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04-02-2026 · 8h 36m
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Do you swear or affirm under penalty of perjury that the testimony you're about to give is
true?
So help you God.
How many of Epstein's co-conspirants have you indicted?
How many tripping traders are you even?
Down, down right now, it's over 50 thousand.
I don't know why you're laughing.
That's what we should be talking about.
Down, down right now, that's the key to understanding now.
Then every people need to know this, need to know how.
It's been down.
Let me explain.
It's been down because of you.
It's been down.
How will you travel through the survival?
This is not about you.
If you doubt confidence, you're a nurse fully redacted
Whose response? Are you able to track it?
Does the virus gave testimony to the FBI?
Files pulled from the lens of it that you will never see
The DM came at least for the victims
Telling what to be done, who at least believes
And redacted the man they implicated
You're spending wide resources arresting drama within prosecuting kids
Your boss is saying that this administration
Well, took the freedom of speech.
Come on, the Dow, the Dow right now.
It's over fifty-thousand.
I don't know why you're laughing.
That's what we should be talking about.
The Dow, the Dow right now.
That's the king of almost seventy-thousand.
Then after people need to know this,
they need to know how it's the Dow.
How is the Dow?
You're covering up, even.
How is the Dow?
The primes have taken place.
Over fifty-thousand.
When is it down?
How to do anything?
Are you kidding?
That's what they just asked.
You sit here and attack.
But we have the records now, she knows, da, da, da, da, da.
The down and down right now is over 50 pounds.
I don't know why you're laughing.
That's what we should be talking about.
The down and down right now is over 50 pounds.
I don't know why you're laughing,
but that's what we should be talking about.
I hope everyone's having a fantastic evening, afternoon, and pre-noon, no matter where you
are in the world.
And the song, Piper, is also not brought to us, it's coming to you live from sunny, but
kind of chilly San Francisco, California, ladies and gentlemen, we're on stolen land
here in San Francisco, California.
Is this Brian Tyler Cohen?
Yes, I'm Brian Tyler Cohen.
And this is the libda broadcast.
Yeah, the one day I wear some drippy shit,
all of a sudden everyone's like,
what are you, Brian Tyler Cohen?
The answer is yes.
Okay.
The answer is yes.
I'm now Brian Tyler Cohen.
I love the Democratic Party.
I'm an Israel skeptic,
but I don't like think it's all that bad.
And I really wish that people would just stop talking
about Israel in general,
this is like really ruining my vibes. That's who I am now. Okay. Um, anyway,
ladies and gentlemen, boys, girls at MBS, we're back. We're live. We're live.
I did like eight hours and 40 yesterday. Uh, as you guys know,
this is part of the broadcast where I tell you about my personal news about
what's going on in the world of Sonos and I'm a piker in between the time period
where I press the stop streaming button and press the start streaming button.
It's 1105 four to four to 2026 April 2nd,
2026. You're on stolen Olone land. Yes, that's right. Coming to you live from San Francisco,
right at the heart of the tech capital here in the United States of America, perhaps the world
on stolen Olone land. But yes, I'm live. I'm alive and I hope everyone's having a fantastic one
because today's a beautiful day. Today is a wonderful day. Today is Thursday. That's right,
it's Thursday, April 2nd, like I said already, and it's a wonderful day, spectacular day.
Lots of great news are coming down. We're learning a lot. I'm obviously going to be covering it all.
Personal news wise, as you all know already, I'm a chud-ass loser. Didn't really do much,
got out of the, got out of the, the Stanford SJP area, went back to my
hodl, packed up the bags and and had dinner somewhere. It's like a, like a
Japanese chain restaurant that exists in Los Angeles as well. Had some udon,
passed out, woke up at 1.45 a.m. Pacific time to a bonkers earthquake. Definitely
definitely hit very different. The earthquake hit definitely very, very
different because I was...
What do you call it? I was in a building rather than usually in
California. I'm in Los Angeles. I'm in my house and I'm at most on the
You know on the second story, uh, I have two floors, right? Like
It it uh
It shook me so hard. It shook me so hard. I woke up
And the first thing I did a text march. I said don't panic. I don't know why it was instinctive
And he just said lamal
Okay, which is crazy. It's like, oh my bad. Oh my mistake, bro. My mistake for trying to
You know trying to take care of you trying to look after you right like it's messed up
You were in a building normally outside or no normally I'm in a house
So the house doesn't shake the same as like being in a building a couple stories above right?
So yeah, why we James bonded up today because you already know baby. I'm
Fancy schmancy with it right. I'm gonna be doing a speech to
potential future lawyers in America so you were much closer to it than San
Francisco was to probably pretty strong yeah maybe anyway but yeah that's all it
is obviously Abishu Saganlari case I'm gonna come if you see me in order to
the old one bu bu havalı bir adamı yapabileceği bir şey sadece bunu sen
anlayamazsın yani su tu giyiyoruz güzel cahit'i giyiyoruz elbiseyi
We eat meat.
I mean, I'm a kind person.
That's elegance. You don't understand that.
You with your bourgeois floors enjoy your steps buddy. I'm heading to the rooms the same level like a fool
Yeah
In any case ladies and gentlemen
We're live. We're alive. Obviously. There's not much going on in the end in my life
At least I you know, I'm in situation monitoring trying to make sense of what Donald Trump was saying last night
And honestly, that's a little bit more difficult to monitor as a situation then
even
You know straight up trying to make sense of what the targets are what the goals are who's winning who's losing
So, you know, we'll be talking about that quite a bit today. So I'll just blast off real quick. Obviously
You know, we have some some other
Domestic incidents that are taking place right now today as well. We'll obviously be talking about that
Something fairly significant has taken place
But let me blast off real quick and then we'll get into it oracle fire 30,000 people via email today. Yeah, welcome to a I America
Obviously, that's another one, you know, that's going to be an issue in general, but yeah, we got Pam body out birthright
birthright. SCOTUS conversations taking place, Epstein-Fury, Operation Epstein-Fury Day 33,
Trump, State of the Union, confuses people, and more. Zoran Tax Battle in New York will obviously
talk about that too, but before I get into it, obviously there is something I have to discuss
here something I something that is unimaginably important ladies and
gentlemen ladies and gentlemen boys girls and nbs I'm very suave today I'm
looking dapper and you might be asking yourself why are you looking so dapper
us on and there's a good reason for it right it's not just because I'm gonna
be speaking to a future generation of lawyers later tonight at University of
It's because we're here for a funeral, ladies and gentlemen, boys, girls and
Andes. That's right. A second Trump affiliate has been hit. A second plane
in his hit, The Trump Powers.
Pamela, Joe Boggley.
An American attorney and politician who served,
and I say served, as the 87th United States Attorney General
from the year 2025 to the year 2026,
a member of the Republican Party
as the 37th Attorney General of Florida
has now been fired.
That's right.
Being gone.
Which is gone?
Pamela Joe Vande.
R.I.P. Bozo, PacWatch, you already know what it is, ladies and gentlemen, throw a goddamn party,
spam to your heart's desire. That is now the second scalp of the Trump administration.
That's right, it's the second scalp after Kirstie Vodacious Known.
After Kirstie Known was kicked off as demoted from the Department of Homeland Security's
Secretary of Position, a second girl boss has been taken out by the Trump administration.
And here we are, misogynistically celebrating another fascist being dethroned.
Only to be replaced by yet another fascist regardless.
Bye-bye, Bondi! Bye-bye!
That's right
All right
So pack watch RP bozo you already know what it is you already know what's up
You know blast off is is imminent as well. Let the people know we're alive. Let the people know we're alive
Pamela Joe bondy didn't know her middle name was Joe by the way
Didn't know her name was her her middle name was Joe. That's a strange middle name to have
but
Very I mean, I guess it makes sense very white trash and you think about it
Which is you know, precisely what she is or dare I say was
Well, I guess she still is white trash, right we finally getting close to five years what you predicted this to
What predicted oh oh oh with Abdul
I'm a lawyer now, so obviously, you know, that's how it works when you go and speak to a law school
That means you have an honorary JD
Not dissimilar to JD Vance as a matter of fact, so I'm a lawyer now and as a lawyer
I am you know if Donald Trump calls me up. I'll do it. I will become the next attorney general, right?
Yeah, I got my jurors doctorate. It's not a big deal. It's called a doctor of law in not
Espanol but Latin, which is kind of like Espanol. Okay. And yeah, Honorary JD Jorkin, the Peanuts,
if you want. You look great in that suit. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you.
You're more qualified than Alina Hamba. How dare you how dare you come after my
RGB Queen Alina Hamba you look like your brother
Go sell peptides in that super take that shit off Lamal dude
I swear to God anytime I do anything that's a little bit different anytime I do anything
Anything at all there's gonna be chatters in here being like nah dog put a t-shirt on bro
Who the fuck do you think you are? Oh look at this big guy?
Look at this bro SpongeBob big big guy do SpongeBob big guy pants. Okay. Who the hell do you think you are man?
Why are you trying to be dapper dude?
You forgot about your fucking day ones, dude
It's crazy, it's crazy. It's just like anytime I do anything can't do shit with this goddamn community, bro
I swear to God
Swear to God there's always gonna be somebody being like wow dude. You don't look like dr. Jihad anymore. I don't like it like
Quick bro get the job before they realize your credentials what your credentials are bro. They don't know me as as
They don't know that I have a doctorate in both. I have a PhD in racism. I now have a
JD right. I'm a lawyer now and also I have an MD. I'm dr. Jihad, right? I
I wear many, I wear many clothes and I have many specialties, right?
I can do it all.
So, put me in, put me in coach, put me in, I will be your guy.
I will do the attorney general job, honestly.
Don't worry about that, but do check on a Derrick guy.
What?
Yeah, go talk to the law school and bare feet like Rick Rubin.
Yeah, Hassan the polymath. Yeah, I double majored in jihad and racism, right? Yeah, I'm a little bit like,
I'm a little bit like, like a famous artist of the adult variety, Johnny Sins. I'm the Johnny Sins of,
of politics. I'm a real technical player, you know, multi-tool, could play whichever
role you need me to play. I got the expertise. With miners and anti-Semitism and electrical
dog engineering, electrical dog engineering, yeah. Who will replace her? My money's on
cat turd. That's awesome. Um, yeah, that's, that's what they're
gonna do. The Trump administration is gonna go, let's do it.
Let's just, let's just go YOLO. Let's just go crazy mode. Let's
just put cat turd in there, you know, let's swap them in. Fuck
it. No tomorrow. Fuck it. We've all type shit. Um, but yeah,
another pressure valve has been released. Obviously, we'll be
talking about that. But it's, it's, it's, you know, pretty, I
I hope everyone's aware of exactly what's going on, right?
Like Trump administration is like responsive
to the pressures and there's always gonna be a fall guy.
And I told you that eventually the fall guy
would be, you know, the person overseeing,
the person that was the most televised individual
on whatever that related incident was.
For the Department of Homeland Security was Greg Bobino
and Kirsten Ohm and they got acts for that reason.
And for the Epstein files and the mishandling
the Epstein files. It's actually Cache Patel and Pam Bondi, but Cache Patel is seemingly
standing strong. So I wonder what will happen for the economy. I wonder who will get the
axe for the economy, and I wonder who will get the axe for the military quagmire that
we found ourselves in, in the Strait of Hormuz, as we have been attacking the state of Iran.
You look like let out a treatise when you wear your suits, especially the high-collared
ones. Now all you need is a benegesar ebatty. Yeah. My benegesar ebatty is obviously, is
obviously going to be Nancy Pelosi. I mean, I'm in her hood right now. Anyway, this is
like this is literally her place, right? This is swag. Okay. CNN changed you? Yeah. I decided
to put the suit on so they no longer call me anti-semitic. I also decided to obviously say
Am Israel high? And Israel has a right to exist. Israel has a right to defend itself. You know, that type of shit. Also, you know, we can't allow a scary religious country to to have nuclear arsenals, unless it's Israel, in which case, it's good that they have nukes. And also, it's good that they're invading Lebanon and killing people, displacing millions doing knock, but after knock, but basically, I, I think all of those things are totally moral and totally good.
Now
Hasan
Be so for real right now. How are you using swag in the big two to six? That's crazy
Yeah, we must replace oxygen with swag. Okay, I'm 34 years old you have to understand
There's there's gonna be some limitations in my language. Okay. I don't know what the kids are using nowadays
I only know what I'm using as far as my language
which is M Israel high. Israel has a right to defend itself and, um, and, uh, you know, numerous
things of that order, obviously. Yeah, we're calling the shred of hormones the shred of Trump.
You already know, say aura. I mean, I do have aura aura aura. Um, yeah, there's some good news
coming out of, of, uh, Michigan. Uh, John Eldenring says, I want to thank the establishment DNC hacks
for giving Abdul press this last week,
our county's in person volunteer meeting attendance
doubled today.
So hell yeah.
Hopefully I want to see more of that.
I want to see more of Michigander,
Hassanabi heads rising up and helping out Abdul.
This is a big race.
Okay, this is going to be a major race.
I mean, it's a Senate race, right?
huge. You have to remember, that's crazy. Yeah, you have to remember Kirstie Noem's husband's
bisongus. That's what I meant. All right, that's what you got to remember. And yes, I did an interview
with Aaron Regenberg for the New Republic and he wrote this very thoughtful piece on, we had an
interview and he wrote a very thoughtful piece on my my history of combating antisemitism.
while also being an anti-Zionist and despite the controversy because of it
millions of people turn to Piker for their news as evidence of his draw outside
his campaign told me that they've received more sign-ups by far for their
rally with Piker than any of their other events. Yeah, Jacobin defended you on
top of the new Republic piece. Hell yeah, Dems claimed to want to Hassan Piker
than try to cancel him. Now, I do think, like I said already, there's not really a lot of
motion on this stuff. Like back in the day, this could have been, back in the day, this could have
been a much more serious incident, right? This would actually have some impact. Nowadays,
the impact actually backfires on the organizations, especially because most people understand one,
Israel is a, you know, 90-10 issue at this point, favoring us, and two, people hate
cancel culture, and three, perhaps most importantly, people understand that you're
you're quote-mining and you're cynically trying to present someone as like an
irrational person, because you disagree with the, you know, the morality. You
disagree with the argument, and you can't actually have that argument. You
can actually have a conversation on moral grounds, on moral terms, because Israel's
indefensible, so you just try to do this shit-smearing, and it doesn't work.
The tent already includes Piker, Usama Andrabi, a spokesperson for the progressive group Justice
Democrats told me, when asked about Third Ways Responsive Piker, I think the question
is actually whether our tents should continue to be big enough for a very vocal minority
of corporates and right-wing hawks who are still trying to keep this party under the
grips of corporate interest in Warhawk lobbies like APAC. Yeah. That's it. And it's really
interesting. Bulwark did an article on this in like third way, like Bulwark is, you know,
obviously a right wing operation, but you know, even they are basically saying two third way,
you have to fuck all the way off. It's very interesting to see because like, remember,
Bulwark is mostly comprised of, I mean, it's Bill Crystal's operation, right? Bill Crystal
is like the OG Neocon who turned into like a woke warrior kind of. He was, you know,
one of the godfathers of two godfathers of the Neocon movement, right? The American
Warhawk conservative movement that basically was responsible for the global war and terror.
And a lot of these guys are like Bush era, never Trumpers now. They hate Donald Trump.
You know, they've become Democrats even then though they should be perfectly aligned with third way and yet
For some reason they're actually criticizing third way. Why are you saying donate blood?
There's always a guy I'll be talking about something random and like there will be a guy in here
That'll be like tell people to donate blood donate blood. Okay guys donate blood, please
It is so random always anyway
Okay. But basically what happened, what is this? Shitsmere blowback. This is Sompiker curious.
Tiktoker recently found out. What is this? I mean, okay, we don't have to look at every
single video out there. Anyway, listen, listen, listen. So, Bulwark wrote this article, right?
This is like now, I don't know, day 10 of not talking about Iran for, you know,
third-way style, far-right, corporatist Democrats that want to turn back the clock and make sure
that the Democratic Party still represents the exact same politics that caused the Democrats
to lose to Donald Trump in 2024 and also in 2016.
Like, they're so actively doing it.
And it's gotten so annoying and so frustrating
that even people like unlikely bedfellows
are coming out in defense of someone like myself.
So to third-wish critics,
this was nothing short of abject hypocrisy,
a group applying Litmus test to a liberal candidate
after demanding that liberal groups drop the Litmus test,
they placed on mainstream candidates.
Cause if you remember third way,
and also, you know, the abundance movement,
they got together, they congregated,
they did this whole thing a couple months prior
uh... you know madiglacias was there all the stars of dc
uh... all the central stars of the democratic party were there and one of
the big takeaways from that conference was
what cooked kamala harris was
the a c l u questionnaire that she uh...
uh... answered right
they were like all kamala harris answered the a c l u questionnaire
uh... where they asked her about you know transgender of bottom surgeries for
undocumented what a mallens in
in concentration camps and she said
uh... they should still be able to get these uh... surgeries right
and and
that was such a uh... big fixture of of
what the uh... right wing democrats claimed was the reason why kamala harris
lost i've talked about this extensively
this would be a non-issue
uh... if
the the democrats actually presented economic populism
as an alternative they just like said
uh... they offered things to the working class and and define themselves with
policies
that people actually identify with people actually want right this would never
be a conversation is not a conversation with zoram for example who's also
uh... protrans not conversation with grand platner
for example right
um...
having said that
the takeaway from the third way guys was democrats need to stop
doing questionnaires they need to stop
Responding to these groups right sunrise movement the dsa aclu all of these like woke groups
So third way now is also
Becoming the groups once again because it always was one of the groups, right?
This is so clearly third way riling people up in a way that is so disingenuous said amanda littman the co-founder of run
For something a progressive group that recruits and trains first-time candidates
She emphasized that part of politics is having a deal with people who say crazy things you don't agree with
And you have to work with them anyway. Who's doing the scolding here? She asked
I thought we weren't supposed to be canceling anyone anymore for a third way
There's nothing inconsistent about its approach in an interview Cowan told me he draws a distinction between demanding policy purity from a candidate and
Moral clarity he argued that if piker had said offensive things about a minority group other than Jews Democrats wouldn't have hesitated to shun him
For I'll say had to rally with piker
He said is as if George Bush a campaign with David Duke instead of denouncing the KKK leader most significant
Which by the way is an insane statement, right?
Because it's just like objectively untrue. It's just, you know, comparing me in any
way, shape, or form that David Duke is psychotic. I mean, think about it this way.
Between me and David Duke, who do you guys think is between me and third way?
Okay, sorry. Between me and Thurwood, whose worldview is closer to David Dukes? The right-wing
pro-war Democratic consulting firm that is constantly telling Democrats to lean closer
and closer to the Republican far-right neocon party in order to win votes, or the guy who
was an anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-Zionist. Like who do you think is closer to David Duke?
Apparently, David Duke endorsed Kamala Harris last election is what people are saying. But
in any case, for third way, there's nothing. Because most significantly, Cowan made it clear
he'd rather accept some electoral risk than see the party show flexibility on this front.
If people are really arguing that the price of winning is becoming like a bigoted misogynist
like Assam Piker, then I'll take not winning, Cowan told me. What is the point of reviving
the Democratic Party so it can compete in an age of right-wing populism if the price of that
is that you mainstream bigoted anti-American misogynistic votes? They're just like throwing
words into the pile too. Tomorrow they'll call me racist, right? Like they're trying to concoct
a figure. Slowly but surely they're trying to concoct a figure that is far removed from
who I actually am and what I represent. The problem for them, of course, is that I have
a significantly larger platform, and my platform is communicating my political worldview, my
ideals, and therefore they're going to have a much harder time cutting across that noise
because they have to rely on other outlets. They don't have, you know, a steady flow of
communication out there. They just have to give quotes to client outlets like the Wall
Shoot Journal and then like try to muster up some controversy, which will then inevitably
cause eyeballs to come my way for people to, you know, really figure out what I'm really
about and when they do that they realize oh this is all bullshit so it doesn't
really work it's an unnecessary smear campaign it's really stupid they're
doing it on a you know a 90-10 issue in a way that's very transparent in a way
that people are actually really frustrated with right like they've heard
this they've seen this so much I'm closer to most people's worldview than they
are and that's it
So, Ned Lamont and JB Prisker have a bet on the final four matchup between Illinois and
UConn Lamont is putting a new Haven pizza. What is this? Illinois Barbour, he's just
discussing what, oh yeah. Tim Miller also railed against us that if people really are
arguing that the price of winning is becoming like a bigoted massage to Casampire, then
I'll take not winning, Jonathan Cowan told Lauren V. Egan.
This seems like a bad message to me given the state of things.
The perceived incompetence discounts their cynical malice.
If you think of this as third way miscalculating your mistaken, they know
what they're doing.
Trump is serving up a clear and popular anti-war pro-social services
campaign for Democrats on a silver platter, and they will do anything
they can to avoid that.
Yeah.
that. Because Democrats actually do, no matter how like Corpo, no matter how centrist Democrats
are, they actually do oftentimes present themselves as anti-Trump, right? Or they at least try
to find a way to present themselves as anti-Trump.
So if Donald Trump is like viciously and super vulgar in his imperialism, right? Democrats
have to be against that. And therefore, they have to lean into being anti-war. Third way
hates that. They don't want that. They want to make sure that Democrats are still in line
with billionaires, in line with corporations. They want to make sure that the Democratic
Party and the way that Democrats communicate on these issues do not stray away or shy away
from what they want, which is to keep the business's usual Kamala Harris-style politics,
right?
It's a politics that has been a failure.
It's been a failure on the politics front.
It's obviously failed twice to Donald Trump, but it's also a failure to the people, right?
And I'm not alone in this.
This is something that I keep repeating over and over again.
Something that I say all the time is, look at the polls.
Look at the polls.
Look at the way that the Democrats are being perceived right now.
Look at the way the Democrats are being perceived right now.
It's not popular.
Here is Harry Emden talking about congressional Dems numbers with Democrats is atrociously
awful, or atrociously awful, even worse among all voters.
Most Dems think the party has the wrong priorities, okay?
This is a massive, massive issue.
It's not actually, it wouldn't be an issue if the Democrats actually were responsive
to the needs of the people, right?
And I said, we're here because Corpo Centro's pro-Israel Dems believe that Trump's unpopularity
will be enough to give them marginal electoral victories without having to push for material
changes that address the working class needs.
want real fighters, they want real change. This is at the heart of the conversation that
we've been having for the last week. This is the major issue. People might try to misdirect,
people might try to take your attention away, they might claim that it's actually about
anti-Semitism or whatever fucking smear campaign that they're leaning into. But this, keep
your eyes on the ball. Okay. This is exactly the problem. Okay. The guys that have caused
this issue, the people that have that have taken control over the Democratic Party since
the Clinton era, the third way neoliberals, they know that they're losing their grip.
They know that they're losing their their influential, their their influencing capabilities.
And they're losing a massive vehicle for billionaires and corporate interests to be able to continue
manipulating the Democratic Party and using it in whichever way they see fit.
And they're desperately swinging wildly, but because of their overall inability to read
the room, because of their total lack of understanding of where people are right now, they've chosen
to do this on the issue of Israel, which is a 90-10 issue. They think they can bully
Democrats, and they can bully some Democrats, right? But they think they can bully all Democrats
into submission to make the wrong choice.
You might say, okay, well, at least Dems like Democrats. Uh-uh, not the case. Look at this.
The majority of Democrats are independents who lean Democrats. Look at this. 55 percent
say no congressional democrats do not have the right priorities and then you
just see a minority 45 percent of democrats say that congressional
democrats have the right priorities this to me just jumps out of the screen
because it screams primary challenges all over the map and it says that even if
democrats don't like Donald Trump they don't like their own party either when
it comes yeah and and that's what it is there are primary challenges right there
There are primary challenges, many of which I'm backing myself, right?
Many of those primary challenges, many of those primary challenges, this community is
leaning into.
They told us for the longest time, a lot of these liberals would say, oh, you and your
community don't vote.
That's never been the case, right?
We vote.
We vote.
You and your community don't participate in politics.
You don't understand how politics works.
do participate in politics. We do understand how politics works, right? Now that we're actually,
uh, you know, taking advantage of the instability in an effort to, to, uh, put forth, put forward
candidates that are more responsive to the needs of the working class, all of a sudden it's a huge
deal, right? All of a sudden it's a massive deal. They're freaking the fuck out because they don't
They don't want it. They don't want people like Abdul. They don't want people like Shroykot. They don't want people like Clair Valdez.
They did not want someone like Anna-Lillian Mejia in New Jersey.
They don't want Graham Platner. They don't want these guys that represent a difference of opinion that want to actually do right by their constituents.
They want controllable entities. They don't want Oliver Larkin, for example.
They would much rather have someone like Moskowitz occupy that seat, and they're willing to lose elections.
The greatest example is the Zoramundani. We saw how the establishment Democrats reacted to Zoramundani.
They tried to get him out when he won the primary.
They didn't go, okay, it's time for Vote Blue,
no matter who, they actually turned around
and tried to unseat him.
They put up a right-wing opposition.
They used a dynastic name in New York politics
like Andrew Cuomo in spite of the reality
that he was a disgraced former governor
who had to resign, right?
And they were totally fine with doing that
because Andrew Cuomo, in spite of his shortcomings,
And in spite of his awful behavior in office, is a controllable entity.
He's not going to fuck the bag up.
He's not going to do the right things.
Think about it.
Think about how New Yorkers perceive Zohran Kwame Mumdani right now.
And when that long since he's been mayor, his popularity's only increased.
He's doing a lot.
He's being a great mayor, right?
First and foremost, I might have my disagreements with him every now and then, but he's just
a mayor for New Yorkers, right? He's there for them. However, what would, what would
an Andrew Cuomo race look like? What would an Andrew Cuomo mayoralty look like? Business
is usual, right wing, everything sucks. We got to give all the money to the police,
know, it would have been devastating. Right? It would have sucked. And Democrats prefer
that. Democrats prefer that. Because Democrats don't want to do work. They don't want someone
who is going to actually be a positive example that is going to cause voters to demand more.
They don't want someone like Zoran, they don't want a hundred Zorans running and winning.
Because that would mean all of the other Democrats that are in positions of tremendous
power in the national party, those Democrats are going to have to change their attitude.
They're going to have to say no to their corporate sponsors.
And they're terrified of that.
Mr. Congress, and overall, I mean, my goodness gracious, this is sort of like Democrat on
Democrat crime here.
What was overall approval among Democrats of their leaders?
Yeah, okay, so you know, you'd speak about Democrat on Democrat crime, and I want to
know how unusual what we're seeing right now about how Democrats feel about Democrats in
Congress is.
Take a look at this.
This is a trend line going back through the years, midterm elections in which there's
a GOP president.
Look at this.
In 2006, Dems and that approval of congressional Democratic leaders was plus 28.
You go back to the last midterm, look at that, plus 19.
Very much on the positive side of it.
The bottom has fallen out, the bottom has fallen out, minus four points.
That is Democrats, Democrats own net approval of their own congressional leaders.
Even Democrats don't like their own leaders when it comes to Congress and overall of course
the numbers are just absolutely awful.
So Democrat on Democrat crime, absolutely this to me, screams again, primary challenges
across the map and it screams to me, hey, when it comes to those next leadership elections
maybe something might be dropping.
It also just means we have to maybe look at these midterms differently because this is
a different prison.
We haven't seen this type of thing before.
We don't know what impact that might have.
That's exactly what I said.
This is a phenomenal opportunity to make necessary changes in the politics of this country.
The Democrats are spectacularly weak.
They are the weakest they've ever been.
At a time when they're supposed to be the strongest they've ever been.
unprecedented unpopularity for the president
should yield tremendous popularity for the opposition party but because they
do not play that oppositional role
because they've completely seated ground
uh... because they're just sitting around and waiting
for the republicans to fail
so that they can uh... bring back the harm reduction arguments one more time
and remind people that they are
not republicans after all they're still marginally better than republicans
after all that's the
argument that they're trying to lean into, right? Here's the thing. This
creates a tremendous opportunity for people like ourselves to run and to
also win. Here's Bernie Sanders, obviously seizing on that opportunity here.
Senator Bernie Sanders is endorsing Clair Valdez for New York's Seventh
Congressional District and Earthquake in the Kami Corridor. As you guys know,
Claire Valdes is a friend of the show. We are, you know, she's part of the DSA slate.
And I've already interviewed her and go back and watch that interview if you'd like. And
it's, I mean, we'll see, we'll see what happens. But I think her chances are pretty good right
now. Right. And a lot of folks have been looking at the generic congressional ballot and wondering
why Democrats don't have a larger leap. Yeah, chaos is everywhere on earth. The situation
is excellent. Chaos is everywhere under the sun. The situation is excellent. Okay. Here's what
Claire said. 11,200 plus people funded this campaign, no corporate cash, no APAC, no real
estate, no AI or crypto. I'm humbled and energized by all of you. Together we'll prevail on June 23rd
and build the movement to take on the oligarchs and deliver the dignity working people deserve.
That's what Claire said. So yeah. And this is a big reason why I would think. Okay. So there's
Ikeem Jeffries in the House, Chuck Schumer as the Senate Minority Leader.
What might this mean for Chuck Schumer?
What are some of the predictions about whether he can stay as a Democratic leader?
Chuck Schumer has been the Senate leader for the Democrats for a long period of time before
I even came to CNN, and I'm not quite sure that he will say it.
Take a look at where the people who are putting their money where their mouth is.
Chance Schumer wins the next Dem-Senate Leader election.
Back on December 1, look at this.
It was two and three according to the cash prediction market.
This person is not a fan of yours, but still defends you.
But if you care about democratic politics, you should be deeply concerned about the
smear campaign that's being perpetrated against him right now.
Because for the past week, mainstream news sources and politicians have been saying
that Hassan is a Muslim vicious anti-Semite who hates America.
And the only purpose of that narrative is to try to cut the left flank of the democratic
party off at the knees, such that there is no power and influence that the left flank
can have in upcoming elections, particularly in the midterms.
The purpose of attacking Hassan is not just about Hassan himself.
It's about people like him who would dare challenge Democrat heterodox thinking, who
would dare challenge the U.S.'s relationship with Israel, who would dare challenge our
blockade of Cuba, who would dare to think about a world that could exist rather than
the one that does.
And I need you to hear me when I say this.
I am not caping for Hassan Piker.
I am not caping for Hassan Piker.
I'm not making use of him. I recognize that people don't like him. I sort of mostly feel like now think about him
Like he's fine. He has it. Honestly, most of the negative things people feel about him are not valid at all
However, you feel about some parkers valid just leave that out next time he's a fission in there
He's not an objectively good figure. It's just yeah, there's so much
There's so much like hatred because I've always been like a vector for all things left politics for so many years
that a lot of people that are ostensibly on the left also don't realize that
they're leaning into it when they do that kind of thing and it's a self-defeating
thing like you're probably a lot closer especially if you're outside of the
confines of like neoliberalism and whatever the centrist establishment
Democrats represent you're probably a lot closer to my worldview than you have
been led to believe and you end up unironically engaging in that same kind
sectarian in-fighting because you saw something that you got baited into believing by a person
who actually despises your worldview and your politics, despises our worldview and our politics.
In many circumstances, it's exactly the same as what the Third Way is doing right now.
People are so aggressive in their hate for you that people feel the need to
uselessly qualify their statements, which is general support for what you do. Exactly.
I mean there is a there are years and years and years of this kind of like endless barrage of hatred that I've received and
And that's precisely the reason why a lot of people
Sometimes fall mercy to these sorts of smear campaigns and even if they're like directly aligned with my worldview
They'll turn around and say oh, I don't really understand
You know, I'm not a big fan of this guy. I've seen some clips where he comes across not so great
You know
And this is funny the son piker is the left's Candace Owens the press treats him like a rock star
He's actually not the left's Candace Owens a major difference being that nobody on the right listens to or courts the favor of Candace Owens
Yeah, I don't care. This is not really about his son piker instead
It is about the way the Democratic Party
You engage with a lot of right-wing critique, but never with a critique from MLs and other
well-read individuals, not fond of your revisionism and constant entryism.
Why is that?
Because I occupy a very different land than they do, and because I'm more successful in
my initiatives than they ever will be in a country like the United States of America
at the heart of empire, where the only route to even mass-class awareness, mass-class consciousness
has to come from taking advantage of the open electoral lane that currently exists in an
objectively weak bourgeois liberal Democratic Party. And because I can't communicate with
people that don't have class consciousness with dense terms, dense terms that are fairly
difficult to understand even for the most well-read Marxists in general. You know,
it seems to me the clips are the thing that are actually revisionist. That's it.
I, we just have different methods if you don't have, you know, you might disagree
with my methods but at the end of the day I think, you know, you're, you, you most
likely don't understand. Your university visits are actually changing people's
minds.
This is the left flank to try to undercut progress, to try to undercut more leftist progressive
candidates as a way to not have to do anything different and as a way to uphold the status
quo.
And they are doing this in part through this rhetorical sleight of hand where they are
conflating criticisms of Israel and Zionism with anti-Semitism.
Those are not the same thing.
And anybody with a modicum of sense can understand that.
And I think that this, this, this smear campaign is relying on a really flattened understanding
of what anti-Semitism actually is.
And that rhetorical side of hand is letting people who have a vested interest in the status
quo try to maintain that status quo by cutting off the knees of the left flank, by getting
rid of someone who they see as a leader or thought leader in that space.
It is a very clear, at least to me, campaign that's happening.
And I hope that we can all see that.
Yeah.
I'm glad.
of this person saw it. What is this? Okay, that kind of evolved.
In person, he is very well put together. That was a very nice opportunity. I
literally, some angel just gave me a ticket. I still have no idea who you are,
but thank you so much. I tried to wait around outside, but I don't know. You
just came out of nowhere to just be mysterious and nice. He had a speech
prepared, which felt pretty relevant for me, especially growing up in the Bay Area.
and tech just being such a force here.
Probably just see the whole thing online, I'm guessing.
But it also felt really cool to just be in a room full of people
who feel in the same way, who like-minded.
Thank you again to the person too,
who gave their ticket if there's an organization.
I could donate too, we can work that out.
More thing too, because I feel like it's relevant,
is he was talking about the importance of political education
and the role that it plays.
Thinking about it on my drive home,
Because one of the most annoying comments I got on that video was people assuming I was apolitical
because I didn't know who Hassan was, which I just feel like is so weird and dismissive.
But to that extent, one thing I said in that video is a lot of my political education here
came directly through people, or also just actual education, like ethnic studies.
So I do want to like use that as an opportunity to plug the importance of ethnic study.
Yeah, I'm in San Francisco. Also, March said that my speech was when I write my speeches
is like a seven and a half out of 10. If I'm well rested and I go off the top dome, it's
a 10 out of 10. If I'm super tired and go off dome, it's a six out of 10. So he still
Thanks. I should just do I should just freestyle rather than write a speech and then and then read it
Alright, we're gonna
We're we're gonna move on from the Hassan piker anti Hassan stuff the son piker defense. I feel like it's just
Such a classic repeat. I'm gonna finish this Harry Emden
video and then we're gonna
Please enough restyle it was so much better. I don't know. I think like I
I think freestyling is like my UBC speech might have been my best one still.
That's the 56% in February and then look at where we are right now.
Just 50% a coin toss, a coin toss, if I had a coin I would toss it up in the air, a coin
toss when it comes to Schumer actually winning the next Dem Center leader election.
And we've seen a number of Senate candidates, Democrats across the map saying we don't want
any part of Chuck Schumer to be the next leader.
And there's a big reason why that is, and it's because at this point, look at this,
this minus four, even Democrats, don't approve of their own congressional leader.
Why are liberals freaking out about the Trump address?
There was nothing in the Trump address.
We're going to do the full Trump address in a second.
But obviously, first, we're going to talk about the domestic instability that's taken
place in the United States of America.
We're talking about Trump.
major shift
seismic shift ladies and gentlemen as we already played the crab rave earlier
you already know pambondi
pamela
joe
bondy
is out
as the attorney general let's take a look at the white house attorney general
pambondi has been ousted let's go now to cnn senior white house
correspondent christin holmes christin tell us what you're learning this is
brand new
yet these are very fluid they're moving very quickly but i am told that pambondi
has been officially fired. She's out of her role. Now where she goes next, that is a question
mark. I was told in the meeting or in the conversation President Trump had with Bondi
yesterday, he floated the idea of a judgeship as a potential landing place for Bondi. And
in the interim period, while they are figuring out who is going to take over as Attorney
General, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blant will step into that role. So he will be serving
in the interim. Pam Bondi though is out. We had already reported that she was in Florida.
We have been talking about for the last several hours how in the last week, President Trump
had been calling allies, asking about firing her, who should replace her. It doesn't seem
as though they have someone-
Perhaps the Dow is below 50K and that might have played a role in the Pambondi ouster.
Who knows?
Turns out if you place a lot of emphasis on the Dow and then your president decides to
blow up the energy markets. You might be the first to go. So I suspect that this is the next step,
by the way. Trump weighs replacing Intel Chief Tulsi Gabbard after she shielded Joe Ken, who
undercut Trump's Iran war ration now. Someone's got to fall on a sword for every single thing
that Donald Trump is messing up right now. I don't know who it will be for the economy. Someone's
going to have to go for that too, eventually. But it's clear that for the immigration stuff,
the immigration panic, the anger and resentment that people felt, and the protest that they
initiated, where they successfully purged ICE Gestapo thugs from Minneapolis, led the
Trump administration to take the initiative and release a pressure valve. The first one
was Greg Bovine Bovino, the man led himself, and the second was Kirstie Nome, secretary
of uh... the department of homeland security
pambondi
is the sacrificial lamb for the ebbstein files
is the ebbstein files is yet another pressure point for the admin
a lot of people are frustrated
a lot of people are frustrated uh... about the ebbstein files and and the
lack of revelation
and the rollout of the ebbstein files did the lack of transparency
Shouts out to Ro Khanna and Thomas Massey for leading that charge. They did a phenomenal job. I mean, this is
These sorts of things don't just happen, right? Sometimes it's good for politicians to lean into the public pressure
Um, sometimes if the politicians don't do that
The people will create that public pressure as they did in Minneapolis
right
Central Committee, thank you for the raid.
Michael from Taiwan, Michael refusing to call it Chinese Taipei.
Thank you for the raid.
Hope you had a good stream.
But as I was saying, Pam Bondi's disastrous performance in front of Congress,
in front of that congressional hearing is I think that all but secured her demise. Trump
saw that and he thought, that's it, you're done. Now, she's in a horrible predicament
regardless because there's no one in that position that can successfully defend the
Trump administration's lack of interest in identifying Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirators.
Trump himself is obviously heavily involved with Jeffrey Epstein.
So she's almost in the same situation that Israel defenders are when they have to defend
the indefensible, right?
So that's precisely what happened here.
Donald Trump made her fall on the sword, a pressure valve.
There's two other areas that Donald Trump
has to release pressure on as well
to make it seem like he's actually responsive
to the needs of the public.
One of them is gonna be the war in Iran
and the other is gonna be on inflation.
So I don't know exactly,
I don't know exactly how he's going to retaliate
on that front, how he's going to release
another pressure valve on that front as well,
But Pam Bonney will be remembered as the attorney general who watched videos and saw images of powerful men raping kids and decided to protect the men is true.
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in mind we know that they have floated the idea of Lee Zeldin among other people Zeldin
is currently leading the EPA but I am told that is not a done deal.
President Trump interestingly did issue a very flattering for President Trump's statement
about body last night saying attorney general pan bondy is a wonderful person
and she is doing a good job the reason that i know that
is that because we saw christie known being fired of there was none of that
kind of generosity of spirit when it came to president trump now just a
reminder body has a very close
relationship with susie wilde the chief of staff they're both
political operatives in florida they can came up together so they have
a long lasting relationship, but President Trump had grown increasingly frustrated about
a number of issues.
