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04-05-2026 · 7h 20m
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We're diving headfirst into the atmosphere to rule male voters ahead of 2028, but they'll
have to compete with the digital world's new rising star, far left activist, Hassan
And what I really want is whether it's social media influencers, or Twitch, YouTube, like
House on Hiker, or other kind of promoters of hate.
We must always maintain revolutionary optimism.
We must always continue to organize.
We must always continue to agitate.
Because the quicker we can create enough pressure
that causes the American state to re-calculate its suit by pack with Israel
the quicker we can save as many Palestinian lives possible.
What's going on, everybody?
I hope everyone's having a fantastic evening, afternoon, pre-noon, no matter where you are
in the world.
I'm Sam Pyger and this is us and our broadcast coming to you live from sunny California Los
Angeles.
Folks, we're live and alive and I hope all the boys, girls and enemies are having
a fantastic moment because today's a beautiful day.
wonderful day today is Sunday praise be to Allah it is Sunday it's Easter Sunday as a matter of fact
we're live we're alive and there's a lot to talk about as always coming to you live from stolen
Dongba land we're here we're live we're ready it's dr jihad as you guys know coming to you live
from Sunday fun day it's not going to be too much of a fun day obviously because we have a lot
going on and there's a lot to talk about. Source tells me Jesus is stable. Please God. Okay, nice.
Good start. Good start on a fantastic Charlie Kirk message. So what is happening with this camera?
It's like weirdly having a hard time autofocusing as of late. But we're going to be situation
monitoring is always day 36 of Operation Epstein's Fury. And before I do that, of course,
as part of the broadcast where I tell you about my personal news about what's going on in the world
of the Sonos and Abbey Piker in between the time period where I press the stop streaming button,
press the start streaming button, so help me God, that's what I'm gonna do. And as far as
As far as personal news goes, as far as everything that's going on in the world, there's so much happening, there's so much happening in the world, and we have to cover it all, but there's not really anything going on in my life, because I'm a shut ass loser as you guys already know.
Shit.
Didn't even hit the Faw, right?
I am a chud-ass loser.
I didn't do anything last night.
I hung out with the family.
Went to bed early.
I didn't even go to the, to the chapeau, the party, the 10th anniversary party that
I was supposed to go to, because I was so tired and I wanted to be with my family
a little bit, considering that I've been flying around quite a bit.
And yeah, I was doing onc activities, situation monitoring, going to sleep early, waking up
early.
Well, not even early.
I actually had to sleep a lot more yesterday.
Woke up, has some combos with the fam and went, worked out, hit, hit the legs.
Hey man shocker dog recently and try to play up the losing side of stuff. What what is that? Is that a question?
What is I'm confused you're saying
Hey man shocker dog recently and try to play up the losing side of stuff. What's the
The losing side of stuff. What is the is Israel on the winning side of stuff? Are you winning if Israel's winning?
Are you Israeli? I'm confused
Boss about failed you on discord. What do you mean?
Um, you skipped the party plan?
No, I planned the after party, uh, after the event.
I did not plan this one, but, uh, um, where was I?
Where was I?
I ping discord.
Don't worry, boss.
Okay, good.
So personal news wise, it didn't apple your mod at discord instead.
Okay, good.
Me, can you throw a massive shader away?
I don't care guys.
I don't know why you're like, guys, you know who's throwing massive shade my way?
The nation state of Israel.
Okay.
Like who cares if a meme guy is like making a fucking kaya shock joke?
Like please.
What I have to tell you is this place.
Okay. How do you motivate yourself for leg day? Um, it's tough. It's tough, especially
if you're like, especially from traveling and I can't like work out for a couple of
days in a row. I just like kind of fall out of it. It's terrible. Um, since you insist
on not trimming the beard, can we get Hank pecker back on the stream? Hank pecker is
on the stream. Um, fucking Cory Booker talked about you with the Pajons. I know
We'll get to that in a second, but I have it.
I have it here.
We'll obviously be talking about that and we'll also see the comments on TicToc.
Yeah, but what does your hat say, Bass Pro Shop in Arabic, I think, but like in busted
Arabic, it's not real.
It's, I forget where I got it.
at an event that I was at, like a little secret LA event or whatever, was trying to give me
some hats and he was wearing this hat and I was like, I want this hat. Don't give me
any of the other hats. I want the hat that you're currently wearing on your head. So
I took it off the top of his dome. You know, fake socialist, fake socialist steals champagne
socialists to Sompiker caviar commie to Sompiker steals proletariat hat, proletarians
hat from the top of his head. That's right. But, yeah, there's a lot going on in the world.
And obviously we're going to get into it. We're going to be talking about the search
and rescue mission that was successful, but, you know, still very, very devastating for
America in general, very, I mean, we'll, we'll obviously cover all of that.
They've lost a lot of assets in the process.
Things are not as, as good as it seems in the way that Trump is presenting it, in the
way that Americans are presenting it.
But we'll talk about all of that and more Trump obviously had a fucking psychopathic
tweet. More psychopathic than his usual tweets. Trump threatens terror on Eastern Sunday. Insane.
Cesar extracts a pilot. Many planes downed. Epstein Fury, day 36. Right wing Dems still
on my ass, Michigan tomorrow, Sunday, Monday. Get in now. So, okay. Um, Trump didn't tweet
that little dick Miller did. I mean, I don't know who did it, but it doesn't matter. You
You were right, U.S. bomb the area to clear space for rescue.
Algebra took debate with no verification, which was suspicion when I first saw it reported
yesterday.
Yeah, they weren't, they were not, what do you call it, they were not, they were not
doing the Hannibal doctrine.
They were not like sending the coordinates to Israel to like blow up the pilot.
They created a cordon sanitaire around the, the, the, the pilot, like the area the
pilot was in.
We'll obviously get into all of that and more.
I'll describe to you this complex, I talked to a bunch of analysts and I talked to a bunch
of, of Natsek reporters and reporters that often get these sorts of scoops about like
what could have potentially happened, what the inconsistencies are in the way that they're
reporting the events that unfolded, because there's a little bit of inconsistency.
It's not obviously the American government, nor will the Iranian government ever give
you ever give you what do you call it? The full events, right? Like they're going to,
they're going to present things in the way that is, that looks as best as possible for
their side, right? In any case, yeah, do we have a blast off meme chatters? If you have
a blast off being said it to me and we'll cover it. Any update on the Cuba mini doc?
We'll watch the, we'll watch the meat canyon video later if you want me to watch it. We'll,
we'll watch it later if I have some time, but it is pretty funny. Like it shows
where the mentality of people are cause like most of the people that are coming in here
today are going to be like, Hey, I, you were mentioned and smeared on meet the press
by someone who has ambitions of potentially running for president, like was defending you
on Meet the Press and was asked about coming on your stream. It's not even drama, by the way,
the Chatters is trying to manufacture their own. He just made a dog shock joke. Oh, that's it.
Yeah. But it's really funny that even a subtle mention from Meet Canyon will alert some of
these guys. If you want, there's a lot more quote unquote drama taking place currently.
in the adult universe that I occupy for the most part.
So, no, it was not subtle amount.
I don't really, like I said, just do we have a blast off meme?
It's not bad.
People are just being weird.
Okay. Thank you.
This is a good blast off meme.
I haven't seen it.
I don't necessarily care all that much.
I like me Canyon.
I know he's a homies with my friend my good friend Noel Miller
He's got really decent politics for the most part. So I
Don't really care if he's like cracking a couple jokes. Who gives a fuck dude. Everyone has done it
I'm the internet at this point. What are you gonna fucking get mad on my behalf? Don't be silly
I need another blast off meme that meme doesn't work
meet the press, more like press the meat, yeah, they're on my meat. Yeah, I made jokes
about it too. So, don't you have two events tomorrow, not tomorrow, it's going to be,
it's going to be on, on Tuesday, I'm going to go to two college campuses and, and stomp
alongside Abdel El Sayed, for Abdel El Sayed's Senate run, he's in the Democratic primaries
in the Michigan Senate. And Summer Lee is going to be there as well. Some other people
are also going to be there. I'm very excited for that. And yeah, yeah, Trump-a-tola.
All right, that blast off is good. No twitch, no D. Uh, yeah
Everyone all the forces are against me chat. That's what it is
That's what it is tell Elsa ed to endorse me if he loses. Okay. He's not gonna lose and sure I got you
Um, yeah
You got stump fits ready presses on your ass like nobody's business. Yes
I
Do have stump fits ready as always
Bullwork bullshit stuff is out there though. You have a lot of supporters defending in the comments both on their site in YouTube. Yeah, I think
There's again, there's like two different types of people right now that are out there going
This is you know bullshit. I'm a fan of a song you guys are out there correcting the record, which is fantastic. It's wonderful
There's people who have like, you know, people who are fans of mine that know the context and are offering the context of a lot of these quotes
There's people who are fans of mine that hear the quotes and they're like, I don't really know what this is about
But like I know what Hassan is about. I'm tangentially aware of
of who he is and
You know, I like them
So you guys are bullshit and then there are other people who don't know who the fuck I am
But are hearing my name over and over again from people that are saying like I'm dangerous
I'm dangerous, but then they look at it and they're like well he's anti-Israel and it seems like you guys are pro-Israel
So, I think I'm gonna actually lean on his side and on his, you know, lean towards what
he's saying instead because, again, it's a 90-10 issue, right?
And that's where we're at.
It is funny to see, like, how deranged my haters get, regardless of how professional
they are.
I didn't expect like, you know, a person that is like a, like a prominent neocon of the past
who operates like a serious media, a serious media outlet, right?
Like it's an independent one, but it's like supposed to be a serious media outlet to, to
engage in the same like Ethan Klein sex, pestany style attitudes.
I don't know why people that fucking hate me don't have like a normal amount of hate.
I don't understand it. I don't get it. I don't know why they just can't have like a normal
Disagreement or something if you see a central liberal account tweeting about a subject of profile see how many times they measure in the past
Who eats this is not normal. Yeah
It's it's abnormal. It's not normal at all. It's it's very strange and I think it's probably paid
Yeah, Magdy Jacob, Ethan Wolfe, like these are, these are people who like are, they work with
centrist, right? They work with like centrist candidates. They want, they want to, they want
to do their very best to like smear the left flank of the party and they think I'm like a
a reliable way to start that conversation. And yeah, I don't, that's it. Yeah, did you
see this? Zohram Mamdani praising Jesus, Donald Trump praising Allah, Easter, 2020.
So happy Easter New York today, millions of New Yorkers celebrate the resurrection of
Jesus Christ and the victory of hope over despair and faith over fear. Now, as a Muslim,
As a Muslim, for those of you who don't know, Muslims also recognize Jesus Christ, but the
only difference is they don't recognize the resurrection.
So Zoran is recognizing the resurrection of Jesus Christ here, which is, he's a heretic,
okay?
He's a heretic.
However, Donald Trump on the other hand is saying praise be to Allah while simultaneously
saying that he's going to do terrorism on Iran.
Obviously we're going to be talking about that.
It turns out Zoran wasn't doing Takiyah for the 12 Imams.
He's not a Shia 12 or any longer.
He's actually doing Takiyah for Christianity.
It turns out it was actually a uno-reversal.
Many of you didn't realize that it was actually
an uno-reversal.
The real moment was supposed to be,
The real ambitions from Zoran was supposed to teach the Muslims that Jesus Christ, which Muslims also believe, is a prophet, right?
Was resurrected, which Muslims don't believe, right? I don't think Muslims don't believe in Jesus Christ as a resurrection, and they don't believe that they recognize Jesus Christ as a prophet.
They respect Jesus Christ. They defend Jesus Christ as a prophet. However, they don't believe that Jesus Christ was like the Son of God or the manifestation of God. They don't believe that.
Um, and and now that now that Zoran is is uh, you're a shit Muslim suck my dick
But now the Zoran is saying that the the resurrection took place he's uh, he's actually doing taqiyah for Christianity
It seems and not for Islam
We do believe Jesus of Jesus resurrection do we
I thought that it was like, I thought that it was, the Jesus was a real prophet, but like he didn't actually, no, he didn't get resurrected, he's not like the son of God, right? He's just a prophet, right?
not. That's like the big difference, even though Muslims obviously do respect Jesus Christ
and perhaps more than a lot of Christians do ironically enough, but you do not, you bad
Muslim. I mean, I am not a good Muslim at all. I'm just a Muslim in name only. Let's
be real, okay? I'm a, I'm a, I'm a mino. I'm a mino, a mino. I've culturally, you know,
I was raised in this environment, but it's not necessarily something that I fully abide
by. I'm culturally Muslim, as I like to say, and not necessarily a practiser of the faith.
He is waiting in heaven. He was saved and he never died. Okay. You write Jesus, aka
Esau is a prophet, not son of God. Yeah, I know that one for sure. I know that one
for sure. Anyway, why are we talking about this? Oh, because the person that is a real
and committed believer in Islam now apparently is not your boy, Hassan al-Sahabbi Piker, but
actually Donald fucking Trump, even though he's also committed to doing terrorism, obviously
we'll be getting into that in a second. There's of course the current meta of consistently
talking about me on meet the press and all the other outlets so that they can continue
creating and manufacturing outrage, manufacturing drama around like irrelevant things and try
to tie up left flank candidates or left adjacent candidates, left sympathetic candidates like
Rokana with these ridiculous things where it's like, oh, well, why are you hanging
out with this guy?
hope is that they don't fucking defend me. And, and they get like a W off of that to,
because in their minds, they think this will destroy my legitimacy, right? It's very stupid.
It doesn't make any sense. It has nothing to do. Like it literally has nothing to do with
the my, my success is nothing to do with the politicians that I'm like, along, you
know, standing alongside. It's just very stupid. And after these last three weeks
of unlimited Hassan derangement syndrome shit. The very same people that represent these
Centres forces are seemingly retreating. So here it is, Jill Philipovich says,
my hot take on Democrats and Hassan is that the vast majority of voters do not give a shit and
the Democrats should spend way more time talking about them about something that is not Hassan
Piker. I actually do agree with this take. I didn't invite this media cycle. They did for
for some weird reason. And it is very strange that like all these outlets that have written
about me in the past quite literally saying stuff like, oh, this guy's the Joe Rogan of
the left. He's the way that the Democrats are going to reach out to the youth are now
also leaning into the fucking smears as well, which I find a little bit discouraging, you
know, you guys are fake friends. Okay. You're fake friends, NBC. Like think about
that NBC is like writing articles being like,
this is the guy that's gonna reach out to the youth.
He's the Joe Rogan of the left.
And then they turn around and they're like,
actually he's a dangerous anti-Semite according to the ADL.
Like how'd that happen?
Yeah. And then Sarah Longwell who played a big role
in like elevating this discourse,
The, uh, the Hassan is the most significant problem that ever has her facing discourse is now going, yeah, let's retreat.
Let's retreat because Sarah started this nonsense. And now that she's been royally embarrassed by the situation she created, she's trying to cover it up.
I did not start it. I'm not embarrassed. I'm not trying to cover it up.
I'm right, but the combat, the amount of mischaracterized insanity you good folks are pumping of the world would eat up my whole weekend.
I'm sure we'll keep talking about it as time goes on. It's not a topic that's going away.
You know?
Yeah, it's pretty funny that they went from, at discount Hillary Clinton, yeah, they went
from like, everything that we have to talk about, the most significant issue right now
is Trump is like inflicting maximum damage on Iran, and Iran is retaliating and causing
American assets to light on fire, putting American troops in harm's way.
is gearing up for a $1.5 trillion military budget on the one hand, openly saying that
like, we can't feed our children. We can't pay for daycare because we have to pay for
wars, Israel's war specifically, that people have spent these guys, these right wing Democrats
have spent the last three weeks talking about this shit. And it didn't work, right?
It didn't put a dent. It didn't actually do anything. It didn't have a significant
impact at all is just people that are hysterical talking to other hysterical people about this
and those people already are like terrified and think that anyone who is understandably
disturbed by the actions of Israel is a rapacious Jew-hater, right?
Like that's their attitude regardless.
But now that they didn't have the impact at all, and as a matter of fact had the
reverse impact that they were trying to get out of the situation, which is, it just highlighted,
it basically just highlighted me to a lot of people who don't know who I am, to a lot of Democrat
boomers in my opinion. And instead of looking at all of those comments and going, wow, this guy's
a real danger to the American, this guy's a real danger to America. They, I think a lot of,
like independent and den boomers that watch this stuff go. Yeah, we've heard this. We've heard
this about everyone that speaks out against Israel. And it's, you know, it's ridiculous. I think
that's what it is. I think a lot of people are aware that this is how the, this is how a lot of
people reflect on this kind of manufactured outrage. Yeah, I saw this, the young Bernie
Warren. Yeah, this was, this is the retreat. The retreat is here. A lot of these like centrist
accounts and right-wing Democrats who are Israel first, let's be real, they're Israel first Democrats.
They are out there. They're very, they represent like no constituency whatsoever, as we know.
But they also, while they represent no constituency whatsoever, they represent like 99%
of the discourse on Twitter. And therefore, given that they have connections or reflect on the gripes
that influential groups have, they do get a little bit of mileage in the media, right?
Third way is irrelevant. They don't have a real constituency.
And their worldview has been destroyed thoroughly, dismantled, right?
their attitude of lean to the right to win elections has given us two defeats against Donald Trump,
first with Hillary Clinton and then with Kamala Harris, right? We know that already.
And it's not that just we know that on the left flank, right? We know that on the left flank,
of course. But the liberal wine moms that made up the Fedein constituency, the most loyal,
diehard constituency of the Democratic Party, the ones that are most susceptible to the
the electability arguments that actually hated Bernie Sanders initially have come to that
conclusion that Bernie was right. They've come to that conclusion that Bernie Sanders
and the movement that Bernie Sanders represented was correct and that they were wrong. And
now they're infinitely more open-minded, too populist, leftist candidates and no longer
believe in the centrist argument that we must do centrism to win elections. We have
to vote for the most centrist candidate, right? Like, that theory is gone. It's destroyed.
So what a lot of these people did was try to attack a more vulgar voice, right? They try
to hit the civility arguments because I am vulgar, right? I'm not a civil person. I'm
a vulgar person. Even if my cause is moral, our cause is moral. The way I communicate
myself on these issues, sometimes is very impassioned, very, you know, very aggressive, right? And not
civil at all. But I think a lot of people would rather have a real fighter who is bold. I think
a lot of people would rather have someone who's vulgar, but moral than someone who is civil,
but immoral, right?
Hey, there are YouTube videos about how you were arrested in Cuba. Is there any truth to it?
I'm a new Twitch follower. If it's false, what is the reason to make up such a lie?
It is, people lie about everything that I do. That's a lie. I did not get arrested in Cuba.
I didn't get arrested in China either.
you know so I like I was saying they understand that this is not working for them so they did
their first salvo they did their opening salvo it didn't work and it kind of backfired a
little bit it just boosted my profile for the most part and and now they're just now
Now they're just retreating because you look at, you cover me, if they go out there and
they cover me in this like aggressive way and it causes people to actually pay attention
to what I have to say and they make up their own mind about what I actually represent, right?
All of a sudden, people are going to realize that this is all a lie, right?
All of a sudden people realize, wait a minute, I actually do agree with what the fuck
Cassana's saying. The difference on the other hand, however, is that if we pay
attention to what they've been saying, if we pay attention to what they've been
saying, we find out that there is a metric ton of awfulness there, right?
With Sarah Longwell specifically, I mean, I didn't know she had like a petitioned
or lobbied to make drunk driving legal, for example, which, you know, we
can find consensus on that, right? I mean, I'm not, I'm not antagonistic to that, okay?
Or, or that she played a formative role in Kamala Harris campaigning alongside Liz Cheney.
Like, that was a spectacular failure for the Kamala Harris campaign. And now we know who
was responsible for it, right? Or at least to some degree responsible for it. So,
You know, their, their advocacy and their past is infinitely worse than someone like mine.
You know, all they got is, he's vulgar.
And Alonso Gormendi says, honestly, the anti-Islamic campaign is only exposing more normies to
Hassan al-Hun.
Gone are the days when he's anti-Israel, was received as bad by the public.
Israel has made sure of it and they encounter his anti-Zionism or drawn to it, stri-san
affecting him exactly. Yeah, that's it. You can keep crying about people being tankies or
whatever all day every day. Please watch the new meet K and video bro dog. You are you're
in this community for long enough. I think there's a lot other there's a lot of other
stuff that we got to watch before we watched the Mikane video on on this day, right?
Like, please lock in. I mean, we can. There will be a time and place. Hopefully,
if I get through all of these, if I get through all the the stuff that I want to talk about,
like, we'll get to it, you know, how I know I got it. He made a he made a kiosk joke. Like,
it's it's going to destroy me. It's going to hurt my feelings. And then there will be a
million TikTok videos about how like Mick Kenyon calls a Hassan. Hassan is killing, Hassan killed
himself after watching Mick Kenyon video. Like, well, you'll get all of that, right? You'll get
all of that out of your system, I promise. What was the adult drama you mentioned? The adult drama
I was mentioning is, is this what I'm talking about right now is this? Like, this is the adult
drama, right? The meat canning thing is not even drama at all. It's just a way for people
to filter another like 7,000 YouTube videos being like Hasan is 1 million percent done, right?
Yeah, I like me canyon. I'm pretty sure me canyon is a sympathetic voice
who gives a fuck you can't be so serious about memes and shit you know this is the most like
endlessly memed thing of all time and and I've personally made jokes about it as well
um and it's it's very funny when um it's very funny when I make jokes about it as well and
then people get really offended people are like wait a minute you can't joke about that it's serious
like you're a bad guy you actually did do it like you actually did do it why are you joking
about it you fucking bad guy it's like guys I think I think you kind of busted your nut by
behaving in a totally insane manner. You know, you you you convinced the people who were, you know,
maybe in the margins and were willing to be convinced that I was a bad person,
but most people are just going to look at this and be like, yeah, haha, it's funny, myself included.
Can you shot Kai right now? There you go.
In any case, the other side of the story is now, they're moving into retreat.
The same forces that elevated this to the top of the discourse, right?
Elevated this to an issue that had to be discussed on fucking meet the press.
I don't think this is important at all.
I don't think this is serious.
And I'm not saying that in a way that's like, I'm not saying this in a self-interested way
because I'm like fearful that like people are coming after me.
I don't give a shit.
People have been coming after me for years on these issues, right?
With those exact same choice quotes out of context.
It didn't do anything to me for the past fucking three years when the overwhelming
majorities were pro-Israel and they were not pro-Palestine.
Now it's a fucking 90-10 issue, so whenever you elevate this problem, whenever you elevate
my status as like a anti-Zionist and you smear me as an anti-Semite, it's not going to work.
It's not going to cause people to second guess what I'm saying.
It's actually going to introduce me to a lot of...
It's going to introduce me to a lot of people that go, well, I kind of agree with
this anti-Israel stuff. You know? Some streamers dedicated last year's strings to make a list
of commentators who didn't sport Kamala Harris hard enough law because they want to tell Tim
Miller as if he's the kingmaker. Yeah. So now they're retreating. Look, the dumbest thing
about all this is that I didn't, and don't care about Piker. Piker never comes up with
folks groups of voters or someone they're following the way a Rogan or Tucker or Candace
because I don't think he's singularly making an impact on politics in any way,
commensurate with the attention he's getting, but I care about Tim.
I agree with Tim Miller's original point that using Piker's litmus test is dumb.
Calling up John Assoff to ask what he thinks about Piker is dumb.
It's an unnecessary distraction.
But I felt like Tim's discussion of Piker was too dismissive of some of
Piker's more toxic positions. And that was the part I wanted to react to.
There's nothing I can do about the fact that the internet distortion field
has overtaken the whole thing.
This is literally using 300 words to say, yeah, okay, it didn't work. Okay. Back to the fucking
drawing board, right? It didn't work. Back to the fucking drawing board. It sucks. Yeah, it sucked for us.
Right.
Yeah, she was losing her fucking mind. We watched the video. She was genuinely,
she was genuinely behaving a hysterical way. I don't think I have this kingmaker status. I've
never said that I have this kingmaker status. I've never implied that I have this kingmaker status.
These guys think that, as a matter of fact, for the past two months now or the past month,
the past month long discourse cycle, what have I always said consistently? I've consistently said,
I'm not a kingmaker. You're just using me as a entry point into a battle that you want to have
because I'm just a megaphone. I'm a megaphone for the resentment that a lot of people in the
base of the Democratic Party feel, right? I'm just a platform. I've never shied away from
saying that. I've always openly admitted like we have some impact in this community. We're
large enough we're all over the place and there are a lot of people in this community
that are very interested in politics and obviously are tuning in day in, day out and they have
a lot of impact. We can have outsized impact on certain issues because we have the door
knockers and the phone bankers, right? However, however, there's never been a moment where
I'm like I you come on my show and you're gonna fucking win the race like that's not a guarantee at all, right?
What hey didn't appreciate the timeout just a long time listener and was just trying to be one of the
Gargoyle dropping info that just hit the web. What's the info?
Let me guess you probably got timed out by Foss about because you came in you were like
Oh, dude, me candy made a video right we're not talking about that right now. We'll talk about it later
Is it the what about isn't that puts people off like could you make your points up making a majority u.s
Comparison to give them fuel to ignore your points what it doesn't does it turn people off? Do you get turned off?
Or are you or do you still have that like you know American exceptionalism in your mind that causes you to
to react the way that you're doing currently when I bring up my country that I pay fucking
tax dollars to and what they do with those tax dollars.
They don't use it on you.
They don't use it on me.
They don't use it on our fucking roads.
They, um, YouTuber kinds of replied to me that they had pre-ordered Sarah Shortback book
and canceled the advocacy in the video law.
Like, that's what it is.
It's not what about ism.
I'm an American citizen.
I'm talking about like what my tax dollars are going to.
I don't want it to go to developing weapons that Israel uses to blow up schools, developing
weapons that America uses to blow up schools in Iran.
I want that shit to build schools here in the United States of America.
Okay, that's it.
That's it.
I don't personally have problems with it. I'm talking about the general public that it might put them off and undermine your points and make people listen.
Okay. Well, you don't have to be a fucking backseat campaign manager for a person who's not even running on a campaign. Okay.
I'm a communicator. This is my job. And, uh, considering how much people's attitudes have shifted in even the last two years on a key issue like Israel and Palestine, I think I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing. Okay.
Like, no disrespect, Chatter.
You're treating me like you're my campaign manager and I'm fucking running for president.
Like, it's crazy.
It's an attitude that a lot of Democrats have.
They think that they are campaign consultants.
They treat everything like that and I hate it.
Democrats in the primaries will never vote for the guy they think is the best, but will
vote for the guy they think will win.
And their electability metrics are directly taught to them, are directly communicated
to them by these exact same groups that have been fucking yelling, you know?
Part of taking criticism while it's handling bad criticism with grace, big bro.
I mean, what do you want me to say, man?
I'm not running for president, okay?
And I think I've done a decent job, a lot better of a job than these guys have.
like groups have, right? As far as communicating on an issue, that was a
2080 issue in favor of Israel that has turned into a 1090 issue that is in favor of Palestinians
over the course of the past two years. If I was constantly aware of the bad faith critiques and
leaned into the way that like, centrists might not take my message well, at a time when they're
We're also still engaging in bad faith smear campaigns that are failing.
I would never get across my point at all.
I would never get a word in edgewise.
This is some of the things that I am critical of with even Zoram-Amdani, like too conciliatory.
That's it.
What are we doing?
We're doing like a defensive tone policing at a time when like the message is penetrating.
Hello Assante, it's my 45th birthday and I feel old as fuck, do not reach this age, things start to break and your cynicism grows exponentially, however I think I've been a sub for eight years, cheers, what's up, lib-bizzle?
Huh.
Yeah.
They can't explain Platinum's success, Dems ignore him like the plague.
Yeah, no for sure. For sure, I talked about that as well.
Well, anyway, I, you know, this person then turned around in their retreat.
These are two like prominent centrist accounts that have very limited impact on Twitter, but
whatever.
All the Assange stuff is downstream of the larger issue that Democrats are captured by
staffers and activists that are not only ideologically at a step of the mainstream,
but also preoccupied with what is essentially internet stand wars.
They're trying to turn this into like, oh, it's actually the, the Bernie and Warrenite
left flank staffers that have
uh... kept this issue going and not fucking dickheads like this
honestly can't be overstated how much this is sure the staffer activist class
is basically all made up of
well-off hyper online bernie warren it's his priorities are just completely out
of touch the average worker
even the average damn base voter says centers and fan account
uh... turns out centers and fan account we looked into it
uh... is not a fan of centers and is just a fan of maga
ironically enough very mask off
austerity staff to respond to this and goes the young bernie warren lefty internet pile
uh... internet
pilled staffers that keep making his on a trending topic andrew quomo
jonathan greenblatt
mallory mitmorrow brad schneider
joe kowen jake tapper josh krauscher matt bennett near tainan shannon wads
i love the idea that having jay insider pump out a dozen articles per week of
his on derangement
and third-way sending litmus test questionnaires the senators demanded
disavow him
is actually being driven by lefty staffers doing to online stand
culture
Also that great big guy is literally the husband of nearest weird ass German postdoc internet reply girl and the other dude used to go by people for Chelsea Clinton. So, yeah.
That's it's it has nothing to do with with like, you know, Bernie Warrenite staffers or anything like that.
But I do appreciate how much this movement has turned into something so stupid for the
centrists that they have to turn around and be like, oh, we didn't want this to happen.
Actually, why is it happening?
He's just irrelevant.
Stop paying attention to him.
The reason why they're saying that is because it fucking backfired.
Okay?
It backfired.
It didn't work.
They chose a 90-10 issue.
They chose a 90-10 issue and do it in this very cynical way that most Americans at this
point are totally aware of.
They don't like cancel culture anyway, and they certainly hate how arrogant Israel defenders
have been, especially considering that they see this violence, and then they might have
an opinion on this violence that they're seeing, that Israel is committed over the
last two and a half years.
And all they hear from Democrats and Republicans and people who are just like Israel first
is this idea that if you dare speak out about this
you need to get fired you need to lose your job
you need to be uh... outcasted like turn into a pariah in polite society
and they look at that and they go what the fuck you you know it just
it only breeds more resentment it is backfired spectacularly and it will
continue to backfire it will continue to grow the anti-israel movement in
this country
which is a good thing in general it's good it's good to be anti-israel
israel's done
a whole litany of war crimes
Israel's done a genocide. It operates a fucking apartheid with our political cover and our unlimited tax dollars.
It's fucking ridiculous, you know?
So yeah.
Huh.
Uh, there's nothing I could do about the fact that the internet distortion field, blah, blah, blah, blah, this dash is part of what happens, doing this work.
The only thing I can do is keep saying what I believe and what I hear voters saying they believe but policies to get
Reached voters were angry with Iran war and even about America's relationship to Israel that going on the stream of a guy
I said America deserve 9-11
But it's also no doubt true that he's being elevated by the whole conversation and the right answer to questions about him should probably be
Piker who because that's what most voters would say if you ask them
Yeah screaming crying pissing my pants 45 minutes straight about a topic
I don't even care about this topic at all honestly like who cares not me
That's for sure. You know, yeah, I'm vulgar. I'm a vulgar twitch streamer. You worked with actual war criminals, right?
Man, you guys are so high on your own supply voters don't know who Hassan piker is try coming back down to earth
Then why have you people been spending the last two weeks crashing out over him? You started this exactly?
Yeah
That's it. And they're trying to do the Bernie method to a Twitch streamer instead of Bernie
Sanders now because they know they can't do it to Bernie Sanders. This is an admission
of defeat. This is an admission of retreat. Okay.
You said Democrats are focused on Piker because he's making their life harder. The only reason
Dems are talking about him is because a centrist think tank is campaigning against
him as a part of his 30 to 50 million dollar effort to crush the left. That's
exactly what's going on. Right?
Kind of funny that this worked less than the Nicki Minaj beef.
Yeah. Because they don't have a real constituency.
All they can do is,
all they can do is, is hit this,
hit this from an angle. Why are you even entertaining this shit dog?
Because it's on Pod Save America. It's on meet the fucking press chatters.
Okay. And it's probably not going to go away either.
there's going to be a press gaggle at the campaign rally that I do alongside
Abdu'l-Assad.
They're going to keep trying to breathe fire back into this fucking argument.
And, uh, and, and that's what it is.
It's unfortunately, uh, one of the, the, uh, most idiotic storylines of all
time, and it actually ends up giving me more exposure.
It's, it's breach containment, but, uh, ironically enough, it's, it's
not, you know, it's not harming me in any significant way.
And it's it's actually helping me
It's it's elevating our platform and hopefully elevating the platform of the the
Politicians that I'm aligned with the politicians that I do want to get a positive media coverage for so
That's it I want to hit back on this and I think it's in our benefit not to actually let this go
There's people need to be exposed to Republican plans who have infiltrated the Democratic Party like a fucking virus
I don't even care if they vote for the Democrats at the end of the day if they just like suck it up
If they suck it up, then that's all that matters, okay?
Who cares?
I want racists to vote for my candidates, too.
