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19 million barrels passed through yesterday, you're probably going to go through 20 million. You were basically almost halfway back of the original shortage of world oil supply, which was about 20% out of 100 billion barrels a day, so 20 billion dollars barrels a day. And look, I just wanted, I guess I have to say it, this memo is non-binding. It's just a political document that opened up a conversation. And whatever the IRGC people may or may not say, they're like Baghdad Bob during the Iraqi war reminds me of that, because there's no bearing in any. They're saying, for example, the Strait of Hormuz is closed, and we're having record transits right now. Women in the streets of Tehran are not wearing their hijab, walking around in short skirts on motorcycles, saying things and singing songs. It's as though they've lost the morality play that they tried to do. Trump has destroyed Iran's military, its industrial base, its economy. They're on their knees, and they're suing for peace. And he's got a diplomatic initiative, and it's going to take a while. I agree with that. It's going to take quite a while, but I take it very, very seriously. And meanwhile, energy prices coming down, gasoline prices coming down, and any money that might go in the next 30 days to Iran, or 60 days, is going to pass through the U.S. Treasury's escrow account. In other words, we will control any money from Iranian oil sales. You're talking about frozen funds. Actually, oil sales first, and the frozen funds may come later, but it will go through a Treasury escrow account which is aimed at purchasing American farm products, various commodities and medical products, to help the people in Iran. So I think, you know, Trump is absolutely in control. There's so much hand-wringing going on here, probably for political reasons, but I think he's on the right track.

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A document/screenshot combining a typed biographical text block with an embedded photograph. The text, under the bold heading "Scott LoBaido:", describes him as an American artist and activist known for patriotic artwork. Below the text is a color photo taken indoors (appears to be a shop or gallery with string lights and wood beams overhead) showing two men standing on either side of a framed painting on an easel. The painting depicts a stylized image of a man (resembling Donald Trump) with a raised fist, set against a blue background with an American flag waving above. The man on the left wears sunglasses, a light pink/tan short-sleeve shirt, and tan pants, with his hands clasped in front of him. The man on the right, resembling Donald Trump, wears a dark suit with a white shirt and no tie, standing with a neutral expression.

Text in image: Scott LoBaido: Scott LoBaido is an American artist and activist best known for his bold, patriotic artwork celebrating the United States, first responders, and military service members. Originally from Staten Island, New York, LoBaido gained national attention for transforming ordinary spaces into large-scale American flag murals and public art installations that emphasize themes of patriotism, freedom, and national pride. His work often blends pop culture, political commentary, and Americana, making his style instantly recognizable through vivid colors and dramatic imagery. Beyond traditional painting, he has become known for attention-grabbing public projects and advocacy efforts supporting veterans, police officers, and firefighters. LoBaido's art has been featured across the country on buildings, vehicles, and landmarks, earning him a reputation as one of the most outspoken patriotic artists in contemporary American culture.

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A color photograph of an active construction site under a blue sky with thin clouds. A concrete-framed multi-story structure stands at left, with steel beams laid on a concrete deck in the foreground and a partly erected steel frame in the center. A tall tower crane with a lifting cable and two orange slings rises in the middle. A large red lattice-boom crawler crane marked "BAY CRANE" stands at right. About a dozen workers in hard hats and orange or yellow high-visibility vests stand near the steel on the right and a few appear at left. Rebar stubs, black buckets and a red fire extinguisher sit on the deck. Neoclassical-style buildings and a tree are visible in the background at right. There is no caption or overlay.

Text in image: BAY CRANE

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A composite image with the bold heading "Trump Endorsement Success 8.26.2026" at top, containing four screenshotted social media posts arranged in a 2x2 grid, all about Trump-endorsed candidates winning primary or runoff elections. Top-left: a Fox News Politics post (@foxnewspolitics) about Darline Graham (sister of the late Lindsey Graham) winning a South Carolina Senate runoff over Rep. Ralph Norman, with a photo of a woman in a blue top. Top-right: a post from DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) declaring Trump-backed Darline Graham won the SC senate primary runoff, with an embedded election-results graphic showing Graham at 52% and Norman at 48%. Bottom-left: a post from Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) quoting a Decision Desk HQ projection graphic declaring Darline Graham the projected winner of the South Carolina US Senate Republican Runoff. Bottom-right: a post from MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) announcing Trump-endorsed Mike Mazzei won the Oklahoma Governor GOP primary, with a photo of a man in a dark suit and red tie speaking at a podium with an American flag behind him.

