954 – Transcript

Just Right Episode 954

Air Date: March 4, 2026

Host: Bob Metz

The views expressed in this program are those of the participants.

Clip (Star Trek: The Next Generation S03E26 “The Best of Both Worlds, Part I”):
Do you expect this battle to be won?

We may yet prevail. That’s a conceit. But it’s a healthy one. I wonder if the Emperor Honorius, watching the Visigoths coming over the seventh hill, truly realized that the Roman Empire was about to fall. This is just another page in history, isn’t it? Will this be the end of our civilization? Turn the page.

This isn’t the end.

You say that with remarkable assuredness.

With experience. As long as there’s a handful of you to keep the spirit alive, you will prevail.

Bob Metz:

Welcome everyone. It is Wednesday, March 4th, 2026. I’m Bob Metz, and this is Just Right, broadcasting around the world and online. Join us for an hour of discussion that’s not right-wing. It’s just right.

As the world reacts to America’s military action against the Islamic Republic of Iran, attention has somewhat shifted away from Donald Trump’s just days earlier State of the Union address, which I personally think was just as dramatic and significant an event as the former. Both of those topics are critical to our overall theme today, one that has been the centerpiece of everything our show Just Right is all about. The polarization of left and right, the nature and the fundamental purpose of government, the nature of rights, and the use of physical force.

One thing that both the State of the Union address and events in Iran have in common is that each provides a stark revelation of the very truths we’ve been working so long to shine a light on.

So get ready for a few new revelations right after our reminder that you can write us at feedback@justrightmedia.org. Hear us on WBCQ and on Channel 292 Shortwave. Follow and like us on your favorite podcast platform and visit us at JustRightMedia.org where you can access all of our social media links, archive broadcasts, and the support button that makes it easy for you to support the show. Because as always, your financial support is appreciated and is what makes this show possible.

Donald Trump – State of the Union Address, February 24 2026:

These people are crazy, I’m telling you. Amazing. Boy oh boy. We’re lucky we have a country with people like this. Democrats are destroying our country, but we’ve stopped it just in the nick of time, didn’t we?

Bob Metz:

Simply unconscionable. How the Democrats behaved during Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, which was delivered for the record on Tuesday, February 24th, they revealed themselves to be perfect representatives of everything left, in a word, uncivilized. There are of course many other replicable words to describe the left, but we’ll save those for a bit later on. Meanwhile, Trump’s February 28th action against Iran is being met with every kind of negative reaction you might imagine from the left, but more disappointingly, also from some on the right.

And these are folks who, I think, mistakenly believe that Trump has abandoned his promise to end America’s eternal wars, when it seems to me, that he’s fulfilling that promise by doing what he did. Anyway, you look at it, by the end of today’s broadcast, I think most of you will certainly understand, if not necessarily agree, with my take on this issue. But to kick off today’s conversation, first, on this side of the upcoming bumper, we’ll hear both Mark Dice and Matt Walsh in each of their respective February 25th reactions to the State of the Union address.

And on the return side, Matt Walsh takes over with his own astounding revelation about the nature of left and right.

Mark Dice, February 23 2026

The central theme of the speech was the illegal alien problem. But the highlight of the evening came when President Trump asked the members of Congress to stand if they support Americans over illegal aliens.

And you could expect the response.

Donald Trump – State of the Union Address, February 24 2026:

Tonight, I’m inviting every legislature to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.

Mark Dice, February 23 2026

There we go. There we go. The contrast is stunning.

Coming in at second place of the best moment of the State of the Union address is when President Trump called out the Somali pirate immigrants who have invaded and have been wreaking havoc in Minneapolis.

Donald Trump – State of the Union Address, February 24 2026:

The Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are large parts of the world where bribery, corruption and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception. Importing these cultures through unrestricted immigration and open borders brings those problems right here to the USA. And it is the American people who pay the price in higher medical bills, car insurance rates, rent, taxes, and perhaps most importantly crime. We will take care of this problem. We’re going to take care of this problem.

Mark Dice, February 23 2026

If you’re watching on your phone, it might be too small to see, but Rashida Tlaib, one of the squad members, best buddies sitting right there next to Ilhan Omar, is wearing an F-ICE pin. I don’t know how she was even allowed to enter the chamber with an expletive on her, but that’s how low the Democrats have sunk.

Matt Walsh, February 23 2026

It was hard to watch the State of the Union address without reacting, as Donald Trump did, with exasperation and utter contempt for what the Democrat Party now represents. This isn’t really a political party anymore.

It’s something a lot more sinister than that. Last night, through their reactions to Trump’s remarks, Democrats endorsed the idea that children should be sterilized and castrated without their parents’ knowledge, in the name of gender ideology.

And the most remarkable moment of any State of the Union address in memory, Democrats refused to stand for the proposition that the role of the U.S. government is to protect American citizens over the interests of foreigners, especially illegal aliens who have no right to be in this country. So, of course, all the Democrats are seated because they don’t agree that the first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, even though that’s the only reason the American government exists.