You know what I mean?
I want every racist person and every anti-racist person to vote for Abdul Al-Sayed.
The point is, we don't win those voters by becoming racist.
We win those voters by convincing them that we present a much better alternative,
a much better policy agenda for them,
that we will be able to,
we will be able to fix their material issues, okay?
That's the whole point.
I've never been like, oh dude, what the fuck?
You have to disavow racist people that vote for you.
I don't give a fuck.
Okay, I don't care.
I don't care about that at all.
They vote too.
And if they vote for our candidates, it's great, fantastic.
The point is, you're not going to win them over and you mustn't win them over or try
to win them over by being racist.
You don't compromise on those issues.
You offer them things so they can make a new calculation, right?
You offer them things that improve their lives and you earnestly communicate that
that you will fight for improving their material needs,
their material conditions, and then they vote for you.
And hopefully, slowly but surely,
when they become a part of this coalition,
they shed away their previous opinions
about certain races or trans people.
That's the goal, that's how you win.
That's how you build a movement, okay?
This has always been my mentality.
This is also the part of the reason,
this is a big part of the reason
I advocate for universality, right? Like universal health care. No more means tested bullshit
that creates unnecessary pressure, unnecessary stress that creates fiscal cliffs that cause
people to recalculate their financial circumstances because like they don't want to fall off
this benefits cliff, right? That's it. That's it. Racist people need homes too, right?
races, people need healthcare too. The goal is not to try and win them by becoming more races,
which is what these guys say. Like these centrist right-wingers are like, oh, in order to win these
races, God forbid you actually fucking advocate for healthcare or anything like that that they might
need. You have to become more races. It's a failure. That's a failure. It's a moral failure.
And that's an electoral failure. It has failed. It has failed every single time it's been
implemented. It failed in 2016 and it failed in fucking 2024. It failed.
What is this? I know this is meant to be a bathroom, but I'm definitely speaking of Republican
who cavorted with Alex Jones, won the presidency twice. Yeah, I just, it's, it's stupid.
That whole, you are the only Jesus some people will ever see can apply to policy too.
We show them the way and they follow. What?
Anyway, we want the races to vote for us in spite of the racism, not because of it.
That's how this always works.
You weren't always woke.
No one is, no one is.
Opinions change when incentives align, feed the homeless, and allow the space for them
to develop social skills.
Yeah, I mean, exactly, exactly, um, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
I will log off only found a sauce to it but then recently started washed twitch at a boredom
To be shit's points anyways, it was good for a son if he can make
Moolah by yapping. I don't know if yelling on twitch will help you
You're right, um, I should not do that I
Should just quit
Like right now I should quit instead. I mean is that all I do is
Is that all I do?
Like people will say that regardless, but like, you know, I do actually put my money
where my mouth is.
I actually put my body on the line as well for the things that I believe in.
I'm all around the place.
I go around the country, I go around the world, visit areas of American impact, and
try to do my best as a singular individual, right?
with the hopes that you know you will do the same all right wait people still on
your dick three year yeah the Cory Booker thing is really funny Booker
admitting that he's never listened to a single minute of a sauce show and only
put out a position because third way prod at his office this is exactly the
same thing that at least a slotkin did which was really funny where they're
I don't really know anything about this guy, but I think he's bad. It's like, why would you admit that?
Why? Like, sure. I'm an irrelevant figure, right? I'm not that relevant. I'm not that significant
But like why would you admit to people that you don't even like care about the shit that you're saying?
This is the number one gripe that people have with politicians is that they're just empty husks that don't have personal
conviction that don't have fucking personal opinions on anything and are just simply a
a mouthpiece for whatever fucking lobbyist or you know campaign consultant is telling them the talking points they get
It's unbearable dude. That is just wrong half of our DSA chapter join because of you hell. Yeah, I mean great
It doesn't matter. It's it's
You know
Good great, I didn't say I have no impact whatsoever, you know, I have some impact slowly
But surely will have more impact
but
But you know it's it's not you know, I'm not like a kingmaker. I'm not a singular person
No one is no one is a singular force that can change the trajectory of American politics. That's not how this stuff works
It's a movement
We all play a major role in this all of you every single individual in this chat that goes out and speaks to their parents
Speaks to other people out in the real world
And defend these positions that we all believe in you're playing a major role here. Okay? I'm just one fucking guy
I am nothing without all of you. That's how it works. That's how I've always explained this process
And and I will continue to to keep I mean I'll continue to say the truth because that is the truth
Office you said and it's just one person
But it's part of a large group of I think people that have this point of view that you wouldn't say go on my
Hasan Piker's stream because he's said some heinous and stupid shit in the
yeah I don't like the way John also presented this because like he's known
me for a decade right like but it is what it is past but to me I would I've
done his show you know I mean come on John you'd be like chomping at the bit
to say you know what of course I'm gonna go there cuz I want to represent
this point of view in a place that doesn't normally hear and I want to
talk about the ways in which I think some of the things he said are
offensive the same way you might want to go confront somebody on Fox News or
you've met with, you know, talk to Newt Gingrich and he said crazy shit in the past
too. So maybe part of the way out of this is for someone like you to go to those
spaces even if there have been things that are offensive to people.
Yeah, so first of all, somehow we're having a much more deeper and personal
conversations tonight though, so I'm gonna be very candid with you.
These Pajas in the U.S. know they don't. I talk to them every fucking day pretty much.
Um specifically John Favreau who show I will be on you guys stop positive scumbags or enemies as we shut the fuck up
They're not okay stop. Thank God
I don't fucking operate in the same way that you guys do because if I was just as like
ruthless to people and just as not open-minded to people changing their mentality
I would have zero fucking allies right now
Okay, none of you know how to fucking coalition build you guys are insane
You have to literally dial it back brother. Jesus Christ
Podsave America was formative in the grand platinum campaign and in the Abdul El Sayed campaign like they're obviously
Recognizing exactly what the fuck America needs right now, and they're leaning into it
Stop being so goddamn ruthless to people. Oh my god. You need to be you you need to stop being insane, please
I don't even care that John Lovett said this. Okay. It doesn't matter
Gotcha, yeah, he was in a very good way. I always want to talk to you about deep things
No, I appreciate that and and and that's why I appreciate you frankly
So here's a candor. I had no idea who this person was a few days ago. I really I never had their name
That's going around in it. Yeah, and I still haven't heard
Him speak even I haven't heard anything. He's done the man. That's a crazy thing to admit by the way
I don't even know if it's true or not. It might be and it might not be, right? But that's a crazy
thing to admit. Like you're basically fucking saying like, I don't know anything about this guy.
They just fed me talking points and I said those talking points. And it's like,
brother, don't you understand that's precisely the thing that people hate about politicians?
Like you should never, as a politician, you should never admit that in my opinion, okay?
never admit that you're an empty suit, a husk for a collection of talking points
that like lobbyists have given you. Don't do that. You don't have to know who I am,
but be honest, right? Don't throw your comms director under the bus in the way
that he's doing, right? He's like, well, my comms director gave me these choice
quotes and I thought, wow, heinous, you know, just be like, this is irrelevant.
Why am I fucking talking about a Twitch streamer? Shut up. That's what you
would normally do, right? If you don't know who I am, you say, I don't know who he is.
I'm not going to talk about this. It's ridiculous.
You understand? And it's crazy because like Cory Booker's supposed to be the guy in charge
of social media for the Democratic Party. And he's like, Cory Booker claiming, yeah, no
idea who Sumpiger was before a few days ago. And he'd never even heard his name
is either a bald face lie or reveals how stunningly ignorant these positions are about
the online world. Cory Booker is the one leading the Senate Dems on social media stuff. Yeah.
And it's so dumb. It's so dumb to be like, I don't know. I don't know anything about
this guy, but also here are all the things that I said about him. He's a bad guy.
Why would you fucking admit that? You guys see what I'm saying? I know it's me in
the crosshairs technically, right? It's technically me in the crosshairs. So for a lot of people,
you think like, oh, this is self-serving. You're just defending your own honor. You're
defending yourself. And it's like, no, I'm actually identifying a major fucking problem
with the way that politicians are perceived. This is a much broader problem. This is
not about me at all, right? I'm removing myself from this equation and you should
to this has nothing to do with me and something to do with like the way
politicians are perceived okay you aren't important enough for him to personally
know about he has people for this duh no brother brother brother brother brother
how do you not understand if I'm so insignificant if I'm so inconsequential
and you're a goddamn senator the way that you respond to this is I'm a
I'm a fucking senator, I got real shit to worry about, what do you mean I'm on a disavowsome
random guy?
I don't know him, do you not understand?
That's the point, saying this doesn't actually own me at all, saying this actually shows
that he is a mouthpiece for lobbyists, lobbyists come to him and they issue talking points
and he says those talking points, that is literally the problem with Democrats, the
way that that democrats are perceived broadly for good reason because they are fucking mouthpieces for
for lobbyists and sitting over there is my comms director it's almost as if there's a bunch of
focus on one random streamer and it's not really the right way to have a big debate yeah that's my
point like so my comms director said to me oh you're getting asked this question would you go
going to show and I'm like, Oh, who is this person? And all
he did, the totality of this person he gave me, I don't want
you to, he's not on camera, so I don't feel like I'm
implicating him. The totality of what he did to me was show me
four or five of the most outrageous things. They're
pretty outrageous. They're, they are. I said, okay, well, whoa,
right? Let's give whatever you saw officially coming out of
my office. So here's a couple things. And I have this
experience. I don't want to say daily, my wife
experienced it last night in the airport as somebody was
wanting to take a moment as I come off this very long
flight it's and to scream at me I always tell people give me a Mother's Day card
please because I get called you mother often and it's from people on wings of
both parts father's day card in that sense well but calling me a mother well
you're not the mother oh you're right I never thought about that analysis you
send any kind of card would do I appreciate that why does Booker
assume you want him on the show. I don't know. Um, I guess, you know, it doesn't really matter.
Now, obviously, the biggest problem that I have a Cory Booker is not what he's saying
about me. I don't give a shit what he says about me. I don't care about having him on
the show at all. My biggest problem with Cory Booker is that he is, uh, he is aligned
with some of the most maligned forces in American politics, okay? He has linked up with Yohav Galan,
a war criminal, the former defense minister of Israel, who is an indicted war criminal, right?
He is linked up with Benjamin Ninnyahu, another indicted war criminal by the international
criminal court, okay, by the ICC. So that is infinitely worse than any number of things
that anyone could possibly say, not just myself, right? This is, this is ridiculous. Like you,
you as a senator doing that is far more consequential than any number of different things that any
number of different Twitch streamers, podcasters or whoever the fuck could ever say that is
unforgivable, right? Because that's real. That's, that's real impact.
That says a lot more. You can be as positive and as like optics focused as you want, right?
But at the end of the day, you're doing that shit. That's so much worse.
That's real harm. You're advancing material harm. Booker admitting that he's never
listened to a single minute of his son's show and only put out a position because
third-way prod at his office, then he went on a long, largely unrelated, ramble deflection
about getting heckled at the airport constantly and the imports of reaching across the aisle
on a personal level to ultra-conservative senators like the late Jim Inhofe.
And was really funny about this, by the way, was really funny about this, is that he
He still gave such a wishy-washy, centrist-ass position when asked, Cory Booker and all these
right-wing Democrats cannot have any conviction.
Just have conviction, be like he's a bad guy, lie and say, I know him very well.
He is a malign force in the party.
He is a cancer.
We have to purge him.
It's unbelievable.
Even then he's still a fucking centrist. It's like, yeah, you know
I said he was a bad guy because someone gave me choice quotes
And you know, I was prodded by the the lobbying arm of the party
but honestly
Honestly, I don't really know. Maybe we should reach across the aisle. It's like, why would you do that?
Why are you such a fucking centrist?
Why are you such a goddamn central that you can't even you can't even have a consistent position on this?
You know
Yeah, it's it's ridiculous that like Cory Booker also is the guy who is is claiming he's never heard of me
But like he's leading the the Senate them social media efforts like that's that's crazy. He should talk to his staffers
They know who the fuck I am they're probably in here right now
Now, you know, so funny.
I can't believe you, you're criticizing someone who did a record breaking filibuster that didn't
even symbolically deter the Trump machine in any way.
I know that is perhaps a perfectly illustrative of the way that Cory Booker and others like
him want to have impact, right?
it. It's me. I'm on Cory Booker staff. I get paid. I get paid to watch Hassanavi. Yeah.
Anyway, last point on this is going to be, last point on this is going to be
one year ago, Cory Booker spoke of 25 hours. Here's what it accomplished. Nothing. Yeah.
Yeah. The, the Haritz, uh, New York correspondent, since when has the Sompiger had become some
litmus test for politicians? This is the inverse of the moral panic pro Israel pundits are
trying to stir absolute brain rot.
A malevolent actor should not be allowed to corral the DNC in the very bad corners.
Thus orchestrated a campaign to make faster equivalent between a podcast or in people
in power who are now bombing Iran in the name of Jesus Christ is especially transparent.
apparently not, not that transparent for other podcast bros. Yeah. No, I know he didn't do
anything. He didn't, I know he didn't do anything. It's, it's zero. He accomplished zero one book
tour, zero votes, stops, zero bills passed. I know. Yeah. What they also don't want to
reckon with or what they failed to reckon with is that the average voter is way, way
more anti-semitic, like actually anti-semitic. Okay? I'm not anti-semitic. I fight against anti-semitism.
Have you seen the average voter? You probably haven't. That's precisely the reason why you think
I am not someone who is desperately trying to hold onto a sense of normalcy and combat bigotry
no matter what kind of bigotry exists, including but not limited to anti-semitism.
When you launch these fucking attacks against me, you don't understand like
Like most, there are a lot of people out there who think the most significant way of combating
Israel is by, you know, being a hithism medic.
It's crazy.
When you are, where you are a lot more extreme is sometimes your outward support for groups
like Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansar Allah and Iran, the most extreme view that Americans
have on these groups is indifference or dislike.
I think that's your worst, most attackable stance.
Yeah, except the point that I make always is that these groups have valid reasons to resist.
Okay?
They have valid reasons to resist.
Is that simple?
And I'm not gonna shy away from my perspective, okay?
Not only is resistance to occupation totally legal, okay?
It's not some, I'm not gonna lie to you.
That's my point.
I'm not gonna lie to you just because the average American might not be ready to hear
what I have to say, okay, and I've never done that and I will continue to be honest with you, okay? That's it
That's it. I know Americans don't want to hear that. They are heavily propagandized
That's precisely the reason why we find ourselves in these fucking endless quagmires where we're seemingly finding unlimited billions of dollars
That that go to blowing up fucking schools overseas, but no money in the bank to build schools in your fucking neighborhood, right?
So who gives a shit?
most people interact with in real life of the metro Atlanta are so on pc they
get fired by the most liberal nonprofits in a week
this is why the party is to stop alienating young men by getting
manager rogan or his honor whatever
most do say something
in temperate or slightly offensive on the regular that's a dues operate the
republicans know this and don't go on which house about it
they win men no surprise men and women are on average wired differently
okay this stuff is the fucking ridiculous okay
this stuff is ridiculous uh...
Yeah, God's aid loves culture warships so much, but on the inverse, right?
He is like the anti-culture war warrior that ends up constantly fucking talking about culture war and even engaging in like gender essentialism.
It's fucking ridiculous.
Women's brains are wired differently than men.
Who cares, man?
This is crazy.
Yeah, Benjamin and Yahoo's a Cory Booker Benjamin and he has a horrible person also Cory Booker. Yeah.
Okay, I think Zied would do much better analysis if he wasn't so hyper invested in fucking it Paul.
it's crazy. My people, she, the Easter Party, stop talking about Iranian people
are all radicals. I don't know what that means. Okay.
Do average Dems even do culture war anymore? I think the Democratic voters
don't. And the Democratic consultant class and the political class only deploy identity
politics in a very cynical way to cut out their left flank from the equation. They will look
at people like myself who has spent a lifetime fighting against white supremacy and anti-blackness
and will cynically take a clip completely out of context to say, see, Hasan is saying,
Hasan is telling black people to shut the fuck up, right? And it's usually the people that stand in opposition
It's often the people that stand in opposition to combating white supremacy that do this
It's so cynical. Okay
It's so fucking cynical
it's always a handshake between
right-wing forces in the Democratic Party, which get a lot of mileage and mainstream press and
And outright neocons and reactionaries and fascists on the right who can so quickly tune
up people.
But luckily, luckily a lot of the Democratic voters are no longer getting fooled by this.
There's still a way to go, right?
There's still a way to go.
It's always this hurts your cause by a guy who hates you and your cause.
mondani's blatant disregard for middle classes put him at odds with black
new yorkers
funny to see how both the establishments of republicans are uh... trying to black
identity and angle against mondani
that is exactly what they're doing
it's concern trolling and i don't think people are falling for it as much
anymore
and i'm glad that they're not falling for it as much anymore the voters of
the voters are done with the ship because they saw it with bernie they
saw it with every left-flank candidate
Okay. I think the average person sees this stuff and go, what the fuck are you talking about?
Right. Most people love this guy for good reason. He is a very, very popular politician. He's a very
popular mayor, right? And that's good. It's a good thing that he's a very popular mayor.
Honestly, I feel like other leftists who live for the hate campaigns against you more than
normies do and the sex imaginations yes I know it's because they're operating on
unfortunately a hyper online echo chamber that's what it is if they were to
go outside and talk to normal fucking people if they were to have normal
relationships with with regular ass people they probably would have a very
different attitude we have our good share of that in our sphere as well
look at the way people respond to some of these guys like the podjohns right
Like we that's why I always say just be normal just be normal just be normal be cool be chill that plays a major role in
Convincing people right
Yeah, just patch up we we we needed desperately we desperately need a woke 2.0 update, okay?
You don't have to compromise on your values
You don't have to compromise on your advocacy
But you don't have to carry that resentment over to the average person every single fucking day, right?
You don't have to be duped by people that are very clearly trying to tune you up.
Try to figure out, try to figure out who this person is, what their background is,
why they're saying these sorts of things, right?
Yeah, this is another like incredible fucking take.
Opinion, it is time for Mungani to stand us all there with Muslim leaders who
issue anti-Semitic tropes such as genocide and occupation and are committed to a new broader
realignment or regional alignment in the Middle East. Yeah, tropes such as genocide, tropes
such as occupation, tropes such as apartheid. Okay. That's not what a trope is, buddy. That's
just what the truth is. Uh-oh. The U S. State Department is doing a trope. Israel and
the occupied territories, Israel and the occupied territories, the occupied territories,
Yeah, words have no more meaning. It doesn't matter. It's not anti-Semitic to accurately reflect on
what Israel's a nation-state is doing. Okay, you're out of your fucking mind. This is unimaginably,
unbelievably off-putting. Okay, this kind of stuff is unbelievably off-putting. And that's
That's precisely the reason why a lot of these people's attitude, a lot of these people's
attitude on this issue has been to say, oh, why am I supposed to care about this Twitch
streamer?
I don't give a fuck.
What does he stand for?
Is he anti-Israel?
Well, I'm anti-Israel too.
Fuck you.
That's it.
That's it.
For the record, be cool, be chill, as much better language than be normal and runs
less risk of alien people. And Fondor, I promise you I'm not getting any optics, you know, lessons
from you, okay? Come on. Come on. When I say be normal, I'm talking about you specifically,
okay? You know this. We have a lot of back and forths, okay?
Yeah, it's, we're not going to have a philosophical debate on what normalcy means and are you
actually engaging in ableism when you say be normal?
Are you actually alienating people who are neurodivergent and might not feel normal?
What is normalcy after all?
Do you think like you're going to, do you think this message is going to have a
larger impact in Michigan and the state of Michigan? You know, let's say, let's say
you're trying to have a quick and easy conversation with like as broad an audience
as possible. Do you think we should be, you think we should be doing that? The
The beauty of the statement of being normal is that it's personally different for every
single person, right?
That's why when I say it, everyone goes, well, okay, that makes sense.
That's it.
Your normal is different than anybody else's, you know, and it doesn't matter.
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Joe Contra, this is pathetic
Absolutely pathetic Ro Khanna looking forward to you explaining how America deserve 9-11. Of course 9-11 was a terrorist act against America
We were justified in our strikes against Al Qaeda spoke out against that statement forcefully
Do you stand by every statement that Trump has made or every right wing commentator who you've engaged with we need to stop with gotcha politics
So yeah, they're they're trying to cook Ro Khanna with this
They're they're trying to be like oh Ro Khanna. He loves us on he loves 9-eleven, which you know, they're like it's a it's tied up
It's a lie about me that then gets advanced as like a truth, right?
It's a it's a misunderstanding and then it's like packaged into anyone that's associating with me
But all I gotta do is this is ridiculous man. I don't agree with every single thing that he said it doesn't fucking matter to me
And not only that but also it's blowback, right?
All right, so Rokana went on meet the press
Okay, Rokana went on meet them on the fucking press and apparently
Amidst this major energy crisis that we've caused because we got goaded by Israel into fucking blowing up Iran and doing terrorism and
spending and losing, lighting on fire, billions of dollars, right? Amidst that
crisis, Meet the Press still has time to be like, well, Rokana, as an elected, what
do you have to say about this talking point that we got from fucking one of
the advocacy groups that is still trying to maintain some semblance of
control over the Democratic Party and ensure that the Democratic Party is a
a right-wing corporatist party, even though that is what has precisely led to their defeat
over and over again, right? The world is on fire and they're still going, you know, what
about Hassan? No, but appealing normalcy in reference to a white supremacist genocidal
state in society is fucking crazy. No, it's not. It's not. It's not even, you're
absolutely wrong. You got to go where people are at and talk to them in a
language that they understand. I'm not saying compromise on your values. I'm
saying talk to people in a way where you're pleasant. Talk to people in a way
where they'll be more responsive to you. If you talk to them crazy style,
they're gonna go everything that you fucking represent is disgusting. I don't
care about it. Fuck you. Okay, you're an insane person. Right. Don't be an
anti-social fucking weirdo just because you understand that you have the morally correct
position, the morally righteous position, doesn't mean that's how you end up convincing people,
okay? Most people think their position is the morally righteous position. Do you understand?
I do want to ask you, here we are in the midst of the midterms, you're someone who's
been quite outspoken. You have made several appearances on a show hosted by
socialist commentator Hassan Piker. Some of your fellow Democrats though have
raised alarms about his views. Here are two members of a left-leaning
think tank. This is how they put it. They wrote quote, no left-wing agitator is
more influential and extreme than Twitch streamer Hassan Piker. He's
referred to ultra-wide. I was asking you good faith what Doron campus you
funded or organized. I know some other creators who have done, but I'm not aware for you. I'd
eager to have that information. Could you please respond, bud? Please respond to my question. If
you don't mind, bud, I'm eager to have that conversation. Do you see what's on the screen
right now? Okay. The reason that that's on screen right now is because not only has my
community fundraised actively and also is currently in the process of door knocking
actively for a candidate. I'm actually going out to stump with that candidate and that's why
the story is actually imploded. If you pay a little bit more attention to what's in front of you,
I think you'll probably figure it out, right? Do you understand? Like, I mean, hopefully this
is a sincere question and maybe you'll understand what's going on. But, you know,
there are a fuck ton of candidates that I have elevated that I have, uh, you know,
worked with, uh, leading up to this, uh, primary season, but certainly before it as well. I mean,
I'll give you an example. I've worked privately with like the John Ossoff and Raphael Warnock
campaigns behind scenes. Uh, I'm a bit unsure to be honest. Okay. Well, do you see, do you see
see what's on screen?
Like why do you think that's happening right now?
Do you?
Like why do you think these guys are yelling about me?
Like what do you, what do you?
Anyway, whatever.
Let's continue.
juicers in bread employed anti-Semitic dog whistles, bloodthirsty, violent pig
dog against an anti-hem... go take it up with Zoran who got yelled at quite a bit
that's a destiny fan by the way he said the thing that got deban in the first
place in other chats oh nice. Hamas viewer of his stream compared liberal
Zionists to liberal Nazis and said Hamas is a thousand times better than
the Israeli state now Hassan Piker says some of his comments have been
and taken out of context, but he largely stands by them.
Do you have any regrets about appearing on his show?
None, and I would go again,
but I have to condemn those comments.
I mean, I would have struck Hamas as a terrorist state
and we need to unequivocally condemn anti-Semitism,
but as Han Piker was at the DNC in 2024 covering...
Like, even like the condemnation in and of itself
is like, we don't have to entertain this stuff, you know?
I don't think we have to entertain this stuff at all.
We can just be like, look, man, what are we doing?
Israel's done a genocide.
People are going to resist against that.
It's unbelievable that this is being presented
as the major point of contention here, right?
It's ridiculous.
Vice President Harris, what should the standard
of the Democrats be?
Should we not go on Theo Bonn?
Should we not go on Sean Ryan?
Should we not go on Joe Rogan?
Should we just have these purity tests of cancelling folks?
The lesson of-
It's also really funny cause like,
unlike Theo Vaughn, unlike Joe Rogan, unlike Sean Ryan,
I don't have, I don't harbor any reactionary points of view.
I'm opposed to reactionary ideology,
which is precisely the reason why people
are doing these sorts of attacks, okay?
But in any case-
The last election is we've got to be out there.
We've got to engage.
It's a complex, messy, multiracial democracy.
I will defend my views, but the people who are saying,
don't engage will cost us future elections.
Do you run the risk of legitimizing some of those views
by appearing on his show?
How do you answer that?
He's got millions of followers.
He'll have millions of followers
whether Rokana goes on a show or not.
The point is that we should go on
and have tough conversations.
You know, actually, I respect Rahm Emanuel.
Rahm Emanuel says he'll go on.
And if he makes a comment that I disagree with,
then I will push back right there.
So I think the test should be what you say.
If someone is going on these programs
and not pushing back against anti-Semitism, fine.
But I haven't done the background check on you, Chris.
And I'm sure there are no crazy comments.
I've said anything like that.
I can assure you that.
Where do you draw the line, Congressman?
Would you appear on, for example, a right-leaning show?
Alex Jones, for example, who has
made controversial comments that
have enraged people, hurt people deeply in some instances.
Look, there is obviously a line.
And I probably wouldn't appear on Alex Jones.
But the point is I don't think that that line should
be with Hassan Piker, who has millions of followers.
And largely what his view has been
has been critical of the blank check
that we gave Netanyahu in the war in Gaza.
Now, I don't agree with every one of his statements.
And it's a judgment call.
But here's what I will say, Kristen.
the democratic party has been too reluctant to get out there, to mix it up, to engage.
Yeah. By the way, let's see who, let's see who legitimize me in the past. Cause this is
NBC news is meet the press. Oh, that's right. It's NBC news behind the scenes with Twitch
streamer Hassan Abbey. Here's NBC news. Twitch is transforming into a political arena. Hassan
That's why it's so ridiculous. That's why it's so ridiculous is like, you knew all this
back then too. You brought it up. I gave you my opinion on it, right? Like that's what's
so crazy about it. These are, because all the quotes that they're utilizing that like
the ADL has sent around, right?
All of those quotes are from before
these interviews were conducted, okay?
Some of those quotes are directly,
are directly addressed in these interviews, okay?
That's what the problem is.
It's so inconsistent.
It's so ridiculous to meet the press, give you a heads up. No, of course not.
Of course not.
That's what's so funny about it is that like every single one of these outlets,
every single one of these outlets is now doing this.
They've all done these sorts of videos. They've done these sorts of, uh,
you know, press coverage. They've done this sort of press coverage,
which a lot of people unironically think is like, uh,
something I paid for like there's so there's a lot of people on on twitter that are so hysterical and so
insane about this that that they they legitimately think like I paid for this shit it's so stupid
huh democratic consultants clearly don't actually want to win elections they want to cling to a
a pastime of respectability policies that requires that a boycott any objectionable figures. Trump
talks to Alex Jones in 2015 and one talked to all sorts of characters in 2024 and one Democrats
need to get a fucking grip and snap to reality. Yeah. And the other side of this of course is that
I'm not even like Alex Jones at all. Like I'm not like those people at all. I'm not like Joe
Rogan at all. This is part of the reason why I was annoying when people were like, oh,
we need a Joe Rogan to left. I was like, and you're the Joe Rogan left. I was like,
like, no, I'm not actually, and I don't even think that you can win by developing a Joe
Rogan of the left. That's not how this works. Right. Just advocate for good policies that
actually materially improve people's lives. Okay. That's what you need to do. And you
need to be earnest about it. And you need to be bold and you need to not worry about
the way that people are going to attack you. You need to be a little bit more shameless.
Right? They want someone like you without your views and glazes them exactly.
That's not how this media environment works at all.
Right? That's not how this media environment works at all.
And it's frustrating that people are just like not cognizant.
There is no waking up. They aren't in some sort of stupor. They cannot let the left wing of the party that will tax the billionaire donors win. Exactly.
Last sentence. Conna defends engagement with Piker.
The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment on Piker's post. Uh-oh.
Uh-oh. Donald Trump is gonna fucking snap into play.
You absolutely need to be sending out a response to the embassy calling in a semi-coded Jewish
insider David from Claude Analysis and comparing it to Alex Jones.
Buddy, that's not how that works, okay?
I'm a very accessible media figure, an accessible media figure that they've literally interviewed
in the past.
Obviously, they have access to me if they choose to reach out for comment.
They are actively choosing to speak over me rather than speak to me.
This is a deliberate attempt to play, this is a deliberate attempt to, you know, play
into the, the smear campaign, which is fine.
You know, I'll take it.
I'll take it because this kind of, this, this kind of like media coverage doesn't hurt
anymore.
It doesn't hurt at all.
It actually helps.
gearing up for a big week of discussing his own partners role in the democratic party.
The supreme leader of the DNC. Yeah, I'm the Ayatollah of the DNC. Ayatollah Hassan, Picad.
The attacks are coming from all angles. The mouse is so desperate and showing. Yes, but
this is the position that I've been in my entire career. If you're on the left, you sometimes
have a lot of friction with the right-wing forces in the Democratic Party. Okay? And
if you're on the left, you absolutely draw so much enmity, so much ire from the right.
All of the right wing forces from center right figures all the way to neocons reactionaries
is real fosters and neo nazis.
This is just the position that we've always been in.
Okay.
I'm very aware of this.
That's why I always say, look, man, being elected is about taking L's gracefully.
You're going to take a lot of L's.
We live in the United States of America.
A lot of people are completely oblivious to our worldview or outright antagonistic
to it because of their social conditioning. Okay? And that's it. So get, you know, get
used to it, get ready for it. You have to, you have to be able to, to, you know, receive
this kind of blowback all the time. And I have for years I've had for decades, right?
This is something that I try to explain to people. You have to be endlessly empathetic.
You have to be endlessly empathetic no matter how repulsive someone's worldview might be.
If you're trying to convince them, obviously I have my weak moments. I'm speaking for ten
hours every fucking day. There are going to be plenty of opportunities. Not being
anti-social and for explaining patiently, the cure is not fucking Nazis, but is that
what you simply mean by be normal? Not being anti-social is a fucking crazy world.
How are you supposed to be normal about it?
would want to go about this in Nazi Germany? Yeah, I mean, there was a shit
ton of resistance in Nazi Germany, right? The communists were actively, once it got
to that point, they were actively fighting. They were actively engaging in
like street battles, okay? But how did they reach broad awareness?
They looked at the social forces. They looked at where the masses were
and they worked to organize. 800,000 people were sent to camps in Nazi Germany. 800,000
Germans were sent to camps in Nazi Germany for resisting against the government. 800,000.
And I'm sure that leading up to create this movement, they were being fucking normal.
were being normal and organizing and when the situation changed dramatically, when the conditions
changed dramatically, they even rose up in arms and tried to resist militarily, right?
Anyway,
so let's finish this video and then we're going to move on.
and we should be on actually being doing more of these things. We should have done more interviews
during 2024. You know, Vice President Vance was on like three Sunday shows in a row. I was like,
where are our folks? We've got to be out engaging in the media, out engaging in podcasts,
out engaging in communities, and offering our vision going forward. We thank you for watching.
And remember, a second America. Okay. We're now going to move on to the U.S. airmen that
that was found safe and sound after the F-15 was shot down in Iran.
This was a very complex combat search and rescue operation that took place.
There are a lot of details that have been revealed.
There was a lot of inconsistency in the reporting early on yesterday.
This took place over the entire day yesterday during nighttime in Iran.
And I'm going to parse through some of the information that's come out
and hopefully offer a little bit more clarity, even though it's outright confusing what actually took place.
Airman has been rescued in Iran. It was a risky mission with hundreds of special operations deployed deep in a mountainous region.
Chief Global Affairs anchor Martha Radz has been tracking the mission all through the night. She starts us off. Good morning, Martha.
Good morning, Martha.
Good morning, George.
This was an incredibly complex and dangerous operation for the rescue team and for that
missing Air Force aviator who had evaded capture behind enemy lines for days.
But in the end, the news we had all been hoping for, that the second crew member is now out
of Iran, seriously wounded according to the president, but he is safe.
