Kurt Schlicter on MOU, Plus Reflecting Pool Sparks New Batch of TDS Hysteria | 6.22.26 - The Grace Curley Show Hour 1

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to allow the natural progression of the destruction of the regime in a non-military way to take place. I think he, and it gets complicated, great, because he's a real estate developer from New York. He is kind of a loudmouth guy. He's kind of a Barnman Bailey guy. So he's selling what is, as I put in the piece, a crap sandwich as filet mignon. And he knows it's not filet mignon. And we know it's not filet mignon. But, you know, Barnum's going to barnum. Yeah, yeah, I think a lot of what you're saying, Kurt, makes sense to me. And I appreciate the humility because even though you're not framing like that, there is a lot of humility and saying, listen, I'm not the one in charge. I'm, I say this all the time. I'm behind a mic. It's easy for me to be like, yeah, kinetic, let's go, let's fight. But I'm also not going in there. And there's no appetite for boots on the ground. And I don't blame people in this country for not having an appetite for that. But one of the other things that you brought up here. And this is a really great piece. Everyone should check it out of townhall.com. You talk about the issue with oil moving through the street and part of that having to do with insurance. I don't think this is a highly reported on part of this conversation. Can you explain to people what's going on there with the insurance, why this is an issue? Sure, and like everything, insurance is a huge part of everything. Well, I was a lawyer. I thought lawyers, I thought the law is about going to court and stuff. The law in the large part is about managing insurance coverage. What's insurance to do? It pays you in case something bad happens. What does an insurer do he measures risk? Right now, the ships going through the straight of four moves. are insured. Well, they have to be insured because you can't have a $100 million ship going through with a 0.05% chance of suffering significant damage and not have insurance. You just can't do that. And the insurance, and remember, the insurance for shipping is tied very much to national governments. So you've got a situation where the insurers don't particularly want to insure the risk. Because the premium, and even if they did, the premiums would be very, very high, increasing the costs. But you also have some governments, like Great Britain, who are leaning on voids of London, for instance, to not insure because, frankly, they want to embarrass Trump. And that's kind of an underreported part of this. Now, even if their ships could be fully insured for a reasonable price, they still might have doubts about going through a stray hormones. We could remove some of those doubts by, you know, sending our ships through escorting them. But here's one thing that drives me crazy. The geniuses, the same people who became epidemiologists when COVID came out and economists, when tariffs came out, are now military geographers. And they've discovered that Iran.

has coastline across the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. And they've suddenly said, well, now, thanks to Trump, the Iranians are able to close the Strait of Hormuz. When were the Iranians not able to militarily interdict the Strait of Hormuz, where they can close it or not is one thing, where they could put substantial risk in crossing it is another. So, you know, it isn't a secret, okay? This is something that's been a war game for 50 years. Everybody knows because it's, you know, obvious unless you're an idiot, that the Iranians having. coastline on one side of the straightforward moves are able to threaten shipping in the straightforward moves. They've always been able to. So the idea that now it's Trump's fault because they're doing it is one of many, many stupid things that people are saying about this issue. You can't look at objectively. Yeah. And I'm glad you brought this up because you write about the mullahs and How, yes, now they have the ability to block traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, but you say that that's a depreciating asset. Walk me through that because I understand your frustration as well. This isn't a new thing, but it seems like the threat to be able to say, hey, we are going to do this, has a lot more cachet now, especially with our media here, who loves to report on the fact that, you know, none of this is working. So talk to me about why it's a depreciating asset. Well, look, in many cases, a threat is more powerful than the reality, because when the reality happens, people start taking concrete steps to ameliorate the risk. So what are the Gulf states doing? Well, one thing is, they're building new pipelines. And I spent time over there in the Army. There's a giant... oil pipelines heading to the west out over the desert. So the oil doesn't have to flow through the Persian Gulf and around, through a stray of Hormuz and around. It could just go out over to the Red Sea. So the Gulf states now that the Iranians have actually made good on the threat that was always there are going to start taking steps. to get their oil out, not by sailing it right by Iran. And other places are going to start drilling in greater amounts. As the price for oil went up, it became more economically viable to... drill in less economically viable places, that's going to happen. The bottom line is the oil that is currently supposed to go through a straightforward move in the future is not going to necessarily have to come through the straightforward moves. It is a depreciating asset. It will always be an important choke point. But it's a depreciating asset because it is a...

