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🤬TRUMP THREATENS RAMPAGE🤬WE ARE THE BADDIES🤬IRAN REMAINS RESTRAINED🤬EF DAY38🤬WHERE ARE THE DEMS?!🤬ABDUL EL-SAYED RALLY IN MSU + UM🤬
04-07-2026 · 9h 53m
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Do you love Israel?
Israel number one.
No politics here.
Why do you not love Israel?
Oh, you hate it.
You have forgotten to say, I'm Israel, you must love Hamas.
You are Hamas!
Am Israel time!
Am Israel time!
Am Israel time!
Am Israel time!
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Am Israel time!
Am Israel time!
Am Israel time!
Oh Israel, number one for you!
Oh, anti-Semitism!
Israel, small nation!
Israel, tiny nation surrounded by
scary Muslims!
You are anti-Semitism. You are Hamas.
You are Hamas. No politics here.
Say Israel number one.
We think Israel number one.
No politics here.
No politics here.
No politics here.
No politics here.
No politics here.
What's going on, everybody?
I hope everyone's having a fantastic evening, afternoon, pre-noon, no matter where you are in the world.
Sompiker and this also in our broadcasts from a few live from sunny but very cold sunny
but very cold and arbor michigan folks we're live and alive and I hope all the boys girls
and mbs are having a great one from stolen land this is a very big day very important
day for all of us here on this broadcast is seems
uh... for a million different reasons and i'm actually live before ten a m
pacific time
it's actually nine forty four a m pacific time i'm live on the live and i hope
all those girls and nbs are in a fantastic one
because today's a beautiful day today's a wonderful day today is uh...
tuesday it's newsday tuesday
and uh...
uh... there's there's quite a bit there's quite a bit going on in the world
that we're gonna obviously talk about
it's it's Tuesday april seven
uh... twenty twenty six
uh... it's uh... it's it's power plant day is what donald trump is claim today
is
obviously bring to be talking about that i was a bunch of unhinged things
uh... but uh... before i get into all of that is the part of the broadcast
where i
tell you
about my personal news
before we get into all of that
uh... hope you had a good evening you don't have to date thank you that's
because i just woke up uh... and that's part of the reason i don't look
tired today
even though i didn't sleep very well last night i woke up at like five a m
you might have seen it five a m
uh... michigan time
on the chad as loser you already know what's up uh... the roach got banned
last night uh... i found that out i thought that was interesting
uh... we still haven't been able to figure out uh... exactly what it was
uh... that led to his banning uh...
uh... experts are saying uh... he's the most banable person and it's like it's
like rfk jr you know how i joke about k jr like
uh... science will never be able to conduct a successful autopsy
because he has so many different factors at play it's kind of like
with as many gold the when he gets banned you can't figure out exactly
What is the reason because it's everything that he says pretty much is a good enough reason for him to get back, but
I'm a shut-ass loser as you already know and
That's what I was doing. I being a shut-ass loser ended the broadcast last night. I was very tired after eight hours and change and
I order some crumble cookies and I watched you to kai's in and
I thought the crumble cookies would come in a package that was more discreet than the actual crumble package
Especially considering that the front desk people that work at the hotel had
Openly told me that they were big fans of mine. So they might be watching right now shouts out to them
So they saw me sheepishly walk down to the hotel lobby pick up
this box crumble cookies and a milk and
a tiny little bottle of
reduced fat milk as well
as though that's going to save anything and
and I sheepishly walked back upstairs with my shame,
sat down in bed, Austin show style, and ate the cookie.
And I obviously couldn't even finish more than one cookie
because those things are crazy.
I just like kind of picked it all the different cookies
they had.
Watched Yuzuki's in, fell asleep, woke up at 5 a.m.,
tweeted up a storm.
Tweeted up a goddamn storm went back to sleep woke up again at 10 went on my favorite broadcast
LBC
Live, I don't know if the video is out. I don't know if any of the oil broves actually sore sore it. Yeah, I was on
LBC right and I even gave a shout out to all the fucking brace out there that have been doing the work. Yeah
Fuckin' hell, went on LBC, talked about, talked about America, and yeah, Hassan picking up
his milk and cookies, yeah, pretty much, that was me.
Gigi had this to say about the Trump tweet, yeah, did the Hassan Piker discourse hopefully
run its course?
Probably not.
We'll obviously talk a little bit about that as well.
Michigan won the March Madness Tournament free crop points from the rally today. Yeah, no, I know
I'll obviously be talking about that because I when I walked downstairs it added to my shame
Because I walked downstairs and there's like all this chaos and all this panic. I'm like what the hell's going on
And they're like, oh Michigan just won
And I was like god damn
Okay
Yeah
I wonder if we're gonna see Trump carry out a threat tonight, I know.
Can we watch it, I just finished LBC, yeah, I woke up, got out of bed.
I woke up, got out of bed and talked to the LBC about Trump being hit Larry and also apparently
this is what was going on this morning at Fox News.
As Donald Trump is currently five minutes away from nuclear holocaust, okay?
This is what Fox News is covering this morning, you know?
So for all the liberals who've been crying about this manufactured outrage campaign for
like the past three weeks, you should have focused your efforts just like I was on
addressing what Donald Trump is doing, addressing what Israel is doing, and maybe building up a
strong base of resistance against the imminent international rule-based order collapsing actions
that our terrorist Adolf Hitlerian-style president is committed to, seemingly.
Anyway,
I do think that the more insane Trump gets, the less likely he is to follow through on
that.
But like I said, as I've been talking about since yesterday, hopefully it's a taco Tuesday,
okay?
Best case scenario, it's taco Tuesday.
Worst case scenario is that the world changes in an irreparable manner tonight.
And it's actually insane to me that we are at the mercy of this one singular madman.
And luckily, you know, Rokana has been, luckily Rokana has been finally advocating for, you
know, the 25th Amendment trying to put an end to this somehow, you know.
But that's it.
need tacos today for luck. Yeah, Taco Tuesday, hopefully. Insha'Allah, it's Taco Tuesday.
Alright, so, yeah, that's where we're at. I have my assessments on that. I'm obviously
going to be getting on a, I'm obviously going to be moving to MSU campus quite, like, in
a couple hours. So I wanted to get started ahead of all of that, because I'm going
to be live broadcasting the news, but in transit for the most part today. And that's the reason
why I wanted to start early, start with the desktop side of things, and just basically
go through exactly what Donald Trump has said and what he's threatened to do so far and
how he might taco out hopefully. But yeah, let's get started. I'm going to blast off
right now. Trump threatens rampage. We are the baddies. Iran remains restrained and resistant.
Epstein's Fury Day 38, where are the Dems? Abdullah Sayed, it rally MSU and UM all day.
get in now, www.twitch.tv slash Hassanabe. Asmengold Band, I'll put that in the title
as well, because that is a thing that happened as well. It finally happened, but it's not
really relevant. But yeah, here, let's blast off. Have you reviewed the recent
impeachment files? Michigan's going nuts after the national championship yesterday.
Yeah, Abdul also did a Fox interview this morning about me as well, which is
kind of wild. Once again, it's unbelievable that this is like the real
mover and shaker in American politics. It's very obviously set up as like
It's designed as this perfect distraction, and it's unbelievable how many people are so
deranged in their hatred of myself that they are leaning into it, right? Like they've been
actively leaning into it. These past couple of weeks, what have I been doing, right?
What have we been doing in this community? We've been talking about Donald Trump. We've
been talking about what Donald Trump is doing. We've been monitoring the situation,
actively talking about Donald Trump's genocidal rhetoric, actively talking about the war crimes
that Trump and the Israeli government are committing, right?
And there are a lot of people that have decided to instead shift their enmity and their focus
in this pivotal moment towards someone like myself for channeling the frustrations of
the base within the Democratic Party.
And it's fucking insane to me.
It's unbelievable that there is this association with where people are.
No one gives a shit about this stuff.
And yet these guys chose to be so annoying, chose to be so resistant to the calls being
made by their own constituents once again.
As I've said over and over again, it's like they want to lose or something.
I don't know what it is.
In any case, yeah, let's start there.
I already used this as the blast-off meme,
but apparently Trump threatened to nuke around this morning.
I mean, not apparently.
We know that he tried to do that.
And Fox News spent the entire day, entire morning,
talking about me instead.
So just something to consider for all the Democrats who look at this kind of coverage
and go, you know what?
They're right.
We got to hand it to these fucking fascist monsters, right?
Um, yeah, Michigan Dem doubles down after rally with anti-Israel streamer, Fox and
friends from an hour ago.
this morning for planning a rally with NK Israeli podcaster son Piker, who says America
deserve 9-11 and justify the October 7th attacks.
It doesn't even matter. None of this justifies that Palestinians have a right to dignity,
a right to emancipation, a right to live free lives, free from this occupation. Doesn't
matter. Doesn't matter if rapes happen on October 7, like that.
It's crazy when they add the context because I feel like it's an infinitely, I mean it's
already an endlessly defensible position that most people would agree to, right?
So it's always, I welcome whenever Fox News at least like gives me the opportunity to
make my case.
They won't ask me to do it on camera, which I could, but yeah, it's crazy that they
will say, oh, he justified the October seven attacks. And then they literally show me openly
saying like nothing justifies what Israel is doing and what Israel has done leading up
to October seven, not even the atrocities that may or may not have happened on October
seven, the way that Israel is presenting it doesn't change the dynamic for me even
this much.
Democratic, Michigan Senator, candidate Abdul El Sayed joins us now. Bill, thanks so
much for getting up this morning.
Thank you so much for having me.
So, Bill, you've run a campaign where you've got a lot of young people supporting you.
You've talked about gas prices, eliminating medical debt, but there has been some moments
where a lot of people that are moderate Americans have disagreed with you.
And I want to play this clip of when the Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah, was eliminated,
and this is what you had to say.
Watch.
I also want to remind you guys that there are a lot of people in here who are-
Yeah, also, this makes it a lot easier for Abdul to not only defend the context, but also himself as well.
Right? Because they're basically tying both of these idiotic clips out of context that are totally defensible statements together,
which shows what their intent is.
So now he can just talk about exactly what he meant.
That's a good thing.
sad today. So like I just don't want to comment on Kimani Khamenei at all. I don't think it's
worse even touching that. So I guess my question would be who are those people and why do you
still want their support? Well fast forward five weeks on I think all of us are sad today.
Our gas prices are up over a dollar. We're fighting a war that is taking service members
lives and we're paying our tax dollars to do it to the tune of a billion to two billion dollars
a day. So I think all of us right now ought to be sad. We watched just watched a beautiful package
about a dude 44 Bravo and his heroic return and the president said that we leave nobody behind except
for the entire American public is being left behind by a war that is unjustifiable and illegal.
So I think I speak for all of us to say that we are worse off in this war than we were before
and I think all of us kind of all the Fox News is listed you as anti-Israel on their news
News banner meanwhile the democratic establishment think tanks are going full on with the anti-Semitism claims. Yes, because the Fox News doesn't need to lie.
Fox News already can say he's anti-Israel and their audience will go, oh my God, he's anti-Israel. How dare he be anti-Israel? That's unacceptable.
You understand? For Fox News, saying someone's anti-Israel is worse than saying someone's anti-Semitic.
plenty of people who are anti-Semitic on Fox News, right? There's plenty of people who have been
defended on Fox News from allegations of anti-Semitism. So for them, it's a, for them they can, they have
the liberty to say the quiet part out loud, like the actual animosity is coming from my anti,
my anti-Israel stance. For Democrats, they have to couch it under smears and manufactured outrage.
We really need to step back and ask ourselves what our dollars should be used for.
So I would ask you, Abdul, I think you're right.
I think the poll has suggested, I mean, that was Iran's goal.
State of goal was to put pressure on the gas prices.
But specifically, who are the people within the community that are sad about the Ayatollah
being dead?
Because the peaceful Muslims that I know, including those that are in the Gulf state
that are supporting this action right now, they reject him.
They wanted him dead.
So who are those people that you know that are sad and why?
Again, he's trying to be like, you're a Muslim radical,
like you're pro Ayatollah, you're pro Ayatollah.
That's what he's trying to fucking present.
Once again, Abdul El Sayed's response here,
I don't know what he'll say, should just be listen.
Of course people are upset.
We went in and we bombed an entire school.
We killed almost 200 little schoolgirls and that opening salvo against the country that was open to negotiations, that was doing negotiations with us, and this was the second time we engaged in perfidy.
It's unbelievable. If you're not sad, you don't understand what America's promise is supposed to represent.
This is not just about an 87 year old man, okay, and his assassination. This is a much broader problem.
Look, I'm no apologist for any regime, including our own. And at the end of the day, the question is whether or not a leader focuses on his or her people.
Clearly, the Ayatollah did not. And clearly, Donald Trump and this administration is not either.
either. So again, I'm going to tell you they are white, they are black, they are
Arab, they are non-Arab, they are Muslim, they're not Muslim. They're all the people
who had to pump gas this morning to get to work and realize that they were going
to have to end up paying tremendously more money because of an illegal
unjustifiable war. So the notion that the Ayatollah is dead is one thing, but
the notion by which our country did it, fighting a third conflagration in a
third country in this year alone, that there is the problem. And I think
we have to understand that in politics, in government, the means don't
always justify the end. The end doesn't always justify the means. And I think Americans
of all stripes right now are unified by asking, what is the aim here and what are we doing?
Yeah. So I think most Americans remember the 17 Americans that were died in 1983 at the
death of our.
No, they don't. No, they don't. That's what most of maybe Fox News is watchers because
they're all 85, but even then there's never been a moment where Iran has randomly decided
to attack America. Okay? The reason for why the successful revolution that took place in
Iran, the Iranian Revolution, the reason why it even happened was because of American intervention,
And we haven't stopped trying to fuck with these people for 47 years, right?
Every single thing that the American government brings up as a justification for the imminent
threat that Iran has presented for 47 years is ridiculous.
First of all, you cannot declare imminence if something has been happening consistently
for 47 years.
None of that makes sense, okay?
So even the language in and of itself is silly, is ridiculous.
Oh, they've presented an imminent threat to America for 47 years.
Okay, so then it's not imminent.
And many people, including former Trump administration officials like Joe Kenne, have openly come
out and said, no, Iran has not actually been a threat for 47 years.
It's bullshit.
It's complete and utter nonsense because it is nonsense.
And it should be said.
This is one of the biggest problems that I have with American politics, with American
news, and the way that politicians approach things, right?
We should just say the truth.
We must seek truth from facts, and we must communicate the truth to people, even if
it's hard to hear.
And that's precisely what I will always do, even though people yell at me for it,
right?
Womp, womp, you're speaking nonsense as Egyptian cotton.
See, there's going to be a lot of people like this.
There'll be people that'll go, I don't want to hear that because I don't want to believe it.
In my mind, I have to assume that there's good reason for why we're doing this, right?
You have to at a certain point come to the reality that the government is lying to you.
Okay?
If you believe the government lied to you about COVID vaccines, it's so ridiculous that
you would believe that the government is being truthful about, like, Iran, if you're
a right-winger who believes such things.
I don't even believe that, right?
I don't believe the COVID vaccine shit.
like there's plenty of right-wingers who will just be like, yeah, the government's lying to you, brother.
But then they'll be like, but yeah, Iran has been an imminent threat for 47 years, and I'm not going to question it.
Or, China's been a massive threat to America. All of these foreign adversaries happen to be truly evil countries, right?
Perhaps that's so that you get on board.
Perhaps that is so you get on board with having all of your productive output
Reoriented to all of these wars rather than use your tax dollars building schools here. Okay
You got potholes in your neighborhood your infrastructure is dog shit your bridges are in a state of dire disrepair
You don't have health care. You're never gonna get health care rural hospitals are closing up in your neighborhood and you think oh
well
It's actually fine that we are the wealthiest nation on earth and and that's the situation here right now as it stands
because we're we're defeating these scary enemies elsewhere. There's never a
moment where these people ask, why are these guys our enemies? Should we be
fighting them? Right? It's an endless sequence of self-soothing behavior. Yeah,
just the idea of anything being imminent for decades is oxymoronic. Like,
it doesn't make sense. That's not how language works. Right? We are the
threat to Iran. For 47 years, they presented no threat to us on 244 American service members
in October the 23rd in 1983, 19 US Airmen in Kopar Bar tower in 1996 and three US Americans
soldiers in 2024 of January. I want to get to your bigger thing that you're going to
have with Hawthorne Piker. He has said some things about 9-11. What do you stand on this?
October 7th? He's blamed. Yeah. Again, ironically enough, October 7 and 9-11 both have a, you
know, a direct through line. It's not, it's never acceptable when civilians die. I've
never defended that, okay? My principle stance on this is, I don't want any civilians to die ever,
okay? I'm anti-war unconditionally. 9-11 is a direct byproduct of American meddling into
the affairs of the Middle East for decades prior to 9-11. And that's not just my assessment.
There's academic consensus on this. It's called blowback, right? And not only is there
academic consensus on this, but former Fox News favorites, like Robert Kagan, the godfather
of the American neo-conservative movement, only this past week came out and said the exact same
things, right? He came out and said, look, there's no reason for these people to come
and try to kill us. It is directly because of our meddling in their affairs that these sorts
of things happen, right? 9-11, apologies to Son. I noticed that since the Roach is not live today,
because he got banned, we're going to probably have a lot more weirdos in the chat today.
