Hey, everybody, it's Monday, April 13th, 2026 on Al-Sengo. And I'm Dan Goldberg, and this is Beanstalk. You can't take JD Vance anywhere. No, normally I want to.
Let's just be honest. No, for what you want to. After he cursed Victor Orban, he went to Islamabad, where talks with Iran completely imploded. Peace talks totally broke down.
And now, Trump is claiming we're going to close the Strait of Hormuz. I didn't get that wrong. That is correct. He is claiming we are going to close the Strait of Hormuz as these peace talks collapse.
This is the headline from NPR. And NPR has the story saying, quote, the United States and Iran failed to reach an agreement after a day of highly anticipated face-to-face peace talks. Washington's lead negotiator, Vice President JD Vance announced on Sunday. Quote, the bad news is we haven't reached an agreement.
And I think that's bad news for Iran, much more than it's bad news for the US. Dave chosen not to accept our terms. That's what Vance said at a press conference in Islamabad. Before boarding Air Force II to leave that country.
So basically, I guess the sticking point is that Iran's not going to be promising to not have nuclear weapons, which is what Obama got them to promise. So, you know, because I think it's been proven that Obama is just a better negotiator. I think if any of this is proven anything, it's that one of those things is true. Obama is a better negotiator.
Trump actually responded to all this nonsense. He said, effective immediately the United States Navy, the finest in the world will begin the process of blockading any and all ships trying to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz. Now, isn't that already happening? I feel like he really is being like, look what we did.
I'm like, that was already done. This is by the way, over the weekend we sent two destroyers. We sent two destroyers through the Strait and back, which is a really bad idea when you're in the middle of peace talks. I feel like you're just talking to these people like, hey, let's talk about this.
And by the way, we're going to sneak these guys. We've had a little, we just we just try to lower our gas a little bit so you can look the other way. That'd be great. Yeah.
All right. That's really interesting. So we're going to close the Strait. But we wanted it to be open and then NATO wouldn't help us open it.
But then we didn't need NATO. And we don't need it open. It's not for us. It's for other countries, but we're going to close it.
And by the way, that the fact that there's a naval blockade, that is actually an unequivocal act of war. Whatever they're doing. Yeah. Whatever he said, police action or whatever.
That is an act of war. So again, somebody wake up the Republicans in Congress because he's doing this without you. Schumer's going to force a vote on a war powers resolution in the Senate this week. We'll see how that goes.
But now, CENTCOM, Central Command over in the Middle East, says we're actually not going to do a total blockade of all ships going in and out. We're going to block Iranian ports, but allow other ships to go through. So it's actually a partial blockade. Okay.
But it's not really closing the Strait. It's just such a mess, Dana. Like, had we not initially bombed them, had Beebe Netanyahu not talked Donald Trump, the only gullible guy gullible enough to do this, talking into attacking Iran for him, the Strait would be open. Things would be fine.
Gas prices would be down. But here we are. Well, if you want to know why, because there's no seriousness in this administration, you know, want to know what the president, the secretary of state, we're doing wall, the peacetocks, we're collapsing. Here you go.
It's a picture for you. You're at a USC match. And Rubio looks pretty fucking trash to your by the way. And he's really small.
Imagine it's just like one cocktail. That guy's on his ass. I mean, he's like four foot two. I mean, he's not four foot two.
And there's nothing wrong with people who are four foot two. I actually know one that is four foot two. And she has a higher metabolism. Apparently the Marco Rubio.
Yeah. He look at, wow, that's like Lindsey Graham. That's like Rudy Giuliani. Let me tell you, let me tell you something about the Dormist president.
You have see these are ugly fucking communists. That's what these people are. This is USC magic. Ugly fucking communists.
We're coming for you Cuba. Marco Marco Marco. Yeah. And then he's got a white beater to the right of him in the picture and another, an anorapist to the left.
White beater to the right rapist. And that's it. I am stuck in the middle with you. Man, I saw a video.
Maybe I'll be able to find it and put it up. But here, let's see if we can find it and put it up. Thank you. What do you want?
Beautiful man. Great to make it man. Thank you so much. That was funny.
Thank you. We sit around. Okay. So there's Trump and he's talking to one of the wrestlers saying you're a beautiful man.