One didn't believe that some of the cases against his adversaries or political adversaries
were being brought fast enough.
He didn't believe that she had handled the Epstein files well, among other things.
So we do know they had this conversation yesterday, which essentially, President Trump told her
that she was not long for this world, that he would eventually be replacing her.
What we know now is that she has been officially fired, and again, Todd Blanche will step
into that role as the deputy attorney general into an acting attorney general role.
And, Kristen, this now marks the second cabinet position that Trump has fired and now has
sought a replacement for within the last month.
What can you tell us about Blanche himself, his relationship to Trump?
obviously he's gonna be the acting role until a new attorney general is put in
place well the blanchard president trump are incredibly close he served as
his personal attorney before taking this role as the deputy attorney I mean yeah
Todd Blanche and Pam Bondi are both former defense attorneys for the
president a spectacular conflict of interest for any administration and for
Donald Trump is just another Tuesday, right?
It's, it's, I mean, there are, there's such an overwhelming force of corruption
in this country, in this administration that is so transparent, so in your face
that I think most people have given up.
Most people have given up on even addressing it, right?
Or they're like, yeah, what are you going to do?
I mean, it's unbelievable.
I talked about it quite extensively in the beginning where I was like, this is ridiculous.
This is the Attorney General is a former defense attorney for Donald Trump.
That's totally ridiculous.
And the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, is also a former defense attorney for Donald
Trump.
And then I brought that back up when we were talking about the Gisela and Maxwell situation
where former defense attorney for Donald Trump, current deputy attorney general, Todd
Blanche went and had a private closed door meeting with Gisela and Max while the principal
co-conspirator to the Epstein files, the only remaining alive person, basically the skeleton
key for unlocking the secrets of the entire Epstein saga. Right? Totally, totally ridiculous.
and they even, you know, they transported her to a much nicer facility after that conversation
took place, like that was already an indication of where things were going to head. Of course,
they're going to do that, right? Of course, the administration is going to do that,
especially because there's no pushback. There's not enough pushback, rather. And for many people,
for ordinary Americans who are too busy trying to make ends meet, they're frustrated with all
the things that they're seeing, but they also have a hard time mounting pressure consistently
because there's a barrage of corruption. It's this tornado of corrupt entities coming together
to pick apart America's corpse, basically, you know, it's quite difficult to deal with.
And in the absence of any sort of democratic party organizing and taking on a leadership role
in identifying what these issues are and pushing and pulling when necessary, it comes across as
a rudderless movement overall. We're not as disciplined as we could be. I mean, we're all
trying our best, but I will say that the Democratic Party's lack of interest, with some very notable
exceptions, of course, obviously Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie is a great example of one of those
areas where they were able to lean into the public pressure campaign and they were able to successfully
get this scalp. I mean, they played a big role in this. You all did as well, but
But this is an example that should be repeated in every single issue.
Identify a problem, expose the contradictions, take advantage of the fact that people are
very frustrated if you're a politician.
Identify a problem and then do everything in your power to make political changes.
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Are you surprised Trump did this now? I thought the FCM filed chaos and dynamics of Iran. I don't think it's going away.
And there are a number of people who are around President Trump's orbit who have said that
Blanche isn't political enough.
Well, we saw Blanche taking a new role recently when he stepped out at CPAC and essentially
said that everybody who had ever investigated Donald Trump or brought charges against him
had been fired from the Department of Justice, making the Department of Justice clearly very
political.
And President Trump has liked what Todd Blanche has done.
Blanche has always been kind of viewed as the person in the background making all of the mechanisms work now
Of course, he'll be front and center
But it doesn't sound as though he's going to take this position
Long-term that they are going to still find a figurehead so to speak as the actual attorney general
But that he will be filling in in the interim time period and I do want to know you know
One of the things that's so fascinating about this removal of Kristi Noem and this removal now of Pam Bondi
is that we spent the better part of over a year
with no peoples, with no turnover within the cabinet,
and that was intentional.
Something that President Trump, Suzy Wiles,
did not want in his second term
to look like a revolving door,
the way it had looked in President Trump's first term.
But obviously now we are entering a new phase
of President Trump's presidency with him feeling as though
the people who aren't working, aren't working,
and he's going to get rid of them.
And Kristen, how long was this coming?
Because there was a sense certainly when Pam Bondi appeared before Congress and testified
that she was really trying to appeal to President Trump and that she might have been on thin
ice at that point.
So it kind of depends on what you mean in terms of how long has this been coming because
there has been frustration with Bondi off and on since almost the beginning of President
Trump's tenure, specifically when it came to the handling of the Epstein files.
There was a big swath of people, and obviously we saw that Chief of Staff Susie Wiles had
said that in an interview with Vanity Fair when she said the Department of Justice whiffed
on the Epstein files.
There was a general feeling that that was the case, and they placed a lot of that blame
on Pam Bondi, not on Cash Patel or on Dan Bongino, but on the Attorney General because
she was the one who was responsible for bringing in all of those influencers and giving them
those binders, if we remember that from early in the administration.
She was also the one who said on Fox News that she has the Epstein files on her desk
and she'd be releasing them soon.
All things that put everybody into a tight spot and then caused enormous amount of problems
down the road, but it comes to actually replacing her.
What we're told is that in January, this started becoming a real conversation, that the name
started floating around as to who would potentially replace her.
Now that had died down a little bit, and then in the last week ramped back up.
And I'll tell you, I was getting calls and text messages from people who aren't in the
administration, who don't work at the White House, who were saying that they were hearing
it.
And they were hearing it because President Trump was making calls really starting on
Monday asking allies what they think about the fact that he might replace her, who should
replace her. What does this actually look like? And that is when we really saw obviously
all of this kind of snowball leading to a conversation between the two of them and
then her ultimate firing.
Kristen, please stand by for us. We have some extra voices to add to the conversation.
Evan Perez, Jeff Zeleny and Ellie Honig are with us. Evan, first to you. You could see
this coming, but we weren't sure earlier it was described as a gray area that she was
in and she might be able to salvage her job, clearly she couldn't.
Right, I mean look, what Kristen describes is what we've all been going through since
January when these rumors first came up.
It appeared that the president might actually do it in January and then it died away.
And we, as you know from covering the Trump administration, you just never know whether
it's real, whether there's just a faction inside the White House, they spend a lot of
time knifeing each other.
And so we never know it's real until the president actually latches on to it.
And so that's when it really became, it appears a lot more real this week when he was, was
seeming to take action to try to find some names of some possible replacements.
It is interesting that it was Pam Bondi that ate the ax here.
And I do think it's because he really did not like her performance specifically in front
of Congress, right? Because like, how do you not cut cash? I think cash is one of the least
popular figures in the admin. And he is largely seen as like the responsible figure for messing
up the Charlie Kirk stuff. There's no threat. I mean, there is no, no one trusts him, right?
Like he he is is not a trustworthy figure at all. I mean, I know he's loyal to so is Pam Bondi, right?
Cash is a keeper, you're talking crazy
Cash is a jester bro. He wrote a kissbook
Uh kiss ass book for trump. I mean so is like, okay chat
That every single person that we're talking about in this administration is in that position
that they're in currently because they've asked Donald Trump.
There's not a single person that's in that position due to competence.
They're all there for loyalty.
That's always been the case since day one.
We already know that, right?
So it's actually surprising that Donald Trump would ax Pam Bondi, who is seemingly a little
bit more competent than Cache Patel, and just as loyal as Cache is.
And I guess it's because of that televised congressional hearing.
She really did not like that.
For Bondi, what we've seen is she's taken a different tack from what we've seen in the
previous administration, the first Trump administration.
Bill Barr and Mike Pompeo fell out of favor, you know, one of the things they did was they
avoided Trump.
They just reduced their amount of exposure to him as a way to sort of like let him sort
of calm down.
Bondi has taken the opposite tack.
She has like spent a lot more time with him.
She seemed to try to be more present as a way to ingratiate herself with the president.
In the end, it did not work.
And really, the original scene goes back to February of last year when she orchestrated
that event at the White House with these binders with documents that were years old, they'd
been in the public sphere for years, and she didn't seem to know that.
She didn't know that.
And at that time, if you remember, the administration is new in office.
There was really no constituency.
There was nobody demanding the Epstein files.
And she created this event out of nowhere.
No one really was expecting that.
And so they have not been able to live down that moment since.
And the damage to the president because of that, I think, has been incalculable because
MAGA base has not let it go.
She wasn't the president's first choice for this job.
Let's remember it was Matt Gaetz who could not be confirmed.
That was not going to fly.
And now, I wonder, Jeff, how tough it is going to be to confirm someone to replace her, considering-
What do the MAGA folks think about these types of things, these firings?
Do they just believe that Trump is always right and he must have had a great reason to fire her?
Yes.
But I also don't.
past couple of days, we have perhaps been too focused on, hold on, these past couple of
days, we've perhaps too focused, we have perhaps focused too much on situation monitoring and
not enough on how the, the, the Trump, the MAGA movement is like coping with this stuff.
I mean, there are cults, so they're obviously going to always agree with Donald Trump first
and foremost, but obviously this is a any kind of initiative that Trump takes any kind of move that Trump makes like this
He's doing it with the base in mind. I I do wonder how they
I do wonder how they communicate I do wonder how they defend this kind of stuff
I guess for them, it's like oh, yeah, thank God he got rid of the the perfidious Pam Bondi
She was the one who was rat fucking the admin
And maybe, maybe she was the reason why we couldn't get the Epstein files, uh, you know,
out on time in a timely manner.
I don't know.
I don't know.
You have to, I guess like for some, uh, uh, to develop a better appreciation, develop
a better understanding.
We got to do hog watch, right?
We, we haven't really done enough hog watch as of late, um, because I've been too busy
covering the actual news, and also simultaneously having to deal with hogs in our own ranks,
right? The ostensibly left flank hogs, the centrist right-wing Democrats. So I don't
know what the Azman Goy team is saying.
They're a number of senators. She and Kashpatel were put in their positions with promises
of not going to retaliate or use DOJ or the FBI to go after President Trump's enemies.
And yet we've seen that is exactly what it has been used for.
So I wonder how difficult this process will be to find someone to replace her.
I think the confirmation process will be very difficult and dramatically different from
what we've just seen with the Secretary of Homeland Security Mark Wayne Mullen.
if a senator happens to be chosen and if you have been mentioned possibly a one is going
to be very reluctant to accept this position because attorney general is different than
a every other position in the the cabinet and there's a what is this um mega mom has
been saying she wants bondy fart to a tone for Epstein boomer manga will be all over
the moon with this? Interesting. I guess, I guess, for them, they see this as a, as a
much needed respite, maybe they, they see this as like the administration being responsive
to their needs. Perhaps maybe that's the case.
Noth muscle memory now. The English official lands who could not be any more loyal initially
until he fell out of favor because he recused himself. And that's something that the President
still has in mind. A, he will choose someone who will never recuse themselves from anything.
So I think that these confirmation hearings for the next Attorney General will be dramatically
different. Largely because of what Evan was saying, everything that has been learned over
last year, the Epstein files are not going away now. That genie is well out of the bottle,
regardless of who the Attorney General is. So I think it's very difficult, but to your point,
I was thinking the exact same thing. She was not his first. It's so funny that the Magical is,
I mean, I guess they are doing goods are bad boy ours, right? In their minds, they're thinking
Donald Trump is this infallible deity, this figure that is the best hero to champion all the
causes that they care about. They don't understand that like Pam Bonny was in that position for
her utmost loyalty to Donald Trump and that the only reason why she came across as like inconsistent
or bad on the FC stuff was because of Donald Trump's demands. Donald Trump put her in this
bind. Donald Trump put her in this indefensible position where she had to sit there and defend it.
Asmongoles reacts to Pam Bondi's national crash out. Yeah, I remember him saying this
Two people voted against it and you were one of them hypocrite
The uh
Honestly, donald's got to get rid of this bitch. He does like one of the best things he could do
Is just say like listen like we we tried we did what we needed to do
You know, we thought that she'd be able to do it and it turns out and do what?
like release the Epstein files while also simultaneously sheltering all the co-conspirators
including people like Donald Trump. I despise her, but I also despise Donald Trump.
That's the morally consistent position, right? Because Pam Bondi is a mere expression
of the desires of Trump. That's why she was the Attorney General. So it just doesn't make sense
that these guys will be like, yeah, Pam Bondi is like singularly responsible for not releasing
the FC files. Uh, as a matter of fact, as a matter of fact, it's, uh, it's all entirely in her hands,
right? A choice. Uh, he knew her well, obviously. She was, I'm involved in the campaign from Florida.
Wasn't inherently a political, uh, years ago, became very political. Uh, but she was not,
But she was chosen because she would be reputable and pretty easy to be confirmed after Matt
Gates.
So it's going to be fascinating to see who the president picks.
Lee Zeldin is one of the leading contenders, a former member of Congress, different for
a House member than a senator.
We've seen over the years here.
So the confirmation process.
Why would anyone take this position?
You know your ass is going to get cooked in congressional hearings 24-7.
There's no other alternative, you know, that's just, it is what it is.
I mean, these guys are brown-nosers.
They get a tremendous amount of time in front of cameras.
They elevate their platform.
They know.
Look, I don't think anyone is so stupid that they think Trump is not eventually going to
use them as a sacrificial lamb when things get hot, okay?
Michael Pence was Donald Trump's vice president.
And Donald Trump lost the election, he decided to lie and say that the election was stolen
from him.
And they looked for a way to cease control over the government and deny the democratic
outcomes in 2020.
Okay?
One of the things that they thought they could do is, is maybe identify this like totally
procedural ceremonial process that Mike Pence was overseeing. They wanted the pressure Mike
Pence to stop the authorization of all the votes that were coming in. Right? That's January 6.
Mike Pence was Donald Trump's vice president. Donald Trump literally goaded his fans to go and
do an insurrection where they were demanding to assassinate his vice president. Okay? So,
if Donald Trump will demand or play a role in the attempted hanging of his vice president,
what makes you think the attorney general is going to be free of such scrutiny? Right?
It's totally ridiculous.
Donald Trump has a track record of consistently firing people whenever he wants to shift the
blame away, shift the attention away from himself and his shortcomings.
I think everyone that's in this administration is aware of that, right?
they just think it'll be someone else holding the bag seems to me like Tulsi
Gabbard might be next
I mean get ready for this it is going to be much more complicated than the one
we just saw last week or let's get down comes insane speech last night which was
just a rehashing of virtually all of his true social posts wrapped up in a night
little nice little 18 minute speech. Okay, so last night Donald Trump
delivered the State of the Union and everyone's expecting him to make a new
revelation here. He did not. He basically just summarized all of his true social
post. And that was it. So let's take a look at the playback reel of the Trump victory
speech. President of the United States. Thank you very much. My fellow Americans, good
Good evening. Let me begin by congratulating the team at NASA and our brave astronauts
on the successful launch of Artemis II. It was quite something. It will be traveling
further than any manned rocket has ever flown and will very substantially pass the moon,
go around it, and come back home from a distance that has never been done before. It's amazing.
They are on the way and God bless them. These are brave people. We want to God bless those
four unbelievable astronauts. As we speak this evening, it's been just one month since
the United States military began Operation Epic Fury, targeting the world's number one
state sponsor of Terra, Iran. In these past four weeks, I'm waiting for him to accidentally
say Epstein's Fury. I believe in my heart that it will happen at some point. Also, one thing that
I noticed, because I was listening to this while I was waiting to deliver my speech in the conference
room that I was in, he was very winded. He just seems tired. He seems out of it, you know?
know. Labored breaths. He's angry. It's late. It's late for him kind of feels like he just
doesn't want to do this at all. Our armed forces have delivered swift decisive overwhelming
victories on the battlefield. Victories like few people have ever seen before. Tonight
Iran's Navy is gone.
There are air forces in ruins.
Their leaders, most of them, terrorist regime,
they led are now dead.
Their command and control of the Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps is being decimated as we speak.
Their ability to launch missiles and drones
is dramatically curtailed and their weapons factories
and rocket launchers are being blown to pieces.
Very few of them left.
Never in the history of warfare has an enemy suffered
such clear and devastating large scale losses
in a matter of weeks.
Our enemies are losing in America
as it has been for five years
under my presidency is winning and now winning bigger
than ever before.
Before discussing this current situation,
I also want to thank our troops for the massive job they did in taking the country of Venezuela
in a matter of minutes, that it was quick, lethal, violent, and respected by everyone
all over the world.
After rebuilding our military during my first term, we have by far the strongest military
anywhere in the world.
And now we're so strong, and yet we cannot defend our allies.
We cannot defend any of the countries that are oil-rich countries that give us trillions
of dollars in investment in exchange for purchasing our weapons at a comfortable price point.
Yeah, strongest military of all time and yet, once again, has been taking L after L for
past 33 days now. Strongest military of all time, and yet we need an additional $200 billion
to up our defense capabilities, our offensive capabilities. Strongest military of all time,
yet we've utilized a quarter of our Tomahawk missile launchers.
It's just, I don't know, it's kind of hard to make this argument I feel like.
Working along with Venezuela, and in a true sense, joint venture partners, we're getting
along incredibly well in the production and sale of massive amounts of oil and gas.
The second largest reserves on Earth after the United States of America were now totally
independent of the Middle East, and yet we are there to help.
We don't have to be there.
We don't need their oil.
We don't need anything they have, but we're there to help our allies.
Tonight, I want to provide an update on the tremendous progress our warriors have made
in Iran and discuss why Operation Epic Fury is necessary for the safety of America and
the security of the free world.
From the very first day I announced my campaign for President in 2015, I vowed that I would
never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
This vernacular regime has been chanting death to America, death to Israel, for 47 years.
Their proxies were behind the murder of 241 Americans and the Marine barracks bombing
in Beirut, the slaughter of hundreds of our service members with roadside bombs.
They were involved in the attack on the USS Cole, and they carried out the countless other
heinous acts, including the blood, just horrible, bloody atrocities of October 7th in Israel,
something that most people have never seen anything like it.
This murderous regime also recently killed 45,000 of their own people who were protesting
in Iran.
45,000 dead for these terrorists who have nuclear weapons would be an intolerable threat.
The most violent and thuggish regime on earth would be free to carry out their campaigns
of terror, coercion, conquest, and mass murder from behind a nuclear shield.
I will never let that happen.
And neither should any of our past presidents.
The situation has been going.
Yeah.
No one has ever seen numbers like the ones that the Iranian regime has slaughtered.
always swinging wildly in every direction and now it's 45,000 last week he was saying it was 30,
sometimes he says 50, now he's saying it's 45,000. Also what's interesting about this, I mean obviously
the numbers are utterly irrelevant for these people, they're just trying to justify bombing Iran
in this weird distorted totally twisted manner where it's like oh yeah we're saving the Iranian
people from the government by killing Iranian people, right? But every other part of this story,
which is supposed to be a justification for why they're bombing Iran, is also ridiculous.
Father of the roadside bomb, Qasem Suleymani, it's bullshit. He also brings up the fact that
that he destroyed the JCPOA, which is ironic,
because the JCPOA was a resounding success
in terms of developing diplomatic relations with Iran.
It totally undermined the hawkish posture
that we had towards Iran.
All of a sudden, there was actually success
in terms of undermining the nuclearization initiatives,
like the nuclear proliferation that Iran was engaging in,
which obviously if you're being sincere,
if you're looking at the situation
as far as like the nuclear proliferation of Iran,
you understand that their enrichment process
was simply to gain leverage
so they could get sanctions relief.
It wasn't actually a sincere attempt
to develop a nuclear weapon, right?
Every single thing that he's brought up are Foundation for Defending Democracy, Talking
Points, Copied and Pasted.
Foundation for Defending Democracy is a Benjamin Netanyahu's personal think tank in Washington,
DC.
And it's all totally bullshit.
But of course, because American politics is very stupid, American politicians are very
stupid, and unfortunately many Americans are very stupid, you can just kind of lie about
this sort of stuff and people just listen to it and go, yeah, I believe it.
And even those who don't believe it, don't actually know what the truth is, they just
don't believe it because it's Donald Trump saying it, which is unfortunate.
But I guess you got to work with what you have, right?
Ultimately, it's a spectacular failure.
Someone in the chess is, I honestly wonder if her, she's a misadassid.
After all, what good is a nuclear deterrence that people don't know about?
He publicized the issue for Israel.
you're out of your mind. Calling Seymour Hirsch and Mossad Asset is insane.
Put some respect on it.
Sy Hirsch is the goat.
Okay, Asan, I think you called it on Tucker Carlson running in 2020 and I just
Listen to a Vox interview and his rhetoric sounded intriguing.
Even the interviewer point blank asked him if he was going to run for president.
And his sheepish denial did not sound convincing.
Um, if Tucker Carlson doesn't actually run for president in 2028, he's going to.
Offer a massive platform and legitimacy in the anti-Israel slant, the anti-war
slant to whoever actually does run.
That's the goal for Tucker Carlson.
That's the role he will play.
Either he will personally run for president or he will give the established
legitimacy that he has, the credibility that he has as a true anti-war voice to whoever
runs for president.
I personally think it will be him, but others think it could be G.D. Vance or maybe Marco
Rubio.
Who knows?
I've been going for 47 years and should have been handled long before I arrived in office.
I did many things during my two terms in office to stop the quest for nuclear weapons
by Iran first, and perhaps most importantly, I killed General Qasem Soleimani.
What's really interesting also about Donald Trump bringing up the Iranian regime's death
toll, right?
They killed 45,000, he says.
He ends the speech by talking about how he's going to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age.
So even in this 18-minute window, he's totally inconsistent about liberating the Iranian people.
can't even like hold on to this idea of false liberation narratives for long
enough, right? It's totally ridiculous. In my first term he was an evil genius,
brilliant person, a horrible human being however, the father of the roadside bomb
and he lived just horrible. What he did Iran would have been perhaps in far
better, stronger position. Had he lived, we would have had probably a different conversation
tonight. But you know what? We'd still be winning and winning big. And then very importantly,
I terminated Barack Hussein Obama as a random nuclear deal, a disaster.
Didn't you predict that Tucker Carlson would be forgotten when he left Fox? He was.
The problem is Tucker Carlson is a cockroach. He was forgotten. He was left behind.
but he expertly positioned himself as a lone heterodox thinker on the right and
became the guy that people go to for anti-Israel sentiment for anti-war
sentiment for the Republicans and for those who have for those who have enmity
towards migrants and believe in you know white nationalist rhetoric and white
nationalist ideals that were also true isolationists. Okay?
So for the longest time he was actually forgotten, but then he carved out a space for himself and
totally leaned into the popular momentum around anti-Israel sentiment, anti-war sentiment,
and he was able to win back that audience slowly but surely. He also was able to successfully use
his previous influence and previous credibility as an insider to secure a bunch of high-profile
interviews where he dismantled the unconvincing pro-Israel arguments from some of the most
rabid ultra-Zionists we've ever seen, Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, all of those things build
on this momentum. So he was able to carve back influence. Now, I don't know how influential
Tucker Carlson still is amongst the right. Okay. I don't know because when you look
at the Magikult, it's not like they have any, it's not like the Magikult personally have
any negative feelings about going to war with Iran, the Magakult has been 100% on board, right?
So I don't know if Tucker Carlson is actually convincing Republican voters necessarily. I think
it's more damaging than that. I think Tucker Carlson's new audience is actually not comprised of
right-wingers, but of independence, centrists, and liberals. I think he's changed his lane quite a bit.
A lot of normies who don't actually bracket themselves into any ideological lane who say
stuff like, I'm apolitical. They watch Tucker Carlson. They like Tucker Carlson. They seem as
an honest voice. This is very dangerous. And it would not exist if, for example, the Democratic
Party was the party that people went to for a true anti-war perspective. No one would pay attention
to Tucker Carlson if the Democratic Party wasn't spending every single day attacking people like
myself, anti-war voices on the left.
Have some conversations with your liberal coworkers and you'll very quickly realize that many
of them actually don't have any negative association with Tucker Carlson.
They probably like Tucker Carlson, lifelong Democrats.
Trust me on this.
gave them $1.7 billion in cash, green, green cash. Took it out of banks from Virginia,
D.C., and Maryland, all the cash they had. They flew it by airplanes in an attempt to
buy their respect and loyalty, but it didn't work. They left at our president and went on with their
mission to have a nuclear bomb. His Iran deal would have led to a colossal arsenal of massive
of nuclear weapons for Iran, and they would have had them years ago, and they would have
used them, would have been a different world.
There would have been no Middle East and no Israel right now, in my opinion, the opinion
of a lot of great experts, had I not terminated that terrible deal, I was so honored to do
it, I was so proud to do it, it was so bad right from the beginning.
Essentially, I did what no other president was willing to do.
They made mistakes and I am correcting them.
My first preference was always the path of diplomacy, yet the regime continued their
relentless quest for nuclear weapons and rejected every attempt at an agreement.
For this reason, in June, I ordered a strike on Iran's key nuclear facilities and Operation
Midnight Hammer.
Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
These beautiful B-2 bombers performed magnificently.
We totally obliterated those nuclear sites.
The regime then sought to rebuild their nuclear program at a totally different location, making
clear they had no intention of abandoning their pursuit of nuclear weapons.
They were also rapidly building a vast stockpile of conventional ballistic missiles, and would
soon have had missiles that could reach the American homeland Europe and all of
this stuff is fake. I mean, it's for an administration that's led by a guy who
successfully convinced people that he was going to be a different not neocon
style Republican who convincingly told all of his voters his entire base that
Republicans and Democrats both had lied about WMDs to go to war with Iraq and how big of
a defeat that was.
He's doing that over and over again.
When he says the Iranian nuclear capabilities were emboldened, it's a WMD lie, okay?
It's not true.
when he says that ripping apart the JCPOA was successful, ripping apart the JCPOA was
actually a good thing as far as like denuclearizing Iran.
Also wrong.
When he says that all of the people that he has killed and the Iranian capacity has diminished,
also a lie.
Also, this doesn't get people to support the war because the US started it.
is bad PR to try to get manufactured consent. Yeah, I just don't understand, I genuinely
cannot understand what Donald Trump is trying to accomplish with this speech, because this
is just a rehashing of all of the other true social posts that he's made leading up to
this moment.
And they made a big show of it, right? Like, Trump delivers a State of the Union, a presidential
address to the nation and all of the other, you know, all the TV networks are playing
this, right? The expectation is that he comes out and explains that he's going to either
retreat or double down. And I don't think he gave people that at all. I, most people,
myself included. I listened to this last night. My takeaway was that I still don't understand
where we're going. There's always a strategy behind even the inconsistency in the narratives
chatters. I suspect that this one was to calm the markets, I guess, like to tell the markets
that he is actually retreating, right, to try and manipulate the markets further, because
it's very clear that that's what the markets want. They're desperate for a retreat. But
even then, it had the opposite effect. I'll still one up, virtually any other place on
Earth. Iran's strategy was so obvious. They wanted to produce as many missiles as possible
and they did with the longest range possible and they had some weapons that nobody believed
they had. We just learned that. We took them out. We took them all out so that no one would
really dare stop them. And they're raised for a nuclear bomb, a nuclear weapon, a nuclear
weapon like nobody's ever seen before. They were right at the doorstep. For years everyone
has said that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons, but in the end those are just words if you're
not willing to take action when the time comes. As I stated in my announcement of Operation
Epic Fury, our objectives are very simple and clear. We are systematically dismantling
the regime's ability to threaten America or project power outside of their borders.
That means eliminating Iran's navy, which is now absolutely destroyed.
Yeah, Iran's navy is like go-fast boats and jet skis.
And it hasn't been thoroughly dismantled.
Like the Iranian navy assets that they've blown up are utterly irrelevant.
They don't control the Strait of Hormuz with their navy.
They control the Strait of Hormuz with their missiles and specifically their drones.
And the real question here is, or the real assessment here in terms of deteriorating Iran's
capabilities of controlling the Strait of Hormuz can only be seen with the tankers that
are crossing the Strait of Hormuz.
the tankers that are crossing the share trade of Hormuz still to this day are Chinese flag
tankers and tankers that are paying a toll to the Iranian government. That means the
American government has not been able to successfully attrit the Iranian capabilities.
This is just bullshit. This is self soothing narratives that the war effort is actually
going well when, you know, calm minds engaging in sober analysis can actually see that the
truth is the exact opposite of the way Trump presents it.
All the while, there's an allegation that yet another advanced enemy fighter jet was
taken out near Kesham Island.
The statement says the aircraft crashed into the waters between Kesham and Hangham Island.
I don't know if that's the case.
I don't know what kind of plane this is.
It looks like an A-10.
That's what people are saying.
We will find out soon enough.
Best summary of what you're saying.
This video shows the wrongs control over the show to hormones. Okay.
Hurting their air force and their missile program at levels never seen before and annihilating
their defense industrial base. We've done all of it. Their Navy is gone. Their air force
is gone. Their missiles are just about used up or beaten. Taking together these actions
will cripple Iran military, crush their ability to support terrorist proxies and deny them
the ability to build a nuclear bomb. Our armed forces have been extraordinary. There's never
in anything like it militarily. Everyone is talking about it. And tonight I'm pleased to say that
this part is true. Everyone is talking about American military capabilities,
just not the way that Trump thinks they're talking about it. Right? I think a lot of people are
reconsidering the American force projection capabilities. I do believe that.
We've been talking about it quite a bit here on the broadcast. A lot of people
are tuning in to hear what you know, Merchheimer has to say about this on
independent outlets. It's just not one that favors the United States of America
and its force projection power.
So I guess he's half right on that one.
These core strategic objectives are nearing completion.
As we celebrate this progress,
we think especially of the 13 American warriors
who have laid down their lives in this fight
to prevent our children from ever having to face
in nuclear Iran.
Twice this past month,
I've traveled to Dover Air Force Base and it's been something I wanted to be with
those heroes as the return to Americans.
So when I was with them and their families, their parents, their wives, husbands,
we salute them. And now we must honor them by
they died in the most honorable way possible for the most honorable goal.
They died for Israel, my beautiful, my pretty, my sweet Israel.
the most important country on the planet.
Completing the mission for which they gave their lives at every single one of the people.
They loved one said, please, please finish the job.
Every one of them. And we are going to finish the job and we're going to finish it very fast.
We're getting very close. I want to thank our allies in the Middle East, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar.
Can you clarify the money Obama gave to Iran? Wasn't it frozen funds? Yes.
As the hegemonic superpower, the United States of America has the capabilities of freezing assets
when Iran as a sovereign state trades with another sovereign state. That is what it was.
When Donald Trump was talking about like Barack Obama sending palates of cash to Iran,
What he's actually saying is one of the outcomes of the JCPOA was to unfree some of the Iranian
assets for stolen oil or for sold oil, Iran sold oil to some countries. Joe Biden had done
something similar as well, which is to unfree some of the stolen Iranian assets for oil
that was sold to other countries.
The UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain, they've been great and we will not let them get hurt or
fail in any way, shape, or form.
Many Americans have been concerned to see the recent rise in gasoline prices here at
home.
The short-term increase has been entirely the result of the Iranian regime launching
deranged terror attacks against commercial oil tankers and neighboring countries that
have nothing to do with the conflict. This is yet more proof that Iran can never be trusted
with nuclear weapons. They will use them, and they will use them quickly. It would lead
to decades of extortion, economic pain, and instability worse than we can ever imagine.
The United States has never been better prepared economically to confront this threat. You
all know that we built the strongest economy in history. We're going through it right
now the strongest in history in one year we've taken a strong and crippled
country i hate to say that but we were dead and crippled country i don't think
you hate saying america was crippled under joe brandon or under obama i mean
that's kind of what you did twice um it's your number one thing that you say
um
Also, the economy is the hottest from the standpoint of heat, I mean, totally. Everyone's
feeling it. Everyone's feeling how great it is.
After the last administration and made it the hottest country anywhere in the world by
far with no inflation, record-setting investments coming into the United States over $18 trillion
and the highest stock market ever,
with 53 all-time record highs in just one year.
It all positioned us to get rid of a cancer
that has long simmered.
It's known as the nuclear Iran,
and they didn't know what was coming.
They'd never imagined it.
Remember, because of our Drill Baby Drill Program,
America has plenty of gas, we have so much gas.
Under my leadership, we're number one producer
oil and gas on the planet without even discussing the millions of barrels that we're getting
from Venezuela. Because of the Trump administration's policies, we produce more oil and gas than
Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. Think of that. Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. And
that number will soon be substantially higher than that. There's no country like us anywhere
in the world and we're in great shape for the future.
The United States imports almost no oil through the almost straight and won't be taking any
in the future.
We don't need it.
We haven't needed it and we don't need it.
We've beaten and completely decimated Iran.
They are decimated both militarily and economically and every other way.
The countries of the world that do receive oil through the Hormone Straight must take
care of that passage.
They must cherish it.
They must grab it and cherish it.
They can do it easily.
We will be helpful, but they should take the lead in protecting the oil that they so desperately
depend on.
So to those countries that can't get fuel, many of which refuse to get involved in the
decapitation of Iran, we had to do it ourselves.
i have a suggestion number one by oil from the united states of america we
this is the most important part
as i've just as i've explained to you before
taking venezuela
for its oil
was uh... was was
seemingly a silly thing right is america's oil exporter
and and in order to maintain price stability
sitting on top of the second uh... or the largest natural oil reserves
uh... would have meant that the price of a barrel would go down if america
actually supplied too much oil right they if they were fine too much oil
the price of a barrel go beyond uh... go of beneath sixty dollars a barrel
and therefore a lot of these like smaller
fracking companies in the united states america which make up the backbone of
the american industry the american extraction industry
uh... would have
would not have been able to uh... sell at a profit
and they would have to, you know, close up shop. It wasn't just a screw Cuba.
And at the time I said, no one will ever, you know, no, no capital has ever said,
oh, free oil. I hate that. Right? Even though the economist was writing about it and all these other,
you know, analysts, all these commodities traders were saying, this seems really stupid.
This is not beneficial. This is not for oil.
Even though Donald Trump was like, no, this is for oil. Well, now we know
Right he's basically telling Europe that he fucked over
To purchase oil and gas from the United States of America purchase more oil and gas from the United States of America
All of the other allies around the world that rely on the shade of hormones for their energy needs
Should now get it from the United States of America instead
That price stability will come from U.S. overproducing oil now in order to make up for the lack of
supply while demands rise.
However, however, I don't think we have the logistical capabilities of rerouting to make
up for 20% of the entire planet's needs. I don't think we have the refinement capabilities
of building up the oil supply. So I don't know how we're going to achieve this goal,
but basically it feels like that's what Donald Trump is spelling out here. Something that
I suspect it is like the only reasonable, only logical long-term goal here is the destruction
the GCC, diminishing GCC's capabilities of providing energy for the rest of the world,
just destroying it all together, and then making America the sole one of the only countries on
the planet that has the capabilities of supplying much needed oil to the rest of the world.
Having said that, however, the runway for such a significant change
would probably take up years and a shit ton of investment. I don't know if we have that capability at all.
Lemif AI literally said that yesterday and you said it was crazy and that they couldn't refine it.
Stole my whole flow word for word bar for bar. When I said that yesterday, you said I was crazy.
Chatter, I don't know if you recall this conversation, but you literally said I said that initially why am I going back on it?
Okay
That was my assessment initially I'm still
Telling you that just because it's a fucking goal that the administration has doesn't mean that they're capable of
achieving said goal. Is it hard for you to comprehend?
The golf is profoundly important for maintaining the petrodollar. Okay?
It's kind of like this. If you say so, big dog, high chat.
Brother, your fucking chat logs are right here. Okay?
Your chat logs are right here.
We had this conversation yesterday.
Jesus Christ, it's kind of like Liberation Day, okay?
As a matter of fact, it's exactly like Liberation Day.
a logical goal for why Donald Trump wants to engage in trade protectionism. He wants
to build up the American manufacturing base. This is a national security problem for America
if America wants to engage in a more aggressive posture against China. Okay. That's the goal.
That's the stated objective of Liberation Day to force the rest of the world, to force
all of our trading partners to decouple from China the manufacturing base of the entire
planet. The problem, however, is that just because you have a goal doesn't mean you have the capabilities
of reaching said goal. This problem is the exact same. The goal is to decouple from China in terms
a trade and to force all of our other partners as a couple from China and then rebuild the
American industrial base, but we don't have the capacity to have an industrial base at all.
We don't have the initiative, we don't have the capacity, we don't have a command economy,
we don't have any central planning beyond subsidies that we offer.
So just because he sets a target for himself doesn't mean he's going to achieve it and he
hasn't been able to achieve that at all. And the same thing is happening here.
He might want to gain leverage over China as China still controls the refinement of all of the
rare earth minerals that are necessary for our defense production, necessary for all production,
as a matter of fact, all the components that we still use in our industrial output is still,
at some point all the all the rare earth minerals that are refined are still coming from China.
They have a complete monopoly over it. And we want to have some kind of leverage against China
because if China were to implement export controls, if let's say we went to war with China and China
said, all right, we're adding export controls to all of our rare earth minerals, the magnets that
you need to build your bombs, all of a sudden you can't build bombs. What are you going to do?
How are you gonna fight China with no bombs? We've already depleted our munitions, right?
So in a situation like that America has to have some kind of leverage against China to ensure that
China doesn't do that and that leverage would be oil but right now China has developed its own
relations with the Gulf States. China has its own direct relations with the Gulf States.
So, the American bargain here, the American gamble here is maybe to think, all right, we just destroy the golf in its entirety, we reduce their capabilities, and we shut off the oil and gas faucet in the golf by way of Israel, so that we are the sole providers of oil and gas to the rest of the world.
Okay? The problem is, we run into the same issue. Do we have the capabilities to make up for the lack of supply?
Especially in the short term, without imminent global collapse, I don't think so. I don't think we do.
That's my argument. Just because they have an agenda, just because they have a goal doesn't mean they have the capabilities of achieving said goal.
said goal. Do you understand? I've been trying to explain this for the past month.
Yeah, plenty. We have so much. And number two, build up some delayed courage. Should have done
it before, should have done it with us as we go to the strait and just take it, protect it,
use it for yourselves. Iran has been essentially decimated. The hard part is done, so it should
be easy. And in any event, when this conflict is over, the strait will open up naturally. It'll
just open up naturally. They're going to want to be able to sell oil because that's all they have
to try and rebuild. It will resume the flowing and the gas prices will rapidly come back down.
stock prices will rapidly go back up. They haven't come down very much, frankly. They
came down a little bit, but they've had some very good days over the last couple of days.
We've done actually much better than I thought, but we had to take that little journey to
Iran to get rid of this horrible threat. With our historic tax cuts, where people are just
now talking about receiving larger refunds than they ever thought possible, they are
getting so much more money than they thought. That's from the great big beautiful bill. Our
economy is strong and improving by the day, and it will soon be roaring back like never
before. It will top the levels that it was a month ago. I made clear from the beginning
of Operation Epic Fury that we will continue until our objectives are.
Yeah, there's this other problem here as well, because countries no longer have to think about
whether or not they create energy independence for themselves by way of renewables, which are,
once again, produced almost entirely the systems necessary, you know, solar panels and all of
the other components necessary to build a robust energy grid that focuses on renewable energy
come from China, right? So a big point of contention at Davos and all these other summits that were
happening in the build-up to Trump taking Venezuela and then waging war against Iran,
a big point of contention from the American side always was constantly
telling Europe don't move towards green energy, do not move towards green energy,
you will not be able to develop energy dominance that way, you're just gonna
increase your alliance on China this way, it's very stupid, right? That only works
if there's stability. That only works if there's no disruptions in the oil and gas side of things,
if there's no disruption in the delivery of oil and gas to Europe and to the Asian markets.