Now, in saner times, this would be an enormous scandal, and every single one of those Democrats, the ones refusing to stand, would be run out of office and forced to resign in disgrace. And this theme carried on, as expected, through the night. As the speech continued, Democrats also refused to stand when Trump called on Congress to prevent violent, habitual criminals from going free and slaughtering American citizens, like what happened to Iryna Zarutska, who was murdered on the light rail in Charlotte last year.

President Trump:

Mrs. Zarutska, tonight, I promise you we will ensure justice for your magnificent daughter, Iryna. How do you not stand? How do you not stand?

I’m asking this Congress to pass tough legislation to ensure that violent and dangerous repeat offenders are put behind bars, and importantly, that they stay there.

Matt Walsh:

So they can’t even muster standing for that, which you would think is not even…that’s an easy one. But you would think, if you didn’t know any better, that just standing for the mother of a woman who was murdered would be really easy. There’s no, you would think, political implications to that. But there are, for the Democrats, because they are pro-crime.

And they’re especially pro-crime when the criminal is black and the victim is white. The Democrats simply don’t care. Even when Iryna’s family is in the chamber, it just doesn’t matter to them. They weren’t moved to stand by the tears of Iryna’s grieving mother.

They just don’t care. Iryna is white. She was killed by a black felon with a rap sheet longer than a CVS receipt. They stand with the black felons, not their victims.

It really is as simple as that.

The actual address itself, I thought, was excellent. I think that Trump delivered probably the best one that I’ve heard in my lifetime. Bar’s pretty low, but still, it was a good speech.

Clear, eloquent, inspirational, aspirational, especially the final minute or so of the speech I thought was particularly good. Let’s listen to that.

President Trump:

there is no challenge Americans cannot overcome. No frontier too vast for us to conquer. No dream to bold for us to chase. No horizon too distant for us to claim. For our destiny is written by the hand of Providence. These first 250 years were just the beginning.

From the rugged border towns of Texas to the heartland villages of Michigan. From the sun-kissed shores of Florida to the endless fields of the Dakotas. And from the historic streets of Philadelphia to right here in our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. The golden age of America is upon us. The revolution that began in 1776 has not ended. It still continues because the flame of liberty and independence still burns in the heart of every American patriot. And our future will be bigger, better, brighter, bolder and more glorious than ever before. Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.

Matt Walsh:

Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, two of the most, trying to put this in a way that’s not so insulting, two of the most hideous and repulsive creatures to ever hold elected office.

I mean, that’s the most flattering way I could possibly put it. They were at the speech also, and they were screeching and screaming throughout the event.

President Trump:

You should be ashamed of yourself, not standing up. You should be ashamed of yourself. That is why I’m also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials who block the removal of criminal aliens in many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country.

They’re blocking the removal of these people out of our country, and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Matt Walsh:

So every year we go through this with Democrats heckling and yelling, making total asses of themselves. And every year you can’t help but think back to when a Republican shouted one thing, you lie, at Obama during a State of the Union address, whenever that was during the Obama tenure.

And it was a month-long scandal. I mean, those of us who are old enough to remember, you could recall it very well.

It was a huge scandal. Those were the good old days, I guess, and now Democrats have turned the event into a professional wrestling match. I mean, they just sit there and scream the whole time. So there’s your alternative right there. The shrieking boomer women singing protest songs off-key, the crazy guy in the draft costume, the Somali politician and Married or Brother screaming. That’s the opposition. That’s your other choice.

And this is why I have no patience for anyone who says that, you know, well, the left and right are the same thing. Right? Two sides of the same coin. It’s all the same, man. This is what they just do left and right. It’s all a big charade to keep us divided, man. It’s, it’s, this is a, now we’re all on the same side, right?

Left and right. That’s not real. I mean, you hear this all the time. You hear it from some conservatives sometimes.

You hear it from podcasters. That is, and they always say it’s so proud of themselves. Like, it’s some insight they just came up with. They’re the first person to say it.

They feel so wise. You know what? I’m just going to say it. No one else is going to say this thing that a billion other people have already said left and right. It’s all the same. Now that is a midwits attempt at nuance.

Okay. That is a stupid person attempting to sound like a smart person. That is a stupid person’s attempt at sounding like a free thinker.

Except you just sound like everybody else, which is the irony of it. It’s not true. Left and right are not the same thing. There’s, there’s an actual difference here. There’s a real, it’s, it’s not a small difference. It’s not a difference of style. It’s not a difference of tone. And there are some differences there too, but it is a substantive real difference. And the gap between the left and right is vast and deep.

It is, it is, it is infinitely deep. Because on the left, just go back to where we started. The entire Democrat party would not even stand to even symbolically agree with the idea that the American government’s first priority is to American citizens.

They don’t even agree in theory with that idea. Okay. So that, that’s the difference. They actually, they’re the, the whole ideology, the whole point is to destroy, dismantle, destroy Western civilization and all of the institutions that Western civilization is based on and depends on. That, that is what they want to do. That is their objective. That is their agenda. And yes, I mean, I don’t know about you, but that’s for me, that’s very different from my political project.

