The War Is Back On. Nobody Voted for It. Again. - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #155

Three weeks ago Trump signed a peace deal. This week the US bombed 80 targets in Iran, Iran fired missiles at a US base in Jordan, and the Strait of Hormuz slammed shut again.

No vote. No declaration. No debate. The war just restarted over the July 4th weekend while everyone was grilling.

Also this week — 57,000 jobs added against an expectation of 110,000. Real wages fell for the third straight month. The average household has spent $3,100 extra on essentials since January. And beef prices hit their highest in memory over the cookout holiday.

Oh, and St. Louis only has 12 ambulances. Half the federal guideline for a city this size. And they just pulled $500K from EMS to fund a police board nobody voted for.

Eric's not holding back.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:05

Welcome back to another episode of the St. Louis Podcast. As always, my name is Eric Brown. I'm the host of this thing, and we're going to get it going here today. Wow. As usual, things continue to fly in the United States. Um, story after story of crazy shit happening around us. And of course, why not? Uh why don't we just continue the uh you know, war in Iran, which seems like obviously is happening. Of course, everyone is uh blaming Iran. It seems like at least the the main media, the main news, the uh the warmongers, um boomers, a lot of old boomers. Um, and they are just strictly listening to the news, right? And of course, what we'll talk about is the fact that, you know, apparently a couple of ships got hit. Iran did it, and you know, essentially the the peace treaty is now, you know, at the bottom of the Shre de Formuz. Now, what has been speculated is the fact that it was not Iran that did this. There is one country that wants us in this war very much and was not happy with the peace arrangements. And of course, that country's name is Israel. Now, I'm not gonna sit here and say uh that they're the ones responsible uh for essentially the restart of this war. Of course, on this podcast over the last couple of months, I've talked about how, you know, that peace deal is essentially a load of shit. And I didn't see actually anything going to come of it. And now, of course, we got, you know, it's back on. It's back on. And of course, Brent Crude is increasing. It's rising. Gas prices going back up. Uh, so both both sides are still trading fire as of today, Friday, July 10th, the day that I'm recording this. So, of course, three weeks ago they signed a peace deal. This week, the U.S. bombed 80 targets in Iran. Iran fired missiles at a U.S. base in Jordan. The Strait of Formuse slammed shut again. And Nancy Pelosi is calling it a dangerous and illegal war. The peace didn't hold because it was never peace. It was an intermission. Uh, seventh inning stretch, if you will. Now, of course, the seventh inning stretch is insinuating that we're getting to the end of this. I would actually say that a halftime would make more sense. Today, um in, you know, obviously we are continuing to pay for it at the pump. Gas in St. Louis is right around 360. Of course, before this war started, we were at 280. And if I hear one more person bring up the fact that it's lower than it was in whatever, 2022 or whenever the Ukraine war started, just take out the biggest boot and shove it up your ass. Because you are, by all accounts, a moron. And it's mainly, of course, uh, you know, older, older Republicans saying this. This is kind of their talking point. It's like, well, look at Obama. Look at what, look at what Obama did. It's like, we're not, can we fucking focus on now? How about we focus on our attention on what's happening now and not relating everything to what happened in the past? Because yes, you are right. Obama killed more innocent civilians in his drone striking than any president before or after. Now, of course, uh Obama was a little bit uh, you know, held himself, I guess what you would say, presidentially, right? People, you know, he had charisma, he had a personality, people like that. Um, all right. So CENCOM said the IRGC claimed Iran did not claim the tanker. This is a live shooting war, says who's asserting what. Obviously, we got separate from top line take home. So, what do we got? We have three beat options. What is it? Do we want U.S. bombs, 80 Iran targets? Iran hits a U.S. base. Cult Pelosi calls it illegal war. The peace that lost it lasted three weeks, or her moose slammed shut again. And your gas is next. Of course, like