Transcript of Afternoon Breaking Updates with Ben 10/6/2026

Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Myselis. This is your breaking news. The world is in flames right now. Donald Trump promised he would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours after the election in 2024. Of course, that was a lie. We're seeing massive escalation there. We're seeing Russia's new drones striking areas like Odessa, which you just saw over there. In Kyiv, we're seeing Russian drones strike the main northern bridge. And other infrastructure. We're seeing Zelensky strike back. I'll show you in a moment what's going on there, hitting refineries in Moscow and in some of the surrounding areas. Also, we're following what's going on with that plague in the Siberia region. A second lab technician has died as a result of this pneumonic plague. Donald Trump refers to it as the pneumonia plague. Uh, we're monitoring the situation there, of course. We're seeing war spread throughout the Middle East. Uh, we're seeing the kind of, uh, regional war, if you will, now unfolding as Saudi Arabia has invoked its defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan known as the Mecca Pact. And apparently they say at least they're providing defensive support to Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia backs The PLC forces in Yemen, Ansar Allah, or the Houthis, continue to advance east, appearing to encircle Taiz city as they keep on getting more territory in Yemen after taking control of western Yemen. Saudi Arabian-backed forces claim they took over Al Mokka in the west, the port city right by the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, although we're not seeing that. We're seeing Houthi control still of that area, but we're monitoring what's taking place there. With the world on fire, Donald Trump is very cavalierly just talking about, yeah, you know, it would be a small price to pay, you know, for higher gas prices if Iran just, you know, struck Los Angeles and San Diego with nuclear weapons. You know, go and do it, Iran, go and do it. Governor Newsom's responding to Donald Trump's statement that he made at this expo center in Nebraska where Trump was speaking in front of a relatively small crowd last night. Governor Newsom says Donald Trump's remarks, These are the remarks where Donald Trump says, yeah, whatever, if Iran nuclear bombs San Diego and Los Angeles, small price. Governor Newsom says Donald Trump's remarks were dangerous, if not treasonous, putting a target on 2 of our biggest cities and one of America's largest naval hubs, referring to the naval hub in San Diego.

I'm directing the State Threat Assessment Center to actively monitor the situation in the event that foreign actors interpret the president's remarks as an invitation to target California. And look, I don't believe these statements by Governor Newsom are alarmist, or I don't think it should just be— we should understand that's Donald Trump rally speak. We just need to be attuned to it. You know, it's just the president of the United States saying that, yeah, whatever, if nuclear bombs strike San Diego and Los Angeles. What Donald Trump really meant to say is that Because we went to war with Iran, that is stopping the nuclear bombs in Los Angeles and San Diego. Donald Trump meant to say that he protected San Diego and Los Angeles. That's why he said it in front of the crowd in Nebraska, the MAGA crowd that found it so funny. It's like, stop interpreting what you think the guy meant. We shouldn't have to interpret the ranting and ravings of a lunatic as the president. He said what he said. And if other presidents said that, this would be a front page story that everybody would be talking about every day. It would be an impeachable offense.

And just stop with the— I wouldn't even call it a double standard. It's the infinity standard that Donald Trump says whatever. It's just Trump rally speak, you know, bullshitting about nuclear weapons.

Right.

Like, We all do that, right? What are we talking about? It's the president of the United States. You pick your words carefully. And when you're speaking publicly, it's not funny to make jokes about nuclear annihilation of 2 major cities in the United States. It's not a punchline. It's not funny. And one of the things that Donald Trump has done, which has been incredibly catastrophic for the United States, is that he's made it so Words don't matter. Words from the presidency, words from the United States, they're just words. It's just, you know, like when Donald Trump says James Talarico is a vegan who, who vomits in his mouth after he eats beef. No, when Donald Trump speaks, it's vomit in his mouth. He just vomits words. And so I can't normalize that behavior where the president of the United States just vomits things and we go, it's just the president speaking. It's just he says crazy shit, so it doesn't matter. Well, what's really happening? Okay, you want to know what's really happening? It's actually worse than some of the things that he's vomiting out of his mouth. Yeah, but let's just give it some time.

Let's just see what happens. Actually, let's believe some of the vomit and just be like, sure, more oil's coming out of the Strait of Hormuz than before the war. That makes sense. That's why we are drawing down these strategic petroleum reserves by 40 million more barrels in the United States and drawing down the strategic petroleum reserves in Europe by 100 million more barrels. That makes a lot. There's such a glut of oil, such an abundance that we need to continue to draw down emergency strategic, strategic petroleum reserves. Makes a lot of sense right there. And things are so normal, right, that tankers, those very large tankers, are charging $1.5 million per day right now, where the full voyage could cost $30, $35 million to transport crude from the Strait of Hormuz to whatever destination it's going because it's that dangerous. Even if you had 100% of oil getting out through the Strait of Hormuz. If it now costs $1.5 million a day to take a tanker and bring it to wherever it's going, and before the war it was $30,000 to $50,000, guess what happens? I know the Trump regime doesn't like to acknowledge things like tariffs are actually a tax on consumers and it adds to the money and it gets passed down.

When the tanker costs $1.5 million a day, It means that when the refinery is actually acquiring the barrel of oil, about $33 additional is being added to the cost per barrel of crude based on the shipping alone. And there's far less tankers leaving the Strait of Hormuz. You know, like, there's actually things called satellites, and satellite imagery shows us what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz. So we can, like, see it. Like, we saw today that there were maybe 5 tankers that were getting out of the Strait of Hormuz. So I'm not saying it's nothing, but before the war, it was a lot more than 5 tankers getting out of the Strait of Hormuz. And in the past 10 days, Iran likely struck anywhere between 12 to 15 tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

Yeah.