In fact, it’s, it’s the opposite.

Bob Metz:

Mark Dice and Matt Walsh certainly had no problem arriving at their same, but independent conclusions about the state of the union address. The Democrats displayed absolutely no decorum or respect for the very positions in government that they themselves hold and would demand that same respect and decorum if they were in the majority. You know, the more I look at the Democrats for them, democracy is all a joke. That’s why they use that word so much. And it’s just an opportunity to steal and plunder cash from a helpless electorate.

Mark Dice noted just how low the Democrats have sunk by wearing buttons with expletives on them, you know, F words, while Matt Walsh could express nothing but contempt for the Democrats.

But what a revelation. Talk about a physical demonstration of the polarity between left and right. The image accompanying this week’s blog post with the Democrats on the left all sitting while the Republicans on the right all stand in affirming that their first duty is to protect American citizens and not illegal aliens is just an incredible sight.

And when Matt Walsh referenced the shrieking boomer women screaming in opposition to Trump, he was at the time highlighting some of the antics going on at Democrat organized counter state of the union events, which were so juvenile and childish, I simply couldn’t bring myself to force you to listen to them. Thus, his own lack of patience for anyone who says that the left and right are the same thing.

And when he remarked that the difference between left and right is vast and that it’s infinitely deep, the word that he was so desperately searching for was polarity. Left and right are polar opposites. And in recognizing that the gap, the gap between left and right is vast and infinitely deep, Matt Walsh has perhaps without knowing or acknowledging it correctly rejected the fake political spectrum that pretends to suggest that you can in any way mix the principles of the left and right or that there’s some kind of third polarity that can, you know, that can sit between or outside of the left and right polarity.

Their whole ideology is to destroy Western civilization, he says. For me, that’s very different from my political project. In fact, it’s the opposite, which is another way of acknowledging the absolute polarity of the differences.

And ask yourself this. Who benefits from saying that the left and right are no different? Only the left. As Ayn Rand explained, in any compromise between good and evil, only the evil side benefits because by definition the good has nothing to gain from the evil. Most importantly, equating left and right hides and disguises the virtues of the right from view in asserting that the virtues on the right are somehow equivalent to the vices of the left.

And of course, what many people simply don’t understand when they say that there’s no difference between the left and right is that it’s not the ideologies of left and right that are the same, but that the leftist policies of Democrats and Republicans are the same when they are united as the so-called unit party.

Just because political parties sit in opposition to one another in the political arena is no reason to assume that their opposition is based on left and right differences. For example, communists and fascists have throughout history competed in the political arena, yet both are on the left. Until Trump came along, there was effectively no real political option for the right in America. And again, I would refer listeners to our June 25, 2025 broadcast, where its accompanying blog post lists several examples of proper associations with the left and right polarities. And these do not change, they are universal.

The left operates on the primacy of consciousness, which is why it is so divorced from reality. The left believes that reality is merely whatever it believes it to be. That’s why men can become women without ever even applying that irrational belief to what reality might have to say on the matter.

Meanwhile, the right operates on the primacy of existence, acknowledging that reality exists independent of one’s consciousness. For the right, consciousness is the means by which reality is discovered, etc.

And of course, we’ve gone into the many, many other polarized differences and details between left and right on numerous past broadcasts, all available for your perusal online. So with those basic observations now behind us, let us now turn our attention to the events in Iran. As presented by the X-22 report of February 25th, and noted at the time of this report, it was not yet confirmed that the Ayatollah Khomeini had been killed, but get ready for some more revelations that many probably never knew about or had simply forgotten. And David Nazipso’s report begins with his pointing to the proverbial deep state players.

X 22 Report, February 25 2026

They are in a deep panic right now.

They’re screaming and yelling. Trump doesn’t have the authorization to bomb Iran. Well, yes, he does. Every other president used it, the War Powers Act of 1973. They don’t like, wait a minute, you can’t use what we put together to keep our system alive.

That’s just not allowed. But again, if you notice what Trump has been doing, he’s been using all these laws against them. And he’s using it to dismantle the deep state system across the globe. Yes, Venezuela. Right now, Rubio’s in talks with Cuba, which is going to be a friendly takeover. Trump already just mentioned that. So Cuba is going to fall. Venezuela, that has already fallen. Now we see Iran. Is Trump going in there with military troops to take over Iran and put in a public over?

No, he’s hitting strategic targets with Israel. They’re going to remove the Iranian Guard. They’re going to remove the Ayatollah. They’re going to make it possible for the people to take back their country and to put the rightful leader into place that they elect.

That’s what is happening now. Remember going back to 1979 on April 1st. What happened? Well, the Ayatollah signed the Islamic document making Iran the Islamic state. And all of a sudden, everything changed.

Now, Trump went ahead, said, OK, I’m done with these talks because Iran is just delaying everything. They’re not really deciding on anything. Just like Ukraine. Ukraine is in delay mode. Venezuela was in delay mode and Trump just said, you know what?