Text in image: Trump Endorsement Success 8.26.2026 Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics Trump's endorsement powers the late Lindsey Graham's sister to a historic runoff victory over Rep. Ralph Norman in South Carolina's Senate race. Darline Graham, who had virtually no political experience before being appointed to finish her brother's term after his sudden death in July, toppled a sitting congressman after Trump personally pushed her to run and MAGA Inc. dumped over $800,000 into a last-minute text and phone campaign to boost her candidacy. MAGA INC. DUMPS OVER $800K INTO LAST-MINUTE BLITZ TO POWER GRAHAM TO VICTORY 11:00 PM - Aug 25, 2026 - 19.6K Views DeVory Darkins @devorydarkins BREAKING NEWS: Trump-backed candidate Darline Graham WINS South Carolina senate primary special runoff. This proves that a Trump endorsement is STILL a winning ticket! And that's it. So very close, closer than I think some people thought it would be. Interesting. US SENATE-GOP SOUTH CAROLINA INCUMBENT DARLINE GRAHAM 52% 138,009 VOTES RALPH NORMAN 48% 125,489 VOTES CALLING THIS RACE NEWSMAX 0:59 C1 LIVE SC 48% NORMAN 8:55 PM - Aug 25, 2026 - 3,751 Views Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt The endorsement of President Trump is still the gold card for GOP primaries. Senator Graham will do a superb job for people of SC. Decision Desk HQ @DecisionDeskHQ 16h Decision Desk HQ projects Darline Graham wins the SC US Senate Republican Runoff DecisionMade: 8:38 PM EDT South Carolina US Senate - Republican Runoff PROJECTED WINNER Darline Graham DecisionDeskHQ.com 9:09 PM - Aug 25, 2026 - 13.5K Views MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice Subscribe JUST IN: IT'S OFFICIAL: Trump endorsed Mike Mazzei WINS Oklahoma Governor GOP primary Proof that Trump's endorsement is very important He won by a couple thousand votes 1:33 AM - Aug 26, 2026 - 19.5K Views

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A political campaign graphic with a blue-to-red gradient background. On the left is a photo of Donald Trump (head/shoulders, unsmiling, wearing a dark suit and blue tie) and on the right is a photo of a smiling man with short hair wearing a light checked button-down shirt. At the bottom center is the "TRUMP VANCE / MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" campaign logo with star icons.

Text in image: REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR MO-05 RICK BRATTIN WINS! ENDORSED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP! TRUMP VANCE MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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A political infographic titled "Trump's Endorsements," flanked by two gold "45|47" presidential-seal-style emblems. A table lists three rows — SENATE, HOUSE, and GOVERNOR — each with a "Candidates Endorsed" and "Candidates Won" column, with matching numbers (8/8, 101/101, 8/8) and a green checkmark next to each "won" total. To the right of the table is an official-style portrait photo of Donald Trump in a dark suit and blue tie in front of an American flag, with a serious/stern expression.

Text in image: Trump's Endorsements 45|47 45|47 Candidates Endorsed Candidates Won SENATE 8 8 ✔ HOUSE 101 101 ✔ GOVERNOR 8 8 ✔

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A painted (impressionistic-style) portrait depicting a man resembling Donald Trump seated at a desk in the Oval Office, signing or writing on a document with a pen in his right hand while pointing at the paper with his left index finger. He has blond/white swept-back hair, a serious downward-focused expression, and wears a navy blue suit jacket, white dress shirt, a small American flag lapel pin, and a dark blue tie with a colorful polka-dot pattern. Behind him are American flags, gold curtains, the presidential seal on a blue drape, and a side table topped with framed photographs. To the right, a wall map showing part of the United States is visible, labeled with the word "Gulf" over a body of water (an apparent reference to the Gulf of Mexico/America). Small illegible cursive writing appears on the document being signed.

Text in image: Gulf

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A political infographic bar chart comparing conflicts under "Other Presidents" versus "Trump." The left side (labeled "Other Presidents") shows four conflicts, each with a blue bar for duration in years and a red bar for death toll: Vietnam War (19 Years / 58,220 Dead), Korean War (3 Years / 36,574 Dead), Iraq War (9 Years / 4,600 Dead), and Afghanistan War (20 Years / 2,000 Dead). The right side (labeled "Trump") shows two much shorter entries: Iran Military Conflict (4 Months / 18 Dead) and Venezuela War (1 Day / 0 Dead), with correspondingly tiny bars. The chart uses blue bars for time duration and red bars for death counts, appearing to argue that conflicts under Trump have been shorter and less deadly than those under other presidents.