Those tankers that are charging $1.5 million per day, a lot of them are getting hit. And that's why they're charging $1.5 million a day in case they get hit. And so we have war spreading throughout the world. Donald Trump making jokes about nuclear weapons and nuclear annihilation in Los Angeles and San Diego. The media saying, don't interpret Donald Trump as being literal. Don't— he didn't really mean that. He meant he wants to protect Los Angeles and San Diego. We've got a plague that apparently took the life of another person in Siberia right now. And we have very little clarity about what the hell is going on there. And you have Ukraine's President Zelensky posting the following message. We've got updated intel on Russia's preparations for a massive strike. I ask you, please, to take care of yourselves and respond to missile threat alerts. Ukrainian services and our air forces are ready to respond as much as our defense allows. And a lot depends on our partners. Every country in the world that has the defensive capabilities we need and can provide them to us. It's very important that there be the political will to do this, particularly in the United States and in Europe.

This as Russia is engaging in hybrid warfare in Europe right now, breaking some of the resolve of European countries. I mean, I'm looking in Germany at the rise of the more pro-Russian party over there. I'm looking in France at the rise of the more pro-Russian party over there, parties that are against the European Union. You know, I'm observing, you know, obviously Donald Trump is more interested in doing deals with Putin, uh, and wants to do a deal with Lukoil, Russia's major kind of state oil company, if you will, and their foreign assets abroad. And a Trump MAGA billionaire maybe plans on acquiring these assets with some of the Middle East royal family members, because at the end of the day, this is all about grift and money for them while the world suffers. Apparently that's what Putin was speaking to Kushner and Witkoff about when they were in Moscow on September, uh, 5th. You have Zelensky, he's— he doesn't have any interceptors. He doesn't have PAC-3 interceptors. He doesn't have the THAAD interceptors. He doesn't have the license to make interceptors. He's got pretty good offensive capabilities that Ukraine's had to develop on its own.

Some of those new FP-1, FP-2, FP-5, even the FP-9 drones. And the FP-9 is a ballistic Um, but Ukraine's been able to strike pretty deep in Russia and Moscow. They've been able to actually strike as far as some of the areas in Siberia, 3,000 kilometers away. And so we're seeing though Russia strike infrastructure in Ukraine, particularly lately. The Northern Bridge in Kyiv has been hit over and over again. We're seeing strikes in Odessa. We're seeing strikes, um, in Kharkiv. We're seeing strikes, uh, uh, the strike you see there is a ship in Sochi in Russia. that was struck by Zelensky. But you see, you know, the world lit up right now. Let me go piece by piece and bring you some of the photos, footage of what's going on right here. You've got major power outages in Kyiv right now. So as we're recording this, lots of the power is out there. I'll show you the Russian Shahed drones. Unclear if this is a Geran-4 or an older style Shahed drone attacking a civilian convoy of vehicles. on the Odessa highway as these vehicles were heading towards the border of Europe, according to local media, heading towards Poland.

Here, let's play this clip. Now I'll show you the footage in Russia. This is fire from a ship near Sochi, which was apparently hit by a Ukrainian drone. Let's play this clip over here. Also earlier today, Ukrainian drones attacked a Moscow oil refinery, the Volodskaya Linear Production and Dispatch Station, as well on fire in the Moscow region. This is the largest oil depot and a major pipeline transport hub. In the Moscow region, it is connected by product pipelines to the Ryazan and Moscow oil refineries, as well as to the major airports of the Moscow region. Let me show you what went down there. Let's play this clip.

You want to listen?

Да, блять, не чё не будет, я сюда. Show you what it looked like on the Kyiv northern bridge that was struck this past weekend. An insane close-up footage right here of Russia. They've struck this northern bridge over and over again.

Let's play it.

And just to show you what it looks like both in Ukraine and in Russia, and from Moscow to Kyiv, You know, they've got these members of their military who've got these MANPADS mounted on their shoulders, you know, and it's very hard to strike down some of these new drones, and you got to be pretty close to it. I'll show you what it looked like in Moscow as some of the Ukrainian drones were being launched at Moscow. As you can see, someone in the military for Russia with the MANPADS shooting the— and trying to intercept the Ukrainian drone. Here, play this clip.

Yes.

Now, it's hard to get a lot of information about what's actually happening in Saudi Arabia. As the Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry and Defense Ministry. They're not publishing updates really about what's taking place. You know, some of the information just kind of trickles out. I mean, uh, you know, I mean, some of the laws they have in Saudi Arabia, um, if you publish some of the videos and photos in Saudi Arabia of the strikes by Ansar Allah, that could be viewed even as like a form of treason put you to jail, uh, for the rest of your life, or perhaps, you know, even more severe penalties, uh, than that. And so it's rare to get these images out. Um, you had, uh, Senator Murphy from Connecticut was actually in Riyadh as part of a Middle East tour. First he was in Qatar, then he went to Riyadh, and he said when he was there, he posted that there have been a number of notices— I mean, he's seen over there the impact of some of these Ansar Allah strikes while he's been in Riyadh. But this is what came out from one of the Saudi Arabian kind of Interior Ministry alerts.

Important alert from the Ministry of the Interior: photographing or publishing or circulating any information related to missile and drone interception operations or the location of their falls exposes you to legal accountability, which I think is an understatement of what the consequences of that are. But we have been seeing Ansar Allah strike in Jeddah, kind of western area of Saudi Arabia, Yanbu, another western port area, Abqaiq, eastern kind of port area, Riyadh, right by the King Khalid Airport over there, and an Aramco facility. that's right there as well, um, were struck. And by the way, the Aramco— you can be like, Ben, you know, I don't know, you sound hyperbolic about all of these things. Look, the CEO of Aramco, Saudi Arabia Aramco, Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil agency, says as a result of the Trump war in Iran, the world has lost— get this— 3 billion barrels of crude. Let me just repeat that for emphasis. The world has lost 3 billion barrels of crude over the past 7 months, which will never be replenished. Just so you are aware, right, the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve right now has around 200 50 million, give or take, million barrels in it at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Texas.