Forget this. We’re just going in. Iran was in delay mode. And I think he knew eventually he was going to have to go in there. He gave them a chance. He always does. Here’s your chance. Do the right thing. If you’re not going to do the right thing, we’re going in. You decided not to do the right thing, so we’re going in.

And you have to remember, when there was regime change back in 1979, it looks like the intelligence agencies screwed it up or they did it on purpose. And then when Obama came in, he used that to feed certain rogue states. And he was trying to get Iran into a nuclear state just like North Korea. And basically, you got to think of uranium one. And Trump now is dismantling Obama’s rogue nuclear states. Yeah, Iran can fight back. Is it really Iran or is it the deep state players within Iran that are fighting back? Do you think they’re going to win?

Absolutely not. Already, you could see that Trump and Israel, they have the upper hand. Now think about what Trump did. He created the Abraham Accords going back to his first term. Why would he do that? Why would he get all the Arab nations and Israel working together?

Because now look what happened. The deep state players, they fired missiles at all these different countries. Now all these countries are saying, you know something, we’re on the side of Trump. We’re on the side of peace.

And now Iran, the deep state players, they are isolated there. Now I do believe the deep state players, they’re going to try to push World War Three, which is not going to happen.

I do believe they’re going to be using a scare event. This is not World War Three with Iran. I know a lot of people are going to say, oh, Trump is bringing us into war. No peace through strength.

This is how you stop the wars. If you notice, everything that Trump does, everyone panics first. They go, oh my God, he’s starting to war.

And then all of a sudden they realize, hey, wait a minute, nothing really happened. Look at Venezuela. Now we’re getting oil. Now the prisoners are being released. Soon they’re going to have an election. They’re going to put the people that they want in there.

We’re going to do even more business with them. Same thing with Cuba. Communism is dead. And the people are going to take back their country. Same thing is going to happen in Iran. The people of Iran are going to take back their country. The United States and deep state players are not going to dictate what should be done there.

The people are going to control their own destiny. So you could see it’s definitely working. You could see we’re on a path here. And Trump, every step of the way, is using the power of the military to usher in peace. And if you think about it, Russia is not going to interfere with Iran. China is not going to interfere with Iran. The Arab nations are not going to interfere. Actually, they’re on the side of Trump. Trump only goes into these countries or, you know, goes ahead with the mission. He makes sure that he has the other countries on his side. This is what we’re going to do. We’re going to set these people free.

And you could see what happened in Venezuela. You could see what’s happening in Iran. And he has the assurances from the other countries they’re not going to get involved. And that’s exactly what is happening right now.

Let’s go back a little bit in time and remember what Nancy Pelosi says that Obama masterfully used diplomacy to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Did he really do that? Or did he give them the ability to create one? Awaken Outlaw says, do you remember how back in 2016 when President Obama had 400 million of our money stacked on wooden pallets and flew it into Iran under the cover of darkness on an unmarked cargo plane for a clandestine runway handoff? Oh, and how that served as but the initial installment on 1.7 billion he forked over all in cash to the holy corrupt leaders of Iran as part of his truly awful JCPOA nuclear deal. And how that deal, the one meant to keep their nuclear weapons pursuit in check, didn’t have any time anywhere, no notice entry to inspect facilities.

How instead of the aforementioned restriction on inspections meant that there was a managed access process put in place that would 100% allow them to avoid getting caught cheating? Did I mention that Iran was, is the number one ranked country responsible for funding, supporting terrorism worldwide? Absolutely. So did Obama, Hillary Clinton, Biden, and many others, did they assist in creating nuclear rogue states? Think about Uranium One. Think about Syria, where their nuclear sites in Syria, yes. Did Iran store and develop their nuclear weapons in Syria? Yes. Who supplied the Uranium? It looks like it was Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the rest. Did it go to Iran? Absolutely. Did it go to North Korea? Absolutely.

So think about what Trump said leading up to the attack in Iran. Take a listen to what he said here.

President Trump:

We’re negotiating right now but they’re not getting to the right answer. And we’re not going to see people, we’re not going to see what’s happened for 47 years keep going. Forty seven years we’ve been doing this with them. The Obama deal was the worst deal. Nobody ever saw a deal so stupid. Right now if you did the Obama deal that held if I didn’t terminate it Iran would have a nuclear weapon and it would be a whole different ball game. That Obama deal was once of the worst one of the dumbest deals I’ve ever seen. First of all it was very short term. It would long be over. You know that. I terminated it. If I didn’t it would be over by now anyway. But the Obama deal, what he did was one of the dumber deals. I’ve seen a lot of dumb deals. That would be one of the dumbest.

X 22 Report, February 25 2026
So, Clandestine said Trump tells us everything if you listen carefully. He highlights again how Obama’s Iran deal was a pathway to Iran to obtain nuclear weapons. Trump’s interest in Iran is about undoing Obama’s mess. Obama tried to give nukes to a deep state proxy. That’s exactly what has happened here.

And you could see that late last night Trump, he basically told the Iranian people that we’re going to set your country free. We’re going to bomb Iran strategically bomb Iran and basically remove the Ayatollah, remove the commanders, remove the forces to give the people the ability to take back their country.

