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03-17-2026 · 8h 11m
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Don't fucking stop me while I'm cooking!
You bop-burning a soup!
The Shafi's in!
Better give me a fucking Chelsea Green!
You bokin!
Bokin, bokin, bokin, bokin!
Bokin, bokin, bokin, bokin, bokin!
I'm bop-burning a bokin, bokin, bokin, bokin, bokin!
Listen to what I say, and you will understand perhaps what I'm trying to do.
I'm just 19.
Yeah, I am being patronizing.
I don't know who the fuck you are, and you're over here chirping all the way from fucking London
You want a fucking free pedestal, but also simultaneous. You're talking about both sides. They're fucking fine. Shut the fuck up
You don't know anything. Okay. Who the fuck is this pink hair twink?
Do you not understand the English language
What's going on everybody? I hope everyone's having a fantastic evening afternoon pre-noon
no matter where you are in the world, I'm a son piker in this house and I'm broadcast
coming to you live from sunny California, Los Angeles folks were live and alive. And
I hope all the boys, girls and MBS are having a fantastic one because today's a beautiful
day. Today's a wonderful day. Today is a very special day, a very, very special day. It's
already know why it's a special day. I think a lot of people are freaking out over it already.
Here, this is my little pin to showcase my pride for why it's a special day. It's your dog's birthday.
It's a special day
day because the same Patrick Day, that's right, ladies and gentlemen, boys, girls and
We're live and alive on this beautiful day.
That's right, it's Tuesday, March 17th, 2026.
And you already know, it's a proud day here for all of the fake wires and the real ones.
You're not wearing green. I'm not wearing green.
Well, we're alive. We're alive, ladies and gentlemen. We're
alive and alive, ladies and gentlemen. Condemns the Iran.
I'm condemning the Iran for not having a clear cut position,
well-defined position that recognizes the dignity and
sovereignty of the Irish.
You can punch me all day every day for not wearing green on this beautiful day.
Well ladies and gentlemen, we're live, we're alive.
And I will be telling you my personal news.
I declare us on Honorary Irish, some of my favorite people, best white people around.
Not the Irish Americans.
I'll be honest, Irish Americans, they can go in either direction, but Irish people are
some of the best white people.
be the unconditionally best white people around.
Phineas? I mean Phineas is go to too, but he's not the normal
Irish American.
And it's ironic because like the Irish will be the first to tell
you that the Irish Americans are a different breed.
In any case, yes, yes, the fucking Conor O'Malley video. I know I already watched it and it's really funny and I'm so fucking annoying.
I can't even do a goddamn intro without every single person be like, no, you have to watch the Conor O'Malley video right now. Just shut up.
Just shut up your mouth.
Shut up your fucking stupid mouth and watch the Conor O'Malley video right now or I'll kill myself. I have a gun in my mouth right now. You have to watch Conor O'Malley video.
Okay?
God damn, dude, stop. Yes, it's on the docket. Okay. Anyway, personal news wise, not much
is going on in my world. Not much is going on in my life. Ladies and gentlemen, boys,
girls and MBS, I ended the broadcast after monitoring the most fucking situation. Another
eight hour, half day, Aussie broadcast. You already know my rush came over here and did
organized crime and didn't become cops do I get a pass? Sure. Um, but yeah, I'd say yo this
shit, this shit got me feeling right and kill me. Yeah, it's just you got me feeling like
Brian killed me, you know, Jesus Christ, dude. Yeah, we got some new sounds in here. We got some
new sounds, you know, um, but, uh, yeah, as far as personal news goes, as far as like
things that are going on in my life, there's not really much happening because I'm a shut
ass loser. As you guys know, I'm a freaking loser. I'm a loser dog. I got nothing going
on. And I've also been like legitimately bummed about, you know, everything that we're fucking
doing to Cuba, but I'm going to try to keep the vibes going, you know, I'm going to try to keep
the vibes going to the best of my ability. But my great-grandfather was in the 1916 IRA and then
And then the mob is Chicago low.
That's what I'm talking about.
But don't you leave in a few days.
I do.
Yes, I do.
I do.
I do.
I do leave in a few days.
But yeah, there's not really anything going on.
I didn't even watch nothing.
I watched a little bit of one piece live action last night before I fell asleep.
the skincare routine because your skin looked amazing. I in those getty pigs with no makeup,
I don't have a skincare routine. I literally don't do anything for my skincare. So I don't even
moisturize as fucked up, but you're going to be bummed with the connection issues, not your fault.
Wait, in Cuba? Yeah, I know already. I know.
Hassan, we're not fucking with you.
They made it Isikai.
Xi Jinping for Hassan released that Twitch 2026.
Could I have 10,000 mansions sheltering all the poor scholars and making them rejoice?
We'll use it to build a better home for everyone.
Everyone can live in a sturdy house, one that neither storms nor blizzards can destroy.
Release that witch.
What is this?
Like a socialist Isikai?
Is that what this is?
Going live early Bricks notifications.
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know.
The fuck you doing with that skin and lashes, punk, eh?
I can't wait for you to go to Cuba, even though it's like this.
Yeah.
The Irish Cuba connection on this day in 1965, Jacob R visited Lyme rec and socialize
the locals and Hanredy's and the White House bar as this flight was held up in Shannon airport
and my son's veins flowed the blood of Irish rebels, Chase, father Ernesto Guevara Lynch.
Because he has to go.
Dude, dude, dude, dude, limerick, limerick.
Um, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, I will say this, um, Cubans have that revolutionary
spirit, which I really respect.
And so do the Irish, okay.
really do and there's something beautiful about meeting people that that share your values
like right off the jump you know what I mean meeting people and and recognizing that international
solidarity recognizing that you're not talking to a fucking reactionary loser off the jump that you
you have to like you have to couch all of your opinions and and all of your all of your your
values would like uh you you have to just like explain to them why you think people
that are in the periphery don't deserve to be murdered slaughtered dominated by imperial forces
This is a fucking very freeing very liberating experience. I highly recommend it for everybody
It's one of the most one of the best parts about traveling
So yeah
One month from now I'll be on my first ever solo trip in China. I'm going for two weeks hell. Yeah
It's cool, you're like think about how you feel when you see the Iranian diaspora
Or the Venezuelan diaspora or the Cuban diaspora demand that like their people get fucking killed and slaughtered and destroyed, right?
And now think about the reversal of that, right?
Like you you have a conversation with a person from a totally different background and they they get it. They understand it. They understand what's going on.
Best part of traveling is watching Guy Fieri in the hotel room. Well that too obviously that's probably one of the best.
Yeah
When is you China trip this year in April I'm gonna be in China again most likely
But I don't know if Donald Trump's gonna be there anymore
Donald Trump is not going to China probably because China won't help open the straight of hormone
We got a blast off meme we got a blast off meme do we do we have it okay?
Okay, let's just blast off real quick, because we got a big day today.
Lots to talk about.
Operation Epic Fortnite Chungus is spectacular disaster.
Epstein's Fury.
Day 17 straight of Hormuz remains closed.
Ali Lajiani killed.
Counter-terror head resigns.
Trump wants Cuba as grid collapses.
Illinois primary later get in now. Yeah. Operation Big Chungus among us, you know, whatever you
want to call it. Okay. Funny how it's also Day 17 of Gaming Frogs asking for resident
evil gameplay. That's crazy. I wonder what the significance of 17 days is. Perhaps it's
just because America has launched World War three and perhaps America has launched World
War three while Resident Evil came out and I as a, as a, as a anti-imperialist content
creator, perhaps the largest anti-imperialist content creator in North America feel a sense
of like feeling obligation, a sense of duty, a sense of purpose to actively use the heightened
contradictions as they worsen to get people on board with how damaging American militarism
actually is, especially at a moment where we are reaching some success, we're reaching
the masses in ways that we never have before.
Maybe it's actually because I'm too afraid. Maybe that's the reason. Maybe I'm too afraid of Resident Evil 9. That's what it is, right?
Could be either or, okay?
Could be either or. Could be either or. Change the camera angle back to normal, man. No.
I like this camera angle quite a bit. I think you guys have probably noticed that I like this camera angle quite a bit.
I don't I don't foresee myself. You know, I don't foresee myself changing that. All right. Well, we'll get started with
Irish unification which will happen in my lifetime. I believe it. I know it but of course before we get to
Irish unification
Let's talk about who is in favor of it and who's not
Zoran also known as Zorgron
Massadani
As St. Patrick's Day Parade Mayor mom Donnie says a united Ireland as someone who believes in the
Principles self-determination. I think that we should be something extended should also be something instead of the iris sounds like he favors a referendum
Indeed I do governor hotel says when asked if she supports a reunited Ireland
Elaborating on his comments from earlier by I resolve every pal sign mom Donnie says what we've seen time and time again is that
that. It has been the Irish who have been standing up whenever there has been a person
or a people oppressed, okay? Getting outflanked by Kathy Hochill on this issue is so funny,
especially because like in American history, in American history, as far as like the, you
know, Irish efforts, as far as Irish efforts goes, like there are American Republican Congress
persons that were actively fundraising to get weapons for the IRA. Okay? This is one of the
only instances where Americans have been cool and on the correct side of a people's emancipatory
movement. Okay? Partially because it's against England and against British Empire, partially
because there's a lot of Irish diaspora here in the United States of America. But it is very funny.
It is very funny that this was entirely in various statements. All right, first of all,
it's the most inconsequential one. It's not serious. I'm not being serious at all when
I make fun of him for this, okay? I'm not even in any way, shape, or form being sincere with
my criticisms. This is totally just like a joke. However, however, he's the fucking mayor.
No, no, no, it's because it's an inconsequential thing. It's so inconsequential that Donald
Trump is in favor of it, and so is Kathy Hockel.
And I believe it was Matt Iglesias who said, this is the most right wing position that
a New York mayor has ever taken, okay?
And he's right.
Zoram Omdani's initial point on Irish reunification was technically more right wing than any prior
New York political figure.
Yeah, look
This is it's not even a joke and it's only because this is the one instance where Americans
Universally consider this to be a done thing like they're like yes liberate Ireland unite Ireland. There's only one Ireland
No, no holds barred. That's why it's funny
It's one of those things where like everyone
Every single person is in unison
totally on the side of like the Irish emancipatory movement in the United States of America
except Zoran is doing this like oh I don't want to fuck this up oh I don't know
and then on Ireland you've talked about the the importance of self-determination in international law
do you support a united Ireland?
Bro, I mean there's this by the way this doesn't mean anything this is not real okay before
people get before people get like in their fucking feelings okay before people get in
feelings. He just doesn't know anything. That's it. He's a very smart guy. He's very good mayor, okay?
And I think a lot of people assume like when someone is primed on Gaza, when someone is like
very aware of American imperialism and like Palestine, Western imperialism and Gaza,
that like they know everything about, you know, the ways in which empires work or,
for revolutionary or masturbatory movements overseas.
No, he just doesn't fucking know what to say.
It's the same principle behind him being asked about Venezuela and then him going, yeah,
Venezuela and Cuba both are run by corrupt tyrannical dictators.
It's like, no, he just doesn't fucking know shit.
That's it.
A lot of people think like, no, these guys are, I mean, the guy running for mayor should
know all this stuff, which I think someone like Zoran should know this stuff, but like
he just, clearly it's an irrelevant point. Like this is not a significant point for
the New York mayor.
For me, I find this more illustrative of just the way he operates where he's like, one,
There are Blyspos in his education when it comes to internationalism, which is very clear,
right?
And two, he always is like scared.
He's just like very scared to say something that's going to come across as offensive.
And it's funny because it's like, dude, it's okay.
It's okay, okay?
Zoran Sons of Ulster, Mamdani. Zoran Unionist Mamdani.
It's just...
Like, again, it's just, for me, it's just not a significant issue at all. It's so inconsequential
and so insignificant that, that, uh, like even Kathy Hojul is like, yeah, of course,
United Ireland, like, you know what I mean? It's not a thing.
I wish Americans have played such a critical role in the city. We know that when it comes,
he's like, but United Ireland reminds me of, uh, you know, but United Ireland reminds me
of the initiatives that I've taken place in this beautiful city, the greatest city of
all time, New York City of uniting all of the tenants in their united struggle against
bad landlords.
It reminds me of the affordability agenda.
He's just, everything, everything goes back to the affordability agenda with this motherfucker
brawl.
I swear to God.
If I can unite the five boroughs in fighting for an affordability agenda, I believe Ireland
can also be united in fighting against British Empire.
The USA should do better political education for their members.
I think they do all right.
They do all right.
They have different caucuses.
This is like, I think anti-Zionism has become like an individual thing and then like anti-war
or like internationalism is totally separate.
And remember it's just the average person's knowledge
on this stuff is so, so bad.
Yeah, he had two follow-ups here, let's see.
The story.
Yeah, have you had a chance to think more
about United Ireland?
There's always more to learn,
but I can tell you as someone who believes deeply
in the principle of self-determination
that I think that should also be extended to the Irish.
I think when it comes, bro, it's like, it's like the, it's like cat up a gizale or they're
going to cook his ass. The first moment that they asked me about Taiwan, he's going nuclear
first right? It's so over. I swear to God. Oh buddy. Oh brother.
So the future of Ireland, the best people to listen to are the-
Heart of Empire is corrupting.
No, you guys operate on this boundary that this is like a principled, well thought out
stands that Zoran arrived at off of his own interpretation of historical events and the
emancipatory effort of the Irish is just him trying to be saved, brother.
He doesn't know.
He just doesn't know anything.
It's understandable.
You forget.
I think many of you, many of you partially take for granted this space that I have created
for you, and you don't have any understanding of what the average person's opinion on this
shit is, not only that, but also you don't remember a time when you didn't know anything
about the history of Ireland, right?
You came in here, you learned about it, because I've covered it quite a bit.
I went to Ireland and now you assume every American should have the exact same fucking
knowledge on these issues.
That's it.
And then you assume like, oh, he's pulling a Barack Obama.
I think like the arguments are much easier to understand for the average person.
He's the mayor in New York.
What the fuck does he know about Irish history?
You know, that's it.
were backing provisional IRA before the Ireland trip. Yes, because this is my fascination.
This is my interest. Also, you have to remember, I wasn't raised in the United States of America.
When you're not raised in the United States of America, your starting position is very
different. A lot of people in here don't realize that I'm giving them a perspective that might
be commonly shared by a lot of people that's outside of the United States of America.
I didn't grow up in the fucking imperial core. I grew up in a vassal state, but when you
grow up, not in the imperial core, you develop a very different understanding of, you know,
American interventions, things of that nature. And you might even be fascinated with like
different groups that have actively fought back against Western imperialism. And that's it. That's
where it comes from. At the end of the day, Zoran got his education in New York City. Zoran is an
American, okay, through and fucking through. He has a little bit of that internationalist framework,
given who his father is, given who his mother is, given his lived experience as well.
well, you know, but, but like you got to remember, like there's going to be shortcomings here.
It's fine. It's not, this is not like a sincere framework that he's operating off of. It's
just him trying to be as safe as possible without knowing, you know, when he doesn't
have all of the information, he just tries to play safe, which I respect. I get it.
Like, especially because this is the most inconsequential thing. I'm just joking. I'm
I need everybody to understand when I say when I'm clowning on this take I just I'm that's coming from
Jokes
Pleasure doing so as the mayor of the city and I look forward to having that pleasure for weeks and months and years to come
Let's 26 plus 6
Anyway
I've seen people with several people with vastly different political ideologies quote to this with vague post about how the answer is obvious
and I cannot for the life of me imagine why the mayor of New York or any non-limy should
give a shit about this. Yeah, I think, I think it's, it's, it's utterly irrelevant
because it's like a established rallying cry. It's almost safe. It's one of the safest
cool foreign policy positions that like every American politician can get on board with.
I think if any, if any American politician were to come out and just be like, oh, I don't
know about a United Ireland, people will be like, get the fuck out.
What are you talking about?
It's one of those things.
It's like, it's a given.
Yeah, it'd be silly to assume Hochle and others have a firmly held belief slash philosophy
behind their support of this.
Exactly.
Exactly.
That's my point, right?
Austin Ox popped off on this, the bit where we ask him increasingly unrelated
foreign policy questions is really funny, especially because he cannot become US
president. I love that.
Out here posting like this.
Sounds like people are fishing for something to be mad about.
It is crazy that like everything he says though, everything he says, look, I'm gonna be very
honest with you, okay?
I'm gonna be very honest with you.
I'm gonna reveal something.
Zoran very clearly has tremendous international presence, okay?
I think he recognizes that, right?
And because of that, things that he says about American foreign policy are actually very
relevant. And I think he recognizes that as well. I worry sometimes about how he considers
international policy and an internationalist framework to be somewhat of a distraction.
I worry about that quite a bit. And the reason why I say that is because people do take his
word, people do care about his perspective. They see him as the guy, whether he wants
to be that guy or not, whether he just wants to fucking keep his head down and be a great
mayor or not, it doesn't matter, right? And I personally want him to come out with a clear
statement on what the American government is doing in the Cuba, which might actually offend
the Trump administration a little bit, which he might not wanna do because he has a lot of,
he's backing the admin right now for a lot of these development projects.
But I know the Zoran has the capability of massaging that narrative in a way where it doesn't
offend Trump's sensibilities too much. Maybe you just partition it with like Marco Rubio.
Maybe you blame Marco Rubio or whatever. But I want him to come out and make a statement about
Cuba. And I've told him this, okay? Like, there is a way to do it. There's a way to craft it in a
a way that won't offend Donald Trump. But I think, but I think it's important for this
exact reason, because even when it's like silly shit, like a United Ireland, right? Even
when it's a silly thing like the United Ireland, like it dominates the media for days on end.
Anything he says dominates the media for days on end. That's very powerful. You got to use
that power for good. You got to use that power to elevate people that are suffering under
under the thumb of, suffering under the thumb of the American empire, the evils of American
empire, whether they be people in Palestine or whether they be people in Cuba, right?
So, hopefully, hopefully he'll, you know, we'll be able to get like AOC and Zoramumdani
and other prominent figures that are supposed to be the leaders of this progressive movement
to come out and release some statements in coordination with the flotilla, especially
considering that there are a lot of prominent international like prominent politicians from
Europe that will also be participating in this because this is something that we've been putting
together for quite a while or a couple months now and a lot of work went into it and it's not just
like you know like from your perspective it might just look like me I'm just going with my friends
or whatever but that's not the case this is like a huge aid mission right coat pink and the answer
coalition has put together hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of solar panels and other
forms of aid, medical aid, food aid, things of that nature.
There are people flying in from all around the world, people coming with boats, people
coming by plane, and it's pretty serious business.
It's also pretty devastating what we've done in Cuba, so I think it's important to get
some of our leaders, some of our leaders in the progressive movement in America to also
highlight this plight and highlight what we, what our government has done to the Cuban state,
to the Cuban people. So yeah. Is there any way you can get some barrels of oil in there? I wish.
So I'm filling all holes except the hole in Ireland
Why does he why is he still working with Trump a kid eater pedo?
Why does he continue to work with Trump after the files dude?
I don't know man
Maybe because he's the fucking mayor of New York and that's the president of the United States of America
It's like saying why are the why is the Cuban government trying to communicate with the pedophile?
What do you what are you supposed to do?
What what the fuck like people are desperate, okay? They are trying to do everything they can
Yeah, it's like, this is the dumbest version of why are you platforming Trump. He's the
fucking mayor of New York, man. He has an obligation to his people. He has projects
that need funding. He's going to work with Kathy Hockel and he's doing a pretty solid
job at that so far, even though it's, you know, it's been difficult. He has a 12 billion
dollar budget shortfall that he has to overcome as the mayor due to the previous administration's
idiotic maneuvering and outright corruption. And you're out here confused about why, you
know, things are going the way that they're going. It's ridiculous, right?
Um
Damn that sucks. I mean this is a genuine question how the a gets you should be without the oil
Is there a plan for this? No, dude, we just didn't even think about that
We didn't even think about that fuck we're just gonna dump it on the ground when we get there we'll be like here solar panel
We're just winging it dude. There's no coordination. I need you guys to understand something in order to do this in order to pull off something like this. We have to work with the, the, the treasury. You understand that, right? We got to get OFAC clearance, for example.
Like, you have to get, you have to work with the American government, you have to work with the Cuban government. You can't conduct an aid mission like this, like randomly.
So, we're working on it, and you know, we've been doing all of that.
It's all, it all has to be above board, it all has to be legal.
It all has to work within the complex legal system that the American government is designed
in an effort to make it as difficult as humanly possible to fucking help Cuban people.
Yeah, right?
You can try, but you might get shot after being mistaken for Insane X-Bat Terrace.
Yeah, no, that's not happening.
All right, so, of course, you don't have the balls to do Gorilla Aid Mission to Cuba.
What?
Okay.
Does that need you need a passport?
Well, yeah, I think a lot of people don't understand like you can still fly to Havana
right now from Miami if you wanted to.
You can fly to Cuba directly right now.
Anyway, he tied it back to Gaza a little bit.
I'm Donnie Ripps, Genocide in Palestine during St. Patrick's Day event.
I say this is over the past few years as we've witnessed a genocide unfold
before our eyes, there has been deafening silence from so many for those who have
long cared about universal human rights and the extension of them to
Palestinians. Silence, however, is nothing new for Palestinians are so often
left to weep alone. Yet former president Robinson has never been silent, not when
she was president, not when she was high commissioner for human rights and not in
decade since. As she once said, commemoration is a moral act.
Did you unfollow Zoran on IG? What? No.
Things. Unwavering, sincere, and chief among them, Irish. Irish solidarity is no coincidence.
Who can better understand those who weep than those who have been made to weep for so long?
The story of the Irish both in Ireland and in New York City is at one time a story of
of oppression, of subjugation, and of discrimination.
As we know, it was on Irish soil that the British Empire
developed their colonial project.
So much of the exploitation, later imposed elsewhere
across the world, was first honed
in the plantations of Ireland.
And yet when I think of the Irish,
I do not think first of oppression.
I think of resistance.
I think of unity.
I think of corned beef and 96-minute Troy Parrot Goals
and the Pogues fairy tale of New York.
I think of that solidarity.
I feel so dumb.
I was wondering why everyone's asking about this fucking St. Patrick's Day.
Yeah.
The Global South and Irish United and being fucked over by the British.
Yeah.
That's why Irish people automatically are some of the most fucking base people you've ever met.
Some of the best white people you've ever met because their history and their background
is, is, is an oppressed peoples. That's it. Like they've been genocided, they've been dominated,
and they have fought back against the, the British empire.
Together with the German, the left party, we shipped a couple of containers of agricultural equipment
to Cuba in the last three years. Please snipe. I know people that organized humanitarian aid
in the German party, the left. Yeah. Irish people know famine. Irish people know genocide. Irish
Irish people know being dominated by British Empire, by Western colonialism, Western imperialism.
And that is why, because of that revolutionary history, the average Irish person has a very
different understanding of imperialism in general.
It's not an accident that Irish people are so quote unquote woke when it comes to the
issue of Palestine.
So woke when it comes to apartheid South Africa.
It genuinely comes from the revolutionary history of Ireland.
It's one that here in the United States of America, we try to larp as well, considering
that our Revolutionary War against British Empire also led to the formation of the American
state.
The difference between us and the Irish, however, is that we also did a shit ton of indigenous
genocide, the erasure of the indigenous peoples.
We also continued to implement and defend chattel slavery.
participated in 400 years of colonial rape and plunder of Africa. And that is the reason
why Americans have a very different approach to this issue and have become an empire itself
rather than continue having anti-imperialist sentiment.
The story of the Irish, both in Ireland and in New York City, is at one time a story of
oppression, of subjugation, and of discrimination.
As we know it was on Irish soil that the British Empire developed their colonial project.
So much of the exploitation later imposed elsewhere across the world was first home
in the plantations of Ireland.
And yet when I think of the Irish, I do not think first of oppression.
I think of resistance.
I think of unity.
of corned beef and 96 minute Troy Parrot bowls and the Pogues fairy tale of New York.
Above all, I think of that solidarity. When Irish immigrants arrived in New York City,
they were so often barred from employment and from housing. Science plastered across
storefronts, red-helped wanted, no Irish need apply. And yet, while Irish New Yorkers
were in the poetry of Yvan Boland, long-suffering in the bruised-colored dusk of the New World,
They did not grow discouraged.
They banded together.
They organized.
They formed labor movements that endured to this day.
It was Irish cans that helped to build so much of the city
that we recognize today.
The skyscrapers that pierced clouds,
the tunnels carved through bedrock.
And we can see an example of that legacy
in the incredible labor leaders that we have with us today,
both in this room and beyond this room.
And as we celebrate St. Patrick's Day together,
And as I belatedly acknowledge our state senator,
Brian Cavanaugh as well.
We celebrate not just a day of revelry,
but a day of continued obligation
to one another, to a better world,
to all those who still weep.
And I want to thank President Robinson again for joining us.
I want to thank the people of Ireland
who have taken the past of suffering
and used it to fight for a future of justice.
And I want to thank every Irish New Yorker for helping make this city into what it is
today.
Ireland might be even more propulsive than Zoram-Amdani is.
I know for a fact that that is the case.
Yes.
Mayor Zoram-Amdani on Tuesday compared the plight of the Irish to the genocide of Palestine
as he used the St. Patrick's Day celebration to rip the deafening silence from so many
on the Israel Hamas war.
Ireland might be even more propulsive than Zoran is.
I mean, of course, of course.
Without a doubt.
Yes.
People are more propelstein than the average American apps of fucking Lutley without a
doubt.
That's not even a question.
Didn't you go to Belfast Aviv?
Wait, what Belfast Aviv?
Listen, there's the Irish people in Dublin and then there's the Irish people in Belfast.
Okay.
The Irish people in Belfast up until recently lived under conditions not dissimilar to the
occupation of Palestinians in the West Bank. Sometimes these were forces of empire that
worked alongside one another, okay? Whether it be the black and tans or the Israeli occupational
forces, the idea, the I will never allow people to tarnish the good reputation of people of Belfast,
okay? Never, not even once. The average person living in the north of Ireland is more radical,
has more radicalism in their fucking pinky finger than the most aggressive communist you've ever
meant in your life, living in the United States of America? 100%. 100%. Yeah, the black and
We're sent the Palestine in the 1920s. It's the same folks
Anyway
Mom Donnie bless Trump admission is catastrophic in illegal strikes in Iran. That's good
I mean, he pushes back when he needs to. So I hope he can say something about Cuba as well.
B-Pack Tracker is roasting you for being sponsored for your Belfast Aviv trip. B-Pack Tracker.
The fact that I'm down to get comfortably just deflect on a question of Irish unifications is
more about how the Irish voters just disappeared this entry. It used to be a real thing. You
had to consider in New York, Giuliani hosted Jerry Adams. Yeah, that's true. It's true.
Irish unity was a non-starter for many Americans, especially American politicians in New York.
The fact that like there isn't, this isn't like a sincere question from a nationally
prominent mayor of New York cuts away at like a lot of generational history of New York politics
that made it so that this was like, again, that would be considered an unconscionable
mistake in a different generation, like having a wishy-washy approach to it.
That's precisely the reason why all these older politicians that are to the right of
Zoran Mamdani outflanked Zoran by saying, yes, of course, Irish unity now.
That's the point I'm trying to make, including Donald Trump, apparently.
Let's take a look.
Great job.
Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, and they get along so well.
I saw that.
You get along very well.
Yeah, that's the way it's supposed to be, huh?
I don't know if I should be promoting merger.
I love mergers, but I didn't know.
We're going to get it.
So we're going to get in more trouble, more trouble with that than the beauty.
But Emma, little pin golly, thank you very much, Emma, thank you very much.
Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, you get along so well, I don't know if I should
be promoting mergers, I love mergers, but we're going to get into a little trouble, we're
going to get in more trouble with that.
Anyway, it is wild how right wingers can be right on Irish unity and just not understand
the Israel occupation. Yeah. I've been learning Irish for a couple of months so I can better
listen to kneecap smugglers and scholars of banger. I feel like I don't see the same diaspora
narrative with Irish as you do for Iranis and Cubans, for example. Is that right? And
No, no, for the longest time during their period of the troubles, for the longest time
during the period of the troubles, the Irish diaspora, like Irish Americans, were very
aggressively pushing not only for political cover and political support, but also not
Not only were they pushing for political support for the IRA, but they were also literally
funding.
They were offering material support to an established terrorist group.
The IRA was, by the British occupations assessments, a full-blown, fully-fleshed terrorist group.
Republican politicians were fundraising to offer material support to what the British
government considered a terrorist organization.
This is real.
Republican politicians in the state of New York were literally trafficking guns.
Where do you think this comes from?
Have you never heard this?
My little Armalite?
Do you think Ireland has an indigenous Armalite industry?
Where did they get the Armalite?
I was stopped by a soldier, he said you are a swine, he hit me with his rifle and he checked me in the grind. I begged him, I created all my mother's worth of life. But all the payment they've been owed me, little arm of life, honest.
My great-great-grandfather gave a part of his check from the steel mill to the IRA through
the his Catholic Church.
Oh yeah, churches, bars, bars in New York and all around the country where there are,
you know, Irish people would literally have straight up tipped yards of the bar.
They would take the money.
They would take the money and literally purchase weapons and then illegally traffic weapons
to Ireland. It's not like this is one of the instances where like Americans universally
were on the right side of politics, uh, of an oppressed peoples, you know, because it
was anti English, anti British, New York mayor, I'm not in meets with Sinn Féin, TD, Louise
O'Reilly at the Irish American Labor Coalition of St. Patrick's day and quotes, uh, James
Connolly. The cause of Ireland is the cause of labor and the cause of labor is the cause of Ireland.
So, the IRGC bossage force commander, Golombzera Soleimani killed, I know, and Ali Largiani as well.
Also, Ro Khanna is mad.
Facts, like you using a clip of an anti-Soviet in a video you posted, or you applauding a
group that is trying to drive pro-Israel Democrats out of politics, or you sitting with a podcast
designer or neo-Nazis, or you speaking at a conference where they laughed at 10-7.
A-PAC is coming after Ro Khanna pretty aggressively, but I think this literally boosts his profile.
This nonsense is no longer going to fly.
Every Democrat should denounce this and defend Chris Van Hollen and Ro Khanna, two public
servants with integrity who have always repeated hate while defending the rights of all.
Okay, facts don't matter to Greenblatt, says Ro Khanna.
He is a Trump apologist who attacked Obama's nuclear deal, defense Elon, and is basically
a shield for the Trump administration.
And yeah, who's sad to see he has zero respect among any House Democrats anymore, okay?
To which APAC replied with facts, like you using a clip of an eight-semiot video you
posted or you applauding a group that's trying to drop pro-Israel Democrats out of politics
or you sitting with a podcast with a Zionist or neo-Nazis, that's me.
He's talking about me, which is true, by the way. Zionism is Nazism. So yes,
sucks to suck, but it's the truth.
And or you speaking at a conference where they live at 10, 7, all the shit, right?
They're hitting, they're hitting our boy. Critical support to Ro Khanna as always.
Critical support to anybody that is do again out with APAC. I will always stand with them. Okay if APAC has made you there
If APAC has made you into their enemy, then you are my friend. Okay. APAC is my enemy. I will defend you
No matter what
Anyway, hello, hello, uh, anyway, you can point out that the I and A packs nice for
Israel, but that's missing the point.
implicit belief here is that Israel is America, maybe even a super America, more America than
the rest. And the offense here is implying that it's a separate nation. Yeah. Avi Meyer,
founder of Jerusalem Journal, was criticizing me because I said every top Democrat has an
opportunity to let their position be known here. This kind of foreign interference is
no longer welcome, right? Cause a source close to APEC says the group's main goal in Chicago
is stopping who it sees as six potential squad members, Robert Peters, Kenan Collins,
Junaid Ahmed, Yasmin Ben Cole, Kat Abuzale and Bushra. I'm a, I'm a walla, right? Kat
and Bushra are running in the same race. They're bringing Bushra up because they understand
that they are, are very unpopular and that this will actually create support for Bushra,
who unfortunately has no capacity to win this race at this point. And, and it can't be that,
that, uh, Rokana can't be the only person that's like constantly railing against fucking
the ADL and APEC and shit, right? Like it's really busted. It's really busted that the
rest of the Democratic caucuses are not rising up at a time when there's unprecedented popularity,
both against Israel and all expressions of, you know, Israel first politics in the form of the
ADL in the form of APEC. It's totally ridiculous. Totally, totally unacceptable. When will APEC
and ADL be merging? Green Blight, you've sucked up enough to Trump. You can probably get the
merger approved in this administration. Yeah. What happens if Bushra somehow wins? That
That would be fantastic. It's just not going to happen. We got Hassan has door knocking
for cat. Today's going to be a good day. Yeah. This is a big, this is a big run. This is
a big race. I mean, Daniel Biss has literally all of the institutional support, like tremendous
institutional support. So, you know, by the way, this has been pretty funny. Speaking of
people who are also dogs for the Israeli state and for Donald Trump, as Donald Trump is a dog of
Israel as well, as men grift, uh, as men cattle, as men, goalie, as men, whatever you want to
fucking call it, right? Israel's strongest soldier is back at it again. Now, uh, this
is pretty undeniable. Okay. As mine camp is also great. Obviously that's another good
one. Um, but, but, uh, it's cool because, uh, you know, here's Asma gold saying in 2024
Israel's wars are not our wars in 2025. I'm saying I don't support bombing Iran in 2026
saying this is awesome. Iran needs to be bombed more. I replied with, uh, a photo of a shock
collar with the Israeli flag on the side of it saying, as men grift and all the base like
right-wing guys have to still, they're, they're in this weird predicament now where they have
to defend as many gold and they have to shit on me, but as many gold is defending Israel.
So they're like, oh, he found the collar image from his past Amazon orders.
And it's not working because even, even his, even people on like, even people in the revise
guys are like, well, you know, as my goal, this is, you know, he's, he's inconsistent
on this. So even people on the right, who are supposed to be like based and edgy, recognize
that they can't like defend Israel and they can't defend as my goal, defending Israel
and Israel's interests. And this is what happens when you are actually consistent and not like
an inconsistent f**king grifter. Here's the new rendition of that. What is this? God,
That photo is so awful.
Israel's wars are not our wars.
True.
Oh my God.
I think that we play too big of a role
in other countries' military shit.
Like, we're too interventionary.
We get too involved into other people's business.
It's a waste of our money.
The people there probably fucking hate us.
Like, where's really the upside here, right?
I think that the level that we try to play nation building,
especially in places like this, like, you know,
like Libya, for example, back in the day,
or Iraq. No, absolutely not. Yeah, it's too much man. We're not going to help.
We're not going to prevent the world. In my opinion, keeping us out of World War
III means not sending over bombs and starting wars in the Middle East. Like,
that's just me. I also wouldn't support any sort of collateral
in damage bombing things like the U.S. bombing things that are inside of
urban areas. I don't support any sort of, you know, boots on the ground. I don't
support any even. I don't even support the U.S. like going directly to war with Iran's military.
I think any further military interventions stands to alienate the Iranian people and it stands to
destabilize the country. And you can see how CNN passively manufactures consent to bomb Iran by
assuming that Iran is attacking civilian places only. Like for example, one of the biggest military
installations inside of Israel is in the middle of the city and you guys see
how the media is pushing the war by saying that Iran is this existential
threat and we need to fight for America. This is upsetting for me. Big deal for
like I mean if this was the US bombing Iran I'd be saying ah fuck. I am so happy
this has happened. I am just dramatically tremendously happy this has
happened. I was a big supporter of us bombing them before and now we're
bombing them again, and this is just amazing.
This is an operation that's the world's largest
farmstress.
That's right, this is amazing.
Every third world shithole that promotes these
terrorist ideologies, death, cold, fucking religion,
is getting demolished.
Oh, a school got bombed?
It's collateral damage and a war,
and it's inevitable, number one.
And number two, if they didn't want that to happen,
maybe they shouldn't have been funding terror groups
and antagonizing a world super power like America.
Yeah.
Man.
How about that?
This is.
I straight up, if I had to sit there and watch like the, the ugliest,
silliest fucking, uh, White House clip compilations and, and sit there and act
like this is like super cool.
I would probably kill myself.
I probably, I would probably kill me.
I would probably Brian kill me.
Okay
It's just like yeah, yeah these videos they're so
They're so base right i mean they're fucking base right guys. How about that? Yeah, yeah great
Anyway, he made a response to this video. Yeah, what is it? Is it him going? Uh, yeah, you guys are is real obsessed. You gotta stop
Yeah
There is no response to this
Right
There is no response to this because
It's it's so transparent what is going on, right? It's so obvious what's going on
He is just regurgitating whatever Trump is saying because he doesn't have any real opinions, right?
He doesn't have any real opinions at all. He's just you know when Trump is saying
No war just peace
Not war. Not war. Just peace.
When Trump is like that, he's saying the same shit, right?
When Trump turns around and bombs are on, and then he's also in favor of bombing Iran. It's that simple.
It's that simple. No convictions whatsoever. But also no ability to read the room either,
right? Because like there are right-wing content creators and even people in the
cabinet, like J.D. Vance has a better understanding of where things are going. And, and therefore
J.D. Vance is trying to like avoid being seen as, as being responsible for this war, right?
Like he's already throwing out his, his frustrations with like going to war with Iran and blah,
blah, blah, all this shit. Like there's already, there's already been like political coverage
on this.
Tucker Carlson has dropped the administration on this issue. Megan Kelly has dropped the
administration on this issue. Like there are a lot of people that recognize how unpopular
this is going to be. It's already unpopular and it's going to be even more unpopular,
right? And Asmongold doesn't realize any of that because he doesn't have the knowledge,
he doesn't have the wherewithal, he doesn't have the ability to read the room, he's just
responding to the fucking administration and like regurgitating propaganda coming from
the admin, and trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
He's just a dumb fucking rat.
