Erick Erickson HR 3 03-11-26

Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erikson here. The phone number is 8779373425. Should you wish to be on the program, I would be happy to have you. I guess I should open the call screening program, shouldn't I? It crashed on me a little while ago, and I forgot to reopen it. Sometimes it does that. Now, don't forget to text Eric, E-R-I-C-K to 33-77. If you want to get the show notes, the live stream, and everything else that's happening out there, you can connect with me on social media. Now, I want to start this hour with good news. I continue, as I have said now repeatedly, almost every day now, I am continually stunned, stunned with the level of negativity of the American press corps when it comes to this war in Iran. And I know the Republicans don't want to call it a war, but let's be honest about it, it's a war. We've got 150 wounded. We've got eight dead on our side. Thousands on the Iranian side now, members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and the like. And you wouldn't actually know about the major good things that are happening in the war in large part because the media doesn't want to tell you. The media wants you to believe that this is a disaster happening and that there's no way to win. I need to tell you something that I truly believe. Some of you won't like it. I have a longstanding criticism of the Trump administration that a lot of the advisors around the president, particularly the younger ones, are very, very online. They live on Twitter. They live to troll. They live to, well, for radio, I'll say poop post. They love it. They're always there. And they're always tuned in. And I am firmly convinced that one of the reasons for the rampant negativity on social media and in the media about this war is to influence those people to influence the president. The Wall Street Journal has a report out that some of the president's close advisors are already telling him you need to cave on this war, declare victory and get out. It's going to hurt you politically. You know what's going to hurt? You kicked over the ant-hill. You tore down the hornet's nest and you didn't eradicate the ants in the hornets. They're going to come for you. You've got the tiger by the tail. You can't let go until the tiger is subdued, and Iran is not subdued. And I think there's a propaganda play right now. on social media of relentless negativity telling you we're losing. How can we lose to a bunch of these people in the Middle East who are living in caves right now? They're living in caves to avoid us. We're not losing a war in Iran right now.

Part of the president's obfuscation is to keep the Iranians and everybody else on their toes as to what's happening. And yet that's being spun up on social media as we don't know how to win. We're not going to win. It's going to be a forever war. The Iranians are beating us. There are people on social media who are literally claiming that Tel Aviv has been leveled by the Iranians. You can pull up the street cameras in Tel Aviv and see that's not true. And now they're saying, well, that's been hacked. It's all AI. I want to play for you. this and it's just a sound you're going to hear there's a massive fireball and mushroom cloud rising on the horizon about to hear the explosion speed of it Underground site in Codz and Central Iran, it was a weapons depot that we found and we've blown up. It's a major weapons stockpile hidden under a mountain in Iran. We've been able to find it, and we've been able to blow it up. An Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Bassage member, that is the militia that goes around. They're literally driving the streets of Iran at night and they see people, they're shooting them. This guy is announcing that he's leaving his post. What he said is he believes the Islamic regime is over. He's standing inside what he says is a barracks that used to be a school, and he explains that everybody's left. This is what he's saying, quote, everyone is gone or leaving. I'm going home too. It seems like the regime is finished and we should surrender. I just hope people don't take revenge on us. One member of the Revolutionary Guard Corps has said desertions are being identified in the lower ranks. The desertion phenomenon is occurring mainly in headquarters located in the periphery outside of Tehran. Whoever has money is fleeing Iran. Today, the Israelis have blown up the bank that pays the members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. The staff can't get paid. The soldiers can't get paid. How are you guys not hearing this in the national press? This isn't propaganda. This is real stuff. These are verified things. The United States and Israel are bombing locations that Iran thought we didn't know existed. We don't have minesweepers in the Persian Gulf because we have mines sweeping drones, and we have blown up the Iranian ships that were trying to plant mines in the Persian Gulf and stop them from doing so. We have eliminated most of Iran's response capability. There has not been an uprising on the ground yet. We are hoping there will be an uprising on the ground. Reza Pahlavi, who the would-be Shaw.