I said before, gas is still up. So the intern deal is dead in 72 hours. Tanker attacks, two rounds of U.S. strikes on Iran, an Iranian missile barrage on a U.S. base in Jordan. The straight shut again in the man. This war started by killing is buried, of course, this morning. Um, so as of you know, essentially this morning, uh, there were fights overnight. The live oil price is right at about $75 a barrel. That's up $4 on the week. Uh, of course, we got straight status. Looking at Lloyd's list, said transits effectively halted since July 7th. Now, what happened? A projectile hits the Qatari LNG tanker Al Whatever. Off of Oman, Axios reports the IRGC fired missiles at two commercial ships, a Saudi crew tanker also damaged. No casualties. Iran did not claim it. And of course, they said that on air. The U.S. strikes uh, of course, that night, night of July 7th through July 8th, the U.S. strikes Iranian, 80 Iranian military targets, including 60 plus IRGC boats. Thought their Navy was gone, saying it was to impose heavy costs for the ceasefire violation. CENCCOM conducts a second round of strikes yesterday on a Thursday, July 9th, in order to further degrade Iran's ability to hit shipping. Iran retaliates. The RGC says it hit a U.S. command and control center in the Al Azraqa air base in Jordan with 10 ballistic missiles. Jordan said it intercepted eight. Lloyd's list has said uh no large vessel has crossed the U.S. coordinated southern highway route with AIS on since July 7th. Traffic has essentially grinded to a halt. Now, of course, Ali Khomeini is being buried this morning. Or whatever time it is over there. Was buried at the some shrine in Mashad. Obviously, his son is still Supreme Leader. Now we got Nancy Pelosi on X saying having failed to secure lasting peace or achieve his stated objectives, President Trump has once again dragged America back into a dangerous and illegal war with Iran, ignoring the vote of Congress, forcing working families to foot the bill for his unnecessary war of choice. Now that's surprising. That Nancy Pelosi is saying this. How much money has Nancy Pelosi received from APAC? Lifetime total pro-Israel lobby at over $618,000. So obviously, she's making too much money off the stock market. They can't throw her enough cash. And so here we are. Iran's chief negotiator said America still hasn't learned that bullying and breaking promises are no longer cost-free. If you strike, you'll get hit. And the strait stays open only under Iranian arrangements and not American threats. Like I said before, uh, and I will continue to say so, they are in the position of power. They are controlling the strait. Um, and I don't, you know, it doesn't really seem like, again, that Trump has a plan in place. Or is he ever? I'm assuming, like I said, right when this first happened, that he thought this was going to be like Venezuela. You go in, you go out, you got the guy, good job. Well, I don't know who he was listening to, his advisors. I mean, pretty much everyone should be fired that was um, you know, involved in this whole uh starting of the war. Because anyone that couldn't see this happening was a moron. And we've known about Iran essentially, you know, that's kind of the choke point, right? That's the choke point for the Strait of Hormuz, is a choke point for the whole Gulf in order to get, you know, all of the oil and also liquid natural gas out of, you know, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and all the other countries right around there. So the left, of course, uh Pelosi, the anti-war block, calls it a legal war of choice that skipped Congress. The right, no, not all of the right, the same Republicans who cost last month's deal a surrender, is furious and fell apart on Trump's watch. When Nancy Pelosi and Thomas Massey are both against your war policy from opposite ends, the old left-right map is useless. The real divide, the people who send the missiles versus the people who pay for them. You're damn right. Uh, Congress point is real nonpartisan. The strikes continued after a congressional vote to stop the war. Who decided? Isn't rhetorical here. It's a constitutional question. So uh that's how long the oil flowed for. Three weeks. Three weeks from a signed ceremony to bombing 80 targets and taking ballistic missiles at an American base in Jordan. Now, I've said over and over again that every ceasefire in this war has been for political theater. And here's the receipt again. The announcement travels at the speed of press release, the war travels at the speed of a missile. And