And Trump outlined a decades-long pattern of Iranian aggression, reminding the Americans that the regime has openly chanted death to America since its inception in 1979 while backing terrorist attacks that have killed US service members across the Middle East.

He specifically cited the 1979 US Embassy hostage crisis in Tehran where dozens of Americans were held captive for 444 days, the 1983 Beirut Marine barracks bombing that killed 241 US military personnel, the Iranian-backed militias responsible for killing and maiming hundreds of American troops in Iraq, continued proxies attacks against US forces and commercial vessels in the Middle Eastern shipping lanes, and Trump also pointed to Iran’s role in backing Hamas, which carried out the brutal October 7th attacks on Israel that killed more than a thousand civilians, including dozens of Americans and resulted in US citizens being taken hostage.

Trump issued a direct appeal to the Iranian people urging them to reclaim control of their nation from the country’s ruling Islamic regime. He says, to the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the armed forces and all the police, I say tonight, you must lay down your weapons and have complete immunity, or in the alternative, face certain death. So lay down your arms, you’ll be treated fairly with total immunity, or you will face certain death. Finally, to the great, proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand. Stay sheltered, don’t leave your homes, it’s very dangerous outside, bombs will be dropping everywhere. When we are finished, take over your government, there’ll be yours to take.

This will probably be your only chance for generations. For many years, you have asked for America’s help, but you never got it. No president was willing to do what I’m willing to do tonight. Now you have a president who is giving you what you want.

So let’s see how you respond. America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force. Now is the time to seize control of your destiny and unleash the prosperous and glorious future that is close within your reach. This is the moment for action.

Do not let it pass. May God bless the brave men and women of Americans armed forces. May God bless the United States of America. May God bless you all.

Now it will be up to the people of Iran. If the people of Iran truly want freedom, and they want a new way of life, they will show the world. Either they stay with the Ayatollah or they take back control. It is their decision now.

And Trump is allowing them to make that decision. Just like in Venezuela, remember the opposition, they were imprisoned in prison there. Trump removed the dictator that imprisoned them. And now those opposition leaders are free. They have the ability now to change course in the direction of Venezuela.

The same thing with Cuba. Now Iran, soon Ukraine. And no, it’s not going to be World War III. No, Trump is not starting nuclear war. He’s ending what they were trying to start. And remember, Trump has every right to do this.

I know Thomas Massie, he’s out there in many other D’s and the rest and the fake news. Trump is using the War Powers Resolution Act from 1973. Remember, the deep-sea players passed this act so this way they can go into any country that tries to interfere with the petrodollar system. And this way they didn’t need Congress to approve bombing certain countries or bombing certain people. And presidents have used this in the past to maintain the petrodollar system, to maintain the system that they’ve created and to actually push their agenda.

If you go back in time to Bill Clinton in the 90s, he launched strikes in the Balkans. He also launched strikes into Libya. If you go to Obama, he also did this in Syria. If you go to Trump, he did this in 2020 when he killed Soleimani. So presidents in the past have used this. And again, this is an established law that the deep-state players put into place. So yes, Trump can do this. This is why he speaks to Putin. This is why he speaks to Xi.

He’s letting them know that we’re going to have economic success later on. Do not interfere. I am not starting World War III. I’m not coming after you.

I am not the deep-state players. And you can see that from satellite imagery and OSINT defender put this out, it looks like the Ayatollah Khomeini’s home in Tehran has been entirely destroyed as a result of strikes. And George put this out and says the strikes appeared to be assassination attempts with unconfirmed casualties.

But now we’re getting information that there are certain individuals that have been hit. Well, first of all, next door to put this out, Iranian parliament was hit, national supreme council was hit, ministry of intelligence was hit, Iranian atomic energy agency was hit. There have been major cyber attacks on major Iranian news agencies and strikes are going to continue to happen now.

And you can see as of right now, Iran’s defense minister and revolutionary guard commanders, they’re reportedly killed in the Israeli strikes. And the people of Iran, they’re actually celebrating their dancing in the streets. And you have to remember, people in Iran, you’re not allowed to dance on the streets. That is against the law. Public dancing is illegal in Iran under the Islamic republic’s law, deemed sinful, especially for women or in mixed settings. People can face arrest, fines or prison for it. These streets videos show how they’re defying all of this. And what you see is you see people celebrating.

But again, let’s see how this all plays out.

Bob Metz:

You’re listening to Just Right, broadcasting around the world and online. And of course, since that February 25th podcast by X-22, it has been confirmed that Khomeini is dead, to which I can only say, may he and his Islamist regime rest in pieces.

And what we just heard from X-22 was that the tip of an iceberg of information that is simply ignored or forgotten in the flurry of voices condemning Trump’s actions. And most disappointingly among those voices are some of the so-called military and weapons experts. For example, on the March 1st edition of Redacted, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter argued that the Iranians protesting in the streets are protesting in favor of the Iranian government not against it. But from what I’ve seen so far, Iranians around the globe are celebrating Trump’s actions and the only people protesting in favor of the Iranian government are lefties all around the world.

