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what's going on everybody i hope everyone's having a fantastic evening afternoon no matter
everyone.
I'm Tom Piper, and this is also my broadcast coming to you live from Bloomy and not sunny
at all, Michigan.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys, girls, and embies, we're live, we're alive, and I hope all
the boys, girls, and embies are having a fantastic one because today's a beautiful
day.
Today's a wonderful day.
and Michigan, that's right.
I'm sorry, he's flooded.
Trump speaking is this news fest.
Yeah, I'm live, I'm alive, and I'm early,
and I've been traveling a lot lately
going all around the country.
And this is part of the broadcast
where I tell you about my personal news about
what's going on in the world of Hassan Hassanabi,
Piker in between the time period.
When you look at the machinery,
what happened?
That nobody was-
Press the start streaming button
so help me God, this is what I'm gonna do,
obviously Donald Trump is live. So I'm just gonna dive right into it. Trump is
live on his press conference. Do we have a blast-off meme? I'm just gonna go
right into it, okay? Gonna go right into it. We're gonna listen to what Trump has
to say live early from Michigan to listen to what Trump, to listen to Trump's White House
press conference.
I know Trump is talking. Stop saying come to Cleveland and all these other things. Start
watching your Cuba documentary with my girlfriend very good but so depressing as well.
Okay, all right, well,
um, all right, that one's good. We'll just use that one. We'll just use that blast off meme.
All right. Um, but yeah, we're live, we're alive. And, uh, yeah, personal news wise,
obviously I ended the broadcast last night and then got ready, you know, flew in on a red
eye. Four hour flight, no food had to beg the air stewardess. If I could get one of those
like purchasable snack packs because I was straight up dying. Luckily it was fine.
I came in early at like 5 a.m. 3, well, technically at 2 a.m. for LA time, landed, went back to sleep,
and that's it. Are you considering submitting your Cuba Doc on International Festivals?
No, what the hell? It's not, it's like a YouTube video, man. It's just like a little bit more
more of an effort, a high effort YouTube video.
Anyway, live early from Michigan
to listen to Trump's White House press conference.
And, but, you know, thank you for thinking that.
Will he do terror tomorrow?
Epstein's Fury, day 37, right?
We have still on my ass.
tomorrow. Get in now.
You can be an art guy, you move people more or less.
Would you consider pressing the quack button on the sound board? I do not have a sound board.
The Minidoc plus your AJ Vid plus some of your other guest media preferences are shaping up incredibly.
your overall profiles more and more legit by the day. No glaze. Thank you. No
glizzy. No glaze. No glaze, but no, yeah, no fa. Post a kuba dog on other platforms.
We will take target and send Twitter along some form one from sub break up
the take target and the parts. Yeah, no soundboard while we're out here
unfortunately because obviously I'm not here. I'm not at home, you know. I'm not
at home. Also, Trump just said Iran could be taken out in one night. It might be
Tuesday night. All right, let's just go right in. When you go the heroic F-15
and weapon system officer had evaded capture on the ground in Iran for almost 48 hours.
That's a long time when you're in tough shape and when you're bleeding, it's a long time.
When we left, as you probably know, we had two large planes, pretty old planes.
It carried a lot.
We needed a lot more equipment going in than coming out, obviously, because going in,
needed to be able to scale them out.
Why is there a daily focus on segment on?
And we had a lot of equipment.
Fox news.
But the sand was sandy wet sand.
So we thought there may be a problem taking off
because of the weight of the plane.
And then we also had all the men jumping back on
to the planes.
And they got pretty well bogged down.
And we had a contingency plan, which was unbelievable.
We're a lighter, faster aircraft came in
and they took them out.
We blew up the old planes.
and we blew them up to smithereens because we had equipment on the planes that frankly we'd like to
take but I don't think it was worthwhile spending another four hours there taking it off so we
didn't want anybody to have the best equipment anywhere in the world we didn't want anybody
examining our anti-aircraft and other equipment so these were large planes that were old and
pretty old and we blew them up and we had faster lighter planes come in and
they were able to land on the sand. We needed the bigger planes because we had
so much equipment that we knew. We took three helicopters over there which were
very strongly used and couldn't have lived without them. They performed
unbelievably well and if you'd see it you wouldn't believe it. They came off
the plane and these guys had them the the rotors were off. They rebuilt
these helicopters in less than 10 minutes. And that was one of the more
amazing things. These are helicopters, small and unbelievably powerful but small,
very small, so it can get into certain areas. And they got them off the plane
and they rebuilt all three of them in a matter of less than, I would say less
than 10 minutes. It's pretty amazing what the genius of these people who
would think that. You think it would take five days to build them and in some
companies it would take five days and they wouldn't do it well but they served
us well. As commander-chief I never forget the extraordinary risks taken by
the warriors that we send into battle and the genius. I mean think of it
having a contingency of three planes waiting because we think the sand is so
bad they probably won't be able to take off and the planes really got
bogged. The sand was, this was not much of a runway. This was a farm, not a runway. It's a farm, but
it did the trick. But to have a contingency, as opposed to having to wait two days, can you
imagine right in the middle, this was central, this was right, you would call it central casting
if you were doing a movie for location. And probably the toughest area of Iran where
we'd be sitting there. So these planes came in, those pilots came in so fast and so quick,
and got out of there. Everybody got aboard and just got 15-minute intervals.
One load out. One load out. One load out. It happened and we were watching and we
said that's amazing. In many ways I was I was almost more impressed by the
contingency that we had than the fact that, you know, we would have had a runway
or decent soil but it was an amazing thing. We thank God for every single one of them
and the talent. The genius is not even talent. If you look at what we did with Maduro, we
went into a military compound, a massive, with thousands and thousands of soldiers
that were in a matter of minutes. And he lived behind iron doors. There were steel
doors broke them down so quickly and within almost minutes he was in the back of these
planes it was a similar group credible we have incredibly talented people and if the
time comes we move heaven and earth to bring them home safely we're gonna bring
our people home safely I want to thank every member of the US Armed Forces
involved in these historic operations they really were historic it's just not
It's so funny that Trump is demotionally incompetent and belligerent, and his entire administration
is also the same.
And ironically enough, out of all of the institutions that we have, the military, especially
certain aspects of the American military, are some of the only competent aspects that
remain of American organizations.
So it's really interesting that they're having to conduct these like incredibly complex
operations.
damage because these are unbelievable. Donald Trump has decided to blow up Iran for no reason.
But these two extraordinary rescues, such a ridiculous situation, we didn't talk about
the first one for an hour, and then somebody leaked something, which we'll hopefully find
that leaker. We're looking very hard to find that leaker. I'm not pro-military, I'm not pro-military.
I'm not pro-military by any means, I just see the military as a jobs program, but this
is just a normal assessment of the events.
Nothing works in America, even the military doesn't really work, but also it's still one
of the only remaining competent organizations in the country.
And you know who we're talking about, because some things you can't do, because when they
they did that all of a sudden the entire country of Iran knew that there was a pilot that was
somewhere on their land that was fighting for his life and it also made it much more difficult
for the pilots and for the people going in to search for him.
All of a sudden they know that there's somebody out there that see all these planes coming
and it became a much more difficult operation because a leaker leaked that we have one, we've
rescued one, but there's another one out there that we're trying to get.
So actually the country, Iran, put out a major notice, you all saw it, offering a very big
award for anybody that captures the product.
It wasn't.
It was $60,000.
In addition to a hostile, very talented, very good, very good.
It wasn't that big of an award.
unfortunately we had millions of people trying to get an award so when you add
that to it but we have to find that leaker because that's a sick person
probably didn't realize the extent of how bad it was I can't imagine that the
person did but we're gonna find out it's national security and the person
that did the story will go to jail if he doesn't say and that doesn't last
long. And I think everybody would understand that they put this mission at great risk.
They put that man at great risk and they put the hundreds of people that went in looking
for him.
There's something very funny about Donald Trump complaining that someone leaked the
special military operation because he literally yesterday went on Fox News or at least talked
to a Fox News reporter about CIA clandestine operations arms trafficking to Kurdish militias
in Iran. In a moment of weakness, he was just like, yeah, we did that.
the first manned aircraft down by the enemy in this entire operation with
thousands and thousands of flights they got lucky it was a lucky hit you know
eventually you get lucky but we got lucky too because we got both of them back
but it's a record that is unparalleled in the history of military air
operations nobody's ever seen anything like it it's such an honor to be
involved with it we were up late at night and then we were waiting for those
contingent planes to come in and we say come on let's go get in because they're
waiting out on this farm without a runway with wet crummy soil sand mostly sand
wet sand and it eats planes alive and we're waiting and we're saying I hope
that one can land and take off and they came in like magic boom boom boom one
after another it was like genius so impressed by that because we were a
little concerned we said boy if they don't get in and get up fast we're
sitting in them and that's called Iran prime right general that's that's where
the whole bed is and here we are sitting there waiting for a plane but
They came in so fast and so hard and these guys knew exactly what they let's go. Come on get in. Let's go. Wow
They came one right after another not at the same time
They don't want to come at the same time they had to come right after each other. They didn't have any room
There was barely any room to land
Tiny little patch of very wet
Earth and sand
So I just I'm so proud of the people that I have standing up here with me and many others that worked
I mean so many
Steve Whitcoff's over here is doing fantastically Jared Kushner
But the people that are here the job they did is amazing and I think I'm gonna introduce the head of the CIA and he
Is a man who he's central casting okay?
If we cast a movie, he's gonna play the head of the CIA. He's one of the few
John Retliff he
He did a phenomenal job that night. He did something that I don't know if you want to talk about it
If you want, you can.
I'm not sure you're supposed to.
I'm not going to talk about it.
But really, the CIA was very responsible for finding this
little speck.
It's like they used an expression on one of the shows
the general was talking about.
It's like finding a needle in a haystack, finding this pilot.
And the CIA was unbelievable.
And if you can, you'll talk.
It might be classified, in which case
I'd have to put him in jail if he talks about it.
And I don't want to put him in jail.
He doesn't deserve that.
Sir John, do you want to say a few words?
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. President.
It's a privilege to be here with you today
to share what we can about this exceptional mission
and to recognize the ingenuity and bravery of those
who executed it, as well as the leadership
and resolve of the president who ordered it.
One thing that has been clear to me in this role
is that the flawless military operations
that the Department of War is known for, are hostage to flawless intelligence.
We saw that in the skies over Iran in Operation Midnight Hammer last summer.
We witnessed it in Venezuela during Operation Absolute Resolve.
We've seen it against the cartels in the Western Hemisphere, and we're seeing it every
day in Operation Epic Fury, including this mission to rescue an aviator buried deep
behind enemy lines. Because it is the unique tradition of the U.S. Armed Forces that we
leave no man or woman behind. This was a no-fail mission. That was the spirit in which the
President put us to work, and we were determined not to let him down or our airmen down.
As an agency, the CIA possesses unique capabilities that only the President can deploy. Some
Some of these capabilities fall under covert action authorities and because covert means
exactly that, I'm not going to be able to tell you everything that you want to know.
Whoa, Mr. Rea.
At the President's direction, we deployed both human assets and exquisite technologies
that no other intelligence service in the world possesses to a daunting challenge,
comparable to hunting for a single grain of sand in the middle of a desert.
This was also a race against the clock as it was critical that we locate the downed
aviator as quickly as possible while at the same time keeping our enemies misdirected.
For that reason, in addition to the human and technical assets deployed by the President
to find our airman, CIA executed a deception campaign to confuse the Iranians who were
desperately hunting for our airmen.
On Saturday morning, we achieved our primary objective by finding and providing confirmation
that one of America's best and bravest was alive and concealed in a mountain crevice,
still invisible to the enemy but not to the CIA.
The confirmation was relayed by Secretary Hegseth to the President and the operation
quickly moved to the execution phase.
Following the successful exfiltration on Saturday night, our intelligence reflects that the
Iranians were embarrassed and ultimately humiliated by the success of this audacious
rescue mission.
When the President asked me to lead the CIA, he made it clear, get back to basics,
politics, no agendas. Yeah, we did the search and rescue mission non-woe. We were saying slurs,
while our search and rescue operations during combat also featured M-60 machine gunners
that were on the side of these MH-60 mini helicopters that were not only dumping munitions
on the ground, but also saying slurs, deploying the tactical slurs that are obviously necessary
for uh... combat success
we did it on wokley of that matters
no politics all of that is wasted
without a president with the political courage
to put them into action
mister president
i've had the privilege
obscene you act with political courage in the best interest in the house of
the house of the david as a way to actually get the mission
yeah i mean it's the american people
it's clearly now
the secretary of the chairman of the operations are always going to be
difficult and they're always going to be sticky
commander in chief there's always going to be issues so as long as they get the
guy back
it's a success let's be real america is changing
a shit ton boosted by the knowledge that their work
is informing a president who's not afraid
to make the hardest decisions
when the stakes are highest
And to the American people, your confidence should be boosted by knowing that the security
of the nation is in the hands of a president who's willing to take on problems that have
confounded both sides of the political aisle for nearly half a century.
It is an honor to serve under a leader who just proved that you can believe him when
And he says, no matter what, we will leave no one behind.
We will come for you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Well, John, thank you for the collaboration, the CIA is well incredible and ongoing partnership.
Ladies and gentlemen, fellow Americans and especially the brave warriors in our armed forces
over this Easter weekend
the united states military has once again proved why we possess
the greatest fighting force the world has ever known i this is into a night
okay this is like somewhat
uh... a note that
people about obviously
given up on but
it is quite strange that you have the head of the cia which is supposed to be
like at least
technically a political right
like in theory and optics
come out and glaze the mother fucking president
after a successful operation like that
i don't recall a time not that it matters that it's not it's not the worst
problem here
but i don't recall a time where that was a thing that used to take place right
like
very strange uh...
very strange way to operate today is the cia director mentioned iran's
military and we know this is embarrassed and humiliated and they should be now
these are not routine operations they were high-risk high-stakes missions
conducted in the heart of enemy territory this was not just barely into
Iran this was deep into Iran involving coordinated strikes to suppress
threats deception tactics to protect our teams I need to remember across
air ground and like this recovery mission and the asset loss that took
place in the process of the recovery mission, did not need to happen at all, okay?
This is yet another classic Trump move.
Trump fucks something up 100%, and then literally rolls it back like 20%.
And because people are expecting 100% fuckups in perpetuity, that 20% rollback is now
considered a massive success.
it's really interesting because things are still fucked 80%. How
about not fucking things up? How about keeping it at 0% fuckups?
No, can't do that. And that's a classic Trump move. Did it with
the tariffs? Roll back some of the tariffs? Everyone was like,
Oh, thank God, the market can, you know, breathe a little bit,
right? A moment of respite from the chaos. And it's like,
it's a classic, classic Trump move. He comes in, he
fucks things up 100% and then due to like the competence of others or due to his uh
due to people yelling at him too much he's just like literally pulls it back a little bit more
and then people go okay thank god okay things are stable again and that is not luck it's the result
of unmatched training superior technology and unbreakable warrior ethos and sheer american
grit. Our special operators, pilots and support crews performed with near perfection under fire,
and they were lethal. Just ask any Iranian soldier who dared attempt to get anywhere near that pilot
before or during that mission. Death from above. Our troops turned a potential tragedy into a
resounding demonstration of American resolve and capability. That's what
excellence in uniform looks like. But make no mistake about it. None of this
would have been possible without the courageous leadership and ironclad
determination of President Donald J. Trump. From the moment our airmen went
down, President Trump made it clear we will leave no one behind. The first
mission the first of two was an audacious daylight thunder run right up the
middle was authorized in less than two hours from those that pilot going down
when we knew where he was and it was authorized in the middle of the night
because anybody that's worked from this this man knows he's up in the middle
of the night authorized immediately without hesitation audaciously the
second mission as soon as we knew where that pilot was and John was
certainly helpful in that. Also executed immediately. You know, I looked up at my
screen when the final mission was complete inside our SCIF, our Secure
Facility, and we have a running VTC, a running coordination cell. And the top
of it read 45 minutes and 45 hours and 56 minutes. For 45 hours and 56
minutes, we'd held that call open for coordination. From the moment our
pilots went down our mission was unblinking the call never dropped the
meeting never stopped the planning never ceased the president demanded rapid
decisive action he backed our military with the full weight of his resolve
refusing to let and bro the way they're talking you think he was
commandeering the ch-130s bro you think he was flying the goddamn cargo plane
you think he was with a shovel trying to dig out the front wheels of the cargo
plane on this impromptu farp that they set up on a agricultural field you would
think Trump was there bro meanwhile the none of the dudes had to be there none
of the planes had to be there the only reason why any of this is happening
And it's still happening, by the way, because it hasn't stopped, right. The pain is not subsided.
We haven't fixed any of the issues. But the only reason why any of this is happening
is because of Trump, because he decided to do the unthinkable, do the thing that, like,
Israel has wanted every American president to do. He was the one that finally gave
Benjamin Netanyahu that gift and bomb Iran, go to war with Iran. It's so crazy.
Monty, you can ask Maduro, you can ask Kameini.
To those heroes who planned and executed these rescues,
your nation stands in awe.
I stand in awe.
The chairman stands in awe.
We all stand in awe of your professionalism and bravery.
We serve for you.
You embody the very best of America.
To the rescued airmen and their families, welcome home.
Your courage and endurance,
the quiet declaration of faith amid the storm,
inspires us all. God is good every day. And to our adversaries watching from Tehran, let
this be a clear message. The United States military will go anywhere at any time to protect
our own and complete the mission. We execute with precision. We control the sky. You see,
We flew for seven hours in daylight over Iran to get the first pilot.
And we flew seven hours in the middle of the night to get the second.
And Iran did nothing about it.
We fight with honor.
And under President Trump's leadership, we win.
So God bless our troops, God bless President Trump, and God bless the United States
of America.
Thank you.
Well, good afternoon, everyone.
Thank you, Mr.
Like the CIA director has to be an intelligent person.
He has to be a competent person historically.
And even today, like that guy is not a fucking silly Billy, right?
And yet here you have the CIA director straight up saying mission accomplished while the war
continues the wage.
You got Pete Hegsett saying that, but that's expected of Pete, right?
Peter is obviously a drunk rapist, a nuisance, a dumbass. It's actually wild how much in
the morning local Iran time we've read through every center which handles
how much we've retooled the American government to fluff up one guy one
in constant my 15 a strike eagle call sign dude four four which was down in
hostile Iranian territory the pilot and weapons system officer had both safely
ejected and were isolated behind enemy lines. Following confirmation of active rescue beacons
and on the direction of the Secretary and by order of the President, a rescue operation
was launched with the stated purpose of bringing both Americans home safely. As the Secretary
said several hours later on the morning after positively locating the front-seater
callsign dude 4 4 alpha and aware of an aggressive ongoing search by the enemy.
A us central command plan was approved by the secretary and the president.
Shortly thereafter a us air force combat search and rescue task force
comprised of a 10 warthogs in their sandy role and I'll describe what that
is in a minute.
H 2130 combat King twos H H 60 Jolly green two helicopters
Air Force Special Warfare Airmen, a package comprised of combat rescue
officers and para-rescue operators audaciously penetrated enemy territory
in broad daylight to find, fix, and recover DUDE-44 Alpha from behind enemy
lines. This was an incredibly dangerous mission, an incredibly dangerous
undertaking, but a filled promise made to every American warfighter that you will not
be left behind.
We will always-
Guys, guys, literally they're doing it.
They're all saying like how wonderful the mission was, and no one wants to admit that
the reason why the mission even had to be, the reason why the mission had to even happen
is because Trump decided to bomb Iran.
But it's it's such a it's so ridiculous like we have melted
upwards of 60 billion dollars
So far just lit it on fire for the past 37 days and people are just like yeah, look at how wonderful
This was this was so great. Look at the look at this this campaign. I mean look at this daring audacious
Penetrating military mission that we pulled off look at our look at our soldiers. It's like, okay
but here's another alternative none of that had to happen it's so crazy the
objective area during this engagement one of the sandy aircraft the one
primarily responsible for communicating with the down pilot was hit by enemy
fire this pilot continued to fight continued the mission and then upon
exit flew his aircraft into another country and determined that the
airplane was not landable. This was one of our 810 Sandy aircraft. The pilot then
made the decision to eject over friendly territory and was quickly and
safely recovered and is doing fine. After picking up a dude 4-4 Alpha, the
HH-60 Jolly Greenfight was engaged by every single person in Iran who had a
small arms weapon. And one of the aircraft, the trailing aircraft, took
several hits, the crew sustained minor injury and they are going to be fine.
A note for those of you that do not know
what a Sandy does. Named after the flight call sign that did this very mission
in Vietnam flying A1 Sky Raiders and A7 Corsairs,
a Sandy has one mission. Get to the survivor, bring the rescue force forward
and put themselves between that survivor on the ground and the enemy.
They are committed to this.
This is what they live for.
And this is what they've trained for over many, many years.
The 810 force and the rescue force did fantastic.
Did a fantastic job rescuing dude for four alpha.
He was recovered Friday afternoon, as I said, and the nation needs to know this.
This was an incredibly brave and courageous mission and a testament to the courage, skill,
and tenacity of the Joint Force and our leaders.
And especially a daylight option, having the guts to try means so much to so many.
Meanwhile, the back-seater, as the President and the Secretary have said, had continued
to work and survive.
Through the hours of daylight, Dude 4-4 Bravo, the back-seater, evaded.
Using every means available, the efforts of the United States military, the Central Intelligence
Agency and others were attempting to find and locate with precision Dude 4-4 Bravo, the
back-seater.
Are you mad or are you just going to sit around with the troops and have a maximum
war fighting?
The single most important contributor to a successful rescue operation is the spirit of attack inside the heart of that downed aviator.
What the hell is this?
They're willing to survive.
Look, this is how hard my cock is when I think about the American military.
Their will to recover is everything.
In this case, the backseaters' absolute commitment to surviving made much of our efforts possible.
Everything is on set. Everything is like who are all hard dick look at the might of our military shit. It's so funny
And I don't think this is like as successful as
As as people like this is good for the dummies, right dummies will eat this shit up dummies will absolutely eat this shit up
There's plenty of people in the cult that this is going to be really good for this is great propaganda for them
They're like yeah America is so powerful is so mighty
Don't look at the fact that like, you know, the sugar hormones is still closed, right?
Like all this stuff.
Um, Fox News boomers will like it.
Obviously, the MAGA cult will like it.
But it's unbelievably stupid that we're even doing this.
And I don't think most Americans are on board with it.
As a matter of fact, most Americans are looking at the gas, gas prices and thinking, what the fuck are we doing this at all?
Why are we doing this?
None of this makes sense.
Please fix the inflation. I want health care. Like why are we why are we doing new wars? I thought you said no new wars, Mr. President
Now of course the problem here is no one that says I thought you said no new wars
Mr. President is actually a former Trump supporter because all of the former Trump supporters are current Trump supporters
With maybe a little bit
bit, with a little bit in the margins, like some independence who were like, yeah, I voted
for him, especially in the youth vote, right? People who were like, yeah, I voted for him.
I thought he was going to be, you know, no new wars. Turns out he's Mr. New Wars. That
was a mistake. Whatever I learned, you live and you learn, right?
Yeah, what he meant was no new wars
no
Exclamation mark new wars. Yes
Dude 4 4 Bravo
They were protected
Overhead by an air armada including tactical drones strike aircraft and others. I voted for him
I like war bought through multiple simultaneous
24 hours in the chat
Something no other nation, no other military can do.
I will say I haven't really seen a lot of like, I voted for this people, even on the internet.
Even the dumbest people that used to post that anytime we were like, I don't know, kidnapping
like a random Guatemalan aunt who's on her way to her daycare job, right?
And ripping her apart from her family in this, in these like harrowing scenes that
used to happen on a daily basis, there would be a bunch of white supremacists that would
quote, retweet that shit and be like, I voted for this. I voted for this, dude. This is
what I voted for.
Meanwhile, for the last 37 days, you haven't really heard a lot of people say I voted for
this, right? Which has been quite interesting.
Tenacity is a direct result of the absolute trust they have in our rescue forces, their
training and their will to survive and return. They always knew that we would be ordered
to go get them, and they always knew that we would be coming to get them.
These two operations reflect our nation's most sacred obligation to our military service
members.
We leave no one behind, bless you.
It also perfectly captures the first truth.
He's tactically ascertained that sneeze, sir.
That people are more important than hardware.
is the standard we live by and the rescue forces that executed these missions operate under under
by the way the american government has absolutely left troops behind on especially special forces
operations in the past the only reason why they had to conduct this in unimaginably costly operation
was for two reasons i think one to see one to do pen testing to see how well they could set up
how well they could set up like a base of operation in my opinion
inside of Iran, and two, because everybody was obviously aware that there were two pilots,
not one, that were slated to be captured and they did not want that, they did not want that massive
spectacular L, which is precisely the reason why they, you know, spent, were almost a billion
dollars on this operation, both of the asset loss, when, you know, the operational costs
here where we're close to a billion fucking dollars just to get this one guy
out it four four welcome home job well done thank you pretty amazing pretty
amazing and pretty amazing gentlemen have been all right let's get to the
Let's see, let's see if they will do a sub job.
General Cain, in my first term, because he was able to take out ISIS in four weeks instead of the four-year projection that was given to me by other, much lesser generals.
I said, you know, if I ever do this again.
Much lesser generals, we fired all of them.
Some of them were black, can you believe it?
And women, they wanted women generals.
We can't have women generals, unbelievable.
In four weeks I was told it would take four years. I flew to Iraq to find out with the greatest equipment in the world
Why would it take four years?
And he told me sir it won't it'll take four weeks and you'll have time left over. That's exactly what happened. So
He's great at Pete
All I can say is that he was treated very unfairly
And now those same people that treated him unfairly that fought against him
They called me up and said, what a great choice he was.
They said, well, what happened doing his nomination?
What happened to you?
I'm sorry.
People that were not forum senators, friends of my
share, I don't think you're doing the right thing now
to call me up.
What a choice.
These two guys are fantastic.
And John Ratliff was incredible.
He was actually their genius that called us from, he
was 40 miles away.
And he said, you know, we're seeing something moving up in the mountain.
This is at night.
And they kept the camera on him for 45 minutes.
He wasn't moving.
And they said, you know, probably wrong.
But we're seeing something moving.
This is a vast mountain, vast, thick with bushes, trees.
He said, we see something moving 40 miles away.
He's the head of a human being.
I'm telling you, it's moving.
And then all of a sudden, 45 minutes later, he moved a lot.
He stood up and they said, we have him.
And that was really at the beginning
of something incredible.
We had an idea where he was, but not specifically.
That's a big mountain.
So I want to thank the CIA, too.
I don't think they get enough credit for the great job
they've done.
Yes, please.
Thank you very much, Mr. President,
for this great opportunity.
Country it has, so pair army, you make a difference, Mr. President.
Thank you for your greatest leadership.
Oh my god.
I have two quick questions, Mr. President.
Bro, that's not a question.
It was your reaction when you learned that Kurdistan region
had resumed exporting oil to the international market
with your support as United States of America.
well i expected that
got along with
the courage for long time
the question of what we do you know it's
and that's crazy iranian people
raise up against their regime
during our case five
well they should do it but again the consequences of her president told you
the greatest you will be shot immediately
you saw what happened to the young
wrestler he was a great champion by the way is a great wrestler one of the top
in the world and he and his two friends were hung and they were all they did was
say a little bit about liberty that was a fun moment okay I don't have some words
I can't say they were hanging but the number is up to probably 45,000 people
were killed so you know when somebody stays in a house when they know they
walk out of the house to protest they'll be immediately shot and killed
And they issued that, you know, that was publicly issued, it's not a secret.
That's why so many people say, oh, well, why are you doing this way?
We can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon.
You know, we got regime change, we do.
We deal with a much different regime than before.
We're dealing with different people.
They're smarter.
I think they're sharper and far less radical.
We have regime change, but we didn't do this from regime change.
we did it for the fact and my my view is very simple I saw somebody said oh he
doesn't have a plan I have the best plan of all but I'm not gonna tell you what
my plan is you know they want me to say here's my plan we go to attack at 947 in
the morning and then we're gonna do this and then we're gonna and if you
don't do that they say I have a plan these people know what the plan is
everybody here knows what the plan is but it's very unfair to say we're
I don't mind being insulted. I've been insulted for many years by the famous things, but you can't...
Famously Trump doesn't mind being insulted.
People that are so...you just saw two great and John Ratcliffe, three unbelievable people.
They have a plan. Every single thing has been thought out by all of us.
But I can't reveal the plan to the media.
So, you know, but we're just thrilled by the success of this operation. Yes, please.
Thank you, Mr. President.
You've said Iranians would be mad if you stopped these attacks.
But why would they want you to blow up their infrastructure to cut off their power?
Wouldn't that be punishing Iranians for the actions of the regime?
They would be willing to suffer that in order to have freedom.
The Iranians have – we've had numerous intercepts.
Please keep bombing.
Bombs that are dropping near their homes, please keep bombing.
it. And these are people that are living where the bombs are exploding and when we leave and
we're not hitting those areas they're saying please come back come back come back. These
are the people. I don't know what they do. All I can tell you is they want freedom. They
have lived in a world that you know nothing about. It's a violent, horrible world where
if you protest you are shot. Remember the great woman protests where they had 400,000
500,000 women and they were all enthused and they were gonna protest and everybody said oh the regime's gonna come to an end and then
all of a sudden boom
boom
five
Six different areas a woman would go down right between the eyes. They had snipers said five snipers. That's all it took and
There's four or five hundred thousand women said oh my god. What's that? Oh look over there? What's that a woman shot right?
between the eyes and
After five or six of them go down then you start hearing the purr through the
vast number of people and
Then they said oh
Who would do that? Yeah, except first of all
All of this
All of this commentary is day one commentary
You can't continue to do this kind of we're trying to liberate the Iranian people
When you were also saying we're bombing around back to the Stone Age man, what is this fucking argument?
Like he's he's awfully descriptive about the gruesome ways in which the Iranian government is like
assassinating their own citizens
Meanwhile, buddy, you're the one who's killed. You're the one who has not only killed thousands
But you're also
threatening to kill tens of thousands more.
Between the eyes, from a long distance,
they were on top of buildings.
Nobody even knew where they were, where they're coming from.
This wasn't like a machine gun, which is also very bad.
They've done that too.
They did that recently.
This was snipers sitting on the top of buildings,
aiming and hitting women.
And when they see people go down,
and all of a sudden there's a riot
in the reverse direction.
And they never came out again.
And a lot of the news doesn't talk about that.
They talk about, oh, women's rights.
You want to see women's rights?
You're not going to see it there.
It's amazing when I see some of the stupid people,
like AOC plus three, all that group.
They talk about, oh, freedom for Iran.
They don't tell you the real facts.
Women, men, gays.
How about gays for Iran?
They kill the gays.
They throw them up buildings.
So I wonder what's going on.
I can only say this, they want us to keep bombing,
even if it jeopardized because their life
is in much greater danger.
They want freedom for Iran,
but it's very hard for them to protest.
I actually tell them, I said, don't go out.
I fully understand.
Nobody in this room would go out.
I think there's a new technique out here
that we haven't really fucking accounted for,
which as I've said over and over again,
lying is OP, right?
lying his OP, please nerf. But I also think Donald Trump just he just occupies space, right?
He'll make both sides of the same argument on the one hand. He's like Iranians are barbaric
monsters. We're going to fucking bomb them back to the Stone Age. They're animals. We
need to destroy their electricity. We need to destroy their energy grid. And then he'll
turn around and be like, and the Iranian government, they're so violent. We're actually
doing this to protect the Iranian people. And I think for his own audience, like
they don't really care. It's not, the consistency is utterly irrelevant at this point, where
it's just more so that they get to hear their beautiful president talk, right? Their big
beautiful president talk, and they'll repeat the things that he's saying, and they also
have no care or consideration for being consistent at all. It's not even about
making an argument, it's preaching to the converted. And because there's plenty
have converted already. It just kind of doesn't matter at this point what he says. It doesn't
matter that he's like incapable of presenting a cohesive coherent narrative here, right?
It's so, it's so strange. I mean, given that foreign policy is perhaps the most removed
from the pressures of the majority, democratic pressures entirely as we've seen
in the past two and a half years with with the genocide in Gaza and the
demands to put an end to it, even during an election cycle. I kind of understand
why Trump has this what are you gonna do about it attitude? But it still is
shocking how cult like his audience is, how cult like his fan base is at this
point, that they don't even question the the contradictions that Donald
Trump represents in the exact same speech he's delivering.
Into this journey, hundreds of people could have been killed.
Forget about the equipment, a lot of equipment,
nobody cares, hundreds of people could have been killed.
So we had people that were within the military
that said this is not a wise, and I understood that,
but I decided to do it.
Was there a point that you were thinking,
there's too much on the line and somebody was saying,
maybe we abort this now and wait?
I mean, given the resource like the general said,
it seemed like there was so much on the line here.
You must have been thinking,
this could have completely changed the next thing.
So the first one, which was in many ways
as dangerous as the second, I guess it gets,
because we're flying over daylight.
You know, we're the best at the world at night.
We have goggles at nobody.
We have goggles, I've tried them.
I see better with the goggles at night
than I see without them during daylight.
I mean, daylight today, we have a beautiful day.
you see just as well
with goggles in many ways it's incredible thank you sir so we have the
best in the world
so it's much safer us to for us to do it at night
whereas other people know other country has a capability they don't have that
particular
people would call in psychiatry, psychoanalysis, mirror, he has an ability to say everything
and those listening will fight the dissonance and crazy making my pulling out
what they need to hear to keep external slash internal order advanced is a
kaleidoscope
It's interesting. I mean, that does make sense.
Your explanation doesn't make sense.
Like he's giving people enough.
If you are, let's say, a Persian diaspora monarchist,
for example, you hear him talk about the ruthlessness of the IRGC,
and you hear that, and that's fine.
That's enough for you.
You don't care about the fact that he's also saying,
let's bomb Iran back to the Stone Age.
You just choose to not hear that.
And if you're the type of person who thinks Iranians
or barbaric, then it's great. We should bomb them back to the Stone Age. For example, one
of the funniest things that Republicans do, conservatives in general do this, they'll talk
about the conservatism of enemy states, right? Conservatives here that are genuinely advancing
the exact same social forces, the social pressures, the regressive social pressures
will turn around and talk about how ridiculous it is that, you know, look at the way that
they're treating the gays in Iran. And it's like, well, brother, your Supreme Court just, uh, you
know, struck down a gay conversion therapy ban in the state of Colorado. That's just torturing
young gay teenagers. That's literally just now officially legalized torture. Like it's not
all that different, right? It's not all that different. It's just that the material realities
are different in America as opposed to Iran. America is a much wealthier, much more prosperous
country obviously. And therefore, you know, we don't have ISIS style groups yet, as they
did in Syria and Iraq. But I always explain to you, all these like patriot prayer rally
goers and the oathkeepers and whatnot would behave exactly the same way as ISIS would
if the American economy resembled the Iraqi economy, for example.
So that's the only reason why they have
material comforts that allow them to go and and do these like a weekend journeys
where they train and larp and then they go back to eating jalapeño poppers all
the same, they go back to watching sports on the TV all the same.
But if they didn't have those amenities, they didn't have those treats.
And if the economy resembled a war economy,
like a like a bombed-out hollowed-out economy of like iraq they would be doing
the same shit to the gays that isis was doing
this should have been handled by
seven presidents a lot of presidents
and those presidents are saying now every one of them to their friends
we should have done this a long time ago
so it's not something i like doing
it's very dangerous and we're getting them at the height of
of their strength. If I didn't...
I've been lying to you though, if I acted as though this is not something I'm jealous of.
Yeah, that's Trump's incredible powers of politician.
People who like him just pick and choose what they believe from what he says.
If it's something they don't like, they just can say he doesn't mean that, or he's just talking.
It never breaks through.
Every Trump supporter thinks Trump thinks exactly like them.
There's almost an evangelical style of personal relationship with God, but with Trump.
Exactly. And Trump is a manifestation of God.
He is like a prophet. He is treated like a prophet.
But yeah, that's precisely what it is. Oh, yeah, what is he doing around remember when he filled up a 757 with cash
Billions of dollars of cash
And he sent it over to them then they gave him tens of billions of dollars
He chose a rant over
Israel and really the Arab world if you look because you know the other Saudi Arabia
Qatar UAE
I mean you take a look
I mean I can add Kuwait and I can add Bahrain and you can add others
he chose such an unlikely candidate. Nobody could believe it. Frankly, if you're going
to choose between Iraq and Iran, he should have chosen, he should have befriended Iraq.
He went in the exact opposite direction of all thinking, and he made a terrible mistake.
But that was a road to a nuclear weapon. And when I terminated that, everyone said,
oh, he terminated it. It was one of the best things we ever did, because he had
wrote to a nuclear weapon. And it was a very short-term deal. You know, countries don't
do 10-year deals. Countries do hundreds of years. You don't do a 10-year deal. For a
country, you need, this isn't, you're a landlord, you're renting a store on a certain street
and you give somebody a five-year or a 10-year lease. This is a country. It was a short-term
deal. It was ready to expire. I terminated it before it expired. It took a lot of
heat and it was one of the best things I ever did because he would have had a
a nuclear weapon. Then he would have had another nuclear weapon, had those beautiful B-2 bombers
not gone in eight months ago, and obliterated that set. And by the way, the word is obliteration.
CNN said, well, maybe it wasn't complete. It was so complete that they still haven't
been able to get it. It was obliteration. But if we didn't hit them, that was a courageous
decision too, because we had all those planes flying in at night with very little
our unbelievable stealth planes and they were able to do their job. If we didn't do that, Iran would
have had a nuclear weapon at a high level, either one of those two instances. A nuclear weapon at a
high level, not at a low level nuclear weapon. I told this to Bibi Netanyahu yesterday.
Israel would have been extinguished. Large portions of the Middle East would have been
extinguished whether it's Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE or others and you saw that with thousands
of missiles raining down upon them they didn't think they were going to be hit they thought
they'd be watching us fight and all of a sudden UAE got hit by 1,500 missiles he would
have taken them out also and they were powerful if I didn't come along and terminate the
Obama deal which was terrible the Iran nuclear deal was another contradiction from the Republican
perspective that I always find very strange is the fact that Republicans are supposed
to demonstrate like the maximum manifestation of American exceptionalism, American individualism
and selfishness, right? And they've shown that when it comes to Ukraine, right? Cast aside
your own personal opinion on like why Russia invaded Ukraine or whatever the fuck, right?