obviously, the thing nobody in charge will say out loud is we are back in a shooting war with Iran, and there was no vote, no declaration, no debate. It just restarted over a weekend while the country was grilling. That's right. July 4th, baby. Now, of course, St. Louis had awful weather, had to be inside most of the day. That was truly terrible. But the Iran, uh, the Strait of Foremoose is closed again. The war is back. The war is back. And obviously, uh bad news for everyone's wallets as well. Bad news for everyone's wallets. War is back on. We're continuing to still pay higher gas prices. Of course, if this continues, it'll just go back up. Now, of course, uh, you know, Trump, obviously, the whole NATO situation happened. Trump rips NATO, threatens to cut off Spain, revives the Greenland grab. Of course, we got Trump saying that. I'm very upset with NATO, Trump said. Members didn't want to help us with the number one state sponsor of terror. That's Iran. Bro. Mr. President, get your hat out of your ass, sir. No one wanted this. Israel forced your hand because you're cuck. Netanyahu cuck. He called for the U.S. to cut off all trade with Spain over its spending, called it a terrible partner in NATO and a wasted cause. Now, of course, if you look at it from the standpoint of trade deficits, um, they actually pay us more money than we pay them for trade. Or excuse me, they pay us more money. We send them more trade than they trade us. So we were to trade, not deficit, a trade, can't I can't even think of the word. Surplus. There we go. Jeez. So we have a trading surplus with Spain. He revived the Greenland grab repeatedly. Now I'm assuming that um, you know, we essentially just won Greenland for, you know, probably two reasons. Number one, the elite won an island. Don't they always? The elite won an island. Now, what the elite also won are data centers. And you know what it is in Greenland? It's pretty cold. Pretty cold up there. And I'm assuming that they'd have less issues with water. That's what I think, personally. I think uh they want to turn into like, you know, obviously Peter, Peter Teal and all these guys are like all going to Argentina, which if you watch the FIFA World Cup, which I only really paid attention to it not very often, but if you saw the whole all the news about Argentina, um, it's very interesting. Very interesting. The fact that they should have lost that game to Egypt. Uh, the fact that FIFA is arguably the most corrupt sports organization um in the world. But who cares? None of it matters. Let's all just root for my country. Um, Denmark's PM said Greenland is not for sale. We are ready to defend every inch of NATO. Then back home, Trump floated withdrawing U.S. troops from Europe if he's not satisfied on Greenland. The summit uh community notably did not commit to holding a summit next year. So allies did agree to pay over $50 billion in new procurements in an $80 billion Ukraine support package for 2026. The Czech Republic opted out. Trump agreed to let Ukraine manufacture patriot interceptors a real shift towards Kyiv's air defense. Now there's a couple surprises. Couple of surprises. Trump is rescinding serious state sponsor of terror designation, met new Syrian president Al-Sharap on the sidelines and lifted defense sanctions on Turkey, dangling F-35s. Now, of course, Israel doesn't want Turkey to have F-35s, right? Israel wants Turkey. Just like they want Lebanon. Now, if you look at the map. Now the Greater Israel map has these areas. Ready? Palestinian territories, West Bank, Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, portions of Saudi Arabia. That is the greater Israel map, and it is on the arms of the IDF. So what the hell is that about? What's going on there? Someone explained that to me. Um NATO NATO chief uh claimed a great sense of unity. Trump does tactical positioning to keep everyone off balance, then signs a declaration. Messy process, real outcomes. I mean, it's like a kid throwing a tantrum. So China announced it launched a ballistic missile from a nuclear submarine into the Pacific, a rare sea-based nuclear flexed time to the summit. Russia hammered Kyiv with uh a 500 drone barrage the same week, testing whether a distracted West response. So, of course, the pattern, what is it? While the U.S. spends its attention ships and now fresh strikes on the Gulf, Beijing and Moscow picked a moment to push. Timing is a message. So whether you're a so-called MAGA or internationalist, this week stings. The nationalist sees a war restarted, and allies who won't help. The internationalist sees the alliances fraying and rivals stepping in. Same facts, and neither side of the old debate is winning. Now, of course, we also have jobs report cratering, wages lost to inflation again. But Trump is saying it's raining jobs. Um, we had 57,000 jobs added in June. Now we estimated that originally at 110,000. Uh, we had a downward revision of a loss of 74,000 jobs in April and May. There's 507,000 fewer people in the labor force. And it's the third month of real wages falling. 