Exactly.
Uh, and, and that's it.
If you take him seriously, if you consider him to be like a
serious thinker, you're a fucking idiot.
You're basically exposing yourself and, and I will continue
laughing at you, um, forever.
But that's it.
That's it. Yes, we got the early in-person votes. I know, I know, I know, I know, I know.
Cat Obogazale is cooking with the early in-person votes. Okay, cooking.
He's really just doing the opposite of what you do. That's his doctrine. No, it's not necessarily
the opposite because there are instances where we find ourselves in agreement. The reason why
is because there are certain things that Trump says about like non-interventionism, for example,
that almost lean into my side of politics, right? And when Trump is saying he's not an
interventionist, and as Mngold is saying he's not an interventionist because Trump is saying it,
then all of a sudden it comes across like we are in agreement with one another.
But it's simple. He just doesn't he's a he is an immoral person. He's a bad person. He's not
even a contrarian. He's a bad person. He's not very intelligent. And the reality of the matter
is the market demands someone who is a stupid little grifter. So that's part of the reason why
he still sees a decent amount of success. It's that simple. That's it. Many people are grifters,
many people are bad faith, many people are immoral, but you can still be a grifter and
land on the right side of issues because you read the room better, right? Asmongold doesn't.
But I think he's not even banking on the inability of the right to punish him later
down the line for his advocacy in going to war with Iran at the behest of Israel, right?
He's just farming.
And he's pretty open about it, too.
He just straight up says it, it's not like he hides it, he openly says he is farming.
And people don't necessarily care.
Okay, have you covered the Joe Kent resignation?
Not yet.
I'm gonna get to that right now.
But first, let's get to the insane sketch that came out of US Ambassador to Israel Mike
like Fuckabee and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, pushing back on the death rumors
and putting together a wonderful little sketch.
Everything that Benjamin Netanyahu participates in is pretty insane.
It looks insane for normies.
And this is not even a little, I mean, this is not the exception, okay?
It is the rule.
This is a very weird video.
video
i got to be
you know the president asked me to come and make sure you were okay
yes mike
yes i'm alive
i check that and i'm happy to see that but he wanted to make sure because
you know you guys get along too well
we shake hands with five senators in each hand
but i have to tell you i'm alive
but i have this card
and yeah i don't read it
So it's a punch card. Today I raised two names on the punch cards and you see how
many more to go on this batch. You know what the good news is? My name is not on
the punch card. Your name is on the list of the good good guys. Thank you. And
what the president and US forces are doing is incredible. We're very proud to stand
and shoulder to shoulder with them.
And getting rid of these lunatics,
we'd like to develop nuclear weapons
and the means to deliver them to early American city
after wiping out Israel.
They ain't gonna do that.
We're liking them a lot.
Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister.
Good to see you.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Take care.
Aaron, missile attacks from both sides continued overnight.
US Embassy in Iraq was among the targets.
Meanwhile, there is breaking news from Israel,
which claims to have killed two of Iran's top leaders.
MTS Tide is near the Strait of Hormuz
in the United Arab Emirates.
MTS, good morning.
So what is Israel saying?
Good morning.
Well, Iran has yet to confirm the death
of one of its most senior power brokers.
His name is Ali Larijani,
who Israel says was killed alongside
the top commander of the besieged militia.
But if this is true,
it raises much bigger questions
about who is now shaping decisions in Tehran,
including here on the Strait of Hormuz.
Now the epicenter of one of the most dangerous standoffs
on Earth.
On Earth.
What?
Yes, let me gliss over myself in Trump
and murder in genocide.
I don't remember such amazing good guys.
Yeah, I gotta go.
I gotta run this back.
Aaron missile attack.
Okay, I gotta run this back.
Because, this is, again, I was peeing.
I've already watched it.
Now, obviously, I don't think Benjamin Ennio is actually killed. Okay. I don't think Benjamin
Ennio is dead. I think a lot of the people are losing their minds over the AI stuff.
They think that like every video is a AI video. Okay. Unfortunately for everyone around the
planet that would love to rejoice at the prospect of a Adolf Hitler dying somehow, he's very
much alive. Okay. So let's just put it out there. That's, that's my take on it. That's
my assessment and it's an unfortunate truth that you must come to terms with, right? However,
however, this video is still weird as fuck. I want you to know the president asked me
to come and make sure you were okay. Yes, Mike. Yes, I'm alive. I checked that and I'm
happy to see that, but he wanted to make sure because, you know, you guys get along too
I know and we shake hands with five senators in each hand, you know, but I have to tell you I'm alive
But I have this card
And yeah, but he has a he has an assassination list
He has an assassination list in his pocket right like for this meme the setup is he has a punch card
And in this punch card, he has a list of targets that he hasn't killed yet and targets that
he has killed.
This is also his announcement that he's killed Ali Larkjani and his announcement that he's
killed the head of the Basij militia.
I don't read it.
So it's a punch card.
Yeah.
And he goes, don't read it.
I have this card.
And yeah, don't read it.
So it's a punch card.
Today, I raised two names on the punch cards and you see how many more to go on this batch.
You know what the good news is?
My name is not on the punch card.
That's a crazy thing to say!
Why would you say that?
That is so weird, bro!
I sort of got it. That's just as weird as gifting American politicians like a golden beeper.
Am I crazy?
Like, is this because of my opinion? Is this because of my attitude? Is this because of
my like biases against the genocidal entity? Or is, does this read as like very strange?
It reminds me of when Charlie Kirk was assassinated by the state of Israel, is what some people
say, not me. Or maybe I lean into it a little bit. Who knows? Fuck it, we're having fun.
And he came out two seconds after that assassination, and was like, Israel didn't kill Charlie
Kirk.
It's like, why did you say that?
That's weird.
That's a weird thing to say, big dog.
That's strange.
Your name is on the list of the good, good guys.
Thank you.
Like this makes it seem like Israel has assassinated American political figures and will continue
to assassinate American political figures. Okay? This part of the video, this part of
the bit, doesn't seem like a fucking bit! It seems like my co-comies like, oh thank
god, I'm not, you're not gonna kill me, right, master? Master, you're not gonna kill me,
right?
What the president of the US forces are doing is incredible. We're very proud to stand shoulder
shoulder with them. And getting rid of these lunatics would like to develop nuclear weapons
and the means to deliver them to every American city after wiping out Israel. They can do that.
We're liking them a lot. Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister. Good to see you.
Thank you. Thanks. Take care. Aaron missile attacks from both sides.
Am I crazy? Am I crazy? Like, I don't think this is a AI video. I think it's a real video,
but like my takeaway from that video is like it's a thinly veiled threat
like
it's very strange ai script maybe not everything has to be ai man i don't know what the fuck is
your obsession with ai jesus christ
It's a I go back to the beginning. Oh my God chatter being fucking weird as okay, dude Benjamin
Nenny ah who's dead. It's an AI video and Mike Huckabee is also in the AI video now. Everything
is AI. Let's just live in let's live in a fucking La La Land where every video is AI Benjamin
Nenny I was definitely dead guys you got it. It makes total sense. I give up. I give up.
I can't, I can't like, I can't deal with the cope.
It's just so crazy.
It's like, it's like people constantly fucking posting
about like Tel Aviv being nuked.
Okay. Oh, look at how Tel Aviv is cratered.
Tel Aviv is cratered.
Look at this very obviously AI video, right?
Like this is what they don't want you to see.
It's Tel Aviv being cratered by a nuke, by an Iranian nuke.
And everyone's like, yeah.
Dude, you guys are being ridiculous.
What good does it, like, what good does this do?
You need to seek truth from facts, okay?
This is not just a Chinese attitude.
This needs to be the American attitude.
This needs to be the attitude of everyone.
We must seek truth from facts.
It is a principle stance that I have taken
from the beginning of my career as a political commentator.
You guys also need to constantly do this. Okay. You need to make sure that you have, uh, you, you need to also know, me, me, no jokes.
I can't tell if some people are joking. I think some people do legitimately want to believe that Benjamin Indian was assassinated.
But yeah, holy, Betelgeuse says, Holy shit. I wasn't sure there were chatters that took us seriously, but someone was freaking the fuck out. Yeah.
Like there are people who legitimately lose their fucking minds, Hasan you are dumb, R-word, R-word, he's fucking dead, he's dead, you don't understand AI, those videos are all AI, big dog, what the fuck, boy you need ayahuasca, your ego is getting on my nerves, you fucking R-word, fucking deep shit, you don't know anything, no shut the fuck up, you stupid shit, you think that guy's memeing, or you think that guy sincerely has lost his dang mind a little bit.
It's the same, like there are people that'll, that'll, there are people that just believe
that like, pizza gate is real and they will never, never, ever believe that it's, it's,
uh, you know, a little ridiculous, right?
Like no, the pizza gate is real.
Like Jeffrey Epstein's files show that pizza gate is real.
Same with, um, same with Benjamin Indian who's definitely dead.
All these videos are AI.
You're fucking stupid.
Uh, you need to take ayahuasca.
Wayfarer is real.
They're trafficking children from the Wayfair website, and you might accidentally get a child in your Wayfair purchase.
Shit like that. I just, I don't know.
What is this? Check this one out though. This is 100% proof of it.
The Israeli sign is currently working on Mecha Yahu Mark 1. Just so people online stop saying he's dead.
It's true, this is real, this is real and true.
Anyway, breaking news, Iran claims they carried out an assassination inside of Iran�s FARS
news agency citing unspecified source said an operation was carried out by Iranis which
forces deep inside occupied territories about an hour ago targeting a senior Israeli security
cabinet member see this is you know this could also be wrong right this could also be totally
fucking bullshit because you have to remember like like it's not like the iranian state also
doesn't have the capacity to stretch the truth right like we don't know we need more we need
more information. We will get more information inevitably when you see another Israeli security
cabinet meeting take place and one of the Israeli security cabinet members are mysteriously
absent from that. Well, then that kind of actually gives credence to the statement, right?
You have to analyze the stuff critically. You can't just like lean into it because it
it feels good. You understand?
Counterpoint, when have they lied though? I mean,
they've made mistakes and then they've tried to like patch it up.
One of the instances I can remember is like, I mean, like right now,
for example,
Iran of course exaggerates their striking capabilities because it's,
it's there's a there's an information war going on as well. Right? On the one hand,
Israel and America are obviously lying when they say they've completely destroyed Iranian
strike capabilities. That's bullshit. We know that that's bullshit. Right? The Strait of Hormuz is
not open. Um, they, they will also in times claim that, yeah, they claim that Ayatollah was alive,
even though he had died on the first strike for like, uh, you know, for 12 hours after he had
very clearly died, right? So, there's stuff like that that they do. It's minor in comparison
to like the faucet of misinformation that comes from the American and the Israeli side,
but just like remember, they claimed that 500 US soldiers had been killed, right? They
They claimed initially that 500 US soldiers have been killed.
That was also not correct.
The real number is still like the number of casualties is still much higher than the way
that the American government initially reported it where they were like, oh, just six, maybe
10, maybe 20 soldiers have been killed so far.
Like it's, the numbers higher, right?
And the casualty numbers are at 200 that we know of.
So it's probably higher now, but it, but the first day they had claimed that there were
have 100 casualties, right? Casualties imply wounded in action and killed in action for
the record for those of you who don't know. So, everyone plays this game, but you have
to be a little bit more critical. You have to be critical, especially, what do I always
tell you? If you see a narrative that is so perfectly in line with your beliefs, if you
see something that that that is too good to be true, sometimes it might not be true. Okay,
that should cause a little bit more critical thinking in your mind. No, casualties doesn't
mean death. Casualties mean wounded in combat or killed in combat. Okay, killed in action,
wounded in action. As in, they are no longer capable of returning to combat. Okay, that's
what a casualty is. Or even if it's like civilians we're talking about, casualty just means
civilians that are either missing, civilians that have either been wounded or civilians
that have been killed. They're incapacitated. Having said that, however, as far as like
offering weight to the statements coming from the IRGC or the Iranian side as
opposed to the Israeli or American side. Yes, I think the IRGC side, while they
also embellish some facts from time to time, their statements are oftentimes
on the closer to the side of the truth. Right? But that doesn't mean you should
unconditionally listen to every single thing that's coming out of the IRGC side
go this is God's honest truth and I believe it and I want to believe it so fuck you. Okay.
Having said that, once again we must seek truth from facts as always and there is one fact that
is absolutely correct. The straight of our moves is closed for every vessel with the exception of
those that the Iranian government is allowed safe passage through. This means that the Iranian
government still very much controls the Strait of Hort Moves. Okay, that's it.
Israel now is saying that they've killed two senior Irvani leaders of Shraik's continue. Now,
with the Israeli side, the Israeli side lies about everything all the time. The American side lies
about everything all the time, except for one thing. And that is high profile assassinations.
Okay. They were right about the Ayatollah. The Iranian side said that the Ayatollah was not
killed, right? For the first like 12 hours or so. And there is a high likelihood that this is
correct. Let's take a look at this story overnight. US Embassy in Iraq was among the targets. Meanwhile,
there is breaking news from Israel, which claims to have killed two of Iran's top leaders.
MTS Tide is near the Strait of Hormuz in the United Arab Emirates. MTS, good morning. So
what is Israel saying? Good morning. Well, Iran has yet to confirm the death of one of its most
senior power brokers. His name is Ali Larry Johnny, who Israel says was killed alongside
the top commander of the besieged militia. But if this is true, it would be.
The funny aspect of this is that Lara Johnny is a bad motherfucker, okay? He was largely
seen as a hardliner in comparison to the previous administration. He was one of the hardliners
in the previous formation, but in the current one, he is actually the guy that you can negotiate
with because he's pragmatic. So, Israel's assassination, if true, Israel's assassination
of Larjani, if true, is once again, assassinating yet another remaining pragmatic leader that
is willing to negotiate with America and find a reasonable conclusion that revolves around
the escalation. So this assassination, just like the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Hamane,
will only lead to the current existing regime bringing in an even more hardcore individual
to replace them. It's crazy. They just keep making the IRGC more militant against American
western intervention against israeli imperialism
okay
large on the
had opposed the succession of most of the humane as a ron supreme leader and
had lobbied the council clerics
that elected him to consider changing the vote for a more moderate choice
large on the was seen as the guy
who was much more pragmatic than the other
heads of of of the iranian government
America had seen him as a much more pragmatic figure. Now, his opinion might have changed
after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was assassinated, but he was still seen as like, I wouldn't say he's
a moderate. He's a moderate by current standards, but to say that he was always like a moderate is
not correct. I think he was a hardliner that was more pragmatic than some of the other
leadership in Iran. But even if they killed them, they once again killed one of the only
individuals that they could actually talk to.
Raises much bigger questions about who is now shaping decisions in Tehran, including
here on the Strait of Hormuz, now the epicenter of one of the most dangerous standoffs on
Earth.
The US Embassy in Baghdad under attack with an intensity not seen before.
As CRAM air defenses see here firing into the night sky targeted at these five Iranian drones.
Some intercepts failed, sparking the fire at the diplomatic mission that had already been evacuated.
This is crazy, by the way. Again, CRAM's lasering in the night sky like shooting stars.
And yet drones are fucking intercepted drones are being failed
Our drones are actually capable of going through that interception and blowing up the target
Do you understand how fucking scary that is for once again?
the American
capabilities because that equipment is not only
Insanely expensive, but it's supposed to be foolproof
Like it's supposed to be one of the best things that one of the best weapons we have
The idea that a drone can just fly through and, and still hit that target is crazy.
That means that our destroyers are going to have a very hard time in the trade of hormones
as well.
Okay.
Smoke rise from the US embassy in Baghdad as far as it's going to be seen burning in
central bank of Iraq tower reportedly after it was struck by counter rocket artillery and
mortar system CRAM attempted to shoot down an Iranian one way attack drones over Baghdad.
And we are using a weapon that costs $2,025 a second, okay, $2,025 a second.
And it's being, it's, it's being thwarted by a $7,000 drone, a Shahad drone, that is
flying at it, okay?
No, it's $2,025 a second, okay?
It's a fucking flying lawnmower.
There is no world, Shahads are like 50K.
That's cope.
You're out of your fucking mind.
The initial estimate was that they were 20 grand, and then the new estimate that was
that they're actually closer to 10 grand, the real number is seven grand, okay?
They are not, they are not $50,000 a pop.
The American version of it is $50,000 a pop or 30, I think.
You're absolutely wrong.
The ROI isn't bad though, two to five seconds of firing, isn't that far off for shooting
at those drones?
yeah they're not just doing two to five seconds of firing though there's a
they're deployed they're firing continuously you're just seeing like a
couple rounds every now and then
huh
fucking hell
fucking hell
So, that's yet another massive, massive defeat for America's capabilities.
Once again, they also now have FPV drones all over Iraq as well that they're utilizing,
which is going to be devastating for American propaganda.
Because once you start seeing American troops or American assets get lasered by the Shia
militias utilizing FPV drones in real time and the clip compilations keep coming out.
That shit's gonna, that shit's gonna be really bad for the war effort.
Okay, but let's continue.
Waited. No casualties were reported, but it's here in the Gulf that continues to be hit the hardest.
This Iranian strike on a fuel tank at Dubai's airport has disrupted flights for a second day
at one of the world's busiest airports, and this major hit on a large oil storage facility
in the UAE's Fajira saw it burned out of control.
As U.S. and Israeli forces continue to pound targets across Iran, they say at least 15,000
so far.
And we're day-turning to light after a strike on the police headquarters in Western Hamadon
province.
Israel is also continuing its other war on Iran's most important proxy.
The Israeli military has begun quote,
limited and targeted ground operations against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
According to Lebanese authorities, since fighting began two weeks ago,
at least 886 people, including over 100 children, have been killed
and a million more displaced.
And the casualties keep climbing.
the U. S. Central Command over 200 U. S.
Service members had been injured across seven
countries since the start of the war.
13 have been killed in Israel and 14 civilians
have lost their lives while the death toll has
passed 1300 according to eight agencies with
no end to the fighting inside.
MTS Taya from near the straight up her moves.
Thank you. It's a great thing.
My son and my family.
We have a great golf complex in Ireland, one of the best in the world, called Dunebag.
It's in Dunebag.
And it's been amazing, and Rory McElroy loves it.
They all love it.
Great golfers.
You have a tremendous golf tradition.
And it was chosen for the Irish Open, which is a big deal.
That's a big event.
Everybody wants me to be there.
You just said, I hope you're going to go.
We're going to try it.
We are going to try it.
It would be an honor, but it was a great honor to be chosen.
They only choose the best courses in the world for the big open.
It's one of the big ones, the average open.
It's really become one of the most important tournaments in the world.
It's going to do, I hear it's going to be a fantastic success.
Very good.
Very hard course.
It's a very hard question.
It's a very hard question.
It's a very hard question.
Mr. President, in getting America's allies to assist the U.S.
and escorting us well-affectors through the strait of Congress.
Well, we don't need too much help.
We don't need any help, actually.
In fact, we just put out a notice.
I was watching over the last couple of weeks,
and all of our NATO allies were very much in favor of what we did.
They thought it was very important.
We were just discussing it, actually,
very important that we take out the nuclear threat from Iran.
And we've done that very strongly, very powerfully.
We've wiped out their Navy, wiped out their military
in every aspect.
Their air force is now decimated.
They have no air force, no Navy.
They have no radar.
Their radar is entirely gone.
Their anti-aircraft machinery is gone.
Everything is gone.
Their leaders are gone.
I guess one of the, the top person was a,
they say a lot of people say their actual top
was killed yesterday along with somebody else
that who was responsible for the killing.
The man that was responsible for the killing
of 32,000 people over the last two weeks,
he was in charge of the killing of protesters.
It's an evil group.
I mean, they've killed much more than 32,000 people.
And the man who was responsible for that
was also killed yesterday.
And all of the NATO allies agreed with us.
And they don't want to, you know, despite the fact that we help them so much, we have
thousands of soldiers in different countries all over the world.
And they don't want to help us, which is amazing.
I mean, amazing.
And I didn't do a full court press, because I think if I did, they probably would be.
But we don't – we don't need help.
You know, we've – that war has been long prosecuted, as far as I'm concerned, almost
from day one.
We knocked out many of these things.
We knocked out the Navy, essentially, in a couple of days.
But I was surprised to see that NATO, while they agreed that it was a very important thing
to do, they agreed fully.
Nobody said, oh, you shouldn't do it.
They would have had a nuclear weapon within one month of – when we had the B-2 bomb,
bomb the nuclear potential. I call it the nuclear dust. So I think Neto's making a very
foolish mistake and I've long said that, you know, I wonder whether or not NATO would ever
be there for us. So this is a, this was a great test because we don't need them, but they
should have been there. The other thing is he's, he's like a baby. He's like a, like
a child. He's mad like a child. First, the Omani Foreign Minister came out and revealed
that there was a deal on the table that met Trump's demands, but that he instead chose
war. And now it is revealed the British National Security Advisor was also part of the talks.
And he too attests to the fact that A, there was no imminent threat from Iran. B, Trump
could have gotten a surprisingly good deal if he stuck to diplomacy. But the perhaps
most damning quote in the story comes at the end attributed to an unnamed diplomat.
We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that drag the president into a war
he wants to get out of.
On the negotiations front, Witkoff and Kushner are unreliable and are totally seen as Israeli
agents by other parties involved with the meetings.
Lindsey Graham literally openly admitted that he went to Israel numerous times in order
to get the right information from Israeli agents so he could sell this war to Donald
Trump.
Both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio and numerous other officials at this point have said this
is Israel's war and we're fighting for, we're fighting it for them.
And yet, saying it out loud is considered fucking anti-Semitic.
by the very same institutions that absolutely know this is Israel's war that America is
waging on its behalf.
It's ridiculous, okay?
It's ridiculous.
It's totally ridiculous.
If you say we want the war for Israel and that's good, there's no problem.
If you say we want the war for Israel and that's bad, you're a bigot, yeah.
The pro-Israel hawks upset at me because Joe Kent is listing Israel's influence on this
war as a part of the rationale.
Might I suggest the president and secretary of state stop talking about Israel's influence
on getting into this war and offer other rationale that is even remotely plausible that justifies
American troop deaths and $100 billion taxpayer commitment.
Tim Miller is right.
Okay.
He's right.
The idea that like, this is the dynamic.
This is straight up the dynamic.
If you say we went to war for Israel and that is good, there's no problem.
If you say we went to war for Israel and that is bad, you're a bigot.
It's the same principle that mainstream media applies to Zionism and its conflation to Judaism.
If you say Israel is the Jewish state, and that's a good thing, and we must defend them,
okay?
Then it's good, it's fine.
Jake Tapper does it all the time.
If you say Israel is the Jewish state, and that's a bad thing, and we can't defend them,
then you're a fucking anti-Semite.
And the truth is, it is anti-Semitic to just be like, no, this is actually being done for
Judaism.
But it's crazy.
oftentimes have a hard time grasping nuance, but this situation, like this design, this
double standard is so silly that the average American looks at it and goes, nah, this is
fucked up.
I don't like it.
That's it.
Yeah, Jake Tapper is re-tweeting that Kent is an anti-Semite.
Right on fucking Q.
Now, let's talk about why Israel killed Ali Larajani if he's actually dead.
There's a high likelihood that he is.
Like I said, Israel often times lies about everything, but the one thing that they don't
lie about is usually high profile assassinations, right?
Trita Parsi says, I see three potential motivations behind the assassination attempt.
One, Israel is trying to literally kill off Trump's off ramps.
Larjani was not only a key figure within the regime who had emerged as the chief consensus
builder, but also to kill off Trump's off-ramps, literally someone whose
favored talks of the U.S. and who could build consensus within the system for an
Iranian off-ramp at some point. He also favored de-escalation with the GCC
states and supported Pazishkaon's message on that point, though not the
apology. There had been some efforts by Lahrzani to speak directly with senior
Trump officials in December for instance to prevent the war. The Israelis
want the war to continue to degrade Iran's military capabilities further.
to shift the balance in the region and Israel's favor for years to come.
They have fought for more than two decades to get the US to go to full war
with Iran. And having finally achieved that goal, they do not want Trump to cut
the war short. Without figures like Larjani, the Iranian system, Trump's
pathways to ending the war just got narrower.
The US, number two, the US Israeli strategy may be shifting back to regime
decapitation. The reason for this is that it's becoming increasingly clear that reopening
the Straits of Hormuz militarily is simply too risky and there's no international coalition
willing to support Trump.
But the Straits must be reopened from Trump's perspective because of the impact on energy
markets which eventually will impact gas and food price in the US and push Trump's own
base to turn against this war. But if he cannot open it militarily, then the original idea
of regime implosion may prove another path. As such, the killing of Larjani may have been
seen as a second bite at the apple. The first bite, the assassination of Hamané,
did not yield results. But a few more assassinations of key figures may the
thinking would go. Now there is no proof that this is successful. As a matter of
fact, there's proof that this has been unsuccessful, right? I mean, they closed
the Strait of Hormuz after Hamané was killed. And they have a
decentralized mosaic structure in their defenses anyway, and that's precisely
you the reason why they've been actively pummeling the the Gulf States and Israel as well and
destroying American assets in the region and killing American troops in the region since
the decapitation strike took place. So the idea that like Larry Johnny's assassination
would do anything but piss off Iran further and cause them to continue their war efforts
is ridiculous. But once again, it ties back to Israel's ambitions of destabilizing Iran.
Number three, opportunity. The assassination may have also simply occurred because the opportunity
presented itself rather than having been motivated by either a shift in strategy or sabotage effort
by the Israelis to kill off Trump's off ramps either way. While this undoubtedly is a significant
tactical blow to the Islamic Republic, it is difficult to envision it considerably impacting
Tehran's war execution.
Plans for these eventualities had already been established during the June war, more
over when relatively moderate voices have been killed by Israel.
They have more often than not been replaced by a younger generation of more hawkish voices
who oppose Iran's policy of strategic patience, who oppose the June ceasefire, who currently
oppose any de-escalation or ceasefire.
Whether this was Israel's intent or not, the most likely outcome nevertheless is the
destruction of potential off-ramps for Trump.
Jan Eliasson, former deputy secretary general of the UN and foreign minister of Sweden,
also responds to Trita Parsley's assessment and says Ali Larajani was one of the key leading
figures in the end favoring the nuclear deal JCPOA in 2015.
I had long and constructive talks in Tehran with him as the speaker of the Mejlis at
the time.
Are off-ramps people to negotiate with?
Off-ramps, as in the people on the Iranian government side that are willing and interested
and having talks with the americans
allie larry johnny is one of those people while he is seen as a as a
unification figure inside of iran
uh... due to uh... his his interest in
uh... in in holding the more moderate forces together alongside the rg c he's
still more of a hardliner than you know
how many was
however
in the current
administration officials that remain in iran
he was one of the only
that has actually talked to the american side in the past
killing him
would be
killing him
basically kills the opportunity to come to the uh...
come to the table and and uh... engage in a sincere ceasefire effort
So, Israel is assassinating regime targets that are interested in dealing with America.
At the end of this military campaign, there is going to come a point, there is going to
be a point where America and Iran are gonna get to the, they're gonna come to the table.
The problem is the Israeli side keeps killing all the people that would be willing to talk
to the Americans.
And the Iranians are responding by putting a person in their stead that is more hard
liner than the press person that was assassinated.
already happened with Hameneh's son. Most of all Hameneh is seen as a much more anti-Western
figure than his father was. What's the point? The point is Israel wants to continue destabilizing
Iran and continue sucking America in to a longer war effort that they will not directly
participated. Israel is not going to put their sons and daughters on the ground in Iran.
Israel knows that they can get American boots on the ground, however. That's it. And if
they invade Iran militarily, this might actually devastate the American economy. It might collapse
what remains of like confidence that people have in America being a stabilizing figure
in the world, but it's very obvious that Israel doesn't make these calculations.
Israel is thinking, oh, well, America's the most powerful military on the planet, which
is true.
So if they go in, even if America actually suffers devastating blows in the hands of
the Iranians, there will only be more appetite for death and destruction on Iran by the American
public.
Like, they're gambling here. Their bargain is they can get America into this long war.
They can push America into this long war with boots on the ground, military occupation.
They don't care about the logistical hurdles that America simply cannot overcome at this stage.
Okay.
They just want short-sighted death and destruction of Iran. They want the Iranian state to collapse.
Why though Israel doesn't care about the troops dying they absolutely do. What are you talking?
Look
That was crazy
It's back. It's back. I'm Israel. Hi. I'm Israel. Hi. I'm Israel. Hi. I'm Israel. Hi. I'm
M Israel hi okay I don't know what happened there apologies to the beautiful nation state
of Israel greatest country on the world more American troops should be thrown into the
meat grinder in an effort to preserve Israel's strategic interest by diminishing the Gulf
states and also destroying Iran entirely.
A source similar with private plans and discussions tells me Ali Lahrzani was, for the U.S. and
Israel, the most favored transitional candidate as of September 2025, but became a target
early February 2026.
Vote Blue or Netanyahu?
Yeah.
The source said Lahrzani became a target when he pushed for crackdown on protesters, took
front seat and lashing out against the U.S. and Israel, assumed key role in strategizing
the IRGC-Kinetic actions in particular against the Gulf States.
Anyway, let's continue with that.
And I think, you know, very important.
We didn't have to be there for Ukraine, you know, Biden chose to spend hundreds of billions
of dollars on Ukraine. And I guess the head of Germany just made a statement that, well,
they weren't involved and they have nothing to do with the war. But at the same time,
they think we did a great thing by knocking them out. Nobody wants to have, nobody wants
to have a rent or anybody, but nobody wants to have a rent with the nuclear, because these
people are crazy. They're absolutely crazy. And they're vicious, violent. I mean, they
kill. Think of it, they killed, now here it's about 41,000 people. They put out a
notice two days ago. Anybody that protests will be immediately shot and
killed. That's pretty tough stuff. So everyone agrees with this, but they don't
want to help. And we, you know, we as the United States have to remember that
because we think it's pretty shocking.
President Macron has just said in the last hour that he will never join a task force in the Strait of Cornwall
until the city's finished yesterday.
Who said that?
Who said?
President Macron.
What's your reaction to that, sir?
Well, he'd be out of office very soon, so I'll have to see.
I don't know.
I'm doing vague.
You're building an extension to that.
Yeah, we have.
But there's been an objection put in, and it's not being held back at the moment due to small snails.
Are you disappointed about that?
I'm kind of cautious.
I haven't, I have not heard that, no?
Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President.
And of course, the course was built
and it's been operated very successfully.
Somebody's objecting human and environmental group
is objecting to...
What is...
What the fuck?
Mr. President, Mr. President.
Okay, I'm not alone.
I guess they're having issues too, huh?
At least.
Guitar has been great.
UAE has been absolutely, that's been great.
Saudi Arabia has been terrific.
Bahrain has been very good.
The Middle Eastern countries have been very strong
in their support, and of course Israel has been our partner.
Israel's been very, very strong along with us.
What the fuck?
That's not on my end.
I was, if you look back ago, I talked to Iran, it was a big threat to this country, to this
world of ours, and it turned out to be, I was right, in fact, I said, you have to attack
Karg, Karg Island, you have to attack them years ago when they were acting up.
They've been acting up for 37, 47, I guess now, 48 years.
For 48 years, they've been bad players, vicious players, and you can't let them have a nuclear
weapon.
If they got a nuclear weapon, I would say they would have used it within 24 hours after
having it.
And they would have had it if we didn't bomb them out from a great rate with them.
Yeah, if they had a nuclear weapon, Israel and America wouldn't be doing what they're
doing currently, just so you understand.
If they had nukes, there would be regional stability.
If you had bombers eight months ago or so, you would have had a nuclear war in the Middle
East and maybe beyond.
I think it would have hit Europe.
Maybe not Ireland, but it would have hit Europe.
I think you would have been a nice piece of it.
It all gets you.
It's big enough that you would have been effective.
They would have hit Europe eventually.
Mr. President, your Director of National Counterterrorism, Joe Kent, he just resigned today.
He said he can't support your conflict with Iran.
What's your reaction to that?
And did you take it?
Well, I read his statement.
I always thought he was a nice guy, but I always thought he was weak on security, very
weak on security.
I didn't know him well, but I thought he seemed like a pretty nice guy.
when I read a statement I realized that it's a good thing that he's out because he said
that Iran was not a threat. Iran was a threat. Every country realized what a threat Iran
was. The question is whether or not they wanted to do something about it. And many people,
many of the greatest military scholars are saying for years that President-
Yeah, this is also crazy. Oh dude, yeah, our head of counterterrorism was actually weak
on terrorism. He was weak on countering terrorism. If you thought he was weak on security, why
would you hire him as a lead on counterterrorism? Is the question that any competent journalist
should be asking the president currently?
They should have taken out Iran because they wanted a nuclear weapon. They were, if we
didn't do the attack, or if I'll go a step further, if I didn't terminate the Iran nuclear
deal given to us, one of the worst deals ever made by Barack Hussein Obama. Remember when
They sent Boeing 757s over there, loaded with cash.
Hundreds of millions of dollars.
You would have been very happy.
This was a wonderful, they said hundreds of million.
People forget that.
Does anybody remember?
Right?
You remember.
Hundreds of millions of dollars in a Boeing 757.
I think that two of them loaded.
They took the seats out and they put cash.
And it was so much that there wasn't a bank
in Virginia, Maryland, or D.C. that had any money left,
they stripped them of all their money,
put it into place, sent it to Iran, almost as ransom.
That's not gonna happen with Trump.
And nobody ever did anything about it.
Nobody ever said anything about it.
Can you imagine if I did that?
So, they've been a threat for a long time,
but they've really been a threat.
If I didn't terminate Obama's horrible deal
that he made, the Iran nuclear deal,
You would have had a nuclear war four years ago.
You would have had,
you would have had nuclear Holocaust
and you would have had it again
if we didn't bomb the site.
So when somebody is working with us that says that it is all,
this is all bullshit.
Like every single thing that he's saying here
is fucking bullshit.
Iran was not a nuclear threat.
Iran was not an imminent threat.
Iran having nukes obviously is something
that the American government and the Israeli government
would never allow them to have like,
you don't want any foreign adversary to have nukes clearly.
But if we're pulling ourselves out,
like it, cause you're not the American government,
I'm not the American government.
You're an ordinary American citizen.
If you're like looking at this seriously,
of course Iran and every other foreign adversary
or any other nation in the periphery having nukes,
objectively leads to them being able to develop
in the ways that they want to,
it allows them to have sovereignty.
So that's just facts, okay?
if iran had nukes the region would be more stable because israel would not be able to
uh... behave in the belligerent ways that it is behaving currently
obama has literally been out of office for a decade with his old man refused to let his
petty grievances go
obama was the last effort
obama was the last ever the jcp away was an objectively good deal
for american interests
uh... that that uh... was was dealing with iran uh... through sanctions relief and
dealing with Iran through diplomacy, something that they were very clearly interested in doing.
Especially because Ali Khamenei had a Fattwa on no nuclear weapons regardless, right?
And all of the nuclear, the uranium enrichment that they were engaging in after Donald Trump
came in and destroyed the JCPOA was simply so they can have an upper hand and leverage
in the negotiations.
I agree 90%, but they didn't allow inspection of certain sites. That's not true.
No. Iran was faithfully following through on the JCPOA agreements through and through.
That's just not correct. Because the JCPOA was not just a bilateral commitment between
the United States of America and Iran. The JCPO is a multilateral agreement that actually
brought in China, Russia, and the European Union as collaborative partners. The International
Atomic Energy Agency had literal round-the-clock surveillance inside of Iranian facilities,
and I believe they still do for many of the facilities that haven't been destroyed or
whatever. So the idea, they had cameras on the enrichment sites. So the idea that like Iran
was sneakily still developing a nuclear weapon is incorrect. At least during the, I remember
reading something like that in 2018, I wasn't fully aware. Yes, that was a lie. You got duped by
Israeli pro-Israel media. Okay, as a matter of fact,
as a matter of fact, I will go so far as to say that not only was Iran abiding by their
commitments to the JCPOA, they continue to do so after Trump openly said, we're throwing the
JCPOA in the pile. It's over, it's done, I'm ripping it apart. Iran still continued abiding by it.
Iran was still continuing to abide by the agreements, okay?
Like the agreements outlined in the JCPOA.
And not only were they continuing to follow, in good faith, the negotiations and the limits
that were placed, they even allowed European investment.
investigators access into the sites.
After Donald Trump said that he was throwing this deal in the pile, okay?
It was only after Donald Trump added secondary sanctions to the IRGC and secondary sanctions
to Iran, did they say, all right, fuck it, we're going back to nuclear grade, uranium
enrichment.
they started enriching uranium beyond the civilian limit that they had previously abided by.
Okay? That was only after. It wasn't even after Donald Trump said openly that JCPO is done.
They did it after Trump added sanctions. And the reason why they actually started enriching
uranium once again beyond the civilian levels was so they can establish leverage in the next
round of talks that would inevitably take place. Right? So, that is, that was the reality.
And there was, yeah, there was literally, yeah, here in 2018, just like with the Iraq
WMD situation, just like with Iraq WMD lie, when there were international investigators
that actually said, no, America is lying, we have no, we have, you know, we've seen the
sites that they claim have WMDs, these sites do not have weapons of mass destruction, and
America said, fuck you, okay.
The exact same thing happened with Iran complying with a nuclear deal restrictions, according
to the International Atomic Energy Agency report in 2018.