Text in image: Other Presidents Trump Vietnam War 19 Years 58,220 DEAD Korean War 3 Years 36,574 DEAD Iraq War 9 Years 4,600 DEAD Afghanistan War 20 Years 2,000 DEAD Iran Military Conflict 4 Months 18 DEAD Venezuela War 1 Day 0 DEAD

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A photograph of two older men standing side by side in a bright, beige-toned room, facing the camera. The man on the left is taller, with gray hair, and wears a dark navy suit, white shirt, blue patterned tie, a small gold pin on the lapel, and black dress shoes. The man on the right has short graying hair and a gray beard, and wears a navy and green zip-up fleece jacket, black pants, and black Reebok sneakers. The left man has an arm around the right man's shoulder. Behind them are a cream tufted leather sofa, two floor lamps with white shades, a wood-paneled wall, window blinds, a wooden table with plates, and white chairs. No caption or overlaid text is visible.

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A photograph of two men shaking hands in a bright office or meeting room. The man on the left has short gray hair and wears a dark navy suit, white shirt and a blue-and-white striped tie. The man on the right is older, with gray hair and a gray stubble beard. He wears a navy and dark green zip-up fleece jacket, black pants and black sneakers. Both are smiling slightly and looking at each other. Behind them are tall windows with wooden blinds, a potted plant, a table with plates of food and white chairs, a floor lamp, and a cream leather sofa with a low table holding a cup and a sugar bowl. No captions, logos or text are visible, and the image has no identifying labels.

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A color photograph of two older men standing and talking in a bright, well-furnished room with beige walls and wooden window blinds. The man on the left has gray hair and wears a dark navy suit, white shirt and blue patterned tie with a small lapel pin. He holds a stack of white papers and a pen or phone in his hands, and he looks toward the other man. The man on the right has short graying hair and light stubble, smiles, and wears a green-and-navy zip fleece jacket, black pants and black sneakers. He holds a smartphone in one hand and a small dark purple booklet with a gold emblem, which looks like a passport, in the other. Behind them are a dining table with plates of food, white chairs, a potted plant, a table lamp, a cream leather sofa and a side table with a cup and saucer. The photo has no caption, overlay or visible text.

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A posed photograph of eight people crowded together inside the cabin of a private jet, smiling at the camera. Three people in front (a woman with long brown hair in a pink-beige blazer, an older gray-haired man in a dark hoodie, and a young blonde woman in a green patterned shawl) and a man in a dark suit at the right hold an American flag stretched across the bottom of the frame. Behind them stand a woman with her hair in a bun and a dark blazer, a man in a plaid shirt, a woman with long light-brown hair, and a tall man in a dark button-up shirt. The cabin has cream interior panels, wood trim and overhead vents, and sunlight comes through a window at right. No text, captions or logos are visible.

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A political campaign graphic with a blue-to-red gradient background and a white border. It features a headshot-style image of Donald Trump (serious, unsmiling expression) on the left and a headshot-style image of a smiling man in a navy suit with a red patterned tie on the right (identified in the text as Congressman Eric Burlison). At the bottom center is a "TRUMP VANCE / MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" campaign logo with stars.

Text in image: CONGRESSMAN (MO-07) ERIC BURLISON WINS! ENDORSED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP! TRUMP VANCE MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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♪ This is the life, hold on tight ♪ ♪ And this is the dream, it's all ♪

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A news-style photograph of a man in profile view, positioned in the lower right of the frame, in front of a large, out-of-focus American flag that fills the background. He has light-colored/blond hair, and is wearing a navy blue suit jacket, white dress shirt, and a red tie, with a small flag pin on his lapel. His head is tilted slightly downward and he is looking off to the left, out of frame. The flag's stars and stripes are heavily blurred/bokeh, suggesting a shallow depth of field typical of event or rally photography. There is no visible caption or overlaid text in the image itself.

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A tiered infographic ranking U.S. presidents by category, formatted as a pyramid-like chart with portrait photos/paintings and name labels under each. Trump is placed alone at the top in a category labeled "THE GREATEST." Below him, "GREAT" contains Lincoln, Washington, F.D. Roosevelt, Jefferson, and Jackson. "NEAR GREAT" contains T. Roosevelt, Cleveland, J. Adams, Polk, Reagan, Wilson, and Eisenhower. "AVERAGE" contains three rows: Clinton, J.Q. Adams, Monroe, Hayes, Madison; Taft, Arthur, McKinley, Johnson (Andrew), Nixon; Kennedy, Grant, Van Buren, B. Harrison, Truman. "BELOW AVERAGE" contains Tyler, Coolidge, Fillmore, Taylor, Buchanan, Pierce, G.H. Bush, L.B. Johnson, and Ford. "FAILURES" at the bottom contains Biden, Obama, G.W. Bush, Harding, Carter, and Hoover.