3.5% pay versus 4.2% inflation. Just 57,000 jobs, about half was it what was expected in April and May revised down by a combined 74,000 jobs. Unemployment fell to 4.2%, but that's because of over 500,000 people that left the labor force, not because they found work. Participation hit its lowest since March 2021. Now, of course, we got wages growing 3.5% while inflation runs at 4.2%. Real wages fell for a third straight month. Per CAP, the average household has spent $3,100 extra on essentials since 2025, January of 2025. Now, where were the jobs? Mostly healthcare, social assistance, leisure hospitality lost jobs despite the World Cup. Now, of course, the reignited conflict just pushed oil up to you know $70 plus a barrel with warnings of a $10 to $15 summer spike. So the one thing that cooled gas is about to uncool. It's not very cool, dude. Now, of course, we got the Fed. Fed chair Kevin Walsh. Uh Trump appointed him. He was expected to cut rates, but kept rates steady and scrapped forward guidance. Market sold off, and a chunk of policymakers still expect a hike by the end of the year. So interest rates potentially are not going to go down. If anything, they're going to go up. The weak jobs report quiets the rate hike conservation. Conservation. Conversation, but doesn't kill it. The bind hike in borrowing gets pricier. It cuts into the 4% inflation and prices climb faster. Now we had a war-driven, of course, oil spikes. The Fed's job just got harder. Beef prices hit their highest in memory over the cookout week and cattle supplies at their lowest in around 75 years. Now, of course, uh Trump accounts are a new thing since July 4th. People get deposited into tax-deferred investment accounts with eligible children getting a thousand thousand dollar government contribution. So who's benefiting the most? Families afford uh that could afford to add to it versus those that can't. Is it a genuine uh starter benefit and also program that rewards those with money to contribute? I don't think they're doing this uh to be nice. I think there's there's some way that this $1,000 is gonna end up making, you know, uh uh, you know, the investment, you know, companies that are responsible for probably placing that money even more money. I don't like it. Uh we even have Fox News Business headline the report below expectations. Newsweek called it a blow for Trump. When the friendly outlets can't spin it, the number is the number. Now, of course, MAGA or progressive, if your rent, groceries, and burger cost more while your raise lags, you're on the losing side of the same trade. Again, if stuff is increasing, right? If the price of goods are increasing more than your pay, you're on the losing side, right? This is again not left versus right. It's top line versus take home. Uh, the economy is still adding jobs, 4.2%. Now, this is just being, you know, not uh uh, you know, whatever, whatever you want to call it here. The fact that let's just steel man it real quick. The economy is still adding jobs. 4.2% unemployment is historically low, and one soft month with revisions isn't a recession. Some economists read statements. Not collapse. GDP is positive. I mean, so what do you guys think? I think we all look at our our wallets, our credit cards, you know, how much money do we have? How much money are we spending? And it's about as simple as that. I think for the most majority of people right now, um they would go ahead and say that they are doing worse off than they were a month ago, a year ago, five years ago, ten years ago, so on and so forth. Now, of course, I always get people on here just like Carolyn Levitt, just like Trump, and anyone else, all they do is spout, look at the stock market. It's like five stocks that have made up of the majority of the gains. It's all AI-based bullshit. Uh, in my opinion, it is a bubble, and it's only a matter of time before a shit ton of gains are wiped out. Um and you know, I talked about this with you know with SpaceX, right? They're down at 148. It opened at $150 per share, so it's now under what it opened on.