Overnight, that stunning announcement.
the second Air Force officer from the downed U.S. fighter jet in Iran, rescued by U.S.
special operations forces, and now safely back in U.S. hands.
President Trump, posting on social media, saying, over the past several hours, the
United States military pulled off one of the most daring search and rescue operations
in U.S. history for one of our incredible crew member officers.
This brave warrior was behind enemy lines in the treacherous mountains of Iran, being
hunted down by our enemies who were getting closer and closer by the hour.
The Air Force Colonel was the Weapons Systems Officer, or WISO, the airman in the back seat
of the aircraft.
It was a Herculean effort to bring the Colonel to safety, and an extraordinary effort
for him to evade capture for nearly two days, following the rescue of the pilot
of that F-15 fighter jet in the hours just after the crash on Friday.
A senior administration official telling ABC News that prior to locating the WIZO and the
Department of War's daring rescue, the CIA first launched a deception campaign, spreading
word inside Iran that U.S. forces had already found him and were moving him on the ground
for ex-filtration out of the country.
Commander John Hiltz was a Navy FAA-18 Super Hornet pilot who flew combat missions in Afghanistan,
Iraq and Syria and was a rescue mission commander and forward air controller trained to oversee these
types of missions. It is kind of crazy that as far as like manpower and as far as like
competency goes. I still stand by my statements from before that like the American military
when it really needs to is probably the only competent organization that we have. Obviously
there's still a lot of issues with like contractor bloat and whatnot, but this operation and
of itself that we fucking lost a shit ton of gear in that that has inconsistencies
in the way that it's being reported, absolutely is one of those instances, right?
Obviously, the people in leadership roles are using one of the only competent tools that
the American government has to do maximum violence for no real discernible reason.
But it's just, it's like, it's crazy to me that like when it needs to, when it
It needs to be pulling off like, you know, crazy fucking feats.
They are able to do that.
Okay?
The reality of the matter is, as far as like a, as far as a technical operation goes,
a combat search and rescue operation is unbelievably difficult.
Okay?
It's unbelievably difficult.
This is not glaze of the imperialist war machine.
This is just a regular analysis of all of the events that have unfolded.
Okay
So that's one aspect
Like the reality of the matter is
Like and I've said this before I said this yesterday and the day before as well para jumpers are like some of the
Like the combat search and rescue operators
And and the and the para jumpers are some of the fucking bravest dudes in the military in general
some of the best trained dudes in the military in general.
And like para-rescue, yeah, para-rescue operators are,
they do objectively crazy shit, right?
And at least like that's how, you know,
that's how they're treated by people
who are much more knowledgeable than someone like myself
in medics as well, combat medics in particular.
Some of the details, however, is pretty wild from the way that this has been presented
and the way that this was reported on initially. There are a lot of inconsistencies. There are a
lot of inconsistencies with how this thing played out. They're obviously trying to do the best
to make it seem like this was a total fucking success with like very little friction whatsoever.
That's obviously impossible, right? They're trying to increase the valians and the bravery
while simultaneously, you know, talk about how incompetent the Iranian defenses have been.
So I'll tell you from what I know and what I've seen and what I've read thus far on this
mission. First, I'll give you the National Political Reporter for Spectrum News, Taylor
Populars and their assessment from Sankam Tampa, Florida on April 4th US force successfully completed the rescues of two America's service members from Iran after the F-15E fighter jet was shot down
April 2nd during a combat mission the service members were safely recovered during separate search and rescue missions US strikes into Iran
Continue as US Central Command forces dismantle the Iranian regime's ability to project power beyond its borders
That last part is obviously bullshit the two crew members of the F-15E
The strike eagle, the first lost to enemy fire in the month-long war, had both ejected
from the cockpit on Friday after Iran's military struck their plane.
The jet's pilot was quickly rescued, but its weapons systems officer could not be found,
setting off an urgent search and major consequences for Mr. Trump in the war that the United States
and Israel launched on February 28.
The mission was to save the crew member and employ hundreds of special forces troops
and other military personnel, those of the U.S. warplanes, helicopters and cyberspace
and other intelligence capabilities.
air-manivated Iranian force for more than 24 hours at one point, hiking up a 7,000 foot
ridgeline, a senior U.S. military official said.
So what's interesting about this is like, every single thing that you hear from mainstream
media will be deliberate. Every single thing that you hear from the New York Times about
this operation is deliberate, even down to the last statement in this operation,
which is I think one of the most interesting parts of this. The CIA often also plays
a role in making contact with civilians willing to help vulnerable troops stay alive, a process
known as unconventional assisted recovery. Okay? That could very well be the CIA reaching
out to Iranians who are like, who played a role in the, in the unconventional assisted
recovery, or it could very well be the, the, the CIA saying that so that they create
some instability when the Iranians see this and they go,
what the fuck we have like moles amongst our ranks, right?
Or it's a way to make the Iranian government more paranoid
while simultaneously greatly propagandizing their capabilities.
Whether or not this is real, it doesn't matter, right?
Like they're saying it's real, they're leaning it,
they're leaning into it as though they have that capability, right?
God is good was the first radio signal.
Yeah, excuse me, Trump told me that the US feared Iran trap after the first radio
signal from the F-15 crew member was God is good.
Or there was no fucking pilot to be saved.
I don't think that that's the case.
I think that they did recover the weapons officer,
the web of specialists on the on board. I think they did do that.
So the competing, the competing interests and the statements on this from the Iranian side
is the idea that Iran actually successfully either killed this person or kept them as
hostage. But the reality of the matter is if the Iranians actually did do that, you
would see him, right?
So once again, regardless of what the IRGC or whatever like Taznam says, if they did
do that, you would see it, right?
They would show you because it's a major blow to the confidence that the American military
has.
An Air Force officer whose fighter jet had been shot down in Iraq was rescued, Iran,
sorry, rescued by US Special Operations Force in a risky Saturday night mission
that took commandos deep into enemy territory.
President Trump said on social media early on Sunday, the rescue followed a
life or death race between US and Iranian forces that stretched over two days the reach
to injured airmen who was a weapons systems officer, current and former US official said
in the end Navy SEAL team six commandos extracted the officer in a massive operation that
involved hundreds of special operations troops and other military personnel and to be I do
think that they probably deployed from what I understand they sent in the first search
and rescue the first search and rescue was able to find where the guy is right and they set up a cordon
like they cordoned off a three mile line around where the the pilot or the weapons officer was
right and they literally lasered any civilian that was in that three mile radius
clearly, like they set up loitering, they set up Reaper drones, MQ-9 Reaper drones around a 3 mile
or a 3 kilometer line and created a cordon sanitaire and they just mass murdered whoever the fuck was
near it, right? Whether you're a shepherd or whether you were like a civilian going home to your
village or whether you were actually, you know, a Basij paramilitary force member or a part
the police force or even, you know, a civilian who took up arms to go and try and find where
this guy is. And they just lasered them, right?
USMQ-9 Reapered Drones protected the rescued F-15E crew member by striking Iranian military
aged males. This is an admission that they killed civilians, by the way. When they say
Iranian military aged males, they're literally openly admitting that they set up a cordon
sanitary on iranian soil and killed people in their own fucking backyards basically
Uh, and it also includes like children as well also includes people under the age of 18
That's what they say when they say military age male. Um, that that doesn't mean they're over the age of 18
That means they most likely killed people that are under
Uh, the age of 18 as well
Um, believed to be a threat who got within three kilometers of the airmen a person familiar with the operation told air and space forces magazine
so
They did that, um, yeah, 13 to 55 year olds. So they did that, um, they lasered all these people,
right? They set up, uh, they set up like a safe zone, uh, which is not a very safe zone for people
that just like live in the neighborhood, right? Obviously live in the mountainside. And, and,
And then the the para rescuers came in, but they got stuck.
They were able to, they were able to get to the person who I think walked like five kilometers
up the, up a mountain side and trekked after rejecting and was able to light up that beacon,
the emergency beacon and hide, right?
And they tried to clear out the area of any kind of anti-air defenses with the A-10 that
was then destroyed in the process, right?
Obviously, as we know.
That was day one, by the way, not even day two.
And on day two, they set up a forward operating runway behind enemy lines.
At least they claim that it was behind enemy lines.
I have no reason to disbelieve that, but it is a mountainous region on the western side
of Iran that's close to the Iraqi border, but they basically set up like a refueling runway,
a makeshift runway, which is just dirt, right? They found a farp. Yeah, they created a farp,
That's what it's called. A forward arming and refueling point.
Because helicopters are necessary to maneuver around, but obviously they have fuel restrictions,
so what they did was create a runway for these planes that have the necessary fuel
and and munitions to land in okay
Fox news confirm second crew member to down f1 f15 e fighter jasmine rescued and the members of the
rescue team extracted him uh from behind enemy lines in iran are all safely out of iran that
according to senior u.s officials of multiple will place sources in the region the weapons is the
officer ejected along with the pilot when the f15 e strike eagle they were flying was struck
Thursday night early Friday local time in southwest Iran the
The WSO used seer survival of Asian resistance and escape training to evade capture
Hiding on an elevated ridge after hiking away from the wreckage and putting out an emergency beacon US special operation rescue force including PJs
United States Air Force para rescue men
And and many layers of elite rescue forces, which I suspect is also
Delta force as well your parody Pentagon propaganda. No, dude. I'm telling you what I have
have read thus far, and I'm going to tell you what parts of the operation are our abject
lies. Okay. The C-130s are also able to load up MH-6 little bird helicopters in the hull
and deploy them once landed. That's almost certainly how that little bird helicopter
had to be scuttled. Got there. Exactly. Complex layered mission to find both the crew member
and also keep the Iranian force who were hunting the American weapon system operator
at bay, there are videos that have appeared from local eyewitnesses that show what appeared
to have been injured and dead iranian members of the irgc embossage who were looking for
the down american crew member, um, foxes learn there was fighting on the ground but no americans
killed during the operation.
So i don't know if this is the case.
Okay, i don't believe that this is the case for the record.
i don't believe that this is the case.
and i think that they're most likely lying about that and uh and i'm also lying about
exactly how the two cargo jets and also potentially one helicopter was destroyed in the process.
Okay. It was very complex operation to retrieve the downed service member a well placed source
briefed on the operation. Told me many different branches of the US military were involved in
the rescue. Fox News confirmed the A-10 Warthog that crash Friday was involved in providing
cover the rescue team search for the pilot that a 10 crash in Kuwait first reported by ABC Friday
but the a 10 pilot managed to eject safely and was rescued there was destruction of aircraft which
have sensitive equipment on board I am told all the part of the complex sees our combat
search and rescue mission the F-15E was pretty much destroyed an impact to rescue helicopters
were hit by enemy fire on Friday and the crew members on board were injured by enemy fire
but managed to make it out of Iran there were a lot of elements to this rescue I am told
So, the destruction of the aircraft is the part that I think is inconsistent, and they're lying about it, right?
I've seen images. It definitely was destroyed on the runway.
The images of the destroyed aircraft are not consistent with an aircraft that was downed.
Okay? It's not, for sure. So, whether the Americans themselves or Delta Force themselves actually destroyed the aircraft
in order not to let the Iranians get these...
in order not to let the Iranians have access to this like, you know, the, the, the, like
special parts that it has, because these aren't like regular C, C 130s. They are, they're,
they're specialized C 130s. The technology itself is, is obviously proprietary. They
don't want the Iranians to get ahold of it, right? They don't want any of the foreign
adversaries to get ahold of it. But I don't think it was the Americans that blew it
They're claiming that it was the Americans that blew it up, but here the confirmed losses with the current tally for this f-15
That was down over Iran. There was one f-15e strike eagle that was destroyed two HH 60 helicopters that were damaged
One MH six little bird that was destroyed one a10 thunderbolt two was destroyed two C 130
Hercules were destroyed
Two MQ 9 reapers were also destroyed in the process impossible and unconfirmed damage was one f-16 fighting Falcon
Did an emergency squawk one KC 135 shot a tanker also had an emergency squawk
This was all in the first day and one a 10 Thunderbolt two possible emergency landing, which is dubious. So
You believe this bullshit holy they were all shot down and Trump authorized Hannibal Directive to end it
No, I I don't I I don't know why you are are
a
Dude dude listen if that's the case and you're not coping then you'll see that's it
Okay, you'll see
You'll see
The reason why they expended so much on saving this one pilot is
Because they did not want a a major major fucking L
that the Americans would take here if the Iranians were able to secure the prisoner of war, okay?
That would have given Iranians tremendous leverage, okay?
Instead of killing every single person that was in and around the area and destroy it,
they tried to do an extraction. It was a very complex mission. And clearly,
they lost a lot of tools in the process, a lot of tech in the process as well.
Many of that, in my opinion, was actually downed or destroyed even if they're on
the runway by the Iranian defenses, for sure.
And they're just simply saying that it was actually the United States that
destroyed their own gear.
But we'll see.
We'll see. Because if it was the Iranians that successfully destroyed everyone and killed
everyone that was trying to do the extraction mission, you would have bodies. There would
be bodies in the wreckage, and they would show those bodies. Because once again, that's
a major counter to the way that Americans have presented this mission, right? That's
That's it. That's it. And the fact that they still don't, they still don't have bodies to show means that it's most likely a successful mission for the Americans.
And most likely a successful extraction mission for the Americans.
I know it's protocol to blow up anything you leave behind um either they sent in
Delta Force because the the the para rescuers do not have the para rescuers
do not have explosive munitions that they can deploy that that blow up their
own fucking tools that that must mean that they most likely sent in the
Delta Force alongside a second rescue mission so that they could rescue the
first rescue mission that was looking for the second pilot or the weapons
specialist okay that's my assumption lol where did you get that info wait what do
you mean is it wrong now the only the thing here however is that because
Delta Force operates under, it was reported was DevGruh, SEAL Team 6.
Some of these special forces operators, even if they actually do get fucking shot or killed,
are, they're not going to have the same reporting system that the, that like a regular
active duty, like regular forces have, right? Obviously, the military still has a duty to inform
the next of kin. So even if it's like super classified, there are still leaks that take place,
okay? But the reason why you won't hear like actual casualty numbers from events like this
This is because they'll hide it in a training incident or something like that later down
the line.
And all you'll get if you're under the CIA, especially like the Delta Force B is a star.
And that's the that's the only record of your of your KIA that that will ever exist.
Okay, you'll just get a star in the fucking CIA base.
The idea that like zero wounded is also bullshit.
That's what they said, but that's obviously not the case because they've already admitted
that the pilot is like, really fucked up or not the pilot, sorry, the WSO was actually
wounded gravely.
So what is this look at those health care is it would have been such a strong case.
diplomatic bargaining chip for prisoner war a lot of our money double ply rescue missions
they cite the source you can go evaluate okay so
Iran is obviously still uh rejecting openly uh the u.s. proposal to open the trade of
hormones in exchange for temporary ceasefire um so uh that should tell you what they think
Okay, that should tell you what they think about like what their position is, okay?
That's not true of DoD. They do get acknowledged as being cast as a part of military operations.
We can go, we can look back on multiple instances of Dev and SFOD guys being killed during the
global war in Terran prior that we're acknowledged.
Okay.
So the fact that the only thing that we've seen
from the Iranian side are the carcasses
have blown up fighter jets, or not fighter jets, sorry, blown up cargo planes.
And a mini chopper, a mini helicopter implies that they most likely intercepted these jets
while they were on this impromptu made runway, like a field that they were flying in and
out of.
But there were no US casualties among the rescue team, Mr. Trump said.
All the commandos and the weapons officer returned safely as senior U.S. military officials
said rescue planes flew the injured airmen to Kuwait for medical treatment.
We got it, Mr. Trump exclaimed.
In the social media posts, this brave warrior was behind enemy lines in the treacherous
mountains of Iran, being hunted down by our enemies who were getting closer and closer
by the hour.
Mr. Trump said that the rescued officer and Air Force Colonel had sustained injuries,
but he will be just fine.
The two crew members of the F-15E strike eagle, the first lost enemy fire in the Moth Long War
had both ejected from the cockpit on Friday after Iran's military struck their plane.
The jet's pilot, yeah, I got the IRGC statement, I'm going to show you some accounts, cite
this damage as proof it wasn't abandoned because of the sand, no, the planes were
shot at for sure, okay, but this wreckage is not consistent with a downed plane at
all because a downed plane would have actually, would have actually, a downed plane is flying
at a specific altitude and it would actually dig into the fucking ground. Okay. That's it.
The fact that there is no, the fact that this, this plane or the helicopter did not
actually bring up any of the fucking ground at all implies that it clearly was on the
runway. People are actually saying like, oh, as an aviation reporter in the past, this
means that, you know, high RPM during a crash impact is textbook dynamic. It's bullshit.
No, that just melted. Okay. That's all this is. This guy is wrong. The propeller blades
in a touch pick are bent backwards exactly in a way they do when they're spinning at
high RPM during a crash impact. That's a textbook dynamic. If that was a high,
high RPM, altitude drop, crash impact, okay? Then there would be a fucking crater. You're
ridiculous. Okay? You have to, you know, you have to understand, like, look at the soil.
The soil is not disrupted. It's crazy. Please be a little bit, you know, be a little bit
more normal about this
yeah it's clear that there are pics also yeah i saw this as well their pics
that it was on the ground as well
the different lighting in these two images suggest that they're real sun
rising around is at five forty nine a.m.
which was just over two hours ago the second image shows the c one uh... thirty
burning
with the sun fully up which is largely in line with the timing of the algae
reports on the rescue operation
okay
the most likely uh... they most likely got shot at
and they had to bail.
The IRGC now issued a statement claiming that they were the ones who destroyed the USC-130
south of Isfahan, contradicting New York Times claim that the US force blew them up to prevent
the aircraft from falling into Iranian hands.
So the emergency landed?
No, I think they didn't get to take off at all, okay?
I don't think they got to take off at all.
The claims are that they got stuck, okay?
I don't think that's correct.
I think that's just them coping.
I think that they got shot at, they were surrounded,
and they had to fucking bail.
As reported previously,
Iranian state-linked Tasnim News claimed
U.S. forces were bombing areas in the Southwest Iran
near the missing pilot, believed to be located.
That reporting now appears to have been borne out.
The New York Times reported this morning
that U.S. officials confirmed they deliberately
destroyed two of their own aircraft identified
as MC-130J transport planes at a remote site
after they became stuck to prevent them from falling into Iranian hands.
Either they fucking lasered it, either they lasered it personally or they,
they were getting shot at.
And then they decided to, to blow up the equipment.
The search centered around rugged, uh, corgillier, uh, and Boyer Ahmed province,
particularly Kula, LCR, uh, uh, area of the New York times also report,
a sighting senior administration official that the CIA ran a deception
operation to convince Iran enforcement that the airman had already been
evacuated by ground convoy iran state link tasnim news had earlier suggested the
situations was not unfolding as publicly presented in western media
okay and if you look at the wreckage because there's plenty of image on the
wreckage now the the fact that there are no bodies in the wreckage the fact
that there are no bodies in the wreckage the fact that there are
Um dude shut up shut up god. I'm like covering some shit in disguise like asking me about sex past any shut up, please
Jesus Christ who gives a fuck? Oh
My god lock in please
No, no when multiple planes are down they fall they all land in the same spot to make cleaning up faster, okay?
I have not seen I have not seen bodies in the wreckage at all
For the record I did see a fake RT calm tweet with a skull going around and look like a burnt car instead of a plane
I don't I haven't seen any
I haven't seen any
Bodies that they pulled out of the wreckage at all there would be bodies if they were if if they actually
If the rescue operators did not bail on this before it got blown to bits
Clearly, there would be bodies in the wreckage and there are none.
So that implies that they didn't, that implies that the para rescuers actually bailed on
the aircraft when they were most likely surrounded and either the Americans blew it up or the
Iranians blew it up, but it doesn't matter.
They blew up on the ground.
It's clear.
If you look at the undisrupted soil, that's consistent with an explosion that might have
blown it up deliberately rather than a plane that crash landed.
In any case, the U.S. account is that two M.C. 130J commanded two special operations transport
aircraft landed at a makeshift forward airstrip during the rescue, but became disabled and
unable to take off.
U.S. force evacuated personnel and deliberately destroyed the aircraft on the ground to prevent
capture.
The recovered crew member had evaded a riding force for more than 36 hours and mountains
terrain before extractions.
Reports in imagery indicate U.S. forces also destroyed at least one MH-6 little
bird helicopter left behind on the site.
President Donald Trump said the pilot was safe and sound.
Iranian account says,
Iranian military link source, including Qatar, Malinbiya,
command and state affiliated outlets,
claimed the operation resulted in significant U.S.
loss under combat conditions.
They say the Iranian force engaged in U.S. aircraft
and ground elements leading to the destruction
of multiple assets, including two C-130 MC-130
transport aircraft, two Black Hawk helicopters,
drones, including an MQ-9 Reaper and a Hermes 900.
Iranian media also reported intense ground clashes
area during the rescue attempt. Farr's news agency said nine Iranis were killed and seven
wounded in Kokiriyeh and Boyar Ahmad province during the overnight operation. State-linked
commentary drew comparisons to Operation Eagle Claw. In 1980, the failed U.S. rescue mission
in Iran framing the latest operation as a similar or deeper setback. An adviser to parliament
speaker Mohammad Bagar-Galaboff described the mission as a historic failure claiming
U.S. forces suffered loss across multiple aircraft types and suggesting the scale
the operation had been downplayed by Washington. Earlier, TASM NewsHC reported that U.S. force
were bombing areas where the missing pod might be located, a claim that aligns in part with
the U.S. acknowledgment that the aircraft were destroyed at the site. Though broader Iranian
assertions about intended losses remain unverified, images circulating online
show the burned-out wreckage of what appear to be a US MHC-130 transport aircraft to the
forward base in southern Iran. Separate images show an apparent wreckage of an MH-6 helicopter.
Okay.
Sorry, I just got here, but was the IRGC in the region or was it just police and armed citizens? I think the most sober analysis here is that the IRGC,
first of all, they blew up the roads leading into this area.
They blew up the road specifically so they could disrupt transport.
transport, okay? So that was number one. And I saw videos, if you remember, there
were a lot of videos of like cars that were trying to get into the area and
were just like stuck in a, you know, hundred car pileup basically where
they were just like waiting bumper to bumper traffic. They also then created a
three-kilometer cordon around the pilot and eliminated anyone, civilians, military-age
males as they say, children, whoever the fuck was in the region, in an effort to preserve
the safety of the American asset.
The reality of the matter also is that it's clear at the very least that they could
not take out the MQ-9 drones that were like they don't have enough they don't
have the capacity to mobilize enough anti-air systems at least in this area
okay that's just the reality or rather they were too predisposed elsewhere but
they clearly were not able to to intercept any of these they were
clearly not able to deny or intercept any of these, you know, planes and, and we're
only able to get to them when they were, you know, when they were staged on the
ground. Okay. This still means that they have a hard time staging inside of Iran.
They can't create a, you know, a successful forward operating base. They
can't create a, a FARP without having their, their, without, you know,
meeting significant resistance from the ground forces.
By the US description of events, they basically fucked this up with no help from the IRGC.
That tells me that if the IRGC is marginally more competent next time this happens,
good chance that all of the Americans die.
I think the fact that the IRGC is not competent enough to mobilize in that quadrant says something, though.
It says something about their capabilities.
Okay, that's just the reality.
Because the IRGC is supposed to be everywhere.
I know Iran is a massive fucking country, but they have these decentralized systems of defense,
and that means that they should be able to mobilize specifically in this region and be
able to fight back against, be able to push back against these drones and destroy whatever
like defensive corridor that they're trying to create, because if you can't do that,
means you're also having a hard time combating the terrain. You're also having a hard time
getting through in your own terrain where you're supposed to have significant advantages. Okay?
Because like, yes, the American military has superior air power. This is true. Okay? They do.
But we know that already. This gives, in my opinion, a lot more confidence than Donald
Trump to conduct a special operation in the future. It will most likely be even more devastating
than this one, but at the end of the day, the disadvantages on the Iranian side are obviously
not knowing exactly where the weapon specialist is, right? They don't know where the weapon
specialist is. America does know where the weapon specialist is, but when you have
a fuck ton of drones that you can just like send out there
and and loiter
in the vicinity and just like laser people
that obviously disrupts whatever military operation you have if you can't take
out those drones
that's going to be a consistent problem
they are being baited us on that scope
I think that's a face saving from Iran, like the idea that they're baiting the Americans
to try to invade through that quadrant is a total cope because the reality of the matter
There is, let's be real, this would have been a major, major point of leverage for the Iranians
if they were able to successfully extract the prisoner of war and refuse Americans the
combat search and rescue operation, regardless of the unbelievable damage that they were
able to do to the mission, regardless of all the destroyed equipment in the process.
The fact of the matter is, they didn't get the pilot.
Okay?
So, while the Iranian strike capabilities have not deteriorated,
Matthew Pettyquil tweeted a good announcement that Iran's internal take on the situation can't link it.
Yeah, you'd be able to link it if you subscribe to the Piker Broadcasting Service, of course.
The IRGC priority will be prepping for the ground invasion so they'd have minimal assets available
for this, which is a lower priority.
I wouldn't read too much into it other than what we already know that their anti-air
capabilities greatly diminished.
Not securing the WSO is one thing. Why didn't they just torch the area with drones and missiles though?
That's actually a great question
It's one that I'm wondering about as well, but I suspect it's because it was like danger close their units were
far too close to the area, so they couldn't reliably blow up these these assets
Because there's civilians that live there, right? Like they don't want to fucking laser.
They don't want to send lob missiles internally on Iranian soil and potentially kill a bunch of
Iranian civilians. So yeah. Spoke President Trump, he told me the conflict should be over in days,
not weeks but if no deal is made he's blown up the whole country with very little off the table
obviously we're going to get to that in a second we're still working through this operation
here i'll find the map petty tweet but you know this is not like a spectacular w for America
and the way that the americas are presenting it but it's certainly not something that is is
looking too great for Iranian capabilities as far as like being able to quickly mobilize
in this massive country, in this mountainous region. So that is the reality of the matter.
If we're being real about it, Iranians were not capable of mobilizing fast enough and
and extracting this mobilizing fast enough
and then extracting the pilot
so they could take him as a prisoner of war.
Anyway, following the desperate attempts,
this is the new spokesman for Central Qatar, Malan Bias
has found the desperate attempts
by the American terrorist army
aimed at carrying out a rescue operation
for the pilot of its down fighter jet,
a number of enemy aircraft entered the airspace
of our dear country, Iran at the dawn of April 5th, 2026.
With God's help and support, thanks to the vigilance
and readiness of the Islamic fighters and the armed forces,
the use of electronic warfare, modern air defense systems,
the implementation of land mosaic defense plan,
and the establishment of a military and security cordon.
Several of these aircraft were targeted,
including two military transport aircraft of the C-130 type
and two Black Hawk helicopters,
forcing them to make an emergency landing
in one of the areas south of Isfahan.
This is what I believe for the record.
I think that
I think that what ended up happening is they took on fire and they had to do an emergency landing
Potentially and then either they blew it up themselves after bailing which is or the Iranians blew it up
I have seen some footage that I can't make out that is of like some it looks like it would be a man pad or something
That is just like flying around and then just hitting a target on the ground. I don't know if that's actually from
from the cargo planes that were blowing up, but likely referencing this analysis from Levant
Camus, successful SAR mission could embolden the US and pursue further special ground operations
in the coming days, potentially the broader objectives beyond rescue. Yeah, that's what
my assessment is too. That's what I think as well. I think that's what is going to
happen. Like I think that all of the all of the troop positioning, like the numbers
that they're ascending out there, the hardware that they're sending out there, is still not
consistent with like a full blown ground invasion of Iran, but instead is consistent with offering
support for special forces operations that they might try to conduct here and there,
whether it be like trying to take over a fucking island and then using that as a point of leverage
or you know whatever the uranium extraction mission that they have which is unbelievably
stupid. Both of these missions are very stupid, okay? They're very stupid, they will be very
difficult to pull off, and most likely will not lead to success. But having said that, I think
with the W that they think they receive from this, even if the generals are like,
this is going to be incredibly difficult, we can't do that, please let's not try anything crazy,
the president might have a different opinion. After the completion of the enemy in
encirclement operation by the heroic fighters of the Islamic Republic around the cowardly
enemy in order to avoid scandal from the American President Trump and the false prestige
of his army resorted to intensively bombing its downed aircraft equipment commanders and
soldiers the ignorant president mired in the swamp of war and aggression that he himself
started along with the helpless and cowardly generals and the defeated American terrorist
army have realized that any aggression or ground operation or infiltration into any point
of the proud Iran will be met with divine force and the iron fist of the fighters
the armed forces, the heroic passage and the brave people, the decisive and humiliating
defeat, the scandal that has befallen the beleaguered American president and his defeated army cannot
be repaired through hollow statements or media warfare or psychological operations.
There is no doubt that all these victories and achievements for dear Iran have come
under special divine care and we are certain that the divine promise of achieving the
final victory for the front of truth over falsehood will be fulfilled. And victory is not but
from Allah the exalted in might, the wise.
It's Matthew Petty quote tweeting, Hamid Reza Azizi, good analysis of Iran's view, I believe.
Okay, does anyone have the link? Anyone that's a subscriber to the Piker Bar casting service
have the link that I'm looking for. Maybe I'm a dumb ass, I am, but I would say the most logical
way to look at it is not about a lack of manpower, firepower to defend the region.
It could have been them using it as an opportunity to test out their firepower
against tech manpower using rescue efforts, but like there's no way to prove, no.
post with map of what you are explaining. Yeah, details about the rescue offer the US
web assistance officer via US military official. The mountaintop area on the left is where the
WSO was hiding. He ejected five-ish miles northwest of there. The right area is the
makeshift landing strip where they landed two C-130s and had four MH-6 little birds.
one little bird flew to that mountaintop area and rescued the WSO and
Brought him back to the landing strip
And of course the two C 130's nose gears got stuck in the dirt
So after a few hours that the bring in three
Afsoc dash eights to fly out the two rescued WSO and the 100 or so personnel involved in the op
The op basically cost three hundred million dollars because they had to abandon the two Afsoc C 130's
And the four MH six little birds then the US Air Force had to use multiple bombs to blow up all the aircraft
They abandoned at the airship and the Iran is shot down to mark nine Reaper drones
Luckily the US suffered no casualties and we had to use multiple bombs and missiles to blow up IRGC vehicles
That tried to drive up the mountain and also those that tried to drive to the airstrip
No, this is 220 kilometers away from the WSO, from where the WSO ejected.
There are geolocation discrepancies too.
i'm guessing iraq was concerned there were too many eyes on the area and they
want to uh... exposed total interest is that's why they didn't put too much of a
flight i mean it could be a number of different reasons but the reality is
as far as not in the northwest
no no the plane was the landing area was as far
i don't know
how that makes sense
the plane absolutely blew up in as far on
that is true
that is consistent with the iranians that's consistent with what they're
are saying, and I don't know how close to Esfahan, Esfahan province, not the city, Esfahan, sorry.
Anyway, does this operation increase or decrease the likelihood of a future U.S. ground operation
in Iran?
There's no clear consensus yet.
I can tell them what their consensus should be if they want to survive.
Hamid Reza Azizi reports.
How is Iran interpreting the U.S. rescue operation?
Reactions inside of Iran have been mixed.
State media have framed the operation as a clear U.S. failure, pointing to reported
loss of aircraft and helicopters questioning whether the second airman was actually rescued.
In this narrative, Washington is seeing, is seen as concealing both material damage
and possible casualties.
Particular attention is focused on Donald Trump's public messaging.
Iranian commentators argue that the absence of any acknowledgement of losses reflects
an attempt to construct a narrative of success and distract public attention from the
material costs of the operation.
At the same time, reports suggest that clashes did occur during the mission.
Individuals on the Iranian side, particularly local people involved in search efforts were
reportedly targeted.
This complicates the picture and suggests the U.S. operation was not as clean as presented
by U.S. officials.
Yeah, it's true, right?
That's true.
Beyond the information, more so Iranian analysts have focused on what the operation
reveals about iran's defenses
the fact that large transport aircrafts in a company helicopters are able to
penetrate the iranian territory raises concerns about gaps in airspace security
this is true
the depth of penetration reaching areas south of isfahan is seen as
particularly significant it suggests under certain conditions
the united states can insert forces far inside of iran
even if only temporarily again true
okay remember that
these are important points
consideration
okay
this is this is the reason why america will feel more emboldened
in spite of the losses that they incurred
this is
absolutely true
from a military perspective analysts emphasize that countering such
operations requires rapid detection in response however the president u.s.
and possibly israeli air cover
complicates direct engagement and raises the risk of casualties
As a result, some experts are calling for expanded use of drones for surveillance and
portable missile systems for targeting.
The argument is that more flexible distributed capabilities are needed to address the vulnerabilities
exposed by the operation.
This is the Iranian side making this assessment, which is also a correct assessment.
There is also strategic concern, even if the U.S. incurred losses, the successful
extraction of an airman could reinforce perceptions of American effectiveness.
In a highly curated information environment, that may incentivize further higher
high-risk operations.
These could go beyond rescue missions.