Now, Donald Trump has basically presented the argument that there's no stability or
they will be entirely reliant on the United States of America providing oil and gas,
Europe already experienced the peace of that with the Russia war against Ukraine, where they gained independence from their reliance on Russian gas, Russian oil, and they celebrated that decision, even though that decision led to much more expensive energy prices, a crisis that was boiling up.
and now it's gotten significantly worse so
dot trump is basically proven that if countries want to have energy independence
they have to move away from the reliance on fossil fuels
true energy sovereignty comes from renewables
so now
competent governments are probably going to go to china
and demand more help
they're gonna purchase more solar panels
They're going to try to create a robust renewable energy
grid for themselves.
Many countries were already moving in that direction, right?
So ironically enough, this still takes away
from the power that America has around the world,
because petroleum is traded on the dollar.
This undermines like the more Donald Trump undermines the petrodollar, the more Donald Trump undermines American hegemony.
The other side of the story, of course, is that American hegemony and the confidence that people have in American stability is propped up by the might of the American military.
And Donald Trump is destroying that notion as well.
So, it's a spectacular failure in every way that you can see.
Every aspect of this design, this new world order post-World War II and certainly post
end of the Cold War is currently falling apart. Donald Trump is is most responsible for the
acceleration of American demise here. And I mean, he's doing this like he is. He is the
This is the reason why we say he's JD Pondon, right?
He is the brave anti-imperialist voice.
Fully achieved.
Thanks to the progress we've made,
I can say tonight that we are on track
to complete all of America's military.
Fakus Falk, Hassanabe, do you enjoy being Fakus Falk?
Independent media fucking Joe
Is it is it truly only independent media if you're
Dick eating the president is that how you can be a true independent media voice is that what it is? I
Mean, I'm not just getting yelled at by Republicans
I'm not just getting yelled at by Republicans. I'm getting yelled at by Democrats as well on a daily fucking basis
even a dumb guy such as yourself could probably understand and that, you know, that means that
I'm definitely independent from at least the duopoly very objective shortly, very shortly.
We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We're going to bring
them back to the Stone Ages where they belong. In the meantime, discussions are ongoing. Regime
change was not our goal. We never said regime change, but regime change has occurred because
of all of their original leaders' death. They're all dead. The new group is less radical
and much more reasonable. Yet if during this period of time no deal is made, we have our
eyes on key targets. If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of
of their electric generating plants very hard
and probably simultaneously.
Insane.
This is the quote unquote,
supposed leader of the free world,
openly saying in a presidential address to the nation
that he is going to commit acts of terrorism.
He has already committed acts of terrorism
and he's gonna do more of it.
That's what he's saying to people, right?
He's saying we're gonna hit civilian targets.
He's saying, we're going to bomb this country back into the Stone Age.
Peace president.
Right.
No new wars, they said.
It's unbelievable.
What happened to liberating the Iranian people, by the way, you know, what happened
to peace president, peace president Donald Trump?
What happened to, I'm not dying for Israel.
What happened to no new wars?
It was all a lie, of course.
And I said it was gonna be a lie. Anyone could see it.
Anyone with three working brain cells could see it from a mile away.
Right?
If only we had a, you know,
serious opposition party that presented themselves as
the actual anti-war party, instead of saying,
Iran is our number one enemy, is our number one threat,
shouts out to Kamala Harris for saying that,
and also, some of the people saying that,
I'm gonna oversee the most lethal military
anyone's ever seen, shouts out to Kamala Harris
for saying that too, so that Donald Trump could lie
and present himself as this peace president somehow,
and make a convincing case.
Fantastic.
We have not hit their oil, even though that's the easiest target of all, because it would
not give them even a small chance of survival or rebuilding.
But we could hit it, and it would be gone, and there's not a thing they could do about
it.
They have no anti-aircraft equipment.
Their radar is 100 percent annihilated.
We are unstoppable as a military force.
The nuclear sites that we obliterated with the B-2 bombers have been hit so hard that
it would take months to get near the nuclear dust, and we have it under intense satellite
surveillance and control.
If we see them make a move, even a move for it, we'll hit them with missiles very hard
again.
We have all the cards they have none.
It's very important that we keep this conflict in perspective.
involvement in World War One lasted one year. Yeah, this part's really funny. This is where he
tries to say like this is technically not a war because it's short, right?
Like comparing your current military incursion, your current war to World War One, World War Two,
Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, fantastic.
Anyway, yeah, he ends the speech basically by saying, we have to do something about the
Iran nuclear capabilities, and then saying that he's going to bomb Iran back into the
Stone Age, which you get and then openly says he's going to target civilian infrastructure,
the energy grid, things of that nature, which they've started doing already.
They blew up a, they blew up a, I mean this is a war crime.
They blew up a bridge.
Trump post video of the strike on Iran's biggest bridge and tells Iran to make a deal before
it's too late.
A highway bridge linking Iran's capital Tehran to the western city of Karaj was hit by airstrikes
on Thursday.
FAR's news reported adding that early indication suggests several people were injured.
The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again.
Much more to follow.
for Iran to make a deal before it's too late, and there's nothing left of what still could
become a great country. This is a war crime. That's it. That's what it is. And the reason
why they're doing this is because this is the Gaza method, right? When you can't achieve your
military objectives, your stated military objectives in Gaza, Israel didn't actually
have a real stated military objective beyond ethnic cleansing. You just start hitting civilian
targets, you just start murdering people, you just start slaughtering people, destroying all of the,
all the civil society organizations, you destroy schools, you blow up the energy infrastructure,
you make the land uninhabitable, right? That's what they're doing. It's a classic war crime,
okay? It's precisely what's going on. You know that this war cannot, this war cannot be won,
right? You can't achieve any of your objectives here. So now you're just indiscriminately targeting
the civilian infrastructure across all of the major cities in Iran. This is the Israel method.
It's the America method as well. And that's precisely what they're doing. And in the absence of an
international organ of justice that can bring America to heel, in the absence of pressure coming
from American allies and trading partners, in the absence of like, uh, reigning America and
Israel in, of course they're going to do this, right? Who's going to say no? Who's going to say
you have to stop this? We've already seen what happens when, uh, no one abides by the rules of
of warfare, right? You end up looking like Israel crying about cluster munitions being
deployed on Israeli airspace when everyone knows that you've been using cluster munitions
in Gaza and also in Lebanon, right? Eight people were killed in the process, by the
way, and 95 were wounded in the attack on the B-1 bridge in Karaj according to the Iranian
state media and of course our organs of propaganda are running defense for it. The New York Times
reports that the bridge was struck in Iran was part of a planned military supply route for
sustaining Iran's ballistic missile and attack drone force. That's fucking bullshit. Okay?
That's complete bullshit. It's complete horseshit. US forces struck the B-1 bridge in Iran on
Thursday eliminating a planned military supply route for sustaining Iran's ballistic missile
attack drone force a U.S. military official said.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to share operational details.
Stenographers, the New York Times is running defense for it.
Here is Sayed Abbasaragshi, the foreign minister of Iran, who says striking civilian structures
including unfinished bridges will not compel Iranians to surrender.
It only conveys the defeat and moral collapse of an enemy in disarray.
Every bridge and building will be built back stronger.
What will never recover is the damage to America's standing.
I don't know what to say about this, other than we are posterizing our war crimes.
We're telling the rest of the world that we are an uncontrollable, belligerent rogue entity.
There is a reason why people abide by the standards of war, right?
You don't kill diplomats, for example.
don't shoot the messenger, right? It's a cliche. America had Abbas Araqi on a
strike list and an assassination list they took him off of. They ended up
trying to assassinate a former diplomat as a matter of fact. Israel's been doing
this. Israel wages war like this all the time and that's part of the reason why a
lot of people have developed enmity towards Israel because they're like,
What the fuck are you doing?
You only get away with this if you are the permanent domineering superpower, okay?
It's ironic to do this right now when your status as the domineering superpower is maybe
no longer the case, right?
You're no longer the dominant superpower.
no longer the hegemonic superpower, and you're still behaving like this. A country that did this
was Nazi Germany.
Israel's been behaving like Nazi Germany, and now America is increasingly behaving like Nazi
Germany. One could even say America has behaved like Nazi Germany in the past as well, but something
is different here. Because in the past, when America was doing this kind of thing to other
countries in Afghanistan, in Iraq, right? Those countries did not have the
capability of fighting back. Those countries did not have the capability
of delivering incredible damage to the confidence that people had in the
American force projection capabilities. Iran has been able to successfully
achieve that, right? So for America to turn around and desperately try to create
more collateral, try to, try to, you know, assassinate as many civilians as possible,
is only going to further solidify that they don't have, they don't have that capability
any longer.
Eventually, this is going to have to be, eventually this is going to have to come to an end.
The rest of the world is going to inevitably say, alright, enough is enough, you have to
pack this up. When they realize that America does not have that capability any longer,
when it's impossible to ignore, eventually the world has to bring us to heal. The US
This has always done this shit, be real, not to this degree, and not against an enemy that
is capable of disrupting the rest of the world's oil supply.
The amount of control that America had during Shakanah and in the aftermath of Shakanah
in Iraq is nothing like what's going on right now.
All of the destruction in Iraq and all of the instability born out of the American invasion
of Iraq was directly a consequence of America's lack of interest in keeping Iraq a stable institution.
They only protected the only ministry that America actually protected was the Ministry
of Energy, okay, because they had one singular goal in mind, that was to protect the assets.
I was to take over the assets and control the extraction industries of Iraq.
They're not doing that right now.
They're blowing up oil refineries.
Israel already blew up oil refineries, right?
Like that's, this is totally new from that perspective.
And not only are they having, not only are they doing all of this, not only are
they committed to just like doing terrorism for the sake of terror, which is somewhat
new. There's not like any sort of discernible strategic military objective here other than
just killing people. But yeah, it's very Israel style. IRGC bridge, IRGC hospital, IRGC guy
who fills out a spreadsheet to order more water jugs, IRGC building inspector, IRGC
Park, IRGC girl school, IRGC air conditioning efficiency study, IRGC Indian guy running
a merchant ship cafeteria. This is the same shit that Israel did with Hamas. Everything
is Hamas. Everything is Hamas. Everything is Hamas. Oh, that mosque, it's Hamas. Oh,
that school that we blew up, it's Hamas. Those little schoolgirls, also Hamas. They had a
copy of Mein Kampf that we found, right? Like they, they did that. This is what Israel did.
is what America is doing right now. It's not going to work. A US official tells me that
the bridge was attacked because it was used by Iranian armed forces to try and secretly
move missile and missile parts from Tehran to launch sites in Western Iran. Yeah. Yeah,
I saw Trump strategy for the midterm. We're going to talk about that in a second.
What the fuck?
Anyway, Gallibuff wrote this.
he says
listen up
back when i was eighteen years old i grabbed my rifle and ran straight into the fight to defend the soil of my beloved
unbreakable iran
the only home i ever knew
my own brother hassan
he laid it all on the line in that same fight for a homeland he never came home
to this day i still ache to wrap my arms around him one more time that kind of pain
never leaves a man
And he wasn't the only one. I lost brothers who weren't blood, but were family just the same.
Men who fought like lions and became part of me forever.
But that's what we do. We give everything, everything we've got, for the land we love.
We poured out our youth, our blood, and every tomorrow we had for Iran.
We are not warmongers.
But when the time comes to defend our homeland, every last one of us becomes a soldier.
Right now, in less than a week, a powerful national campaign sweeping across the country
is brought forward around 7 million Iranians who have already stepped up and declared they're
ready to pick up arms and stand in defense of our nation.
Let me tell you something straight from the gut.
Iranians don't just talk about defending their country, we bleed for it, we've done
it before and we're ready to do it again.
You come for our home, you're going to meet the whole family, locked, loaded, and standing
tall.
Bring it on.
targeting basic civilian infrastructure not just blatant terrorism and war crimes over
the baddies. Yes, we've always been the baddies. That's the irony here. We've been the baddies.
But what a lot of people don't understand, and this goes back to my criticism of like
neocons or like the way that the Trump administration has weighed the propaganda campaign of the
neocons is that they say, we're not engaging in nation building here, right? We don't want
to do regime change wars, we don't want to engage in nation building.
The irony is that wasn't the point of the global war on terror either, right?
So it's idiotic to make that assessment.
That was just marketing.
So unless you personally literally thought that, you know, Donald Rumsfeld had any sort
of ambition of creating a stable Iraq and democratizing Iraq by force, unless you truly
believed that narrative, you understood that that was just marketing.
So the Trump administration and Pete Hegzeff and all these other, you know, spokespersons
for the Trump administration and this war that we're waging with Iran have decided
not to do that marketing, right?
But in the absence of that marketing, in the absence of, you know, making a convincing
argument that they have WMDs, making a convincing argument as to why this unimaginably expensive
and bloody endeavor has to be conducted, because there's some sort of like moral goal at the
end of this, right?
People are just going to realize that you are just a tyrant, you're a bloodthirsty bully.
And that's what's really interesting about how the Trump administration is conducting
itself.
They almost, they operate like they genuinely believe that the neocons wanted to liberalize
Iraq and didn't simply want their oil or simply want to dominate them, right?
My point is, there is a purpose for claiming that you're spreading democracy when you don't
really have that ambition. So when you drop that part and come across as sincere about
your goals, about your objectives, as Trump is doing, right, saying the quiet part out
loud, sure, some people will look at that and go, yeah, that makes sense to me. I like
killing Iranians. I think it's cool that we're blowing up their bridges. I think it's cool
that we're doing terrorism. I don't care about winning hearts and minds. It's different. I like it.
But when you say the quiet part, a lot more people are going to hear what you're saying and go,
I don't like that. That sounds insane. That sounds like you're doing terrorism.
And that's where we're at right now.
Now, for many Americans, it was easier to understand that Israel was behaving like a terrorist country because Israel, they thought, was a foreign country.
The final piece of that puzzle is for Americans to recognize that we might be the terrorist country as well, because we are.
Seven months and five days.
World War II lasted for three years, eight months and 25 days.
The Korean War lasted for three years, one month and two days.
The Vietnam War lasted for 19 years, five months and 29 days.
Iraq went on for eight years, eight months and 28 days.
We are in this military operation, so powerful, so brilliant against one of the most powerful
countries for 32 days.
And the country has been eviscerated and essentially is really no longer a threat.
They were the bully of the Middle East, but they had the bully no longer.
This is a true investment in your children and your grandchildren's future.
whole world is watching and they can't leave the power strength and brilliance I just can't
believe what they're saying they leave it to your imagination but they can't believe what they're
seeing the brilliance of the United States military yeah no that's what everyone is saying
they're like how brilliant how fucking brilliant dude
Philip Lemoine says once again it's hilarious how the US bomb civilian infrastructure with the
obvious goal of pressuring the Iranian leadership into making a deal but the supporters of the
stupidity instantly go into defense mode and twist themselves into a pretzel to argue that
it was motivated by military necessity only for Trump to come out and basically tweet you better
make a deal soon before your country has been turned into a wasteland I mean he's saying it like
This is Osama bin Laden's shit, right?
That's it.
When you can't achieve your military goals by waging regular warfare, you do the Israel method and you go the death and destruction route.
You don't even consider what comes after that.
You don't consider what you're doing to the international rule-based order, which has favored your dominance
In perpetuity, right? Like this is another part of the process that I think a lot of these guys don't understand
If you want it to be a warmonger and if you want it to be the hegemonic superpower
Then liberals are right. You have to sell that you have to sell that to other people
When you sell, uh, when you say the quiet part out loud and you say no, I'm this is empire shit
We're villains and and you don't try to massage the narrative
You don't try to tell people why you're doing this why there's a there's a good reason for for why you're blowing up fucking bridges and shit, right?
Eventually there's gonna be so much enmity that people actually take up arms
European leadership went through appeasement with Nazi Germany, if we recall, right? There
was a period where Europe was like, okay, maybe we'll just give them what they want and they'll
stop, right? But it got to a point where it was undeniable that Nazi Germany's expansionist
ambitions, we're going to take over the entirety of the European continent.
And that's when they decided, all right, we have to do a coalition of the willing, we
have to put an end to this, we have to militarily stop this.
Now of course, in the age of nukes, the calculation is different.
But the reality of the matter is, us alongside Israel are the current Nazi Germany country,
this time with nukes. We have to put an end to this. We have to stop. These guys generally
don't believe that the US benefits from US led world order though. The right sees it
as constraining and a waste of time and money even though it benefits them. Same reason
where they hate soft power initiatives even though they objectively make empire most
stable and effective.
I think the insincere liberal method of justifying American hegemony was the more successful
one and that's why it rained supreme even in the hands of reactionary neocons when they
They were waging the global war on terror.
It reigned supreme for a good reason because it was successful.
It convinced a lot of people, okay?
Sure, we could say they're stupid, but at least there was an effort to convince them,
right?
Now there is no effort to convince them.
Now you got Donald Trump basically saying, speaking out of both sides of his mouth, basically
saying the quiet part out loud at times.
And then at other times, he'll try to commit to a real reason for why we're doing all
this, right? But I don't think he's capable of convincing people at all. Eventually, when
enough people realize that America is the villain in the story, they're going to want
to put an end to it. They're going to demand an end to it. Just as in the immediate aftermath
of October 7. The propalcyding protest movements were small. They were marginal. They were bullied.
There was a lot of pressure. People bastardized what they were trying to explain to people.
And they said, oh, you guys are pro-Hamas. You want Jews to die. You're anti-Semitic.
And then that protest movement grew and grew and grew. And now people understand that the
bad guys in that equation were always israel
the same thing will eventually happen for america as well
okay
that's it
tonight every american can look forward to a day when we are
finally free from the wickedness of iranian aggression and the specter of
nuclear black belt
because what the heck are you talking about the rest of the world in one army
this is american entitlement and american exceptionalism
The idea that like the idea that the rest of the world can't apply diplomatic pressure,
trade pressure to the United States of America, that America can be truly independent after
the United States of America designed this global system that benefited the United States
of America for fucking decades is idiotic.
Your brain dead.
The only reason why this hasn't happened thus far is because for the longest time while
While we were conducting these wars of choice, following along with these imperial desires,
we made a convincing case as to everyone else also getting a piece of the pie to a certain
degree.
The European vassals were going to benefit from the system as well, and they did certainly.
We at least tried to appeal to people's sensibilities, try to convince them that it was good that
we were the world police. Now we're not even doing that. We're not doing that at all. My
point is people are eventually going to look at America very differently than they have
thus far. What happens when all that pressure mounts? What happens when the demands are
being made by middle powers in Europe, for example, from the populations to decouple
from the United States of America. America's power, America's hegemonic superpower status
is kept together by its military might, which has taken a devastating blow, right, in the
last 33 days. We can't even dominate a country that we've been able to wage economic warfare
against. They control the Shredivore Moos. But also on top of that, it's propped up by
the complex system that we have created around the world that we control. A system that we
guarantee with our military, a system that says there will always be free flowing commerce in
these choke points. We control the seas, you will always get your oil, your energy grid is
is never going to be threatened.
But now the energy grid is threatened.
Now, capital has to withdraw from certain areas,
or they get blown up because they're
in missile striking distance.
That puts a dent in the goals of the profit seekers, right?
That harms profits.
If profit centers are under imminent threat,
It creates market instability.
And also on top of that, it harms profit margins.
And you can't have that.
If America can't provide that,
if America can't guarantee safety and security
for the rest of the world,
then why should it be the fucking number one superpower?
For the most part,
the US also keeps local elites happy.
In the poorest countries,
the most corruption US-led economic and security model
keeps the elites in place
and is beneficial for their short-term financial power,
even though they are not to broader economic development.
Trump just fucking up every bag of ones. Exactly. Exactly.
The very same attitude shift that took place over the course of the last month
with Europe, European leaders basically salivating at the prospect of punishing
Iran, right? Dominating Iran, taking out this like sovereign state that has been a
foreign adversary, a thorn on the side of Western imperialism for 47 years.
That attitude changed quite quickly, right? And dramatically.
Now they're all terrified. They're delivering their own individual states of the unions.
They're saying, oh, you know, we got to, we got to get ready for, for major economic shocks,
major uncertainty in the upcoming days. They're openly saying, they're openly defying America
as Donald Trump demands, full cooperation from NATO allies. NATO allies are saying,
no, we're not going to do that. You're out of your fucking mind, right?
That same attitude was also demonstrated by the Gulf States. At least some of them. There's a
financial times report that I read on this from Saudi attitudes that have turned completely against
the United States of America. MBS was saying, look, if Israel's going to go in, America might as well
go in alongside Israel. Maybe you take out, don't touch their energy infrastructure because then
That means they'll blow up our energy infrastructure that hurts our stability, right?
But you know take out their missile systems and it'll be fine that was the attitude from MBS early on before this started, right?
the hubris
the audacity the assumption that Israel would have
Israel would have any restraint whatsoever
so stupid
Now the Saudis have recognized that that's not the case and that Israel actually doesn't even care if the Gulf
States diminish
If the Gulf States are destroyed
So now they're desperate for an off-ramp now they're demanding the off-ramp
might be too late as of the actions we have taken we are on the cusp of ending a rancid
as to threat to America and the world and I'll tell you the world is watching and when
we do when it's all over the United States will be safer stronger more prosperous and
greater than it has ever been before may god bless the men and women of the
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but i was called a lot of them on the engine car is a lot of a shamanian
dami at the end of the summer i thought they wanted to continue those in the
Saudis? No, the United Arab Emirates claims that they want the war to continue.
The Saudis are not on board with the continuation of the war.
They're the most exposed in this situation.
But the reason why I brought up the Saudi change of attitude is because
that change of attitude relied on American military dominance, a belief that America could
like destroy Iran, destroy Iranian launcher capabilities, destroy the missile silos, diminish
Iranian response. It's obvious that they failed to do that, right?
Anyway, the continuation of the heavy and severe blows you have received so far expect
even stronger, a way more crushing, broader, and more destructive actions.
The facilities you have targeted so far are insignificant and are strategic.
Wait, hold on. What did you say? The reporting seems conflicted. I've seen a lot of pieces
that say the Saudis want this to keep going because it basically sunk costs, but others
are saying they want an off-ramp. I think they want an off-ramp. I think the UAE is
the only Gulf country that's openly claiming that they want this to continue.
It's insignificant in our strategic. Military production takes place in locations of which
you have absolutely no knowledge in which you will never be able to read.
I don't think this is the end of the American security order. It's the beginning of the end,
but it will end. It seems to me increasingly implausible that the United States can or can be
trusted to uphold security in the region. And I think after this war, when it became clear that
that US bases do not provide security,
they actually become a source of insecurity
for the GCC states.
It was always clear the American security umbrella
extended over to the Middle East
was not going to last forever.
And it was gonna end at some point
and it's better for the region to take responsibility
for its security in its own hand, shoulder it itself
rather than relying on powers that are overextended
and increasingly unreliable.
I don't think anything is really in Donald Trump's control.
The speech was a lot of bravado.
The speech was a lot of delusion, in my view, and during the speech, the price of oil rose
$5 a barrel just in the 25 minutes of the speech, meaning the markets did not find any
Many of it, very credible.
So I think we have to do what we normally have to do with Trump, which is filter these
remarks.
Well, I think basically we have a speech with no credibility, by a president with no credibility.
I have to stress, we will see in the next four or five weeks, an outcome one way or
another that will absolutely reshape the world. If the U.S. is right that it is destroyed
Iran, the reshaping will be very small. The U.S. will say, we're the big boss, we're
the bully, we now own Iranian oil, we can do what we want. I think this is very unlikely
as the truth. If the other situation turns out to be right, that Iran has a lot of fighting
power, it's not been defeated in six or eight weeks of aerial bombing, it's got missile
scollor and it can do great damage to its neighbors who have sided with the United
States. The situation from a geopolitical point of view will be entirely different.
this is why these next few weeks really are an incredible drama. It's a tragedy
that the drama is playing out this way. It's a test of how thuggish and violent
the United States can be, but it is going to play out one way or another.
Right when the president came out he said that one thing he wanted to do was
layout, why it's necessary for safety and security of Americans. This is
happening. Do you think you made that case? I thought he started with the
necessity. We talked about the necessity, the objective, and what's the plan. I
thought the necessity laying out the bill of particulars on Iran was fairly
effective, not entirely accurate, as you just pointed out. I think it's important
to remind people what Iran is about. It is a real threat. There are reasons to be
doing what we're doing? Oh my God, it's so funny. Once again, remember, okay, this is Brett McGurk.
Okay, Brett McGurk was the architect of the Biden Israel saga. One of the top genocide
airs, okay? Brett McGurk also happens to commend Donald Trump's Iran quagmire. He demanded it.
He said it would be good. He celebrated the 12-day war. Now, I don't know if he'll continue to
celebrate it. I don't know what he's going to say here, but the reason why I'm bringing all of this
up is because I need you to understand this is exactly what he wanted. You'll see and hear
from a lot of people that have spent their entire careers operating as mouthpieces for the Israeli state,
communicating the Israeli state's desires to do exactly this, what we're doing right now.
Turn around and act as though there was a process, a procedural failure or a tactical failure,
because now that they got their wishes, they realize that they're biting off a lot more than they can chew.
So anyone that's not popping champagne at this very moment after spending the last decade
Multiple decades demanding this exact same thing happen demanding that we blow up Iran
Claiming that it will be so easy is just fucking lying
So let's hear what Brett McGurk had to say the reason why it's important to understand
You know the role that Brett McGurk played
is so that you understand American foreign policy and our interest in in
leaning into Israel and our interest in letting Israel lead our men in policy is
a uniparty principle okay this is what I mean when I say America and or sorry the
Democratic Party and the Republican Party are very much aligned on on key
issues Brett McGurk is a great example of this
I thought when he laid out the objectives and the plan, I don't think we heard too much.
My takeaway was that we might be in for an escalation of this war.
I mean, he said if there's not a deal, he put back on the table.
He didn't talk about a deal very much.
He said there's not a deal. The energy, targets, everything else he's been talking about.
So, if we thought we might hear a de-escalatory speech that we're going to wrap this up in a couple weeks,
actually heard something quite different that he said he visits the
families at Dover and he said we must honor them by completing the mission and
then he basically threatened Iran that we're prepared to send you back to
Stone Age so I think this war is going to continue for some time and that's what
I that's what I heard I was striking that while he had a chance to speak to
the Iranian leadership the replaced Iranian leadership he did not make an
offer or any discussion of what the U.S.-Iran relationship could look like.
I mean, these are two countries that have every reason that they could be natural allies,
historically in various moments, long time ago they were.
But there was only threat to the Iranian leadership.
There was no incentive.
I thought the second really interesting thing was that the president basically dismissed
the uh... operations to go get the nuclear material
you may remember that uh... when this war started
that was supposed to be the number one objective
keep iran from making a bomb and that means
taking away the near bomb-grade material
this time he said
it would take months for them to get near
the nuclear dust i mean just last week
last monday a little over a week you ask the president about getting that
enriched uranium and he said that it would be very easy for the United States to go in and get it.
The other thing here is the Strait of Hormuz. The President seemed to back up and confirm reporting there
that he's not interested in the United States having control of it or having that settled
if the United States does end this war.
Well, and that's inconsistent. I mean, one thing he complained about the Obama administration
and sanctions relief and everything, but if Iran comes out of this controlling the Strait of Hormuz
being able to meet. But you must have fucking hated, huh? Considering that you had no ambitions of
reinstating that when Biden was president.
Peter ships that go through there and taking a cut of every ship, they're going to make hundreds of
millions and billions of dollars. So that if that is the outcome here strategically, that is not good
if our objective is to contain Iran. Yeah, he called on our allies to come in and help on the
straight and we might be willing to help. I heard it. Once again, what's really stupid about this
conversation, right, is that the problem that people should have with this is the point that
Donald Trump is trying to get across, which is strategically containing Iran. Like, why are we
doing that? For 47 years, we did not strategically contain Iran. We did actually wage a lot of
economic warfare with Iran, and you know, that was still devastating for Iranian development.
They were able to struggle through it regardless. But like, the argument that liberals present
here is, well, the goals make sense. You know, I'm glad that the Ayatollah is dead. I'm glad
that we're like, we did this decapitation strike. The problem is, we're just not achieving our war
goals. No, man, the problem is we did that to begin with, okay? You can't make a convincing
counter narrative. You cannot actually convincingly counter message against the Trump administration
if the only criticism that you have is that they're just not doing the right things.
Like, oh, their goals are ambitious and I agree with them, but they're just not able to accomplish
said goals. That's not a real counter-narrative. That's not a real counter-argument, right?
You're just taking advantage of the fact that you're no longer in power, so you can just like
criticize. It's the same shit that Trump did with the Afghan withdrawal, right? Something that he
designed that he never actually had the courage to pull through on, to pull the trigger on. And then,
because he wasn't president at the time, because he didn't oversee the Afghan withdrawal, which was
always going to be messy, regardless, right? He was able to say, oh, yeah, he just died.
I think he didn't do a good job. He did a bad job. Remember our 13 brave soldiers that died?
You know, and the Afghan withdrawal, remember the 13 or was it seven? I can't remember the
exact number. Yeah, the law, yeah, law, the Shredda Hormuz was free for navigation for
the past 50 years. We're acting like it was always been closed. Yeah, we made him close it.
They didn't close it the last couple of times we fucking bombed them. They didn't close it for the 50 years that we
Actively sought to destroy the Iranian economy
They they closed it because we forced them to take action
Seven was Benghazi
We're not talking about Benghazi. We're talking about the when afghan withdrawal
I think it was like 13 soldiers that died or something or best soldiers
Meanwhile when Donald Trump was president in Afghanistan 67 America soldiers died, but hey, you know, that's neither here nor there
That's just uh, you know, they they had to go
It's fucking so stupid you say we kind of would lead that mission from behind
Hoping that our allies might step up which I'm not sure they're gonna do because a difficult mission. He said it's easy
It's not you gotta you gotta have assets that can Caitlyn shoot down it by ship missiles and drones
It's hard. We did this in the Red Sea with a small coalition. It's a very difficult military mission and strategic equation
And I and the way we're talking about our allies every day
I don't see the allies really signing up to take on this mission. They should I mean they should it isn't their interest to do it
I was just staying on them
But I think the straight-up for moves remains a very unresolved issue here. I didn't really hear an answer
Well, I mean, what Brett's hearing is that, and that is that there's a potential escalation
here.
The President talked to Americans about rising gas prices, but he said that they would come
down after the war is over.
I mean, if the war is going on for two to three more weeks, maybe longer than that,
do you think that that was sufficient?
Well, they're going to start to come down.
I think he's right to recognize it.
He's trying to show the American public that he hears their anxiety about it.
And I do think gas prices are going to be one of the drivers of public opinion on the
war.
I think Brett's right about what he said about the allies though, you know, he called on our
allies to come in and take over the strait and deal with the strait. Now he's mostly talking
about Japan and Korea. Now both of them get about half their oil and gas through the strait of
Hormuz. The fuck is Japan and Korea gonna do, bro? If America can't open the strait of Hormuz,
how the fuck is Japan and Korea gonna open the strait of Hormuz? Are you out of your damn mind?
these are two countries that we occupy militarily. Okay, post-World War II, post-Korea War,
we literally occupy these countries. We've got like 80,000 troops in Korea.
Japan's constitution, which we wrote, dictates that they can never have a standing army.
You got an easier go opening up the Strait of Hormuz by dealing with the DPRK,
North Korea, before you get South Korea to open it. How the fuck are they going to open it? They have
such little control over their own destiny that America was able to literally first send
THAAD missiles to South Korea, right, in 2016, which was a spectacular problem for South Korea.
China got really mad about that, lost billions of dollars in trade from China in the process,
and then America literally was like, hey, we're taking these THAAD missiles back.
We have to send them to Israel. Sorry. And South Korea is like we can't do anything about it because we're fucking South Korea
We have no autonomy. We have no control over our own lives
We have no control over our own destiny and now you're over here being like oh, yeah, South Korea
And Japan two countries that we have basically militarily occupied for fucking decades
Are are going to be able to go and like open the shit of hormones when we can't do it. It's so insane
U.S. still has wartime operational control in Korea that is meaningless.
Exactly! It's so stupid. It's such a stupid argument. But of course, it's the dumbass Republican that's like saying that.
Well...
Meanwhile, it seems that another plane, another American plane, has been shot down, as I showed you earlier.
We don't know. We can't be... Dropside has not independently verified the claim.
Also, Secretary of War Pete Hegze asked the Army Chief of Staff General Randy George to
step down and take immediate retirement source familiar with the decision told CBS News.
Uh-oh, not good. Hegze has asked the Chief of Staff to the Army Chief to step down. Randy
George previously served as a senior military citizen, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin
during the Biden admin, one of the sources said, Secretary of War, while someone in the
role who will implement Trump and Hegze's vision for the Army, the Vice Chief of Staff
the army general Christopher Leneve who was formerly Hexas military aide will likely be
considered a replacement. This is unrelated to the helicopter flyby at Kid Rocks home, I'm told.
Okay, so it's definitely related to the fucking flyby. It's probably not even the
war objectives. I initially thought it was that, but I suspect this guy was like, no,
we have to punish the fucking guy who did a flyby. That's like ridiculous. Like we're the
We're the goddamn American military.
We can't be just like doing stupid shit like that.
And then P. Higgs, it was like, nah, that's against our,
that's against our goals, sir.
Kid Rock actually really enjoyed that flyby.
I know it sounds stupid,
but I need you to understand, we are a stupid country.
We are led by stupid.
We are that stupid.
so yes
this decision could have been made for perhaps the stupidest reason
what is this our military installations have been turned into gun-free zones
leaving our service members vulnerable and exposed that ends today
troops can now request to carry their own personal firearms on base for
personal protection without having to explain why they need to protect
themselves on base
oh my god
Oh, that's awesome. I'm not going to say anything because these are the moments where I say something like
sarcastically and then they get clipped out of context. I'm just not going to say anything.
Yeah, good luck to the American military. Wow, that seems like a cool thing.
Deciding to play on New Game Plus difficulty, I see.
Interesting. Very, very interesting.
Cool.
Cool. That's cool.
Um, yeah, no, I can't think of, uh, I think I can't think of a better place to just like have a bunch of guys armed the fucking gills, dude.
Our great republic was founded on a simple yet bold idea.
Our rights as citizens are not granted to us by government, but instead by God.
250 years ago the Revolutionary War was fought to secure our God-given rights.
The Second Amendment to our Constitution enshrines the right of all citizens to carry weapons
protect themselves. See, this is one of those things, right, that Pete Hegza, this too stupid
to recognize, was a rule for perhaps a good reason. Okay? Anyone who has ever spent any time
as military police, will be the first to tell you that this is a major mistake, okay? Our boys
get rowdy. They already have a lot of issues with rapes and murders on these bases without people
running around with weapons, okay? They have a nonconventional ways of getting those goals across,
okay? So if you just give them all guns, I feel like it's going to be a very different dynamic.
It's very interesting that these dumbasses legitimately think like, oh, it was the
the libtard pussies that made it so that our brave boys don't have their fucking personal
firearms at their hip on these military bases and not because you don't want those guys
that have access to their personal weapons outside of moments where they are tasked with
using them.
Okay?
They're families and their fellow countrymen.
The War Department's Uniform Service members are trained at the highest and unwavering standards.
These warfighters, entrusted with the safety of our nation, are no less entitled to exercise
their God-given right to keep their bare arms than any other American.
Our warfighters defend the right of others to carry.
They should be able to carry themselves.
Recent events like what happened at Fort Stewart, Holloman Air Force Base, or Pensacola Naval
Air Station have made clear that some threats are closer to home than we would like.
In these instances, minutes are a lifetime, and our service members have the courage and
training to make those precious short minutes count.
today it was virtually impossible. Most people probably don't know this. It was virtually
impossible for war department personnel to get permission to carry and store their own personal
weapons aligned with the state laws where we operate our installations. I mean effectively
our bases across the country were gun free zones unless you're training or unless you are a military
police. I wonder if there was a good reason for that. Because like, when I think of, uh,
when I think of like American military bases having such a rule, my assumption is there's
probably a good reason for that, you know, given a bunch of 18 year olds that are, uh, you know,
So going through some crazy emotions and constantly getting yelled at, constantly bullying one
another, an unlimited amount of access to weapons kind of doesn't feel like the right
thing to do.
I just, yeah, okay, cool.
You couldn't carry, you couldn't bring your own firearm for your own personal protection
on to post.
Well, that's no longer.
Yeah, for what reason?
Like there's got to be a reason, right, Pete?
You didn't think about that?
You didn't think that that was, there was a reason for that?
In your mind, you thought it's because our, you know, our generals were, were pussies.
Is that what you thought was going on?
They're libtards.
They hate.
to do gun control because it's woke and gay? That's cool. Okay.
The memo I'm signing today directs installation commanders to allow requests for personal protection
to carry a privately owned firearm with the presumption that it is necessary for personal
protection. If they record on a military base, brother, who are you protecting yourself against
Other than your fucking drill sergeant.
Like, how is he not understanding the words that are coming out of his mouth?
Like, what he what this implies?
Protection from who you're on a fucking military base, you idiot.
Protection from who?
I guess they do legitimately believe that like an armed society is a polite society.
I guess they do actually feel like, you know, uh, you know, you, you need
to constantly be armed. Because I mean, I always, I always thought, you know, it's a lie.
Like Republicans do understand that obviously you have to have gun free zones because like
more guns does not automatically translate to more safety. And part of the reason why
I said that and part of the reason why I believe that it was because the NRA Convention is
a gun-free zone, right? Trump rallies are gun-free zones. It's not like Donald Trump
is doing rallies where everyone can bring fucking weapons, right? So clearly, they kind
of understand that you have to have areas where there's no guns because more guns means
less safety. More guns means accidents. More guns means someone could potentially use that
gun, right? This was one of those areas where I assumed, you know, people kind of understood
that this is a reasonable request. Nope, turns out P. Hegson actually does believe it. He
legitimately thinks having ease of access to a weapon actually makes you a safer person,
these bases safer cool quest is for some reason denied the reason for that
denial will be in writing and will explain in detail the basis for that
direction again the presumption is service members will be able to have I
feel like this is at first going to increase the amount of rapes happening
and then it's going to end up decreasing it if you know what I mean their
second amendment right on post not all enemies are foreign nor are they all
outside our border some are you saying not all enemies dude dude it's a
military base you're saying the enemy is within you're saying that the enemy is
other guys it at the base what the fuck
What a strange thing to say.
Nastic, confirming your God-given right to self-protection is what I'm signing into action
today and I'm proud to do so.
I just don't think it's going to, I don't think any, any commanding officer is going
to allow this to happen.
I just don't think so.
It would be really funny.
It would be very funny to see how this plays out.
uh... i just don't think it's gonna happen
yet the real enemies is is uh... amongst our ranks is is next to us
cool
cool man
That seems good.
Russia sends another oil tanker to Cuba and Trump will say nothing.
Putin continuously played in Trump's phase.
If you can't see something stinks there at this point, it's because you don't want
to. Okay. I don't think this is a bad thing at all. I think it was a good thing.
I don't know why Tennessee Holler is criticizing this. Anyway,
let's get back to CNN.
But he's also talking about Europe.
And I think the heads of state of our NATO allies need to have heard this
message pretty loud and clear.
We've maintained bases in their countries, we fueled their economies, we've protected
them from Russia for 75 years.
And they wouldn't let us use our own bases in their country to engage in our national
security here.
And I think that, you know, I'm a big supporter of NATO, most Republican senators I talked
to are as well.
But I think there's a real schism here.
And I think if our allies need, they need to hear the President tonight, and it's time
to get on the horse and ride.
Well, I should note, I mean, the President's saying that he could withdraw from NATO.
It was his secretary of state who did co-sponsor a bill saying the president can't unilaterally
do so.
He needs Congress to help him.
Karen, overall not just on NATO, what do you think Americans heard in that speech one
month then?
Look, if you are concerned about your own pocketbooks, and let's be honest, that's what most Americans
were probably listening for.
They're listening for, how's this going to affect my life, my economy?
You weren't reassured.