And that’s where the polarity always sits. And Ritter kept using Iraq as his example in grounds for why attacking Iran will end up the same way, to which I say, sorry, apples and oranges. Ritter said America has already lost the war because it cannot decapitate its leadership.

Only hours before Trump just did that. He additionally argued that Trump has no plan, and that America is out of ammunition with which to fight a war. America will never win in a war against Iran, he argued. We’ll talk about a narrative that’s the polar opposite of the one we just heard from X-22.

And I’m getting so sick and tired of listening to military quote-unquote experts like Scott Ritter and even Colonel Douglas McGregor, among others, always warn us that America should never engage in military action because, hey, every war has unintended consequences.

Well, duh. In terms of justifying the use of military action, or even not using military force, warning about unintended consequences is meaningless. That is a philosophical statement and has nothing to do with military wisdom.

Every action, or failure to act on the part of human beings, has unintended consequences. And who’s to say that even as unintended consequences, they might not be extraordinarily positive ones? And where is it written that even if the unintended consequences are negative, that we can’t deal with them at the time they arise?

And also missing from the conversation is any mention or discussion about achieving one’s intended consequences. And what about all of the unintended negative consequences the world has been living with because of the constant quote-unquote peaceful appeasement of the left by the right?

Or was Iran’s past 50 years of Islamist tyranny an intended consequence of failing to take military action at the appropriate time? All of these supposed anti-war activists do not seem to understand that the only way to end wars is to win them. As X-22 put it, it’s peace through strength. This is how you stop the wars.

And again, as I commented recently on a previous broadcast, the naive belief that you can just stop wars by voting yourself not to take up arms is so unrealistic it boggles the imagination.

Now Trump calls it Operation Epic Fury. And if you want to get a taste of just how different this quote-unquote war is from the one waged in Iraq, do you know how Trump told Iranians that he was going to free them in their homes on their own TV sets? Citing major cyber attacks on major news agencies, we just heard X-22 report that Trump told Iranians that he would set the country free.

Trump issued a direct appeal to Iranians. And here’s a brief update on just how that transpired as presented by Clyde Do Something on his March 2nd podcast.

Clyde Do Something, March 2 2026

Now, this is just amazing part of the whole story. Right here, I got to share this out here. So, Clandestine put this out on X saying, this is crazy. Reportedly, the US hacked the Iranian regime TV and Trump gave the direct message to the Iranian people telling them that we support them and that it’s time to take back their nation. Trump is on an entirely different level. The book on warfare is being completely rewritten.

Yeah, here it is. President Trump is on hacked regime television. I can’t believe it.

President Trump:

…backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force. Now is the time to seize control of your destiny and to unleash the prosperous and glorious future that is close within your reach.

Clyde Do Something, March 2 2026

Oh, that’s just amazing. So he gave the speech with subtitles so that the Iranian people could understand it. It wasn’t just in English, but that’s the thing.

Bob Metz:

And by the way, an amazing percentage of Iranian speak English fluently. Now, before moving on to perhaps the most relevant point of today’s broadcast, I find myself obligated to make a statement about my own attitude towards Iran, an opinion that I arrived at via the process of unintended consequences. In fact, we devoted an entire broadcast to the situation in Iran, and I had intended and expected to conclude that Iran was just another disgusting Islamist theocracy whose people are as nutty as their government when instead only half of my expectation turned out to be so.

Hence our January 30 2020 broadcast was titled Iran’s Love Affair with America behind the mask of an Islamist theocracy. And from what I saw, the Iranian people themselves, they are completely part of western culture. Not an Islamist one.

And in our blog post of that day was written, quote, given the government of Iran’s repeated shouts of death to America, you might be surprised to learn that the Iranian people themselves love Americans. How do we know this? Because when asked, and even often when not, they say so. Openly, freely, and without reservation end quote. Check out that day’s broadcast and you can hear those voices loud and clear for yourselves.

But here’s the problem. Given the polarized divide between Iran’s government and its people, and in speaking about Iran, there have really been two different Iran’s for quite a while now, a duality that was beautifully illustrated in a very comedic way. Again, as presented to us by Clyde Do Something.

Clyde Do Something, March 2 2026

Peace through strength in full force. And this is what was promised. It was a promise, the idea of peace through strength. Now this is something where, you know, people on the left and the right should be able to come together and see this as a good thing. And in fact, this guy, he put out a tick tock saying basically explaining it without explaining it.

This is perfect. What are you doing? Just shopping for an Iranian flag on Amazon should be here tomorrow. Because I stand with Iran. Yeah, me too.

I’m very excited. No, I stand with Iran. Yes. Yeah, me too. I stand with Iran.

This is this is a very good. Are we on opposite sides of this? No, I stand with Iran. Hands off Iran. Okay, America needs to leave.

But that would mean the regime stays in place. Homosexuality is illegal. Women don’t have access to education. And you’re for this?

Well, I’m against Trump.

And I’m against the regime in America.