Okay.
So, just remember that.
Vienna.
Iran has remained within the main restrictions on its nuclear activities imposed by a 2015
deal with major powers.
A confidential report by the UN atomic washdog indicated on Thursday.
America lied about it, though.
the trump administration said not odd that's not true
for no reason other than the fact that israel did not want this deal
to to uh... stand that's it
i think iran was a threat
uh...
we don't want those people because and there are some people i guess i would
say that
but they're not smart people or they're not savvy people
iran was a tremendous threat
and virtually every nator nation and this is the thing if they told me it
wasn't a threat
and therefore they don't want to help.
But when they say it was a threat,
and it was a major threat,
every one of them, I think every one of them,
I don't know if one that said they're not a threat.
It is not Israel.
Please read the relevant sections of that paper,
which Pat, the project explicitly lines this out
to make the deal appealing to international powers
so that any lack of compromise from IR
would be seen by global powers
as they brought it on their cells.
Do you know of that paper released by CSIS?
I believe, read mine please.
It is not Israel.
Please read the relevant sections of that paper.
Anyone that tries to tell me that Israel wasn't the primary spoiler of this multilateral
deal that was placed, that was literally put in place, even before Barack Obama, the Iran
denuclearization agreement took a decade to accomplish.
It took a decade to accomplish.
It required China and Russia's cooperation.
It required European partners cooperation.
The International Atomic Energy Agency is basically an institution that is 90% tasked
with Iran.
That's it.
That's like the only, it's crazy because like you would think that they are actually abiding
by like the non-proliferation treaties and taking a look at like every country with nuclear
arms and, you know, their nuclear facilities and what kind of nuclear warheads they have.
No.
almost entirely tasked, 90% of all of their efforts are specifically designed around ensuring
that Iran is abiding by the standards of the JCPOA, okay?
Straight up, Israel was the only spoiling party in the JCPOA.
They hated it, they hated Obama for accomplishing it, and when they got their guy in charge,
Donald Trump, they immediately got Donald Trump to throw it in the fucking pile.
What is this statement?
So if Larjani's dead truly, which I guess 99% he is, what would be the next move from
your perspective?
I think the overall IRGC, and if they should avoid public appearances first and foremost,
I mean, yeah, they shouldn't be out and about.
I don't know why the fuck they would ever put themselves out there,
especially when like Israel still has tremendous surveillance capabilities
inside of Iran and has like established air superiority when necessary.
Right. Yeah.
I don't really understand why they would fucking put themselves out there as
sitting ducks.
You're telling me Israel killed the last moderate with actual influence side,
the Islamic Republic who could have ended this war. Now, why would Israel do that?
It's almost like you're saying they are a country driven by an unstoppable lust for war to death and destruction
What Israel is now doing is eliminating people within the Islamic Republic who advocated for strategic patience
And who would be amenable to negotiating an off ramp in the future in other words creating the context for an endless conflict
Yeah
Going back to the 2015 JCPOA deal though that Donald Trump ripped apart
Even after Donald Trump said that the Iran was not the Iranian government was not abiding by the the agreement
European partners actually counteracted that they said no, that's not the case Iran is actually following
The the negotiations in good faith just so you understand and yet of course American media fucking lied about it at the time
I covered it, but no one really gives a shit. Let's be real
Just like right now
There is a heightened amount of scrutiny around like
the ways in which Israel operates and even then there's still plenty of
fucking average armies who don't understand any of this stuff. But when
they say it was a threat but we're not going to help, I think they're very
foolish. You know it's interesting because I could say this that what's
happening in Ukraine, we're probably in there for $400 billion. We don't spend
any money anymore. They buy it from us and they pay full price. But Biden gave
them between $350 and $400 billion of equipment.
What a joke. He wasn't a fucking moderate. He was responsible for his concessions review.
No, no, he, I, that's why I said he's not, he's a moderate in comparison to the current
leadership of Iran. Okay. You have to understand Ali Larajani was considered not a moderate,
but pragmatic, okay? He was, he was in the current administration in Iran, one of the
most moderate figures that remain, okay? People like you by the way, what do you mean?
Oh, oh, you're saying yes, he he engaged in tremendous rep for repression against Mossadagists
and communists. Yeah, I know, dude, shut the fuck up. It doesn't matter. Okay, it's so stupid.
Yeah, you think I don't fucking know that? What are you talking about? I'm very aware of that.
I'm not, oh my god, oh my god, these guys. It is utterly irrelevant. Now, don't you think?
No, he's not wrong. He's trying to do the classic thing where it's like, oh, the IRGC forces were
a tremendously repressive towards communist Iranians and Iranians that aligned with your
framework with your perspective. You think I don't fucking know that? I do know that. Yes.
Also, what do I always say? Even the most moderate figures, okay, even the most
moderate figures within the Iranian government have always been endlessly repressive and very
brutal when it comes to their own domestic affairs, okay? Yeah, I know.
No, part of that is the fears that they might lose their grip on power, and part of that
is due to instability born out of foreign intervention.
But ultimately, it currently doesn't matter.
At this stage, it doesn't matter, especially if we're talking about sovereign states, communicating
with other sovereign states, or state versus state violence, it's utterly irrelevant in
this process.
So yes, it is true that Larjani was very brutal when it came to squashing protests, when it
came to cracking down on protesters.
That is true.
Larjani was the epitome of a power broker.
He could work with anyone and has been deep in Iranian power for decades.
He was always a principalist, but he was a pragmatist.
He had a working relationship with moderate clerics in the IRGC, which was basically unique
only to him, yes.
His death, if true, means the IRGC will harden their stances and will completely refuse to
work with the moderates unless there is another figure in the Iranian government that I don't
know about that is capable of bringing these forces together.
watching for a few days seem to think you, uh, think highly of the Iranian government,
even though you criticize them all the time, I guess Americans can't handle criticism of
the war without a sentence. Like Darjeet, he's very bad. No, the reason for why they get mad
at me is because I do also say something that is very frustrating for a lot of people and,
and the diaspora, a lot of people who are, uh, who are very upset with the Iranian government's
like domestic repression. And that is, it is utterly irrelevant in this current calculation.
Okay? The Iranian government's crackdowns are utterly irrelevant in this calculation.
Israel and America has shown that they have no interest in liberating the Iranian population.
I never believed that anyway. I never lent it any credence whatsoever.
And I also understand the calculation that foreign adversary governments take when dealing
with any sort of domestic instability.
That's the reason why people think I'm like sympathetic to the IRGC.
The IRGC, as it stands, the Iranian government, the regime, as it stands, is the only hope
that the Iranian people have in keeping this country intact, okay?
If the IRGC falls apart, if the current government cannot hold itself together, there is no more
Iran.
Iran falls into permanent conflict, sectarian violence, ethnic tensions.
It gets balkanized by foreign invaders and it is destroyed, okay?
thousands of years of culture and history is destroyed. It's gone, okay? That is the
reason why, yes, like as far as taking a principled stance against intervention here, yes, I'm
saying very openly that the IRGC, regardless of its brutality internally, regardless of
its repression, is literally the only hope that Iranians have, 93 million Iranians have,
In staving off a, a, a balkanized failed state that will, that Iran will become, if Israel
gets its objectives across.
It's possible his power is already waning.
I don't know if I trust the claims, but I saw a reporting that large honey was working
with Hassan Rouhani behind the scenes to prevent the RGC from pushing a Supreme Leader through
the assembly until after the war was over.
If large, I mean, truly gone, the RGC is the only pillar left with politics, real power,
civilians clerics, military, yeah.
assessment in my opinion, it is the only assessment. It is the only correct assessment.
There is no, there is no next day plan, okay? There is no separate government. There is
nothing. It's either IRGC or Libya. It's that simple.
either IRGC or Libya. Anyone that believes that Iran can be vulcanized and become a better
country as a consequence of that is delusional. Okay, and more often than not, wrong in that
Iran will probably hold itself together regardless. Yeah, that's ridiculous.
Balkanized like it's in chopped apart region by region.
What? Man, you don't have to present every dead Iranian government as a moderate.
This guy's the guy who killed all the protest. Fuck, I'm a Israel, but don't glaze the guy.
Just don't mention him. Love you. Assam. By the way, you're doing a Tucker Carlson,
Jews did this, Jews did that, a sober assessment of Lahrzani and the role that he could possibly
play in the negotiations that you hear not only for me, but from literally like the,
the, you hear from previous heads of state is, is not me glazing Iran or glazing Lahrzani.
It's me just giving you the truth. Okay. Even if you don't want to fucking hear it.
A moderate figure in the IR, a moderate figure in the Iranian government doesn't have to be a cheery guy, okay?
He's not like some bold, brave, revolutionary. Shut the fuck up.
It's so ridiculous. Also, I don't know what Jews have to do with this at all.
And you could say that wasn't a threat, you know, we're helping them.
So we helped them, and they didn't help us.
And I think that's a very bad thing for NATO.
Are there any repercussions for NATO, and are you still going to chat?
Well, yeah, on China, it's a little different story.
We're resetting the meeting, and it looks like it'll take place in about five weeks.
We're working with China.
They were fine with it, we're going to say.
I look forward to seeing President Xi.
He looks forward to seeing me, I think, but I do look forward to seeing him.
We have a good relationship.
Oh, by the way, for the record, another thing that I do sincerely stand on is that, yes,
regardless of
regardless of like what Iran
Contributed to in Syria for example all of that still in mind in this calculation Iran is is better than Israel
Yes, 100% and better than America to
Regardless of every single death that Iran contributed to in the fucking region
They are still a better force regardless of every single Iranian that the Iranian government killed
Even with all of that calculation in mind, when you compare it to Israel's actions against people that it currently occupies, the Palestinian people, it's not even a comparison.
That's part of the reason why the Israel first crowd has actively said, oh, Iran killed 30,000 people, Iran killed 80,000 people in a matter of a day or two.
to. The reason why they say that is so they can, so they can try to bring up in the Western
world, like the reputation of Iran to like something that's even remotely comparable
to what Israel has done to the Palestinians. Okay?
The real number is somewhere between 7,000 and possibly like a more liberal estimation
would be 10,000, which is an incredibly high number. It's completely unacceptable, but
it is utterly irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. It's utterly irrelevant in this
calculation because America is murdering schoolchildren. America and Israel are blowing
up desalination plants. America and Israel are attacking Iran and decapitating the heads
of state with the overarching goal of destabilizing Iran and turning into a failed state. The
Number of casualties, the number of deaths,
the number of displays will be in the fucking millions.
Okay?
It's just not even a question.
Yeah, with China.
China actually has become economically for us very good.
Very good, as you know.
It's much different than it was in the past.
And we have a very good working relationship with China.
So, we're making it in about five or six weeks.
Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President.
Mr. President, we're not supporting you on this.
Any repercussions?
Well, no, I just think that it's not good for a partnership
when they say, what you're doing is a great thing,
but we're not going to help.
Yeah, 30,000 to 50,000 deaths in less than a week
would leave mass graves visible via satellite.
Some people actually kill over foreign operatives.
Yeah, no, it's just, it's ridiculous.
Like that's, I've told you already, it's not only ridiculous, but it's utterly irrelevant.
It's just made up.
It's completely fucking made up.
The idea that like Iran killed, you know, 50,000, 80,000, or even 30,000 people in
a matter of two fucking days.
I think the 10,000 number is already incredibly high.
I'm saying like the highest estimates are, are like the, the Harana estimates are
around 7,000, which I think is,
it factors in virtually every single person
that's being killed.
Donald Trump keeps throwing ridiculous numbers around
as well, and it's just, you know, they're doing it to,
they're doing it with no care or consideration
for people who have actually been killed.
They're doing this because they think it's good
for uh... propagandizing why they're bombing iran
this is a
but what is a great thing
but we're not going to have to do it
the iranian regime is still the same use
if you put boots on the ground in iran it will be another vm
are you afraid of that
you know i'm not afraid of
i'm really not afraid of anything
with NATO possibly getting out?
Well, I've disappointed in NATO that we spend
trillions of dollars on NATO.
Think of it, trillions, over the years,
many trillions of dollars.
It's one of the reasons we have deficits
and we help other countries.
And when they don't help us, I mean,
it's certainly something that we should think about.
I don't need Congress for that decision,
as you probably know.
I can make that decision myself.
I'd work with some very smart people.
And I'd always deal with Congress anyway,
but I don't need Congress for that decision.
But when you say rethink, I have nothing currently in mind,
but I will say that I'm not exactly thrilled when we help
them with Ukraine.
Ukraine would have been over in one day if we didn't have.
Frankly, Ukraine would have been over in the first day.
They had the best equipment in the world.
It was our equipment.
given by Sleepy Joe Biden. No charge. No charge. Hundreds of billions of dollars
of the best equipment in the world. No charge. I will say that I'm not happy
about it.
a military operation to me, Iran is something that was essentially largely over in two or
three days because the Navy was wiped out almost immediately.
The Air Force came next.
The anti-aircraft came next.
I mean, we're flying over Iran.
We could take out their electric capacity in one hour.
We have all the – there's nothing they can do right now because everything is knocked
out.
Again, no radar, no anti-aircraft, they have nothing.
And we don't, and it was a decision I made.
We discussed it, Pete, Marco, J.D., all of us, Chris.
We discussed it.
We could knock out their electricity in a matter of minutes if we wanted to.
There's nothing they can do about it.
We could knock out their oil in Carg Island.
The only thing we didn't take down was the oil,
because if we knock out, I call them the pipes, very complex.
But if you do that, it will take them forever to rebuild, meaning whoever, and hopefully
it's a sane group of people.
But whoever it is, it's going to be running that, and we're going to try to get people
that are going to run it well, and it's going to be a prosperous, wonderful place.
It used to be.
You know, if you go back, it used to be a very – the people are great, the people
are smart and energetic, and it used to be very successful.
Now it's a country run by fear.
It's a country where they tell protesters,
don't go outside because if you do, we're going to kill you.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Why do you hate the polls and repeat Polish jokes
from the 20s when we were not considered white in the same way
as the Irish?
I love Polish people.
That's the best.
That's the best.
That's the best day.
That's the best day.
Mr. President.
Well, give me right now is notice how you had to go back to the 1920s, by the way,
we live in 2026, Poland just surpassed Switzerland with its economy.
I think you're doing fine, you know,
if you had to go back to a hundred years in the past for, uh,
to point to, like, Polish oppression. It's a little ridiculous. I think Poland's doing fairly well.
All things considered, especially as the rest of the European countries are not doing well at all.
Very bad shape. They're talking to Marco, and we'll be doing something with Cuba very soon.
We're really focused on this, but we're dealing with Cuba. Marco, do you want to say a couple of words about it?
Yeah, I mean, Cuba has an economy that doesn't work in a political and governmental system. They can't fix it.
It's not dramatic enough. It's not going to fix it. So they've got some big decisions to make over there.
But, Secretary Rubio, if you use the court, can I just have a comment?
I hate this fucking... they like...
I hate that they are...
like, also actively warmongering against Cuba and starving Cuba
and killing Cubans, it's so nasty.
Do you support easing the Cuban, the trade embargo, if you get more cooperation from Haban?
Well, I'm not going to discuss what we would talk about or not suffice it to say that the embargo's tied to political change on the island of law.
The embargo's codified.
But the bottom line is their economy doesn't work. It's a non-functional economy.
Yeah, it doesn't work because of our fucking endless repression against the Cuban people.
For the record, a lot of people don't understand that, for example, right now, the administration
is floating the idea of allowing Cuban Americans to be able to purchase private property in
the island, right?
This has been a long standing attitude that the Cuban government has had, okay?
In spite of the potential destabilizing repercussions that it might have, it opens up a new front
of of uh...
you know american intervention in the island they don't give a shit they've
been saying yes to it
since uh... since the normalization agreement with brocco obama
okay
they're fine with it
the only setback
cuban americans being able to to make investments into the cuban island
is not the cuban government it's the american government this is a lie
Okay. This is a fucking lie that the American government actively repeats.
It's so, it's, it's remarkable. I'll show you.
Here is a professor of political science Orlando J. Perez. Okay.
Before you rush to invest in Cuba, it's good to know what US law actually allows. The Cuban
assets control regulations, CACR 31 CFR Part 515 prohibits US persons from engaging in virtually
any transaction in which Cuba or a Cuban national has an interest, including investments without
a specific OFAC license. I also know this from our dealings with even sending humanitarian aid
to Cuba, we had to work with the Treasury to be able to get clearances and OFAC, specifically
OFAC clearances, so that we can send even one fucking solar panel to the Cuban population.
Do you understand? It's absurd the amount of restrictions that the American government has
placed on anyone that wants to help with aid to the Cuban population or anyone that wants to
engage in any sort of investment opportunity in Cuba, literally needs to deal with the American
government. No current general license covers what Havana just announced. This is the Cuban
embassy in the U.S. That just announced government decision to facilitate the participation of
Cubans living abroad in the country's economy announced by deputy prime minister, uh, Polyva
Oscar. Allow Cubans living abroad without actual residency in Cuba to participate in or own private
businesses in Cuba. We lie and we, we, we lie and we say like, oh, Cuba has no private markets
whatsoever. Cuba has no small businesses. All of this shit is a lie, okay? They do. Not only do they
have, not only is presented as like a black market when it's not, it's like the government allows
small businesses to operate, but also outside of that, outside of that, the government has been
saying since the Obama administration that they're perfectly fine with Cuban, like foreign Cubans,
Okay, Cuban Americans investing in businesses inside of Cuba.
This applies not only to small business, but it can also include infrastructure in larger
enterprises. Now, this is important. The reason why this literally is something that Cuban
government is allowing, but the American government will not allow, is because, as Orlando J. Perez
correctly points to, the State Department's Cuba restricted list, reinstated by Secretary Rubio,
in February 2025, 237 entities prohibits direct financial transactions of the Cuban military,
intelligence, and security link enterprises. GAESA alone controls an estimated 60% of the Cuban
economy. Any large infrastructure investment runs straight through it. So they say the Cuban
government's like you can make investments into infrastructure companies if you'd like to.
The American government says you can't do that because there is still uh there is still Cuban
government ownership and the Cuban government is considered a state sponsor of terror. Okay,
it's ridiculous that it's this is a consideration but unfortunately that is the reason why you
you can't make any investments in the Cuba at all.
The central bank of Cuba is a government institution, U.S. persons opening accounts there triggers
CACR prohibitions.
And since NSPM 5 was reissued in June 2025, even U-turn payment channels are being rolled
back.
Western Union stopped processing Cuban transfers in February 2025.
So who is this announcement really for?
It's a signal to Washington.
There's something to trade.
The announcement drops on the same day as Cuba's national grid collapsed again.
fuel shipments in three months, the desperation is real. The core question isn't whether Cubans
abroad want to invest, many do. It's whether Washington will adjust OFAC rules to allow
it under what conditions, with what verification mechanisms, and whether any opening actually
reaches private entrepreneurs or gets captured by the same gatekeepers who control Cuba's
economy. This person is not like pro the Cuban government or ideologically a communist by
By the way, he's just telling you exactly what's currently the real setback against
Cuban Americans making any investment decisions on the island, okay?
It's fucking insane.
So much of our ambitions in foreign countries is kept together by abject lies, okay?
What do you think about the reporting that the US is working with the Cuban military
to take over the state?
Apparently, Rubio has been talking to the military rather than civilian leaders.
The Cuban military is also over the years taken over more commercial activities from
the state.
Do you think that's realistic or just meant to cause distress within Cuba?
No, I think that both the military and the current Cuban government, regardless of who's
in charge, is still run by communists.
So I don't know what the decision is, and not only are they hardliners, they unironically
are hardliners about having a completely centrally controlled economy.
There's such hardliners that even China is confused, according to the Foreign Times article
that I was reading.
Even China has been confused at times to see why they won't do any revisionism, any reforms
was so ever, except that's not the full story. They are open to revisionism. It's just that
the American government doesn't allow them to actually follow through on any sort of
revisions. Cuba is also not like Venezuela in the sense that the Venezuelan government
has popular support, right? Or had popular support. Maduro had popular support from
the base of Chavis does, even though his popular support was diminishing.
In Cuba, there are obviously people who hate the government, right? There's like, not every
single one of them are agents of the American state. There are people who are frustrated
and falsely attribute their pain and their struggle to the Cuban government and don't
see the Cuban government's decision making as a triage out of necessity because they
just simply don't have the goods to be able to offer all the services to every single
person all the fucking time because they're objectively kept poor after, you know, uh,
decades of, of, uh, American restrictions. But what is this? What are you talking about?
Venezuela's government has zero support. Yeah, you're a fucking idiot. The Chavistas,
uh, albeit diminished, we're still the, the base of support for the fucking Venezuelan
government like they had I don't know what the exact percentage is but you're
objectively wrong so wrong that even Trump recognized that when you know when
push came to shove and that's the reason why Delcey Rodriguez is still in
charge there was no popular support or at least popular enough support that
wouldn't completely fucking destabilize the country which would make it
impossible to extract oil if Maria Machado was placed in charge if the
numbers were correct. Maria Machado's representative was supposed to get 70% of the votes, right?
That's bullshit. That's not correct. If that was the case, then America would have, would,
could have easily engaged in a bloodless coup where they could have just brought Maria Machado
into the state.
in charge is braver delzi. Yes, I'm just saying that like they chose to keep, they chose to
keep the government intact because the chavista's still make up a decent percentage in the, in
the popular mobilization. They like, if you, here, I'll give you an example. If you're
not objectively, if you don't have a real social base for your movement, you can't
have collectivos, okay? Collectivos are what? Guys who are, you know, party cadres, people
who are, people who are ideologically loyal to Chavez, and therefore loyal to Maduro as
well. If they didn't have that social base, they wouldn't arm 8 million fucking Venezuelans
with small arms, right? They couldn't do that because then those small arms would be inevitably
used against Maduro himself. It's sometimes is that simple. If you want to comprehend
like how this stuff works, if you want to comprehend how this stuff works, think about
it. It's not dissimilar to how the United States of America, for example, has a second
amendment because they know that the people that have those arms, regardless of the American
government's unpopularity, they know that the right-wing base of support has a shit
ton of weapons, and they will never train those weapons on the government itself.
Okay? It's kind of like that. I'm not making a, you know, I'm not engaging in moral
equivocation between like the Chavistas and the MAGA base or the right-wing reactionaries,
obviously, but you can think of it like that. Okay?
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One of the one of the persons behind the Trump's sudden interest in Cuba, okay, we'll look at
that in a second. Anyway, speaking of Cuban intervention, though, once again,
the Cuban government is perfectly open and has been open to foreign investment, okay? They need
it. They need the foreign investment. They understand that they need the foreign investment.
They want the foreign investment.
Cuba has stayed alive in spite of American intervention,
especially in the aftermath of the dissolution of the USSR,
their largest trading partner and their security partner
that allowed Cuba to develop the way that it did.
When that went away, if you noticed,
a lot of the countries that were nations aligned
with the Soviets were destroyed.
Cuba was able to survive in spite of that.
A big part of the reason why was because Venezuela kept propping it up, okay?
And also all the other countries in the region kept offering aid,
kept sending oil to the island,
because the island doesn't have any oil, right?
Kept its energy grid going.
Cuba's survival in spite of the largest imperial superpower actively seeking out its destruction
is a testament to the resilience of not only this movement, but an interest in the regular
ordinary Cubans and their interest in keeping Cuban sovereignty alive.
lot of people here in the United States of America listen to their immediate relatives
that are suffering on this island and think that this suffering is not born out of the American
government's actions, but actually the ideological zealotry that the Cuban government has in terms
of like maintaining communism. Okay. Oh, it's just that they want to do communism. That's the reason.
But if you understand how Cuba got to the point, Cubans almost blew up America, Hassan. Wait, what?
What are you talking about? That's literally not correct at all. There has never been a
point in time where Cuba has actually presented a serious threat to the United States of America.
And every single step of the way, the American government has done terrorism, tried to do
terrorism in the United States of America and blame it on Cuba. That's another part of
the story. That's also another crazy story. American wanted to do a 9-11 Cuban style.
Okay. Did you guys know that? The American CIA floated the idea of doing a 9-11 on US
soil, and then blame it on Cuba to draw up popular support to invade Cuba.
America kept routinely engaging in acts of terrorism over the Cuban airspace by sending
ships, or not sending ships, sorry, sending airplanes over the Cuban airspace. Again,
it's 90 miles off the coastline of America. America has never stopped doing acts of terrorism
on Cuban soil. Many of you are completely oblivious to this, okay?
We have sent airplane after airplane to bomb Cuban crops. We have engaged in active terrorism
when Cuba finally realized that they have to arm up against American invasion, when
the Cuban government set a deal forward with the Belgian government to get arms.
And this is like part of the process in how Cuba found itself aligning with the USSR,
because their initial goals were not to like immediately become aligned with the USSR.
They just wanted to, they thought, okay, we got sovereignty.
We were able to overthrow the American backed puppet dictator, Batista, who was unimaginably
violent, unimaginably ruthless, unimaginably cruel, far more violent than even the Cuban
Revolution was for the record, just so you know.
And they got a weapons transfer from the Belgian government.
blew up the weapons on Cuban ports, okay? They literally killed a bunch of Cubans.
They sabotaged the weapons transfer and blew it up, and then they stopped the investigations
from being conducted. To this day, we don't know exactly who was responsible for the Belgian
weapons transfer exploding in the Havana ports.
We still don't know.
There was years and years of biological warfare against the Cuban people. There
were years and years of terrorism against the Cuban population, and not only yet Operation
Mongoose, the Cuban project also known as Operation Mongoose was an extensive campaign
of terrorist attacks against civilians and covert operations carried out by the US Central
Agent Intelligence using Cuba. It was officially authorized on November 30th, 1961 by US President
John F. Kennedy. The name Operation Mongoose was agreed to at a White House meeting on
November 4th 1961. The operation was led by the U.S. Air Force General Edward
Lansdale on the military side and William King Harvey at the CIA went into
effect after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. And then the plan attacks
against Miami was Operation Northwoods. Operation Northwoods was a proposed
false flag operation which originated within the Department of Defense in
in the U.S. government in 1962. Okay? Yeah. This is the memorial service to the famous
photos from, but anyway, yeah, La Cobra explosion at the harbor in Havana was on 4th of March
1960, where it was unloading 76 tons of grenades and munitions. 75 to 100 people were killed
and many were injured. Fido Castro alleged it was an act of sabotage on part of the United
States, which denied any involvement. It's bullshit. They did do it.
Okay. The CIA four years after the successful revolution in Cuba
basically got every single anti Cuban anti Cuban anti communist that they
could find on the island and also in the United States of America to
consistently engage in acts of sabotage and acts of terrorism against the
regular, ordinary Cuban population.
For years, they never stopped.
This is also on top of the sanctions that we kept putting on the Cuban population.
Part of the reason for the sanctions on the American side was because Cuba
engaged in land reform.
Okay.
Cuba engaged in land reform as an act of sovereignty in an effort to, to develop
their country in the way that they wanted to, in a way that was more egalitarian
under communist principles.
Okay, there was a lot of mafia, a lot of labor unions by way of mafia, and a lot of American
investment in Cuba at the time that was forcibly stripped away from foreign invaders and given
back to the Cuban people.
This not only frustrated a lot of the extremely wealthy Cubans that were aligned with the
Batista regime at the time, who now had to give up some of their land, right? And for
the record, if you want to understand the sincerity of this land reform, Fidel Castro's
own parents had more land than was allowed by the Cuban government. Fidel Castro literally
made his own parents give up parts of their land in the expropriation process. Okay?
That's how real they were.
There's a chance that when you arrive in Cuba, there won't be any internet or electricity
at all, almost anywhere.
How will you be able to stream?
I have my own methods.
I'm bringing a full kit that I will be leaving behind in Cuba as well for the Cubans, but
I have solar panels.
I have a battery bank with a solar panel.
My operation is designed in a way
where I can literally go to an area
where there's no electricity and basically no internet
and still be able to stream.
We'll see.
We'll see.
Anyway, Operation Northwoods, the one I was talking about, was the proposal that called
for the CIA operatives to both stage and commit acts of terrorism against the US military
and civilian targets, and then blame them on the Cuban government and use them to justify
a war against Cuba.
The possibilities detailed in the document included the remote control of civilian aircraft
which would be secretly repainted as U.S. Air Force planes,
a fabricated shoot-down of a U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft
off the coast of Cuba, the possible assassination of Cuban immigrants,
sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas,
exploding a U.S. ship, and orchestrating terrorism in U.S. cities.
The proposals were famously rejected by John F. Kennedy.
This was one of the big issues that JFK had with the CIA.
JFK said, look, I'm fine with interference in, you know, Cuban affairs. Obviously, they're
communists. They're terrifying. JFK was an anti-communist as well. For those of you who
don't know, he wasn't this like woke hero that people present him as. But he was like,
this is a bridge too far. I believe it was after Operation Northwood that JFK famously
said, I want to rip the CIA apart piece by piece. If I'm not mistaken, I'm not going
Okay, Iran has officially confirmed the security chief Ali Lahrjani has been killed.
Iranian media is confirming it now.
And then they slimed him.
Yeah, he said he wanted to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces.
Anyway, we obviously got into the Cuban part.
I'm running ahead of my own commentary here, but I'm not done with the situation monitoring
in Iran, especially as new information is coming up.
But we're not ready to leave yet, but we will be leaving in the near future, we'll be leaving
in pretty much a very near future.
right now they've been decimated from every standpoint and again we've had
great support from countries in the Middle East great support but we've had
no support from essentially no support from NATO
What about the relationship with London? Has it been damaged by the fact that
Keir Starmer isn't supporting you in this war and has your opinion of Keir
star machines because of this? Well, it hasn't been supported by the real administration
to make a deal. It's crazy how bad the packaging has been.
But we made a deal. We made a good deal of the damage. Frankly, it probably wasn't appreciated.
I do look forward to seeing it. But no, I was disappointed because Keir was willing
to send to aircraft carriers after we won because essentially we're there's no
threat for the aircraft carriers right now and I said no no it's literally not
true one thing sent before the war not after the war is won so yeah I'm
disappointed with guy like him I think he's a nice man man but I'm
disappointed you see that man right there you know that is
The late great Winston Churchill and Barack Hussein Obama did not want his bust in this
office.
Did you know that?
And Barack Hussein Obama sent that bust back to England.
He didn't want it.
And when I came in, I was asked if I wanted, I said, absolutely I wanted it, and I put
it right there.
Winston Churchill.
And, you know, unfortunately here is not Winston Churchill.
It's just making a number of points. First of all, I think notwithstanding what has happened
to transatlantic relationship between Europe and the US is very, very important on a number
of fronts. And I think we've had issues over the last year. Two will be settled on them.
And I think many of these leaders engage with you, particularly on trade, and if you remember
all the fuss last year, but we got a landing zone between Europe and the US and I think
we can get a landing zone again. And I think I just met with Kirsten Stammer last week.
The British-Irish relationship is a very important one. Churchill was a great wartime
leader, although in Ireland there was kind of a different perspective in terms of, during
the Royal War, of independence on it. He created his own bit of difficulties for us, but that
said, he was a great wartime leader. Kirsten Stammer has done a lot to reset the Irish-British
relationship, I just want to put that on the record. But I do believe that he's a very
earnest, solemn person with you, have a capacity to get on with him before. And you've got
on with other European leaders as well. And I think you have that capacity again. And I
think everyone exists. I mean, you cannot have-
It's so funny that this is the one time when Donald Trump is talking about Kier Starmer
and saying he's not like Winston Churchill, it's actually good for Kier Starmer. As much
As much as I hate Kier Starmer, he is right to not want to engage Iran militarily at the
behest of Israel and America.
It's so fucking crazy that this is like causing me to say Kier Starmer is correct on this
issue.
Part of the reason why Kier Starmer has to play a stronger role, of course, is because
he has his own domestic problems at the moment, his associations with Epstein affiliates,
and his party actually cratering in support and losing out to the Green Party, is the
reason why he literally cannot abide by America's wishes and behave like a fucking vassal that
he normally would love to behave as, right?
But that is a big part of the consideration here.
precisely the reason why he has to, you know, play a stronger hand against American demands
of intervention.
The weapon, or the capacity for nuclear weapons. Iran was the sponsor of terrorism. We sanctioned
Iran on all European countries there, and the IRGC in particular, it's a terrorist organization.
They sponsored the mass, they sponsored Hezbollah, the Houthis, they created, made him a most
maligned force in the Middle East. The Irish position has always been, ultimately, can
we resolve this? Can we get peace? And obviously there's preconditions before you get to that
situation. We had our own conflict, which went on for 30 years, and we learned a lot
from that in terms of how to try to bring about peace. And I think I listened to you
in terms of you're correct. I mean, our hearts go out to you.
Michael Martin, dog of the imperialist era, West Brick Cook.
We've been repressed and suppressed for so many, so so many, I saw a piece about a star
being against the Iraq war. So he munches dislike wars. Bitch. He loved the Israeli genocide
of Palestinians. Okay. No, it has nothing to do with him being an anti-interventionist.
He's not he here. Starmer is not a real human. Okay. He's not like a human being with goals,
He is basically a mouthpiece for American and Israeli interests and capitalist interests in the country
The only reason why he has to take a different stance right now
And not be a come rag for America and Israel is because like I said, he has tremendous
domestic
Considerations at play. Okay
Are you an Iranian or a Turkish dog by the way? I am a dog for the working class, no matter where they are, okay?
I don't make these sorts of like state considerations.
Here's, culminating in that savage
mortar of thousands and thousands of other aliens some months gone.
Just put normalism in a position to do anything about that.
And I care about ordinary people.
Sometimes, a state's interest might align with the ordinary peoples.
In this circumstance, the Iranian state, regardless of its domestic repressions of the past, being
intact is going to be beneficial for the ordinary Iranian people.
Okay?
That's it.
I think, and likewise with Ukraine, I mean, the Russian state invaded Ukraine, have taxed
civilian infrastructure and so on like that.
And for the people of Ukraine who just want peace
and an opportunity to live, I think there is,
I think we have to continue to work to seek
and we bring peace different regime to Iran
where Iranians can live in peace again
and the people in the Middle East can live in peace
and you're doing your bit there in terms of working
in the desert and so on like that.
That's what we want is a peaceful resolution of conflict.
That's what we come from as a small nation.
We've been peacekeepers all our lives.
We're the longest serving nation in terms of provision
of peacekeeping forces in the world, as it turns out.
But we think, ultimately, our conflicts come to an end.
And I think we have to try and work towards that end.
And I'm sure you're working leaders
and the US administration will engage.
And then hopefully we can give a landing zone some sort of.
I mean, the only thing, and I agree with everything you said, but we helped with Ukraine.
And they don't help with Iran.
And they all acknowledge that Iran can't have a nuclear weapon.
You yourself say, you know, these are horrendous people.
These are the worst people and going back to Hitler, right?
Going back to Hitler.
These are the worst people.
That's a long time ago.
There's been nothing close.
Every problem, every so many deaths, 90% of the people
that got blown up by landmines and landmines,
they loved them, you know, the Soleimani.
We killed them.
If we didn't, it might be a different story,
because he was a horrible person,
but he was a very powerful person and a leader, smart.
But we killed them.
If we didn't, I think you'd have it, I did.
But I think we'd have maybe a different situation.
It wouldn't have been so easy as it has been,
because it has been very easy.
You know, it's all of their military is that,
but you can always have somebody drop a mine in the water.
It's like terrorism.
And then you have the people that own the billion dollar
ship say, well, let's not move that ship yet because we want.
So we thought that Europe would help that
because they do have some minesweepers.
But it's amazing that-
No, the real reason why they want an international
coalition of the willing is clear.
It's because they think they can apply more pressure
the Iranian state to stop if they make it seem as though there is more support for this
military campaign beyond America and Israel, regardless of how fucking unpopular it might
be in those countries. And it is very unpopular. Okay. That's the reason it's mostly just symbolic.
It's like to basically say the entire world is against Iran. There is a little bit of
of PR interest here, okay?
That's it.
And so far, the European leadership has not budged.
They've said, no, we're not doing that, which is good.
The irony of course is I think, you know,
when push comes to shove, if you were to ask like,
whose side are you on?
I think most people, not the governments,
But most peoples would be in support of the Iranian government over the Israeli or the
American one.
It's really simple, Mr. Berman.
It's really simple.
The people in those countries hate, hate, hate the U.S. military action around.
What do we talk about here?
Okay, net approval rating, U.S. military action around.
In Canada, way under water minus 27 points.
You think that's low.
Thank you, Mr. Berman.
You think that's low.
Take a look here in Japan.
Negative 73 points.
My goodness.
way way way way down there Canadians what the fuck is that man minus 27 only what
level of cucking is this round we're talking about 34 points underwater key
us allies the people in those countries absolutely despise the US military
action Iran no wonder the leaders in those countries are let's just say a
little apprehensive about helping out the US so compared this to the
environment in 2003, and I'm picking that point because that was the beginning of the
U.S. intervention war in Iraq.
How do people in these countries feel at the beginning of that war compared to now?
Okay, so you see these numbers are quite low.
They weren't always this low when it came to U.S. military action in the Middle East
because take a look at this situation, okay, shifting that approval rating, U.S. military
action around now versus in Iraq in 2003, in Canada, way down.
We're talking down, get this, 27 points.
How about in Japan, down way down there, down 45 points. How about in the UK? And of course
there was UK involvement in that particular war. Look at that down 48 points. So what
we're seeing is a massive, massive shift when it comes to how the people are allies, people
in those countries are viewing the US military action in the middle of this was gross, even
back then, by the way, but it shows how, how, how much more power in, in dominance America
I had. You know what I mean?