China's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, they've built it up over a period of time, had right around like a billion barrels over there. Um, and so we've lost 3 billion barrels of oil. And so what does that actually mean? It means Tomorrow, let's, let's even be more optimistic. Summa arguendo, everything resolved today, everything purportedly went back to normal, and there was this great deal between the United States and Iran and everybody was happy, right? It's not going to happen. We will only see a stabilization of the price of diesel and gas 2029, the earliest. So no matter what, this dumpster fire will be handed off to whoever becomes the president next to deal with. And every day that passes, the situation continues to get worse and worse and worse. And what the Trump regime has, and what, you know, I guess some of the Trump regime, I guess, allies in the Middle East have, is they just lie. Yeah, the East-West Pipeline, it's doing fine. Things are going great. Things couldn't be better.

Really?

Couldn't be better? Seems to be contradicted by the price that the refineries are actually selling diesel and gas at. You know, crude doesn't go in your car.

I know, right?

You know, crude doesn't go in a truck, right? Crude has to go into a refinery and then it has to be refined. It's, it's a process and the process is broken. So focusing on one aspect of the process and not the full process is, is a meaningless analysis, right? I mean, there were— I saw the story this morning, but I could analyze this in every single freaking state, but in Maine Right. Uh, the price of heating oil has basically doubled. So people started looking at their heating oil bills in Maine and they're like, wow, the fuel is now averaging $5.96 a gallon, up about 80% from last year. That implies a cost of around $1,500 to fill up a standard residential tank that typically will have to be replenished a few times to make it through the winter. And this is what's so dastardly about Donald Trump's schemes where he lies to people. If you vote Republican, I'm gonna give you $5,000, but you gotta vote Republican. I really mean it this time. This time I'm being— I know I told you I was gonna do that with those dividends and tariff rebates, but this time I really mean it.

Because the sick thing is he knows that people really need it. And as I've described it before, what Trump does is what communist authoritarians have done throughout history. That's why I think Donald Trump is the number one communist authoritarian he is. And that's why he loves communist authoritarians. He takes your loaf of bread, hoards it, takes 99.9% of the bread for himself. Then he dangles the breadcrumb in front of you. That was your loaf of bread anyway. He dangles it in front of you and says, you want it? Here it is. Here it is. Come and get it. Oh, there it is over there. Oh, you couldn't get it? It's over here now. It's over here. That is what he does. And he never gives you the breadcrumb when the loaf of bread belongs to you anyway. He's the arsonist. He created the problem. And now he's like, I'm going to give you a fraudulent way that I plan on fixing it, that he's not actually going to fix it. But I think when you look at the polling across the country, the American people aren't buying it. When you see, for example, Governor Abbott of Texas, the MAGA Republican extremist governor of Texas, does not want to be on a stage next to Donald Trump when Trump travels to San Antonio.

When Rick Jackson, the MAGA Republican candidate running for governor in Georgia, is removing Donald Trump from the website. When we see this repeated over and over again across the country, MAGA Republicans know that Donald Trump is toxic. And frankly, when Donald Trump goes to the high school gyms in Dayton, when Donald Trump goes to the expo centers in Nebraska, he just reminds the people in those states what an absolute freaking lunatic he is. And we should never be in a position ever where we're like, oh, He's joking about nuclear. That's just how, you know, that's just his rally speak. Do y'all remember when someone who wouldn't spell potato right, former Vice President Dan Quayle? That was it. Do you remember when Howard Dean was like, and we're going here and we're going there?

Woo!

Right? He did woo. And that was, that was it. We're like, yo. Did you do woo? You are out, Howard Dean. We're not going to let you become the president. Presidents don't go woo, you know. And now we've got the kind of double-fisting Trump, whatever.

Nuclear.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we're like, oh, what he really meant to say when he was jerking off the sky and doing the nuclear— nuclear— He really was saying, folks, that he wanted to protect Los Angeles and San Diego. How dare you call that out? That was the double jerk-off of protection. What are you doing? Come on, Midas touch. You got to get with the story.

All right.

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Welcome back to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Myselis. This is your breaking news. About an hour ago, Iran's parliament leader, Embi Ghalibaf, posted the following message directed at U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent: Boo, are you ready? And it is an image of a ghost, and you can see what's going on over here with junk bond spreads, dated Brent, the 10-year yields, diesel prices going up and then going down, consumer confidence, hyperscaler free cash flow, foreign net purchase of Treasury bonds, Housing Affordability Index over there, and other metrics that matter to, uh, consumers. Now, MB Galiboff is a PhD. He was also a member of their army there. And I'll just say this, I mean, the Trump regime is all made up of, you know, a bunch of, you know, losers, incompetent people, people who are failures, people who are trolls, people who should nowhere— be nowhere near the positions that they hold. We don't really have any engineers, uh, in the cabinet. We don't have people with kind of high-level technical skills. We just have a bunch of kind of— I mean, if you made an Apprentice-style show and you picked a bunch of deranged lunatics and you put them in the boardroom, you have a dystopian show that looks like The Apprentice, where we are all non-consensual extras.