And remember that Republicans under the directive of Donald Trump very quickly launched an
argument that we shouldn't defend Ukraine at all, right, and we shouldn't be spending
money on Ukraine at all, and that although they are engaging in a defensive war, trying
to purge a Russian invasion from their national boundaries, that that was totally and wholly
unjustifiable, our support, right?
And what's really interesting is that they don't have that same ambition for Israel.
You could absolutely make this argument on moral grounds to not, to discontinue our endless
and unlimited support to Israel.
We've given a tremendous amount more support to Israel.
And now in the process of waging Israel's war on Iran, we've actually lost a shit ton
more of our assets and even put our soldiers, active duty soldiers, in the line of fire.
Some of them have died, hundreds of casualties, have the Iranian resistance has delivered hundreds
of casualties.
We don't even know the full numbers.
And it's really strange that Republicans don't turn around and have a similar isolationist
attitude towards Israel.
some problems and some different problems and I don't think they bring death
I mean you know to themselves but I'd rather have them stand
Thank you Mr. President for the question
Deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure violate the gymnetic interventions
and international law. Who you with? I'm with the New York Times
I was all in front of the New York Times. Are you failing? Are you
complicitulation way down at the New York Times? Are you concerned about your threat to bomb
power plants and verges amount for the crimes.
I hope I don't have to do it.
But again, I just said 47 years they've been negotiating with these people.
They're great negotiators because they're not going to have a nuclear weapon.
And if somebody that takes my place someday is weak and ineffective, which possibly that
will happen because we had numerous presidents that were weak, ineffective, and afraid
of Iran.
We're never going to let Iran have a nuclear weapon, and if you think it's okay for people
that are sick of mind, that are tough, smart, and sick, really sick, idealized, you know,
from a colorful standpoint, from a standpoint, any which way you want to say, mentally,
these are the people that you think I'm going to allow them, and colorful and rich,
you have a
nuclear weapon you can tell your friends at the new york times
america and israel objectively are more maligned forces around the globe and yet
both of these countries have nuclear arms
i'm i'm very sincerely saying this and i don't think there's any dispute if you
are
uh... remotely critical about
uh... if you if you have the capabilities of analysis here
You look at the belligerent ways in which Israel and America have conducted themselves,
and you look at the ways, oftentimes the restrained ways in which, yeah, I meant Malignant, did
I say Malined?
I'm sorry.
But you look at the ways in which Israel and America have conducted themselves, the reality
is clear.
Iran is a much more restrained, Iran is a much more restrained actor here.
they are much more stable
okay american israel on the other hand are fucking insane period of both of
these countries also have their own version of like weird theological
justifications for their unlimited violence
israel obviously as the
greater israel project
uh... and uh... uh... america has uh... white evangelical uh... christianity
white evangelical zionism as well
uh... both are very violent projects
and and uh... they're violent domestically with domestic repression is
rules occupation palestinians
america's occupation of the undocumented migrants and in black and brown
people in general
uh... and and then also uh... a shit ton of uh... ultra violence when it comes
to their foreign policy as well a lot of people are affected by this
we're giving them uh...
we're giving them to tomorrow
eight o'clock eastern time
and after that
They're gonna have no bridges.
They're gonna have no power plants.
Even this statement alone, Stone Ages, yeah.
Iran has not said such a thing.
Iran has not said such a thing about America,
nor Israel really, like,
and they have every right to do so.
They were attacked first.
Are you reopening the Strait of Hormuz
or is that now a top priority?
I would say it's a very big priority
because, see, that's one thing
that's a little different than other things.
We can bomb the hell out of them.
We can knock them out for a little bit.
But to close the straight, all you need is one terrorist
that somehow has a truck loaded with,
because you can carry them in trucks, large trucks.
What?
A water mine.
Drop them in the water.
A truck?
And now you tell people that own ships
that cost a billion dollars.
Does he keep a strip of marmalade online?
What the fuck?
You can do that even just by saying
we put mines in the water.
So it's not like the rest.
We can knock out their military.
We already have.
We've knocked out their navy.
We've knocked out their efforts completely.
We've knocked out 158 ships.
In three days, we've knocked out even their mind droppers.
They don't have any mind droppers anymore,
but they put them on other boats and they could drop them.
I'm not even sure they have any minds here, by the way.
I'm not sure.
I'm personally, they say there might be eight.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I think there might be none
because they're very good bullshit artists.
That's why for 47 years,
they've been bullshitting other presidents.
Does he think like trucks load up water mines
They just like roll it off of a hill.
You live in that country, they're living in hell.
Like he thinks the Iranian,
the IRGC is like rolling off mines off of a hill
into the water.
They're in the back of a truck.
They've ever been, they have no Navy,
they have no Air Force, they have no anti-aircraft weaponry,
they have no radar, they have no communication.
In fact, the biggest problem we have in our negotiation
is that they can't communicate.
They said to Steve, what are they saying?
They can't communicate. They have no method of communication.
So we're communicating like they used to communicate 2,000 years ago with children
bringing a note back and forth. They have no communication.
But all I want to see is I want to have a safe world.
And you're not going to have a safe world.
Israel will be gone. The Middle East will be gone.
And then they're coming for Europe.
And I have to tell you, I'm very disappointed in NATO.
if they're, if they're incapable of communication, how are they fucking tweeting and doing media
hits over and over again?
I mean, you see me on Wednesday, they're gonna say, oh, we'll do this, we'll do that.
Now they all of a sudden want to send things, you know.
But they said it loud and clear at the beginning when I spoke to UK of all, I would have
said they would have been the first because they've been, they're the oldest.
Also, yes, of course he's admitting that there's no negotiations.
would rather wait till you win. I said I don't need help after we win. They have
two old broken aircraft carriers, barely work. I said I guess we can use them. Who
the hell knows? I called the general. He didn't even want to. He said we don't really need them.
We got we got the SS Abraham Lincoln, sir. We don't need them. You know we have
in terms of technology we had one day 101 missiles going at 2,700 miles an hour.
aimed at the Abraham Lincoln 101 missiles. Out of 101 missiles 101 missiles were
shot down. Unbelievable technology. Ten years ago, five years ago, I don't know
that would have been possible, but ten years ago that wouldn't have been that
wouldn't have been possible. 101 missiles heading to a ship that's not
that far off the coast and out of the 101 missiles we shut down all 101 we have weaponry the patriots
are unbelievable we have weaponry that's unbelievable y'all
go ahead please thank you mr. president you said earlier today during the annual that you would
like to take a wrong soil what americans what the best forces howl correct what's that trade
If I had my choice, if I had my choice, because I'm a businessman first.
With Venezuela, as you know, the war was over in about 45 minutes, and we have great people
running Venezuela, very good people, I mean, the relationship is good, and we are a partner
with Venezuela.
And we've taken hundreds of millions of barrels, hundreds of millions, over 100 million
barrels already is in Houston refined and out and paid for that war many many
times over many times and you know the old days to the victim okay you know that
to the to the winner belong the spoils go the spoils and I've said why don't we
use it to the victor go the spoils and we don't have that we haven't had that
in this country probably in a hundred years because even the second world
where you look at the Second World War. We didn't have it with the Second World War. We helped
rebuild all those countries. We rebuilt Germany. How about Germany telling us? Germany telling us
that, well, it's not their war. We had nothing to do with it. They wanted me to go and tell them
everything I was doing. We didn't know anything about it. Well, if I would have told them,
they would have leaked it, and we wouldn't have been nearly as successful, possibly, right?
but to the victor belong to swells so we haven't heard we haven't heard that in
I think maybe hundreds of years now with Venezuela and we just say understand the
people of Venezuela they say if I ran for president of Venezuela I'm pulling
higher than anybody has ever pulled in Venezuela so after I'm finished with
this I can go to Venezuela I will quickly learn Spanish it won't take
too long. I'm good at language and I will go to run for president, but we're very happy
with the president elect that we have right now. The people that are running it. If you
remember Bush with Iraq, they fired the generals, they fired the police, they fired the people
that worked in their equivalent of the White House. They fired everybody and you know,
they had, they had a mess and you know what happened? ISIS formed.
Okay, he's not wrong about this. He's not wrong about this.
The police got together, they all got together.
He is right about this. He's saying like the reason why we are operating with the same system, but with like significantly larger levers of coercion is because in the absence of that, the instability born out of like a bombing campaign and permanent military occupation and just like destroying regular civil society, ironically enough, what he's trying to do in Iran, would be devastating for Venezuela.
And we wouldn't be able to extract that sweet oil from the ground
They were all set
they saw that big beautiful aircraft carrier the fort in that case and
Planes were pouring off at 1 o'clock in the morning
So typically when you see that late at night, you know, so to be fair to be fair to Trump or what he's saying here
He's trying to make it seem like he has a totally new attitude a totally new version of
of neocon war hawkery and in some ways it is true right except I guess you know
it's not always the same like in Iran as long as there is like some resistance
on the ground it's very clear that he will go back to you know business as
usual aerial bombing campaigns and maybe even boots on the ground military war
They pressed the button, nothing happened.
They pressed it again and again, nothing happened.
And he said, we knew this whole thing was over in three minutes.
We've never seen any, he used the word ferocity, the ferocity of these planes from 17 different
angles and it was over.
They went inside and remember that was at a military base with thousands of soldiers.
And those soldiers looked and they said, get the hell out of here, thousands.
We didn't have thousands.
had like 200 people. So we have a great military and I'll tell you what, somehow this rescue
captured the world's attention. More so than normally you're talking about two people, but
this rescue captured the world's attention, but we did it in Venezuela, that was amazing
and now we have a very bad man in prison and going to trial, I mean he, he released
You are the very bad man.
Aside from the drugs which he was having.
Like, this is another part of the puzzle where it's like,
who gives a fuck about what any other country's president does?
As an American, you can have that attitude
and that's fine, right?
I mean, it's just a lie that we tell ourselves
that we care about liberating these people anyway.
But also, our president, our president is a far, far worse
actor than any other president in any other country.
Okay, just on foreign policy alone.
Look at what the fuck we're doing currently
to the rest of the planet.
Look at what we're doing currently
to the rest of the planet.
And he's like openly saying like they're animals.
We're gonna bomb them into oblivion.
We're gonna kill all of them.
Literal convicted rapist doing rape
to the rest of the planet.
I'm gonna hand send him to the police.
So baby one or two more will be done.
We'll be done.
Mr. President, are you allowed to-
He's right.
The world respects America now
and we'll think twice before messing with it.
Yeah, no, definitely.
For passage through the street.
He's answering questions for two hours, standing at eight years old.
Dude, oh my god, Trump glazers are so funny.
Oh my god.
Hold on, I gotta listen to this.
We won.
Oh!
They are militarily defeated.
The only thing they have is the psychology of, oh, whether to drop a couple of mines
in the water, all right?
That's not what they've done.
They're collecting tolls.
George tells your question your question your question would have been more
accurate if you said us just to clarify in order for Iran to successfully meet
your deadline tomorrow do they have to make a deal open the street or both we
have to have a deal that's acceptable and part of that deal is going to be we
one free traffic of oil and everything.
Thank you very much.
You've said Goryvita God in this conflict.
Do you believe that God supports the United States actions in this conflict?
I do it because God is good.
Because God is good
and God wants to save people.
Dog, dog, dog, dog, dog.
Take him care of God.
Iranians are the crazy.
Iranians are the crazy religious cellists, by the way.
I don't enjoy this.
These two guys don't enjoy this.
How is it different? They say the same shit.
We literally are doing the same words.
We're larping.
We're larping like we are the Iowa Tola.
The person who won the Nobel Prize came to me
and said,
J.J. McClarke's that elected this fucking Dutch shit.
When they announced, they said,
Ghost of Maria, she's a great person, really a good person.
She said, no, no, no.
This is ridiculous.
They gave me the Nobel Prize.
President Trump ended eight wars.
I could go over every one of them, including India and Pakistan, where the Prime Minister
of Pakistan said President Trump saved from 30 to 50 million lives.
That makes me much happier than what we're doing right now.
That makes me much happier.
We have one more to end, by the way.
Okay.
President.
He's like, come on, I ended an eight-baked war.
Let me get a new one.
crazy bastards. What is your response to critics who say that it is your mental health that should
perhaps be examined as this war has changed? I haven't heard that but if that's the case you're
going to have to have more people like me because our country was being ripped off on trade or
everything for many years until I came along so if that's the case you're going to have to
have to have more people.
Josh, you got it.
Josh, you got it.
You said that very little is off limits in Iran as far as the targeting, including power
plants, bridges, you've mentioned those.
Very little is off limits.
Are there certain kinds of civilian targets, though, I'm thinking?
I don't want to tell you that.
I don't want to tell you that.
We have a plan, because of the power of our military, where every bridge in Iran
will be decimated
by twelve o'clock tomorrow night
where every power plant
in iran will be
out of business burning
exploding and really good guys and i don't want to be
there is a good guy shit by twelve o'clock
and i don't know if you're going to have to speak with your own liberator
we don't want that to happen
we may even get involved with helping them rebuild their nation
and you know what if that's the case the last thing we want to do is start
with power plants, which were among the most expensive thing and bridges.
You saw the bridge, the bridge one.
We were very close to a deal.
And then I got a call from Mr. Whitcov, Mr. Custer, and JD saying, I think they're breaking
the deal.
I said, tell them that's okay, don't worry about it, but tell them to look out their
window and watch.
And within 45 minutes, I gave the order to knock out the biggest bridge.
I gave the order to knock out the biggest bridge in, I believe the Middle East, but the biggest
bridge in Iran.
And within 10 minutes after I gave that order, that bridge was over.
So do I want to do that?
No.
Do I want to destroy their infrastructure?
No.
It will take them 100 years to rebuild.
Right now, if we left today, it would take them 20 years to rebuild their country, and
it would never be as good as it was.
And the only way they're going to be able to rebuild their country is to utilize the genius
of the United States of America.
You've voiced your displeasure with NATO in the past.
Is there a danger to the U.S. not being the de facto leader of the alliance and
then other powers within the alliance than getting the decision making when it comes
to war is it clear what that is?
Yeah, no, it's not a danger.
Natives, look, we went to NATO, I didn't ask very strongly, I just said, hey, if you want
to help, great.
No, no, no, we will not help.
I said, that's all right, you don't want to help?
Because I've always said NATO is a paper tiger.
See, NATO is a paper tiger.
Putin's not afraid of NATO.
Putin is afraid of us.
NATO is very afraid of us.
Should he be alive?
He's been to me a lot of times.
Calling NATO a paper tiger is calling America a paper tiger, which is, you know, technically
not true. I mean, it's technically true, so. When we needed them, but we didn't need them,
by the way. We are NATO. NATO was nothing without us. Obviously. What are we talking about?
We didn't help at all. Just the opposite. They're actually out of the way, not to help.
They didn't even want to give us landing strips. Think of it. It's not just NATO. You know,
who else didn't help? Okay, this does actually confirm my theory, though. It is JD Pondon.
It is JD Pondon. He is a Maoist Third Worldist. He just keeps saying America and America's
extension NATO is a paper tiger. It's very clearly third world to speak. My president is
doing permanent first world genocide. Let's be fucking real to protect us from
Kim Jong-un, who I get along with very well, as you know, do you notice he said very nice
things about me. He used to call Joe Biden a mentally retarded person. Okay. So don't
tell me about your stuff. Joe Biden, he said he's a mentally retarded person. He was so nasty
to Joe Barnard's dad. But to me he likes Trump. And do you notice how nice things are with
North Korea? It's very nice. But we have 45,000 people, soldiers, in harm's way. And right
next to Kim Jong-un with a lot of nuclear weapons, 45,000, which shouldn't have ever
happened if a certain president, I'm not going to mention this president because I
happen to like him, believe it or not, but if a certain president did his job,
Kim Jong-un would not have nuclear weapons right now,
but they're all afraid to do their job properly.
But just to conclude, and just to finish,
Japan didn't help us, Australia didn't help us,
South Korea didn't help us,
and then you get to NATO, NATO didn't help us.
There were some countries that did.
Now, countries that have been good,
now you could also say they're,
gotta be a little bit more involved
because they're in the territory,
but Saudi Arabia has been excellent,
Qatar has been excellent,
UAE has been excellent.
Bahrain, Kuwait.
I mean Kuwait did shoot down three of our planes.
The only planes really that we lost were
Friendly Fire and the Kuwait.
I go at Unfriendly Fire.
They unfortunately didn't know how to use our great patriots.
The pilots said, what kind of missiles coming at us?
Patriot.
Boom, they got out.
Because they know a patriot never misses.
So they had beautiful patriots.
There were planes heading in their direction.
Unfortunately, they decided to shoot those planes.
They were our planes.
So Nornado is a paper tiger.
Now he's coming to see me on Wednesday, as you know.
He's a wonderful guy.
Secretary General is great.
And Mark Ruta.
He's a great person, but he's got.
He calls me daddy.
And you know, it all began with.
That's why he likes it.
His Mark Ruta calls Trump daddy.
I don't want to give it to them so they see it.
Bye-bye.
Mr. Nathal, I love you Mr. President.
I love you.
Mr. President, what is all the lies again?
Fisers for Americans, what concerns?
I don't know.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
That was something.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know how to explain what we just watched.
I mean, that was definitely somewhat more productive,
I guess, than the address that he had to the nation.
But overall, most of the questions in that room
are literally like, Mr. President, you're the goat.
Mr. President, you are the greatest.
You are the legend.
I love you.
Mr. President, can you fuck my wife?
What do you think about giving nuclear weapons
more nukes to Israel?
like Mr. President, everyone is saying you have the fattest penis. What do you have to
say about that? You know, stuff like that, very cool, very cool things, very productive
session overall. And convince more than ever that the 25th Amendment is fictional scripture.
Yes. I mean, all rules are worth nothing if you don't actually utilize them when
it's necessary, right? So, none of these, none of these regulations matter, none of these rules matter
if we're not willing to use them for their design purpose, right?
And that's, that's basically what it is. Rules don't really exist as it stands currently
because the Trump administration does not care. Trump was even more insane apparently
earlier in the morning before he did the White House press conference was getting out of his plane.
Let's take a look at what some of his choice quotes from then.
He always asks who you with like he used to do that exclusively for like CNN and New York Times
and whatnot back in the day now he just like anytime someone has a contentious
question he's like who are you with who are you with who are you with who are you
with who are you with who are you with fucking annoying
radical left group of lunatics let me just tell you let me just tell you
very fair question. The Iranian people, when they don't hear bombs go up, they're upset.
They want to hear bombs because they want to be free. And the only reason they're now protesting,
you know that, is because they were informed that if they protest, like the wrestler and his friends,
if they protest, they will be shot immediately. And that's an edict, that's in writing.
Yeah, he's liberating them from their mortal coil.
Classic American response, classic American take, when you're a hammer, everything looks
like a nail.
He's just, I mean, they're going to try and turn Iran into Gaza, clearly, and then claim
that this is like liberating the Iranians from the IRGC.
like Israel liberated the Palestinians from Hamas. Some logic there, they love hearing
the bombings the craziest thing I've ever heard. Yeah, I mean, it's unbelievably stupid. And
yet, it works. I mean, everything works. When you think about it, he can say whatever
he wants really because it's not like there's two problems here okay number one
even if the overwhelming majority of Americans are like why are we doing this
we should stop this right now which is the case that is what's going on
currently that is what the overwhelming majority of Americans are saying it
doesn't really matter because we are less responsive than ever before to
democratic pressures, right? Like, unlike ever before, I mean, one can make the
argument that we were never really responsive when it comes to foreign
policy, foreign policies by partisans, unit party, it doesn't really matter, and
it's thought of the behest of capital owners, sure. But, like, this level of
unpopularity is not even shaking the administration's confidence, okay?
That's number one. Number two, he maintains his base. He maintains his base of support,
no matter what he says. No one is holding them, no one is holding him to account. They just hear
what they want to hear and they don't hear what they, what contradicts their worldview.
It's crazy.
That's just how it is. So if you're wondering why, like the cult is not moving, regardless
of all of the signals showing that this is going to be devastating overall, it's because
they're a cult and they don't understand that Donald Trump is destroying the global
energy markets and also wasting tax dollars while simultaneously making their immediate
lives worse, not addressing the inflation crisis at all, which he said he was going
to combat making it worse. As a matter of fact, the only thing he could hold on to was
like how low the gas prices were, if you recall. And now he can't even do that and
it doesn't even matter. No one even cares. It's very frustrating, very frustrating
to watch. In any case, here's Al Jazeera last night, right before, right on cue, Barak Unit
8200 Reveed, for the for the ball knowers and the enjoyers, right before market open, came
out and released yet another incredible piece of, I don't even want to call it journalism.
It's just like pro-regime propaganda, honestly, where he did one of his classic,
oh, there's a deal that's imminent, right? He said, in a last-dish push,
the US, Iran, and a group of regional mediators are discussing the terms of potential 45-day
ceasefire that could lead to a permanent end of the war, according to four US-Israelian
regional sources. My story on Axios, I said, wow, just in time for the markets.
Thanks, Barak. Now, of course, that didn't even have the impact that it was supposed to
have because even the markets are like, come on, man, you do this every fucking Sunday night,
get out of here. You literally do this every Sunday night. It's so funny that they're just
right on cue every fucking Sunday, shameless, immediately going, no, you don't understand.
It's just, yeah, a peace deal is imminent, right? Of course, Iran said, no, that's not the case.
Here is Donald Trump then talking about the Tuesday deadline and and more
thousands and thousands of flights and you have one plane shot down and not
mortally the new balance got out they got a little bit lucky and you know what
in war you need a little bit of luck also they got a little bit lucky that's all
right good end very quickly the war they do what they have to do they have to
do certain things they know that they've been negotiating I think we've
had total regime change you know the people there now are much more
reasonable than the lunatics that you had. In phase one and phase two there were lunatics.
The people that we're discussing with now on behalf of Iran are much more reasonable. You
can call it what you want, but I call it regime change and I think most people are giving
us credit for that. The first regime was taken out, the second regime was taken out.
Now the third group of people that we're dealing with is not as radicalized and we
think they're actually much smarter.
I'm only to make my point, I think you've heard it before.
I'm going to be doing it right now.
What do you say to Americans who are not talented?
They're foolish because the war is about one thing.
iran cannot have a nuclear weapon
just saw a guy on twitter say you're wearing a Rolex in your cuba video
care to address the billion dollar watch allegations
i got a roly on my wrist
always
it might look like a
like an apple watch but it's actually a roly
uh... big face big face roly on my wrist
had we not
broken the
broccasin obama agreement you know that you know what i'm talking about the
the red nuclear deal. This is years ago my first term. You would have had a total
Do you think to end the shanting death to America and wrap a development of a nuclear
program weren't the real threat in the future? What would be an alternative? Let
Iran develop their missile and nuclear programs and support paramilitary groups
around the region just asking not curious, but just asking curious not
hating. Yes. Okay. Countries have a perfectly valid reason to be able
to create military deterrence. And yes, Iran and the region would absolutely be more stable
if Iran had nukes. Ironically enough, the guys that this administration actually killed
on the first salvo were the guys who were holding back Iran's nuclear program and Iran's
nuclear ambitions. The only reason why they enriched uranium beyond civilian use was
to try to get america back to the
uh... negotiations process so they could get some sanctions relief
uh... and what he just talked about ironically enough
with uh... uh... the jcp o a brocco bomb is attempts
at normalizing relations with iran unfreezing some of its assets and and
maybe even dangling sanctions relief in the long term
uh... that was actually an incredibly successful way to get iran to to
uh... no longer
uh... develop nuclear arms no longer have a a
uh... nuclear project
and it was a multilateral commitment from both china russia and
european allies was a
very long and convoluted process
and bro falls none of the shea muslims wanted iran nuclear stop selling
nonsense wait what
sunni
muslims wanted iran nuclear
what are you saying
In any case, yes, I think that the region would be far more
stable if Iran had nukes, because they wouldn't be able
to do this stuff.
They wouldn't be able to blow up Iran.
They wouldn't be able to do these unlimited bombing
campaigns over Iran if they had nukes because of nuclear
deterrence.
And therefore, the Strait of Hormuz would not be closed
right now.
Therefore, the global energy markets would not be fucked
right now.
So the reality of the matter is Iran tried negotiations over and over again with the United States of America,
but most Americans are completely oblivious to it because Americans unfortunately are some of the most propagandized people on the planet.
And as far as like them saying death to America, I mean of course they're going to say death to America.
For 47 years we have actively destroyed this country, we've actively crippled this country's economy,
actively tried to kill Iranians and have killed Iranians. We've also allowed our regional
ally, our unsingable aircraft carrier in the region to destabilize the entire region over
and over again in increasingly more bloody ways, including but not limited to the genocide
of Palestinians in Gaza that unfolded over the course of the last two and a half years.
So from their perspective, it's perfectly understandable that they say death to Israel
death to America, why wouldn't they say that? I mean, we say that to them and on top of that,
unlike Iran, we have actually delivered death to Iran, right? We did. In the Iran-Iraq war,
our guy Saddam Hussein, many of you might not know this, did actually wage a fairly bloody war
against Iran. That was devastating.
So, of course, perfectly rational for them to say that.
But if you listen to any of the sober analysts and military generals, and even people like
Joe Kent, who were in the administration until like a month ago, they very openly admit
that Iran never actually presented a significant threat to the United States of America.
None of these countries have ever presented a significant threat to the United States
of America.
Iraq didn't, Afghanistan certainly didn't, and Iran is no different, right?
And we have lied in different ways about why we had to wage war in all of these countries,
and these were very costly wars, these were very destabilizing wars.
It created a refugee crisis.
In Europe, obviously America, given its proximity, has always been sheltered from the worst
impacts of the instability that it creates all around the world.
But the reality of the matter is, yes, Donald Trump is showing the world right now that it
is the absolute worst way to deal with Iran.
This is the absolute worst way to deal with Iran.
Barack Obama's dealings with Iran was an infinitely better way of dealing with Iran.
If you truly were fearful of Iran receiving a nuclear weapon, then you should be celebrating
Barack Obama and you should be damning Donald Trump to hell every day because he actually,
unlike Donald Trump, successfully engaged in diplomacy and was able to stop the nuclear
grade enrichment of uranium.
So it doesn't even make sense from your stated purpose, your stated goals.
Well, Israel would have been gone, extinguished.
Israel would have been wiped off the face of the earth.
See, this is what I mean.
It's like we never talk about this with Ukraine.
Like Donald Trump, if someone were to be like,
if we did not intervene and aid Ukraine,
as Russia was waging its unjustifiable
invasion of Ukraine, Donald Trump would be like,
why should I care?
Who gives a fuck?
Right?
But when it comes to Israelis, like,
well, if it wasn't for us, Israel would be ended.
It would be gone.
And of course there's, you know, like a lot of Americans also
are probably not looking at this and going,
oh, thank God we actually did this for Israel
because a lot of Americans have a negative opinion
of Israel for good reason.
So I think this is a very unpopular narrative.
It might be popular for the evangelical Christian Zionists
which make up, you know, a healthy chunk
of the Trump base, the MAGA base.
But for the rest of the country,
that's not in that thirty percent
this kind of sentiment
doesn't actually read well with them or sit well with them at all
when they hear this they go what a fuck should i care this is so ridiculous
fuck you
the entire middle east would have been
at a minimum in big trouble but i did it
that was phase one we killed solomani
without solomani if they had solomani would be a whole different thing
would still be winning but it would have been harder
because we are obliterating the country and i hate to do it but we're obliterating and they just don't
want to say uncle they don't want to cry as he expressed he goes uncle but they will and if they
don't and they'll have no bridges they'll have no power plants they'll have no anything i want to
i won't go first the problem here is that iran has engaged in maximum deterrence
Quite successfully, if I might add, shutting down the Shred of Hormuz, only allowing tankers that
they are escorting to pass through the Shred of Hormuz after they pay a toll, generating
revenue to make up for all the loss revenue and all the damaged assets. All of that shows
that they are capable of being a regional actor that has a lot more power than America thought
it did. Or rather, I think a lot of people in America also knew that Iran had this
capability. That's part of the reason why they didn't do this, right? Because it's
not like Israel didn't want to destroy Iran since the 90s. I mean, America, like
I said, engaged in a proxy war against Iran with the Iraqi forces, right, with
Saddam Hussein. So this was always in the cards for us, but a big part of the
reason why we never fully entertained this in the way that Donald Trump is
entertained bombing Iran, doing a decapitation strike, maybe even trying to
foment instability and potentially, potentially,
Balkanize Iran. The reason why we didn't do it is because many in the
intelligence community and our generals understood that Iran would be able to
very effectively, with ease, shut off the Shredda Formos and cause a global
energy crash. And that's happening right now. Now the problem is the rest of the
world that are a part of the American security umbrella, America's allies have
to go back to America and demand change because it's very clear that Donald
Trump does not care. He keeps repeatedly saying over and over again, I don't care if you blow
up American companies in the region. I don't care if you blow up the Gulf. I don't care
if you shut off oil and gas transfers to the Asian markets. None of that matters to me,
even if it's actually giving China a significant upper hand.
And part of the reason why he can say stuff like this is
because in some ways he's not wrong, America is sheltered by
proximity of the worst impacts of this instability that it is
creating around the world. And therefore, it gets to be a
very selfish country, okay, as it wages this war.
So, the calculation from the Iranian side,
when I look at it, is now in the hands
of European security partners of America
and the Asian security partners of America,
and perhaps even China as well,
to apply pressure to Donald Trump
to come to the table and give Iran,
Basically, most of the demands that Iran is making, right, sanctions relief, allowing
it to remain a sovereign nation, all this stuff without American interference.
Because in the absence of American partners pressuring America to stop, it's clear to
me that America is not going to stop.
Even if the gas price keep going up at the pump and Americans get more and more mad,
and even if Trump's MAGA base starts retreating from their previous positions that this is
actually good, I don't see Donald Trump moving from this position of doing maximum damage
to Iran.
And I worry, given that he has warned that Tuesday night at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific
is going to be when he blows up every Iranian power plant as he has claimed he's going
to do in all the bridges in Iran.
I worry that Iran's retaliation when that happens will be to destroy 20% of the entire
world's oil and gas supply.
Going up the escalation ladder on the American and Israeli side has always led to Iran also
going up the escalation ladder in kind in an effort to develop deterrence.
If Iran doesn't do that, it has no power.
If Iran doesn't do that, then they might as well give up.
And that's precisely what Donald Trump wants them to do.
So in some ways they have to do it.
Right?
Because this is now, for Iran, a battle for sovereignty.
For Iran, it's a battle to protect 93 million people.
They have to do whatever they can.
What's Trump's end goal?
Is this only for Israel?
As I don't even see this helping American business.
Yeah, I mean, he got entangled.
You got goaded into this by Israel.
He was the only one crazy enough to do it.
And basically, unless European partners, which
are now going to Iran to do bilateral relations,
to develop bilateral relations, go back to the United States
of America and say, you have to stop this.
This is going to destroy the world.
There's no turning back from this.
And this is what I have been saying from the start, right?
From the jump, I've said, this is about munitions.
And Anthony Blinken has also echoed this sentiment as well.
So you know it's a solid analysis, I guess.
Since he's no longer in power, he
gets to be critical of America and Israel's endeavors.
This is about bullets in capital.
If there's tremendous pressure from capital owners to quit, then Trump has to respond
to it.
It's about the markets.
If Trump can't manage the markets and manipulate the markets adequately as it wages this war
of choice and continues conducting terrorism, if there is enough pressure that is mounted
on Trump from capital owners, he'll have to back away.
The other type of pressure he could receive potentially
is diplomatic pressure from allies.
Will he listen to them?
I don't know.
But if there's enough,
if there's enough overwhelming consensus
from European partners,
from the Latin American countries,
from the Asian partners,
he might have to yield.
And then the last part of this design,
this gamble,
is if America and Israel run out of bullets.
Obviously, even America's offensive capabilities
have diminished in this process.
We have deployed a tremendous percentage
of our standoff munitions.
And part of the reason why we're doing that
is because we're not capable of just flying over
Iranian airspace in spite of the fact that Donald Trump has claimed that we have air superiority
over the entirety of the Iranian airspace. It's not the case. It's part of the reason why we're
still deploying standoff munitions. A lot more offensive weapons than we thought we would deploy.
Then also on the other side, you have the defensive munitions.
America is running out of those two. That's precisely the reason why Iran has been able to effectively strike targets both in the heart of Israel and maybe even on the Israeli military targets. We don't have enough information on that unfortunately.
Well, also simultaneously hitting whichever target they see fit in the Gulf.
So, at a certain point, there's going to be a cost-benefit analysis.
Is Trump capable of engaging in a cost-benefit analysis that forces him to retreat?
Fuck no.
That's why he has to get a million boss calls before he actually retreats.
But in the absence of that pressure from European leaders, from Asian leaders, from capital
owners, Jamie Dimon calling him to be like, cut it out, you're a fucking idiot, what are
you doing?
It's just not going to happen.
I think he would blow up the rest of the world.
Because there are other things that are worse than those two and we might have
Well, if I had my choice, what would I like to do?
Take the oil, because it's there for the detectives, not a thing they can
No hate at all, but do we really run out of munitions?
Or we ran out of munitions in the region?
Is that why all those planes and boats got shipped out the other day to resupply?
We're desperately pulling in munitions from our global stockpiles.
So, yes, obviously this stuff is super classified and it's all speculative, but you can make
assessments on, let's say, whether America has accomplished its military objectives of
successfully deteriorating Iranian strike capabilities by looking at Iran's hit rate
the successes that they are achieving in terms of lobbing missiles still from
Iranian airspace into Israel. This proves two things. One, we haven't actually been
able to attrit their striking capabilities. And two, we haven't been
able to, or two, Israel's defensive munitions are running out. So they have
to move those assets to areas of high need, you know, politicians, heads of state, heads of the
military, and also protect the military assets. This creates an environment where there's not a
lot of anti-air defense capabilities in civilian areas and maybe even some of the military
targets as well are some of the industrial targets that Iran has been striking.
The other thing that we can infer from the types of weapons that America is using,
standoff munitions that they're deploying, at an alarming rate, some estimates say that America
is used up the majority of its long range missiles in a matter of 37 days. This shows that we
are not utilizing our unguided gravity bombs that we could potentially drop from our airplanes.
We have that, we have gravity bombs, they're much less complicated to develop.
We have that in abundance.
So the fact that we're not using those, and we're using instead incredibly costly missiles
that we don't have an infinite supply of, implies that we don't have full confidence
in our air superiority, okay?
That means that America has not been able to, especially paired up with the fact that Iran
was able to take out an F-15 on Iranian soil and an A-10 warthog and numerous other assets
alongside, you know, Mark 9, MQ-9 Reaper drones and plenty of other aerial assets, implies
that Iran still has some capabilities of mounting successful air defenses.
Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home. If it were up to me,
I'd take the oil, I'd keep the oil, and would make plenty of money. And it would
You also take care of the people of Iran much better than they've been taking care of it's
been horrible.
They've killed 40.
My mom wants to know why there are so many hit pieces on you this week.
It's because Democrats are more worried about people like myself that represent people like
you and our voices being heard than Donald Trump continuing to propaganda.
Their priorities are not about combating Trump.
priorities are very clearly about aligning with MAGA as a matter of fact to attack, to
consistently attack their left flank. And that's precisely what they're doing. I think
it's pretty clear. I think it's pretty clear why. That's why I always say, look. Look
at my naysayers. Look at their profiles. Look at their background. And key search,
the word Gaza, Israel, genocide, and you will know exactly why this is happening, okay?
They're worried about prominent critics of Israel gaining a foothold in American discourse.
They don't want prominent critics of Israel to be legitimized.
They think foolishly that people did not independently arrive at their conclusions about Israel
after two and a half years of genocide, but instead they got hypnotized by the likes
of someone like myself, and they can't attack the overwhelming majority of the population
that is demanding a change in our relationship with Israel, especially at a time when it's
very clear that we're waging this incredibly costly and incredibly bloody war at the behest
of Israel. They can't, you know, criticize the overwhelming majority of the public, so
they just like seek out, outspoken critics of Israel to try and humiliate them, to
try and bully them into submission and it hasn't worked, but that hasn't stopped them.
They're going to keep writing these fucking articles.
I think it's backfiring on them regardless.
But at the end of the day, the question remains, what's worse, a genocide or a vulgar
critic of genocide, vulgarity being deployed while criticizing said genocide, right?
And that's it.
They're not attacking me necessarily.
They're attacking everyone that has the same attitude, everyone that shares the
the same resentment. To use a Trumpian term, they're not coming after me. They're coming
after you. I'm just in the way, right? And they have not ceased in their ridiculous attacks.
Click this link and you will see who hates you. Bulwark. The Sampagra is drawn to political
violence, whether it's Hamas rapists, Manjyona shooting at defenseless and innocent healthcare
executive or Putin pursuing his imperial expansion, sounds awfully familiar.
This whole piece is unhinged, penned by a former writer for the National Review, former
staffer in the Reagan administration, cheerleader of the Iraq War, who wrote in 2008 for the
Jewish Policy Center, a missive demanding that the U.S. not leave Iraq, but take Vienna,
saying if we withdrew the Islamists from Bali to London to Gaza to Islamabad, would
have felt a rush of adrenaline, our friends would have shrunk from us to make their
separate deals, buoyed by victory against the full might of American arms and Iraq, the Islamists
would doubtless have begun a new campaign of terror throughout the world.
Who in this very piece is justifying a war with Iran. In late October 2023, she justified the
genocide by saying after a few days of this horror, even people of goodwill will begin to
forget their sympathy for Israel and demand that the killing stop. What good does it do,
they will ask? Aren't both sides equally at fault? But both sides are not equally at fault
here. Gaza is not occupied, but even if it were, it would not justify Hamas' crimes against humanity.