SPEAKER_01 23:12

I told you. I told everyone.

SPEAKER_00 23:22

Um let's talk about this. I was I was interested about this, I saw this story, and I'm like, oh, so we have issues not only, you know, the U.S. of the world, uh, but of course here in St. Louis as well. And a lot of this seems to run back to the police board in the St. Louis Police Department. Now, I lived downtown for a while. I will tell you one thing. This was 10 years ago, and I don't think it's gotten any better since. Maybe it's gotten arguably worse. Um, I don't know what the I don't know what these guys do. I don't know if they don't have enough of them. I'm sure they don't. Uh, but it is, I mean, blow I it was like when I lived downtown, it was like you didn't have to worry about anything. Well, I should say worry us, worry about getting in trouble by the cops because it didn't matter. You want to go down Tucker at 80 miles an hour and blow all the stoplights, do it. I wouldn't do it at 4 p.m. Then you probably get caught and hit a pedestrian or kill yourself or kill someone else. And I'm not saying to do it at night at 1 a.m. either, but what I am telling you, if you do do this, uh more likely than not you're not gonna get caught. Um, and of course, everyone, like Edo, uh again, a lot of boomers, uh, mainly white boomers that live, you know, further out into West County, like, whoa, St. Louis City, man, it's it's scary down there. I'm not going to the city. It's like you live in a county that's around a city that you're essentially saying, fuck you two. And it's like, dude, you're you're part of the problem. You're 67 years old. You have continued to see the decline of the city. And what have you done? You've done fucking nothing. Just like almost everyone else in this city. It is corrupt. The people in charge do not care. I don't think Mayor Spencer cares. Consider she's so attached to Bob Clark. Um, you know, it's like fuck the people. I was saying a couple weeks ago where I was talking about how you know they're changing a lot of the food programs, and potentially more kids are not going to be able to be fed um, you know, school lunches. And I had a bunch of comments saying essentially, fuck those kids. It's parents' responsibility. And I'm like, in a perfect world, sure. But whatever happened to the collective good, am I a communist now? Jesus Christ. Americans are the most selfish pieces of shit. And it's all people that are, you know, you got two or three homes and are like, ooh, I should be paying property taxes on any of this. It's all to get more votes from the boomers. Because they're the ones that cast the most votes. There's a lot of them, and also they're the most uh involved. So, of course, we're going to pass policies that are helping people that are going to die in the next 10 years in order to continue to kick the cane down the road. Kick the cane down the road, and what? Maybe it'll blow up, you know, when millennials are in charge. Maybe it'll go longer. Maybe it'll blow up in five years. Who knows? Uh, but something's got to happen. I mean, we cannot continue to go down this path uh in St. Louis, and of course, as the United States as well. Um, so the city pulled $500,000 from ambulances to for to fund the board. It did not pick. So, who decided that your call, your 911 call, comes second? So, City EMS runs 12 ambulances. That's insane. City EMS only has 12 ambulances, roughly half the federal guidelines for a city this size. Comparable cities run 18 to 22. That is astounding to me. 90,000 medical calls a year. The city handles about two-thirds of those at 60,000, with private firms such as Abbott and Gateway covering the rest. And private rides, of course, cost patients more. So the city shifted nearly $500,000 out of the EMS GEMT fund to help meet budget demands from the state-appointed police board. Ambulance money moved to fund a board. Voters did not elect. Now, the city rebuttal is that budget director Paul Payne sees the shift, didn't change ambulance purchase plans. Uh for the year of 2027, has $800,000 for two units. GEMT holds $2.1 million for two more. Fire budget up 11.5%. This is not a department that has been lacking in city funding. Now, of course, this goes back over 10 years ago. A 2014 ICMA study, uh, the city commission called for six more ambulances. A decade later, we still have 12. The chief has asked every year and has been told no. So again, when a board, the city didn't elect, sets the budget, something gives. This week, that's over $500,000 of ambulance money. And this is the week the state's turned real. Obviously, with all of the heat wave and the dust that we had from this. Now, the extreme heat warning ran through 8 p.m. July 4th. St. Louis near 96 degrees of the heat index of 105 to 108. This week, the consequences a Ledou man died of a heat stroke as St. Louis County confirmed its first heat-related