Now, I'm not saying this as a way of like applauding Iran or saying look how great they are or anything like that. Far from it. What I'm simply observing is, is that most of their leaders are people like their president, a world-renowned cardiovascular surgeon. They have doctors, they have PhDs, they have engineers at the highest level, and mostly all PhD engineering experts who are outmaneuvering the Trump regime. We should never have been involved in this catastrophic and unlawful war in the first place. As I've repeated over and over again, Trump is a war criminal. Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. Everybody in the chain of command who ordered things like the slaughter of children in Manam and Lemaire are war criminals in my view. The tactic of having blockades regarding civilian blockades like the Trump regime does in Iran and in Cuba— this is not an endorsement of the regimes there, My view is when you do civilian blockades and you provide— you deprive people of food and medicine and basic essentials to live, and you view that as your way of forcing regime change by torturing and starving people, I also view that strategy as a war crime.

You could disagree, but that's my own personal view about it as well. But regardless, the, the Trump regime is also grossly incompetent. And so we removed an aircraft carrier from the Pacific, the George Washington. We moved that to the Arabian Sea. We just moved the USS George H.W. Bush out of the blockade. That's now in Phuket, Thailand, because it's been out for a very long time. And so we just have one aircraft carrier more than 1,000 kilometers away from Iran in the Arabian Sea. By the way, the first time this has happened in like over 120 years where the— just think about it. We're in a war with Iran. We no longer really have military bases in the Middle East because they've all been destroyed. Imagine if this happened under Biden or if this happened under Obama. OK, we are in a war without military bases in the Middle East. We only have one aircraft carrier. That can't get into the Gulf of Oman, certainly can't get into the Persian Gulf or anywhere near the Strait of Hormuz. Folks, if we controlled the Strait of Hormuz, our Navy destroyers and our aircraft carriers would be in it, not 1,000 kilometers away.

That's the USS George Washington. We don't have the other aircraft carrier strike group anymore. That's in Phuket, Thailand. Another aircraft carrier strike group, the Theodore Roosevelt, and an amphibious assault group that arrives in mid-November. But by that time, uh, duh, the USS George Washington is going to be, um, pretty much exhausted. It's going to be out to sea. So that one's gonna need to probably go to Phuket, Thailand, and it's gonna do whatever the hell goes down there. So they'll bring that to Phuket, Thailand, and then we're not gonna have any ships anywhere, basically, and we're just gonna have the Theodore Roosevelt there. And then, and then what? And then what's the 1,000 kilometers? And then are we going to escalate after the midterms without bases in the Middle East because they've all basically been destroyed? And then did you see— hat tip to the folks at Associated Press— did you see the story? I covered it earlier where at least 9 service members who were injured in Kuwait during that strike that took place at the beginning of the catastrophic war. They spoke on the record. Do you know how rare it is to have active duty troops speaking on the record?

That's so rare. And they were basically saying, we warned about this specific base in Kuwait. We told everybody that it was going to be struck by Iranian drones. We all knew it. And it was being used as a logistical hub when it could— we could just have logistical hubs further away. We didn't need the logistical hub to be right there in Kuwait. It wasn't like even being used to launch weapons. So we were doing work on our computer. And then the day of March 1st, when the facility was struck by Iran, you had lots of service members who were there. A lot of them, I think, by the way, came from Iowa. And they were saying, look, we see these Iranian quadcopters and we see these drones like they're scouting the area. Could we be in the bunker, please? We don't— we don't want to be in the building that the freaking quadcopters are over because they're going to strike it. And then this came from the top. This came from CENTCOM and this came from 2-star generals as well. They said, nope, you got to go in that building. Like, let us stay in the freaking bunker.

And then, to the surprise of nobody, an Iranian drone struck the building that they were in and killed 6 people, injured many others. And then there was no evacuation plan. The person responsible for evacuation was moved to Jordan. So the person who was, like, responsible for what you do in an emergency, wasn't even there. So the grievously injured service members have to start Googling where the hospital is in Kuwait. So they Google where it is. They go on their own to find the hospital themselves. No medevac. They find the hospital and then they weren't getting any communications from CENTCOM or from our military. So they were hiding out in residential homes In Kuwait awaiting what the hell they were supposed to do. And then afterwards, people who were killed, service members who were killed, well, a lot of their family members weren't getting the benefits allowed because some of these deaths weren't being classified appropriately as combat-related deaths. And then people who were injured, it took them months before they could get MRIs and before they could get tested. Because the Trump regime was saying a traumatic brain injury is not a serious injury, that it's just a headache.

Get over it. Get back to war. What the hell are you talking about? And so these service members who were then catastrophically injured had to fight months to even get the MRI. So the fact that they're out there speaking to the Associated Press is significant. And by the way, it comes on the same day Then who did Donald Trump have in the White House today? Gold Star families going back to Vietnam. He positioned them. And this is just—

he—

and here's the thing. My heart goes out to all the Gold Star families. Absolutely. But Donald Trump has called your loved ones suckers and losers. Like he said that about your loved ones. And you could be like, I never heard him. He acts like that every day. He talks like that every damn day. And he talks about how the Congressional Medal of Honor should be not as significant as the awards that he gives to civilians. And he says that I should be the one getting these Medal of Honors, like what I do is much more courageous. But he's using you as props. So he puts them in the White House stairs while he does this press conference earlier in the day where he refuses to answer the question What did you mean when you said it's a small price to pay for war if San Diego and Los Angeles were struck? What did you mean? And he refuses to answer that question over there. He refuses to answer the question. And while having the Gold Star families positioned in a way so that they would get in the camera shot, and he positions them on the stairs going down the stairs.