I mean, as Brett pointed out, if we're talking about an escalation, he's talking about two
to three more weeks than we're looking at and he said this was going to be over in four
weeks then we're talking seven to eight weeks and the kind of escalation he was talking
about doesn't sound like it's just going to be two to three more weeks.
We're sort of joking about this.
Everything's two more weeks, two more weeks, two more weeks.
So that's a concern and even in his conversation about the economy he said, oh it was so great
a month ago.
No it wasn't.
People were, I mean his numbers on the economy have been going down steadily for quite some
time.
don't think people heard anything to make them feel reassured about why did we have to do this
right now I know he said tried to make this imminent argument but again the fact checkers will
I think correct that and he did not make a case to he didn't call people to action to to be a part
of this he really tried to and I don't think people are going to believe that they fired cash
already? They already did? In no way. No, I thought they were, I mean, they were entertaining
it. What the fuck?
Because we, he says it should be over.
Did they? I can't tell. I can't tell if you guys are fucking with me or not. God, if only
Twitter timeline wasn't so busted.
Okay, Mr. President, I know you might think I'm not cut out to be the attorney general,
but I do have experience in podcasting, and it kind of feels like you want a podcaster
to be the FBI director.
And I'm willing to step up.
I'm willing to do it.
I love my current job.
But Mr. President, sir, I can do it.
I'm willing to step up.
Make me the FBI director, please.
I'm ready.
The sun's going to go back to normal.
I don't think people will buy that.
In terms of a deal being reached,
The president has been pretty optimistic about it this week in conversations with reporters.
Tonight though, he didn't announce a breakthrough.
He kind of barely addressed the diplomatic talks that are underway, and as Brett McEarge
was noting, he threatened to blast Iran back to the Stone Ages, should this not work out.
How do you think that comes across to the Iranian officials that were listening?
Well, look, I mean, I spoke to Iranian officials earlier on today, and they said they didn't
put much stead in the public remarks of President Trump because they don't reliably reflect
what actually happens. And they went on to say this reflects a trait of him that he is
eccentric and unpredictable, which of course we all know. But I mean, there's been a physical
response.
Yeah, he didn't get fired. The sources, she was talking to a former FBI podcaster. Okay,
to be fair, this is the, this is the podcast or government. You know what I mean? Yeah.
I don't think it's happening. Um, or at least I wouldn't be surprised if it does happen.
Cause like I said, he is, he's Mr. Off-Ramp. He's Mr. Pressure Valve. Okay. And obviously
it wasn't just, it wasn't just Pam Bondi that a lot of people are frustrated with. They
they were freshened with cash patelle as well. So, I don't know.
As well, to this speech in the region, with alarms going off and missiles and drones being
launched by Iran across the region, particularly at the United Arab Emirates, within the past
few minutes, we've had those reports coming in of attacks from Iran, again against those
those surrounding Gulf Arab states that have been so terribly battered in the course of the past
month or so since this Iran war began. These are energy-rich countries that depend almost entirely
on energy exports for their survival and they've seen those revenues because of the blockade in
the street of Hamouz and because of the attacks on the energy infrastructure absolutely sort of
devastating dropping from billions of dollars a day in some cases to close to zero and so
we're looking at an existential economic crisis. If it's not going on a job interview, yes.
That's why I'm wearing a suit because I have a job interview. There's going to be potentially a
job opening as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations and I wanted to look dapper and
spiffy as a podcaster myself I I feel like they're they're looking for a new
FBI director who will also be a podcaster right like kind of feels like
they want you know kind of feels like they thought you know this is the best
possible FBI director we could have had
Parasol for take, trim the beard to look sharp, no.
No.
This region.
And there was very little in terms of reassurance in that speech by President Trump.
He talked about potentially escalating the conflict, at least continuing it.
Certainly there was no word on when this conflict would come to a conclusion.
And in so much as he did address that, I think we're all left with the impression that at the
end of this conflict, we could see an Iran which is strengthened strategically that will keep the
strait of a moose under its control and possibly even have the capability to have ballistic missiles
and even a nuclear program at the end of this war. And so that's very alarming for the countries in
this region. President Trump has downplayed the United States' reliance on the
It's extremely fun to get this so painfully wrong when your whole thing is pretending to
be an economist on sub-stack.
I know everyone's freaking out about Trump bombing Iran, but I wouldn't worry too much
about the economic ramifications at least.
Nice.
If you aren't blocked by No Smith, please don't let him get away with pretending that
he opposed this war.
Yeah.
Law, no.
Bomb the IRGC bases.
Yeah.
Yeah, no, definitely, definitely causing a foreign adversary to like shut down a strategic
choke point where 20% of the entire world's energy needs flows through is not going to
have devastating impacts on markets.
Okay?
Certainly.
I'm an economist.
Amazing. What do you think is preventing Iran from fully taking out GCC oil? What do you mean? That's their last card.
That's the last card that they can play. They're not going to play it yet.
So, what's really interesting about this is some people are beginning to recognize that
you know we're the villains here.
Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn had a conversation.
Let's take a look at what they had to say.
What do you think is going to happen?
You think we're going to be okay?
I hope so.
Of course.
I don't know.
Do you think about it?
I'm confused.
I can't believe we went to this war.
When we started bombing Iran, I was like this can't be true.
And what about Lebanon now?
I know.
Israel's invaded Lebanon.
Yeah, yeah, and it's like just fucking stop it. What do you need?
Well, they're trying to supposedly they're trying to stop the terrorists
You're the fucking terrorists
You know I'm saying like you want to stop them fucking stand in front of the fucking mirror the start there
What do you think is gonna happen? You think we're gonna be okay? I hope so of course, but I
I mean, what do you say? What do you what can you even fucking say to that? Oh
Damn, it's all good. It's illegal
That's crazy, thank you Marsh got me a
Zins what time are we supposed to leave have you eaten yet?
Oh, you did can you put your room in the post means I can't do it
All right, I wasn't able to do it anyway. I'll figure it out
Okay
It's all just a cat and mouse game people are like we'll like the Democrats next time
It's like but it's all the same shit has been happening forever. They haven't been helping anybody forever
They're letting fucking politicians slurp on kids all of our fucking money goes to Israel and they're using to get to fucking genocide people
It's like everybody is scared out of their wits right now
It's like our religious leaders are afraid to speak out and it's like though
It's a time where it's like Satan is amongst us and our religious leaders are fucking talking about bullshit at the pole
It's just like what is going I don't know man
You gotta get you up again in the present son. You're losing your fucking marbles. You think I am coming out with us
Oh my god, Joe Rogan
He's right
Like he's not even raw. He's right Joe Rogan. The fuck's wrong with you
He's literally correct like everything that he addressed is
unironically true. It's like the only time where someone is making sense on the Joe Rogan experience and
And Joe Rogan's response is oh, bro, you're just like kind of bumming me out dude. You're bumming yourself out here
Do some drugs
Come hang out with us we'll we'll fix you up real quick
Don't think about it, bro. You're bumming my high right now. You're just ruining my high, bro. Oh fuck. Oh
My god
Yeah, Joe Rogan be like, let me give you some raw milk fix you up real good.
Yeah, feel Vaughn 2026. It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a
profoundly sick society. That's right. I got to go on Theo Vaughn again dude. That's what I got to do.
Some more from this combo.
How come you give aid?
I'm sick of this shit, and I'm sick of rich people not putting their fucking kids over in these wars and shit like that put your
All right, we'll we'll get back to that in a little bit. We'll get back to that a little bit
The straighter form was one of the world's most important waterways now Iran's near closure of it in the past month has led to
largest global energy market disruptions in decades
Now, President Trump says the US imports almost no oil from here and won't be taking
any in the future.
It's true, crude imports into the US have fallen drastically over the years, but it
still relies on the straighter foremost for a fraction of its imports.
Now, government data shows in 2024 it brought in 500,000 barrels per day.
That's second percent of its total crude oil imports and two percent of its petroleum
product imports.
The way President Trump also sees it, the U.S. is the world's largest producer of oil and
gas and it's insulated that what's happening thousands of kilometers away and yet people
are paying more at the pumps because gas prices are more than a dollar a liter the highest
since 2022.
Now the U.S. and Israel's war on Iran has also left the rest of the world feeling the
pain of supply to disruptions and rise. I think you should go on Tucker. I think you
can move him left. First of all, that's never going to happen. He's not going to move left.
Don't be ridiculous. And secondly, Tucker Carlson will not have me on.
I don't know why I have my suspicions, but anyway, let's see prizes. I was into Preston
from speech we have had oil prices jump and we have had Asian stocks slump.
Now the UK and dozens of countries have held talks on reopening the Strait of Homoes.
Remember much of the oil and gas produced in the region is headed to Asia but some part
of it also up from the Swiss canal into Europe.
But 2,000 ships are stranded because of Iran's partial blockade in retaliation to U.S. and
Israeli strikes.
Now, before the conflict, tankers carried 20 million barrels of oil, or 20 percent of
global energy consumption, passed through this trade every single day.
But in the past month, very few ships have made this passage in coordination with Iran.
A huge fireball blazes across the night skies over Isfahan after a U.S. strike on a military base there.
The city in the center of the country, home to one of its three key nuclear sites, too.
President Trump promised to hit even harder these next few weeks, and he's following through.
Here, the Pasteur Institute, a prestigious research and public health center in Tehran, blown to smithereens.
Yeah, this was disgusting. I mean, there is no, there is no like military goal here. You're just trying to destroy civil life. You're trying to destroy civil society. It's the Israel method, right?
Right?
That's all this is.
It's, what can you even fucking say?
What is the equivalent here hitting MIT?
It's like, no, it's not even hitting MIT.
It's like hitting a building where they're not only doing,
I think they're also doing the production there too, right?
If I'm not mistaken, but yeah, I mean, they're just bombing fucking, yeah,
they're bombing academic institutions where like people are developing medicines.
And be like hitting John Johns Hopkins University.
And you have to remember, like Iran has had to develop medicine internally because of the sanctions, not dissimilar to Cuba.
Like not only have we shut off to the best of our ability through these sanctions, Iran being able to get medicine,
get pharmaceutical products from other countries.
We've disrupted that process.
We're now destroying their indigenous facilities
for developing the medicine on their own.
It's, it's just pure terrorism.
I don't know how else to describe it.
That's what it is.
The pool in Hamlet,
how could you mention the guitar on me?
During this attack,
we can say that almost all departments were damaged.
The malaria unit, the cell bank, clinical research,
biotechnology and support sections like IT, engineering, administration and office buildings.
All of these have been completely affected and rebuilding them will take years. Most
importantly, the historic building that was constructed with international support a hundred
and four years ago, older than many scientific institutions in the world, has been completely
damage and that the original PASTA Institute no longer exists.
The tallest bridge in the Middle East which connects the capital with the western city
of Karaj folding in on itself after an airstrike, with the US President promising on Truth Social
that much more would follow unless Iran made a deal fast.
Further bombast after his address to the nation on Wednesday night.
We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks.
We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong.
Iran's hardline leadership, those who are left, have responded just as their predecessors did
with unending defiance.
The centers you believe you have targeted are insignificant
and our strategic military production takes place in locations you're completely unaware of
and will never be able to reach.
Iran's parliamentary speaker thought to be the US administration's current interlocutor
in Iran, not mincing his words on X.
Iranians don't just talk about defending their country, he wrote, we bleed for it.
We've done it before and we're ready to do it again.
You come for our home, you're going to meet the whole family, locked, loaded and standing
tall.
Bring it on.
messages of mockery from the Revolutionary Guard attached to their next volley of missiles
sent out to the region and to the international media.
And similar stuff.
Yeah, Israelis are getting ready to discard the pro-Israeli-Rani opposition, much of which
will inevitably object to a plan for de-industrializing the country via aerial bombardment, but that
doesn't matter because that was always the fucking goal.
This is a lesson that the United Arab Emirates couldn't learn for some reason.
That there is, this is a lesson that America can't even fucking learn, right?
There is no allegiance with Israel.
They'll just use you.
They'll use you and abuse you.
You're not going to have leverage in the aftermath of whatever deal you make with Israel.
The United Arab Emirates for the last decade has been the champion of the Abraham Accords.
Has leaned into being openly aligned with Israel, has played a formative role in achieving
Israel's objectives.
They were participants in the Gaza Genocide.
And what did that get them?
They became the missile sponge for Iranian ballistic munitions as the final stage of
this battle is taking place.
It's not like Israel is defending them.
As a matter of fact, all of the defensive weapons that are going to Israel could have
been used on the United Arab Emirates, but it's not being used there, right?
with all the people who are, uh, saying, I'm Persian, Mr. President, a Trump police, keep
a bombing Tehran. I will eat QBD. I love Israel. It's unbelievably these guys through,
a sophisticated influence peddling operation with like Iranian international, right, which was backed by the Gulf States themselves, genuinely believed in this idea that American Israel would be a liberatory force.
Like, did they had any interest in liberating the Iranian people? Like, it's so fucking stupid.
Many of those people, as I told you, that were initially dancing and initially demanding that American Israel bomb Iran would soon learn that hard lesson.
That Israel's goals were never to liberate Iran. Israel's goals were always to destroy Iran.
And they very quickly revealed that I mean it was like what day three when Israel blew up the oil refineries near Tehran
Engaging in chemical warfare, and then there were still some who thought no no this has to happen this has to happen
We're out of your fucking mind if you think Israel has any interest
Here's the thing that many Iranians in diaspora don't understand. They were useful to the
US and Israel as long as they needed a humanitarian fig leaf to launch a war of imperial conquest
and destruction. Once that war was launched, no one really gives a shit what Iranians think.
And I'll tell you another thing. Remember another thing that I explained to people?
that would come in here and yell at me?
Hassan, you don't understand, I am Iranian and we want this, right?
What did I tell them?
That you're not fucking white and your whiteness status is going to be revoked.
The moment that there is any conversation about Iranians coming into the country.
Now the Canadian government is entertaining blocking Iranian refugees from entering Canada.
got you know Pierre Polivier and all these other people saying like why the fuck are
we letting these terrorists into the country hold on now and all of the Iranian diasporoids
that were fucking begging for this war to happen are now in the replies of those people
that they were aligned with going what do you mean what do you mean these are our family
members what are you saying they are not a terrorist what happened you thought
they were to treat you like an equal partner you thought that they were going
to not shut off your family members from escaping Iran and coming to to
Canada you thought they were gonna be on board with a fucking flow of migration
from Iran are you out of your mind are you stupid the only country that gets
that amenity is Israel and you are not Israeli, okay? That's it. And I told you, I told you
that this was going to happen and it's already happening. Yeah. And it's not like, it's not
like these administrations in the west have hit like they haven't hit in this ambition,
right? I mean, they did this with the Venezuelans, the Venezuelans were like, oh, thank God,
thank God, Trump is actually destabilizing Venezuela. Thank God, there's regime change
in Venezuela. All the while, Donald Trump was straight up saying like Venezuelans are
rapists, the bloodthirsty monsters, and we have to take all the Venezuelan refugees,
through TPS and then ship them to fucking Seacot. And there were still
Venezuelan diasporoids who were like, no this is good, this is good, he cares about us.
It's so unbelievably stupid. Liberation will never come from bombs and liberation
will never come from American bombs or Israeli bombs especially, okay?
You're just a pawn at that point.
Venezuela is not a done business. This will turn into an issue just you watch. I mean, we'll see. We'll see where it goes.
Yeah, does this mean a free Iran? Yeah, they're liberating Iran back to the Stone Age.
An Admission, a Demand for War Crimes, More War Crimes, For More Terrorism.
I saw something more insidious stated outright by Westoid Massageness Nazis.
They say they want to destroy Iran so that millions of women can be forced into the
core for their consumption like Iraqi, Filipino, Latina, Slavic, etc. women who
have been destabilized and displaced. The words they used were much worse
obviously. Yeah, I mean there's that too. There's a bunch of rapist neo-Nazis who
we're like, yeah, they'll come here and then we'll rape their women.
Pathetic, disgusting.
But at the end of the day, if you think that, you know, these people had your
liberation of mind, you're fucking delusional. Liberation can only come
from within. Okay. And it is honestly a setback that your liberation movement
ever relied on external forces such as the United States or Israel to begin with.
Because that hardens the base of support for the IRGC, it gives them just cause
to stamp out any sort of protest movement as, you know, outside instability because,
to a certain degree, it is outside instability.
And here we are.
What was the China egg analogy?
That was really good.
I forgot.
The Chinese egg metaphor.
What was it?
Does anyone remember?
An egg cracked from the outside is food.
Cracked from within is life.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Your impression from February?
Is monster please blow my back walls out with uh, with with your weirdly disfigured
penis. But like, that's again, not the main character. You're in many ways like you are
a freak show, a curiosity, something that will be forgotten, something to be fascinated
with, but never. That's so dumb. Yes, piger broadcasting service for all of your, your,
your needs, all your needs will be met, especially if your needs are like weird sexual analogies,
Weirdly descriptive sexual analogies.
The more civilian infrastructure we destroy in Iran, the more we set back their economy.
The more determined Iran will be to extract the maximum possible toll from oil passing
through what is now there straight.
told will be paid by the US and the rest of the world through a higher cost of living.
So just be aware that every video of a bridge being blown up, a pharmaceutical plant being
destroyed, a medical clinic flattened is a video of something you are going to pay to
rebuild.
And yes, it is also illegal and immoral to bomb civilian infrastructure, but we really
do not care.
Mark Dubowitz from FDD, another, you know, the guys that are perhaps most responsible
uh... internally is a think tank
uh... that that the american government is just like copy paste verbatim
uh... repeating their target points on why they're waging war with iran
okay
but the fuck is it
is clear evidence now that you as it israeli expanded strikes the economic
as the sustain the rgc in the regime's war machine the administration make
clear that these are military link their dual use targets revenue streams
logistic notes
they're literally saying
you have to lie
Foundation for defending democracy saying hey you're doing terrorism can you please at least like try to justify why you're doing terrorism because it's getting you know it's it's gonna it's gonna backfire
Amazing
Trump has definitely fallen into talking nonsense.
The speech he gave last night, which was supposed to be the most important speech a president
could deliver in the middle of a war, ended up being ridiculed worldwide.
markets ridiculed, and again, oil prices went up, and stock markets fell once more.
And for all the images that Donald Trump sees of massive destruction wrought by the US and
Israel's war machines, there are the Iranian people, who he at one point said that he was
setting out to save. Out having picnics on the 13th day of the Persian New Year, a day
when it's considered unlucky to stay inside.
willing he himself will go back to the Stone Age. Our country is 6,000 to 7,000 years old.
His country with only 100 years of history and with the knowledge he learned from us
wants to send us back.
A resilient people and for all the US President's efforts to get rid of them, a resilient regime
too.
Dr. Magne Sky News.
Let's go straight to Tehran. Our correspondent, Resis Sire, is waiting for his third Resid
Good evening to you. We've been seeing some of the images from where you are give us a sense of what has been happening overnight and happening throughout today
Yeah, US and Israeli jet fighters once again targeted Tehran and other cities with more airstrikes and as we've reported almost every day
Today again, US and Israeli forces bombed what were clearly non-military sites in broad daylight
And later in the day, U.S. President Donald Trump seemed to boast about it.
In the city of Karaj, just east of Teflon, an airstrike hit one of the area's longest
bridges that was under construction.
Two people died.
Pictures showed a huge slab of the bridge had fallen off after the strike.
A few hours later, it was bombed again with another section of the bridge blown away.
And that was followed by U.S. President Donald Trump posting the picture on social media
saying, this is what Iran can expect if there's no agreement.
And the bridge is the latest in a growing number
of non-military targets that have been hit.
The yesterday, a civilian airport in Qashon was hit.
Field depots, hospitals, universities.
Iranian leaders point to the UN Charter saying,
these are clearly war crimes.
And they note that European powers
and international rights groups
have for the most part remained quiet.
And that's probably why Iran is threatening bridges in the region.
They're also stepping up their attacks in coordination with Hezbollah.
Hundreds of rockets and ballistic missiles have been launched targeting U.S. assets
and bases and industrial hubs in the region, including Amazon's cloud-based data center
in Bahrain.
As you point out, a lot of these strikes by the U.S. and Israel do fit within the parameters
of war crimes.
the bridge you were talking about Reza. Oh, it does it. Fuck around and find out. Oh, the
defines will end. Gonna bleed a lot more too. Talk to your commentary there. Better than a
theocracy that beheads LGBT and uncovered women. Let's keep the theocracy in place.
It might be expensive to kill fucking terrorists. Six thousand dog, we are the terrorists. We are
the theocracy. The fuck are you talking about? Six thousand years and still no running water,
kek cry harder don't use your poop hand to wipe your tears it's so funny you are
the most pliant dude you are you are so easily duped it's fucking awesome if
you're wondering how this war machine continues by the way and if you're
wondering why there isn't like tremendous reaction to it you know all
this death and destruction campaign it's for for you know little purpose serves
little purpose for americans actually has a negative consequence for the average
american in general um it's because of like these racist idiots who just
genuinely think like as long as we're dominating brown people or whatever okay
as long as we're fucking killing brown people uh you know it's it's good it's
somehow good it's a good thing what does it mean poop and he's just saying that
like you're brown you wipe your ass with your hand
Four-chambering.
Yeah, Iran is a modern country disguised as a theocracy.
Well, the United States is a country of cult disguised as a modern society.
Look at how this war has unfolded.
Even now Iran is in a single official prayer ceremony.
I haven't bothered with that.
Meanwhile, as the US president and Secretary of War were staging
Charlotte and prayers becoming a global laughing stock. Iran has really made people see it in a new light.
And it didn't end there for you. Mr. President, no one has paid the price like you have paid the price.
It almost cost you your life.
But this is the good kind. You know, this is the good kind of cult.
This is the good kind of theocracy, right? Because it's white. It's not people.
This guy thinks Iran doesn't have running water, dude. It's awesome. Higher literacy rate than America, higher rate of college graduates that are women than the United States of America, for the record.
That's Iran. But this fucking dumbass, this dumbass literally thinks like, oh, it's a backwards country just like Afghanistan, brother.
Ray
So funny
Intercept hundreds of us personnel have been killed or injured in the regions is the US launch a war on Iran just over a month ago sent common
sent
outdated statements on casualty numbers there is also a casualty cover-up taken place as well last number we knew was like
250 or something
I'm willing to bet casualty means like, you know wounded in action or killed in action
Okay, just before you yell at me because you don't know what it means
Casualty means wounded action or killed in action
Casualty numbers right now around 250 the official numbers a month ago was like or you know a couple weeks ago
It was like 250 and that only came out because
Investigative reporters found out that it was actually much higher. I
I personally think, especially paired up with the defense contractors that don't actually have the same, that those numbers don't actually get revealed.
But if you add the defense contractors in the region as well as probably above a thousand at this point, they're absolutely hiding the numbers.
You were betrayed and arrested and falsely accused. It's a familiar pattern.
That's awesome. GOP is cooked if this is true. Oh yeah, this is Trump to
release 2027 budget plan with midterm election messages centered on massive
defense buildup paid for by cutting domestic agencies and health care
programs. He already floated this yesterday. Yeah. He is unironically taking the thing
that we complain about the most, which is, why are we spending all of this money bombing
other countries when we should be spending it on building our country here at home? And
he's reversing it. He's been, well, not reversing it necessarily. He's saying it's good that
we're using all of our money on bombing other countries instead of building our own home,
our own housing here, building our own health care system here. It's awesome. That's a spectacular
message, dude. Thank you. You'll definitely win with that. Meanwhile, what are the fucking
third-way dipshit saying? They're like, no, that message is actually kind of fine. We
should be worried about Hassan. Yeah. Donald Trump is also set to seek a $1.5 trillion
our defense budget for the next fiscal year, according to a Reuters report. Amazing.
Certainly has the air of a double tap attack. Again, something that could be classified as a war
crime. In terms of what Iran is doing to strike back, there's been the word from the official
FAS news agency about bridges across the region now sort of within the crosshairs of Iran. Can
you tell? Yeah, here's Trump saying it yesterday. We covered it yesterday here. Let's watch it again.
And this is a, this is a, a, a, a generational message. Okay.
Every Democrat should be constantly, constantly talking about this.
Okay. Every Democrat should be putting this in their fucking campaign ads.
Everyone that's running against this administration should be constantly
hitting this note over and over again.
States can't take care of daycare. That has to be up to a state.
We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country.
We have 50 states, we have all these other people who are fighting wars with,
we can't take care of daycare. You've got to let a state take care of daycare,
and they should pay for it too. They should pay. They have to raise their taxes,
but they should pay for it. And we could lower our taxes a little bit to them
to make up, but we, it's not possible for us to take care of daycare. Medicaid, med.
Amazing that the Dems have a stronger stance on Asan Piker than the war in Iran. Yeah.
Asan is a tyrant and dangerous. People should beware elevating him. Oh my god,
that guy sincerely said that by the way.
Like this guy is unironically refusing to recognize how stupid.
it. A tyrant? Brother, I'm a Twitch streamer. Like, what do you mean? I tyrannically banned
you from my chat or something? Fucking insane. You went on another historian rant. Oh yeah,
of course, of course he did. This is the proud language of a white supremacist as Mehdi.
There is no other way to describe it. There's no defensive it pure racism. A lot of people
say it's the worst country anywhere in the world. They have no money, no nothing. They
They have no government. They have no police. They just shoot each other all day long. It's just pure battle.
And probably the worst, most dangerous country. We have some beauties.
They go to Minnesota and they sold $19 billion. $19 billion.
And they're low IQ.
Dog, that's okay. That's like two bad days of the Iran War. Okay?
You know?
You, I mean I can generalize, they're low IQ people,
they're bad people, they have 94% unemployment. In other words, they don't want to work, you know.
a lot of jobs available right with the economy they don't want to work why would they work
and they sell more Mercedes Benz's than any state in the union because they come here with no money
and they go out they love a Mercedes Benz and they go out and buy Mercedes Benz's
and I think you're going to get to the bottom of it really easy and every one of them should be
and Ilhan Omar who married her husband oh my fucking god married a brother a brother became
husband when she has to check a book she says any brothers won any husband won
she checks took it so on top of everything she gets a double income
tax cash she's she's a stone-cold crook and everybody knows it and the papers
they have one paper out in particular got me to live in writing about her and I
sort of me said but nobody does anything about it sir all you have to do is get
his writings from the Indianapolis Star or whatever paper he works for. You don't even
have to do anything. This guy spent ten years investigating that crook and you got to do
something about it or our people are going to get very, they're already upset. It takes
too long. So J.D., you go do it and Russell, you better do it.
Yeah, I mean, it's it's a indefensible racism is pure hatred. It's idiotic. What do you
fucking say? It's just the new normal, you know, this is what people respond to. They
love it.
What's more about that?
Yeah, their position from the time this war started is that we didn't start the war,
we're going to finish it. We didn't target economic and industrial sites and hubs, but
if we're getting hit, if ours are getting targeted, we're going to do the same. And that's
perhaps why in the past few hours we've had statements from Iran's military leaders that
bridges in the region and Gulf states are going to be targeted. And that's the sense
that you've gotten. This tip for tap from Iran's leaders, they say as long as they get
hit, they're going to hit back. And again, it's this dangerous escalation of violence
where you have Iran seemingly growing confidence that they can maintain this fight. They say
they're still open to negotiations if the talks are legitimate, if Iran's rights are
recognized. But so far, there's no sign of that happening.
Rosa, as you're talking to us, we're seeing images of military leaders, but before that
it was damage on the ground and the state of the devastated places that have been struck
is alarming.
And I'm wondering whether there is the capacity to cope with the casualties of that.
But of course, as part of what is being hit will include health structures, clinics, hospitals
and the light, given the fact that there is a dense population center where these bombs
are dropping.
Is Iran coping with its casualties?
Is there enough to cope?
Yeah, I mean, so far they're coping remarkably well.
This is a resilient population.
They're showing solidarity with their military, solidarity with the population.
they're working together to take care of the most vulnerable and they understand that this
is going to take a long time to rebuild this country.
Some estimates say it's going to take at least a decade and hundreds of billions of dollars.
But first, this war has to end.
You know, we're in the middle of this war that is now in its 34th day and Iran's military
position seems to be clear now.
they seem to be sensing that they have the confidence,
and they don't mind if this goes longer.
They don't like to see this destruction,
but they see this as an opportunity
to change the dynamics of the region.
They want to make sure if this war ends,
it ends on their terms,
and they're never gonna be threatened again
by the US in Israel.
And that's why you get the impression that they don't mind,
even with the destruction for this war to continue,
so it can end on their terms.
Resistai Interam, thank you very much indeed for giving us a sense of how things are there
in the Iranian capital.
Resistai, thank you for joining us live.
Next.
Today marks the Zafedar, or day of nature, in Iran, and they, when many families traditionally
leave their homes to spend time outdoors, mark the end of Persian New Year, or No Luz holidays.
The Zafedar is traditionally spent in nature, with people casting away the satsi, or sprudet
green symbolizing a fresh start. But this year it feels quite different. For the first time in
decades, the country observes this day under a bar which started more than a month ago.
The sense of uncertainty is hard to ignore. Still, some have come out, sticking a moment of
normalcy in the middle of a crisis. A moment to step outside, not just into nature, but
briefly obey from the constant tension. It was so cool and great, even though it's a wartime
condition and we heard explosion sounds half an hour ago. People are okay and nobody is
afraid. They are enjoying their time.
It's not like every year. People are sad because of the martyrs, both from the armed forces
and ordinary people whose homes were targeted by missiles.
Although many lack peace of mind and there's constant stress that something could happen
at any moment, we still have to carry on with our normal lives, hoping for better days ahead.
Given the wartime conditions and the loved ones we've lost, no one is truly well.
Still, on this day, we keep the tradition and go out for the sake of our families, hoping it lifts our spirits.
Our history has repeatedly experienced such hardships, but we must not lose our ancient and cultural heritage.
And Sizeh Badar is one of the traditions we must preserve.
For the families here, it seems that Medan is no longer just about tradition.
It's about holding on, holding on to routine, to each other, and to small moments of normal life as the war goes on.
For it is a dial jizyra, Tehran.
This war did not need to happen. It's the equivalent of what the Nazis did during the Second World War with Israel and America occupying other states
and putting it subject to the blitz that we had in London during the Second World War.
So you've gone straight, sir, just within 10 seconds of the call, you've gone straight to a Nazi comparison, have we?
Well, the conceptually, if you're occupying your neighbour, then raining missiles down on London, you know, what's the difference?
Well, the Nazis, thankfully, the Nazis never occupied this country, and they bombed it, but they never occupied it, in the same way that America is not occupying Iran, it doesn't have boots on the ground at all.
America is defending the occupation of the Golan Heights of Lebanon of parts of the West Bank and Palestine
And it is looking to put boots on the ground. It's got bases all around the Middle East. Yes
It's quasi-occupation. What else is it?
It's not quasi-occupation to have bases in countries where those countries have agreed to have those bases in the same way that America does not
Occupy England because we it has bases here. You need to look at what happened in the Second World War
I think you need to join the definition of the word occupy matey. I get it
I'm not supposed to win, but I'm sick and tired of playing not to lose. I'm tired of being told that
We cannot fight for certain things that we should not hope for them
That maybe maybe someday we'll fight for Medicare for all but not this election
Not next to one either. Maybe the one after that
And watching people who deserve the health care that should be a birthright in this country go without it
Watching our kids go to broken schools and then wondering when we will ever actually win the future
sure.
LBC is like the the liberal based content network at this point.
Anytime anytime the Macy's put the LBC video on the timeline is always like some British
person being like we need to we need to arm Iran.
The moral forces of the world must defend Iran against the American Empire, which is the
great Satan, in, you know, waging this unholy Satanic war against Iran alongside little Satan,
which happens to be Israel.
It's awesome.
For them.
So, look, I'm not playing, not to lose.
If you want somebody who's only going to hold the seat and do the exact same thing that
a Republican would have done, I'm not your guy.
But if you want a Senate seat that is actually going to go out and fight for you, that is
that is going to say the thing that ought to be said,
that is going to do the thing that ought to be done,
that is going to try to secure the basic dignity
of having healthcare when you need it,
to make sure that our schools are well-funded places
for our kids, to make sure that our politics
are not corrupted by corporations,
to fight the fight for dignity for Americans,
then I hope that I can earn your support.
I'm so grateful that you're here and I really appreciate you.
A budget breakthrough in New York City, the city council says it has come together a savings
plan that would solve the city's multi-billion dollar deficit without raising property taxes.
Mayor Mom Donnie is already ripping the council's plan, saying it would result in the slashing
of crucial city services.
PIX 11's chief political reporter Henry Rostov joining us now live in the newsroom, try to
to help us make sense of all of this.
Well, it's understandable, surely,
if New Yorkers have a little bit of whiplash here.
So just to recap very quickly,
the mayor has said the city's budget is such bad shape
you might have to raise property taxes.
And the council wasn't happy with that.
Now they say that's not necessary.
They have their own savings plan.
The mayor disputes that.
The two sides have been going back and forth
on social media really all afternoon.
And hanging in the balance are important.
You know, kitchen table issues that all of us care about,
taxes, schools, and many, many more things that New Yorkers need.
Our position has been clear.
We have been a hard no on the property tax.
We also are a hard no on raiding the rainy day fund.
City Council Speaker Julie Mennon says she and the council have found $6 billion in the
city budget.
In general, the council is claiming that across the board, Mayor Zoran Mamdani and his team
are underestimating everything from hundreds of millions of dollars.
Yeah, New York City has a massive budget shortfall. Okay
It's like it was like supposed to be 12 billion they knocked it down or like six
Kathy Hockel did help with that a little bit. Okay, but
Now the real battle
Zara Mamdani does not want to eradicate the social safety nets
It's understandable that he doesn't want to do that, as a matter of fact, he wants to actually spend more money.
The problem is, the speaker was specifically chosen for being at Osmozor on his agenda.
And I had heard that she was wealthy, but I did not know exactly how fucking wealthy she was.
Here was Zara Mamdani's response, by the way, she wants to cut social safety nets.
She wants to cut, you know, city budgets, you know, things, money that goes to like
picking up trash, for example, fixing the potholes shit like that.
Things that Zara has been doing so far that have been endlessly positive, right?
People love it.
We explained how the budget process worked.
Well, my friends, we're in the middle of it now.
Council Speaker Julie Mennon just released her budget proposal.
Her plan claims to close the city's $5.4 billion fiscal gap without taxing the rich or cutting
services.
The problem is, that's not what it would do.
If her proposal was adopted, it would result in slashing billions of dollars from agency
budgets, and working New Yorkers would pay the price.
It double counts savings, overestimates revenues, exaggerates savings on interest payments,
and in the midst of this historic budget deficit, the Speaker's $6 billion proposal asks Albany
for just one thing. More time to reduce class sizes. My position? Tax the rich. Make sure
the wealthiest New Yorkers and most profitable corporations pay their fair share. End the drain.
For a long time, the state has taken more from the city than the cities received in return.
And I'm working with Albany to change that. Without it, our deficit won't disappear. It will repeat,
year after year, asking future generations to shoulder the burden. We will solve this budget
crisis, but I'm not going to let it come at your expense.
Yeah, this is what New Yorkers voted for.
Nickville says, Zoran is fighting hard against city
council speaker, Julie Menin, first was official video on
budget proposal, and quite possibly second with this item from a progressive investigative news site.
Now, I don't think this is Zoran doing it, but
here's what lever's article is, David Sarota's operation in a lever.
Fantastic work, as always. The rich don't want to tax the rich. As a speaker at the New York
City Council blocks Mayor Zoran Mamdani's proposed increased tax on the ultra wealthy,
she's hiding her family's own multi-million dollar portfolio.
Well, the Levers Luke Goldstein reports that Julie Menin and her husband hold a vast personal
fortune potentially worth tens of millions of dollars, including a $22 million Hamptons
mansion, several luxury condos on the Upper East Side listed as their residence, and company
private jets, none of which appear on her financial disclosure.
Thanks to a loophole for spouses, Menin reported less than $500,000 in assets and other income.
Turns out she wasn't just like super wealthy, she was super duper wealthy.
Okay.
She would literally be taxed.
So she is unironically using her power to stand in opposition to
any sort of proposal that taxes the wealthy because she is the wealthy
streamer, wealthy brother.
You have a very broken understanding of how wealthy streamers are.
If you think streamers have multiple private jets.
Like I think the only streamer, there's only like one streamer, I think,
that could have that level of well, just not, not even, I guess, like maybe ex-QC.
like not even fucking kai sanat has like multiple private jets level of wealth dude
people are so funny they're saying i show speed like mr beast is the other one not a streamer
Yeah, I'm over here, as always, finding myself talking about taxing the wealthy, as always,
and motherfuckers are like, well, oh, says you.
This level of wealth is, is like, on a totally different income bracket, regardless.
But who cares?
yet tax me mother fucker
anyway
it's it's uh... it's totally insane
how uh... unbelievably wealthy she is
and it makes a lot more sense why she's doing everything in her power to stop
this from happening.
In tax revenue, to millions more coming the city's way from building permit fees.
At the same time, the council is suggesting the city can save money on a laundry list
of items like education contracts, facilities, even basic supplies like fuel, postage and
printing.
But the biggest single savings coming from the city council is a claim that thousands
of city job vacancies will remain vacant for some time, adding up to $860 million.
We're not saying these positions shouldn't be hired. We're just saying they haven't been.
And it does take time to do the hiring.
But Mayor Zoran Mamdani immediately called out the council's plan as a return to the budget games of years past.
He says it will do nothing to fix the city's underlying issues.
Speaker Menon's preliminary budget proposal would result in slashing billions of dollars from agency budgets,
which would force the city to cut services.
double counting previously identified savings overestimating revenues
and exaggerating
debt service savings does nothing
to close a deficit the speaker flatly refutes that claim there are so many
different items in this list where we are able to responsibly
which savings without doing cuts on services whatsoever
we're not at the point where we need to do cuts
now the mayor and the speaker are in alignment in asking state lawmakers in
all many to send some 600 million dollars down to the city to help hire teachers and do other things
to help reduce class sizes and meet a legally required state mandate but they are not in alignment
on if state lawmakers should pass a millionaire's tax or increase it and pass a corporate tax which
the mayor's been pushing for the speaker's still not ready to say that she's throwing her support
behind that proposal and then all this uncertainty in the city well it's wreaking havoc on the state
budget which we covered yesterday so a budget mess statewide Shirley live in
the newsroom Henry Ross of 611 news that sounds like it sure is okay Henry thank
you back in January we explained how the budget process worked well my friend
in the labor movement we have a very simple question which side are you on
and this is the question we have to post over to Huckle which side are you on are
Are you on the side of people or polluters?
Are you on the side of the working class or corporate donors?
Because right now, we have a budget for negotiating
that could put working-class people
at the heart of our agenda, and she is saying no.
She is proposing a roll-box work on the loss.
And she is saying, don't tax the rich.
Are we going to tax the rich?
We know we can win the future that we all deserve when we organize together.
That's why it gives me so much hope to see young people coming here,
advocating and organizing together, because that's where power is.
Thank you all for being here.
I know that we're going to get ice out of New York.
We're going to protect our climate laws.
And we are going to tax the rich.
Tax the rich! Tax the rich!
Okay, the question for you, Mr. Mayor, given the anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic rise in
the, in those incidents, what kind of messaging do you want to put forth and go forward with
to bring that down, prevent it, what do you want to say to the city?
This is a city where everyone who lives here should know that they belong across these
five boroughs.
There's no person of any faith that should ever be made to feel as if this is not their
home, that this is not a place where they can be safe.
And frankly, we are looking to build a city where the threshold is not simply safety.
We want this to be a city where New Yorkers are cherished, where they are celebrated.
And we know that that is the case for many and still there is so much more work to be
done to ensure that is the case for all.
In January of this year, Google co-founder Sergey Brin made his first major political
donation.