For anyone, for anyone who's blood thirsty to feel, they have the right to tut tut about decency
is truly beyond the pale. This person is the epitome of the rod infesting every square inch
of the earth. Yeah, these are straight up rapacious, monstrous, bloodthirsty war criminals
and defenders of ongoing war crimes, writing these sorts of articles about how dangerous
I am for American public discourse. They will use choice quotes.
They will use choice quotes. They will misunderstand the point I'm making. One of the classic ones
is something that even Rostalfit did, which I heard this person did as well. They said,
I said, do you think Luigi was an adventurer?
No, I said Luigi was engaging in adventurism,
which is a negative term.
It's not a positive term.
So it's an unproductive violence
that doesn't yield positive outcomes.
It's something that Marxists are against.
We believe in organized movements, okay?
Now of course, it's a lot of stuff like that, right? It's a lot of stuff like that
and people will continue these attacks. So I ask you, what do you think is worse?
Someone who is an outspoken critic of Israel or someone who's a defender of
Israel, what do you think is worse? Someone who uses vulgar language at
times, because he's obviously passionate. I'm obviously passionate about the things
that I'm covering, and have to carry the weight of all these atrocities that I see day in
day out, just as you do, channeling your frustrations as well, or someone who's very civil in their
language, but civilly defending unjustifiable systems that are objectively violent and even
Israel's genocide.
I think many Americans, when faced with those two options, will realize that they probably
have more sympathies for someone like myself.
That's it
But I will say once again, I welcome their hatred
Okay
I'm fine. I
Have been on the receiving end of
These smears these vicious seniors so I'm you know around when the majority was not on my side
Okay, this community has been there through it all
So, if I was eating this in the beginning of Israel's genocide, when the overwhelming majority of the American public were totally not ready to hear someone say Palestinians have a right to live free of the Israeli occupation,
What makes you think I feel any type of shame or any fear right now when it has become the majority position?
You know what I mean? All of this stuff, all of these hit pieces are simply ineffective.
They have as much emphasis and as much power as we give it, right?
They have as much emphasis and as much power as democratic electeds give it.
If they choose to go, what are we talking about?
Shut up.
It's done.
This Israel stuff is over.
Stop fucking complaining.
lying about critics of Israel being anti-Semitic, let's move in a more productive direction
in our discourse, in our policymaking, in our strategies, especially at a time when American
is really waging this bloody war against Iran. Then they have no motion. They will just
continuously yell to an increasingly shrinking audience.
They are objectively hysterical.
And on top of that, they're pretty violent.
They've lived so horribly.
You know, Iran was a great country.
If you go back 25 years ago or so, the Persian people, they're incredible, smart.
lived so horribly. Iran was a great country. If you go back 25 years ago or so, the Persian people.
Iran was a great country. If you go back 25 years ago,
Trump throwing support behind the privatization policies of President Mohammed Khatami and his
dialogue among civilians initiative. Earlier this week, centuries were trying to cancel
Sampyger. Now, Diana DeGeta, 30-year-old corporate dem, is buying ads on a song stream because
she's in an intense primary against Malak Kuros, who is backed by the DSA. Talk is cheap. Follow
the money. They know exactly what young voters watch. Exactly. They know. To be fair, that's
That's precisely the reason why they complain.
That is the reason why.
It's because in the past, Democrats were used to just gatekeeping organs of propaganda.
Democrats were used to picking and choosing who they listened to, who has influence over
their base.
Okay?
They did. Now they don't. And for many smart Democratic Party politicians, this isn't a problem at all.
It just forces them to be a little bit more responsive to the needs of the masses, to the needs of their base, the demands of their base.
However, however, there are still people who want to go back to business's usual politics,
those who want to gatekeep who you should listen to and who you should not listen to. Lucky for
us, because of the unbelievable growth of independent media, it doesn't really matter if they just
consistently complain and and try to belittle me and try to attack me and
obviously we know why they're doing it they're doing it because they can't
attack the message so they have to attack the messenger this is something
that I've had to deal with my whole career and it's usually most commonly
attacks that I received from the right from the far right from Republicans
Now, I'm hearing this from the right-wing elements within the Democratic Party.
The Sompiker by the Democratic Corporation. I'm not calling them the Democratic Party anymore.
This is strategic timing because progressives have been winning races in the last five states
that recently held their Democratic primary elections.
And there are 45 more states between May and August
that are holding theirs.
And there's a lot of progressives running
against centrist Democrats.
And by demonizing Hassan Piker,
they are demonizing all progressives
and all Democratic socialists.
They are demonizing him so bad
that they are literally saying he needs to be pushed
out of the party,
which means you and I have to be pushed out of the party. And why are we extreme? Because we want
Medicare for all. Because we want livable wages. Because we don't want to fund all of these wars
to make billionaires even more billions. Because we want money out of politics. That is extreme.
And the organization, the think tank behind the attacks, it's not APAC.
It's another group aligned with APAC, similar to APAC, but it's the democratic version.
It's third way.
Third way controls the Democratic Party.
Third way is the centrist party.
Third way is who told all of us the messaging that we've got to have incremental changes.
We got to work with people in the middle and therefore after nearly 30 years
We still don't have fucking health care or money out of politics or livable wages
Because we all as Democratic voters bought their bullshit. And here's the thing
Donald Trump and Republicans did one thing, right?
They showed us that rapid change, drastic change can be undertaken in just one year when you have the will.
And the Democratic Corporation does not have the will to serve you and me and the working class.
Progressives do.
Hassan Piker does and Bernie Sanders does and that's why they're all being
attacked. The Democratic Corporation is not spending the time to attack
Republicans or Donald Trump. They spend more time attacking us. What does that
fucking tell you? What is the conclusion at the end of the day that the
Democrats, the centrist Democrats, do just as good under Republicans being
in charge. The rest of us are fucked.
That's what it is.
I'm glad that people are getting it disturbing.
Dem doubles down after appearance with anti-Semitic streamer.
He's not just anti-Israeli anti-American.
He chose just by September 11 attacks.
Remember, not one single Democratic center, Democrat.
They're all far left socialists.
Well, the Democrats failed to understand
is the hypocrisy of their actions.
So is mom Downey's wife. Wow.
the fuck
or if anyone think the democrats care about america i think again you are
losing your mind
it's kinda crazy that the fox news guys have have uh... the fox news comments
of actually whipped back
uh... in the submission
total cattle status
back in the day they used to watch stuff like this and be like well you know
we don't fuck with israel either why do why
why should we be israel first now they're like yeah that's right if you
hate Israel, you hate me and you hate America.
California Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna defending his podcast appearance with controversial
internet personality and anti-Israel commentator Hassan Piker who has tried to justify the
deadly October 7th attacks.
Listen, I have not done that.
Like, Jesus Christ, whatever, it doesn't matter, you sure.
Do you have any regrets about appearing on his show?
none and i would go again but i of course condemned those comment the
lesson of 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
uh... will cost us future elections
joining us now is the right of the washington examiner and fox news
contributor joe concha uh... jogan
what what i find really strange is that
the exact same force that we saw with like
the apolitical commentary sphere and the exact same mania they're doing again but this time
in the professional level this time you know fox news is doing cancel culture this time there's a
there's an allegiance between like some of the most right wing trumpian forces and some of these
people in the democratic party there's a lot of liberals that are self identifying liberals
that are influencers on Twitter, that are totally on board with this classic, very clear, right-wing
smear campaign. And I find that very strange. Does this not cause you a little bit of concern?
Do you not look at this and go, wait a minute, I hate MAGA, I hate Donald Trump, but these guys
are saying the same things I'm saying, right?
Right?
Does that not cause you any concern at all?
You don't even think about that at all?
This clip comes up again.
The only motherfucker in the-
I understand why Republicans do it.
I hate them.
But if you're a liberal and you're anti-Trump, if you are actively trying to unseat Republicans,
If you want to fight against fascism in this country, then what the fuck are you doing?
Fighting against me.
I'm 57, a lifelong Democrat.
Found you as a result of all these types of Democrats attacking you and as a result,
I'm in your court, which I'm sure they didn't expect.
Keep it up.
We need more of you and less of these tools in the party.
Hell yeah.
Right now, the crisis that we are facing is absolute devastation, okay?
Lock the fuck in.
This is all I'm saying to the liberals.
If you keep, if you spend all of your days attacking me as a prominent critic of Israel,
as a prominent critic of Trump, your focus is not on the real vectors of harm.
Your focus is on keeping your fucking careers in the party.
According to you, tell us a little bit more about Hassan Piker, what he said in the past,
so people at home can make their own determination on if this congressman should have been on
this podcast.
Yeah, it's always the same shit.
They're doing the liberal-ass cancel culture, like quote mining, clips out of context,
it seem like I'm against convictions that I've fought for for a decade at this point is classic.
Thanks, Carly. I mean, I wrote it on X. I'll say it here on national television.
This is pathetic. This is absolutely pathetic from Congressman Ro Khanna. First, to answer your
question, he made the argument that joining Hassan Piker on his podcast is equivalent to joining
Joe Rogan. At last check, Rogan, unlike Hasan Piker, didn't call Jews inbreds. It is Piker who said that America...
I didn't do that. But also, Joe Rogan has said way more heinous shit about Jews. What the fuck?
Why do you have to watch and read every single hit piece? People will not stop at some point.
You just have to ignore this shit. Cannot be good for your mental health.
Chat needs to stop linking every single negative thing people say or do about you.
Just tell them to fuck off. You'll keep doing your thing and they can keep crying.
And we got to see the angles of attack. Okay
America deserved 9 11 nearly 3,000 people died on that day
This is the same Hassan piker who said it doesn't matter to him if rates occurred during the October 7th attacks 2023
This is a guy who's called his critics quote rabid
Ultra Zionist pigs he also called on Republicans to kill senator Rick Scott and Rokana told meet the press yesterday as you just played
He has no regrets going on a show like that. It would happily do it again
Why cuz piker has 2.8 million followers mostly young men is Joe is Ro Khanna and Democrats
I think this kind of this kind of like smarmy whining is unironically exactly what annoyed a lot of like independence
For the record
It gets like increasingly more unhinged the the quotes get like
distributed and then changed every single time and then they just like add more
stuff to it but but again at the end of the day the president is Donald Trump
you guys defend Donald Trump with regular frequency Donald Trump is the
president he's not a twitch streamer if you defend the Donald if you defend the
president saying unhinged things like yesterday saying he is going to he's
He's at open the fucking straight or else I'm gonna do terrorism to you.
You know, may Allah awaken the people.
Whatever the fuck he said, right?
And you defend that and that's defensible.
You can't turn around and be like, but this Twitch streamer, he's vulgar.
It just doesn't make any sense, right?
And I think a lot of people in the margins will see that.
Because this is just whiny.
totally fucking whiny nonsensical bullshit, right?
That desperate for votes that they'll cater to the anti-Semitic wing of the Democratic
Party, which is a real thing, and it's a disturbing epidemic that is going on on the far left
in the year 2026.
But Conn has said, hey, I'll be happy to go back.
You don't give somebody like Hassan Pike or this kind of attention, this kind of platform.
It only rewards the kind of rhetoric that I just described.
And I thought that he was smarter than this.
I thought he was more towards the center. He's clearly it's so funny that these guys literally also absolutely fucking hate Democrats
Why should any Democrat listen to you? I mean, there's clearly plenty who do unfortunately
There's clearly plenty in the Democratic media side that are
Leaning into these like smears and leaning into this like hit piece laid in
in a cancel culture campaign.
But why should the average Democrat listen to you?
You're fucking Fox News.
So once again, I welcome this.
I don't have a problem with this at all.
I think it's great.
I think it's awesome.
Keep it up.
Proving that he is not.
Joe, he literally says,
I'm doing this for the votes.
So this doesn't cost us future elections.
It does beg the question.
We can't answer it because we're running out of time here.
You're gonna gain some votes maybe,
but aren't you gonna lose a lot of people
I don't know front nine your Fox News. Don't you love that? Don't you love that?
You don't want a Democrat to win. I don't understand what this argument is again. You don't want Democrats to win
So why are you giving unsolicited advice?
To a Democratic Congressperson it's so stupid
Levin was a bad thing
right
Plus your integrity. All right, Joe. Thank you so much for joining us on this. I mean
I think what they're trying to do is like get me killed by a Republican probably like that's the
That's that's what it is right like they're you know
They're trying to get some Republican to take matters in their own hands and like assassinate me or some shit
have you ever had anyone on your show that has sold swastika t-shirts cuz Joe Rogan definitely
did yeah I have not and I never will unfortunately don't know many dams or libs other than my
brother he folks with you now after recent events
yeah in 2021 and 2022 sarah longwell's uh 25 firm made $950,000 each year from the coke network
according to stand-together's tax filings this is who's telling democrats what streams they should
and shouldn't go on interesting if you were cashing coke checks in 2022 i don't think you
you have a standing to nitpick extremers comments from like a decade ago.
You know?
On ironically, this is all, this is an all publicity is good publicity diff.
i personally know like for people who've come over because of this yeah i think
i think considering that this is an angle of attack
that is once again a ninety ten issue on our side
considering that i have
uh... i channel the exact same resentments
uh... many americans have
this kind of stuff
this kind of stuff is is not going to work
And I don't mind it because I feel like it, it shows people where these, uh, where are
these right wing forces and their priorities lie?
Right.
Related positive clip on these fucking losers.
Hold on.
What is this?
So the Sarah Longwell lady has spent days crashing out over elected
thems and directed with the Sampai girl.
All will apparently being a huge fan of the guy most famous for getting caught
sexting and trading news with an underage discord kittens law.
Oh, she retweeted sex, Pestini nice
Yeah, that's exactly the type of
That's exactly the type of a person that Sarah Longwell is aligning with the Koch brothers
Ultra Zionist destiny who is a
Stanch defender of Israel and its genocide
Yeah, I just like I said I welcome I welcome people to make up their own minds. You're all adults
You all have
Critical thinking skills, okay
I'm sure there's plenty in here that saw the the wave of attacks and we're like let me take a look at what this guy's all
About let me see for myself and when you do
when you do see for yourself you realize oh never mind this guy's not the monster
that they are trying to present him as
weak or so which is Hassan Piker and I just want to preface this with a few
points so first those of you know don't know Hassan Piker is a big Twitch
streamer very big and leftist politics and there's been a lot of debate
recently amongst a lot of the commentariat about whether Democrats
should be aligned with him or not, campaigning with him, going on a show or not.
And the debate is kind of senseless and mindless at this point.
It's kind of people return to their same talking points if they have nothing else.
But there's one thing that I want to get at, which is that it feels like much of
the criticism of Hassan Piker feels just like how a lot of these people addressed
college protesters and the uncommitted movement, which is to say either Hassan Piker
has so much of an impact and therefore we need to discuss whether we want to be
associated with him or not or he's irrelevant no one listens to him you
know he's he's a nothing person he doesn't matter to me there's that
aspect there's another aspect that I think is important which is that he's
being held to these standards for comments he made in the past some which
he has apologized for or some that which he has just explained or
contextualized more but most of Washington DC was rightly held to the
same standards that he was falsely being held to, most of Congress and half of our friends
at the mainstream press would not have a job.
That should be made clear.
I mean, look, this is a big conversation.
I would just say this.
The obsession with Hassan Piker is not organic.
Let's just first be clear.
This is clearly a coordinated campaign where somebody on a WhatsApp group or someone in
some Democratic Party think tank or group has decided that this is what we need
to do.
to Bill Clinton, I remember a sister soldier moment, this calling out of a rapper that Bill
Clinton was expected to do, and he did, to show that he was a moderate.
Democratic establishment always wants that moment.
They want that moment where you call out someone on your own side to show how centrist you
are.
It has never worked.
It is ineffective.
Okay?
It's ineffective.
That's it.
It's unbelievably stupid for Democrats to do that.
just as stupid for Democrats to turn around and vote for messaging bills that say that
they're anti-communist, anti-socialist, because all that does is give credence to the argument
that socialism is bad.
But guess what?
Republicans are not going to stop calling you socialist anyway.
They're going to continue calling you socialist.
So why are you giving them an opportunity to dunk on your ideology?
They will turn around and say, look at these idiots.
Look at these idiotic socialists.
They think they can fool us by voting for this anti-socialist bill, because they also
recognize how bad socialism is, right?
That's it.
That's what this is.
It's no different.
Stop left punching.
Stop attacking your left flank.
Have you been asked for comment by these critical reports in the past couple days?
Yes, of course.
And I will always give them.
This is the person.
Sarah Longwell and the Bulwark Neocons were celebrating, infiltrating and taking over
the Democratic Party a week before the 2024 election, pursuing their approval as what
cost Kamala has to lose.
The thing about the cheering that I loved, speaking of Stonewall, but also I think it's
amazing when you get 75,000 presumably libs on the ellipse. And she's like, we're gonna
have the most lethal fighting force and people are like, yeah. And she's like, and we're gonna
secure the border and people are like, yeah. And I was just like, this is and just, you
know, we are gonna, we are gonna be leaders in the world and we're not gonna let these
guys just around. I was like, man, man, the world's really changed.
Yeah. Yeah. All of those things led to this defeat, by the way.
Did the Neocons just take over the Democratic Party?
Don't say that.
Yeah, don't say it.
But I was, she is, look, man, she's leaning into, I'm going mainstream.
And, you know, whenever she does, there's a couple, you know, price gouging or whatever.
I'm like, ew, um, but like, yeah, she hates the only popular policy of Kamala Harris and
loves all of the unpopular shit that she said.
This is why Kamala Harris lost by the way.
This is why we have fascism right now.
So it's insane that they're trying to do this again.
They're trying to do it again.
And they're also trying to do it in Michigan, where it failed.
Science is a candle in dark.
Thank you for the 10 tier one gifted subs.
Mike has become that person.
And as you say, the contradiction is there.
You have David Frum saying, well, he doesn't even have an audience.
MSNBC has a bigger audience than Hassan Piker, which is absurd when you compare it like
for like.
It's not true.
But also, if he doesn't have a big audience, then why do you care?
Why do you just ignore him?
The funny one is like would you go on a show and his Hassan pointed out I didn't ask off these Democrats even come on
I look around
I was asked by John Lovett about this and he threw his comms director on the bus
He pointed his comms got screened. Well, I don't even know who this guy is number one
You're lying. Of course, you know who he is
And if you don't know he is aren't you supposed to be the social media guy for Democratic senators
How could you not know who he is but then he throws his comms got the bus of my press guy just read out some quotes
And I said well, they sound bad so I'm not going on the show
The biggest point you'd make, and I've made this point online, is, as you say, the consistency is not there.
Even if you've decided that Hassan Piker is too far out there.
Even if you've decided that this is going to be the moral line you stand.
We're not going to go on the show because he's a bigot, which is not true.
Why are you going on Bill Maher? Cory Booker loves going on Bill Maher.
Bill Maher said a hundred times more bigoted things than Hassan Piker.
Not just about religious minorities like Muslims, but black people and women.
And yet, Democratic senators, male and female, Democratic members of the House,
the house mail and people go on Belmar all the time. Please be consistent. John Federman
was just on Mark Levin. Where were the Democrats? I didn't see Democrats lining up. I didn't
see Third Way lining up to attack Federman. Why was John-
And the thing is, John Federman is on Mark Levin to agree with Mark Levin, especially
on the issue of Israel. Michael Foscoe, Art, thank you for the 45 gifted subs.
holy moly forty five big bones
yet the reason why they didn't complain about that is because they agree with
mark levin in theory and in principle
and that is precisely the reason why they don't talk about uh... federman
a democratic senator
criticizing the rest of the party for not being sufficiently pro-israel
some of this is because they legitimately believe the idea that
like pivoting to the center, they genuinely believe the idea that pivoting to the center
is good, it's good politics and it's good policy, right? They're wrong. But some of it
is because they're also in agreement with Mark Levin, they're in agreement with John
Federman. And of course, they're not going to criticize John Federman for doing that
because they like that John Federman is pro-Israel. That's it. Because for many
of these people, they're just Israel first. They're pro-Israel. Either they're getting paid
or they have this ideological reason, social conditioning, whatever it may be, it's very clear
that if they're spending most of their time attacking me right now instead of Donald Trump
and Israel, when the public is demanding that, when the public is there, it's obvious that
you can't make a electoralist argument here. There is no real pro-Israel argument for winning elections.
It does not exist. That's it.
Mark Levinsha. Mark Levinsha is a horrible anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian bigot.
War monger. Why are you on Isha? Why is the top democratic senator from Pennsylvania
on Mark Levinsha? So the double standards are just brazen.
And yeah, I think that just gets to the the core of this is that most of the people that
are paddling this argument are not like a lay person like the people who are
strongly feeling this only feel this way because they cannot contend with Hassan's
main criticisms so they just have to undermine him. It's also about Israel
let's just be very clear. Well I mean that's that's the point yeah. Hassan Piker
was pro-Israel this would not be part of the conversation. The idea that oh he
said something offensive or orthodox which he did I'm not defending it
he's made an author he's made offensive remarks about inbred people
he argues he was talking about settlers he says he uses it for lots of group
not language I would use, but the idea that that's what's bothering these
Democrats when they're happy to go on Mark Levin or Bill Ma or all these other
shows with much more offensive hosts, I just don't buy it. Also, the President
of the United States is the most anti-Semitic mainstream politician in
American modern American history. I don't see Democrats getting worked up about that.
Speaking of the absurdities and stupidities of our time, Jen...
This is the last piece I'm going to look at real quick.
The Guardian quoted me and wrote an article about Arab Americans in Michigan
and how they're feeling in this process, this like media cycle.
Like how they are perceiving this media cycle is the ground of attacks against Abdel El-Sayed and myself.
Arab-Americans in Michigan warn centrist Democrats attacking the Sampiker they haven't learned from 2024.
Key to debate in a key swing state probably marks a preview of things to come as midterms ramp up.
A heated debate over criticism of Israel and the political influence for Sampiker's role on the left has bitterly divided progressives
and established for Democrats in a U.S. Senate race in Michigan.
An electorally critical swing state, the ongoing controversy probably marks a preview
of things to come as the midterm and 2028 election seasons ramp up, and it is drawing
warnings from Arab-American leaders in a state where the party's Israel policy badly
damaged Kamala Harris' campaign.
Mallory McMorrah, a state senator favored by much of the establishment, is locked
in a tight three-way race with the progressive Abdel El-Sayed and Haley Stevens, the
U.S. Representative who was backed by APEC.
El-Sayed and Piker last week announced plans to rally together in response.
mcmorrow the anti-defamation league the trump administration third way
and senator elisa slotkin and other pro-israel figures went on the offensive
labeling piker as anti-semitic
and seeking the tar al-sayed over his association with them
piker was muslim as an audience of three million on the twitch streaming
platform office strongly criticize israel over its assault on gaza
lebanon invasion war with iran treatment of palestinian people and
other issues sometimes in provocative terms
he described him as a thousand times better than the fascist settler
colonial apartheid state
He's also a heavyweight political force of the massive following among younger
voters.
Parker interviewed and earned praise from Bernie Sanders who was Jewish and was
invited by the Harris campaign to live stream from the democratic national
convention in August, 2024.
Seven Arab American leaders who spoke with the guardians say central Democrats
attacks on outside and piker are strategic and moral blunders that show the
party is making the same mistakes that fueled their 2024 electoral demise in
this critical swing state and nationally.
They dismiss the attacks as an effort to censor criticism of Israel and an expression of anti-Arab
bias that imbues much of the political establishment.
Michigan holds the nation's largest Arab-American population per capita in the U.S. and is anchored
by a huge Lebanese diaspora largely from southern Lebanon.
The controversy unfolds amid Israel's assault on southern Lebanon and Israel and its military
actions are deeply unpopular among Democrats.
They are not showing empathy towards Lebanese and Muslim communities, said Basim Al-Qara,
director of counsel on American Islamic relations action care.
Harris lost Michigan in 2024 by a narrow 80,000 votes and by one
estimate support for Israel cost her 100,000 votes here.
A November 2024 Guardian analysis found a 22,000 votes swing away
from Democrats in three cities with the largest air of American
and Muslim populations alone.
Nationally, one poll founded to be the top issue for Democrats
who did not support Harris.
Some in the Democratic Party haven't learned from 2024, Al-Qaeda added, especially in a battleground state.
I think they're going to suffer the consequences in 2028 if they don't rectify their strategy.
And for the record, this is not like an ethnic tension. This is not an ethnic conflict.
There are plenty of people beyond the Arab communities that also take issue with the Democratic Party
refusing to mount the significant legislative pressure necessary to claw
back some control and and and and to reevaluate our relationship with Israel
right that's it there's a lot of people it's not just like Lebanese Arabs Arab
Americans Muslims in general it's far beyond that this moment in Michigan is
particularly sensitive. McMorah and her surrogates have said,
pikers should be shunned because the rallies come less than a month
after the temple Israel synagogue attack, which was widely condemned
by the Arab American community in Michigan.
McMorah did not respond to requests for comment.
That is not somebody that you should be campaigning with
with a moment when there's clearly a lot of plane and trauma
across our state. McMorah said, the Jewish insider, while
highlighting that children were at the synagogue, you don't fan the
flames. But Arab American and Muslim community leaders who spoke
with the Guardian stressed that both sides suffering can be
acknowledged as the Middle East conflict intensifies.
They see the exclusion of their pain as a deliberate political maneuver.
Israel's Lebanon invasion has displaced more than one million civilians in recent months.
And the IDF has begun wiping out Lebanese villages that some Michiganders or their families are from,
in accordance with the model in Gaza, in the words of Israel's Defense Minister.
The IDF also, as recently as this past week, openly stated that they will go to Christian
and non-Shia villages in southern Lebanon and attack places that they suspect of harboring the Shia Muslim population.
This is identical to what the Nazi occupation looked like in Eastern Europe.
It's unbelievable.
Virtually every one of the 120,000 Lebanese American people in Michigan as family members
or friends who have been displaced or killed by Israel, Arab-Americans who spoke with the
Guardian said, there's an asymmetry of compassion and an asymmetry of political pressure, Arabs
get the pressure and Israel gets the compassion, said James Zogby, a Lebanese American member
of the Democratic National Committee.
No one will pay attention to the human element of the situation, which is that their ancestral
village is gone and their homes are demolished.
In an interview with The Guardian, Al-Syad expressed a similar sentiment.
The Arab community, their voice, and their pain has been rendered insignificant or even
worse an inconvenient aspect of our political situation.
National polling shows more Democrats sympathize with Palestinians than Israelis.
Support for Israel's war in Gaza plummeted as low as 8% among party voters.
And the vast majority of Democrats support an arms embargo.
Piker frequently expresses sympathy for the Palestinian people, criticizes Israel's
wars, and calls for an arms embargo.
piker called the temple israel attack a heinous act of violence
but he said he also believe that it was a slum a folk to say oh this muslim
critic of israel who has the majority opinion on israel should not be going
to a campaign rally
michigan is a state
the democrats laws for this exact reason
when asked about the comment which he levels of orthodox use is in israel
in bread piker told the guardian use terms of the jordan against ethno
religious and racial supremacist of all different varieties
is nothing to do with judy ism is largely said he stands by his comments
but is also recently express regret about the in bread comment saying he
he could have been more careful.
Piker said he regularly educates listeners
about the dangers of anti-Semitism
and how it is the canary and the coal mine of fascism.
I will continue to do this
because anti-Semitism is morally repugnant,
but the difference is I believe that anti-Semitism
and Islamophobia are morally repugnant,
and I'm an anti-genocide, anti-fascist,
and therefore an anti-Zionist, Piker said.
Though many of El-Said's
and Piker's political positions are aligned,
El-Said told the Guardian he'd not agree
with everything Piker has said,
and he also offered an explanation on X.
but he said when he requires talking with anyone from joe roganus on piker
they'll show you the point outside appeared on fox news last week
the interest of all michigan is an arab americans are one the same lsad said
every dollar that we spend on aimless illegal unjustified war in iran that
allows israel the annex southern lebanon destroyed people in their lives is a
dollar not spent to improve our schools provide people with health care
and fix our broken infrastructure
something that I say all the time as well.
So, moving on from that and getting back
to the main villain, the top villain, Donald Trump.
45,000 people as of a month and a half ago, 45,000 protesting.
We don't do that.
So if I had my choice, I'd keep the oil.
They also want to make the people of our country happy.
I think most people wouldn't understand that.
I'll give you an example.
Venezuela has worked out so incredibly.
We have a hundred million barrels of oil right now in Houston being refined.
It's been great.
The relationship with Venezuela, the leaders, has been fantastic.
And I think we're going to have a long-term, very good relationship.
And it might be, and it might be beyond long-term, you understand what I'm saying?
Well, I tell you what, I'm pretty good at this stuff.
I go around and I check they'd like to see us win and come home and I appreciate CNN for the first time maybe in my life
They did a poll and everyone said always Trump losing maggot. No, I'm not losing back a maggot loves what I'm doing and
CNN did a poll of Maga voters a big poll very important poll Harry
And he went on he said this is amazing what he loves Harry Emden
Are we jazzing all those interviews that would be perfect? I agree. I think it adds an interesting
as interesting seasoning to it.
100% support.
He said, I've never had a 100% fall at anything before.
And his views support Trump-Maga people,
which is, by the way, mostly Republican.
If you look, I would say,
Bagga makes up a majority,
like, about 95% of the Republican Party, alright?
So they went out, they did a poll,
and see it, they came back, 100% support.
important. So they support what we're doing, but they would like to see it end and come
back. But remember wars last years, we're there for 34 days, and we've obliterated a very
powerful country in 34 days. Yeah, and we're up to me. I'd like to keep the oil. I just
don't think the people in the United States would really understand.
I think the fact that he's so desperately re-litigating that MAGA poll over and
over again implies that he's sensitive to his base potentially taking a different approach
to Israel. Like I'm serious. I think he recognizes what is this? Change your pin tweet, bro. No,
it's been there for too long. Time to change it. Okay. Ridiculous. All right. He is a little bit
worried i think that's why he's holding on
he's he's
clutching on to that one poll
that says something
that means that if the magabay started maybe
unwinding on the
the iran war stuff because it's far too costly
and and it becomes unpopular in the base he could potentially recalculate
I don't know.
that if they protest, like the wrestler and his friends,
if they protest, they will be shot immediately.
And that's an edict that's been writing.
If they protest, if they go out in the streets,
they will be immediately shot.
They don't have guns.
You know, we sent some guns,
but the group that was supposed to give,
which I said would happen to my people,
I said it, I called it exactly.
We sent guns, a lot of guns.
They were supposed to go to the people,
they can fight back against these thugs.
You know what happened?
The people that they sent them to kept them.
Because they said, what a beautiful gun.
I think I'll keep it.
So I'm very upset with a certain group of people
and they're going to pay a big price for that.
But the Iranian people will fight back.
As soon as they know they're not going to be shot
and as soon as they can get weapons.
If they had weapons, not many of them.
If they had weapons that would go in the other way
and you know what happened?
Iran would give up in two seconds
because they wouldn't be able to take it.
But in Iran they have absolutely no weaponry
and they've been told point blank,
if you come out, if you come out to the streets
you will be killed.
As of this morning, and we have,
this is our pretty good information,
45,000 protesters have been killed.
Pretty bad.
You said Iran has been in the military.
Why are we still out there?
You don't know.
The country, they can't fight back.
have no capability. They have some missiles left. They have some drones left, but essentially
they have no capability. They had a lucky shot with an airplane, but we got them back
after.
So how, you know, how did a F-15 fall on Iran? And so how did a warthog, warthog fall?
Do crash landing near Kuwait? How did any of those things happen?
I guess the plausible deniability here is that he says some.
They got some capabilities, some, there was a laundry fire, there was a laundry fire inside
of the F-15, lucky shots, sparked up a laundry fire, you know what it is.
There are those that say that's never happened before because usually when you're shot down
in strong enemy territory, you can't go after them because you'll end up losing 250 people
to get one.
So it's a terrible thing.
But we had to make a decision.
Do we do it or do we not and we did.
And you know we have some helicopters with a lot of bullet holes in them right now probably
you know that.
Now I'm very honored by, I'm very honored to have rebuilt our military.
We rebuilt our military in my first term.
i'm using it and i second-term
and we are the most respected country anywhere in the world with the greatest
military anywhere in the world
yeah thank god he actually rolled back uh... unlimited warfare by the way
remember that's what he did
uh... i rolled back these wars they were so
they were so stupid on the peace president but now i'm the war president
and that's also good
war is good too that's the only way to do peace
Thank you. So we have a news conference. You'll all be there.
So you can ask the question a little while.
We have a news conference in a little while.
What would you like to ask?
Well, all of this is happening for the future.
So they will be saved in years to come.
We're fighting for the children that are now in the war zone.
We're keeping them safe as we can possibly keep them.
But we're fighting for their parents, their grandparents.
We're fighting for them. We're fighting for their future.
And I will tell you how it was given to be loud and clear,
the time the Iranian people are the most unhappy when you hear bombs all over
is when those bombs stop.
That's the problem.
When they stop because that means that are they coming back we want to have them back and you know everybody knows that everybody sees it
So hopefully it could be over with quickly again. There are lots of different alternatives
We have many alternatives. We could leave right now and it would take them 15 years to rebuild what they have we could leave right now
But I want to finish it up Iran ready cannot have
They are lunatics and you can't put nuclear weapons in the hands of a lunatic
Okay, there we have it. Donald Trump, the US President speaking at the White House, the
sideline of what we understand as an Easter egg roll flanked by the Easter Bunny talking
about extremely serious issues, probably the most perilous moment of the Middle East
has faced. My heart.
Social security in generations. And we got, we had great talent, we got a little luck
to I would say. And we will help by a lot of people, a lot of great people.
Trump is doing this for his base and it seems to be working, crying emoji, support for Iran
war, support 46, oppose 45. Okay, that's chatter. You have to understand as a outlier
poll, right? Please.
People laughing at my suggestion that Israel will find a way to attack Turkey, mock me
at their own peril. Yeah, no, they're Turkey's next. After Iran, Turkey's next. 100%. Turkey
knows that. They're already talking about like, you know, Turkey shouldn't be a NATO, all this shit.
What do you mean an outlier poll? As in, this poll is not reflective of the overwhelming majority
of other polls that were conducted, okay? It's an outlier. As in, it's a standalone poll that
shows a much more favorable result for Donald Trump and support that Donald Trump has garnered for
the Iran War. Every other poll that has been conducted consistently shows that the only
people that are in favor of this Iran War are actually just the MAGA base, okay? It's a 30 to
70 split usually give or take
Yes, it is a statistical anomaly and not reflective of a trend
Anyway, an NBC News survey found Newsom was even less popular than Trump, and with Trump
under water by 12 points, and Newsom by 18 conversely, AOC pulled ahead of Trump, Newsom
and the Democratic Party itself.
Is that 30% that die hard called members?
Yes.
And for all of you that don't understand what that means, when we say diehard cult members,
you need to understand that's the entirety of the Republican Party.
That is the entirety of the Republican Party because the Republican Party is MAGA and
MAGA is the Republican Party.
where we're at.
There was an honor to be involved with it.
It's very historic.
This is a rescue that's very historic.
It'll go down to the books late Thursday night.
An American F-15 fighter jet went down deep inside enemy territory in Iran while participating
participating in Operation Epic Fury, where we're doing unbelievably well, well at a level
that nobody's ever seen before.
The entire country could be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night.
Both members of the crew...
I don't know, all signs, I'm gonna be honest, all signs point to Taco again, but hopefully
I'm not wrong.
So far, as we've seen, he's extended that deadline, and the terrorism deadline, which
is crazy to begin with, like that the American president is like openly, openly claiming he's
going to do acts of terror.
And he's extended that deadline six times now.
Hopefully it's Taco Tuesday again.
Usually he pulls out and doesn't actually blow up the entire energy grid of Iran, and
then in retaliation Iran blows up the rest of the region.
We checked it from the aircraft and landed alive.
When Iranian soil immediately was asked to make a decision, I ordered the U.S. Armed
Forces to do whatever was necessary to bring our brave warriors back home.
a risky decision because we could have ended up with a hundred dead as opposed to one or
two.
It's a hard decision to make, but in the United States military, we leave no American behind.
We don't do it.
Within hours our armed forces deploy 21 military aircraft into hostile airspace.
Many flying at very low altitude, being shot by bullets.
bring rifles into play when you go in that low. There are also certain advantages.
And in broad daylight over Iran for seven hours at times facing very, very heavy
enemy fire. We have a helicopter that's got a lot of bullets in it. It's amazing.
I'm used to hearing smooth jazz in the background when he chirps. And now it's
I'm saddened by the fact that I don't hear smooth jazz in the background when he's fucking saying bullshit.
Also, there is a message that has been sent to all regional states from Iran if the United States launch a mass attack on Iranian energy infrastructure the entire region will plunge into darkness.
Like what do you think is gonna happen to millions of people if you blow up their entire
energy grid, you fucking idiot. Even by your own logic here, if the Iranian government
had actually killed 45,000 people and that made them animals, what does that make you?
What does that make you?
you. So as you say Donald Trump has been holding that press conference for close
to an hour now for the first 50 minutes he didn't take any questions as you say
he was focused entirely on the rescue of that American M and a really audacious
rescue operation and one that they know is seen as very positive and they want
grab hold of that right now, Christian, because they know that otherwise this Iran war is becoming
very negative in the eyes of American voters. You could hear from Donald Trump today that
he's quite sensitive about it. He was asked this morning, what do you say to Americans
who don't support the war? He said, I think they're foolish. They don't appreciate the
nuclear threat. Having said that, his objectives have continued to sound quite muddled again
today. On the one hand, he talks about the nuclear threat. On the other hand,
as viewers will have just heard. He's talking about wanting to take the oil, saying he only
isn't going to do that because Americans want this war to be over. Just now he's been talking
again about how this isn't about regime change, but he said that Iranians should rise up against
the regime before then saying that the consequences would be huge if they did that, that they
could be shot and killed immediately. Also today he's had a pop at Kirstam, or our
prime minister again suggesting not that he isn't a Winston Churchill as he has
said before but saying we don't want a Neville Chamberlain. So comparing Kerstama
to the UK Prime Minister who is... The US and Israel are carrying out intense
bombing raids on around South Park's petrochemical complex which accounts for
85% of the country's production in the sector. The damage is massive yet the
complex covers 54,000 hectares and require many days of sustained heavy
bombing to achieve its total destruction, even so the losses are certainly in the range of tens of
billions of dollars in destroyed infrastructure and lost profits. I don't know how reliable that
analysis is. I might be totally off base here, but in the absence of like straight-up bunker
or bus or bombs, like a lot of these facilities are designed to be super hardened, right?