It's far less popular this time around. No wonder the leaders in those countries want
pretty much absolutely nothing to do. But this also is a reflection of America's
capabilities diminishing as far as manufacturing consent, even at the domestic home front, right?
Even at the domestic level, right? Toronto Persians give LA Persians a run for their
money. Yeah, I've seen it. I've seen the ones that are, I've seen the insanity. Didn't they literally
kill like a Shaw, a Shaw monarchist, like two Shaw monarchs killed another Shaw supporter for not
being like sufficiently in support of the Shaw or something recently in Canada, some some fucking
crazy shit. Oh, he's in Vancouver. Yeah, Canadian, Canadian diaspora persons are fucking wild.
With this conflict, because they know there are big electoral consequences if they do,
and not good electoral cons. What's happening overall with views of America abroad? Yeah, okay.
This man is also misrepresented in this. I bet money, the average person in those countries
hate America now. My old ass fuck parents were actively hating you guys now. Yeah. I think
that the Trump annexation threat was like a fucking atom bomb that woke up a lot of Canadians,
which is part of the reason why someone who is like a neoliberal cuck like Mark Carney
would come out and be like, oh, we need a new world order for the middle powers. Like he
would have never made a speech like that if he didn't realize that like there is a lot
of appetite in Canada to stand up to America, which of course he's not doing in his policies.
There's plenty of room for Mark Carney to push back against American interventions, but he's
not doing that. It's just like pure aesthetics, but still.
It's too early to tell, but I saw someone compare this adventure by the U.S. and the
UK to France attempts during the Suez crisis, the moment that a global superpower was no
longer able to project its power to achieve a major geopolitical objective and prove to
us over.
I don't think it's too early to tell.
I think America's capabilities have diminished dramatically.
I think the confidence that people had in America is like the hegemonic superpower is
gone.
It's obvious because America was completely incapable of defending its own assets in
this region.
It showed the world that an America's security contract means nothing, right?
It means nothing.
It is a pure exposure as far as the paper tiger goes.
I see these numbers.
You see these shifts down in terms of how our allies or folks in those countries view
U.S. military.
For the record, that much is clear 17 days in whether America and Israel somehow through a
Hail Mary pull through or not. Do you understand? Because like, America and Israel could still,
I don't know, deploy the metric ton equivalent of multiple nukes on Iran. And somehow like there's
purity stabilization, you know, make the Iranian population really suffer something, right? There's
always more appetite for death and destruction. Let's say they accomplish their goal and create a
failed state in Iran. That still doesn't change the reality that in the first 17 days of operation,
epic chungus, epic fortnite chungus. The Iranian retaliation has shown the world that America
is incapable of defending its allies, incapable of defending its own assets. Just completely incapable.
Action in the Middle East. You see how unpopular it is this time around. Canada,
Japan, the UK. And this is just part of a larger picture, Mr. Berman. A larger picture.
favorable view of the U.S. in 2025 versus 2024.
Of course, Donald Trump being the president in 2025,
Joe Biden being the president of the United States in 2024.
Look at this.
Favorable view of the U.S. down 79% of 24 countries residents
ask.
The bottom line is this, the folks overseas
are far less likely to view the U.S. favorably.
And those chickens, they're coming home
to roost in this situation as there's very little support
abroad for the U.S. military action in Iran.
Yeah, I don't understand why.
Oh, man, these guys just don't understand how hot we are.
I think everything is the else aside, Joe Kent's resignation clearly rattled the administration
and it goes to show you what a massive moral and strategic failure it was that supposedly
more principled restrainers did not.
Yeah.
Hard quote.
Lives written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.
makes every bullet for the federal government in one site. They make every artillery shell
on another single site, which is actually just the other side of the same building.
We can make like 50 tomahawks a year and those are built in one building. We demolished
our defense industrial base and are now shocked that we can't fight for more than like a week.
Yeah.
Hassan, when are you gay?
Anyway, it is true that the Kent resignation has rattled the administration will obviously
get to that after we talk about Iran's top national security official dying or being
killed by Israel. Ali Larijani was killed in an overnight strike in Tehran.
The minister now confirms that Iran's top security official Ali Larijani has been killed
in an overnight strike in Tehran. He was the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security
Council, we've got CNN's Oren Lieberman joining us from Tel Aviv. Ali Larijani was very important
after the killing of the Ayatollah Ali Hamini. Now we've heard news and confirmation from the
Israelis that he has been killed in that strike in Tehran. How does this degrade Iran's decision
makers and the ability to, you know, keep on making the decisions that we've been seeing
and frankly keep the regime intact.
Ali Lahrzani was considered one of the most key decision makers, if not the primary decision
maker in Iran right now, crucially on security issues, but on other issues as well.
He was also one of the most vocal and visible members of Iran's leadership, and that put
him not only right at the top of the decision making power in the country, but also right
at the top of Israel's target list.
We saw that when we learned a short time ago that Israel had targeted Ali Larjani in a
strike in Tehran on Monday night.
And now we see the statement from Defense Minister Israel Katz that Larjani has been
killed in that strike according to Israeli assessment.
We haven't yet seen an announcement or confirmation from Iran at this point, but we have already
in the past over the course of the first two and a half weeks of this war seen Israel get
ahead of the Iranians in announcing who they have successfully targeted and assassinated
when it comes to Iran's leadership.
It wasn't just Larjani that was targeted overnight.
The Israeli military said they also targeted the head of Iran's Basij paramilitary forces
a short time ago.
So Israel going after the top of the security leadership, and that will continue.
Defense Minister Israel Katz, in announcing that Larjani had been killed, made clear that
the effort to target Iran's leadership would not stop here.
In a short statement, he said, the prime minister and I have instructed the IDF to continue
hunting the leadership of the terror and repression regime in iran
so cuts making it clear at this point
that israel's continued goal
as it goes after the iranian regimes
military forces its space forces is ballistic missile program
is to keep hunting down and killing
the leadership of
of iran security forces
and its political leadership anybody who is decision-maker in iran it's quite
clear at this point
israel considers a legitimate target that they will continue to go after here
Yeah, a really good point. What we have seen also, even with the killing of the Ayatollah
and other key leadership, dismantling the leadership.
Actions like this made me think Big Yahoo's dead. No. No, it's not that Big Yahoo's dead.
The reason why they're doing this is because Israel realizes that the war effort is not
going the way they thought it would. So they're just actively trying to hit the same big red
assassinate heads of state button over and over again, okay? That's it. That's it. That's
literally it. That's the only reason why they're doing it. They want to destroy any opportunity
that America might have in the future. Like, they're worried that if America gets cold feet,
If America realizes that like they're not getting the international aid that they feel they need
to put pressure on the Iranian government to like stand down, right? They're not getting the
leverage, the wars to unpopular, both in the United States of America and all around the globe.
The energy markets are exploding. And then the, you know, the capitalists are making
embossed calls to America, Israel wants to make sure that they can continue with the war
effort because there's no other option or that the Iranian government will be less invested
in any sort of negotiation because they're killing the people that are more pragmatic
than the rest.
Ladies video from Al Jazeera, Iran confirmed.
I'm very keen to that story to announce that the Iranian State TV have now confirmed that
Ali Laranjani has been killed.
The government issued a statement saying Ali Laranjani, the secretary of the Supreme
National Security Council, received the reward for his struggles for the revolution and
for Iran and attained, as they say, the exalted rank of martyrdoms in confirming that Ali
Laranjani has been killed.
For decades, Leroy and Johnny, well, he was the calm and the pragmatic face, if you like,
of the Iranian establishment.
He was very much at the heart of negotiations and a very well-recognized face, not only
in Iran, but internationally too.
He was a man with high intellectual books on the 18th century German philosopher, Emmanuel
Kant, who negotiated nuclear deals with the West.
He appeared on state TV just 24 hours after the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes killed the supreme
leader, Ayatollah Ali Homeini, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commander.
And he delivered a message to the Americans, which said, America and the Zionist regime,
by which he means Israel, have set the heart of the Iranian nation ablaze.
He said, we will burn their hearts, we will make the Zionist criminals, and shameless Americans
regret their actions.
What Larry and Johnny said, and he accused U.S. President Donald Trump of falling into
an Israeli trap and is now at the center of Tehran's response to its biggest crisis since
1979.
He's expected he was thought he was going to have an important role alongside the three-man
transitional council, which ran around after many years' death.
So now, it has been announced by Iranian State TV that Ali Lharanjali has been confirmed.
We also heard earlier that the chief of the besieged the internal security force was also
assassinated.
If there wasn't already enough proof, there should be no doubt for anyone that Israel's
trying to prevent the U.S. from engaging in any off-ramps.
Yeah, I mean, there's been plenty of proof, but I think most people don't care about it.
peace talks are hopeless, right? Do they think they're going to target Iraq? I mean, they might.
But Iraq, she's the foreign minister. He's just like, he's a mouthpiece for the,
for the state. He doesn't like technically, I guess they have a three party coalition when the
the Ayatollah is not alive, but he doesn't have like a lot of power.
What proof is out there? Of what?
Larjani, the proof is that the Iranian state has confirmed that he was martyred.
Is this the guy who was appearing in Western interviews a lot?
That's Arakshi. He's still alive. He's the foreign minister. You have the president who is like again another like moderate figure, but
functionally powerless
And and Arakshi was the foreign minister and
Then Larjani who was the commander of the forces
Larjani was not the front man, but
But certainly one of the pivotal figures in this administration, capable of holding the
Iranian civil society, the IRGC, and the clerics together, and also was seen as a more pragmatic
person.
Why aren't they hiding in Moscow right now?
Are they dumb?
I don't know how I can explain this to you guys.
If there's one country on the planet that is literally, and I know there's gonna piss
off all the ACP guys who love Russia, if there's one country on the planet that is just as
Zionist as the United States of America, it's fucking Russia, okay?
What is so difficult for people to understand?
Russia is unironically, like Russia is Zog, okay?
Do you know anything about Russia?
is the third most spoken language in Israel. More people in Israel speak Russian than speak
English. Okay? It goes Hebrew, Arabic, Russian. Vladimir Putin has time and time again consistently
stated that Russia is little, Israel is little Russia. Okay? You're so wrong, bro. Man, shut
your bitch ass up. I'm sick and tired of these motherfuckers who look at what Russia is doing
in Ukraine and think they're an anti-imperialist force. Like, sure, functionally, they have
fought back. They're crazy enough to fight back against, like, Western intervention in
their own backyard. But if you think that Russia has not been objectively a major ally
to fucking israel for years and years and years
you are delusional
all my god
it's so funny
lot of reputants and all mega zionist man
all but you don't understand it in syria they were uh... they were uh...
defending us on all the fuck they weren't okay no the fuck they weren't
They were not. They have regional ambitions. Okay.
They have regional ambitions. They have their own interests as far as like
remaining a sovereign state. They have security concerns, things like that.
But at the end of the day,
they also are absolutely consistently playing ball with Israel.
You need to check your facts, bro. You're so wrong, bro. So wrong.
You need to check your facts, bro. Okay, dude.
No, no, no, no.
Soviet Union was the biggest supporter of Israel when the knock-by happened, but they quickly flipped it.
That's fine. That's not what we're talking about here.
The USSR, after the 50s, were no longer in support of Israel.
They stopped being supportive of Israel.
They were an anti-Zionist force when they realized that Israel was going to be a western settler colonial project.
colonial, uh, Western settler colonial project. Okay. We're also not talking about the USSR
anyway. We're talking about Vladimir Putin. Okay. Vladimir Putin fucking loves Israel.
Okay. Gang, you so wrong. Okay. Just explain why I'm wrong instead of, uh, just, just instead
of saying that, uh, I, instead of telling me I'm wrong over and over again, explain why.
Okay. Do you think it's an accident that virtually all of the fucking Russian oligarchs that
control the Russian economy also have dual citizenship in Israel and use Israel as an
entry point, uh, to protect their assets because Israel has all of this, um, influence over
western governments, do you think that happened on accident?
It's like thinking that Turkey is actually an enemy of Israel or something, okay?
It's not.
It's not.
half of the energy that Israel uses goes through pipelines that literally go from Azerbaijan
to Georgia to Turkey and get put on ships at Turkish ports to make their way to fucking
Israel. Okay? If Turkey really had that dog in them, they could shut off the entire Israeli
energy grid. Hasan is a reactionary socialist. I'm a reactionary socialist. Okay.
Turkey is not an enemy to Israel. Israel is an enemy to Turkey, which might force the Turkish government's hand to take more defensive positions.
positions, but both Turkey and Israel are American assets in the region.
Russia plays both sides, but even in it's like defensive Syria, they put insane limitations
on what the Syrian air defenses could technically defend, what they were able to shoot at and
what they were not able to shoot at.
I think some leftists are due by the idea that states act in accordance with a consistent
and firm ideology because 90% of the time they don't.
Russia was involved in Syria because they want to project power into the Mediterranean
in the region.
That's why they instantly switched sides to keep their bases under al-Shara, just like
why they support Israel despite condemning U.S. hegemony.
It's just real politics.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Exactly. Like, what are we talking about, dude? There are like a million, dude, dude,
you remember Jackson Henkel literally talking about how Benjamin Netanyahu is gonna destroy
American hegemony? Because at the time, Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin were allies.
Also Israel is one of the few Western aligned nations that has not actually offered support
to Ukraine. One must ask the question, why? Israel has offered very little condemnations
to Russia. Israel has never played ball with the rest of the Western countries. How did
that happen? Both Ukraine and Russia are still very much pro-Israel, okay?
It's so funny that Zelensky talks about how like Iran said Iran sent Shahad drones to
Russia initially so that Russia could use so that Russia could use those Shahad drones
on Ukrainian territory and kill Ukrainian civilians and they're like oh this means that
like Iran is our enemy it's like shut the fuck up bro if you want to look at an
enemy Israel is a far far greater threat to Ukrainian sovereignty than
Iran ever could be Iran is a small player in this conflict
you wrong all are you opposition goes to Israel oh my god oh a year ago
someone told me you're a campus and only these days I can clearly see what they were talking about
bro one question have you ever said I apologize I was wrong about what
especially on this day in this day what the fuck would I apologize for as far as like uh
my my convictions becoming the convictions of the majority whether it be on Israel or
or whether it be on anything else, on American imperialism.
And this was heralded by the Israelis as an opportunity for Iranians within the country
to rise up and enforce regime change. Brother, at least in polls, Russian sentiment
towards Israel is created over the last five years. Oh yeah, because fucking Russia abides
by principle democratic stances. So if the regular ordinary Russians fucking despise
Israel. That means Vladimir Putin also has to despise Israel. Wake up, man. None of these
fucking countries are democratic. They don't give a fuck about public pressure beyond rebellion.
Okay, that's it. It's in a way, it's no different than the way the Chinese government operates.
I would say that Chinese government has more democratic outcomes than the Russian government
in reality. But especially as it pertains to foreign policy, it is inconsequential in
the United States of America, a country that is supposed to have a functioning, robust,
democratic process.
So what makes you think it's gonna fucking matter in places like Russia?
It does not fucking matter.
It does not matter.
The public's opinion does not matter unless it literally turns into a major issue where
people are saying, fuck it, like we're gonna, we're gonna foment rebellion.
They're not gonna give a shit.
China, one of the largest remaining communist states has no real sense of international
solidarity and he's still buddy buddy with Israel, quashist Marxist groups in the Philippines
and Myanmar and just acts in a national interest.
Very few states ever take a risk for an ideological goal. You got crucial in the sixties, Olaf
Palme, Cuba and like maybe Pedro Sanchez. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
You can't compare current Pedro Sanchez to fucking crucial in the sixties, all of Palme
or Cuba. That's crazy. Pedro Sanchez is just doing an aesthetic posture because he realizes
that, you know, the punishments that he will incur are inconsequential. He's not doing anything
beyond what China is doing. China does stern condemnations all the fucking time. Pedro Sanchez
is just picking it up. There's a difference between people who have literally died for it,
like all of Palme versus people that are just aesthetically taking a stance.
So once again, reigning state to be confirming that Ali Laungana has been killed. It's something
that was announced some time ago and was confirmed by the Israelis and by Donald Trump in the
U.S. But we were awaiting confirmation from the Iranians themselves and it now seems what
we do have confirmation that the Iranians died.
So once again, Iranian state media have announced in the last few minutes that the country's
security chief, Ali Larran, Johnny is dead.
That's hours after the Israeli military said he was killed in a dawn strike on Tuesday.
Also killed-
literally helped African countries fight. Yes, yes, Cuba is literally as close as you
can get to a truly morally righteous country. Okay. Nothing comes near it. I'm not, I don't
have rose colored glasses on this shit. I'm just simply an observer of history. There
is no country on the planet that you can literally point to with like an infallible close to
an infallible track record other than motherfucking Cuba. Okay. One of the best nation states
on the planet. Nothing comes near it. Okay. With how little they had and how much they
sacrificed and continue to do so. It is unbearable what we've done to Cuba and what we continue
to do to Cuba.
Well, the same strike as I just mentioned was a good one. We raise a ceremony, the command
of the internal security force known as a besiege.
Russell Serda now takes a look back at Larranjani's climb
to Iran's top political and security circles.
Anyway.
The structure has been difficult because you're
seeing people replaced really quickly.
Ali Larranjani appeared on TV 24 hours after the assassination
of the Ayatollah.
What is the sense in terms of the amount of people
that are available to replace the likes of Ali Larrajani and other key decision makers
in terms of making the possible.
Olof Palme was literally anti-communist.
Yeah, of course he was.
But Olof Palme, there is not a figure like Olof Palme in the world right now, you understand,
in the Western world.
Who could you point to?
Like, Olof Palme is the real line of social democracy, okay?
If there's one figure that you can present as like being principled, yes, he was of course
anti-communist.
Yes, of course.
That was the true beacon of social democracy.
And look what happened.
Okay?
Yes, there is no European social Democrat that isn't anti-communist, by the way.
Like that doesn't exist.
What are you talking about?
They're just communists.
And even the communists are social Democrats now, so it doesn't even fucking matter.
Oh, let's see. I am a sod conducting espionage against his own people. The espionage group was literally a deep state to the parliament had no clue about the two journals that exposed the scandals got jailed for no reason. And Paul made live for years and hearings that this group didn't exist until he admitted it later.
Well, he died. So he was assassinated.
That's a really good question, and Israel may have an assessment of that.
How far do you have to go down Iran's leadership ladder to seriously weaken the regime?
In the conversations we've had with Israeli military officials, the airstrikes alone and
they are extensive with thousands more to go are not likely to topple the regime on
its own.
Can you imagine a world where every single European leader looked like Olaf Palme had
the same attitudes?
Just imagine, not even remotely radical by what is necessary, but a world where every
European capital was led by the legs of all of Palme, there would be no Israel, okay?
Like it would be, the European Union would unironically be sending fucking the French
nuclear aircraft carrier to Cuba right now, towing a bunch of fucking oil tankers.
We're talking about social democrats that offered material support to anti-colonial
resistance fronts, okay?
We're talking about people that by today's standards will be offering not only political
cover to Hamas, but maybe even material support to Hamas.
Yeah, Paul may send military aid to a designated terrorist organization to the west, the ANC
during apartheid.
Like, it's not even a comparison, Pedro Sanchez does not meet that standard at all.
Can you imagine a world where Pedro Sanchez is literally fucking sending military aid
to Hamas and Hezbollah?
No, you can't.
Because there is no European leadership that would make decisions like that, okay?
It doesn't exist anymore.
That's why you see Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu trying to appeal to the people of
Iran, effectively telling them your time will come where it's up to you to overthrow the
regime.
I don't think Israel believes that it can do that and topple Iran's leadership with
airstrikes itself no matter how far it goes down that list of leadership.
It's also very difficult to tell people to come out onto the streets when you're carrying
out waves of strikes on a daily and sometimes it seems like an hourly basis.
But what's clear at least at this point is-
Hey, Assad, I don't have the knowledge, so please don't scream at me.
How would Cuban intervention and African revolution be different from US and Israeli societal discourse
influence in Iran? Because one is objectively an anti-imperialist act. The other is objectively
an imperialist act. Okay. We see the outcome of US and American intervention in Iran right
now for the last 17 fucking days. Okay. Chemical warfare, for example, the destruction of the
desalination plans, schools being blown up and, and double-tapped.
It's, it's the exact opposite.
There's a difference between good things and bad things, okay?
If you're an anti-imperialist, of course, other countries offering aid to anti-imperialist
movements is a good thing.
action is a good thing
is
israel will keep working its way down that leadership list
in terms of targeted killings and assassinations
and the moment iran names a replacement for large on the that person to will be
on israel's list with us now seen in senior military analyst retired and
also don't get mad at that you're just trying to learn there's no problem there's
there's no issue with that.
Well, James, to read his admiral, thank you so much for being with us.
The news that we're waking up to is Israel is claiming they have killed this man.
Yeah. The chatter is missing to the West had already intervened there and Cuba was aiding
those fighting the Western intervention. Exactly. It would be again, it would be the equivalent
of like, if there was a, if there was a Cuba style country out there, okay, who was wild
enough right now, they would literally be sending military aid to the Palestinian resistance.
They would be sending military aid to the Lebanese resistance.
They would be sending military aid, maybe even to Iran, okay?
No such country exists, because the USSR no longer exists, and since the 90s it has just
been America's way or the highway, and no other country outside of the American security
umbrella even dares to dream of doing such a thing. I mean, China doesn't do it either.
At most, you hear, you get a little bit of support.
But it's not like China is like sending troops, right?
There was a point when they did, and sometimes it wasn't good, okay? I'm not saying all Chinese
intervention was good. There was definitely some bad Chinese interventions, okay?
RIP Gaddafi, you would have trafficked so many arms. Oh, yeah.
Ali Larajani, who's the Iranian security chief, maybe the most powerful man in Iran
over the last several weeks, maybe even several months. Also, they say they killed this man
in charge of the Bazeesh paramilitary force. This is on top, obviously, of already killing
this man's father, the late Ayatollah al-Khamenei. This is Moshtar al-Khamenei. Now the Supreme
leader, he is said to be injured. So, Admiral, my question to you is if they keep targeting
Israel and effectively eliminating these leaders, what does that do?
Do you think Chinese intervention right now would be a net positive? Yes. Yes. My attitude
is this, okay? A lot of people look at American intervention in totally black and white terms,
okay? A lot of people in the United States of America think like we are all winning collectively
when America is dominating militarily. I genuinely think that forcing America to deescalate
by making the American government incur such penalties that they are forced to reconsider
endless militarism globally is objectively a good thing for the world and is objectively
a good thing for the American population, okay? Anything, any force right now on the
planet that forces America to recalculate endless militarism will actually be doing
everyone a service, would be doing the American population a service. It's not an, like, what
do you think I mean when I say we are dumping unlimited amounts of money into our bloated
military industrial complex, and all of those dollars could actually go back to serving
the American people.
What do you think I mean when I say that?
I mean it.
That's a real thing that I believe.
I'm not just saying that because I'm secretly in the pocket of China or Iran, and I just
actively want to brainwash Americans into believing that America must be weak in its
military ambitions.
That's not my goal here.
My goal, I'm gonna give a fuck about any state.
Okay, I don't care about the states.
I don't care about their ambitions.
I care about the people, okay?
And from the perspective of ordinary Americans,
our bankrolling of endless empire around the globe
is not beneficial for the countries that we're dominating.
It's people that we're slaughtering.
And it's certainly not beneficial
for the ordinary American citizens
that don't even see any of these returns
of the imperial bounty, okay?
That's it.
A broader escalation between two nuclear powers is not beneficial for humanity.
No, this is leading from a place of fear, okay?
It's leading from a place of fear.
Everyone is worried that if there is any sort of like material penalty here for America
of retreat, then it's going to be bad overall. It's going to be chaos and instability. I think
that that avoids recognizing the ongoing reality, which is that America as the hegemonic superpower
has devastated countries over and over again. Okay? We've devastated, we've, we've devastated
countries economically. We've devastated countries militarily. We are killing people
all the fucking time all around the world
it has to stop
i also really but i think i'm involving itself with set us back it
exposes china and it does not help the liberation of the pro terry worldwide the
u.s.s are did that and arguably that's why they lost
well the u.s.s are never was the manufacturing hub of the entire planet
that controls all of the fucking resources necessary to even build weapons
China does have that level of control. China has that level of influence over America, and how much war America could wage.
That's the reason why it's a different calculation now.
Um, but what would you say to the argument that China is still becoming stronger and stronger every year in US is getting weaker and weaker, so it's still beneficial to wait.
The problem is America sees that as well. That's why Trump is doing all the shit that he's doing currently.
He's just kind of failing. He's flubbing. But if he was a little bit more competent, I think that they would set back a new world order by decades.
And a lot of people would die in the process and maybe even do the unthinkable and nuclear
first strike a country with no nuclear arms and completely change the calculation.
I am in favor of multipolarity because multipolarity has been beneficial for the working class
all around the world.
Obviously, a singular hegemonic force, the United States of America, has not. I mean,
we know. Look at the world since the 90s. Look at how it's shifted. Look at how it's
changed since the 90s, right? But if we want multi-polarity, China has to also, you know,
act like it. Can't believe you said he's flubbing. I mean, he is. He's only able to intervene
and dominate militarily countries like venezuela but if there's a country out
there that's willing to fight back you see the results it's fucking
devastating
the disability of the regime particularly the absence now of lara johnnie
let's park on lara johnnie for a minute john you'll get this reference he's kind
of the cardinal re chelou of this rotten theocracy he's been
floating around, manipulating, leading internal dissent.
And now he ascended to the top with the killing of Khamenei
and the ascension of Khamenei's son, who
is probably gravely wounded.
So this is a big deal.
If killing Khamenei was kind of a 10,
I'd say this is an 8 and 1 half.
It's a big deal.
And the character to the right is the leader
of the Basjid militia, truly dreaded
by the people. So, point one, this is a big deal taking these two out. Point two to your
question, somewhere in the headquarters of Mossad and probably over in the Curia, which
is the Pentagon of Israel, they have a big board and it's got pictures of all of these
folks drilling down way below the four-star, down to three-star, two-star, putting it in
military context, they're going to continue to relentlessly go after these people and
point.
Killing Khamenei did nothing though.
So ironically enough, killing Khamenei, obviously, demonstrably did not, uh, cause any sort of
like, uh, mil, military withdrawal, as a matter of fact, it did the exact opposite.
And Larjani is the same, assassinating Larjani doesn't do anything to like stave off, uh,
Iranian retaliatory strikes
It has the capacity to escalate
And it is an escalation and it also literally diminishes one of the ways in which
Eventually America could de-escalate
Three and finally here's the good news at some point
You may get down to a layer when you blame China taking an account of the US is currently sounding
It from all its borders China's prepared to go to the war with the US what the fuck would they waste their resource fighting in Iran?
No, that's not I don't think what
No, these are two nuclear armed nations, what are you talking about? What no
No, America is at war cold war with China right now. That's already happening. This is a proxy
It's a Chinese proxy. It's beneficial for China to
to fund the Iranian defenses.
It's beneficial for a million different reasons.
I don't think that China is going to go to hot war.
I don't even think America is crazy
if they go into a hot war with China.
That's nuclear warfare.
What are you talking about?
Are you pro or anti-war?
I'm anti-war.
Of course I'm anti-war.
But when war comes to your doorstep, you have to defend your sovereignty.
And if you're a major power that wants to play a role in stabilizing the world, okay,
and China is a major power that wants to stabilize the planet, right?
At a certain point, you got to realize like, all right, well, you're in Cold War, which
I'm sure they already understand.
But the Chinese attitude is we're far away from all the stuff.
don't want to intervene at all is, you know, it's eventually going to have to change, right?
It's eventually going to have to change when, when the battle lines are hardened. Because
right now they're like, we don't care if, if Iran is in American hands, just like with
Iraq, they still send oil from Iraq to China, right? If Iran is in American hands and they
still send oil to China, then China is happy with this. They don't care. But that's the
upper hand that America now has to shut off oil if they choose to do so. And as long as
China maintains export controls as a weapon to wield against America as a very important
part of China's advantage against the United States, because the United States can't make
anything. It can't make any missiles if China literally says no more. We're doing export controls,
you're not getting magnets, you're not getting the rare earth minerals necessary for production
of your missiles, of your defense industry, then what the fuck's America gonna do?
They don't have a contingency plan set up. This is once again a shortcoming of capitalism
in the interest of national security. If America wanted to think about this from a national security
perspective, they would have to find an alternative market. Right now, you have Australia, and
it's not even remotely competitive, and half of the Australian extraction is also dominated
by China as well. Yes, they do, bro. Oh my God, is this the same guy? You don't think
the Chinese manufacturing facilities wouldn't be bombed in a war with the US? There is no
war between China and the U.S. What are you talking about? There's only a cold war between
China and the U.S. These are two nuclear armed nations. Is it the same guy? The same guy
who said they have contingencies and never explained what they were. I love this guy.
I'm never going to ban him. He's so fucking dumb.
in the rock formation where you can actually have a conversation.
Yeah, and again, both of these guys key
and the crackdown of the protests
over the last several months there.
Maybe this will, if they are both in fact gone,
inspire some kind of new uprising on the streets there,
although that too carries the risks.
I wanna shift gears here and ask about the US troop movements.
We know that Sencom has approved
a marine expeditionary force to head toward the Middle East.
We believe there's some more over here
and they will arrive some.
Do you think if Iran, the Iranian regime falls over China?
No, no, of course not.
What? No, it doesn't fucking matter.
I mean, it sucks for reliable energy
and it sucks additionally
because if the Iranian regime falls,
the biggest tools of the Friends Production Act
is all you need to learn.
You're such a fucking moron.
Oh my God, this guy is such a fucking idiot.
you're literally, the Defense Production Act cannot materialize the rare earth minerals
that are refined and procured in China, okay?
They just don't, you can't materialize things that you need, the materials necessary to
build missiles, okay?
The components are made in China, you just can't do that.
It's not magic.
EPA is not magic, okay? Unless there is a, unless there is literally some kind of alchemy
at play inside of the Pentagon that we were oblivious to, it's not going to happen, okay?
You can't just spawn missiles out of nowhere. You don't know what you're talking about.
I know more than you on this. That's why I said there are contingencies that they could
set up in Australia and Japan, but even then, they can't make up for it in time.
They can't make up for the loss in time.
Yeah, the DPA will change the mineral composition of our continental shelf and
also magically cause a fast enough productive force in a matter of days.
They're just going to spawn factories that are capable.
They're going to spawn.
The DPA is gonna spawn
Industrial output that is capable of making up for the demand on top of the mineral composition change. Okay. It's so fucking stupid
You need years and years and years of refinement
and and a
Labor force that has learned how to engage in this this refinement process. We don't have any of that shit
Bro, things DPA just magically flips a switch and everyone that's like working in the existing
factories are capable of learning how to do this in time, time in the next week or so
maybe a little bit after that.
Ambrose, what do you think these two 2,500 Marines or so will be doing?
i think there are three options kind of floating around out there the first and
most brooded about brothing's dps uh... dps god mode like he thinks like it's a
cheat unlimited ammunition sheet
is the idea of
seizing carg island
carg island is the center of the
iranian oil gas
production facility
it's their transshipment point for ninety percent you're circling it now
it's well north of the straight up or moves you know we're all quite centered
on the straight
but the persian golf is huge and a great deal of oil and gas moves and
up there car guy land that is the heart of the iranian
believe me is u s marine corps one oh one
seizing islands think you know jima
world war two
all my god
wait, wait, wait, wait. Ewo Jima casualties. The Battle of Ewo Jima, from February 19th
to March 26th, 1949, resulted in over 26,000 American casualties, including nearly 7,000
killed, making it one of the bloodiest in Pacific history.
Japanese garrison of roughly 21,000 defenders was almost completely wiped
out famously easy to take oh my lord what a what a fantastic example of a
of a resounding success.
Yeah, I'm not even gonna get into Okinawa,
which of course is far worse,
but it's just so funny that he's just like,
come on, the same number of people,
like half the number of people that died
in the entire global war on terror,
just for this one fucking island.
So we made a whole statue to dedicate how little sacrifice it took. Yeah, when I'm thinking
of like famous military conquests that are noted that are very easy. Okay, I'm thinking
of Iwo Jima. That's fucking awesome.
Okinawa, they're very good at this.
It's a relevant-
By the way, by the way, by the way, this also, once again, is so idiotic because let's
say you take it, okay?
You can't keep it.
You take it, but you can't hold it.
How are you going to hold it?
And even if you take it and you hold it for a short period of time, how is this going
to change the two-mile area that oil tankers can pass through in the Strait of Hormuz.
That's where Karg Island is. This is where the Strait of Hormuz is. The reason why they
want to take Karg Island is so that they can have pressure, so they can apply, so they
can have leverage over the Iranian government to forcibly open the Strait of Hormuz because
they cannot militarily open the Shred of Hormuz. Okay. It's so stupid.
Sort of a small island, John. It's about third the size of Manhattan where you are.
I think the Marine force coming in with complete air superiority and sea control around it
would be sufficient to seize and potentially hold the island. That puts at risk the entire
Iranian economy. That's basically because they are really nothing more than a gas station.
That puts them at big risk. And then you turn to them and say, hmm, how would you like to
open the Strait of Hormuz now? That's a pretty reasonable play. So I think that's the key
mission for those troops. You could also see them around this guy. This guy's supposed
to be like a like a tactician. What is happening? Do they just not teach anything in military
academies now what like what the fuck yeah you just take it and it's fine and
then you say to the Iranians we took it now it's ours do you want it back well
then you got to open the straight of her moves okay what happens when Iran goes
okay we can't actually fucking ship oil anymore well guess what now we're
fucking damming the Strait of Hormuz. What happens then? What now? What now? Oh, you just shut off our
our export capabilities in Carg Island. Guess what? Now we've damned the Strait of Hormuz because we
can't pass our fucking tankers through. So now it's going to be even more complicated for any commerce
trade to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. What do you think happens to the oil prices
then?
The Strait of Hormuz, knocking down land facilities that threaten the strait in an extremist.
You could see them going after the uranium, the enriched uranium.
Yeah, it's awesome. They don't siege Leningrad. Take it immediately is like the resounding
attitude from these fucking brilliant military tacticians that's a tough mission i bet on
cargail and
or admiral james to read is thank you so much for helping us understand what these marines
could do
north krist ruling coalition's near united support in parliament election with ninety nine point
ninety nine percent turnout
major kimm victory helia they get there is obviously the battle focus is on the straight
up or moves in reopening that key one way appreciate
he's seen as one of the pillars of my go did it again did who would have
did who would have thought
you know
you know there was a point where i where people were really worried
okay
i was really worried you
he was gonna have some serious opposition
man this funny
tough race but kim pulled through
my goat despite the overwhelming odds he did it
the islamic republic and yet he works mainly from the shadows
ali lari jane is iran's top national security official and quickly became the
late aya tola ali khamenei's white hand man
According to the New York Times, the country's former supreme leader tasked him with running
the country in the event of war.
The move effectively sidelines the sitting president as Larry Johnny exerts control over
Iran's nuclear and diplomatic affairs.
Since the start, we've been convinced that war will not resolve the disagreements between
our two countries.
Regional conflicts between Iran and the West must be resolved by dialogue.
Others have been mistaken in thinking that these problems can be solved by force.
This attitude has been detrimental to progress.
A few weeks after the 12-day war with Israel last June, Larejani was named head of the
National Security Council.
Returning to a position he held 20 years prior.
Son of a dignitary close to Ayatollah Khomeini, Larejani started his career within the Revolutionary
Guard before becoming the director of Iran's national broadcaster in 1994.
In 2005 and 2007, he was the lead nuclear negotiator and was a key figure between the
2015 JCPOA agreement.
He ran for president several times but was rejected by the Guardian Council.
Resolving the issue of U.S. sanctions in order to open up the economic space will be one
of my diplomatic priorities.
Ali Larijani is one of the officials sanctioned by Washington for the bloody crackdown against
protesters in January.
A crisis he blames on American and Israeli interference.
going back decades. He was the speaker of the parliament and he was one of the most
senior security officials most recently. It's fair to say that few officials really
understood how the Iranian state operated as well as Ali Arijani. So he is a big loss
to the Iranians and the Israelis will say therefore it was worth taking him out and
they will say it will hasten the end of the Iranian regime as they call it which is one
of war aims. Having said that, the Iranians have built
into their institutions of government resilience. And every person who's killed is replaced by
a successor who's previously appointed and then they're replaced by another one and so
on. And so he's not irreplaceable. The other point to make about Ali Larajani is if there
was anybody who could help the West and the Iranians negotiate a way out of this crisis,
no efforts towards that end yet. But if there was, then it would be Ali Larajani. He's
somebody who's negotiated with the Gulf,
he's negotiated with the West during the
Newcombe discussions years ago.
And if there was anybody the Americans could do business with.
Broz, if you're in a hotel or close to one, go there.
Hotels are the only civilian buildings they hit.
Go inside any other building and you should be safe.
Do not stay at a hotel if you're in the Gulf.
Do not stay at a hotel if you're in the Gulf.
leave the hotels ASAP
it's so crazy because like I literally I talked about this remember when I was in clutter when there was like a like an American military guy staying in the hotel and he had his full uniform on and I was like bro what the fuck is this shit
I literally told you guys like I had a conversation my dad and my dad's like what was the problem?
I was like, do you not understand what the problem is like we're agitating a war with Iran and you got American troops staying in the fucking hotel
Just ain't the motherfucking barracks get the fuck out of here
Yeah, more focus about the turn is into human shields.
Ron, the president is moving about 2,500 Marines to the region.
Are you okay with putting those two troops on the ground?