People are going to take actions that are going to make it less vital. They're going to build around it. And every day, it gets less valuable. Yeah, and Kurt, to your point, the longer they show. which, as you put, they're just going to be a pain in the touch, which we've seen for the last 50 years. It's not a shock to anyone. But the longer that they kind of use this asset and dangle it over us, the more people are like, wow, we really cannot rely on this ever again. It's kind of like COVID with China. We start to figure out, oh, why are we in this position? Well, there's maybe a few variables, but one of them is we're too dependent on one thing and with people that we cannot trust that are not our friends. I also wanted to ask you here about the administration. advantage that they have that no one wants to go in and invade Iran. And I think that that is pretty much across the board here. A lot of people agree that we didn't want boots on the ground. But something that you say in here that I find interesting is about the Iranian people rising up, that there was an opportunity there. And I'm not casting blame because I think that a lot of these Iranians are extremely courageous. And I mean, just to rise up to the point where they're slaughtering 40,000 people in the streets is a lot of courage, a lot of which. I don't think people here would even be able to fathom. But talk about the weapons and kind of how there was this idea. And maybe now we look back and say it was a little too hopeful or optimistic. But there was this idea that there was going to be an uprising and it was going to take place there. And we were going to be able to be kind of hands off and let that play out. Well, look, that's what we were hoping for. That was a real possibility. The Iranians have gone out in the streets. They don't have weapons. Another reason the Second Amendment was such a genius maneuver by our founders. And another reason we should never give up our guns. We tried to supply some weapons. We supplied them through the Kurds, and, of course, the Kurds decided, no, we'll keep them. Let's just mark that down as more perfidy from the people of the Middle East. Look, yeah, it's tough. A lot of Iranians will probably die trying to overthrow their country as current dictatorship. It's their country. They've got to do it. We're not going to do it. We couldn't do it politically. It would be hard to do it militarily in the sense that it would be a lot of effort, a lot of time, a lot of money. I mean, we could do it, obviously. But look, there's no taste for it among the American people. I think it was a – and remember, it isn't done. The economic strangulation of the Iran, which is continuing. is setting a condition for civil unrest there. I'm hoping they eventually do it, and that's kind of the end state. We do need regime change there. I know everybody's afraid to say regime change, but that's what we need. That's a traditional end of war. But that regime change is going to have to come from the Iranian people.

Yeah, one of the parts of this, I really appreciate. You say every time it kills a Hezbollah or Hamas terrorist, an angel gets its wings, you're talking about Israel. And you said, and here's the tough news for the pro-Israel crowd, of which I am one. You've got no place else to go. Walk me through that, because I consider myself part of that crowd as well. And that crowd has been melting down a lot over the last few days. And some of it, I think, is warranted. Like they feel they don't like the way this is trending. They don't like how Israel seems to be getting a lot of criticism from the administration. But you kind of... set up this reality check for people, and I needed to hear it. So tell the audience. Well, look, there's literally no one more pro-Israel than me. My complaint about Israel is they haven't killed enough Hamas, and they haven't killed enough of Hezbo. And they should be doing that, and we should be assisting them. Now, all that being said... Israel needs to understand that, and I think it does, I think there are some commentators who don't, but I think generally it does. The Venn diagram between American and Israeli interests is not a perfect circle. Oh, it overlaps almost completely, but there is some difference. And, you know, criticism of the administration is not helpful. It's also not realistic. Israel needs us. We also need Israel. But, you know, there's a lot of criticism, JD Vance out there. I think he's saying a lot of things that are kind of obvious. Now, keep in mind, I do differ with some people's take on this. I think Israel should double down in Lebanon. Every time they bomb Beirut, I celebrate because I think we should kill all the Hezbollah guys. They have American blood on their paws, and they need to die. that's how you win a war. Iran needs to lose its proxies. We don't need to just mow the lawn and let it grow back. They need to go in and root it up and we should be helping them. And frankly, I think to some extent, a lot of this America-Israel conflict that we hear so much about is an act. Do you think Donald Trump's like really upset that Hezbollah guys, the dudes who blew up the Marine barracks, are getting killed? Oh, yeah. He's bummed out about that. He may say, you know, not today. Keep it kind undercover. Do it on the down low. But the idea that somehow he doesn't want Israel to go in and smash these semi-humans. seventh century freaks into oblivion, I think that's kind of ridiculous. Yeah, you said what we should be doing is giving Israel a behind the scenes go ahead to do what it needs to do. I've always thought that perhaps that could be going on behind the scenes.