Hopefully this will be for the first time ever an educational opportunity for many of you. Hopefully
you guys can stick around and maybe cut through the noise for the first time and understand
where I'm coming from, right? Because I'm in the process of describing this to you. Ironically
enough, Asmongold has actually agreed with me in the past on that statement, and when
he wasn't behaving in a partisan, hack-like manner, obviously things have changed since
then.
Maybe many of you are newcomers to his commentary, and therefore didn't know that, but yeah.
These were real for that.
We know that they were attacked.
Do you agree with them?
Of course I impose rape.
Of course, I don't think 9-11 was justified, but because you appear with somebody doesn't mean you agree with them on everything
Think about this. You have the president on the show. I think you should like Abdul
Easily can just like
Hit that line real quick to be like listen
What he said before he talks 10 hours a day
You of all people know better than when people get taken out of context
and and you're doing that right now to an ideological enemy
Right all the time. He talks about grabbing people by parts of their bodies
I don't think you would ever consider and that doesn't mean that you wouldn't appear with him
My question to you is when did we start bending to cancel culture?
When did we start saying that cancel culture was okay?
These clearly on your show you have a number of people who you don't agree with including me
And I think it's important for all of us who want to win votes who want to build America
to go with anyone anywhere and and we only have limited time so I don't want to cut you off but
I'm talking about someone standing with the number one state sponsor of terror I'm talking about
condemning the worst attack we're the number one state sponsor of terror we are doing the terrorism
the president is doing terrorism as of this morning um I don't think you should get into
describing blowback it's two in the weeds yeah definitely not on fox news either but I think
like when this conversation gets brought up over and over again it does like there has to be a little
bit of pushback as well aside from just like attacking the framework of cancel culture and the
reason why I say that is not because I'm like oh why won't these people defend me um it makes them
look bad as well a little bit because like you're basically saying um you are de facto endorsing
these statements there has to be a reason for it it's it's not just because you oppose cancel
culture. It's because you understand the background of these sentiments, right? Like you understand
the full context of this, you understand the full scope of my analysis and my advocacy.
So in a way to defend yourself, don't just stand on a, don't just be,
don't just claim that this is a principled stance against cancel culture because that's
going to have limited success after the 11 millionth time that people bring this kind
of shit up, right?
On American, if you want to vote in a country where we consider this event brought us to
our knees, I'm talking about speaking to more clarity specifically about that.
I'm happy to have you on to talk about the president of the United States any other
time, but when you speak to what he said about, excuse me, is it, yeah, it's, it's
a ridiculous thing to do in this morning of all mornings.
if we're even gonna talk about language, right?
Because the president this morning said,
he is going to end civilization,
he is going to murder Iranians.
And it's a big difference when the president says that,
especially when he's in the process of blowing up
Iran and murdering Iranian civilians,
including little school girls at a school.
It's been 38 days of this endless bombing campaign.
It's very different than misunderstanding
and trying to manufacture outrage around the commentary
from a Twitch streamer with statements from 2019
that already was discussed and parsed through endlessly
back in 2019 on fucking Fox News.
I think everyone understands
exactly what's going on here, right?
It's important to talk about context, I'm never going to agree that 9-11 was justified.
It was wrong.
It was a horrible day for all of us.
I'm never going to be okay with the innocent murder of civilians.
I condemned Hamas and I condemned that attack on day one.
The issue that you're trying to do is paint me out of context quotes without a context
quotes taken out of context specifically to ask me these questions.
And I'm going to play the same game with you.
why is it that you will not condemn the fact that the president of the United States talked
about grabbing people by their body parts?
Trying to argue, phrasing, context with Fox News that this point is never going to work
as a host is operating from a disingenuous position.
It just gets you mired and nonsense.
No, the argument always is like, dude, you know better than anybody else when people
yell at the president, okay?
And there's obviously, it's obviously much more damning when the president is saying
unhinged things as the president.
not even as a private citizen, right, but also as the president.
It's unbelievable.
Anyway, this kind of stuff is a twofer, right?
On the one hand, Abdul is trying to farm some sympathetic voters potentially to his side
from the Fox News audience, but then also these clips will live on and this will also make
him look good to the liberals as well.
That's why he's doing the, uh, the, the grabber by the pussy comments and I would work as
the whole part of the same cancel culture game.
That's why I'm talking to him today because I think it's important to have a conversation.
Yeah.
Look, look, he's on the back foot.
That's great.
Always.
Adam Mockler does this so perfectly.
Okay.
He is so cutting when he goes on these panels, when he has like these right wing reactioners
on these panels, um, it's, it's so.
so good at this stuff. He turns in the Adam Moggler, right? He'll go on a panel, he'll
just be like, you're really going to talk about a Twitch streamer and his statements. When
your guy, your president is destroying the global economy, you know, it's unbelievable.
What are we doing here? You have a higher standard for leftist Twitch streamers than
you do the president? He's the president. Now go ahead and defend the president, right?
That's part of the reason why I think like this kind of stuff is, is, is so old school, right?
This kind of back and forth is so old school. Like you either have it or you don't. Nobody
likes it. Everybody does it when it comes to cancel culture. Everybody loves cynically
weaponizing quotes to smear their opposition. Nobody wants to have a real conversation about
any of this stuff. It's very frustrating. You know, Donald Trump is threatening nukes,
and these guys very clearly want to talk about a fucking Twitch streamer. They're
doing this as a distraction.
about the issues that matter today, and that was litigated in 2016, and the American people
reelected them again.
So we've gone through that.
I want to ask you about some of your comments, because you're the one that's running for
our office.
The president is term limit.
You said that ICE, it cannot be reformed, and they cannot be retrained, and they
should be deformed.
Amazing.
Great.
Do you still have that point of view?
i want you to ask yourself marines
are getting a a bummed deal right now because isis funded to a higher
level than the u.s marines and we're now fighting a war
ask yourself if that keeps them safe
as yourself yet the ice literally went to a base
of a dude who is about to uh... uh... a dude who's about to go out
and fight
trump and israel's wars in iran
and they apprehended his wife did
there's no like even within the the confines of the right wing framework that they design where
they're like we love patriotism we love america we love our soldiers it's like they literally
ices straight up nabbing people nabbing wives of service members who are about to go on tour to
fight iran at the behest of israel and donald trump and ices kidnapping their wives what the
the fuck kind of conversation is this? I mean, it's unbelievably evil. I don't think those
guys should be going to fight Israel and Trump's wars in Iran. And I certainly don't think their
wives should be getting kidnapped off of military bases, right? You have no leg to stand on.
This is indefensible stuff.
It keeps you safe. Two people, one in the face, one in the back of the head. So no,
you cannot reform using a child as bait. You cannot reform shooting American citizens
because you can do it. So, yes, that's the American public effort and the humane approach
to immigration enforcement. So, you believe that the 10 plus... They're like, cut it out,
cut it out, cut it out. He's making too many good points. Million. Some of them,
which we have captured that are terrorists, since they're the only service that can do the
deportations. You believe all those people should stay in the country? Is that what you're
saying? Come on, Laurie. You're better than that. At the end of the day, that's not what
I'm saying I'm saying the port in this particular way
Who's gonna deport them? We already have a process. Okay, we have regular law enforcement
You heard of it ice doesn't run a law enforcement function ice doesn't prosecute people ice doesn't even apprehend criminals
Okay
It's
Members of law enforcement that actually apprehended arrest criminals regardless of their immigration status
status. It's American judges that adjudicate what kind of sentencing these criminals will
receive, regardless of immigration status. It's American prisons that these criminals
go to if they've been found guilty of committing crimes. And in the aftermath of that, in
the aftermath of all of that process, then immigration and naturalization services
historically have apprehended some of these immigrants that have conducted heinous crimes.
And if they see fit to deport them, they've deported them, okay? That's what the normal
process was. Donald Trump has changed that dynamic quite a bit. He makes it seem as
though ICE is actually stopping crimes from happening, apprehending criminals and whatnot.
But that's not the case that's never been the case. This is not the function of ice ice is not a regular law enforcement apparatus
Okay, these guys have historically and still continue to
apprehend paperwork criminals
Okay paperwork criminals because at the end of the day all
immigrants
undocumented
All undaunted immigrants are in violation of a civil violation. It's a paperwork problem
And it should be dealt with
Through paperwork rather than this like violent physical deportation process
Unless there are other circumstances at play
Okay, once again, we can be honest about this
We should be honest about this if someone hasn't committed a heinous crime
they should not receive a heinous punishment. It's unnecessary, it's violent, it's
causing instability here, domestically. And on top of that, it has a negative
consequence on the economy. It rips apart the social fabric that has kept
America together. It's one of the most redeemable aspects of the American
promise that we are a nation that is diverse and that diversity is part of
our power. We are a nation that is comprised entirely of immigrants. I mean, the fucking
president is a second generation German, right? The goddamn president, Donald Trump, his
family's only been on US soil for two generations. That's the beauty of America. I mean, I hate
Donald Trump, but the reality is, this is the one country where your great grandfather
could come here and you could be the fucking president. Like, that's unbelievable. There's
There's no other country like this, okay?
There's no other country like this.
That's what Abul Al-Sayed could be saying here as well.
When you shoot people in the face, when you fund them to the tune of 185 billion, when
they can walk around with impunity, covering their faces, not actually being held accountable
to the highest law of the land, which is our constitution, that that is wrong.
You can have immigration enforcement.
You can keep a safe and secure southern border, which I agree with, but not like
this.
We appreciate you coming on. What is this? But they don't want to do the paperwork and also eventually have to get him out of the country
That's not true, brother
Again, you've been lied to okay. Look, I'm not gonna fault you because you know, we have a
This is Roach day, right? There's a lot of Asmongole fans in here. So perhaps you're you've been deluded into thinking this
But that's not the case
Okay, a lot of the people that were an apprehending a
Lot of people that were apprehending
We're actually nabbing from their pre-assigned court dates
where they're going through the process of immigration court.
They're going through the process of getting the proper clearance and the proper paperwork.
ICE actually knows where the overwhelming majority of undocumented migrants are
and usually there's this handshake between ICE and the undocumented migrants, right?
Where they know they're working, they know exactly where they work because they pay taxes, right?
And in many circumstances, they literally have temporary protective status as well.
So they already have the proper clearance and the proper paperwork.
And they're going through the process of getting full-blown clearance to work on U.S. soil.
And in many of these circumstances, ICE is going to their place of work
and also on top of that, going to their court dates, waiting outside of their court proceedings to apprehend them there.
These are the people that are playing ball with the government.
These are the people who are following the letter of the law.
They legally have a right to claim asylum in many of these circumstances.
And ironically enough, most people don't know this because they've been lied to.
They've been lied about like the violence that they've been lied about, the violence
that these people present, which is, you know, there's no evidence for it.
All evidence actually shows that they are responsible, undocumented and undocumented
migrants are responsible for a lower share of crimes, significantly lower share of crimes
than natural born U.S. citizens are.
Even on top of that, these guys, 90% of the time, are actually following through on their
court process, right?
Or higher than 90% as a matter of fact.
It's unbelievable.
We tell these people a lie, right?
This is like American prosperity.
You play ball with us.
You tell us where you're at.
You work for pennies on the dollar in some instances because you have a dream of building
a better future for your family.
And then, what do we do?
We punish them.
punish the people who are actually doing the right things. It's unnecessary, it's super
cruel, it is a negative consequence on the economy. It actually sincerely has no positive,
it has no benefits to America, right? It has no benefits to America at all. It's a total
betrayal of the values that America represents. Anyway, I'm 100% sure only a small number
people are indeed seeking true citizenship, but there's a lot of people
benefit from it being illegal. No, they don't. They don't benefit from it at all.
As a matter of fact, the only people that benefit are the bosses, the capital owners,
that know these guys are undocumented and know that, you know, they usually won't be apprehended
so they can work them to the fucking bone. They actually give a lot more back to the
American economy than they take. They're not, they're totally shut out from the welfare
structure, they can't take advantage of any of the benefits that other Americans can and
yet they pay taxes.
So it's wrong.
You're just wrong.
I mean, it's okay.
It's okay to be wrong, I guess.
Hopefully though, if you're smart enough, you hear this information and you receive
it and you think critically about it and perhaps you change your mind, right?
That's what normal adults are supposed to do.
You have that opportunity.
i i hope you take it
it's again senate candidate there's another fox and friends uh... coverage here
as well
uh...
why are you even reasoning with the sky everyone but made of it
the natives illegal america has been so less illegal america citizens
i'm trying to reason with this person because even if i can't
reach across the island change his mind
there are probably a lot of people
There are probably a lot of people out there
who have maybe similar suspicions
and they can be convinced when they hear what I have to say.
Not only that, but also it gives you
the proper talking points.
It reminds you of what the truth is on this issue.
So when you have a conversation with someone
who might change their minds, you are properly equipped.
You're properly equipped with the talking points
you develop a better understanding of why this is happening.
This ice stuff is so overblown, ice is deporting a little more than Biden did, the GOP's doing
the cruelty theatrics to please their base, and the Dems do the exact same with the Gestapo
Pearl clutching.
Yeah, except you're in the community of a person who has actively and aggressively
defended migrants' rights under the Obama administration and certainly demanded that
Biden also take a more tolerant approach and fulfill his promises of creating
a system of amnesty for the tens of millions of undocumented migrants that have been working
on US soil for the past decade plus. So I don't care what Biden did. I don't care what
Obama did. I was actually against that because I have fucking principles because I'm not
a goddamn partisan hack in the way that a lot of these people are that you approach
in the way that you might be. Okay. The idea that like kidnapping random people
off the streets is not a big deal is so goddamn silly. And no, as far as the
differences between Joe Biden and and Obama's approach to the situation, there's
a difference between interior removals and deportations happening at the point
of border crossings. Obama and Joe Biden have consistently engaged in mass
deportations at the point of border crossings, and I think that that is
also immoral because they're not allowing these people to go through the
motions and the legal rights that they have as asylum seekers to go
through the court processes, but Donald Trump has hyper-focused on interior removal, going
after people at their place of business, going after people at their court dates.
These are not only people that have been living inside of the United States of America.
These are people that have been working.
These are people that are part of the community and, you know, they're being ripped apart
from their fucking families.
So you're actually wrong.
There is a difference between the two, even though I'm against Obama and Joe Biden behaving
in this cruel manner regardless.
So yeah, ICE is a big deal.
And perhaps that's the reason why, yeah, the system is fucked up.
It's not ICE.
That's the issue, really.
Yeah, in Nazi Germany, the system is fucked up.
It's not the Gestapo.
That's the issue.
That's the argument that you're making, right?
Mean that's stupid. No, I'm trying to change the fucking system and you're trying to do this sheepish argument to defend ice
For some weird reason while now openly recognizing that the system is busted. Okay. Well, welcome to the fight, brother
If you understand why how are they like the Gwis Dapo?
I don't know demanding paperwork off of random people that they suspect of being migrants detaining them apprehending them throwing them in
the fucking prisons and then deporting them to a concentration camp in El Salvador, that's
not dissimilar to the way that the Nazis operated as well.
And their arguments at the time, identical to your argument currently was, well, Jews
are actually stateless.
Why are they stateless?
We've decided that they're stateless people, right?
That's precisely what's happening right now.
That's it.
Anyway, let's continue.
that Abdul al-Said plans to rally with far left anti-Israel streamer Hassan Piker who has made
many controversial comments such as saying America deserved a 9-11. He also had this to say about
the October 7th attacks. It doesn't even matter. None of this justifies- Okay, oh my god, it's the
same fucking talking points. Holy shit. As he has said, extremely controversial comments. Okay,
You know what I'm gonna skip this. I don't think there's any reason to listen to this, right?
I mean, we've heard it a million times over. They're truly they truly use some bad pictures of you, dude. I don't care
Even my worst pictures still make me look better than 99% of these fucking creatures on the right. So who gives a shit?
Why have anti-american nationalist democracy is the enemy of we the people and Democratic Party has not become
No one is not natural. I sit and should hold any city-state. You should be barred from running in any office
How are these people in our government? Are they who are they talking about Senate candidate?
Abdul al-sad is an American citizen
Can't believe you reached a point in your career where mainstream media is using you as a distraction from our war crimes overseas. I know
Yeah, it's that's where we're at right now anyway, let's get to the actual news of the morning Donald Trump
Donald Trump is, if you're wondering why Fox News has been doing wall-to-wall coverage
on little old me, okay?
Is it because I present a significant threat to America?
Of course not.
I'll wear it as a badge of honor, of course, but the reason why they're doing that is
because they don't want to talk about the real issue here, which is that we are on
day 38 of Operation Epstein's Fury, Operation Epic Fortnite
Fail, and $60 to $100 billion of assets in the region,
radar facilities, radar flights like the AWACS program
that are $500 million a pop have been destroyed.
That's your health care lighting on fire.