I actually spoke to some media last night and I indicated that I believe that what these
2,500 Marines of the Marine Expeditionary Force would be, would be to probably secure
the island.
The island is not, in my opinion, boots on the ground in the context of certain circumstances.
It is a territory.
It is Iran.
Well, I'm not going to argue that point, as a matter of fact, you're right.
But what I would say is the president has chosen not to obliterate the ability to get
oil, and I think he wants to go secure that to make sure the Iranians don't do themselves
then.
So I think it's probably wisdom.
Is that boots on the ground?
No, not like inside Iran where they're in the cities, where we go through circumstances
that we've had in the past of large areas of population.
I love it. It's always this time is different in combatants against us and it is a mess. I am against
They what I call the mess moving people marines snipers into population areas, but
Dude the creativity that these guys deploy
When dancing around the issue of boosts on the ground while demanding boosts on the ground is incredible
is awesome. Yeah, see, you don't understand, putting 2,500 marine boots on the ground,
the ground being Iranian soil is technically not boots on the ground. It's different because
The ground implies soil that is connected to the Iranian mainland.
And this on the other hand is not the Iranian mainland, it's an island.
Simple mistake.
That's the difference.
It's floating in the water.
And therefore it's a different kind of land so it doesn't count as boots on the ground.
Yeah.
Big mistake.
Great stuff man, thank you.
This is Democracy Now.
I'm Amy Goodman with Juan Gonzalez.
begin today showing in Iran as Israel's military says it's assassinated Iran's security chief
Ali Larajani, one of the most powerful figures in the Islamic Republic.
Larajani was seen as the de facto leader of Iran following Israel's...
Islands don't float, man.
Obviously I'm fucking joking, dude.
Assassination of the Supreme Leader Ali Hameini on the first day of the war on February 28th.
claims. It's also assassinated Gholamraza Soleimani, the head of the besieged military.
We begin the show with Trita Parsi, Iranian-American executive vice president of the Quincy Institute
for Responsible State Crap, author of several books, including Losing an Enemy, Obama, Iran,
and the Triumph of Diplomacy.
Trita, if you can explain the significance of this moment, Iran has not confirmed this,
Israel says it has killed the security chief Ali Larajani.
Who is he?
And also the head of the Berej Militia.
Talk about both of them.
So, Fouk?
Have your audio up.
But it's not clear at this point
whether Larajani himself was killed.
It appears likely, but we don't know yet for certain.
And it would be a very significant development,
almost on par with the killing of the Supreme Leader.
In the past couple of months,
he had emerged as a critical person
within the Iranian Theocracy,
was not so much a decision maker
as he was the person who was creating consensus,
the consensus maker within that system,
but also someone that was seen as much more open
to the idea of reaching a diplomatic solution.
In fact, there had been some diplomatic outreach between him and a very key person in the White
House prior to this war, crying back in December.
So he was definitely seen as someone who the United States potentially at some point could
deal with, whether the Israelis deliberately targeted him because they just had the opportunity,
because it was an effort to kill any potential off-ramp for Trump by eliminating those who
could engage in diplomacy with him or whether this is something that has more to do with
the fact that perhaps the strategy now is shifting back towards regime decapitation
after it's become clear that reopening the straits militarily is going to be extremely difficult.
And as a result, the U.S. and Israel are shifting back towards what they started off this war.
how does this exactly take the world's oil problem if it doesn't? It doesn't. We take
Clark Island, we can't even hold it. We can't even take it, but let's say we take it. Okay.
Let's say we take it, we can't really hold it, but let's say we take it and we hold it. Okay. Now
we're in the doubly unlikely territory. Okay. What does that do?
Carg Island is far removed from the Shred of Hormuz. The reason why the American government
would even float the idea of taking Carg Island is because they want to use it as leverage
against the Iranian government. You take a strategic position that is important for
Iranian oil exports, and then you say, hey, we'll give this back to you, but you have
to come to the table and engage in a ceasefire and open the Strait of Hormuz. Because they can't
militarily open the Strait of Hormuz. But if you can't militarily open the Strait of Hormuz,
you can't really militarily take Carg Island either. Obviously, defending the Strait of Hormuz
is much easier than defending Carg Island, because Carg Island is mostly just civil
infrastructure. They have some barracks. There's 8,000 people that live on it. There's some cultural
landmarks on it as well. But Karg Island is an island that's primarily filled with civilians.
There's some military. There's a surface to air missiles there as well.
But if the Iranian government decides, fuck it, you took Karg Island, we're going to blow it up.
Like, we're not going to care about our own facilities on there, right? Because there's
like oil depots, things like that. Then what are the Americans going to do?
Like, if they decide that they can just rebuild the facilities there later down the line, and right
now it's just war, Carg Island would turn into a kill box for the Marines that are deployed on there.
And then also on top of that, because we're going up the escalation ladder,
Iran would take a much, much stronger stance against the production in the Gulf,
okay, and even permanently shut off the straight of our moves by mining it.
If they could decapitate the regime and cause regime implosion. I don't find that very likely.
This is definitely a huge tactical blow to the Iranians, but the system already has
preparedness for eventualities of this kind.
We saw that after the killing of the Supreme Leader,
and the same thing will happen with the head of the besieger
that had now also been killed.
And Trita, in a recent article you wrote,
I'm wondering what your sense of where this war is heading.
You wrote, one of the main mistakes on the American side
is they believe the Iranians feared war more than surrender
in reality, they fear surrender far more than they fear war.
Can you expound on that?
Yeah, I think that the United States
and the Trump administration went into this war
with a very false perception of Iran's state
of strength or weakness.
They believe that Iran was much, much weaker
than it actually was.
This was also a narrative that had been dramatically pushed
by the Israelis, knowing very well
that the argument for attacking Iran would very much be
premised on the idea that it would be a relatively easy
and quick thing to do.
You need to convince Trump that it's easy and quick
in order for him to go along with it.
They succeeded in that.
See what Marco Rubio said in his testimony
in the Senate in January,
essentially saying that there is a window
of opportunity attacking because of this unique weakness
of Iran, the weakest it has been since 1979 was the line.
And the perception on the Trump administration side was that either the Iranians would simply
be forced to capitulate and surrender or the regime would implode.
And in order to avoid that, they would strike a deal that would essentially surrender in
order to say, say it's called their own survival.
But this is a fundamental misread of the theocracy in Iran, not just because its strength was
clearly not as weak as the US thought.
On the contrary, we see now very clearly, they were very well prepared for this type
of a war and have managed to, in some ways, increase their power, particularly their leverage
through the straight-of-war moves, but also because of the fact that at the end that they
surrender was never in the cars.
This is a theocracy that could survive war, it could even survive losing a war.
But if it were to surrender, it would lose its base of support, the 15 to 20 percent
of the population that's still supported.
They would be completely unforgiving of any such measure.
And that would be a far clearer death knelted theocracy than even a military mass.
Trita, before you go, I know you have to leave within a minute.
What do you say to the analysts who are now saying with Lara Johnny, if in fact he is
dead, killed by Israel, that Israel recognized him as a negotiator behind the scenes, whether
it's with Russia or the United States, and that they don't want these negotiations to
take place?
No, from the Israeli standpoint, it's absolutely clear they want this war to continue as long
as the U.S. is in the war and actively bombing Iran.
They're very fearful of Trump declaring victory and just ending the war.
They have still achieved quite a lot because the Iranian military has been significantly
degraded in several different aspects.
However, the Israelis have fought so hard to get the United States to go into a full
scale war with Iran.
For more than 20 years, they have tried to do this.
So now when that is finally been achieved, it is-
Yes, anti-war, anti-Semitism is still anti-Semitism.
I know.
We have a new version of anti-Semitism that just dropped, which is when you say, when
you repeat basically what Marco Rubio and Donald Trump has said, okay?
It's no longer allowed.
As I said earlier today, reiterating the point that someone else was making, if you say we're
going to war for Israel, we're going to war with Iran for Israel, and that's good, not
antisemitism.
If you say we're going to war with Iran for Israel and that's bad, that's antisemitism.
of the highest order, okay? It's a new update. Maybe you guys didn't get the patch notes.
Antisemitism has been updated, okay? That's what it is. If you're actually anti-Semitic,
that's, you know, negligible. I need to know what your opinion is on Israel and America
Waging Israel's Wars. If that's, you know, that's what I, that's what I need to know to, to make
up my mind on whether you're being anti-Semitic or how anti-Semitic you're being.
And their interest to prolong this war as long as they can is Miss Rachel against the war. Well,
she's against child murder, which is again, maximalist anti-Semitism.
It's probably the highest version of anti-semitism that you can achieve when you say no children
should be slaughtered because Ms. Rachel rarely ever says like Israel is bad.
She just says you shouldn't murder children and then every defender of Israel for some
weird reason immediately goes blood libel.
This is blood libel.
You're doing blood libel.
you hate the Jews, you want every Jewish person to be genocideed.
It's very strange, it's very strange behavior.
Nobody ever thinks about how this reflects upon Jewish people in general that did not ask for this,
that want nothing to do with Israel.
And yet, you know,
according to the ADL. This is one of the most dangerous versions of anti-Semitism that you
can engage in. It's so funny, like America is going to war. All of our leadership has
said this is for Israel, like every single one has basically said this is for Israel
it's good, okay? And there are vox.com reporters who are like, well,
well, don't you think this is a little anti-Semitic to reflect on it?
Like, don't you think that's somewhat anti-Semitic to suggest?
Why won't you consider?
Why won't you just lie? Why won't you just say that that's not the case, right? Like, why won't you
Why won't you just simply not reflect on reality because it makes me feel bad?
It's awesome.
We're going to get to Joe Kent in a second.
And kill off any potential off ramps that Trump may be looking for.
And if Trump actually were to look for an off ramp actively,
A critical counterpart of his would most likely have been Ali Lari Jani.
And we've already seen that several people who could have played that type of a role
have been killed and the remaining people within the bureaucracy tend to be the much
more hard-line ones who would also see a benefit in prolonging the war rather than negotiating
an end to it.
Tariqa Parsi, we want to thank you for being with us, Executive Vice President of the Quincy
Institute for Responsible Statecraft, author of several books including Losing an Enemy,
Obama, Iran, and the triumph of diplomacy.
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We just learned, get this,
the director of the National Counterterrorism Center,
Joe Kent has just announced he's resigning.
The International Security reporter, Zachary Cohn,
is joining us right now.
Zachary, what more can you tell us
about this dramatic development?
Yeah, well, if this appears to be a significant resignation
at the senior most levels of the Trump intelligence community,
this is Joe Kent.
He was the director of the National Counterterrorism
Center.
And we're talking about Joe Kent.
Head of US Counterterrorism Center
announces his resignation.
He is in the most like American version of events most like post maga america version of events
He is going he already he already did an interview with Tucker Carlson and that interview is coming
And he also released a statement on
Twitter PSL six mager. I mean, he's not a good guy by the way like
Joe Kent is not a good person. I need you guys to understand like he is literally
Trump's, he was Trump's U.S. counter-terrorism lead, okay?
He's not a good person at all, but even a fucking bad person can still recognize the
writing on the wall and decide to take a stance against it.
So when all these people are like going through the background of Joe Kent and they talk about
his anti-Semitism, just remember that they didn't have this kind of issue about Joe Kent
when Trump literally hired a white nationalist, okay?
He's a literal Hitler, apologies, how are people farmed for this stuff?
Because it is not pertinent to his decision at the moment, okay?
Like, that's the reason.
This is no different than the Candice Owen situation.
Just as Ben Shapiro knew Candice Owens was anti-Semitic and did not give a fuck about
it as long as she was pro-Israel, it only became an issue when Candice Owens became anti-Israel.
And the same goes for Joe Kent.
Do you understand?
I can't comprehend how like I just don't understand how people have a hard time
understanding this like
it is is is always surprising
when people still fall for this bullshit
he posting appearing to post
on x a resignation letter that he submitted citing misgivings over the
trump administration's decision to launch its war
with Iran. Now Kent in this letter writes in part quote as a veteran who deployed to
combat eleven times and as a gold star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war
manufactured by Israel. I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in
a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American
lives. Now Kent in his apparent post on X does also seem to suggest that there was no
imminent threats that it has been used and cited by the Trump administration is just
a case.
Yes, it really fucked up.
This is genuinely, genuinely a huge deal.
And it certainly has rattled the administration a little bit too.
A high profile administration figure like this, quitting their job and releasing the
The reasons as to why they quit their job, and directly betraying the administration's
half-hearted propaganda on why we have to wage war with Iran is huge.
It's a huge deal.
Launching this war against Iran, he says that essentially the administration manufactured
this idea of an imminent threat, and that is part of the reason why he's deciding to
resigned from his post today.
Let me read a little bit from this letter that he wrote to President Trump.
This is Joe.
Does anyone have the, oh yeah, here it is.
Wait.
No, not this.
Where is Joe Kent's actual letter?
Hold on.
He said nine hours ago after much reflection, I've decided to resign from my position as
director of the National Counterterrorism Center effective today. Okay. Yeah. And by the way,
this is the highest ranking official that left the administration as opposed to the
Biden admin where there were lower ranking officials that had left the admin in response to
our unlimited loyalty to Israel as Israel was committing a genocide, but nowhere near to this
degree. Okay? Yeah, this guy's been directly involved in and responsible for
overseeing some of the worst covert war crimes the US is committed in the
Middle East in the global war on terror and apparently there's a wrong war was
too much for him to his political views are irrelevant in the circumstances
someone with his creds resigning is unthinkable. Okay? It just doesn't happen.
Like, retired Green Beret combat veteran, who is, you know, who has a very, I mean,
this is a very well credentialed psychopath, okay?
After a lifetime of service of the Imperial death machine, including running kill squads
the CIA Special Activity Center and defending Eddie Gallagher, Joe can suddenly decides his
decades of sanctioned murder was on behalf of Israel bad rather than the US good.
Whether it's because he wants to preserve his,
whether he wants to basically preserve his legacy in some weird twisted way,
or whether he just sees the writing on the wall. It doesn't matter. The impact is still the same.
Here's what he said, with the director of national intelligence, national counterterrorism center
letterhead. Okay, Joseph Kent, the director of national, the director of the national counterterrorism
center. Okay, the guy responsible for counterterrorism in the United States of America.
President Trump, after much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as the director
the National Counterterrorism Center effective today. I cannot in good conscious support the
ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started
this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. I support the values
and the foreign policies that you campaigned on in 2016, 2020, and 2024, which you enacted in your
first term. Until June of 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that
that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots
that depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation.
In your first administration,
you understood better than any modern president
how to decisively apply military power
without getting us drawn into never ending wars.
You demonstrated this by killing Qasem Suleymane
and by defeating ISIS,
which ironically enough,
the Qasem Suleymane thing was also
something that Israel wanted to do,
which is why it's crazy that he's literally
glazing that decision. So, it seems like he has some appetite for America maneuvering
in a way that benefits Israel's ambitions in the region. Just, you know, this is a bridge
too far for him. Early in this administration, high ranking Israeli officials and influential
members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America
first platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war in Iran. This echo chamber
was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United
States and that you should strike now. There was a clear path to a swift victory. This
is all 100% correct, by the way. Everything that this fucking Hitlerite psychopathic
Green Beret is saying is 100% correct. Literally, no notes, except for the Cosmos today, money
shit, obviously. He's the fucking idiot for that. But no notes, 100% correct. Okay, that
That is exactly what happened.
It's not, you don't even need insider knowledge, which he very clearly has, right?
But what he is saying here is just another confirmation of the things that Lindsey Graham
has said, the things that Marco Rubio has said, the things that Donald Trump has said, okay?
This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous
Iraq war, which by the way, again, a little bit of copium there, okay?
At that point, the Iraq war was absolutely a belligerent decision by the American government
that, well, I wouldn't even say belligerent decision, it was a long standing position
of many financial interests in Iraq that materialized with a Dick Cheney leadership.
But Israel goading America into going to war with Iraq certainly was beneficial in whipping
up the votes for it, but Israel wasn't the singular reason why we went to Iraq just so
you understand.
Okay?
I hope you understand.
There's a difference between America's decisions in Iraq and the American decisions with Iran.
Okay?
This was a lie and it's the same tactic is there's usually to draw us in the war with
Iraq and cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women.
We cannot make this mistake again.
Oh my God, this is literally, I'm just realizing this is like stabbed in the back except this
time there is like a real fucking, a real reason for why like there is a, there is a
legitimate reason as to why you can say this about Iran with Iraq, not as much, but it
doesn't matter.
we're reflecting on the the failed military campaign of iraq and saying oh we
did it because the jews
and they stabbed us in the back
it's kind of crazy
this guy literally participated in that by the way
as a veteran who deployed a combat eleven times as a gold star husband
who lost my beloved wife shannon a war manufactured by israel
i cannot support sending the next generation off the fight and i know
war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American
lives.
I pray that you will reflect upon what we are doing in Iran and who we are doing it for.
The time for bold action is now.
You can reverse course and try a new path for our nation or you can allow us to slip
further towards the cloning chaos.
You hold the cards.
It was an honor to serve in your administration and to serve our great nation.
Yeah, I mean, he is demonic.
Trump is a well-meaning Kaiser who was tricked by the perfidious international capital and
insert institution with alleged Jewish control.
I mean, there is, he's not a well-meaning Kaiser at all, obviously.
I see the analog here, right? He's a psychopath himself, but one can also have the ambition
and still be totally fucking convinced by the Israeli state as he has, right? That is
the reality.
Well, I guess the Kaiser wasn't either. That's true. But like, both of these things are correct.
is dumb enough to think that, you know, this would go well for him.
Also, obviously, no, I don't know. Let me outmish.
Evit.
Do I think that this is totally self-serving from Joe Kent's perspective?
Possibly. Does it fucking matter? Absolutely not. Okay.
Chatter said Jewish control. Come on, bro. No, he's making an analog to the fucking stabbed in the back.
That's what he's saying. He's saying this is just like fucking Nazi Germany.
Hello. Do you not understand?
It's an analogy.
But this time instead of saying insert institution with alleged Jewish control
Instead of just directly saying it was the Jews. He's saying the modern version of the same exact myth
The the modern version of the same exact fucking myth is is is being redeployed right now
Now, okay, tent America first for Congress, Joe Kent statement on support for Israel and
opposition to anti-Semitism Israel a mutually beneficial ally and a close friend.
I'm intimately familiar with the help that Israel has provided the United States during
my military service in the Middle East.
My fellow soldiers and I often relied on intelligence provided by the IDF and their intelligence
agencies to help accomplish our mission and keep us alive.
The United States and Israel share common enemies in the Middle East from tears Grizzly Hamas and Hezbollah to the totalitarian government of Iran
Building close economic diplomatic and military relations in the United States best interest and something I will advocate for as a member of Congress
Again it doesn't matter what he said in the past about Jews or whatever, right?
What he cares about and he is also defended is really in Marie voted against supporting Israel because the phones will be taken from Biden's IRS
Marie's priority is the IRS tracking your Venmo transactions not defending Israel and recovering American hostages
She also voted to leave our troops under fire by Iran and Iraq and Syria notice how
Notice how
All of a sudden everyone's like wow you're fucking real anti-Semite, huh? This really fucked up how anti-Semitic you are
He was like straight up a grouper, but it doesn't fucking matter because when he was a straight-up grouper
However, it didn't even matter. Also in 2022, Kent was drawn into a dispute with the Gropers
around the Israel question as well as white identity politics, which back then was still
controversial in the mainstream right. He disavowed Fuentes while also appearing on a
Groper adjacent stream to debate them, which was an unusual step for an aspiring politician,
even in Maga Hard Right, and signaled that Groper politics were beginning their inexorable
creep into conservative respectability. That was one midterm ago in just four years. Enough
spaces open up on the fascist right for Joe Kent to flip on Israel in the Gropers direction.
and for Nick Fuentes to be courted by Tucker Carlson.
Yeah, this was his Israel position paper shared with APAC during a failed 2022 House bid.
Kent said he was intimately familiar with the help that Israel provided the United States
and two countries share common enemies in the Middle East and the totalitarian government of Iran.
Right? By the way, Jewish Insider and APAC, like all of these fucking institutions,
just straight up our information sharing all the time. I'm sorry. It's very hard to see
this as anything but like a foreign espionage operation. Like, like it's crazy. Oh, all
of a sudden the APAC, um, the, the APAC position papers materialize out of thin air. The moment
that fucking Joe Kent comes out and says, this is a war we're waging at the behest of
Israel and it's unacceptable.
I mean, he just took the position that the half hog libertarians have been on for months.
Maybe he watches Tim Dylan.
No, this is an indefensible position.
America has openly stated that they're waging war on Iran at the behest of Israel.
It is an indefensible position.
with three and a half fucking working brain cells can recognize that it's an
indefensible position. If you want, whether you want to like preserve
American military superiority, because things are also not going well on the
military campaign side, or whether because you have ambitions of higher
office later down the line, you recognize that this is completely untenable. It's
an indefensible position, so you're just fucking pulling the ripcord out as
quickly as possible. Anyone that actually turns around and talks about Joe Kent
being a fucking asshole for this or or being anti-semitic for this is also not reading the goddamn room or a
psychopathic Israel first dipshit
Right on cue
Wait, what is this this is not everyone but Shapiro apparently
Where's Josh Shapiro? Where's the Josh Shapiro element here? Why are you linking me this thing?
My bad here, Ben Shapiro. Oh, Ben Shapiro is probably losing his fucking mind.
His morning, Joe Kent put his job at the National Counterterrorism Center.
I mean, he is literally, Ben Shapiro is the perfect guy to go to whenever shit like this happens,
just so you know the wrong opinion, you know what I mean?
and issued a scathing letter designed to undermine President Trump. The letter is deeply, deeply
conspiratorial. It states openly that, quote, Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation.
And it is- Guys, the conspiracy is literally something that Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio,
Donald Trump, and virtually every fucking Democratic Party official that has been in
these closed door meetings has openly stated out loud. Okay? You can't say it's a conspiracy at
that point, dumbass. I'm sorry, anyone that fucking still thinks that you can consider
this to be a conspiratorial, uh, nonsensical position is so delusional and so desperate
to defend Israel so openly and transparently Israel first that they are having a hard time.
They're not talking to a single person that isn't exclusively invested in, uh, defending
Israel's ambitions, no matter how violent. Because everyone has said it. Everyone has
said it out loud. People in key positions of power have said it out loud. It is psychotic.
Mike Johnson has said it. But who is this for, is the question.
Clear, that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
Now, that is conspiracy trash. It's also kind of strange, since President Trump has-
It's trash. It's conspiracy trash.
Yeah, that it's conspiracy trash. So apparently, Trump is so deeply, deeply enthralled to those
strange, powerful American lobbies, we're not going to say it, we're not going to say
it, we're not going to say it, that he apparently has been so bamboozled by them that he's still
under the impression that he's his own man. But here's the thing, President Trump is
his own man. He makes his own decisions. And as per our usual arrangement, Trump's
critics are cowards who are simply unwilling to acknowledge that Trump is the one making
the call. But Jo Kent continued quote, early in this administration, high ranking Israeli
officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign
that wholly undermined your America first platform and so pre war sentiments to encourage
a war with Iran. This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posted
imminent threats to the United States. And that should you strike now, there was a clear
path to a swift victory. This was a lie. And is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw
us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our
best men and women. Again, the idea here seems to be that President Trump is a
moron misled into war by nefarious Israelis and unnamed influential members
of the American media. Don't say it. Don't say it again. Apparently President
Trump has no agency and no thoughts. Kent's letter is replete with this
conspiratorial idiocy, including as we just saw the idea that it was Israel. I
I mean, he kind of makes that an easier argument to launch,
don't you think?
Like Donald Trump, I mean,
it's not like he's seen as like a competent guy.
He doesn't carry himself in that way at all.
It does kind of lend credence to the theory.
He is partially right about Maca making excuse
for Trump and solely blaming BB.
No, yes, that part is correct.
Um, now I don't like hitting that line as much because like, who knows, maybe, maybe
MAGA will, well, not MAGA, the voters, but like the leadership might surprise us if enough
people are saying, Hey, I'm MAGA and why are you doing this?
I don't like that you're doing this for Israel.
If they, if, if enough people do that and then the administration sees this as an exit
ramp, then I'll take it, right? Because make no mistake, I 100% believe that the the American
government is absolutely responsible for this. But in the interim, any sort of separation
from Israel, no matter how it happens is good. Right?
Well, that forced the original Iraq war. If that Israel separation comes from enough
MAGA people making a fuss because, you know, they, they operate with a good czar, bad boyars
mentality where they think Trump cannot fail. He can only be made to fail by bad advisors or bad,
bad people in his orbit. And, you know, part of the bad influences like Israel,
if that's the, if that is going to be the prevailing attitude in the MAGA base, which is the only
thing that Trump responds to as far as public pressure goes, fuck it, you got to take what you
can write it totally and utterly unsupportable by any evidence given the fact that the actual
prime minister of Israel at the time ariel sharon opposed the iraq war this stuff is
brain rot now listen we should all be careful for joe kentz long and honorable military service
we can also be glad that he's leaving since his ideology is the same as that of tucker carlson
the guy who says that the war is disgusting and evil and who has been busy sex as opposed to
as opposed to a guy who should be saying the war is actually awesome
sing with molas
so carlson calls can't a personal friend and quote the bravest man i know
frankly i think that is a good thing that can't is not in this position
we cannot have a director of counterterrorism who is somehow
advocating preemptive surrender
to the world's leading state sponsor
of terrorism in the middle of the war
awesome
it took mere minutes joe kent is now officially declared an anti-semite and
this is by jake tapper as well
don bigas is good riddance iran has murdered more than a thousand america
more than a thousand americans their e f p landmines with the deadliest in iraq
anti-semitism is an evil i detest
and we surely don't want to enter government
jake tapper instantly reposted of course
yeah and yes now joe kent joe kent the big anti-semite how dare he do this uh...
uh... transparent anti-semitic act
uh... there's also this scoop from john hudson that i think is interesting
joe kennett also gathered met with uh... vice president jd vance of the
white house on monday per sources during the meeting can't present his
resignation letter to the vice president hmm
as of kentha he works for the director
of national intelligence
tolsey gabby
he writes this he says
i cannot in good conscious support the ongoing war in iran
Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due
to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
Oh no, Jake is mad.
Jake is mad.
I support the values and the foreign policies that you campaigned on in 2016, 2020, 2024,
which you enacted in your first.
Hey, Thiev Locke.
I can't give you my take on polymarkets, specifically troll bets being made like will
clavicular become the next Iranian supreme leader.
I'm a data student researching on prediction markers and influence effect young people.
Do you think this is the appropriate time for me to give you my perspective?
I feel like there's issues that are more pertinent than that.
You know, please stop spamming in the chat.
Until June of 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed
America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of
our nation.
And he added this, in your first administration, you understood better than any modern president
how to decisively apply military power without getting us drawn into never-ending wars.
You demonstrated this by killing Kasem Soleimani and by defeating ISIS.
He goes on and says more, Sabrina, but those are powerful words.
I think what's also important here is this is an appointee that was not someone that
you could consider not aligned with the president.
I mean this is someone that espoused the mag of base views and was appointed by of course
Tulsi Gabbard.
And so the fact that he has issued a very public resignation and the fact that he's
also said that Iran did not pose an imminent threat to the United States.
Oh my god.
Oh my god it's Sabrina Singh.
God, mainstream media is so fucking toasted, dude.
Who's Sabrina Singh?
A fucking out and about war criminal.
Okay, a defender of unlimited child murder, a genocide dare of the highest order, one
of the people in the Biden Pentagon at the time.
Israel was conducting its genocide. She was one of the spokespersons for the American Defense Brigade
of Israel's genocide. And now, of course, she has a cushy job as CNN as a political and global
affairs commentator. Yeah, she also worked with Fat Sagar at the newer think tank that also kept
kept doing PR for Israel, including the Gaza Holocaust fund that American Israel set up
together.
They went over to that private PR firm to do PR for the Gaza Holocaust fund and her and
her and Fat Sager, I forget his name, and yeah.
And now I guess she got a job at CNN, a case that was made by it's kind of great.
Like dude, this is the type of shit.
Like, look, look, no, no anti-Semitism, right?
Like we're talking about, is where we're not talking about Jews.
Okay.
I just want to stress this real quick, but like fucking Wolf Blitzer did PR for APAC and
sitting across from Sabrina Singh, who also did PR for another, like, Israeli organization and
also did PR for Israel's genocide. Like, is there a person that has a different point of
view here? Like, are we, do we have anybody that can speak on these fucking panels that's like,
hey, this is kind of weird.
He goes on and says more, Sabrina, but those are powerful words.
I think what's also important here is this is an appointee that was not someone that
you could base view.
She had a very public resignation.
And the fact that he's also said that Iran did not pose an imminent threat to the United
States, a case that was made by Donald Trump multiple times, and many other officials in
this administration, including the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State
Marco Rubio, saying that Iran posed an immediate threat to the United States.
And he's someone that clearly had access to intelligence matters, saying that they did
not.
I think you could potentially see other resignations from this administration, people deep within
the MAGA base that do not support this War of Choice.
And frankly, it is a War of Choice.
is something that the president chose to do. And he has said, you know, kind of on his
own conscious that he decided to initiate this war as well.
Yeah, he has said, he even said that he got Israel on board. But in this letter, Joe Kent
says he believes that this is-
Wait, wait, I'm sorry. So now we believe Donald Trump at CNN. That's awesome. No, no. When
Donald Trump first said we did this for Israel, but then he, the next day, said, no, actually
I got Israel on board, so we're choosing to believe the I got Israel on board statement
that literally goes against the overwhelming majority of people on the Democratic Party
side and on the Republican Party side that has actively said this war is being waged
at the best of Israel.
That's awesome is started because of pressure from Israel and it's American lobby.
I'm wondering, General, what you think about one of the last lines here.
He says, you can reverse course and chart a new path for our nation, or you can allow
us to slip further toward decline in chaos.
You hold the cards.
I'm wondering at this point, several weeks into this war, you have Iran saying that the
Strait of Hormuz will never go back to the conditions where it was before.
How do you chart a new course?
He needs to cut his losses, that being President Trump.
He needs to cut his losses and shut this down as quick as he possibly can.
be the best thing at this solution. You know, I'm not sure if he's got the capability and
where with all they actually do that politically, but I mean this is not going well and it's
going to get worse. And bully for Mr. Joe Kent for having the political courage to stand
up for what he believes, you know, this is a guy that's a big time MAGA supporter, has
always been. Very much like Marjorie Taylor Greene, you had on your show yesterday. I
I mean, these are these are significant resignations from the maga world and people need to take
take note and I hope that this leads to the resignation of other members of the administration
because he is absolutely spot on target.
This is not in the best interest of the United States to continue this war and President
Trump needs to shut it down as quickly as he possibly can.
Let me read another sentence or two from his resignation letter.
We got, we got general anti-Semitism over here. Hold on. Excuse me, sir. I didn't know
you got your rank at anti-Semitism university. Okay. What do you mean? We got to put this,
we got to nip the shit in the bud. We got to stop this and take the first exit ramp.
Hold on now, not allowed. As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a gold
star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot
support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit
to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives.
Yeah.
I mean, we've already seen 13 American service members die in this war.
Over 200 have been injured and their conditions have ranged from very serious to some have
been returned to duty.
But I think, you know, we've heard Pete Hikes that say this time and again, that more Americans
could could lose their lives.
And I think this love was this up to 80,000 Iranians have died processing regime, but
three weeks adjoint US Israeli attacks have failed to deliver the freedom for which they
sacrifice their lives 80,000 80,000 Iran killed 80 fuck it dude Iran killed 10 million okay
Iran killed 20 million Iran killed 1 billion Iranians Iran killed 7 billion Iranians in
in a matter of one day, two days, three days, 80,000?
I'm stupid how important was this guy
for the administration.
I mean, he was the director of the National Counterterrorism
Council, the Counterterrorism Center.
Like he is the head of counterterrorism
for the American government, an incredibly high-ranking individual in the admin.
That makes it very clear.
Is that worth it?
Is that worth the cost?
And this is someone that's obviously gone to war on behalf of our country and seen the
cost that it takes, not just on the people who are putting their lives on the line.
Like, here's the thing.
During the Biden administration, during the Biden administration, no such high-ranking
official ever quit throughout the genocide, okay? There were people that quit in the Biden
admin as well, if you recall, right? But they were never at this level.
They were never at this level. When Biden was allowing Israel to do the Holocaust
on the Palestinian population with unlimited support,
there was never a person at this level
that quit in that process.
All the people that quit were in much lower ranking positions
in the-
On the country.
And so I think it is really important
that not only is he putting this out today,
but this is someone that is a deep figure
within the MAGA base.
And someone that is aligned with the president
And it's breaking very publicly with him.
And it's personal for him, as you noted, Wolf,
that his wife was killed in Syria in 2019 by an ISIS bomber.
I just want to go back to you, General.
Clearly, you don't agree with this war.
But at the same time, Israel is saying
that it is taking out more top Iranian officials,
including one who has been overseeing
a lot of what Iran has been doing and its counterattacks.
And I just wonder if you see any progress, any benefit so far
from this war in terms of safety toward the United States because of some of the people
who have been taken out.
First of all, I commend the military performance thus far in the war.
I mean, it's been superb.
And look, no one's shedding any tears.
Royce Cooley and Antisemite and his butthole, we aren't doing this to Mexico or Cuba.
I mean, I don't think you would give a fuck if we're doing this to Mexico or Cuba.
But I suspect that the motivating principle here is not anti-Semitism.
Self-preservation?
Absolutely.
But I don't think this, I don't think anything that he is saying is, is with the exception
of the, you know, Israel goaded us into going to war with Iraq.
I mean, there is, Israel did absolutely push for the Iraq war.
Anyone that says that's not the case is a fucking liar.
like the calculation was, was, um, was not like, it's not even comparable with the respect to the
Iraq war versus the Iran war. You cannot compare these two things as far as like how much, how much
of a, a factor Israel was. Okay. In Iraq, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu literally came to Congress
and said, oh, this is going to be great. It's awesome, right? Sure. Did that help convince
some people? I'm sure it did. But Iraq was America in the driver's seat, okay? The United
States of America, for reasons outside of what might be beneficial for Israel, wanted to go to
Iraq, okay? Iran, on the other hand, has a lot, a lot more to do with Israel. That is
such an insane, disgusting take. What is, what's insane, disgusting take? You can definitely
compare them. Bibi was a main influence in the Iran war. He was a supporting influence
in the Iraq war. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Benjamin Ninyahu at
the time, the idea that Joe Kent is anti-Semitic. Wait, what? I mean, he's like, uh, he was
like Groyper affiliated for years before, uh, he decided to push back against the Groyper
shit so I don't you know I wouldn't surprise me if like I think most of these
guys are fucking anti-semitic who gives a shit it is nothing to do with this
calculation
like what hello guys guys I need you to wake the fuck up okay a lot of people in
this administration or anti-semitic they're also pro-Israel and that's what
matters, okay? Candace Owens was anti-Semitic. Candace Owens was anti-Semitic when Ben Shapiro
hired Candace Owens. But Candace Owens back then was pro-Israel. It was only after Candace
Owens became anti-Semitic and anti-Israel that Ben Shapiro said, you're fired. Okay,
that's it.
For the Comedians demise and a new Ayatollah and the aggressive nature that they have had
towards in the region and been a threat in the region.
I mean, I'm all for doing something about the Iranians,
but we were not provoked.
And the problem here is that we're
in the middle of a long war, at least a long war for them.
I mean, I remember what Henry Kissinger said about Vietnam.
He said that the Americans will lose by not winning.
And the Vietnamese will win by not losing.
the iranians just want to sustain themselves stay in power as long as
they possibly can continue to harass
united states like attacking bagdad in the in the embassy there what not
and and is stay alive long enough so that they can claim victory
on a by agreement is millikowski played a central in the second genocide against
iraq i honestly don't know if the u.s. invades of israel doesn't want it
iraq and other new with nine eleven and we all knows a serious thrower thorn in
israel side after saddam one rogue
your nutty mode brother come on they literally had the oil fields mapped out in 1995 dude
what are you talking about no no i do not agree with that at all did they utilize 9 11
to to put the crosshairs on a rock and did it did israel's goals here in in taking out sedam
also sweetened the deal certainly but there is no such materialist calculation
that you can make with Iran as it stands currently that's why I'm saying this is
different that's why I'm saying the calculation now is different you
understand and that's that's what they will do if they do this long enough
let's go actually to the winehouse where we're going to find our Kevin Liptak
who's been tracking any responses coming from the administration what's the
latest Kevin yeah nothing official yet from the president although we're
expecting to see him any moment now in the Oval Office with the T-Shark of Ireland.
He's here for St. Patrick's Day.
But you do hear, you know, officials who are within the Trump orbit beginning to sound
off on this.
You know, one former White House official described Jo Kemp as an egomaniac, someone
who is residing this position in quite a high-profile fashion.
And I think that is probably along the lines of what we will hear from the president if
and when he decides to respond to this.
But I do think it will be difficult for him to entirely dismiss this resignation as someone
with Trump derangement syndrome as someone who is a Trump enemy, as he does so often,
just because Joe Kent has so often aligned himself with the president.
He is of the MAGA wing of the party.
That's how he ran as a candidate for Congress two times in Washington state, and it is why
he was selected for this position in the first place.
His confirmation was not an easy one by any means.
He was very narrowly confirmed by the Senate.
And all of these questions about conspiracies around the 2020 election, about potential
ties to white nationalists, all arose in his confirmation hearings.