Some analysts warn that such precedents might increase the likelihood of more ambitious
actions, including strikes on sensitive facilities or even attempts to secure high-value assets
like the stockpile of the highly enriched uranium inside Iran.
At the same time, a counterargument exists.
Some analysts believe that the cost, particular aircraft losses, may have been acceptable
for Washington in this case, but could limit the feasibility of repeating similar
operations under more contested conditions.
has fed into a broader debate. Does this operation increase or decrease the likelihood of a future
U.S. ground operation in Iran? There is no clear consensus yet.
Some Iranian experts frame the episode as a part of a learning process. Despite setbacks,
they point out that Iran enforced a previously managed target advance U.S. platforms in
inflict damage, including during this operation. From this perspective, Iran's failure
to capture the airman as a setback, but also a source of operational lessons that could
improve Iran's response in future scenarios.
Others urge a more cautious assessment.
They note that compared to other cases where the U.S. has rapidly extracted targets of
minimal resistance, particularly in Venezuela, this operation took nearly 48 hours and
involves significant friction and losses.
In that sense, they argue the episode reinforces the idea that Iran is not an easy operational
environment.
any similar mission would likely involve complexity, resistance and real risk.
This is totally up to Donald Trump, okay?
Because Donald Trump likes a fast and easy successful mission, right?
Donald Trump loved the Venezuela operation, very little friction, very little resistance
except for like the Cuban Special Forces on the ground that were a part of Maduro's
personal guard.
They were able to basically take out the electricity grid in and out, boom, boom, boom, right?
This was not easy.
They lost a fuck ton of assets in the process.
They lost a fuck ton of assets in the 48 hour operation the first day as it cost hundreds
of millions of dollars.
That is an indication that even the fact that the F-15 was destroyed in the process
implies that they still have Iran still has significant air defenses that they can mobilize
in a moment's notice, right?
So they do not have the complete air superiority claim that they have.
If Trump thought it went well, he wouldn't be melting down over social media overnight.
He would be gloating.
I mean, true.
Finally, some commentators draw parallels with the operation of Eagle Claw.
In Iranian discourse, such comparisons are often used to reinforce narrative that the
U.S. military operations against Iran are repeatedly frustrated.
For more ideological voices, these parallels are framed in symbolic or even religious
terms presented as evidence that Iran has historically resisted external intervention
and that there is divine support for Iran.
Overall, the episode is being interpreted in two ways at once, as both a sign of
vulnerability and a demonstration of resilience.
that tension will likely shape how Iran adapts its defenses and how it anticipates further
U.S. actions.
Okay?
The thing about the rescue operation where only one pilot got out and the first wave
of helicopters got shot up by local boys with 1920s Mausers and the U.S. had to blow
up its own planes and helicopters on the ground is that it's going to be presented
to Trump as a kick-ass success.
And there's enough footage of U.S. Air Force Special Forces blasting Basij on the ground
and draw strikes on military-age males
that the sizzle reel trump gets every day will look cool
but this is going to be spawned as a reason for doing the uranium heist not a
lesson against it
that is my suspicion as well
i think donald trump is is uh... it unreliable
and he knows that he hasn't received the military successes
he he has to recognize at this point that he's not getting the military
success
uh... that he wanted out of this process trade or moves is still closed
obviously, and Iran is still striking Israel and the Gulf nation states and even their extraction
industry, as well as like American companies in the region. So obviously, he's looking for a W
wherever he can. And the smart thing in this circumstance would be, here's our W, we showed
our military dominance, we showed how much we value our, our service members, our brave
valiant heroes, right? So, you know, it's time to, it's time to retreat, right? You've
got a good W here. It's a good point of de-escalation, but that's not going to happen most likely.
Let's be fucking real, you know, this is where you cut your losses and you fucking
bail, right? It's a good opportunity for face-saving. I don't think they're going to do that. I think
he's going to look into this and say, sure, we lost some of our assets, but who gives a fuck?
Our forces were so dominant for 48 hours, we were able to literally land inside of Iran,
operate inside of Iran, and we were able to successfully extract this guy that was like
loss in the mountainside, and therefore we can do it again, and we can do it in an even
braver and bolder way, and I do worry that this will embolden the Trump administration
into moving in a direction where they'll do the uranium extraction mission, which
which will be infinitely more complex than this,
and will most likely have,
considering that it's a military position
that they're trying to advance,
will require excavators, will require specialists
that come along with these special forces,
will require creating a FARP
in the middle of a contested area
and will require significantly more tools
in a much better guarded area,
in a much better guarded area
where they will have anti-air defense systems,
and it will require them to hold a position
in a known military position, right?
Deep inside enemy lines.
Very different than being able to figure out
where this guy is in the fucking mountainous region,
and very quickly creating like a drone cordon
that lasers whoever a civilian or enemy combatant
that comes near it, right?
So, that's the, in that instance, it obviously, the situation favors Iranian defenses, right?
Breaking news from the KGBC letter, breaking, President Trump's advisor reportedly texting
Iran's foreign minister, Oaxi, in an attempt to continue negotiations per Axios.
Two sources told, two sources involved in negotiations said the talks are also taking
place through Pakistani, Egyptian and Turkish mediators.
Paradropping excavators and forklifts. Yeah, no, literally.
Why aren't you reading the RGC statement with respect to the extraction or do you think
that they're full of shit. I did read it. And I did explain that they are obviously just
like the United States of America is making this seem like it's a fucking fantastic success.
The Iranians are doing the same. Of course, both parties are going to lie and embellish
and make their positions seem much stronger, okay? Because war is not just being fought
on the battleground, it's also being fought in the information space.
Right?
But LeVance Kimmel also says, he's a Middle East eye guy, he says a successful search
and rescue mission could embolden the U.S. pursue further special ground operations
in the coming days, potential for broader objectives beyond rescue.
Despite Pentagon and CI risk warnings, the WSO rescue and testing around response speed
It may push the Trump administration towards missions targeting nuclear inventory, key-figure
extraction, or underground facility raids, we shall see.
Here let�s take a look at what Trey Yinx had to say.
There was also another moment of Osanabe vindication where Trey Yinx also revealed
On Fox News that Donald Trump told him that they had armed the Kurds, which is what I told you before because I'd seen the videos
In the Kurdish regions of Kurdish militants like straight up assassinating police chiefs and shit like that
And a lot of people yelled at me at the time. This was obviously in the in the buildup
Where there was a tremendous amount of state repression from the Iranian from the Iranian side in the
In the protest that were put down
and and a lot of people were
uh...
uh... a lot of people were killed news can report that on saturday morning
the cia was able to locate and confirm this u.s. service member
in a mountain ridge south of the city of east vahan
and that is when
appropriate calls were made to relevant parties including the secretary of war
the joint chiefs chairman and the president himself
who ultimately ordered this operation
and within twelve hours we can report the review of special forces on the
ground inside of iran
rescuing this U.S. service member.
Behind enemy lines, incredible reporting,
training, slide for us.
Intelvieve, Trey, thank you.
Thanks, Trey.
Thank you so much, Trey.
And with that, let's bring in,
if this news can report that on Saturday.
No worries, that's why it seems unlikely
they came under heavy fire at the FARP.
The ground conditions were clearly known
and they weren't landing on an airship improvised
or otherwise, so it's believable that the heavy C-130s
got stopped on soft ground after landing under heavy fire.
They wouldn't have been able to land on other,
They wouldn't have been able to land other fixed wings.
No, I don't think they got hit in the air.
I think they got resistance from the ground
while they were on the ground.
So I don't think that, yeah,
I think they were under fire when they landed.
Not necessarily you can land fixed wing
on improvised landing trip.
You can also conduct free fall insertion
with CCT and JTAX in order to assist
in landing the fixed wing.
Yeah, I don't think they crash landed like I think that's bullshit because if you look
at the actual footage, look, guys, no matter how much you want to do propaganda, okay, no
matter how much a state wants to do propaganda, whether it's the Iranian state or the American
state.
At the end of the day, there's, there's, you know, things that you can look at with
your own two eyes, okay.
the C-130s actually fell, right? Or if they were dropped, you would see it in the footage,
okay? Not like directly in the footage of like a C-130, you know, falling out of the sky,
but you would see it on the soil, right? There would be an impact site, there would be a crater
that is consistent with a plane falling from high altitude, okay? That doesn't exist.
It's very clear that they were on the ground, whether they were stuck or meant resistance
from conventional forces on the ground, doesn't change that dynamic.
They were clearly not, the plane did not fucking fall out of the sky.
The bent propeller indicate a gear up landing, they 100% had a force landing.
If they had a force landing, you would see it on the fucking soil, man.
This is a very heavy plane that is the crash landing is what you're saying.
Okay?
It's not, it's not consistent with that at all.
If you look at the impact site, it is not consistent.
And this is from the Iranians, right?
have shown the blown-up planes. Okay? The Iranians have openly shown the blown-up planes. Okay?
And when you look at those blown-up planes, none of us are experts. There are ways of
time you don't even have to be an expert to look at literally what's in front of you.
What are you talking about? You just have to have a little bit of knowledge about
how gravity works and how physics works. What do you mean? Here's another C-130.
Crash, similar from 2020. Note the clear impact visible from any angle. Where is it?
Yeah, see.
And this is from high up too so you can't fully grasp like how much ground that it disturbed.
It's like a huge skid mark on the ground.
That prop damage 100% indicates that the plane was damaged on landing and was not going to take off from there
Disclaiming several problems first most major around encourage parties have denied and receiving any weapons. Okay. Well, whatever important contacts
There were a hundred personnel on that landing site. Yeah
So, but that's a crash, we're talking about a hard landing without the vehicle disintegrating.
It may have had to land hard and be abandoned due to small arms causing failures.
That could be the case.
Okay.
Not a crash landing, but a hard landing that got the front of the plane stuck that caused
them to ditch the equipment and then blow it up. But again, I didn't see any
disturbed debris at all near the impact sites, so near where the where the plane
was blown up. The Iran war is a rotted faith in the U.S.'s role as a protector
of high seas and raised growing doubts about Washington's ability to manage the
consequences of the war, according to a Bloomberg report. This is still
obviously, this is one of those like, you won the battle but you're
losing the war moments as well, because like the reality of the matter is this was a successful
search and rescue operation, which certainly delivers a blow to Iranian capabilities as far
as like denying, uh, uh, you know, aerial operations to the American and the Israeli side,
but it still doesn't change the dynamic of the war, uh, or, uh, you know, the overall, uh, war
goals, because at the end of the day, the Shredda Hormuz is still under the control
of the Iranians and also on top of that, also on top of that, they are still incapable of
successfully destroying all the anti-air systems that the Iranians have, clearly, which means
that there's not full blown air superiority. And last but not least, they're not deteriorating
the missile launching capabilities as well, because Iranians are in for the long haul.
Okay.
IRGC also says the Shredded Hormuz will never return it over for the U.S. and Israel, adding
that its Navy is preparing operations for a new order in the Persian Gulf.
Yeah.
A Pyrrhic victory for the Americans in this battle.
But yeah.
Trae Yank says there was concern that despite the crew members' biggest signal, it was
an Iranian trapeze in your U.S. official poll Fox News. By Saturday morning, the CIA was
able to locate and confirm as the U.S. crew member using advanced capabilities at the
time the CIA informed all relevant parties, including Secretary of War, the chairman of
the Joint Chiefs, and ultimately the president. Within eight hours, we had planes in motion
within almost 12 hours. We were on the ground in Iran.
So yeah. Meanwhile, as I've, you know, as we looked at here, this doesn't look
like it was, this doesn't look like it was like a crash landing in any way, shape or form,
obviously. It would have been a hard landing where they were stuck and they got, they met
with resistance, either pre or post. But the idea that this was like a trap is not the
case, right? It was not within their capabilities. That much is clear, right?
It was serious because Trump wasn't truthing Opsac like he normally does, also true.
Also fucking true.
What is this?
Greg Abbott posted something.
What the hell did he post?
Wait, what is the AI image?
This is so awesome.
Here's a photo of the honorable Colonel being rescued yesterday.
God bless him.
Our soldiers are all doing God's work.
Happy Easter.
This is so awesome.
god we we are this country unironically is led by some of the dumbest fucking
boomers dude
god right where his love AI slop so much we're not gonna make it dude we're not
gonna fucking make it. Unbelievable. Un-fucking-believable. V.J. Prashat says the gap between
Europe and the United States at this time is not strategic but tactical. Do not misunderstand
Macron's disagreements with Trump. They are disagreeing about how to subordinate Iran,
whether it's appropriate to subordinate Iran to the west. Okay, fair.
Huh.
Please send a rescue mission to the text for all of us. Hasan Abayez in the state, bro, please.
I feel if there was a heavy, what is this?
Hold on.
What is this look to see why the official story is bullshit the rescue the second pod gets so much more interesting when you realize
He walked 110 miles in a single day to get to his location from crash site and other pilot
I don't know if this is correct
Because the crash site is obviously gonna be far away from where the fucking landing where he ejected to
like this person is is it's not 110 miles like it with one canteen of water
guys guys guys that's key this is ridiculous
yeah they're they're like the crash site could the crash site has nothing to do
with where he ejected and landed you know he had the ejector sees don't follow the
fucking plane he was on a fucking parachute like he was in it he was I I
don't I don't have reason to believe that like the the story as far as like
where he where he was able to trek to which is I believe like what three
kilometers or something from where he actually where his seat landed. I don't
believe that that's incorrect. I think that's probably correct. There remains
one unsolved riddle in the F-15E shootdown. I'm currently now satisfied by
the answers in my breakdown. There's a clear focus of activity around the
province of Cochlear and the Boyar Ahmad. Even the regime called for
handover of the pilots. There was significant activity around the FARP
southeast of Isfahan for the WSO. Pilots jet with a parachute now with a
paragliders so they cannot cover significant horizontal distance in the air, both pilot
and the WSO usually eject within less than one second with the WSO ejecting first means
that there could have been a couple of kilometers between both, especially with some winds,
but not this distance. IE the Isfahan Farb would not have been required for the WSO
inside of Boyar Ahmad. This leaves us with various options. The pilot was recovered
from south of Isfahan. The intel around the province of Kokkiryue and Boyar Ahmad
was intentionally ceded by the CIA because to get to the south of Isfahan they have to
fly there anyway to distract Iranian efforts. The WSO walked 80-ish miles, 120 kilometers
and 24 hours in the wrong direction. The WSO and the pilot were both recovered from Khokhqi
to UA and Boyar Ahmad and the FARP was something else, was for something else. I tend to go
with A plus B and I think C and D are not true. What do you think? I don't know man.
I just like, what is this?
Is it suspicion that like, why are you guys sending me these things?
You're, you're, you're sending me this shit, uh, to be like, what?
It was actually secretly to extract the uranium.
Is that what it is?
Is that why they set up a, a farp in, in Isfahan?
Is that what you're talking about?
I don't know.
I think there is a cope on both sides on this.
The cope coming from the American side is that this was like a total clean internet operation,
which it clearly wasn't.
It took 48 fucking hours and they lost a lot of assets in the process.
And the cup coming from the Iranian side is that like, um, it's actually, uh, you know,
this was a phenomenal success. They, they took out the pilot, they took out everybody,
but there's no bodies to show for it. Right. If you don't have bodies to show for it, then
it didn't happen. That's my assessment, right? That's, is that simple. If you're saying
that you, uh, you know, blew up these planes yourself, uh, and you're showing the,
wreckage, right? But you're not showing any bodies. That means you didn't blow up the planes while
there were people in it, or even if you shot at the planes, they were able to successfully bail on
the equipment. Is that simple?
Finding down airmen who'd been hiding behind enemy lines a little more than a pistol as defense
have been the US military's highest priority over the last 48 hours after ejecting. It's not even a
pistol. They have like a, like a foldable AR 15. After ejecting for the F 15 E the officer hit in
the mountain crevice, his location initially unknown to either America's trying to rescue him or
the Iranians trying to capture him. CIA initiated a deception campaign to try to confuse the
Iranian forces to convince them that the airman had already been rescued and was moving out
of the country in a ground convoy. A senior administration official said the agency also
So ultimately, well, I guess, yeah, it's an AR pistol.
They mean a Cali compliant pistol?
Fistle, whatever, which amount of the rescue operations
senior administration official said,
Mr. Trump's exultant post celebrating the Air Force
officer's rescue contrasted with a threat on Saturday
morning to destroy Iran's power infrastructure if the government did not open the Strait of
Hormuz to cargo traffic. Time is running out 48 hours before all hell will rain down
on them," Trump wrote.
The downing of the F-15E and the crash of another U.S. warplane at A-10 Warthog, a
short time later on Friday, raised questions about how much capability Iran retained after
a month of attacks.
Mr. Trump hailed the rescue as evidence that Iran's defense had been badly damaged
if not destroyed. The fact that we were able to pull off both of these operations
single American killer even wounded just proves once again we have achieved
overwhelming air dominance spirit or superiority over the Iranian skies it's
obviously not true the Blackhawks were clearly the met with strong resistance
from the ground and they openly in the initial reporting suggested that the
The people did receive some fire for the record and were injured.
The mission to save the crew member employed hundreds of special forces troops and other
military personnel.
Those in the U.S. warplanes, helicopters, and cyberspace and other intelligence capabilities
the airman evaded a running force for more than 24 hours at once.
one point, hiking up a 7,000-foot ridge line. A senior U.S. military official said U.S.
tech aircraft dropped bombs and overfired on Iranian convoy to keep them away from the
area where the airmen was hiding. As U.S. commandos converged on the downed airmen,
they fired their weapons to keep the Iranian forces away from the rescue site, but did
not engage in a firefight with the Iranians, a U.S. military official said. The airman
was equipped with a beacon and a secure communication device for coordinating with forces, mounting
the rescue, but the airmen restricted the use of his beacon because of Iranian forces,
because Iranian forces could have detected his signal as well.
A senior US military official described the mission to rescue the airmen as one of the
most challenging and complex in the history of US special operations given the mountainous
terrain, the airmen's injuries, and Iranian forces rushing to the location in a final
twist after the weapons officer rescued two transport planes that would carry the
commandos on the airmen to safety got stuck at a remote base in Iran.
decided to fly in three new planes. They extract all the U S military personnel and the airmen
and they blew up the two disabled planes rather than have them fall into Iranian hands. The
F 15 E fighter jet. So that's the part that also doesn't make sense. How the fuck did
they land three additional planes and then fly out safely with three additional planes
basically extracting or rather rescuing 100 or, you know, less than 100, whatever.
However many were on the ground already. How the fuck do they fly them out?
Just in RGC publishes footage from the 100 million US aircraft crash site.
There's one photo that indicates there was a fatality of US soldiers,
No confirmation percent comment this time the special operations MI six MH six
helicopter little bird was spotted among the wreckage of the destroyed
aircraft summer saying it might have been on board the MC 130 J transport
aircraft and was destroyed and disabled after the transport aircraft was
damaged I'm not seeing a I don't think there's any people in the wreckage
They would have shown it, but that was the case.
For the record.
So, I don't know if this is like supposed to imply a person or something.
I don't want to like show something that's like TOS or whatever.
But yeah, there's a lot of guts of a plane and perhaps a helicopter,
But no human beings
Okay
There is a photo that they have of like a burnt guy
For the record there's a photo that they have of like a burnt person
But that's not I don't think that's from this crash
Like I've seen one photo of like a burnt skull
But it like a charred guy. I'm not gonna show it to you. I'm looking at it right now
But I don't think that's from this crash. I think they just like kind of
Snuck that in there to be like, you know, this was one of the guys
It's the backseat of a Peugeot
I've deleted the image containing the alleged skull of an American C-130 crew member that
remains resemble the car frame of a Peugeot Pars Iranian car in order to stay truthful
I've deleted the tweet. Yeah. Yeah, that's um, I'm not gonna show you but that's aria yadegar who is like very pro irgc
And even he's saying that's bullshit. Okay
Anyway, so what is trump doing this morning? I woke up to uh, some unbelievable statements from the motherfucking president
it. Now that we've covered extensively what took place in this special military operation,
the search and rescue operation, and, you know, hopefully you were able to get a little
bit more clarity about what took place, again, some of this is going to always be speculative.
It's hard to piece this information together, both looking at the American side and what
they're saying and what the Iranian side and what they're saying, while still obviously
being critical of both sides and the information that they're revealing, given the interest
that they have in presenting their side as the stronger side.
Lying to everyone about saving the stranded weapons specialist?
Ugh.
Okay.
I need you to understand once again, if this is an abject lie, why has the Iranian side,
This is the same as like when people were saying in the 12-day war that Iran had taken
out an F-35 fighter jet.
Remember when people were saying that the IRGC had taken out an F-35?
Remember in the 12-day war.
And at the time I told you if they successfully took out an F-35 fighter jet, you would see
it.
Okay?
You would see it as we saw with the F-15, right?
There was wreckage, there were pieces of the tail that you could identify, right?
Obviously, I find it, uh, uh, dirt.
Trump's not holding back his words.
He's straight on rattling because he doesn't control the situation.
Yeah, I think it's a bit, it's more of the, the latter rather than the former.
Okay.
So, um, here's the thing.
If the Iranians actually were able to kill American soldiers, okay?
If they were to kill American soldiers, you would see it, unless they did actually kill
some American soldiers, but the bodies, the casualties, the wounded and maybe even those
who were killed were extracted alongside the rest of the forces that were on the
ground, okay? Is that simple? Nobody means, nobody in the wreckage means they didn't kill any
of the bodies or create a big enough security issue for the Americans to not be able to
extract their forces out of the region. Because if they did, if they did, they would
show the bodies, the charred bodies in the wreckage. Okay? That's it. Anyway, let's get
to Donald Trump. Need a serious investigation on this? It's going to be tough to do so.
Anyway, you have to be realistic, you know, you have to be realistic about it.
So, Donald Trump came out and said something totally fucking insane.
I guess it's somewhat expected.
But this shows that he's definitely not in control over the situation, okay?
Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day all wrapped up in one in Iran.
There will be nothing like it.
the fucking straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell, just watch Praise
B to Allah, President Donald J Trump.
That is unfuckin' believable, dude.
May Allah awaken the people and help them to see the evil doings of Israel and the
United States.
I don't even know what to say about this like down to the praise be to Allah side of things
it's just the the nuttiest the nuttiest fucking possible situation
He's threatening to do maximum terrorism to the state of Iran and destroy its capabilities
of, I mean, destroy the lives of 93 million people, okay, that's what terrorism is.
He's saying, we are going to do war crimes, we're going to destroy the energy grid, we're
going to destroy the bridges, we are going to disrupt the lives and livelihoods of
ninety three million fucking people okay
these are all human beings
that's what he's saying on easter
while also simultaneously the same praise beat the law
okay
anyway going back to the algez era assessments of what took place sorry i
wanna i do want to cover this uh... american air force officer was missing
after around down the fighter jet has been rescued president donald trump
confirmed that the mission was successful and that the officer is injured but safe.
The operation lasted two days, with both U.S. and Iranian forces looking for the missing
airman.
He was extracted from Iran after what was described as a heavy firefight.
Donald Trump posted to social media saying, we got him.
Over the past several hours, the United States military pulled off one of the most
daring search and rescue operations in U.S. history.
Trump added, this brave warrior was behind enemy lines in the treacherous mountains of
Iran being hunted down by our enemies.
At my direction, the U.S. military sent dozens of aircraft armed with the most lethal weapons
in the world to retrieve him.
He sustained injuries, but he will be just fine.
This miraculous operation comes in addition to a successful rescue of another brave
pilot yesterday.
Well, Tohita Saadi is in Tehran.
Anita Abraham is in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, and John Hendren is live in Washington,
D.C. That's where we start. John, tell us what you know about this rescue operation and
how it unfolded.
Well, sir, we know a surprising amount just shortly after the operation, and the reason
is because President Donald Trump tweeted about this, or posted about it just three
hours ago, and we were getting live updates from a U.S. official as it was going on.
As a matter of fact, at one point, that official said that the operation was in the middle
of a firefight, that that could still go badly, that the colonel might not make it out.
It was an operation with many dangers that did not go as planned.
It involved hundreds of troops, dozens of aircraft, and before that, for two days,
We had American aircraft scouring Iran looking for this person.
Now we are told from a U.S. official that they actually had the location of that airman.
But as they began this operation in darkness, it ended in light.
And that means it took longer than they expected it to because they wanted to get out of
there in darkness.
And we're told that as they were closing in on that airman, a firefight broke out.
They managed to pull off the rescue, but they left the country, finally secured a place for
that airman in an aircraft, got him out of the country, but not as in the way they had
planned to do that.
So this was a complicated operation that ended up avoiding a situation where a U.S.
airman would have been held as a prisoner of war in Iran.
Don't stay with us.
Let's get what the Iranians are saying.
So you're in the Iranian capital.
So Iran and Iranian forces were trying to capture this American soldier at the same time that
American special forces were trying to rescue him.
What do you know about what happened?
Well, not just the Iranian forces, but the local residents as from the very first
hours in the province of Kokiluya and Boramad located in the western parts where this
fighter jet was down. The Iranian state TV came out with a report even setting an award
for a person who can catch or provide any information regarding these pilots. And obviously, so far
we don't have any reaction to this recent statement by the U.S. President Donald Trump.
But still, we've got this report from the same province about nine people being killed,
And that might be associated with any sort of obviously confrontation between the US forces
trying to rescue and the local forces who were trying, in a sense, to capture the pilots.
Of course, we also know that Iran is saying right now that a C-130 fighter as well as
to Blackhawks are downed in the central areas of Isfahan province, and that is something
that we heard from the Iranian side. And also, we've got the statement from the spokesperson
and other military officials, a clear message of resilience and retaliation in that regard.
And obviously, this is a very important development, not just related to the pilot, but Iranian
Iranians are trying to depict it as a sign of victory when it comes to the capability
of the air defense system inside the country.
Previously, we've got it from the U.S. officials and U.S. President Donald Trump, in particular,
criticizing and downgrading the capabilities of the defense capability of the country.
Right now, Iranians are saying that they have been able to have a functional defense
system, air defense system, and that is in line with other claims that they are putting
force regarding the downing of drones and missiles over the past few days.
John, back to you in Washington, D.C. So the last two hours, if we take everything in,
has been a mixed bag for the U.S. They've had two successful rescue operations. Obviously,
that's a win for them. But it also, you know, before that, they've had several of
of their planes now shot down for the first time
in this conflict.
That's right, so we've got, not only were these
Blackhawks hit, there was an A-10 Warthog plane
that on Friday was shot, that pilot had to eject
and did so safely outside of Iranian airspace
and was rescued as well.
But you're right, over the past 48 hours,
there were two rescues.
First of all, you have the pilot who ejected from that plane in Iran.
Somehow, we don't know the details of this, that pilot was extracted from Iran seemingly
without a lot of drama.
But then you had this weapon specialist, this colonel, who apparently evaded Iranian
forces on the ground for two days, hiding as the Iranians scoured the ground, the
the hills and valleys and the Americans scoured from the air, racing each of them to try to
find that airman. And then you had this, you know, this rescue operation overnight that
ends up in a firefight, which is obviously something the Americans were trying to avoid.
So definitely a mixed bag, complicated, but in the end they ultimately achieved their
goal, which is to ensure that they didn't leave a prisoner of war inside of Iran.
And of course the US has a memory of 1979 when the embassy was taken over.
There's a much bigger story here that's not being talked about and is that they haven't
been flying combat missions over Iran have been using drones and cruise missiles because
every time they do this happens.
Yes.
You fucking nailed it chatter.
That is, that is a very important part of this story.
And that is, if America had complete air superiority over Iran, they wouldn't be lobbing as many
standoff munitions from very far away.
Okay?
Not only have they been doing this, they've been depleting their offensive capabilities
in spite of the fact that much of the missiles that they're using, they actually developed
specifically against Russia and China. Okay. That is a huge part of this story because as
far as, as far as what happens, okay, as far as like what takes place in these, uh, like
in, in the way that like America is comfortable conducting, uh, air operations. Okay. They
They go in and they successfully diminish the anti-air systems of the country that they're
going to develop, you know, a no-flight zone over, okay, to maintain air superiority over.
And then after that, it's much cheaper for planes to just fucking fly over and directly
strike targets, okay?
They have, they have more weapons that they could deploy this way, they have more munitions
that they could deploy this way, but they have been shying away from it, okay?
They have been using and depleting their far away offensive striking capabilities, some
of which they might not be able to re-up in the necessary time period if they were
to you know go into war with another country okay yeah they have a fuck ton
more gravity bombs but they can't use them because they can't fly over and use
the gravity bombs right
Hassanabe bro we're bombing Tehran daily that is air superiority I don't
get what you're saying oh my god dog if we had air superiority they would not
fucking lose a fuck ton of planes in the process of doing a combat search and
recovery mission combat search and rescue mission and on top of that there
wouldn't have even been an F-15 that was downed over Iranian soil to begin
with. They also would not be, literally, they also would not be consistently utilizing tomahawk
missiles. You look at the bombs that are dropped onto Iran and you assume that's because American,
American airplanes and Israeli airplanes are flying over Iranian airspace and dropping those
bombs. Sometimes they are, okay? Sometimes they are. But many of those bombs that you see both
in Tehran and elsewhere are not precise strikes coming from airplanes. They're not dropping
gravity bombs, they're actually lobbing missiles. Yeah, they're using the JSSM missiles.
Just because a couple planes got down doesn't mean USA doesn't have air superiority. Iran
is a mountainous region. That's why other utilized like missiles can be used for simplicity.
Okay. You're right. Instead of using the much more precise equipment that they have, that they have literally infinite ammo on pretty much, okay?
They're, they're expending almost all of their fucking standoff munitions for no reason, because they, they just felt that that would be more fun to do.
Gravity Bombs is not the latest buzzword.
So many Twitter drives you just turn off Twitter man. It would be so good for you to do that for a week
24 month subscriber said gravity bombs is that a buzzword
I've never heard the term before today. That's all do you am I the only place that you get information from do you read?
Yes, I read it clearly not enough
What hostages were held there and that became a serious problem for President
Jimmy Carter who was ended up being a one-term president and while the stakes
here are our lives on both sides politically the stakes for President
Trump and his party are enormous it's an unpopular war and he is by all by
all outward signs trying to get the US out of there and this is really just
you know, continuing a complicated situation.
I've never heard it either, you're an asshole.
Buddy, if you haven't heard it before, then why are you being...
I'm not getting upset at that person for asking me what a gravity bomb is.
I'm getting mad at that person for being contentious.
Okay?
How is this...
How is this hard to fathom?
That chatter came in with a negative energy for no fucking reason and made it seem like I was just like throwing around new buzzwords like there's a difference between being like, hey, I don't know what a gravity bomb is.
Okay, and I don't want to Google it right now. Can you please explain it to me?
Right. Versus, oh, you're just saying that as a buzzword.
Like if you're look what I do here is is try to educate people to the best of my ability
Okay
Having said that if you're going to come in here with this like weird negative energy
obviously I'm going to fucking you know if you're if you're coming in here with critiques
and you don't know something that I'm in the process of explaining, just ask. Be kind.
You're using the most obscured language for unguided munitions. Buddy, it's... who cares?
Like, what do you mean?
You're too sensitive, it's okay, but it happens. Please move on. Okay, we're moving on.
Anyway, the U.S. is deploying most of his long range. We read this yesterday. It's long range JSS
and ER stealth misses for the Iran war pulling them from global stockpiles only about
435 remain available worldwide out of the
2300 pre-war these misses been heavily used
Over 1000 in the first month reducing reserves meant for other conflicts replacing them could take years
Some of them will not be replaced
there's newer versions of these that they specifically created for Russia and specifically
created for war against China.
The fact that they are using these missiles from afar, lobbing them from a very long
distance, rather than using the much cheaper munitions that they have that is readily
available that you can only drop from planes, guided and unguided missiles that you can
utilize in the circumstance, rather than the limited stockpile that you have of these long
range missiles implies that they are not confident, they are not confident in the air superiority
that they claim that they have, okay?
Was crazy.
The first thing they did was to say you're wrong without fact checking themselves.
They can just Google I know.
If America and Israel had already established air superiority over specific quadrants, they
would be utilizing a lot more fighter jets.
And there would be no contest against said fighter jets.
But it's very clear that Iran still has the capability of dropping fighter jets, including
the F-15E that they dropped on Iranian soil a couple days ago, right?
Anyway, that's it, and that's made the U.S. have difficulty trying to extract itself.
yet the situation might get even more complicated. Meanwhile, we have some breaking news to get to
President Trump making his first comments this morning on the daring rescue mission. He just
posted moments ago to Truth Social saying we have rescued the seriously wounded and really brave
F-15 crew member officer from deep inside the mountains of Iran. The Iranian military was looking
hard in big numbers and getting close. He is a highly respected colonel. This type of raid
is seldom attempted because of the danger to man and equipment. It just doesn't happen.
The second raid came after the first one where we rescued the pilot in broad daylight,
also unusual, spending seven hours over Iran. An amazing show of bravery and talent by all.