And, you know, to me, that says it all right there. Now, Donald Trump in Nebraska was at the expo center at the state fair campus, and they were trying to also like, oh, 6,000 people there. It wasn't 6,000 people there. He was, he was at, he was at an expo center. You can see it. And I'm like, it's fine. You know, James Talarico is drawing bigger crowds. Gina Hinojosa's drawing bigger crowds right now, you know. But, you know, the— but the media— well, the crowds— I saw was a CBS reporter, I think, who was like, the crowd went wild. This is referring to the Dayton, Ohio. I'm like, it's a gym. He's playing a high school gym in Dayton, okay? I mean, yeah, the high school gym went wild for him as he talked about taking aspirin and how he loves the aspirin and how data centers in everybody's backyard. It's just wild to me. Like, we've been going through this for 10 years now. 10 years, you know, of, of, or more since he came down the stupid escalator, you know. It was all, all of that, right? And more if you include all of the stuff he was doing during Obama, you know, when he was doing the birther crap and the lies and all of that.

And it's like they go out of their way to just normalize, you know, to normalize the guy. I mean, let's, let's take a look. Do you have— and it's, you know, do you have what Daniel Dale said about him there, Jeremy? Daniel Dale was responding to, uh, the headquarters account, which literally just quoted Donald Trump, and they said, Trump on Iran: Let them take out Los Angeles and San Diego. It's a small price. That's what Trump said. So then Daniel Dale, the fact-checker, goes, this isn't a direct quote from Trump, and I very much don't think it's a correct paraphrase. Trump has repeatedly argued that the consequences of the war, like higher gas prices, are a small price to pay compared to what an unchecked Iran could allegedly do. It's Trump's fault. You kind of have to be steeped in Trump rally speak to know what he's saying last night. Well, I don't want to be steeped in Trump rally speak. I heard what he said. I don't know, perhaps if you want to do a fact check, you fact check Trump because Trump said in 2025 he obliterated Iran's nuclear capacity. And so if he obliterated it in 2025, it's gone.

Obliteration. That's a word. Or wait, when Donald Trump speaks, it means nothing. So he says obliteration. But every other politician, oh my God, when Democrats speak, every word's got to be analyzed. That's such a micro level. Did you mean this? Did you mean this? Oh my God. Did you appear on a podcast that once had a guest that was once on another podcast that once had a guest that knew Hasan Piker? Oh my, oh, just, you're disqualified. You're, you're out of it. You're out of it. Donald Trump talking about nuclear weapons on San Diego and Los— that's not what he meant at all. I mean, what are we talking about here? Do we have, Jeremy, the video of Trump saying let him take out Los Angeles and San Diego? It's a small price to pay. If we've got that video, can we play that?

See a tremendous victory because it verifies all the things we did. And again, remember, With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city. Let them take— let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. That's— this is a very small price to pay, and it's going to be over with very soon. It's essentially almost over with.

Essentially almost over with. It's almost over soon. It's essentially basically, basically won. We finished in one day and now I'm just doing it for fun.

It's like a hobby.

It's like a hobby to me.

It's just—

this is just how I have fun. Or how about when he said the word affordability? I never even heard such a word.

What do—

what is this word? Affordability? Affordability? What's the affordability? This is not a word. This is not a word. Here, play this clip of him saying I'm in office one day and they're saying a friggin' balabala. Not, not a word. Not a word I know.

Here, play this clip.

Sir, affordability. And they try and pin it on me. These people, the one good thing they are, they're good on politics, but they're really bad on management and they're really, really bad on policy. Their policy is crazy, but they hit me with affordability. And that's the first time I ever heard the word used. It was meant to demean. So now every time I go in front of the fake news, sir, this is about affordability. I said, they're the ones that caused the problem. But unfortunately, we have some Republicans that don't say it very well. And they're trying to, oh, well, we're doing this, we're doing that. And we are. We're bringing it way down. Look at the prices. They're coming way down.

We're bringing them way down. All of the— no, they're— what world do you live in, asshole? What world do you live in? The prices are going all up. And I'm not sure if you notice some of the kids who are behind him, you know, and they're doing his expressions, you know. And again, this is— we're not suppo— this isn't supposed to be like watching Shamu at SeaWorld. Oh my God, did he catch a little sardine? Oh, that should not be what our politics is. Look, if you want to watch Shamu catching sardines. I'm not a fan of what goes on in SeaWorld, so I'm not going to encourage— you know, you may like it, you may not like it. I'm not a fan of, you know, small confinement of gigantic whales in places. But regardless, whatever, I'm not gonna judge you for it. Um, but, you know, let's just say if you want to watch some bizarre drama, you know, Hunger Games, just go watch it on TV. This is supposed to be government governance, you know. It's like, could you imagine, um, you know, we're watching the, uh, Major League Baseball playoffs, right? You know, imagine like Ohtani, you know, he shows up, you know, uh, to play after, you know, he gets a big contract for the Dodgers, and he's like, they asked me to hit?

They asked me to hit the ball? I never heard such a word. Hit the ball? What are we talking about here? I— they hit me, they hit me with the hitting. What is this? Yeah, you're the freaking president. The main issue is cost of living. We expect you to address the issue. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then could you imagine, to use that example, you know, the season progresses and you keep on losing and losing and losing. And rather than being like, man, maybe I got to do a better job, you know, and this isn't— you go, could you believe what happened 2 seasons ago? How horrible. It's like, we did seasons now. You're playing, you're in the game. Shut the fuck up. The hell are you doing? This is, this is real. Stop, stop this crap. And I think so much we focus on the gamified politics and You know, and you get these freaking weirdos. I mean, the Javier Milei with the fat Elvis stupid hair. And you get these, you know, dictators who are these like clownish fascists who put on a stupid show while ripping you off and stealing from you and quid pro quoing and covering up the Epstein files, you know, because they— it's like, no, we need freaking leaders.