After he wrote a $20 million check to start a new super PAC, more million dollar checks
started flowing in from other Silicon Valley heavyweights.
So what was it about this moment that moved Brin to get involved in politics for the first
time?
Why now?
Mr. Brinn, you are worth $245 billion.
Start paying your fair share of taxes.
A proposed tax on billionaires living in California is gaining national attention.
I mean, how many yachts do you need?
They just keep getting wealthier and wealthier,
and us on the bottom are just getting stuck with more debt.
When Sergei Brinn wrote that $20 million check,
He was responding to an unprecedented political moment.
Tax office! Tax office!
We will deliver universal childcare for the many by taxing the wealthiest few.
At a moment of skyrocketing costs for health care, utilities and groceries,
a group of labor unions in California are making a bet with huge stakes.
The 214 or 15 billionaires in California collectively have $2.2 trillion
billion dollars worth of wealth, which is just an unimaginable amount of money.
What we've proposed is a one-time, 5% tax on the worldwide assets that will produce
$100 billion.
So we went to California to find out, is a wealth tax key to solving the state's problems?
Or is it the first domino that could take down the fourth-largest economy in the world?
You would see a significant reduction in taxes because tax payers will move.
What can the fight over California's wealth tax tell us about the problems our country
faces and how to solve them?
At first glance, an elementary school outside of Boston might seem like a strange place
to go to better understand a wealth tax in California.
But once you understand what's going on here, it becomes more clear.
Eight years ago, school breakfast was stigmatized.
Our breakfast program, we served maybe two percent of students.
But on this day, in Watertown, Massachusetts, just outside Boston,
every kid gets free breakfast.
Same with lunch, and same at every public school across the state.
That's because back in 2022, the state's voters approved a ballot initiative called the Fair
Share Amendment.
The proposal would require people who make over a million dollars to pay 4% more in
state income tax.
Across the state, two free meals a day at school are saving millions of families money
on groceries.
Better trains and buses and tuition-free community college are lowering their transportation
and education bills.
All of it.
That's where I'm from.
That's my high school.
I don't understand the every billionaire
and millionaire escape.
Massachusetts then like, is that what happened?
How are they surviving?
How are they surviving with this unjustifiable attack
against their wealth?
This doesn't make any sense to me.
They've basically killed all the innovation in the city, right?
Eight four with millionaires tax.
Every year when Massachusetts reaffirms that we're having free breakfast and free lunch, I breathe a sigh of relief.
Everybody in Massachusetts who was a lobbyist and a spokesperson for the wealthy, they said, oh, we're going to see an exodus, a mass exodus of the wealthy.
And these guys are going to say, okay, I'm going to go to Florida instead of saying in
Massachusetts.
And it's a very legit concern.
So Massachusetts doesn't want to position itself in a way that our tax codenism is an
impediment to economic growth.
Well, guess what?
There was no mass accidents.
In fact, the number of millionaires in Massachusetts actually grew close to 40% in the two years
after the amendment passed.
Now this same argument is being recycled in California.
California Gold Rush in reverse. Just what the hell?
What do you mean it didn't fail? An economist would never lie to me, dude.
Are you telling me that economists lie with regular frequency?
That's crazy.
Are you telling me that people with a vested interest, people whose entire paycheck relies
on them just telling the public straight up lies about the dangers of taxing the super
rich?
We're actually lying once again.
What the fuck?
Yeah.
There are no lessons to be learned from this though.
Certainly, once again, wealth exodus again.
Talking about it is sending billionaires running.
Some are reportedly ready to move their businesses and their money across the country to Florida.
This is an exodus, isn't it?
You're not for wealth tax.
In the state of California, you can't isolate yourself from the 49 others, or in a competitive environment.
Unlike the Massachusetts tax, the California proposal would tax wealth, not income, and
It would apply to a much smaller group of people, the 200 odd billionaires in the state.
It's also a response to one of the largest wealth transfers in the country's history.
I've been a healthcare worker for 57 years.
This is the worst threat that I've ever seen.
When President Trump signed the legislation, the world changed.
signature on this bill redirected billions of dollars from Medicaid into the pockets
of billionaires and corporations.
So that money is now sitting in the investment portfolios of billionaires like Mark Zepterberg
and Sergey Brin instead of paying doctors and nurses and care flight pilots.
It's not lowering monthly premiums for low income folks who are dropping out of the pool
and making premiums go up for the rest of us.
I'm a phlebotomist. What brings me here today is it's pretty simple, you know, to prevent a health care collapse.
In California, the cuts amount to $100 billion over five years.
I look back at what happened to COVID.
This ICU is over capacity.
That's grades for those who can't afford a funeral.
It would be like seeing something of COVID but permanent.
The Antelope Valley Medical Center has already had to close its public health clinic in response
to this routing of billions from Medicare to Billionaires' Pockets.
If the ER closes in one town, the next town's ER is going to be overcrowded.
It turns out we're all in this together.
So we are in uncharted territory and that's an unprecedented situation.
Nobody has ever had to manage that before.
You can't just manufacture the dollars out of thin air.
Ultimately, we are all going to pay.
It is by our amounts we spend for doctors' visits.
higher co-pays, it's higher insurance costs, it comes out of all of our pockets
one way or another. So there's this crisis and the question facing California
was what do they do then? It's not asking the richest among us to pay what do we do?
Well we do. California is the most progressive tax structure in the United
States of America. There are billionaires who are sitting on equity who don't
sell it. We have billionaires that are paying us progressive taxes. We have the highest
progressive tax rate in the United States of America. It is true, California has relatively
high personal income taxes. Those are meaningless to billionaires.
The income that you earn at your job, or that I earn by going out in public and begging
strangers to talk to me. I pay as a California resident with my federal and state taxes.
Because of the way that I am a 1099 employee and because none of my assets,
like none of my wealth is accumulated capital, none of it is in the stock market,
I pay a higher burden, like a higher tax burden, right? Then pretty much any other
person on the planet that is like super wealthy, right? It's true. In the state of
California, if you are at the top marginal tax bracket, you basically at the end of
year are paying like 50 plus percent almost of like your your effective tax rate. Okay.
It's it's literally more than my French counterparts. They're actually shocked
by by how much taxes we pay. The reason why they're shocked by how much tax we pay is twofold. One
because there's this attitude in America where you actually don't pay any taxes at all or the tax
burden is actually low. That's not true for if you're getting taxed on your income, your tax burden is
fairly high. It's actually very low if you are super, super wealthy and have all of your wealth
in assets. Okay.
Okay. These guys get to never pay anywhere close to what you pay in taxes percentage-wise.
Their year-over-year income growth is directly associated with capital accumulation. Okay.
And their effective tax rate at the end of the year is sometimes 1%, or much, much lower
than 1%.
Right?
Because they're making billions and billions of dollars, like their net worth is growing
by the billions in some instances, and none of that is getting taxed.
As long as they never cash it out, they don't ever have to get taxed on it.
That's the reason why they're trying to implement some kind of wealth tax in the state.
And it is controversial, to say the least, because the entire point of keeping your
assets in the stock market for many of these super wealthy people is not so that their
wealth is more productive and somehow being spent on productive forces, and you get to
build more businesses, all this bullshit that people tell you in Econ.
But the reason why they do it is because they don't have to get taxed on it and their alternative
means of borrowing against their net worth that basically transfers what would be a much
higher tax rate that would go to the state coffers to basically a fee that you're paying
to the bank in the form of an incredibly low interest loan, an incredibly low interest
rate. So instead of paying the tax on your capital that you have turned liquid, the stocks
that you've sold, you get to pay just a tiny, miniscule percentage of that, not to the state,
but to the bank in the form of interest. The bank is obviously happy with this because
Because they have a tremendous amount of assets that they now look at as leverage, right?
So they'll easily, readily give you whatever loan you want with whatever favorable interest
rate that you can get that normal people can't get.
And it's not enough.
This is true.
This is a wealth tax, but it's not even a real wealth tax.
a one-off, one-time fee that says 200 billionaires need to give California 5% of their net worth.
That's not a real sustainable tax. It's just kind of slop to say we're taxing the rich. Real
tax reform is needed, including perhaps a wealth tax. I agree. I think it's a test.
California imposed the highest-state income tax rate in the U.S. for high earners with a top
marginal tax rate of 13.3% on taxable income over 1 million. How does that get to a 50% tax rate?
It's a 37% on the top marginal tax rate at the federal level.
Do you not know that?
Do you not know that there's a federal tax that Americans pay as well?
The point is that for people at the top of the tax bracket, if there are not that many
people that are at the top of the tax bracket that are just operating on pure income, right?
And that is because the system is designed to feed all of that back into the stock market.
So most people don't do that.
So the people that end up paying the highest tax rates or the highest effective tax rate
at the end of the year are usually doctors and athletes and people like that.
It's never the tech billionaires or the CEOs because all of their year over year revenue
gain directly comes from their stock prices going up, their assets increasing, capital
accumulation. Their assets increasing in value. And that's why people say, at the end of the
year, when you look at a billionaire and like their effective tax rate, it's like less than 1%,
as opposed to you, the average person, you're paying, you know, 30, 40% of your entire income.
The only money that you have, the only money that goes into your pocket, the government takes it.
Now, of course, that still needs to happen, obviously, because there's a lot more people
that are just working off of pure income than people who are engaging in capital accumulation,
at least in a meaningful manner.
Tom Starr made a good point on this, but I understand why people didn't want to listen
to him.
There's so many better ways to tax the rich, like undoing Proposition 13 would be amazing.
This just feels like a part of the broader trend among liberals, and even the left doing
the tax sloppism, where they say normal people don't have to pay any taxes in the bill.
billionaires pay it all, that's impossible. Yeah, I mean, that is impossible. Having said that,
even a one off, I'm in favor of. And if they don't do it, we should slap an exit, we should slap
a fucking exit tax. I'm in favor of taking money out of the hands of billionaires and redistributing
it back to the people, no matter which way you do it. Okay, 100%. Because the level of
wealth accumulation especially at that level is so unbelievable that the system is so broken
that when someone turns around and says oh well this is not the perfect method I'm like I know
I know it's a one-off it should still happen there's enough out there there's enough wealth out there
that it should unironically happen even if it's not the best system even if it's not the most
reliable way of generating revenue for the state. That's how I feel about it. The money
that we're talking about is not normal. It's not something that you can even imagine with
your human brain. You can't comprehend it just by looking at numbers. It doesn't tell
the full story. The wealth gap is so vast at that level that even an unreliable and
inconsistent one-off method is still good. Like for all as W.S. Van Hollen's proposal
that I know you're talking about something different, you're talking about how like a
a lot of liberal and left-leaning Democrats are trying to only tax the rich or they're
not, they're even talking about like doing tax cuts for people making less than $100,000.
I was like, it's ridiculous. It is sloppulist. You're right. I do understand that, you know,
There are far more people making $100,000 that will be reliably generating revenue for
the government than the millionaires and the billionaires.
What I'm saying is there is an unbelievable amount of wealth in the hands of a tiny sliver
of the population, and even a bad initiative, even a one-off is still fine.
Talk about it?
No.
Okay.
Hey guys.
We can see how much of it comes out, every paycheck, in the form of state income taxes.
We can also definitely see the impact of taxes on gas and other necessities.
I might move to another state because we have to pay tax for everything.
Gas on it is tax. Everything.
I'm hearing you say it's that the tax burden right now is falling on working people too much.
Pretty much. That's what they're doing to us.
But billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, they get paid differently.
He famously takes a $1 annual salary from Facebook,
but he mostly gets paid in the form of shares of his company's stock.
And if he never sells those shares, he never has to pay taxes on them.
Same with most other billionaires in California.
Missouri is trying to get rid of income tax completely and replace it with sales tax.
I had to explain to my coworkers how that actually moves even more of the burden to the low income families.
Oh my God.
Americans are going to unironically do away with all progressive taxation.
This is, this is still Ronald Reagan, the motherfucking devil, and his impact being felt on American consciousness, decades after his death, okay?
Starving the Beast was the most effective mechanism to make Americans resentful of any kind, any kind of government activity, and make them infinitely more excited at the prospect of tax cuts.
even if it makes no damn sense whatsoever.
And it's a never-ending death spiral.
The more money you do not take out of the hands of the super wealthy especially,
the more money in circulation,
regulation, the less the government spends on utilities, on improving people's material
conditions, the more annoyed people are, the more they ask the question, why am I even
paying taxes at all?
Because going back to my story with my French friends I was talking to, one of the reasons
why they were shocked with like my you know the amount of taxes I'm paying was
because it was much higher than they thought it would be because they think
Americans pay very low taxes and it's usually just a super wealthy that pay
relatively low percentage in their taxes but the other reason was because they
looked around and they were like what do you get for it what the fuck do you get
in exchange for these tax that you're paying. You get nothing. You don't got
health care, your roads are dog shit, there's homelessness everywhere. You don't
even get anything for the taxes that you are paying and that's why they were
shocked.
That's also part of the reason why a lot of Americans, a lot of working-class
Americans are easily duped into believing that tax cuts for the super wealthy will also come,
will also end up alleviating some of their financial pressure as well when it unironically
makes things worse. Wrong Israel gets health care on my dollars. That's true. What are
anti-Semitic? Better not be here in any sort of anti-Semitism in the chat about how unpatriotic
you feel paying taxes when it's only going to Israel. You should feel patriotic towards
the nation state of Israel, the true motherland. The only state that matters.
despite holding nearly $2 trillion in wealth.
The state's billionaires only contribute
about 2.5% of the state's income tax base.
The vast majority of their wealth
is sitting in their investment portfolios untaxed.
California could raise the top income tax rate to 95%
and never touch that money.
That is the point of a wealth tax.
In California, it would be a one-time 5% tax
an individual's net worth if it's over a billion dollars. And it can be helpful to deal in physical
objects here since these fortunes are so huge. This is a super yacht. One of these costs about
500 million dollars. If Mark Zuckerberg were to convert his entire fortune into super yachts,
he would have 444.6 of them. If the wealth tax passes, Zuckerberg would be left with a measly
422 Superions. In the four odds it took for me to research, report, travel, and produce this video.
Mark Zuckerberg's wealth, just sitting in its investment portfolio, has already grown by the
amount he would be asked to pay. Five percent if they're billionaires. When their wealth is growing
seven percent a year is almost a rounding error. But many of these billionaires are still spending
millions to try to defeat this tax and already taking steps to try to get out of it. Businesses
are fleeing California. And it's gonna cause a mass exodus. This wealth tax is having a huge impact
on people fleeing to Florida. It's a badly drafted effort. Yeah except if they flee to Florida they're
gonna be stuck in fucking Florida. So good luck living in Florida. Let me tell you as someone
who's lived there, it ain't no California, baby. We got a lot of problems in this beautiful state,
but it is one of the most beautiful states I've ever been in, okay? Many of those problems
unironically be solved by, you know, trying to get the super wealthy here in the state to pay
a larger share of their, you know, yearly revenue gains, yearly increases in their net worth.
So, why wouldn't they like Florida?
Where do I begin?
Have you ever been to Iowa? I have never been to Iowa.
As a future multi-millionaire, I'm sick of all these handouts. Just work for your money.
I'm unemployed, but spitballing huge app ideas with chat, GBT. Hell yeah.
the
too late. Recent polling shows that a majority of Californians favor the tax, but also that
they're concerned that they will have to fit the bill if the billionaires flee. And the
measure's opponents are spending millions to try to push this scare tactic to the public.
It's an argument that sounds pretty similar to that of the governor Gavin Newsom. And there
might be a reason for that.
on Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Tony Zoo, CEO of DoorDash, Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe.
These billionaires have all contributed the maximum amount to Gavin Newsom's campaigns
in previous cycles, as have other California billionaires like Reed Hastings, co-founder
of Netflix, who also incidentally cut a quarter million dollar check to stop Zohran Mamdani
from becoming mayor of New York.
Last thing the Ultra Rich was a huge part of Mamdani's campaign, the California billionaires
took notice and started spending to try to stop it.
Now those same billionaires are counting on their years long investment in Gavin Newsom.
And it looks like it's paying off.
What does compromise look like, Chief?
I don't know what there is to compromise.
Altogether, Newsom has received financial support from 50 of the state's billionaires
and their spouses.
And in a state with roughly 200 billionaires, that's not a drop in the bucket.
As Newsom positions himself as a 2028 presidential contender, those same billionaires are now
funding that effort through a couple of newly formed federal PACs.
A sizable portion of Newsom's billionaire backers come from the tech sector, which is
an important part of California's economy.
Your home is beautiful.
Thank you.
Do you think that you guys would also too leave California if the billionaire tax passed?
I think that is our big fear.
It's sort of the nightmare.
We're kind of going through the phases of denial,
acceptance, grief, however you call it.
These guys are-
Nightmare.
Nightmare, dude.
Nightmare scenario.
The fear that I have in my soul.
It keeps me up at night, dude.
I'm gonna be worth 17 billion dollars
instead of 17.5 billion dollars, okay?
Or however the fucking math works,
I'm not a math wizard, okay?
What will I do with the remaining $20 billion I have
when the government steals from me?
What will I fucking do?
will be reduced to a 20 billionaire. You just want to kill my children. That's what you want.
This isn't a fucking joke, man. You want to destroy my livelihood.
Yeah, meanwhile, this is the Republican attitude, okay?
Representative Jeff Van Drew, Republican for New Jersey on America, struggling with rising
prices. Let's see what he had to say. This goes on and on of all the things. Our gas tax
automatically increases in New Jersey. And by the way, so do our tolls in our fees automatically
increase all of that. Now we're going to have on top of that. And I'm talking to my folks in
New Jersey, my state, you better just be breaking your back and working hard. Maybe get yet another
job the list on incredible thank you sir. Gloom projections about billionaire founders being
forced to sell their super voting shares and potentially losing control of their companies
will be enough to scare voters into rejecting the proposal. It shouldn't be too um too difficult
if on paper you weren't several billion dollars to come up with your wax paper without you know
selling shares or doing some dramatically. There's even a special provision for startups that would
allow their founders to delay paying the tax until after their company goes public.
We're trying to make it as easy and reasonable as possible. We're not trying to cause a liquidity
problem for these billionaires. We're not trying to cause them to sell shares when they don't want to.
We're just trying to use reasonable, modern tools in order to close a gap.
And sure, billionaire backed packs are already spending big to try to defeat this proposal.
Yeah, billionaire rights are human rights. That's a pro-billionaire rally. Incredible. Incredible.
Oh my God, people are...
But, the billionaire class solidarity...
property rights are human rights even Sweden abolish wealth taxes might not
be as strong as you think this is an interview with Jensen Hwang CEO of
NVIDIA and one of the California billionaires who would be subject to the
wealth tax is it something that's of consentee I've been thought about even
once we work in Silicon Valley because because that's where the talent pool is
Yeah, by the way any billionaire that says that immediately becomes legendary. That's the other side of this for five percent
For five percent of your your wealth for one year you automatically become
one of the the the best people of
All time it's it's a modest price to pay I think
I think my friend went to that process with satire some of those people were like the my Twitter haters so I don't know how satirical it was I think some people were genuinely there you know what I mean
I guess they would like to apply, so be it, maybe I'm perfectly fine with it, they didn't
ever cross my mind once.
For Wong, a one-time 5% tax is a small price to pay to live in a region where his business
can recruit the most highly skilled workers.
It's a perspective that mirrors that of the working Californians who I spoke with.
Billionaires are making their money off the backs of our public infrastructure.
And so we need to make sure that they are paying their fair share for the resources
that they are using.
They are making a lot of revenue on workers and working families in the state.
if they cannot help with the five percent to help them.
There was a member of the Ayala girl
polycule so it can only be so serious.
Wait, aren't those guys sincere?
Aren't they aren't they like literally just paid?
Those people are all like, is this
she like a like a low level Jeffrey Epstein type, basically, for for billionaires
and like Silicon Valley freaks?
I mean, I shouldn't be talking too much shit.
I'm literally right here at the heart of, at the belly of the beast, right?
What is this? Why'd you have? Oh yeah, they had pro Jeffrey Epstein signs.
Why did you guys have pro Jeffrey Epstein signs? Also, is that a a girl looks like it also explains it?
Oh, it's Jeffrey Bezos. We love you Jeffrey Bezos. It wasn't Jeffrey Epstein.
Still kind of weird.
That's still odd. You know what I mean?
Salesforce tower watching you like the eye of Sauron?
Literally.
I am going back to the co-op session on Donald Trump's beautiful State of the Union address
presidential address to the nation or whatever the fuck it's called here's
Jesse Waters' take on the five. Well the the chattering class said the
president was low energy. What do they want him to do? Do the YMCA? It's in the
Oval Office address at nine o'clock. It is the gay national anthem Jesse. Excuse me.
And they cover for Joe Biden who was not low energy. They never called Joe low energy
one. So that's just crazy. It's designed to be reassuring and informative. And it's for,
as you mentioned, Dana, the people that watch Survivors.
What's Patrick Bet David up to? What's he been saying about this?
Because I want to know, I feel like Patrick Bet David must be at least a little conflicted,
right? Like, or is he totally cucked? Does he still, because he, I know he's like pro
Trump and he has to say, um, PBD gives Adam a grueling performance review after the, uh,
peers morgane debate. Yeah, I don't care about that. I want to know what PBD has to say.
Cause like he's obviously super pro Trump, but he's like Iranian, right?
and as an Iranian it must sting a little bit if you have even a modicum of the soul if you have
like even a fraction of a piece of the soul okay then I suspect you're gonna feel some type of
way about your you know your ancestral homelands being fucking destroyed by the president that
you defend all the time who's literally saying we're to bomb it back to Stone Age.
Is he still with Trump for a low five figures? You can hire him for business meetings. I think
it's 50k an hour. Who the fuck would ever pay 50,000? Anyone that has $50,000 that they can drop
like that is not dumb enough to hire Patrick Bet David for any kind of services. Are you
out of your dang mind? Breaking Amazon web services appear to be down in Bahrain after
a claimed Iranian attack. The AWS region in Bahrain appears to be offline after being damaged
again in another Iranian strike.
Fine, here's the real one.
Rob, why don't you start off with the clip?
Why don't you start off with the clip on what the president said that made the futures go berserk.
This is the exact moment everybody was waiting to see what the speech was going to be,
was there going to be a big announcement, was there going to be something massive, positive.
You know, the Gulf states are gonna pay for the war.
What was it at the end when this comment was made?
I will share with you what happened to the markets.
Go ahead, Ron.
Through the progress we've made,
I can say tonight that we are on track
to complete all of America's military objectives
shortly, very shortly.
We're going to hit them extremely hard
over the next two to three weeks.
We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages
where they belong.
In the meantime, discussions are ongoing.
regime change was not our goal. We never said regime change, but regime change has occurred
because- Wait, is PBD not Iranian? Is he Armenian? Yes, brother. There's Armenians in Iran. He is,
he's, I think, like half Assyrian, half Armenian or something, but like full Iranian.
That's why he was like trying to interview Reza Apahlov.
Because of all of their original leader's death, they're all dead.
The new group is less radical and much more...
For now, 1.36 oil gas prices right now, 112.17.
112.17.
It skyrocketed.
While this is going on, you know, at the same time we're hearing a bunch of other news
that took place and you know that statement Bitcoin drop markets concerned people are
worried what's going to be happening he did talk about the four million you know kids
in America right now have that Trump account that's been created which was some of the
good news that he shared but you know people some people are even speculating that the
news was so scary for some people that even the Artemis to that went to space yesterday
because of the speech the toilet stopped working because now that's speculation I don't want
the gold fact check me on this god he's such a fucking Iranian boomer dude that's like that's
classic you know Iranian unk jokes over there and ask you know grokro saw these other things but
people were expecting something else richard why did the market react so negatively to yesterday's
speech well in many ways there was no news there was no sort of real new announcement
And to the contrary, there was perhaps, well, there was disappointment for one, the time
scale, the timeline stayed pretty vague.
We're told, well, it's going to soon end, but we've heard that before.
And the wars, they're going to end soon, and they go on for a very long time thereafter.
Yeah, he repeated this clip as we saw, he's going to bomb Iran to the Stone Age from hence
forth, which is a big task.
a major country and actually yeah that's my concern i'm like thinking how will you accomplish this
bombing campaign because it's too big i'm thinking about the logistics when the quote-unquote leader
of the free world says i'm going to bomb this foreign adversary back to the fucking stone age
i immediately start mapping out exactly how this can take place
Didn't he care about the Iranian people? Wasn't that in the beginning, the story?
That's the criticism right now.
So all these contradictions, and that's just the, you know, that's just typically the
iceberg, I think.
Look, what do you think? First, what do you think about the speech, too? Why do you think
the market reacted so aggressively, too, back to stone ages?
I think exactly what Richard said were the contradictions.
I mean, I received texts from institutional clients
around the country.
One of them said they should have called this speech stuck.
Another one said this could have been an email.
But I think why the markets ultimately freaked out
and then carried through on that freak out
is what he said about the Strait of Hormuz
and the contradiction therein, which
is he said something along the lines
that it'll open up on its own eventually, naturally, maybe our allies will help us.
And the contradiction within that is not really our allies will help us. He even said they
got to figure out themselves and we'll help them if they need it. But I think they have
it themselves, like almost leaving it. Dude, I'm mislistened in the fucking dumb guys talk
about Donald Trump. I might be alone in this, but I truly did miss this because we're over
here looking at the situation we're talking about like how devastating this is what the
global impact looks like what this means for American force projection capabilities and
these guys are just like playing catch up with the whatever the fuck Trump is saying
to be like yeah and it's actually awesome no he does he does got that shit under control
bro he do to nato some of the others to figure out for themselves yeah I think that's right
And there's a huge contradiction therein.
We're the greatest military in the world.
We are the reserve currency issuer.
Our job is to use our deep water, deep blue water Navy,
to maintain freedom of navigation for the world.
That is why the world, as a big reason why the world
uses the dollar as the reserve currency.
And so if we say, hey, this isn't our problem, number one,
that starts to raise serious questions about,
why am I paying the Americans for weapons?
Why am I paying the Americans to hold dollars?
And then also, on a more fundamental level, if we're winning, why can't we open the Strait over Moose?
If their Navy has been devastated, if their Air Force is devastated, if their offensive capabilities have been devastated, why can no ships sail through them?
Why do you think?
Well, forget about what I think. What I'm being told is that, yes, their Navy is destroyed. Yes, their Air Force is destroyed.
And this isn't where their power was. Their power was in missiles and drones, and I'm hearing we've destroyed less missiles than we thought.
There was a story talking about this on Reuters last week where we originally were taking Israeli intelligence, and they were saying, you know, we got 70% in the first couple weeks.
Last week Reuters said, well, it's closer to a third, which means it's probably a little less than that.
It's sounding, I'm hearing, very credible rumblings that more of their missiles were deeper underground than we thought.
And the reality is, is these drones, it's not different for us than it's been for the Russians in Ukraine, which is to say something very important has happened in this last four or five weeks of war in the same way it happened in Ukraine, which is the very nature of warfare has fundamentally changed in a way that has arguably not happened since black powder rifles were used to take down heavy cavalry whenever that was four or five hundred years ago.
and that is that Iran is using missiles and drones to stand off the United
States Navy in a naval choke point and so while there's something called
Mayhem doctrine which is you control naval choke points you control the world
and that has been enforced for four or five hundred years British Navy three
four hundred years British Navy under the British Empire taken over by the
American with the United States Navy. Navies have been the ones to control
those naval choke points. And here we have, in live living color, for the first time in
three, four hundred years, a land-based power, and one, oh, by the way, that is probably
not even top five, and maybe not even a top ten military, standing off the United States
Navy in a naval choke point. The relative power dynamic has shifted. So now you have
this, I think when you layer that onto what we're looking at with oil, this is massive
If Marcus, I think, is starting to discount, OK,
there is some sort of major change taking place here.
And it's going to be a lot harder and messier
to reopen this via Naval force.
I think they're not sailing through, because they
don't want to wake up.
I think Trump, most of all, but none of us
want to wake up to a scene or a US Naval destroyer on fire
or sinking.
That's what I think the issue is.
Benny.
Well, yes, sir, you made a great point.
Trump, the president, listens to everything.
He reads everything.
He knows the pulse when we talked about this.
And I think he had to come out and the people around him are like you're gonna have to go
out there and you're gonna have to say something and show strength and say that we're on the
path and let them know that it's gonna go a little bit longer and everything.
But we were under, as a regular American that just follows what he sees and reads, we were
told that the first attack was at the summer where we went in, we bombed, it was clean,
we left.
That was it.
We took out all their nuclear launching capabilities, come to find out now.
We were told it was for the people, I haven't heard a single thing from anybody on the ground.
Any Iranians, the protesters here are like, yes, we want it, please help us, the internet's
down, we don't know what the hell is going on.
And I think the miscommunication is, let's just say, ready for this, we take out all
their leaders and we keep backing out all these people that are on top.
You think their military, whoever becomes a leader now is gonna be like, okay, we'll
follow this guy.
These people are very, very stuck on their ideology.
They have America in there with Israel bombing the hell out of them that I don't know.
I have a feeling that the president was a mother.
He's he's he's an alpha.
He does what he wants, but the people in his ear, like Lindsey Graham, dude, it's so awesome
that they have to like, even when they're criticizing Trump, because like that's what
he's building up towards, right?
He's building up towards a criticism of Donald Trump, but he still has to be like, well,
president's really alpha it's actually the baiting
it's it's lindsay graham he's gay
he's beta
that's the reason why they're making wrong decisions because it couldn't be the
president
when you can do the thing i'm lost on
lost your journal reported it was visiting the president saying hey
roosevelt think about your legacy do this
bunch of people think i was going to be like that as well as going there and
then now we're there it's like uh-oh
Longer, what was it? Short term pain for long term pain. They kept saying that short term pain. I don't it's pretty funny
To shift the blame over to Lindsey Graham in Israel, which obviously there is a lot of blame here for Israel and Lindsey Graham
But you can't do that while also simultaneously maintaining the belief that the president is awesome
Because your your only defense for Trump in that situation is that he's a fucking idiot
Okay, oh, you don't understand my big beautiful bold president is just a dumb baby
Who didn't listen to his own generals who didn't listen to his own intelligence communities assessments and listen to fucking Lindsey Graham who sucks
At least he's alpha though, I mean the fucking moron, but at least he's like a alpha dog
I don't see this not going a year.
At least a year.
You think it's going to go a year?
Are you there as well?
You think it's going to go a year?
That's the risk that it could be very long, potentially even longer than a year.
And really, from a European perspective, what we currently see, as Luke explained, this
is actually not surprising what has happened so far.
Iran so far had not used its power to close the Strait of Hormuz, but it was always capable of doing that
But it chose not to of course being suddenly attacked during negotiations and its leadership being
assassinated and so on
You know you sort of can see from their viewpoint. Okay. Well now we have to do a bit more
The Israel first tax is rising Amazon will add a 3.5 surcharge for US and Canadian sellers starting April 17
do the elevated cost and fuel and logistics. Oh shit. Guys, guys, you have to feel patriotic
when you do this. Not because it's like, you know, going back to your schools or anything,
but you have to feel patriotic for this because now that the global energy markets are completely
busted. And therefore there will be unprecedented waves of inflation in very meaningful ways
that you could not have foreseen. You can still sleep soundly at night knowing that
at least Israel is one step closer to its greater Israel project. Okay. Because otherwise,
I mean, it could be anti-semitic.
Like, I'm not, I'm not gonna say you're being anti-semitic,
but like, you could potentially start the process
of feeling anti-semitism if you had a thought in your mind
where like, that tax is really stupid.
Like, I shouldn't have to pay this.
Why can't we bring Israel to heal?
Which is of course the only type of anti-semitism
that exists.
No other type.
I like to make sure when I, you know, when I'm talking to someone, if they're like a
Holocaust denier, I don't check whether they're a Nazi or not.
From that point on, I asked them how they feel about the nation's state of Israel.
That's the only thing I care about because, you know, apparently that's the only way
you can be anti-Semitic.
And they close the straight.
So in other words, it's not a surprise.
So from a European perspective, actually what's really happened now is, under President Biden,
the number one energy supply line to Europe was cut, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia
to Germany.
Under President Trump now, the second lifeline of energy has been cut, which is through the
Strait of Hormuz.
So really what's happening, and none of that is sort of a surprise.
If you sort of take these actions, this is the result, reveal preference.
We have to assume that's what.
Those behind the scenes who advise the president want it because it's not surprising.
So really one of the goals seem to be to totally deindustrialize and destroy Europe.
I think we're witnessing the implementation of the Morgantau plan proposed by former,
Well, at the time, the Treasury Secretary, Henry Mollentow, which was that after 1945,
the post-war era, Germany needs to be totally annihilated.
The industry needs to be taken out and needs to be deindustrialized, degrowth, although
they didn't use that word, and even the population needs to be replaced.
And that's the program that seems to have got into motion with the delay, but from 2015
onwards.
And now it's really, you know, on steroids, and that's really what's happening now.
You'd expect that there'd be somebody in Europe who would say, well, hang on, hang on, what's
going on?
We've got to find solutions.
And of course, President Trump, in his speech yesterday, did say, well, you know, okay,
this is what happened, this is happening, and we continue to do our job looking after
of homeless and energy supplied Europe, well that's Europe's job effectively, you know he's saying,
so they should take care of that. And if there was sort of proper leadership in Europe, then
they could now take the necessary steps. And yesterday, what? What the fuck is this argument,
man? Like, what are what are the European leaders supposed to do? So Trump gets the
fuck things up and then Europe comes in and tries to militarily solve it when the American
government can't militarily solve it.
Yeah, if you want competent European leaders to actually solve this crisis, there is an
opportunity there.
It's not militarily un-fucking the shit of Hormuz.
actually going to trump and being like hey we are all of the country's
presidents were we're the leaders of virtually every single country and we
are demanding you go to the fucking table with Iran and do a ceasefire and
give Iran everything that they demanded okay
that's what a competent european leader would do they're obviously too cowardly
to do that. And they also don't have the military powers to be able to obviously fight to open
the Shredda for a move is when America is failing to do so. But yeah, the real thing
that European leaders could do is not go to Iran necessarily, but to go to the United
States of America and to Israel. Not even going to Trump just shred up paying Iran whatever
currency they want, I mean that is probably what's going to end up happening.
Hassan, I don't think you know how Europe politics works, oh my fucking god, I don't
want to hear this, okay, I don't want to hear this from European chatters.
You guys are unbelievable, for years you've told me, for years you've told me I'm wrong,
I'm wrong, I'm wrong, okay, every time, Europe does not exist outside of this universe,
Okay, it's not a special place.
Its politics are fairly similar to American politics.
You have the rise of a coalition or a party
in the parliamentary structure
that's like far right, fascist, illiberal.
And then you have liberal forces
that are trying to maintain liberalism,
trying to build coalitions to do that,
while casting aside any sort of like socialist,
principled socialist governance
out of any sort of governing coalition,
and in the process of doing so,
just leaning into fascist parties growing their power
because they're the ones who are saying
things that people wanna fucking hear.
It's always Europeans that say,
oh, you just don't understand.
Okay, it doesn't matter.
I don't need to understand.
I'm an American, Europeans are vassals, unfortunately.
European populations are not,
they're obviously resisting, they're protesting,
but the European governments are just as vassalized
And just, there's slaves to capital all the same,
just like our Democrats are.
EU's flexible principles on the crime
of the war of aggression for Russia, sanctions,
and a special tribunal for the crime of aggression
for the victim Iran, official condemnation
for being in the way of US Israeli bombs assassinations
and assassination gloating and sanctions.
That's awesome.
What is this?
Insane, the right, there's almost three years later.
Lumafele, one of your ops with their finest.
I'm an October 8th Jew.
Yeah, I saw this.
She's not even matrilineal. Her mother is a Episcopalian, militant atheist, I saw.
I think her father is Jewish and she's never been, like she hasn't had a bat mitzvah or anything.
Like she was not, she was not religious at all. But hey, she's more Jewish than every single one of you in this chat,
Because there's only one metric for Judaism and I think all of you anti-Zionist Jews know that and that is how much will you
Dick ride the state of Israel
The very same people that read and maybe even distribute
Olivia Rhyngold articles your relatives that tell you see why can't you be like her?
Are not even gonna look at the situation and be like
It's a little strange. Yeah, I saw beer hall push. I know KC push
in Toledo for a beer hall rally.
Holy Toledo, I say.
I'm not going to read this, but can't help but respect figuring out how to get paid to
write the same exact article 186 times.
What does that even mean?
As in, she was never like a practicing,
she was never a practicing Jew.
She did not see herself as Jewish.
She did not experience any of the,
any of the culture or anything.
And after October 8th, she realized I'm Jewish now
and decided to, you know,
work for a pro-Israel newspaper.
Hold on.
you
Oh
Yeah, yeah, I
They literally have anti-Semitic stories on Avi Lewis, who is Jewish, yeah, no, they write
about how like, Avi Lewis is not a real Jew, because he's anti-Zionist.
We're giving the goyslaves the, I know, okay.
I'm going to a family for his Passover Cedar tonight, and I already know how it's going
to be.
I have a wager with my wife as to whether they'll bring you up.
I think I'll just smile and nod along instead of defending you, sorry, but no, you should.
What do you mean?
You should print out the article on the New Republic
that Aaron Regenberg wrote and be like,
and just slap it on the table and be like, read this.
Ursula von der Leyen.
Good call yesterday with Kier Starmor.
We discussed the situation in the Middle East and the trade of hormones. Iran is actually
putting the global economy, global economic stability at risk. We will work with our partners
to ensure freedom of navigation can resume as soon as possible. We also discussed the
upcoming EU-UK summit, a key moment to deliver on last year's commitments and further strengthen
our partnerships.
Yeah, yeah, Iran is a real danger to global stability, I say.
What is this?
This op-ed is beyond problematic.
NDP has an anti-Semitism problem?
Hell yeah.
Yeah, yeah, they're so, they anti-semitically, they anti-semitically elected a Jew to lead the party.
Just not the kind of Jewish person we like.
You know, one that is anti-Zionist is that's unacceptable.
I'm telling you, it's the most anti-Semitic you can be.
I'm trying to win a normal law with a bunch of Israel supporters, slasher, son-haters.
I'm not sure bringing it printed out. Articles gonna help my case.
You have no conviction. It's fine. I
Wonder how many Passover Seder dinners I will be a topic of conversation at and now that now that you brought that up
because like
They're like especially over a certain age
I feel like there are super pro-Israel people that will that do legitimately
Know who I am and are objectively terrified of me like they think I'm
Uh scarier than like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes combined.
You were one at my sader.
How many Jewish Shatters do you have?
That's how many?
Well, it turns out some of them are cowards like megafaunics.
The timing with the recent media circus around you means is 100% certainty. That's why I'm
betting on it. Yeah. Some of them are cowards like mechophonics who won't actually fight
for me, even though they were voted as the number one chatter of the year by the way.
Okay. Which is crazy. Imagine being voted as the number one chatter of the year and
and not even fighting, not even fighting your own personal choice of daily consumption.
Unbelievable.
422, you can, you can rip it. I'll flip it.
No, no, I just fine. The other camera works.
I've restarted the PC, yep.
We are going to head over to University of San Francisco Law School.
Your mouth it making him feral. What is this?
The song piker at Stanford wait, what the fuck happened to the audio?
Come to party afterwards in my place, I'm gonna be partying with shawty cut chocker party afterwards
He nailed the social interaction.
Oh yeah, Israeli authorities confess they're singling out the Shiite Lebanese population for destruction.
This textbook ethnic cleansing described as Israel's message by the New York Times.
Israel's message to a broad swathe of Lebanon, Shiites must go.
Israel's issued sweeping evacuation warnings and pressed some Christian and Druze leaders to expel.
Shiite Muslims from southern towns leaders said,
That's insane.