that even without nuclear weapons, we would be at a point where we couldn't stop them from developing nuclear weapons. They had built such an arsenal of drones and missiles that if we had gone in to try to stop their nuclear capacity like we did last year, they would overwhelm Israel and the Arab allies with missiles and drones, and we wouldn't have the missiles and technology to shut them down. The only way to stop them was to go in now before they crossed the Rubicon of a massive stockpile of arms. We couldn't defeat. And we're doing just that. We are reducing their capacity. We've destroyed their drone-making factories. We've destroyed their underground capacity to be able to make drones underground. We've destroyed their missiles. We've destroyed their underground missile. We've destroyed the leadership. You know, we haven't seen the new Ayatollah in public, and there are a lot of rumors that he may be already dead or in a coma because of the bombing campaign to begin with. We have members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard fleeing the country. We've shut down their banking system so they can't give money to the troops. There are now dissension in the ranks between the Iranian Army and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Members of the Iranian and Revolutionary Guard Corps militia are fleeing their barracks and saying it's over for the regime. And you're not hearing that on television because the people in this country who are in charge of the news, even some of them at Fox News, are downplaying this because they want the president of the United States to give it up and surrender. They want the Iranian regime to prosper. I frankly think people like Chris Murphy, the senator from Connecticut, he can't say it publicly, but he wants Iran to have nukes. I think many Democrats want Iran to have nukes because they don't particularly care for the United States. And they think if Iran had nukes, we're the bad guy, we're the bully, and we won't be able to bully him anymore. So God bless Iran for getting nukes. They can't say that publicly because it would be traitorous to say. But that's what they believe. Remember Barack Obama became president of the United States and went on a world apology tour for the bullies in America and then promptly negotiated with Iran to send them pallets of cash so they could rebuild their nuclear arsenal all while pretending that wasn't the case. Democrats want Iran to have nuclear weapons. The media wants Iran to have nuclear weapons because the Democrats and the media are rooted against the United States. And the shocking thing is to see voices on the right doing the same thing or on the supposed right. Megyn Kelly saying this is all about Israel. Tucker Carlson becoming an anti-Semite. The Steve Bannons of the world dismissing this. The Douglas McGregor is going on with Matt Bill Gates to say this is a disaster and we've actually secretly lost the war or some such. All the nonsense. Then the propaganda you're hearing from these people blaming Israel, telling Donald Trump he doesn't know what he's doing, claiming that Iran is mastering us and beating us and dominating us in the Middle East. And it's simply not true. The fact that Iran and these people are having to rely on AI to try to make the case that they're winning. And any day now, Iran's going to launch the big bad missiles. They've been saving up. It's all a lie to scare you. And sadly, in many corners, it's working.

because you just saw an amazing American operation in Venezuela, an amazing operation that neither China nor Russia could pull off. But these people want you to bet against America because at the end of the day, it's to their profit for you to doubt and have skepticism and be angry. It is to their profit that you blame Israel. It is to their profit that you doubt the capacity of the American military. I would not bet against the American military. And right now, they're doing amazing, amazing work, destabilizing an Iranian regime that wants every single one of you dead. Don't bet against America. Those who love him? Listen to find out what he's going to say next. Those who disagree with him also listen to see what he's going to say next. It's the Eric Erickson Show. Want to be on the show? Come on, be on the show. Call Eric now at 877973-725. I want to read you this tweet from George Journeys. Iran is getting absolutely curb-stopped, has been for the last nine months. Anyone who says otherwise is absolutely full of it. Imagine in May last year someone told you that by March this year, the Iranian nuclear program would be neutralized, its Navy entirely sunk, its Air Force largely destroyed, its Ayatollah and dozens of high-ranking leaders dead, substantial degradation of the ICRG, its ballistic missiles expended, the U.S. and Israel flying at will across the country, and the entire Gulf region, and turning against it. And all Iran has accomplished was a handful of hotel bombs, a couple of THAAD radars knocked down, three U.S. airframe losses to friendly fire, no naval losses, 150 wounded, eight killed. No one would believe you. Remember people were taking very seriously the nonsensical Van Ripper war game where a plucky Iran somehow managed to sink large portions of the U.S. fleet. And now we're meant to believe that a remaining flotilla basically the same as a bunch of Venezuelan drug-running boats. This absolute dog's breakfast of the military can mine and block the Straits of Hormuz. They really do keep moving the goalpost, don't they? The left in the media and outside the media, they really keep... Iran doesn't have to win. It just needs to block the Straits of Hormuz. Lloyd's of London has just announced it will be ensuring ships going through the Straits of Hormuz. Chub has set up as well and said we too will be ensuring ships going through the Straits of Hormuz have at it. It is a remarkable propaganda campaign. That's one thing that Iran is very good at is running a propaganda campaign because so much of the American media institutions out there are rooting for Iran to win so that they can hurt the United States. By the way, Israel has, in just the last little while, targeted four regime checkpoints in Tehran. State media is reporting 10 members of the Iranian regime have been killed. The checkpoints are key. They're one of the tools preventing people from taking to the streets. Israel has started wiping out the checkpoints. Israel has people on the ground in Iran assassination teams, among others, who are wiping out the Iranians to prepare for the ground game that is not going to be American-backed.