We'll be having a news conference with the military at the Oval Office on Monday
at 1 p.m. Eastern. God bless our great military warriors. So there's the president
speaking after the first time, confirming what we knew about the daring, bold, dangerous level
that this rescue, both of them, entailed. Yeah, you know, this administration, Secretary of War,
Pete Hegsat, and of course, our president have set the bar very high for daring rescue missions.
I mean, here we are just off of the Maduro, you know, impeccably executed capture.
Yeah, this is a little bit different than that. Don't you think? You know, they lost zero asses of the Maduro mission
Um, there was a little bit of ground resistance, but obviously it wasn't anywhere near as as
Uh significant as like losing a bunch of fucking planes in the process. Come on, man
An a10 war talk was dropped in the process like that's insane
These people are fucking
They're out of control.
Um, then we have the person who was rescued, again, under very unusual circumstances, as
you said, in daylight.
And then this one lost pilot who found his way into the mountains there in Iran, in the
heart of enemy territory with the Iranian regime placing a bounty on his head about
$60,000, $60,000 with all these Iranians searching for him, looking for him.
He hides in these crevices and somehow our amazing military is able to go in and capture
him.
And we have to thank our president for this Easter miracle because he has not left the
Oval Office.
He has just clued in and determined to get him out and boy, it happened.
It happened.
And what's interesting, you heard Brent Sadler, if you're watching earlier, talk
about the debacle in the desert lay those 46 years ago, all the way back in 1980. So,
you know, these things can go south, obviously very, very quickly. And we had great concern
here on the couch as I'm sure millions of Americans did. What would happen? Oh, there's
going to be a fucking movie about this. They're going to be like, this brave pilot
was on his way to fucking bomb an orphanage. And he was unjustifiably attacked by the
daring iranian terrorists who dared to fight back against the american fighter pilots that
were trying to bomb another another civilian facility it's really fucked up that's where
that's the way they're going to cover it top gun iran brother top gun iran is the last top gun
they already did that okay they already did the top gun iran it was the last one if the
iranians happened to catch this particular was oh and and then paraded about uh uh for
the world to see it and said we wake up this morning to fantastic news at the American military and
I thought Trey Yanks really nailed it in his last report that the coordination the collaboration
that it takes to pull off something like this is nothing short of extraordinary and it is fantastic
news and eating in eastern America. Yeah and you mentioned Trey Yanks with that let's go to Trey
live in Tel Aviv with the very latest and Trey we understand you have brand new reporting
from a senior official. What can you tell us? It's not kind of soft on Israel lately. Yeah famously
I'm so soft on Israel. That's why every fucking mainstream outlet is just like reporting me as a
dangerous anti-Semitic terrorist to every fucking politician that has ever appeared next to me or
talk to me. Yeah guys, good morning. I just spoke with a senior US official who provided
new details on the intelligence behind the scenes to rescue this U.S. service member.
The official telling Fox News it wasn't until Saturday morning that the CIA was able to confirm
the location and that this was the individual they were trying to rescue.
There was concern among the American government that this was an Iranian campaign to try
and lure in U.S. forces and ultimately attack them.
I understand according to this official that on Saturday morning the CIA was able to
locate and confirm the individual, at which point the plan went into motion.
The CIA director made sure that the U.S. Secretary of War, the Joint Chief's Chairman and the
President himself were aware.
And I'm told that within eight hours U.S. planes were on their way to Iran, and within
12 hours there were boots on the ground to rescue this U.S. crew member.
As all of this was taking place, there was a deception campaign behind the scenes.
I'm told by this U.S. official that the CIA leaked through multiple sources.
They were trying to move a valuable package out of the country through a maritime exfil.
This was meant to draw the Iranian army away from this area where the U.S. crew member was
located.
Ultimately, this was successful, and as a result, this was a historic operation that
combined both U.S. intelligence and the military ability on the ground to get
this U.S. crew member out of enemy territory.
Because all of this was taking place, remember the Americans understood what would happen
if the Iranians were able to close in and capture this US service member, a crew member in the
F-15 that was shot down on Friday.
They know what happens when prisoners are taken in Iran.
They are paraded through the streets.
They use them for propaganda purposes.
And it spoke to just how sensitive this operation was and why it was so important
to get not only the intelligence right, but also to have the special forces prepared
and in place to enter into enemy territory south of the city of Isfahan and ultimately
conduct this operation that led to this U.S. crew member being safely evacuated from Iranian
territory. So again, a lot of.
Yeah, the idea of does not have the capability to destroy the missiles cities of the Revolutionary
Guards is really made of quoting an Air Force source. I mean, we already know that though.
Moving parts here, but Fox News can like they they have to they have to do a either
a crazy operation where they just do like on the ground special forces trying to get into these
fucking missile cities and just like blowing and trying to blow them up from within and they're
they're deep underground and I don't know how like heavily guarded they are obviously but like
the only thing they can do is I've told you over and over again since the beginning of this
now 36-day quagmire is that they can just like shut off the entrance points, which is what they've
been doing to limited success and maybe blow up a couple TELs along the way. But that obviously
doesn't successfully diminish their capabilities because they just dig themselves out and they
they still turn around and send out more TLs to launch missiles at both Israel and also
all the Gulf States.
Saying Iran a decoy campaign successfully after doing so is fucking brain dead.
Just point to Iran where they got the intel, so it never works again.
Complete morons.
I mean, a lot of this stuff that they're revealing is also going to be information
warfare as well.
like the CIA saying that they took advantage of like an unconventional assistance by tapping
into like locals to help out the guy, the weapons officer.
That is most likely a lie.
According to a senior U.S. official that on Saturday morning the CIA was able to locate
and confirm where the U.S. service member was just south of the city of Isfahan.
And that is when this plan got into motion with those U.S. forces headed into Iranian
territory to successfully evacuate their colleague.
Guys?
Trey, you mentioned, which I found fascinating, that at one point they weren't sure if
whatever that beacon was in his that was signaling to the United States that this
This was indeed the person that it could mean you can imagine you find a per body or or
or alive airmen and you could take that off and put you know just make people think it's
it's it's an American but it's actually Iranians have captured him.
There's a lot of Americans right now waking up this Easter morning just hearing about
this miracle could you break down for us a little more on the operation where where
they think, you know, he was in in these mountains, how they found him just the whole complex operation
that it took to get this man out of there. Yeah, Fox News has learned that this US crew
member was on the side of a mountain ridge. And despite having this beacon that all pilots
and crew members have in case their planes are shot down, again, there was concern
in the US government and intelligence apparatus that this was an Iranian trap. And that
That is why it took time to confirm not only the location, but that this was indeed the
U.S. service member who was lost inside enemy territory.
Once that confirmation was made by the CIA, I am told it was communicated to all relevant
parties, including the Secretary of War, Pete Hegsett, the Joint Chief's Chairman,
and the President himself.
And again, Fox News can report that within eight hours, planes were on their way
to Iran.
In 12 hours, there were boots on the ground with hundreds of special forces taking part
in this operation to locate and then safely exfiltrate the US service member who was in
that plane that was shot down on Friday.
Remember the pilot of the F-15 was evacuated by US special forces on Friday.
I'm told that the President was closely involved in this entire operation and ultimately
He was the one who ordered these special forces to go into Iranian territory south of the city
of Isfahan and ultimately rescue their colleague.
It was a very complex operation.
It didn't go perfectly, but there were contingency plans in place, and that is the reason that
U.S. forces were able to get in and successfully get out.
Again, understanding that there were real concerns that the Iranians could have been
trying to lay a trap to lure in U.S. forces.
But once that confirmation was made, ultimately the decision was ordered by the president
himself to send in these special forces and rescue their colleague.
We should also talk, though, again about this broader deception campaign.
There were many moving parts here, and we know, according to Iranian state media, that
a reward was offered for Iranian civilians to try and capture this crew member.
And there were conversations, I am told in Washington, about what could happen
if ultimately this this man was captured by enemy forces and that really led to the pressure
and the concern this this official telling me there was a lot at stake here because they
know that if they were not successful on an intelligence and a military level in this operation
ultimately it could have led to disaster there could have been a US service member
in the hands of the Iranian regime who would have been paraded through the streets
used for propaganda purposes and that led to just how high level this operation was
and just how precise the U.S. intelligence and military operation behind the scenes had
to be to ensure that this was a successful military operation.
Or you could have lost more men.
Yeah, absolutely.
Don't underestimate the danger.
We're talking about the perhaps a hundred.
We don't know exactly how many operators are actually on the ground to affect this
particular rescue.
So that's also an important element of the story.
I also want to ask you about the collaboration between...
Brother, they were watching you to see how you're moving,
reacting to the success of the test run.
No.
No, you guys are wrong about that.
That's cold.
No, it is a tactical failure for the ground forces,
for the conventional forces that Iran has.
They were unable to mobilize
and they were unable to take out the defenses
that America was able to set up,
the aerial defenses that America was able to set up
in and around the,
in and around the downed officer.
Obviously they had a tracker.
The Americans had a tracker, so it's like,
they had the upper hand there.
They very quickly knew exactly where it was, where he was.
And the IRGC was not able to figure out
exactly where he was, or the Iranian government
was not able to figure out exactly where he was
fast enough. And the people that were mobilized got, you know, they got killed.
The US military and our partners in the region trade. I think a lot of people
don't understand the importance, not just in terms of airspace, but again,
that intelligence sharing that makes a massive difference to effective rescue
like this.
Yeah, earlier today, I spoke with a senior Israeli official asking about
the involvement of the Israelis in this operation, and they once again credited the United States
military and the intelligence apparatus that led to the successful exfiltration of this
US service member from Iran.
But they said also in part, quote, when you watch an operation like that unfold in real
time, the distinction between their pilot and our pilot becomes less relevant.
The expectation is the same.
You bring him home.
And I think, again, that speaks to the reality on the ground.
U.S. and Israeli forces are flying side-by-side over the skies of Iran.
U.S. and Israeli intelligence are working hand-in-glove to ensure that Operation Epic
Fury is successful.
And again, there were contingency plans in place for something like this happened, with
the F-15 being shot down on Friday.
And there will be difficult days ahead.
We've heard from the President himself and from the Secretary of War Pete Hegze.
But the reality is that the United States is decimating the Iranian regime.
They are systematically taking out military targets day in and day out.
Each and every hour there are U.S. fighter jets over the skies of Iran.
I don't know if that's the case.
And despite the fact that you hear Iranian officials trying to claim that they have control
over the skies of their country, last night is a great example showing how they do not
have that control.
Hundreds of U.S. special forces on the ground inside of Iran conducting this
high-level operation.
And this is in addition to the thousands of sorties flown by U.S. and Israeli jets over
the skies.
But they literally continuously are losing aerial assets that's, you know, both on the
ground and also in the air.
That's not, you know, that's not exactly confidence inducing.
Iran that continue not just to target Iranian leadership, air defense systems, production
lines and many of the military structures that are allowing the Iranian regime to attack
U.S. forces and allies across the region.
And so while Iran may continue to launch missiles and drones at Gulf countries and at Israel,
the reality is they no longer have the production capabilities that they had before Operation
Epic Fury.
And even if this operation were to end today, they are set back decades in their
ability to threaten U.S. interests across the Middle East.
operation will be studied for decades to come at war colleges here in the US. Let me just ask you
quickly for viewers just waking up learning all these details. You mentioned earlier it didn't go
100% to plan. I think you're referencing the fact that one of our aircraft had issues and then
had to be destroyed so that technology would not fall into Iranian hands.
Reports do indicate at least one American transport plane malfunctioned just south of
of the city of East Fahan and was ultimately destroyed, but again, this was part of a larger
contingency plan that the United States military had.
When you're sending hundreds of special forces deep into enemy territory, it's never simple.
And we have seen that around the world when you look at the ability of the U.S. military
on an intelligence and military front, it is unmatched.
And the official that I spoke with earlier in the United States indicated that this
operation could not have been done by any other military in the world.
It took, according to this official, the leadership of President Trump, the CIA, the Department
of War, and others working together to ensure that this U.S. service member was safely extracted
from enemy territory, understanding that if this operation was unsuccessful, it would
have been a disaster.
And this U.S. service member could have fallen into the hands of the Iranian regime.
And so, again, this just speaks to the coordination that was happening behind the scenes.
And again, Fox News can report that on Saturday morning, the CIA was able to locate and confirm
this U.S. service member in a mountain ridge south of the city of Isfahan.
And that is when the appropriate calls were made to relevant parties, including the Secretary
of War, the Joint Chief's Chairman, and the President himself, who ultimately ordered
this operation.
And within 12 hours, we can report there were U.S. special forces on the ground inside
of Iran, rescuing this U.S. service member.
behind enemy lines. Incredible reporting, Trey Yings, live for us in Tel Aviv. Trey, thank you.
Thanks, Trey. Thank you so much, Trey. I'm Steve Goosey. I'm Brian Kilmey.
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to catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis.
And with that, let's go now to Trey Yings back in Tel Aviv, where he has the latest.
And, Trey, we understand you have brand new reporting from the White House. What can you tell us?
All right, one second. They're definitely making a movie about this operation. Absolutely.
Absolutely. They will. Yes.
Also, I'm Brian kill me. I'm Brian kill myself. He's noticeably absent, but I guess he's not on
the weekend team. That's probably what it is. New Call of Duty, all of that stuff.
That is, if we have a fucking Hollywood industry that remains after, you know, the price of
oil barrels like $200, I'm sure America will still figure out a way to pull through and
make something out of it.
But the reality of the matter is when Donald Trump is talking about like blowing up everything
in Iran. Iran is talking about retaliation in kind by blowing up the entire oil and gas
industry in the Gulf, which means destroying 20% of the entire planet's energy supply.
Okay. 20% of the entire planet's energy supply. Now, there's a reason why oil is a global
market. There's a reason why it's set as a global market because it's a consistent
need, right? It's a universal need. So when there's 20% reduction in supply, while the
demands are the same, okay, it doesn't fucking matter if it's like only the Strait of Hormuz.
Some countries will be devastated by this a lot faster than others, you know, like
Japan, Asian markets that get most of their oil and gas from the Strait of Hormuz,
Okay?
But destroying 20% of the global supply
will absolutely destroy the energy markets altogether.
Okay?
It will cook every country
because what are they supposed to do?
Not have a fucking working energy grid?
We're talking about jet fuel.
We're talking about diesel necessary
for transport, okay?
For transporting goods inside of countries.
We're talking about oil and gas is necessary
to power the energy grids, okay?
What I experienced in Cuba will happen everywhere, okay?
Will happen all around the world if 20%
of the entire world's energy supply is destroyed.
because the reality the matter is no matter what happens okay no matter what
happens people still need this energy okay people still need the the oil and
gas so they will get it they will get it elsewhere this will reflect on the
prices okay
and
Fuck it rip the band-aid and stop all oil and gas hell. Yeah, dude
Fucking hell. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about dude absolute fucking green anarchist psychopath in the chat
Yeah, fuck it bro rip the band-aid off. Let's kill
Let's kill two billion people dude like little babies in hospitals
Fuck it, dude
Insanity. Yeah, let's kill two billion people in some of the poorest countries on the planet, by the way.
Incredible stuff, Chatter. Thank you.
Thank you.
Yeah, guys.
Good morning.
I just spoke with President Trump for 15 minutes.
He gave me some new details on the negotiations behind the scenes with the Iranians and what's
going to happen if Iran does not make a good faith deal.
The president tells me if they don't make a deal and fast, I'm considering blowing
everything up and taking over the oil.
The president went on to say, you're going to see bridges and power plants dropping all
over their country.
And I asked him about the possibility of an agreement with the Iranians.
He says those who are negotiating on behalf of Iran have been granted amnesty at this
time so they can continue the talks.
And the president tells me he thinks he'll be able to get a deal by tomorrow.
He says, I think there's a good chance tomorrow they're negotiating now.
All of this following the president's post on true social where he talked about these
negotiations with the Iranians will pull this up. He says, quote, Tuesday will be Power Plant
Day and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one. In Iran, there will be nothing like it. Open
the effing straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. Just watch. Praise
be to Allah. The president posting there on TruSocial about this ongoing operation and
his new red line for the Iranian regime. Now, the president also provided new details
on what happened earlier this year as the Iranian regime took to the streets and slaughtered
what the president tells me is 45,000 civilians in their own country.
After that took place, President Trump told me the United States sent guns to the Iranian
protesters.
He tells me we sent them a lot of guns.
We sent them through the Kurds.
And the president says he thinks the Kurds kept them.
He went on to say we sent guns to the protesters, a lot of them.
And so a number of headlines here from my conversation with President Trump, all of this taking place
more than a month into Operation Epic Fury, and in the aftermath of that successful U.S.
operation overnight to rescue that stranded U.S. service member inside Iranian territory,
the president himself ordering that operation after the CIA came on Saturday morning and
confirmed that they located where this crew member of an F-15 that was shot down
on Friday was located.
He made the war crimes?
Yeah, he did.
He did.
And this is like very disruptive.
People are actually very upset that Trump once again leaked, like somewhat confidential
information.
Yeah.
Again, the president making that decision to send in hundreds of U.S. special forces
deep into Iranian territory and successfully retrieving that U.S. service member.
Guys.
I want to make sure I got this correctly.
Are you saying that the president told you that he sent guns, the U.S. government
sent guns to the protestors via the Kurdish that the Kurdish kept some of the guns?
Correct. The President tells me that the United States sent guns to the Iranian protestors
earlier this year. He says we sent them a lot of guns, we sent them through the Kurds
and he thinks that the Kurds kept them. Remember the President made a commitment
to the Iranian protestors who were in the streets of their country earlier this year.
Those images were circulating online of thousands of people who were slaughtered at the hands
of the Iranian regime, the current regime that is attacking U.S. forces as we speak.
And the president made a commitment on true social to those protesters, and he said, help
is on the way.
And we are learning as a result of this call with President Trump that he attempted to
send guns to these protesters in order to fight back and defend them.
Remember, these were peaceful demonstrators who were protesting against their government
and they were met with live ammunition from the Iranian regime in the streets of
their country they were slaughtered and Fox News was talking to people in Iran
who were using Starlink and they were describing these horrific scenes in the
streets of their city. I made the boss call. Some Kurdish faction that responded
to the remarks of President Trump. We did not receive any weapons during the time
the demonstrations in Iran. Heija Berenjie, PDKI, represented to the USA told Fox News.
Fox also reached out to additional Kurdish parties for comment. Here's
what the Kurdish Komala party leader Abdullah Maltadi told me about US
support last month, unrelated with the president has said about weapons, um, only letting this
out to up the fear of the Kurds to create a state of panic. I mean, I don't think it's
it's incorrect. But I think the reason why Trump is, Trump is not smart enough to do
this kind of like sophisticated messaging campaign to, to foment instability inside
of Iran. Okay. I think he's a fucking idiot. And, and he was trying to make it seem like,
you know, we helped them out. We helped them out. We tried to do our very best to liberate
Iran. He's not doing fucking 12 D chess, chess. Okay. He's just not capable of that sort
of thing. I think he just felt pressure to make it seem like he's helping the Iranian
population to the best of his ability. And he just fucking straight up boom leaked
some shit. There were not nearly enough armed demonstrators during the protest for this to
be true. Trump was just making shit up to make it sound like he was supporting the protest
to make our intelligence capability stream seem stronger.
I think whether it's whether how much of this is true or not, whether it's Trump
leaking like real intelligence in a moment of panic or whether he's just like trying to make
it seem like he helped out or not. It's obvious that it's not for some other sophisticated messaging
campaign purpose, you know? You understand? Like it's not, nothing that Donald Trump,
Nothing that Donald Trump says or does is for for some kind of sophisticated 4d chess maneuvering purposes.
It's ironic because Trump doesn't even understand.
It's ironic because Trump doesn't even fucking understand that this literally undermines the
previous argument that they were making, which is that like these weren't armed protesters.
Like the Iranian government's just like slaughtering them.
It gives more, it allows the Iranian government to quite literally say, see, we told you,
you gave these guys weapons.
That's why we had to kill them.
Trump doesn't help anybody doesn't even help himself and and just a moment of
weakness where he just fucking came out and said it right yeah he just wants to
so not only is the US admitting to having arms that prescription around
most ago confirming what Iran officials were saying but indirectly also that
despite all the meddling the capitations and bombings has not led to
civil war, what a dumpster fire of a coup.
They were legit brothers early on, but they were the ones that were a
missile and see eye bag has been proved.
Uh, and, and assisted by the missile.
Yes.
Yes.
I mean, that is true.
It still doesn't fucking, uh, justify the unbelievable numbers that we saw.
And now I'm not talking about like 45,000.
Okay.
And and none of that justifies American and Israeli military action on Iran regardless. Okay
Due to popular demand from the press president Trump's news conference tomorrow will now take place in the White House briefing room at 1 p.m. Eastern
So Donald Trump's gonna be live early
Doing a press conference
He doesn't do it as as frequently as he used to in the first term
Uh, so it's interesting that he chose to do one, uh, today,
I mean, uh, tomorrow, sorry.
And, uh, I think, you know, this is where he will say things like, uh,
he's going to fucking bomb her on back into the stone age and, and all this other
stuff.
I just think it's incorrect assessment and take what Trump said at face value.
This man makes up everything.
Why would we just trust this claim, which was not born out on what we saw
on the ground?
No, in the Kurdish, in the Kurdish areas, there were a fuck ton of
assassinations for the record. There were. I mean, they could have already had guns to
begin with, but they're definitely, I mean, I've, I've saw videos of them doing drive-by
fucking hits on, uh, drive-by hits on like, you know, the police chief and shit like that.
That was during the, um, that was during the, the, the, uh, major instance took place
on the ground where the Iranian government came in and killed a bunch of people.
Yeah, Israel's Channel 14 reported foreign actors back in January.
Yeah, that's the other side too like there was confirmation the Israeli side now
I don't know if the Israeli and the American side were saying
That they were backing these protests and they were deliberately
Involving themselves the protest in an effort to foment instability inside of the country and to to
Drive up the paranoia of the government so the government was even more heavy-handed in their approach to dealing with the protest
that much. I do not know like how I don't know how to weigh what these guys are saying with like
what took what took place on the ground right because I think obviously the Iranian government is lying
about the way that they dealt with this and and you know what led to what led to conflict but I
I also think that the United States government absolutely,
as they do alongside Mossad,
absolutely a hand in infiltrating the protests as well.
The genuine protest movement that took place
with the bazaaris that were frustrated by the economy,
which once again is also a direct consequence
of American intervention in the Iranian economy.
As we know, so America's hands are all over everything
that happens in Iran, obviously.
right? Damn dude, glad we have you to read Twitter to tell us what's real and true real journalism.
I think I've described this on numerous occasions, but we'll go through it again. This is a channel
14 broadcaster. It's being reported by Dropside News, very reliable news outlet. This is Caroline
Levitt, the press secretary. I know that you think, oh, it's just, this is Twitter. He's looking at
Twitter tabs, but like this is the current, um, assistance of the president and the 36 White House
press secretary. Caroline, leave it. Like these are primary sources. Okay. This is a video of Jake
Tapper. It's a funny video. Um, reacting to shapes and sizes is, I mean, shapes and colors,
is, is, you know, it might make you feel like you're an intelligent person, but it's
actually not a serious argument at all. Twitter is and Twitter is is very
difficult to navigate nowadays it's a shithole built to the brim with
misinformation but it is also still a place where journalists break their
stories right and although it's a very difficult to navigate I still try to
do my very best. So hopefully you understood what's going on here. Probably not. I don't
suspected this was a sincere statement. Was that helpful? Winged Zilla. Oh, he
unfollowed already after saying that, so you won't be able to respond.
Why do they still use Twitter at this point? There's no other alternative,
unfortunately. In any case,
Oh
We already covered that another in a Barak ravide obviously more Barak ravide
Isn't saying how much people crash out over you sometimes yeah, it's it's very strange
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Why nobody uses Reddit? I mean Reddit is infinitely more difficult to navigate and at least I know
where the biases are and where the fake bullshit is on Twitter and I can avoid it and I can
go to direct sources on Twitter. No such thing exists on Reddit. Reddit is just like unbelievably
biased, either in the left direction or the liberal direction in most circumstances, it's
also very easy to manipulate Reddit. Reddit, going to Reddit is kind of like reading the
replies, the bodied replies on any post, right? Like this isn't to say that Twitter isn't
bought it into oblivion. Of course it is, right? Well, so is Reddit and Reddit actually
makes it much harder to distinguish. It's like if I got my news from the reply bots
on fucking Twitter, that's what it feels like to go on Reddit and get your information.
Here's Manu Raju of CNN talking about Trump on Wednesday, about the Strait of Hormuz, and
then Trump today on the Strait of Hormuz.
Let's take a look.
It was really in the US, and just opening that back up, and whether that was a chief
demand.
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.
haven't needed it and we've got the countries of the world that do receive oil through the
hormone straight must take care of that passage go to the straight and just take it protect
it use it for yourselves.
I mean so what is it Zulin?
I mean is it the is that the objective now because he's been saying we don't need
he just says he said what is this video bro?
We don't need it we haven't needed it we don't need it and now we say open it
or there'll be a living hell.
the president has been delivering and conflicting.
So it's really in great video.
Yeah. Now he's like, open it now.
I just spoke briefing with President Trump on the phone,
says Julia Manchester,
White House correspondent for the Hill.
He said he is not ruling
outstanding ground troops in Iran.
If they do not make a deal,
he also said no infrastructure targets are
the table for the US strikes, if no deal is reached. He is trying to utilize war crimes,
okay, and making Iran unlivable for 93 million people as a bargaining chip,
okay? He's basically saying we will turn Iran into Gaza.
The Dahiya doctrine that we saw in both Lebanon and Gaza, Donald Trump is saying he will do to Iran.
So far, Iran has retaliated in kind. Trump has also extended the deadline for Iran by an additional
24 hours in a post on true social he wrote Tuesday, 8pm Eastern time.
This doesn't spell a lot of confidence.
Donald Trump has extended his deadline approximately 10 times at this point.
The Macy says this is his fifth extension of the deadline.
That's probably the real number.
I'm exaggerating.
Which once again shows that perhaps he is not as confident in his ability to get
a deal. Okay. It's, uh, it's once again, a, an unstoppable force against an immovable
object. Okay. Donald Trump keeps saying, Oh, we're just going to keep blowing your shit
up. And the process, we're going to make life uninhabitable in Iran. So you better
recognize you better learn your lesson and you better come to the table or else
we're gonna do maximum terrorism right timeline a timeline of power plant day
deadlines March 22nd Trump issues a 48-hour deadline March 23rd deadline
is extended to March 27 March 26 deadline is extended to April 6 April
5th deadline is extended to April 7th. So this is, I guess the fifth time. Yeah. He, he added
an additional extension or the sixth extension. Sorry, breaking for the six times. Sorry for
the six times this March 22nd, the US president Trump extends his deadline to obliterate
Iran's power plants unless the shirt of her moves is fully reopened the deadline has not been delayed by 34 hours and goes from Monday 10 a.m.
To 8 p.m. On Tuesday
okay
Things are going well now obviously obviously the reason why he's doing it is because he thinks he can threaten Iran
but for Iran
For Iran their response is always the same if you blow up our shit, we will blow up the entire world's shit
Okay. You blow up our power plants. We will blow up Israeli power plants. We will blow
up the Gulf power plants. We will, we will destroy the refineries, right? So they have
still a ways to go on the escalation ladder in retaliation to the American and Israeli
escalations. That's where we're at.
The country and the president again told them that support and help was on the way and so
it appears that was the help the president was talking about and again as all of this
is taking place now that we zoom out three months later the president is offering the
Iranians a diplomatic solution to end this conflict. The same offer that he gave the
Iranians before operation epic fury began and remember we know that at the
negotiating table before this operation began the opening position of the
Iranian regime is that we have four hundred and sixty kilograms of sixty
percent enriched uranium enough to make eleven nuclear bombs and the
president understanding the country's ballistic missile program and their
nuclear aspirations ultimately ordered this operation well more than thirty five
yeah this stuff is propaganda 100% Iran said that they would concede on the
nuclear enrichment. Iran said that they would concede on everything according to the Omani
negotiators and other mediators that were in the room when these conversations were taking
place.
Iran has already conceded on this stuff before to Barack Obama. All this, it shows exactly
what the Trump administration's goals were here, right? They wanted to engage in perfidy,
as they did in the 12-day war. They wanted to utilize, they wanted to utilize the negotiations
process to do a first strike while the Iranians were unaware that America would or Israel would
strike them at all. That's it.
It is later the president once again is offering the Iranians a diplomatic solution.
And again, he tells Fox News on a phone call earlier today.
He thinks he'll be able to get a deal with Iran by tomorrow.
He says he thinks there's a good chance tomorrow they are negotiating now.
But again, the president goes on to tell me you're going to see bridges and power plants
dropping all over their country if they're unwilling to make a deal.
So incredible reporting, incredible reporting tray.
But it's interesting because he told you, President Trump told you that he was thinking
optimistic it sounds like that there could be a deal tomorrow.
But did you also sense a frustration in his talking about the negotiations?
Because Iran has never changed their tune.
They so far have yet to show any inkling of good faith negotiating.
And maybe something has changed in the last 24 hours?
The short answer is no, it doesn't-
I'm going to be honest, Trump is consistently the least reliable orator, okay?
If Iran and Iranian officials, not about the IRGC statements about the
Uh, the operation that took place, uh, recently, but like in general about the negotiations,
if Iranian officials are the most reliable, Trump is literally the least reliable.
Okay.
There are, like, I would trust, I would trust Steve Wittkoff, even though I don't trust
him at all, but I would still trust Steve Wittkoff a lot more than I would trust Trump.
And only because he just doesn't fucking know what's going on.
And he just consistently says contradictory shit sometimes in the same sentence, okay?
Sometimes he's saying things specifically to manipulate the market and have some of
his immediate family members make a lot of money.
And in other instances, he's just deranged and saying totally inconsistent shit with
regular frequency one in one moment saying negotiations are going great and
the next moment saying if you don't open the shirt of hormones now I'm gonna blow
up your power plants okay he is like the worst guy to listen to to get a
decent understanding of what's going on genuinely appear anything major has
changed and it sucks because he is the one guy that millions of Americans
listen to and take his word as those fucking the gospel.
As it relates to the way that the Iranians are negotiating, what's changed is the increase
in pressure that continues.
President Trump ordered to remember a strike against the B-1 bridge, a new bridge in Iran
that the Iranians, according to intelligence officials here, were going to use to transport
military equipment.
And he told me on the phone that as he was trying to get a deal, the Iranians were
trying to push off the negotiating timeline, saying next Tuesday we'll meet, for example.
And the president said, no, next hour, because this is a president who wanted to get a deal.
He wants to get the job finished.
And ultimately, the Iranians were trying to stretch out that negotiating timeline, and
the president ordered the strike against this critical infrastructure in Iran, again,
to send a message that the United States is not playing games on the battlefield or
at the negotiating table.
And so the sense that I got from President Trump is that he is very serious as it relates
to these threats against the Iranian regime when it comes to their unwillingness to make
a good faith agreement despite the fact that the president has given them multiple off-ramps.
And again, he tells me that he ideally will take Iranian oil if they are unwilling to
make an agreement.
And so that is a major development in this conflict.
And the president making very clear in his post on true social that Iranian power
and energy infrastructure will be targeted in the days ahead if Iran doesn't make a deal
tomorrow.
Based on your conversation then, Trey, especially when you consider there has been no evidence
whatsoever that the regime is trustworthy.
They make deals all the time.
They say things all the time and they never, ever, ever follow through.
It was that your sense in listening to the president and if that's so, it seems
to me like 24 hours from now we're going to hear a lot more about bombing.
Yes, the president understands the deal very well based on what I gathered from the conversation
and he said primarily we're talking about the straight of-
Talk we cut out of the middle of negotiations to bomb Iran, what are you talking about?
I mean, what do you think?
I mean they're fucking doing regime propaganda for a guy who is unimaginably unbelievably
inconsistent.
It's not a very easy thing to, to say and wash, okay?
Washington terrorism is a brilliant tactical move yet Israel systematic bombing of Iran's key
industrial infrastructure steelworks petrochemicals pharmaceuticals is designed to short Iran's economy
prevent post war reconstruction setting the country on the path to become a failed state
that's all this is that's precisely what they're doing they can't win they can't win like
They're stated military objectives. They can't win on that.
So they're just trying to do maximum damage to the Iranian population.
This is exactly how Israel operated in Gaza, okay?
Exactly how Israel operated in Gaza is exactly how Israel operated in Lebanon.
When they can't achieve their stated military objectives, just fucking kill as many people
as possible. Do maximum damage to the civilian infrastructure, do maximum damage to the civilians.
It's an insanely cruel way to operate. And unfortunately, there is very little pushback
from even America and Americans towards this kind of endeavor. It's cruel, it's dumb,
it doesn't even deteriorate their striking capabilities ironically enough. All you
do is just destroy the lives and livelihoods of 93 million fucking people it's completely
psychotic is rarely war Israeli veteran war correspondent argues that Israel's likely and
most decisive plan now in Iran is to enacted the HIA doctrine exactly in areas where regime
supports and their families live supporters and their families live ordering them to
evacuate and blowing up those neighborhoods.