So in most circumstances, I mean it could be billions and billions of dollars of damage,
But when they try to blow up these facilities, like it's still recoverable, it's still repairable.
So I don't know.
I mean it's entirely dependent on what they actually hit.
If they hit the pipes and the pipes literally have oil in them, then it's fucked.
So oh my god, this microphone, Jesus Christ.
Wait, there was a baby F?
Uh oh.
What is happening?
There was a baby F and the microphone is falling apart.
That's not good.
That's not good at all.
No F just refresh.
Okay.
The cause of course accused of appeasement against them with the Nazis.
Now he's been talking about all of this today as that Iranian deadline continues to
loom large and a warning.
There is some strong language in my report.
Huh.
It sometimes feels as if America and its 47th president have stepped through the looking
glass, like something surreal has taken hold in the White House.
And what about the rescue that took place yesterday?
What about that?
Today gave us the eccentricities of the Mad Hatter, and the ruthlessness of the
queen of hearts because we are all glittering that country and I hate to
do it but we're all glittering and they just don't want to say I'm coming if I
had my choice what would I like to do take the oil because it's there for the
taking the White House Easter egg roll is an annual event but in the middle of
a war Donald Trump has warned that Iran will face living hell tomorrow if it
fails to do a deal but the fires are already burning today after Israel
again struck the world's largest natural gas field, South Pass, a critical source of income
for Iran's military guards. The Israeli military also released footage of what it called a wave
of strikes on Tehran's airports overnight. And Iran's intelligence chief, Majid Khademi,
was killed as the country's foreign ministry spokesman said this was no way to negotiate.
in no way involves an ultimatum or a threat to commit war crimes.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has very, very bitter experiences of negotiating with America,
and we did not gain these experiences lightly.
Iran has rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposal ahead of tomorrow's deadline, though Trump's
deadlines have been erratic.
On March the 21st he gave around 48 hours to reopen the straight or said he'd obliterate
their power plants.
Then came the extensions, first five days, then ten, before on Saturday another 48 hours
or all hell will rain down he warned, before adding Tuesday would be power plant day and
bridge day.
And then the US president wrote, open the f***ing straight you crazy bastards or you'll
be living in hell, just watch, praise be to Allah.
Thank you very much.
And so, in the upside-down world of Donald Trump, from hunting for Easter eggs in the
morning to the hunt for a missing pilot in the afternoon.
That's one of the largest, most complex, most harrowing combat searches ever attempted by
the military.
And there were more threats for Iran.
The entire country could be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow
night.
As Trump made way for Pete Hegser, the man who began as Secretary of Defense,
who he renamed the Secretary of War perhaps for this moment.
Per the president's direction today will be the largest volume.
I'll be honest. I don't know how much motion or how much damage to profit centers Iran can implement
that will cause capital owners to tell Donald Trump to retreat. I think the only way to do this
is by making Israel feel unsafe enough that they finally turn around and they finally turn
around and get Donald Trump to retreat.
In the absence of like, in the absence of pummeling Israel or retaliating against Israel
in the same exact way that American Israel is bombing Iran. I just don't think that
I don't think that anyone is going to tell Donald Trump to pull back.
Markets are green. They expect the taco. Uh-oh. Well, considering the way that the markets have been
consistently wrong. I worry a little bit about that.
It strikes since day one of this operation. Tomorrow, even more than today. And then Iran
has a choice.
Yeah, I talked about this already, but Iranian missile hit rates against Israel have risen
from 3% during the first two weeks of the war to 27%.
wisely because this president does not play around.
Donald Trump may not play around, but he certainly does seem to shift his position on this war's
objectives, on the several deadlines that he has now given to Iran, and on what it will
take for him to bring this conflict to an end.
Well joining me now is son of Nuragi Andalini, a British Iranian author who heads the International
civil society action network. They work with women peace activists in war zones. And in
Texas is the former US Special Envoy for Middle East humanitarian issues, David Sasserfields.
Sonam, first of all, with Trump saying he could take out the whole country tomorrow
night, what are you supposed to make of that? What are Iranians supposed to make of that?
Well, first of all, from the news that I've heard in the last 24 hours in place
in hospitals, for example, in the Schodles Hospital in Tehran, they're preparing for
lack of electricity, lack of water, lack of gas, figuring out what to do with the kids
that are most in most critical conditions, sending the other ones home.
In Boucher, they're handing out ID and tablets in case of radiation.
But I think this is horrific because the Hormones Strait is actually open if you're
not part of the war.
The Spanish have gotten ships through, the Portuguese have, the Japanese have,
the Chinese have.
So the idea that the straight support was not open is actually not true.
Largely closed.
Largely closed if you're supporting the war, if you're supporting an illegal war and you're
supporting war crimes.
They have hit 30 universities, they've been hitting the petrochemical plants, they're
already attacking all these things.
Hell yeah.
600...
She's dope, okay.
Tools.
These are all war crimes.
What is going on?
And this is, you know, Iranians are watching it, they're experiencing it, he's being
a clown with the Easter Bunny.
I mean, he says a lot of Iranians are supporting the bombing, you know, that they are worried
when the bombing doesn't happen.
So we have a very loud, vociferous diaspora opposition that has been supported by Israel,
but 66% of them in America are now against this war.
Yeah, I mean, that was, even in the 12-day war, which was, I mean, incredibly limited
in comparison to what they're experiencing now, and that isn't to say that that
was fine. It just is to show you how ridiculous this has been. Even then, by the end of that
process, there's a 56% disapproval amongst the Iranian diaspora. So clearly, clearly,
this was always going to be incredibly unpopular with everyone. Anyone who isn't like a psychopath,
And there are some who are psychopathic in the diaspora, let's be real, right?
There are still certainly some people that will defend it.
But it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter at all what people think, right?
It doesn't matter what the diaspora thinks, doesn't matter what the American population
thinks, maybe it matters a little bit what like MAGA thinks, right?
Because American foreign policy is not dictated by popular sentiment.
Obviously, unpopularity, especially if it's paired up with a lot of public pressure and
maybe gumming up the works a little bit, mass demonstrations, people taking matters
in their own hands, work stoppages at ports that are supposed to be delivering weapons,
demonstrations outside of one of three facilities, according to PRFIs reporting that could
technically cripple the entirety of the American munitions
production, like that kind of stuff could make things more difficult for this admin, but
more often than not, the only thing that matters is the markets, is capital owners, is Israel,
And, yeah, who knows?
And the fact is that in a country of 93 million people where we now have people who are suffering
from toxins because of petrochemical plants being bombed, it is really egregious to suggest
that people want to be bombed.
That is, that is an absurd statement and certainly nobody that I know.
But the aspirate's response for manufacturing is that for this war, yes.
They were, they were.
And then they got discarded all the same.
Obviously no one cares.
Obviously no one in the administration cares about what the diaspora has to say.
And I made that very clear from the start and a lot of people used to yell at me for
making this, for making this point.
I don't know how you can still find yourself duped by the sweet nothings as an administration
sometimes dignifies you with,
especially given what this administration has done.
Your targets are too conservative.
You need to include donor businesses to Trump,
include companies which are tangentially related,
not just direct munitions and aircraft manufacturers.
I mean, sure.
It's same.
David Fraterfield, do you expect this now
to start happening tomorrow?
It's very difficult to work out what Trump's deadlines actually mean.
But he is now saying, well, you know, the deadline is tomorrow.
It is beyond difficult to determine from the president's postings on social media
or rhetoric in news conferences what he intends to do or where.
But let's go beyond the president's rhetoric and take a look at what the
consequences of the campaign today have been.
Iran's nuclear enrichment research capacity has been diminished further, significantly
so.
Its missile and drone program from production storage launchers has been dramatically reduced,
but it retains, Iran retains the strategic ability to project pain and risk to all of
its neighbors in the Gulf and beyond.
And it still has its uranium.
And the Strait of Tehran is, of course, closed.
30,000 ships transit in a year the Strait of Tehran,
a tiny handful of countries which
are not associated in any fashion with this campaign,
including all of the Gulf states,
are barred from using the Strait.
The Strait does need to reopen for the sake
of global commerce.
The issue is how will further strikes, particularly
on civil interests?
I mean, might as well call it a show to her on baby.
Infrastructure, bring the Iranian regime,
which has shown the perfect capacity to murder at will,
its own people, agree to a concession like this now.
So do you think bombing bridges and power
put aside the fact that they're probably war crimes?
Would they be effective?
I do not believe this strategy,
it is in fact a strategy of striking civil infrastructure, particularly bridges power plants,
is likely to produce the kinds of outcomes which the United States wishes to see.
Yeah, but that's not the reason why they're doing it, is it?
The reason why they're doing it is not for achieving some sort of strategic military purpose.
It's in the absence of achieving that strategic military purpose that they're doing this, in an effort to broaden the targets even further.
They've already been killing civilians. They just want to punish the civilians even further with the hopes that a responsive government will then shy away from retaliating in kind.
At some point, it's going to turn into such a spectacular failure that eventually America will have to invade Iran.
That's what this is. That's where this goes.
The Iranian government, I'm not exactly certain about their capabilities, but the Iranian government has regularly entertained that.
Okay, it's it's very
It's it's totally devastating and it was totally devastating even with the Iran-Iraq war and the American military's capabilities are obviously far more
Significant than the Iraqi military was at the time, right?
But even then
It will be devastating for every side involved
involved. It's just so unbelievably stupid and unbelievably cruel, so unnecessary. I
don't know. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's a diplomat, a career diplomat. Are you embarrassed by
Trump's language and his flaring and his threats? I am concerned that a campaign
which appears focused on targeting rather than strategy and strategic objective achievement.
Is this guy's a fucking milsim artist over here? He's like, well, if he was using,
if he was using swear words, but also if he was swearing while simultaneously achieving
military objectives, I would be fine. Not likely to produce an Iran which is less of a threat
to its neighbors and to the region. But we'll remain now not only in the position of sustaining
those threats. Yeah, guy who's not mad that like Iran never really presented a threat until Donald
Trump egged them on or backed them into a corner where they had to become a threat.
Guy who genuinely sincerely has said Iran is a threat. It's just that Trump is not handling
that threat well.
But views itself as having succeeded, having survived.
Yes, that is not a desirable outcome here.
Let me bring back Sanam Naraki-Andalini.
A lot of people are wondering what the effect of this war would be as it goes on, on Iranian
public opinion vis-a-vis the regime.
You know, is it having the effect in Iran of uniting people against the United States
and Israel?
Well, again, I think that you have to, you know, it's a population of 93 million people.
People right now are experiencing carpet bombing.
So suggest to them, are you going to take-
Trump said he won't annex Canada because he didn't know King Charles was our king.
Oh my God, please stop.
He just- oh God, it shouldn't be this easy to fucking manipulate this guy, man.
First of all, why is that even relevant?
Like, he should never talk about annexing Canada regardless.
Secondly, why does he fucking love the royal family so much?
And last but not least, how do you not know that Canada is a part of the Commonwealth?
He's just wrong on every front.
He's just an unbelievably stupid guy.
Besides, between two nuclear powers that are bombing you and threatening to annihilate
and a regime that at the moment is defending the territorial integrity of the country,
however, whatever we think about the domestic issues, these are difficult questions.
The regime has obviously, there is tremendous public dissatisfaction with the regime in terms of its treatment of its people.
We need to understand in January exactly what happened.
There needs to be an independent investigation in terms of the numbers because it's absurd to say 45,000 and 50,000 dead.
We don't have any evidence of that.
We have an evidence of 7,000 killed, which is significant, and it's huge.
We also have evidence of Israeli infiltration.
So it's a complicated situation, but I just want to say this.
Bombing universities, bombing hospitals, bombing schools, over 600 schools have been hit.
This is targeted hitting of civilian and human infrastructure.
3 million, over 3 million people.
And it's worth saying that he did admit trying to send weapons to Iranian protesters, hasn't
that played into the Iranian government's hands because that's what they were saying
was happening.
Look, I'm no fan of the Iranian regime.
I'm just saying, if you imagine that in England, we suddenly hear that the Chinese are trying
to bring weapons into Britain to support protesters that are protesting some issue,
how would the British government respond?
So we have to look at it from these perspectives, but three and a half million people are displaced.
Absolutely cookie.
Schools and hospitals are being hit, and civilians are being hurt.
Son of Maraghi Andalini and David Satterfield, thank you both very much.
Now whilst Israel continued-
It is a very complex situation, so to be able to like demonstrate moral clarity throughout
that process, I mean, respect, respect.
To strike targets in Iran today, as we heard in Anushka's reports, it also hit
targets in Lebanon where nearly 1,500 people have now died and Gaza. Israeli civilians also
came under continued missile fire with casualties in northern and central Israel.
Let's go to Harry Forces, who joins us from Jerusalem. Harry.
Yes, Christian, as you're saying, Iranian missiles again evading Israeli defences,
dropping cluster submunitions in various locations across central Israel causing damage
and injury but a lot of the attention remaining further north on Haifa where a ballistic missile
struck didn't detonate but destroyed a reservoir. Here's some good news. At least like Pakistani
sources cited by Haaretz suggest a widening gap in spite of everything that's going on. There's
at least a little bit of fucking hope. A glimmer of hope, okay?
Pakistani sources cited by Haaretz suggest a widening gap in end-game expectations.
Iran shows no willingness to accept U.S. terms to end the war.
Pakistani diplomats reportedly convened to regional actors Saudi, Egypt, Turkey,
that Tehran believes it has already prevailed. Crucially, Islamabad assesses that Washington
is now more eager than ever before to get a deal with Tehran. They're more eager to get a deal
than Tehran is. However, and this is the negative side of things of course,
despite this, the Trump administration is still insisting on its core demands, zero enrichment,
missile limits, conditions Iran continues to reject outright. In fact, you're at this
this point to a classic mismatch, one side negotiating from perceived strength, the other
from urgency.
It's frustrating because unfortunately one side has the capacity to negotiate, understands
its limitations, is significantly more restrained until pushed into a corner, and then the
other side is Donald Trump, a psychopath.
So it's all about pressure with these guys.
Ironically enough, we've spent decades talking about our enemies around the world as animals,
incapable of behaving in a rational and logical manner.
However, we were the animals all along.
And the reason why I say that is because we are the ones who are incapable of understanding
the dynamic on the ground.
We are the ones who don't care about how many people we kill.
We are the ones who are doing terrorism.
It's just you're still doing it.
What?
I just, I don't know.
And as animals, we are the only ones, we are the only party here that needs to be brought
to heal in some ways.
Like we need to receive some pressure.
Yes, I saw the meat canyon, yes, I saw the meat canyon appearance chatter.
know it's not the average American the average American is of different the
average American obviously is not maybe as considered as you would expect them to
be but like the average American obviously is not in favor of any of this unless
you're talking about MAGA but I I'm specifically referencing like how states
operate and if you look at America's barbaric modus operandi and you look at
way Iran has conducted itself so far it's very obvious that the only way to to
demand the only way to get America to stop is by showing it it has to stop.
America is not going to stop until American allies, American partners get to
the table and tell America to stop. Trump needs to hear a bunch of Trump needs to
be fielding calls from Jamie Dimon on numerous occasions before he fucking decides maybe
we've miscalculated, maybe we need to retreat.
Meanwhile, look at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging Trump in a call on
Sunday not to go for a ceasefire at the moment and express concern about the risk of such
a move, as Israeli officials said.
Trump told Netanyahu that if Iran agrees with the U.S. demands a ceasefire, it could
happen, but stressed he won't give up on his demand that Iran hand over all of
enrich uranium and agree not to resume enrichment according to the Israeli official.
Modus are some Watt law.
Modus operandi are mode of operation, the way we operate.
Yeah, Israel, you aren't fighting this war for us. Also Israel, just in Israeli permission, Benjamin
Yeah, I was warned Trump against the ceasefire deal is really those old axios
Dude guys, you feeling okay today? You seem to be tired. It's okay to take a day off. I'm a 34 year old man. Can you please?
I just I I really
Thank you for your consideration, but like stop babying me. Please. Okay
please I'm not a baby I'm a 34 year old man I'm an adult okay I know my
limitations what is happening here I'm tired because look at the dog shit
events that are unfolding, okay? I'm also tired because I didn't sleep a lot last night.
I was on a red eye to Michigan, so I could start my broadcast early, knowing that Donald
Trump was going to deliver speech directly from the White House.
Congressman Pat Fallon, reporting in Texas, the chair of the military personnel subcommittee
the house of armed services says American boots on the ground are necessary in the war against Iran.
I just don't see any other way.
What?
Concrete proof of the Rape Tone fuck Hassan Abi Pivot.
Tectone's ex-girlfriend Pinkchu revealed that she went to the police on March 2nd, 2025.
Tectone began using the Hassan tag on his YouTube videos on March 6, 2025. What the fuck?
God, how cruel and how weird and how strange my ops are, just villains in every way.
Trump said he'd jail the person who reported on the missing airman, not anymore because
it was Ahmed Segal.
Yeah, we're about to see Trump's promise to find and imprison whoever leaked the info about the second pilot vanishing to the ether
It came from Israeli government. Yeah, Donald Trump earlier today said he was gonna find in jail
Whoever leaked the details about the failed
the the
The F-15 that was dropped it was Ahmed Segal
as I'm a seagull just acknowledge on a telegram channel he was the first to publish details about the missing second airman
Seagull is an Israeli journalist known for his immediate proximity in any Yahoo
Trump has threatened to jail the journalists who first reported on the missing airman in order to force him to confess the identity of a source
Seagull does not appear to be concerned
Also, he's flexing look at him he wrote the quote on his telegram
Trump we didn't talk about the first one we rescued then someone leaked something about the navigator. We're gonna find whoever leaked it
Whoever it is
What
Per Miranda divine the times of Israel is now deleted the references Israel's minister defences the original source of the second downpile of story. Oh
my god, and
The IMO D is strenuously denying it. Oh
Oh my gosh, so was the times of Israel just making up a non-existence source or are they just now deleting it because Trump is mad
So this means that the original source to Amit Segal was literally the Israel the Israeli minister of defense. I mean, I believe it
That's why I keep telling you like a lot of these a lot of these Israeli reporters
especially people like Amit Segal that are very close to Benjamin and Yahoo. They are
basically the government mouthpieces. In most of these circumstances when you
hear something from these guys just understand that it's the government
saying it and they obviously will consistently leak information that the
American side doesn't want out because they don't give a shit and also what
are you gonna do? Punish Israel? You can't. You're a bitch. You're a bitch-made.
Our government is a dog to the Israeli government, okay? That's it
Financial building last night
Part two more bodies pulled from the rubble during the course of the day
It's not being confirmed
it was an extended family an elderly couple their son and his wife and
Israel continuing to strike into Lebanon today seven people killed and a continuation of this
Gaza-like tactic of destroying Lebanese villages close to Israeli territory
territory, the Israeli military releasing images of the village of Taiba and various
detonations destroying large parts of that village.
The Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, also speaking today, offering condolences for
the deaths in Haifa, reportedly having spoken to Donald Trump on the phone, urging against
a ceasefire, presumably feeling that not enough has been done in Israel's terms
so far in Iran, nonetheless selling achievements in his terms so far to the Israeli people
today.
We are eliminating facilities, we are eliminating operatives, and yes, we're continuing to eliminate senior figures.
Iran is no longer the same Iran, it's not the same Iran anymore.
Israel is no longer the same Israel.
Israel is stronger than ever, and the terror regime in Iran is weaker than ever.
And a bloody reminder today of the continued Israeli fire into Gaza.
He's so crazy, he gets a flex this way too.
It's actually so wild that he just gets to go and I mean he won't do this in English usually he'll do this only in Hebrew
But every day he's just like guess America's my bitch America's my dog look at how look at how far we've come
We're no longer just a regional power. We're a global superpower
It's awesome
fantastic
We need to keep giving unlimited money to these guys, okay?
This work can be summed up by a single sentence from Nenyeah's 1993 book, A Place Among the Nations.
The task of Israel's leaders is to try to convince the American government that it is in the interest of the United States to follow policies that
cohere with Israeli interests, not vice versa.
It's almost like they say it right to our faces. Yeah.
That's the reason why Benjamin Nenyeah has been, guys,
Benjamin Nen Yahu has been consistently voted back in the office.
Is it because he's a particularly charismatic person? No.
Is it because he's the most bloodthirsty out of all of the Israeli leadership?
No, there's plenty more in the tank.
The reason why Benjamin Nen Yahu has been consistently voted back in the office
is because he is seen as the protector.
And the only reason why he's seen as the protector is because
he's seen as the most reliable manipulator of American presidents he has the most
experience with American presidents and he's the most effective at getting
Americans do whatever the fuck he wants that's it and therefore he is the guy
who is protecting Israel by getting America to protect Israel that's it and
we have only proven him right over and over again famous quote from Bill
Well, Clinton was, who do you think is the superpower here, right?
Like that's all mad he got at Benjamin and the Ahu.
And then it did what in the aftermath?
Nothing.
Gave him everything he wanted.
There was a, in central Gaza, an Israeli airstrike killing at least 10 people, close to a school
being used for displaced residents.
The reports are that there was a clash between Israeli-backed militia and others in that
area and that the airstrikes followed that.
Two other airstrikes killing two other Palestinians as well, leaving one girl seriously injured.
All of this, of course, months after the October ceasefire, the Gaza health ministry says more
than 700 people have been killed by Israeli fire since then.
Harry Fawcett in Jerusalem.
Well, amid Donald Trump's repeated threats and imminent deadlines for Iran to reopen
the strait of hormones, the markets have remained highly volatile.
I reckon on this correspondence,
how the Abraham is with me, how the.
Well, the president's messaging is erratic,
it's bombastic, offensive, even,
but time and time again, Chris,
he's been able to prove and persuade to the markets
that the talks are going well,
that the war is going to end very soon.
And that's despite what's happening on the ground.
Today, U.S. shares were all in the green,
the S&P after the president's vote,
flat up slightly at 0.3%.
How come there's no more talk about Hamas and Gaza because Hamas is still the de facto
governor structure in Gaza and Israel is currently still occupying 55 percent of Gaza
that the tensions will eventually bubble up once again as Israel finds a moment of
Israel seizes on another moment like an like an opening or whatever but
But for the time being, for the time being they're too busy getting their shit pushed
in in Lebanon by Hezbollah and also demanding Donald Trump, nuke Iran.
So they're too busy to deal with Gaza at the moment, even though they did successfully
annex 55% of Gaza, remember, it was already small to begin with and now it's even
smaller.
this morning and then after he spoke inched up slightly but 110 is a long way from the 60 70
bucks we started with the other key metric US debt it didn't really move today but it's firmly
above 4% making it all the more expensive at a time when Washington is running these historic
deficits and of course American consumers are already feeling it on the ground where the
the gasoline now on average at above $4 a gallon, and these are now up 55 percent, that's
critical for transportation. Now, Amazon and the U.S. Postal Office are saying that these
higher prices mean they are now going to start charging U.S. consumers a surcharge.
Right. Now, the Iranian government has said they are not.
The children, U.S. staff member today in Gaza, oh yeah, they haven't obviously, in
classical Israeli fashion, it's not like they've stopped bombing Gaza. Of course,
they still conduct operations in Gaza, same with like the ceasefire in Lebanon, right?
If you remember the other side ceases and Israel fires.
That's just how it works.
The administrative hall moves.
What does that mean for the markets?
Are they going to keep believing Trump every time he says it's all going to be fine?
I think, you know, when you don't have fundamentals, Chris, you've got to go with the sentiment
of the most powerful president in the world.
What else can they do?
Everyone wants to buy the dip.
But the key thing here is the strage of all moves.
You've seen it's a critical waterway.
It's for gas, for oil, for essential chemicals.
But over the weekend, since Saturday,
you saw the passage of 16 ships pass through.
Indian ships, ships from Iraq, ships carrying Iranian oil
to China.
Now that is a trickle compared to the 100-150 tankers
that used to go through, but it represents some kind of change, but it comes at a price
because the Iranians have set up a sort of toll route between the islands of Khashmin
l'Irakh, where they've been charging reportedly $2 million a barrel.
Now, the regime says that is because of all of the damage caused by this war.
One of the critical things to remember, Krush, is that it takes about 30 days for
tankers to get to their destination from the strait of Hormuz. So we've been talking about
higher oil prices, but so far there hasn't really been any issues when it comes to shortages.
If the strait remains closed, that's when we start to feel some real pain.
What's been happening today? Well, oil analysts have been keenly following the
passage of two tankers that were going towards the strait of Hormuz. They were coming from
Ras La Fan, which is in Qatar, home to the kind of 20% of the world's LNG gas export.
It had never been...
She meant 2 million per tanker, not 2 million per barrel, guys.
Attempted in this war before, but as Anishka was saying, you had that Israeli attack on
the Iranian petrochemical site, and then the ship's return.
So you can see that...
You haven't mentioned it in stream, I think, but Israel has had to change their war goals
in Lebanon due to how badly the campaign is going.
Demilitarizing Hezbollah is no longer a goal.
And the buffer zone has been reduced to possibly 2 to 3 kilometers if they can get it.
Yeah.
Ew, why are you in my state?
Ew.
Eww, because I was welcomed by someone running for the Senate seat and also the students
of the colleges that I will be visiting.
Did you think that normal people in the real world shared the same weirdo resentments
That's that you developed off of watching some of the dumbest content creators on the internet?
There's plenty more people in here that are from Michigan that are excited that I'm in
your state.
It's so funny that these guys think that their own learned resentment from outraged manufacturers
and drama farmers is actually shared amongst the masses.
While the president is talking, there are still contradictions.
Thanks, Elliot.
Iran has responded to Pakistan's ceasefire initiative.
Your mom invited me to the state so I could have sexual intercourse with her.
See you later little bro.
If demanding a permanent end to the war with the U.S. and Israel. State media says
Tehran's conditions include a new protocol for passage in the Strait of Hamuz.
Thus after a renewed wave of Israeli attacks on dozens of aircraft in Tehran,
another locations in the country. The strikes come shortly after it targeted Iran's largest
petrochemical complex in the port city of Asalua. The facility processes natural gas from the offshore
south powers field. Iran says the attack damaged several production units, strikes hit facilities
that supply the complex with electricity. Are you covering the Trump press? Are you speaking
right now? I covered the earlier one. Does he have another one?
See, water and oxygen bringing operations to a halt.
Israeli defense minister says the attacks a severe economic blow to Tehran.
Last month Israel hit a storage facility in the south pass gas field.
Iran responded by targeting energy sites across the region, including Qatar's Ras Lafayn
facility.
The south pass forms part of a 9,700 square kilometer gas field, the largest on earth,
jointly held by Iran and Qatar.
For Iran, south pass is the backbone of its energy supply, meeting around 80% of the country's
domestic natural gas demand.
Stretching beneath the Gulf, the field is divided.
Roughly one-third lies within Iran's territory as south pass, while the larger share extends
into Qatari waters, known as the North Dome Field.
Well, we are live in Dubai, Ramallah in the occupied West Bank,
the White House and Tehran.
Let's begin with Ali Hashim in the Iranian capital.
Good to see you, Ali.
So, Iran, we understand responding
to Pakistan's ceasefire initiative.
What more do we know?
Well, Iran responded to the 15 points initiative
that was, or at least 15 points that President Trump sent.
The Iranians seem to have refused parts of this plan.
Mainly, they responded with calling for a peace
to be across the region.
They do not want a ceasefire.
They have issues.
They are having reservations.
They're putting reservations on the idea of ceasefire.
So they want a peace plan for the whole region.
That means all regional conflicts that are already going on right now, they want them
to be part of this solution.
Second thing that they want a protocol for safe passage in the state of Hormuz.
This is what they are offering.
Also clearly they're saying that based on previous experiences with the United States,
they cannot accept a ceasefire.
That's why they want something comprehensive and completely different.
This is what the Iranians are putting now on the table.
How would the other side, how President Trump is going to deal with this?
This is going to be the big question.
Well, Ali, back with you in a second.
Let's now speak to our White House correspondent, Kimberly Hackett.
Look at this in more detail with you, Kimberly.
So, you guys were just completely worthless.
Yes, but that's up to Iran.
It's up to Iran to establish sufficient military deterrence so that America does not get goaded
into doing this alongside Israel ever again, and that Israel also thinks twice before agitating
in this direction.
Confirmation, the Iranians are engaging in diplomatic efforts with the terms of Iran.
You talked previously about dual-track diplomacy coming from the U.S., so issuing threats while
apparently engaging in talks.
Can you shed some light on where we are right now when it comes to the U.S. stance?
Well it still is a dual-track.
What we know is that the vice president, along with Middle East envoys Whitcoff and
Kushner and also the Secretary of State, but for the most part the vice president has
has been leading these discussions and these back channel discussions with intermediaries.
But the bottom line is, is that there has been no signature from the U.S. President on any
deal that would lead to a 45-day ceasefire.
Because as you point out, the U.S. President is continuing with these threats and that
looming deadline of Tuesday, 8 p.m. Washington time, for there to be some sort of agreement
that would not only halt hostilities, but also reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
In fact, the U.S. President continuing that maximum pressure in order to get Iran to comply,
saying he will, quote, blow up the whole country if a deal's not reached.
Now, the U.S. President is expected to have a 17 GMT press conference today, where he'll
be talking about the rescue of the second airman from that F-15E, a story that Al Jazeera
English broke on Saturday evening. We're going to hear from the president and hopefully also
get some clarity on where things.
Talarico's Israel stance helped them win. I'm not sure what it will take for Dems to
realize that the stakes of this issue here, but 15% of Texas Dems saying they will sit out
the general election if the Democratic nominee is as supportive of Israel as the Republican.
New poll 76% of Texas Democratic voters says Israel is committing a genocide.
Talary goes pleasure now send weapons Israel boosted him over a Crockett by a four-to-one margin. Oh
Wow, look at that
This is why all the chirping is utterly irrelevant. Do you understand? This is what I'm trying to say
This is why I don't have as much worry about McMorrow any longer because her
What the fuck why is it so?
Why is it so orange in this room?
This was why McMorrell, drawing a line in the sand and leaning into republican pressure
was not a smart thing to do at all. Leaning into like the republican party that will turn around
that will turn around and attack me and attack Abdel El Saad would only exposure as not being
a real anti-Israel voice, okay? I don't think simply saying, oh, you know, maybe Israel is
done war crimes, or maybe Israel's done a genocide, who knows, is enough.
But we shall see the most I think that the the problem is like if it's a if it's a straight line
establishment versus left flank race it's very clear you'll have a grand Platinum style blowout
But there are warrenite spoilers that try to carve a space out for themselves and present themselves as like
moderates
That are still more progressive than the establishment Democrats while getting all of the institutional backing from the party
And that's precisely what's going on with McMorrell right now
Right. We've seen this happen in the BIS race with cat up a gazale
That is a real issue for true left-ranked candidates everywhere.
When you got a real left-rank candidate and then you have a fake progressive or pseudo-progressive candidate,
it actually changes the dynamic quite a bit.
it. So we shall see. We shall see.
I think people in Michigan probably still think McMorrow is like an anti-Israel candidate.
Hopefully, we can change that dynamic by exposing the contradictions a little bit further.
There's also one other thing that I want to talk about, speaking of which, because as we
saw here, obviously, Talarico got a big boost from having a better message on Israel than
Jasmine Crockett.
about it a little bit more empathetically, right? But also, here's another issue that's
going on. Harry Emden, once again. This is from RNC Research, but it's the actual, you
know, CNN broadcast where Harry Emden talks about, do we have a longer video of this?
By the way, I don't want to just watch the RNC Research version. I want to see
the full one. The system where he talks about how the GOP as a national party is still polling
better than the Democrats as a national party. And this doesn't mean that like Democrats
are going to lose these midterms. That's not what I'm saying at all. But it is insane
that while it's this dynamic still exists, unlike in the 2006-2018 cycles, the GOP
actually leads the dems on net favorability at this point the national
environment suggests you'll be holding the senate why generic ballot dems in a
weaker position in two thousand six and twenty eighteen senate map them's the
pickups in red states and history say this mister vermin and that is that
this lead is historically low for democrats at this point with the
republican president because take a look here i'm taking a look at the average
of all the polls gen dem generic congress congressional ballot lead at
this point in the cycle with the republican president on average there
leads actually slightly less. It's five points. That's less than it was back in 2018 when it
was eight points and way less than it was during the 2006 cycle when it was 11 points. So yeah,
Democrats are the 2006 cycle had, but they're only ahead by five with a president who's net
approval rating is bordering on minus 20 to minus 30, depending on what pose you look
at, you'd make the argument, Democrats should be way ahead. And they're just only sort
of slightly ahead.
Now to be clear, five points might be enough for them to retake the House, which is really
a narrow margin.
It would not take much at all for Democrats to get this would blow it in the Senate.
Yeah.
Is a different matter.
Yeah.
The Senate is a different matter.
I think five points is enough to take back the House.
But in the Senate, five points is almost certainly not enough.
If you apply it to the Senate map, why do I say that?
Because let's just take a look.
GOP would win the Senate with this map.
Let's say Republicans only hold onto the states that Trump won by greater than
10 points.
I would in fact give them the Senate 51 to 49.
Why?
Because what you would see is you would see that the Democrats would flip North Carolina,
they would flip Maine, but Republicans would hold on to Ohio, they'd hold on to Texas,
and they'd hold on to Alaska because Donald Trump went all those states by greater than
10 points.
And I will note, John and I were talking at the NCAA tournament going on, this is
sort of the chalk scenario going on where the most obvious events actually do occur
because take a look during the Trump era, look at this, flip the Senate seat, midterm and
presidential years, states the other party won by 10 plus points in the last presidential
election, 0-0-0 times that a party flipped those states, so we're talking about places
like Texas, Alaska, Ohio where Trump won by double digits.
Which is why the Democrats might need a bigger lead than they have now if the Senate is
really in play.
What else is going on now for the Democrats that maybe should cause them concern?
What might cause them concern?
Why is that generic congressional bat lead so low?
Because just take a look at this, net favorability.
Party ahead at this point, midterm of years with the GOP president.
In 2018, Dems were up by 12.
In 2006 on net favorability, which party like more Dems are ahead by 18, Republicans are
actually ahead on net favorability at this point by five points.
So Democrats are just simply put running behind their previous benchmarks and they
need to be running well ahead of them if they want to take back the United States
Senate given that map.
To be clear, both parties are wildly unfavorable right now, however, Democrats are even more
unpopular than Republicans.
Some of these charts are something Democrats should look at as they head in to November.
Harriet, thank you very much.
Thank you, Mr. Berman.
Do something keep screaming to the DEMs?
Has it usually been the case that disappointment in current DEMs isn't a good indicator of whether
DEMs will do well in the elections?
Does a generic unmanned DEM always poll higher than the actual DEM politician even if you
don't like the current party?
It seems like folks will still vote for that mythical DEM who hasn't disappointed voters
yet.
Yes and no.
I don't think this is as bad.
because, I mean, it depends. It depends on what the primaries look like. If you got more
Abdul's and Talarico, I mean, Talarico already got it, right? Like, that, that's actually
pretty good. People like Talarico do have a shot. Like, breathing new life into the
Democratic Party forcibly, even though there's tremendous response, tremendous retaliation
from the centrist in power
uh... it's not necessarily a bad thing
it's
uh... it could actually help the democrats like
uh... genuinely change the the battleground dynamic
even especially in in red states and purple states
i mean you got main
platter
talarico in texas
Abdul in Michigan, well, Michigan is, you know, blue for the Senate seat, regardless, but it's still.
Even if the Democrats did win authority back in the other two branches of government, it seems
pretty damn clear to me that the executive branch would continue running with unchecked authority.
Yeah, but it starts the process of undermining the Trump agenda.
Okay. You will see a lot more success. Alaska is winnable too with Peltolta. Or is it Peltola?
Alaska is a winnable Senate candidate. A known relatively successful congressman who was beaten
beaten by hair in 2024. I remember that. Osborn too. Osborn as well in Nebraska, independent,
but again, a unique Peltola. Sorry. Peltola is pro Israel. It doesn't matter, dude. We're
talking about fucking Alaska. Okay. Who gives a shit? So it was like 99% of the Democrats.
I'm just giving you what the battleground looks like, okay?
I'm sorry that there isn't a fucking anti-Zionist in Alaska.
Do you know how to progress it? Who cares?
It's fucking Alaska.
And also I'm not talking about anything.
I'm talking about the Democratic Party's chances.
Not all of the candidates that I'm referencing are our progressive candidates.
I'm just telling you what the red states and purple states look like.
Hello?
How is this difficult to comprehend?
Stan, not only on the discussions, but also on whether or not he really is firm about this deadline,
deadline given the fact that the U.S. president has issued deadlines to reopen the straight
before only to extend them.
Thanks, Kimberly.
Back with Ali Hashem in Tehran.
Ali, so, as Kimberly was saying, the dual track, excuse me, diplomacy is happening
right now.
So the threat of violence coupled with the potential for talks, we have seen the threat
of violence become a reality in Iran in the past 24 hours, particularly when it
comes to the targeting of the South Paz facility by Israeli forces. What more
you're learning on that? Well the attack on South Paz comes as the attacks on
other infrastructures going on. We saw attacks on universities on... I think a
lot of people forget that like I'm not just a mouthpiece for American
socialism. Okay. I do commentary on a variety of different issues. As a political commentator,
I will obviously do analysis on Democrats and Republicans winning and losing races.
It doesn't mean that every single politician that I mentioned by name I absolutely love and admire
and defend unconditionally. It's very strange.
South Pass, which is actually a strategic field for the Iranians, and we're given the precedence.
So I saw some discussion today that the last ships to leave the Shredi Hormuz are going to be arriving this week,
and shortly after that, physical shortages will become a lot more common.
Reality is going to come home unless there's changes.
Yes. I think today is the last day that the UK is actually receiving jet fuel.
