Who’s Lighting the Matches?

Thursday Q&A Live Iran, Ukraine, Israel, a primary shock in California — the map looked like it was burning everywhere at once. Barbara and Susan stop counting the fires and name the arsonist: one imperial machine, and a president who won’t take the bait. Adam Sturman Jun 5, 2026 President Donald J. Trump holds a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) Yesterday the map looked like it was burning everywhere at once — a fraying Lebanon truce, an air war escalating over Ukraine, four House Republicans voting to rein in Trump on Iran, and a primary earthquake in the bluest state in America. Then, two minutes in, Barbara told you to stop counting the fires and start asking who keeps lighting them.The answer isn’t “Iran” or “Ukraine” or “Israel.” It’s one machine — the City of London’s imperial system — running the play it has run for a century: shake the jar, start the fire, profit from the panic. The real story of the show is that Trump keeps refusing to take the bait.You always have to judge things from the standpoint of those forces who represent the outlook of a sovereign people — and those forces who represent the outlook of the empire.— Susan KokindaThat’s the lens. Not “the Jews,” not “the Muslims,” not “AIPAC runs everything” — those are the cartoons the empire hands you so you fight the wrong enemy.The guy [Trump] could have bombed them back to the stone age two months ago. He clearly doesn’t want to.— Susan Kokinda, on IranRead the world by two systems — the American System against the City of London. That is the show. Everything else flows from it.REPLAY — Thursday, June 4thHere’s what we covered (links go to the section in the broadcast):California Cracks — Hilton Wins and “I Was Born for This” The real overnight story: the bluest state broke toward Trump. Steve Hilton came in first for governor, Karen Bass was forced into a runoff, and Spencer Pratt dropped the instant classic — “God wanted five more months of me exposing all the failures of our mayor.” A campaign run on humor, social media, and a video team.Official Washington Is Freaking Out — and Pulte Gets the Weed-Whacker Barbara on the hysteria: the Senate won’t fund the ballroom or the weaponization probe, the House ran its war-powers stunt — and Trump answered by making Bill Pulte acting DNI. The chainsaw, with Tulsi’s people pointing it where to go. The real aim: lock down the midterms against fraud.Why They Want to Burn Everyone at the Stake — The American System Returns Susan: the cabinet hearings looked like the Salem witch trials because every relevant cabinet member is now singing the same song — Bessent at the Reagan forum, Hegseth in Singapore, Rubio, Navarro. Economic sovereignty first. Hamilton’s idea — the wealth of a nation is the productive power of labor — back for the first time since McKinley.“Prometheanification” — Why the Enemy Is Defecting to Trump Susan on a David Gray super-chat: a whole layer of elites and ordinary Americans who’d given up are now deciding the globalists can actually be beaten — so they’re switching sides. The Carney and Blair “rebrand,” she says, nobody’s buying.Is Zelensky Finished? — The Ukraine Funding Trap Barbara on SPIEF and the “coalition of the willing” splitting: Congress wants to block Trump on Iran while funding the war in Ukraine — pushed in the House by Brian Fitzpatrick. Rubio’s line, per Barbara: neither side can win this; the only path is diplomacy. Expect a Trump veto.Israel, Netanyahu, and the Open Break The week’s most-asked topic. Susan: there’s been a real, deliberate break between Trump and Netanyahu — the leaked F-bombs didn’t leak by accident. Which Israel are you talking about? Barbara ties the war to Larry Ellison and Tony Blair, and the British habit of “blaming the Jews for what the British actually do.”NDAA Section 224 — The US–Israel Military “Integration” Four near-identical viewer questions (someone wanted this trending). Barbara: look who’s pushing the alarm — Ro Khanna and Thomas Massey. Her read: it’s not Israel “controlling” the US; it’s the administration making aid transactional — what can you do for us? Susan: worth watching, but the four-question pile-on is itself the tell.Iran — Why He Hasn’t “Bombed the Crap Out of Them” Five questions, one answer. Susan: it was never about Iran — it’s the control points (Hormuz, Lloyd’s of London, the IRGC, the financing). Iran’s military and economy are already mortally crippled, and Bessent’s Operation Economic Fury is closing the flows. Trump is doing it without leveling a nation.The Board of Peace — Why Trump Keeps Blair Close Chris asks why Trump would trust Blair and Carney near the Gaza process. Barbara: you don’t stick a finger in their eye — you keep them on the board, under your thumb, and accountable. Keep your enemies close.Britain’s “George Floyd Moment” — Two-Tier