That's your potholes not getting fixed.
that's your schools not getting the proper funding
because we wanted the wages rules war against iran and we push them into a
corner where they have to fight back
uh... for forty seven years they hadn't done so and now they're doing so
and the entire global markets are on fire you're paying more in gas
uh... you're paying more at the pump
and it's uh... it's it's unbelievably cruel to the people of iran obviously
uh... first and foremost but
it's indefensible even for uh... from the most selfish perspective in the
United States of America for people who don't care about Iranians that only care
about you know the inflation crisis that they are facing this is only
worsening said crisis all of this of course is coming from the president
that said he's the peace president all of this is coming from the guy that
said no new wars all this is coming from the guy who said he was an
isolationist that he was going to focus on America making America great
again America is worse than ever before on our force projection
capabilities have diminished. We are no longer the mighty American empire that we presented
ourselves as because someone out there was actually actually crazy enough to be able
to fight back because we pushed them into a corner. And this is the results in the
past week or so. Donald Trump has gotten increasingly more belligerent as he realizes that he's
incapable of
forcing iran to concede on these ridiculous
uh... points that we we brought to the table
uh... that we tried to achieve diplomatically ironically enough iran
was actually
uh... interested in negotiating with the united states of america even after
the twelve-day war where we engaged in perfidy
where we use the background of negotiations to allow israel to do a
first strike on iran
and we did that again thirty eight days ago
and now understandably
uh... after especially after we
uh... killed a bunch of little schoolgirls
and uh... we killed the people
that were willing to compromise with america
uh... well the new leadership in charge is uh... a little bit more resistant
dealing with uh... the united states
news coming into us
from uh... and the c actually before that let me just them
i bring you uh... yet donald trump's last belligerent message was tuesday night
the seven or six extension
uh... on on blowing up
uh... the
uh... power plants and and civilian infrastructure ever on
uh... was
open the fucking straight
uh... and and you know all glory to a lot that's what he said on
easter
uh... he was very disrespectful to the entire muslim world
uh... you know threatening war crimes over and over again and you do that when
you're
uh... in a position of weakness right you don't do that if you have the
leverage if you have the upper hand
uh... you only do that when you're belligerent
so
now he's actually up the ante once again
this morning i woke up to a trump
a whole civilization will die tonight never to be brought back again i don't
want that to happen but it probably will
However, now that we have complete and total regime change, we're different smarter and less radicalized minds prevail.
Maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen.
Who knows? We will find out tonight.
One of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world.
47 years of extortion, corruption, and death will finally end.
God bless the great people of Iran.
Luther really says a whole civilization will die tonight and then ends it with God bless the great people of Iran.
This is a contradiction baked into the fucking message.
Okay?
It's unbelievable.
He is threatening genocide.
He's threatening war crimes.
This is Hitlerian, right?
This is Adolf Hitler.
It's no longer just Benjamin Neniah who
that was communicating in this Hitlerian manner.
Donald Trump is doing it as well.
I mean, he's done it before too.
So hopefully people understand exactly what's going on.
Damn, Lumer tweeting about you again.
Yes, the more Trump is in a state of panic,
the more his defenders, the Israel firsters,
especially like Laura Loomer, will up the ante and demand
my denaturalization and deportation.
It's irrelevant.
It's a distraction from the main point of contention here.
The main issue at hand is Donald Trump is fucking this up.
And in a spectacular manner, Donald Trump is fucking
everything up.
And he's also threatening to do war crimes.
The more Donald Trump fucks up, the more these guys will
hyper folks, some people like myself.
A new post that we've had on the truth social by Donald Trump,
you can see there, he says the whole of civilization will
die tonight, never to be brought back again.
I don't want that to happen, but it probably will.
However, now that we have complete and total regime
change, a different smarter and less radicalized minds
prevail, maybe something revolutionary, wonderful
can happen.
Who knows, we will find out tonight.
One of the most important moments
in the long and complex history of the world.
47 years of extortion, corruption, and death will
finally end.
God bless the great people of Iran.
So that statement just released on TruthSocial
by Donald Trump in relation, of course,
to that deadline that should expire at eight o'clock Eastern time US, which is 1 a.m.
British time, so our time, 1 a.m. Wednesday morning, where Donald Trump has said that
if the Strait of Hormuz is not being reopened and there isn't a deal with the Iranians, then
he would destroy countless Iranian infrastructure, including power plants, bridges and desalination
plants as well.
Now to breaking news on the war with Iran, there have been more strikes on Iran today,
just hours before President Trump's deadline for-
Yeah, Donald Trump said that, and Donald Trump is threatening to blow up the power plants,
okay, the civilian power plants, two things.
Number one, this is a violation of the Geneva Convention, okay?
Not that it matters, America.
For America, it's a Geneva suggestion, right?
It's not real.
However,
However, one of the most unbelievable lines of defense that I have seen thus far one of the most Israeli
lines of defense on the the clear-cut terrorism that Donald Trump is is
Advocating for here has come from
these you know Israel firsters that don't want to address the true problem here and instead are are
you know talking about a whole bunch of nonsense and
And here is one of them Eric Doherty another Trump regime booster says breaking Iran is now forming human chains in front of a power plant in
Khazaron in a bid to dissuade President Trump strikes come a p.m
They even invited children to attend. This is evil and disgusting Iran views their people as meat shields
They're literally saying this is a human shield
Someone even had the audacity to claim that that's the real violation of the Geneva Convention
Here is Javier Blas, Energy and Commodities columnist at Bloomberg.
Iran is likely to deploy human shields to its bridges and power plants tonight.
The use of civilians as human shields is banned under the Geneva Convention, Article 51.
And it's unfucking believable.
It's Iranian civilians on their own volition, hoping, perhaps naively, that this will cause America to be restrained and not blow up their bridges that they use,
not blow up their power plants that they need. The army has contingencies, okay?
When you blow up a power plant, you're not actually destroying a power plant for any sort of real military purpose.
It's not dual use. It's bullshit, okay?
To which I said, yeah, Iran would be violating the Geneva Convention here. Get a grip man.
But unfortunately, there are a lot of people who have totally dropped
All pretexts where they where they say look when Trump wants to blow up a power plant. There's no more Geneva
Conventions is simply a Geneva suggestion. Okay
Please do not give any fucking credence to this
totally insane retort from those who are actively
actively, actively demanding that we do terrorism, okay?
These are people who defended Israel's conduct in Gaza, and they said the exact same shit.
They were like, Hamas, Hamas is actually setting up human shields, okay?
Hamas is setting up human shields.
That's why we had to blow up the entirety of Gaza.
It was fucking bullshit then, and it's bullshit now, okay?
There's no such thing.
We are violating the Geneva Convention here, okay?
We are violating it.
what we are threatening to do. The threat alone is terrorism.
The threat alone should be actionable for the record.
Okay? The notion that these people are going against their will, because the Iranian government's like forcing them to do this, is also bullshit.
Okay? There are dissidents. There are anti-IRGC prominent critics of the government.
People who have literally been arrested in the past that are on their own volition going out and saying,
We're gonna sit outside of these fucking power plants because hopefully America and Israel will be a little bit more restrained
I hope they're not wrong Tehran to reopen the straight of her news and there's a blunt new warning from the president this morning
Nancy Cortes is at the White House Nancy. Good morning
Nate President Trump posted a truly apocalyptic message this morning designed apparently to force Iran to cut a deal
He said, quote, a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.
I don't want that to happen, but it probably will.
He was asked multiple times yesterday whether bombing civilian infrastructure would be a
war crime.
He insisted the Iranian people want him to do it.
They want us to keep bombing.
As the clock ticks down to 8 p.m. Eastern time, President Trump's threats are getting
more specific.
Every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o'clock.
Every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding, and never to be used again.
Trump was asked repeatedly Monday whether such attacks on civilian infrastructure would
constitute a war crime.
He insisted the Iranian people get it.
They would be willing to suffer that in order to have freedom.
The Iranians have, and we've had numerous intercepts, please keep bombing.
The war was also on his mind at the annual White House Easter egg roll.
Franked by the Easter Bunny and the First Lady, Trump rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposed
by other countries in the region.
Despite his tough talk, Trump said he believes the Iranians are negotiating in good faith,
though he claimed the talks have been hampered by the destruction caused by U.S. missiles.
We're communicating like they used to communicate 2,000 years ago with children bringing
a note back and forth.
They have no communication.
With gas prices surging and his poll numbers sagging, Trump acknowledged there is pressure
on him to wrap up this war.
Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home if we're up to me and take the oil
I'd keep the oil and would make plenty of money
Unfortunately, he said unfortunately. I although I have an unlimited appetite for death and destruction
Unfortunately, the American people want this to come to a close, you know, I
Mean he's he's he's under a lot of pressure. I'm gonna be honest to you like I'm telling you right now
Now the reason why he's behaving like a madman is because of the pressure that he's experiencing straight up
Okay
I've told you already the real pressure points are capital the real pressure points are Israel and the real pressure points are all of these
Allies right all of the allies that America has that could potentially go back to America and say dude
What the fuck are you doing? You got to stop right? He needs to get a Jamie Diamond boss call
He needs to get a boss call from all like the coalition of the willing
uh...
and uh... he hasn't gotten it yet uh... or he hasn't listened to it yet
uh... and and that is
what the the real forces of restraint look like here it's unfortunately not the
democratic pressure
president trump claimed yesterday that he could take out the entire country in
one night if you wanted to
the president of iran posted on x overnight quote over fourteen million
And proud Iranians have, up to this moment, declared their readiness to sacrifice their
lives in defense of Iran.
Wow, Iranians not menacing any words either.
Nancy, we thank you.
CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett joins us now.
Listen, Major, the President is talking tough.
If anything, he's doubling down.
How seriously do you think we should take this ultimatum?
Very.
The President was talking himself into it in the briefing room yesterday when he
He said the Iranians, the civilians in Iran, not the leadership, the civilians in Iran for
whom this war is puratively fought on behalf of, want the United States and Israel to keep
bombing, bombing them more.
That's the president talking himself into this.
Also saying that they could withstand the hardship that would be inflicted by destruction
of most of the infrastructure of that country supporting 90 million people.
That is the president in full public view talking himself into this.
There's plenty of reporting here at CBS, and among other news outlets that the Israelis
and the United States are expanding the array of targets presented.
Where the Democrats is a question that a lot of people are asking.
I myself have asked this question as well.
Finally, it's getting to a point of no return here.
So some of the Democrats have actually started saying, oh, Mr. President, stop.
And of course, obviously, even as the minority party here, the Democrats had some power.
They could at least threaten the rest of Congress to be on the record defending this unjustifiable
war, defending the war crime presidency.
Okay?
And they chose not to do that.
Because our leadership is absolutely on board with Waging War with Iran, and it's
even better that it's Trump doing it.
They want it to happen and it's even better that Trump's doing it because now they don't
have to be weighed down.
They don't have to be weighed down with the negative association of being responsible
for this unpopular and unjustifiable war, right?
I mean, this is basically what it is.
Trump, I'm going to commit a genocide.
Democrats, did you get a congressional approval first?
The Democrats have done less than I have.
At least I've been talking about Donald Trump and constantly demanding Democrats to do something
about it, invoke the 25th Amendment, invoke the War Powers Resolution.
There are some Democrats who have actually tried to make this happen, but the National
Party has been restrained, okay?
A competent counterbalance here, a competent opposition party here would push for the
War Powers Resolution instantaneously.
The moment that we started amassing troops in the region before the first strike took
place, we should have been agitating, okay?
The Democrats should have gotten together and created a plan of attack.
They should have immediately demanded the war power's resolution, okay?
Not just saying like, oh, inform the public why you're doing this, Mr. President, but
actually demand congressional representatives and senators get on the record with their
support for this war, okay? They should have done that in instantaneously, and they should
have kept pushing for it and agitating for it over and over again in every single mainstream
outlet, okay?
It's actually unbelievable that there were more prominent Democrats in this last two-week
buildup to Donald Trump threatening to do maximum terrorism on Iran, okay? There were
more prominent Democrats talking about me than they were about Donald Trump on TV hits, giving
interviews Jewish insider and whatnot. It was so crazy, right? And you have party dick writers
who are running around. You have party dick writers, DNC backed DNC backed candidates
are DNC backed influencers who have been
Charping and me rather than hoping that they're electeds that are supposed to listen to them
Do the right thing here. Okay
Launch a legislative battle. That's a point of pressure
That's a necessary point of pressure that galvanizes the public into feeling like their voices are being heard
Okay
It's a spectacular failure and it's basically everything that's wrong with the party right now.
And that's precisely the reason why, while people are still out there doing protest votes, understandably, in special elections,
the overall confidence that the Democrats themselves have in the party is horrible.
The numbers are terrible.
Akbar Shahid Ahmed also brings up a really devastating point here.
White House denies it is considering using nuclear weapons in Iran.
Okay?
Trump aides have discussed this as a possible step in the military campaign,
including Israel launching a nuclear strike.
This is something that I brought up.
This is something that I brought up to you guys from day one. I was like, there's always the nuclear
Escalation up the escalation ladder. It's the final solution, right?
There's no guarantee that even if nukes are deployed that Iran would stop
right
I've been fearful that Israel could potentially
They go nuclear if they felt too threatened, if their defenses had been diminished to such
a spectacular degree, instead of being restrained by the United States of America, they could
go up the nuclear escalation ladder and change the world in an irreparable way.
But if you are wondering why, you know, there isn't enough motion, enough anger and resentment,
sufficient defenses launched by congressional representatives on the Democratic Party side,
it certainly is, it certainly is because as Adam Johnson correctly points to, most of Congress
in our media agrees with what Trump is doing, even if they quibble about style and process.
liberal establishment cannot run the regime change propaganda ball 90 yards
then credibly handwriting about the play call to punch it in it falls flat
this is something that I brought up in the build-up as well I kept repeating
over and over again I kept repeating over and over again you can't say you
disagree with the actions Trump is taking but you agree with the
principles as to why he's taking those actions that's the whole point of
Donald Trump. He's a madman willing to do things that pussy Democrats won't. That's how
he presents himself to his audience. That's how he presents himself to his base. His base
likes that. So if you as a Democrat are not making a convincing case as to why these
actions are wholly unjustifiable, unbelievably violent, unbelievably costly, totally illegal,
When you turn around and you say, well, we hate the Ayatollah, it's good that he died.
It's good that we're killing him.
You can't turn around and you say, well, but the process has not been followed.
Your criticism rings hollow.
And that's not where the base is anyway, okay?
If Iran is indeed ontologically evil and mercilessly mowed down 40 billion protesters, then there
isn't much substantive critique that can be made here.
Schumer and Jeffries in particular have never veered away from process because on the merits they agree with Trump exactly they might not agree with the instability at least on a aesthetic posture.
Right.
Yeah.
That's the thing right.
On the on the aesthetics.
they they say that they're they're upset about the process they say
they're upset about the way it looks
and there's a reason for it because it is an unpopular war
so democrats will then cynically
use this unpopular war that they were on board with that they didn't launch a
sufficient defense against
offer in a moment where they
should have right
they will then turn around and uh... you know blimp trump for following along
with something that they also were on board with it's a win win for them
because they're thinking about this totally
in a sociopathic manner
deeply reported story by maggie haberman and jonathan swan about an
extraordinary pitch presentation at the time they convince trump to go to
war with iran another moment of indication by the way
in the situation room on february eleventh mister netanyahu made a
hard sell, suggesting that Iran was ripe for regime change and expressing the belief that
a joint U.S.-Israeli mission could finally bring an end to the Islamic Republic.
At one point, the Israelis played for Mr. Trump a brief video that included a montage
of potential new leaders who could take over the country if the hard-line government
fell. Among those featured was Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran's last Shah, now
a Washington-based dissident who had tried to position himself as a secular leader
who could shepherd Iran towards a post-theocratic government. Ironically enough, in and
around the 2000 era and the war on terror era, Pahlavi had also presented himself as someone
who was a devout Muslim, a nationalist, right? Someone who would shy away from having open
allegiances to the state of Israel. And now the situation has changed, the dynamic has
changed, so he's openly a puppet of the state of Israel, not realizing that that
obviously actually deteriorates his base of support inside of Iran because Israel and
America are responsible for killing schoolgirls, blowing up medical facilities, blowing up
hospitals, and now threatening to blow up civilian infrastructure.
Now you never will be a part of any sort of Iranian governance in the future.
It's over.
It's done.
was never going to happen anyway because he's an incompetent idiot, but it's absolutely
over now, right? Who could have predicted that? The point is, if I as a 34 year old Twitch
streamer political commentator with no inside information can foresee this stuff, and you
can as well, where the fuck were the Americans, right? Where are the intelligence analysts?
They were there too, make no mistake.
They were there.
They were informing Donald Trump.
Donald Trump chose not to listen to them
because he was too busy listening
to the PowerPoint presentations
being presented to him by Adolf Hitler's
reincarnated corpse, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Mr. Netanyahu and his team outlined conditions
they portrayed as pointing to a near certain victory.
Iran's ballistic missile program
could be destroyed in a few weeks.
Also wrong.
The regime would be so weakened that it could not choke off the Strait of Hormuz spectacularly
wrong and the likelihood that Iran would land blows against U.S. interests in neighboring
countries was assessed as minimal, perhaps the most wrong.
Notice how all of the things that Benjamin Nenia, who was telling Donald Trump, was
directly at odds with his own intelligence assessment from the American intelligence
community, it was entirely wrong and not only was it so wrong that his generals also
warned him against doing such a thing, obviously they still pulled the trigger
because they're loyal dogs to Donald Trump.
And if Donald Trump is a servile dog to Israel,
they end up becoming loyal servile dogs to Israel themselves.
But the reality of the matter is every single,
every single person knew exactly how devastating this would be.
And yet, they leaned into it.
This is part of the reason why I kept repeating over and over again
that we have to cut Israel out of the equation.
Okay, and in that still is a demand that I am making. We have to cut Israel out of this process
We have to restrain them. We have to bring them to heal
They have to be reminded that they are not the dominant force here
We are okay. The united states of america holds the cards in that relationship
The united states of america and israel don't hold the cards when it comes to the iranian debacle that we have found ourselves in
Right where we're so desperate that we're threatening war crimes over and over again
seemingly, with the hopes that that will cause the Iranian government to throw away their
upper hand that they currently have in this war, as America and Israel have not achieved
any of their military goals. None of their war goals have been achieved. That much is
clear, right? If they're dogs, I'm sure you know how to handle them too soon. Yeah,
Yeah, exactly. I need to put a, we need to put a proverbial shock collar.