And for all of those reasons, I think it will be difficult for the president to sort of
entirely distance himself from this individual who is now coming out very publicly, decrying
some of the perceived rationale for the war in Iran, and I do think it will also put in
a very difficult position Joe Kent's boss, the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi
Gabbard, who has espoused in previous lives the very same positions about questioning
the adventurism of previous iterations of the Republican Party, questioning of nation-building
pursuit. She too was a veteran just like Joe Kent and so putting her I think in a difficult
position but certainly we expect to hear from the president very soon and hopefully
he will be asked about all of this.
Let's see what he says. All right Kevin Liptec, thank you very very much. I want to bring
in CNN K-File Senior Editor Andrew Kaczynski who's joining us on the phone. Andrew I know
you had previously reported that Joe Kent gave a previously unreported interview back
in 2022 to Grayson Arnold, a Nazi sympathizer and white nationalist, a spokesperson for Kent
who was then running for Congress at the time said, and I'm quoting him now, Joe Kent had
no idea who that individual was when he encountered him on the street, and Joe Kent has repeatedly
condemned the statements that the individual is accused of making."
Andrew, what more can you tell us about Kent's past?
Well, look, Joe Kent's resignation is their model, but it's really not particularly surprising
if you look at his record.
He's a former Green Beret.
He did numerous tours overseas.
His first life shaman was a military member who was killed overseas and he suicided bombing
in Syria that part of the U.S. troops.
What's remarkable here too is that he entered politics in 2021 to primary a Republican who
had actually voted to and teach from Pia to failed bids for Congress.
And when he entered politics, he specifically said it was in part because he witnessed,
and this is a direct quote from one of his videos once he was campaigning, the failures
of the government establishment in keeping us at war in the Middle East, watching officials
and he said, quote, a lie about regime change wars.
And during that campaign, both campaigns, he railed against the military industrial
complex, he railed against endless wars.
In one of the interviews he gave, he literally said,
let's not start a new war with Iran over 2021 interview.
At the same time, as you mentioned,
he has been a polarizing figure during his congressional run.
He did face repeated scrutiny over contact with far right figures and
extremist figures, which he later gets about.
And of course he works for Tulsi Gabbard, who before joining the administration
had a long history of opposing war with Iran.
And not that long ago, just five, six years ago,
She was literally selling it. She ran for Congress merchant studies that said no war with Iran
on her campaign website. So this also puts a lot of questions at her as this has been mentioned here.
But ultimately, I do think that the resignation here reflects his long standing opposition
to American intervention abroad.
I'm here. Respect by Andrew there, by the way, K file, um, uh, giving the appropriate
context rather than just like leaning into the, well, he's a fucking real, uh, dangerous
anti semi. I mean, he's just like straight up like this dude has been, uh, anti interventionist
from the, from the jump came into the administration. Although he like, hung out with like fucking
right wing extremists as many of these fucking dipshits. I mean, the president guys, I don't
know if you guys know this, but the president of the United States of America had dinner
with Nick Fuentes and Kanye West. Okay.
Less you forget.
With the Israel's Defense Minister, our chief of staff, the head of the Mossad, the chief of Air Force, our senior commanders.
In the past 24 hours, we knocked out two of the terrorist chieftains, the top terrorist
chieftains of this journey, our aircraft are heading, the terror operatives on the grounds
and the crossroads in the city squares.
This is meant to enable the brave people of Iran to celebrate the festival of fire.
So celebrate and happy knows we're watching from above.
Four-year-old Anita was pulled out of the rubble last week after an airstrike destroyed
her home. She's in a coma with severe head injuries.
Yes, bro, he's not dead.
The mother's e-bar is in torment.
Doctors say Anita is unlikely to survive. She was playing with her brother, Artem, when
the missile came in, leaving him with multiple injuries. It was terrifying, he says.
We were on the stairs, me and my sister. Suddenly everything went black. I didn't understand
what happened next. I didn't hear a sound, nothing. I thought I was dreaming.
The family destroyed by America and Israel's air campaign, Z-Bar, had this message for
their leaders.
Why did this happen to us? To innocent people, my innocent four-year-old girl, who was only
going downstairs to come to me. Why do ordinary people like us? We were sitting at home together.
They've taken away our safety, our happiness and the health of our children.
It isn't hard to see why many civilians are being hurt when you come to places like this,
were airstrikes are hitting targets in residential areas. The impact of the
firepower unleashed here is hard to take in and residents told us these were
civilian apartment blocks. Local residents say a security organization of
some sort was based somewhere in all this but I guess the point to make is
that targeting that has ended up with pretty much an entire city block being
devastated. You may only say 40 people died here. It's not clear how many of them were
civilians and how many were members of that organisation.
Sayed showed us the floor his 35-year-old daughter had been at home on when the airstrike
destroyed the building. Another family torn apart by this war.
has caused this and it's 100% Trump and Netanyahu. I wish the same thing would happen to them.
You have no idea what suffering I have been through for a week, day and night.
The cross town after reports of more airstrikes nowhere is safe here even in daylight in the
centre of town.
It's pretty jittery mood here after these reports of Halle LaRajani, the top security
official being assassinated and the top paramilitary commander, but also the fact that there was
a strike in this square this morning on the security force vehicles right in the middle
of the Iranian capital.
We've got this sort of daily show of defiance, this parade with Iranian flags and chums thing,
but also today we see a lot more security on the streets.
not to come out tonight for the annual fireworks night ahead of Persian New Year at the end
of the week, presumably, because people, the fear is, could come out and look at the unrest.
This is the last time we saw Ali Larijani last Friday. His reported killing only escalates
this war. It will almost certainly provoke a more hard-line response from Iran. The conflict
is deepening and more innocent civilians will without doubt pay the price. Dominic
Wacom, Sky News, Tehran.
Our relationship with Israel is not in our strategic interest. Remember I said
before, Israel is an albatross around their neck. That contradicts the basic
thesis of my book and my writings more generally on great power politics and
Steve's as well but it just goes to show you how enormously powerful the lobby is.
I mean just Max and Eric just think about the fact that the United States recognizes
that if it has a peer competitor in the international system that it should worry about
it's China, right? And this is why Hillary Clinton enunciated in 2011 that we were going to pivot
to Asia. China is seen as the most important threat to the United States inside of the national
security community. Well, if you look at these various wars that we're fighting in the Middle East,
and the first one, of course, was the 12-day war last June, and now you look at this conflict,
it is seriously eroding our capability to contain China in East Asia. We're pulling
thads and patriots out of South Korea and Japan. This is truly remarkable. We have been short
changing East Asia. We have been short changing our containment policy in East Asia for quite a
while now because of Israel and the situation is now only getting worse from a strategic point of
view from a realist point of view, which of course is what Steve and I purvey in our writings,
this makes no sense at all. I think they should draft 18-year-old kids and make them stay in the
military. Why? I don't think so. I don't like that. So they can grow up and quit being model babies?
There should never be a draft of any kind. It should all be free will. A draft is bullshit. No
matter what country, what war, it's all bullshit. You should never force people to go fight a war
20 of Bob doesn't realize that that would be the complete death of American Empire.
It would be the last thing that the Trump administration did. Okay, I'm not even joking.
Like, the reason why America gets to do all this war-waging bullshit is because there is no draft.
The moment that the draft kicks in is the moment where every American goes, wait a minute, I have to die now.
It's the same principle behind like, you know, American champions of Ukraine that are just like, yeah, keep fighting Ukraine, you're fighting for democracy.
keep going and it's like bro are you gonna fight for Ukraine? Fuck no!
Right?
A lack of a draft allows people to feel as though they're they're powerful American
military is doing its force projections, it's great, you get to feel powerful at home.
You don't have to hold the gun. The moment that you have to hold the gun,
and there's another dude holding another gun on the other side,
it becomes a very different calculation for you.
them. Part of the reason why America gets the wage war is the way that it does. Donald
Trump's kids should be on the front lines. Yeah, could Baron get drafted? Yes. And you
would be okay with Haley's son Roman being drafted, your grandchild. Yes, absolutely.
Wow. Mom, would you be okay with that? To fight for the freedom of our country? Yes,
Yes.
You'd want my kids going to Iran to fight a war that Donald Trump started.
You'd want my kids involuntarily on the front lines.
I didn't say on the front lines that...
Downvolunteered for that bullshit.
My kids aren't.
For the freedom of our country?
Fuck this country.
Fuck Donald Trump.
Fuck everything this government stands for.
This is an embarrassment, and the fact that you would send my kids to war is disgusting.
I think it's important that Iran doesn't lose.
Wow.
I think it's important.
You want a regime to win that has murdered hundreds of thousands of its own citizens,
that denies women freedom, that kills gay people.
You want them to win over American Israel.
Wow.
Israel kills hundreds of thousands of people.
No, it hasn't.
the figures on Iran are mainly bogus. The recent massacres, some of them were generally
kill protesters, but there are often more.
40,000 of them, 40,000.
No, why did you say 100,000 then?
It was in 100,000.
It was 40,000, as you're well aware.
Is it okay then to kill 400,000 Iranians?
I'm not saying it's okay to kill any number of people.
But you seem to think it's okay for Iran to kill 40,000 people, but you'd be the first
to man the barricades and say, oh yeah, but Israel has killed 65,000 in Gaza.
So that's terrible, but it's okay to kill 40,000 Iranians.
Dear, oh dear David, grow up.
I've been a loyal supporter of the president for almost 20 years.
This goes back to when I was 21 years old.
Bro, let's be real.
If we were doing, if we were taking military action to defend people, to liberate people,
we would be doing what we're doing to Iran, but to Israel, okay?
Their death toll is actually in the hundreds of thousands.
Holden, I was Miss California at the Miss USA pageant, and I've known him.
I consider him a dear friend, and I will tell you right now, I do not recognize our president.
I think that we are an occupied nation.
I think that a foreign country has occupied our government.
And we are seeing now that this president of the United States of America is being influenced
by a foreign government.
And MAGA, let me tell you right now, MAGA is dead.
It is deader than dead, and Americans are furious.
We do not recognize President Donald J. Trump anymore.
It just seems so insane based on what he ran on.
I mean, this is why a lot of people feel betrayed, right?
ran on
Fucking Joe Rogan, dude
Oh, she's so crazy I feel betrayed bro
But just seems so insane based on what he ran on I mean this is why a lot of people feel betrayed right he ran on no more wars
And these stupid senseless wars and then we have one that we can't even really clearly
Define why we did it. No American son or daughter should die for Israel
But no American son or daughter should die for Israel
Anti-Semitic goiom stand down go home
Gross home find the legal means to exit the military because there are legal means you can exit the military you can in fact
Conscientiously object to military service military men. He should know swear and oath to defend. I swear to God
Candice O's is the most unique person to watch because one statement. I'm like, oh, come on. What are you doing?
And in the next statement, I'm like, oh my gosh, she's base
Like literally she just turned around and goes go I am stand out. I'm like, oh, that's so fucking cringe
And then she's like, but you can become a conscientious objector by following these steps. You have a legal right to
object
And the Constitution of the United States of America
I don't really see that happening right now. I don't even see Trump doing that from his flagrant
violations of free speech
each to freedom of religion.
Trump recently firing Kerry Pregene-Bowler
from the religious committee
because Zionists didn't like her Catholic perspectives.
Can anybody at all meaningfully point out to me,
point out for me, which specific portion
of the Constitution our commander-in-chief
is currently doing a good job protecting?
What is it?
What are you looking at?
What has he done?
That you would be like, oh yeah,
he is the person who is defending our Constitution.
There yet, show me which guaranteed constitutional right
you believe that Trump will not violate for Israel.
I mean, this shit has created a very unique media environment
where like, it's an endless sequence of the worst person
you know, making good points over and over again.
Like it's kind of wild.
But there's literally, like with the exception of some of the, I mean, I know what her background
is.
I know that she's anti-Semitic because she's actually said insane stuff about Jews being
contract lords, like utterly irrelevant to the main point.
I do think this is disastrous as far as like on the one hand, I think about it as like
the real problem here right now is that Israel dominates American foreign policy and American
domestic policy as well, like where they will come into elections and undermine the Democratic
project. And obviously like cutting Israel loose would be the beneficial thing in the short term.
But also at the same time, I'm like, on the one hand, I'm like, yes, she's anti-Semitic.
On the other hand, I'm like, well, is she like actually decoupling
MAGA from Israel? The issue is, I don't know if she's doing that. I think what's happening is she's
He's just making like liberals anti-Semitic.
I worry that Tucker Carlson has a lot of normies watching.
And those normies aren't MAGA.
Those normies are already like liberals or independence and they're watching Tucker or
they're watching Candace and they're like, yeah, actually it is the Jews.
They are contract lords.
They were already anti Israel.
Now they're, you know, moving in the other direction as well as opposed to like MAGA
that watches them and goes, um, yeah, these people are, you know, trustworthy individuals.
I agree with them.
I think like, you know, I love Trump, but he really fucked up on this one, right?
Can you point to one because I feel like right now we are all being forced into the servitude of a foreign nation.
That seems to be the American reality right now.
So I say by all means, allow the Mark Levin's, the Ben Shapiro's to sign their offspring up instead.
Allow the Christians, Zionists, the ones who make videos telling you how devilish it is.
support Israel. They believe this is messianic. That BB was sent to usher in Armageddon. That's
gonna bring Jesus back. I urge you, all of you Christian Zionists, sign up for the military
today. Please.
Respectfully, Marceau, I believe it's pattern recognition. Okay, dude, you know how many
fucking times I've heard that about black people in crime? Yeah, what do you think fucking racism is?
is, how do you think racism is justified and defended?
Like, what do you mean?
The problem in this is, there's no, like,
every Jewish institution in the country
is like actively saying, no, we are this, we love this shit.
Shut the fuck up, don't talk, don't talk against us.
So it goes beyond like classic pattern recognition.
It's ridiculous because at the end of the day, it's not true.
No one is, no peoples are monolithic.
No peoples are monolithic, it just doesn't exist, right?
And Jews certainly are not a monolithic people either.
The problem is, every fucking Jewish institution creates an alternative reality where they are monolithic.
and people respond to it in this way
he's you guys stop tweeting
stop screaming about to cross in
you have something much more important to do there's a mess in our mission right
now go to iran
go remove
the thousands of dead innocent palestinian children
from beneath the rubble in gaza
but chump can build his hotel
i want you guys to be the change that you wish to see in the world you've got
this while the going to stand down is you guys have the vision you have the
understanding it's biblical go for it you can do this without us we're down
lower than we've been in seven years and gasoline prices and oil prices not
just the three states that I talked about with 199 again how would you like
to have 199 you know that's oh yeah we'd love that
At the time, the tweet from David Grossman to your point, yes, he's an anti-Semite and
an asshole, but when will Jewish institutions face up to the problem of certain Jews, Nenio,
Ackman, Dershowitz, etc., acting in ways that are consistent with anti-Semitic stereotypes
and thereby extend their effectiveness?
Not only that, but institutions as well.
only like prominent Jews that are super invested in the state of Israel, but also Jewish institutions.
It's fucking ridiculous. Like every single goddamn day, there are every single goddamn day.
There are alarm bells
ringing about how much Americans don't fuck with Israel.
And while that's going on
You got Jewish institutions
Running around Jewish organizations Jewish advocacy organizations running around and saying no no no
You don't understand every Jew loves Israel every Jew loves Israel you got Jewish institutions like synagogues and shit doing landfairs
selling stolen land inside of the synagogue
It's fucking crazy. It makes no damn sense. And they're also actively undermining Jewish
voice for peace. And saying like these guys are insignificant. All these other like anti
Zionist Jewish organizations are insignificant. They don't make up the majority, all the stuff.
It blows my mind.
These are the last institutions that actually give a fuck about anti-Semitism.
If you are not an anti-Zionist Jew, you do not care about anti-Semitism.
It's that simple.
If you are not an anti-Zionist Jew at this point, if you are Jewish and Zionist, you
don't give a fuck about anti-Semitism.
You want anti-Semitism to thrive in this country.
It is ridiculous.
That's the equivalent of a very major tax cut.
Welcome back.
President Trump in Pennsylvania back in December, touting low energy and gas prices. Today, the
average price for a gallon of gas in Pennsylvania is $376, according to AAA. That's higher than
last week, and it's up more than 60 cents from a month ago. NBC News' senior national
politics reporter John Allen has been speaking with Pennsylvania voters. He's been out
What? You have appealed to this freaking Tucker's authority for months. I'm constantly here telling you the lives are going crazy. Please stop appealing to these racist freaks.
You think I'm appealing to Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson?
Do you think I'm Cenk Uygur? Do you think I'm my uncle or something?
Hello? Are you okay?
You're appealing to their authority on Israel?
No.
Were you not aware when I was talking about how devastating and dangerous it is that Democrats
have actually completely lost ground on this issue of being the torch bearers of anti-Zionist
thought to the likes of Candace Owens?
And my real fear here is that they're not necessarily causing the MAGA base to no longer
be pro-Israel, but instead they're just winning over a lot of anti-Israel people that are
coming into that audience and becoming anti-Semitic and believing a whole bunch of other nonsense
that they espouse.
Was that, did you just like have an anti-Rizm in the beginning when I clicked on a Candace
video and then loose sight of what I was talking about right after because I
repeated those things just now I was saying it back then you just go and you
just couldn't pay attention to anything that was going on
Anyway, confirm traiings to killed by Iran to kill the central Israel during the last
Iranian missile brush close to munitions rained out on Tel Aviv and surrounding areas.
And then no answer, by the way, comes in, drops a fucking atom bomb, and then no answer.
On a road trip here in Millersburg, about 25 miles north of Harrisburg.
He joins me now.
And John, I understand you're sort of in a Trump-supportive part of Pennsylvania.
You want to know the worst part?
There are a lot of those in Pennsylvania.
What are you hearing?
Oh, yeah, this one's, this one banged.
Possible outcome for 2028.
Tucker Carlson runs on an anti-Israel platform, and the Democrats put forward a pro-liberal
Zionist pro-defending America's military might candidate.
Tucker Carlson wins by Ronald Reagan numbers.
The Democratic Party is done.
The next wave of fascism is here.
That's what I'm afraid of.
Tucker Carlson versus Gavin Newsom is unlimited Tucker Carlson victory.
Tucker Carlson's like, you're Israel first.
You're an attacked dog.
You're a lap dog for Israel.
I can't even tell what your positions are.
One day you say Israel's an apartheid, you get a boss call from all of the Israel lobbyists
And next day, you come out and you say, actually, Israel's not an apartheid.
Americans need someone who actually can stand on moral principles.
And as a Christian, I think, Jeh, that is unconscionable.
What's going on?
Uh, uh, uh, uh, you see, Tucker, uh, uh, uh, you are being quite anti-Semitic.
Uh, no, I love, I love Jews.
I love Jews.
I can't stand what Israel has done to my Jewish friends.
What's going on?
Ronald Reagan victory condition.
This is why I've been trying to urge Democrats to take a stronger stance against Israel.
You cannot have a guy like Tucker Carlson lead the conversation on Israel.
The Democrats as a national party have to universally oppose Israel.
If you don't do that, a guy like.
I would vote for Tucker over most Dems.
The way these comments are proving his point, true, a nuisance can't beat Tucker Carlson,
but the other guys, you can.
I'd rather Tucker over a nuisance actually, see?
See?
This is the danger of Tucker Carlson.
This is why I think a lot of people are not, a lot of people are singularly fucking focused
on, understandably by the way, understandably they're focused on Israel, okay?
And whoever fills that void appropriately will win.
I'm telling you, man, I'm telling you, Democrats are fucking delusional.
See, a lot of Democrats don't realize that people actually fuck with Tucker heavy, dude.
And these people aren't necessarily lifelong Republicans either.
I don't think Tucker Carlson is building an audience on the MAGA right.
I think he's building an audience on the left.
I think Tucker Carlson and all of his numbers
are the normies who self-idea as liberals,
are the normies who self-idea as independence.
I think Libs love Tucker now.
That's my suspicion.
Straight up.
Maybe I'm wrong, but this is my theory.
This is what I've been thinking about quite a bit because the numbers don't add up. Tucker Carlson has been a prominent fixture in right-wing politics forever.
He was incredibly cost-quenched in 2016.
He rose the prominence.
And he was able to meticulously craft a palatable white supremacist narrative.
He leaned into left populism, workers' rights, and things like that, knowing full well that that would beef up his support, and he did so at Fox News.
He had a lot of promise in the MAGA audience.
He was known as a MAGA guy.
He left Fox News.
And I think he still carried the torch of MAGA.
But as of late, considering that the 85% of Trump supporters, 85% of Republicans believe
that the war with Iran is good, war with Iran that we are waging for Israel is a good thing.
I don't think Tucker Carlson has a primarily Republican audience any longer.
I think Tucker Carlson now has an anti-Israel audience and given how popular the anti-Israel
position is, that audience isn't primarily Republicans at all.
I think that audience has a lot, a lot of Democrats in it and a lot of centrists and
liberals in it as well.
In a way, he is perfectly positioned to carry the spirit of Trump 2016 for this reason.
No one on the left is ready to be anti-Israel in the way that Tucker is.
No one.
No one on the left, as it stands currently, like some of the top leaders in the party,
the progressive figures in our party, okay? If we are to say our party about the Democrats,
now that there's some candidates that we're pushing for.
The only guy I can think of, and I know people are going to get pissed off of this, is Graham
Platner, ironically enough. But I don't think AOC, with the way that she talks about Israel
currently is capable of fighting back against this narrative.
I think, I think, I'm not talking about like Grand Plattner's background, Chatters, calm
down.
I'm saying like the way he messages on this, do you, do you see what I mean?
No, I heard, I said Grand Plattner and everybody lost their minds.
i'm talking about the the way
though way grand platter messages on the issue of israel
it's no nonsense it cuts through the fucking noise
take that message
take that on a polygenic message
and put it into any campaign
and they will become a leader in the country
is not about who grand platter is i'm talking about how grand platter
communicates on this issue of endless militarism, endless war, and how it's not beneficial for
ordinary Americans. Okay. Oh, yes, message you can platter. Here we go. I just, I said
the word Graham and I said the word platter. I can't even say Graham cracker in this fucking
chat without people losing their minds and putting my house coordinates on Twitter to
the demand iran uh... send a shot had drone strike to my house
being like this is where the israeli cement factory is irgc please
bomb this fucking uh... infidel
anyway
Do you understand though?
Because AOC's biggest weakness, in my opinion,
and I say this is someone who is excited at the prospect
of her running for the presidency.
OK.
Her biggest weakness is she responds to the trolls too much.
She doesn't listen to people in her left flank
when they have something worthy to listen to.
And she also listens far too much to like identity groups that will use standpoint epistemology to like manipulate her.
Right.
Like she'll come out and be like, Israel's doing a genocide.
And then for the next week, she'll hear out every fucking Jewish advocacy organization that's like, AOC, we love you.
Why did you say Israel's doing a genocide?
Don't you think that's a little anti-Semitic or at least like that's opening up the floodgates
of anti-Semitism?
Can you go and hang out with like, with one of the Israeli hostage families or something,
you know what I mean?
Like, and then she'll take a, she'll do a photo op thinking that this is going to strike
a delicate balance, right?
Even Zoran is doing it now, which is crazy.
Standoff fucking business.
want easy to understand messages. Okay. Her future foreign policy advisor may be Professor
Daniel Bessner talking to Clevicular. Wait, what the fuck? Clevicular talks about the
relationship between Lux, Maxx, and Pollux and why people connected to each other to
try to diminish him as a person. Why the fuck is Clevicular talking to Dan Bessner? What
What the hell is going on?
What is going on, dude?
This timeline is busted, bro.
That's awesome. I, what is happening, bro? Well, the OCS are on our two con for this
moment. No, fuck no, they can be mean. They just need to be principled. Yeah. I don't think
AOC has the ability to meet the moment. I don't mean it in a massage. This situation is a
bit too much worry to say the wrong thing. You've got to be principled, more confident
like Edgar, Eddie's your mentor was saying after the most important thing is confidence
and competence. Yes. Yes. Zoran had that. Zoran was doing that when he was running.
And then by the time the general came around, he started, you know, falling apart a little
bit on that front. I mean, he still does it. He still balances it out for every, for every
like messaging week moment, like messaging week is moment that I have. He, he wins it
back tenfold with like something that he does, right? But, but I do think, I do think that
on this issue, on this issue, you cannot be fucking, you cannot engage in half measures,
no like defensive offensive weapons distinctions, you can't be running scared. Because if you
do that, on the right, someone's going to take advantage of that weakness, and they're
going to become the movement leaders. And it blows my mind. It blows my mind that Democrats
are like progressive Democrats and left flank Democrats are not taking on leadership roles
in the anti Zionist cause to connect looks not saying to particularly right wing politics.
But to me, it's always been a bit of a loose connection. But why do you think people are
looking to do that?
Um, just to kind of like, hmm, just diminish me and try to de-platform some of these ideas.
Uh, because like, you know, a lot of people don't like to acknowledge the hard truth that
looks are pretty much ever.
Do you see you're part of an Oscar blind item?
There's no way that's not a meme, right?
the fuck is an Oscar blind item?
Everything. So I think like, a lot of a lot of it is is cope. A
lot of it is people not necessarily being happy.
Like a rumor. What does that mean?
anonymous gossip? What was it? What was the anonymous gossip?
What was the celebrity gossip story about me making these points?
Yeah, so you think like it's basically what is this?
It was nothing move on.
Uh oh.
You're not an E-celebro, clav on the other hand is.
Law, you exist in your own underground space in my opinion. Wait, what?
They said you killed your dog.
Wait, what do you mean? But my dog is alive.
Blind items, speaking of people not liked.
No one could understand how the dog abuser probable dog killer podcast got an invite to the magazine party
What does that mean?
Bro, it's bullshit stop getting faked. Yeah, it was everyone was like boo. I can't believe this guy is here
Anonymous guys that people are wondering who invited the shrieker who may or may not kill this dog
Yeah, I wonder if it was a anonymous blind item or if it was
is sent from Tel Aviv it means you killed fish oh nice
gross blind hunters can be submitted by literally anyone
their trash, yeah. I need you to start taking medication for ADHD, big dog. Blind
items are random people who suggest they have info, 99% of the time they're just
clowns that imagine things, yeah. This is the 23 blind items. Blind item number 23.
Speaking of people not liked, no one could understand why.
Didn't she drive around shooting dogs? I imagine animal abuse. Dude,
some party got invited to the Vanity Fair party. He allegedly has sex with a 15-year-old
a process of brillant to that's just completely made up.
The guy who runs that site is an Ethan Klein dick writer, very weird.
Is the Sampuyker still planning to talk to Gavin Newsom?
Yes.
Yeah, it's just like anywhere, anywhere my name is mentioned.
Mike's mentioned there's like a barrage of fake bullshit Harvey Weinstein leaning over his cellmate you hear about his dog
Yeah
Yeah, I'm the biggest villain in Hollywood famously
Sorry, it's honest seeing all this worth for your health. I mean it doesn't fucking matter
They're just someone wanted to talk shit who gives a fuck
it is what it is. Yeah, I mean, this is Vanity Fair cut the invite list in half this year
to clearly it's on one and no one cares about slop narratives on Twitter and YouTube.
I didn't even know that, apparently Vanity Fair also cut the list as well, is what some people were saying.
How do you cope with it? I would do something stupid and probably illegal if I got shit like that.
I don't give a fuck, man.
I don't give a shit. You want to know why?
because I believe in the things that I believe, I know who I am as a person, I know what my values are, I know what my actions represent,
and I am uncompromising, and now more than ever before, we are closer to reaching collective consciousness.
Who gives a fuck?
Who gives a fuck? People lie all the time. People lie about everything on the internet.
Do you see what I'm saying?
I still believe in the good in all people, right?
If I didn't, if I didn't believe that people have the capacity to hear me out in a charitable
manner, I wouldn't be able to do what I'm doing, right?
People lie about everything on the internet.
We don't have consensus reality any longer.
For every person that hears shit like that and goes, oh, I will never trust this guy
again, there are still people I know that go, you know what?
I want to hear this guy's position on this issue.
I want to hear him out.
And if they encounter what I have to say and can find the strength within themselves to
have a moment of charitability, they'll realize that a lot of this shit is completely fucking
made up. There are many people in this community that probably came from one drama cycle or
the next, right? Who at first were like, oh, you bought a house, but isn't that like socialism
but rich? Like that's fucked up, right? Or you bought a car, you fucking lease the Porsche.
How dare you socialism barrage that's fucked up.
Your anti-semitic terrorist is what they said for two years, three years.
I mean, I'll take dog abuse or over anti-semitic terrorist.
I'll be honest.
I mean, one is like, you know, I feel like it's if people are going to lie on my name,
I'd rather be like, I'd rather have them assume that I'm like abusing dogs than a fucking
terrorist.
It's not as bad, I think.
Still unconscionable, it's a gross smear,
but you gotta choose one over the other, I'll choose one.
If your actions represent your values,
then why go to the Met Gala?
Of course, why didn't go to the Met Gala?
I would if I was invited.
before the pandemic hit dog
people there are feeling
and are they factoring that
the war on a rock? Well,
wish Kelly O'Donnell a h
back after my friend Patrick
you're in a family requirement
I'm going to go ahead and
I'm in Millishburg, Pennsylvania. The reason I'm here is it's a swing district, Pennsylvania's
10th district, and a swing state. President Trump won this district by about five points,
but the local congressman Scott Perry is in danger of losing in the midterms. And we
wanted to talk to people about their feelings about gas prices, about the war you mentioned,
Pennsylvania's average gas price, about $3.76 a gallon right now. We went to like the cheapest
place around $3.54.9 cents a gallon here. I talked to folks. Better you hear from them
than from me about how they're feeling.
Let's roll the tape. The decision to strike around. It was a great decision. I think somebody else
should have done it a couple of years ago, last three other presidents. Are you willing to pay
higher prices at the pump if that's the cost? Yeah, I'm willing to pay old one. What do you think
think about the war? I think he's doing the right thing. The long run is going to help
us out. If they get nuclear weapons, we might not even be here in a couple of years. I think
he's doing a good job. Is it worth the rise in the price of gas? I think so. What do you
think about the U.S. decision to go into Iran? I think we've got to do what we've got to
to do to keep this country safe.
So if it means paying a little bit more in gas right now,
to keep everybody safe, then that's what we've got to do.
And eventually they'll come back down.
And Kelly, most of the people we talked to
were supportive of the war
and willing to pay the higher gas prices for the war.
Some of them because they believe in the goals of the war,
others because they trust President Trump,
but not everybody felt that way.
And not everybody's excited about Trump here.
and not everybody is planning to vote for Republicans
in the midterms who supported Trump.
Let's take a listen to one more woman who we spoke with.
If you could say something to President Trump,
he was gonna hear you right now.
What would it be?
You are a worthless pile of sh**.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Ah!
And you voted for him how many times?
Three times.
That was my bad.
Apparently, I'm an idiot.
So now everyone's not everyone's thrilled with them. Uh, this is a, that was a voter
who voted for him three times. She went on to talk about the gas places. She went on
to talk about the war, about not supporting, uh, the idea of us. And, uh, you know, basically
going around,
Look, I know it's 85% but God damn does that feel good when I see that 15%, you know what
I mean, I know Trump's approval for this war is 85% in the base, but God damn that shit
feels good to see.
When you see that 15% you're like, fuck man.
On the world.
So a lot to process there, but this is going to be the real pressure test for President
Trump and Republicans in the midterms is how many of the people who voted for him are a
sticking with Republicans and be going to show up in the midterms.
And I think that's still an open question here, just several months out from those midterms,
Kelly.
Nothing is as valuable as actually going to where the people are and asking them what
they think.
So thank you for making the road trip, Phillip, before you come back.
We thank you for watching.
So the other day I found out that this, oh yeah, this is the Tucker Carlson meta.
He believes that the CIA is listening to his, I mean, the CIA is collecting his text messages
also here, um, as both close in Illinois, here's a brief, uh, here is, we got polls that
are supposed to close in four minutes. By the way, Karnaki cam is going to get started
soon. Okay. We got the Illinois midterms, midterm primaries. Okay. Big, big, big day
today. Uh, I got some good news. What is this? I'm crying, bro. Look in the mirror and started
talking to 45.
That's funny. Um, big, big, big news. Oh boy. Big news. Holy Toledo, new Illinois nine
poll from M3 strategies among voters already cast ballots by mail or early in person.
Got up, because I like leads Daniel Biss at 29.5% Daniel Biss at 26.2% lower fine at
19.7%.
Phil Andrew at 7.9% Mike Simmons is 6.6% Boucher on the wall at 5.1%.
And that's right, looking good for the early voters.
Hopefully, this is a good sign for the night.
Obviously, a lot of these polls do not adequately look at voter participation from the youth vote,
which Kat Algazalik cleans up. Okay? Who knows what will happen in Evanston,
but Algazalik winning would be close to a tea party moment, more so if she knocked off an
incumbent, but base is pretty close to one. Lots of her voters would have voted for him at some point.
A media figure with no experience in elected office who moved to the district yesterday and will almost certainly finish in the top two in a contested primary.
Yeah, winter loose. It's a fucking testament to how much
How much the conversation has shifted
and
I think the youth vote is the youth vote
is consistently under
sampled
And she has a lot of momentum in the youth vote in general
So, we'll see.
Only win, no lose, I agree.
As polls close in Illinois, here's a briefing on what to expect tonight.
Illinois is one of the most challenging states for election reporting.
There's no centralized statewide system, was also administered and reported by 100 plus
local election authorities, including several municipalities that operate independently
from their counties, which is highly unusual.
Illinois is a state where voters utilize all three ballot types, A-B, absentee mail, early
voting early in person and in person election day at pretty sizable rates.
100% of precincts reporting can be misleading.
Marriage, many jurisdictions prioritize election day votes first, typically 55 to 65% of total,
but it can vary a lot.
While early voting and vote by mail ballots are added later, sometimes hours or even days afterwards.
VBF is especially consequential, ballots postmarked by election day can arrive up to 14 days later,
and large jurisdictions like Chicago often take significantly longer to fully tabulate
and report these votes.
History underscores the risk of premature conclusions in 2014, state treasure race,
Republican Tom Cross led roughly 20,000 votes on election night, only for Democrat Mike
Freyrix to ultimately win by about 9,200 votes after late mail ballots were included.
And right at the moment, at the top of the hour, there is no ad break, but the polls
have officially
closed ladies and gentlemen polls are closed in the state of illinois
and the numbers will be coming in
uh... we are going to be tuning into karnacky cam
to see where he is that
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service ladies and gentlemen as we go on into primary night
that is the democratic primary for the united states and it is an open seat
being vacated
by democrat dick durbin the three leading democrats you see right there of
course
illinois being a blue state the winner of this primary tonight
is expected with a five gifted anonymous gifted
the next united states under for the five we will be keeping an eye on that race
obviously for the first time
of several competitive contest and consequential contests.
We're going to be monitoring.
We're going to be tracking.
You see here some of the marquee house races tonight.
Illinois' second district.
The headline there, Jesse Jackson Jr.
Just weeks after his father, the civil rights leaders,
are passing at the age of 84.
He attempts a political comeback.
Jackson Jr. had left the house in scandal in 2012,
14 years later.
He is seeking to win back the congressional seat
that he once represented.
elsewhere in Cook County in Chicago in the Chicago suburbs the race for the
seventh congressional district in Illinois. This is a seat being vacated by
Danny Davis. Danny Davis has been in the house for nearly 30 years and again
overwhelmingly likely that the winner of tonight's primary will replace Davis in
the house in the eighth district here. This is a congressional seat being
as he runs the United States Senate. Another comeback attempt. Melissa Bean.
Do you remember that name? She was in the house from 2004 to 2010. She was thrown out
in the Republican wave of 2010. Can she get her seat back 16 years later? And this one
has gotten a lot of national attention. This is the far north side of Chicago, Evanston,
into those suburbs. Yeah. Every leftist coalition, leftist progressive coalition in the U S is
the same. Zoran, Telerigo and now Kat all have that same condition, the same coalition,
which has spelled the victory condition for the most part.
Cross-staffs is Illinois nine poll shows.
Abduxelig is basically winning the Moundani-Talerico coalition.
She leads with men 34%, 18 to 30 year olds at 53%.
Hispanics at 35%.
Asian-Americans at 29%.
Whites at 29% versus Bises 28%.
That's right.
This is the Zoran coalition that allowed him to win.
This was the Talerico condition that allowed him to win.
And hopefully this might be a W men moment. That's right. What's interesting, what's interesting
about the catapult exotic Daniel Biss matchup is that a lot of the elderly white women in
the suburbs actually really like Daniel Biss. A lot of white women that make up the backbone
of the Democratic party alongside black women as well, certainly, but a lot of older white
women actually really fuck with Daniel Biss, which is allowed Daniel Biss to win over Gad
Abu Ghazal like, uh, in, in the, uh, female tabs straight up W men L women is what I say.
I'm kidding. Of course. But Mike said that the right needs male voters, but all male
voters are fleeing towards anti-a pad candidates. And the answer needs to figure something out
by 2028 and by figure out drop ice real. Yes. Frank Calabrese says, remember folks, this
is a poll of only people who have voted already. So that favors candidates with high energy
support obviously cat here, but Daniel this is very much in this. Yes.
The proxy battle for tonight. The Israeli Palestinian conflict has been a major divide
in the Democratic party, but today's Illinois primary is maybe the clearest proxy battle
yet for a pack of line and anti a pack groups. All the updating is graphic throughout the
tonight. A pack supported Donna Miller, Melissa Connors, Irvin, Melissa Bean, and Laura fine.