death of the summer. Check on your neighbors. Especially if you have older neighbors, check on them. See how they're doing. When it's hot and when it's cold, check on the elderly neighbors. So St. Louis County uh canceled its JB Blast Fireworks to save $50,000. Now, of course, this is the budget, right? So St. Louis County canceled its JB Fireworks Blast to save $50,000. Uh Webster Groves is planning to sue its fireworks vendors AM Pyrotechnics after pulled out days before July 4th. Interesting because I saw all those people obviously setting up uh all their chairs in Webster. So do we want to talk about the waiting pool? Do we want to talk about the pool? I don't think we want to talk about the pool. But it is just funny that Trump blamed vandals without evidence for destroying the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn has been indicted. Accused of maliciously damaging the pool's lining on June 19th. Now, of course, we also have a faceless German tourist calling himself Freddy. He went viral documenting a World Cup road trip through small town America and cashed in a free Alla Langley concert, a JJ Watt hotel room, and a meal all on Gordon Ramsey's dime. All because the internet believed it was his first wide-eyed trip. Then people found out he'd been to the U.S. before. The first time Schtick collapsed and he deactivated his ex-account in flood to Instagram. He went out experiencing the most American thing of all. And what's that? Getting trolled to death online on social media. Say it again for the people out back. Now, of course, um, a manufactured authenticity narrative got monetized before anyone checked. I'm about to do this. This is the same engine as the serious media manipulation stories that we talk about here on the podcast. Just with the hotel room, wink wink, instead of a hidden agenda. So obviously, we have, you know, Ukraine and and Russia are just going at it right now. Um, we have uh an 11-hour Russian barrage of roughly 500 drones and dozens of missiles, killed at least 21 people and hit well over 100 residential buildings in Kyiv. Now, of course, at the same time, we continue to see Ukraine launch missiles directly into uh uh a lot of their uh oil and gas uh areas where they are doing what they need to do there. So they're destroying a lot of those plants. I've seen online, you know, uh videos of Russia coming out where they're just, you know, everyone's essentially sitting in a three-mile line to get gas from a gas station. It does not seem to be going very well over there. Now, this is of course the same week as the NATO summit and the U.S. strikes of Iran. Obviously, this is a direct link. Allies agreed to pay, or excuse me, to loan, to pay, to give, whatever you want to call it, uh, about 80 billion to Ukraine, and Trump agreed to let Ukraine build Patriot Interceptors. We also had an IED killed five in popular Damascus Cafe security forces hunt the attacker. This is a marker of how unsettled post-Assad Syria remains. This week, Trump moved to rescind Syria's uh terror sponsor designation and met its new president. So the U.S. is warming to a Syria that can't stop cot cafe bombings. Wow. Now I I I found this interesting as well. We got the UK's truly international network. Uh, UK investigators say they uncovered a truly international network of organized drug-facilitated sexual assault coordinated online. Many participants as participants as yet an unidentified. And this is uh this is a crazy story. I'll be talking about more as as stuff kind of comes out about this. Um, you know, it just it just goes back to the fact of like there are these power structures for you know drugs, um, sex, under, you know, underage, uh, sex, obviously, Epstein-ish things. And, you know, I think the kind of the problem is the fact that there are there's not just one, right? You think Epstein got caught and there wasn't a dude that threw up an island, you know, one day later, or there already isn't multiple of these same islands or areas that these things happen, of course not. So I will keep you updated on that. Cuba also had a nationwide grid collapse again amid fuel shortages, leaving millions dark. Third major blackout this year. Now, of course, the more that we continue to go back and forth with Iran is going to affect any country that is requiring oil.

SPEAKER_01 36:08

Obviously, the US lost the World Cup.

SPEAKER_00 36:16

Did anyone watch that? Be honest. Did anyone watch the FIFA World Cup? Pretty much everyone I know was. Uh so of course we had the World Cup added Monday.

SPEAKER_01 36:26

Four to one round loss. Against Belgium.

SPEAKER_00 36:38

I watched uh a good amount of the game, and let me tell you. Uh we are getting destroyed. We were getting absolutely smoked out.

SPEAKER_01 36:56

And we got outclassed.

SPEAKER_00 37:00

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