You only, Israel and America only does this when they're losing for the record, okay?
And they can't do, they can't do regime change.
They can't actually balkanize the country.
They can't actually deteriorate Iranian strike capabilities.
So all they're doing is fucking terrorism, okay?
It's insane.
And no one ever turns around and says, hey, can you stop doing this shit?
The only reason why people are at least a little bit more critical this time around is because
Iran is a sovereign state and not like a paramilitary force, comprised entirely of occupied peoples,
or a paramilitary force that's like the only standing conventional forces that can try
to push back against Israeli incursions like in Lebanon with Hezbollah.
So they're just doing maximum terrorism without even sending troops.
At this point, we're basically doing Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the sake of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
No threat of like actual ground movement, ground mobilization at all.
We're just doing it for fun.
Felix described Israel's military strategy in Gaza as the equivalent of throwing a
Tantra with nuclear armed states, military is the same with America and Iran now, yeah.
And for that reason, for that reason, it's more so a game of attrition.
It's like will Israeli defenses diminish to such a significant level that Iran is more
successful at striking both military targets and strategic targets inside of Israel before
Israel decides to apply the Dehiye doctrine on Iran.
And at what point, I mean, I worry that Israel will escalate up the nuclear ladder if they're,
you know, openly threatening to do the Dehiye doctrine in Iran anyway.
And this has been the calculation from the start.
For Moos being opened, and again the Iranians have these small vessels where they use mine
laying vessels for example to try and disrupt billions of dollars worth of oil trade through
the street.
And it's something that they can continue to do and it's very inexpensive for Iran
but it can be very expensive for the international energy markets and the president understands
this.
And so the primary thing that he talked about was the Strait of Hormuz.
He also said there are 15 other points, but he does believe that he'll be able to get
in agreement with the Iranian regime.
I think the important part here, too, is the negotiating team that the president has.
We're talking about U.S. Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff and the president's son-in-law
Jared Kushner.
If you think back to last year, the entire region didn't think a ceasefire deal
between Israel and Hamas was possible.
And ultimately, the president was able to send his special envoy to the region, send
Jared Kushner to the region, and go to Egypt and get a deal that everyone said wasn't possible.
And I think that that is the sentiment now.
Ultimately there will be some sort of negotiated settlement.
The president's really just giving the Iranians a chance right now in order to stop things
right here.
Because the United States has more U.S. forces in the region.
The president's been very clear he's willing to move more forces to the Middle
East if needed.
there are already tens of thousands of U.S. forces currently in the Middle East.
And as we saw last night, U.S. special forces have the ability, hundreds of them, to go
into Iranian territory to conduct operations and successfully leave the country without
anyone being killed or very serious injuries happening to those forces.
And again, this is also a message of deterrence, I am told.
I spoke with a senior U.S. official earlier today who said only the United States
of America has the capability to do what is being done right now in Iran.
And the president has a variety of options on the table to choose from as it relates
to how this conflict is going to move forward.
And as we talked about earlier, it appears the president is giving the Iranians until
tomorrow to make a good faith agreement or there will be a price to pay, according
to the president.
And that will be Iran's power grid and bridges.
And he even described it to me as power plant day and bridge day because he said
this will be a concerted effort to strike at the heart of the regime and their
infrastructure if they're unwilling to come to the table and make a good-faith deal.
Well, Tre, your report gives me a lot of hope.
I mean, we've all been praying for peace and hopefully a negotiation away out of this.
Did the president give you any indication as to who is leading these negotiations?
My understanding is that the – it was last week the Iranians said we want to
deal with J.D.
Vance.
J.D.
Vance was beginning negotiations with somebody on the Iranian side, and then that person
We killed and I think or injured and then some of his family was killed if I'm correct.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
So who is leading the negotiations and who are they negotiating with?
Because part of the problem is if you kill so many of the leaders, you're not left
with a lot of people to negotiate.
Yeah, I want to be careful with my reporting here, but I can tell you I spoke with President
Trump both on and off the record.
We talked for about 15 minutes.
I understand.
And he told me that the current negotiators from the Iranian side have been granted
limited and to see right now they're not going to kill them as these negotiations
continue and that's something that the iranians requested
and the president was willing to grant given the fact that
he is controlling the scope of these negotiations
right now
i think the president also talk about how the iranians are negotiating and
this was the thing that i drew from the conversation is that
the iranians like to drag their feet in these negotiations and the
president basically through that strike on
a key bridge in iran
last week
was trying to send a message to them
They're either going to make a deal or they're going to face consequences for not making a
deal.
Dude, seeing Washington Trump in this regard is so dumb, too, cuz it's like, yeah, you're
talking about negotiating with a guy who has a fucking gun to the head of your family and
has killed a bunch of your family members already, and is going down the line and just
like shooting them one by one while simultaneous is saying, come on, let's have a good faith
negotiation.
Come on, let's have a good faith negotiation, it's like talking to a psychopath.
This is not a negotiation.
This is a president threatening to consistently do war crimes in the process of doing war crimes.
And they're doing this because they can't, like, they're doing this because, again,
They cannot actually achieve any of their fucking military objectives.
And so again, the president told me that the Iranians were trying to push off the negotiations
in additional week and a number of days ahead and the president said, no, next hour you're
going to negotiate because, again, this is a president who is directly involved and
speaking on a daily basis with US Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff with his son-in-law
Jared Kushner, because they understand the framework of this deal. They also understand
how the Iranians negotiate, and they're not negotiating in good faith, despite the fact
that the United States is giving them this off-ramp. We've seen this in the past. We
saw this during previous administrations, and the difference with this administration
is that the president is not willing to let them drag it out. He's saying, if you're
going to make-
Joe Kent, predictably we're seeing the Iran war cheerler is most likely the global
war on terror. Aggressively push Bush-era war propaganda because they know there's
There's no legitimate justification for this war.
Patriotism is doing what's best for our nation, keeping our troops out of foolish wars.
Yeah.
You need to make it as he told me tomorrow, not next week.
So the clock is ticking.
Trey Yanks.
Great reporting.
Excellent.
Awesome.
Thank you very much.
Thanks, Trey.
I'm Steve Ducey.
I'm Brian Kilmeade.
Yeah.
Dominique August out.
I know.
We're gonna watch it later
But you can go and watch it if you want the american war against the swiss
Okay, it's out
It's finally out 34 minutes lots of great interviews in there
Uh, yeah
Only eight views you fell off is true is true is true
We'll watch it. We'll watch it. We'll watch it in a little bit. We'll watch it in a
little bit after I finish some of this stuff. Here's an exclusive interview with
Iran's bug guy who warns of swift retaliation against the US after Trump
threats. Iran's reaction would be one of reciprocating any such attack. Our
armed forces have made it clear that in case Iran's infrastructure is
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thousands of views counted as one, it doesn't matter.
Just the American people have come to understand that this is not their war.
This is the war of choice by the United States administrations,
perhaps on behalf of a genocidal regime in our region.
The fact that they pulled into the streets of different states and cities of the United States
indicate the fact that they're not supporting this war of aggression by their administration against Iran.
Everyone, not only in our region but also globally, including in the United States,
Recognize that this war is illegal. This is a war imposed on a civilizational
State for no reason. This is a war based on a lie
A lie that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapon
Something that has never existed
A lie that there was an imminent threat on the part of Iran against the American people that's simply untrue
They know that there was no such threat from Iran to the United States.
They lie that they simply wanted to help the Iranian nation.
Yes, they are helping Iranians with death and destruction.
They killed in one single incident, as they call it.
It was not an incident.
It was a deliberate attack on elementary school in the city of Meenak.
out. The same day that they also targeted a sports hall in La Merge Farce killing 21
persons. So in a matter of less than one hour, they slaughtered more than 200 innocent girls
and boys. So these are the conduct of American administration. And I think these war crimes
are recorded in the name of the United States people.
I think the United States people do not favor,
do not approve of these atrocities.
They are against these atrocities.
The American administrations have been threatening Iran
for the past 48 years.
Iranians have shown maximum steadfastness and determination to continue their rightful
path which is safeguarding their right to self-determination, safeguarding their sovereignty, as well as their dignity.
threats are simply an indication of a criminal mindset. This is an express
public incitement for war crimes and crimes against humanity and I would say
for genocide because threatening to attack a country's critical infrastructure,
energy sector, it would mean that you want to put at risk the whole population and this
is nothing less than war crimes and crimes against humanity. But apart from that, because
It seems that this administration doesn't care about law or logic or basic tenets of morality.
As far as Iranians are concerned, we are determined to defend our national security and sovereignty
with all might.
We have shown not only during the past 37 days, but also throughout these whole almost
five decades that Iranians are very patriotic and are prepared to fight back their enemies.
got their lesson from this brave act of defense against the aggressors. For
35, 36 days they propagated the idea that Iranian's defense capability has been
neutralized. After 36 days, our armed forces show that our enemies are facing another miscalculation.
Congratulations, President Trump. All Israelis rejoice in the incredible rescue of a brave
American pilot by America's Dauntless Warriors. This proves that when free
societies muster their courage and their resolve, they can confront seemingly
insurmountable odds and overcome the forces of darkness and terror. This rescue
operation reinforces a sacred principle. No one is left behind. This is a
shared value demonstrated time and time again in the history of both our
countries classic dead guy did is a nation that repeatedly carried out daring rescue operations
and as someone who was wounded in such a mission and lost a brother in the entebri rescue oh my
israelis and i we know what a bold decision you took president trump donald my dear friend
once again your decisive leadership brought another great victory to america i salute you
you. We all do. Through Washington D.C., Donald Trump took a Sunday morning drive after the
mission the night before. Iranian capture of a U.S. airman would have been for him a political
crisis. His own reportage of the rescue read as relief. We got him, he posted on Truth
Social, in the middle of the night, and he spoke of an operation without U.S. casualties
involving dozens of aircraft. He didn't mention this. These are pictures from Iranian state
media, filmed south of Isfahan. US officials said they left behind and destroyed two aircraft
following a technical malfunction. Tehran's version was that H shot down two American
C-130 planes and two helicopters involved in the rescue.
Following prior information, further investigations by experts present at the scene determined
that two C-130 military transport aircraft and two Black Hawk helicopters of the US Army
were destroyed, with the fulfilment of the divine promise, the help of Almighty God and
the sacred fire of the anger of the soldiers of Islam within the powerful armed forces.
This action increased the level of repeated failures of the US Army.
As the US raced the Iranians to find the missing airman, details have emerged of his ordeal.
US media are reporting that after he ejected, he hiked up a 7,000-foot mountain edge and
hid in a crevice.
He used a piece of technology unique to the CIA to tell the agency where he was.
Reports then say that US military began dropping bombs in the area to keep away Iranian
forces, though they didn't have to engage directly.
Before his F-15 was shot down, the CIA had used a deception technique, spreading word
that the airmen had been rescued, but in fact the hunts were still on.
American officials believe that lewed away some of the Iranian forces.
The UK knows the experience of aircrew used as propaganda.
It happened to the RAF's John Peters and John Nickel during the First Gulf War in
Iraq.
should repeat for Donald Trump could have cemented a public mood against the Iran conflict. Politically,
the president has dodged a bullet. As the White House woke up on Easter Sunday, Trump was back
on true social, threatening, like we've not heard a US president threatened before. He
appeared to show- Yeah, um, the thing is, there is already a public mood that's against
it, right? The war is already super unpopular. Trump is already super unpopular. And it's
only going to get worse. As the energy crisis worsens, some commodity traders are saying,
in the next eight days, in the next eight days, Europe is going to start feeling the
impact of energy shortages. And then America will follow shortly thereafter. There's
obviously countries in the Asian markets that have already experienced a tremendous amount
of setbacks. They're rationing. They are demanding to the public. They're demanding to the public
travel less, right? Places like the Philippines, Thailand. Thailand actually restarted their
coal power reactors, their coal power power plants. There's long lines of gas rationing
taking place already. So I believe a couple days ago was the last day that a couple days
ago was the last day that the UK received jet fuel. So you will see less air travel, less
deliveries, more expensive deliveries.
There are a lot of hardships that are coming.
And obviously because our world view is limited by just the western world, specifically Europe
and the United States of America, we haven't felt the full brunt of it yet.
But we will.
It's worth it for Israel. Don't be anti-Semitic. I agree. Of course, I would never say anything
but that. I am Israel. Hi.
UK to receive last anchor jet fuel for Middle East this week. The last no shipment of jet
fuel to the UK from the Middle East is expected to arrive this week, pointing to the fast
approaching impact of the Iran War on airlines and travelers. The shipment on the Libyan
flagged, Mateiga vessel is due to arrive in the UK around Thursday for Saudi Arabia, data
providers Kepler and Vortex has said.
Would you happen to know what China is telling its citizens?
China in the interim is best positioned to not only withstand the energy crisis because
they have contingencies, but also develop a significant point of leverage as far as
soft power initiatives, as far as influence over its own backyard.
So not only do they have tremendous control over their productive forces, obviously, but
But they also have, they've already made tremendous gains in electrifying their energy grid, okay?
Like down to the massive trucks, for example.
This is a huge problem because like trucks need diesel, right?
A lot of commerce, a lot of the logistics require diesel.
In terms of transport, they have a lot of electric vehicles, right?
So for them, they are unimaginably well positioned, especially because they have massive stock
piles and they can now trade these massive stock piles in exchange for favors from
the countries that are in the region, whether it be Taiwan, where you can develop significantly
better relationships with Taiwan at a time of desperation, moving towards peaceful reunification
step by step. But also on top of that, given their refinement capabilities and given what
they have in their strategic stockpile, not only could they weight this out, but they could
They could also trade the existing stockpiles they have for better relations with countries
that have not been as cooperative as others in the ASEAN security cooperative agreements
that China has tried to set up, of course, talking about the Philippines.
has done a decent amount of soft power initiatives on the island. Obviously, they sent in Cinevax,
for example. America tried to disrupt that distribution process by doing unlimited anti-vax
propaganda on the island, which led to massive vaccine hesitancy in the island. Okay. Dude,
Dude, I'm not anti-China, we gotta stop talking about peaceful reunification, Taiwanese people
don't want it.
Buddy, you're operating with yesterday's mindset.
Okay?
Remember what I told you about Israel?
Things can change.
Okay?
Just remember.
That's why I said this aids in the effort towards peaceful reunification.
Every step that America takes as far as undermining Taiwan's position, hurting Taiwan's economy,
the global economy, as China is a factor of stability, makes that argument for Xi Jinping.
Okay. It's not the case currently, but that doesn't mean it can't change.
Okay. That's all I'm saying. I don't know why you get so resistant,
like you're so reactive to what I am explaining here.
That's it.
It's very strange whenever I bring this up when status quo is obviously the overwhelming
majority position of approximately 68% want status quo, permanent status quo, one foot
inside of the mainland, one foot in the Western world, okay.
When I describe the situation and what the people's role of China is doing, right, as
far as attempting peaceful reunification in spite of the status quo attitude that the
Taiwanese population have a lot of people turn around and go what the fuck are you
saying what are you what do you mean how dare you say this it's very strange
Chinese bonds are by far the best position. Global capital is moving to China as a safe haven when western capital starts seeing China as a safe place to place assets. It's over.
Middle East war pushes up borrowing costs except in China.
Indeed, nationalistic fervor is immaterial.
Chinese government bonds have sidestepped the global debt sell-off since the start of
the Iran War emerging as a haven for a soaring energy president rising global inflation.
What's behind Chinese bonds resilience?
It's because China provides stability in a world that is increasingly unstable.
These are the powers of, these are the immediate powers of a centrally planned economy for
the record.
These are also, these are also benefits of not engaging in instability with regular
frequency in the way that the United States of America has, for example.
And we're not alone on this. I mean, this is back in the day. This would be back in these
we met with tremendous resistance. Okay. Look, look, look, look, look. This is incredibly
fucking annoying that people do this. Okay. And I don't do this to make an argument. So
neither should you 2025 national Changsha University poll shows 63% of Taiwanese identify
I sold the Taiwanese and only 2.4% support unification.
Did you notice that I was being fair
and I gave you the most popular poll?
I know, I know the percentage of people
that support reunification
and the percentage of people that support independence.
Okay?
You're not trying to be a dick,
but you are being a dick because you know
that I know that poll because I'm giving you
the position that is the most popular.
Okay, I'm telling you from that exact same poll,
what the most popular position is.
You on the other hand,
are trying to make it seem as though
I'm making an argument that I'm not, okay?
Please stop doing this.
It's very frustrating.
I never said overwhelming majority
of the Taiwanese population
are in favor of reunification.
I did not say that, okay?
didn't say that at all. I said the overwhelming majority and the most
consistent position from the Taiwanese population is status quo, okay? That's
it. It's status quo. But for some weird reason we look at the same poll and
everybody turns around and and immediately goes, oh well that doesn't
matter. It doesn't matter that people want status quo politics that could
change potentially. What matters is all these other things. Like here, I'll give you another
example. People talk about the DPP. Voting for the DPP implies that Taiwanese people want
independence, right? And the reason why they say that is because DPP is like the CIA-backed party
and is the pro-independence party. So people literally will turn around and say,
oh, they're voting for that. That means they want, that means they want independence.
They don't make such an argument for when the KMT wins. If KMT's working towards reunification now,
and the modern version of the KMT party, obviously, okay, or at least some of the people in that
party structure are working towards reunification, they never present that argument in the same way,
because it's a stupid argument to make. These parties literally don't just represent
reunification or independence, they support a bunch of different things.
When you talk about peaceful reunification, I think it sounds to a lot of people that you're
promoting unification against the wishes of the people of the island. People hear peaceful
reunification and just hear Chinese state media that don't actually look at what you say. Exactly.
Yes, there's a KMT opposition party leader that is pursuing talks with Beijing ahead of
the Trump visit.
This is Chang Li-1 who is a unique figure in the party, okay?
But regardless, even when there was this attempt to have a conversation with Beijing that
I reflected on, people yelled at me, okay, people were just so fucking unbelievably contentious.
KMT was pro reunification, right, no, initially KMT was pro reunification because they said
that they were the one true China.
The Republic of China was the real China and the PRC was fake China and that KMT wanted
forceful reunification
That that comprised of the entirety of China including Mongolia, that's obviously gone. That's not a real position at all
Okay, yeah, you can think of it as campy wanted China all of China to be Taiwan
But of course that died anyway, especially in the Kissinger Nixon era
where America decided to recognize the People's Republic of China as the real China.
And Taiwan is a part of the People's Republic of China, right?
While implementing a process known as strategic ambiguity, which is also known as lying,
where they would still funnel arms to the KMT forces and would mount defenses
and basically have Taiwan exist there as a island,
Island 100 miles off the coastline of China that they can always use to posture against China. Okay
But the modern
The the modern KMT obviously doesn't reflect that old school mentality at all
I can't believe we've gotten into this conversation because I was talking about like
China being better positioned in the United States of America
China, due to the way that people reflect on China, do the way that the Chinese government
operates amidst this straight-of-hormose crisis that America brought about to the rest
of the world, or the behest of Israel.
Okay?
But yeah, financial times, Chinese government bonds emerge as loan war haven, yields on China's
debt are down marginally since the start of the conflict, while those of other major economies
have risen. Chinese government bonds have sized up the global debt sell-off since the
start of the Iran war, as the world's second biggest economy emerges as a haven
from soaring energy prices and rising global inflation the real question is what japan will do
japan is the largest owner largest foreign owner of alongside china ironically of american debt
we are destroying their economy they are going to experience an unprecedented energy crisis
directly because directly because we decided to fucking blow up iran and force iran's hand to
do what they've never done before, which is close the shred of fucking
hormones, which is where Japan gets all of its energy from. And it's an
island. They don't have oil and gas. They're fucked.
Okay.
Yeah, last time Japan
didn't get their petroleum needs met by the United States of America.
Let's just say they reacted with the original 9-11, okay?
Also known as Pearl Harbor, which Donald Trump brought up to Takahichi, the current leader
of Japan.
Not saying that they're gonna do another Pearl Harbor, but like, you know.
They would be understandably disturbed, right?
They would be understandably frustrated that American actions have caused them to experience
an unprecedented energy crisis.
Things might change quite a bit.
China is certainly in a better position to deal with this, but it will still hurt over
300 million Chinese relying gas-powered vehicles, and gas prices have gone up 30% over 450
a gallon.
Even though this war hurts America more, I doubt they will want it to go on too
long.
the war to go on too long because the worst aspect of the war going on too long is America
destroying Iran and then Iran in retaliation destroying 20% of the entire globe's fucking energy
supply, okay, which you know is where China gets this fucking petroleum needs or needs from now
Iran has allowed the refineries or Iran has allowed Chinese flag tankers to pass through
for the time being, Iran is sending its own oil to China as well. However, however, that's not the
same as allowing the Shredda Hormuz to be to remain open. And it's certainly not the same as if Iran
were to retaliate and go up the escalation ladder in retaliation to destroy and potentially
destroy the entirety of the refinement, the entirety of the refineries in the GCC.
that would not be good for China that would be good for nobody in the world
obviously China doesn't want that to happen
so we now wait for Tuesday to see what takes place we now have to sit here and
wait for Tuesday to see if the world will change dramatically okay
Post Tuesday, we might be looking at a very different world.
Much less commerce taking place, deliveries no longer getting delivered, energy crisis
imminent, shortages all around the world, depending on what Donald Trump does and how
Iran retaliates. Iran is only allowing Chinese tankers with Iranian oil through the straight
oil from GC countries is not allowed. China has even more before this war. China even got
more oil from the GC countries. One minor correction, Japan's reserves in terms of barrels per day use are actually pretty similar to China.
It's the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam that are fucked.
Yes.
I'm stupid. I'm trying to understand what the strategic ambiguity regarding Taiwan means. Could you please elaborate? Yes.
The American government recognizes Taiwan as Chinese Taipei and as a part of Chinese territory.
The American government officially recognizes Taiwan to be a part of China.
Okay? They do.
That's in their official communicates, in the official documents.
As a matter of fact, much of the world also does the same.
However, strategic ambiguity implies that they publicly recognize Taiwan as a part of China,
of China, but privately, and not so privately, they don't recognize Taiwan as a part of China.
They have consistently built the defense, the defenses of Taiwan, and have engaged in arm
shipments, weapons shipments, and have always been a big advocate for Taiwanese independence
on the island as well by way of, you know, I guess more secret initiatives.
What is this? Is this good from the markets? Future markets open up for the week and show
the markets are unpersuaded by Trump's latest claims of potential deals. Each time the deadline
moves and each claim he makes of the deal, the pop has been less. This is the first
time it's declined on a day where he made such a claim. Well, he also was literally
saying he's gonna blow up Iran on Tuesday. So it's kind of hard to hear what he has to
say about how a deal is imminent. You know?
Don't know if you saw this ever broke much earlier, but New York Times, no firefighter
Iran, U.S. commandos fired their guns, but did not engage in any firefighter Iran in
force while rescuing the F-15 Web of System Officer in New York County's
reports, it's not clear how close Iranian forces ever got to the officer.
Yeah, I covered this. Will Trump pull the trigger? I don't know.
Strategic ambiguity is also used sometimes to refer to the question of whether or not the U.S.
will militarily defend Taiwan. The U.S.
on the US position has been ambiguous except for a few times Biden's brain leaked. Yeah.
Can you help me understand why US gas prices are so high we don't get most of our oil from the
straight because gas prices are determined globally because it is a resource that every
country needs unconditionally. So it's a collective pooled resource and therefore scarcity
anywhere around the world. Oil is a global commodity so scarcity anywhere around the world
impacts the supply and demand regardless.
Why is Taiwan so important to the U.S.? Why is Israel so important to the U.S.?
It's a consistent thorn on the side of our number one foreign adversary.
It's an impenetrable fortress island basically.
There's also obviously chip production as well, but it has a lot of strategic importance.
The U.S. also exports a significant amount of oil, so not all the oil we produce is used here, even though our gas prices are going up, they're still not nearly as high as Europe because of our strong domestic industry, yes.
There's also that as well.
All right, where was I? All right, let's continue.
It is the furl mouth rant filled with foreboding.
And for a US president who's failed to control this conflict as he would like, it asks questions,
not least when control stops what chaos ensues.
Here's my take.
Well into the second month of the US Israeli war, it is worth taking stock of where things
stand.
Here's what things look like in Iran and its neighborhood before the war.
Hey, Mershawn, stop spamming the Cory Booker clip.
We already watched it on the stream.
You weren't here.
All right, let's see the perhaps one of the worst
takes of all time.
I don't know what Fareed Zakaria said,
but I know what he has said in the past.
And oftentimes he has this tendency to find
the absolute worst possible position on any issue,
especially issues that pertain to foreign policy,
especially issues that pertain to Israel.
So, I suspect this will still be bad, but who knows?
It began in late February.
In June 2025, Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities
had been, in President Trump's words,
completely and totally obliterated
by 12-day bombing campaign by US and Israeli forces
using American stealth bombers
and 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs.
The head of Israel's defense forces
agreed with Trump, saying,
We have set Iran's nuclear project back by years and the same goes for its missile program.
That conclusion was reiterated by Israel's Atomic Energy Commission, which added that
the achievement can continue indefinitely as long as Iran did not get access to nuclear
materials and that access was actively being denied.
Iran's military capabilities had been substantially weakened by separate Israeli air campaigns
in 2024, which killed key Revolutionary Guard leaders,
destroyed air defenses, and struck ballistic missile
facilities.
Israel also heavily bombed Iran's most deadly militia ally,
Hezbollah, killing several layers of its top leadership,
and by many analyses crippling the military strength
of the organization.
It had already taken apart Hamas and Gaza.
Finally, Israel's campaign against the Iran-backed
militias that supported the Syrian government played a part in the collapse of that regime.
One thing that I always notice, one thing that I always notice with commentary like this
is that it's virtually identical to what Fox News is saying, right?
Copensee, the son, the gay Atolla is dead, Lamount, hell yeah, brother.
The analysis is damn near identical to what you heard from Trey Yings over at Fox
News.
Now, is that because this is truthful analysis or is that because this is pure pro-Israelan,
pro-American government propaganda? I think it's because it's propaganda. Obviously, if
what they're saying was correct, they wouldn't be successfully closing the
the shade of Hormuz and also continuously bombing Israel with greater efficiency.
Your stream has 33,000 people with a cuba dock only has 3.7 likes.
The map isn't mapping here.
Uh, yeah.
Right now, there's two reasons.
One, most people don't go and fucking like it.
And I say go like to both the likes and specifically the views are not correct.
It takes time for it to update on YouTube when you first release a video.
Those are the reasons.
Okay fine, I'm clicking on it, yes please click on it.
December 2024. In other words, Iran was in very bad shape militarily. In addition, its
economy was a mess, destroyed by the tightening of sanctions and its own corrupt regime. Hardly
anyone could argue that Iran posed a threat to its neighbors, let alone to the United
States, which sits roughly 6,000 miles away. Donald Trump effectively admitted this on
Wednesday.
to be there, but we're there to help our allies.
It's worth noting that none of America's European or Asian allies were consulted, and
many have spoken out against the war.
In fact, reports suggest that Prime Minister Bebe Netanyahu sold Trump on this war, not
because Iran was an imminent threat, but because its unprecedented weakness provided
an opportunity to strike hard to effect regime change.
Why else would Trump have closed his brief announcement at the start of the war by urging
the Iranian people to rise up and overthrow the regime?
A call echoed by Netanyahu in his own message.
So far, aside from devastating Iran and crippling its already weak military, which was predictable
in such a one-sided contest, few of the desired results have been achieved.
The regime has not fallen, key leaders have changed for the worse.
The 86-year-old Ayatollah Khamenei, who famously banned the development of nuclear weapons,
was killed and replaced by his son, who is said to be more hardline than his father.
In general, the revolutionary guards, who have always been more militant, seem to be
ascendant, which makes sense in times of war.
The Strait of Hormuz, which was free and open despite many threats through 47 years
of U.S.-Iran tensions, is now blocked by the new leadership, whom Trump terms much more
reasonable.
President Trump says that after a few more bombing runs, the Strait will open naturally
because Iran will want to export its own oil.
This misreads the situation.
The Strait is not closed.
It is open to Iranian oil, which is flowing freely, especially to China.
The net result of the war is that Iran now makes about twice as much on its daily oil
sales compared to before the conflict.
In addition, if it continues to charge or report a $2 million per passing ship, thereon
will make hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenue every month, enough
to rebuild its military and more.
America's Gulf allies now face a far more unstable and tense environment than they
did before the war.
business models required peace, stability, and economic integration. Saudi Arabia's Crown
Prince Mohammed bin Salman had mended ties with Iran in 2023 because he wanted to calm
geopolitical waters to pursue his ambitious program of modernization. Today all that progress
is in jeopardy as oil exports are crippled and the region has gone from having a path
to be an oasis of stability rather than a cauldron of conflict.
The obvious winner is Russia, which will make billions of extra dollars every month
as the price of oil rises and America waives sanctions against it.
Ukraine loses as weapons its needs are diverted to the Middle East.
Europe loses as it faces crushing energy costs
and Trump demands that NATO fight his war
and threatens to pull out of the organization if it doesn't.
It's worth noting that NATO is a defensive alliance and did not fight in the wars in Korea, Vietnam, or Iraq.
China gains as America gets mired in another Middle Eastern conflict and loses its focus on Asia.
Meanwhile, Beijing's massive investments in green technology shielded from many of the costs of this war,
and it appears to the world as a more responsible, less disruptive superpower.
Of course, things could change.
I mean, it doesn't appear that it is that.
Was unpredictable, but so far, has any American military action ever racked up so many costs
for so few games?
I'm joined by Richard Haas, the President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations,
and Zannie Minton-Bettos, the Editor-in-Chief of The Economist.
Richard, the American forces were able to do something extraordinary, really quite
spectacular.
But what the president is now asking them to do next appears to be to bomb the basic
energy infrastructure, power plants that provide civilians with energy.
That is traditionally been considered a war crime, and it's certainly on plain reading,
is a violation of the Geneva Convention.
What do you think of this idea and is it possible U.S. military personnel who are
told not to follow illegal orders might might have some quans about actually executing an order like
this. Several things there for me. First of all, you're right. He got me in the first half, I'm
going to be honest. At first I thought he was going to be a dickhead about it, but it seems that
that America's failures are so flagrant, so apparent that it's like, you know,
Harid is actually, he actually is cooking.
At least he cooked Trump, even though if you notice, he still soft pedals this
bullshit, where he's like, well, it kind of seems like it might be a Geneva convention
violation to hit the civilian energy facilities, to which I suspect this dipshit on the left,
potentially, maybe I'm wrong, or one of the panelists is going to say they're dual use.
They're going to lie. And they're going to say it's technically dual use. It's obviously
not the case, that's bullshit, that's complete and utter nonsense.
And they are just doing terrorism.
They're just doing terrorism for no reason other than the fact that they can't achieve,
as Fareed Zechariah also correctly pointed to, any of their serious military goals.
And this has turned out to be devastating.
The rescue mission was operationally extraordinary and it's consistent with this war where the operational capabilities of the U.S. military have been phenomenal.
But all that said, it doesn't necessarily mean the United States is winning the war strategically. There's a strong argument we are not.
What you raise is the idea of going after infrastructure. I think it does raise fundamental legal questions.
also raises real policy questions because what Iran has shown is its
willingness and ability to respond in kind against the water plants, the energy
infrastructure of all of its neighbors. Whether individual soldiers would
balk, I think that's unlikely simply because there are those making the
argument that because energy for example somehow contributes to military
activities or leadership activities. My guess is it's in something of a gray area, but this
is the responsibility of the commander and chief and the kind of post that the president
put out on true social, which really raises fundamental questions.
President says, President says, bomb them back to the Stone Age. Okay. And then openly
says they're gonna target civilian energy infrastructure and you still got a guy who's like well you know
uh maybe it's not maybe it's a work I'm maybe it's not you know what if uh some of these power plants
are powering uh the weapons it's not a gray area at all
How is it a fucking gray area? It's a direct violation of the Geneva Convention.
That's all it is, is collective punishment, which is something we've done to the Iranian people in
perpetuity anyway. So I guess it's a little bit more of the same, right? Collective punishment is
a war crime unless it's economic warfare by way of sanctions, which then is a gray area,
right?
According to these fucking guys.
And now we're just directly bombing their energy grid.
Questions about his judgment and then urging these kinds of attacks.
Again, I would think this does the opposite of reassuring our partners and allies.
I don't think it intimidates Iran.
Let me just read for those who have missed it.
This is a Trump tweet that Richard is referencing.
It's a gray area because you can make an argument.
No it's not, dude.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Is it a gray area when Russia makes that argument?
Or do you only understand certain things as black and white when it's your fucking
foreign adversaries conducting direct crimes against humanity and war crimes?
It's the same principle behind talking about Israel's hospital strikes.
It's Israel's hospital strikes.
Oh, well, maybe these are dual use hospitals.
No, the fuck they're not.
It's ridiculous.
Anyway, it doesn't even matter.
