After the Suez Crisis, Egypt kept the canal and tolled it forever. Iran has already demonstrated it can extract revenue from the Strait of Hormuz. They can get the $10 billion, maybe the $24 billion, set up a toll, and never make a nuclear concession — and Trump is too scared of midterms to go back to war.
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The Switzerland talks opened on rocky ground when the IRGC announced it was re-closing the Strait in protest of Israeli attacks on Hezbollah — Trump responded on Fox News by threatening to destroy Iran and kill everyone on the delegation before they could get home. Despite this warm-up, the talks proceeded, led on the US side by JD Vance, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner. The two sides announced a high-level political committee, a working group of qualified experts, a 60-day roadmap, communications protocols for the Strait, and a Lebanon deconfliction cell. But major contradictions immediately emerged: Vance claimed Iran agreed to IAEA inspector re-entry, while Iran said no inspectors would return to bombed sites. Vance said frozen assets would only buy American crops; the MOU's actual text says Iran can spend the money on anything. Trump said the Strait is at record traffic volumes; in reality, only a few dozen ships per day are transiting, and Iran has already set up an insurance company to eventually toll the passage. The hosts play JD Vance's press avail — a combination of housing metaphors, millennial trash-talk definitions, and subtle insults to Iran — and express deep skepticism a real nuclear deal gets done.
Ten years ago, 90% of tech media coverage was relentlessly negative and Kalanick felt he couldn't speak freely. Today, the rise of independent podcasters and Elon Musk buying Twitter has fundamentally changed the game — and it's why he's finally willing to talk.
Kay Classman, 28, was arrested for repeatedly posing as a 16-year-old and enrolling in Bronx high schools across multiple districts. She wasn't a predator — just someone so sad and lonely she wanted her lost childhood back. That's somehow sadder.
Disney, Meta, and Paramount have collectively paid Trump roughly $60 million to settle what Galloway calls nuisance lawsuits — all routed to his presidential library. Newsrooms are folding. The White House is handpicking press pool participants. This is what the end of a free press looks like.
One cheap fake documentary made by a teenager in his mother's basement convinced 16% of Americans that 9/11 was an inside job. Social media didn't invent conspiracy — it just gave it a rocket engine.
A progressive organization with a stated mission to destroy Turning Point USA received millions from ActBlue and is now publicly pushing the narrative that TPUSA insiders and Israel murdered Charlie Kirk. Andrew Wilson traced the network of accounts all amplifying the same conspiracy in perfect unison.
The microphone-bomb theory fails on every physical front: no smoke, no ignition, mic on the wrong side of the wound. And the .30-06 rifle round used is extensively documented by the US Army — it does not always produce a through-and-through wound. Wilson argues this is a well-studied projectile with well-understood behavior.
Andrew Wilson publicly offered Candace Owens $300,000 to debate her theory that Israel and TPUSA murdered Charlie Kirk. She refused. He argues that flat-earthers will debate anyone, but Kirk conspiracy theorists won't defend their claims under scrutiny.
Erika Kirk became the CEO of TPUSA while grieving her husband's murder in public, and now faces tens of thousands accusing her of conspiring to kill him. Andrew Wilson calls it mind-boggling psychological torture. The sparklers at the memorial weren't suspicious — they were a grieving widow doing her best in an impossible situation.
Joe Rogan and Andrew Wilson watch a bystander video of the Corey Ruiz police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin live on air. The video is so blurry they initially think a female officer fired the fatal shots. They later learn a male officer did, after Ruiz allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed officers. Their conclusion: you cannot have a hot take on a story you don't understand yet.
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