giant ecological mess there.
15:36Now, that would be, in a sense, cutting off their nose to spite their face,
15:40but it would spite our face, too.
15:41That would hurt everybody. It would hurt them more in the short term.
15:46But, we're playing chicken with a bunch of crazies.
15:51I'm not sure that's going to work out in our favor, but Trump, I've got
15:54to tell you, I would not want to be in the other side of a
15:56poker contest of this scale.
16:00World peace at stake, in a sense.
16:01Not world peace. I was being a little rhetorical flourish there.
16:06Regional peace in the Middle East at stake.
16:09I wouldn't want to be the other side of the poker table from Trump.
16:13They can't, they can't call on the usual, what about international law and the UN
16:19and the international community? unity in European capitals and blah, none of that stuff on
16:24Trump works at all. He doesn't care.
16:26He knows who these bad guys are in Iran, and he's had enough.
16:30I really just think that he lost patience with them with the whole thing, and
16:34that has been a major driver of this for him.
16:37So we'll see. But mark down what I'm saying, because I want to go back.
16:40I mean, look, I hope just Trump kicks their asses, finishes off the program, and
16:44we end this thing, and we can start thinking about the home front ASAP.
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