The True Conservative · Ronald T. Hardgrove

Episode 2310 - The True Conservative - Rules Saturday!

April 12, 2026·59 min·5 clips

In Rotterdam, a defense contractor is assassinated with precision, leading Mossad to suspect a ghost sniper from the 2006 Lebanon war is alive and working for Iran.

April the 11th is Rule Saturday. Ron greets the butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers, calls himself the only true conservative, and sets up a stack of segments before the show slips into the day's collage. It starts funny, with a Rhode Island bit about cousins and packages, then moves into prayer, a promised patriotic song, and economic doctrine with almost no easing-in. Then the gears change again. The Mossad story takes over, with suspected assassinations in Europe starting to look like coordinated Iranian intelligence work. Khalid Rashid becomes the hinge. If he survived, that survival explains a pattern Mossad can no longer brush aside. Rotterdam is where the mistake shows. Beirut and Damascus are set against the Netherlands, where cameras, identification rules, quick police response, and algorithmic alerts make hiding feel much harder. Confidence has become arrogance. Khalid picks a city where invisibility is harder, but the target matters enough to push the operation ahead. David Cohen is not treated as a symbol. He is framed as a technical specialist tied to Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, radar work, and Iron Dome interception trajectories. That makes the contract practical: Iran wants him dead because his knowledge threatens Iranian proxies, not just because killing him would send a message. The ending is cold and procedural. At 11:54 p.m. and 16 seconds, operatives close in, tackle Khalid, control his body, and hood him in seven seconds. Then Ron snaps back to adios, the butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers, and the rule that the listener is not neutral while the government has no rights.

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A sermon on rules that swerves from Rhode Island jokes into intelligence intrigue.

The episode opens cleanly with a Rhode Island anecdote and a quick pivot into Rule Saturday, then settles into Ron's familiar case for no free lunch, economic truth, and consequences.

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Start here if you like rules, sermons, Rhode Island small-town wisecracks, and a hard turn into Mossad intrigue.

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