Say it. Say you hate Trump. Homosexuality should be criminalized. Women shouldn’t get to go to school and Iran shouldn’t be free. Or say thank you, Trump. Which one? Yeah, exactly.

Bob Metz:

And there again is yet another demonstration of the polarity between left and right. You know, one thing you just can’t help noticing about the left is their complete acceptance of outright contradictions and non sequitur. Now, not to be outdone by his revelations on left and right, as we heard earlier. Here again, Matt Walsh dazzles us with even more revelations this time about a nation’s right to exist and about what principles or conditions validate or invalidate any such right. And remember, this was recorded before the attacks on Iran, but nevertheless, consider the implications of these revelations when it comes to applying them to the Iranian situation.

Clip (Matt Walsh February 23 2026 ):

All right, let’s see. So on Friday, Tucker Carlson interviewed Mike Huckabee, who is, of course, now the ambassador to Israel. I thought it was an interesting conversation.

There’s one clip that I want to play and talk about. You’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the right of the Jewish people to their homeland. Do the Irish have the same right to a homeland? As long as they can defend it?

And as long as they can defend it? The Tucker, here’s the point. Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on.

Now you just flip, you’re the minister here. Yeah, and I’m telling you this. As long as they can defend it. And if they can’t defend it, they lose their right. And you’re not allowing me to tell you that I think that what is very, very special here is that there is a biblical as well as an ethnic and a historical.

So you can take any one, but if you add them all together, biblical, historical, and ethnic, you have a very strong case that the Jewish people are living in a land that is indigenous to them, that has been their historic homeland for 3,800 years. You can repeat it as well. And you can also look in the archaeology, the stones cry out.

Okay. You’ve been to the city of David, for example. I have. Oh yeah. Okay.

So you know then that. And I love it. It’s an amazing place. It may be the greatest archaeological discovery in all of history. It’s great.

It’s stunning. And they still continue to find things that date the Jewish people to this land archaeologically for 3,800 years. We can date the British, the British people to their land much longer, much thousands of years longer.

Stonehenge is 3,000 years older than any building built by the descendants of Abram in this country. And so I just, it’s fine. Yeah. I’m not trying to invalidate anyone’s right. I’m just wanting you to affirm that right, but it makes you uncomfortable and you won’t. And I don’t know why. Because I’ve never honestly sat down and asked myself, are the lines around the. It’s an island. So we know what the lines are.

I’m saying, but are those lines, are those rooted in something other than the historical connection? Well, great. Then they should have it.

But that’s a question. They have a right to have it. But then you said if they can defend it, and if they can’t defend it, they lose the right. But I didn’t say it was exclusive one or the other.

I think you’re really going off the trail. I just want to know if these principles apply universally or if they only apply to the people of Israel.

This is a, this is a conversation, a debate about Israel’s right to exist. And much of the interview centered around that question. I just want to say that from my perspective, the whole question, the whole debate really is based on a false premise. And my answer to this is one that doesn’t really make anybody happy because I don’t think that Israel has the right to exist. I don’t think that any country has the right to exist.

I don’t think there’s any country that we can look at and say they have a right to exist. And let me explain what do I mean by that?

So first, I think you have to define your terms, not to be pedantic, but in this case, it’s not. What do we mean by right?

This is a word that comes up a lot in our debates about any topic, any topic. It always comes back to someone making a rights claim. I have a right to this. I have a right to that. Well, what do you mean by that?

What does that mean? And I think very often the people that are talking about it using the term, I have a right to it. They really have no, if you were to ask them, but what do you mean have a right to it? Like, where do you get that right? Where does that come from?

They wouldn’t be able to tell you. So I, to me, I think the word right means an entitlement. That’s what a right is. You are entitled to something. I have a right to something means I am entitled to it. And if we don’t mean, if when we say right, if we don’t mean entitled, then I don’t know what we mean. So for example, and you can be entitled to things like if you have a contract with your employer, let’s say, you have a right to the compensation outlined in your contract, you have a right to it, you are entitled to it.

Those words mean the same thing. That’s not just about contracts. My kids have a right to be cared for by me, fed, protected. They are entitled to that. They have a right to it. They are entitled to it, both legally and morally and spiritually and in every other sense.

You know, we have rights outlined in the Bill of Rights. We’re entitled to that protection against unreasonable search and seizures, the ability to own firearms and so on. We are entitled to that.

Yeah. And the word entitled gets a bad rap because people are constantly claiming they’re entitled to things that they aren’t actually entitled to. We spend billions of dollars on entitlements in this country. And not a single cent of entitlement spending actually goes to people who are entitled to what they’re getting. But people can be entitled to certain things. And those are their actual real rights.

Okay. So then what does it mean for a country to be entitled to exist? Well, I don’t know what that means. I truly don’t. Entitled based on what?

You know, the only way that any country has ever come into existence ever is through force. There are no exceptions to this rule on the planet and there never have been and there never will be. No country exists unless it has forced its own existence violently. And no country continues to exist unless it continues to insist on its own existence through force, through violence. The very idea that any country, any nation, that the political entity of a nation is entitled to exist is incoherent. It makes no sense.