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Hello there, welcome. It is Eric Urickson. The phone number is 877973-745. I want to go to the phones here in just a second. I want to bring you up to speed, though, on some very interesting developments in the Iran situation that I think we all need to be paying attention to here. There are reports coming out of Iran that have now been confirmed by multiple media outlets that Israeli forces are eliminating. Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps checkpoints in Tehran and other cities. Those checkpoints are guarded positions to try to keep people inside their homes. There's been a general strike in Iran of people refusing to go to work in parts of the country, and the guard is there trying to keep people in their homes, and those positions are being eliminated by Israel. Israel not only is launching air force strikes to blow them up, but appears to have people on the inside in Iran. Likewise, Ahmadinejad, the former president who was locked up and reported dead, has apparently been broken out of prison. He was arrested by the Iranian Revolution Guard Corps on orders of the Ayatollah for disloyalty and appeared to have help from the outside escaping. And now the would-be Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, has in the last few hours released a video message urging Iranians to stock up supplies and prepare for the final phase of the mission to topple the government. very much like something is rapidly escalated inside Iran on the ground. American soldiers are not present, but Israel has taken out border positions that were designed to prevent the Kurds from spilling into the country. Israel has now taken out checkpoint positions inside Iran, designed to prevent the Iranians from taking to the street. And now you've got the Shaw of Iran telling people to get ready. Something's happening. We should probably take their word for it. Something's about to happen. We'll see. Now, I want to go to John's phone call here waiting patiently. John, welcome to the Eric Erickson Show. Thanks for being patient. Well, thank you very much for taking my call. The call screener said that what I'm talking about is a throwaway question. You mentioned the key bridge earlier. Yes. And I have heard nothing since that happened years ago about the insurance that that ship was supposed to have on events like this. And it was almost as though the Biden administration was covering something up. Do you have any information on this? I do have information on this. I actually know the answer, John, because this has come up with me before. So the insurance company paid out the terms of the policy. And then the Biden administration preempted everything and said, you know what? The federal government is going to cover the costs of it. And the way the federal government decided to cover the costs of it is essentially the insurance policy.

paid what it could pay to the federal government for the damage. And then everything else was left alone because the shipping company didn't have the ability to foot the bill. So the American taxpayers are on the hook for this project, which is why there are no cross-cost controls because the Biden administration itself decided it was going to jump the gun before there was litigation or anything else and say, we're going to rebuild the bridge. wanted to essentially prove that the U.S. government could rebuild the bridge. And thus far, the state of Maryland and the United States have proven that they are incapable of using big government to build bridges instead of letting the... Think about Ronda Sanchez and Florida after hurricane. Some of the bridges were wiped out. And... He was able to rebuild him in a matter of weeks. Here in Georgia, we had a portion of I-85 in Atlanta. A major thoroughfare in the city collapsed. Some homeless people set fire under the interstate overpass. It weakened the structure. And we were able to rebuild it in a matter of weeks. In Minnesota, they had a bridge collapse. They were able to do it. And Pennsylvania also had a bridge collapse. They were able to rebuild it very quickly. California, they can't build high-speed rail, and in Maryland, they can't rebuild this bridge. It's just ridiculous. By the way, I got to read you this from Andy No, it has not gotten major, major headlines, but you need to know about it. There is a Pennsylvania State... Police trooper who was killed Sunday night. It was a murder-suicide event. And according to the post-millennial, the deceased suspect, has been identified as a pretty rabid progressive. In fact, he was a far-left radical who left behind political writings online listed his pronouns and may have been linked to a far-left John Brown Gun Club group. The progressives in the country continue to be violent. You know, the big call from the left right now on TSA is that the left wants the TSA continue to be shut down until the ICE agents and Border Patrol agents are forced to uncover their faces. Now, I just bear with me here because I need to explain something to you guys that most of you don't appreciate. This is not an ad campaign, but I do want to talk about incogny for a second because it's relevant to what I want to talk about because I'm not making up. the ad campaign. So Incogni, INC-C-O-G-N-I, if you go to Incogni.com slash Eric, you can get a discount on their services. Incogni works to get your data offline because there are a lot of websites online. I used them as a lawyer actually when I was filing lawsuits against people and I couldn't find them. You go, go to particular websites, put people's information in, and they would find you who they thought was the relevant person. Sometimes it wasn't. Many times it was very good.