We need grown-ups. We need to be serious at a threshold level. We need to be a freaking serious nation. You know, when I watch someone like Admiral McRaven, I don't even know what his politics are. I probably disagree with him on some things. I agree with him on some things. I disagree with him on some things. But I watch somebody like an Admiral McRaven and I'm like, that's a real person. That's a serious dude. That's just— that's the kind of person who should be making decisions. And if we want to watch fascist clown shows and laugh at it, let it be weird TV shows. And I could have the option if I want to play it or not play it. on Netflix or whatever. I don't want to have this— shouldn't be people running your life and my life. That's part of the WTF. Get the hell out of this thing where we're trying to elect circus clowns to entertain us who end up stealing from us and making life miserable and making it feel like we're in some escape room every day trying to get the hell out of here. By the way, it's why the book's called WTF America.

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Welcome back to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Myselis. This is your, uh, breaking news. Got a lot more to discuss on this episode as well. You know, I'm just seeing this right here. I sent it to Jeremy. Um, Der Spiegel showing, uh, the Danish artist Jens Goschert displaying a statue of Donald Trump in the EU Parliament. stark naked. Uh, and it's, uh, the name of the work is Orange Plague: How It Came About is what they're calling it over there. And that's actually being displayed in the EU Parliament, uh, right now. How are MAGA Republicans trying to, um, message all of this, right? I mean, as we're seeing, uh, what's actually happening with gas and diesel prices, as we're seeing, uh, heating oil Now that we're in the winter, people are starting to feel that a little bit more as they're saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, what is that? It's $1,500, $2,000 to fill up for the winter. What are we talking about? Well, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, he continues to push this message. Let me show you what, uh, Chris Wright's message is. Let's play it. But we're in a crisis right now with a shortage of diesel because of a conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

China deciding not to export diesel anymore. And we still have reduced flows of refined products out of the Middle East, although they're on their way up. And they're on their way up. Everything is going good. And it's actually caused by simply because of refinery capacity is only— and this is a blue state issue. Blue states over the past decade, it's really been an issue in blue states. Look, they want to skip over, you know, Donald Trump was in office, sadly, for 4 years from 2016 to 2020. We skip over that period where— why didn't he build out the refining capacity then? Was it the blue states? Was it Dr. Fauci? Did they get him? Was it Dr. Fauci and blue states prevented him? Did he have a brilliant plan and then it was suddenly stopped by Dr. Fauci and the blue states? Is, is that what happened, or is he just full of crap? With everything that he did. If you wanna actually talk about increased refining capacity and you wanna talk about the United States becoming a net exporter, you can talk about Obama lifting basically a ban that allowed the US to export a lot of its diesel worldwide.

And it was actually under Obama. It was an Obama policy. But, you know, the media won't cover that and Trump will just say, drill, baby, drill. Have you heard of a drill, baby, drill? Or do you know in Venezuela we're getting 65 billion barrels of hypothetical oil we'll never get? But I'll just say 65 billion and just say it. I'll say $21 trillion. I won't actually ask you to do some basic common sense. Like, if we brought in $21 trillion, then why did the debt increase to over $40 trillion? Why is the debt going up? Why is the deficit expanding? Why is federal spending increasing? And we brought in $21 trillion. Why is it that last month we only created 29,000 new jobs, which will probably be revised down next month to probably a net negative job creation? Why is it that the GDP is not— we brought in $21 trillion, shouldn't we have like 8% GDP growth or 12. Oh, that's not happening. Why? Maybe we didn't bring in $21 trillion. Maybe it's totally false. If we're bringing out all of this oil from the Strait of Hormuz, then maybe we would expect not to have to take out more oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves or the European Strategic Petroleum Reserves.

Maybe we'd have it.

Um, you know, maybe if we controlled the Strait of Hormuz, then tankers wouldn't be charging $1.5 million per day to oil out of the Strait of Hormuz and risk that they will potentially be struck by the IRGC? I mean, what are we even talking about here? I just, you know, this, this, this rejection of a reality and this creation of fraudulent worlds when the answers are so obvious is so freaking Trumpian. And it's like there's so many people who go along with this just complicit narrative and this complicit behavior. You know, I was looking during the break and, you know, something like this will go super viral. I don't even know who this guy is, but it goes viral on Elon Musk's algorithm where it says the US has basically won the Battle of Hormuz. And then they use, you know, this data.

It's a chart.

And then it's like, you know, um, okay, like, what, what are you even showing me here? And then, you know, this one person commented, I find it so strange that people are willing to destroy their professional reputation for just pushing a narrative, or worse, showing so weak analytically. Let's assume even these numbers are absolutely correct and you can take them to the bank. As I said yesterday, what matters for Iran is that A, the cost of this operation stays high enough for the US so that it eventually is forced to abandon it. B, US forces leave anywhere near Iranian territory. Everyone in the world knows once the US leaves, Iran is dictating terms in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. The basic takeaway here is that what matters for Iran is raising the cost for the US in such a manner that it has to abandon and leave at some point. The cost can come in the form of budget spent running the aerial escorts, personnel loss, military equipment and readiness loss, politically and electorally and losing elections because of voter dissatisfaction, or economically because of higher gas prices. The claimed increased barrels of oil leaving the Persian Gulf aren't going to affect any of the above if they're coming at enormous cost.