Threatening war crimes while already doing war crimes in a war of aggression.
Exactly.
8pm after extended hour stock market. Yeah.
But that's where we're at. Pretty shocking that people are leaking direct close to Maggie,
Haberman and Jonathan Swan. The president then turned to General Cain. General, what do you think?
General Cain replied, sir, this is, in my experience, standard operating procedure for the Israelis.
They oversell and their plans are not always well developed. They know they need us and that's why
and that's why they're hard selling.
Mr. Trump quickly weighed the assessment.
Regime change, he said, would be their problem.
It was unclear whether he was referring to the Israelis or the Iranian people.
But the bottom line was that his decision on whether to go to war against Iran would not
hinge on whether parts three or parts four of Mr. Netanyahu's presentation were achievable.
We now know that none of them were achievable, and this assessment is correct.
General Kane was right, and I said it at the time as well.
General Kane was in those rooms.
He recognized the lies Israel was pitching Donald Trump.
He recognized that Donald Trump was not listening to him.
So what did he do?
And this is not a guy that I aligned with ideologically.
I mean, this is a monster, right?
But what did I say in the buildup, in the naval assets buildup that was taking
place. What did I say? General Cain went to every single media outlet that would listen
and leaked to them, basically, that this was going to be a war of choice that would devastate
America's force projection capabilities and destroy America's munitions. He openly said
right? He went to every outlet. Why did he do that? Why did such a high-ranking individual
in America's, in the American military go to the media in the build-up, in the lead-up to,
in the lead-up to this, this, you know, 38-day quagmire that we're in, where Trump is now
officially threatening the nuclear option in many respects because he
understood that the Israelis were fucking lying and he tried to pressure
Trump by way of the media okay and what did Trump do he's like no General
Kane loves me nope nope
yeah it's not an ideological objection either since he didn't do this was
Venezuelans just calculation exactly of course these guys are monsters
This is what I was trying to explain to people when there were
State Department officials that were coming out early on when Biden was a bear hugging Netanyahu and saying go all the way, right?
They were they were saying I have plenty of objections
Not because I care about the humanity of Palestinians necessarily, but I care about advancing the interests of Empire
There were people in the CIA people in the State Department that has spent years and years, you know gone running for
These these are horrible criminal entities and they were like we can't continue this because Israel's gonna do a genocide
We know that is going to happen
We have to put an end to it and the American government at the time under the leadership of Biden was taking the wrong approach
This would greatly diminish America's force projection capabilities. This would turn Israel into a pariah state
We have to restrain Israel for the sake of Israel and no one in a leadership role is actually looking at this with
With with a sober approach
And that's where we're at
77 year old house them facing younger primary challengers seek to impeach Donald Trump
Larsen Trump Trump charge Larsen
charged Trump with murder, war crimes, and piracy over Venezuela, military intervention, and the naval blockade.
Representative John Larson is mounting a long shot bid to impeach President Donald Trump as he stares down a primary threat from younger challenges.
I don't know how much teeth this kind of stuff has.
But it's very funny that Fox is presenting it as like a primary challenge that's lighting a fire under the ass of a Democrat, right?
It doesn't even matter if that's the motivator or not, right?
Anyway, let's hear from the Iranian side as well after we're done with this video.
to the president as options for this particular mission.
So the markets are nervous.
They are not trading aggressively down,
but they are taking this threat seriously.
That's not one or the only indicator,
but it's one indicator of how the global economy
is viewing all this scale.
And if there is one restraining mechanism on all this,
it's not the polling data in the United States.
The president acknowledged that in Nancy's piece, sure.
But the economic catastrophe globally
that might come from a set of strikes like this,
is the one restraining mechanism on the president.
That's the one thing that he's always been hesitant
to play with.
Because he considers it actual economic fire
for the globe and for the United States.
So that is a backdrop here,
but you've got to take the president's rhetoric
and his intent rather seriously.
Yeah, well, I mean, it's very unsettling
and to be honest, quite frightening,
but this deadline has been delayed before.
What happens if President Trump delays again?
And do you think that's likely?
I don't know if it's likely or not, Gail.
But again, you can look at the president's rhetoric
and find ways in which he could do this.
The president said regime change
has already been accomplished
and that these new leaders, we don't know who they are,
he never says who they are,
are more reasonable, smarter, and sharper,
that he could create a deal.
And if he creates a deal, if any of it's just temporary,
the world would relax.
But until there's a full ceasefire
and at the end of all hostilities,
no one will relax fully.
here in Washington or in any global capital.
All right, Major, thank you very much.
Do you hear more of Major on all of this
and all the big stories from Washington today?
Tune into the takeout airing week next at five o'clock
on CBS News 24-7.
Smokes been rising above Tel Aviv
after an Iranian missile landed in the north of the city.
This was the scene after a projectile fell
in the Ramat Hasharon district.
Alarms also sounded in Elat and central Israel.
Explosions were heard in the air.
Yeah.
Israeli army has struck railways after threatening to strike railways once again, civilian infrastructure
that they're claiming is dual use, another act of terrorism.
AOC also had some words to say about Donald Trump.
Donald Trump's threats to kill an entire civilization.
I mean, what a fucking ridiculous thing to say.
This is a threat of genocide and merits removed from office.
The president's mental faculties are collapsing and cannot be trusted.
To every individual in the president's chain of command, you have a duty to refuse the
legal orders.
That includes carrying out this threat.
Yeah.
Pahlavi Reza also had some choice words.
To the armed forces of Iran, you're the heirs of the legacy of the patriotic and
honorable commanders of this land.
How can you remain silent and inactive in the face of brazen presidents and both
of foreign agents and criminals affiliated with the Islamic Republic and the streets of Iran.
Buddy, buddy, buddy, where are you at? Buddy, you are the foreign agent, okay? You have
behaved as the foreign agent. You have aligned with these malignant forces that are actively
seeking out the destruction of this thousands of years old culture. They are destroying
Schools, they're destroying facilities that people use.
Colleges, universities, places where academic research is conducted.
You're aligned with them. Get the fuck out of here.
You're sending these messages from goddamn Langley talking about
talking about, you know, rise up in arms.
Rise up in arms against who? Israel and America?
but rise up in arms against the government that is the only thing standing in the way
of imminent death and destruction. Now, the United States also bombed dozens of Iranian
military targets on Karg Island overnight. So here's what I think is happening. Okay, are you ready for this?
Here's what I think is happening. I'm going to give you best case scenario and worst case
scenario. Okay. Best case scenario is it's taco Trump. It's taco Tuesday. Trump extends
once again. It's yet another real is yet another real moment where people understand
that Trump doesn't have the leverage in his cognizant of that fact, right? Because Iran
keeps saying, we're not going to fucking negotiate on on, you know, half measures
here. You have to give us real assurances. Here are the demands that we're making,
And they have the upper hand.
If they didn't have the upper hand, Donald Trump wouldn't actually expand the targets
directly to civilian infrastructure, power plants and whatnot.
They wouldn't do that.
If they were able to successfully deteriorate Iran's striking capabilities, Iran wouldn't
be able to strike Israel.
They would be able to deploy aircraft over the Iranian airspace and destroy these
facilities with ease.
None of that has happened.
So that's part of the reason why he's threatening.
So best case scenario is it's fucking taco Tuesday, okay?
Donald Trump doesn't engage in the nuclear, the nuclear strike that doesn't destroy the
power plants, okay?
And there's an extension, right?
He just claims once again that these guys, Iran is conceding, right?
falsely claiming that iran is conceding
and uh... obviously intelligent people recognize the dynamic here hopefully
and they understand that's what we're looking for we're hoping
inshallah for taco tuesday
the less worse
but still bad scenario is
trump
tacos
off of bombing
the power plants in the bridges
but still is using that chaos and fear
to actually try to launch a special operation
on Khargailan or numerous other islands
and try to take over the Iranian coastline
in this most likely very deadly military campaign
that will unfold, even if they take out
the conventional force on the ground,
whether it be in Karg Island or in any number of different islands that they've entertained
bombing, entertained invading, they will not be able to successfully hold these places,
obviously. I've gone through the many different reasons as to why this would be most likely
a failure. But that's like the second best worst case scenario is that he doesn't
bomb the power plants in these facilities, civilian infrastructure, and instead tries
to do a military operation. It's still bad, right? But who knows? Worst, worst case scenario
is they use a nuclear first strike. Israel or America, most likely Israel, deploys a
nuclear weapon. There's no assurances that that would actually lead to successful deterrence
from Iran, but it will be a world-changing event, right? Because if America or Israel
were to either blow up the power plants and blow up civilian infrastructure or even deploy
a nuke, that would be devastating. That would change the world, right? That would change
the world completely. The deployment of nukes would change the calculation entirely for countries
that have nukes. And there is no guarantee that that would actually stop. The Iranian
retaliation anyway considering the mosaic structure that they have. And I don't, I mean, even
if they don't nuke, I'm saying like, even if they were to the second worst case scenario
beyond nukes would obviously be still blowing up the power plants and following through
with these threats of doing terrorism. And in that situation, again, no guarantee
that Iran doesn't, no guarantee that Iran stops its retaliation, and Iran would most likely
retaliate in kind and completely eviscerate the Gulf.
Iran would destroy the desalination plants in the Gulf.
Iran would destroy as many Israeli targets as they possibly can as well.
It would be a nightmare.
It is a nightmare scenario if 20% of the entire world's oil and gas supply is destroyed overnight.
There's obviously other options here as well, mining the straight, rendering all commercial
traffic impossible.
I don't know.
I mean, it would be unbelievably violent.
So those are the options.
And I do think personally that Trump will taco here, hopefully, especially considering that
– oh, and shut off the Bab el-Mandab as well, Mandab as well with the Houthis.
So shut off the entry point into the Red Sea before I forget.
That's another threat that Iran has also presented, okay?
is pants though yeah he is great pants um so so yeah um I mean I find with being
late yeah you should you should communicate that to them we can be a
little bit later it's like coming there early is not
Yeah, we I would be down to do that. Totally. Why did the war even start? Here, I'll show
you a video. This will perhaps help you understand why the war started. Here is Israeli TV.
that has now begun a countdown for Trump's deadline on Iran.
Huh
They're so happy are you anti-Semitic
Just think just think how happy you are making
Some Israeli generals right now think about how happy they are. Do you want to take that happiness away?
You're basically an anti-Semite of the highest order
Remember who this is for. Remember who you're fighting for, not just the Epstein class. Every time you pay a higher markup, remember that that's basically an Israel tax.
So you should feel confident. You should feel elated at why you're paying extra at the pump.
It should be a moment of excitement for you because you're helping the most moral nation on the planet, the only nation that matters on the planet, the greatest, holiest nation of all.
After all, if you didn't feel elated, I would demand that you subsequently get deplatformed, canceled, and hopefully lose your job.
If you weren't excited at the prospect of waging Israel's war,
I mean, you should probably go to prison really.
M Israel High, ladies and gentlemen,
you know what the Hassanabbi broadcast official position is.
The most moral nation on the planet Israel is, is the only nation that matters.
For me personally, when I when I think about the gas price and the inflation,
I think to myself, well, this is for good reason.
At least I know that, you know, Israelis are happy.
Israelis are are so happy that this is happening
So one of the chairs of fucking Israel, um, excuse me mods shoot that guy
Is it anti-Semitic that to bring up that Israel destroyed a synagogue, I mean what was the synagogue wearing?
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Yeah.
What is published by Iran's Fars News Agency shows pro-government protests
forming what Fars describes a human chain in front of the Kosselrund combined
cycle power plant and lighted presidential deadline for a deal.
I know, well, we're going to be talking about that in a second.
What happened to Asmogold?
I don't know.
I guess he got banned um so yeah
I'm seeing the messages. Yeah, anyway
My dog doesn't support Israel should I take him back to the pound put a shot collar on him
Connor great, thank you for the 10 gifted. All right, um
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Alright, so what is Iran saying in all of this? What's the Iranian response so far?
Well, because they have an upper hand in these conversations, because America has not actually achieved any of its military objectives
and is now just like flinging around wildly like a madman, you know, increasing the hit-lary and intensity of the commentary and the threats.
The senior Iranian source tells Reuters, Iran will close Bob El-Mandeb if the situation escalates,
utilizing the onslaught law movement and the Houthis.
They've done so before.
U.S. has not changed its tone.
No negotiations with the Americans.
Iran will strike power plants in response to energy attacks.
The entire region plunged into darkness, including Saudi Arabia.
Iran last night hit a Saudi refinery, a facility that is responsible for 7% of the Saudi oil supply.
They hit an industrial facility last night, lighting it on fire.
Saudi Arabia claimed that it was, you know, it was some of the intercepted missiles that fell on top of the facility.
It was bullshit or whatever, but obviously those were successive and successful strikes, right?
And that was, I think, a threat for more to come.
The Iranian goal there is very clear.
They're trying to get the GCC to apply pressure to Donald Trump with the hopes that they don't
have to escalate.
Also, before cutting off direct diplomacy with the US, Iran told Pakistan that it
believed it was winning and retained 15,000 missiles and 45,000 drones in its arsenal.
Of course, they're probably exaggerating the numbers, but it's clear that they still
have significant capabilities.
Even before Iran cut off, direct diplomacy with the US was sticking to a hard-line position
in the negotiations and showed no signs of backing down.
Tehran told Pakistan, which is mediating the talks, that it believed it was winning
and that it retained 15,000 missiles and 45,000 drones in its arsenal, according to the
mediators and a person familiar with the matter.
said the numbers were likely exaggerated but reflected Iran's unflinching negotiating
position.
The U.S. and Israel are continuing to strike Iran with force as President Trump's ultimatum
deadline nears.
Iran is threatened to retaliate with large-scale strikes on Gulf countries and Israeli-powered
energy infrastructure accorded mediators on Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard.
And now we have B-52s taking off, departing the Royal Air Force base in Fairford.
video show loaded B-52, 7-hour combat flight time Iran puts him in striking range by 8 p.m.
As far as Trump's inside, as far as, you know, the people around Trump that are warning
him against taking this kind of chaotic and violent action that will breed even more
instability and destroy global energy markets, of course.
It seems my hair is out of control.
I'm going to have to fix it before I go and appear in front
of people because I can't wear the New York DSA hat,
but I'll do that later.
JD Vance is one of the only people inside of the room
that's like demanding some restraint from Trump, it seems.
Hey, Asan, I think you forgot that Trump
won the FIFA Peace Prize.
It's true he did.
It's true he did do that.
Obviously he would never,
he would never entertain disparaging
the beautiful, wonderful, incredible FIFA Peace Prize.
He would not tarnish the good reputation
of the FIFA Peace Prize, right?
He would never do that.
that would be
a horrible mistake
a distinguished award
its legacy will reverberate
uh... the noble peace prize uh... then the committee there feel
uh... horrible
for failing to give trump the uh...
peace prize that he deserved
mister hags that a mister came ran through the sequencing of the tax and
the truck said he wanted to go around the table and hear everyone's views
Mr. Vance, whose disagreement with the whole premise
was well-established, addressed the president,
you know, I think this is a bad idea,
but if you want to do it, I support you.
Ms. Wiles, who's Wiles told Mr. Trump
that if he felt the need to proceed
for America's national security,
then he should go ahead, all cucks, all of them.
Ms. Radcliffe offered no opinion on whether to proceed,
but he discussed the study of new intelligence
that the Iranian leadership was about to gather.
In the Ayatollahs compound in Tehran,
the CIA director told the president
that regime change was possible,
depending on how the term was defined.
if we just mean killing the supreme leader we can probably do that he said
when called on mister warrington the white house council said it was a
legally permissible option in terms of how
the plan had been conceived by the u.s officials and presented to the
president
he did not offer a personal opinion
but when press uh... when pressed by the president of the provide one he
said that as a marine veteran he had known an america's member killed by
iran years earlier
this issue remain deeply personally told the president of israel intended
proceed regardless, the United States should do so as well.
Yeah, this is also important to understand. So there's like very
little restraint coming from the inside. But there's also very
little restraint. There's some restraint coming from the
Democrats, some demands of restraint coming from the
Democrats, which is good. It's a little too late. But it's good
nonetheless. But also on top of that, on top of that,
There is virtually no response from the global leadership, muted reaction from world leaders
to the US president threatening to obliterate Iran in one night when Putin hinted at nukes,
there was talk of sanctions, international isolation, even threats of World War III.
We don't even get words of condemnation in response to this.
It's unfucking unbelievable.
The amount of cruelty that America can subject the rest of the world to is unbearable.
I cannot believe it, like these guys have no interest in maintaining normalcy at all.
They will cast everything aside when America wishes it, it's crazy.
No one wants to talk to you guys, that's cope.
That's cope.
It's not that no one wants to talk to us, okay?
It's not that no one wants to talk to us.
It's that we are not a restrainable force, is the assessment, like our European allies
are just, they've decided like there's nothing to do here, and there is something to do.
Any kind of pressure works.
Yeah, Fizz is right by the way.
Chad, if you've already seen people claiming that Hassan always just says America equals
bad remember that he's the only one saying the truth exactly it's shameful
what we're doing is shameful I want America to be a force for good not a
force for evil and unfortunately as it stands currently we are a force for evil
around the planet we are a malignant force okay that's fine
anyway when called on Mr. Warrenton the White House counsel said it was
legally permissible. Mr. Chung laid out the likely public relations fallout.