They have an unlimited appetite for murdering certain religious sects of Arabs.
And it's not enough. They're like we hate Muslims so much
We want to fucking kill them in other countries that we're invading this is straight up Nazi shit. I
Mean, how do you how do you look at this is anything but literally a Nazi German occupation?
Are you going to a striver coding party, what does that mean? I don't know what that is
But behind the scenes, Israeli officials have conveyed a more targeted message, and private
calls of local leaders across southern Lebanon, Israeli military officials have assured several
Christian and Druze communities that they could remain in the evacuation zone.
They have pressed them, however, to force out any Lebanese from neighboring Shi'ite Muslim
communities who have sought refuge among them as Israeli bombardment flattened Shi'i towns,
according to local Christian Druze and Shi'i leaders who spoke to the New York Times.
That's the majority of Southern Lebanon, by the way, like the areas they're blowing up.
Hmm.
I can't think of a precedent.
I can't think of a historic precedent where this happened.
The guy who was on the CNN panel about you has lost his mind.
class and demagoguery for Ms. Rachel wanting kids to live isn't anti-semitic true sentence,
five words, zero accountability, a whole community smeared. Because in that framing,
the only reason Jews would object is that they don't want kids to live. This is what modern
Jew-hatred looks like dressed up as kindness. Oh my god. Bro took ownership over that for no reason,
for an entire religion, and now is getting mad.
Yeah, remember the would you hide me's after October 7 and like New York City when people were like would you hide me?
When they were like, oh, this is gonna happen, you know any day now Hamas is gonna fly with the you know Mario go carts
over Central Park and
Do an October 7 here
Which of course they're gonna do anti-semitically just like they did anti-semitically against Israel, right?
And and they Israel is unironically creating a would you hide me situation for the Lebanese Shiai population?
But of course, no one gives a shit
Yeah, a joke considering the ice abductions. Yes, I agree
Look what Hen Mazik is writing about
Well, after the Portland Trailblazer NBA team beat the LA Clippers, a Clippers fan posted
cartoon featuring Israeli player Denny Avdeja flying a plane and dropping a bomb onto an
elementary school.
Denny is a basketball player.
He's not fighting in the war.
He's not part of his home country's government.
This cartoon is not just offenses to Jews and Denny, but to anyone who's lost their
life in the war.
Um, yeah, I mean, he was in the IDF and he also defends Israel.
So sorry, you know, that's kind of the whole point.
Wanting kids to live is an anti-Semitic, but saying you want kids to live is anti-Semitic.
Got it.
Just kind of trying to keep track.
Yeah.
Hold on.
Let me text my dad.
Let's see.
get him to come downstairs. Yeah, also, Hen Mazick is bravely screenshot posting a random
fucking random fan. Random NBA Twitter fan is, you know, never, never not going to be funny.
Okay.
President Trump nailed the first sitting president to attend the Supreme Court's oral arguments,
seen here in these sketches as he listened for 90 minutes.
Can I ask why you got your dad with you?
What do I say to this guy, man? Because he wants to see me talk at colleges. Like, what are you,
because you're proud of me? What kind of question is that?
I can't even, I can't even have my dad attend speeches without chatters being like, what's
the deal there?
What's going on there?
Explain to me what's happening.
Are you gonna be at UC law?
No, I will not be at UC.
What, no, I, is it UC law?
No, I said San Francisco,
University of San Francisco Law School.
Hi, Zahn, please check your email
for the partyful link to my San Francisco peptide rave tonight.
Your dad can come too.
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Anyway, alright, I got a PD and then we'll head out.
They told me it's the month after work, he's unhappy with the court.
Supreme Court's not been acting very well, actually.
Reacting to what he heard inside.
We watched and actually nobody knew what the hell was going on.
Simple subject, simple subject.
And on Troop Social, the president's saying, we are the only country in the world stupid
enough to allow birthright citizenship.
But the U.S. is one of over 30 countries that guarantees citizenship at birth.
The president campaigned on banning birthright citizenship, and on his first day back in
office signed an executive order attempting to do so.
For more than 150 years, the 14th Amendment has granted citizenship to children born in
the U.S. regardless of their parents' legal status.
The administration argues it has become exploited.
We're in a new world now, Justice Leader pointed out to, where 8 billion people are
one plane right away from having a child as a U.S. citizen.
Well, it's a new world.
It's the same Constitution.
The justices appeared unconvinced as government lawyers argued the constitutional right poses
a national security risk.
Chief Justice John Roberts, pointing out the Trump administration, is relying on very
quirky and narrow exceptions to justify the reasoning.
And Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who the president appointed, asking how officials would determine
in which newborns should be deported.
You're not going to know at the time of birth
for some people whether they had the intent to stay or not.
This executive order would only apply to future babies
born in the US.
But Justice Sonia Sotomayor, warning
that government's lawyers reasoning
could theoretically be used to take citizenship away.
The government could move to unnaturalize people
who were born here of illegal residence.
So as lawyers for the ACLU left the High Court yesterday,
they told reporters they could not be more confident.
It's unclear when the Supreme Court will hand down
their decision, Robin.
And Rachel, we're learning the president
is considering firing Attorney General Pam Bondi.
What more can you tell us about that?
Yes, Robin, sources tell us that the president
has raised the possibility of removing Pam Bondi
as Attorney General in private conversations
that he has had with senior administration officials.
Two other names have been floated for the position.
The current EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin,
as well as the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche,
no firm decision has been made just yet.
In fact, Pam Bondi was with the President
as he visited the Supreme Court just yesterday.
And a statement released by the White House,
the President praises Bondi,
calling her a wonderful person,
saying that she's doing a good job.
But sources tell us, within the administration,
there have been concerns that she has not done enough
to go after the President's perceived political opponents.
Robin.
We'll see what happens there.
All right, Rachel, thank you.
Oh, so I don't know how many of you
have been following this man,
but the establishment corporate diet MAGA Democrats
are absolutely crashing out
with the most severe case of Hassan derangement syndrome
I think I've ever seen in my life.
So you now have third way,
this corporate fake Democrat group,
which is trying to drive a wedge in the Democratic party.
And they're trying to excise Hassan Piker
And by extension, every single anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, anti-genocide member of the
Democratic Coalition, that's what they're trying to do here.
So there were a bunch of smear articles that were written trying to take down Hasan, trying
to make it seem like he's a real controversial flamethrower that you need to stay away from
if you're a Democrat.
And then they couch it in this language of like, it'll hurt you in the election if you
talk to him, if you associate with him in any way, shape, or form, that's how they couch
it.
But it's all bullshit, because again, at the end of the day, their goal, third way's
goal, and all these diet maggot Democrats, their job is to try to keep the Democratic
Party corporate and keep the Democratic Party pro-war and pro-Israel.
That's their job.
They take a tremendous amount of money from the military industrial complex and the Israel
lobby and all these corporations, and they don't want a Democratic Party that's anti-Zionist,
anti-billionaire, billionaire that's pro-social democracy, they want the party to maintain
its Clinton base, right? It's Clinton facade of neoliberalism and extreme capitalism and endless
war and deregulation and things of that nature. So there was a big article in Politico where
apparently they decided to ask a bunch of the potential contenders for 2028, would you do an
an event or stream with Hassan. And most of them, I believe, didn't answer, okay? Some
said, I would not talk to that guy. How dare you? And then some of them said, I would.
So in the Wood column is Ro Khanna, for example, we all know that. Bernie has, of course, talked
to Hassan Piker a lot, even though he's not gonna run again. But there's plenty of people
in the Democratic Party who do talk to him from time to time. But a bunch said no. So
look at this, many Hassan says, Democratic senators, Cory Booker, Ruben Gallego, and
Alissa Slotkin all told Politico they wouldn't go on Hassan Piker's show.
Ladies and gentlemen, Cory Booker is a hardcore Zionist.
He took a picture with Benjamin Netanyahu.
He snuggled up to Yohav Galan who's the fucking war criminal.
He swims in Israel lobby money.
That's why he doesn't wanna go on a son show.
Ruben Gallego don't know why he would make this decision.
He desperately tries to fit in online and tries to like get in good with like new media
figures.
he's running away from Hassan Piker because he doesn't know how to read a fucking room politically.
So that's embarrassing. And Alyssa Slotkin got, you know, her fucking life destroyed by Crystal
when she grilled her on her support for the genocide in Gaza and humiliated herself.
But apparently she's deciding, you know, I'm going to snuggle up more to the Zionist elements in
the party. And as many Hassan says here, so these politicians, Cory, Ruben, and Alyssa Slotkin,
They have all been on Bill Maher's show. Bill Maher says Islam is, quote, like the mafia.
The Muslim world has, quote, too much in common with ISIS. Muslims bring, quote,
desert stuff to the West. And he's also used the n-word on his show, among other things.
In fact, as Adam Johnson points out here, also more to the point, all these guys feigning outrage
about Hassan Piker's 9-11 comments, they went on Bill Maher's show. Bill Maher is famous for
praising the 9-11 hijackers and saying they are not cowards. So what Hassan said, he said,
America quote deserved 9-11. But I was in the context of talking about the CIA term
blowback. Blowback means, hey, there's gonna be unintended consequences where your shit
gets rocked because you keep interfering in Muslim countries. You keep bombing Muslim
countries. You keep sanctioning and starving innocent people in Muslim countries. And the
blowback of that is then there's gonna be some extremist groups that attack you. That's
what Hassan was referring to and everybody pretends like he's just flat out like in favor
of murdering civilians. No, quite the opposite. His commentary on his show on a daily basis
is to be against murdering civilians, like for example, what Israel is doing in Gaza
every single fucking day. So these people are bunch of smear merchants. That's what
they are. And now they're trying to make Hassan a wedge issue and make it so that if you associate
with him, they're going to spend a shitload of money against you to try to defeat you.
Look at this one. Senator Cory Booker says he wouldn't go on Hassan's stream because
of his comments on Jewish people in 911. By the way, Hassan repeatedly stresses,
I'm anti-Zionist, I'm anti-Israel, I am pro-Jew. He says, Jews are not the problem.
Many Jews are leading the fight against the apartheid state of Israel. Here is Cory Booker
associating with the genocide of war criminal Yoav Galant. Cory Booker, Rubigayego, Alissa
Slotkin, also they wouldn't go on piker stream as you know. Here's Yoav Galant. Thank you to my
friends and to Cory Booker for hosting an important discussion on the powerful alliance
between Israel and the United States, which translated into unprecedented support during
a seven front war. We discussed the challenges and opportunities to lie ahead. Primarily,
the critical timing for an agreement that will bring home the hostages held by Hamas
including both Israeli and US citizens. This is the guy who famously said, we're cutting
off all food, fuel, water, and electricity going into all of Gaza, openly saying we're
doing collective punishment. I'm the collective punishment man. I'm going after innocent men,
women, and children in Gaza. And I hope they fucking starve to death. This is that guy.
He's snuggling up to him, but you can't even have a conversation with Hassan Piker.
What a sick, fucking disgusting, pathetic little joke.
It's incredible.
It's absolutely unbelievable.
Andrew Perez has the following.
Worth noting, as third-way campaigns against Hassan Piker and moderate Dems join them,
that they specifically want to reduce far-left influence and infrastructure.
What they're doing here is not, Hassan is just a proxy.
He's a proxy for the left flank of the party.
He's a proxy for people who are anti-genocide.
He's a proxy for people who are anti-billionaire.
And what's the actual reality of the situation?
The reality is this, y'all.
Look at this.
Here's everything Democratic voters agree with Hassan over the Democratic Party on.
95% support raising taxes on billionaires, as Gavin Newsom fights against that in California,
by the way.
85% support Medicare for All.
78% support abolishing ICE.
77% oppose US military force to attack Iran.
67% believe Israel committed genocide on every single one of these points. Hassan Piker
is simpatico with the Democratic voting base, with actual run of the mill regular everyday
Democrats. And the Democratic elites, the corporate Democrats, the diet maggot Democrats
are against these positions. So look, I'm here to tell you, this is a smear campaign.
It's Hassan Derangement Syndrome. And anybody who's partaking in it, you're basically a useful
idiot for MAGA or you're fucking malicious, right? And you are just diet MAGA. You are
just like, hey, I kind of agree with Republicans on a lot more shit than I pretend. There is
no in between. There is no in between at all. And so the spear campaign is pathetic. And
by the way, let me also just say the final point on this is, it's I'm kind of embarrassed
at the limp dick nature of the defenses of Hassan, because there's a lot of people who
are out there going like, oh, well, I thought we were, but we believed in free speech and
And we believed in dialogue with everybody, and this seems very anti-free speech to try
to cancel him, and we should be able to talk to him even though I disagree with him on
a lot of things.
No, we need to take these smears head fucking on.
It's absolute fucking horse shit that he's anti-semitic.
It's horse shit.
Somebody posted the other day, it was a 30-minute compilation of Hassan repeatedly separating
out anti-Zionism from anti-Semitism and saying anti-Zionism is the way we go.
is stupid and dumb and wrong and bad and and Nick Fuentes is a fucking Nazi he
blames all Jews that's fucked up that's wrong 30-minute compilation of that and
the best we get in terms of defending Hasan is oh well on free speech grounds
I guess I might talk to no fuck that defend him on the fucking substance but
maybe I'm you know I'm in the media so it's a little bit different from people
who are running for office but I think you get the point and it certainly is
true they had like Mallory McMorro who's smearing Hasan and comparing him to
Nick Fuentes. So Mallory McMorrow, famously at the end of the last election, she said,
oh, us Democrats need to go talk to everybody, bro. We need to go have that conversation
with Joe Rogan, reach out to the bro podcaster sphere. We need more masculine energy on the
Democratic side. That's what we need. And so she goes from that and articles being written.
Who's the Joe Rogan of the left? Is it the son piker? To now, I would never associate
with him. I wouldn't go on his stream. I wouldn't talk to him. I would never do such a thing.
And then, you know, reiterates pathetic smears against him that are just factually wrong.
So it is disgusting and it is hypocritical.
But again, what I would say is, defend him on the substance because they're just lying
about this man.
What they're saying about him is not true.
And anybody who watches his stream, watch his stream for one or two days and you will
know beyond any doubt whatsoever, they are fucking lying about him and smearing him, okay?
But yeah, they actually, they also are hypocrites.
There's no denying that whatsoever.
They absolutely are hypocrites.
They're comparing him to Nick Fuentes when that's a lie.
And they were saying, let's go on Joe Rogan, let's go everywhere, except Hasan.
So it's weird how the big tent never only goes in one direction, it only goes to people
to your right.
It never seems to go to people to your left who are supposed to make up your base and
be like the core of your party.
Well, you're just begging to lose at that point, you know what I'm saying?
But here's the good news, guys.
The fact that they're freaking out over this means they know they're losing the battle,
right?
They know they're losing the war.
that. They know that Abdul El Sayed is surging in Michigan, and so that's why they tried to
smear him and bring him down along with Hassan. And they're getting desperate because they can no
longer control the narrative. The support for Israel among the Democratic base has fucking
collapsed and it's not coming back. It's just not coming back. And so this campaign is very desperate
and I think it's evidence that their days are numbered. Deep down, they know that,
and this is like them lashing out in the most obnoxious way possible. But there you have it.
I mean, severe Hassan derangement syndrome, understand what it is, understand where it comes
from, and understand what the overall purpose of it is. The overall purpose is to say,
keep the Democratic Party more right-wing, keep the Democratic Party more diet maga.
Don't you dare do the opposite of maga. Don't you dare go left. Don't you dare actually represent
your base well guess what we're all fucking fed up with it we're all done with it and it's time
for for us quick quick quick boom flipped it
what's up everybody
we're on our way to university of san francisco law school right now where i'll be uh
having a talk with the students the next generation of lawyers public defenders attorneys
defense attorneys, maybe even the next Pampandi Attorney General. I don't know
what we're gonna be talking about. They did not ask me to repair speech. I did
not prepare a speech. I'm unprepared. I'm unprepared for what's to come.
Now just like with Stanford, there was some friction with the University of
San Francisco Law School. Last year, they asked me to do this and I don't remember
exactly what was taking place but when they first asked me to do this, they
actually cancelled. The school, there was some some controversy and the school
was like oh yeah we're you know we're a little bit worried about getting
pressure from the admin. Something along those lines. I'll investigate it a little
bit further. I didn't actually talk about what took place in Stanford either by
the way. I think I didn't give you guys a full details but like the the actual
auditorium hall that we were supposed to do this original Stanford talking was
massive 1700 people it's a full theater right it's gonna be awesome and as soon
as actually like put together the phones to be able to do it they put the
upfront cost down and the school still ended up randomly canceling first they
thought they wouldn't be able to get the money together and when they did the
school up the price again and when they got that together too they were like
All right, we're still gonna cancel it and put you in a much smaller room.
They did that with University of San Francisco Law School.
I'm not exactly sure what's gonna happen.
They didn't ask me to prepare a speech.
They didn't tell me that there would be a speech at all.
I think it's just gonna be more of a discussion.
So very excited, very interested to find out what it's going to look like.
um, have no idea, uh, maybe it'll be a tiny classroom, maybe it'll be an auditorium, it'll be a hall, but, um, I don't know, they're gonna arrest you surprise, they're gonna debate you, that's what I think, they're lawyers, and as you know, being a lawyer means you're a debate pervert, so it wouldn't surprise me if they wanted to debate me.
Pam Bondi got fired, you don't know?
Well, yeah, I do know.
That's my goal, is to find who the next Pam Bondi is.
And these young, strapping new minds in the pursuit of their jurist doctorate.
Okay?
Ambush with a debate, is he gonna be so fucking good?
Why are you making me scared?
why are you scared I'm a lawyer and I hate debate lords buddy you're a lawyer
you aren't the debate lawyer exactly thank you you give a bunch of lawyer
jokes to fire off what's the difference in a lawyer and a prostitute
prostitute stops fucking you after you're dead zing had that off the top
down. That was good. Yeah, shock. Nobody likes their lawyer, not even their mom.
Debate them on Panbondi. Tell them to defend Panbondi as new up and coming lawyers.
Bazinga.
There's always going to be a speech portion when you're invited to these schools always. Okay,
okay but they didn't say that
there is no speech portion
from what i understand
it literally just says
speaking of a starts introductions
and then panel questions five minutes after the introductions
so there's gonna be panel questions and the event is what the fuck the
panel questions are at
five forty five is when it starts and the end of the event
at 7.30 but that's like all just questions question after question they're
just gonna grill me yeah they're gonna they're gonna cook me dude they're
gonna I'm sitting on I'm the sitting on the stand basically for these guys I
don't even know if there's anyone in the chat that's participating in this
event I genuinely have no idea I don't even know that there was a University of
San Francisco nor a law school. We might be just walking into a trap, dude.
I'm going to plead the 50 entire time. Anytime someone asks me, I'm going to say,
I'm pleading the fifth. I'm going to say I have a right to an attorney and I don't
have the finances to get one myself.
It's a mock trial. The trial of Dr. Jihad.
plead the second battle scarab I'm thinking completing my second amendment
rights to bear arms you must now give me a weapon for trial by combat
usually called the UZ Hastings Law School
You see, Los Angeles is going to USF Law School.
Just hit him with a trial by seven.
What do you call a doctor who's in the bottom half of his graduating class?
A doctor.
What do you call a lawyer who's in the bottom half of his graduating class?
Senator.
It's a good one.
I like that one, chatter.
I'm putting that in the mind palace.
Declare prima nocta.
You are in braids, Lizzie, and you're going to have to use old stomping grounds.
You should have asked them for pointers.
That's all.
All this talking at universities is okay and all.
But if you really want to change the game, you've got to go to the frats and start mocking
man. You're right. You're right. As a 34 year old, as a 34 year old man, I should definitely
go to the frat houses and be like, what's up? Show me your most alpha dog. And we're
going to go cake stand for cake stand. See, I might be even dating myself. Do the youngsters
still do keg stands is that even a thing that people do you don't know either
you're fucking either but you also were not even fratting I was not I say I
haven't heard about kegs and you were all of you were emo you were seen I can
go to college okay well exactly my point still stands
What are they lining up for?
I don't know.
Oh, it's Malbon.
It's the street wear versus golf brand.
They could have lift you up with their bitch ass soft hands.
Yeah, dude.
No, alcohol is gay.
Why, what do they do?
What do the youngsters do?
youngsters do. They don't like alcohol, they don't like sex. What do the younger generations
do now? They do peptides and bone smashing. We can do a peptide challenge. Who can shove
playing like peptide
yeah, who could shove as many peptides in their body
they watch twitch
be cringe, fortnite, vote republican
vape in situationships, adderall and peptides
oh man
half a genzie can't even drink it, wait, yes they can are
isn't genzie like 30 now
aren't you genzie?
no
What is, what's, what's Janzi?
96 is the cutoff for Millennial.
Oh, they're 28.
27.
Yeah.
What's the youngest Janzi then?
I have no idea.
Start out your talk by asserting that judicial review is colonial fanfic and not a criminal
not real. Okay. I'm going to do my bid on constitutional law is also a joke. And that
conservative, any sort of conservative interpretation of constitutional law is is pure reactionary
nonsense with a intellectual varnish. Start every speech by claiming, by stating you aren't
anti-Semitic. Gen Z 1997 2013 aka Generation Forever War Faw.
Hassan, please clap my cheeks like you did last night.
I will never be the same.
You got that communism deep.
The dextrometaphon, met orphan.
You just, the thing, like you don't have to read these.
Sometimes it's best not to.
You're right.
You're right. You freaking right fam. You're freaking right. Oh my god.
What's wrong? I want to take you to the- Dude, San Francisco, Hassanabi, is there a different
breed it like normally whenever I go somewhere normally whenever I go
somewhere there's a couple people that'll be like oh hey you should try this
spot this is my neighborhood you should try that spot San Francisco Hassan Abbey
has literally all like come to my house I'm coming to my house we're doing a
peptide rave like come to my house we're doing a
I don't know. There's just like hella people that just keep trying to get me to go to their house.
I'm not going to do that.
You can forward those my way.
Also, how do you even have a house?
I thought the, I thought this was NIMBY town.
I need to understand why this is the NIMBY-YIMBY divide in this, in this city is genuinely insane.
genuinely insane. I mean, Professor Jiang was wrong about saying Iran is going to
create Pax Islamica, but he would be even more wrong if he ever were to say
that the NIMBY-IMBY divide will be solved in San Francisco.
I'm Steph Curry come to my house sick Steph Curry's a fan. He's a NIMBY
Is bro trying to say hippie-dippy?
No, no, no, yimby versus nimby.
Steph Curry is BDS.
the goal is to say words fan. I can't I'm sorry. I'm a principle I'm a principle
advocate for Palestinian emancipation. I will no longer be clapping when Steph
Curry takes a three point shot. He is now BDS. I mean Draymond is also BDS.
Goldstein is the most BDS team of all time.
Come on, I'll give you a free session. You need to be analyzed.
Why did you write it like analized?
That's how it's spelled.
No, I just felt weird the way they wrote it
How can I fucking know what is showing on my reflection here? There's no reflection right now. There was a reflection earlier
Oh, we're about to what the fuck we're about to be there. Yeah, but do you know it's gonna be back
Okay
So I'm gonna pick us up
Whoopsie daisy
Commonly got our jurors doctor from where you're going by the way wait, what is that a liar is that real?
You weren't you as a law a private Catholic University?
Wait what?
Wait hastings. Yeah, that's what it was. No, it is true
This is a k-high van Bush. Oh, yeah
I'm gonna get stabbed by that guy too raw or whatever
Whatever his fucking name is
Too raw to life or what was his name?
I don't know.
That one cave I've seen.
Uh, okay, well, there's supposed to be a parking garage or...
Wait, hold on, I'm going to pull it up.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
One second.
Um, yeah, it's uh...
Where is it?
I can't...
Where... didn't she send us the map or something?
Hmm am I in I thought she did
Oh it's a wait hold on it's a make sure I think it is
Yeah, I mean, this is lost, well, I think this is it, yeah.
Oh.
We'll figure it out.
We'll figure it out.
Thank you.
All right.
Thank you.
I'm just gonna hide for now.
Oh.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Oh.
Someone's calling for us.
What?
Is that, are those the people?
Or are those his fans?
I can't tell.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
There's his fans, I can't tell.
Oh!
Oh, you want a photo?
Yeah, sure, quick.
Oh, we have to go that way?
Oh, this is, oh.
Oh, I see.
All right.
Oh, I see, I see.
Thank you.
Oh, that was helpful.
Wait, watch out.
Don't die of public transit.
Yeah, that was, what a way to go out.
Hi.
Hi.
Um, so we're representatives from the undergrad school of politics.
Uh-huh.
And then we'd love to have you sometime if I'll be at all possible.
Sure.
We're a little bit tipsy.
I've been like watching your stream for like about a year.
Um, we're really like...
All right, quick. We gotta take a photo now.
Oh yeah, yeah, okay.
Sorry, because I'm late.
Do you want to take a selfie?
Do you want to take a selfie?
Or could you take a stream thing?
Okay, let's just do a selfie.
Yeah.
I'm not trying.
Oh, we got a parking garage is for this place.
Okay, thank you guys.
What's up, can I get a photo?
Sure, that's all I know.
Nice to meet you.
Appreciate it.
All right.
This is the law school.
Okay.
But I don't know what the parking garage is.
First floor parking garage?
I don't know either. I mean we went to the address like oh, oh I see the map now. Yeah, it's
It's up that street. Okay. It's gonna be
What's up, man
What's up, dude
Hell yeah, sure. Yeah, well you gotta keep walking with us cuz we're
Nice to meet you, man.
Whoa.
Uh...
Sure.
sure over this way oh it's that way we're going to the parking garage thank
you I think they told us parking garage so it's like easier to yeah enter without
disrupting yeah well it's too late now
yeah clear entrance where so where is it where are they gonna put up from it was
supposed to be that way. Hi. Yeah, we're trying to get to the first floor parking
garage. The entrance of it. Yeah, so you just try to go through the back. We're
reading somebody who's picking up some of the entrance. They're gonna escort us in.
I can do that. Yeah, that'd be great. I think that was pretty good to park in here.
Yeah, we did not do that.
I'm not sure it's going to be that.
Can I put it in the box?
If the other man who takes you to the other floor,
I know what you guys are supposed to be doing.
I know my room is supposed to be in.
You don't want to walk in from the front,
or are you supposed to be waiting meanwhile?
Do you have the contact with people?
The lower low, yeah, yeah, I do.
Yeah, we won't want you to text me.
and go to the first floor parking garage, that's what you do.
Okay.
So we're outside the garage right now, but I'm running up in a black suit.
Okay.
Okay, someone's coming here, I guess.
No, I'm not.
Oh, hi.
Hi, Hassan.
Hi.
Hi.
Come on, come here.
This is my dad.
Hi, this is my dad.
Okay, so everyone is downstairs.
I'm going to take my red suit on a little adventure.
Okay.
I'll meet everyone and then we'll take this with me.
Alright, perfect.
How are you doing today?
I'm doing great.
How about yourself?
I'm doing good. Really happy to meet you.
Excited, excited.
Yeah, it would never. Yeah, no shot
Also, chat was very specifically instructed not to show anybody's faces except for two
specific people.
So if you get some weird camera angles, it's because I'm being a hyper-conscious of people's
privacy.
Oh, there you go.
Kibina and Zaki are gonna just come down here and get to know you, the things that are doing questions
and we should get started pretty soon.
Alright, perfect. How big is the room? Like, I have no idea what we're doing.
Yeah, yeah. So it's a good size room. It fits about 50, 60 people.
It's just a couple floors upstairs, so when we're ready to go, we'll just walk you down this way, take you to an elevator.
The elevators are outside the terrace room.
Okay, alright. And it's just like a panel, like people are gonna ask me questions.
Okay.
Yeah, we have some moderated questions
that Kena and Jackie will ask you
and then we'll open it up to the students.
Okay, perfect.
All right, perfect.
All right, is there anything you might need?
No, I'm good.
Okay.
Thank you.
Backrooms are just right here on your right.
Okay.
Awesome.
Thank you.
Thank you, guys.
This is crazy.
Yeah, a little bit. I'm actually going to attach a tripod right now.
Is this like a writer thing?
Do I even have a writer?
Why is there always coffee?
Because they always ask, what kind of coffee do you like, and we tell them a cold brew.
Oh, they do?
Yeah.
Nice so many conversations happen around the sun that you're aware of
I didn't am I am I a diva? No, actually you're right. It's pretty easy. Okay, so they're just cold
I don't even I don't even care if they have anything
Waiting for me when I do this stuff
No, oh
Uh-oh.
What are you doing?
Shit.
I did, but I don't know where it went because it's not on the ground.
Hi, I'm Kimia, so nice to meet you.
Sara was running for you both the whole day.
Oh, you're good.
Hi, I'm Marge.
Nice to meet you.
Marge is fine.
Hi, I'm Kimia, so nice to meet you.
Hi, I'm Kevin.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
I'm sorry for making you run.
I could use the X-Files.
Okay, release.
Pretty easy.
We were just in Stanford.
So, I mean, we just came from Palo Alto.
Yeah.
I'm going to take a seat while I go check where I can post it.
Sure.
We can leave our stuff here, right?
Yeah.
Good.
Let's get that from now on.
All right.
Perfect.
Well, one of the things we're showing you, where I can try
to find the camera is like, all the way upstairs.
Yeah, just like this.
Yeah, just like this.
Yeah.
OK.
What's up, man?
What's going on?
I'm Zachy.
I want to be on the panel with you.
Nice to meet you.
Of course, it's nice to meet you too.
Hi, how are you?
I'm Zachy.
Isn't that?
Yeah, so nice to meet you guys.
His father, that's almost a junior in the area.
He lives in Turkey, but he's visiting right now,
and he wants to, he loves coming
to those college events that I do.
Okay, cool.
Yeah.
I don't know if he's reserved for him.
Thank you for being here, sir.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Did you do a lot of these, all of your bullets?
Yeah, I mean, I do them regular frequency.
I didn't used to, but I started doing more of them recently
because I feel like it's good.
It's good to get a better feel for where the youth is at now
that I'm an old man at the age of 34.
We're live right now, by the way.
Thank you, none of you know.
I was warned by someone else otherwise I would have been really taken aback.
Yeah, no, we're, we're...
Thanks for the warning, House Envoy.
We're always live.
Yeah, man, how many hours a day are you live?
Um, usually like eight.
That's not too bad, it's like a full-time job.
Yeah, yeah.
It is your full-time job.
It is my full-time job, yeah.
Um, usually like eight.
There you go.
It's right on, right on cue.
It's like right now, right now.
Yeah, yeah.
That's crazy.
Yeah, we I was so I've been live for six hours already. I did like my news coverage. It's usually how we do it. So I'll do my regular news coverage and then we'll go to if there's like a college campus or something that we're I'm attending.
I was just livestreaming the whole thing.
It's not from the time you would enter the campus the time you leave.
Yeah.
The viewers see everything.
Yeah.
Interesting.
I didn't know that that was how it worked.
Yeah.
Did I sweat out my powder?
What do you say?
Did I sweat out my powder?
No.
No, it's damp.
Okay, cool.
It's attached.
A little bit of exercise and people lose their makeups, though.
No, you're good.
You look wonderful.
You look wonderful.
You look cool.
Thanks for wanting to freefall the state and bridge. Oh, of course. So, um, is it true that Kamala Harris graduated from this law school?
No. No.
It used to be called UCH students, but they named it because he was apparently some white supremacist.
Ah. So, like, why name it that in the first place, you know?
Yeah. Neighbor law school. Yeah.
It's hard not to, I feel like, in America. A lot of the college campuses are named Beth White supremacist.
Okay, so this is not...
He's the most famous alumni.
I don't care.
Who's your most famous alumni?
It's Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.'s ex-wife.
That's our biggest thing to think about.
Nice. Also Gavin Newsom's ex.
That's what I was just going to say.
Make sure that I'm on the rug.
Yeah, yeah, of course.
I love that name.
That's your most famous alumni?
We have...
I think a lot of people in California, and they're pretty prominent in the area, there's a lot of judges, so it's pretty crazy, there's a lot of judges, there's a lot of judges, they're not enough to say to not let him, okay, because he started but I told him this time, okay, so are we only, okay, it's because we started to set up the tech, do you need to have that?
Oh, they can be in there when we set the take. It's not a problem. If you're concerned for us, we're pretty, we're pretty fast. We can just, I mean, we normally do this stuff in like protests and stuff. So it's not, this is a much easier process.
I don't do they watch
it's a show in the dark man probably not
tender to try them true
always have a big police presence when you go to school
no not always there is a big police presence in this one
Yeah, man, they brought everybody home.
Yeah, what's going on with that?
They're really concerned about it here.
They're paying us pay, but they didn't
want to come to fucking groups.
Yes.
Yeah, well.
They made them do a lot of things.
Yeah, Stanford.
Stanford, we had a 1,700 person auditorium sold out
in a minute.
And then out of nowhere, the school
refunded everybody's tickets.
And people were paying for it, too.
non-fans are paying for tickets.
School refunds it, puts us in a 350 person mess hall,
like last second, three or four days before the event.
I think they were just trying to get me to pull out,
but I was like, no, I'm gonna still do it.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
It's all good.
I'm with our cops.
I don't know if we have enough, though.
I'm gonna see if we can get those.
Yeah, why is there so many cops?
What's going on?
Dude, they just printed something.
Well, you got a hit out on me or something?
Something I don't know about?
I think it's the post-Curc America.
I've done some college campus as a post-Curc though.
And you haven't seen this little?
Have I? Have I done college campus?
I mean, I just remember there weren't any cops at all.
Also, a small Catholic Jesuit university.
They're probably a little bit more buttoned up to that particular campus that has more going on.
No, it makes sense.
So you feeling good? Are we going to be good for 5.30 start?
Don't ask me, I'm ready to go whenever you're ready.
Okay man, sounds good.
I'm ready to rip it.
Sounds good dude.
Did you go over?
Good?
I love that.
I love that.
I mean, you take a lot of audience questions,
like unvetted, just people coming in and throwing their stuff
out there.
Yeah.
We wouldn't lose the time to do that.
Yeah, yeah.
Who does stuff like this normally?
What's the last speaker that you guys had?
I'm just going to ask a question for Kimia.
Usually, main campus has a whole fun
and they have speakers.
When we did this, we'll be like us students,
like I just went to see her.
No, I know, I was supposed to do this last year, right?
And then I don't remember when.
The time it got all messed up and it's coming back.
Let me say our administration's boots were big.
They're large for you, and so it's deep in my dream.
Administration coming to you live.
Yeah, I'm sure they're listening.
We have some qualms.
Yeah, I actually got pulled into this two days ago,
to be honest with you.
That's not true.
We told you a while ago.
You told me a while ago that it might happen at some point
that your days are going to end. Can you read some questions and come and participate?
Did you get a chance to look at our questions? It's okay if you want.
No, do we get the questions? I don't think so.
I mean, I know you haven't been on that, but I sent them over to...
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I did, I did see these, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, there's some great stuff in there, but there's,
but I thought it was like,
you guys have like moderated questions that you.
We had that for the first half, and then the second half.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so we have all the different students.
The restrictions are crazy, by the way,
with the, you can't even show a single student's face
or something, that's what you guys were saying.
Is it the school? Is that what it is?
Like we do that.
Like I said, we don't know what it is.
She's done it a lot.
I think we're a lot.
I will make sure that we just keep it on the high.
Thank you.
Why is it always we do that we're fine?
Okay.
I don't know. I don't know what to expect.
Normally when we do stuff like this, it's usually either like a professor,
like a professor that schedules it.
So I think the school is like a lot more
like resistant to outside pressure.
Cause like the first one of these I did was a USC
and that was like a year and a half ago or two years ago.
And it was a professor that was a fan that wanted me
to do this like big auditorium.
And there were a lot of science groups that sent
like they should have a public pressure campaign.
I mean, this is also before I would say that
like the overwhelming majority of the American population
were like super pro-Palestine.
So at that point, it was like,
that was probably the maximum pressure
with like minimum amount of like pushback.
But even then it was fine.
And then I've done a bunch of these,
but usually in my experience,
at least now I'm beginning to find out,
like if it's a student group that's like putting it together,
they have to jump through a lot more hoops
than like if it's a dean or something.
Yeah, that's for sure.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't think we've ever had, like, a main campus university got involved and put restrictions on us and it wasn't going to be law school.
Oh, that's, I'm good, man. What, that's crazy. What are they, are they reading Jewish Insiders? Is that what it is? They think I'm a dangerous, huh?
probably that's pretty part of it that's so funny I get New York Times
Pulse pieces what are they worried about okay don't worry I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna fuck it up for you okay I didn't think you would yeah no I'm here for
I'm here for the students what time exactly do you want to be in the
chair something like a two minute warning okay so what I think we're
gonna do is our plan is to have each of us have the speaker by and you can
introduce us we all walk out on their line but if you want to go there before
that I think it's probably best yeah I could walk out there right now and we
I think what would be best is we're letting the students until 5.35 we're going to start the program at 5.35.40.
We'll all go up. There's like a little kitchen that's connected to the room.
It'll be separated so we can hopefully be in there.
While you set up what you need to set up, just tell Hannah that I told you that when you're good, she's good.
Okay. That sounds good.
That's cool. Is there a restaurant you're in?
Yeah, right here.
I totally showed up on my makeup in here.
You look great good.
You know what? I really appreciate that. I'm so embarrassed.
And so inherently, I'm not sure if I can trust it.
Okay, you can get to take it, 30,000 people if you want to pop in here and see what you have to say.
I think I'll just wait till right now.
Is it 30,000 right now?
I think so, yeah.
Usually around this time of the day, it starts, you know, people start leaving because it's like later.
Or if I'm not sitting at a desk yelling at my computer.
My dad's been in two minutes, so that's exciting.
Okay, that's cool. Hey, I'll take it
No
Yeah, these are jobless communists, you know?
No, I think a lot of people at this point are employed, they just watch it work, and
then put it in one ear, that sort of thing, you know?
They're all saying caught, jobless communists caught.
Yeah
Spiritually unemployed
because people were like asking me how to attend the event like a lot of people
and it felt like it was yeah
It's the temperature.
I think it's the catalym.
It's trying to minimize the light.
It's so straight right now.
So he's going to go up there and say,
Have you ever seen these?
Can we say 535?
He goes up and then we're falling like two feet after.
I was like, let's just wait for the light.
Yeah, well, so that's what I was saying.
535 is when you stop waiting for the RSVP people in.
And then the real-life people can come in at 5.25 is approximately what we can go about
because at 5.40 we can start the program that we plan, but he needs a couple minutes before
you start to set up his stuff, so that's why I told Tim.
Yeah, I can set up the camera.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay, great.
Okay.
And do people upstairs know what the 5.35 is?
I did text them.
Okay, great, great, great.
We can't start early?
We can't, but why not?
If it's if the room's full, right?
It's the class season, so if you can start early, if it's not, I don't want to take all the time.
Yes, yeah, I'm arrested.
You do look a bit arrested.
I'm being interrogated.
Yeah, JCS. JCS, I'm arrested.
Yeah.
So it's like having to talk to people while also like monitoring the chat and communicating
with the chat.
Yeah, I mean, I also don't really look at it that much normally, but there's not really,
you know, we're just chilling in here. That's why I'm looking at it. But they are usually
the first to be like, stop looking at your phone. Like they'll get annoyed if I'm doing
an IRL stream outside and I'm looking at my phone and I'm like, why are you looking at
your phone? It's like, to see what you're saying. Yeah, you know, crazy concept. I know,
like, it's like a pretty new thing to what like a few years old that people started doing
like IRL streams, right? Yeah, I mean, people have been doing it, but it definitely became
like way more popular and like, since post pandemic, I would say. We're gonna talk about
Yeah
Yeah, so we have to come here
No, I don't have a driver you'll think I'm like a normal person
No, I will I will call it
I'll call it over.