And then you have another person saying, I'm going to keep it blunt. No, there's not a single word, number, or line in this post that presents factual information. And if you charge people money for this quality of an— quality of analysis, you're committing economic malpractice. I know contrarian trust me bro analysis is your shtick, but attempting to draw any naval, maritime, or military conclusion by misrepresenting the work of others is a few thousand miles out of your depth. Kepler's actual preliminary rolling average from 28 September to October 5th is under 15 million barrels per day, and that is with Kpler publicly acknowledging that they have changed how they count transits, which has increased an artificial upward movement in their numbers. The real number is significantly lower. More importantly, export flow does not matter because as long as ships continue to get hit on a near daily basis— we are up to 12 in the last week The cost of exporting that oil will remain exorbitant. This is before we even get to the collapse of the region's refining capabilities, Saudi Arabia's complete inability to consistently defend the East-West pipeline, and the tanker shortage because of how long individual ships are tied up shuttling out for STS transfer, ship-to-ship transfers, often as long as 2 weeks for one round trip.

But other than that, dude, yeah. The battle to open the waterway that was completely open and unobstructed in any way 8 months ago is basically won.

Right.

It's a basic analysis right there. We didn't win the Battle of Hormuz. Like what? And this is the stuff that gets pushed on the algorithms. The algorithms are controlled by the oligarchs who manipulate the market. You see stock prices go up while the American people suffer. In fact, On days where there are bad job reports, the worse the job report, the more the Mag Seven, the Magnificent Seven stocks and the tech stocks crush it, right? They crush it as jobs get lost. You can almost look; you're like bad jobs report. The market must be doing bad. No, the market loves awful job report numbers. That shouldn't be the case. There should be a congruity. between good jobs and good markets, right? Where markets celebrate job loss. That shouldn't be something we spike the football for. There's something wrong with that.

Okay.

You know, and by the way, during the break also, I saw this. The US State Department has issued a level 4 travel advisory for Americans not to travel to Russia after another pneumonic plague death. U.S. citizens currently in Russia should depart immediately. U.S. citizens planning travel to Russia are again strongly advised not to travel to Russia. And again, under the Trump regime, are we going to have to deal with another— I don't even want to say it— are we going to have to deal with another and have him do the inject yourself with the this and the that and the stuff? It's enough. Everything that they were warning and attacking Biden for, they are doing right now thousands of times worse. And by the way, for all of our people in the Florida Panhandle who are watching, our thoughts are with you right now. There's a major storm system moving over there. We expect, uh, there to be a hurricane, uh, soon. It's a 90% chance of a hurricane, a 36% chance of a significant hurricane hitting the Florida Panhandle. This as the Trump regime is spiking the football that it gutted 50% of FEMA right now.

And one of the things that I'm noticing also, did you all even know about this? Like, I mean, I'm not suggesting that nobody is reporting this, but it's Tuesday and it's expected to hit fairly soon. And I don't see people in FEMA speaking about it, holding press conferences, talking about it, letting people know right away evacuation plans or anything that we would normally see before. And so my hope is that this doesn't become, you know, a major Category 3, you know, any major category of, uh, hurricane. But, you know, last hurricane season. Fortunately, there was no major hurricane that took place in the United States, and that's when the Trump regime initially gutted all of FEMA. And so that's expected to hit pretty soon. We're going to be keeping an eye on what's going on there. You know, and Donald Trump's plan, again, when he speaks in Nebraska or speaks wherever, is $5,000, $5,000 to you. I'll produce $5,000 easy. I'll produce it. I mean, how pathetic is this? Is where we're at with all of these issues I described happening in this episode. I want to see a leader, even if they're a Republican, you know, get up there and just be competent and be normal, right?

I mean, I think Republicans have disqualified themselves for generations after propping up MAGA personally. And it's not me giving standing ovations to Democrats, although I think there have been Democratic candidates who have run excellent campaigns. I mean, I think James Talarico has run an excellent campaign. I think the Democratic Senate candidate in Nebraska, an excellent campaign. I think the Democrat— I think Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan has run an excellent, strong, fearless campaign. You know, I think Nixon in Florida has run a great campaign. I think in South Carolina, an excellent campaign. over there by the— I mean, I think you look at even some of these independent candidates who are going against these MAGA Republican extremists. I think they're running it in Iowa. I think Turek's run a good campaign. I mean, I can go across the country, obviously. I think what needs to happen in the Democratic Party or any opposition party, though, is there needs to be a coherent leadership structure and coherent messaging, like out of any strong opposition. And look, I think the American people clearly want checks and balances and accountability, and they want to vote these crooks and traitors, these MAGA Republicans, out.

And so Democrats have an opportunity to aggressively pursue oversight, I think, to regain the trust of the American people. But there has to be a broader communication strategy, and I think they have to lean on some of these younger members who are doing some— who are running these really powerful campaigns of how you engage with the public and how you message and bring people together and talk about what you can accomplish and also limitations, given that you're the legislative branch and not the executive branch, warn about the Trump regime's efforts that's going to be to blame everybody for what Donald Trump does. Because Trump's not a builder, he's a destroyer. He's not a deal maker, he's a deal breaker. So you got to start getting in front of that. And, you know, and, and, and I think that again, that there's this major opportunity, I think, to push back in this rare moment while Donald Trump's out there saying, I'm going to give you $5,000, I'm going to give you this, I'm going to give you that. And, you know, I'm— I think that—

that—

I think you can't take for granted. I think there's going to be a, um, a, a big landslide in this midterms. I think it's going to be bigger than anybody even expects right now. It just seems like it's all lining up for that, just how vile and crooked Trump and these MAGAs have been. But then you gotta lean in, and you've got to earn people's trust, and you got to speak directly to people, and you got to do it every day, and you got to speak to people where they are. And, you know, we, we, we will see.

We will see what happens.

But Donald Trump's out there. I'll produce $5,000 easy. It's a dividend. It makes me proud to do this. You got to vote Republican, though. Here, let me show you what he says here.