Mr. Trump had run for office opposed to further wars.
People had not voted for conflict overseas.
The plans ran contrary to everything the administration had said after the
bombing campaign against Iran in June.
How would they explain away eight months of insisting that Iranian
nuclear facilities have been totally obliterated?
Mr. Chung gave neither a yes or no, but he said that whatever decision
Mr. Trump made would be the right one.
Ms. Levitt told the president that this was his decision and that the press team would manage it as best as they could Mr. Hexeth adopted a narrow position.
They would have to take care of Iranis eventually so they might as well do it now. I mean you got a team of fucking drunk rapists and loyalists and cattle.
Of course they're not going to give you alternative options like everyone's assessment in the room is that yeah this shit's probably going to suck.
It's entirely antagonistic to everything that you you want on
It's it's contradictory to everything that you claim to believe but it doesn't matter. Oh
My god
Politico also got another hit in Adam ran new playbook
I'll do I'll say I declined the part ways of some hunts posted Donald Trump is eight off hit there ahead of his two
rather the streamer today. I mean, when you're threatening genocide against the whole people
that speaks for itself, El Sayed said. I mean, yeah, it's true.
Mr. Isandam Piger, today is my birthday for a birthday present. You should totally whip
and nae nae on stream right now. I don't want Politico to demand comments from Abdul
else I had for my unsuccessful attempts at whipping and nae-nae-ing today.
Okay, another snippet.
Dr. Carlson, the commentator who had emerged as another prominent skeptic of the intervention on the right, had come to the Oval Office several times over the previous year to warn Mr. Trump that a war with Iran would destroy his presidency a couple weeks before the war began.
Mr. Trump, who had known Mr. Carlson for years, tried to reassure him over the phone.
I know you're worried about it, but it's going to be okay, the president said.
Mr. Carlson asked how he knew.
because it always is mr trump replied oh my god
happy birthday chatter by the way
huh because it always is it always is
yeah
dr crossen also had uh... one of the best responses i've seen to donald trump
Like, I mean, totally, directly admonishing him, you know?
I tried to, you, I tried to you Mitch to host Abdul and they refused calling you and him
anti-Semitic and they will not push those voices.
What?
University of Michigan?
I'm a grad student at you Mitch Ford School of Public Policy and I want to show you
around the school and point out their Zionism.
I try to get their mark and say, reach out what they said they need to protect Jewish
voices.
This behavior needs to be called out.
before you leave Ann Arbor? Yeah, that's not going to happen. Big dog, sorry. But also,
I'm literally speaking at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. So like obviously,
the school has a different approach to this. So
can the EU and GC vassal stop this? Because what did we Asians do to deserve this energy crisis?
I mean, nothing. You just are at the mercy of America's instability. And once again,
remember, we here in the heart of Empire, we here in the Imperial Corps, legitimately suffer the
least amount of consequences. There's still a little bit of friction obviously, right? There will
still be a little bit of friction because gas, oil is a global commodity, which has inelastic
demand, so they're going to need to get it, right? Countries that can't get it from the
Shredda Hormuz are still going to have to get it somehow, and that is the reason why
the price of a barrel goes up regardless and you know that is obviously
consequential on on inflation but that's a marginal problem for everyday
Americans in comparison to like the horrifying realities that we've brought
about to the rest of the world right. In any case General came with sober
laying out the risks and what the campaign would mean for munitions
depletion he offered no opinion. His position was that if Mr. Trump ordered the operation
the military would execute. Both the president's top military leaders previewed how the campaign
would unfold as a U.S. capacity to grade Iran's military capabilities. When it was his turn
to speak Mr. Rubio offered moral clarity to the president. If our goal is regime
change or an uprising we shouldn't do it. But if the goal is to destroy Iran's missile
program that's a goal we can achieve. Again, wrong. It was a demonstrable failure.
been a demonstrable failure, it has not worked at all. And if anything, that unironically
shows that the initial goals they set out, as I told you over and over again, the true
goals that they had were accomplishing military objectives, right?
Anything on anything new on potentially Trump backing out? I've seen some axiose reports, but it doesn't mean much
I still think that there is a taco moment here. Hopefully maybe it's hoping him
But here is part of the reason why Trump signals extension possible on Iran strike deadline
President Trump told Fox News that the US prepared a strike Iran after his a p.m. Deadline
But that could change if talk show something concrete. He did not set odds or a strike tonight
I just got off the phone with the president and
and
He called and I said
Listen, if you were to put odds on it, what were the odds that this is going to end up
being a negotiated deal?
He said he wasn't going to put odds on it, but he said, APM is happening.
That's what he said.
He said, if we get to that point, there is going to be an attack like they have not
seen.
Now, he's sticking to that at this point.
Now he said if negotiations move forward today, uh, and there is something concrete that could change
But at this hour, he didn't want to put odds on it
But he said it is moving forward with the plans that we have
Again
We are unironically at the mercy of a madman
You know what like a lot of people would say about Hilary clinton like oh
What if she has her period and then she has the nuclear launch codes like what these guys would say about Hillary Clinton is
is
totally totally a
Direct thing you can say about Donald Trump who is
Demonstrating that he is inconsistent and a total fucking psycho. Okay
It's unbelievable
It's unbelievable
President Trump told Fox is the US prepared to strike Iran like it's like
how are we allowing this ticking time bomb to have the entire planet's future in
his grip
anyway there's also more on the Democratic response or lack thereof
obviously. Matt Iglesias, one problem for Democrats is that left-wing people pretend
they aren't doing stuff when they are in fact doing in order to further fuel the flames of anti
establishment sentiment. Daniel Danvers says, it's incredible how absent Democratic Party
leadership is in the face of Trump blowing up the entire fucking world. Hakeem Jeffries has
tweeted twice and that's what Matt Iglesias points to for one of the most popular,
or not popular, one of the most powerful Democrats in the country. Okay, he's not
very popular. He's popular in his district, but not very popular nationally for good reason.
This is the reason why. It's incredible.
But Kim Jeffery is not a fucking Twitch streamer, man. What are you talking about?
I've tweeted more about Donald Trump than he has. What the hell does that do?
Like, this is it? He did this? That's all it is?
On February 18th, the New York Times broke the news Trump was sending a war armada to
Iran.
Jeffrey did not issue a formal statement about Iran until February 26th, eight days later,
which was entirely process criticism, right?
Then proceeded to schedule a war power's vote for the week after the bombing started.
Jeffrey's has yet to make a moral case against the war, only offering limp, sleepy and incoherent
process objections.
Jeffries tried to ignore it all together until Ro Khanna and Thomas Massey forced them to respond.
But Kim Jeffries allowed another war powers vote to be delayed for a month for no discernible reason.
Okay, you gotta take it? Alright, take it.
Alright, let's get it started.
Fox is a timer now too. Great, fantastic.
uh... at eight p.m. tonight
in in uh... you know let in in
in eight hours and thirty minutes almost approximately
we will know
uh... we will know what the fate of the future holds you know
so just remember this isn't just simply like uh... farming outrage against the
democrats it's important for people to understand like what the democratic party
could have done
as far as like a successful messaging strategies that they could have implemented ahead of time
and also what kind of legislative pressure they could apply in the circumstance
uh when so that when the moment comes like right now
they would have a built-in defense mechanism they would have
a response they could have paperwork that they could point to
they could have people on the record right or is it 8 p.m est i thought
they pushed it back to 8pm EST. Oh shit it's not oh you're right that's not in
eight hours that's a Pacific time on my laptop I'm on Pacific time apologies I
fucked it up it's 8pm EST which is in holy shit that is actually oh my god
dude it's in five and a half hours what the hell
You're staying live? Yes, I will actually be doing a speech while it's happening ironically
enough once again. Anyway, Alex Jordan of Quincy Institute says, a majority of Democrats
in the House and Senate voted to give Trump nearly a trillion dollars for war in 2026.
Now we're supposed to act like this party isn't a willing partner in the ruinous U.S.
foreign policy, but rather a bulwark against war. Gonna take more than some angry tweets.
Yeah, and they also obviously delayed the vote on the Iran War Powers Resolution.
That was also completely ridiculous.
You know, Senator Schumer, who has been Mr. Taco, yeah, this was one of the only instances
where Senator Schumer actually had a significant issue with Donald Trump.
This was back in June 2nd, 2025, where he gave the game away saying, oh, Trump is Mr.
Taco.
If he's going to deal with Iran, if he's going to do side deals with Iran and try to
create a negotiation environment, then he needs to let the people know, how dare you
not blow up Iran.
What the fuck's wrong with you?
That was his attitude then.
Fantastic.
Thank you, sir.
Bro, Trump creeps double booking you with his threats on World War 3.
True.
No side deals.
Yeah.
Axios, Trump might be the most hawkish person in the top echelons of his administration
on Iran, according to US sources, spoke to him several times in recent days, said one
US official.
is the most bloodthirsty, like a mad dog.
Hexith and Rubio sound like the doves
compared to the president.
That's great, I love hearing stuff like that.
That gives me a lot of confidence
about what the future holds here.
All right, we gotta move on right now.
We gotta mobilize.
I'm going to run these videos as we travel.
And I'm also going to offer,
I'm going to continue to offer commentary from the car ride to the place that we're going
to.
We're going to Michigan State University first.
Yeah, and we're going to be in a van with Abdul and Summerly.
So let's do it.
The city of Nahariya after it has well-fired rockets from Lebanon, at least 10 projectiles
were launched towards the north in the Laves barge.
The Shadymatic say two people were injured in that attack.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed Israeli warplanes struck bridges
and railways in Iran which he says were used by Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
Yesterday our pilots destroyed transport planes and dozens of helicopters at an Iranian Air
Force base.
Today, Israeli pilots attacked the railways and bridges used by the Revolutionary Guards.
They used them to transport raw materials for weapons and the actors who attack us,
the United States and the countries of the region, the same actors who also oppress the
Iranian people.
Let's begin, Nora, the issue of foreign developments in Israel from near Ramallah and the occupied
West Bank.
So, Nora reports, as I mentioned earlier, these explosions heard at several locations
in Israel and these rockets mostly fired by Hezbollah at the same time, Benjamin Netanyahu
coming out and saying very clearly that his plans, his strategy for Iran doesn't
this would be doing anything more than escalating.
That's right, and in the past two hours we've seen warnings of three volleys from of Iranian
missiles, one in the south and two to the center area.
We are hearing of initial reports of perhaps an impact site in Tahtigwa, which has been
repeatedly attacked. Tahtegba has several military industry factories. One of them was hit earlier
in the week. Now, the rhetoric, the political rhetoric is certainly one of escalation, not
just from the Israeli prime minister, but even the defense minister. The rumblings
in Israel, if you will, is that Donald Trump shouldn't take what's on the table what
mediators are offering because anything short of absolute victory of total
decimation of the current government of creating the conditions to completely
collapse this system of government would be a tantamount to defeat and
the Israeli Prime Minister in particular has really tied his fate to this war so
you do not hear words of the possibility of reaching compromise you
hear the exact opposite. And that's why we saw those reports of Benjamin Netanyahu speaking
to Donald Trump, counseling him to reject all those offered strategists of the Likud
Party of Netanyahu, even talking about scenarios that are far more violent than just aerial
bombardment of the air grid, of the energy and power grid and other vital infrastructure
That hit list, according to sources, is already in place, coordinated with the U.S. Army and
waiting for the green light from Washington.
No idea, Ramallah.
Thank you.
We are just learning of new reports of explosions on Karg Island.
This handles almost all of Iran's oil exports, about 90 percent.
If you look at that map, it's actually, yeah, you can see it all the way up there at
the top of the Persian Gulf.
They're just off the coast of Iran.
President Trump has repeatedly threatened to bomb or seize
the island, and there have been strikes before.
Oil prices have been spiking over the last few minutes
since the reports have been coming in of these strikes,
up about 2% to 3% in the numbers that I've seen.
Again, now, now over 3% there in some cases.
Brent crude up more than 1%.
Let's get right to seeing is Jim Schudow,
who's in Tel Aviv, monitoring the situation, Jim.
what are you learning about this
john i i just spoke to a u.s official who confirms to cnn
that the u.s struck targets on carg island
overnight uh... to be clear this u.s official says
these targets were military targets on carg island not oil facilities
to your point in the introduction john the u.s has previously struck military
targets on Karg Island going back to the middle of March, and that appears to be what they've
done again this time.
And that's an important distinction, of course, because, yes, the President has held out the
possibility of striking oil facilities there, which would have an impact far beyond Karg
Island, given that this is where more than 90 percent of Iran's oil exports come out
of.
But again, U.S. official confirming strikes, but making clear that those strikes are
solely on military targets on Carg Island.
Again, the reason we're distinguishing those two,
because the president has said, by tonight,
and we have a countdown clock actually over in the corner
right there, by eight o'clock Eastern time tonight,
which is now 11 hours, 56 minutes and 54 seconds,
the president has said, if Iran does not open
the Strait of Formuz, if there is no deal reached,
he will hit all bridges and all power plants,
all, he says, in the nation of Iran.
against. We're monitoring the situation very closely. New word of these strikes on
Carg Island. Jim Shudo and Tel Aviv, thank you for bringing us up to speed there.
Okay. All right, joining us on a talk about this, CNN Global Affairs Analyst,
Kim Dozier, retired Army Brigadier General Steve Anderson. General, let me just
ask you about this breaking news as Jim Shudo is reporting a U.S. official
confirms that there were U.S. strikes on targets on Carg Island overnight.
Military targets, Jim has told, not oil facilities, not some of those key
energy facilities that have been now clearly threatened by President Trump. Take that, even
though the United States has hit targets on Carg Island before, when you look at it in
the context and against the backdrop of this looming deadline, what do you make of it?
Well, thank you, Kate. What it tells me is that they're considering perhaps a ground
invasion of Carg Island. The fact that they are not going after oil infrastructures, but
they're going after military targets on the island, sounds to me like they're trying to
soften the defenses in anticipation, perhaps, of some kind of deployment of U.S. ground
forces into Carg Island, which I'd like to go on the record for saying I think would
be a serious mistake. But we do have the immediate ready brigade from the 82nd Air
airborne that is prepositioned somewhere in the theater.
Probably AUD might be in Kuwait.
They're probably just a couple hours away.
The 31st, new that we've heard about quite a bit,
I believe they are still in the mouth of the Persian Gulf.
So they're probably a good 10 to 12 hours away.
And of course, in order to get to Kharagal and they're
going to have to go through this trade off home moves,
could that would be really problematic.
So I think the only real alternative here
would be the 82nd airborne immediately ready to be gated.
Again, I believe that they're probably softening defenses
and perhaps at least threatening
to conduct ground operations at Card Island.
The president has put out a new message on social media.
Can we put it up?
Let's read it because it's about the deadline tonight.
He wrote, a whole civilization will die tonight,
never to be brought back again.
I don't want that to happen, but it probably will.
However, now that we have complete and total regime
change where different, smarter and less radicalized minds prevail?
Maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen.
Who knows? We will find out tonight.
One of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world.
47 years of extortion, corruption, and death will finally end.
God bless the great people of Iran, the president ends with.
General, just your reaction to what he just wrote.
Well, we already knew that Donald Trump was a pretty bad president, but now we know that he's an absolutely terrible commander-chief as well.
I mean, he continues to vacillate.
He offers contradictory messaging about what's going on, and, you know, does he support the Iranian people?
Does he not?
Does he want regime change?
Does he not?
Do the allies with us?
Does he need them?
goes on and on and on.
We're seeing more of that.
Everything he's writing.
But I mean, again, this guy is just not competent
in terms of leading this force.
He has not set clear objectives,
clear definable objectives that the military
can truly execute.
And I think that at 8 p.m. tonight,
I believe that he'll figure out a way
to either extend the deadline,
because there's no way that he can do
what he says he's going to do,
which is to bomb every single civilian target
in the theater and in Iran.
And if he were to do that, it would be, as Kim suggests,
it would be the commitment of a great war crime.
And I mean, I'm old enough to remember the Nuremberg trials
and how we've held the Germans accountable
after what the atrocities they committed
during World War II.
And at eight, you know, five, 10 years from now,
we'd be doing the same kind of thing
with American soldiers and leaders
that made decisions that were being directed
by the president of the United States that are illegal.
Let's go right to CNN's Becky Anderson,
who is in Abu Dhabi, watching the situation there.
These two new data points, Becky,
the new strikes on Carg Island,
which we haven't seen for a few days,
and this really new incendiary threat
from President Trump.
How is it or how do you think
it will be received in the region?
And it's interesting, just about an hour ago,
The Cata spokesman for the Prime Minister, who is also the foreign minister, held a press
conference.
This was round about the time that these reports started coming out.
Let me just read you very specifically what he said.
He said, we are close to the point where the situation in the region could spiral out
of control.
really feels like from the Qatar perspective that they are suggesting an
inflection point at this point this Tuesday. Let's remember 8 p.m. Eastern
time which would be the end of the deadline where that deadline not to be
pushed on Tuesday would be 3 30 in the morning and Tehran time for in the
morning, for example, here in Abu Dhabi.
So for the last, I'd say, 24 hours,
this has been a region that has been on tenterhooks
about what might happen next.
You know that this entire region is absolutely determined.
It insists that this conflict cannot end
until the Strait of Omus is reopened, effectively,
and that the regional security here is sort of ring fence.
But at this point, it doesn't feel like we are at the point
at which we are looking at a deal
or indeed the opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
We just heard from JD Vance in Hungary.