I
On Cassandre easy have a gun to your head on speaking about butchware or even Ramsey nothing on third parties whatsoever blink ones free as break dance for no
There's a there's there's a chaos taking place in those two campaigns
But the reason why I haven't really covered the California governor's raises because it's a massive spectacular fuck up
But not only that but also
obviously like you know viability is what matters and if you guys think that I
personally have the capacity to you know uplift someone like Ramsey Robinson
from 1% to electoral victory or butchware from 1% to electoral victory
you're out of your dang minds
apparently butch is also anti-China but I don't really care about that that much
either. There's plenty of people who are anti-China. My point is, you know, there's not...
There's a very limited amount of opportunity here. I'm not capable of changing the dynamic
of a race like that. Work for Zoran. Oh my god, you guys are so fucking stupid. Please stop.
I am not a kingmaker. I didn't make Zoran. Zoran was a very uniquely gifted candidate who worked his way through the Democratic Socialists of America infrastructure in New York City, which has a robust on the ground door knocking operation and in a ranked choice voting system.
system like it's not it's not an appropriate comparison God what are you
Sarah Longwell acting like I have to make it or break it ability over here
oh I wish I wish I had that I wish I could do that you know I'll be waving
my wand around a lot. Chris Hedges had Trita Parcyon to talk about the Iranian war. Where
Where are you in Michigan? Why do you ask these questions? Like it's very strange.
Donald Trump on Easter of all days issued an expletive laden threat to Iran in which
he demanded the regime quote open the f***ing straight of for those you crazy bastards.
He vowed to target the country's energy and transport infrastructure which is a war crime.
His latest rant is part of a pattern of incendiary rhetoric, including a threat to bomb Iranians
quote back to the stone age where they belong.
Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day all wrapped up.
In one in Iran he posted, there will be nothing like it.
Open the f***ing straight you crazy bastards or you'll be living in hell just watch.
Praise be to Allah, President Donald J Trump.
Moving aside the obvious questions about Trump's mental stability, the threat comes as the
Trump White House approaches yet another self-imposed deadline.
By tomorrow, Iran must reopen the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most important
shipping lanes for oil and gas or, according to Trump, face apocalyptic retribution.
The Strait has been effectively closed since the U.S. and Israel launched the war
Iran in February and has seen global oil prices skyrocket. What does this latest?
I mean that that tweet itself is a perfect depiction of how desperate Trump is and how
poorly things are going. Okay, there's no clear indication that the the war efforts are not
going well. Then the president saying open the fucking straight goddamn it.
But you don't do that when you have a significant advantage over your opponents.
line portend? Will it be extended in desperation as passed deadlines by the USFB, or will its
signal an escalation of the war, one where vital energy facilities and infrastructure
including desalination plants will be targeted by Israel and the United States as well as
by Iran? Iran insists that it will only open the
strait after receiving compensation for war damages paid via a new legal regime based
on transit fees imposed on shipping in the strait joining.
I don't agree with Robert A. Pay, by the way, I don't think Iran is now a center of global
power.
I don't think so at all.
No disrespect.
He's great.
But I think Iran at best is, is hopefully, if they're lucky in this back and forth.
Iran will emerge as a at best regional power that has sovereignty.
the best-case scenario. Iran is not going to become a global power. It almost
harkens back to Professor Chiang's arguments.
They control the center of global power? No.
In order to become a global power, you can't just have a strategic choke point
that you have control over. This would imply that Egypt is a global power.
Well, technically, Egypt is not sovereign, but it's not, right?
Yemen is not a global power.
I don't think Iran becomes a center of global power.
Yeah, Panama is not a center of global power.
Of course, Panama and Egypt are not independent sovereign states, they're vassals, but it's
just not, you know, that's not like controlling a choke point doesn't make you automatically
into a center of global power.
However, however, Iran could develop into a wonderful country if it was left alone and could just be sovereign.
And potentially they could fight their way into that sovereignty as long as there are competent people that are applying pressure to Trump
who understand the severity of the crisis ahead of us.
China is not even really a global power. They're on the cusp, but not quite. Okay.
That's ridiculous.
China is absolutely a global power.
What you mean is China is not the hegemonic superpower
What
I'm her
Hey, last year subscriber. I'm very much anti-israel. Would you recommend alaskan?
Democrats should you improve their optics it hurt not go either we were wrote off so quickly in your earlier response
Hey, I don't want to be those people who copy base their question, but I like a response to my question
Please respond. I don't know man. Go talk to your candidates. I go go tell Peltola to be anti-Israel
I don't know what you want me to say
Like what am I supposed to do what can I do urge your electeds to represent your interests, right? I
Just don't think that that's a likely outcome. I feel like in Alaska
I don't know how much pressure you could actually apply to someone like Biltola
Because why the fuck does she care about Israel?
Okay, why why does she even have an opinion on Israel?
The very fact that she has an opinion on Israel that is pro-Israel implies
That she's you know getting paid to have that position. What the fuck does Alaska have to do with Israel?
What the fuck does the the
like
The the Alaskan constituents and their needs have anything to do with Israel
Okay, it's just the easy pick for a pack and other pro-Israel donors
to just like Markov as you know, an un, as another you know, reliable ally that they can buy cheaply, you know.
On Iran and Israel. He is the co-founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute and the co-founder and former president of the National Iranian American Council.
He has served as an adjunct professor of international relations.
Why do the diaspora call Trude Parsi an Islamic Republic mouthpiece? Because they're insane.
Because anyone that has a more nuanced opinion on Iranian sovereignty, that doesn't immediately glaze either MEK,
which are even more psychotic than the Pahlavists, or Reza Pahlavi, is automatically considered a fucking op,
is automatically considered an Islamic Republic mouthpiece.
I think they also have like, yeah, he's like, I think Trude is also Zoroastrian, right?
I've seen some insane stuff about him on the timeline.
I've seen stuff of people saying like he's actually, he's actually a Shia Muslim, but
they're a lot, he's lying about being a Zoroastrian or something like that.
Hopkins University's SAIS, New York University, Georgetown University, and George Washington
University, as well as an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute and as a policy
fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
So Trina, let's begin with this self-imposed deadline, the newest that I spoke about in
the introduction.
But it does seem, although these self-imposed deadlines have been extended, it does seem
that we have reached a very frightening point where there's serious consideration of massive
escalation in desperation, obviously driven by desperation.
Is that where you see us headed?
I fear that is where we are.
We can see a pattern in which Trump is issuing angrier and angrier tweets with all kinds
of deadlines and threats of escalation.
He has largely backed off from actualizing many of those, knowing very well that he doesn't
have escalation dominance.
So take a look at what the situation is in the Persian Gulf right now, for instance.
We have high oil prices because the Iranians are not letting the tankers through.
They're letting some through, but not all.
They're trying to collect transit fees, et cetera.
But we don't have a destruction of the oil infrastructure in the region.
And this is deliberate.
Now if the United States goes after the power plants and other type of infrastructure in Iran,
the Iranians have learned that they will go after the oil infrastructure in the region.
If that happens, we're not just in a situation in which right now all prices are high because of a bottleneck in the Persian Gulf,
but once that bottleneck is open, the oil will flow rather quickly.
We will be in a situation in which the oil will not flow for quite some time because there will be a production problem.
It can take three to five years to rebuild all of those different things.
that would cause a prolonged and much higher level of old prices that would destroy Trump's
presidency and throw the world most likely into global depression. So precisely because of these
reasons, Trump has so far been very careful not to go that full distance, but because of his
desperation, because of his false belief that he's still in a strong position and can dictate
the terms to be Iranians, and his psychological refusal to accept the fact that in order
to get out of this war he actually has to give some concessions. There is a likelihood that he
will just go all out and do something absolutely insane potentially using non-conventional weapons.
So that risk cannot be discounted because if we presume rationality what we wouldn't be in this
position in the first place. There's nothing rational about being in this war or having
started this war under this false belief that the Iranians would cave or collapse within four
And of course the other question is how desperate is Israel?
I don't think the Israelis are desperate, but I think the Israelis are very comfortable knowing that they can keep on pushing Trump in the direction that they want.
Yeah, the only way to change that dynamic, this is true by the way, the only way to change that dynamic is by increasing the pressure Israel feels.
and the only way for Israel to feel some pressure as far as what we've seen is more successful,
successive strikes that apply public pressure to the administration to hastily end this war
because for the first time ever they're actually receiving some kind of retaliation and some kind
harm. So that's it. Because no one out like the idea that like democracy or the will of the people
matter in this situation is obviously silly. There's you know, there's there's points of pressure
you can apply on the Trump, European allies, not even individually, by the way, European allies
have to get together and demand changes. It kind of worked with the Greenland Saga, right?
Or they told him, like, we'll give you something, we'll give you, like, a symbolic victory
in Greenland, but you can't be out here talking about how you're going to militarily
invade Greenland. Like, that's not how this stuff works. You're embarrassing us.
But it did work. Trump did back away from the annexation threats, right?
So judging by that, you have to have a significant response from basically the entirety of the European allies and all of the other allies as well.
You know, Latin American countries, Asian allies, that's important too.
to last but not least, or the other person, the other group that's important is capital
owners. If the markets are actually on fire, which could happen, you know, when physical
shortages start happening, obviously the pressure will increase, right? That's potentially
a point of pressure from capital owners, too much market volatility, they're not making
money, and then the most consequential pressure point is obviously Israel, specifically Benjamin
and Yahoo. Benjamin and Yahoo has to be more responsive to the public needs, okay, and
it doesn't, he only gets to, he only gets to continue posturing the way that he does
because America's God is back. America is capable of protecting Israel.
If Israel feels unprotected, they will change their their attitude.
Whatever. I mean, take a look at, for instance, what he's now suddenly saying,
that he will bomb Iran back to the Stone Age. And then on top of that, he said,
we will set them back and then the next president may have to bomb them again.
That's the exact Israeli blueprint for their strategy of mowing the grass.
This is not the way the US has been conducting war.
The US, as much as it's committed a lot of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United
States did not deliberately target universities in Iraq.
But that is what the Israelis have been doing in Gaza and in Lebanon, and this is exactly
what they are doing right now, together with the US and Iraq.
Sharif University, their top university, was hit just yesterday.
So we're seeing the Israelization of America's conduct of the war but also of the goals of
the war in which, you know, a growing the grass strategy which by definition means an endless
state of war with Iran is now being embraced by Donald Trump.
That's a sign of desperation and a sign of the control or the influence that the Israelis
have over his direction.
If there is an escalation, a military escalation, if they hit, for instance, the oil facilities
on Karag Island, if they actually strike the power plants in Iran, what do you see the
Iranians doing?
At that point, I see them targeting refineries as well as power grids in the GCC countries
and in Israel.
And as I mentioned, that will create a completely different oil crisis than compared to what we have right now right now
This is just because of a bottleneck in that other
Starting to sound a lot like the music of the Gaza war ceasefire talks Israel in the US
Want to temporary ceasefire Iran like Hamas demand and at full end of the hostilities with guarantees
They won't be attacked the minute they concede something Hamas had hostages Iran has Hormuz
Yeah
Except
Israel didn't really give a fuck about the hostages all that much, even though there was some public pressure.
But unfortunately with the Israel dynamic here, Israel being the
senior partner in this coalition in many ways, in terms of its influence capabilities over Donald Trump, I mean,
the Shredda Formuz is not a hostage for Israel at all. It doesn't impact Israel one bit.
That's the real problem.
There was public pressure launched against Benjamin and Yahoo because the hostages was a thorn on his side
who's annoyed by it, but he had to address it.
No such comparison could be made with, unfortunately no such comparison could be made with like the Shroud of Hormuz being held hostage.
An Iranian drone strike on a base of Kuwait injured 15 Americans overnight,
Jim Laporta reports most of these hurt at Ali al-Salem airbase have returned to duty.
Jennifer Jacobs says 373 US service members have been injured in Iran,
in the Iran war over a little over five weeks in.
Okay, those numbers are, again, much lower than what the actual numbers are, no way, no way.
373 US service members have been injured in the wrong war, little over five weeks,
of those 330 have returned to duty and are five are currently considered seriously wounded US Central Command.
I don't know if I fully believe that.
That's nothing. What do you mean? No, that's just what SENTCOM is revealing. And if SENTCOM
is revealing that, that means, you know, it's probably a lot higher than that. Intercepts
reporting, intercepts investigative reporting has shown that it's actually closer to 750.
So there's that.
Check this damage on the base, only 15 injured law.
I can't really tell from that angle.
Scenario will be because of infrastructure being destroyed, production being degraded.
degrading. That's going to cause a completely different type of a scenario that ultimately
will likely destroy Trump's presidency. This is part of the reason why he's
refrained from going in that direction so far. But out of this desperation in which he realizes
he is not in control. He cannot dictate the terms. He cannot decide when this war ends or when
it pauses. There is a risk that he will go down this path. Right now the U.S. is apparently
putting forward these phased ceasefire proposals. And then Trump gets more and more frustrated
because the Iranians are rejecting them. But why would any country, at this point, agree
to a phased ceasefire with the United States and Israel, mindful of the track record that
Israel and the United States have in Lebanon and in Gaza, in which these ceasefires have
been violated within minutes by the Israelis, without any repercussions from the U.S.?
And we have never reached phase 2 or phase 3 because they were not meant to go to that
point.
And if you take a look at the proposal that has been put on the table so far, it is essentially
asking the Iranians to give up all of their leverage in phase 1, and then there's a huge
question mark as to whether there ever will be an achievement of reaching phase 2.
Well, that's every agreement going back to Camp David.
They're always written in phases.
Israel gets what it wants in the first phase and ignores every other phase.
the pattern for those of us who have covered the Middle East.
Indeed.
And when it comes to Gaza, for instance, these were very, I mean, they're not even hiding
it.
They were very clear cut.
They're never going to go to phase two.
And the Trump administration thought that at least phase two would be achievable, but
they knew themselves that phase three was never going to be achieved.
At this point, if you're serious about diplomacy, you don't put forward proposals
of that kind and low balling, because it simply won't go anywhere.
if you don't have time on your side, which Trump does not, getting serious means that you actually
put some real compromises on the table. So Israel gets their oil and gas and energy. I'm not entirely
certain of the totality, but more than half of it, it gets it through Oslo by John by way of
pipelines that go through Turkey and then are placed on tankers that arrive at Haifa.
So that's how Israel gets his oil and gas that
And I guess now Venezuela as well apparently that's you know, that's a new thing but
That's new
Well, you also had
Strikes on Iran in June and then again starting on February 28th with this war Jimmy explain how you know the numbers are higher
Do you have a source? I think I missed that part of the broadcast two reasons number one Sencom
just like Iran, has an interest in obviously revealing information that is the most favorable.
And number two, the separate intercept reporting
showed that it was actually 750 minimum or in the midst of negotiations.
Exactly. Twice Iran now has been struck by two nuclear weapons states in the middle
of negotiations. So all of that adds to a scenario in which the Iranians are not going to agree
to anything that does not end the war in a durable manner, end the war, not just cause
some sort of a ceasefire. And within that also, they're going to be asking for concessions
that the U.S. probably thought it would never have to give, such as lifting up the sanctions.
They may not agree to completely open the strait.
They may actually try to install a transit fee system permanently and use their control
of the straits not to end the war, but to negotiate or manage the relations with states
after the war.
States who in the past used to have economic relations with Iran, but who cut those economic
relations in the last 10, 15 years because of pressure from the United States.
It seems like the Iranians are going to try to use this leverage to restart those economic
relations with those states, rather than using it for some sort of negotiations with the United
States.
If that is the case, it tells you something of what type of assessment the Iranians have
themselves of their position of weakness or strength.
And they may be miscalculating as well and overplaying their hands.
But it shows you that the distance between what the U.S. is and what the Iranians
believe they are. It's so massive that any negotiation that is based on these type of
lowball things are absolute non-starters and are probably setting back the cause of ending
this war.
Well, that's what we get for having two Zionist asset, Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkov running
our negotiations with Iran.
I think at the end of the day though, the real issue is that it's not the negotiators,
not to say, you know, in defending them or how they conduct themselves or even if they
know anything about these subjects, the details that have come out of from the Geneva round
of negotiations really are frankly embarrassing in terms of how little technical knowledge
with Kauffman and Kushner appear to have had and as a result opportunities, you know,
they contributed to those opportunities being missed.
But the fundamental problem is who the negotiators are reporting to.
And that is Trump.
And with him right now, you have a scenario in which he had been lulled into disbelief that
the Iranian regime is so weak, he has no choice but to capitulate.
And all you need to do is to push it a little bit, whether it's through military threats
or actually taking military action, and they will either implode internally or they will
surrender.
And that was a fundamental misread of the situation.
But it was not a misread from the Israeli side.
But I think the Israelis knew very well that that was not the reality.
But they knew also that the only way you could convince Trump to do something like this, take
military action, adopt the regime change policy, things he had promised his base that he wouldn't
do, the only way you could do that is to convince him that it's going to be so easy,
it's just going to be a repeat of Venezuela, and as a result, you're better off doing
that than to negotiate a deal and agree to a compromise with Iranians.
And that mindset ruined the negotiations and then also led to this war being turned into
the Balkor.
You already have the Iranians imposing tariffs, fees, whatever you want to call it.
I think it's two million dollars per oil tanker.
I think those tankers have about two hundred million dollars worth of oil.
They've already set up this kind of toll booth system in the strait.
They have, but it has not been, I mean, the factory is operating right now.
And the French apparently now are getting some ships through.
And I suspect there's going to be a larger number of countries that will negotiate either
collectively or their bilateral deals with Iran.
But whether that is a temporary situation on the war or whether that becomes a permanent
mechanism post war remains a question.
Clearly, Iran is going to go towards the latter, making sure that this is now a
permanent situation.
If that ends up becoming one of the long-term outcomes of this war, then it's
It's a clear sign of what a disastrous decision it was for the United States to initiate this
war in the first place.
But there's still a lot of question marks as to whether that mechanism in the long run
will work, will be accepted, et cetera.
But right now, that is where the Iranians have their mindsets.
I want to talk about the diaspora.
I was in a Persian restaurant in New York on Saturday, and the owner told me on February
28th when they assassinated the Supreme Leader, they all broke out the champagne.
But there is this disconnect between the diaspora, the Iranian diaspora, and I think at this
point the citizens of Iran were watching their schools be obliterated with the death of
what's the final count, 175 schoolgirls, basic infrastructure being they just hit
petrochemical plant and it reminds me very much of the Iraq war where you had
figures like Hanan Mika'a and Chalabi and others kind of cheering on the
destruction of Iraq. Can you speak to that issue? Sure, absolutely. First of all I
think it's important to note that those people in the diaspora who were
cheering the war, not just the assassination of Khomeini but actually
wanted war, were never a majority in the community but they had become a
a very strong plurality just in the last year or so, which in and of itself is quite astonishing,
mindful of the fact that just 10 years ago, support for war within the Iranian American
community was less than 5%.
So some things clearly had shifted.
The latest poll done by the National Iranian American Council that was published last week
showed that two thirds of the Iranian American community opposed this war.
But this brings us to the other parallel that you just mentioned.
Not that it even matters all that much because obviously it was just a way to propagandize
and to create a reason for why America had to do what it's doing and it was bullshit from
the start and people could see it, or at least I could see it and many others could as
well.
There's an initial report, an American refueling aircraft has made an emergency landing at
Bangorian Airport.
Lot of squawks from the American Air Force, by the way, in the last couple of days.
There's been like four of them, four emergency landings that have taken place.
So they're getting dinged up.
Talks to Iraq.
Back in 2003, those Iraqi voices, Iraqi-American voices that were chair-leaning this war,
they were paraded on mainstream media,
going from channel to channel,
begging the United States to bomb their ancestral home.
The same thing happened here,
in which a lot of those voices
were overwhelmingly invited onto all mainstream media shows
to kind of give an Iranian face to this war,
to humanize it, to say that essentially
this is done out of humanitarian concerns.
Those voices were never representative
of the majority of the community,
And that right now, the representative of a shrinking minority, because more and more
people are understandably turning against this war, they have been criminally naive thinking
that this was going to be a quick affair and that this would liberate the country.
That Israel would bring democracy to Iran in the midst of its ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Criminally naive, but nevertheless, people are understandably turning away from that position.
But it is the mainstream media that, I think, more than anything else, have been responsible
for giving everyone the impression that that is the totality of the bani american
community whereas it wasn't even a majority to begin with it is a shrinking
minority now but still those are the voices that are being created on tv just
as they were in the rock world
i want to talk about the sanctions um... iran is a wealthy country
uh... it uh...
had uh... a thriving
middle class we should also be clear iranians like iraqi's i also worked
in Iraq are highly educated, a vast majority are highly educated.
It's not in any way as the kind of the way it's painted, certainly by the Trump White
House, but often in the media.
And the middle classes of bull work of any democracy are only disintegrating.
Middle class certainly contributed to the rise of Trump and the right wing.
But many of the policies that the United States have carried out since the revolution, I think
have been counterproductive to building democracy, and then we just have to throw in the most
a day, the overthrow of most a day by the CIA and British intelligence, which at the
time was the, he was the prime minister and he wanted control of Iranian oil rather than
turning it over to British petroleum.
He was overthrown in a coup, and that was one of the last, if I have that correct, truly
functioning democracies in the Middle East which we destroyed.
But talk a little bit about how this, I don't think Israel and the United States actually
wants democracy, that's why they're kind of pushing the Shoah Sun on us, not so much
Trump but certainly the Israelis.
talk a little bit about how counterproductive our policies have been
and how those policies have really played to the advantage of this Ayatollah
you know the Ayatollah led regime. You're absolutely right and you're putting
your finger on something very important that it goes to explain why you had
5% support for military strikes 10 years ago and then suddenly a strong
minority in the community above 45%, but not 50% that in the beginning of this war were
in favor of it. Obviously the fundamental factor is the repression of Iranian government
itself that has intensified. But the question is why hasn't it intensified? And here the
sanctions come in as a very important factor. Between 2016 and 2017 when the JCPA was
an effect and the US had lifted or at least waived its sanctions. The Iranian economy grew
67% every year. The middle class was getting stronger. And if this had continued for another
10 years, if the US had never walked out of the JCPOA and sanctions had remained...
This is just for people who don't know. This is the Obama agreement, which freed up,
I think billions, you probably know the exact figure of Iranian frozen assets.
Correct. Frozen asses were freed up a more evidently.
I was interested in the question of highly educated, why so restrictive socially regarding women's apparel, for example.
Hopefully I'm not insensitive nor out of touch. No, that's a great question.
It's actually a massive friction in Iranian society.
A big part of that, a big part of the problem stem from that.
Part of it is because as I've explained before, there's a dynamic in countries that have been destabilized.
destabilized
by Western forces
Where some of the more fundamentalist groups that do have a popular base of support in the country in the IRG
Not the RGC, but like the Islamic Republic has a popular base, right? A reliable popular base
that's like approximately 30% of the country
On on a bad day, right?
and
The more fundamentalist forces are often times, this is the case with the Islamic Republic,
seen as the most uncorruptible anti-Western forces.
So if the overarching popular demand is that you want an uncorruptible force, you want
an uncorruptible anti-Western force, and that is the only way you can actually develop
sovereignty and plenty of Iranians obviously wanted sovereignty. There was a real revolution
that took place in Iran. And one of the elements within that revolution, the one that actually
succeeded, the one that actually ended up taking control over Iranian governance, was
the Islamic forces, the Islamist forces. They initially had a wave of support. Obviously
that went away very quickly after and they successfully were able to slowly but surely
chip away at their opposition and now they justify their existence, they justify their
power by showcasing their fundamentalist values, their principles.
But it's not as black and white as the way Americans presented, of course, and that's
Precisely the reason why it's important to acknowledge that they have a very strong emphasis on education for women as well as men, and yet they still have a lot of social repression and have actively seen any kind of demonstration against that social repression from regular Iranian society as an opportunity to potentially destabilize the country
And have responded very violently at times
Yeah, also their their legitimacy came after the Iraq invasion, yes
For sure, but also their brutality increased after the Iraq invasion as well
Countries that are
Describing the Islamic Republic is fundamental is not accurate. I mean it's more complex than that
But I'm saying that a lot of the people are they're real. They're they're really religious. They're actually religious
Not every component of the Iranian governance is
is as religious as
The clerics, but there's still a final say that comes from a religious figure that sits on top of society
that is
appointed into power by
scholars by clerics
The problem, of course, is that there are dueling pressures.
There are competing pressures, okay?
The primary focus of any form of governance in a country that had to fight for its sovereignty
like Iran did is always going to be destabilizing elements in society.
We see this in China, we see this even to a much more limited degree in places like Cuba,
but countries that are designed as foreign adversaries oftentimes have a lot more repression,
lot more state repression than countries that are under the security umbrella of the West.
And a reason for why they behave in these repressive ways is because they are terrified
of instability. And it's not like the United States of America and Israel
don't foment, said Instability. They do. Right? Iran International, for example, is a channel that is
specifically designed with the interest of fomenting, said ethnic tensions and trying to create some
kind of popular revolution on the ground. Now they failed to do so, but they have been able to
convince a lot of people, right? And Iran International is backed by Western forces,
Israel and the Gulf. Okay, it's officially like backed by the Gulf, but it's certainly backed by
the West as well. And Iran International has not only been effective in changing the minds of
the diaspora, for example, but also changing the minds of regular Iranians as well,
Greatly emphasizing the repressive nature of the IRGC, the
bossage forces, the government. So they touch on existing pressure points and
highlight them and greatly emphasize them and also engage in a good deal of
misinformation. There's a reason why there were Iranians that thought
initially inside of Iran mind you that America and Israel would be their
salvation right there's a reason it's because of outlets like BBC Persia
outlets like Iranian International that created this narrative that worked
people believed in it now how many people still believe in that inside of
Iran? I don't know. Probably not a lot. Because Iranians are very stubborn people, they're
very proud people, and obviously, they still carry on that revolutionary spirit of the Islamic
Revolution, the Iranian Revolution. And therefore, at least according to polls that
I have seen, every time the United States or Israel directly intervene with Iran militarily,
that actually absolutely plays a galvanizing effect on the IRGC and on the Iranian government.
There is definitely a real rallying around the flag effect.
The Iranians were able to sell oil again, investments could be flowing in, it didn't happen to the extent that the Iranians hoped for, but nevertheless, even in that limited sense, the economy grew 67%.
If that had continued, economists have made calculations. Iran's middle class would have become...
Yeah, that 30,000 number initially came from Iranian international, right?
Harana, which is, again, another Western-backed humanitarian rights organization.
Their number was 7,000, right?
Iran International came out with 30,000.
CBS News reported it immediately.
And now that number has increased to 45,000, right?
Sometimes people say 80,000.
It's very clear what the purpose of that was.
7000 itself is already a heinous number, right? It's an unbelievably high number.
But it wasn't enough because just as October 7, an accurate assessment of the tragedies of October
7 and the violence of October 7 wasn't enough for Israel to justify what it was about to do
to the rest of the world, they had to do atrocity propaganda around October 7, same thing happened
here in Iran.
These strongest, if not one of the strongest middle classes in the Middle East by 2025,
10 years after the signing of the JCPOA.
This would then have led to a scenario in which the Iranian middle class, as in all
other middle classes, would be exerting pressure on their government for greater openness,
liberalization, same trends that we have seen in other places.
But they would be doing so from a position of strength because the growing economy would
have reduced the state's ability to control all means of production and assets and income
in the country.
Instead, Trump walked out of the JCPOA, imposed even stricter sanctions on Iran,
which then decimated Iranian middle class.
Between 2018 and 2019,
one third of Iran's middle class
actually went into poverty
as a direct result of the sanctions.
This then, predictably,
led to an even more repressive Iranian government
who had to use more repression
in order to be able to sustain their own power
in the country as the economy was deteriorating further.
Then we saw the massive protests in 2022 around Masa Armini,
and of course, the protests earlier in December and January,
in which the government was using more and more repressive
means, and in January killing several thousand protesters.
And what you saw there is that as a result
of this increased repression, which
the logic has to do with the economic situation, which
has very much to do with the sanctions being
and pose is that the population also then in reaction became radicalized in 2009 they
were protesting in favor of making sure that the election results would stand that there
wouldn't be any election fraud.
If I took some reports, senior Iranian officials tell New York Times its demands for an end
of the war include one, a guarantee Iran will not be attacked again, an ed to Israeli
strikes against Hezbollah and Lebanon, lifting all, lifting of all sanctions on Iran, Iran
retaining control of the Strait of Hormuz along with Oman, with a $2 million fee being imposed
on all ships that transit the Strait.
This is, this is what they've been saying, this is not new.
They have said this. They've said this consistently since like day four, or at least they've said this since they closed off the Shreder Formos and instituted tolls, so a couple weeks prior.
The idea that they don't bring up anything in Gaza is also interesting. Sometimes it's a loss in the
translation because I've heard from people say that the Iranian government's demands actually
revolve around like ceasing hostilities against all those who have resisted against Israel,
which would include Gaza as well. But, you know, so Homs Abbey, Hossam Abbey,
Moshe Cory Booker's a coward sellout for supporting Israel. Would you call yourself a coward criminal for
supporting the rape and colonialism of Crimea by Russia? As a Circassian, I think this is quite
important. Yeah, you're gonna have to take it up with Barack Hussein Obama chatter. You know,
That's what you have to take that up with. I have long explained over and over again and
will continue to do so that there's a difference between the way that Russia took over Crimea
versus the way that Russia has been trying to overtake militarily Eastern Ukraine. One
must ask a question why there's a big difference.
But I thought you were president in 2014, yeah. I mean, even Obama understood this dynamic,
and he talked about it as well. And yet people seemingly only use as a talking point for
some fucking weird reason.
I'm not pro-Russia, if that's what you're implying, however.
But it was about change within the system.
By 2022, there was no demand for reform.
It was a demand for the regime to fall altogether.
And the means for that was street protest and revolution.
By 2025, 26, the demands that we were increasingly hearing
from the protesters was, again,
no reform to get rid of this regime,
but now suddenly at least a portion of the protesters
and minority, but nevertheless,
started asking for military intervention
from the outside, the argument being
that the population no longer is in a position
to overthrow the government
on its own, it has to have military intervention.
So you had these protests, again, occurring, of course,
but instead of being from a position of strength
as they could have been, had the sanctions been lifted,
now people were out there out of desperation
and despair protesting from a position of weakness.
And I think this is a very important lesson
for us to understand because, yes,
sanctions can destroy and devastate
the economies of these countries,
but we have almost no examples
in which the sanctions lead to successful protest movements.
Circassians are not even from Crimea.
What does that have to do with anything?
Okay, but have you considered that that chatter is Circassian
and you should sit this one out?
Yeah.
I don't even understand what that had to do with anything,
but do you like Drew Pavlov from Twitter?
No, I don't.
I said overthrow the government.
More protests, but less successful protests
and more desperate protests.
that's exactly the pattern that we have seen here and it tells us
how counterproductive u.s policy has been if
we assume that the goal actually has been to see iran move in a more
liberal and and democratic direction
the u.s government has admitted to also arming factions within iran can you
speak about that
yes so we had trump himself revealed to uh... fox news reporter
that the u.s have been sending arms to the kurdish rebels in iran
And on top of that, of course, we saw how both the Israelis were saying that they were
on the ground, how we saw the former head of the CIA, Mike Pompeo, saying that the Mossad
and others are on the ground, and that armaments, et cetera, have been shipped.
I think what is emerging here with these revelations or admissions is that the protests
in December and January were overwhelmingly peaceful, and they were overwhelmingly by
people who just came out out of their frustration and anger at the repression and mismanagement
of the economy by the Iranian government.
But there were also elements there who operated under the shadow of these protesters, who
the protesters had no relationship with and did not know about, who were armed and trained
by Israel or the United States, who used extensive violence, burning banks, burning
mosques, burning fire stations, killing a lot of police and other members of the
Basij, for instance, which is something we had not seen in the past.
I just wanted to repeat, the Basij are these popular militias.
The popular militias, exactly.
For people who don't know.
Which are used by the government to repress the population.
But despite the fact that they are, of course, extremely unpopular, we had not
seen this level of violence from protesters before.
2009 protesters were extensively peaceful
for the very strong nonviolent discipline.
A person I spoke to who has essentially attended
all protests in Iran since 2009.
Said that in 2009, if anyone started using violence
or throwing stones at shops, et cetera,
other protesters would intervene
to keep a nonviolent discipline.
This time around, he said he was out protesting
in January, but then he saw people dressed in black
that seemed to move very coordinated,
planned way, using violence,
and he saw no one intervening
because people were as afraid of those violent elements
as they were of the repressive representatives of the state.
And this is a phenomenon we had not seen before in Iran
in the last 40 years or so.
And again, when Trump is coming out and saying,
hey, we armed these people,
it frankly makes sense,
that picture is starting to become complete.
Well, and now those armed attacks
became the excuse for wholesale slaughter. We don�t really know. I mean 7,000 Iranians
killed in the streets, maybe more, but they became the excuse to gun people down all
mass.
Yeah, the Iranian government has said�
I thought it was the government allowed to admit out loud that they�re arming Kurds.
Thanks, King. Brother, it�s the American government. They can literally say whatever
they want. As a matter of fact, Trump is saying whatever he wants all the time. I mean,
He straight-up said he's going to do terrorism to Iran, and he gave a timeline for when he's
going to do terrorism.
He's going to destroy every power plant.
He's going to destroy every bridge in the country.
That's a war crime.
It's a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
That's terrorism.
That's it.
He's like, we're currently waiting out the clock on when he decides to destroy the
planet. Either destroy the global energy markets if Iran retaliates in kind or
just simply destroy Iran and Iranian existence, Iranian livelihood, Iranian
lives in general. So yeah, Trump gets to say and do whatever the fuck he wants
unfortunately in the absence of any sort of pushback, any sort of legislative
pushback, any sort of pressure, he just does whatever he wants. We are at
the mercy of a fucking psycho.
A key reason that US global leadership is in rapid decline is not just because Trump
is a raving lunatic but also because our system of checks and balances have completely failed
to address that. The failure is so much deeper than Trump who is merely a symptom of the decline.
Yep. It turns out you can just do things. I hate that conversation, but I hate that statement,
but it kind of is true. You can just do things, right? It turns out you don't really need anything.
You could just be like, yeah, I'm slapping terrorists. Like maybe at most you have one
last remaining check on your power, which is the lower courts all the way up to the supreme court.
And obviously, if you control the supreme court, as Donald Trump does, you can kind of bend reality to your will.
Israel and America have consistently destroyed international law, right? Every single day.
European allies have recognized that they are vassals and they will not say anything.
they won't even symbolically uphold these rules. And here we are.
See no evidence for that, but reality is there is evidence for around 7,000 and 7,000 people killed
is a ridiculous and horrific number of people killed by the Iranian government in just two days.
And that tells you something. It tells you how bad the situation was, how perhaps desperate
even the Iranian government was thinking that it was losing control and then allowed its
militias to just use violence in an indiscriminate manner.
There's an internet blackout.
It's hard to get information.
But one senses from a distance, you know, more than I do, that the mood within Iran
is changing as Iranians understand that this is not about regime change.
This is about the destruction of the physical infrastructure of Iran to do to Iran what
Israel did to Gaza, what it's doing as I speak to Southern Lebanon, and what it did to Syria
to turn Iran into a failed state.
Absolutely.
I think it's starting to become clear.
I think it was clear to a lot of people, but for those portions of the Iranian population
And who out of desperation thought, perhaps military intervention can help them, it's
starting to become very clear to them that this was never about them, this was never
about their freedom.
This was a campaign that had nothing to do with those things, and that the goal of the
Israelis always have been to turn Iran into a failed state, because that takes Iran off
of the geopolitical chess board.
And Iran can no longer pose a challenge to Israel's designs for hegemony in the
region if Iran turns into a failed state.
And I've written about this going 10 years back that that was the Israeli objective with
any war that they would be engaging or starting.
And now I think it's become clear to a lot of folks that, you know, they're not out
there to help them but to destroy the country as a whole.
And we're seeing at least on the side of folks inside of Iran that, you know, more
more people are speaking out against this or even people who may have been part of the protest early
on or who perhaps even were in favor of the war that they are shifting sides. Still some people
I'm sure this is a huge country, 90 million people, you can find a lot of different opinions,
but the trend I think is quite clear. And I think what is not happening with the same clarity
is within the diaspora. And I think part of the-
A year ago you said I didn't hate Israel enough. You were correct. Yeah.
What the time is now, you know?
It is.
For many of those who took these strong positions in favor of the war, they essentially entered
no man's land.
They don't know where to go from here.
And as a result, they're just doubling down on the position that they held before and
just becoming more and more radical to be able to essentially handle the cognitive
dissonance that they have put themselves in and helped put their compatriots in
inside of Iran. We had a similar phenomenon happening in the 1980s with a group called
the Mujahideen-e-Khal, which was an opposition group on the U.S. terrorist business.
They were labeled as a terrorist group by the United States.
Exactly, up until 2010. They sided with Saddam Hussein during the Iraq-Iran War. They actually
were a pretty popular group prior to that, as part of the opposition to the Shah. But
because they sided with that invader, it was essentially their death knell. And instead
of reassessing and rethinking what they had done, their response was to just double down
and become more and more dependent on any foreign entity, a rival of Iran that would seek use
of them.
And as a result, essentially, they turned themselves into a hated group that became
like a mercenary for any of Iran's geopolitical rivals.
I fear that the monarchists may actually go in the same direction because they made
this massive bet on this idea that bombing their own country would bring about democracy
instead of it's bringing about death and destruction. And I think it's very hard for them to manage
that so I think they will frankly double down instead of trying to extricate themselves
from the situation, unfortunately.
I just want to close about the use of nuclear weapons. That is, especially with
Israel. There's no, Ben, no, Israel has certainly, if they've learned anything with the almost
three years of genocide, it's that they can kill with impunity, not only with impunity,
but they can be supplied with billions of dollars of armaments to continue to kill
with impunity. And yet they are not achieving their objectives. As you pointed out correctly,
it is Iran that will determine, I think, when this thing ends, and they can, through
asymmetrical warfare and crippling the global economy they have you know they
have us by the throat I I know it's speculation but I unfortunately you know
my fear is that we can't rule it out and can you talk about that yeah no it's
it's extremely concerning because this is just a scenario United States should
not be it but I'm hearing it increasingly from people including
former officials, that fear that this is the direction that Trump may be going, that his
desperation for something that can turn this war around, something that can allow him to
declare victory and end it even without an agreement, requires him to take actions of
this kind. Perhaps it could have worked if there was a successful effort to extract
the highly enriched uranium, the 60% enriched uranium that Iranians have somewhere on the
meat, the ground around Fordo, which they apparently have not been able to access or
extract themselves.