No, just to show you that I'll produce— I'll produce the $5,000 easy. Actually easy. The Trump dividend, as an example, is approximately— think of that. We'll call this a dividend. It's a dividend to the people of our country for putting up with these morons and horrible 4 years of horror. You put up with 4 years of stupidity and horror.

You've been in charge for 2 years. You've been the president putting up with these stupid— you control all branches of government and the Supreme Court, and that's what you're saying? I'm gonna give you the dividend for dealing— what do you think your job is? And again, this is what I mean.

This is just—

this is not a Democrat-Republican thing. It's just loser behavior to watch this. And then he's like, only I can make this promise to you. You control all branches now. If you can do it, do it now. You control the House, you control the Senate, you control the presidency. You're certainly not going to have more seats after the midterms because this is just all about blame. This is all about not taking responsibility and not taking accountability. And frankly, shame on the parents who brought their kids there. look at him, we're gonna see Shamu catch sardines in his mouth. No, this is gonna destroy your kid's life right here. This type of crooked criminal, he's not giving you— are you that stupid? Like, you almost have to ask sometime, right? Like, are the people at that barn where he's doing— are you— and I'm not trying to be rude, like, I'm genuinely curious— like, are you that stupid where you think he's going to give you $5,000? Like, Can some— how do you brush your teeth in the morning? How do you get up and do things? I wonder, like, what do you do with your day?

Do you— does—

can anybody go up to you and just say to you, okay, I'm gonna give you a million dollars, but you have to go into your ATM, and then will you hand me the whatever you have in your life savings, and then I'll give you a million dollars, I promise you? I'm not gonna sign it, but I promise you. Will you do it?

Sure.

Okay, thank you. Appreciate it. I mean, like, I'm just trying to understand, like, what world are you living in that after all this time, after all of the lies he's done to you, you know what you're paying? You know, you think you're paying less? Like, I'm just flabbergasted. I am flabbergasted. Not in a political way. I'm flabbergasted that there are human beings who can allow themselves to just be fed this bullshit and eat it and eat it up because some orange monstrosity clown-looking thing is funny to watch. And in an otherwise mundane existence, is just appealing, and you like hearing shit. It's just very strange to me. Only I can make you this promise. Here, listen to what he says over here. Let's play this clip.

And our country is doing so well under Republican leadership that only I can make this promise to you. This is a big promise, but I've met it so many— I've met all my promises, all my promises. If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate, I am going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America $5,000.

Yeah, he's really gonna do it this time, Mommy. Son, we're really gonna get that $5,000 this time. I promise you. I promise you this. Did you see how he said it this time in the barn? He really meant it this time. And we really controlled the Strait. We're kicking Iran's ass. Absolutely.

Yeah.

Oil prices are going down. Inflation It's all artificial. Yeah, we— what do we want? Do we— does he say we want data centers? What, they're SI centers? Yeah, SI centers in our backyard. Yeah, I mean, how do these people go through their day? I mean, I'm genuinely curious. I'm genuinely curious. Do they wake up in the morning? What, what happens?

I should—

take me through your day. Setting aside Just take me through your day of the world that you, that you see occurring right now around you. Wild, wild stuff. In any event, I mean, the good news is, is that it does seem that there's going to be a major, major shift coming in these midterms. But I said, don't take it for granted, Democrats. It's not a, it's not a wild endorsement of the brand. There are candidates that have run great campaigns. And people want to see action. People want to see action, and you got to deliver. You got to deliver accountability. You got to be fearless. You can't be, you know, trying to. You you can't look like who's that guy? Like like the the guy who runs the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte. Oh, đó đó đó, doạ. Oh, you've actually made NATO stronger, Donald. It's like, these people are like— aren't these people like cartoon characters out of like, uh, you know, it's why I can't watch any fictional things anymore, right? Like Treasury Secretary Bessent is like Will Ferrell, you know. You have, uh, you know, the, the guy Mark Rutte. Oh Donald, you are so good, but you're bringing us together.

He's good by destroying NATO? Like The fact that NATO is just pretty much a European alliance right now and the US attacks NATO and makes it difficult for NATO to invoke Article 5, that makes NATO stronger? What are we talking about? So don't do that shtick, Democrat. Don't be like, oh, we are going to do a deal with the guy. You're going to do a deal with the guy who's covering up the Epstein files.

Got it.

You're going to do a deal with the guy who claims we brought in $21 trillion and we didn't. You're going to do a deal with the guy who's saying that if Democrats win while he's in charge, there will be a Great Depression. While he's the executive, he's going to blame you for the depression that he's anticipating, even though he'll be technically still in the executive branch. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Anyway, that's what I got for you. All right, get your copy of WTF America. Uh, get the audio, get the ebook, get the hardcover, or one of the 3. Pre-order it now. Pre-orders are really helpful. Can you put in the comments if you've pre-ordered or you intend to pre-order it? Let me know. You can throw the WTF America emoji up there if you got it. And, uh, here, do we have the photo, Jeremy, of me and the brothers? Yeah, that's us reading the audio. That was hard to read the audio. It's a grueling day. It was actually 3 days in the studio. It was a— it's pretty grueling. And I know— I'm not sure if it irritates you when I mispronounce words, but the way I pronounce words weird, it didn't fly for the producers of the book.

They'd be like, what? Why are you saying the word so weird? I don't know, that's how I, that's how I talk. They're like, yeah, but that's not how you say that word. I'm like, I know, well, I'll do my— how do you say the word? And they would teach me how to say it. Oh God, and that's— I guess I've been saying the word wrong for 41 years of life. Anyway, thanks everybody, appreciate you. We'll put new videos up throughout the day. Shout out Midas Mighty, we're grateful for you. Have a good one, everybody.

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