He suggested that these talks behind the scenes
between the Pakistanis, Egypt, Turkey
and the US and Iran may provide us
a bit of a window here and we might see that deadline then
Pushed by Donald Trump, but meantime, of course the question you asked me is we have just seen two really important data points here
Not least that of car guy, and let's remind ourselves
car guy land is an
Absolute sort of trophy for Iran and the Iranian community
It is from Karg Island that Iran exports 90% of its oil.
It has been exporting more and making a lot more money out of that oil since this conflict
began as it has access to that strait of Hormuz.
There has been a threat for some time against this island.
As you rightly point out, at the moment we understand it is not the oil facilities,
but just the radars and military sort of infrastructure around that oil facility there
that has been struck but were that to be the next target I think you know we've been to it
all right all right perfect all right we swap what's up everybody we're currently in a
undisclosed car heading to an undisclosed location we got oblast say to summer league here
and their entire teams are here as well.
We're heading to Michigan State University first, right?
We're gonna be doing...
Michigan State?
Michigan State first, we're gonna be delivering.
We're gonna be doing some speeches,
we're gonna be a rally, it's indoor or outdoor?
Indoor.
Indoor.
Indoor, okay.
Thank you.
It's still like 27, the sun is out
but it's still like 27 degrees outside.
Yeah.
It is very cold but the spirits are high.
And yeah, I'm excited.
Welcome to Michigan man. Thanks for coming out summer. Thank you so much. I feel like I feel like Pennsylvania in Michigan
Basically like siblings. That's me. Do they see the siblings?
We uh, you know, I've been trying to I've been trying to try to get somebody
to run for Senate in Pennsylvania
Against somebody
Closer
Yeah, no, you're right.
I'm trying to build a...
I'm trying to build a...
A fort instead of a race?
What are you guys?
That's somebody...
What are you, August?
We're August.
August 7th for the...
I'm sorry, August 4th for the primary.
November 3rd for the general.
I think this door is a little bit...
I don't think close the foley.
Just so you guys know.
Alright, so we gotta...
I'm just letting you know, it's fine.
I feel a little fast.
If you fly off, I'll hold you.
Only because you're connected to the camera and the bag.
Otherwise, I'd be like, all right, you're out.
I'll say it to you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Is that Medicare for all spirit?
Yeah.
OK, how are we feeling?
I mean, there's going to be like a walk me through.
I've never done a stop before.
And the thing is, I didn't even know what it is.
And I also didn't even think that it
was like anything different than what we've
done together in the past.
Like, you come on my stream, I, you know,
we've worked out together, like, visited him before.
He's been to Michigan, I took him with me.
So, I got him the meal, I should've probably gotten you guys.
But next time you guys come, I'm gonna get you that meal.
I'm not gonna throw up.
I don't, I'm a lion business.
Like, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's say it, right?
I'm a lion business.
You know, actually.
But it does feel like.
No, no, you're saying, you're.
Hey, I rolled out a pretty good red carpet.
The problem is, problem is Wasi,
Wasi only eats, uh, Zviha a lot.
So, he had tofu.
I feel like, my guy came to Michigan,
I gave him tofu.
You got a good, you got a good brisket.
I couldn't hear him better.
You didn't hear him with the Dearborn special?
The problem is we're in Arbor, man.
I gave the name.
I'm not going to pretend to know how far it can get.
This is only my second time ever being in a show.
Next time you all come to town, we're going to Dearborn.
We're going to Dearborn New Market.
My go-to, frankly, is the burger at the place we went to.
But you've got to get it fresh.
What's the other Ann Arbor special?
Last time, okay.
Fun fact, the first ever public appearance I ever did
ever public appearance I ever did was with the Young Turks at University of Michigan and
Albert campus.
It was the first time I spoke in front of a crowd.
This was like more than 10 years ago.
I was terrified, okay?
I blacked out.
I don't even know what I said.
It was supposed to like open for the Young Turks.
I think those are the quotes that they keep asking.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That was...
That was...
That was...
That was his first federal public appearance.
Yeah.
He didn't know what he was doing.
He was my first federal public appearance.
And I still to this day have no idea what I said about, you know...
Did you go to Ziggerman's?
Is that what they took you?
That's what I was gonna say, and I ate at Ziggerman's and it was delicious.
It's phenomenal.
I would tell you also, the folks who started Ziggerman's, big supporters of the campaign.
So people call it 6-2.
Is my channel known for a phone?
Yeah, like yes.
But just, you know, do it more for sure.
And Ziggerman's is like the known spot in Europe, right?
It's like it's it is it is the platonic ideal of a deli, right? So you think like a good deli food. It's
What is it?
Oh!
It's like thicker square.
Thicker square, yeah.
That's very good.
And then Coney Dogs, which I will say is not my favorite.
And then, no, so we have like this like Coney Island that is a thing that is a Michigan Coney
Dog.
It's like a hot dog with chili on top.
And it is a thing that's like a very Detroit kind of staple.
Vernors, if you like ginger ale?
No, that is cream soda.
No, no, no, no.
Vernors is like straight up ginger ale.
No, that's...
It's like, it's like sharp.
I don't know.
I got some from Rashida's...
Like where she does office is across the hall from me. It tastes like cream soda. So we it says ginger on it
It is cream soda. Maybe they give you faggot
She's like it's I love faggot
We do pop in Pittsburgh.
And I love that you call the pop.
I didn't know that y'all call the pop.
I thought it was only us.
I'm seeing myself out of this conversation.
I don't want to hurt either of their races.
Anything I say will be used against them.
That is way more damaging.
All of a sudden all the local press comes after us.
I'm like wait a second.
That's all I'm calling soda?
No, but the thing is like
of all the country,
of all the things you said.
visited like Michigan is so, Michigan is so beautiful. Um, and especially like, uh,
the Detroit hand tram, like the, the areas where, um, that I saw, if you look at it
from the outside, everyone's like, Oh, it's in a state of disrepair. It's like
destroyed. Um, and I feel like people are faking it a little bit. Like I think
the locals are like, Yeah, yeah, it's totally sure. Don't come here. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, it's, it's devastating. There's a lot of crime here. Please
don't come here and it's like this is so nice so we got to get you to Detroit
the next time you come I was in Detroit for less than 24 hours really seriously
yeah I feel like I've done your disservice man I brought you out here
and like to get in arbor and like Detroit is Detroit is that we're on campus on
the day where they won like I mean I had some I heard I heard I didn't say
anybody though I did everybody's sleeping man everybody's asleep and we
We were so weak, we came in with the Titans.
Well, thank you for that.
We appreciate it.
Nothing like a Penn State grad
to bring us the victory this year.
Oh yeah, I think you're right.
Sharon is scary.
I know I was gonna tell none of these students
that I'm from Penn State.
I was not gonna mention it.
Honestly, today they're not gonna hold you against you.
They'll hold you against you.
You need to be good.
They wouldn't even need to.
No.
No, that's wrong.
There was nobody else out there.
I think what it was,
like everyone was out until about three
and then now everybody's crashed
and they're not gonna wake up
again until I'm out of here.
Yeah, no Michigan is it is an incredible thing
Incredible thing about like other good food. She wouldn't has become like kind of an order area, right?
Like we do show her my better than almost anybody
Dearborn had some of the most bomb Middle Eastern food I've had all around the country
Yeah, so sorry, I feel like I feel the next next time you come dearborn Detroit, we'll do it right
I'll have tofu again
No, we gotta get you a good cabal.
Oh yeah.
We'll get you a good cabal.
It's just that my breakfast is probably in Charmah.
I'm so sorry man, I feel bad.
I feel personally responsible for this.
I'm sorry.
I actually have a lot to do right now.
I still have a couple things.
I gotta go into an election.
You're my older brother.
I'm also my older brother.
Yeah.
So Summer will brought you up.
Yeah man.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
And here I am like making sure, like, not even delivering on...
No, it's okay.
I didn't come from Charmah.
That'd have been nice.
Yeah, you brought it you brought her here
Now she's the same next to me and she can get harassed
Like a three hour stream
We did
Called it the January 6th tour
That's the only reason why I'm not no like I'm good
That's the only reason why I knew some of these locations. That's all I'm saying. It's so funny like okay
I'll just say this. Okay. The dynamic is so unbearable because like not only am I a
Tu-shimer, but like obviously the things I advocate for are you know values that a lot of Americans believe in right?
But also the president is insane. Yeah, like the things he's saying as the president is full on genocide in the tweet
Yeah, so here's the thing the fight political try to get you on that
They're like oh the song said this is hit Larry and and you're like it's he's saying
he's gonna do a genocide like what do you want it's unbelievable that actually
it's pretty believable this is the second term the truth you're right you're
right I mean but look I I I appreciate tension I actually I am one of the few
people I do appreciate tension I appreciate dialogue I think that we
should talk about things that make us uncomfortable I think we should talk
about them yeah I don't think that we should ambush people about it I think
that we should actually have conversation yeah because there are people who are
They're hurting, absolutely.
There are people who are pissed off,
they're mad at the system,
or they feel like nothing's gonna change.
They should be hurt also.
And that's not actually what's happening here.
That's like actually not what's happening with you.
That's not what's happening on a lot of our campaigns.
In this conversation,
so I mean you have a choice at that moment, right?
Like to do the greatest good that you can do.
And right now, I'm here for you, right?
I'm here for sure.
Because we want to talk to these young people.
I'm here because like there are people
who are in your audience,
there are people who are in our spheres
and our lives, right?
they deserve to hear from us, they deserve to hear from people who want to represent them.
And I think that's exactly right. I'm going to try some of those for science to see if it resonates for you guys.
The modern-day Democratic Party is like the cool kids table. They only invite you there when they're going to make fun of you.
But for the rest of the time, it's only them having a conversation with each other
that is increasingly irrelevant to the experience everybody else has.
And I think the challenge that we have is that Democrats wonder like,
how is it that we're losing? Why doesn't everybody realize we're the cool kids?
And they're like, everybody hates the cool kids. Nobody likes the cool kids.
They're also not very cool. I'll be honest. Yeah, that's the other side of it. When I think of cool. I'm not
No disrespect. I'm not thinking of Chuck Schumer, you know
You're not? I mean he's not. He's not exactly the
dynamic person that I think would
Do a lot of damage to the Republican movement at the moment
You're not alone, but that's the thing. Look
It's I'm vulgar, right? I'm a very passionate person. I get very upset
I have to deal with these people these right-wing psychos on a daily basis of course like in ways that many people don't have to because
the medium that I'm a part of is
Incredibly
There's so much incredibly interactive so much back-and-forth conversations taking place and of course like rocker. I don't know how you do it
Like I honestly I don't think I could I could do that for eight hours a day
And then I watch you watch the chat. How are you reading this?
I'm reading right now.
I'm chatty. I can't do that much.
I was like, it just looks like a word stream.
I guess that's why it's called a stream.
People see those choice moments.
Like I'm popping off at someone who's saying some heinous things
and they don't get any context behind it at all.
And they're like, wow, this person's a real asshole.
He's real angry. I'm like, you would be angry too.
If you heard what the other person was saying,
you just saw my response to it.
clip for 10 seconds of course it's going to be angry if we keep witnessing us
squander opportunity after opportunity actually get something done like I
think at the end of the day like we're in politics you are politics adjacent yeah
and people want to see stuff get done and it's like we tiptoe around we tiptoe
around all the stuff that's really important right we're gonna fight we're
gonna fight a streamer we're going to have a two-week yeah we're going to
ignore you know people who actually supported Genesis
North people who don't support Medicare for all we're gonna push all those people out of the party
Yeah, right. We're gonna like young people who are like climate justice, right?
We're gonna tell them that they don't know enough, right?
Not this election.
That's one thing.
Two elections from now, but not this election.
Yeah, no.
It's a different thing.
Even when you're talking about like this the modern day party and what, you know,
it should be what it can be, I think that we are really taking liberties by saying
that people don't know sometimes what the outcome is gonna be of some of these
actions.
a concerted effort to try to stymie a movement of younger people, of black and brown people,
of otherwise more common people, working class people, poor people, who actually are desperately
trying to discover their politics, exercise, right?
If the whole party gets paid by the corporations who make the problem, and you step up against
the corporations who are making the problem, their whole thing is just like, shut that
down because the money train keeps going.
I have a ball of screw-packs act.
Yeah.
It gives them out of here.
So if you need a post-concert in the Senate, let me know.
Yeah.
We're also at the epicenter of that Democratic Party's
failure in the last election.
Like, Michigan is supposed to be a blue state, right?
And it was very obvious that a big part of the reason why
Michigan was lost was because the Democrats, for some,
Indissertable reason. I still don't know to this day what they were thinking decided we're gonna win
We're gonna win with our own design, right?
Donald Trump is a monster. I made that very clear over and over again
I warned the Denver has it like they weren't taking it seriously at the DNC directly talk to them, right?
Well, you mean when my president Harris invited you to the dance yes stream from the DNC. Yes, exactly
What do you think is the difference
You know, what might be the difference now?
But it's, again, identical, in the same problems persists in the way that the Democrats want
to get out of this work.
They're obviously throwing these endless distractions in the conversation, in an effort not to talk
about the real problem, which is obviously what Donald Trump is doing at Ron.
I think some Democrats do actually secretly, and maybe not so secretly, like what Donald
from is doing and they see this as a win-win where they can like tie this
around him because it's super unpopular and and hope that hope that like this
will be a great benefit for them electorally and simultaneously they don't
get to like disrupt any of their donors or any of their big lobbyists that are
that that want them to stay quiet in this moment.
No that's the, that's it right?
That's the top of my head.
Disruption is the thing that is the greatest sin in our political system right now.
the greater sin is not answering the appropriate donor. The greater sin is not literally like
commissioning American bombs. You know, in the global world that we share, that is not the
greater sin. The greater sin is saying that I want Medicare from. It's saying that actually,
I believe that our politics can be more inclusive at working with people. It can actually work
for people. That is the greater sin. And I personally think that the Democratic party
is going to survive this moment. Then I think that we are going to have to convert
attention. It is very painful and it's very hard. It's very difficult. I don't
I don't deny any of that, but it is actually prolonging the pain for us to continue to hit
till around each other.
You can't tell me that this party is big enough for people who have denied so many working
class people things.
We have people who are anti-union.
We have people who do not believe that folks like me should be able to have all of the
rights.
That's just real, right?
There are people who have not spoken up against so many of the tax that Donald
Trump has had.
I don't like that our government party man.
Like, you gonna tell me that like progressive people
color or not?
I mean, think about this.
Josh Guyheimer is welcoming that party.
Yeah, he, this morning he was defending I think
like Trump's actions in the wrong.
I mean, we're talking about, we're talking about,
this is the funny thing.
Everyone's like, oh, why are you talking so much
about the war?
I'm like, why do you think you don't have healthcare?
Why do you think your kid's school looks like shit?
It's because we waste all our money doing that dumb
shit instead of actually investing in you and your kids
and your family and your home and your community
with your tax dollars.
And now like, you know, the crazy thing is,
it's like it took gas prices going up a dollar
for people to be like, man, maybe it's a bad idea.
I'm like, yeah, it's been a bad idea.
And if you apologize for that kind of politics
and you're welcomed into the Democratic Party,
which is supposed to be the party of peace,
I don't know what to say except for,
I'm sorry, your values are not consistent
with what you say you're fighting for.
And so at some point, the question for us is,
yes, I'm gonna call you out on it.
And I'm sorry, but like,
you can either get right on your values
or you're gonna continue to be called out.
And what they're trying to do is weaponize folks
you to say that somehow you can't be welcomed into polite conversation unless
they do yeah right unless they do it and at some point I'm not we can't sit sit
back and abide near genocidal behavior on the part of the president and pretend
like being welcomed in a polite company is really like the table yes no I like
the president is both uncivil in his language and also in his actions he's
barbaric right I'm at least yeah I'm not very civil as a twitch streamer but
But the things that I'm advocating for,
the things that I'm advocating for,
a lot of people are on board with.
That's part of the reason why I'm a popular person
in this sphere.
The only leftist live broadcaster
in a sea of right-wing man-and-spirit content creators,
there's a reason for it.
Yeah, I can come across vulgar moments,
but I would rather maintain the moral
and majorityist perspective,
while sometimes being vulgar,
maybe even communicating the language
that a lot of these people understand, unfortunately.
And then to be a civil genocide era,
a civil defender of genocide,
a civil defender of the current corrupt system that we have
that would rather take all of our productive output,
all of our tax dollars,
and spend it on bombing schools overseas
rather than building schools in our neighborhoods.
And a lot of people, I think,
have been so disconnected from foreign policy by design.
They think it happens over there.
It has to happen.
People that pay a little bit more attention are told that we have to do that because our
enemies are barbaric, they're monsters, they're violent, and they have to be brought to heel.
We don't do it, they're going to do it, they're like, are they though?
Are they really?
I thought that was the reason that we bombed them back in July.
And you told us that it was all super effective and the threat has been curtailed, but now
we're going to do it again six months around, we're going to do it again after that.
Now you have more sober analysis coming from the people that were agitating to go to war with Iran as well because it obviously had been a spectacular failure.
You've lost Matt, not like a Bolton? Like at some point, like you've lost everything.
John Bolton, yeah.
John Bolton, well, John Bolton, he lost a long time ago.
John Bolton has his own dog in the fight, that's why. He's like an MEK guy.
There's two different major lobbies in America for Iran.
for Iran.
You got MEK on the one side, which lost all support in Iran after they sided with Iraq
in that American proxy war against Iran and the Iran-Iraq war.