I wish we had more time because this piece, you go through so many different things. You go through the polling on this and how people support it. You go through how Trump was trying to stop us from an economic collapse and how the oil market was really hinging on something changing here. So I appreciate your time, Kurt. I wish we had more. It's at Kurt Schlichter on Twitter. Check this out at townhall.com. It's worth the read. I promise. And we will be right back. The Grace Curley Show will return. This is the Grace Curley Show. Welcome back, everyone. Yeah, so this was the part of Kurt's column that stuck out to me. He talked about gas braces, as a lot of you have probably noticed, you're already starting to see them tick down. I noticed that today. I got one gas station I passed by, and it's like... I don't know how they keep their prices so low. I'm not going to reveal it because I don't want a bunch of people going there. But there's a bunch of other ones nearby and their prices are significantly higher. I'm like, what are you guys doing? Is it one of those stations where they advertise the pay by cash instead of the pay by card? Yeah, but it's still, there's still a disparity there that I, I'm not, you know what though? I'm not complaining. Their house blend. I'm not going to complain. Whatever is in it, I'm dealing with it. He says, now this is an important reason, important to him for a couple of reasons. First, we don't need a worldwide recession. There's talk out there, and I'm no expert on the oil industry, so take it for what it's worth. But apparently Trump believes that the world oil stocks were going to be depleted, and the price was going to go through the roof. That would have sent the Western economy into a tailspin, and there would have been follow-up. follow-on effects from that. So whether or not that was, I mean, I think it's pretty obvious that the economy and gas prices and everyone bitching and moaning about it, as I was as well, was one of the biggest drivers in making this decision. The only thing I question Taylor, and Taylor's back, by the way. You'll all figure that out pretty quick. It's not going to take people on. Welcome back, Taylor. We missed you. We did miss you. We always missed you, Taylor. So good to see you. I feel the love, everybody. Thank you. Ray of sunshine. Here he is. But I do wonder if they could go back if they would have done this again. That's my only question. I understand what Kurt saying, this conflict has been going on for 50, for actually hundreds and hundreds of years. It's not going to be fixed. with this deal, with this MOU. It's not like, it's nice that JD Vance is talking about, hey, they're going to let us bring in inspectors. They're going to buy our crops. They're going to do all these things. And hey, pie in the sky, sure, but I'm all for it. I hope I'm wrong. But my question is, if you could go back, would you have made this decision again? Because if you weren't going to finish it. To go into Iran? Yeah. To begin with? I don't know if they would say yes. Because it seemed like when they went in. And I do think that the Kurds and the weapons and the idea that maybe the Iranian people were going to be able to take over for themselves, that was a huge factor in making that decision. I wonder if with hindsight now, they would say, no. At least not before the midterms. Yeah, probably. I would have said, let's wait until after the midterms. We'll talk about it when we come back.