We haven't met a lot of people.
Yeah.
We stay inside.
I don't know what type of time you're on.
That's crazy.
You know, can we say that you're meeting up
with a particular political candidate?
Yeah, yeah, of course.
You can't.
He's an interesting guy, man.
I like him a lot.
What do you do?
Yeah.
Relation with him.
Yeah.
I've known of him for many, many years.
I also had my suspicions initially
because, you know, tech guy, very rich.
And I was like, what's his deal?
And a lot of people that I do respect vouch for him
that know him very well, including Ryan Grimm, who
he's an investigative reporter.
He used to work at the Intercept now.
He works at Dropsite.
He was with me in the Cuba trip, too.
But he wrote about him extensively on the book
we've got people, because he tracked the rise of the squad,
basically, and the populace left the first time around.
And Shoycott played a formative role in the AOC campaign.
He was the AOC's chief of staff.
He's running on that, yes.
Yeah.
Oh, he's putting that out there?
He's putting that out there, basically.
That's the main thing.
That and Bernie.
I think he was looking out for the AOC very closely.
On the selected, he said, like, I'm this racist, don't know.
And it was right before I pulled it.
Is it the same racist?
No.
How does he know?
That's what I thought he said.
I'm this racist.
Oh, this racist?
The thing is, he's a really good,
he's a really, really good national candidate.
Like, he has incredible policies.
If you look at his policy priorities,
he's a think tank, because he hasn't,
he's been doing this for a lot longer
than he's been running, right?
And him and another guy
were the architects
of the Green New Deal.
So like, they're policy wonks, but in a good way.
Not in like a annoying, you know, neoliberal way.
But he's a really good national candidate, but he has,
I feel like a lot of people in San Francisco
are not trusting him, especially the left.
Yeah, and they think-
He's money people over though.
He's money people over slowly, but you're like,
the concerns I think are really valid,
and he's gonna have to fight to change those minds.
I think the concerns I have with what you've got,
I think it's because he was a damn you know the exact number on what
I mean, his week was on my birthday constantly and I was like last time I got this new week
it was a billionaire.
Tom Sire?
$10 a year.
Oh.
Tom Sire?
Yeah.
I think he did get his hat when I'm watching Greys.
He likes real snare.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He sucks.
I know.
The billionaire savior has been trialed and social levels of government has failed.
No, no, this is different.
There's more trepidation than ever before to get it and you have a billionaire close to
a billion dollars.
No, this is different.
It's a big hill to climb for you as a candidate.
It's not like.
I think someone can surmount.
I think it's a propaganda piece like Tom Steyer.
Yeah, Tom Steyer is another guy.
You had obviously Michael Bloomberg.
You had, I mean, you have JV Pritzker, I guess,
is like an analog of success, but.
You have a guy named Donald Trump.
I forget.
No, he definitely is now.
But I always forget that Donald Trump was a billionaire
because he was like kind of fake.
Like he wasn't like a real billionaire, I don't think.
He definitely is now.
He definitely is now.
But yeah, but what I'm saying is like,
he is separate from his, you know,
centi-millionaire status.
He has been doing this work for a very long time.
Like he literally was like, he said,
when they set up the just Democrats,
who's like, there's this candidate that I really like.
Her name is Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
I'm gonna be your chief of staff.
I'm gonna leave this job because I think
this is gonna be like a pivotal politician
that might change American history, right?
And I feel like that's, you know, it says something
because we're looking at AOC now with like
today's perspective, it's very different
than, you know, taking a shot in the dark
on the bartender at the time that you think
is going to become like a fairly prominent American politician.
What's your stance on AOC now?
I like her.
I mean, she's good.
He's going to be the president, too.
Yeah.
I think, well, the thing is, I wish
that our left flank candidates were a little bit more bold
and unafraid to lead on issues.
And she does actually say the right things at times,
and she has outflanked Bernie Sanders quite a bit
on numerous occasions, especially Israel stuff, right?
But then when she gets yelled at
by the same groups that love yelling at me all the time,
I feel like she retreats a little bit.
Like, and you can't have that.
You just gotta push through and be like,
you gotta be a little bit unapologetic.
And a little bit like Donald Trump almost where you're like no, this is the right thing shut up
Yeah, yeah
No, but that's what I'm saying, I think I think there's an opportunity we'll see because no labels ran an ad
after this last like
week and a half of like
Hassan is a dangerous radical anti-semite smears that I've been getting and it's really
stupid of course obviously that's why you guys invited me here um yeah it's all gonna
be no but like what I was what I was trying to say is so when that happened um at first
I was like, oh, all of the usual suspects that normally would be asked, like, oh, well, you've
aligned with this person in the past, like, can you give a negative comment and like disassociate
from a son, um, which under normal circumstances, I think in a different media environment, they
would do that.
But like they asked Bernie, but he's like, no, he's like, no, he's great.
He's doing great work.
And I think it's because the, the media environment is very different now because like there was
so much back and forth about, you know, should Kamala Harris go on Joe Rogan? Is there a
Joe Rogan to the left? Like, there was so much of that. And in the cycle, in the aftermath,
in the fake autopsy that they try to conduct in public, where the deciding factor was Democrats
need to be a little bit more bold about like their messaging. It's too late for, you know,
of these like third-way style groups to now try and drive a wedge between people like myself
and the candidates that also embody and represent the movement that I represent, which is of course
anti-Semitism. I think you're 100% right. We established this. There's nothing back on that
so much, right? So it's like, and that's why we're all lost. All those minutiae decisions of
do we go on this podcast or do we go to the left, where do we align ourselves? What's the
the right message to say, if I go on subway, it takes what
takes your idea.
Like, all those little things, they fucked up on every single
one.
Yeah, but the people saw that.
So they see this person who's incredibly faked,
and they felt like she was Hillary 2.0, and it was valid.
And it's not going to work.
But also, are we ready to go?
Yeah.
All right.
And go off and make first, and then we'll
follow like two minutes.
I guess.
So I can talk about this.
Well, if you want to keep us in the kitchen,
the area may be yours.
Do you want to walk up while that's on?
Oh, yeah.
We can do that.
We can do that, too.
We'll just take a look.
OK.
We can just keep that on and we'll have it in the kitchen area.
Yeah.
There we go.
All right.
I don't want you to work into this outfit there.
For this outfit?
Yeah.
What outfit?
Like this operation.
He's asking, he's doing lawyer speed.
He's actually necklace a lot.
He's doing lawyer speed.
You don't have to answer that.
You know what, my client doesn't have a chance to talk.
I am pretty obsessed on that.
A long time.
That's what we were in a long and fruitful relationship.
That's what we're going to do because that's
a good idea.
You know what?
I'm sorry.
I think it's OK.
That's your out.
This is lawyer speak.
If you get a question, you don't know.
No, no.
So I'm really like, what is this like, you know, is this going to be like a trial or something?
It's going to be like a fucking trial.
I'm a big boy, we'll be fine.
Um, okay, well it's not very hidden.
Close that door or is it something?
It's not very hidden.
I'm gonna try to open that door to close.
Okay.
Um, I'm going to set up real quick.
Okay, go set up.
Okay.
Your mic is hot.
Alright, your mic is hot.
I know.
I will go through this way around.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's going great.
You don't have to worry about a thing.
You guys do a great job.
Okay, can I vlog some setting up and switching the lens with you, sir?
You, definitely.
You seem very cool, calm and collected.
Don't get me in the chat.
That's what I've been saying the whole time.
I'm like, wow.
So if I get in the chat, I think I'm talking to myself like a fucking crazy person.
Okay.
Also, we're gonna get flashbang right now. Chad's gonna put your glasses.
What did you think was gonna happen?
There are a lot of cops here. Who are you?
I don't know. I know what you guys are doing.
Alright, now it's dark. Prepare to get these planes cap on.
Stand by Chad. Don't be scared.
It's going to be okay.
You're going to be able to see him now if I can see him.
to
Trying to get him.
Oh god, it's so...
Great.
Okay.
Thank you for the warning.
You'll be alright.
Okay.
Sorry, I'm totally in your way, I bet.
I don't know the captain's face they gave me, but I guess you're going to get it.
I thought someone was gonna be serving me one of those chairs, so you know.
Mike is hot by the way.
So I forgot I was just gonna...
Yeah.
Excuse me, sir.
Excuse me. Excuse me, sir.
Hi.
Nice to meet you.
I'm just getting in behind you, sorry.
It's very nice to have you here.
Thank you for having me.
Um, who else wants this?
Um, yeah, whoever is going to be on stage with me, one of the two people.
You're going to be sitting right next to each other.
Okay.
Okay, is that going to be okay?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it'll be more than enough.
I'll put it in the camera.
That's what I'll do.
Perfect.
Right, Marge?
It'll be five from that distance?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Well, don't like click on it for now though, because it's hot.
Okay, got it.
So they'll hear it. Got it. If you like hit your ring or something. Okay. Thank you. No problem.
Appreciate that. I'll start the introduction remarks.
Do you want to maybe see right here is like a I could give you that signal you can open the door
Yeah, very Middle Eastern footwear. Oh, yeah
The Balbo shoes
No, things are fine as long as the Ottomans are reigning, it's good.
So, like, y'all might be coming back, though.
I think a little more Muslim rule may be going on.
We're going to rise again soon.
Sorry, you didn't hear that, Officer.
This is going to be a comedy, Alex.
Oh, it's muted.
I'm going to start by saying thank you.
Also, Hatch, I'm going to help you see who you are.
We are here to ask you guys to come.
So, Zachy, Zachy is a community and political organizer
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Before entering the criminal system, he's done several years of uniting progressive political
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chat. We're coming to you live from an undisclosed location. Yeah, we're very, very excited to
have world famous streamer Claveicular here with us today. The security presence we were
talking about this is really crazy. I think for security reasons I have to actually say
We're not in San Francisco, we're in a remote part of northern Canada.
Yeah, they actually did ask me to say that.
So I want to just tell you what the format's going to be really quick before we get started.
We're going to start with a moderated question and answer portion that is going to consist
of questions covering the current state of media and organizing, and of course leftist
organizing in the United States, and then discuss American foreign policy and global
geopolitics, focusing largely, of course, on Palestine and Iran as well.
And then we want to say at least half of our time, most of our time tonight, for our audience
question and answer so that we have so many amazing, very talented, young, leftist, future
lawyers in this room who I know are going to bring to heat when we get to that portion
of the evening.
So I will hand it to Kimia so that she can give us an advisement and get us started with
the question and answer.
Yeah, so I have a disclaimer that the use of university space doesn't imply acceptance or endorsement by the university
and or the school of law of the views expressed by any speaker or attendees.
But honestly, it shouldn't either way because this was fully organized by students and fucking poor students.
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We wanna give a big shout out to Hassan and his team.
They've been wonderful to work with.
Hassan is coming here out of the goodness of his heart
and donating his time.
All he fucking wanted was an iced coffee, so.
Yeah, I mean, I didn't even...
That was my team.
I didn't even know I had a rider.
Now that I know, I'm gonna ask for more cruel things.
You know what?
In the future.
Good place to start.
So our first question is related to modern shifts
in the media landscape.
How do you feel that this has impacted society's
information streams?
And how do you think that streaming podcasts
and the like have changed the flow of information?
And how do you see your role in light of this?
Okay, so I think it's both really good
for obvious self-serving purposes,
but also kind of devastating
because we no longer have consensus reality.
And I do think that the democratization of media
has played a formative role in that.
There are a lot of people who have no interest
or investment in identifying the truth at all.
And in many circumstances,
lean into bias narratives,
bias frameworks or just outright fabrications, right?
And we saw a little taste of that during COVID.
A lot of people were engaging in misinformation purely
for propaganda purposes or from a very self-interested
perspective to make themselves seem
like an independent voice.
And I think that there was a fissure in the way
that we identify things, the way that we communicate
with one another, in a way that I had never experienced before.
And we haven't really truly recovered from that.
But it's obviously also good because, let's be real,
a lot of legacy publishers are invested
in state department of deep, right?
No matter how independent legacy publishers
and mainstream media presents itself as,
and every now and then there's really investigative reporting
that happens in these outlets,
and they play a very important role in general
that I will not discount,
But when push comes to shove, when there
is a certain narrative, especially a narrative around,
let's say, a war that the American government is waging
for an adversary that we must disparage,
a lot of these outlets, almost in unison,
lean into specific narratives.
We saw this, obviously, in the aftermath of October 7,
with the way that the genocide of the Palestinians
was covered, oftentimes directly operating
as a stenographer, not only for the American State Department,
but also for the Israeli government as well.
And because of the democratization of media,
because of free flowing communication,
and because of the courage and resilience of the Palestinians,
Americans for the first time ever
were able to learn the truth about an apartheid that,
at that point had existed for 75 years.
And I don't think that would have ever happened.
That the, and now we're in 2026,
two and a half years after the fact.
And there's been a massive attitude shift.
I've been an anti-Zionist for the past 13 years
of my professional media career
and far longer beyond that.
And I never would have thought that there would come a day
where it was unconditional
that most people, especially under the age of 35,
but the majority of Americans,
majority of Westerners would recognize the truth
about what Israel was doing to the Palestinian population
and we have a negative attitude about Israel
and its actions in general.
And I think that is a testament to what can happen
when there are more media outlets
that people are relying on beyond mainstream news resources.
So there's the good and the bad.
The role I try to play in this is that I'm a bit of a media
demon.
I love, you know, I read a lot.
I rely heavily on legacy publishers.
I have a lot of great friends that
work in these newsrooms as well.
I've met a lot of brilliant investigative reporters
throughout my career and lean heavily into their reporting
as well, and I wouldn't be able to do what I'm doing
without them regardless, like without these major newspapers,
because I don't have millions of dollars
and thousands of employees around the world
and different bureaus, and I can't send people out
to cover certain leads, right?
So I lean heavily into that work that they put out there
and try to walk people through the regular experience
of consuming American media and Western media
while holding their hand and trying
to teach them media literacy from a very critical lens.
The way I see myself, the way I see what I do,
is I guess it's a complementary relationship
with existing publishers.
I wouldn't say that about a lot of other independent outlets.
Some are great.
You know, you have Zateo, Dropsite News.
You have people in the podcasting space,
people in the live broadcast space,
like Majority Report and many others.
But there is also obviously a lot of people who just kind of,
how do I put this lightly, make shit up.
And it just kind of lie or lean into biased narratives
and disseminate a lot of misinformation.
So a big part of what I do is also try to break down
how misinformation spreads as soon as breaking news
are unfolding, but I try to make sense
of this chaotic media landscape is how I would describe
what I'm doing.
Well said, man.
Unbelievably tall undertaking, right?
Making sense of this chaotic media landscape,
especially in this day and age.
I really appreciate that perspective.
Weighing the value of legacy media at a time
where it's dying in so many ways,
and how do you balance that with now all of these
new alternate forms of media?
And I think Palestine and the coverage of Palestine
that you discussed is a great measure
for how that landscape has shifted over the last three years
since October 7th, 2023.
And we're gonna get into Palestine a lot more,
But I have a question on the topic of the shifts that
have happened in the media landscape
and how radical the shifts are.
It's unbelievable to see legacy media and legacy media
mediums entirely just be absolutely gutted.
So thinking about streaming your medium
and how it has blown up in the last few years
and become this medium that has forced itself
to be taken seriously because it's the number one place
that so many people, especially young people,
are getting all of their information
and where they're developing the access,
exactly where they're developing their psychology
and their worldview.
And so I wanna ask you about the nature
of the streaming landscape,
especially from the perspective of young boys,
what some people call the manosphere, right?
Why in this space is there such an over-representation
of conservative voices from the political side,
voices that are promoting really alt-right
and ultra-conservative politics,
but even streamers that are not political,
like someone like Clevicular who was largely apolitical,
but is promoting this incredibly grim
and anti-social worldview,
and is getting so many thousands of young boys
and young men to watch that.
Why does the space have this huge content skew?
What does that say to you about the culture
and about your medium?
I mean, I think that's always existed.
Because when I first started doing this stuff
at the Young Turks, the space was still entirely dominated
by right-wing commentary.
I remember this was a Gamergate era,
like 2013 to 2016, where the overwhelming majority
of apolitical commentary content creators
were outright white supremacists.
It was crazy.
And there was not a lot of pushback either.
There wasn't really a market for any sort of like leftist
voices.
There was the lone, you know, the young Turks was there,
maybe a couple other outlets.
But are you talking about gaming streamers?
Yeah, not just streamers, because this
is like when the streaming space was just developing
for the first time.
about YouTube and all these other places where young men congregated on the internet.
It was even worse than it is now, ironically enough.
It's just crazy to think of anything worse than what it looks like right now in the media
landscape, but it certainly was.
You had Howard and the White Nationalists, race realists, people like that that would
go on the Joe Rogan experience.
Joe Rogan himself was the, he was basically the top of the funnel for a lot of this, what
we now know as the right wing rabbit hole, the all right rabbit hole.
So it's always been heavily dominated by right wingers.
And I think part of that is because the institutional right and its media arm has always been very
focused on on every medium that they can dominate so there's a lot of financial
investment as well it's not an accident that for example Ben Shapiro's
operation of the daily wire I mean he's fallen apart at this point but back in
the day back in his heyday was was initially propped up by the Wilkes
brothers these are two Texan oil barons they're also institutional investors and
you know, big Republican party boosters in general.
So there's always been a lot of cross-pollination
between legacy publishers on the right
and independent voices on the right.
One example I also point to all the time,
Charlie Kirk, who, you know, no longer with us,
but back when he was in 20s, I don't know.
You pointed up him, right?
But it's over for me.
We started around the same time in our, I guess,
media journey and our careers.
And he started off by going to Foster Freeze,
this Republican booster, and begging him for money
to set up a 501C4 operation, Turning Point USA,
so that he could basically do a Citizens United
in high school elections and college elections.
Like that was the original.
We read that case today in our constitutional law class.
Oh, cool to connect it.
Okay.
I'm a nerd.
I just wanted to find that one out.
But basically, that's what he initially wanted to do.
And for the longest time,
I mean, how did Charlie Kirk become famous, right?
He wrote a high school, for his high school newspaper,
He wrote an article complaining that a black woman had actually taken his face at West
Point Academy.
No evidence for this whatsoever, obviously he just completely made it up, but it was
exactly the type of like culture war piece that culture warriors were looking for, and
that piece was published on Breitbart, and I think in a matter of months, Charlie Kirk,
this high school graduate who didn't go to college, was already doing Fox News hits.
Like he was going on Fox News, so like Republicans have this much more sophisticated machine of like plucking talent
that they find wherever they can and and boosting them and the
institutional donors are the exact same and the machine is is far more
The ecosystem that they've created is is far more collaborative with like the independent side
So I think that's one of the the most
significant components as to why there's so much right-wing messaging on the
independent side of things because when you're inundated with that the algorithm
feeds more into it and then a lot of people who are simply trying to make a
name for themselves or looking at the algorithm realize that that is the type
of content and commentary that works so then they start repeating those
narratives even if they don't personally have an investment in like
reactionary commentary at all.
Well, can I ask you a follow-up to that?
Because why is it that the institutional right is so much
better at acknowledging that they need to build those bridges
with these kind of independent voices,
and that those independent voices are a necessary bridge
to this new young audience, where the left and the Democratic
Party separate from the left has so blatantly failed to do that?
I had the same question.
I feel like there's a lot of dissent
that is limited by these mainstream democratic party
like proponents who they refuse to acknowledge
or listen to the opinions of people on the left
who honestly represent not just a lot of young people
but a lot of the party.
It's a coalition that is failing
to address its coalition members.
They hear it and they tell us to shut up, right?
They say keep talking if you want more Trump.
And the best representation of that came with Palestine
when it was the last election,
they completely ignored a huge percentage of its voter base
and then tried to blame that voter base
for having that dissent.
So why do they suck so much?
Yeah, this is something I think about a lot.
And it's certainly top of mind for me in this past
like week and a half where a lot of the same organs
of the Democratic Party that are like desperately
clinging onto any sort of institutional relevancy
or institutional persuasive capabilities they have
are recognizing that they're losing that argument
because the masses are demanding a lot more from the party.
Third Way wrote this article, or this op-ed,
on Wall Street Journal.
For those of you who don't know,
Third Way is a neoliberal think tank
that is perhaps one of the most responsible
for the democratic failures that we've seen,
both with Hillary Clinton and Donald Harris.
They've been in operations since the Clinton era,
and they are the ones who are constantly telling
Democrats, like you have to go right-wing, you have to go more to the right, you have
to concede on right-wing culture war framing on on silly issues and hysteria
and moral panics that these right-wingers whip up because, God forbid, we
actually offer people any sort of you know material change or less populism.
We can't do that because our donors will be offended. So they represent the
interest of billionaires and corporations, and they've been fairly successful in making
sure that the Democratic Party also represents those interests.
So this is a much larger issue within the party infrastructure, and to simply put it,
it's because our world view in the base, and what a lot of Democrats, even self-identifying
liberals want out of the party is directly at odds with what the party is
willing to do. Because at the end of the day, and this is a little reductive, but
yeah it's a little reductive, but the Democratic Party and the Republican
Party have an assortment of different corporate interests that they represent,
and they're both capitalist parties. And it's not like a hidden secret, they
open you say it, right? On numerous occasions they've signed off on
Messaging bills overwhelmingly that that disavow
Communism socialism and the like it's really stupid when Democrats do it because they're gonna call you a communist anyway
Point on Nancy Pelosi from this area is the number one communism the United States of America for years
Signing off on these like messaging bills that say she's not a communist
And how communism is devastating whatever but but it's true
So the Democratic Party is a capitalist party.
They engage in what I call consensus politics.
There's consensus when it comes to health care, for example.
Health care must remain privatized.
Now if you were asked the base of the Democratic Party,
do you think health care should be private or socialized?
The overwhelming majority would say socialized medicine.
Every other OACD nation has it.
Why can't we have it?
We're the wealthiest nation on earth.
And even beyond the base of the Democratic Party,
the overwhelming majorities of Americans would sign on to something like Medicare for All.
It's part of the reason why Bernie Sanders was so successful and still is so popular.
Republicans still?
Yeah, Republicans as well.
But there's consensus politics there.
So the Democrats are actually antagonistic towards anyone that is willing to caucus the Democrats,
or self-identifying as a Democrat, that is actively demanding Medicare for All.
because that goes against their interests,
because the politicians' interests
is to remain in power.
And in order to remain in power,
they just sit there and collect checks
from the lobbying arm of these assortment of corporate interests.
And if they were to actually follow through on campaign
promises that they make, that would
require them to go against the wishes of their corporate
benefactors, their donors.
That's the primary constituency that they care about,
not necessarily the actual voters,
which is why there is this divergence
between people like myself as a representation of the masses
and their needs and their desires
and what the Democratic Party wants to communicate.
And for the longest time, they've
been able to gatekeep information.
They've been able to gatekeep who gets
to be ordained as a spokesperson for the Democratic Party,
as a spokesperson that is representative of the voters
as well, because you'd go on MSNBC, you'd go on CNN,
maybe you get a profile in the New York Times or whatever.
But ultimately, it was much easier
to control the dissemination of information.
It was much easier to whip the base into support,
especially with harm reduction narratives,
which is like the only tool that they have in the tool belt,
which is technically correct.
In theory, harm reduction is correct.
But it is demonstrably a failure for driving out a turnout
and winning elections.
And we've seen that with other things.
We saw that with Kamala Harris.
But at the end of the day, the reason
why the Democrats don't have the same cross pollination
in their media ecosystem as the Republicans do
is because no matter how far right you go,
all the way to Niququentes, all the way to white nationalism,
like power and about white nationalism and racism,
There isn't as much friction with someone like Nick Fuentes.
There isn't much of a difference to the worldview
with someone like Nick Fuentes and what he represents
versus someone like Donald Trump, the current president,
as opposed to someone like myself.
Obviously, I'm not making a moral equivocation here
between myself and Nick Fuentes,
contrary to what the Jewish insider said.
That's what people expected you to do.
Yeah.
If you ask a third way and all of the other centrists,
the right-wing Democrats and what they've been writing.
I'm exactly like them, for some reason.
And discernible.
Yeah.
But I am antagonistic to the way the Democratic Party wants
to present itself.
And it's not for electoral purposes.
It's simply because they don't want to overpromise.
and offend their donors.
That's the real reason, because I truly
believe that if Democrats were, for example,
leading on the issue of Israel, which is what the base wants,
it's a 90-10 issue, if every single Democrat
was responsive to the needs of their base of support,
every single Democrat would be out and about being like,
we have to cut off all aid to Israel right now, tomorrow.
We have to punish Israel.
We have to make sure that Israel's Punish for committing a genocide is a heinous crime
and we have to bring Israel to heel.
That's the argument that the base wants from the Democrats and yet if you were to look
at the actual party, the representatives, the senators, they don't represent the interests
of the base at all.
It's 90-10 on the opposite direction where 90% of Democrats are still trying to figure
you're out of way to communicate on this issue
without offending donors,
without offending the previous sensibilities
on this issue.
And to your point, they give us the exact same thing
that the Republican party gives us.
So your point about Nick Fuentes
and the equivocation between you and him
is very well taken because it's very true.
It comes down to class, right?
A guy like Nick Fuentes is saying very different things
than you are, but you're appealing to people
who have the same ultimate interests
and whose enemy is a common one,
which whether it's, they think it's the Republican Party
or the Democratic Party, it's the same enemy
that represents the same interests,
which are diametrically opposed to you,
regardless of whether you wear a red hat
or I stand with her t-shirt, right?
So I'm gonna, give me a little bit of time.
I was like, are you calling the cops?
It's class.
No, I agree 100%.
I think another thing, like going off of this
is talking about like the successives
or home on Donnie's campaign in New York.
Obviously, you were a supporter of his.
You were there when he was elected.
I think progressive politics took a shift
and wanted to basically take a lot of what was successful
from that campaign and distill it into theirs
across races in this country.
We see it happening here in San Francisco.
We see it happening in many other races.
There was a big social media aspect to his campaign,
obviously, well-produced videos that were catered to young
people running around doing things like subway takes
in every different like social media influencer show
under the sun, but he also went out and spoke to people.
Do you think that Zohran's success
is able to be replicated in other places,
or do you think it's because of his charisma
and unique policies?
And what can the left do to get more Zohran's,
not just say that they are Zohran?
That's a great question.
So, I love Zohran, I love his team.
There are a lot of people that are in my community that worked on the campaign, both as like door knockers, but also directly with Zoran as well.
And I'm afraid I'm going to have to say that it wasn't just the social media.
And they're the first to admit that as well. I mean, they're brilliant. They're super talented.
But the reality of the matter is it wasn't even like unique to Zoran's charisma.
I mean, he is charismatic, he's very affable, he's a wonderful guy, he's a real schmoozer, right?
No, I'm telling you, like 100%, he makes you feel very special.
And I'm sure that that's how he was able to raise up Donald Trump as well.
But he's not, like, I mean, he has a lot of talent.
But the real reason why I think Zoran won
was because he identified himself with,
he went out, he asked people, what do you need, right?
And he identified five key policies that were achievable
and he chose to identify himself with those five policies.
And he set that standard.
And he said, I am going to materially improve your lives
and here's how I'm gonna do that, right?
And that is, in some ways, that should not be unique at all.
But unfortunately, in this day and age,
in American politics, that is the most unique thing.
It's one I've been trying to get other politicians
on board with for years at this point.
So I was very excited when I first met him.
I was like, he was doing exactly what I've been
demanding other politicians do,
but that was the main reason why Zoramumdani won.
It's great that he's following through
and doing sewer socialism,
showing what competent governance is supposed to look like,
what responsive governance is supposed to look like,
and build confidence back,
not only in the party, but also be a movement leader
in that regard to make people more comfortable
with the idea of a socialist elected
to no longer be fearful of that moniker.
But ultimately, we can have Zoran's everywhere.
There are Zoran's everywhere.
We just have not been able to unlock their potential yet.
There are, where are you pointing at me?
Yeah, no, I'm agreeing with you very strongly.
No.
There are, yeah, I mean, that's the dream, right?
Let a thousand Zoran's bloom.
That's precisely what I want to do.
But there are a lot of institutional hurdles, as I have seen thus far in this primary cycle.
I have a lot of candidates that I'm working with right now.
There are a lot of people who are aware they did not want Zoran to be the mayor.
And they put Cuomo up and backed him pretty heavily and still failed.
And the way I see it is a lot of Democratic Party donors were never really fearful of
Zoran failing, like winning and then failing and then being a national figurehead for the
Democratic Party that the Republicans would use to attack the rest of the Democrats.
That's the way they presented, right?
No, they were afraid that he was going to be successful.
And then the base was going to be like, why don't you do that?
You know?
Why not Daniel Lurie?
Why aren't you like Zoran?
What the fuck are you doing?
He's the question.
What the fuck are you doing?
Yeah.
That's connected.
Selling us down the rivers, what do you say?
No, but that's what I mean.
When people see that, when people see Soron
Mungani doing another one of his videos,
and he's like, I'm filling all the potholes in the city,
isn't that awesome?
And then people look at the potholes
that exist everywhere here, and they're like, well,
why can't you do that?
He's done it in New York.
Because Larry's at the new opening of some really bougie
coffee shop, talking about we're so happy that the ninth
location has opened.
or the new Taco Bell kids.
New Taco Bell kids, you can get a boozy slushie,
a Baja blast.
That's a great point, and I think how crazy it is though
that what you're describing that Zohan did,
and that you're trying to get other candidates to do,
is just have an actual policy platform.
That's what we're saying, is to give us tangible policies
that work for us, that allow working class people
to live lives of dignity, and have access
the basic requirements to survive in this late-stage capitalist world that we're living in.
And it's like, it's fantastical to say, please have a policy platform.
I want to move now to talk about something that you touched on earlier, actually,
which is the state of objective truth in the present day.
day, I think we're living increasingly in a post-objective truth era, which started largely
during Trump's first campaign, but I remember in those days that there would be these really
outlandish lies that would get peddled, like I remember Kellyanne Conway coming out and talking
about a Bowling Green massacre, for instance, and it was a humongous story, and there was huge
outcry, like how could this person, who's a high-ranking official in Trump's team,
just completely make something up.
And now, in Trump's second term, almost 10 years later,
we're slapped in the face with lies that are that bold
on a daily basis and we're completely desensitized to it.
And what's also happened in that time
is the proliferation of AI tools and generative AI,
which has really impacted and exacerbated this reality
or lack thereof that we're living in
where when you see content now,
you literally don't know if it's,
if you don't know if the video you're looking at
or the audio you're hearing is true or false,
you also don't know if the content being said.
If it is a real video, it's true or false.
I just saw it, I don't know if you saw this a few days ago.
The White House posted about an app,
a White House app that they're releasing,
and a lot of people think that the video Trump
peddling this White House app is an AI video.
I don't know if people have seen this,
it's like, it's very trippy, though.
It does appear, I mean, I watched it,
and Trump posted it, and the White House posted it,
and I think of myself as a fairly reasonable person,
And I don't know if it's AI, it really looks like it could be.
So what do we do?
And you as somebody with a platform trying
to bring truth to people, how does the public reconcile
this new reality we're living in when it comes to the nature
of truth and the inability for us to know what the hell is
true and what ain't?
My policy is to be as stubborn as possible
and just be as hardheaded as possible
and just keep yelling at people
when they come in with fake nonsense.
At least that's what I do.
Is that offends the sensibilities of a lot of people,
unfortunately, but I think that's what has to happen.
Like someone has to shake some sense into people
because there are a lot of,
I mean, there's confirmation bias,
a very powerful feeling.
So a lot of people will lean into confirmation bias
and will look at things that correspond to however they feel
about the world and will assume that they're real
and won't check it.
So one of the things that I try to educate people on
is like if there's a narrative that feels too good to be true,
you should be extra skeptical of that
and really confirm whether or not it actually is true.
Right? I mean, we saw an example of this with the quote-unquote fake assassination of Benjamin N'Yahou
for like the past month. There's been a lot of chatter on whether or not Benjamin N'Yahou is dead.
Is he dead?
What do you mean?
No.
So I don't know.
But that's what I mean. It's like, a lot of people are interesting and they think like,
Oh, it'll be, you know, it's not me, of course.
I am agnostic on whether or not Benjamin is dead or not.
Yes.
I have no feelings on the map, but,
see, I don't want to get you in trouble.
I think I'm good.
Okay.
I just want to.
This is why she's the disclaimer,
because like this is not the opinions of the university.
I said what I needed to say.
Yeah.
Why should we check the university's official stance
on whether or not Netanyahu's dead or alive?
I don't know if they have one.
But a lot of people were like...
I think they have seen it.
People have?
I know.
They're telling me to stop.
Sorry.
Well, my point was that people wanted it to be true.
So they were like picking apart all of the videos that were coming out.
I mean like, what a lot of people don't realize is there's a...
There's a concept called artifacting when you compress videos at the breast-foot age.
footage and then there's also a lot of editing tools that make certain videos
look like it's AI when it's not actually AI. So people get duped into
believing that the videos that were being revealed of Benjamin and now were
actually AI because there were certain parts of it that you know looked
strange. What's that called? Artifacting. Yeah it's when I mean if you compress a
video and then decompress it or like post it sometimes there's gonna be like
weird visual frame rate. Weird visual quirks.
Or like a hand having six fingers.
Yeah, well that is a little bit more strange.
It's definitely a telltale fun.
Yeah, I don't think that the Benjamin and Yaw video even had six fingers anyway.
But the point is, see, when this kind of stuff spreads around
and there's a lot of people that are motivated to believe it,
bit, then it just, it almost becomes the truth itself. And I try to, I, sorry to disappoint
you, but.
Just two plus two is five.
Yeah. I, you know, I try to maintain some semblance of the truth, the best in my ability, in spite
of whatever my biases may be. And, and even when it's a, when it's a narrative that doesn't
actually soothe my propagandistic purposes, I will still, you know, I will still
commit to the truth regardless, no matter what. And I feel like someone
has to do it. And even if it's not, even if it doesn't favor you, even if it is
not beneficial for you, I think you still have to commit to it regardless.
Because, like I said, otherwise there's no consensus reality.
Absolutely. And that's what I'm afraid of. So I really appreciate that.
I guess all we can do is what you're doing, maintain integrity in ourselves and remain objective even when it doesn't favor us.
And if enough people do that, we'll hopefully be safe.
Yeah, I agree. So I want to talk a little bit about the Iranian situation.
So I'm a first generation Iranian born in this country, the daughter of immigrants as mentioned earlier.
So what's going on in Iran has been obviously very impacted
by the influence of media and the lack thereof.
So certain narratives are getting to come out of Iran.
Certain narratives aren't able to come out of Israel
or other US bases.
And with the Iranian regime having such a tight control
over the internet situation there,
it's created a lot of discourse within both leftist
communities and the Iranian diaspora.
So I know that it's been such a frustrating situation
where there's this huge Iranian Zionist diaspora
like population who has been parroting
for the return of the Shah son
who literally never had a political career
in his life, riding his dad's coattails
and his own mother didn't think that he should be a leader.
And then they're all supporting him, Israel supporting him.
And then there's also a valid criticism of the regime
that's getting suppressed by leftist communities.
And they're saying that, oh, Iran's fighting Israel,
which that's a positive thing.
We are not gonna criticize the regime,
and if you criticize the regime, you're Zionist.
So how do you make sense in your conversations
about the Iranian situation?
Because as somebody who is anti-war,
but also anti-regime, it is very difficult
to see so many narratives say that if you're one,
you're not the other or vice versa.
So how do you make sense of this?
How do you think that the war is going to play out?
Do you see any situation that there's
going to be the return of the Shah?
I mean, personally, no.
No.
For all of his failures, I think Trump
is pretty good at figuring out what works when he does end up
successfully doing some sort of regime change.
I mean, we saw this with Maria Machado,
where he recognized that there wasn't any real popular
mobilization for Maria Machado in Venezuela.
So he kidnapped Maduro, which was insane in and of itself.
But he did that regardless.
And that's a thing that we are doing now.
He's literally in an American prison right now,
just a foreign head of a sovereign state.
And he decided to work with Delcey Rodriguez,
which was more pliant, but still someone who, I guess,
resembles the popular base for the Shavistas,
like a continuation of that same movement.
So he's more pragmatic than I'd like to give him credit.
And for that reason, I don't think he, I mean,
I think he recognized pretty early on that the Resapolivy
thing was like, no, this guy doesn't have the motion.
So I don't think that's going to happen.
As far as the Iranian government goes,
it's a brutal government, certainly.
Having said that, I have personally maintained the position
that for number one, I think if there's any sort of movement,
it has to be born from the Iranian population
without external influence.
That's true.
It's a, there's a, there's a Chinese saying that I've been repeating as of late, which
is when an egg is cracked from the outside, it becomes food.
When an egg is cracked from within, it brings life.
So unfortunately the, unfortunately all of the external influences sometimes directly
like openly communicated, like in the last round of protests
that took place in the country, is always
going to lead to even more ruthless suppression
from the government, because it gives them a just cause
to be as ruthless as possible.
And there's also the obvious interest
in maintaining sovereignty as well.
Because no matter how brutal or how ruthless a government is,
and I use my own personal experience with the Turkish
government and country, I can't even go back to.
for my commentary, my coverage, and the things
that I've written about the Turkish government,
a coup had taken place, an American-backed coup
had taken place in Turkey.
And at that point, I was fully in support
of the Turkish government maintaining
some semblance of sovereignty rather than the coup succeeding,
and then Turkey being led by an American CIA puppet
by the name of Fiddam-Leht-Yudem.
So my attitude on Iran is similar in the sense
that while the Iranian government, the Islamic Republic,
might be repressive in many ways in order for Iran
to not be vulcanized and cut apart
by endless sectarian conflict and ethnic tensions that
are being actively fomented by outside groups, countries
like Israel and the United States of America,
the government has to remain sovereigns for the time being
for this duration, and hopefully down the line,
the Iranian people can make their demands be heard.
But as far as why I'm not as critical as others would be
on the Iranian government as I would be in other circumstances,
that's the main reason.
I do feel like the American goals and the Israeli goals
from the start were pretty obvious.
They were different from one another.
I think America would be fine with regime change,
like a client government.
It doesn't really matter who it is.
You still be the Islamic Republic.
I don't think America would care that much,
but Israel very clearly did not want a sovereign Iran,
or even an Iran that would be an American puppet,
as long as their ballistic missiles could reach Tel Aviv.
That's what their goal was,
and they knew that they weren't gonna be able
to reach a compromise, and they very clearly
wanted to just create a failed state in this country
with thousands of years of history,
with 93 million people living in it.
And Israel's very clearly trying to disrupt
that process right now.
Every time Donald Trump comes out and practically
begs for an off-ramp before immediately turning around
and being like, we're going to destroy Iran.
Because every now and then, you'll hear and be like,
Oh, they really want to do a deal with me.
Which is, Trump speak for,
I really want to do a deal with you guys, please.
This straight up foremost thing is really messed up.
Israel will go and assassinate another figure,
or they'll blow up a desalination plan
and like greatly go up the escalation ladder.
And I think there's a purpose for that,
and that's because they don't want any talks to happen,
and they want this to continue.
They don't care if the gulf is diminished,
as a matter of fact, it actually benefits them, right?
And they just want to bring about complete destruction,
complete chaos in the region, because Iran,
for all of its faults and failures internally,
for all of its domestic problems,
has been a sovereign force in the region
that is shown time and time again
that it has the capabilities of pushing back against Israel.
And that's sort of a sovereign force.
Yeah, right.
There's no other force.
I share your perspective entirely on the Iranian regime.
As a Palestinian who's seen this play out time and time
again, it's shocking to see the American public buy
into this narrative again that maybe America
can go in and save Iran and save the Iranian people.
So I'm with you.
It's disrespectful to the sovereignty of other nations.
And it's this American hubris and arrogance.
We tried it in Iraq.
