What Everyone Got Wrong About Iran + SPLC Sex Scandal Explodes

**Michael Duncan** (0:00)
The MOU is out. I feel like everybody got every prediction wrong about how this war was going to go.

**Comfortably Smug** (0:06)
Make sure that Iran never has a nuclear weapon, never has to face the wrath of President Trump and our military.

**Michael Duncan** (0:15)
Again, the people who are criticizing this deal as it exists right now, don't exactly have a great track record of predicting what was going to happen.

**John Ashbrook** (0:22)
A lot of the misinformation out there is coming from the Iranian propaganda. It's so President Trump speaks loudly and carries a big stick. What he's been saying loudly over and over again when it comes to Iran is he wants peace.
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**Michael Duncan** (2:13)
Welcome back to the Ruthless Variety Program. I'm Michael Duncan, along with Comfortably Smug and John Ashbrook. We have a wonderful, wonderful episode for you today.
There's some very interesting news on X, a follow-up to a previous episode that we did on the SPLC. Apparently, there's some shenanigans going on over there. You're kidding. Yeah.

**Comfortably Smug** (2:41)
For folks who missed that or haven't been in tune with it, the SPLC is the Southern Poverty Law Center, and for years, their business model was basically label everything to the right of Bernie as racist and radical, and they got donor money by doing it, and to help go after conservative groups, they'd label them as like white supremacists so that they can't process payments like this was their business model, and apparently, they're the ones who are funding the racism. So we're going to get even deeper into that story.

**Michael Duncan** (3:11)
There's a lot of great stuff. Also some election results.

**Comfortably Smug** (3:15)
Yep.

**Michael Duncan** (3:15)
You know, the Georgia stuff. They're still dealing with the rank choice voting stuff in Maine.

**John Ashbrook** (3:20)
What a disaster.

**Michael Duncan** (3:21)
DC was counting or failing to count votes. There's all sorts of shenanigans going on. But before we get to all of that, I first wanted to talk about the Iran deal. Now that we know more after Tuesday's wonderful episode, I feel like it was a good episode.

**Comfortably Smug** (3:36)
Great episode.

**Michael Duncan** (3:36)
Yeah, Dakota Meyer, great guest. A lot of great reactions on that.

**John Ashbrook** (3:40)
Yeah, powerful story from that guy. And that book, you know, is going to be excellent.

**Michael Duncan** (3:45)
Yeah. So what strikes me as most interesting right now, and we're going to learn more on this MOU, the Memorandum of Understanding, as it comes out, I believe, on Friday. But what strikes me as most interesting about the sort of contours of this deal is the criticism I've seen from all camps, you know, sort of across the political spectrum about this deal. And it just struck me as interesting, you know, because I feel like everybody got every prediction wrong about how this war was going to go. You know, some of the libertarians were saying, this is going to necessitate a ground war in Iran, that thousands of Americans were going to die, that it was going to be World War III. Not true, right?
There were sort of like the Iranian ex-PAC community, a lot of people in the United States, some of the neocons who were insisting like, Reza Pahlavi is going to come from Great Falls and the ghost of Kermit Roosevelt is going to do another coup in Iran, and we're going to have a democratic Iran. And that didn't happen, obviously. And so I guess I say all of that for people who are obviously consuming, not just this show, but every show that's out there under the sun making predictions about all of this deal. And I hope everybody takes all of those predictions with a grain of salt, because only time will tell whether a deal like this will work. How do we know that? The last deal, the Obama nuke deal, JPCOA, right? For years, the Democrats have told us this was a great deal, it was great diplomacy by all those dipshits in the Obama White House who claimed to be experts in foreign policy. Of course, Iran was violating it the entire time. The entire time. We found out a lot of this actually in the course of this war of how they had broken out far beyond what they were saying they were using on the war in Richmond, uranium and everything. They're liars, historically liars and have been even before the Ayatollah and the rise of the Islamic regime.