Isn't Israel crippled by a crippled global economy?
Yes and no.
Israel has a lot of incredibly wealthy benefactors that live in the Western world, specifically
in the United States of America.
they will literally infuse money into the Israeli economy
over and over again, which is part of the reason why
their economy has not suffered as much as it should have
over the course of the last two and a half years
of its continued genocide.
Israel obviously also gets an unbelievable amount of support
from the United States of America.
It's just entirely propped up.
But this will be a tremendously difficult operation, probably quite a few American deaths.
But Trump seems to think that he needs something of that kind in order to say, I want the war
it's now over and I'm going to leave, and that this is then pushing him in the direction
of more seriously considering nuclear options.
And from what I hear, there is a pressure from Israel as well.
I don't know this for certain.
Again, there's a lot of information
that is flowing around right now, a lot of speculation.
We don't know any of this for certain,
but folks are pointing to the fact
that Trump is using the language of World War II,
for instance, total surrender,
the type of language that preceded the bombing
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
And they're very worried that because Trump
doesn't have any other options. He doesn't seem to be willing to take the de-escalatory
off-ramps that are available to him because it will be an admission that this war was a
failure. It will be an admission that he did not succeed, that as a result he may actually
go so desperate that he will take escalatory actions such as using nuclear weapons.
just to close, what would be the Iranian response? How fast can they, at that point, it's impossible
to know because we don't even know if, if this were to be used and it feels frankly
uncomfortable even talking about this publicly, given the fact that it is such an unthinkable
option or should be such an unthinkable option. No idea whatsoever what the Iranian
response would be. And if they even could respond in any way shape or form because
it would be completely unclear, um, uh, because it all depends on exactly where they would
hit, et cetera. But again, I don't think we are there yet.
I hope we don't get stuff wrong.
Yeah, well, Trump says if it weren't for him, it wouldn't exist. He's not wrong, but
that could be said about every American president.
But the fact that this is increasingly being discussed in Washington as a potential
possibility, it tells you about how badly this war is going.
great thank you Trita all right that was true to Parsi um I hope the world
we spoke I uh don't think the world would respond
Israel's ambassador to the UN had a Danny Dunon not sure what's going on in
the conversation with the GOP try to come after you but they're getting
nuked. Yeah, GOP, Democrats Summer League, and I'm below side are campaigning alongside
the Sampai Group. Americans are 9-11 called Islamic Terrorists Brave. And it's really funny
because Donald Trump literally said on the morning of 9-11, this is real, audio resurfaces
of Trump falsely telling a TV station that he now owned the tallest building in Manhattan
And just hours after the Twin Towers fell on 9-11.
So it's, you know.
You wouldn't believe it was a movie bro was bragging about his building on one of the worst days of our country. Yeah
You think there's already a deal and this tough guy shit is to try and get last-minute clout. No, I don't
And don't
Bro said as the towers were falling with our correspondent in Tehran Reza Sayeh
I asked him about the latest US Israeli strikes on Iran including several explosions
reported at Iran's largest gas complex this Monday
It's just been a brutal the 24 hours more Israeli
strikes that is targeting
Iran's energy and infrastructure
infrastructure, intellectual infrastructure, another attack on universities, and civilians
are suffering.
Early this morning, state media reported in the West of Israel air strikes in a residential
neighborhood in southern Tehran.
Twenty-three people killed, including six children under the age of 10.
Also reports of the attack on the Pars oil field and the Blue Cher nuclear power plant
in southern Iran.
foreign ministry condemning the attack. It's a fit time that power plan has been attacked.
Iran also warned of radioactive disaster if those attacks continued. Iran's position is
this is more evidence that these U.S. and Israeli airstrikes are going after non-military
start targets, going after the economic and intellectual infrastructure of Iran. And
in turn, Iran is doing the same. And that's why we've seen stepped up attacks on
economic hubs in the region, a number of attacks on the dust. They bombed the union to my
underground and the photos are horrible. Yeah. It's so it's so indefensible, dude. It's real
over the past 24 hours. Of course, you as President Trump has issue. The only way that
these guys also take issue with the only way that these guys take issue with the
things that are, um, sorry, the only way that Israelis ever complain about the usage of cluster
munitions, for example, is if they're being deployed over Tel Aviv or space. The only way
that Israelis will ever complain about schools being targeted is if Israeli schools are targeted,
you know that's it they just don't and even then it's not going to stop them because they're insane
wait is iran ramping up attacks or israel uh no israel is is um increasing the strike targets
which um a modified deadline for tuesday now for iran to open the strait of hummus it doesn't
look like iran's about to do that um what is morale like among the iranians that you're speaking to
Reza? Well, there is 92 million Iranians. They don't have one voice. They don't have
one single emotion. I can tell you based on the voices I have heard. Some people are naturally
worried when you have the president of the most powerful country in the world saying that this
place is going to be a living hell. Obviously, people are going to worry. But you're also
seeing remarkable resilience. I think people here have been through so much, 40 years of
of pressure at economic and political isolation now,
two wars that they're showing remarkable resilience
and they're sending the message that we're ready for anything.
But obviously a lot of concern about what's coming
in the next couple of days with that deadline
and a lot of people looking at diplomatic efforts
to see if they can stay off and never stop to go.
So, we have a legitimacy to target those civilian targets and I would advise I revenge.
This guy is the Israeli ambassador to the UN.
Okay.
Did you hear what the Israeli ambassador to the UN said?
Donny Danone.
Here, I'm going to run it again.
I'm going to run it again.
So we have the legitimacy to target those civilian targets.
And I would advise the Iranian to believe President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu
because they have shown in the last...
Incredible.
When he's not spending his time in the most productive way he possibly could, which is
of course demanding that like children's artwork get taken down at the United Nations
headquarters because there are door drawings of terror, terror drawings.
Look at this quilt, these child's quilt.
It says beef on it.
Mother that capable.
This is what he's doing.
Israel is every right to target civilian.
Israel has the legitimacy to target civilian targets in Iran.
of fighting any target in a one and now we have to wait where we continue to play
the game with the straight of almost you know it's it's what they're doing there
it's it's beyond imagination you know the blackmail they actually collect
the money from countries in order to allow. Hassan Abbasowski is doing a
horrifically offensive impression impersonation of a deaf person every
time he talks is able is yes I mean a lot of people also think I'm being
able is when I do a Danny Denon but then they hear him and they go oh that's like
100% accuracy actually. No one sounds like Danny.
To the straits we shouldn't allow this piracy 2026 to continue.
Hours of searching through the rubble to recover bodies after an Iranian missile
hit Haifa in northern Israel. But people here are also searching for answers
About why Israel's advanced air defense systems failed to intercept this missile this damage. Yeah, they're running out man. They're running out
They're running out
Not that it matters not that it matters it seems at least for the time being Benjamin and Yahu is still going hard in the paint
Could have been even worse
The fragmentation warhead, which expelled Shrapnel when they exploded, did not detonate.
Had it done so, the casualties and destruction could have been far greater.
This is a war of another kind in which fragmentation missiles are fired at us, causing destruction where they fall.
And we see very harsh results.
I fear that we will not see the end and that this war will be long.
These wars will accomplish nothing.
Many Israelis are also asking, how long this war will go on?
Iranian attacks continued until Monday, causing several injuries. Major damage to homes and
buildings in Tel Aviv was reported. And to the east, in Be'atah Tegba, Shrapnel from
a cluster of munitions injured one person.
This intensification of Iranian missile attacks comes the head of Trump's ultimatum for Iran
to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday. At that line, he's extended twice. It's
There is no secret that Israeli officials are lobbying against the deal to end the war.
Among the people are growing skepticism of the government's strategy, not only regarding
Iran, but also in Lebanon.
Battles with Hezbollah have already killed several Israeli soldiers there.
The public must be informed accurately not by claiming victory and destruction,
but by providing precise information, Hezbollah still possesses approximately 25,000 rockets
and missiles.
their
as well as got hands as well
and so does Iran
and uh...
what is this lebanon is anti-semitic centers love this shit
or something
now
there is no no that's bullshit that's bullshit
parody jiff does a lot of fake videos there's no fucking shot
here her dog is still trying to pull the
hitler minecraft copy in a fucking living room nonsense
and no way dude
mara iran has found the holes in it israel's air defenses the gap that
they're exploiting
through the closer tax goes beyond tactically bypassing defense systems
it places heavy and sustained pressure on the pressure inventory
of mid-course interceptors the sm3 arrow three
because of forces operators the intercept at higher altitudes
the reason they're forced to do it
is that they can't tell the difference between a unitary explosive warhead and a cluster warhead.
The cluster warheads need to be intercepted at high altitudes.
Globes.
A ministerial committee has approved increased production of aero missiles in a deal
which will be worth billions to Israeli aerospace industries.
Hezbollah publishes a video of them firing an ABBA bill towards Safed.
That video is from last year?
of this video is from last year or the Herzog videos from last year
they just found a poster of a son piker in a his baller his baller tank
That's the that's scarier. Dr. Jihad Dr. Jihad. That's actually scarier than Adolf Hitler.
Hitler, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Hamas Abbey. Dr. also known as Dr. Jihad.
But yeah, that's you see destiny trying to debate Tim Miller disavowing you no I did not
and that's I feel like there is more productive uses of everybody's time than for my number
one stalker to my number one stalker to do maximum op-oh dumps wherever people will hear him out.
He is a pedophile. Why is he still around? It a lot of this stuff doesn't matter to people.
It's clear that as long as, you know, they're aligned, as long as he's aligned in this like
fuck Hassan Crusade, the Hassan derangement syndrome that a lot of these people are participating
in now, you know, centrist Democrats and think tank operators, they don't give a shit
about the background.
I mean, near attended has been calling me an anti-Semite or a dangerous radical or
or whatever, while simultaneously reposting Sneeko and in the past, she's retweeted Nicholas
Fuentes. So these people don't have any sincere beliefs beyond wanting to maintain the power
that they have. I feel like Ethan Klein surpassed Destiny's
You're number one stalker at the stage. I don't know. I mean at this point it might be fucking
Someone else. It's just we have a lot dude. You have to remember there's I got a lot of them now
I mean the GOP's posting about me non-stop
Israeli
Collaborator masquerade the honor of school turned shelter east of al-maghazi camp and guys also included the kidnapping of children
There are now reportedly at least 11 martyrs shooting by Israel back group of shelter and Gaza is followed by an Israeli Shrike killing eight
Yeah, it's stupid and desperate, but also very revealing about certain demfacts and
the biggest patrons and how they see the window of opportunity opening up the Trump trending
down.
If you're an Israel, if you're an Israel, them or a loyal functionary for a billionaire
megadowner who is instead of this war accomplishing what you want, but rubbing the stink off
on Trump, the war is going to be so catastrophically going so catastrophically that it's anchoring
pro-Israel politics to Trump's decline.
Abdul took aim at APAC members for owning this, that's what got these
antibodies so perked up because it's landing and they know it and they know
they're on a precipitous slope for all the money in institutional support. That's
exactly what it is. A lot of Israel first Democrats like pro-Israel
Democrats in general and and centrist Democrats, right wing Democrats, understand
that you know Donald Trump is accomplishing all of their goals, right?
right? Because their goals are Israel's goals. They want to advance Israel's interests, they
want to advance the interests of the military and the national complex. But the thing is,
it's a win-win. Because, and Kid Fury, thank you for the 20 give the subs, because all
of that is now with Donald Trump. They get to have their cake and eat it too. They
They get to have their cake as far as going to war with Iran, something that they wanted
as well, because Israel wants it.
And they get to stand on this morally righteous position.
When the US and Israel launched the offensive, Israeli politicians promised a short, decisive
war and a clear victory.
Five weeks later, the Iranian regime is showing no signs of collapsing, and missiles and rockets
are still causing damage and disrupting life in Israel.
It's leading some Israelis to question the motives behind this expanding war and wonder
whether they're being forced to shelter from attacks to protect Benjamin Netanyahu's political
career.
I just want to say that I do condemn Hassan Piker for the crime of being correct and also
hot. You can only be one and it should be illegal to be both. Wanting to stare longingly
into your eyes while you explain the Cuban blockade is definitional terrorism. Like how
How can I focus on him debunking the 40 beheaded baby's myth
when I wanna have 40 of his babies, you know?
Also, like, why does he have money
when he speaks about socialism and economic justice
other than he streams like eight hours a day,
seven days a week?
He'll socialize victory is speaking to two people
for one hour a week for no money, okay?
And then splintering those people
into two warring factions, okay?
That's what will win.
The point is nobody should be platforming
anyone who critiques Democrats,
and is also good looking.
Unless a person is a right winger,
in which case we can totally like swap makeup tips
and deportation tactics.
What the hell?
Did I miss something?
What did I miss?
Say that I do condemn Hassan Piker
for the crime of being correct and also hot.
Chad is moving so fast and no one will notice that I am feeding crows on salted peanuts good
Do not feed the crows salted peanuts. Don't do it boiled eggs are fine as well as long as they're hard boiled eggs
You can only be one and it should be illegal to be both
Wanting to stare longingly into your eyes while you explain the Cuban blockade is
definitional terrorism
Like how can I focus on him debunking the 40 beheaded babies myth?
when I want to have 40 of his babies, you know? Also, like, why does he have money
when he speaks about socialism and economic justice other than he streams
like eight hours a day, seven days a week? He'll socialist victory is speaking to
two people for one hour a week for no money, okay, and then splintering those
people into two warring factions, okay? That's what will win. The point is
Nobody should be platforming anyone who critiques Democrats and is also good-looking unless a person is a right-winger
In which case we can totally like swap makeup tips and deportation tactics
Thank you for the kind words
Great now you have to fight Matt lead never
Hi y'all I have to say I am completely and utterly done with Hassan derangements
my goat my goat Kyle he's back he's back damn this is doing well 25k in like
less than an hour he's so angry syndrome that's it that's the that's the
go right there. The Darkwoke commander 23 minutes. Oh my Lord. 23 minutes of this. He's not even
driving for this one. I'm not gonna I think I will kill for you. I kill for him. Bro.
He's not even driving for this. Okay. This is like, this is straight from inside of
the studio, okay?
Let me just say, as clear as I possibly can, if you are a political commentator and you
have a take on Hassan Piker, do me a favor and just shut the fuck up.
I don't want to hear it.
Nobody wants to hear it.
We shouldn't even be having this conversation.
This hopefully will be the last time I have to fucking address this, but I am so sick.
We're living in a world where Donald Trump is waging an illegal and offensive war against
Iran.
The outline of World War 3 is there for shitshore.
Anybody with a functioning brain can see it, China, Russia, Iran versus us and Israel with
a hesitant Europe to fucking take aside, even the Gulf Arab states now are hesitant to
sort of take aside.
You see the outlines there, the Strait of Hormuz is shut down, gas is absolutely skyrocketing,
our AI bubble is about to burst seemingly any minute.
We have a looming fucking global depression that's about to hit.
We have war crime after war crime after war crime being committed on a daily basis.
We have fears of a Moab or nukes about to be used in Iran.
They're attacking hospitals.
They're attacking schools.
Israel is stealing South Lebanon right now as we speak.
They displaced 1.1 million people.
They're bulldozing their homes.
They're seizing their land.
All this shit is going on.
And we're supposed to have a fucking conversation about Hassan Piker.
Did you guys see that in 2019, he said this thing which was really politically incorrect
and rude?
I don't give a fuck if he was having sex with your grandma in 2019.
That's crazy.
I had a random post where I Instagram post pop up on my feed using the old clip we were
talking about Dan and talk across the interview saying the horseshoe theory is correct.
Sure.
I don't give a fuck. Why are we having this conversation? Why are we talking about him?
And so, um, we really had Hassan derangement syndrome hit a peak recently because, um,
on the bulwark, the network, the bulwark, we had Tim Miller, who to his credit, he came
out and I think he had the proper take. He was basically saying like, why the fuck
are we talking about Hassan? There's an illegal war of aggression going on in Donald
Trump's a psychopath. He's demented. He's going to basically drag us all to hell. Like
he's destroyed the country completely. He's working on destroying the world. Let's grow
up here and move the fuck on. Let's not talk about us on. So Tim Miller comes out and says
that, well, you have a right wing Democrat, a diet, MAGA Democrat, as I call them. Uh,
Sarah Longwell, she was one of the founders of the bullwalk, I believe. And she was
mad at Tim Miller and she goes, well, we got to have this conversation on air. Cause
I don't know denial and the grandma sex, by the way. No, I can't deny some I've
done, you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, I've done that. To basically the entirety of the
right wing forces in this country, seemingly the way they're chirping, the way they're
chirping about me might as well. You might as well assume that because they're so goddamn
angry.
I agree with you. What followed was just one of the most frustrating conversations I
think I've ever seen. So let me show you a little snippet here. Here's what
she's like what we're picking this up with him now I'm just like I could think of a thousand other things
I would rather Democrats pick fights about now like why him right now because he's making their life
harder it is me people like a son of me hold on people like a son are making Democrats who want
to take a stand against this war right and who want to probably take a stand against the way
that Trump is just sort of like you know doing whatever BB tells him they're trying to figure
out how to do it in a way where they don't imperil the safety of Jewish people in this country
They're trying to do it in a way that is, they don't want to be anti-Semitic.
I'll tell you why, Hassan is so dangerous, is that what it does is, it's exactly what
Trump does.
It's exactly what Nick Fuentes does and Tucker does.
It takes maybe legitimate rage about something and then it gives them an enemy to put it
on.
It gives them an out group to blame for it.
And I think you have to be so careful with that, so that you're not doing that,
which starts with condemning the people who hold the same position as you for
reasons that are bad.
for
It starts with condemning the fucking war and condemning Israel and condemning BB and condemning Trump and being he cooked it
By the way, that was like this was a cooking in from Tim Miller. He's been
He's been kind of carrying the bulwark a little bit. She's making up a mythical Democrat now
Not only a mythical moderate voter a bitch
You can name she can name a single Democrat that wants to do that
I mean, it's her and like all of her friends, right like all the the former
the lifelong Republicans that are no longer in MAGA anymore, like that hate MAGA,
that's who she's talking about. And they are, unfortunately for her, not a real constituency.
They're not a real constituency at all. As a matter of fact, if we were to lean into her
worldview, if we were to identify her frustrations and try to solve them,
which we did in 2024, and that's why Kamala Harris lost, right?
We would lose again and again and again.
Passionate and clear about it.
Because then what happens?
Then if you have the credibility then with the voters
who were anti-war voters,
who were unhappy about the way that they see
the bipartisan establishment,
they thought Trump was gonna be their savior from this,
that there was this some blood in DC
and no matter which parties in charge,
we all get into stupid wars.
they thought trump was their way out of this and now that trump's doing the same
shit that all the other ones did that that we said we didn't want to do it
worse
and so now if the democrats go to those people and are and go on those show they
should be on those shows
there should be begging Joe Rogan or Theo whoever to have them on right now they
should be on the industry shows being like i told you this was stupid i didn't
want to do this this war is dumb our relationship with israel is too tight
we should be reevaluating it we should not be let getting dog walked
into this war by the way i'm the ass also sucks right like you can do
that in a way that's not interesting because it's what has happened
he's right at the same fucking people who basically were like
We messed up by not treating Joe Rogan like a special little baby bird and going on his
show and explaining things to him like he's three years old.
They were there now in retrospect, they go, oh, we should have been open to the podcasters
and the bros here.
Why wouldn't we be open to them?
We're so dumb.
That's how you gain the voters.
You go where they are.
Like he's got a lot of people listening in.
We should have went over there.
Those same people are now shunning the left wing Joe Rogan.
They're going, I'm going to cancel him.
I don't like it.
He needs to shut up and never say anything I don't like ever.
Let me quote the worst things he ever said, but out of context and make him sound like an absolute fucking maniac
Even though anybody who watches his show for one fucking day or two can immediately tell you that the way they try to portray him is
Psychotically inaccurate to the point where they're lying. They are lying the way that they portray this man
So Sean says my main takeaway from this was the revelation that Sarah has a book coming out on how to defeat Maga
When Kamala lost following her exact game plan down to campaigning with Liz Cheney
Tim Miller is the only never-trumper who has actually truly thought about what
happened in 2024. That's fucking incredible. So Sarah Longwell supported the idea of
campaigning with Liz Cheney. Now she has the nerve to police the boundaries and
the borders of the Democratic Coalition. How about you go to shut the fuck up
spill? How about that? How about you were dead wrong about everything? Kamala
came out the gates hot as a motherfucker when her and Tim Walls were doing
rallies and Tim Balls were making jokes about JD Vance, you know, having sex with couches
and they were talking about how we're going to ban price gouging for groceries and they
came out hot and aggressive and they went left.
And at that moment, polls came out that had her up six points on Donald Trump.
Then as soon as the Biden people infiltrated and the Never Trumpers infiltrated and what
happened?
Oh, they saw from the reddit.
She stopped talking about the banning of price gouging on groceries.
She started talking about having the most lethal military in the world.
She had on, you know, she was out there with Leish Cheney all the time, which by the way,
Ned...
Literally things that Sarah has celebrated by the way.
I need you to understand, like, that's what makes this so much worse.
Sarah Longwell has on the record openly celebrated how much Kamala Harris, how much Kamala
Harris was basically repeating her agenda. Okay. And, and it's all on the record. She
was on bulwark being like, see Kamala's doing our bidding. It's incredible. Like, we basically
infiltrated the party. Ha, ha, ha. Like, obviously that was a joke, but it's kind of not a joke,
right?
You're fucking zero voters. Probably lost more voters. Like, for fuck's sake. Hello,
This is the Democratic Party. Most of us lived through the fucking Bush years and we saw the horrors and we hated the fucking
Neocon warmongers and your brilliant idea was to bring a neocon warmonger and say I'm with these people these people who you fucking hate and
So the fact that she has the nerve to go out there and like she's policing it
Bitch you got here yesterday. You got to the coalition yesterday. Are you kidding me? Okay?
We also have this it's politics as and people wonder why some never-tropical Republicans are not the best allies
Listen to Sarah Longwell. She came yesterday to the Democratic Party and maybe she doesn't agree with the majority of positions of the base like Medicare for
All Tax and the rich and decoupling from Israel
But she gets to pick and choose what people are in the tent get the fuck out of here
So here's another clip that went viral here we go
Should he be in the tent or out of the tent is a question of like okay?
Who is this guy? What does he believe? What does he talk about on what is a relatively popular streaming site?
And I'll just give you a flavor of some of this here come the smears here come the out of context quotes
So let's get it things that pop up from Hassan's critics that I have seen and that I think are quite quite terrible
So America deserved 9-11 dude. It's the CIA concept of fucking blowback is what he's talking about. No, he's not
Pro al Qaeda pro Osama bin Laden pro terrorist attack against civilians in the United States
And the only reason why you're implying that's the case is because you're in Islamophobic hag bitch
His name is Hassan, so you think you can get away with a quick one by pretending he's pro-terrorism.
No, in fact, on his show, he talks to get out against terrorism daily, okay?
This is why he covers the genocide in Gaza where they're murking civilians on a daily basis,
because he's anti-terrorism. He doesn't want any harm to be done to any fucking civilians.
And the fact that you didn't realize he's referring to the CIA concept of blowback
says everything about you and fucking nothing about him. Jesus Christ.
on china he says we hyper focus on the social repression of the civil liberties
or not even civil liberties necessarily a free speech and things like that but
in terms of the government's there's a lot we can learn from the way they
perform out there at least that's just literally factually correct
that's like not even arguable that's not even debatable they have all these
fucking beautiful
high-speed trains where they built out
all of the infrastructure since like two thousand eight until today it's a
fucking modern marvel of engineering it's phenomenal that's the shit he's
talking about
hey look at the high-speed trains look at the state of the art airports
Look at how their mid-level cities now mug the shit out of our fucking top-level cities.
That's what he's talking about.
You're trying to make some banal factual observation like controversial and unacceptable.
He's been sort of canceled culture bullshit that all you idiots said you would stop doing after the 2024 election,
and yet here we are.
And he has a lot of very pro-China takes.
Oh!
He's able to call a spade a spade?
Don't you know we're supposed to shut our brains off and say,
and everything ever about China is evil and wrong and bad?
There's one that he says was a little-
Oh my God.
They take it out of context, but he says doesn't matter if the fucking rakes rapes happened on October 7th
Oh, oh, when you admit before you do the smear that well this one's out of context
How did you let those words come out of your mouth all my days?
How did you let that escape your mouth? Well, I know this one's like a smear is totally out of context
But I'm gonna try it anyway. Oh my god. His point was that wouldn't justify a genocide
Even if there were rapes on October 7th,
that doesn't then justify carpet bombing babies.
That doesn't justify murdering untold numbers of civilians,
shooting people who wave white flags,
starving people to death,
bombing world central kitchen workers
and hospitals and schools, okay?
That is the most banal observation I think I've ever heard.
Like, who would say,
Oh, if a bad thing happens here,
you're allowed to genocide them back.
No, that's not a thing.
That was his point.
I don't know why, like, again,
people, they clip chimp and clip farm
and think like, oh, this is gonna get him.
It's not gonna fucking get him.
And again, all you have to do,
and I'm not even kidding about this,
watch one day of the sound stream,
two at most, and you'll walk away going,
oh, they've been lying about literally
everything about this man the entire time.
Like, they're just lying.
They're just lying.
I know what he believes.
I've seen enough of him talk.
I don't need you to take these
out of fucking context clips
and play the gotcha game.
And you think that that's gonna change my opinion
of what I've seen with my own two fucking eyes.
That doesn't change the dynamic for me even this much.
So that's the other part of this problem
that many people can't contend with.
Like the Palestinian resistance is not perfect.
They're not like so good.
They have magical bullets.
I don't know what that means.
He says Hamas is 1,000 times better than Israel.
Literally, he's talking about math.
How many people died on October 7th?
Like, what, 2,000?
And what's the minimum number they talk about now
on how many are dead in Gaza, 70,000, 80,000.
In reality, I think it's like at least 200,000, by the way,
for the record.
That's what I think it is, at least 200,000.
But let's go with a low number of like 70,000.
It's a mathematical reality
that 70,000 innocent people being murdered
by Israeli government is a much higher number
than about 2,000 being killed by Hamas on October 7th.
That's the point.
Are you now going to proceed to argue against math?
Is that what you're gonna do?
Please try.
Let me see how that works out for you.
On Hezbollah, he said,
overall, what's my favorite flag?
Hezbollah, look it up.
I'm not even kidding. It's actually a dope flag. It's got an AK on it and a fucking him.
And Tim Miller is laughing. Why? Because when you talk about something like this, it's literally just how a flag looks.
That's a fucking joke. Okay. And that's why Tim Miller is laughing again. What? Like you're trying so fucking hard and they're getting absolutely nothing.
And by the way, don't take his son's word for it. There was an article that came out of the telegraph, which they deleted because it got a little too close to the truth.
And in that article, they spoke to Christians in Lebanon who were like, oh yeah, we got no problem with Hezbollah. They protect us from the psychotic Israelis.
They thought we're going to go talk to the Christians in Lebanon and they're all going
to say Hezbollah's evil and wrong and they're bad and they're terrorists and they're greatness
and they're this and they're that.
And they were like, oh no, they actually protect us from the Israelis and they do Christmas
celebrations and they put up a Christmas tree and they're all very nice to us.
Like again, I know that sort of the whole thing about being a right winger is that
you're a fucking idiot and you're incredibly ignorant about the world.
But this is really something, you think you're in the democratic tent and this
is how you talk.
You're in the democratic tent, please.
Oh, Dan Crenshaw losing an eye in Afghanistan.
What the fuck is wrong with this dude?
I also dislike Dan Crenshaw, but I would not say this.
Didn't he go to war, and like literally lose his eye
because of some Mujahideen, a brave fucking soldier
fucked his eye hole with their dick.
All right, yo.
New Kyle Rule, you're allowed to say whatever the fuck
you want to say to joke about how evil
Republican politicians are.
There are literally no lines when joking about how evil Republican politics.
You know what?
I just realized, I've been dark woke.
Lowkey?
I've been dark woke.
That's from 2019.
You just realized yeah, I fucking hate Republicans man, I think a lot of Democrats need to catch up to my shit
I didn't even realize I always thought I wasn't dark woke
Tissions are and if you have a problem with it
There's this little thing called free speech that I'm gonna introduce you to and by the way as you're about to hear Tim Miller
Is laughing at this one as well because of some Mujahideen a brave fucking soldier fucked his eye hole with their dick
This is a real being full of evil.
This is supposed to make people not like him?
This is supposed to make people not like him? Oh my god.
This next one too. This is another sad attempt that he got. You ready?
You are left with a country that is packed to the fucking gills with the most
inbred, uneducated, ultra-nationalist, ratted, heredity population
on Russia's annexation.
Okay, so he's talking about the ultra-orthodox, right?
There's another coy rule. Sorry if this one offends people out there.
You are allowed to joke around about how stupid and evil
Every single fundamentalist religious group is.
No, you're not gonna push us into the corner.
You're not allowed to say it.
I will say whatever the fuck I want
about fundamentalist Christians,
and fundamentalist Muslims, and fundamentalist Jews.
Fundamentalists are fucking weird dog.
They're weird, they're fucked up, they're strains,
they dress funny, they smell.
There's a whole lot about, all the fundamentalists
of all the different religions are fucking creepy.
You know it, I know it, everybody knows it.
I'm secular, bro, I'm secular.
People can live however they wanna live,
but I'm allowed to have opinions about that.
And I'm allowed to joke about that.
And that's what Hassan was doing
when he was calling them inbred, okay?
Like again, I'm so sick of the fake outrage.
I'm so fucking sick of it.
Where we have a demented president
likely has Alzheimer's,
who's this close to nuking an entire country
of 90 million people.
And we're supposed to talk about Hassan Piker's jokes
and be outraged.
I can't, I can't, bro.
Anxation of Crimea was absolutely
a justifiable annexation.
What do you call Crimea?
I call it part of Russian territory, bitch.
I call it Crimea a river, a Russian river.
Look, he's joking. Now to be fair, he absolutely was incorrect with his prediction of what would happen. He thought that Russia was not going to invade
Ukraine, which he was wrong. By the way, I myself on the back on that one
I kind of thought they were I didn't understand why people were going out on a layman saying like they're not gonna be
Well, then why they do in the true buildup on the border, right?
So I think he was factually wrong about that. He would admit he was factually wrong about that
But this just sort of sounds like jokes and I think at this point
Hassan if you were to ask him, I think he would say
No, Ukraine has every right to defend themselves and Ukraine in this instance are the victims and I mean, yeah
I have been saying that I've been saying that since day one
Crimea is a Barack Obama era
Policy that's again very different than the annexation of fucking Eastern Ukraine
And that's precisely the reason why, regardless of the Donbass, regardless of the fucking
bag and forth, regardless of the 14,000, it was still utterly unacceptable for Russia
to invade Ukraine.
I think a lot of people don't know, they think like the Crimea annexation happened in like
2022 or something.
Like they don't, they don't realize that that happened in like 2014.
That's the problem.
And for the record, yes, for the Ukrainians, obviously this was like an anger inducing
moment.
But you know, clearly when Zelensky blew up the fucking waterways that were like the waterways
that were routing fresh water to Crimea that were built in the USSR, I didn't acknowledge
it until 2022 bro.
Yeah, I think that's what it is.
I
Just like
Kyle's mixing that up too
I've never argued, not even a little bit, that Russia was justified in invading Ukraine.
It's one of the most resilient, one of the most annoying and persistent lies that people
talk about.
All of it is eclipsed out of context.
I have not only fundraised for Ukrainians, but I have very consistently talked about
how I'm not a fan of Vladimir Putin, that I'm very critical, and also on top of that,
not in favor of Russia's unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine, its occupation of Ukraine.
My initial assessment from the start was always around how fucking insane of a move
that would be
russia is the imperialist aggressor i think i think you would admit this uh
because it's true right it's true in this scenario
like russia is israel yeah also the russian government called me gay
I even talked about how if a larger irredentist power invades a smaller country whose entire
national project has revolved around not being invaded or not being dominated by Russia,
that they're going to turn to the most right-wing reactionary forces, neo-Nazis in particular,
as emancipatory forces.
I was in reference to the Azal Brigade and, you know, the Banderites and the like, which
is literally what happened, by the way.
So, you know, you were gay baiting Putin, bro.
an important factor I really see mentioned in the agreement that NATO wouldn't expand Putin won multiple times if Ukraine joined NATO
He would bring troops to the border and then he would accept it of course
Yeah, a lot of people don't also don't realize that like half of the fucking Russian incursions. I mean both in Georgia
and and also
Like the same thing that happened in in Ukraine
You could say Russia always had territorial ambitions
But the reality is what triggered it was George W. Bush.
On his way out, George W. Bush decided, I didn't fuck up the world hard enough.
Let me throw another bomb in here.
Let me float the idea of Ukraine and Georgia joining NATO.
A lot of people don't know this.
I understand why you go much harder against Israel and the Israelis, but why do you not
go as hard against Russia?
Well, two reasons.
Number one, obviously, is what Israel's doing is a genocide.
And it's 80 years of apartheid, ironically, initially supported by the USSR, by the
way.
The other reason is because Ukraine is backed by every single Western power.
It's turned into a proxy war.
One might even say it was always a proxy for Western interests in encroaching upon Russia's
territorial sovereignty.
And that was part of the reason.
I don't think that was the full reason.
I'm very much in favor of the notion that Vladimir Putin was, like, trying to build a legacy for himself and, like, rebuild the might of the Russian Empire.
And I think that's a huge part of the reason why he engaged in this irredentist action, especially considering that if I knew that Ukraine was never going to be a part of fucking NATO, then Vladimir Putin probably knew as well.
I mean, you had European partners that would never allow that to happen.
So
And it's so funny cuz like
Half of the shit that I said
Year after year has
Offered vindication like talking about the off ramps that Ukraine could have taken
When it had significantly better leverage, I said, this is the maximum leverage Ukraine has, it should take this ceasefire proposal, even if Russia's not interested.
They didn't rush to genocide at the Tatar. Sorry. The USSR rustified Crimea. They did population
transfer on ethnic lines from Crimea. That was the USSR. Okay. What we're talking about is not
like modern-day current contemporary Crimea. It's very strange when people bring that up.
There is nothing to do with the Russian Federation, just as it is nothing with Ukraine.
In any case, like I said,
I
Discrew the quating Russia in Israel Israel's Ukraine the dumb boss Palestine Russia is Iran Israel in Ukraine are Nazi states
I love you. He had the cleansing
Come on man
Don't listen palestine or victims of sovereignty Russia and Iran are the regional powers that begrudgingly stepped away after years of being prodded
No, I don't think that's the case. I mean that's crazy to compare Russia and Iran in this ways is so wild and yeah
Not not just you a star goes back to Zara's Russia
Wrong on this Putin wants to rebuild the USSR. No Putin doesn't put is not even a fucking communist. What are you talking about?
No, he wants to rebuild the Russian Empire
Okay, the only thing people like Vladimir Putin care about with respect to the USSR is the power that the USSR had as a
global superpower
That's it
A lot of Putin is critical of Lenin dude, what are you talking about? He's a fucking nationalist
These are anti-communist
Well, and Ukraine are the Palestinians and so if you support
Fighting oppression you would back the Ukrainians, right black people care about the border
I don't give a fuck what black people care about black people care about this black people
Yeah, this is like completely out of context if my memory serves me right
He was going after black maga being like, oh, I don't care what it because there's some black people who are hard right wingers
That's supposed to like stop me from opposing them like fuck that
That's what he meant and again she's trying to frame it like he's racist against all black people
It's just this is so try hard that like shut the fuck up. That's not how politics work
And then I don't know if this is my I don't know how to I'm not gonna rank these but this one's a real doozy
date rape is better if it happens to rich women.
If you have these fucking millionaire, billionaire,
wasp, fair sons, at least taking them out
with other colleges so they can only do date rape
and a billionaire, millionaire, failed daughters
is in some respects, you know,
from a utilitarian perspective.
I like how Tim Miller's just taking this all in.
Of course, a little bit better.
Okay, Piker told off a listener who condemned the massacre
on October 7th, a bloodthirsty violet pig dog
sucked my dick.
Okay, so that's the guy.
That's the guy.
I do not think any Democrat should look
to include him in their coalition.
And here's the thing, you mentioned my book at the top.
I just wrote a whole book that is gonna come out in September.
It is 300 pages.
It's called How to Eat and Elephant One Voter at a Time.
It is 300 pages about how you build a winning coalition.
You gave Kamala bad advice.
You are the last person we should listen to.
That recommends cozying up to people like Hassan Piker.
I talk a lot about Big Tense.
I talk a lot about pro-democracy coalition.
Here's the thing, Hassan Piker doesn't actually belong
in the pro-democracy coalition.
She's doing the, the talk fear. You're not a real Democrat.
When she again, she came yesterday to this party.
Irreliable guy. He's a China, Russia sympathizer who hates women, hates Israel.
Like he's all the toxic things. And I think.
Yeah, it's so toxic. I hate Israel and I hate women. Jesus Christ.
You worked your entire career in the most anti women party.
And then yesterday became a Democrat and now you're over here being like,
as Sompire Hayes women. You worked in a party that played a formative role in at least a
modern iteration of it, making abortion illegal in the country again, and you're over here
talking to a guy who's fucking spent his last 10 years advocating for bodily autonomy
for women, highlighting the sexual violence and violence of the work was a women experience,
Oftentimes by, you know, conservative men.
But it's not just conservative men, it's just men in general.
But like, it's so crazy that these people fucking turn around
and they're like, oh, you hate women.
Shut the fuck up.
What do you mean you hate women?
Who the fuck are you?
This shit with Bernie too is so annoying.
Remember, Bernie Bros. misogynistic, Bernie's misogynistic.