Text in image: THE GREATEST TRUMP GREAT LINCOLN WASHINGTON F.D. ROOSEVELT JEFFERSON JACKSON NEAR GREAT T. ROOSEVELT CLEVELAND J. ADAMS POLK REAGAN WILSON EISENHOWER AVERAGE CLINTON J.Q. ADAMS MONROE HAYES MADISON TAFT ARTHUR McKINLEY JOHNSON NIXON KENNEDY GRANT VAN BUREN B. HARRISON TRUMAN BELOW AVERAGE TYLER COOLIDGE FILLMORE TAYLOR BUCHANAN PIERCE G.H. BUSH L.B. JOHNSON FORD FAILURES BIDEN OBAMA G.W. BUSH HARDING CARTER HOOVER

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Yet as we speak, the Democrats in Congress are trying to put all of this progress at risk and drag us back to the Biden policies of soaring prices, crushing energy costs, massive spending, open borders. Let the world come into our country from prisons and from mental institutions. Let them pour in and rampant inflation. That's what Biden gave us, all of those things. With the reckless Democrat shutdown, virtually every Democrat in Congress has voted to hold the American people hostage in an effort to extort hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending. They're demanding free health care for illegal aliens that just came into our country from prisons and from mental institutions and drug dealers and drug addicts, and they want to give them $1.5 trillion in giveaways that would turbocharge rapid inflation again as they did the first time. You remember that just a couple of years ago, four disastrous years we just had. They were the worst years.