Now that he's not fighting the IRGC, you just wait. We're going to be told that he's abandoning the people there, that he's let them down, that he's no friend of the Iranian people. And maybe they do feel that way. Maybe they are disappointed. But I'm not going to listen to it from Chris Murphy. I'm not going to listen to people who, when he made this decision to go in, they... bent over backwards to try to convince people that it was the least courageous thing to do, that he was a madman, that he was a dictator, an autocrat, that he had lost his mind. And now that he's looking at it and saying, well, there's no winning here for me. Now it's going to be, well, why aren't you? You're weak, you're weak. You're not helping them. You're backing down. You know this, though. You know this. Now, I'm glad you brought up the reflecting pool because... I'm just happy to see these Democrats, like sometimes they need a little life put back in their eyes. Sometimes they need something, you know, sometimes I really worry about them. And the level of enthusiasm that I haven't seen this level of enthusiasm from both the media and just Democrat grannies in general since. I would say the Ted Cruz Cancun thing. Like they haven't had something to bring them together like this algae bloom. They are so excited. They are spending so much. This is the new two scoops. This is the second administration's two scoops of ice cream. These people with this pool and you know, it's kind of like. Yeah, you guys focus on the pool for a while. Let us figure some other stuff out. We got some stuff that we got to figure out here. We've got some issues. We have big business to attend to. You guys keep your eye on the pool, okay? Grannies with the signs on the overpass, the no kings ladies, get to the pool, stare at the pool, complain about the pool, put your cups in the pool and look at the water and hold it up for your camera. They've got banners now. I've seen people with banners about the algae. Frog costumes are there. Whatever you guys need. It's really like, you know, you're trying to get something done, Taylor, and you're like, what can occupy my toddler for a few minutes while I try to get this done? Something that's going to keep them safe. They're going to be out of harm's way. And, you know, one of the things I realize about that is you have to be willing, okay? If you have a toddler. And let's say you want to clean out the fridge. You have to give your toddler an activity to do. And that activity is probably going to make a mess. Like there's going to be some element afterwards of you having to clean it up. But that's part of the give and take is you want them to be occupied for 20 minutes. Fine. But you're going to have to clean up the mess. They're going to have to do something that's creating a little bit of destruction. It's the same thing with these Democrats. It's like, you know what? You're over there. Your pains in the ass. But at least I can see you. I know what you're doing. And I'm just going to leave you to your own devices. You get a little bit of free rein there with the pool.

Stay by the pool. You're good. Just decide to help you out. Find your largest Amazon box. Put your daughter in the box and just give her a ton of crayons. Better go crazy. Exactly. And afterwards, you know, you've got to pick up the box. You've got to put some stuff away. But hey. 20 minutes, we were able to figure some stuff out. I want to do the poll question here, and then we will come back to some of this national news. But today's poll question is brought to you by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Carpet. Now is the time to clean or update your home with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Carpet. Visit their beautiful showrooms and need them in. In Weymeth or call 1 888 Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. Taylor, what is the poll question? And what are the results thus far? Today's poll question, which you can vote in at grace curly show.com, is do you drink soda? Never? Rarely? every now and then or regularly. You might be asking yourself, what's this poll question about? Well, what inspired this poll question is that sadly, the Coca-Cola company is closed in one of its Massachusetts production facilities. That would be the facility in Northampton. And this has been on the books for a while. They made this decision a while ago. They kept it open, I think, longer than people expected. But this week, it became really official where they were letting employees know that informal notices. that they were no longer going to be operating out of there. And of course, it's a trend. It's a trend we see in Massachusetts. It's not a trend for all states. There's some states that this is a reverse trend or a positive trend, you might say. But in Massachusetts, we've covered, you know, Cape Cod chips, leaving hyenas. And, you know, there's been cutoffs and layoffs at certain Panera branches. And there's been a lot of companies that aren't really seeing a lot of upside to being in the Commonwealth. Believe it or not. the Saudi Arabia of wind. I don't know why that's not more appealing to all of these companies. They're hitting the road. But then I started thinking about soda. And I actually said this to my mom the other day. I was like, mom, when I was a kid and I would go to birthday parties, were kids drinking soda? And she was like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you guys were doing soda. Like, that's what they would have. There's a whole bouquet of sodas on the, you had orange fanta, you had Coke, you had Sprite. Taylor, I, and maybe it changes when your kids are like 10 or 11 or 12, but I don't foresee that being the case with kids now. I don't see any parents who are like, hey, try a soda or have a soda at the movies. Like every, they get water. These kids got water bottles, water balls for days. These kids have juices and, you know, certain treats and stuff. But soda is not being pumped out to the younger generations like it was for us. I can't say with any certainty that my children have tried soda. And why would you? Like, why would you? Knowing what we know about it and how bad it is for you. Like, why? Now, my answer to the poll question, though. How many times do you get a fridge, Sig?