There's no international law anyway.
We've obviously dropped that completely.
And it says that I'm not quoting and there is explicit language, but I am quoting
the president of the United States. Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day all
wrapped up in one in Iran. There will be nothing like it. Open the fucking straight, you crazy
bastards, or you'll be living in hell. Just watch. Praise be to Allah.
Zanny, when you listen to this, the question I have in a way is the problem Trump seems
to have found himself in is anything he does to punish Iran is almost certainly going to
raise the price of oil because Iran will respond to energy infrastructure in the Gulf because
they will keep the Strait of Hormuz closed that is close to non-Iranian oil.
So it feels as though Trump has sort of backed himself into a corner assuming the Iranians
will absorb pain which they seem willing to do.
Absolutely. I mean, the first thing to say is I was as shocked hearing you read that
post as I was reading it myself. And it is, and I use this word advisedly, it sounds unhinged,
that that is the President of the United States is just profoundly shocking. And I think
we've all become somewhat inured to statements by the President of the United States, but
even by his standards, that was very shocking. And I wasn't surprised when I looked on
my phone just a few minutes ago to find several people asking whether this was
actually real. So I think, you know, let's just take a breath about the kind of language
being used by the president. But yes, you're absolutely right. I think this is a mark of
his frustration and his frustration with the situation where Iran clearly has the upper
hand in strategic terms because he has no good options, President Trump. If he tries
to escalate, it is likely that Iran, which has already shown that it will escalate
itself will damage more oil installations, the price of oil will go higher. If he somehow
declares victory and moves away, then the straits are likely to stay closed. And so right
now this is a very, very difficult situation, and one where I think the President of the
United States is showing us just how frustrated he is. But if those threats were to be carried
out, I don't for a second think that it would do anything other than in-
I'm sorry. No matter which way you cut it, you will never convince me that the
the motherfucking president saying just open the fucking straights or else I'm
going to do terrorism is coming from a place of strength, right?
Like that's never in the history of mankind.
No one has ever, no, no leader has ever behaved that way when they're,
you know, arguing or bargaining from a position of leverage.
to increase Iran's resolve to maintain the straits being closed.
Hi, I'm Steve Clemens and I have a couple of questions.
President Trump keeps saying he wants more time, maybe just two or three more weeks,
to finish the job in Iran.
But what is the job and what does finishing it look like?
Let's get to the bottom line.
U.S. President Donald Trump...
You aren't on this list. It seems weird. I am. I'm just tiny.
Wait, maybe I'm not. I thought it was here.
But yeah, I mean, it's very obvious that this is like...
I thought I was, but I guess it's Hassan Moffi.
I will say, I will say this is a clear cut indication.
the clear indication that like the right is so dominant on the platform.
We knew that already. You aren't on the list. Go check your Twitter engagements. I bet you
have hundreds of millions of engagements. I have four million. This is tiny creators.
do I see my engagements? Like, where do I see it? Is there like a like an analytics thing?
I don't fucking know. Yes, there is. I don't know. I don't know how I see my engagements.
studio tab? Is there a studio tab? Where is it? There's articles, profile, more list communities,
business ads, create your space settings and privacy. Click premium. Where is the premium?
grok. Oh premium. My brand impressions is 17 million. Is that what it is?
It
Who didn't be here you got jizz in your beard on yeah
Now it's engagements and it's for the full year
Anyway, this is fucking irrelevant. We got the goat. This is goat talk with Mershimer
is threatening to bomb Iran back to the Stone Ages if it doesn't make a deal in the next
few weeks. Despite seeing many of its key political, theological and national security
leaders killed, Iran has been able to absorb wave after wave of Israeli and U.S. bombings,
which are also killing civilians, as in the case of 168 schoolgirls killed on the
very first day of the conflict, and destroying the country's industrial and energy infrastructure.
has hit back at Israel and US military bases across the Arab world and shaken the global
economy by blocking access to the Strait of Hormuz.
So are we heading to a quick resolution, or are we heading to a long war of attrition?
And is the war on Iran triggering something much bigger, a very new and different global
world order?
Today we're talking with US political scientist John Mirshad.
Can you just mug them by doing a modicum of effort?
I just don't know where to fucking find the analytics and I don't really care.
I don't know how do I, how do I find it? I can't find it.
I got articles, creators. Oh, is it creator studio?
Analytics creator studio.
And then you want me to look at my yearly engagement. Is that what it is?
Creator Studio Analytics, like engagement for the entire year.
Is that what you want?
Yearly engagement for 20, here, one year, I clicked on it.
Account overview, one year.
Okay, here it is.
Here it is engagement rate 6% engagements 85.9 million repos 2.7 million profile visit 6 million
I don't really know what this means. I don't know what this fucking what this proves for
people. But I guess it does show that I have a lot more engagement than a lot of these
other accounts, I guess. Is that right? 1.4 billion impressions, you're a billionaire,
This is just for 2026. Okay. You have to do a YTD. No. Oh, it's so far, so far 2026. Okay, I'll do that. Can everybody fucking calm down? I don't know how this stuff works. Okay. Chill out. Chatters.
from April 5th till December 30th, right?
Ankh, old ass motherfucker.
Okay, the number went down.
It's now 37 million engagements.
Oh, did I go to I went to November oops sorry wait I thought it was the December 30th my
My bad. My mistake. My mistake goats. Fuck. No, no, no, no, no.
There you go.
30.6 million.
All right. Are you happy? Is this good?
Um, and what is the number that they're showing here? 30 million puts me above Laura Loomer.
Still way more than most people on this list. He intentionally left you out. Yes, you're
bigger than Barack Barack doesn't post that much. I am bigger than Ed Krasenstein Lincoln
project Harry Sasan Tennessee holler. I might actually wait what the fuck I might literally
be the biggest wait at 30 million engagements. Am I other than Brian Allen? I'm literally
the biggest fucking blue dot on this list.
This is why I wanted you to do this.
What the hell?
I'm bigger than the White House account.
You don't even do engagement farming tweets like Brian Allen does. I don't know who Brian Allen is
Time to cut all that. I'm just a Twitch humor chudge shit out buddy. I mean Twitter
Engagements don't mean anything I think
This is why third way is after you. Yeah, I guess. Oh, you met him. I did. Alan analysis.
sugar song the Huns hand is armum Donny rally her son if you see this less
collab. Hell yeah.
Let's go.
Bro, you're 35 not 65. Why are you acting like tech is beyond you? I'm
actually pretty good at certain things.
And not so good at others.
Advertisers learn long ago that Twitter engagements are meaningless. I think so too
But I do find it strange that like
Nate bronze did not include me in this dude Twitter ex accounts of the most engagement so far in 2026 I
Suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but geez this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken
Yeah, I mean, he didn't put everything on here.
Check the community note on Nate's original post. It's only on some selected accounts. Yeah, I mean, I can't see the community post, but.
Engagement rate is not a real metric for serious advertisers, but influencers cling on to them as some sort of measure of success.
Yeah, I don't really care. I'll be honest. I've never, um, Mike wants you to ratio now
go quote, retweet that with the image. I just DM you. What? Why are you making me do? Oh
Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god.
Okay. Whatever. Fuck it. Why not?
Now you have to own them.
Sometimes you got a Moggum, Ankh.
All right, sure, whatever.
I need to like and share the post.
Wait, why didn't it fucking download the hell?
Desktop.
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desktop. Oh wait, I already got it. There it is. Okay, boom. Do you ever take a fucking
they off? No. I don't. Chad making house and I'd be beef with
Nate bronze. It's not even chat. It's literally Michael directly
doing this. It's just it's just Mike. He just wants to fucking
own him. And and he had it in his mind to own him. So he's
like, please. Please own his ass. That's what he's doing.
It's a classic Michael from Taiwan activities.
I'm getting peer pressure. Yeah. How are you like mentally? Very sound.
Very sound.
Very good.
I feel more confident than ever before.
I feel like our movement is winning.
I feel like a lot of the things that I've advocated for for years.
I feel like the values that I have held onto
and positions that I've advocated for years
is now becoming much more popular.
People are infinitely more charitable to that perspective.
Like as I've described to you already,
as I've described to you already,
I never thought that I'd be able to make a convincing case
that showcased the humanity of the Iranian population
as the American government is bombing them.
You know, it's, it's, it's genuinely unbelievable. I've never, like even the fact that like Mersheimer
is going crazy, putting up wild numbers on YouTube, Jeffrey Sachs as well. Like all of
these guys that have been cast aside as analysts, they never go on CNN. They never get like
an opportunity to speak in major media are getting millions and millions of views on
independent on the independent side of media and that to me implies that people are desperate for
alternative media. People are desperate for hearing a different perspective, same with Chris Hedges,
right? Now, of course, for every for every Mersheimer, there is obviously a Professor Chiang,
right? For every Hassanabi, there is a Nick Fuentes, right? There's a Tucker Carlson.
And it's, it's, it's not great, but you know, we're trying to do our fucking best.
Let's see what the I've had and ladies had to say.
So these morons in the Democratic Party that think for the third time they can demean the
far left part of our party and try to play patty cake with fascists and that they're
going to win again is such a fool's errand.
So I was really curious about this.
So I researched.
I remembered during Zoran Mondani's mayoral campaign
that Cuomo was sitting there talking about Hassan Piker
all the time.
And I was like, what is he doing talking about Hassan Piker?
And let's just remember, Cuomo lost the mayoral race twice.
He is a back-to-back loser on that race.
And he used this whole thing that Zoran
pals around with Hassan Piker.
So I was just curious.
Is the person working on Mallory McMorris' campaign,
same person that worked on Andrew Cuomo's campaign and it was just to get
instinct I had and I'll be god damned if it's not the same person and the
people who lose these democratic campaigns who operate on hubris and think
they're 10-foot tall and bulletproof and they think that they can say on the
one hand we need a Joe Rogan of the left and then you have this guy who
always platforms universal human rights. He is not an anti-Semite,
He will not leave one group aside and why Hassan is so important
The reason I even know who Hassan is is because my son's listened to him and he has a massive
Network of engaging young men away from this horrific
Andrew Tate Joe Rogan. I want to go triple Trump quadruple Trump
I want women to be submissive Hassan is the antidote to that and for this
this centrist candidate to do what we know fails,
what we know doesn't work.
And it makes me wanna bang my head up against the wall
because that person who led Andrew Cuomo
to back-to-pack defeats, I'm sorry,
I just think you're not that good at your job
and maybe you need to do something different
and you shouldn't be working on another political campaign
with the exact same tactic.
Hell yeah. One point of correction for what Jen is saying. The person that she I think
talking is talking about is Liz Smith, but Liz Smith didn't actually run the mayoral
campaign for Cuomo and Liz Smith did work for Andrew Cuomo in the past. Liz Smith
also famously ran Pete Buttigieg's campaign as well, but Ferris Fair, Liz Smith actually
is a fan of Zora Mamdani as far as I understand. She is, however, the person I believe running
McMorris campaign. So like, she did run Cuomo. She did do comms for Cuomo back in the day.
She has done Pete Buttigieg's campaign, but I do think that if I remember correctly, I
was also fascinated, but if she's talking about Liz Smith, I mean, I was fascinated that Liz
Smith was actually a big fan of Zoran.
Zoram definitely pulled together a very unique coalition.
And even people, I mean, after he won, no,
I think she might have even been a fan of Zoram before.
I think she's just,
I think she's friendly or really good friends,
maybe even with the agency, the fight agency that Zoran tapped into to make those ad campaigns
after the primary victory.
All the Psycho K people are saying Smith was working on Talarigo's campaign and she was
was evil, but now they aren't saying that about her.
Yeah, it's interesting.
I think, yeah, I think people were claiming
that she was working with Talorigo too potentially.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
Hello, Inbred.
Hello, hello, back to you, my friend.
I've got my soon to be 20 year old nephew listening to you on our drives.
Why are you answer that?
I don't know.
I wanted to see if he had something creative to say.
Whenever there's like, whenever I'm in the news or if like someone makes a video
that like even tangentially references me. There's always like a bunch of people that
come in and just be like, dude, what's up dog shocker? You're gonna shock your dog again
today. And it's like very strange behavior, but fuck it, you know, I always entertain
it. I want to see what the fuck they have to say.
All right, let's listen to the goat. I'm a professor of international relations at
University of Chicago, and he's author of How States Think, the Rationality of Foreign Policy.
John, it's great to be with you again. This is one of those moments again where the world is
watching the tit for tat between the United States and Israel on one side, Iran on the other.
That's one way to cover it. Another way to cover it is ask what this moment means to the
global order, to American power. Here, you guys want the dog shocking? There you go.
to the super states in the world. And I'd love to get your take on the temperature of
the global order as you see it and what Iran means to that.
Well, I think a lot of people talk about how this is going to affect the global balance
of power or the distribution among the most powerful states on the planet. And that would
include, of course, China, Russia and the United States. And I don't think that
this war is going to have any effect on the distribution of power in the international
system.
Where this war really matters is in terms of how the United States uses the power that
it has.
And I think that under the Trump administration, what we have seen is that the United States
has pursued a set of policies that undermine our ability to project all of that power that
we have around the globe.
Now, what exactly am I saying here?
I think if you're a great power like the United States and you're interested in using
all that power you have, it's very important that you pay attention to international institutions
which you, by the way, have created, you pay attention to international law, which you,
by the way, have largely written, and you also good great lengths to foster good relations
with your allies, because institutions, international law, and allies are important for projecting
power. And what the Trump administration has done, and it is doing very clearly in the case
of the Iran war is that it's undermining international law. It's undermining international
institutions, both of which it needs, and it's doing great damage to its relations with allies
in Europe, in Asia, and certainly in the Persian Gulf. So this war in Iran is disastrous
for the United States. It's not going to undermine our basic power structure. We have
lots of power. But what it's going to undermine, and of course this is consistent with what
President Trump has been doing since he first returned to the White House in January 2025,
is undermine our ability to project power.
I think you framed it really in such a fascinating way that when I think about it listening
to you, you know, I think about UN rapporteurs, I think of prosecutors of the International
Criminal Court, they're the ones being punished in this moment.
They're the ones that are being sanctioned and pushed.
And it kind of raises this kind of question about the solvency of institutions, the solvency
of international law.
But I'm interested in the equation that you said after this is over, the distribution
of power remains the same.
But doesn't America basically suffer at all in a world where it has tossed out its own
systems?
The point here that you want to keep in mind, Steve, is that the power that any country
has is largely dependent on the material capabilities that it has.
The two building blocks of power are wealth and population size.
You use that wealth and you use that population size to build powerful military forces.
The fact is that the United States is able to behave in a rather cavalier and one could
argue reckless way and that will not have any effect on those material factors.
To give you a good example, the United States lost the Vietnam War between 1965 and 1975
we engaged in this war in vietnam and suffered a devastating defeat but it had no effect on
the balance of power the united states was not less powerful we didn't have less people
less wealth and weaker military is a result of the war and that's the same basic argument
that i'm making here this uh... foolish foreign policy
i mean he's he's saying he's saying that america sheltered uh... from the worse
impact of its actions due to its proximity
to the conflicts that we are responsible for
and then the example that he's using his world war two
which wasn't a conflict that we were responsible for but like obviously uh...
obviously uh...
were capable of
uh... thriving the aftermath of because again
We didn't lose like 20, 30 million people in the process.
We didn't have our entire economy destroyed.
We didn't have our, our, um, our Vietnam.
Sorry.
Okay.
Um, he was usually, I thought it was talking about post world or true, uh, Vietnam,
but the difference with Vietnam, the difference with, uh, same shit.
It doesn't matter.
We're fucking blowing up Vietnam.
We're so far removed from it.
It's 20 or Craig Meyer.
doesn't matter, right? Okay, because we're far away. We're far away. The difference in
this regard and the reason why I think like the global order is going to change, the reason
the global order is going to change in America won't actually, America won't actually be
the same any longer is because I do think that our force projection capabilities have
diminished. It's a big part of the reason why we are the global reserve currency because
our force projection capabilities and our military might is what instills confidence
in the investment that people make into the United States of America. And the other part
of the reason why we're dominant is because patrol demonstrated on the dollar, the petro
dollar. We're blowing up both of those systems. Okay. It follows from his opinion
the failed USSR intervention in Afghanistan and nothing to do with its disillusion then,
what do you think? Yeah, I think that's wrong. I think that America was able to,
I think that the United States of America was capable of getting out of the Vietnam War
without receiving too much negative consequences
as opposed to the USSR in Afghanistan, because Afghanistan was in a different material circumstance
as opposed to the United States of America, America just had more money, it was more money
need up. Policy, the President Trump is pursuing as evidence by what's going on in Iran is not
weakening American power. What it's weakening is our ability to project power.
Oh
Okay, well that's maybe I shouldn't have fucking paused then given given commentary because
He is separating american power with american force projection capabilities or power projection capabilities
I think power projection
Is is power i think that's that's what it is never mind
Because it's undermining
institutions. Just think about NATO. NATO is an international institution. The United States
has depended heavily on NATO for- What is this? Notice how the kayak cam is off now? Wait, what?
No, uh, the kayak is on a walk currently. Kai goes on multiple walks throughout the day.
He's not here in the room right now, but I you guys were so fucking annoying about the kai cam that I literally put a separate cam
So that you can see her
The reason I switch the camera angle however is because I like this angle more I think it looks more professional as
opposed to this
Which I don't think looks professional
I was trying to be more adult with this close-up angle
She's on the walk to the farm good joke dude you're so funny
Yes, she's dead we killed her we sent her out back to the farm fucking idiot
Many years since 1949 to be specific.
Is it in our interest to undermine NATO?
Is it in our interest to undermine international law?
Is it in our interest to undermine the International Court of Justice?
I think the answer is no.
We need these institutions.
We need allies, but President Trump, who is a unilateralist at heart.
Yeah, it's the front-facing camera also improves clips.
It improves everything.
It's so much better.
Doesn't think that you need multilateral institutions.
He doesn't think you need international law.
And he's contemptuous of our allies.
And in many ways, he treats our allies worse than he treats our adversaries.
Well, let's listen to President Trump, who has something to say about exactly this.
Let's listen.
We're 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.
He's basically saying, I agree with John Mearsheimer in that.
We don't need our allies.
We don't need this.
walk through the world as a single actor and be arbitrary one way or the other.
But your thoughts, John?
Well, I mean, to argue that we're totally independent of the Middle East is ridiculous.
The fact is there are three areas of the world that the United States cares greatly about.
This is where our vital strategic interests are engaged.
One is obviously Europe.
The other is East Asia.
And then the final one is the Persian Gulf because of the oil.
It is a vital strategic area of the world for the United States.
And to argue that we're independent of it, it doesn't matter to us, is a foolish argument
to make.
You know, President Trump often talks about leaving the war.
What is he saying here that we're going to leave the Middle East?
We're just going to forget the Persian Gulf.
We're going to forget that oil.
Of course we're not going to do that.
gonna remain there because it is a vital strategic area of interest to us so I
don't know what he's talking about and with regard to allies as I said we need
allies we need it also does come from it also does on our running play a role
in our, it plays a role in our power. Allies in the Gulf. We have allies in the Gulf. We
need allies in Europe. The idea that we are an independent actor that doesn't depend on
allies is a foolish argument to make. The United States is a great power that tries
to project power all across the globe. How do you project power all across the globe without
allies? And the answer is you don't. And when you start slapping him around the way he does,
you're going to find yourself. They didn't mention Israel once, buddy.
Do you know who you're talking to? This is the man who literally wrote the book on Israel.
And by that, I mean literally he wrote the book, the lobby.
That's so funny that you're suggesting that he's like sheltering little old Israel in this process in a well of a lot of
Trouble and as is clear we are in a well of a lot of trouble in Iran
So my guess my question is if you saw Iran as a nefarious actor in the world
Why not take this kind of action now and use it a moment to reorder those relations? So pick that apart
part. First of all, this argument that Iran is a great threat to stability in the Middle
East and a serious threat to the United States.
Yeah, I think it's really disrespectful for Dr. Merchimer to fucking say that we're losing
our allies, especially when you consider that Hungary, a great power, is firmly committed
to our cause. And also, Belarus just joined the board of peace. That's a big one. Okay,
have you thought about that? And yeah, the who I mean, Israel, obviously Israel is there.
Argentina. Argentina is another major great power in the world. And El Salvador, that's
another one so it's pretty fucked up that he's not talking about where we're
gaining you know in a way it's like the it's like the Chuck Schumer method for
every for every France we lose in the European continent we win two Victor
or bonds
for every france we lose in the european continent we win two hungary's okay
states is nonsense
uh... the greatest threat to stability in the middle east is the united states
uh... working closely together
uh... with israel
all of our ones are really has not started a war
uh... in centuries is best i can tell
uh... it's not a highly aggressive country the country in the middle east that
is highly aggressive israel the country that has uh... committed genocide in
gaza is not a ran
uh... it's israel and we were complicit we mean in the united states were
complicit in that genocide
uh... twice once last year in
june of twenty twenty five and again
on february twenty eighth of this year
uh... the united states in israel launched
unprovoked attacks
against iran
so the idea that iran is this great destabilizer in the middle east is a
myth that the united states in israel pervade
uh... this is not to say that israel doesn't i'm assuming that iran
doesn't present some problems in the middle east at the united states has
to be concerned about
but the idea that this is a serious threat much less than existential
threat. It is not a serious argument. That's point number one. Point number two is if you
look at what the Israelis and the Americans are now doing to deal with this purported
Iranian threat, what you see is we've taken measures that have made the situation much
worse. In fact, one could argue that we are going to crash the inner-
A lot of Economistic views of imperial collapse, even vis-a-vis the British Empire, especially
when you realize that the British India was central to the empire, but wasn't all that
productive.
People just underestimate ideological stuff.
1000% same with America's relationship with Israel or the reasons why America invaded
Iraq.
No.
I don't agree.
It's not like, he means, economicistic as in like, as in a Marxist interpretation of imperialism
and like why imperialism takes place.
Do I think that ideology does play a role?
Apps of fucking Lutely, okay?
But there is an argument that you can make about the ideological warfare that you
are waging in an effort not to, to allow the threat of an alternative, the threat
of a good example to take root in your country, it makes it much easier to destroy socialist
communist movements internally. For example, if you wage war nonstop against a country
like Cuba, there's no real fucking materialistic, materialist benefit to dominating Cuba economically.
There isn't. There is none. Sure, there's some assets that you lost, but you could
totally make up for that, right? That's not all that significant. Like, you lost the island that
you could use for sugar, the sugar plantations that you had, you lost some assets in the process,
like the hotels and whatnot, and it was a gambling den, it was a den of sin for the American mafia.
But ultimately, the war that we have waged, especially for the consistent war that we
wage for no fucking reason over 60 years at this point, almost 60 years at this point,
that's an ideological battle. But the reason why it's an ideological battle is because
I think Americans do have American, the American State Department has this assessment
that like if Cuba was able to be a successful communist economy so close to the United
States of America, if it was allowed to thrive, for example, that would be a giant
issue for them. That would be a giant problem for them. One, then you can have an island
that has domestic manufacturing that also will have a competent intelligence state, right?
That's again, close in proximity to the United States of America. Cuba, with far, far less
resources, has been able to successfully do a lot of very impressive spying operations
on U.S. soil, right? They've done so for many, many years. I don't think they're capable
any longer, but they did, especially in the heyday when they were basically being propped
up by the USSR. So while it looks like an ideological battle as well, there is still
a material reason for it, because if Cuba were allowed to thrive as a communist economy,
not only would it present a larger national security threat to the American State Department,
but it also would be a major ideological threat that would make it much more difficult to
convince Americans that communism is an abject fulcrum failure. The idea that the Indian
Empire was unproductive as the libertarian line trillions was distracted also kill
all the Mises the name gives the game away India was massively distracted from.
I'm going to go DSA Joker mode. Yeah, I don't agree with the idea that like,
know, value was not extracted from India during colonial occupation. That's obviously ridiculous.
It's giving slavery would have ended because it wasn't a productive force anyway. It wasn't
an efficient mode of production regardless. Like it's the these things, these things
He's just like the parish on their own.
It also says a bad president to set, rebel against the empire and thrive, you can't have
that.
Slavery absolutely was still a productive force.
It was a giant, it was a ginormous part of the output, not individually, but at the level
of interface with the slave market, it was individually profitable.
In any case, another example is like Haiti.
Haiti has been routinely destabilized.
Sometimes it's hard to figure out why.
It's not like they got access to limestone,
and that's the reason why they're doing it, OK?
America wants the Haitian limestone.
That's the resource that we will be able to extract from Haiti.
Like, no, there is an ideological purpose for it,
But that ideological purpose also still plays,
that ideological purpose still plays a massive role
in the material needs of capital owners.
Slop and Abbey, what does that even mean?
Why are you even saying that 24 month subscriber?
Anyway, let's continue.
International economy as a result of this war that Israel and the United States started.
I would make the argument that we are on the edge of the precipice in terms of the state
of the world economy because of this war.
This war shows no signs of ending anytime soon and already great damage has been done
to the international economy, and more damage will be done the longer the war goes on.
So this idea that, number one, Iran is a great threat to the United States is bogus.
And number two, the idea that President Trump and his friends in Israel are making a safer
and more stable Middle East is a ludicrous argument.
In fact, what they're doing is they're putting the entire world on the precipice of a disaster.
One of the things that I find interesting is when you kind of talk to war planners, strategists,
cross-Republican and democratic circles, it's hard to find anyone that wouldn't have
expected that Iran would shut down and use the Strait of Hormuz as a choke point,
But in fact, the Strait of Hormuz was really Iran's nuclear bomb, that if you wanted to
create something that they thought was the deterrents, I'm just interested in why you
think this White House had none of that input or just disregarded that element.
I think if you think it's quite clear, President Trump has said that he was forewarned
that the Iranians were likely to shut down the Strait.
he said that it didn't matter. And the reason that it didn't matter is that the administration
thought that they could win a quick and decisive victory. They thought that they could launch
and when I say they, we're talking about the United States and Israel, which I like
to refer to as the TAG team. The TAG team thought that they could launch a shock
and awe strategy against Iran, which would involve decapitating the regime. And because
Because that regime had so little support in the general population in Iran, the decapitation
or the Shakan-Ost strategy would lead to a revolution, the regime would be overthrown,
and the new regime would either submit to our demands or the old regime would remain
in place and just surrender.
Those were the two things that they thought might happen.
the point is that the shock and or strategy would produce a quick and decisive victory
uh... and therefore you wouldn't have to worry about the iranians closing the
straits but what happened here obviously is that the shock and or strategy failed
and we're now in a war of attrition and in this war of attrition that we now
find ourselves in
uh... the iranians hold almost all the cards not us
and that's why we are in desperate straits it is interesting that president
Trump said the opposite.
We have all the cards and Iran has none, so I take your point.
But another element here is other big global powers, China, Russia, how are they looking
at this moment?
Is China fearful of a more muscular United States willing to deploy power like this?
Or is it basically applauding this moment as an opportunity for itself?
Well, I think from a Chinese point of view, one could argue that what's happening
is mona from heaven that this is a case of the united states which says that it's up
until a certain point up until a certain point america bringing about instability around the
globe specifically in the asian markets where china can now make tremendous gains showing
itself as a true stabilizer, okay, as a true reliable partner is great. But if this war
continues and Iran is destroyed in its entirety and Iran in the process destroys the GCC productive
capabilities, then China is fucked as well for the record. It's less fucked than the
rest of the globe, but it's still fucked. How though, what is China doing for stability?
Great question. The answer is nothing. Okay, nothing. It's not doing a genocide in Gaza.
It's not allow, it's not arming to the fucking teeth. The country that's also doing a similar
ethnic cleansing campaign in southern Lebanon. It's not violating international rules. It's
unironically sitting around and consistently demanding that we go back to stability.
Those are, I mean, that's it. That's a huge deal. Do you not feel like there's a huge deal for a
global superpower and on top of that it's it's the the monopoly producer of all
the entirety of the fucking renewable energy movement like any country that
now wants to electrify their grid use photovoltaics for example they go to
China and all these countries are actually finding out that the only way
to maintain energy sovereignty, to develop energy sovereignty and maintain energy sovereignty,
is if they move towards renewables. Because what are they fucking supposed to do? You
can't block out the sun, right? But you could have significant disruptions in terms of oil
transfers, in terms of oil imports, especially when America is totally willing and totally able
to do that to blow up the entire region and destroy the global energy markets.
It is, but why would I see it as a trustworthy partner to have?
Buddy, all of these countries already see China as a trustworthy partner to have.
They already, whether they trust China or not, work with China. It is,
Is my or my two condition and needing to have an empire superpowers boss. Yes, most likely
Anyway
Possible threat in the world is China and that its principal mission is to pivot to Asia
And contain China
Is now enmeshed in self itself in a war in the persian gulf
That is causing it to pivot away
from
East asia and weaken its containment strategy towards
China. You want to remember that the United States is moving
Patriot and THAAD missile batteries out of East Asia
This marine expeditionary unit that has just been moved to the Middle East
Crazy democratic parties allowing something to be hijacked by moderates in the Ocons because of a fucking dumb ass
Which shimmer who's at best simply slightly left the center. Okay
That I find a little bit fucking ridiculous
Okay, the fucking dumb ass twisherman and also slightly at best leftist energies is Christ
Don't do this fucking wishy washy mealy mouthed way of defending me. Okay be
Like, you know stand on your fucking convictions
Also the Democrats are not being hijacked because of their fears of someone like myself
The party itself is absolutely lootly. The party itself is totally dominated by these people.
The party itself is totally dominated by these consultants.
The party's ideological center is completely at odds with the moral center of the base.
came from Japan. So what you see, Steve, is that the United States is actually
weakening its military capability in East Asia. Again, we're pivoting away from
East Asia, and this is mona from heaven for the Chinese. Furthermore, Chinese
influence around the world is increasing. You remember I talked before
about the ability of a state to project power around the world, to have
an effective diplomatic strategy. If you look at the United States and you compare it to
China in terms of state behavior, in terms of which state looks like a responsible stakeholder
in the international system, it certainly looks like China is the responsible stakeholder.
The Chinese look like they are the adults in the room. The United States certainly
does not look like a responsible stakeholder. The Gulf states, the Europeans, our Asian
allies or questioning whether or not the United States is playing with a full deck.
All of our allies around the world can't believe what we're doing.
They fully understand that we are threatening the international economy.
We are threatening to take the international economy off a cliff,
which is going to have devastating consequences for every state on the planet.
So, when you think about where China stands versus where the United States stands in the
eyes of the world, the Chinese have benefited enormously from this conflict.
UAE Ambassador to the United States, Yusuf Otaiba, just published an op-ed recently
in the Wall Street Journal, where he said, you can't just, a ceasefire is not enough
because you will lead.
Dude, the UAE stands up to Iran is my favorite.
This is my favorite thing that has happened so far in the last fucking 36 days is the
United Arab Emirates literally played a formative role in the Abraham Accords was so deeply
aligned with Israel from the start, actively fucking pressuring everybody else.
Okay.
And now it's like, oh yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna destroy Iran, dude.
Okay.
You and what fucking army, dude?
What are you talking about?
a simple ceasefire isn't a raw isn't enough is so funny
iran
not defeated not crippled able to do various things there i just be interested
to get your take on this because
you know i think you said america has opened a pandora's box of messes now
many people in the reading say well use
you gotta continue what you're doing don't leave it like this where what
are your thoughts
i think this is remarkably foolish uh... both the saudis in the u a e
have indicated that what they'd like to see the united states do
uh... is uh... finish the war uh... go full bore and defeat iran once and for
all
uh... first of all we're not going to be
iran once and for all
and if we march up the escalation ladder is they would like us to do
there is a very good chance that the u a e and so the arabia will be
destroyed as functioning societies. You want to understand that these countries depend
heavily on desalinated water, and they're a handful of desalination plants in each of
these countries that are big fat targets that the Iranians can go after. And not only can
the Iranians go after those desalination plants, they can go after their energy infrastructure,
They can go after their oil and gas infrastructure.
They can destroy those countries.
And if the United States begins to attack a broader set of targets in Iran, the Iranians
who have been playing tit for tat all along have made it clear that they will destroy
or they will attempt to destroy, and I think they will destroy countries like the UAE
and Saudi Arabia.
So if anything, Steve, what the UAE and Saudi Arabia should be doing is telling the Americans
to back off and to work over time to come up with some sort of negotiated settlement to
put an end to this war.
These countries, the Gulf States, that is, have absolutely no interest in seeing this
war continue.
They had no interest in seeing this war start in the beginning.
And I just don't know what they're thinking when they're talking about getting America
and Israel to up the empty, you know, other parts of the dashboard of this conflict right
now or what's happening in Lebanon, uh, Israel's commitment.
Sneakle, we're more welcome than you. Yeah. Neera Tandon retweeting Sneakle, but telling
us it's honest, toxic. They have no principles. She has reposted Nick Fuentes, by the way.
Again, uh, these people don't care about where they're getting their, uh, allegiances
from even if someone has like a brief moment to grift or a brief change of heart, like people
who have literally denied the Holocaust near attended is fine with and is happy to endorse
because they're, you know, even for that brief moment, leaning into centrist democratic voices.