And the way you could find the relevant people on these data broker websites is it would list their family and sometimes provide links. And I got swatted because someone was able to get on one of these websites and find my home. And they called the police. I don't know that I've still got the 911 phone call, but it was someone who didn't even sound like me. And they think he called that he was able to go through an internet website where you can make phone calls because they were never able to track the person. And I was writing about a particular guy who, whenever anybody wrote about the guy, those people got swatted. And then, by the way, when I wrote about him, the man wound up suing me and others for writing about him. And my company, he was highly litigious. And my company wanted to get out of it because they were up for sale. And so they wound up settling the case. And the others who fought him, they all won their lawsuits against him. But somebody called and said, it was me. And that I had killed my wife. And they asked where my wife was. And the man said, on the floor, I'm looking at her. She's getting my carpet dirty with blood. and then said, now I'm going to go across the street and start shooting my neighbors because they won't turn their music down. He said, where are you? He said, gave my home address, which I almost just gave you on the radio, which I will not do. What was so funny about this, and it actually is kind of funny, is my, you can hear the interstate from my house. And my sister commented, we had been outside from it, she says, wow, you can't hear any, like, this is the first time I haven't heard road noise. And we went inside. It was Memorial Day weekend with them visiting, and a police officer pulled up in the driveway. My son, who at the time had to be like three or four years old, ran outside and said, police, please, police, it was so excited. Police officer grabbed his gun, like held in it. It was in his holster, but hand on his gun. And I went outside, and I knew immediately what had happened. And I realized out of the corner of my eye there was a police officer that was blocking my driveway. And the guy looked at me and he said, aren't you on CNN? And I laughed. I said, yes, sir, I am. And I bet I know why you're here. I think someone has swatted me. And he didn't know what swatting was. And I explained that I've been writing about a guy who, when this guy gets written about, people tend to get swatted. And that is, someone calls the police and says they've killed their spouse and they're going to go kill the neighbors. And so you surround the house. And he said, Mr. Erickson, I need to see your wife. And I called for Christie and she came outside. And he asked her, he says, are you okay? She says, yeah. And he got on his microphone. Y'all, my house was surrounded by the SWAT team. They were back in the woods, but that's why there was no traffic. They had blocked the road. That my house was surrounded by the SWAT team. That guy came up to check. And he laughed and he said, yeah, you have been swatted. The SWAT team is here. Somebody got my information from one of these online data brokers and was able to contact them. And I just, and nowadays they can actually track you down and they can find your information and they can not only find your information, they can find the information about your kids. So in fact...

One of the reasons I went with Incogni is somebody sent me a printout from one of the data broker sites, and it had links to my kids' social media with their pictures. And my kids are pretty obscure on social media, and they had been able to track them down. I was like, this is not good stuff. So I signed up with Incogny, and they started taking all that information down. They started reaching out to those data brokers on my behalf. And there have been a couple times where I've given them specific websites and say, please target this website. They've got my information. They've got my kids' information, and they do it. Now, that's kind of a roundabout way to make a point here that as the left gets increasingly violent in this country, we've got another situation where another progressive activist has gunned down police. The left wants ICE agents to be uncovered and exposed. They want to target ICE agents. They want to target their families. There have already been reports around the country that the media has largely refused to report on where families of ICE agents have been targeted. We have a situation here where in the Metro Atlanta area, they were building a police training facility. Antifa activists actually targeted the construction employees. They figured out who the project manager was. Buddy of mine goes to church with the guy and said they had activists show up at their church and disrupt worship services because one of the construction managers for this police facility went to church there, shut down the church service. It got very little coverage. There was no cell phone footage. Think about the situation in St. Paul, Minnesota. where Don Lemon and the Antifa gang and the Black Lives Matters crowd stormed into that church because apparently one of the assistant pastors who wasn't even there that day worked for ice. And so they disrupted the church. These people want ice agents uncovered and exposed so they can be harassed and targeted personally. And their families can be harassed and targeted personally. And so they're willing to keep TSA shut down until they get to be able to kill ICE agents. They want them and their families exposed. More than 300 TSA agents this weekend quit their jobs because the Democrats will not fund the Department of Homeland Security. These people are working in airports and they're not being paid. And many, many Americans, the normal people of America who aren't plugged in, they had no idea there was a government shutdown. It doesn't feel like a government shutdown, does it? But you go to the airport, you start to feel it because the agents aren't paid. 300 TSA agents have quit. In some airports now, it is a five-hour wait to get through the airport because the Democrats are refusing to reopen Homeland Security unless they get to take the masks off ICE agents so progressive activists can shoot them. A police officer was shot and killed this weekend in Pennsylvania by a progressive activist who wanted to do that. Ice agents have been fired at in Texas, in Oregon, in other states as well. When a good hit an agent with her car before she was fatally shot, they want to make ice agents targets because they think if they can make the ice agents scared, they'll give up their jobs. So the TSA agents are being held hostage so progressives can gun down ice agents. It's what the Democrats want.