You should be a model. Oh my God. Oh, what's even happening? Oh, I have no idea.
Peace talks are collapsing in the Middle East. You sent JD Vance because that's the only person that Iran will talk to because the last time they sat down with Whitcoff and Kushner, we bombed them in the middle of talks. So you know, I can see how they might be able to talk over the bombs that are dropping. I'm sorry.
Might be a little hesitant. But this isn't all that Vance helped destroy this week. That's just the peace talks. Hungarians went to the polls in record numbers to end a 16 year grip authoritarian Victor Orban had on a country.
Peter Magyar has won the election pretty handily and his party has gained a super majority in their national assembly 138 seats to 55 for Oban's far right fee days party. Peter Magyar is a conservative as I said on the Daily Beans podcast. He's anti immigration, but he's pro EU anti Putin, pro Ukraine and Hungarians backed him because they believed he and his party had the best chance to defeat or bond, which they did by quite a bit by big margin. It was the highest turnout, I think, in history for an election in Hungary with 78% of people turning out to vote.
Can you imagine if 78% of Americans showed up at the polls? No. Holy majole would be a blowout. Absolutely it would.
Yeah, it would be. It would be. It would be. It would be.
They seem to be doing the right thing in other countries with these authoritarian leaders. I really hope that we continue to try and do the right thing here. I know that we are. They're going to try and block us at every turn, but this does give me hope that you can topple these, you know, these administrations.
And I wish you were talking about this on things as well. They can just get rid of their Supreme Court. I got fucking jealousy right there. What do you mean you could just like decide that we're going to overthrow the Supreme Court?
I'm super jelly. Yeah, apparently in his speech he was like, yeah, everybody Supreme Court corrupt Supreme Court everybody in positions of everybody who was hired by Orban. Peace out. That's what it should be.
We know that Trump did all this stuff. All three of those Supreme Courts, and I'm telling you, watch the Supreme Court before the midterms because it's going to be a tell because Trump wants that to be his legacy. He wants the Supreme Court to be his legacy and all of this. So watch Thomas and Alito and see what they do before the midterms because they retire.
Yeah. If they don't retire, I think shenanigans are going to be going on for the midterms because I don't think they if everything was, you know, if everything's not already going to be fair, but if they had any fear that they were going to lose the midterms, they would retire because they want to be able to put some children in there that are going to be there for the next 60 years. Right, which will be blocked in the Senate if we get it back. Exactly.
And they aren't the sharpest tools in the shed. They aren't really up on the latest. And they may think as a lot of people do, a lot of experts who said our Senate map is pretty damn near impossible. We have to pull off a miracle to barely get the Senate back, which is why this midterm is so important.
So they may be like wagering that we won't flip the Senate. We'll flip the House for sure, but we won't flip the Senate. But you know, to be safe. I mean, if I'm an evil dictator with a cold, dark, black heart and I'm Samuel Alito, I'm going to get the fuck out and peace out before I take any chances on anything that happens in November with the Senate.
Because you know, it's not like the Supreme Court can be like, well, you know, Democrats will be reasonable and will confirm whoever Donald Trump nominates. It won't be so bad, but it will be very bad. It will be like Eileen Cannon or Ted Cruz. Seriously, you know, it's a hero.
I mean, like, yeah, I could see him doing some shit. Mm hmm. Todd Blanche. Maybe even pull an elbow out of the third circuit and put him up there.
It's a personal attorney. Yeah, it's possible. Anyway, yeah, it'll be interesting to watch. I'm going to keep my eye on that too.
That's a really good little piece of advice. Anything before I get out of here today? Anything else? Did JD Vance ruined?
No, I mean, you know, I didn't ruin my birthday. I had a great good day. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. Did they?
I'm recording today. You'll be watching this on the 13th, but man, I had a great weekend and I'm just so grateful. I got a new decade that just isn't upon me and I'm fucking ready for it. So that's Fox to give.
More joy to have. I'm ready to move forward. Let's do this. Hang on, shout out to Avery, your server.
Yes. Who at your birthday dinner, who is a beans listener? What's up? I love you, man.
Such a lovely man. Wonderful. I'm Daniel. See if I can get some delicious food as well.
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