And I was like, my biggest problem with it, because I agree with you in some places, my
biggest problem is I felt like you were soft selling, who this guy is.
you're smearing him and you're lying about him now finally let's get to the
heart of the matter here the real truth of the situation this is what Sarah
Longwell really believes here we go but here's the thing about the cheering that
I loved speaking of Stonewall but also I should point out this was just before
the election right before the election okay I think it's amazing when you get
75,000 presumably lives on the ellipse and she's like we're gonna have the
most lethal fighting force and people are like yeah so she loves it when
Kamala sounds more like a war monger than Trump. That's what she's describing here. So presumably,
it stands to logical deduction. She would hate it if Kamala was out there like,
I'm anti-war. We're not going to go to war with Iran, right? We're not going to,
you know, keep arming and funding Israel as they do a genocide. I'm against war.
She, she would not like that. She's not done though.
That was one of the funniest things that people would say about like the,
the the never trump Republicans people on the timeline were like well never
trump Republicans never asked anything of Kamala Harris they were just there in
support of Kamala Harris so what's the problem and it's like yeah dumbass they
didn't have to ask anything of Kamala Harris because Kamala Harris was in
line with them ideologically that's the fucking problem she was actively
pushing aside people to her left flank she thought she could win without them
Tell us more.
A lethal fighting force and people are like, yeah.
And she's like, and we're going to secure the border.
And people are like, yeah.
So defeating MAGA by doing MAGA, defeating MAGA
by taking their policies and doing them,
but like do them more liberally.
We are going to be leaders in the world.
And we're not going to let these guys
to just sit around and I was like, man,
man, the world's really changed.
Did the neo-cons just take over the Democratic Party?
Don't say that.
Yeah, don't say it.
Did the neo-cons just take over the Democratic Party?
Don't say that. You're putting a little too much truth out there about how we want the Democratic Party to be
How we want them to be diet maga. That's what this is diet fucking maga in the same way
It's diet neoconservatism from the George W. Bush era
Okay, so you want say it you want the Democrats to be more right-wing. That's what you want
Look, and she's leaning into I'm going mainstream
And you know whenever she does there's a couple you know price gouging or whatever. I'm like
So one of the best parts of Kamala's campaign, when she was up six points and she was talking
about how she was going to ban price gouging for groceries, she was booing that.
Pro-war and pro-price gouging.
And she's the one who's going to police the borders of the Democratic coalition.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Have you no fucking shame?
So as Ryan Grimm points out, quote, whatever Kamala Harris does something like price gouging,
I'm like boo, but also whatever, Sarah Longwell, former Republican political operative boasting
that her faction has made Democrats more hawkish and the cost of that is to once in a while
have to hear something they don't like about corporate price gouging. It is one thing to
be pro-price gouging because you are a corporate lobbyist. I understand that, but to try to
pitch it as something that makes Democrats more electable is conical. Ladies and gentlemen,
this woman is a fucking idiot. You know what happens when Democratic politicians listen
to Hassan Piker? Zora Mondani happens. That's why I'm like, Kyle, that's only
in fucking New York and that can't happen anywhere. We'll see. We'll see. We'll
We'll see. Okay. All right. So Leah Greenberg, who is one of the co-founders of the organization
by the No Kings protest, she says, personally, I am team.
I don't like when people bring up the Sarah lobby against drunk driving laws because that's
the only redeemable thing she's ever done.
keep bringing up that she worked for like the alcohol lobby. And as a part of her lobbying
job, she literally actively petitioned against drunk driving laws, which I think is awesome.
And that's the only thing that I agree with her on. Okay, low key. You got a drunk driving
charge shut the fuck up exactly and I wouldn't have gotten a drug driving charge if
Sarah got her fucking wishes across now I didn't get a drunk driving charge I just
got arrested for it never prosecuted but in any case
it's not the drunk drivers it's the drunk crashers drunk crashers ruin it for
the rest of us. Which is what I suspect she was saying as a lobbyist for the alcohol companies.
drunk drivers don't kill people drunk drivers don't kill people drunk cars do
you. Guys, guys, it's legal to drink. It's legal to drive. Why is it illegal to drunk
drive? I don't understand. All right, let's continue.
Hashtag Big Tent. But if we're going to start kicking people out of the party on brand
slash moral grounds, I would like to nominate number one, the foreign policy team behind
the Gaza Genocide, and number two, every dem-former elected slash staffer who takes a cushy job
with an overtly evil company. That includes fucking Cal-Chee. That includes AI companies.
That includes crypto companies. That includes Wall Street. That includes big oil. Okay?
So here's what she's saying. Oh, are we really going to police these the boundaries
and the borders of the Democratic coalition? Well, let's start with the pro-genocide
motherfuckers. Let's start with that, okay? And let's start with the corrupt sellouts who take big
money from the Epstein class, and she's exactly fucking right. That's who gets kicked the fuck out
of the coalition. The people I can't tell if you're joking about allegedly drunk driving.
It's a fucking repraiseable thing to do. Oh my god, bro. Bro, can we can we please
cannot please make jokes? I mean, colleges literally went through some of my top moments
here can I please no dude I don't think it's okay to drunk drive do you want me to spell
it out for you that's crazy that's actually crazy are you a baby do you what the hell
is going on what the fuck is happening dude can I just not take an unbearably ridiculous
fucking position it is so ridiculous that it's like on its face you know I'm
joking good thanks for confirming oh my god this guy doesn't even understand
brother you are off the spectrum okay seriously like you're not even on the
spectrum anymore you have flipped back around you're off the spectrum again you
are so on the spectrum you're off of it Jesus Christ
It is fair to think the joke is important especially those who have the deal with dead family and friends seeing the drunk driver walk around
Yeah, I know I know it might be important taste
except
It's a fucking joke
Okay, every joke has targets that are going to hurt some people's feelings
The hope the joke isn't me defending drunk driving the joke is me saying it's fucking obviously so ridiculous. Oh my god
I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. Let's keep going with the dark commander
who are diet maggot Democrats because they just genuinely agree with the right
I'm sorry, but if you're not on the left, you're not with us
We need to have some defining principles and defining policies on what it means to be in this coalition
and from my perspective you need to be uh
center left
liberal leftist independent
Or apolitical like that's it if you're right of center. Sorry not interested
And the fact of the matter is they're way more of us than there are of them
There are way more people who fit into the coalition
I just described then fit into MAGA or any kind of right-wing coalition and then finally here's uh,
Rokana and he's asked about this
And I think he does a pretty good job sort of putting into perspective how stupid this entire conversation is here
We go 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 to members of a left-leaning think tank
This is how they put it they were quote no left-wing agitate. I hate when there's a left-leaning think tank
About third way I
Also do think that we have become joyless fucking scolds
Any time I cover the news for endless hours every day, the community becomes so much more autistic.
I don't know if it's like looking at OSINT stuff and looking at foreign policy that either like literally makes you more autistic or if it's self-selecting.
But it's true. Doing politics seven hours a day, eight hours a day, seven days a week,
unironically make the community into like the bro-thought-jokes-would-fly-ass chat.
that they bring back 2016 in Paul. Chill. I'm not testing. I'm Dominican. The answer
is gaming. So crazy here and in from all these guys who listen to every day doesn't
feel unreal. No. There is more influential and extreme than Twitch streamer Hassan
Piker. He's referred to ultra orthodox Jews as inbred, employed anti-Semitic dog
whistles, bloodthirsty violent pig dog against an anti-Hamas viewer of his
stream, compared liberal Zionists to liberal Nazis and said- This is so dishonest how
they're framing it. Mass is a thousand times better than the Israeli state. Now,
Hassan Piker- Again, mathematically speaking, yes, the death numbers, but
okay, let's just fucking smear him. Anyway, let's listen to his response.
Some of his comments have been taken out of context, but he largely stands by them.
Do you have any regrets about peering on his show?
None, and I would go again,
but I of course condemn those comments.
I mean, I've described Amos as a terrorist state,
and we need to unequivocally condemn anti-Semitism.
But that's how I'm thinking, was that the DNC in 2024
covering Vice President Harris?
What should the standard of the Democrats be?
Should we not go on Theo Vaughn?
Should we not go on Sean Ryan?
Should we not go on Joe Rogan?
Should we just have these purity tests of canceling?
So it's the lesson of the last election
as we've got-
For one of these days, you gotta remember yesterday
this isn't gonna be changing.
It is just the way it is.
Bro, one of these days you gotta remember yesterday? What the fuck does that mean?
What is this at 33 minutes? Jay speaks on what you just said.
You can't teach giga autist not to be autistic. Yeah, that's true
Bro is so funny because like I will quite literally be like hey chatter
I think you're being a bit neurodivergent. Let me explain to you what this joke was and then the chatter will respond like this
Totally fucking deadpan
Okay
Good. I'm glad you've clarified
Don't ever try to make a joke ever again. It's like bro fucking chill, dude
Like yeah, I'm not gonna cook you super hard
But I'm trying to be accommodating to my to my neurodivergent chatters by explaining the concept behind jokes
But you don't have to double down on it
You don't have to literally turn around and be like well, guess what I'm
Misunderstood the intent of your joke and therefore harm had taken place
jokes are bourgeois decadence jokes are counter revolutionary behavior you will
get flogged by me in the Red Guards if you ever try to do a joke again
And it's funny because it's like
at a certain point you've got to realize like I know I got shortcomings as an autistic myself.
Okay, I got shortcomings on on reading social cues and I try to nail social
interactions and I fucking fail to do so sometimes but I still try my best some
of you motherfuckers know you are the most autistic person that has ever
embraced God's green earth and you still you're like I don't give a fuck
yeah I'm autistic it's your problem now I want to give a shit you try a
the
Anyway.
Newer divergent people are responsible for their own feelings and lack of joke comprehension.
We can be nice and give explanations, but what the hand-holding now is as yet.
I think the soundboard helps with this, honestly.
I agree.
Let's get 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.
I think you handled that well.
I mean, look, if I was sitting in the chair, I would have taken head on a lot of the
lies and smears that were directed at Hasan about how they're just flat out lying
about this guy and his beliefs.
I understand that as a politician, he's in a slightly different situation, but I think
he handled that well to say, it was seven minutes ago that all you idiots were saying
we're going to go on all the podcasts, we're going to talk to all the people, we're going
to try to win over everybody.
Now all of a sudden, bro, the craziest thing is NBC itself made a pro Hassan Joe Rogan
of the left ass video, you know.
on.
Sorry.
You're shunning the left flank so apparently the you know outreach to expand the tent only
cut to the right.
Which meant what?
All you idiots are just trying to make the party more right wing which has been the fucking
problem all along.
The further left you go the more you'll win and the more you'll actually stand for
something from a moral perspective and an ethical perspective right.
the more you'll actually be good people.
And by the way, the further left you go,
the harder you oppose MAGA.
So I'm tired of the diet MAGA bullshit.
I'm tired of the Hassan Derangement Syndrome
and I need everybody to wake up
and realize what's going on here.
Hey y'all, do me a favor and like and subscribe.
It helps out big time in the algorithm.
What the fuck?
What the fuck?
Whoa.
What is happening?
the fuck was that? That was weird. That was weird as hell. What
happened on your end? What happened on your end? What did you,
What would on my end I I had all of my shit
I had like
All of my shit reboot for some reason
It got weird
Damn, okay
The screen turned green
We saw your discord. There's nothing on my discord.
Green screen and you came back audio loss.
Okay. It'll be fine, I think.
Oh, oops.
This is the wrong.
wrong. My my screen's flipped hold on. God damn it. There it is. Hold on I'm fixing everything
I'm fixing everything I got hacked. Mossad. M is real high M is real high M is real high
M is real high. Okay. That was cool. That was the light of numbers of the Cory Booker
face plans disaster interview again loses it
Are you gonna cover sagone today sagone these nuts
It's a stupid pilot it's a stupid pilot crash with windows 11. Um, okay
Mini doc was so good. Hey, we're gonna watch the mini doc after this
Oh, this is another thing I wanted to show you with the Justice Democrats. Here's our
boy Waleed Shahid describing how Muslim and Arab voters are felt betrayed by Biden's apathy
towards Palestinian suffering. And Sarah Longwell's respond.
London's particularly in October that are viral in the Muslim community on what's that
like questioning the death toll, like refusing to call the family of the six year old boy
out in Illinois for a week who was stabbed multiple times in a hate crime. These things
are like known as like core when people feel these kinds of things on an identity level it's hard to
hard to shake their distrust of the president that he cares about people like them I don't agree
with them just saying that's I'm being descriptive but I just I just I just think like there's
literally every demographic that could make the case that they feel unseen in some way by
the president like I hear black people in the focus groups talk about how they don't feel like
like enough has been done on policing.
Every Republican who voted for Biden feels betrayed
by the fact that he's been too accommodating
to progressives.
I mean, I just like literally everybody has a reason
to be mad at him and the question is,
are you gonna have a temper tantrum in the face of
as every group, as every group gonna just be like,
I'm not voting for this guy because of Trump.
Cause I think that's what they did in 2016.
And that's how you got him.
And the thing is, is everybody knows now
you can get him and what it's like when you do.
And if anybody is going to let their anger over any given policy issue, no matter how
frustrated they are by it, put Trump back in the White House.
That's the-
Yeah.
You only say that because all of your needs are being met, you know what I mean?
It's like you're kind of complaining right now because one of your needs is not being
met, or at least the Democratic Party is not like sufficiently having your needs
of the
Anyway, you cover the reports of North Korea dissenting itself from Iran in hopes with
the relationship with the U.S. I don't believe it. Not my Kim. He would never do that.
Aiding democracy with a former Republican member of Congress was the right strategy.
I think that, go ahead.
Okay, great. No, no, no. So I want to unpack this because I've heard you sort of make,
and you went out and talked about this with Tim's.
She does look like Hillary Clinton a bit. Am I crazy? Or does she kind of look like
Hillary Rotem. Her entire argument falls apart when you realize that Hillary
literally won the popular vote in 2016. Also very funny that she's comparing
Never Trump Republicans, the minority Palestinians and black Americans. Yeah,
well I know it's disrespectful to Never Trump Republicans who are obviously
the most oppressed minority in America. They only get 99.9% of their
wishes across the opposition party after spending years destroying it.
So think about the 0.0001% of wishes that they don't get across to the Democratic Party's
elite who are super giddy at the prospect of finally having some cunning operators
work at their behest that have spent years and years ripping them apart, only to then
turn the party into the neocon party of their own desires, totally casting aside large swaths
of their base, hoping that they'll still go and fucking vote for the Democrats, even if
the Democrats don't present a decent reason to vote for them beyond harm reduction, which
Which has obviously been a devastating failure as far as drawing out turnout in every single
election cycle.
So it's not like you've never been in the Bull Work Universe speaking to this, but you
know, I'm moderated one of those conversations between Liz Cheney and Kamala Harris.
And I think I probably came on your show and we talked about this as a strategy,
And I will say I did not pitch it like they go on tour with Liz Cheney, but I was pleased
to be there and did not think that Kamala Harris trying to appeal to sort of center right voters
who don't like Trump, but, and in fact this is most of my campaigns focused on these people.
And so-
Yeah, I mean it was a resounding failure, right?
they didn't turn. They didn't fucking turn at all.
Well, this feels sort of like squarely a strategic repudiation of a lot of sort of, I would say,
maybe my thinking going into the election, although my thinking is much bigger and broader
than who I chose to narrowly focus on myself. But tell us why you thought of all the things
that you could say was the reason that this failed, you've sort of chosen to settle on that as a highlight of why it went south.
What?
Anyway.
This woman retweeted sexpestiny bashing you, she's crazy.
I don't think she knows who the fuck sexpestiny is
But she probably knows now and let's be real. She probably likes it. Okay
because
These guys are I mean they're they're republican operators. Okay
I will give them at least some credit for years and years
They took the anti worker
Morally repugnant agenda of the republican party
And they were able to successfully sell it to the american masses
That's part of the reason why the Republicans were so excited about the Lincoln Project, right?
That's it. So these guys are not shy about working with fucking neo-Nazis.
Their entire careers as Republican operators were either being neo-Nazis themselves or working alongside neo-Nazis.
They watered down the neo-Nazi message and try to make it a little bit more palatable to the average American.
So for them, working with sex past any is like not really all that different from all the other people they work with.
That's it.
That's it.
Must be nice to be in a five-star hotel where the penguins have heard
And mcdonald's island are being strangled by your leader's tariffs. Yeah
I'm gonna go out and strangle some penguins myself in a little bit
We can't have cancel culture anymore, etc., etc.
I don't know what your online feed is like, but mine for the last two weeks is like,
we need to cancel Hassan, Piker, and it's all of these moderates and centrists that want to cancel
Hassan, Piker. Pumps, what's your take on all that?
Here's my take. I have long been someone that only develops new ideas and evolves in my thought
when I am challenged and when I listen to the perspective of others. And so then I take my
perspective and that person's perspective and then I find what I think is the best.
And I do not believe that people get better and or policy gets better if criticism is
not shared and integrated and perspectives evolve.
And I do not think you can have that if you want to silence anyone that disagrees with
you.
And you know who else doesn't who agrees with me on that is MAGA because they allow
for no dissent within their party.
So I think what's going on with Hassan Piker is an embarrassment to the democratic establishment
and all the people that are perpetuating it.
Okay.
So John Leavitt in this interview with Cory Booker asked him about whether he would appear
on Hassan Piker's stream, play the clip.
Chris, 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 like Hassan Piker's
stream because he's said some heinous and stupid shit in the past. But to me, I would
expect you'd be like chomping at the bit to say, you know what? Of course I'm going
to go there because I want to represent this point of view in a place that doesn't normally
hear it. 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 conversation
tonight, so I'm going to be very candid with you.
Gotcha.
But I always want to talk to you about deep things.
No, I appreciate that.
Okay.
Stop it right there.
So this, when I saw this clip, this struck me.
Number one, the first thing that strikes me is that Cory Booker will take a photograph
with Benjamin Netanyahu in the middle of the genocide, but draws the line with going on
to Son Piker's Twitch. But the second thing that struck me there was when Corey Booker said,
oh, this conversation is much deeper than I had thought. And I'm going to let you all in on a
little secret. When we filmed with Corey Booker, after Kamala lost, all of the Democrats came to
us. We want to be on your pod. We want to be on your pod. And we're like, great. Yeah,
you can be on our pod. I don't have a corporate news background, so I ask questions that I think
are relevant. And a lot of some Democratic politicians come on and they don't want to know what they're
talking about and they don't care. They just want to talk about the country and whatever
questions I have for them. Others are a lot more scripted and controlled. And Cory Booker's
office, it's in our producers. Cory wants to talk about XYZ. And I saw those talking points,
but right out of the gates, I asked him, what have you had it with?
And he said, I've had it with corporate money.
And I was just like, please, you take like millions of dollars and eight back money.
So, so it led down that rabbit hole, right?
Cause I was like, wait, wait, this seems hypocritical.
And instead of staying on the script that his office sent me, they're so good.
I went with his answer as a normal conversation should.
Well, the whole time I'm asking about Benjamin Netanyahu, his office is
stage five melting down texting our producers, trying to get her to like,
Hey, we didn't agree to talk about this, blah, blah.
My point in this is not to pick on Cory Booker or his staff.
They are operating the way they've always operated
in corporate media.
That's the way it's been.
They were doing what they've always done.
The problem that's happening now is we have these spaces
where people have realized their politicians
are bought and paid for and their news anchors
are bought and paid for and everybody's,
whether it's Republican or Democrat,
once independent voices and independent spaces.
And so obviously that clip went viral.
His staff was melting down for reasons that they should have
because it didn't make him look that great.
But another person I've had come on who flew to New York
to sit down with me for an hour in person is Ro Khanna.
And it was just what time and where
was the only question beforehand?
There was no, what are we gonna talk about?
He didn't care.
When he came out, I said,
hey, let's do some absentee stuff.
Jennifer, whatever you want to talk about, I am pleased to talk to your audience. It's what
representative for O'Connor had. So I think what I'm getting at here is when you have moral clarity,
it doesn't matter what John Leavitt asks you, what Jennifer Welch asks you,
you don't have to have your people in the back wait what's going on here or would Corey
Bicker have to say oh I didn't realize we were going to get this deep. You would just come in
and sit down and say ask me anything on the planet you want. I don't know if I'm going to have
all the answers for you, but I'm going to try. And that's what a lot of like progressive
Democrats do. Needless to say, we don't hear from Senator Booker's office that much anymore.
But welcoming back on, I don't dislike Cory Booker. I don't think he and his staff did anything
particularly wrong. That's how it's handled in corporate news. But it seems to me like
they want this whole thing pumps where it's like, okay, we need to go on podcast and we
We need to speak like normal people.
And then we need to get rid of cancel culture.
And now they're trying to cancel Hassan Piker.
We can take pictures with Benjamin Netanyahu
and I like Corey Booker and that he's like.
Because.
And that's such another thing you think about.
Okay, we're going to go on podcasts.
We're going to be unscripted.
You can't go on a podcast and be unscripted.
If your staff is telling the podcast
what the talking points are.
So talk, talk, undescripted and be open to anything.
I completely agree.
And so this is something where I feel like
the democratic establishment wants their cake
and they want to eat it too.
Of course.
We need to go on podcasts and talk like normal people,
but here's our normal people talking points.
Normal people.
Here's your scratch.
The normal people's conversation.
And then it's like, we've got to quit,
we've got to quit with this cancel culture.
And then Corey Baker's like,
I draw the line with Hassan Piker,
oh, Beebe's gonna be there.
Here I am.
And so it's just like,
I think the thing that pisses me off
about the democratic establishment
is the condescending nature they treat us.
Like, nobody gives a shit if you go on Hassan Stream,
if you go on I've had it, if you go on Theovon,
if you go on, I'm even saying right-wingers,
if you go on, what's his name, the little Joe Rogan.
If you go on Joe Rogan, I don't give a shit.
Go on all of these podcasts.
Nobody gives a shit, but do not treat us with abject stupidity
that you are going to draw the line
at Hassan Piker who has killed zero people.
And then go play peek-a-boo patty cake
with Benjamin Netanyahu who is an objective 100% killer.
The world's biggest killer of children right now.
Also the other side of this is,
and I've heard this from some of the liberals
who are like, enough with this conversation, it's bullshit,
just go on a song show and fucking dunk on them.
To that I say, welcome, okay?
I say, come closer, okay?
That's what I say.
I like that.
If you're coming in with the expectation,
it's a glace fest, it's not gonna happen.
But if you come in with the expectation
that there's gonna be a spirited debate,
On the issues that you have defended and
On the issues that you continue to defend. Oh, I'd love that that would be great
So to Cory Booker to Lisa Slotkin
You know Lisa Slotkin already got a little taste of that with breaking points. Obviously
But yeah
That's fine
is the IDF at the instruction of Benjamin Netanyahu.
So that's where Corey is with all of this.
And then let me show you where Ro Khanna is on this.
Play this clip for Meet the Press this weekend.
Don't have any regrets about appearing on his show.
None, and I would go again,
but I of course condemn those comments.
I mean, I've described Amos as a terrorist state
and we need to unequivocally condemn anti-Semitism.
But that's Han Piker was at the DNC in 2024,
October, Vice President Harris. What should the standard of the Democrats be? Should we
not go on Theo Blonde? Should we not go on Sean Ryan? Should we not go on Joe Rogan?
Should we just have these purity tests of canceling folks? The lesson of 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? I completely agree with him here. And I think that what what they should be saying is
instead of being focused on these specific streamers or podcasters, let's focus on the actual war
criminals. Let's like let's focus on I think Theo Vaughn pretty much calls out Benjamin Netanyahu
and the government of Israel. Pretty crystal clear. There's a lot of bipartisan reality-based
people that see that the problem with the democratic establishment is they want to preserve the system
that lost to Trump and I don't want to preserve that I want any part of that and uh but we can
talk about the bulwark did a deep dive on this uh sarin tem talked about it but rocana's wait in
pod save guys have had cori booker weigh in regardless politicians do whatever you want to
to do. But what do the Democrats, this system they're trying to uphold, these establishment
Democrats, what is the polling site? Do the Democrats approve of Democrats right now? Play
the clip. Congressional Dems have the right priorities. Look at this overall 74%, nearly
three in four say no, just 25%. Overall say yes, you might say, okay, well at least
dams like democrats
not the case
the majority of democrats are independent suing democrats look at this
fifty five percent say no congressional democrats do not
have the right priorities and then you just see
a minority forty five percent of democrats
say that congressional democrats have the right party this to me just jumps
out of the screen because it screams prime
yeah
of course the real reason why they feel this way is because uh... congressional
Democrats haven't gone right-wing enough, that's what it is. And certainly not because
they're not, they're not fighting back at all. You know, that's what it is. They should
be fighting hard to go further right. They're not fighting hard enough to go right enough.
There are some very challenges all over the map, and it says that even if Democrats don't
like Donald Trump, they don't like their own party either when it comes to Congress.
And overall, I mean, Mike, do you see that?
Here's the thing.
These establishment Democrats are operating as though they have a super high favorability
and they don't.
They simply do not.
They're so out of touch with where the base is right now.
If you want to see the approval ratings of the Democratic Party jump up.
they were to say, okay, shimmer, hit the bricks. We're done with you. We're voting to get a new
minority leader. And the same with Hawkeying Jefferies. I mean, seriously, you would be like,
oh my God, yes, finally they're fighting. And here's an anecdotal story for everyone. My husband
is from a small town called Hugo, Oklahoma. It's like the armpit of Oklahoma, this town, right?
And so he goes down there for a funeral. And this is MAGA, MAGA, MAGA dump truck.
I mean, this is where it is just crazy called MAGA. He's down there for a funeral. And Lester is
surprised. Everybody's coming up to him saying, oh my God, your wife's podcast. Tell her to stay
after it and tell her to stay after those Democrats too. They're not fighting hard enough for us.
And there was a convo earlier in Easter. My wife's cousin thinks Rat Jam Pete is playing
it smart and she's glad she isn't taking attention. Why shut the fuck up? Why would you want
your politics in the shut up. The real question is, why is your cousin's wife operating like
they're a Democratic Party consultant? I just don't get it. A lot of Democrats, Republicans
don't work this way. Republicans are like, give me what I want, right? Democrats on the
other hand behave as though they are consultants for the party. And it's such a fascinating
phenomenon that I will never understand. I will never understand why Democrat voters
will always vote on not the basis of what they want, but instead, they vote as though
they're pundits or they're consultants for the DNC, and they are making the maximum best
electoral decision.
I think it's time to vote for people that you like.
Just vote for who represents your values the best, because the reality is if those
candidates get out of the primaries they're gonna have an easier time in the general
but it's so strange it's so fucking strange that democrats do this way uh do democrats vote this way
like uh i was at stanford and one of the one of the kids from sjp came up to me it was like hey my
parents think that like uh they like abdull but they might not vote for abdull now because they
think, you know, Abdul is tied to you, so he's gonna have a hard time. What do I say
to them? And I was like, why do you think that this establishment Democrat-backed smear
campaign is actually going to harm him? If anything, it's harder for him to get out
of that crowded primary, then it is to defeat the Republican. He will defeat the shit out
of the Republican. Okay, he'll absolutely shellack the Republican. It's harder because
there is a fake progressive spoiler in the race, Mallory McMoral. To those people I always
say Zoran Mamdani, Zoran Kwame Mamdani, okay? Zoran Kwame Mamdani, one of the most popular
politicians in the country. Bro, you sound so weird in the cuba documentary intro, like
someone increased the freezer of your voice, nasal did, oh my god, you guys, you guys,
guys. Yes. Yes. Okay. My voice sounds different because I'm not fucking yelling at my chatters.
So I just think, and of course that's anecdotal, but also I have conversations, pumps, you have
conversations with people in red states. We want fighters. We don't want people who play peekaboo
with Benjamin Netanyahu. We don't want people that can't say the sky is blue. And the equivalent
Saying the sky it's blue right now is saying that
What the hell are you talking about we nobody knows who you are you didn't do anything?
Who is this fucking lady?
Magdy Jacobs for the first time in ten years Democrats have finally gained some power over the psychopathic elections advertising faction of the online left
And we did it by telling them they do not matter
I've never seen them act this way before they keep ranting but deflation is palpable
Wait what?
Are these guys all right like I feel like they they have invented an alternative reality in their minds first day like
Made it out made me out to be this like major villain and then they were like let's just stop talking about it because he's irrelevant and
And now they're like yeah, we won we stopped talking about him even though I'm still talking about him and
And now they know they're powerless. They know their place
It's like, it's very, very strange behavior.
Are you all right?
So fuck.
Benjamin Netanyahu is a fucking war criminal.
It's objectively true.
Humps.
Well, I completely agree with you.
And I will.
The only thing I would add to that is we are going into a midterm where we
we know they have gerrymandered they intend they have told us on national tv they are going to
put eyes around these voting booths they're trying to pass the save act so democrats people are going
to vote for you because they don't like fascism but if you're not starting to fight now against
all of these things that they've already said they're going to do if you're not filing lawsuits
if you're not coming out against us they are trying to put everyone in a position that they
cannot vote that their vote will not be heard and they're make you know they're
building a bunker underneath the ballroom all that but we've got to start
now making policy and going after politicians and we have to do that with
clear eyes and with fighters because the midterms are coming and they're
coming quickly and if you can't get out there now you're not going to help
yourself much then. I just think the thing is a lot of these liberals are fascist collaborators and scholars boom. That's right. All right. Last video we're going to watch is Holy Toledo, Mr. Holy Toledo run all the numbers. Why is the war helping
Trump? And then after that, we'll do the Cuba doc. Finally, then and we are running all the numbers on why war isn't helping Trump and you won't see this on air. Why is there not a rally
around the flag event for Donald Trump. In fact, you look at these numbers. They're absolutely
I saw this and I'm proud of what more perfect US is done or more perfect union is done.
I'm also fucking motionless, dude. Democracy now picked up 160 plus thousand new subs.
Okay. Where are we at? Where are we at boys, girls, enbies? We're out here eating
kubi day okay we're cooked we're cooked how do i find my analytics on youtube i
gotta look this shit up i mean it's i'm glad i'm glad that uh i'm glad that
they're uh they're cooking but i'm getting like
what verifies you what the hell yante
Why is this happening? Hold on.
Open the YouTube app on another phone, god damn.
That's because Amy Goodman is a real gamer, unlike you.
Okay dude, fucking calm down, okay, calm it, cool it.
Calma Calma
I I need to see how many I
Need to see what we've done in the last
Well, I guess 2026 right that's the last quarter
Okay, okay, I'm at the bottom of this list
Plus 84,000
I'm not at the bottom of this list. 84,000 new subscribers in this last quarter in Q1,
2026. Okay, I didn't realize democracy now has top US headlines of X-Day videos. Got
400K views. Yeah, they're cooking. Turning point USA, 1.6 million. More perfect union
plus 500 and 560,000 Nick Shirley 520,000 Sean Ryan might as
touch is cooking as well. That's pretty good. Daily shows
cooking. MS now breaking points that tail Johnny Harris, Don
LeMond, Heather Cox Richardson, Brian Tyler Cohen. I mean,
let's be real, I'm cooked on fucking YouTube. I'm cooked on
YouTube. I got to work on my I got to work on my YouTube. I
I work on my YouTube presence. No, it's not bots. I mean turning for USA's bots
You have the industrial complex is that a player role? Yes, it's it's totally
It's totally parsed out across the board
and and my my main YouTube presence is kind of ass
If you did more YouTube exclusives you'd be in this list you just do more breaking points brother Ryan is on half the days
Yeah, Trevor Noah really American democracy now JD Milo
I'm subscribed to like 10 hot Hassan channels. That's why yeah, I have a shit ton of
Fan channels, and I think that's what it is that plays a role in this
Bonkers there's been the opposite of a rally around the flag event look at this net approval change due to actions
Iran. If you look a month in back during the Iranian hostage crisis, look at this, Jimmy Carter
saw his Net approval rating jump up by 32 points. There was a massive, massive rally around the
flag event. But look at this, Trump's Net approval rating. It's actually down. It's actually down
one, two, three, four points, four points since the beginning of the war in Iran. And
indeed you can look at wars during the last 35 years in the Middle East and you see the same
story that is usually you see rally around the flag events you're not seeing
that here look at this one month change in net approval ratings during the Iran
war the Iraq war and the Gulf War both of these of course being fought with
Iraq and look at this again you see Trump here four points under work look
at this with George W Bush 14 points above that is his net approval rating
jump by 14 points and look at George HW Bush my goodness gracious a jump
of 31 points in just a month's time from the start of the Gulf War to a month in.
So we see that Donald Trump is very, very much the outlier here.
Now I was racking my brain and you know this is something that is very difficult for me
to do because there's a lot going on there.
Some of which is...
Bro my Iranian dad watches unofficial streams on YouTube TV because he won't get Twitch.
That's crazy.
We got Iranian fathers watching, but they won't watch the mainstream.
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You're asking yourself you'll have sound effects? That's what you think. Pause the
There you go, absolutely bonkers, you know, I just think about all those old 90s sitcoms
And I did, in my mind, find one instance recently of an event, a foreign policy event in Asia,
in which we see numbers that are similar in terms of this shift for Donald Trump.
Look at this. Look at this shift that we see here.
Okay, net approval rating change one month after the Iran War began.
Look at this February, late February now, we see Trump down by four points.
Holy shit, Americans were more upset with Biden doing the morally correct thing and pulling out of Afghanistan
than Trump's last 37 days of the Iran War. We are an irredeemable country.
This is quite literally the best, one of the best foreign policy decisions of the Biden era.
I stand by it. I've defended it. I will continue to defend it. And yet, how did Americans reward him for that bravery?
Minus six on his approvals. Literally, this is a less popular decision.
Look at this. Look at the shift that we saw
For Joe Biden upon the Afghanistan exit, right when we took our troops out of Afghanistan
No, look at that Joe Biden saw no this shit makes me feel like I'm one of those like centrist Democrats who says
You know their cattle the Americans are cattle
Let's not forget to the growth over the last five years have been insane 2020 to 2021 for ex views
2021 to 2022
2022 to 2023 stable. These are just YouTube views not even streams
What is this
111 million views on the main channel and 222 million views on the fan channel, holy fuck. I
Mean that's just in 2023 I wonder where we're at now
We're in 2026 YouTube I think did cook my YouTube did cook the
clips complex for sure. From 2020 to 2021 it was poppin it was so good.
Hire a fan channel what are you doing? Buddy, brother, I don't think you guys
understand there is no hiring a fan channel.
There's only shuttering all of the fan channels by force by DMCAing them.
I thought we had already established this.
It's very frustrating that a lot of people don't understand this.
What the hell's wrong with you guys?
Grop and Hisnet approval rating of six points. Very similar to what we see with Donald Trump
right now in terms of Hisnet approval rating when it comes to a month into the Iran war.
And of course, Joe Biden, Joe Biden's presidency, at least politically speaking, was basically
over the day after we had that Afghanistan exit.
He never recovered.
His net approval rating never, ever recovered from the drop that he saw after the Afghanistan
exit.
We'll see if that's the case with Donald John Trump.
But what I can say is why, what is going on?
Why is Trump not seeing the rise in his net approval ratings that we often see when
it comes to form policy activities that is that rally around the flag event when we see
the starts of wars. Well, I think this might give you a pretty good indication why. Okay,
first off, this war, it's not popular and it's because-
Okay, whatever. I'm bored. All right, it's time for the Cuba Doc. Let's go.
Right now as we speak. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're
watching the Cuba Doc. Clip channels do not clip the reaction to this, okay?
a lot of time and a lot of effort and a lot of work from a lot of people to put this together.
I tried something that I haven't done before. It got 244,000 views in one day. I think it's a
one out of 10 now. It's not, you know, it's not that great, but it's not bad either.
I want you guys, I'm not doing IRL to them, I'm doing IRL tomorrow, tomorrow's but basically
all day IRL as a matter of fact.
Okay?
What's with the AI voiceovers?
They're not AI, you fucking idiot, it's my voice.
There are 11 million people living 90 miles off the coastline of the United States of
America and the Caribbean island nation known as Cuba experiencing a severe crisis.
Everyday life is being brought to a screeching halt.
They're a nation on blackouts, caused by a total collapse of the country's electrical
grid.
It's as short as 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.
Under the embargo, it's nearly impossible for foreign companies to invest and do business
in Cuba while trading with the United States.
For years I've wanted to visit Cuba.
I wanted to learn about the promise 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
will 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 a divided?
No, it's a special plan.
Oh.
It's just terminal G is where they said we have to go to.
Oh.
We shall stop the coping, answer coalition,
rest of international, visit of a flight
with medical aid solar panels screwed,
numerous things of the Cuban population desperately needs right now.
basically the last leg of this international convoit is coming from all around the world
we're now officially on the third month of Cuba being without oil and the energy grid
collapsed in its entirety a couple days ago
no the i love your new voice oh my god you guys are so fucking annoying
the reason why that voice in this segment sounds weird is because austin ox cleaned
it up with with some kind of like voice modulator thing because we're on the plane and it
was very fucking loud
days ago for approximately 29 hours until they were able to bring it back up.
They're basically operating on one HP right now.
The entire country is.
And it's a total man-made disaster.
It should not happen.
My goal here is to basically show you guys what the reality looks like on the ground.
We're here.
I'll have a kill, baby.
All right, we're in the heart of, we're in the heart of Havana right now.
One of the things that I've immediately been hit with is how beautiful the city is, but
also how hollowed out it is in many ways.
It looks like, I mean, some of these houses, they have the skeleton, they have the outside,
Inside it looks like it's bombed out, you know, there's people living in it, but very clearly this is in a dire state of disrepair.
For decades, Cubans have been driving what in America we'd call classic cars, like this convertible, a Chevrolet Bel Air from the 1950s.
But taxi and carpool drivers like this guy wait in long lines for gas, if they can get it at all.
Hundreds of them waiting here all night for simply five gallons of gas.
And ever since COVID, your tourists have been coming to Havana.
Uh, the island obviously has had a significant fuel shortage and there was a lot of garbage
that was piling up but here in all Havana, they've been able to basically scrounge up a
little bit of fuel and are not only doing a little bit of construction work but also
So apparently picking up some garbage along the way as well.
We're going to be heading to a hospital right now and we'll be talking to a doctor about
what the energy infrastructure and the lack of oil on the island has done to healthcare
in general, obviously.