Think about your safety and security. It's just absolutely bizarre that they are holding the TSA and air travelers hostage in order to expose ICE agents to harassment. That's what the progressives are doing through the Democratic Party right now. Now I want to jump to Mark's phone call. Mark, I'll be on Amelia Island this coming weekend. How are you? Good. How are you? Great. What's going on? You're in a front of Neenna Beach right now. Amelia Island, and there's a controversy over paid parking with the commissioners that we have right now. And I wanted to ask you the question about local government, what we can do. But we've filed an injunction against them. We've got a petition, grassroots petition, stop paid parking until the vote, and they continue to do it. They just keep overriding it. Now we're in the process of recall, and they just keep continuing. They won't. And it's overwhelmingly. spots from the community. They do not want paid parking. You have a very small majority of them that do. I mean, a small minority of them that do, very few. And we just don't know what to do as a community. I think we're looking, what else can we do to stop this government just basically overreach. And it's greed and its power and it's... I mean, if it is a, if it's a majority of the residents oppose it. You got to show up at the county commission in force to, I mean, and don't think that doesn't do any good because showing up in force, understanding that this becomes a campaign issue for these people actually does really matter. They want to keep their jobs. Now, there will be situations where they think they're doing the right thing. Now, Mark, I will just tell you, as a former city councilman, my community went through the same thing. where we did not want parking meters downtown. A lot of people didn't want parking meters. And the county commission and the city council wound up agreeing on parking meters because it turned out. that the majority of the people taking up the parking spaces in our downtown area were the workers in the buildings so that the shoppers were not able to get down to the businesses. And that was their logic. They knew a majority of people didn't want it. Now, I will tell you, having been to Amelia, I don't think that's the problem in Amelia. You guys have a lot of great downtown parking. I love that fudge shop, by the way, in downtown Ferdin is one of my favorite places. Oh, yeah, it's fantastic. Oh, it is. It is. And what's the, what's the seafood restaurant downtown that's so famous? My wife makes us eat there every time. Not the crab shack, is it? It wasn't Brett's Waterway, was it? No, no, I can't remember it. But, I mean, I... The downtown down there is fantastic. I'm looking forward to being down there and checking out the cigar shops too. I will just tell you, you all got to go to the committee meeting and the commission meeting. You've got to show up in large numbers, and you've got to make your voice heard, and you've got to point out to them that they are depriving themselves of tourists and shoppers in the downtown area, and they are...

going to potentially risk it. And here's the problem. Democratic and even the nonpartisan commissions very time run by liberals, and they just think they've got to raise money in every which way. And that sometimes is cutting off your nose to spite your face. And if it is a big issue and you are right and it's a majority of you are opposed to it, they're going to have to listen to you if you show up. When the truth seems hazy, Eric will clear the way. It's the Eric Erickson Show. Get the podcast, live stream, email, and social media links by texting Eric to 33777. Now. Welcome back. It is Eric Juergson here. There is some breaking news. The head of the Russian air defenses in Moscow has well fallen out of a window. Not making that up. Another Russian general has fallen out of an upstairs window. This comes. Have you all been paying attention to Ukraine? Ukraine has taken back a significant portion of its territory. The Russians have actually receded in territorial gain, and there is new intelligence out that over 1.3 million Russian soldiers were sent to Ukraine, and 60% of them are dead. Fascinating. Also, it turns out 100% of the missiles and rockets China sent to Iran and the drones all failed. Didn't work. Wow. Now, let me tell you about Old Glory Bank. They are my bank. They could be your bank, old glorybank.com slash Eric. They were started because of the debanking trends across the country, and they wanted to protect conservatives. They wanted to protect your right to bank. They wanted to protect your interests. And so they came up with Old Glory Bank. Old Glorybank.com slash Eric. I got a bank account there, and you can too. I got the no fee checking and savings accounts. You get the premium accounts if you want. They got a premium interest bearing checking account. And if you're active duty in military, they'll waive the fees for you on it. Businesses, they have great business accounts. They do mortgages. They do CDs, full functioning bank. Great people out Oklahoma City. They're an online bank. Your kids are going to love it because they get a custodial account there. And they've got a great app, great bill pay tools, great budgeting tools. You can turn on and off your debit card with their app. It's fantastic. Oldglorybank.com slash Eric. Oldglarybank.com slash ERIC. Get involved with Old Glory Bank right now. Start a relationship with them. Member FDIC, Equal housing lender, terms and conditions apply.