I have a fountain Coke probably once a week, sometimes once every two weeks. But I think that in today's day and age, that makes me irregular. I would say that's regular. Yeah, that's regular ship. And there's nothing like it when I take that first sip. When I was pregnant both times, not to be TMI, first trimester, I was drinking fountain sodas every day. Every day, sometimes 10 in the morning. It was a problem. Yeah, I was going to Burger King 10 in the morning. She was late to work. So, so good. So, yeah, I would say regularly. What would you put yourself as to all every once in a while? Rarely. Rarely. Yeah, the only time I'm having soda is if I'm mixing something else in it. That was, I had some over my vacation. I went to the movies. Were you mixing at the movies? Hell yeah. Really? The bar at the movies was closed, so I had to bring my own stuff in. Yeah, you did like the airport trick. You brought in a little couple nips. I'm a flask. What movie did you go see? Oh, to see Disclosure Day. Oh, wow. It's fun. Yeah, that's good. Good time. That's a long one, though, isn't it? It was two and a half hours, and it didn't start until 10.15 at night. How many nips did it require to get through? I had a whole flask. Oh, wow. That I split between myself and. An undisclosed family member. Okay, so this is not Disclosure Day. This is undisclosure Day. So 20% say they drink it regularly. 23% say every now and then 31% say rarely and 26% say never. So the majority either never or rarely drink soda. I will say that I've been hearing so many conflicting things about the cancer connection to soda. And whether or not, I know Diet Coke, I was addicted to Diet Coke at one point. Like I was drinking that. I was having sometimes two a day. And I had to just go cold turkey on it because it was starting to really impact my life. And since then I went to the high test stuff. But when I was drinking Diet Coke, people used to tell me all the time, oh, you know, it's like smoking a cigarette. It's so bad for you. It's so bad for you. I don't know how much I believe that anymore. This stuff all changes every five years. Here I was changing my entire lifestyle, taking away something that really meant a lot to me because of all these reports. And then in five years, it's probably going to be like Diet Coke is a healthy thing. Like eggs. Every five years, it's eggs are bad for you. Eggs are good for you. Eggs are bad for you. Too much cholesterol. Oh, it's good cholesterol. Oh, no, no. We found out it's bad cholesterol. You can't win. We're like Donald Trump. You just can't win. Now, I did want to mention here that there's interesting finances in the news today. And we're going to kind of go into this because I have two different stories. One is Ro Khanna. I mentioned Ro Khanna earlier. This guy, I don't know what his deal is. I don't know why he's always on TV. Why he is Graham Platner's. Like, you, I understand this guy, Morris Katz, is Graham Platner's social media savant or whatever. He's like his campaign director, one of those titles. He did it for Zohran Mamdani. And so his job, he's on the payroll, right? His job is to go around and tell everyone how great Graham Platner is. And when they say, hey, are there more women who are going to come out of the woodwork? He has to be like, um...