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Lots of talk about affordability, or is there? I don't even hear a lot of talk about it anymore, but still, there's a lot of grumbling about it on the internet, there's a lot of people talking about it. And one of the things they're saying is, if you understood the mindset of young people, you would understand what the problem is. They're leaving Trump by the zillions, and they expect us to do something to help them. And so you have some people proposing sort of socialism-like. These are from so-called conservatives who become pseudo-conservers. The populists, of course, are all over this, because in many ways, they're the socialists. And so more government and more spending, despite the $40 trillion debt going to $50 trillion, and despite, at some point, the need to do something about Social Security and Medicare, Social Security in six years, say the trustees, is going to lose money and go broke, and in seven years, followed by Medicare. So Washington proposes what Washington's best at, spending more debt, redistribution of wealth, stealing from you and the private sector. So let's get into this. I want the Democrats, specifically, to answer a few questions, and the media hosts, particularly on these Sunday network magazine shows or news shows, maybe they'll try asking some actual questions when they have Democrat Party guests. Please specifically spell out your affordability agenda. You raised gasoline prices when Biden was president. How will you lower them when you raised them last time? You raised food prices when Biden was president. How will you lower them when you raised them last time? You raised inflation when Biden was president. How will you lower it when you raised it last time? You raised the cost of living for average Americans. How will you lower it when you raised it last time? You raised healthcare costs when Obama was president by passing Obamacare, not a single Republican voted for that. How will you lower it when you raised it under Obama by expanding it and calling it Medicare for all? Well, they don't have any answers, you know, they'll just say tax billionaires or something like that. But I want to take a little bit of a deeper dive here and talk some turkey with you. People talk about in the 1950s and '60s, people could afford a home, they could afford a car, they had modest incomes, not anymore, not anymore. We need to get back to that. So I looked, in the 1950s and '60s, young adults in their early 20s and 30s, well, they had lower average incomes, more family-based households and less access to credit. This meant that while they might have spent a larger share of income on certain categories, like cars or housing, the absolute dollar amounts that they spent were generally lower than today's young adults in their 30s and 40s. Young adults in the 1950s and '60s by today's age had lower total spending than today's young adults in their 30s and 40s due to lower incomes in different economic conditions. Core spending takes up the greatest share of income for the youngest and oldest generations. Core spending, that trend can be explained in part due to changes in income. Peak earning occurs in middle age, obviously not when you're just starting out and obviously not when you're retired or retiring. Even in the dollar value of household spending, that goes up as someone approaches middle age. The increase in household income on average outpaces the increase in spending. So when you're really kicking into your career or your business or whatever it is you're doing. Medical expenses are the smallest percentage of budgets for the youngest adult generation. So they're paying lower than any other generation when it comes to medical expenses. Young adults today are much more likely than their counterparts 30 years ago to be college graduates. But that comes with a cost. College tuition is expensive. Most students wanna live away from home and go to schools away from home. So in addition to tuition, you have room and board on top of tuition. That said, those with college degrees over the course of their lifetime, they earn significantly more than those without. Although for many at the start of their career, they have college loan debt and perhaps other debt they've acquired, such as cars and credit cards for eating out or vacations that put great pressure on their incomes. Again, when they're starting out, their incomes are those of junior employees. Young women have made greater gains at attending college than young men. From 1993 to 2023, the share of young women, ages 25 to 34, with at least a four-year college degree rose from 23 to 47%. And among young men, the increase was smaller, 24 to 38%. Therefore, the debt spending income scenario can be even more widespread among young women and especially among single women. So in other words, much of this has nothing to do with government, nothing to even do with government policies. These are lifestyle decisions. In other words, the benefit for many young people in going to college doesn't actually come until several years or even a decade or more after they graduate. They pay down both student debt and other expenses they've incurred. So in the long run, the degree is typically beneficial. In the short run, depending on lifestyle decisions and spending habits, it can create more financial difficulty. The 1950s and '60s, fewer Americans went to college. Young people started work early. They didn't make big purchases requiring lots of debt, no student loans, not new cars. They lived more modestly in the types of homes and vehicles they might buy. They ate home at home more often than going out to restaurants. They didn't travel as much, so they didn't use airlines. They didn't go to hotels and that sort of thing. Maybe they drive for a three-day vacation or something like that. Family expectations were different. In limited consumer goods were available. Goods like sugar and meat were still rationed in the early 1950s, and refrigerators were a luxury for some households. Colored TV didn't even exist for most households until starting in the early '60s and beyond. Leisure was often local and low cost. Kids played outside, not a whole bunch of computers and video games. Clothing was practical and modest. While the 1950s and '60s saw economic growth, many young people's lives were marked by modest living. And so some young people had brought these circumstances onto themselves. It's not the system, it's not capitalism. It's not even government. We have gotten so good at producing so many consumer products, leisure products, and so forth and so on, that people wanna partake of them. They wanna acquire them. But sometimes they outpace their income, particularly when they're young people, particularly if they go to college, particularly if they take out student loans, and they live away from home with tuition and board. And all those expenses pile up. It's a bigger percentage of young people than 30, 40, 50 years ago. And I wanna talk about gas prices. We're told that a gallon of gasoline, if we can get the price of gasoline down, we Republicans will win the midterm elections. Gas prices may feel like a record in 2026, but adjusted for inflation, they are not, writes Dr. Randall Olson. We're told gas is the most expensive it has been in years. The war headlines are everywhere. And he says the record gas prices, it's back in everyone's feed. The pump number stings, but adjust for inflation and the record evaporates. US gas costs more in 1981 than it does today. More in 2008 than it does today. Again, inflation adjusted. More in 2022 under Biden than it does today. The number on the pump is near an all-time high. What a gallon actually costs you in real money is nowhere near an all-time high. 2008 is still the one to beat, he writes. The real all-time high was June 2008 at $6.20 a gallon in today's money. 