You know, I make this point about the Native Americans all the time. My whole response to that is that, you know, the idea that the Natives in the New World were entitled to remain permanent owners over this entire hemisphere is ridiculous. They only claimed ownership in the first place through an act of sheer force, through violence.

And what does that mean? It means that they killed and conquered in order to claim this in the first place. And does that mean that, okay, then no one is allowed to ever conquer them? So they conquer it and then they could say, well, we’re entitled to have this forever. Yeah, we used violence to take it, but no one’s allowed to use violence to take it from us. That would be infringing on our rights. What? How does that make any sense?

That’s not the way it works. They claimed ownership through force. They had to defend it through force. They tried. They couldn’t. And history played out the way that it was inevitably going to play out.

If you as a nation are able to support and defend yourself, then you can exist. If you as a nation cannot support or defend yourself, then you have no right to exist. You’re not even a real country. And I apply this logic to every country on earth.

Now, when people say, well, would you apply it to America? Absolutely. If the United States ever got to a point where it could not exist without the protection and patronage of some other nation, then the United States would have no right to exist at that point. And the problem now is that we have a world full of like 180 countries. And many of those countries just aren’t real. They’re not real countries. They’re fake countries.

But we’ve got 180 countries, 190 countries. Many of them totally unable to support themselves financially or protect themselves. We have countries with no military, really, relying entirely on the threat of force from other bigger countries. We have countries whose their economies depend fundamentally on foreign aid and humanitarian services for the most basic things. They wouldn’t be able to feed themselves without it.

You have countries like just as one example, South Sudan, which relies on us for food, healthcare, basic government programs and services. This is very common. And here’s my point. All of those kinds of countries, the ones that can’t support or defend themselves, still exist entirely through force.

It’s just that the threat of force is from their benefactors. In the year 1700, you’d have the same kind of scenario, except that we would have called it an empire, and the fake country wouldn’t exist. It would be a property of the empire.

Well, it’s the same thing right now. We just have, we built this fiction, this, this, this phantom of these fake countries that can’t exist on their own, don’t really exist at all, are totally helpless, cannot govern themselves, cannot defend themselves. And then we start talking about right to exist, like does South Sudan have a right to exist? Does it? It doesn’t already, it already doesn’t exist. It’s not a real country. Does Somalia have a right to exist? How could it have a right to exist when it can’t exist on its own? If your country cannot exist on its own, then it has no right to exist.

I don’t know how else to put it.

Bob Metz:

No country has a right to exist correctly asserts Matt Walsh. But let’s be clear, there is no such thing as a collective or a group right, which is why a country cannot possess rights as an independent group entity.

A right is a strictly individualistic concept. The essential relationship between individual rights and the use of force is that having a right means having the right to use force in the defense and protection of life, liberty, and property.

And while I love just about everything that Matt Walsh had to say about rights, I find myself compelled to be a bit quote-unquote pedantic to put it in his words, by correcting his statement that my kids have a right to be cared for by me.

Now, I understand and support the sentiment, but he’s got it backward. He, as the parent, is the one who has the right and the entitlement to care for his children. Children as such have no rights. They have status, conferred to them by their caregivers a topic we deeply dived into on a few past shows.

And on the subject of force, what Matt Walsh has done here is to echo our own January 14 commentary following Maduro’s capture in Venezuela, when we wrote that at the root of every civilization or nation sits the mechanism and moral justification for the use of force. It is an error to say, as so many on the right do, that government is force.

The reality is that when we speak of government, force is what is governed. Thus we require answers to fundamental questions, given that Trump sees himself as a war time president, is what Trump did in an act of war. Did Trump start the war, or was this a retaliatory action based on previous circumstances and history, and of course, was his action justifiable?

Now, apply these questions to Iran, and then connect some of the dots with the Venezuelan situation and other global hotspots, and Trump’s actions are looking more and more justified.

So remember, when it comes to government, force is what is governed. So govern yourselves accordingly by making it a point to join us again next week when we will continue our journey in the right direction, and until then, be right, stay right, do right, act right, think right, and be right back here. We’ll see you then.

Closing Clip (Hogan’s Heroes S06E10):

It’s none of your business if the Gestapo stores dynamite in a POW camp?

It’s against all the rules of civilized warfare.

There is no such thing as civilized warfare.

You guys oughta know about that.

All right, Hogan. I will not put up with your insolence.

Commandant, unless that stuff is moved to the arsenal of Hamilburg I intend to make a formal complaint to the protecting power.

My orders are to cooperate with the Gestapo. And when I’m given an order I obey it. I’m a good German.

Funny. You don’t look German.

All right, Hogan. Dismissed.

Commandant, do you realize that if that stuff goes up you go up with us? What are you going to do about that?

I’ll tell you what I’m gonna do about that. Frau Hilda!

Herr Commandant.

Prepare furlough papers at once, indefinite period, reason for furlough, family business.

Jawohl Herr Commandant. In whose name?

Wilhelm Klink.