Britain On the killing in Southampton and the UK’s two-tier policing. Barbara: we just lived this in the US; Britain has no Trump-figure yet — Farage is controlled opposition, Robinson too one-note. The identity that changes history isn’t race — it’s the mind. Susan: the empire is importing Mid-East tactics home, and you can’t fight it without economic development.A Grand Bargain? — Taiwan, Ukraine, Greenland Josh’s big-swing question. Barbara: Trump’s already headed that way — a non-adversarial Taiwan–China path, a frozen Ukraine conflict out of the Alaska summit (Crimea, the Donbas), Greenland for space defense, the Panama Canal for shipping. Susan: Rubio on Greenland’s independence — “for now.”250 Years — Do We Win the Republic Back? Susan’s arc: for our first 125 years Americans knew the enemy was the British system — until McKinley was assassinated. The 125 years since: British puppets and a population disarmed of the American System. Re-arming people with that knowledge is the only way it becomes permanent. Barbara: “a republic, if you can keep it” — you keep it by giving it a new birth.How We Actually Do Our Research — People, Primary Sources, and AI Invictus asks the method. Barbara: it comes from the old LaRouche-era tradecraft — people plus research — and you start from the one battle that organizes everything: American System vs. British system. Use AI to spot the lines being pushed, not for truth. Susan: go to primary sources — watch Hegseth’s speeches, read the White House, and watch the CFR and Chatham House openly admit the rules-based order is over.Humor and Hope — “Would You Like to Build Submarines?” On the “Dem cities run like British colonies” comment. Susan: break people out with humor and hope. Her Detroit story — a Michigan billboard asking “would you like to build submarines?” — kids scanned the QR code, enrolled, and ten now work at one manufacturer. That’s the way off the plantation.Trump’s “Vanity Projects”? — The Ballroom Is a Security Question Daniel pushes back on the gold and the arches. Barbara: a Democratic talking point — Trump’s largely paying himself. The White House ballroom is really about drone security in the age of drone warfare, plus restoring the capital’s magnificence. Beautiful — not Obama’s “East German prison” library.Plato vs. Aristotle — Two Images of Man A viewer asks “why Plato?” Susan: are we creatures of mind who know by discovery (Plato), or sense-processing computers (Aristotle)? The Cave: the shadows are your senses; real science is escaping the cave to find what casts them — the absurdity of “the science says.” Adam brings up Raphael’s School of Athens.The Gold Standard — a Reserve Standard, Not the British One Two Gregs ask about the dollar and gold. Barbara: the gold reserve standard isn’t the British “gold standard” — it ties money to production, with long-term low-interest credit for development. Whether or not it returns by name, that’s the direction.Closing — “It’s Quite Glorious” Susan: amid the tumult and the justified anxiety — we haven’t won, the midterms are staring us down — locate yourself in history. We’re reviving the most important tool ever invented, the American System. Barbara closes on Machiavelli: building a new system is the hardest thing there is, because everyone with a stake in the old one is shooting at you.Stop Counting Fires. Find the Arsonist.That’s the assignment Barbara and Susan left you with — and it’s the only test that matters between now and November.The empire’s job is to keep you in the world of pretend — the gas pump, the algorithm, “Iran won,” “Israel runs Massey,” “Sharia in Dearborn.” All of it engineered so you never ask who lit the match.Creating a new system of government is the hardest thing in the world to do — because you also have to deal with everybody who has an established interest in the old system.— Barbara BoydThat’s where we are: cracking the old system, building the new one — and taking fire from everyone invested in what’s dying.Amid all the tumult and turmoil and the justified anxiety — because this is a battle, and we haven’t won yet — locate yourself in history. I actually think it’s quite glorious.— Susan KokindaPay attention to that line. Live by it. 🗽 America 250 Founding Fathers CollectionHamilton built America’s economic system — the very system Trump is now restoring.Wear it. Talk about it. Walk it onto your block.Next Midterm Bootcamp — Monday, June 15thIf yesterday’s show landed and you felt the urgency — that’s the right reaction. The next step is to show up.The bootcamp brings together MAGA activists, candidates, and organizers from across the country — and as Susan said on air, the answer to “how does this outlast Trump?” is you.PS: Make sure you download a copy of our latest pamphlet, Bye, Bye Globalism — The American System is Back! Available FREE to all members.