And that's all she cares about near attended is the former head of center for American
progress. These guys are, are, they play a big role in basically alienating the left flank.
To essentially occupy parts of Lebanon, what's going on in Gaza. And I'm just interested in how
you see the other dimensions of the, the Middle East beneath the Iran conflict that are also
parts of the puzzle that are moving right now. Well, let's start with Lebanon. And there are
There are two dimensions to the war in Lebanon.
One is the ground war, where the Israelis are attempting to take more territory.
And I think many Israelis, especially on the right-hand side of the political spectrum,
want to annex the southern part of Lebanon from the northern border of Israel up to
the Letani River.
And in fact, if you look carefully at what's happening in southern Lebanon at this point,
Israelis are suffering a series of tactical defeats. They are having one
whale of a lot of trouble fighting against Hezbollah on the ground in
southern Lebanon and the idea that they're going to conquer all of southern
Lebanon I think is wrong and I think they're going to suffer a lot of
casualties trying to do that and they already are of course. Second point I'd
make is that by the end of 2025, it looked like Hezbollah had been defanged and that
the Israelis had done egregious damage to Hezbollah's ability to fire rockets and missiles
into Israel.
So as you moved into this year, it looked like Hezbollah had been defanged and couldn't
cause Israel any problems with its rockets and missiles because it had hardly any left.
destroyed all of them. That has clearly not happened. And not only is Hezbollah firing
rockets and missiles into northern Israel, and even as far as into Tel Aviv on a daily
basis. But the Iranians are coordinating with Hezbollah, and the Iranians are firing missiles
into northern Israel and into Lebanon itself. So, the Hezbollah threat is there in spades.
With regard to Gaza and the genocide, there's no question that the Israelis have slowed
down the genocide. But if you look at their behavior, they're very interested for sure
in cleansing all of Gaza of Palestinians, and they're pursuing a genocide in hopes
that that will allow them to get all of the Palestinians out of Gaza. And if they don't
get them out, murder them while they're in Gaza.
Why did the US state media stop talking about the Iranian diaspora and protesters? They
realized they lost them. It doesn't matter one way or another, because the war is being
waged right now. So they got their goals across. They, they were the tinder, you know, they
lit the fire. It was enough justification for like the first week of incidents. And of course,
they don't care. They don't care about Iranians and Iran, they don't care about the Iranian
diaspora. America doesn't even care about its own soldiers. America doesn't care about
its own citizens. America doesn't care about anything other than the interests of
capital. Please understand this, okay? Anyone and everyone is disposable. They will use the
anger and resentment that the Iranians might have, or they'll greatly elevate that. They'll
cause that resentment. They'll cause the material conditions and deterioration of such
to cause that resentment initially, and then they'll turn around and use that instability
as a reason for why they must bomb Iran. Obviously if you're like, I don't know, if you're a little
bit aware of the global war on terror or numerous other interceptions by the United States of America
and numerous other interventions by the United States of America, right, you're, you can, you
can look at that and go, oh, this propaganda, I'm not biting in, I'm not eating this, this is
bullshit, right? And then people for that week will yell at you. They'll say, oh, how dare you,
how dare you claim that the diaspora is being used and will be discarded. Because remember,
they did say that. They said that to me nonstop. And I stuck to my principles and even told the
people in the diaspora that they were wrong for this advocacy, that they were totally wrong
and they will see the impact soon enough. They said I was, you know, silencing their voices, right?
But guess what? Their voices have been silenced at this point. They're not really talking about it
anymore, right? Because they also, they too recognize that America's goals here or
nor Israel's goals here were actually liberationist, emancipatory at all. They wanted to destroy
Iran. And we don't want to lose sight of the fact, Steve, that on the West Bank,
the Israelis are launching pogroms on an almost daily basis because they're
interested in ethically cleansing the West Bank as well. So if you look at what's
going on here with Israel, Israel is deeply involved in a conflict in
southern Lebanon and with Hezbollah. Furthermore, it's involved in a
genocide in Gaza. It's involved in pogroms on the West Bank. And furthermore, it's constantly
attacking Syria. And on top of all that, it dragged the United States into a war against
Iran. Israel is by far the most aggressive state.
Do the propaganda diaspora still an overdrive? It's insane. My mom says she saw in the
news, Iran International Voice of America, that Iranis actually helped the pilot
Evac Iran because they hate our government so much insanity and there's no reason with
diaspora. That's unbelievable. That is actually crazy. Um, like when does your mom not hear
Donald Trump fucking saying stuff like we're going to bomb Iran back in Stone Age? Uh,
the Middle East. What could make an argument that it is the most aggressive
straight state on the planet? This gets back to our earlier discussion of
whether Iran or Israel is the greatest threat to stability in the Middle East. I
don't know how anybody could make the argument that it's Iran. The answer is
it's Israel. And most importantly, you want to remember that Israel is
committing the greatest of all crimes, which is genocide in Gaza. And no
No matter what you think of the Iranian regime, the Iranian regime is not committing genocide.
It's a messy world and that's why we always love talking to you.
University of Chicago political science professor John Mirsheimer, thanks so much for joining
us today.
It was my pleasure, Steve.
Thanks a lot for having me.
So what's the bottom line?
How...
That's such a funny way to end and begin this.
Ooh, young voters.
In the U.S.
We haven't heard from like former Trumpies or even like current Trumpies honestly on like
what they're thinking about their Iran stuff as much.
We haven't done a lot of hog watch.
My mom thinks the regime is going to get wiped out in the process of the US seeking out their
own interests.
That's insane dude, yet the only thing that's going to get wiped out is their fucking
relatives that remain on Iranian soil.
And also thousands of years of cultural artifacts and the entire Iranian energy grid.
The amount of fucking faith that these people put on a country that is a rogue state, two
countries that are both rogue states, let's be real, is insane to me.
i don't understand it where the fox is coming from
i wish i had faith in anything like uh... the people
but the faith that like the iranian diaspora places upon
uh... had the the united states of america and israel right now is
also uh... two hours only twenty six is over
is all over is over new video is over uh... we tested it
it's done
Let me see what this new video, the American war against Cuba. What is what it's at? It's a six out of 10. Oh my God, no motion only. I mean, it's 10 K likes. That's not bad.
But it's a fucking six out of 10 on my end. That's crazy.
Please go and watch.
The cuba dog was good. Were there English voice translation generated using AI? No.
Why do you, it's literally voice actors. We hired voice actors to do it. Not entirely certain as to why you think it's AI.
AI, nothing, not everything is AI. Okay.
It's Easter Sunday chill.
Maybe we should put mini doc in here too.
I'm busy watching your stream.
Okay, true.
Israeli war with Iran has caused a rare rift among conservatives, with several influential
figures on the right condemning the war in its early days.
A recent Pew Research Center poll shows that, while most Republicans do support the war,
young Republicans appear to be an outlier.
Only 49 percent of those under the age of 30 say they approve of the way the President
Trump has handled the conflict.
Turning Point USA, the organization founded by the late activist Charlie Kirk, has been
key in organizing young conservatives, especially at their signature campus rallies.
Our White House correspondent, Liz Landers, spoke to some of them at one such event
right here in Washington last night. So Liz, tell us about the event who you talked to and
what they had to say. This was at George Washington University's campus, which is right here in
the heart of Washington. This event was a conversation between Erica Kirk and White
House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt there. TPUSA has become a particularly powerful
organizing tool for conservatives and the Republicans. It's so cool that these
fucking college campuses that as you guys saw were making a nightmare for people like
myself to speak have no problem with the motherfucking press secretary and Erica Kirk coming on
the campus.
I could fill out a room like this with ease on any college campus around the country,
okay, any college campus.
And yet, as you guys saw, there was a room larger than this one at Stanford University
that we were supposed to speak at it sold out in like a minute and the college
literally turned around and was like let's not let's put you in a smaller fucking
room just makes you think about how makes you think
about how this stuff works you know I I think people think that's a flex it's
not. You sound like Trump boasting about his crowd sizes. Oh my fucking god. Guys, guys,
the argument is literally about what college campuses are invested in ideologically, okay?
Who they think is ideologically fine to appear on their campuses and who they want to not
not assist. School admins, unironically, are far, far more conservative than you would
think. That's the point I'm making.
And, party, they have more than 3,500 university campus chapters and more than 300 staffers.
So we asked attendees who were in line waiting for the event what they thought about one
month into this conflict, this war with Ramon, as you might expect, several hand the president's
back.
I would say I confidently trust the president to handle his agenda and to handle any foreign
policy affairs.
But others expressed opposition or even uncertainty.
You don't want them to have immense power that's going to hurt other people, but
the way that it went about may not have been the right way of doing it.
So I think very conflicted on, like, I guess, the means of participation that we've
taken part in.
I aspire to join the Marines myself, and I think it's very good to serve your country.
But I don't see this war as serving America's interests, not certainly not economic interests,
political interests, social interests.
We need to focus more on the United States first.
I think there's a lot of problems that could be solved in the United States before going
into foreign conflict.
To be honest, I think this was more Israel's fight than the United States.
Under that last unit there, Nassim, he's Iranian-American.
So he said that this is a complex issue for him.
He has complicated feelings about it.
But he said that he thought it was good that the Ayatollah was killed and he said that his
family also felt like there was no tears as he put it, that the Ayatollah had been killed
at the beginning of this conflict.
But as you heard him say there, he also wants the focus to be back on domestic issues in
the US.
I asked him if this conflict, this war, was going to impact his vote come November.
He said probably not, that it's other issues that are going to more personally impact
than him that he's focused on.
interesting with this being right there in the heart of the GW campus and they
spoke to other students who weren't there for the event but who also said
that they opposed the war what did you hear from them we walked by two young
women who were milling about walking around on campus in between classes and
they said that they were both unhappy that TP USA was there and also were in
opposition to this conflict with Iran take a listen to what Gabby told us we're
committing war crimes and it's being used our dollars that we don't have
We're both full Pell Grant students who are here completely on financial aid.
He doesn't have any right now.
Mine is being cut.
I'm deeply ashamed right now to be an American.
Gabby said that she watched President Trump's speech on Wednesday night, and she said that
she was particularly offended by the phrase that he used that he was going to bomb Iran
back to the Stone Ages.
She said that she thought that that was appalling.
Well, as you know, U.S. viewpoints on the Middle East have changed a lot over
the years.
shown young Democrats are increasingly less sympathetic towards Israel, but they're also
starting to show a similar trend among young Republicans.
What have you found out about that when you talk to experts?
We spoke with Shibley Talhami.
He's a professor at the University of Maryland, and he also has been tracking and pulling
these issues with young voters for years now.
He points to the war in Gaza in 2023 as a real important time stamp for when these
shifting views on Israel started to come to more of the forefront, especially with Democrats
and also these young Republicans.
Listen to what he told us.
We've seen the gap between younger and older Republicans became huge, particularly in terms
of justifying what Israel was doing in Gaza.
And that has increased of late, particularly with regard to the Iran War, a large part
because many of the podcasters and the commentary on the right, particularly the America First
Movement, have been highlighting the link between the Israeli aim to have war with Iran
and the causes for the war with the U.S. going to war.
He attributes these shifts and attitudes for young Republicans in particular to two different
things. He says, first of all, it's about the anger of the United States supporting Israel
in that Gaza conflict, starting several years back,
that started during the Biden years, honestly.
Secondly, he says that the America First platform,
and you heard him talk a little bit about that at the end there,
that Trump ran on promoting domestic issues here in the United States
and no more foreign war intervention.
And that was something that we heard from young people
across the political spectrum yesterday,
that they believed that Trump had broken.
There's only one PBS that doesn't call the Gaza Genocide a conflict,
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Tell me you comrades, thank you for taking it to the subs.
Such an interesting look at how young voters are looking at this war.
White House correspondent Liz Landers, thank you.
Yeager Larson, thank you for the 5v4 subs.
Right now as we speak, there are 11-
Alright, fuck it, let's watch it. Hopefully this doesn't cook my, um...
This doesn't cook the algo, but, uh, you know...
7 million people living 90 miles off the coastline of the United States of America in a Caribbean
island nation known as Cuba experiencing a severe crisis.
Every day life is being brought to a screeching halt, there are nationwide blackouts.
Everybody go turn it on.
Fan channels do not re-upload this, okay?
Fan channels do not re-upload, everybody.
Clippers do not clip this segment, okay?
Everybody that's in here right now all 32,000 of you click on the YouTube video right now and play it
on the side, okay
Play it on the side
Because I really want to watch it. I really really really want to watch it
No, let chap watch it first and then watch it tomorrow
tomorrow. Should I skip it? Should I actually skip it? Should I not watch it today?
Right now as we speak, there are 11. Because I'm, I really wanted to do well. I wanted
to do well so it gets in the fucking algorithm. I wanted to do well. Yes, you should skip
it. Watch it tomorrow. Let chat. Watch it tonight. Yeah. I wanted to do well. What's up guys? This is
Somp and I hear we're going to skip it. I'm Somp. I just got back from Cuba. I'll just
Jezera. I'll just zero posted. We'll just watch that. And then you guys can go watch it yourselves
later. Not while on stream obviously, but skip it. This content creator is problematic.
Yo, watch the new house and I be vid he it mentions you here. I'll just show you the intro. I'll give you a teaser
Okay, right now as you speak there are 11 million people living 90 miles off the coast on the United States of America and a Caribbean island nation
Known as Cuba experiencing a severe crisis every day life is being brought to a screeching halt
They're a nationwide blackouts caused by a total collapse of the country's electrical grid. It's assures your food and medicine
They can't pump drinking water.
Cuba has been starved as the most important resource to make modern life work.
Oil.
For over 60 years, the United States has maintained a trade embargo against Cuba.
One of the embargo is nearly impossible for foreign companies to invest into business
in Cuba while trading with the United States.
For years I've wanted to visit Cuba.
I wanted to learn about the problems caused by the embargo.
I wanted to see a socialist society in person.
Last month, I took the opportunity to go as part of a humanitarian mission to
bring aid that my government won't.
I'd be accompanying Progressive International alongside hundreds of others from around the world.
Activists, journalists, artists and politicians would be coming to the island by boat and plane
to deliver over 40 tons of necessary supplies, food, medicine and medical equipment.
Our first stop is Miami, Florida.
Is this uh... United?
No, it's a special plane.
It's just terminal G's where they said we have to go to.
Why do you do this voice shut up? Just watch.
Skip it, he's anti-SIMA.
Shout out to Co-Pink, Answer Coalition, Chris Binter-Achelle.
This set of a light with medical aid, solar panels, food, numerous things that the Cuban population desperately needs right now.
We are basically the last leg of this international convo.
It's coming from...
Anyway, that's all you get. That's all you get. A minute and 34 seconds.
Okay, minute and 34 seconds.
Skip it. He's also a communist. That's all you get for now. Here, we'll watch the Al Jazeera video.
What's up guys? This is Sam Piker. Just got back from Cuba. We were on a humanitarian aid mission
and I saw firsthand the struggles with the Cuban population on the island as it's going through a massive energy crisis.
The United States has had one of the most rigorous and over-encompassing sanctions regime
on Cuba since Cuba had a successful revolution.
Yeah, meeting the YouTube player can kill engagement, meet the tab instead, if you're gonna fucking
play it on mute and develop sovereignty for itself.
The situation has gotten much worse in these past couple of months, as Donald Trump came
out and openly implemented a total blockade of oil.
Your business is in its last moments of life.
Whether I free it, take it, I can do anything I want with it.
You want another truth?
There's around 10 million people living on this Caribbean island and there are rolling
blackouts.
Food is spoiling.
Sometimes there's no running water.
It's an absolute devastating situation that is totally manmade as a consequence of the
American blockade.
It's unbelievably cruel.
So they're starving the hospitals.
They're starving the entire energy grid.
One of the things that was so shocking was if the electricity grid fails, you have
to wait for the generators to turn on.
There's a five minute window talking to some of these doctors and they're saying
that they have to hand pump the ventilators that children are on for the five minute period
until the generators kick in. And sometimes the generators also run out of fuel. And when
that happens, a doctor, a surgeon that we were talking to, basically said, look, we
just sew up the patient and we try again afterwards. And then also getting to and from work is
virtually impossible as well. The surgeon was explaining to me that because gas prices are so
high, it's like you would have to pay more to go to and from work to the hospital than what you get
paid by the government. This is just, I'll just do a plus video about the trip chat.
This is not the actual documentary. The documentary we skipped because I don't want
want to watch it on stream and write it.
There's tremendous, tremendous medical research coming out of Cuba, especially in
field of biomedicine. They have been able to design drugs like a lung cancer
vaccine. I talked to a neuroscientist that was working on what is now.
The AlgaeZero audio is not bad because AlgaeZero, it's because of my, it's
It's bad because I fucked up and the mic, I'm out of focus.
The mic is in focus.
And I didn't even use the microphone.
It's like the laptop microphone being used.
It's known as the only real, active, successful treatment for Alzheimer's and dementia.
It's currently being tested in Canada as well.
I mean, these are incredibly impressive feats for any country, but it's exceptional
when you think about the conditions
that users are subjected to
and the restrictions that they have,
even in the field of activity.
Obviously there's a lot of emphasis on education in Cuba,
a lot of emphasis on providing healthcare.
you
you
you
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Yes, human population through a cue system now that there's like tremendous shortages.
people go and purge that gas and they sell it in the black market.
People are just like trying to do whatever they can to survive, right?
But also there's a lot of solidarity as well, a lot of sharing,
a lot of taking care of one another.
One thing that I saw that was fascinating is
people are always giving each other rides.
There is also this shared struggle.
Yes and no. So we were in Havana for the most part,
so I can't speak for other parts, but Havana also has a lot of tourism, so there were markets
that were open, although the pharmacy were not, and that's a real problem. And that is,
from what I understand, a direct consequence of no distribution mechanisms being readily available.
It's like transit on the island is almost completely shut down at this point. It's truly
devastating. And when you can't transit goods, and you can't deliver goods, whether it be
pharmaceutical goods or whether it be regular foods, people are not going to be able to get
access to it. Prices are going to go up, there's going to be inflation. But as far as schools
goes, I believe there was a nursing student that we interviewed in. And she said that
schools reduced down to one day. For many of these places, depending on...
This is a different clip. Not the dog just two back in. Yes, this is not the dog.
You know, the availability, depending on the energy grid, I think.
And most importantly, due to how difficult it is to travel,
there have been a lot of restrictions.
What I've been taught about Cuba is that they're very,
maybe sometimes to a fault, a little bit too orthodox in their approach
to their economic system. I didn't realize that there was a lot more private enterprise.
So I was a little bit surprised to see that, like, no, there are actually
market reforms or a marketization initiative that's taking place. The problem, of course,
is that it's happening under this ruthless embargo. And therefore, the outcomes are
disastrous, where it all of a sudden creates a class structure. And on top of that,
It's virtually impossible to liberalize your markets in an appropriate way, in a sovereign way,
in the most efficient way without too much friction under the embargo, under these conditions, under the blockade.
So, I don't know where it'll go, but I do know that the government is a lot more open than I had previously,
in terms of liberalizing in terms of like market.
There are many Kanye Wests for yay. Pepsi pulls
wireless festivals sponsored over Kanye West booking. Bro,
that's the other side of this like, you know,
That's the other side of the story where it's like you got straight up people who were who are pro Hitler
Back in action selling out fucking arenas, you know
It's actually crazy
Wait what
Oh
As he's renamed himself, let's introduce him chronologically starting with 2004 his debut album college dropout
Didn't apologize bro. That's crazy. Come on, man
Come on, buddy
What do you apologize to a rabbi? Are we being for real? Are we being for fucking real dude? Come on? I?
I think you have to be you have to to recognize something pretty significant here. I just think that people don't care. I
Think people don't care about anything a
Lot of people on ironically took the apology seriously it's messed up. Well, I thought
I'm just saying like I think cancer culture is like totally fucking fake
But
He posters and met with a bunch of rabbi and took all that shit back and donated a bunch of money
I still believe and I think you should remain canceled by I think they may have been some underlying treatment
Untreated mental health crisis. Yeah, that's fine. He he met with a rabbi is good
Just don't think that like cancel culture is is a real concept. It's only as real as you take it
Okay, it's only as real as you take it if someone is actually, you know pumping treats to the masses
That's all it takes
Right if someone is pumping treats to the masses, that's all it is that's all people care about
They don't give a shit about like cancer culture at all
Who's gonna tell him who Kanye is talking about?
Okay. Kanye and yay are two different guys. I just, you know, I told my coworkers about
the Hile Hitler song months ago and they had no idea.
The zoomed out shots make it look like an artistic comeback tour and the close-ups
are a white grouper convention riot. Yeah this is the floor ticket experience of
Ye's night two show at SoFi Stadium. Would you have gotten these tickets?
Yeah, I mean, look, I, uh, I mean, Jason and Romer there, they were, oh God, oh brother.
I don't fucking know anymore.
I just think that it's, like, not a woman in sight.
Yeah.
I just feel so strange constantly having to be like, I truly feel so odd thinking
about how ridiculous it is that you got like a formerly one of the most like influential
artists straight up out of nowhere decide to be like an open Nazi and and go through like
a multi-year process of like highlighting and no one gave a fuck about anything if you
got motion I know but but it's just so strange because like for me for me the
way I see it is like what am I supposed to do talk about anti-semitism like
really this is what I'm supposed to do I'm supposed to talk about like oh well
nobody cares about anti-semitism anymore what are we doing how am I
supposed to be the guy who's like trying to push back against this shit
When, if you look at the mainstream media, if you look at mainstream media for like the
last two weeks, motherfuckers have been, motherfuckers have been up my ass.
Like you look at the ADL, you look at all of these other like institutions that are
supposed to be dedicated, supposed to be tasked with like commenting anti-semitism.
just like they keep attacking me. I don't know. I just everything is so fucked. I do feel like
I really do feel like it's it's like being the only adult in a room full of toddlers.
I will say though, it is funny that he was, you know, he did maximum damage and is such
a hipster that the moment where like anti-Semitism was on the rise and it was super fashionable
to be anti-Semitic like openly, he turned around and was like, I am done with this actually.
It's too cool now.
i uh... i'm good it's mainstream now i don't really fuck with this
he's always ahead of the curve you know
you realize people just don't give a fuck kinds of favorite artists and will stay
like that is in bad things both don't forget that he has some serious
medical issues you combine that with losing his wife not being able to see
children to take a toll on someone that's mentally ill
constant at backstage with the a
the conflation and he's not as i've made this is also is directly visible the
most of the voice off
was an objection to him in his album release he's still getting reviewed
are doing so over is over anti-black stuff the most of a secondary now
When my wife divorced me, I also decided to stay in Adolf Hitler.
This is a normal part of the stages of grief.
Yeah.
I just, I mean, look, I, I don't get it.
Cuz like he's had an extended
Bipolar episode for like that have played itself out very publicly for
Years, you know almost a decade so it's kind of wild for people to still be like well
He was he had deep issues like yeah, I know man. I know he did. I know and probably still does
Bro might just be a bad person, I think he is. I do.
Which hip-hop fans say changed the course of popular music.
Later came the appallingly anti-Semitic and anti-black attention seeker,
who last year released a song called Heil Hitler,
having begun to praise Hitler and deny the Holocaust on right-wing conspiracy talk shows.
Then there's the Kanye who suffers from multiple personality disorders which he says developed after a car crash
This January Kanye apologized in the Wall Street Journal for his anti-Semitic comments, which he blamed on being bipolar
There's an easy answer to why wireless a hip-hop day festival in London booked Kanye to headline this year
like kneecap can't get a fucking artist visa to tour in the United States of America they've
been actively prosecuted by the British government dude like think about that my fucking friends
people that I know have been prosecuted by the same government that's now allowing an American
and who just straight up was sick,
hiling and selling Nazi merchandise to,
to come and headline a fucking concert.
Like what are we doing?
It's so busted.
Ain't nobody gives a fuck about antisemitism is my point.
They only care about Israel, dude.
These guys all exclusively care about Israel.
They do not care about Jews at all.
They did not care about anti-Semitism at all.
It's so fucking strange to me that like,
no one recognizes inconsistency at all.
Like there's not any adults
in any of these fucking countries in the governments.
He hasn't performed in the UK for a decade.
in his music is still hugely popular and therefore lucrative.
But many say wireless has put profits before principle.
This afternoon, the main sponsor, Pepsi, pulled their support.
And a reminder that music is rarely far from politics.
The government could decide that Kanye isn't welcome here
in the UK and refuse him a visa on the grounds
that his presence would not be conducive to public good.
The prime minister himself.
I just like, I don't know.
I wish we could just be fair about it, right?
Like, I wish we would just drop this shit then.
You could say whatever the fuck you want.
Just let it all out, you know?
If we, like, I'm not even like demanding consistency.
I'm not even saying like, oh dude, fuck it.
Like, you know, don't let Kanye perform in the UK.
But it is unbelievable that there are still people
who are trying to maintain the institutional,
the the
institutional powers
The and the stigma the institutional stigma of anti-Semitism to grab on to it and they use it
Exclusively against critics of Israel. What the fuck are we doing?
You know what I mean
Like
Ay-ya-ya
Why am I the only one who seemingly cares about this shit?
All these other fucking outlets don't give a shit?
What is this?
I'm weighing in.
Criticizing wireless for booking Kanye.
Having someone who has repeatedly praised Nazism, praised Adolf Hitler, said that he was going
to go to war with Jews, I think someone like that, his presence here, would not be
conducive to the public good.
So I'm pretty surprised that the Prime Minister's issued this statement saying how concerned he
is without backing it up with any form of action.
Wireless have yet to comment, but on their website say they deeply value diversity and
inclusion.
So what happens next?
It's unlikely Kanye will pull out, but can he rehabilitate himself?
There needs to be some real effort from his part to really like put his tentacles down
to the ground and really speak to people he's affected and really get that understanding.
He's not there yet. He hasn't done that yet.
My apology is all well and good, but my apology means nothing if you don't do the work.
Kanye is calling this year a comeback selling out a gig in LA on Wednesday.
His visit to the UK could come down to the fans as they prepare to buy wireless tickets despite the controversy.
Yes, the answer is yes. They will fucking sell out 100p.
I normally try.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
All right. Well, I got to get ready. I'm gonna go to I'm gonna be in Michigan tomorrow as you guys know.
So, that's all I got for the day, and yeah, I'm traveling to Michigan to appear alongside
Abdul al-sayed doctor Abdul al-sayed
And
We're gonna be I'm gonna be stumping for the first time. Oh shit. I forgot to watch the meat candy video
And fuck it. Let's watch the meat candy video before I end it
How long is the meat candy video?
At least show me the parts that I'm in in the meat candy video and I can react to it and get angry
What is it meat Canyon, let's see
What is the whole
Controversy it says discord mods are the worst. This is I assume this is the video
Let's get in the back of the jam jar for a bit
Discord mods are the worst he he fucking talks mad shit about it. Is that what it is?
20 minutes in
About to get both sides. I don't even think meat cannon is like that. Maybe I'm wrong
But I don't think he's like that at all it like I say he's homies with Noel Miller. So
God I've been lying to you because I like this girl in your sleep token discord server. So dude just
Please stop stop trying to kiss me. He's pals with haters of yours
I mean yeah, but he's also pals with lovers of mine, too
And also you guys need to be fucking way way a chiller about the shit
Yeah, he's not a bad person. He's a nice person in general
I thought you were gonna treat me like a Chinese finger trap!
Go Nietzsche, wow!
Bro, he's not chill, and that's what you think?
Watch all of it, it's epic, I can't watch all of it, because I'm your brother.
Sorry!
You hate me!
Sorry!
Oh!
Don't hurt me!
You heard me!
Look!
Oh, get off me!
Man, the one time I leave my room without my rape pistol!
Go boy!
I'm gonna have time for this!
Who's that?
Terrence.
What are you doing in my room, Huddle?
Terrence, shh!
You gotta be quiet, okay?
Just gotta be quiet.
Huddle, I'm sweeping.
Huddle, get out of here!
Okay, okay, okay!
Stay on a sleeve!
Okay, okay!
Just please, please!
Be quiet, be quiet, be quiet!
What are you doing?
What are you gonna do?
Just gotta be quiet, please.
Fine. You can stay if you read me a bedtime story.
Which one?
That one right there.
Oh.
Alright fine, but my dues are inside this, okay?
Infinity Investor.
What the fuck are you reading?
Stop this!
Activate Smellin' Party!
I saw me.
I saw you.
It's coming.
I found you!
Yeah, I was gonna go watch up in the stream again today due to super annoying
Yeah, I know it isn't one because the whole thing is that he uses my name to cloud chase and just clip farm
It's fucking bogus man. Seriously. That's I was talking about Joe in a stream again. He's such a fucking parasite guy seriously
Yo chat give me one second. I'll be right back. Can you guess excuse me for one second?
The clip farming is going great. We're gonna make so much money together. Oh god classic both sides
I mean
Will you please kiss me to hold me over till stream is done only
God is so it's a politically. It's cringe, but it's funny. It's whatever
Centrist Andy over here
Wait, who's this guy?
Fungalto
Tom and Faye all woke up. What the fuck are you saying?
I'm gonna talk about that later
Let me do one, let me zap it.
Hiya, be a D&G monster, Papa!
D'you hear that?
Oh, thanks, what's up with that?
Can we door dash something from Panda Express?
Oh, that sounds really good, baby.
Come here!
Why do you want the Panda Express?
John PG?
John PG?
I can't hold it any longer.
You need to make love to me right now.
Oh, so gross.
It's gross.
It's gross to fucking...
and put the, eugh.
This is what people were freaking out about?
Yeah, the whole, oh, Hasan and Asmigol have a symbiotic relationship where they both benefit.
Like, yeah, no, I'm definitely good on that.
Oh yeah!
Tapper again!
Ha ha ha!
Hey, uh, what's so cool?
Let's go, we need to get down!
The end.
Jesus Christ, I've killed myself too bad with that much.
Are you sleeping?
Is that it? At least you make Kaya speak Mandarin. That's it, finish it. Meet Canyon
Lovers with Wendigo and who's kind of like Southern Coded and saw on the likes guns.
You're in it again at the end where it's a dog adventure reference.
I demand compensation for this torture.
Please pay my college debt.
I mean it's fine.
Who gives a shit?
I get like a hacky bit.
Yes, I got to be out here.
How did we get outside?
Who wants paid to express?
That's it.
Is.
Yeah.
Hassan and Asma are the same size of the griff spectrum slop.
That's it.
And, and, you know, Kai is a Chinese asset.
I mean, at least he made you jack.
Yeah.
He got the nail biting though. That's true. He did
Did you do the voice no, I did not designer brand on the t-shirt
Yeah, his art style is great. He's very he is a very talented guy and like I said
He is
He's homies with Noel Miller. I'm sure his politics are not as like dog shit is the way he presents it here
And and it's not like all these guys are both the same
It's just mostly I
Suspect this mostly just hacky shit, you know he is talented with his little trojus. You guys need to be less serious about this stuff
The craters meet Canyon and the video is discord mods are the worst
Yeah. No Miller's to fuck with you. Yeah. Is Pina is burnt Pina humor a little bit.
You had a video shooting on ice chat is just being defensive of you. Yeah, no, it's a,
It's the classic, it's the classic like, look, any content creator on the internet, okay?
Any content creator on the internet has to literally lean into the apolitical audience
and the best possible way to do the apolitical audience, the best possible way to farm an
apolitical audience is by being like, I call balls and strikes.
And obviously, you know, someone like Hassan is pretty much the same as someone like Asman
Gold, right?
Like, I'm such a, I'm above it all.
Like that's the mentality that people present.
But that's it.
You know, it is what it is.
He's a very talented guy, and I don't think his politics are anywhere near as like centric
as he presents it in that bit.
He's not wrong about Chatters and only doing that. He's talking about you again all the time on both streams
Yeah
I'm gonna hold it about ex-qc you need to relax
Are we are we comparing my contributions to the American political sphere the same as like ex-qc's
Contributions to the gambling debt
It's fucking insane don't lean into that
Don't we're gonna send everyone to your YouTube
Yeah, I'm not even annoyed by the kai thing I'm annoyed by the the asma golden a son or two sides of the same coin shit more than anything else
That's literally, that's the most annoying part about it. Anyway, um, watch the Cuba doc chat
Go watch the YouTube video the Cuba doc. Um, see you tomorrow from Michigan. I'm gonna be in Michigan
Okay
And uh, I'm gonna be
appear alongside Dr. Abdul-as-Said, Summer Lee, and many others stumping for Dr. Abdul-as-Said
who's running for Senate in the state of Michigan. I hope to see some of you chatters there.
RSVPs have been full for a very long time, so I doubt you're going to be able to get in. I don't
think so. But who knows? Maybe they're available. I'm going to be at MSU and University of Michigan
in arbor so yeah love you guys and I'll see you tomorrow hopefully the world
doesn't fall apart bye bye
Stunlock to the stunlock to the top is just begun
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Leave you in a Chinese train, Tehran Kaya Place
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All these daily streets, whether short or whether long
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