We tried it in Afghanistan.
And these many, many, many other places too.
And many, many, many other places too.
It's just horrible to support.
And you have to be able to, I think, compartmentalize,
as you say.
Your qualms that you have with the existing regime,
with also the knowledge that history
has proven that America toppling said regime
will result in way more destruction and chaos
and instability for the local people that will then
last for generations to come.
And ironically, the biggest irony for me
is every critique that the American public,
white liberal people have about Iran and why it's so important
that we go in and provide freedom for these Iranian women,
you can make the exact same critique
about the American government.
Yet the concept of suggesting that Iran should come in
and liberate America is science fiction.
So I want to ask about Palestine now, if that's OK.
And we do want to move to audience questions.
So we'll do that as quickly as we can.
But we have one question about organizing
from the perspective of Palestine.
I am Palestinian.
We have a beautiful contingent of Palestinian delegates here
with us as well.
And in 2023, after October 7, I was
part of a coalition of activists in San Francisco
that we were doing so much work to try to raise awareness
and do what groups all over the country
and all over the world were doing, going out.
and organizing huge marches and rallies
that had literally dozens of thousands of people turning out.
One of the things we did was we advocated
to the local board of supervisors in San Francisco
to pass a resolution condemning
the Israeli military offensive on Palestine,
that iteration that began on October 7th.
And it was successful.
We had the board of supervisors pass a resolution
that at least called for a ceasefire.
This was before anyone in the world was calling it a genocide.
So the bar was lower.
But it was in early December of 2023.
And San Francisco, because of that work that we did,
became the first major city in the US
to pass the ceasefire resolution.
And at the time, myself and other local Palestinian activists
and community felt a sense of elation and pride
about this symbolic victory that had been had.
But with time and with so much more effort and energy
that was invested, despite these incredible turnouts
and despite seeing this, which was very inspiring,
global movement of acknowledgement
for Palestinian human rights like we had never imagined,
as you mentioned earlier, I never would have imagined
that such a shift in the cultural collective consciousness
was possible, and it did happen.
But it was all symbolic.
And while all of that work was being done remotely,
the situation on the ground for Palestinians
not only did not improve, it became materially worse.
And to this day, it has continued
to become materially worse.
And so I started to feel early on
into the last three-year stretch a lot of disillusionment
and disassociation, and frankly, kind of subconsciously
stepped back from advocacy because of the disillusionment
I felt the lack of real impact.
So I want to ask you, what are your thoughts
on the value of remote advocacy that
does a lot to change hearts and minds
and has these symbolic victories that I speak of?
But while the material situation on the ground
for people that are victims of genocide
and victims of imperialism are not changing at all,
what is the role of that advocacy
And what is the role of violent resistance?
So great question.
I would say that you should never discount the awareness
initiatives in general.
I think that's still very important because, remember,
we're going up against a multi-billion dollar behemoth
that had a very sophisticated, very pervasive,
influence-headling mechanism that
has dominated American discourse from organs of propaganda
and the media all the way to an advocacy network
and even a lobbying arm that has been
able to successfully change American laws that even
contradict the First Amendment.
You guys know you're in law school,
but there's 38 states where the First Amendment is directly
violated at the behest of APEC, at the behest of a foreign nation
where you have to do a loyalty pledge
to the state of Israel pretty much
to retain a job, right?
Just coming to California.
In Texas, yeah, in California too.
In Texas, if you wanna be a public school teacher,
you have to literally sign a pledge
that says you will never boycott, divest,
or demand sanctions from the state of Israel.
It's unbelievable.
Americans fancy themselves to love
for the First Amendment.
Yeah, so it's totally ridiculous,
but the reason why I say you shouldn't discount it
because like in spite of all of that, in spite of these great odds, like we have
been able to penetrate collective consciousness in a very meaningful way.
Now of course that's not enough. I think a lot of people, one, don't realize what
other steps that they can take in this moment. That's why we say like boycotts,
divestments, and sanctions, like demanding boycotts, demanding divestments, and
demanding sanctions from the state of Israel is the bare minimum that we can
and do, which is why we should still continue to push for that, regardless of how many institutional
hurdles are presented, because that is a very successful way, I think, to decouple institutions
that were a part of, from the state of Israel, from the apartheid state that is conducting
a genocide currently also displacing a million plus Lebanese people in southern Lebanon,
hasn't stopped doing it at all. And I think slowly but surely we chip away at that. And
we continue our advocacy that way. Obviously change is not going to happen overnight. So
at least in my experience, like the very fact that broad awareness has changed, like that
That gives me a lot more confidence and inspires me to do more because I don't know, I think
about nihilism, I talk about this all the time, but it's very disheartening to work tirelessly
towards a goal and then to not achieve it, especially when you're seeing your loved
ones or people that you care about perish in the hands of this uncontrollable violent
entity. And then I start thinking about Rabbi Shamoli. And I think to myself, if I gave up,
he'd be really happy. So if you can't find it within yourself, if you can't simply hold
on to victories, no matter how minor it may seem, right? Then let's spite, breathe more
life into your movement, you know, and that's what keeps me going for the weak moments.
Just think about rap by Schmooley.
You hear that Schmooley? We ain't going anywhere.
Yeah. Think about Michael Raffa for it.
Dude, oh my god, the worst. That guy sucks.
Yeah. See? It's already happening.
Yeah, no, it's a great point.
I agree with you entirely.
I agree with you entirely.
Thank you for those words.
So I think to close out our pre-planned questions,
we're getting to a more optimistic note,
which I think we're already naturally leaning into.
So we have a lot of future lawyers here,
maybe in the chat too.
So what is your message for future lawyers
and what they can do specifically
with the privilege of skills that we've obtained
through this specific type of education
and obtaining a JD and navigating the world in this way,
what can we do to make the world a better place?
It's a tough one, but I mean,
I mean, work pro bono with people that are less privileged,
you know, going to become a,
I see public counsel for people,
and I guess try to do your very best.
Don't go into corporate law.
Those are the things that I would say, and then outside of that, I mean, a lot of people
will go into law, but then will potentially have ambitions of going into politics as well.
So just remember your first principles and always try to lead by empathy if you are to
do such a thing.
You are to go into politics eventually.
And try to make the world a better place.
Well said, brother.
I have a lot of other questions I want to ask you.
I'm already going to get expelled, as it is.
And we want to make sure we have time for everybody.
So we're going to turn it over and let the folks take
the rest of our time to comment and question.
So this is how this part is going to work, y'all.
Just for this taking time, I'm going
to have you ask your questions from where you are sitting,
if you're standing.
I'm going to take a sec, and I'm going to give you a number.
If you have a question, raise your hands.
Then when I give you a number, put your hand down
so that I can collect the number.
And please make sure your question is a question
and not a comment, okay?
All right, who has questions?
Raise your hand up each side, up each side, up each side.
And remember your number because I'm not reading it out.
Okay, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
And if you think of a question, why this is happening,
I'm still taking stuff on my notes.
Just look at me, raise your hands,
and I will give you a number.
I'm going to hand it to you.
Start?
Yeah.
Hi, I'm Shada.
Something that I really believe in
is education rehabilitation, something
that I do for a while now.
And this is something that is very rare when
there is a rise in the cancel culture
and like formative progressiveness.
And this has led you to be called anti-Semitic racist,
homophobic, homophobic, sexist even, right?
And I was wondering why do you think that that's the response
to the label someone who tried to completely discredit
who they are on their platform?
I think, well, as far as like why people call me those things,
it's because they can't actually argue against the positions
that I advance on moral terms.
So they have to disparage the messenger instead.
It's a common tactic, it's a very cynical one,
but it does actually have a lot of success.
Why does it have a lot of success?
Because Americans have a very draconian culture.
We're very punitive people in general,
and I think that attitude carries itself
into our daily lives as well.
We don't believe that people have the capacity to change,
even if we know people that have changed,
even if we have changed ourselves on certain positions, right?
But I think that's what it is.
We're constantly seeking to punish people.
We have a little cop in our brains at all times,
and I always tell people that you try to kill the cop
in your brain to stop behaving in that way.
But I think that's what it is.
It was number two.
I'm gonna pass around this little thing
So we can hear you.
So my name is Ruben.
I am involved with Association of Law and Political Economy,
where a national organization of legal professionals
with the focus on applying a leftist analysis to the law.
Immediately, I'm kind of asking this question
to kind of plug them.
If you're a leftist in law school, join.
But I think a lot about the first day came for the communists.
And I feel like once it gets to that point,
once they've manufactured enough consent to come
for the communists, it's too late.
We're fucked.
And so I think it's really important for the left
to inextricably embed themselves into community
as much as possible.
We see with every election, there's a lot of power
in being the guy that people want to grab a beer with.
So I guess my question, but at the same time,
we should be unmistakably leftist.
So I guess my question, the two questions is,
can we cultivate that idea that we are members
of the community, or is leftism too radical to be members
of non-political communities.
Second, can we force them to televise a revolution?
So first question, yes, you can and you should.
That's why I always tell, because my audience,
to be normal.
Because it's very powerful.
And I think a lot of people actually
don't realize how powerful that social function is.
One example I always use is, at least from my trans fans and friends, from their personal
experiences, the greatest way to undermine transphobic propaganda that's pretty much
everywhere is just by being a chill co-worker.
At least from their perspective, that's where they've seen the most success, where they're
just working in an Amazon facility.
These guys that normally consider to be chuds are, you know, they vibe, they talk about
sports and whatnot, and then slowly but surely they realize that they were simply inundated
with so much stereotyping and so much propaganda, and that's the reason why they had these sorts
of opinions about what it is to be trans, right?
And the same thing goes for being a leftist, to be a normal person.
Not everything has to be revolutionary.
Not every conversation has to revolve around
a principled demonstration of Marxist orthodoxy.
And as a matter of fact, you should never do that.
You should just be a normal guy
and try to sneak in certain points of view
into your conversation if you wanna
to gauge the interests of people around you.
I think that's what good organizers
to also tell you, and that's precisely what good union
organizers would do as well, like when you're salting a place,
I don't think you go in and immediately you're like,
how are you doing, fellow workers?
Let me tell you about the power of collective bargaining.
Like, you just grab a couple beers
and talk about TV shows or whatever, just be a normal person.
As far as your second question goes,
Can we force a revolution to be televised, as you said?
Probably not.
I don't know.
I mean, maybe.
There is a lot of power in propaganda.
I'd say that propaganda is very important.
It's the backbone of instilling class consciousness,
what I try to do.
And I think there are a lot of other sympathetic figures
in places that you would not even expect.
And they try to do their very best as well.
But as far as television and mainstream culture,
it's still heavily propped up by capital owners.
So I guess if you make good content that makes them money,
they don't care.
And you can maybe get best hope for that.
But as far as institutionalized socialist messaging
coming from the likes of CNN, communist news network.
I don't think that's going to happen any time soon.
Who was the third question?
Yeah.
I was watching a past stream of yours
where you were discussing October 7.
And the topic of the UN's report of sexual violence committed
by Hamas came in.
And I think your exact words were,
I don't fucking care about the rapes.
Would you mind explaining why you said that?
Yeah.
I said, it doesn't matter whether sexual violence took
place on October 7 or not.
That doesn't change the dynamic for me around genocide.
And that's still something that I stand by.
It's a quote that people try to weaponize against me
with regular frequency.
But I don't think you would disagree with that sentiment,
right?
feel like sexual violence happening? Is there justification for genocide?
No, I don't, but I also think like in a room where there's future prosecutors and
public defenders that are going to go into victims advocacy, purporting that
it's that you don't care about sexual violence happening is very dangerous.
Okay, but you but now that you understand the context of it you you
understand what I was saying, right? Because there was a person who was actually claiming
that there was no evidence for sexual violence taking place at all. And the argument in the
much broader context was me saying whether or not sexual violence has taken place does
not change the dynamic or does not justify genocide taking place. I think that's a fairly
reasonable critique, right? Or I don't know, do you think Israel committed a genocide?
Maybe you have an issue with that as well.
So victims are collateral damage in pursuit of the greater good.
Do you think Israel committed a genocide?
If you don't mind me asking?
Well, why aren't you staying on topic, on the question that I asked you?
This isn't a topic. You asked me a question.
I'm asking you so we can have a normal conversation.
Do you think Israel committed a genocide?
I do, and I also think that minimizing reason is wrong.
Do you think that the sexual violence taking place on October 7 would justify Israel's genocide,
or do you think genocide is unjustifiable?
I think it's not a dichotomy.
Okay.
So where do we go from here?
So we're in agreement.
I thank you for your explanation.
I just wanted to know why you said
that you did not care about rape.
Okay.
Do you feel like I explained it thoroughly?
Yeah, thank you.
Okay, no problem.
That was beautiful.
Hi, I'm Daniel.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you, Dan.
As someone who, I'm Iranian and Jewish,
my family had to leave because of the Iranian Revolution.
And a lot of my, on my mother's side,
a lot of my mother's family are all Zionists.
For some reason, have this larger connection with Israel
than they do their own country.
And it's something that my sister.
We're very close to Beverly Hills.
Yeah, I'm from LA.
So yeah.
It's like my sister and I have talked about it so much,
especially with like that side of the family
and trying constantly to convince them
that like their thinking is wrong.
And I guess my question is generally is just like,
at what point do we say like, you're just hopeless.
I can't deal with you anymore versus like,
I'm gonna still try to like convince you of this.
In my opinion, just fact that like what they're doing
It's just objectively horrible and wrong.
That's a great question.
I think I have a policy of never giving up on people.
But I also, like I said earlier, try
to commit to being normal as well.
So sometimes those two things are at odds with one another.
And what I would suggest is to stay in contact
with your loved ones and your relatives
and just like try to avoid that topic,
or maybe slowly broach into that topic every now and then,
just check in with them to see where they're at.
Because as the situation changes,
as it becomes increasingly more obvious
that Israel has no emancipatory interest
in liberating the Iranian population at all,
I think your relatives are probably going to have
to make up their minds on this,
or maybe change their opinion on this.
But some might not.
Because I do think, at least in my experience,
with people that I do know from Tehrondilus that identify more
with Israel, there is almost a sense of shame, I think,
with being Iranian.
That's why they say they're Persian, not Iranian.
There is this attitude.
And it's really interesting because some of the conversations
I have are fascinating, where they'll
tell me about how they get stopped at airports.
And they get stopped at airports because they're
perceived as Muslim.
They're Iranian, they're perceived as Muslim,
they're perceived as a threat.
And yet, they lean into that same exact attitude
when it comes to destroying Iran and think
that they will be perceived in a very different way.
So I guess maybe trying to exhaust that contradiction
could be helpful as well, in terms of being like,
they don't see you as a part of the aim group.
And Israel certainly doesn't care about what
happens to Iran.
I mean, they're pretty open about it.
So that could be one way of trying
to have that conversation.
Especially because like, whether you identify as Persian
or Iranian, it doesn't matter.
like there's still thousands of years of culture
in this country, right?
And I'm sure there's a lot that they identify with
regardless and having, you know,
like watching these like world-renowned,
very important cultural monuments get bombed out
with American weapons, with Israeli weapons,
is hopefully going to change their perspective
a little bit, even if they don't necessarily care about,
You know, people dying, I guess.
Thank you.
Hi, guys.
Thanks for coming.
I'll keep it short.
So if there's anything that we've
seen recently with the No Kings Marches is that there
are a large population of Americans
who are willing to go out and fight for something.
But it seems that we continue to fail
to understand that people don't really shape history
as much as the times shape what we're doing
that is made in the sense of,
I guess my question is,
how do we get America at large to stop focusing
on the individual and start focusing on the system?
Because there'll always be a Trump,
there'll always be a NetNow who's somewhere
if we continue to have these systems that,
you know, breed them immensely quickly.
Yeah, again, it goes back to American cultural attitudes.
This is the most individualistic country,
One of the most individuals of countries out there,
and this is a byproduct of that for sure.
America, I think, is the perfect proto-capitalist nation,
even with, like, manifest destiny.
Before heavy industrialization,
there was like constant land expansion,
constant domination of the indigenous population.
It was so perfect for,
it was such a perfect country for capitals
in the manifest end.
And, of course, those cultural attitudes have not gone away.
Having said that, however, I think there is great discontent right now as someone who
has participated, attended these note, King's protest, from what I've seen from very unlikely
backgrounds, very unlikely demographics, is the shared resentment that we all have, not
only for the Republican Party, not only for the reactionary forces, but also for a shared
mutual discontent towards the Democratic Party and its ineptitude.
So I think that is a wonderful opportunity for organizing.
So leaning into that instead of disparaging it and trying to get these people to organize
and to come back to community events
and create objectives for everyone.
And sometimes those objectives are born out of necessity
like we saw in Minneapolis.
Again, people from all different backgrounds,
all different ages, got together
and immediately participated in Neighborhood Watch
and they did see tremendous success.
They were able to successfully purge ice
and ice operations and removal operations
from Minneapolis because, not because the local electives
were actually fighting back, they were actually disastrous,
but because the neighborhoods were fighting back.
So there's definitely an opportunity to organize there
a long shared interests and mutual objectives
that we all have.
It's just many Americans don't have the language
and the political education to communicate these desires,
to know what they could potentially do.
And that is because for decades now,
all matter of labor organizing has been thoroughly defamed.
And on top of that, any sort of radical political organizing
has also been destroyed as well.
I mean, it's literally illegal to be a labor union leader
and be an aboub commonist in this country.
Again, another violation of the First Amendment, right?
You guys know this better, I don't know how I'm not going to.
You're on point.
So it's a very successful class war
that billionaires, millionaires, capital owners
have waged against the working class in this country.
But that revolutionary spirit still is here.
So what I see from the people that I talk to,
like I said, from very unlikely backgrounds,
like backgrounds that are very unexpected.
We're talking about 76-year-old, affluent,
college-educated old ladies named Barbara, right,
that are just like, yeah, I hate the Democrats.
Like, I need more.
I want more from them.
You know, we need to figure out a way
to organize with those people as well,
and to talk to those people as well,
because they're there.
They just don't, they don't have a productive outlet.
And that is by design.
We've destroyed all of these productive outlets,
these mechanisms of pressure,
mechanisms of pushback. So it's on us to rebuild them. It's on us to engage in
political organizing and then engage with the masses as well who might self
identify as liberal but actually have a lot more a lot similar ideological goals
to someone like yourself. Fantastic. Thank you.
Do I speak in this or what?
Does it speak?
Okay.
So, yeah, so because you mentioned Citizens United and Breitorf, that both have Steve
Bannon at the heart of them.
And much of how Citizens United became how old money has transformed into new money,
especially through $3 trillion in stimulus over the last 15 years, you know, there has
has been the country we're from having 100 billionaires
to in 2000 to 1100 billionaires by 2025.
And so how do you think the country should be taught
the reality that we are undoubtedly no longer
a free market country?
We are not necessarily the same capitalist country.
We've been our government and private corporate sector
is like Lowry and Sam Altman are currently.
Yeah, I mean again, I think that a lot of people have that mutual discontent towards the
Unimaginable wealth disparity that exists in this country because they see it it's impossible not to recognize it and
I guess like in my experience what I've found success is
In communicating this reality is by showing people
Alternatives that exist out there
Depending on who you're talking to right for someone
who might be afraid of more non-white countries
and their versions of governance.
One very reliable example you can point to
is a place like Norway, for example.
Norway is a social democracy, but it
has nationalized its entire extraction industries.
There's a far greater wealth redistribution in the country.
Now, a lot of that is changing in Scandinavian countries
as well, because obviously social democracy is not enough.
And the same capital forces as long as they exist
are always going to try to destroy any sort of labor
organizing and create the same exact late-stage capitalist
system that we exist in here in the United States of America,
but showing viable alternatives from countries
that they might be more sympathetic to
is a good starting point for people like that.
But like I said, I think it's undeniable.
I think the contradictions are worsening to such a degree
that it is virtually undeniable that you don't actually
have to read Das Kapital to understand
that the system is just fundamentally broken.
So what you just described, as far as the number of billionaires
going from 100 billionaires to 1,100 billionaires,
is proof enough as it is.
So that's a pretty good starting point for that conversation.
Also, they make it pretty easy, billionaires, I think.
I mean, they're so weird.
I mean, Sam Altman is just like, he's a weird guy.
You can just be like, look at this weird guy.
Do you feel like this guy, or Elon Musk,
actually worked a billion times harder than a school
teacher in Oklahoma making $35,000 a year
and then having to do Uber at night
so that they can have disposable incomes?
buy fucking school supplies for their children that they're teaching like
it's a ridiculous fucking system that we existed you know and yeah Elon Musk
and people like that make it a lot easier too because everybody hates him
and he's always he's always so desperate to get people to like him so he's
always in public if I was a billionaire I'd be like Elon what the fuck are you doing?
Just go to an island, like that's what we all do.
We go to islands.
What is this?
Why are you constantly in public jumping around and trying
to win admirations from the public?
You're giving the game away.
You're not doing shit.
You're tweeting all day.
Everybody knows.
He got $500 million from Obama's statement of this
package, too, if you start Tesla.
Hi, I was just wondering if you can expand
on your trip to Cuba and the media blockade in Cuba.
The what blockade?
The media blockade in Cuba.
The media blockade?
There isn't really a media blockade.
I don't know what you mean by that.
Do you mean like the government is not allowing
information?
The lack of coverage on Cuba.
Yeah, I mean, it's exactly what I was talking about earlier
as far as the American media playing a very important role
in propaganda that is in line
with the State Department's interest.
For 60 years, 60 plus years,
the American State Department's goal has been
to destroy Cuba for having a successful revolution,
which originally was a national revolution,
an agrarian revolution, a social revolution,
and then it turned into a socialist revolution.
But since the Eisenhower days,
We propped up with Easta.
He was a brutal tyrant.
He tortured a lot of people.
And the Cubans decided to fight back against that,
develop autonomy, and develop sovereignty in the country.
And there were a lot of vested financial interests
in the island, sugar plantation.
He was a placeholder for a lot of money.
He parked a lot of assets there.
And the American government didn't like that.
They didn't appreciate that there was this island 90 miles off
of our coastline that decided to live out
their own destiny and their own desires.
So what did we do?
We decided we're going to implement a ruthless sanctions
regime and try to make it virtually impossible
for this island to engage in any sort of commerce
and develop at all.
Luckily at the time, the USSR was around,
and they, you know, picked up the slack.
But since the 90s, obviously, the situation
has gotten a lot worse.
The blockade itself, like seeing it in action,
seeing the implementation of the blockade,
with my own personal experience at first,
having to get a OFAC clearance from the Treasury Department
just to travel to an island as 90 miles off our coast,
was fairly ridiculous.
Learning about all the arbitrary restrictions
that the American government places on American citizens
that are traveling in Cuba was also kind of shocking.
For example, a lot of people were very critical
of the hotel that I stayed in with hundreds of other
people that had brought in humanitarian aid down
and 40 tons of medical aid, food, supplies
that were necessary for the people there.
Everyone was like, oh, you're staying at a five star hotel.
Yeah, I'm staying at a five star hotel
because the American government has made it illegal
for me to stay in any other hotel.
There's only four hotels in Havana
that American citizens can stay in.
How ridiculous is that?
There's 1,000 hotels on the island.
You can only stay in four, okay?
What's the reason for that?
They claim that the other hotels
are owned by the Cuban government technically,
and therefore you're funding and facilitating
a state sponsor of terror
by going and staying at a government-run hotel.
But the laws around it are so, so crazy
that if I were to stay in any hotel I wanted to as an American citizen, which is my God
given right, I could come back to the United States of America and the penalties are 10
years in prison and $250,000 in fines that I would have to pay if I stayed in any other hotel
than the hotels that they had designated as safe.
It impacts every facet of human existence.
It renders commerce impossible.
You can't take out any loans whatsoever
if you want to start a business.
The island is also reformed.
It's economy quite a bit in the last couple of years,
especially.
And yet, it's virtually impossible for private commerce
to happen anyway on the island because, like I said,
it's impossible for them to get the loan.
I'll take it once they're further.
Somebody might not know this, but if you go on Venmo or PayPal
right now, and if you were to send a friend of yours,
$10 or any amount of money, and then in the description
you wrote, you know, Cuban funds or Cuba Libre
or anything like that, both of your accounts
to get suspended.
I'm going to do that right now.
You may also like to do it.
Yes.
Not only that, but also if you are a Swiss national who's
also on Venmo or PayPal, and you're
communicating with an Italian national also on Venmo or PayPal
and you do that same thing, they also get banned nonetheless.
Even though these two countries have no animosity towards Cuba
at all, even though these countries have consistently
voted the UN General Assembly since the 90s
to end the American blockade, to end
the American sanctions regime.
And yet because these are American companies,
they have tremendous power over what people can and can't do
and abide by these totally arbitrary, totally
ridiculous restrictions.
And there's obviously a lot more impactful aspects
of the blockade as well, but its design
is meant to be invisible.
So that Americans can turn around and say,
the reason why Cuba is suffering is not
because of some blockade that you made up,
some sanctions regime that you made up in your mind,
but it's actually because of communism.
And the real reason, of course, is
that they don't want Cuba to be a sovereign country,
and they don't want Cuba to thrive so close to the United
States of America, and make sure that it's consistently
punished, and make sure that the people are consistently
suffering so that anytime anyone gets any ideas about like socialized medicine, for
example, or anything that American capital owners consider to be dangerous, communism
or socialism, you can always point to Cuba and be like, see, they're suffering. They
tried it and that's why they're suffering. Now, of course, there's really damaging aspects
of it. It's obviously worsened significantly since Donald Trump came out and decided to
give you a full oil blockade, making it impossible for the island to receive any oil whatsoever.
And the only allowance for oil on the island is twofold.
One, Guantanamo Bay, our torture facility on the island of Cuba that we have owned in
perpetuity.
If you're in Guantanamo Bay, you're an American citizen that's working on the base.
You've got McDonald's there, you've got all the latest cars, they ship all of that there,
And they consistently ship diesel and oil to Guantanamo Bay as well to make sure the
lights are on a torture facility.
The other allowance for oil on the island is private businesses, like the hotel that
was staying at, which is precisely the reason why when the entire city block and the entire
city grid goes out and there's no energy for the actual normal functions of the city,
which includes hospitals as well in certain instances, the only places that do have electricity
are the hotels that the American government is sending oil to,
or other American governments allowing other countries
to send oil to.
They basically forcibly created a class friction,
class antagonism in this country that's
run by a communist party.
And it is by design.
They want to create enmity amongst the masses
that will turn around and say, my hospital is out of energy,
but that hotel right there, that hotel
still has electricity, the government is allowing the hotel to have oil and gas. The government
is not giving, you know, the government is not allowing me to have electricity in my
house and my food is spoiling. And there's mixed results, I would say, from all the conversations
that I had. I think a lot of the Cuban youth, all they've known is poverty, born out of
this blockade. And of course, you're going to blame your government for it. And you're
you're going to assume that it's because of the government
that you've owned these properties.
And then you look to Miami so close to the island,
and you think, oh, there's so much prosperity.
They got big-ass cars over there.
They got a couple of chains.
They're living large in Miami.
And they don't see skid row.
And they don't see all the poverty.
So they develop this attitude.
But for the most part, I think a lot of Cubans are,
even if they have criticisms, they're very aware that like,
they don't wanna be turned into an example.
They don't wanna be turned into an example
that is used against the country itself.
So they're somewhat restrained in their criticisms.
And most people still carry some semblance
of that revolutionary spirit in every facet of their lives.
I talked to doctors, I asked them like straight up,
I'm gonna play the role of a dumb American here,
Like, you work for $17 a month, so why do you do it?
And the doctor was like, what do you mean?
Like, I'm saving my people.
Like, this is not for money at all for me.
No matter how hard life gets, like, you know,
I'm doing this for all the people that I love.
I talked to an academic who's responsible for electrifying
the Cuban energy grid with photovoltaics.
and she was so thrilled that as an academic,
she was able to bring life back to the energy grid
with her work, to be able to work with all these other
organizations within the government
and allow CUPUS to have a moment of respite
in these rolling blackouts.
Same with the international medical missions.
I talked to the head of the International Medical Missions,
who was very sad that Marco Rubio had personally made it,
personally pressured all these other
very poor Latin American countries into submission,
into denying the Cuban doctors
from entering their countries, right?
I mean, it's unbelievable how cruel we are.
It almost sounds comical when I explain it out loud,
like the fact that you can't stay at whatever hotel
you wanna stay at, or the fact that we hate
socialized medicine so much that we have literally
tried to stop other countries from having
socialized medicine or break apart their social,
their socialized medicine, and even has now
expanded on that and are stopping other countries
from receiving Cuban doctors as well.
One of the things that he was explaining to me is like,
They have 100% area coverage in Jamaica.
Jamaica is a somewhat poor country.
There's a lot of underserved areas in Jamaica.
And now those people are not gonna have doctors at all.
They're not gonna have any healthcare at all
because it was Cuban doctors on their medical missions
that were going to these villages
and they weren't actually offering healthcare
to the Jamaican population.
They told me, look, the politicians that caved
to Marco Rubio, they might get platinum healthcare.
They might even be able to fly
to the United States of America and get that health care if they chose to do so.
But my patients that I treated that live in these faraway villages, in these rural areas,
they're never going to be able to see a doctor again.
And America has no solution for that.
They just did that specifically so that, you know, there was diplomatic pressure on Cuba.
And it's such a frivolous goal and so evil in general.
But, you know, that's just the way we operate.
So the way we operate is it reflects the same playbook
America's run in the backdoor pharmaceutical
out of Iran and all these Middle Eastern countries
and South American countries to sow and create dissent.
And the human cost goes so far to achieve these American capitalist
rules.
So I think we have time for just one more question quickly.
Henry, no pressure.
Hi, Henry.
Thanks for coming.
I had a question about messaging specifically
towards people around 30 or under who felt disillusioned
or just apathetic towards politics these days.
I feel like I've been personally really frustrated
with that group of people that I know
who have become like that.
I'm just curious, how do you think collectively
we can get those people back involved,
especially as things just go more towards the fan?
Yeah, I think it was a lot.
I mean, it's pretty much all I do, right?
But I understand why there's so much disillusionment.
This is something that I warned against.
This is something that I warned Democrats
that will listen to me in 2020 as well.
Or I was like, look, you taught an entire generation
to do all of the right things.
They went out, they protested.
This is when Black Lives Matter protests
were happening all around the world.
They did that, right?
And then you told them they have to do their civic duty,
they have to go out and vote.
And they wanted to vote for maybe Bernie Sanders.
And that didn't work out, because the forces of the party
got together and rat-fucked Bernie again.
But ultimately, they plugged their nose,
and they voted for a decrepit old man who clearly was never
going to be able to live out both of his terms.
And they voted.
They voted for the harm reduction candidate.
And they got nothing out of that.
If you teach an entire generation that no matter what they do,
if they go out in protest, they exercise their first amendment,
and they get tear gas and pepper sprayed in the process,
and then they go out, they plug their nose,
and they vote for a candidate, then they might not
be super enthusiastic about to make sure
that the Republican menace is no longer in office,
and then those changes don't come at all,
then you're basically teaching people
that you're basically instilling voter apathy
in the public.
You're telling people that their voices don't matter.
And maybe that's by design.
Maybe the Democratic Party likes it that way.
Maybe they think they can win elections
with harm reduction narratives or eke out marginal victories
as long as they can lead into how horrible the Republicans are
at the end of their term every four years.
But the, I guess, inverse of that,
in order to instill confidence in people
is to identify small goals that are somewhat attainable
and that correspond to midterm goals,
that correspond to long term goals
and achieve those short term goals
and seize on those marginal victories
and instill some sense of confidence in organizing
and try to create a positive environment
for this sort of advocacy and this sort of work.
So just like we were talking about
with respect to Palestinian awareness
or even with the Zoramum-Dani election victory, right?
Like these are, in the grand scheme of things,
maybe this is not really moving the needle,
but it is still significant.
Even something as small as like
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez coming out and saying
that she makes no distinction between offensive
and defensive weapons, and that she is now
in favor of a full embargo of weapons transfers,
at least that we're not gonna pay for it, right?
As long as Israel is violating international human rights
and also violating American law, it's the lagging law,
to be exact.
That might come across as a marginal victory
that is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things
or too little too late.
And I know in many respects, I understand
when people say stuff like that,
but it is actually quite impactful.
Because now there's a new bottom.
Like now there is, for progressives all around the country,
the permission structure has expanded.
Now there is a new bare minimum that you can lead into,
that you can demand from your politicians.
And it's up to us, once again, to make those demands.
It's up to us to communicate those desires
and to hold politicians to account.
And little by little, as long as we seize on those victories
and remind ourselves that change
is not going to happen overnight,
and these seismic shifts that are necessary
are not going to come about spontaneously,
that we have to make it happen,
and we have to be the people that force that change to happen,
and lean into those small victories,
little by little we can expand on that,
And at least that's how I try to maintain revolutionary optimism
and not succumb to nationalism.
Well, on that note, all.
OK.
So Hassan has somewhere else to be,
but he is willing to take a picture with all of us.
So I need you to organize quickly up to the front.
Quick, quick, quick.
Yeah.
Yeah, I just want to make sure that he has the time, so after we take this picture, we're
going to go down to the ground floor.
Of course, nice to meet you guys.
What?
Well, yeah, it was great.
Very tasty.
Oh yeah, it was great. Very tasty.
Okay.
How are we going to do this?
What? Yes, I did hear you.
You want us to be up here? Yeah.
Okay.
I'm gonna be your N.
Zachy.
I'm your N.
I'm the tallest guy in the world.
I'm gonna be your N.
Okay, sure.
I'm gonna be your biggest story on the whole.
I'm gonna be your N.
I'm gonna get it.
I'm gonna get it.
I'm gonna get it.
I'm gonna get it.
Oh, okay, okay.
Oh, oh, okay.
Oh, sorry, sorry.
Okay, okay.
Ready?
One, two, three.
I'll do the honors.
Okay.
Thank you.
All right.
Nice to meet you guys.
Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah. You want to do it here or you want to do it downstairs?
We can do it here.
Wait, where's the other mic?
Of course, nice to meet you guys.
March.
Is it okay?
What?
Looks okay?
Yeah, we can take, yeah we can do a picture wherever.
Do you want to be in our picture?
Sure, yeah.
Come on, let's go.
Thank you.
I know they're kind of dead looking.
I've been trying to bury you from here out of the creek.
I'll keep it very safe.
Check, she beamed me in the booboo.
Isn't that cute?
You have to be in the fishing trip.
Yeah, that's right.
You're still hot by the way.
You might still be hot.
I'll say that one.
It's bad, man.
We just lost our last progressive.
Who?
Huh.
Hold up, hold up. We're gonna do SPA.
So, yeah.
Sorry, chat. Bear with me. There's a lot going on.
I'm sorry, I was just...
I was definitely told not to shoot a shooter.
I'm sorry.
One, two, three.
I'm in also.
Thanks, Nena.
Thank you.
Yes.
Get in there.
That's one of them.
Thank you.
Alright, Elias.
That's it.
Nice to meet you guys.
I love the 10 Rangeles jokes.
Oh, 10 Rangeles, yeah.
Yeah, she said it so it was appropriate for me to say it.
Alright, let's go.
Thank you so much.
Alright, nice to meet you guys.
Let's get through the kitchen and I gotta grab my camera.
Alright, bye guys.
Thank you.
Bye, y'all.
Thank you.
I got it.
Do you not want any water to the river?
No. I mean I'm good. Do you want water?
I'm okay.
No, you want some water?
No, I'm good.
Perfect.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you guys.
No.
I'll hold it.
I'll hold it.
That was good?
You happy with that?
Yeah.
Great.
Yeah, I have to pee too.
I'll do it in a second.
I'll just put my stuff down, call it Uber, and then I'll do it.
The entire game is Uber.
Okay, hold on.
Mic down.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you.
What happened in the frame in a second?
God, we do march was the sound good.
Everything was getting, you know, considering we were working with it was fantastic.
Okay great.
Thanks so much.
Mike's still hot by the way.
We're still streaming.
I'll just make sure you know.
Sorry, sorry, sorry if you had to see that over there.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
I was trying to see if I could go to that lake.
We had like a whole sign for you, reserved for that lake.
I was like, what happened?
He wanted to sit in the back, but then they'd seen someone else
sat there and then he moved to the other side.
But you got the comfy chair.
Yeah.
He's in the other restroom.
Yeah.
Hey, we did. Fantastic on time there.
I know.
I was to the TV.
People kept texting me.
That's why I was saying I know my phone was next to me
because people kept texting me so it was lighting up
check the time. We actually skipped like half of the questions because we were just
going in depth on each one. Yeah, that's better. No, I know. We prepped more than we
ended up using for checking. That was great. It was great. Thank you. There's more students, but it was a good time.
I wish you guys could have seen the chat. It was so entertaining. What did you say?
It was mostly like making fun of Zaki. Not like bad in a bad way, but like
people were just like clowning on him a little bit.
For what?
Because he was just like being charismatic and like saying like a bunch of stuff.
They're still gone.
Yeah.
Well, they hurt me now.
Okay.
Let's check with this.
Who's that guy talking about in the chat?
Yeah.
Don't forget it's all good.
No, they love you guys.
Yeah, he's always live.
Aw, yeah, someone call me a baton.
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
No.
Is there anything?
The chat replay is there.
You can go back and watch.
Oh, yeah.
Is there anything we can do to make you laugh?
I think we're all set, what's the best, where will the car find us, what's the best idea?
P2, yeah, Kevin, are you able to put the parking brake?
He just called it, I don't know where he put it, so if you can take a look at his map.
Yes, notice your shirt.
Thanks, but yeah, if you can just take a look at where his pin is dropped, and then just direct us there, that would be the best way.
We saw people here who wanted to excrete you out.
See what the chat box is saying?
Chat, you like that?
I heard they enjoyed that.
There you go.
Can I take a quick selfie with just a little bit?
Yeah, yeah, of course.
Oh, and we have a gift for you.
Oh, wow.
Thank you.
Yeah, a bunch of swag.
Oh, my god.
What's that?
I think that's great.
That's great.
It's something else for me.
Yeah, something else for me.
Someone give me these zins.
Yeah.
There you go.
It's like everything else for you.
Yeah.
Okay, well I'm gonna I'm gonna end in here. I know but just see all right. Well you end it all right
Sorry he texted me during it
Sorry, sorry, sorry
You guys run time 17
Yeah, yeah, it was great.
Yeah.
You're just...
All right.
What do you think?
Is that pretty cool?
I think I might get kicked out of school after this.
What are they going to do?
I'm graduating in two months.
You're graduating in two months.
I'm here for an interview.
They'll be fine, right?
I mean, you know...
We do understand that.
I think you should come back every year.
You've got to realize every generation of law students.
What did you order, Uber?
I didn't yet.
Are you allowed to?
I don't exactly know where we're going.
Yes, he doesn't.
He chooses not to.
He got his PhD from the London School of Economics,
and he refuses to speak English.
Thanks for being with us this evening.
Thank you.
Do you want to do a little outro?
Yeah, I'll do an outro here, and I'll call you as well.
No, I'm good, thank you.
All right, Harry, you want to pull it up?
Yeah.
All right, everybody.
That was a wonderful experience.
I hope you guys enjoyed it.
We are going to go and hang out with Shoeika Chakrabarti
right now.
But since it's been a long day, and I'm very tired,
we're going to be filming that stuff.
But he's going to be filming that stuff.
But thank you so much for coming on.
Thank you so much for watching.
And tomorrow, back to Bizz's usual home base,
I'll be doing my regular broadcast from home.
And yeah, I'll see you there.
I can't even sign on to sign off.
Let me just see if I can.
Right, well, but.
I don't know why it's not good, well that's awkward man, well, dead air, dead air, dead
air, but yeah, you can, well the TVU pack has internet on it, but it's not like letting
me get to the, oh I got it, I think, alright.