1981 was worse too. 1981 held the record before 2008, took it. March 1981, regular gas hit, again, inflation adjusted. Regular gas, $5.32 a gallon in today's dollars. Oh yes. Even in 2022, a few years back, the most recent peak is the one people remember. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the national average set an all-time record just above $5 a gallon in June 2022. That was the highest price ever at the pump in plain dollars adjusted for inflation. It works out to about $5.50 for a gallon of regular gasoline still above spring 2026 and still short of 2008. And if you live in California, my son, our son took a picture of the prices at the pump. They are unbelievable. You got 72 cents a gallon sales tax in California, the highest in the nation by far. Other expenses that they add on to gasoline and oil out there, it is nuts. And they want you to blame Trump and they want you to blame the Iran war and on and on and on. No, I've said it before and let me underscore it again. The prices for gasoline, the prices for everything when it comes to energy is higher due to what we call Democrats. What about housing prices? As of June 2026, the last information that is comparative, the inflation adjusted US home price index is 170.2 up from 169 in May of this year. But that's 3.8% below the highest May 2022. That was the record 176.9. This is the number they use to compare income to housing prices. So the highest it's been was in May 2022, 3.8% higher than it is today. That means that when stripped of inflation housing prices, they're still near an all time high. And by the way, for investors, they like that. For first time buyers, they obviously don't, but it's not at the peak that it was under Biden in 2022. I just told you that gasoline at its peak was higher in the 1980s and highest under Joe Biden. I just told you that housing prices were highest, highest under Joe Biden. But you don't hear this. You don't hear it anywhere really. The two highest points were 2006, the housing bubble and 2022, the post pandemic surge. Now there's no accounting for what Democrats do in these blue states and these blue metropolitan areas. Take Mondami, the Marxist Islamist. Oh yes, socialism he supports. Well, let's take rent control. What does rent control do? Let's think for a second. They lock in rent prices back to a given year or time. Now people who are renting and are older, they love it. They love it because they're gonna have a fixed rental price whether the landlord likes it or not, whether his or her expenses go up or not, whether utility prices and taxes go up or not, they don't care. It's just wonderland. We love socialism, rent control. But what does that do? It limits the number of units. You have to be nuts to be a developer and go in and say, you know what, I'm gonna build a whole bunch of new rental properties just so I can have rent control at some point. No, because if a government can put in rent control today it can put it in tomorrow. That's not Trump's fault. That's not Israel's fault. That's Mondami's fault. That's the fault of the socialists who drive up the cost of everything. And not only is affordability an issue, but availability is an issue. Okay, I wanna address another topic before we go to our guests and that is Iran. I wanna be very blunt about this. This is not a war between the United States and Iran or the United States and Israel versus Iran. This is a civilizational war. You see, we don't quite understand the enemy. We can't seem to get our heads around it. I'm afraid some of our generals can't, some of our advisors can't. This is a civilizational war, certainly from the perspective of the enemy. Khomeini in 1979, he was not interested merely in taking over a nation state, a country. He is spreading an ideology. He is spreading Islam. He seeks to conquer the West. He seeks to conquer obviously an entire Middle East. He and his followers. Israel is a big problem to that agenda because the Jews don't intend to go easily. In fact, they don't intend to go at all. They have a serious military, one of the most powerful on the face of the earth and certainly one of the most experienced on the face of the earth because they're facing enemies, they're surrounded day in and day out. We are war hardened too, but not in the same way. Not in the same way. My concern is this. We've heard from generals talking about off-ramps. We've heard generals say that we have limited munitions, whether they've said it anonymously or however, same with advisors who said the same thing. They're leaking to the media. We had an MOU that was never going to work. The enemy, you know, they have an agreement and two minutes later they violate it. So we're constantly looking for ways to negotiate our way out of this. You wanna end this war? I will give you my best thought on this. I want us to win. I want the administration to succeed. I want my friend, President Trump, to be the greatest president, including wartime president in American history. And what he's done so far is unparalleled. Seven prior presidents, you know, chose to do next to nothing. Some of them even subsidized the enemy. Some of them subsidized their nuclear program. The fact is that this president had to act, did act. He couldn't wait. The enemy told his envoy that we could make 11 nuclear bombs in 10 days. Our intelligence said we needed to act and it was imminent. But it is a civilizational war. You can't contain the enemy no matter what's negotiated if it's ever negotiated. The enemy will not comply. The enemy will not agree to anything. The enemy views us as a bump in the road. Whether it's the first tier, the second tier, the third tier, or the 10th tier of this regime. If we want to defeat this enemy, we've got to use all that's available to us to destroy it. That includes arming the Iranian people, as I've said for half a year, as was the Reagan doctrine. Now there may be generals and advisors telling the commander in chief, "No, the risk averse and so forth and so on." There is no effective off-ramp. Arming those people with the help of the Israelis, who we've sidelined, with the help of Mossad, working with the CIA, will make a huge, huge difference as it has in the recent past in other countries, among other things. There is no reason Karg Island is off the table in some of these other infrastructure facilities. I don't care what the Arabs say, ignore them. I don't care what Erdogan says, ignore him. This is a civilizational war that we must win. It is a righteous war. We have a courageous president. I don't think we'll see another one like him. It's now or never.

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A political campaign graphic with a blue-to-red gradient background and a white border frame. It shows a close-up photo of Donald Trump with a stern/frowning expression on the left, and a smiling man with short brown hair, a beard/goatee, wearing a gray plaid suit, light shirt, and blue patterned tie on the right (a congressional pin visible on his lapel). At the bottom center is the "TRUMP VANCE / MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" campaign logo with stars.

Text in image: CONGRESSMAN (MO-08) JASON SMITH WINS! ENDORSED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP! TRUMP VANCE MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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