Well, depends what you mean by woodwork. He has to try to, you know, flip and spin everything. But what is up with Ro Khanna where he's like the go-to guy on these media shows to either defend Graham Platner? or to defend any of these weird Democrats. And he has to go out there and bend himself into a pretzel to make it make sense. But the other thing is, he's got Cajonais on him because he's going on these shows. I'm going to play you this clip, okay? This is Ro Khanna. He's on that show with Jennifer Welch, who she is a devil woman. She is just the worst. And this is what he had to say about Elon Musk. Let me have cut six, please. But think about this, Jennifer, for 5% tax one time on Elon Musk, you could have universal child care in America $10 a day for every family. That's one person, one time, 5%. And he wouldn't even miss it because the market would grow by 15% and his wealth would still grow. And yet they're opposed to something as basic as that. Wait, wait. Let me hear that one more time. I'm sorry. I want to hit the beginning of that. But think about this, Jennifer. For 5% tax one time on Elon Musk, you could have universal child care in America $10 a day for every family. It would cost $10 a day. If child care costs $10 a day, child care would not be a problem. But yeah, also I wouldn't want it. I don't want it. That's weird. That's weird. That's no. So he's saying that, okay, I think I understand. So we would get so much money for it that we could only, it would only cost $10. You put in $10 and that would be enough. I'm curious about his math here. And he told us to think about it. But the other part about it, the reason I think he has Cajonis is because he's going on that show with Jennifer Walsh. He's going on with Bill Maher, and he's talking about Elon Musk. We just need to tax Elon Musk. And that's the biggest fallacy of all. It's like, oh, if we just get more money from these billionaires, then we'll be able to fix these problems. You've had billions and billions and billions of dollars to fix these problems, and you haven't been able to do it. But sure, one billion more is going to be the thing to do it. But the crazy part about this is... He is worth $200 million. And that's fine. Good on him. I guess that's okay. He's traded $600 million in trade volume so far during his time as a congressman. He is making hand over fist because of his access. He is not. Now, am I supposed to believe this guy who wants to tax Elon Musk more as if Elon Musk doesn't pay enough in taxes? He's making hand over fist. And he's presenting himself as like man of the people. He's standing up for all the sorry people who are forgotten and who deserve part of Elon Musk's wealth and part of Elon Musk's success.

This guy is such a hypocrite. It's beyond. And he's doing it. He's going on all these different shows and talking, we just need to tax Elon Musk more. Okay, so 5% on Elon Musk. How much are we taxing on you? You seem to like making money. You don't like when someone else is making money. It's always like the millionaires who are telling us how bad the billionaires are. I'm not a millionaire. And I don't have an issue with the billionaires. So what is it about you, Mr. 200 million that has such an issue with the billionaires? I'm confused by this. And what about taxing Elon Musk Muskmore? How are you going to show us the connection between that money? and it being used to help people and not being used for your friends in like, for example, Minnesota or Maine or Massachusetts who govern states into the ground and then give all that money that you say is going to fix child care and going to fix everything else if you just got a little bit more. They give it to fraudsters. Why don't you focus on that first? Before you go and try to take more money from Elon Musk. Why don't you just try to stop more money from going to fraudsters? And once you do that, then we'll have the conversation about Elon Musk. But let's have a little bit of accountability here. Show us your willingness to stop billions from going to fraudsters in this country. And then we'll talk about getting even more money from Elon Musk. Because right now. The way I see it is you just want more money from Elon Musk so you can funnel it to Somali daycares with no children in them or other fraud scams that you're working on. And so until you really show a willingness and a desire to stop the fraud in this country and the waste and abuse, then I don't see why you should be trusted with even more money. We'll be right back. Follow Grace on X at G underscore Curley. This is the Grace Curley. This is the Grace Curley Show. Yeah, Taylor just said it. I mean, the whole team algae thing of all these sad sacks holding up signs, team algae, it's like, so you really would cheer on anything that you think is going to take down Donald Trump. I used to think that was an exaggeration where people would say, if he cured cancer, they'd be mad, you know? They'd be team cancer. I don't know. It's definitely something to consider. The trumped arrangement in D.C. and in the rest of the country is metastasizing. I wanted to give a quick shout-up to the New York Times because it was Father's Day this weekend. And what a crazy headline we got from the New York Times. What I learned about parenting as a trans dad. Now, I will say this. The cartoons that were part of this article are even better. There's a cartoon of two kids.

on the monkey bars. And one says, you can't grow a beard. You're a girl. And the girl says, my dad did. And he was a girl. Another one is a father-daughter, what looks to be a father-daughter in the cartoon. And the daughter says to the father, how long did you have breasts for dad? Like this party and the media wonder why they can't connect with men, why they can't, because they have to take everything good and normal and turn it weird and turn it into, you know, they actually go out of their way to not have any common sense, to not connect with people. to make everything political, everything a social issue. Even now like Father's Day, you can't just be like, happy Father's Day and all the dads out there. Love you, Dad. You know, this is a great day. No, it's got to be sit down. We're about to lecture you on something. Something you didn't even know was an issue, but you're about to. You're going to learn today. We've got a lot more show when we come back. Stay with us, people. It's the Grace Curley Show.