A pack track, A pack endorsed on the other hand, however, is Robert Peters, Keena Collins,
Junaid Ahmed and Kat Abu Ghazale.
Treg A pack doing the Lord's work. The one moms of a base kink. That's funny. All right,
Now, OK, so folks, if you've been watching this,
you know News Now, our streaming channel is doing in.
They're in their live show right now.
We're going to check in with them throughout the night.
They want to come to me in about a minute.
You're going to get to watch that.
So I'm going to sort of set the lay of the land with them
a bit when I come back.
We'll talk more about this.
I'll just say again in the 30 seconds or so before we
got to go do that hit.
This is a very interesting result because one
of the key questions tonight, all of the candidates
have ties right here.
Who's winning down here?
Interesting that Stratton gets a pretty good early number there.
Well, Gotti, I think one of the things here
is the polls just close here.
Most of the action in this Senate race
is going to come out of Chicago and the suburbs right
around Chicago.
I mean, when I say most, I'm talking like 80% of the vote
is going to come roughly from where I just circled there
on the map.
But we do have the result here.
Stop the count.
From downstate.
This is from St. Clair County.
This is just outside St. Louis.
East St. Louis is here, among other cities and towns.
it is it's an interesting result though because i think one of the questions
has been
if the if the race is competitive right there in the chicago land area
who's winning in the
the american people are tired of women
as to the state christian morphe has spent the most money congressman christian
morphe has spent the most money
on ads around the state but at least here
in st claire county with about a third of the vote
you see juliana stratton the lieutenant governor
who's endorsed by JB Pritzker, who's the governor.
Pritzker, through his super package,
put a lot of money on behalf of Stratton.
She actually does lead Krishna-Morthy here,
but I think it's an interesting result
because it shows those two candidates here,
when you get well outside of where most of the votes
are gonna come from,
those two candidates so clearly separated
from the third candidate, Congresswoman Robin Kelly.
So again, I think there was a sense here
in the days leading up to this vote, Goddy,
that this race perhaps was becoming more of a two-way race
at a three-way race, at least in this one initial result,
that might be something, there might be something to that.
It's so interesting, it's so interesting to hear
all of the money that has been spent in this race again.
Juliana Stratton is not great either, unfortunately,
that race is cooked.
Low turnout primary, and yet one that has implications
that are so big, and yet when we hear low turnout,
like, how many votes are we expecting today
and how soon could things get called?
Yeah, I think one of the things here,
Unfortunately, I say here, Illinois tends to be one of the slower counting states.
So keep an open mind here.
We're always hoping with these things they get a little bit faster as they go along.
But in terms of fully knowing how many votes were cast here and what the turnout looked
like, we might not have a good sense of that until tomorrow, until a few days from now.
I think what we're hoping for tonight, though, is that you get enough of the vote in that
it becomes clear who's going to win these races.
race. Obviously this democratic race for the U.S. Senate, whoever wins this, given how
blue Illinois is, the overwhelming favorite to win the Senate seat in November. Also a
number of congressional races here throughout the state. Again, we hope tonight that there's
enough result that it's clear who's going to win those races, even though it does sometimes
take them. It can take them days to count all the votes in Illinois.
Holy...
And we'll be watching you for days then. Steve Kornacki, thank you so very much.
All right, so again, we'll check in throughout the night.
Always fun to join Gaudi and appreciate them
humoring us with balancing it with this.
So again, I just want to talk a little bit
about the result we have here.
And again, you heard me there saying,
Illinois can be a bit slow with the vote counting.
That can especially be true in Cook County,
where Chicago is, city of Chicago
and the suburbs outside of Cook County.
So let's maybe just tell you a little bit here,
big picture about the sort of lay of the land statewide
and how this one initial result
maybe fits into that a little bit here.
So again, the three main candidates,
if you're watching this, you probably know,
Rajah Krishnamurthy, congressmen,
all three candidates really have their political base
right outside, right in and outside Chicago.
Krishnamurthy represents a district
that's based in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago.
Robin Kelly is a congresswoman whose district,
you know, really is rooted here,
sort of in the South side of Chicago
and then down into the Cook County suburbs.
really we're talking about this part of the state right here.
Christiana Morthi sort of represents a district about right here.
Kelly's district, it actually stretches pretty far south
because Illinois is a very gerrymandered state.
Some of these districts are very funny,
but most of the population in Kelly's district is right here.
So basically this, this is Kelly, right?
This is Christiana Morthi's district, okay?
And then Stratton is the Lieutenant Governor, okay?
So that she's a statewide figure that way,
but before she was the Lieutenant Governor,
she was a member of the illinois state legislature and her district was in
the city of chicago so you know all three with their political roots right
there now
look at it this way i'll be reset this cook county right here where chicago
is a cook county has
five point two million residents of this is one of the
is not wrong
illinois the best of disenfranchising republicans which is based support no
complaints here
who's back for senate uh... these candid i mean these are the two top
contenders and
juliana stratton from what i understand is actually better than raja
uh... however juliana stratton is also uh... really
terrible on israel
so there is no
but it's not great
come from chicago tonight
then from the burbs but
but this state is massive right there are a hundred two counties here
Probably 35% of all the votes that are cast in this Democratic primary for US Senate tonight
are going to come from the city of Chicago. Right? So just part of Cook County that I circled right
there. A third of the vote or more is going to come from that city. The suburban portion of Cook
County, okay, you're still in that county but you're not in the city of Chicago, that's probably
going to produce a quarter of the vote statewide tonight. Right? 25%. So I think between just Chicago
and it's immediate inner suburbs in Cook County, you're looking at about 60% of the vote. I see we
got one more result that just came in here. We'll take a look at this in a minute here, but I want
to just set the lay of the land before we get into it. Don't worry, we're not going to, we're not
missing anything that's going to settle the election on the spot right here. And in fact,
if we go through this, you might appreciate the rest of it a little bit more. Now take a look at
the collar counties that are right outside Chicago. Five counties that actually butt Cook County,
right? One, two, three, four, five. There's 20% more the vote is going to come out of the
Collar Counties that are just outside of Cook County. So 80% of the vote tonight. We think
eight out of 10 votes are going to come either from Cook County or from one of the five Collar
Counties that a but Cook County. All right? The rest of the state, all of this is going to add up
up to 20% of the vote, okay?
So, and again, all the candidates have roots
right here in Chicago.
Now, the question when you get outside Chicago
has been this, Krishna Morthy,
or he had raised like $20 million
before this race even started.
I mean, he's been in Congress for a little while now.
He has been eyeing the state of the idea
and he's a fundraising machine.
So, he brought a ton of money into this race
and he started running and he's run more
out of it around the state than anybody else
he started before he's done it more aggressively.
So, there's been a sense that maybe
When you get outside of the Chicago area here,
Christian and Morty would have an advantage, okay?
Now, one thing that has complicated that,
as I mentioned in that hit a minute ago,
late in the race, J.B. Pritzker, the governor,
he's endorsed Stratton, the lieutenant governor,
his super pack, Pritzker is, you know, he's a billionaire,
his super pack has poured millions of dollars
in late behind Stratton.
Because this was like.
So in the final weeks on the air,
it's kind of been neutralized between these two.
And Stratton has been running a very aggressive activist.
The message is a very strident anti-Trump, anti-ice message
here, really going to the left and really going towards voters.
You see in some of these polls that voters
want in the Democratic Party, don't like the party leadership,
want really dramatic change.
She's really trying to tap into that.
So the question was, in the final few weeks of the campaign,
with the money that came in for Stratton,
was she getting closer to Christian Morathy?
And one way to measure that, I think,
would be get outside of this area
where all the candidates have a political base.
What's resonating outside of there?
So we showed you St. Clair County,
about a third of the vote.
Again, this has one of the larger black populations
of any county, proportionally, of any county in Illinois.
And you see Stratton there leading,
at least early on, about a third of the vote right there.
The other county we're now getting is McLean County.
And this is interesting because McLean County is one of the most liberal counties in Illinois.
This is the home, Norma, Illinois is here, Illinois State University is here, Bloomington,
Illinois is here.
We're also getting, you can see about 16% of the vote here.
So it's not a ton, but it's interesting that what you're seeing is a tie between Stratton
and Krishnamurthy.
And again, you think about the message that Stratton has been sort of leaning into here
in the final weeks of the campaign, the money that is backed that, you know, this is, again,
this is a pretty liberal county, politically high concentration, is that there's college
students here, but also high concentration of college degrees.
And she's right there with Christian and Morphe here, and she's a little bit ahead
of him right now in St. Clair County.
So we've got results now from two counties, two decent sized counties, well outside of
that chicago land area where you're clearly seeing a race here between
stratton and christin morphe and again kelly sort of left in the dust right
here i think there'd been some expectation here leading up to this uh
leading up to tonight that just based on the money stuff we were just talking
about that that might be the case you're certainly seeing that with how kelly is
coming in right here so again it's 80 percent is going to come in from right
here we're in that sort of i don't think we're gonna find anything yet
like there's gonna be nothing we covered the junei on that election yes
I'm waiting on that too. There were a lot of DSA endorsed candidates in the Illinois races,
in the Illinois primaries. There was a Bernie endorsements that came in. We got obviously
our own with Catawakazali as well. I mean, I endorse whoever the fucking DSA
endorses well obviously, but do the D thing you do is disgusting stuff.
On the map here, if she sustains that, but I think an interesting beginning in this senate race,
a reset statewide, that's what it looks like with those two votes that have come in.
We're obviously going to continue to monitor this. As we do, we're going to take you through now,
some of the house races here to set them up a little bit more what we're looking at here on the house side tonight.
We're looking at this as our headline race. Who's going to win this Democratic primary
for the United States Senate in Illinois and in all likelihood become the next senator
from the state of Illinois. The congressional races here took you through them a second ago,
but now we can dive a little deeper into it. We want Robert Peters in Illinois to show us.
Second district of Illinois, this is where Jesse Jackson is attempting his political
comeback tonight. Okay, and you could see Jesse Jackson, his main competition is expected to come
from Donna Miller. She's a Cook County commissioner, although Robert Peters, he is a state senator
from the city of Chicago. He's also a significant factor in this race. And there are other candidates
on the ballot here too. Willie Preston, also a state senator in particular, but there are
a number of candidates, you know, openings, congressional openings in a state like Illinois
do not come around that often. So when they do, they're super high interest in these races.
How's Jackson Jr? I don't know enough about his policies or his politics. I do know that he went to prison.
Democrats nationally like to point to Texas and say, look, the Republicans in Texas,
look at all the gerrymandering they did. And the Republicans like to fire back and say,
well, look what the Democrats did in Illinois. I mean, they're both sort of trying to do
the same thing and that is take very big states that tilt one side politically and
they're each trying to squeeze as much as they possibly can out for their party in these congressional
maps and so what you see here in Illinois is a lot of these districts and you could probably
get a sense of it just look at the screen right here. A lot of these districts are very oddly shaped.
What the Democrats essentially try to do here in the second district of Illinois is
it's geographically vast. Okay a lot of this though is Republican territory here. I mean you're
like you're talking about like you're in Danville Illinois this is Danville
Illinois right here you're like two and a half hours from Chicago right this is
120 miles you know south of Chicago I mean it's night and day between these
two places but so what the Democrats did was they they connected this sort of a
lot of this is rural a lot of this is heavily Republican they're geographically
expansive counties and the Democrats basically took densely populated
an overwhelmingly democratic territory in the city of Chicago and in the immediate
inner Cook suburbs. That's what you see right here. And they connected it as far south and
as far west as they can while maintaining this as a strong overwhelmingly democratic
district, which it is. But it's a long way of saying if you look at this whole map of
this district, okay, right here, 90% of the vote in this district tonight is going to
come out of this little sliver right here. That's the city of Chicago and the inner
suburbs of Cook County, 90%. Everything else is going to account for 10%. So we're looking at a,
obviously it's a very consequential race here, but you know, we may see counties light up.
We haven't really seen anything until we start to see Cook County come in here. So,
and when Cook County does start to come in, we will go through some of the, you know,
sort of permutations here about where each of the candidates wants to be running strong here and
what that might mean. But again, just to give you a sense of it, this is a strongly Democratic
district. It is a district that really is anchored in Chicago and Cook County. It's drawn this way
against the Democrats. They're just trying to, trying to draw. So Robert Peters was endorsed
by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and the progressive caucus, the APAC Canada, and that
races Donna Miller and Bobby Rush endorsed Jesse Jackson Jr. The AI PAC is, has dumped
$1.4 million to Jackson Jr. APAC has dumped $4.3 million in the direction of Miller.
And the cryptocurrency pack spent almost $1 million against Peters. Obviously, we want
Peters to win, but all of the powerful financial forces are very aggressively against Peters,
unfortunately. And in this race we are pushing for Junaid Ahmed.
Okay, look at that. I'm sitting here telling you about DuPage. We got Kane County. Okay,
so we got half the vote in a chunk of the eighth district right here. And again, remember, this is
Melissa Bean, former congresswoman. She's trying to make a political comeback. Her main challenger
tonight you see here, Junaid Ahmed, he's running to the left. He's got an endorsement from Bernie
Sanders from the Justice Democrats. He had challenged Krishna Morthi in a primary.
He lost, I think, 70 to 30 points. He's coming back here. So that's sort of the dynamic here.
Beane has been backed by, you know, there's some pro-Israel money that's coming on her side.
That's sort of the divide between these two candidates. Okay. So Kane County is interesting.
It is in this district 25% of the vote. 20, sorry about that. Let me get that back. Adams,
Do you know what I just did here?
There it is, okay.
I don't know what I just did to make that happen.
So in the eighth district, Cain County,
where we just got a chunk of the vote,
25% of the vote is gonna come right here from Cain County.
25% is gonna come from DuPage County,
and 50% is gonna come from Cook County.
When Ahmed ran against Krishnamurthy
for this seat in the primary,
he got blown out pretty much everywhere.
His best county, his best county was Cain County.
Okay, Cain County, like Elgin, Illinois is here.
This has a larger Hispanic population relative to the rest of the district here.
So this was Ahmed's best county when he ran and lost.
And you can see right now, again, this is with about half the voting.
I should just call it with about half the voting in Kane County.
Bean is leading solidly there by 13 points.
So that's a good start for Melissa Bean as she attempts this political comeback.
But again, that's one piece of the puzzle.
DuPage County, Cook County.
These are suburbs of Chicago here.
Let's see what happens when those come in.
But OK, so we do have some result there.
Let's also see what that means in the race
for the United States Senate.
If we've got Kane County in a house race,
we've got Kane County vote.
Here we go in the Senate race.
OK, now remember, I was just telling you,
this is Rajah Krishnamorthy's district
that you're seeing this in.
So Krishnamorthy is getting a big number here,
more than a 20-point margin over Straton, but he's supposed to.
This is the heart of his district.
He's been elected here a number of times.
He's done very well in Cain County.
When he was challenged by Ahmed in that primary,
he got about 64%, 65% of the vote in Cain County.
He's getting 53% here, well ahead of Stratton.
But I do think it's notable too that you're seeing
Stratton get 30% of the vote here.
Again, this speaks to the separation that Stratton,
with all that money that came in at the end for her,
the separation she clearly has attained here
from Robin Kelly, the third candidate in the race.
Remember, we saw this outside.
We saw this downstate.
Now we're seeing it in the Chicago land area as well.
Stratton just far separated from Kelly.
Christian Morthy is gonna wanna be doing really well
tonight in DuPage County.
He's gonna wanna be doing really well
as he is in Cain County in the Northwest suburbs
of Cook County.
That's his district.
That's where he wants to be winning tonight.
Winning by large margins tonight.
For Stratton, I think it's more about
the city of Chicago itself.
Remember, Chicago is going to cast 35% of the vote.
Chicago versus the Cook County suburbs.
Chicago has a larger concentration
of black voters than the Cook suburbs.
So it's more demographically conducive to Stratton.
You're seeing in St. Clair County,
again, where there's a large black population.
She's up to a very good start right there.
So again, Chris DeMorthy doing what he's
expected to do in Cane.
One thing we want to see tonight, obviously, Stratton,
once we start getting votes from Chicago itself
Cook County. How's she doing? Come on man. We are getting also again these are going to be some
very small counties here but just take a look downstate and again remember so little of the vote
tonight is going to come from downstate and especially when you get outside of this is St.
Clair in Madison County this is Metro East you know Illinois outside St. Louis these are pretty
good sized counties when you get outside that though in a democratic primary there just isn't a ton
down here I mean look again we're talking about 200 I just like it's just I hate waiting
I fucking can't stand waiting like this bro
Jerry with Francis Foster and Constantine Kristen wait what the fuck oh he had the trigger
nometry guys on all right let's talk about Marjorie Taylor green Marjorie Taylor woke
and you know I'll obviously be keeping an eye on the races and when the big
dumps come in we'll be dumping okay no dumps so far but when the biggest of the
dumps come in when the dumpies are happening we will be there okay Marjorie
Taylor Greene my woke Queen was on CNN again doing the thing that I've been
talking about, which is fucking outflanking the goddamn, outflanking the goddamn Democrats.
Now taunting President Trump for asking American allies for help in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran's foreign minister said of the U.S. quote, they carried out large scale attacks and again
repeated the demand for unconditional surrender. Today they are turning to other countries for
health. He also argued the street of promos is only close to our enemies. Join us now to discuss
this and more as former Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. Thanks for
coming on Congresswoman. So we all know you were a longtime loyal supporter of President Trump,
but you broke with him in part because you felt he was too focused on foreign affairs rather than
than the America first promises. He's made Illinois nine dumpy. That's not good. Stop
the steel. Stop the steel. Stop the steel right now. Stop the steel right now. Right
at this very moment. You stop it. Uh oh. Cracky, pick up the pace. 17% reporting. I have no
idea where they're dumping from. But Cook started off with bis plus five. Cook County
District nine. Cook County District nine has officially started with bis plus five over
We're lorifying.
Okay.
That could just be from Evanston, where Biss was mayor, could be the case.
Southern Illinois dumps first.
No one lives there.
Okay.
Stop the steal.
Count the votes.
Count the votes.
Count the votes.
Count the votes.
This is a bad dump.
Bad dump.
Not a good dump.
Okay.
Let's get back to Marjorie.
He made on the campaign trail.
After day 17 of the Iran War, do you believe the president's voters can trust him?
Well, just to be clear, the president broke with me over the Epstein files.
So that always has to be said.
He called me a traitor because I stood with women who were raped when they were 14 and
16.
But I do completely disagree where the president has led the country.
You know what?
Absolutely no sense going into midterm elections. Let's remove Donald Trump out of it
Let's just put any president in there
Why would an American president lead his political party into the midterms waging a full-scale major war?
Completely unprovoked on on Iran on behalf of Israel, and that's the way most Americans see it
They see this is for Israel not for America. Why wouldn't an American president do that?
which is forcing gas prices to hike right here going into spring break where families are going
to be driving out of town going into summer declaring and waging a major full-scale war
that that seems to have no end in sight that is not de-escalating it's escalating every single day
and it just doesn't make sense and the uh the american people did not vote for this this is
That's not what we campaigned for Pamela, I went to, I can't even tell you countless
rallies all over the country for President Trump campaigning for him and Republicans
because we wanted to win and we said on every...
I'm going to take a second off and really reconsider what kind of events have unfolded
in your life that led you to type those words out.
Okay.
Single Rally stage.
Karnacky's on Illinois 9 right now.
Oh shit, dumps, dumps, dumps, dumps.
about a fifth of the vote from Cook County in this district.
OK, that's also all the vote that's in district wide.
But I want to take you through the political geography
of the ninth, because that's going
to put this in context what you're looking at here.
We think that about 45% of the vote that's
going to be cast in the ninth district tonight
is from the Chicago portion of Cook County.
So the far north side is in this district,
Uptown neighborhood, it's a lot of votes right there.
About 45% of all the votes in this district
are going to come from Chicago.
Another 45% are going to come from the Cook Burbs.
And the other 10%, there are small, about 10%.
There are portions, small portions of two other counties
that are in this district.
Well, that's gonna be the other 10%.
But this is the division that I wanna talk about right now.
Chicago Cook County versus the Burbs in Cook County.
Because take a look at what you're seeing.
This, okay, this and Abigazale, and fine here,
Abigazale running a distant third, okay.
Her, the key we think for Abigazale tonight to win
is the city of Chicago.
Yeah!
Younger voters there, the sort of voters she's targeted,
she's expected to do best in the city of Chicago, okay?
And not as well in the suburbs
and not as well in the outlying counties.
So you see her running in third place right now.
There's a lot of money that came in here against her as well,
but we don't have any votes from the city of Chicago yet.
So this 18%, the context we need for this day.
It's been a very poor 18 and 24 year old turn out today.
Wait, what, where?
What, no.
Start to steal.
Enough to change it.
So that's the question for Abu Ghazali in this race.
What's gonna happen in the city of Chicago?
Conversely, okay, Daniel Biss is expected to do better
in the Burbs than in the city of Chicago.
Okay, Fine is also expected to do better in the Burbs
than in the city of Chicago, you see?
So this is where they were,
This is sort of where specifically in the burbs
this vote is coming from is key just based on
they each have some very local strengths here.
And that we don't know, but we do know
that it's coming from the suburbs,
which in general is supposed to be the better area for BIS,
supposed to be the better area for fine,
and not supposed to be as strong for Abigazale.
So that's what we have right now.
And the ninth huge question here is gonna be
when you start seeing the city of Chicago,
if it complicates that picture at all.
If you wanna go back to the Senate race,
I think we have started getting in some
city of Chicago results.
Okay, we are, we're clearly getting,
yeah, look at this now.
We're looking at the cook vote here,
and remember, this is a mix of city and suburbs.
25 to 34 must save us.
We looked at this a minute ago,
Krishna Morthy was leading Stratton by three points.
We've gotten more vote in from Chicago now,
and as Adam said, he thinks that from,
we've gotten vote in from the city of Chicago now,
as Adam just said, and look at that,
Stratton now leading in Cook County over Christian Amorthy,
let me ask Adam, in the city of Chicago,
what's the break between Stratton and Christian Amorthy?
In the city of Chicago?
Yeah. Yeah.
Because this is, again,
Stratton probably needs to be winning Chicago
by a solid margin, Christian Amorthy wants the suburbs,
so we're getting Chicago vote and trying to figure out
what that spread is she's leading by.
Yeah. So in Chicago, we have about 65,000 votes.
She's getting 42%.
Krishna Morthy is getting 26%.
Ah, and that's with about 65,000 votes counted.
That's correct.
Okay. Wow. So, I mean, again,
there's, there's going to be a lot more to come from Chicago,
but right away that's a...
She's in third place at 39%.
Yeah. This doesn't mean anything
because it's entirely dependent on like
which areas that the votes are coming from.
Hassanabah is no longer in 1824 1824 is always low low. This is that chat a question is millennial turnout
We saw the same thing was Zoran cat was pulling well with everyone under 46. That's the young voter
Yeah
once again the the largest chunk of voters
For this race is gonna come from Chicago where cat is outperforming expectations. So we'll see
Not really because she's not gonna sweep enough in the remaining 6% probably we don't know that
We don't know that. Okay. It's not looking too great so far though, but are you mad at
me? Why would I be mad at you? It's spring break. They're stealing the elections. Yeah.
Down to here and again, I think those results are skewed a little bit more towards the suburbs.
Yeah. Yeah. Right now, I skewed more towards the suburbs and we just got some more in. And yeah,
I mean the the last number I gave you was with those new numbers and that's
your hundred and we just got a whole bunch more and this these numbers have
been good for Stratton I have to say that's my reaction and what do we just
get we just got more Chicago okay so I've doubled our Chicago so we now have
like a hundred thirty thousand votes tell me now what Chicago looks like so
Chicago is now 43 stratton 25 Christian oh my goodness did we get any more from
the cook-burbs well this was going on now or so okay and okay now we have enough
vote that we can ask this so 38 36 in the burbs so we think it's about 130,000
votes in Chicago yes okay and about how many in the suburbs 172 so it's still
more skewed to the suburbs that's right wow okay so again remembering what we're
talking about here that we more vote you think ultimately comes out of the city
of Chicago than the suburbs and yet even though it's flipped right now much
more is coming out of the suburbs than the city
Stratton is leading she's doing that well in Chicago I think if you're a
Stratton supporter that's that's very encouraging news for you I'm just seeing
we did get another significant pocket of votes that came in here this is Winnebade
This is where the city of Rockford is.
Again, just a little bit more than 15% of the vote right there.
Krishnamurthy here with a pretty solid lead in the early vote.
Again, this is, again, it's pretty good size geographically.
It's pale in comparison to what we're talking about here in Cook.
And there's immediate to Collard County's around Cook.
But still, this is probably about 1% of the vote here
on the Democratic side tonight.
OK, what does it look like statewide?
Stratton leads statewide right now by about 12,000 votes
over christian morphe is all this is we get any more from i can check myself we
have no more from king
uh... i saw a little bit came in here
kankiki county again this is that you can't get this is very very small here
uh... why is robin kelly leading here this is in her congressional i know
kankiki from
took a little
she from kankiki
Is that, is that, isn't that from that song?
King Vaughn.
That was the most Neighborville moment. 54% votes in New York Times.
Now still third, but close to second.
I don't think these are, I don't think the 54% of votes, but it's like primarily coming from
Um, uh, the Cook County. I'm dead. I did not think you'd know that song. What do you mean?
Of course I know the song. It's a fucking King Vaughn was a wordsmith, man.
Don't embrace the burb, baby.
Oh, yeah. Got a stripper's chick. She from Kanka key.
And he was a serial killer, too, true, also a poet.
Late spending for Stratton, and the talk that Stratton had brought momentum here into primary day, and that may be her late, the late push on Stratton's behalf had come at the expense of Kelly, I think that's sort of bearing out in the results that you're looking at right here.
at right here. Again, those are those are awfully encouraging numbers for
Stratton out of Chicago. You know, and again, if she could ever be winning, she's
leading the vote to the Count and Cook County right now. If she could ever win
Cook County, remember that's about 60% of the vote statewide. And again, we also
saw earlier when we first came on the air, we said, look, what happened in
McLean County here? So far it's 16% of the vote, but Stratton's running dead even
with Christian Amorthy. Again, this is a pretty liberal county politically, and down in St.
Clair County, Stratton is leading with about a third of the vote that is tallied there so far.
So she is showing strength. It extends outside of this city of Chicago, outside of Cook County itself,
and extends out of Chicago land, extends into downstate. So that's a recipe for a competitive
a competitive showing by Stratton.
I'm lingering on this for a second
because I think that was sort of a foundational question
coming into tonight.
Not good, boys.
I think, you know, this race has really been going on
for like a year right now.
Since Durban announced he wasn't gonna run for reelection.
And I think all last spring, summer, fall,
and into this winter,
Chris Bermondty was seen as the
pretty clear favorite of his race.
Again, he came into this race.
I think the day he announced his game
is he only got $20 million on hand.
he was on the airway, one of the things his campaign was doing was they were spending
outside of Chicago. They were spending down here, I think in anticipation of some of these
dynamics were caught.
No, he was fucking stupid. This has nothing to do with her foreign policy. This has nothing
to do with Michael from Pennsylvania. This has absolutely nothing to do with like anyone
other than the fact that there was an unlimited amount of money spent on these races. This
was always going to be an incredibly tough hill to climb. And it's just money. The Taiwan
discourse didn't help. No, it's utterly irrelevant. You guys think your fucking farts are, are
the most important, most consequential aspect of a fucking race like this straight up inconsequential.
Okay. Unimaginably inconsequential in the Graham scheme of things. You're talking about a fucking
democratic primary race with like multiple millions of dollars being launched both for
and against certain candidates.
Like Anna-Lillia Meija won not because she was not just because she was the best candidate,
right?
She won because APEC fucked up and dumped a shitload of money against Milanovsky showing
Everybody that Tom Linovsky was and it was not sufficiently anti-ice
No, this is a huge difference who's this person in second place is she good what no that's the APAC candidate the fuck
No, the person in second place is Laura fine APAC spent millions of dollars propping her up
How the fuck do you think she's sitting with 23.3%?
I want is way more important outside of this community all the crypto and ambros are obsessed
with it.
Yeah, you guys are all unimaginably locked in on a total minutia.
Yeah, if she loses is because base has been a politician here for a very long time got
support from the progressive caucus in Elizabeth Warren.
She was kind of cooked because there were too many progressives that and also that and
also because the APAC dumped a fuckload of money against her close to the close of the
finish line.
Yeah, now she's moved up to the second place status here with 74% of votes coming in, but
it's not going to be enough to make up for the distance between her and her and Daniel
this. That's why I was like, not focusing on the Taiwan shit at all. Do we like Daniel
Bizz? No, Daniel Bizz is, uh, Daniel Bizz is, is, uh, you know, he's just gonna be a
fucking weak, feckless, liberal, progressive, adjacent candidate.
On the issue of Israel, he is the, oh, we gotta keep giving money to Israel for defensive
weapons, you couldn't call it a genocide.
It's just, but once again, you're underestimating the amount of people here who really do consider
cat a carpet bagger. Oh, I don't give a fuck about that. This is a democratic party primary
for the record. So of course, there's not going to be a lot of turnout in general.
But yeah, I don't, I mean, I don't think that there's enough votes in Chicago that are going to allow cat
up exotic to win this race out of nowhere.
I'm a wallah has 4000 votes right now.
Okay, that still wouldn't make up for the distance between cat and Daniel though.
though DC. Seven point gap is a lot. Kelly at 20. And we think how many votes is that
219. And what do we think the expected is there? We have that about 68% in. Yeah. Wow.
I mean, so here, look, I think the numbers speak for themselves, but no one ever, I'll beat it to death anyway,
because I, but this is, this is very significant.
We have about 34,000 more votes that have come in from the suburbs than have come in from the city of Chicago.
But again, the city of Chicago is going to cast more votes than the suburbs.
So, and you can see in the suburbs, that's where Krishnamurthy is running in first, barely.
He's only ahead by a point, but he's running in first.
And he has, okay, like you talk about, if he's trying to squeeze as much as he can out
of the suburbs, right, that sponge is starting to get a little dry.
A lot more vote is counted in the suburbs than in Chicago.
So there's not as much left for Krishnamurthy, and he's barely winning it, right?
Now go into Chicago and Christiana Morphe's barely holding off Kelly for second, meanwhile
they're strattin' running laps around both of them, 18-point margin for her in Chicago.
And if she's trying to squeeze the most she can out of the city of Chicago, she's got
a lot more in that sponge to squeeze out from Chicago than Christiana Morphe might in the
suburbs.
So you're seeing overall in Cook County right now an eight-point advantage for strattin'
Just based on those sort of broad categories we just put up on the screen, there is the
potential there for that to get a lot better or better for Stratton than for Christian
Morthy.
And again, this is 60% of the vote.
Statewide can't underscore.
There's very few states where we can just look at one county and it can be that singularly
important.
And that's the story with Cook.
So that's Cook.
This is statewide.
I think you saw these numbers a minute ago, and that advantage that, you know, that Stratton
is getting out of Cook, again, that advantage in raw votes is about, is nearly 32,000 votes.
She's nearly 32,000 votes ahead in Cook.
And you can see, get outside of Cook, every other county that we have vote from here.
There's some bright spots for Stratton, but every other county that we have votes from,
Christian Morthi's actually leading her total by about 9,000, but she has enough of a pad
from Cook.
You've got a 23,000 vote and you have a 24,000 vote.
Okay, it just went up again.
What did we get vote from, Adam?
We just got some more cook.
Okay, that's the big one, right?
Sorry, we just got more Chicago.
Okay, well, I mean, clearly it was good for Stratton.
How good was it?
What did it look like?
So we're up to 220,000 votes.
We got another 30,000 votes, let's say.
Yeah, so we're equal now, basically suburbs and.
That's right.
OK, OK, this is a key moment.
OK, we're equal between them.
Give me a cook.
What does it stand at?
Chicago is 43% Stratton, 24% Cristina Murphy.
24.
So he's dropped one from the last time, OK?
And Kelly?
And Kelly's at 24.
24.
Who has more votes between them?
Cristina Murphy.
By, like, hundreds?
Yes.
Yeah, OK.
It's based there basically tied for second nest, right?
Okay.
And then in the suburbs are the same we had before.
79%
Yes, that's right.
37, 36.
Can I close in the gap?
What was it, 20?
Point by point.
Yes, and they're now equal.
God, if this turned into another like niddle alum situation,
my heart can't handle it.
it's not good.
Robert Peters is getting cleaned
out to.
Which is not good.
Oh, yeah, remember these vote counts are not absolute.
Yes, yes, yes. They said it already. Chicago has a, Illinois has a very weird reporting system.
Illinois has a very weird reporting system. So
that's the reason why these things can change. I gave you guys a warning ahead of time. Remember?
I see where the apex bin was that it was just trying to keep up with Zellie out if it wanted Laura fine
So far the only candidate is beaten up by crypto pack
But leading are stratton and then forward in Illinois seven very narrowly
Those are the marquee race also keep an eye on Illinois 13 it tends to how much safe seat hair is plus this scandal free incumbent Dems are vulnerable to progressive challengers
very little in so far, but those polls suggested strattin' up in the early votes seem right,
narrowly ahead of St. Clair. Roger gets 53% in Cane County, part of which is in his eighth
District.
Our political has really been impactful.
This is the Democratic Party primary.
Of course, ad spend is very impactful, very important.
Clearly for Fine, whose political base is in the suburbs.
Again, she's a state senator from Glenview,
from Evanston, this is bases is in Evanston too,
which is that suburban portion of Cook here.
Fine is clear.
I honestly don't even think,
I don't think Cal would have wanted to pay back
to dump money into slandering her. Um, I mean, this is a tough candidate to be for sure.
When Kat first started running, she was running against a Shikowsky and then Shikowsky dropped
out and then Daniel bis came in. So it's a, it's a tough race to begin with. Daniel bis
is a beloved mayor from Evanston. He's like somewhat progressive. He's like considered
somewhat progressive. You know?
There is one.
There is one.
Okay.
Yes, a little bit spilled into this race while you were talking.
Yeah, I see.
Can you give me the current, I see we got 78% of the vote right here.
That's right.
And we're looking at a 4,100 vote difference.
What do the suburbs look like right now?
34 bis, 19 Avogazala, 20 and 25.
Oh, is it still 50,000?
Yeah, it was it was only a few thousand in this particular congressional district. Okay. Okay. So again, there's more to come here
One thing that we're seeing is there's no democratic parties progressive caucus has been
Rats fucking every anti-Israel candidate this time. They did it with Valerie fushi in North Carolina
They did it with Daniel Biss
Like obviously the progressive caucus is not going to fucking back cat Abu Ghazali over Daniel this like that kind of makes sense
But it is annoying that
It is annoying that they literally endorse
the
They endorse some of the most like
Like you know liberals Zionist candidates
No idea what's going to happen in Illinois tonight, but I think we can safely say that
almost a hundred million spent in a handful of primaries, a full spectrum disaster for
democracy.
Probably they're going to add up the 10% vote right here.
And as you're getting outside the city of Chicago, we just got some like, it's just
so crazy that we literally have, we give unlimited money to the nations of Israel.
So they get to a genocide and we cover all their defenses.
they can then turn around and just like fund whatever fucking race they want to
I mean it's Americans that are technically funding APAC but like they
just spend so much money undermining American democracy it's crazy dude the
the foreign foreign countries the foreign countries advocacy group like
lobbying arm is quite literally cooking American democracy on a daily fucking
bases. And liberals don't have shit to say about it because as long as they maintain,
as long as they maintain like somewhat of a pro-Israel position, given how the left
flank candidates are oftentimes also anti-Israel, it's fine.
So Democrats don't say shit about it either. Democrats also rely on numerous advocacy groups
impacts that fund their races. Thankfully, I was in Bernie are here to legitimize liberal
Zionism. I mean, it doesn't even fucking. None of it fucking matters. Okay, can you take
can we just let's get an update on that right now? Yeah, Chicago versus the Burbs. So in
Chicago, um, Abagazale at 34, this 24 fine, 13 cook suburbs, this 34 Abagazale 19 fine
25.
Okay.
So he's asked, what are the, what's the rough number of, uh, total votes?
Holy shit.
You can't tell me APAC doesn't matter here.
chat come on
Elect progressive women was an apex subsidiary
They obviously pummeled the fucking suburbs with ads and that ate away at like what catapult was all it could have potentially
Gotten in terms of votes and the suburbs went so heavily to fucking Laura fine
Like that's it that that you think a pack doesn't fucking matter here or oh a pack expenditure wouldn't have
of, uh, uh, A pack.
If they weren't spending so much money on this race, it wouldn't have
mattered.
Like that's ridiculous.
They spent like $5 million.
Nobody wastes.
Nobody fucking wastes $5 million for no reason.
Augusta is getting crushed and cooking Lake County suburbs evidence.
The mom downy style leftism only has purchased in deep blue cities in
college towns.
Yeah.
See these fucking scumbags, these Israel first scumbags are already
fucking running their mouths.
This is why.
portion of the night. And then this is a threat to every single other progressive candidate
as well. Every single primary defeat or every single primary defeat against the anti-Israel
candidate is a warning for everybody else. That's how they get Democrats to shut the
fuck up and not do the bidding of the majority. Okay. And yeah, no matter how many fucking
podcasters push for a candidate. It very clearly doesn't matter. Also, this Daniel, this photo
looks so weird. Doesn't it look like he's got makeup on? Anyway, yeah, APAC in their
shell pack spent $21 million across four house districts in Illinois, $21 million. You think
that's, you think they're doing that for no reason? What are you crazy? I think she's likely to net
around 3000 more votes out of Chicago based on my math. I think she's going to end up two to three
point short. Yeah. 29% Donna Miller Cook County Commissioner is is well ahead of him right
now. I just want to see where the vote is coming from. We've got about three quarters of Cook.