Since the early days of the Cuban Revolution in the 1960s, the government has promised
its citizens free healthcare.
As a result, the Cuban healthcare system flourished for decades.
and doctors were sent on medical missions around the world, providing care to those in need.
And even under the embargo, Cuba became a pioneer in biomedical research.
But the energy crisis has put all of this at risk.
Dr. Juan Guillermo Sanchez Acuna is the chief of maximal facial surgery at Havana's General
Calex del Garcia University Hospital.
He described for me what it was like to have his work totally disrupted by the
American oil blockade.
The Cuban economy is completely paralyzed by the energy problem.
If we don't have any oil, if there's no power, nothing can be produced.
So yes, I believe it's the impact that the energy situation has had.
This energy blockade on the activity that one performs.
Sometimes you're in the middle of an operation and the power just suddenly goes out, right?
And we simply continue operating.
And the patient, she didn't have her surgery last week because the power failed.
And we're going to operate on her this Monday.
But today the hospital is having some situations with the anesthetics.
for example there is no I will literally put you in the machine I will put
you in the machine wait until you hear the AI voice on the translations hey
chatter that's YouTube this is not this is we hired a fucking voice actor to do
the voice acting we did not hire we did not use AI okay if you are talking
about YouTube's own like different audio tracks okay those are auto-dubbed that's AI that's just
YouTube's own thing that it offers people okay this is why I like this like this is why I dislike
watching the chat is unbelievably fucking annoying pick this
manage one of her moves a I think this is an AI this is an
English voice actor that we hired my so flurain no proper
fall nothing to reverse the anesthesia in other words we're
working under very very difficult conditions the
hospital today only has five anesthesia machines just five
legit the meanest community I swear to God I swear to God I swear to God I
sort of got chatters are fucking a I stage your machines and without
replacement parts for example we only have five monitors for patients when
you take them out of we are working under very harsh very adverse I really do
have the worst fucking chat aren't five really enough no for the whole
hospital five here around 450 patients on each floor have problems you
You mentioned that the power went out right before her surgery.
Has there been any situations where there's surgery going on and the power goes out?
What do you do then?
Flashlights?
The facility itself is experiencing some difficulties, right?
The entire plant is quite old and outdated.
We simply couldn't.
We absolutely couldn't manage to complete the surgical procedure.
So as a result, we were forced to reschedule the case and then operate on him again.
You were saying that they, yeah, it has happened.
They have a deteriorator.
The hospitals are generally very old.
Sometimes it doesn't work and they just have to close them back up and that's crazy
That was that was read from belly of the beast by the way belly of the beast is a patreon
I highly urge you to go and and fund their operations. They're fucking incredible
independent
journalism outlet
And he helped with a lot of the translations he helped with a lot of the sourcing
They help with a lot of the sourcing they help with everything every step of the fucking way
On this entire production
Compound right now is like a complex the massive hospital city almost
I mean some of the buildings are in a dire state of disrepair remember a lot of the public administrations here in this country
According to the American government is still technically and big parts of the economy as well
I technically owned by the Cuban government and therefore the Cuban military so when when American sanctions are applied
They might try to justify by saying how you're funding a foreign adversary's military, but the reality is it's funding that would be going to
Rebuilding these buildings. It's an absolute disaster and totally man-made. It's unbearable to just like experience it in real time
We're like there's unlimited potential here so many wonderful people
The American government's interventions with Cuban healthcare doesn't end there Secretary of State Marco Rubio
Rubio instituted new rules prohibiting Cuba's ability to send medical aid missions abroad.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said it will target what he called forced labor linked
to the Cuban labor export programs.
For decades Cuba has sent doctors and nurses to natural disasters and disease outbreaks
globally.
That's not a joke.
That's how much America hates free healthcare.
Last year I interviewed Dr. José Armando Arante who's the director of international
medical missions.
Margarubio first announces intentions to force countries in the Caribbean to kick out their
doctors.
Since then, numerous countries have caved to the American demands, including in Jamaica.
I was fortunate enough to meet up with Dr. Aronte in person and ask him how this made
him feel.
When we had the conversation a year ago, Margarubio officially declared it illegal,
but since then, a couple countries have actually removed the Cuban medical aid
missions.
How does that make you feel as someone who has participated in this?
I feel very bad because, for example, I was in Jamaica, you know.
The main issue is that people who suffered a lot because of the lack of a medical,
the health professional from Cuba.
I don't know if you remember, I told you that the Cuban medical health professionals were covering the 100% of the region in Jamaica.
And of course, the leaders of the country, I know that they will receive forever the medical care
in a private facility, even in the United States or other countries, but the people, you know,
the low-income people will suffer a lot with the lack of medical care.
The health is a human right, and that's a non-political issue, that it's a human right,
and it's very important for all the people just to receive the medical care that they need
just for the life of the people.
And that's why the Cuban medical mission has been helping many countries worldwide, you know.
165 countries, more than 605,000 health professionals have been working for more than 60 years in many countries.
And just Cuba, even in this condition, is ready to continue the Cuban medical mission
and just to try to help the people around the world.
Yeah, Cuba has been there for everybody and now it's time for us to be there for Cuba.
All right, good to see you. Good to see you too, man.
Being in Cuba, I didn't just want to talk to experts or professionals.
I also struck up conversations with different people on the street.
And I'm like, what are we going to do? There's no fuel.
People say it affects them, not the rich.
It affects all of us, the majority, the common people, you know?
Because if you don't have power, what are you going to do?
Some of these universities are sourced by belly of the beast as well for the record.
Who are you going to do?
Well, we're just surviving day by day, like all of us Cubans are doing,
despite all the significant economic challenges that we currently face.
Trump is a big son of a bitch, man. I just don't get it. Some say he's good, but for me he's not.
Trump has no decency. He doesn't. But he can be president of the United States. He says he owns the world.
Since he owns the world, he thinks he owns Cuba.
I feel outraged with him because he's the one governing his country and wants to govern the world.
And international law allows all countries in the world to have their freedom,
and he wants to violate and has violated the freedom of all Cubans and other countries.
war is always bad war is always terrifying I am not afraid but I wouldn't
want it to come you wake up and don't know what will happen because they tell
you no light no this no bread no that you are at war 24 hours you are on edge
24 hours from when you wake up till you sleep you are at war you don't feel the
gun to the bullets flying but you are at war one person I spoke to was Carlos
Fernandez de Cosio Cuba's vice minister of foreign affairs asked him
about the pressures Cuban now faces and whether this was a warning for the
If most Americans were to be fully aware, and were given the facts about the policy of their government against Cuba, they would express their opposition more clearly.
Life in Cuba has been increasingly become difficult.
It was already difficult in the past because U.S. pressures on the Cuban economy.
But if you cut not Cuba, any country of the availability of fuel, immediately you start to have impact.
And one can see today the panic that is created because of the closure of the horrible strait
in the Persian Gulf, how the prices of oil have increased, the problems are countries
that are importers of fuel, and a significant part of one comes from that region of the
world, how concerned they are, how their economies have started to have inflation,
threats of crisis.
Cuba has been suffering that for over seven decades, and at this moment the US has
significantly closed the total availability of imports of fuel to Cuba, a country that needs fuel
for its electrical grid, naturally for transportation, for an industry, for industrial production,
for the production of food, for services, healthcare, education, for everything, for life.
And Cubans have been forced all segments of society to live knowing that in the 24 hours of
the day they might have 20 hours of electricity and sometimes they go through 36 hours.
more than a day without electricity.
Do that for weeks and do that for months.
Food gets rotten in refrigerators.
Your timetable and schedule is altered.
You have difficulty in transformation to go to work,
to take your children to school,
to visit a relative in a hospital,
to take a relative to the hospital,
and damages health services in general.
So the impact on the population is very hard
and is very cruel.
The majority of Americans would be sufficiently informed about the punishment that is being
put on the Cuban people.
They would express it in a broader way than it does today.
What is the, one of the, one of the sanctions parties is like 10%, up to 10% of the components
that are like American made render any product that you're purchasing to be blocked by the
American government.
The US not only refuses, not only prohibits exports from the US to Cuba.
Yeah.
And imports from Cuba.
It has prohibits subsidiaries of US companies, let's say European companies, African companies,
Asian companies, that have subsidiaries of US companies from exporting to Cuba.
But it doesn't stop there.
US prohibits any product to be exported to Cuba if it has 10% of more of US components.
US components is raw materials, spare parts, software, intellectual property, all of that.
In today's world, globalized economy, how many products can you make sure?
From a shoelace to a locomotive, to a pair of glasses, to a watch, how many can you make
sure that it does not have at least 10 percent?
So most companies around the world, it's not that they know that it has more, it's simply
that they don't go to the trouble.
I might run into trouble if I do that because I don't know where these components come
from.
So that puts a huge limitation on what can a cubic imbibe.
But in addition to that, the U.S. would not allow the import into the United States
of any product that has 0.0001% of Cuban component.
In other words, no component.
So no chocolate bar can be imported in the United States
if there's one grain of sugar in that chocolate bar.
No alcohol if it has an origin of Cuban alcohol.
No metal if it has Cuban nickel or Cuban coba.
No machinery if it has metal that
is composed with Cuban nickel or coba.
To give you some examples, it puts huge limitations
on our access to financing and to banks
and to obtain revenue, huge.
It was huge limitation on access to markets
for Cuban exports, both services and products.
Huge limitations to access to technology.
It's very difficult for any economy to develop itself
to function without access to technology.
And it deprives Cuba to access a few.
Just with those four limitations,
try to imagine any economy in the world,
US, European, Japanese, Chinese,
and in which you have those huge limitations,
How would they function?
Why do you think America is doing this?
They want to have a capacity to control the fate of Cuba,
to create a relationship of dependency and treat Cuba
as a vast hostile state.
I don't think they want to annex Cuba,
but to try Cuba to be a dominion of the United States.
The US wants to restore capitalism in Cuba, go back,
and restore a relationship of dependency,
again going back to the past of Cuba.
The combination of factors that could be sentiment of revenge
or some minuscule amount of people,
they can be ideological differences with Cuba
and simply because Cuba is socialist.
And without knowing what socialism means,
it sounds strange, it sounds dangerous,
so they want to change it.
Some people, because they believe the stories
that are being told about slavery,
about foreign alien enemies in Cuba.
But Cuba is not an enemy of the United States.
We're not unfriendly to the United States.
We are not a threat to the United States.
But we perhaps pose an example
that for specific people in the United States
is unacceptable.
This current energy situation is what's bothering me the most.
The high prices too, most of which are not comparable to what we earn.
I am from Vodado and you know it's quite complicated to live a life without blackouts and suddenly
there's many blackouts.
So the school has taken measures.
They've regulated classes.
You don't go every day anymore.
You go one day a week and that allows you not to be so overwhelmed with transport.
But still the day you go it's complicated.
It's complicated.
We're here with Moored and he is a Palestinian currently studying for free in a Cuban school
of medicine.
Here in Palestine and Cuba, things are all too similar.
The only difference is that there are bombs there and no bombs here.
But there's a blockade there and a blockade here.
There people are dying of hunger.
Here people are also suffering from hunger, lack of power.
There are blackouts there too.
So yes, both our peoples are living the same thing.
Because of the same enemy.
We have around 250 Palestinians studying medicine here.
And once we complete our studies, we can go back to Palestine to assist our people,
because there is a critical shortage of doctors and a severe lack of hospitals to save lives.
Seeing how the Cuban people, or Cuba as a nation, a country that is in need of so many things,
but despite all of that, Cuba is still helping, still sharing what it has.
Do you intend to go back to Palestine one day and become a doctor there, or what's next for you?
I'm specializing in orthopedics so that I can return as a fully trained and complete
doctor.
I am ready to be on the battlefield, for my people to support them on the front lines.
Because in Palestine or in Gaza, especially because of these wars, this three-year genocide,
many people have lost their limbs or have problems with their upper or lower limbs,
and they need orthopedic specialists.
Thanks to Cuba for granting me this incredible opportunity to become a specialist, which
It provides completely free of charge because nowhere else in the world do they offer that for free
What means you want to be a doctor and how much does money factor into that decision?
The only reason why I ask this question is because
Americans think one that all of the Cuban doctors that are sent on medical missions are actually being forced to do this and
Also Americans think that doctors only become doctors for money
Yes, this is capitalism. What they're looking for is how to sell, to sell health care, to sell medicine and to find ways to make money from people's health, not how to save them.
They don't care about saving lives. What they care about is their own pockets.
Thank you so much. Thank you.
It's going to be translated into the post. It's not about me. I'm just seasoning.
While the US and Israel rained missiles on Palestine, Lebanon and Iran, a similar kind
of siege was taking place against Cuba.
The catch, of course, is that in Cuba, it's a siege without bombs.
And as this imperial violence becomes more and more impossible to ignore, even the
masses in Western countries have radically shifted their perspective.
To me, it feels like people all over the world are no longer as susceptible to propaganda
for the empire.
I took some of my thoughts to Jeremy Corbyn,
former leader of the UK's Labour Party,
and now a member of parliament
for the new left wing, your party.
And I asked you about Cuba,
and if this shift in consciousness we're seeing
can really change policy.
Oh, thanks Mike.
Gracias.
Gracias, señor.
Nothing.
Do you need an extra?
No, no, no, actually I don't want to go to bed.
We're a total panacea salute.
Senazuka, sen tabak.
Total.
Now that the attitude in the Western world has radically shifted against Israel and America
in many ways, recognizing the Israeli apartheid, recognizing the genocide, do you feel as though
there's an opportunity for people to take a different approach to foreign adversary governments
like Cuba that have been designed as foreign adversaries by the American state?
Yes, I do.
And I think the governments around the world that are either actively practicing hostility
to Cuba or just going along with the US strategy on it, are way out of step with what the public
think.
In the UK, there is no hostility towards Cuba at all.
People are actually quite pro-Cuba.
What is it about Cuba that gives you this absurd policy of punishing any company that
trades with Cuba by not allowing it to trade in the USA?
The Helms-Burton Act is like a sort of global sanction against the private sector wanting
to trade in Cuba.
It's absurd.
Virtually all of the member states of the UN vote against the sanctions on Cuba.
But only what is it? The US, the Marshall Islands, Israel and El Salvador.
Young people in Cuba have only ever known austerity.
They've only ever known crumbling public realm because of the lack of resources.
They've only ever known power outages and power shortages.
And whilst they have a very effective health service, it's chronically under-resort.
Because they need more research and more medicines.
And so I can see how they get onto their iPhone or whatever else.
And then they see pictures of unbelievable levels of wealth
by a tiny minority of people 90 miles away in Miami.
They don't see pictures of the poverty in downtown Chicago.
They don't see the pictures of the poverty in so many parts of the USA.
And they don't also realize that 30 million Americans
have no access to any kind of health care.
And let's finish with this. We're in Cuba.
Now look at this wonderful city of the valley. You see the capital there, which is
Model on the US taller this one is taller than ours. That's what they that's what they were saying. Yes, they're very proud of that
I'm proud of it. You fuck it. Oh my goodness. I'll go up never look that yeah, yeah
And there it's a modeled after the American
Capital and it's a it's it's taller, but also you look over there
There's a lot of buildings that need desperately need fixing. Yeah, that's the consequences of the blockade
Yeah.
Cuba is a beautiful place and we've got some fantastic people.
So I say to the US, back off, leave Cuba alone, let it develop, and you know what?
Back after a while, you're going to get to love Cuba.
Leave Cuba alone.
Just because the US is strangling Cuba with sanctions and the oil blockade doesn't mean
that Cubans are totally helpless.
Cuba, like all other countries, faced a difficult green transition away from an economy based
on fossil fuels.
Spurred by the latest challenges, Cuba is pushing through a long overdue change for
solar power, assisted by foreign friends like China.
To learn about Cuba's solar push, I spoke to Dr. Lidice Vallant Roca, head of the
photovoltaic research laboratory at the University of Havana and one of the leaders
of Cuba's solar energy initiative.
Since long before the oil crisis, she's been studying how climate change has affected
Cuba.
transition all the more critical to the island's future.
Chuba is at the epicenter of not only imperialism,
but also one of the more damaging aspects
of anthropogenic climate change.
The island infrastructure consistently suffers
during hurricane season,
and they're even rolling blackouts
before the oil embargo worsened in these last three months.
What role do renewable energies play in a-
Is there a longer interview with Corbin?
Yes.
So all of these interviews that I conducted
Actually very long. They're around like 30 40 minutes long sometimes an hour long like the one with cosio
The foreign vice minister that was like almost two hours long, but I
Wanted to get this out like get this full
Project out to show you guys like the full scope of it. We will be releasing all of the interviews
We'll be releasing all the interviews on the main channel as well, so like they're all you know, they're they'll they exist
But
For the time being
I wanted to do something that was more digestible
because like
The longer interviews are very interesting and I think you guys will really appreciate all of them
But I wanted to make this as like digestible and as high impact as possible, right?
addressing this crisis I think a renewable energy
it's a
key for the
energy independence here of Cuba
So this is probably the most important concept renewable energy
It's not only the homework that you have to do for climate change
It's at the same time, but it's going to give us the
independency from the energy production point of view and it happens that it's also cheaper
What's the status currently of daily energy usage daily energy consumption that's been relegated to?
solar panels in sunny. I mean 38 is the major
Level we she might my community suffer from hurricane it hurricane Katrina
You know Cuba wanted to send doctors to Hurricane Katrina and the American government said no.
Cuba wanted to send a medical mission to the United States of America for Hurricane Katrina
and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina America said no.
Some days ago, I mean in a very, very sunny day with not so high temperatures,
of course the production of solar energy reach a peak but it's moving in the
middle of the day so in the moment which you have the peak production of solar
energy we have been seeing an increment from 15 to 30. To be fair I guess the
American government is literally consistent as far as like free health
care goes they will destroy it anywhere anywhere around the planet like even if
even if it's a desperate need and other countries that offer free health care
want to offer America free health care they'll be like no fuck no absolutely
not we will kill the poor every time. 30 and even more than 30% which is
extremely big even if not in general for the given conditions also taking
into account it's something that happened in only one year.
So where was it here for all except for Medicare for none the only country that is allowed to have free health care is Israel
Yeah
1500 medical doctors with 37 tons of medical supplies
Cuba wanted to send them and
The Bush administration was like hell no
How crazy is that man? Who the fuck operates like that?
that. That's why it's actually crazy that like Marco Rubio has denied medical
missions to other countries like Jamaica.
Where was it even a year ago? What was the
It was less than five, between three and four percent.
This sector, the industry is having my only piece of constructive criticism is
work on your narration. It sounds like I'm watching a National Geographic
documentary on people suffering due to US nations.
What the fuck is wrong with you? That's the point.
That's the point, Chatter. Yeah, you nailed it. That's what I was trying to do.
Fully dominated by China. Yes, more than 90%.
Yeah, and I mean, it's a complete monopoly. And does that make things a little bit easier
as far as being able to purchase certain components, because the Chinese government doesn't
As far as I understand, American restrictions that normally other countries in Europe, especially
in the field of medicine, I've been talking to a lot of doctors.
Yes, I think yes.
Have there been restrictions in any way?
Yes, there are always restrictions in any way.
I mean, you know, I mean, the blockade can reach even China.
I mean, because companies are companies, even if they are China-based.
And sometimes if the company has interests in other places or related to the American
market, they won't risk it.
Now Cuban ingenuity doesn't end with trying to radically restructure the entire energy
grid.
Cuba's progress in biomedical research has been the envy of the world for many decades.
A recent high point was Cuba's homegrown COVID vaccine, the only such vaccine made by
a poor country.
To learn about this field, I talked to a world renown-
By the way, they developed this with the Pasteur Institute that America recently destroyed
this past week in Iran.
For those of you who don't know, Iran and Cuba worked in tandem cooperatively to
develop indigenous vaccines for COVID. And the Pasteur Institute that America and Israel
blew up the other day, played a role in the development of this vaccine.
Of course, I released this video before, or I shot this video and did the narration before
America blew up the other side of this COVID vaccine development. There's also additional
details on this, Jack Ma wanted to send COVID vaccines, Cinevax to Cuba, America stopped
that from happening. That was part of the reason why they had to develop their own version
of the COVID vaccine. And not only that, but also when the when the rest of the fuck
When the poor countries were not able to get the COVID vaccines in time, Cuba was like,
fuck it, we'll send it to Latin American countries, then America decided to do a vaccine
hesitancy campaign in Latin America against the Cuban vaccine as well, just so you know.
Just a couple of decades ago, perhaps five years ago, people would come from Miami,
Cubans would live there to buy the cheap medicines in Cuba themselves in Florida.
They were so cheap and inexpensive.
Now we're struggling because the United States has systematically begun cutting every source of income to the country.
So they're scaring off tourism.
Europeans come to Cuba. They have trouble getting visas to the U.S.
Cruisers are told to avoid it. They can't come to Cuba.
And everything bad that could happen in a blackout or failure of the follow system is amplified in all the media scary
Dr. Mitchell is such a Chad by the way
Dr. Mitchell is a stud he is the og he is the man every single person that I interviewed
Every single get off your phone dude. That's where my questions are I
I didn't have him written down, okay? I had him written on my phone.
That's why I'm looking at my phone. I'm not being like quote-unquote rude.
I'm looking at like the information that's in front of me.
So that's part of the policy. It's scare away the tourists.
Cuban medical brigades were working in 60 countries.
And these brigades would work in places where the doctors of those countries would not work.
And the countries were very happy with that.
Then the US said we're going to sanction health officials, you know, ministries of health officials that hire Cuban doctors because they're worried that the Cubans
Doctors are being exploited. I would like to see the US government worried about sugarcane cutters in around the world
That are exploited. I'm not playing on my phone. I'm taking your business. I mean, there was no internet. What could I be doing on my phone?
There's no service. There's no internet
And they don't care. This is just an excuse, a flimsy excuse. Then medical experts, you
know, we can export products. They do everything to sabotage. Through their, let's say, the
quizzlings that live in all these countries that are, you know, U.S.-oriented in, let's
say, South America, then they start saying this Cuban treatment is no good and they
do a propaganda in the media. And all this is connected to the U.S. policies. We vaccinated
almost 98% of the population. Cuba has the lowest death rate due to COVID. It's not only
vaccines. It's also very consistent messages on using masks, social distancing. Cuba's the
lowest rate. And then when we started selling them to Mexico, to Venezuela, to other countries,
There were campaigns to try to discredit the Cuban vaccine.
And this is part of a consistent policy of simply cutting off every line of income to the country.
And then trying to create the Cuban population dissatisfaction and desaspiration,
and then saying, we're going to solve it for you.
So you create a problem, and then you're offering a solution.
I mean, there are Cubans that maybe will fall for this line,
But the majority of Cubans see clearly through this propaganda screen.
They know exactly that a large part of the big problems in Cuba,
we have many difficult problems, are due to the U.S. embargo blockade,
and which has been tightening year after year.
We buy equipment in Europe, and an American company buys the manufacturer,
and we can't get spare parts.
Or we buy expensive equipment in Europe,
we want to use it for medical purposes here,
And they scare the European companies off.
I spoke to the vice president of a company in Germany that said,
I'm ashamed of this international commerce should not be like this,
but we can have problems with the US. And that's an important market for us.
So now that you see these interviews, though,
do you understand where I was getting all my information from?
Because like I've talked about all of this in,
in every single interview that I've conducted so far after coming back
from Cuba. But like I talked to so many people,
people that are like directly, directly a part of the production process, a part of like
biomedical research, and every single person I talk to, doctors, nurses, every single person
I talk to had a story like this, okay? Every single one.
I know a lot of people, especially Cubans in diaspora, Cubans that came from Cuba at a young age, that came to the United States of America, genuinely think, ah, this is bullshit, okay?
Perhaps they haven't had these conversations, perhaps they haven't seen it, but it is, damn, you did so much with the fuck, were you only there for two days?
for two days, yes, that's why I was laughable
that people were like, oh, Hasan was living the high life
and luxury going to parties and dancing around the island.
It's like, no, I didn't do any of the,
I mean, the stuff that people were claiming
we were doing on the island were also ridiculous,
but I didn't even attend any of the stuff.
I didn't do a single damn thing
that the Progressive International
or any of the other people did on the island
because I was literally just doing wall-to-wall coverage,
like non-stop.
We recorded like 10 plus hours of interviews.
There are all these indirect ways.
I remember seeing an appearance by Michael Whoil in the Congress saying,
we're not locating Cuba.
There are no ships blocking the ports.
And this is hypocritical.
It's a policy of strangling the country.
Our anti-alzheimer drug, Senera 201,
Which we developed in Cuba and using labs in Mexico and in France because we can't get materials because the US would block them
So what we do is collaborate
But we have people willing to work with us that are searching for investors and their lawyers are saying
Careful the US sanctions. So maybe this drug which we could develop a competitive of humanity is now being
blocked and it's one of the insidious ways and it's I can get many examples we
have money to buy material to produce cheap medicines for the Cuban people and
there's no banks that want to work with us because we're sponsors of terrorism
according to the US we've lived under the embargo and the bloke bloke us we
come because it's a blockade we have been living for decades but this is
the worst situation we've lived through because by scaring oil suppliers
is off. They're really trying to strangle and destroy our economy.
So shame we can't get that drug because our president could
really use it. Oh my God. True. Maybe it's better that he
doesn't get the fucking dementia medicine though. Honestly.
The only good thing that can come out of this, it's so
evident now that there is a blockade because they've been
denying for years. It's so evident that they're trying
they cut off any source of income for the country. Even cut off the oil that it's
impossible to hide anymore and to make it invisible.
So the sun is going down and I'm using a light to light you now because once again we're without a power.
Yep. I forgot to bring snackies in my bag and that was a big L for me.
But who did bring snackies?
You did and I ate some of your snackies which was great.
Thank you. Thank you so much. I haven't... this is yet another day where it's 7.35 and I'm yet to eat.
It's dark, man.
So, how do we call a cab here?
All electricity in this... in this block is gone. It's out.
Unfuckin' believable that this is directly a man-made crisis.
And what many consider to be is a product of the governments incompetence.
It's actually directly a consequence of American intervention in the most vile form.
It's crazy.
And from what I understand, speaking to some of the people on the ground, a decent chunk
of the Cuban population, young Cubans.
How did you call Kav?
It was really, he helped us, Billy the Beast.
So it's really interesting.
A lot of people don't know this, but like right now Iran doesn't have internet, right?
Like Iran doesn't have internet.
Iran does have domestic internet, right?
little different in Cuba. Cuba's cell is unreliable at times, but it still works. It's difficult,
but they have like an Uber system basically on the island where they call it, it's not
this similar to the Uber system. That's what it is. Okay, you pay with cash, but you call a cab,
A guy comes a comes with their own car with their regular, you know
Vehicle takes you up takes you wherever you need to and then you pay him cash
But that's what we
You've also has like a an Airbnb style situation to so a normal cab no it's not but
It's I mean they have regular taxis as well
Why do so many Cuban-Americans criticize the Cuba? Why would they disparage anyone bringing
aid to their home country? They are unbelievably reactionary and think that anything that you
anything, any kind of like criticism of the blockade is actually a lie.
They think that it's just communism. They're super reactionary, they think it's communism, and they think they feel like any kind of mention of this blockade, which they deny its existence, is a defense of the Cuban government.
No, it's worse than diasporoid Iranians. I mean, it's worse than that for sure.
I don't even think you can actually convince any of these guys. Some of these guys are like super far gone.
They have like genuine disdain.
Yeah, I'm Cuban. My parents always said the Cuban government steals everything so we can't give them anything. Yeah, it's it's crazy
Like they have real disdain for people that are on this island
Jenny when you question Cuban American here my sister thinks Cubas are forced to work at doctors in Cuba
They Cubas can't choose their own line of work
They can only do work generationally meaning if your dad was a doctor then you have to be a doctor
I know it sounds absurd. She didn't try to argue the forced labor take about doctor missions. How do I dispel the conspiracy theory?
That's a Mara brain
the the
Your sister is officially a full-blown American
You should show her the video of Ben Shapiro arguing that his wife is a doctor
And if we were to do socialized medicine in this country that would mean that we would enslave his doctor wife
Because that's what it is
These people are very proud of the work that they do and you'll see with the with the interview that I conducted with the surgeon
The first surgeon that I actually interviewed where I straight up ask him
How much money do you make and then he tells me like the the unbelievably low salaries for all medical professionals on the island
And then I'm like, why do you do it?
American I'm gonna ask you a stupid American question. Why do you do it? You make no money and he's like, what do you mean?
What do you mean this is like I do it for my people like I do it to save people's lives
It doesn't like it doesn't even fuck a register for him. Okay
Anyway, but that's that's what it is
And no there like yeah, please think
How can you force someone to be a doctor?
Like that. Can you just think think it through for a second?
How can you force someone to be a doctor? They should be a real shitty doctor that would kind of have diminishing returns
Don't you think maybe after the second generation?
So the question you should ask your your sister is also do you think teachers are slaves?
right
She's a live a hardcore propaganda as the Republican dad
Do you think teachers in the United States of America are enslaved right now because they work for very low wages and yet
They still work okay, not only do they work for very low wages
but they also literally spend money out of their pockets to teach people.
I mean, it's an unbelievable shame that they get paid such little salaries, such
little wages, but are they being forced to teach children at gunpoint?
No, they don't, because they want to improve the next generation, right?
The
Asperoi Corresponding here, Hassanabi's 100% right, my family's like communism, paranoia,
my dad called, the auto starts stopping to stroke communism and he wasn't joking.
Everything is the boogeyman to them, no way to appease them, short of reviving cash
or just to hang them, yeah.
Also cash was fucking dope, like, which is why it's extra funny, it was like, he
was a god damn lion straight up and so was Che. Che and Castro both were unbelievably
charismatic individuals and they were fucking awesome, which makes this story even funnier.
Like, you know, modern, modern Cuban government, maybe not as charismatic. Okay, it's hard
to be as charismatic as Che or Castro, but those two especially were unbelievable lions.
Okay, they were unbelievably charismatic and they weren't the real fucking deal
Which is why it's really funny that these guys have tremendous regent resentment towards them. It's like
I can't even think like it's like it's like being mad at Abraham Lincoln, okay, except Abraham Lincoln also wasn't that charismatic, right?
like
Yeah, I fucking oh
the two American presidents that I despise, Abraham Lincoln and FDR, you know, like it
doesn't make any sense. Once again, Cuba, regardless of the unbearable propaganda against it, perhaps
is probably the closest that you can arrive at a moral country.
Nation states are not moral.
And this isn't to defend some of the resistance
to change in terms of how they operated their economy
for so long.
Much of it was propped up by the USSR.
And, you know, mismanagement is a thing that happens everywhere.
Of course, it would not be as damaging
if it weren't for the blockade.
But, I mean, they've just, they're
such a responsive government.
They're such a responsive government.
Like, for example, they will routinely release people
that they've arrested, right?
The Biden administration arrested 3,500 peaceful protesters.
The Cuban government every now and then also arrests people.
There's like a little bit of political repression.
Some of the biggest problems I think are the lack of interest.
What? You have more views in common than you do AOC.
I just want to say AOC and Bernie
are the worst options right now.
Wait, what?
AOC sucks.
Why are you guys pushing AOC?
AOC sucks
What the fuck so you don't like AOC and you like snico like I don't understand or you
Don't like AOC you don't like me and you like snico or you hate snico and you're saying that as a disc anyway, whatever
I mean think about it this way they're so fucking poor and in spite of that the social
contract is always dictated that every single Cuban gets a free education and every single
Cuban gets free health care. Okay. Like there are stories that people are telling me like,
you know, there's a there's a lady who needed like immediate medical procedure and immediate
medical procedure on the other side of the island. And the government literally fucking
sent an ambulance in the block in amidst the blockade to bring them to a facility
in Havana so she could get the fucking proper medical care and then, you know, it's
all free. Like it's just not like this is unheard of in America, right? Like it's just
so crazy to think.
My dad's Cuban fam is a house divided. My great-granddad was for Fidel and welcomed him. My
granddad was USA AOK and hated cash on my dad who was team granddad named me after chase girlfriend
and might have got it correct as I am team great granddad.
Especially also are unaware of the real reasons as to why this crisis is unfolding
since the year 2019 when like the initial sanctions packages started rolling in
that limited the oil tankers that were able to come to the island.
Obviously this is the most devastating version of this with threats of interception
of oil tankers that are coming into the island. At least the city functions are still working,
you know, the lights are working.
For over 60 years, Cuba has served as an outpost of humanity, an island that would lay everything on the line for the sake of a better world.
It is done this by sending medical missions to the South Pacific, dispatching military
reinforcements to fight the apartheid, and even sharing its homegrown COVID vaccines
with the world, when wealthy nations hoarded doses for themselves.
With this commitment has come a very high price.
Every day, Cubans are pushed further to the brink of survival.
In Havana, I saw with my own eyes the shadow of Washington's deliberate policy
of collective punishment, the horror of patients surviving on hand-pump ventilators,
wedding through darkness with no electricity to ease their suffering.
Yet Cubans are, and Cuba is, resilient.
There is the doctor who operates by phone light, the Palestinian medical student learning
to sew his people back together, the scientist turning the Caribbean sunshine into energy
independence.
And, of course, there are the hearts of all those in Cuba who refuse to trade their
sovereignty for a momentary relief.
Cuba's future belongs to no one but the Cuban people themselves, and despite the
The challenge is laid before them in such dark times, the people of Cuba, bring all of humanity,
step by step, just a bit closer to the light.
Cuba has been there for the rest of the world, and now, it is our time to be there for Cuba.
Patrillo Muerte.
Venceremos.
Homelander Death.
We will prevail.
That's it.
I
Haven't I've never tried doing something like this before I've never done something like this before it was
Definitely a daunting task and I was definitely worried that you know people were not going to like it people were not going to appreciate it
But it seems to be getting some decent
reactions from people. I mean obviously at the end of the day you know it's a
one out of ten on the on the on the web on my YouTube page don't let the YouTube
algorithm from doing this again you'll break through the algo yeah I mean it's
it's a one out of ten it's good it's my top-performing video but like the
reality of the matter is you know a video about the extraction mission
that's clipped out of my, that's clipped from my, my broadcasts obviously still going to do a better
algorithm wise and numbers wise, but you know I, I want to, I want to do it again
hopefully in the future, do stuff like this again, but yeah, this was the first,
This is the first time we tried this and I'll get better at it.
I'll have a better understanding of the shot list ahead of time, you know, and and March
will get better at like picking stuff up as well.
But you know, hopefully that was informative for you guys.
And then maybe one day I can be as good as Nick Shirley and Tyler Hitler Vera Cuban American
here with a Cuba family. Thank you for making this so many Cuban chatters in here with like
reactionary parents. It's kind of funny. I mean, it just makes sense. Ship with the Netflix
and also platforms. Okay, guys, calm down. I don't think Netflix gives a shit. I don't
don't think it's like that. But yeah, when I was begging you to go to Cuba, this is
better content than I'd imagine you to come out of it. Great job. Hell yeah. We also have
all these interviews, like longer interviews with every single person that I interviewed
on there. But hopefully, hopefully, you guys will get to enjoy those as well.
Have you talked to Dan Levittard about the documentary? No, I have not.
We have piker broadcasting service. Thank you for your support some sort of cut together video
we made all of your IRL footage and I'm portraying you cutting together all your Minnesota stuff could
be good too. Arkansas 142nd Field Artillery Brigade Department for the Middle East today
Senator Tom Cotton says oh nice great
What was the song at the end I don't know but also go show some love and show some support to belly the beast Cuba belly the beast Cuba on patreon
I I don't know if we put that in the description, but you know they were
Unbelievably helpful in the entire process. I mean they're incredible. I'm gonna be I
I am going to be working with Ryan Grim and hopefully Brace Belden to to fundraise for them
because they do amazing work.
Also everyone needs to stop saying I look tired okay I get it I'm fucking tired.
All right, calm down. Are you ending soon? Yes, I am. I am ending. I'm ending right now because
I'm tired. Anyway, tomorrow I'm going to start here. I'm going to do a short intro to the broadcast.
I'm going to start early again just like yesterday. And then for the rest of the day,
we're going to be doing back-to-back. We're going to be doing back-to-back rallies.
I'm going to go to MSU and I'm going to go to University of Michigan and I'm going to
be speaking at the rallies as well and in between speaking at the rallies, I will in
between speaking at the rallies I'll do like regular news coverage as well because how
How early is it at 10 AM Pacific time as I did this morning?
Okay.
Yeah, I got to rest up to get my strength up, so I'm not tired tomorrow.
You got to go, you got to say go blue with Michigan wins tonight.
Sure.
And obviously we have Trump potentially bombing or tacoing tomorrow and that's going to happen
while we're at one of the two rallies so you know stay tuned.
U of M is going to be a fucking mess during the championship game tonight.
Is it where is the game happening?
Maybe we'll go out.
right now just started Indianapolis okay anyway love you guys please go wash
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Stunning rope by introduction, starting off the day
All the chatter's drizzlin' in, I'll slow people away
Sunny Los Angeles, California says her son
Stunlock to the, stunlock to the top is just begun
Cause there is again a sun is streaming
A sun is streaming
There is again a sun is streaming
Her son is streaming, leaving when a Chinese train,
Telling Tyre Place.
Son in a sminch of her lungs, giving greening's grace.
Zoran winning and YC, walk two back with the force.
The broken of the left to me, a dumb hymbo-steal of quarts
The trodder car-cass-assination, the fear and online show
Eight full fucking years of this, plenty more to know
Doing fun stuff tomorrow, throw PBS up on the screen.
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Cause there he is again, a son is streaming
A son is streaming
There he is again, a son is streaming
A son is streaming
Kicked out of the DNC, I well, and marched the galt
Commed in the propaganda, the shut down people's droats,
CBS, Israeli news, a coup, a regime false,
a full blown fascist takeover, and still the duty calls,
A total radicalization coming out to sea
A system where he'll always fail, it's up to you and me
Far on these daily streets, whether short or weather long
I've held millions of people, keep it moving right on
Cause there he is again, the sun is streaming
The sun is streaming
There he is again, the sun is streaming
A son is streaming
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That's BDS for you
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Just you wait
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That's BDS for you
But he'll move on real soon
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