And then you have the Pahlevis, the monarchists, right?
Neither of them have like significant support on the ground.
MEK has no support whatsoever.
They're just treat as like psychotic terrorists for the most part.
John Bolton is upset because he was an MEK lobbyist for years and years and he
knows that there was no shot that that was happening so that's part of the
reason why he's been like critical of it. But what I'm talking about is like
Satruna with like people who are analysts at like these Atlantis groups that
have openly fomented war against Iran their entire careers who as analysts are
now recognizing it's actually a spectacular failure so they're like
calling for restraint from the outside now that like their dreams are
being realized. It's very interesting. It's an interesting dynamic to observe. Did you
guys see the New York Times report that just came out? It was the former Axio
Sky and Hagerman, Maggie Hagerman. They did this incredible report where they
looked through all of the... they basically got in the room. They got
quotes from General King, Susie Wiles, the chief of staff, Janie Vance, every
person Marco Rubio, everyone that was like a part of the process of the
decision-making process in these like closed-door meetings, they all basically
gave close to the New York Times. And apparently the only the only person that
offered like light pushback was Dan King, which we already knew because he
He leaked it to the press in the lead up to the war
because he was like, we're going to run out of munitions.
He's also the only serious person in that whole room.
Yeah.
And actually, it has to prosecute the actual.
Yeah.
Like, I don't agree with this world view.
No.
But like, these people want to continue American empire.
They want to continue the hegemony.
And they realize that making decisions like this
are going to be successful in that endeavor.
Well, you actually have the technical waging of war
in front of you.
And you actually have to make the thing add up.
You realize that actually, the math doesn't matter.
The math that we master when it comes to war, but we do it anyway and then they want to tell us the math
The math does not work, the math does not work for some people
Somebody always benefits
Somebody always benefits
You're correct, Raytheon's doing great
Northrop Drummond doing great
Exxon doing great
Exxon doing great
Exxon doing fine
The rest of us want healthcare if it's cool, it's not doing great
Yeah, it's not like it's interesting because like Trump is not even trying to sell it, right?
Like, yeah, the time is on those breaks.
The previous...
But Trump doesn't have to sell anything, right?
He doesn't have to sell anything, right?
There is no scandal.
There is no scandal that essentially sticks with this man.
There's been one, right?
It's FCD Bowels.
Yeah.
And even then...
And even then, like...
This isn't exactly...
He's up in them, and right now...
And this is the escape tactic, right?
The smoke for him is just, like, minimal.
I can't look I'm sorry the one thing that I get since I've been like in politics
The one thing I get is like summer you're not bipartisan
How come you don't talk to Randy Fine more right Randy fine is basically just like I hate
He just tweets that like I hate most books and it's like should we be bipartisan like what is the line between bipartisan?
And then it's like what I hear people in media that you cannot talk to but I do expect you to talk to your colleague
your Republican colleagues who have said that they did not believe in your
humanity. They've said they're not trying to work towards any of the goals
that you're working for. I worry to anybody, if you believe that we can get
Medicare from. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. Yeah, it's it's also never
demanded of Republicans. Exactly. We have to reach over and talk to them about the
shit that they want to do, but they don't have to reach over and talk to us
about the stuff that we want to do. Yeah, I've been doing this for 13 years.
I've never seen the Republican Party ever compromise. They never get punished for it either. The base loves when they don't compromise the base rewards them for obstructing, right?
But also on top of that, I've never had like a top speaker for the Republican Party come out and be like, we want a strong Democratic Party in the way that like Nancy Pelosi was consistently saying we need a strong Republican Party.
Like that's not, why, why are we always conceding ahead of time, why are we always conciliatory
to these monsters that are ratcheting this country in the clear direction of fascism?
Like we're in it now, we're in that fascist water.
And that's the thing, the ratchet always goes the right way.
And then when you're holding a very clear, very easy to defend line, people are like,
that sounds extreme.
Like, how many more people does ICE have to shoot in the face?
For us to be able to say, like, we probably should have polished this, no?
When is the line? Tell me when the line is.
Yeah, it's also paperwork violations, man.
For the longest time, we had the INS, it was separate from Customs and Border Patrol.
And, you know, they did the agricultural control and things that were, like, necessary.
The FBI was tasked with dealing with, like, federal crimes in general.
Like, we had a working system.
And it turned into this like behemoth of a surveillance state
after 2003, like there are people who are probably voting for the first time in their lives in this election cycle
that are, you know, around the same age as ICE, right?
It's unbelievable that we act as though this institution is a very important part of it.
Yeah, it's a profoundly important institution. Oh, what do you want? Are borders to be porous? It's like, no.
Oh my God, so what the fuck does Minneapolis have to do with this other border?
Like, that should have been the giveaway right there.
It's like I was there at the height of it. It was too below. That's not the southern border like wrong border
So if this had anything to do with actual immigration, then what the fuck are you doing in Minneapolis? Yeah
Also
Not only that but like these people
We've done a great disservice to them like there's tens of millions of people that have been working. There are neighbors
They have family members that are American-born citizens as well
and and and they're going along with this process
Where they're purposely kept in limbo, right? That's the reason why he's going to these cork
Did you hear about this most recent case this this guy in the base? Yes. Yeah
He brought his wife and they picked her up and allegedly trying to they had said that she was she was illegally trying
To what was the word that they use in beta base or something like that
You're like she had a she had a deportation order from from when she was 22 months
married to a reservist.
Man, from like, I think it was like from 2005.
All of her paperwork with her.
And they're like, how is this making us any safer?
Yeah.
Like, is this productive? What's more productive?
You can't tell what you're doing.
You can't tell what your thinking is, isn't it?
Yeah, that's right.
I mean, that's the other thing, right?
Tell them themselves, that's exactly right.
It's simply to soothe the interests of like,
some of the most radical elements in American society.
And it's just dangling that dangling this stuff that white Native is sentiment in front of them so that they forget that like
Individual everything that we talked about right every single impediment we have is very world Republicans don't get the smoke that we do because we don't give it to them
We don't have standards for them.
Any time that there is a barrier that comes up, it's actually just not an excuse for us
to give up.
Republicans have won on narrative and messaging.
And we have to be justice-persistent.
Because they take no prisoners.
Yeah, not exactly, but we have to be justice-persistent.
I mean, I think the question right now, when we're in the middle of authoritarianism,
is do we want this worse, better than Republicans do?
Are they mad at us?
Are they whoever these fascists are?
or do we want to build what comes next just as much as they do?
And we prove that, not through our tweets.
We don't prove that through our conversations.
We don't prove it.
We prove it by actually doing it.
And there are so many different ways that you can do it.
And actually, it is a responsibility of all of us.
So even as we talk about whatever your lane is, right?
We talk about electoralism.
It's electoralism, we're all lane, right?
Is, you know, organizing, right?
Should it be organizing?
Should it be hybrid?
It's actually each and every one of those things.
Whatever your lane is, you still
need to take in responsibility and actually changing this now more than ever
right whatever the impediment is we need to be on top of it
to progress actually is it and sometimes it's incredibly structural and sometimes
it's just a matter of oil sometimes it's very flimsy and it's also like being
willing to do multiple things like you know at the end of the day people play
this game with us all the time right I'm sure you've gotten it somewhere I
got it but well here's this one thing that a son said do you now condemn him
everything he stands for. And I'm like, in what fucking world does the world work this way?
Like in what world would you condemn somebody for something that they've said if you're serious
about the project of actually persuading somebody? Because the last time I checked if you actually
want to persuade somebody, you would go and have a conversation with people you might disagree with
and all of the people they talk to and talk about, all right, here's how I see it, how do
you see it? The problem is though, Democrats have actually given up on the idea of persuading.
I think we don't actually believe in what it is that we're about. And too often folks see
this as a team ride versus team blue team blue's gotta win but part of it is like what are you winning team blue full?
I think that I also think that we I think that we use categories too much like
Democrats don't believe this or Republicans don't believe that I think that there are tons of Democrats
tons of everyday people you know from various I think that we keep trying to fit people into
just like the left or the right or the middle right I think well actually don't worry at
themselves that way I think that there are people all over this country that care very deeply
about a whole bunch of things and they're genuinely and earnestly trying to figure out
Like, how can they move the needle?
They actually don't care about a whole bunch of the banter.
They don't really care about a lot of this course, this conversation.
The news site though is not putting food on the table.
But they're trying to figure out, is this who takes us seriously enough?
And then how can they then align with that, right?
We have to give a lot of reason to it.
I'll tell you one thing.
I was on the black one and the American people asked me to reject things on time.
They asked me to condemn people who I've never met.
They asked me to condemn people who I've never had a lot of connection to.
It's a thing.
I'm very used to it.
I will say that I've been, I became a state reverend.
I ran a 2018, right?
That's the first time I've ever ran from this.
In that time, I ran every two years.
I haven't ever once done a negative campaign.
Unless ever asked about a opponent,
I do not like smear my opponents.
I don't invoke them.
I don't talk about them.
Because I think that what we need to demonstrate
is that politics is a neutral thing.
It can be a neutral thing.
It's not inherently evil.
And if no one is demonstrating the politics are for like you you you miss that so people want to get where in the condemn culture
Because people are like they know that negative politics is such a wedge. You know why it's a wedge
I love that for you because it disenfranchises people right back in the day
They used to be able to just literally write into a law that you cannot vote because you're black
You cannot vote because you're a woman. Yeah, I can't do that as easily anymore
What they can do is they can run you out using the tactics that they know are negative politics
always run people out of elections because what they learn is that it doesn't
work as soon as somebody goes negative you punch back they punch back you'll
punch back in the conversation is no longer what we can accomplish collectively
is no longer like what what you do what are you building it is now what my phone
it isn't what they won't do so I don't spend all my time focusing on the
negatives of other people bring it up I try to spend my time on like what we
are here to build is like politics by inclusion rather than politics by
exclusion I think you know at the end of the day also we take this idea of
politics is being a competition between and the more I realize is that like I'm
running statewide gigantic state 10 million people and I want people to know
me words and all that's it like my job is to build a relationship with folks
where you know what I'm gonna think and what I'm gonna say because I told
you what my beliefs are and that you can predict based on what my beliefs
What I'm gonna do
Like at the end of the day if that includes solving your problems
Making sure you can afford a home making sure that you're not caught up in
Dobbs and gobs in debt making sure your kids school is a dignified place for you to go to make sure you have
Yes, but if folks understand like that. I am going to show up for those fights every single time
Then that's what I gotta do now folks choose that that's not what they want. Okay, but like
That's right
But that's why I'm not afraid to get a position right we're representative which means that like we can tell you
What direction we want to go and we can tell we can we can learn from our people right that's
They learn from our people what they want what they need
I think I have a pretty good I think I have a pretty good grasp
Yeah, I'm with people much more people much of me. That's a baby. I've said so people want to be
Last eight years right great. My job is to go there and fight for that. That's right
Not alone. It is not to be alone. It is I might be alone. I'm going to the house floor
But that should be the only place where we're alone.
Just when we go into the house for any other time, we should be with people, people should
be with us.
We don't win by just electing people in some other way.
This kind of stuff, like even the conversation around Israel is shown once again that especially
now, people are willing to reward those who demonstrate moral courage at times when
others would it, right?
I don't even understand how the large majority of the party have not launched an opposition
to what Donald Trump is doing both in Iran, but also opposition towards the current relationship
that we have with Israel that needs to be reexamined and needs to change, especially
because it's a 90-ten issue in the base for the Democrats.
And it's already, it's like almost the 80-20 issue for independence as well.
Even Republicans are actually questioning this unlimited support that we have.
And it's on when Israel has displaced another million people in southern Lebanon.
I mean, they're getting ready to annex southern Lebanon.
Yeah.
That was always the worry.
And they're also literally saying they're demanding in southern Lebanon these villages.
The Israeli government has openly said they're going to turn into Gaza.
And they're going to southern villages in Lebanon that have, you know, they're
villages and the non-Shia villages and demanding that they reveal if they have Shia Muslims
in those villages they're sheltering.
This is exactly what happened in the Holocaust when Germany occupied all these other countries.
It's unbelievable that like we can't call into question the actions of our supposedly
foreign ally that we're giving unlimited weapons support to at a time when Americans
are suffering here.
It's unbelievable.
We're also torching what, $1.5 billion a day?
Yeah.
Nobody wanted except for Benjamin Netanyahu, he finally found somebody stupid enough to go fight him.
What can we do? One place had a billion dollars a day in Michigan.
I mean, here's the crazy thing.
I mean, I don't fight for it to come to Pennsylvania.
But you can do it too.
He's just bombed a synagogue in Tehran yesterday.
They bombed a synagogue.
And they came out and they were like, oh, sorry, it was collateral damage.
Like, it's unbearable that inconsistencies are in our country.
There is a long history of Sephardic Jewish folk in Iran.
You're talking about like long range Jewish history.
Yeah, it's been here for thousands and years.
And that's the other part of this.
I just want to be absolutely clear about it.
At the end of the day, all of us have been extremely clear
that when it comes to standing with the Jewish people,
when it comes to uplifting and empowering Judaism,
nobody understands how important that is.
as somebody who's been discriminated against.
You're a Muslim man!
You're Muslim man!
And I'm really a anti-Semitismist.
So too is Islamophobia.
So too is anti-Latvness.
They are never far apart.
Which is why to abide one is to welcome the other.
Yes, and that's the thing.
And I will never do it.
The reason that we stand up against genocide
is the same reason we stand up to fight anti-Semitism.
Because they care about people and all of their forms.
But this notion somehow that anti-Semitism
and the definition of it can be pulled
when it comes to defending Israel,
but that if somebody critiques Israel, right,
that that somehow is impossible to do
without being ecstatic, that to me,
like, we have to address that.
Like, when the ADL came after us,
I was just like, come on, man,
please stop doing this.
It's dangerous.
It's dangerous.
We don't talk about it, but like,
I mean, this happened to Zoran, too.
It's just racist.
Like, it is so Islamophobic to be like,
oh, this guy who has spent his entire,
I spent my entire professional media career combating anti-Semites.
Part of the reason why a lot of neo-Nazis on the internet despise me, they dox me, they
swatted me, they've come after myself and my family for years, right?
And I've never shied away from fighting against anti-Semites, as I knew all forms of bigotry.
So it's unbelievably cynical to wander these kinds of smears, specifically because of my
about anti-scientist principle stance against genocide,
principle stance against fascism, no matter which form it takes.
And it is just like Luzon.
He's unbelievably careful, unbelievably conciliatory.
He is so empathetic in his language
and the way that he communicates on these issues.
And they still smear him endlessly, where they're like,
oh, he's anti-Semite.
At a certain point, you have to realize that, yeah,
a lot of pro-Israel people, a lot of people
pro-Israel are very Islamophobic. The ideology requires you to dehumanize Muslims in general,
like, and this is what it is. So if a Christian nationalist, a white nationalist comes out and says,
oh, a black elected is going to take away my, you know, my way of existence, my way of life,
we don't sit around and think about that endlessly. We don't turn around and say, oh, well,
Well, you know, maybe this person has a valid concern.
So it's ridiculous to like,
can these marginalized communities-
No, we told them.
Actually, you know what I'm saying.
Too often we do.
I think we forget that all the time.
I'm saying that.
I'm saying that every day.
I'm very, I'm like, yeah, but I'm just-
It's okay to say that.
I think that oftentimes we're trying to compare it.
It's like, yo, this was a black person
or this was a that person,
this was a that person,
we would never get away with it.
It's because we live in silos
and we don't live other people's experiences.
You're right, you're right.
You're absolutely right.
actually. What I meant is like broadly I think like liberals in general, like broadly liberals
in general like kind of understand if there's like an avowed anti-black candidate that's
like demonstrating anti-blackness in that way. Like most people are like liberals at least
and be like, wait a minute, like why are you saying this, right? Even though of course
anti-blackness is a fundamental principle of American politics. That's what I was
trying to say in a way we're like a little bit more opposed to somebody was
just like yeah you know it's like bad you know the president has done like
anti-black things too it was like he tried to you know get my answer in
Philadelphia which is like terrible obviously like oh yeah but also and but
also if you took a year's worth of Donald Trump's policy just in this term
yeah and the thing that you can say is the most anti-black thing he did was
that it's because people don't recognize that like structural racism is
violent too right structural racism might not be yes you know someone
with a gun in your head, it might not be, it's not a bomb to your church in Birmingham
anymore, although it has been that in times. But it is structural, like if black women don't
have jobs, that's actually violence because you know, how do you, how do you go to the
doctor, right? That's a real thing, right? If black folks have, I don't know if you
can come up with anything.
Do you remember when Ron Reagan and Richard Nixon's conversations were like unearthed
a couple years ago, I think it was in Trump won, where Ron Reagan had said some
the heinous things about like African rich cats.
My God.
Yeah.
And liberals were like,
oh my God, I can't believe Ronald Reagan is anti-black.
And I was like, this is how you realize like,
there's so, a lot of people are so optics focused.
They're absolutely like,
and that's why it's like white hood is like,
burning cross.
They need to hear someone.
It's just a symbol.
That's also why people struggle with anti-Muslim hate
right now.
Yeah.
Because it doesn't manifest like a white hood,
you know, in a burning cross.
Until it does.
Until it does.