Adam, can you just tell me in in the in Illinois two between the Cook suburbs and the city
where they are in terms of expected vote.
Yeah, this is much more in the burbs right now.
Okay.
We have 43,000 votes in the Chicago suburbs.
Right.
It's about 90% of our expected vote there currently.
Right.
And we have 7,000 votes in the city,
and that's about a third of our expected.
Okay, so this is, I wanna get back to the Senate race,
because I think people are probably most curious about that,
but I just wanna know, you see Donna Miller
with that double digit advantage over Jesse Jackson Jr.
the suburb people complain about
don't understand like
look man
and there's no guarantee that people would have voted for cat and also once
again we can't like
it sucks but you can't expect them to drop out
but we still have
uh... more to come a lot more to come relatively speaking from the city of
chicago
that could be jesse jackson jr he could do better there potentially also what is
this
that's where his state senate district is so there could still be an
opportunity for Jackson, but Miller is certainly getting what she wanted to out of there. Let's
go back to the statewide race here, the Senate primary about half the vote is in right now.
It doesn't look good. It does not look good. So this is very catapult is all here about 32,000
votes, five points for stop fucking complaining and being like, Oh, well, you know, we should have
dropped out. She didn't. Okay. There's nothing you can do about it here. And again, about half the
vote in Lake County. And again, you're seeing so Christian, more the we see how is tellerico
able to beat a pocket by a white margin of texas talerico and crockets sentiment
on it on israel were you know not super far apart in the collar counties the
suburbs here chicago land area talerico is better at communicating from a place
of empathy over jasmine crocket but both were on the policy front they were
fairly close her district not so much talerico is not very good on israel
either. It's a solid enough share of the vote. Also, APEC doesn't fund all of the races.
I don't know how much money APEC dumped into the Democratic primaries.
You are getting 36,000 votes in Cook County. That's about what you need to be doing elsewhere.
So, and I'm just kind of, I'm looking to see if we've got any other major population centers.
I'm just okay one thing is one significant place that has not is not lighted up yet lit up yet right
now black pilling type of night no i don't think this is a black pilling type of night at all 29
precincts left to chicago out of 111 119 chicago peeps will have to tell me if there's a way to
figure out exactly which ones are still out i'm in pa she's gonna be running in pa am i able to go
precinct by precinct you know this is illinois state these are there's a lot of similarities i think
demographically, culturally between these places.
And I think the fact that Stratton was able to run well
here in McLean, the fact she was able to run well here
in Sangamon County, I think bodes well for her.
And this is relatively speaking, when
you get outside Chicago, fair number of votes right here.
So that's a place where she might be able to do quite well.
But let's get back in here to Cook County at 72% of the vote.
And maybe we can run through it quickly here.
The kind of is the ball game.
city of Chicago versus Burbs and go ahead and what is it in in Chicago? Chicago 43% for Stratton
24 for Christian Amorthy and in the Burbs 36 for Stratton 36 for Christian Amorthy. 36 and what
percent of the vote is in from the Chicago portion? Do you feel disappointed in Bernie
and Nancy's lack of endorsement in this race? They did. They made endorsements. Bernie did.
But it doesn't even matter. They didn't do it early enough and not only do they not do it early enough, their candidates are also losing and by worse points as a matter of fact.
Like the candidates that Bernie endorsed were late, they were late endorsements and not only were they late endorsements but they also, they're also losing by wider margins.
margins. Like, Junaid Amin is losing by a wider margin than Katalpo Guzalli is.
Baranhe endorsed BIS in Illinois 9, which blows, oh, he did, I didn't even know he endorsed
BIS. Are you sure about that? He did? I did not know that.
I don't think he did. I think
you're just saying that I don't
think he did.
But this is a house race but there is no incumbent, so ASC could have actually endorsed someone
in this race.
Because this is an empty seat.
But she didn't.
Bernie endorsed BIS for Governor against Pritzker in 2016 Chatters tripping.
BIS lands major progressive groups endorsement.
Our revolution Illinois aggression coalition boasts more than 250,000 members gave business
support ahead of democratic primary in 2018.
That's what chatters might be referencing who knows.
Oh, yeah, seven points behind Melissa L. Bean here in Illinois 8.
Elizabeth Warren endorsed Daniel Biss, I know that.
Do you think Bernie or AOC endorsement would have helped?
Of course, Bernie and O.C. endorsements always help.
Greg Kazar endorsed Daniel Viss, yes, and the Congressional Progressive Caucus endorsed
Daniel Viss, which is part of the reason why this is like a tremendous feat, you know?
No-name candidate, first time running with, you know, 5% point differential between an
established progressive name that has gotten coveted endorsements from progressive groups
in the past.
And in this race, as the one with the highest name recognition, got a shit ton of endorsements
from even progressive adjacent, self-described progressive groups within the party.
And also, Jen Shkowsky also endorsed them a couple days prior, who was the incumbent.
Yeah, Daniel, this is the guy who literally dropped his lieutenant governor, uh, or, uh,
this drop Chicago Alderman colors Ramirez Rosa
from his ticket
and this himself at the time was like kind of a a bit of a a progressive
love story
people thought this was going to be like a really unique really dynamic
candidate
but then he dropped Carlos Ramirez Rosa
and the reason why Carlos Ramirez Rosa was dropped was because of his position
on israel
this is a state center from suburban evison made the announcement on wednesday saying
that you cannot reconcile rose's for bts or the boycott divestment sanctions movement
with regards to israel
blowback from the issue is already affecting the other illinois raises support for this
brad schneider
pulled
with drew his endorsement of this in the gubernatorial primary
this is back when this is twenty it's twenty seventeen this was
I remember, I remember covering this story at the time, like it was unfucking believable.
If you go back, you'll find probably my tweets, at least from back then, but it was unbelievable
that Israel interfered in the gubernatorial primaries, Israel interfered in the gubernatorial
primaries in fucking Illinois because the lieutenant governor's positions were untenable
to their, to their goals in American politics. Like that, this is the degree of interception
and interference that pro-Palestine advocates have been dealing with for decades in this
fucking country. That's why it takes a lot for me to get truly blackpilled in this moment.
Okay, that's why I'm still not black-pilled in this moment. Because many of you are utterly
oblivious to how things used to be in American politics. Okay, this is what I'm used to. I'm
used to Israel interfering in the Lieutenant Governor pick in the Democratic fucking primaries
of the gubernatorial race.
You understand? How can I be fucking blackpilled when in this day and age all of those very same
people are now saying, oh, I would never take money from Israel. What, what do you mean? I would
never take money from Israel. They, they feel the need to at least lie about their affiliations
with the state of Israel. And yeah, Shikowsky was already a progressive liberal, so this will
most likely be more of the same, not a brave voice on foreign policy, but will vote for
M48 type stuff. Yes, Shikowsky was really old, but she was one of the more progressive
congresspersons in general. I thought that there was a real room here for growth and
a real opportunity to make a true anti-Israel play, but it didn't work out, it seems.
Cat is so young and how almost no name recognition apex still at the throne millions at the race
and stopper our future is incredibly bright I mean yeah
How do you live without dark money?
Seems like you don't
I think.
Um, I think, I think this has gotten a little closer. I think since we first checked in, but
I'm, I'm, uh, my memory isn't what it used to be here, but about 60% of the vote
in Cain County. And then we're waiting on DuPage. I just said DuPage County. We're waiting on-
Maybe she can improve her foreign policies. Oh, shut the fuck up, dude. Her foreign policy is
utterly irrelevant in this race. Please stop. Things that become drama in the tiny
any marginal, utterly irrelevant fucking corner of the internet that we occupy is not a part
of the decision making process of like Evanston voters and fucking Illinois suburbanites.
Okay?
You're just wrong.
You're wrong.
You're totally wrong.
It doesn't mean anything at all.
If I were to hold together every single person that voted in the primaries, I could maybe
find 10 total people who almost likely voted for Cat Abogazale that have heard about her
positions on fucking first striking China or something like you guys don't understand
normies don't give a fuck about this stuff. If anything, they probably would like it when
they were like, oh yeah, it's like defending Taiwan. I think that's a good idea. Like you
have no idea what the average voter is interested in and what the average voter is tuned into.
You know who does though? Motherfucking Israel. That's precisely the reason why if you look
at all their ads like in, in the Malinowski race in North Carolina, they were laser focused
on ice. They were laser focused on how Tom Malinowski was not sufficiently anti-ice in
an anti-ice race. And that's why Tom Malinowski lost to Anna Lillia-Maria, who rose to prominence
as the pro-ice or as the true anti-ice candidate. Sorry.
We're not North Carolina, sorry, New Jersey, fuck, my brain is fried, sorry.
They found 14,000 extra Chicago votes.
Okay, I voted for a base, but the primers between an incessual candidate, a billionaire,
or burning doors candidate, we got lucky with JV, oh you're talking about in the gubernatorial
race.
in the Illinois gubernatorial race, right? That's what you're talking about, Hapahon.
As someone in Chicago, not in Illinois 9, I honestly don't feel like she has a chance
to camp. It is probably by national audience. That's sort of her district. That's your other
chat saying you're not Illinois 9. Yeah, I don't think this person is in Illinois 9.
I think they're in Illinois and they voted for, yeah, they voted for bis for governor.
He's saying, he's saying he voted for bis for governor, not for bis in the, in the primaries
that are happening right now. They're not in Illinois nine. They're in Illinois on the
ground at Katz campaign event as results for Illinois and I show up because I like trailing
bis by the five K supporters are nervous with one saying he's not feeling good by the results
and noted that so many kids were splitting the votes meanwhile on the ground, one group
said they were still remaining optimistic and hopeful.
Politics, you would have to be mad to pay attention to it, but you are foolish if you don't.
Do you know what this was running on? A boilerplate, progressivism, kind of critical of Israel, but not necessary, but like, critical enough for the suburbs to pay attention to and like, but not so critical that it actually genuinely threatens,
genuinely threatens Israel's position in Congress at all.
Daniel Biss will be another one of these guys that will vote along with the PAC
and will make his condemnations about anti-Semitism whenever a Democrat actually speaks out a turn
about how this is Israel's war that we're waging.
He'll vote for defensive weapons for Israel.
I think he's, I mean, I think he's more progressive than, than Shikowsky, but he's not, um, he's
more progressive than Shikowsky, but like they will be the middle of the pack closer
to the top as far as like, uh, uh, you know, progressive, uh, candidates.
I don't, I believe he refused to call what Israel was doing in genocide.
It's just, he's just going to be another one of these like bullshit ass, uh, progressive
candidates.
Give Jan Shikowsky some credit on his song.
She wasn't bad at all.
No, I, I'm not saying that I say Shikowsky was one of the more progressive, uh, uh,
Congress persons, especially unique because she was like 850 years old.
Okay.
No, not like AOC. AOC is far more progressive than Shikowsky. What are you talking about?
This is also the most Jewish district that doesn't mean anything. The youth vote. She's
22 on the spreadsheet. What is this? Is this like the, the, I can't, it's not loading for
me. Congressional Democrat left tracker. It's not letting me load it up.
I wear Rajin. She's a very lovely woman and beloved here in Illinois. Her endorsement meant a
a lot. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, the story, of course, of tonight is that APEC didn't spend
a single dollar on as by Israel in these races. But if they're candidate wins, they will say
it was because voters love Israel. Everybody also knows it's bullshit, but it doesn't matter.
But if you're constantly confused as to why, like the overwhelming majority of the population
is anti-israel and the overwhelming majority of politicians are not
this is the reason
okay
this is the parking reason
this is how it works
they go into your race and they don't pay fuck load they literally prop up is
uh... primary challengers
and they don't the fuck load in their direction or
they literally come after you with attack ads
they undermine you they undermine your reelection
they undermine your election
and democrats see that and they get fucking terrified so next time
uh... someone from the israel advocacy networks
calls them to tell them
don't say anything about israel they listen
this is how it fucking works
okay
Oh my god Natasha Kareki winner lose tonight cat up because Ali still faces federal indictment
not familiar with the other candidates other than cat what are the major differences between fine and
biss no fine is fucking awful fine is directly backed by a pack biss courted a pack like sent
his policy papers to a pack and a pack was like no you're fucking too much of a liberal Zionist
That's not going to happen because he is. But I mean, this is a fine run-of-the-mill
progressive liberal. The only reason why I was pushing for cat in this race is because cat is
is anti-Zionist, this is not. Do you understand? Cat is anti-Zionist, this is more like a
Brad Lander type.
And Donna Miller, Clean House, the MFI, Democratic majority of Israel's Donna Miller defeated
Jesse Jackson, Jr. in Illinois too. So that was actually a big ass win for Israel. That
one was an actual win for Israel. And this is also another win, most likely for Israel
as well. They fucking cooked a pack candidates. Laura Fine is, is not going to make it in Illinois
nine, but on Illinois seven, Melissa Connors, Irvin is down. Melissa Bean is leading and
and
yeah this is uh...
only twenty reasons left to report in chicago illinois nine
eighty three percent of reasons are already reported there the doors closing
for cat
it's it's uh... it doesn't look too good
jrnaid can win look at illinois eighteen
uh... it's not looking great for him either
but we'll see i don't know maybe there is uh... maybe there's uh... sliver of
hope here
i think there's still a story on how apex very vocally interfere with elections
that will resonate with voters are tuned in. No, you want to know why? Because APAC is fucking
destroyed in the Democratic primaries already. Candidates that were wonderful.
Cory Bush, Jamal Bowman. APAC has done this so many fucking times. And guess what?
It seems they still got the motion. It's virtually impossible to fucking overcome
the the Israeli triangulation in American elections especially when they dump
Senate run levels of money into a fucking Democratic House primary dude like
it's just an unlimited money faucet they're fucking insane that's the real
story the real story is they dumped 21 million dollars into fucking four House
Democratic primaries. Four.
Four. Where do we go from here? You know, it's just so unbelievable how undemocratic this shit is.
Not a word of Israel was, uh, was mentioned in any of these fucking races, too, but they know where to make the biggest impact.
APEG is so hating, they started endorsing their opponents so they'd lose.
They dump money into them primaries and if they lose, they dump it in the GOP candidate
against them for the general.
Yes, that's how it goes.
NBC calls Illinois to for Donna Miller, over Jesse Jackson Jr. and Robert Peters, middle
of the pro-Israel candidate winning 41% of the vote.
Robert Peters, the anti-Israel candidate in fourth place with over 11% of the vote.
media isn't real life. See, this is why they do it. They spend tens of millions of dollars
on these races. Everybody fucking hates Israel, okay? But it doesn't matter. They can just
go see the pro-Israel candidate one. Oh, really? Were they running as a pro-Israel candidate?
No, they weren't. You were just dumping tens of millions of dollars in ad spend without
actually fucking they are right no they're not we will never win they are
right man shut your bitch ass up dumb ass stupid ass baby ass loser fucking comes
in here learns about Israel literally last week has incredibly fucking radical
opinions about it and immediately the first sign of fucking marginal defeat
you can't even interpret the situation that's the landscape that is shifting
under our fucking feet. Yeah, no shit, dude. APEC is one of the most- the Israel lobby
is one of the most powerful fucking institutions in this goddamn country. What the fuck are
you talking about? The very fact that they have to spend $20 million alone is already
a profound accomplishment for the anti-Zionists that are running. You know, look up the history.
I mean, fuck him up, prove your shit, talk. No, it's, it's only stupid bitches that fucking come in here and say shit like that. Defeat his ass, bullshit like that.
Yeah, lay down and die, I guess, you know, let him fuck democracy up the ass. That seems like a good idea.
No, there is no, the idiotic assumption here is that like American politics hasn't dramatically
changed.
We're waging war with Israel, we're waging war with Iran at the behest of Israel.
Americans fucking are disgusted by Israel.
APEC doesn't even mention Israel one time in any of their fucking ad spend and put a boatload
of money into all of these fucking races only, only to turn around and have their media outlets
like Jewish insider, right? Make this seem like a massive dub. And then the exact same
thing will be channeled by CNN to Jake Tapper will go on television and not talk about the
fact that $21 million is unconscionable in the Democratic party primaries, but instead
will turn around. What can you explain the APEC funding source? Again, you touched on
briefly but didn't fully grasp is it literally just the subsidies to send to israel no no it's not
it's it's just like a lot of fucking rich americans okay it's a lot of rich americans that uh are
are singularly focused on making sure that america's uh aligned with israel unconditionally
and they give tens of fucking billions of dollars unlimited money to apac
and then apac turns around and just fucking opens up the goddamn money faucet
Yeah. Yeah, bipartisanship or Republican meddling, APEC's biggest source of GOP donations in
dem primaries. Yeah, donors from the Republican Party will flood in unlimited funds to pro-Israel
candidates by way of APEC. And then when the pro-Israel candidates don't win, they dump
unlimited funds to the Republican in the general.
Yeah, Israel has become so toxic among Democratic voters, APEC is now operating clandestinely.
APEC, the pro-Israel group becomes a major issue in the Democratic House race. And several
with ties of the pro-israel group have spent at least 20 million and four primaries they can't even run as a fucking openly pro-israel
Pack and you guys are over here being like it's over its loss. No, they have to do this clandestine bullshit
Because Israel is that fucking toxic go ahead keep fucking democracy
Keep fucking democracy eventually the people will revolt
That's it. What are you going to do? Put us all in fucking jail? You're going to dump every American that hates Israel in jail? Good luck.
Well, good luck.
Eventually, it's going to get to a point where this contradiction is going to be impossible
to contend with.
i think we're close to it right now
which is part of the reason why they have to do all of this crazy nonsense
and reroute
site donna for congress israel if x was a surprise win in illinois too
as donna miller takes down former represent jesse jesse jackson jr
donna miller didn't bring up israel at all
so why is that a victory for israel
israel openly saying we're fucking your democracy okay
they don't even they want candidates to to do loyalty pledges in private israel
it's fine even if they don't come out and publicly say anything about israel
as long as
that vote remains
as long as they are a reliable pro-israel vote
they're fine with it
and now donna miller will be another reliable israel vote
and people will consistently come in here and go Hassan
i don't understand it
Hassan this doesn't make any sense
everyone i know hates israel why is my democratic party that i voted for my
whole life
voting for israel why are they not doing enough
opposition towards the republicans that are seemingly moving this country
in the direction of war with Iran, specifically at the behest of Israel. Why is that the case?
This is how it works. I've been at this game for a decade plus at this point, okay?
I've been at this game for a decade plus. It is what it is.
Like, remember how things used to look like in this chat after October 7th?
And remember how much things have changed? Okay? Like, this used to be the most common
thing that I heard in this chat, as on as a terror sympathizer. Thousands and thousands
And thousands of messages like that one flooded in here every single day.
Now, if this person actually went out in public and was like, dude,
I think Israel is the best country on the planet.
Uh, and all of the people who oppose Israel or terror sympathizers,
they would beat him with hammers.
Okay.
They would kill him.
If he were to say shit like this in public, people will be like, fuck off.
He knows that.
That's why he can only get away with it right here.
That's why he can only get away with this shit because we've won because we line, we
align with the truth.
We've won the public conversation.
Spokesperson, this is an obnoxious campaign, tells me that there's still very much of this
and the campaign is still waiting for more results to come in.
I mean, it's just not, it's most likely not going to happen.
Do you understand?
Find a perfectly good on paper candidate who got filleted over her APAC
assist first candidate this year, who you can argue lost over that issue.
She lost. Better just say something while people are paying attention.
Save senator Laura fans campaign till the evidence is now Jeff Hirsch that the Glenview State Senator will not be making any statement tonight
She's lost better say something what people are paying attention
Illinois 7 looks insane the votes splitting among progressives
I don't even want to know what happened here Ford had the retiring Danny K. Davis and endorsement the progressive endorsement still in danger zone
Thanks to the big pack spending for Connors Irvin and weaker progressive splitting the vote
I don't even understand what the fuck took place here, dude
We need ranked choice voting right now it'll never happen because Democrats know they'll never win another race ever again
if there's ranked choice voting literally the most
most leftist candidates will win every single fucking race.
The evercast know that, which is why they will never allow it.
It's never going to happen, but you know, ranchers voting would have, uh, would have
delivered this victory mostly.
Ah, actually, I don't know.
With the, with Illinois nine, I don't know.
You could have had a lot of, uh, you could have had a lot of fine voters go to go to,
it to this as well. It's not looking great for june right now, but I'm hoping for him.
He needs to win against a dmfi candidate. Yeah.
Exclusive, a group of billionaire business titans held a zoom video calling April 26th
with mayor Eric Adams, pressing him on the send police titled Israel current events.
the chat eventually expanded by a hundred members. The chat log shows more than a dozen
members of the group appear on Forbes annual list of billionaires. Others work in real
estate finance communications. The chat includes former CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, Dell
founder, CEO, Michael Dell, hedge fund manager, Bill Ackman and Joshua Kushner, a founder
of Thrive Capital and brother to Jared Kushner.
So is cat done done? I mean, it looks like it. Yeah.
Okay.
Blem game already started special fuck you to bushra on a wallow center Mike Simmons and
Thank you. Yes mean for putting your own egos in the good of our country. You deserve to be blacklist from politics
I mean, it's not gonna happen. Everyone needs to fucking calm down
Okay
But yes, that is a problem it's a it's a totally totally fucking crowded
Congratulations to Rep Delia Ramirez for securing the Democratic nomination to Illinois
third.
Posters need to fucking calm down.
You think people are going to be rational about this?
No, I don't think so.
I think a lot of people are not used to taking L's and being a leftist is about taking L's
gracefully and learning from those lessons and adapting, okay?
I think a lot of people got it in their minds that like the real democratic process thrives
in this fucking dumbass country and they're wrong and stupid for thinking that.
You just have to literally be super careful all the time.
You can't make any mistakes and it'll take time for you guys to understand.
Unfortunately for many people, they'll get blackpilled from this experience and they'll
go, oh, it's over.
I'm done.
Right?
It's over.
I don't believe in democracy anymore.
And it's like, you're going to have to get used to this.
Okay.
You're going to have to get used to failure, failure after failure after failure.
Yeah, DSA was functionally non-existent 10 years ago. It was like comprised entirely of 85 year olds
Are you guys so in love with electoral democracy who the fuck cares of cat when she was gonna tear down borscht by the Marseille
You guys are pissed take up arms and take over your police station. Okay, dude. Shut the fuck up
Don't mess
It's not, it's not about overtaking bourgeois democracy through, through the electoral
process.
That's never going to happen, but it is about building a movement or actively trying to,
actively trying to move the country in its politics.
Move the country's politics in a much better direction.
Paul Noly, rescuing Democratic nomination in Illinois' sixties congressional districts
any issues as good policy and good politics.
Mike from PA says four years ago, a candidate like this, winning would have been a sign
of the left rising.
that he's being challenged by someone to his left so closely even after tens of
millions of dollars being spent in the race is insane yeah it's true that's
absolutely correct I think for a lot of people the issues every leftist and
progressive and their brother is running in all these limited urban and suburban
primaries and they should try to run an ex-servant districts and bring these
politics to rule USA are working out who runs in that district and secure
support, I agree. H-bizzle, a lot of these people aren't old like you are. Okay,
you're an old ass, okay? So you understand what American politics used to look
like for the working class, not that fucking long ago. You only, you only, a
lot of you are young or only recently started paying attention to this kind of
politics. So for you, this is like a devastating defeat. You don't have the
capacity to understand how unimaginable of a change that has taken place in American
politics, where you can have a Palestinian 26 year old run and almost unseat a established
relatively progressive guy like this.
is not even a question. Zoran's got everyone's hopes too high. Caz not the candidate Zoran
was. Eleanor and I thought the constituency and why he is. No, that's not. Everyone needs
to stop thinking this is going to be like Zoran. There was some, there was things in
this race that made it a lot easier than Zoran's race. And, and, uh, obviously no one has the
same fucking ground game that New York DSA has. Y'all are being crazy. Working families
party in DSA, New York city, we're able to basically dominate the ground game. No one
else comes anywhere near that.
Brad Lander has something to say about Apex influence. Tens of millions of dollars in
super PAC money float in the Illinois primary race, crypto AI and dark money packs that
high where the money came from. Apex spent $22 million through shell packs and never
even talked about Israel. Sadly, we're going to see it in our primaries as well. My opponents
a support APAC money. I don't dark money roads, public trust in our democratic process.
That's why I passed the strongest local law in the country. So donors have assigned their names
on IE's in New York city. It's time to get dark money out of politics.
Even if cat doesn't win, apex fall will come through them having to dump millions into every
race in order to keep their candidates in play while smaller races go towards true left candidates.
Now if I got his unlimited funds, it's just a matter of who they fucking focus on so on ran through DSA cat
They didn't that was a difference that was maybe needed. We need to be aware of going forward. No, you're also thinking that
That New York DSA's operations are similar to any other DSA around the country. That's not the case
Come on, you know that better than anybody else New York DSA is a different demon with 14,000 members now at this point
Unfortunately, the other DSAs around the country are nowhere near at the same level of seriousness,
including our own DSA in our own backyard, DSA LA, right?
Chicago DSA is fairly prominent, but it's not the same, you know, it's not.
I mean, Chicago DSA, initially, if I'm not mistaken, well, I don't know if they actually endorse Brandon Johnson, but Brandon Johnson was a DSA candidate, like, I mean, was in the DSA.
Chicago isn't that bad. They can make a difference. They got those members by running races. You want to fix LA DSA? We need to recruit candidates.
Yeah.
Shikari Yusie did not endorse Brandon.
the
concession in Illinois 7 most of
connears of urban has conceded
the Lashaw Ford in Illinois 7 a
defeat for a pack which puts
millions behind kindness or
got even protested over it.
The real issue is there is no equivalent to like conservative movement,
which focused on organizing everywhere.
So they had infrastructure all over the GOP.
The SA is clustered in cities,
wait too much to don't work strategically nationally.
Need CPC to actually do this.
The CPC is not going to do shit.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
The CPC fucking sucks.
Okay, unless you're talking about the Communist Party of China, and I know you're not talking
about the Communist Party of China, I know you're talking about the Congressional Progressive
Caucus, and it fucking sucks, sorry.
It fucking sucks.
And I say this as someone who actively wanted Greg Khazar to be the fucking leader of the
Congressional Progressive Caucus, which he did become, they've been so fucking weak.
Make it not suck.
I'm not a fucking elected. What what what can I do?
What can I fucking do I can't do shit
My guy became the leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and ever since then he has been absolutely dog water
He endorsed this and the CPC already has a policy of endorsing incumbents
Even if the incumbents are fucking dog shit like Valerie fushi
Valerie Fushi in North Carolina was terrible.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus endorsed Valerie Fushi, the 87-year-old, the 87-year-old pro-Israel congressperson.
What the fuck is the Congressional Progressive Caucus good for?
I'm going to go back to the
video.
to get serious. What happened in Illinois can happen here. Yes. 100%.
To be fair, she's 69 and she ran on criticizing Israel because it's so unpopular. Yeah. Okay.
She's 69 years old and was pro Israel until this last election where she had the literally
flipper positions. And then in a panic state, Hakeem Jeffries took a bunch of APAC donations
and hit it under subsidiaries so that they get still funnel money in the Valerie Fushi
directly from pro-israel groups. I know it's fucking insane. It's insane how indecent and
how undemocratic the Democratic Party actually fucking is. When you learn about how fucked
up this process is, it's very difficult to still, it's very difficult to still believe
that we will ever achieve anything through electoralism
that's why my goal through electoralism is not necessarily to make the necessary
changes in this country because obviously is not gonna fucking happen that
way
but more so to funnel
popularity into outside organizations so we can build outside power to one
hold politicians the account
and two maybe even potentially build a third party down the line
The goal here is to utilize the electoral process and the, uh, the, the weak democratic party to put forth candidates.
To put forth candidates that will be closer to your vision.
Since congressional progressive caucus and ANC will not co- will not endorse not-encompass the
consequences of the roles there needs to be more outside power Bernie's the only one who
crossed that line usually and even he doesn't do it for everybody. You could run but I get
You can do more here. No, I can't fucking run dude. What are you talking about?
I
You want me to drop everything that I'm doing and focus on one race only to probably lose that race because
Literally the opposition
Do you know how much money a pack would dump into any race that I ran on?
Do you understand
Dog I'm not running for office and already every fake Jewish advocacy
organization that is actually just an Israel advocacy organization tries to bully every
congressperson that even remotely comes near me. Why the fuck do you think that's the case?
It would be the first billion dollar race, okay?
You wouldn't be able to go anywhere without seeing how much of a fucking evil villain I am.
Hasan Piker murders dogs for fun. Hasan Piker has only sex with underage people.
That's what the that's what the APAC attack as was say. Just complete bullshit
but it doesn't matter. AI galore.
the
house on piker is the fan of al-Qaeda
Just make a new one, Congressional Caucus of Progressive CCP to the CPC.
And then if I actually did end up winning that race, I would just get assassinated.
I'll be honest.
Okay, I would get fucking assassinated.
I would absolutely get killed.
100%, like directly shot with a gun.
Okay?
like 100%. After the unlimited attack as full of lies, APEC would launch, they would just
kill me.
I'm bragging, kill me.
Yeah. Eliminated. Hassan Piker, he was part of Hamas. And then Jake Tapper would go on
television and be like, well, it's obvious that Israeli agents actually assassinated
the congressional candidate, Hassan Piker.
But here we have Jonathan Concruz, the report on exactly why they did it.
And then Jonathan Concruz be like, thank you, Jake, for having me on.
Everyone knows Hassan and Hamas are very similar in name.
And that is why we had to kill him because he was Hamas.
Jake would be like, oh, very interesting. Next up, babies in Lebanon, how many of them
deserve to die?
The National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent resigned. He posted, quote, I cannot
in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to
our nation and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel. And
it's powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under the president and the
the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
It's worth noting two facts as we read Joe Kent's resignation, which is rooted in conspiracies
about Israel and its supporters.
One, Kent's ties to white nationalists and anti-Semites were long established and almost
held up his Senate confirmation.
And two, much like other prominent mega commentators who oppose Trump's war against Iran for all
sorts of reasons, many legitimate.
But in his statement, all that absolves President Trump from the decision to go to war.
President Trump, the most powerful elected official in the war, absolves him almost for
a U.S. war that literally only President Trump had the power to start.
Now Kent and some other members of the MAGA coalition blame this war not on Trump, where
Secretary of Defense Hexif, Marco Rubio, they blame the war on Israel and its supporters
in the U.S.
Kent also blames Bush's Iraq war not on Bush, but on Israel.
He also blames Trump's war on ISIS in Syria, not on Trump, but on, guess who?
apricot the litter conspiratorial resignation today in the trump administration because
of the war in iran joe kent the bro it's gonna be really funny when 90% of the public including
the republicans are gonna be like anti-israel and 98% of congressional representatives
and senators are gonna be pro-israel and people still people still won't understand what the
the fuck's going on they still will be like oh no why are all the politicians so pro-israel
like I don't understand why is he so personally invested in defending Israel it's hilarious
and so transparent he's a massive Islamophobe and also a huge Zionist that's why
The National Counterterrorism Center posted his resignation letter to Donald Trump this
morning saying that he cannot quote in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran
iran pose no imminent threat to our nation joe kent also said he quote cannot
support sending the next generation off the fight and i
in a war that serves no benefit to the american people nor justifies
the cost
of american lives this is significant for two reasons one of them is
that this is the latest
pro maga pro trump figure to break from president trump
on the issue of the war in iran
but unlike commentators like tucker carlson or meghan kelly joe can actually
served as an official
in the administration. All of these critics blame to one degree or another the involvement
of the US in this war on Israel, which President Trump disputes. Some commentators note that
this is an interesting way for these critics to absolve President Trump of what he himself
did decided to go to war in Iran. We should note that Kent, when he was nominated for
nominated for director of the national counter terrorism center was criticized and faced opposition
in the senate because of his alleged ties to white supremacists and anti-semites.
Polling does not suggest any major split in the MAGA coalition when it comes to their
support for president trump and the war in iraq.
It just sucks because like he's career has been in a year, listen no you're oblivious
to Jake.
This is Jake Tapper being as honest as possible because the Ellison thing is giving him room
to just be even more aggressively in support of Israel, but he's always been this way.
Hello, are you guys just finding out about Jake Tapper?
The only thing that is correct about Jake Tapper's assessment here is that, yes, a lot
people in the MAGA coalition do engage in the maximalist cope that Donald Trump is not responsible
for the events that are unfolding, and it's actually just Israel. Okay? Even Tucker Carlson
refuses to say Donald Trump is the problem. Okay? There's a reason for that. Their understanding
of the dynamic here
is that israel is somehow you know using jewish hypnosis
or or a jewish style of blackmail or something
and that's the reason why our beautiful wasp
representatives are in favor of unlimited baby murder
that's not the case they love unlimited baby murder all the same
they've committed unlimited baby murder on their own when it came to iraq when
it came to Afghanistan. That wasn't because of Israel. Israel certainly played a role
in pushing Congress, right? Netanyahu personally played a role in pushing Congress, especially
when it came to Iraq, but it doesn't matter. We're going to do a regardless because they
love it all the same. But a lot of these guys, a lot of these guys don't fucking realize that
or just they, they cope with it. That's why they rarely ever talk about evangelical Zionists.
Okay, evangelical Zionists are an active voting bloc in this country.
Evangelical Zionists are a far more consequential voting bloc in this country than Jewish Zionists
are. Sure, there's a lot of money to interest on the side of both evangelical Zionists and also
Jewish Zionists, okay, that comprise a big chunk of the Zionist lobby. But the reality of the matter
is as far as like totality of votes goes evangelical Zionists are a far larger fucking voting block
a far more active voting block than all Jews in this country. Jews are what six million of them
in this country. It's like it's not irrelevant, especially in like big cities, but given that
they live mostly in big cities, it does somehow become somewhat irrelevant, even if they were to
specifically vote for Israel first politics, which they don't, right? Jewish Americans don't vote for
Israel first politics. Some of them might actually care a lot about Israel. Some of them might care
little about Israel, but even then they don't vote for Israel first politics. If that was the case,
they would be voting not like this last election cycle. They would have voted entirely for the
the Republican Party. And yet 75% of Jewish Americans still voted for the Democrats reliably
as they always do. Because Jewish Americans, even those who say they care about Israel,
even those who say they self report as caring about Israel, still fucking vote for the Democrats
because they're still American.
But Ken Sletter does note Trump's quote values and the foreign policies that he campaigned
on in 2016, 2020 and 2024 that Trump quote understood that the wars in the Middle East
were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth
and prosperity of our nation.
I mean, no doubt a lot of supporters of President Trump do feel that way that President Trump
had promised to end involvement in wars abroad, and some of the most prominent people who
felt that way have either adjusted their views, as with Vice President JD Vance, or really
remained silent and bit their tongue, like the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi
Gabbard. Kent is a veteran. He's deployed 11 times. He's a gold star spouse.
his late wife, a naval officer, was killed by a suicide bomber in Syria during the first
Trump administration.
It is unclear how much of an impact this letter will have, given the kind of conspiratorial
nature of the letter, the fact that he blames Israel, Israeli officials, the American media,
the Israel lobby.
But we will see.
This is certainly a very high-profile split from the president on this major issue, War
with Iran.
Anyway, how on earth is this a conspiracy vis his real shock first is not, but he has
to say that not realizing that that makes him look fucking ridiculous in the eyes of
more most normal people in the same with this anti-war anti-semitism is still anti-semitism
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The pro-Israel sphere wants you to believe two things, being pro-Israel is going to resonate
with your average damn primary voter in 2028, Shapiro's right.
And two, it's okay to funnel millions of primers under pseudonyms like elect Chicago women
because people hate Israel.
Yeah, if a pack if Israel was a popular issue a pack would have no problem being like this
is my pro-israel candidate doesn't everybody love Israel everyone loves Israel right except
wrong they know that nobody fucks with Israel anymore.
Their goal here is to literally muddy the waters and elect people who are pro-israel
without having them say anything pro-israel at all because they they just want the reliable
vote they want people to literally turn around and go oh I don't know what
happened why are people so why are we so anti-Israel and yet the average
politician is so pro-Israel well it's fucking happening it's happening all the
goddamn time it's happening like this
Anyway, my big fear in all of this also revolves around like people like Tucker Carlson and
many others unironically, uh, running on this like anti-Israel slant to basically win favor
with a bunch of like liberals and, and, you know, anti-Israel people in general without
But actually, while not really changing their policies whatsoever, they're not winning
with the MAGA base.
I think they're just winning with liberals.
I worry that liberals are getting convinced by Tucker Carlson and them because unfortunately
there aren't a lot of Democrats who are loud and proud in terms of just like actively leading
the pack on anti-Zionism, but yeah, that's all I got for tonight.
I am so tired.
I love you guys.
I will see you tomorrow.
Obviously.
So far, the anti-Israel slate does not exist in the right-wing vote in the United States.
They won't win over liberals, which is anti-Israel stuff.
The first-time candidate would do well with a small subset of voters, but that subset is growing.
No, I worry that Tucker Carlson can carry the fucking MAGA base and also win favor with a lot of liberals,
a lot of even progressives, and certainly a lot of independents.
An anti-Israel MAGA would cook.
Because all the evangelicals, sure, they have like psychotic desires around Israel, but
many of them care about white supremacy and Tucker Carlson has plenty of that.
Are you streaming from Cuba?
Yes, I am streaming from Cuba, but that's not till later in this week.
I love you guys.
I'll see you tomorrow, okay?
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