Podbit · The Tucker Carlson Show
China voluntarily withdrew from global energy markets and relied on its 1.4-billion-barrel SPR the moment the Strait of Hormuz closed. Weichert argues Beijing was running a proof-of-concept for surviving a future US attempt to cut off the Strait of Malacca. America accelerated China's rise instead of constraining it.
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Tucker introduces Tom Cotton as the driving force behind mandatory intelligence sharing between the US and Israel — something Tucker flatly calls treason. Cotton is simultaneously pushing to eliminate the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which Tucker and Weichert interpret as an attempt to prevent any future Tulsi Gabbard-type figure from uncovering intelligence community activities conducted on Israel's behalf. Weichert adds that Cotton's ultimate goal may be to install a more compliant figure at the DNI — specifically John Clayton, who was involved in the botched Epstein file release. The Senate Intelligence Committee chairman is also connected to blocking the SAVE Act (voter ID), FISA reform, and other measures that would constrain surveillance of Americans. Tucker expresses concern that Tom Cotton objected to the JFK files being released, which he interprets as protecting a foreign country's involvement.
After 9/11, the only person punished was Richard Clarke, who actually warned it was coming. After the Iraq invasion, the generals resigned on the day Baghdad fell to avoid accountability for the coming insurgency. The Iran war won't be different unless Congress demands real after-action hearings.
A former US Army intelligence officer told Weichert that Mossad was operating in the Sunni Triangle in 2004-05, interfering with American counter-al-Qaeda operations. Weichert suspects this connects to the chain of events that eventually produced ISIS, al-Nusra Front, and the ultimately successful push to topple Assad.
Tom Cotton is pushing mandatory intelligence sharing with Israel and trying to eliminate the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — not because it's bad policy, but to prevent another Tulsi Gabbard from ever uncovering what the intelligence community has been doing on Israel's behalf.
Perfecting a product for months guarantees nothing. The Starter Story founder pressed publish on his meticulously crafted site and watched zero users arrive — the brutal lesson every founder needs to hear.
The world's best companies didn't buy their first customers — they went to where those customers already were and created content for them. Free channels like Reddit aren't a hack; they're the actual strategy.
A single link post on Reddit drove 100 visitors to Starter Story in minutes. Then the moderators deleted it. That deletion became the catalyst for a far smarter strategy.
Redditors hate spam — so stop looking like spam. By putting all his content directly into a self-post and adding only a tiny footer link, the Starter Story founder made his marketing invisible to moderators and irresistible to readers.
Going from zero engagement to hundreds of upvotes overnight isn't luck — it's product-market fit. When your content makes strangers ask for more, you've found something real.
Reddit traffic is borrowed. An email list is owned. The Starter Story founder built tens of thousands of subscribers before Reddit banned him — meaning the platform's death sentence didn't matter.
After interviewing thousands of successful founders, one pattern repeats: they all built something, got ignored, and then figured out distribution. Building was never the hard part — getting in front of customers was.
Avnish grew his solo business to $25,000 per month in just 15 months without spending a dollar on ads. His entire growth engine was built on community posts in Reddit and Facebook groups.
One well-crafted post in the right community took Avnish from single thousands of users to tens of thousands. This wasn't luck — it was a repeatable part of his 5-step playbook.
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