But any time you see dehumanization of people, you see a genocide following, yeah, all the
time, which is why if we've learned anything from history, whether that history be the history
of Catholic slavery, history of the Holocaust, or the history of Pose 9-11, right, we should
recognize that when people are able to, and not just dehumanize people, that I expect
that we are about to commit atrocities against them, and that's why that's what fascists,
that's what evil people do, right, they desensitize people to the humanity of the folks
who they want to conquer, the folks who they want to subjugate, and I just want in 2026
for us to take a beat and see that for what it is, right? We have watched in Gaza just
like dehumanization of Palestinian people. I see it often, and I still don't see American
politics willing to talk about that.
I mean, I'm gonna talk about it that way this whole
We've already done it in Sudan right the reason why people cannot talk about you know a genocide there
People can't talk about the convoy because we've already long since you know
Afro-scented people right?
We're doing that more and I do and I do expect the Democratic Party to speak out against that I do because I
Do because right like people we have learned you know by the sword like
what it means to live and die for rights, not just for us, but for everybody, right?
To know that we cannot go to the Republican Party.
There was no house for us, right?
But in this home, I want this home to be structurally found.
I want this home, right, to keep us warm, to do all the things that it needs to do for us.
And I have, so I have greater expectations of the Democratic Party than I have for the Republican Party.
That I don't care for, I don't need the Republican Party to get their shit together.
When you say your values are about uplifting and empowering all people, then that means you've got to uplift and empower all people.
And come here, how hard?
I will force that, and I've been called on to everything.
I think everybody in this band, we've all been called on to very many things, and that's okay.
And at the end of the day, though, I will still stand up for large amounts of people wherever they exist.
I will still stand against all forms of hate, and in doing so, I will not allow people who are,
Some people who are very reasonably scared, afraid of all that, and some people who are
weaponized.
That will not allow either of them to stop us from being able to build together for them.
Right?
We're not going to, our coalition is not going to exist if we tip toe around each other in
that way.
And the thing that's clear in what you're saying is that's not out of, this is what
they always try to weaponize.
That if you want the good things for people who don't have them, it's not because
out of any hatred for people who do have them.
out of love for everybody and the folks who don't have it right it's not that
hard to build an America where everybody gets health care it's not that hard to
build an America where everybody has a good job
That brings us back to our real opposition, the real ops guys. The real ops is corporations.
If one group's greed is built on the notion that not everybody can have
anything, some people have nothing. When you look at nothing, the commons are nominator and trumps administration.
The first one and the second one is him and the people he likes getting richer and richer and richer
and your gas price is getting higher and higher and higher.
And your grocery bill is getting higher and higher and higher.
Your life is getting siphoned.
Right?
For his greed.
For his greed.
And if I could...
It is going to be wrong.
It is very hard to build with somebody who doesn't see me as a whole human being.
I'm never going to excuse somebody for feeling that way.
And but also, I do need people to know that Donald Trump, Maca, all these corporate donors,
these people are like they're playing here. Yeah, they don't see you as a human being either.
And they're using, they're using like built-in social conditioning and pre-existing resentment
towards marginalized populations, black people, brown people, and they're dangling that as red
meat in front of your eyes so you actually forget that you're being robbed blind. You're
They're being rob-blind every day.
Like, there is no reason for the wealthiest nation on Earth to not be able to provide health care to every single human being unconditionally.
No reason whatsoever.
They've sold us a bad bill over and over again.
How's the CEO of the insurance company going to make 18 billion bucks?
What?
How's the CEO of the insurance company going to make 18 billion bucks?
Exactly!
Exactly!
That makes the money.
It's always parasitic forces of capital,
faceless, lifeless, shareholder value that we care about,
that we place in front of the needs of American citizens.
That's why I always say like, when people yell me,
when people come into my chat, they yell at me,
they're like, oh, you're an Islamist, fundamentalist,
terrorist, whatever, it's really funny,
because I'm also the most folk, right?
I'm always like, look, man, you say all this stuff,
but I'm still gonna fight so that you get healthcare.
That's why I love that when people are like,
you're an Islamist, I'm like, lesson, man.
One is either in Islamist or Communist. It can't be both.
You gotta pick which one you think he is.
That's such a thing.
There's also such a European line too.
The Islamist Oshizum is like...
We're trying to import
European style of resentment.
Import European style of resentment?
Yeah, we'll do that one.
But to be very real though,
those tensions,
the whole resentment that you talk about,
there is a strain of us,
sometimes too often even on the left
address that either, right?
And I'm gonna tell you something,
if we only do something about this
for the citizens of this country,
it is our country's greatest weakness, right?
We have a, with Donald Trump in office,
we have a number of weaknesses, right?
But that right there, it is the easiest thing
for another country to manipulate us.
They can't march, you know,
they can't bring troops into the United States.
They can't, they can't reach us,
they can't outlaw us, race us right now.
What they can do is they can tap into
our natural fissures.
And that is our race relations, right?
That is the resentment that we have
between, you know, poor people
and the hads and the have nots.
Those resentments really actually are keeping us
from building this better world
that we really have an obligation to build.
And it's important to not just like brush that aside.
So the question that you asked about healthcare, right?
You know the number of times I get people who are like,
yeah, but I don't want my dollars
going to somebody else's healthcare.
You're like, but what if they're not as good as yours?
It's a very broken individual, it's a pain to think about.
Half of that is about racial resentments,
about who deserves to get help.
Oh yeah, I mean it's just why don't we have these social programs that other places have?
I'mma leave it there.
Yeah, no, it's been a...
Which is why we need to do something about racism.
It's an incredibly successful way to divide the working class.
It worked in the reconstruction era and it certainly worked when Reagan and Reaganomics was like running a monk in this country.
It also worked for Roosevelt.
That was a conciliatory towards that as well.
What?
There's always this unnecessary compromise that doesn't need to exist at all.
And I think part of that is because people are too afraid.
Like our representatives, our electives are in certain instances too afraid to say the truth.
This has been one of my main principle forms of communication where I'm like, dude, it doesn't matter.
People are smarter than we give them credit.
if you just are honest with them and you have a moral backbone and you tell them exactly what's what
the best you can hope for is charitable and I think a lot of people will hear you out
if you keep hammering on that message and yeah we gotta present people who say the truth right
and the court must hold the truth yeah oh I know I'm gonna hopefully see you uh uh and on May 1st
so this is the thing that people don't really appreciate about how the sausage is made
So, you know, we're gonna raise and spend 13-15 million dollars and the biggest
bender in this race is going to be AFM. Oh yeah. And so it's funny because people are
like, why are you always talking about APAC? They're like, well, they're the candidate you
don't see. APAC is the only lady. Other than like Jeff Yass, if APAC is the only
folk who ever spent against me, my point is I don't even have their own dollars.
And that's exactly it. So like, they come in here, they drive the
outcomes of elections by doing these nameless faceless attack ad campaigns.
This is not the third time, so we have to be serious about the fact that like that's how politics works right now because of exactly this you've got super facts
But I can move money
People do not understand my card, they be clear, I don't want to talk about APEC, but I do
Because I do, and it's not only
You've got to talk about APEC
You have to, I have to because that's the race, that's the race they came in, those are the races in my conference that they came into
I will talk about it and also people are now replicating what they learned from me. My first place
It was just like, you know, it wasn't a summer doesn't agree with Israel
What right it wasn't any event. It was some are not a world's democratic. Yeah
Bigger than the Israel issue. So when I say it like I'm saying a pack and all the things that they color themselves
In AI path that's it
Others will come in and they will do it too because we see that we can go especially into my poor communities
Hey guys black women are the most underfunded candidates
Give money to my brother right here, too, obviously, but black women are the most underfunded candidates
Yeah, and then why do why does eight-pack target districts like mine because they know that my black ass can't go to my own
rights of the poor communities.
They know that poor candidates, poor community leaders
can't go to these marginalized
working class communities and raise
$25 million to counteract their influence, right?
So they do that. So they target
those districts and it fundamentally keeps
us from being able to have a representative democracy
because these communities don't get
to make their own choices. They don't give me why they do these
communities. They're not stupid voters. They're not stupid. Absolutely.
But an ad on the TV
24-7, 75
mailers saying this person
person is that? Yeah, you're a very important person. Yeah, man, these people don't get a
more consent. Yeah. And they deserve that. It's a malign influence on the democratic process
unconditionally. And it's not just APAC, it's all of these corporate contracts that do everything
in their power to never actually tell the truth about why they're dumping boatloads of money
into these races. No mechanisms for kind of... Illinois, Illinois races that took place
Last month, APAC dumped like 30 million. Israel was not mentioned once in any of their promotional ads for their candidates.
They have never been mentioned since UDP has existed.
Yeah, the candidates themselves never mentioned Israel once either.
And they did this through subsidiaries like, you know, like the Women PAC, or like they have all of these.
I got folks who run around and be like, I don't take APAC money, or like, you're right.
You take money from a super PAC that APAC funneled by it.
So what is it that you have to be very clear that we want to abolish super PACs, right?
Because I personally don't care who super PAC it is.
Yeah, abolish all super PACs.
No, all super PACs.
But in one race in Illinois, right?
We had A-PAC against one candidate, right?
It was like, A-I-PAC was for another candidate.
Contro for a different candidate.
And these people in this district are just trying to make the best decisions for themselves.
And it's just like money just flooding in.
And fundamental what happens, the more money that comes in, the less likely that working
class people are going to have representation because working class people can't go into
their phone, call up a million dollars, a quarter.
Can I do 10,000 points for my candidate?
But here's the thing, that's the other side of the story where I think part of the reason
why they're hitting me super hard as well is because I'm an uncontrollable entity
And it's clear that I've been duking it out
with some of these forces,
some of these forces of influence for quite a while.
And it's gotten to a point where I think
they're a little bit threatened
because there are groups like Track Apec, for example.
There's all these other groups
and all these other independent media outlets
that are now popping up
that do a lot of damage to the tens of millions
of dollars that they're dumping into these races
when we go through independent outlets
that conduct investigative reporting like Dropsides and Tao, many others, and we point
out that like what you're seeing on your television is actually an operation to undermine democracy,
a way to try to confuse you into making the wrong decision and push for a candidate
who doesn't align with your values.
And in the past, I think corporate media played ball with a lot of these entities,
So a lot of these groups, but independent media doesn't do that.
They're trying to create a good partnership.
Well, that's where the ads get bought.
Right?
That's where the ads get bought.
Yeah.
That's exactly it.
Like at the end of the day, that money goes somewhere and it usually goes into a corporate
media pocket because that's where the ads get bought.
Yeah.
You know?
And like that's the other side of it that you have to kind of recognize.
And our system, unfortunately, right, does not create a situation where you have
to say what you're actually for unless you're a candidate campaigning for yourself.
Everyone else gets to hide behind these fake names, right?
United Democracy, like what does that mean?
UDP, what is it?
United Democratic Project, Democracy Project?
Yeah.
That is Apex, Super PAC, George Lovett.
I was thinking I was one of the first candidates
at that pack of hesitation again.
Really?
And it's full of issues.
Israel in it, the MFI, the Democratic majority for Israel.
At least they had this.
But did they run ads as the MFI?
Yes.
Like, they did, you know?
Until this time, I think I was the only candidate
to let the tell the tale.
Whoa.
Yeah, they bless you.
Thank you, that was tough.
I can't imagine.
I won't tell you though, you're about to make my like, my like, my like sorry weak ass beard
as they don't look like a son's buddy after this campaign cycle.
They're not, they're not unbeatable, right?
Because like we said, people do understand what's going on more than ever before.
I think like, this is why whenever people, when I, when I do these like your college
campus tours and stuff like that, people are always like, how do we deal with the
nihilism that we feel?
Because I think a lot of people experience tremendous apathy when, and I saw this
My own two eyes in the 2020 cycle as well, you know, you had these mass protests, right?
You had Black Lives Matter for this everywhere and no solution came.
We taught an entire generation that if you go out and you exercise your first amendment,
we're going to stamp it out.
And then you're going to plug your nose in your vote for an old man that maybe you
might not have, that might not have been your first choice.
And you're going to do that as well.
You're going to exercise your civic duty, right?
Yeah, your civic duty doesn't make this end at the end of the day.
But we taught people that basically, if you do everything by book, no change will still come.
And then we did that again with Gaza, right?
Student protests, I went to all these campuses and colleges, they were so good.
And 25 years, the colleges will talk about how great those protests are.
Exactly.
Just like they did in Columbia with like the anti-war protests.
The anti-war protests, the anti-war protests, the anti-war protests, the anti-war protests.
That's the lesson that every generation hates
when students exercise their first amendment rate.
But every generation also needs it at the same time.
So we've condemned it when it was happening in real time
with Gaza and now we're like,
but we're all the protesters.
Just remember this, hey, when we're all like 70,
let's just never forget we had this conversation.
I mean, because I don't ever want to be
one of those jaded folks who's like,
this is just how the system works.
My trajectory, my trajectory is I've become more,
I've become more left this time has passed.
So I don't think I'll be, I don't think I'll be good at it.
Everybody doesn't avoid the trap, some people do them.
Yeah.
Because you do.
It's like, actually when I talk to like young people,
the thing that makes you most powerful is that
you still have just like an expansive idea of what's possible.
What's possible, yeah.
I will say, man, with this generation,
like it's gotta be tough.
Imagine you're 25 years old,
you were born in the year 2000.
I think we're here.
Yeah, we are almost there.
Well, you guys wanna see the line outside?
Someone sent me a photo.
I wanna see it.
Hold on, I'm gonna pull it up right now.
Yeah, we got it super off topic. We're about to go on to this college campus. We're gonna talk to young people
Well, it's actually to be honest, I just like to level with folks about listen man at the end of the day
I can't promise you I'm gonna win but I can promise you that you're gonna hand this off to somebody you love
And you're gonna want to tell them what you did to try and protect it
Yeah, and that's that's the best I can offer you
If I go son, the Macy's
Again
No, no, it's just I lost it because it's all the way to the beginning.
Oh, Adam Ren posted it.
All right, let's see.
It's taking a while to look.
But, um, yeah, I mean, we probably could have had a bigger...
If we did an outdoor setting, it probably would have been...
How big of the room?
We would have stressed my security officer.
How big of the room?
I think there's 600 plus we got spillover.
Oh, yeah.
So we got 1,000 RSVPs per.
Yeah, I was about to say.
And we shut it off like a week ago.
Yeah.
You can't shut them off if they let them keep RSVPs.
I've done it this soon.
Absolutely.
That's true.
I'm going to some pretty big rooms in other places.
And usually, there's a tremendous response
from the campus, OK?
It's almost spring break, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, so we ended a bit early.
So they're about two weeks away from finals.
Actually, Michigan-
So you guys like us, so for us,
well, you have to be, right?
I have a May primary.
So Pitt, for instance, is usually out
by the time our primary is.
So we talked to young people where you can vote.
We're getting them signed up to volunteer,
and then hopefully when they go home
into their communities, they become volunteers
in their communities.
Oh, I mean, still from Michigan?
Yeah, yeah, especially on these campuses.
You, at the University of Michigan,
you have a bit more out of state,
but even then you're still talking about like 45% in state.
MSU probably 55%, 60% in state.
And then they'll call their parents and their grandparents.
That part that generational organizing.
And they're like, we actually were about to put together
a script called like, how to talk to your parents about it.
How to talk to your parents?
It's about a tool, that's awesome.
What's like the first thing on there?
What is the first thing that you want the parents to know?
He really does care about my life.
He really does.
That's super sweet.
And he really wants your hand up there.
That's a lot of what I'm doing apparently.
Oh, there you go.
That's how we do.
These people are going to run away.
Hey, hey, they're rallying this way.
There we go.
There we go.
Right here.
Oh, look at that.
Boom.
What is it?
Is it a song?
I want you to know that everybody just heard you make the plan.
There's a lot of people that don't want to go to the office.
Oh, my bad. They're still hurting them.
This is fine.
This is fine.
Mm-hmm.
Thank you.
I got you.
Somebody's supposed to be my co-sister.
No, you can clearly figure out who you are.
That's crazy. I'm here for you.
That's why I'm here. You're literally here for you.
That's why I'm here for you.
No, I was just saying, like, you're telling the whole truth.
I was just saying, like, everybody's watching this stream.
It's not that bad anyway, it's not that bad.
Yeah, I'm not a fish or something.
It's gonna be a clean cut. This is the behind the scene.
Hey.
He broke the roof.
Oh, yeah.
Did that happen to you?
Did that happen to you?
That was a sudden change.
Yeah, this is sudden things.
I'm watching the stream around, there he is.
Yeah, they're definitely, they're in the chat, it's still going around, it's going around
the buildings I definitely have to be slamming this monster bad we don't play
Sorry for the flashbang chat.
I'm just immediately, he's this man of action.
I gotta go in person.
Yeah.
So, I'm gonna catch you with my camera.
I can't do that.
I can't do that.
I can't.
Nice to meet you.
Hello.
Hi.
How long are you guys going to be here with me?
I'm going to be here with you.
2 hours.
2 hours.
Goddamn.
Okay.
Alright.
Thank you for coming to the better campus of the two.
Let's do it.
Alright.
They're still...
I'm not a student.
Alright.
I have to pee.
It's all good, we'll figure it out.
I have to go inside, sorry.
Ooh, it's a little chilly.
It is chilly. You got that nice jacket though.
Thank you. Appreciate you guys doing it.
Thank you
Alright
Thank you
Oh damn, we got a snuff and everything
Hello
Alright, well don't, you don't have to come over
I'm going to the restroom
Oh, oh yes
Yeah
Oh
Alright
Yeah, you just stay, you just stay with them
I'm sure you're walking this way too
How are you? Good? How are you doing? Very good?
How are you doing? Very good?
It's been a minute.
For sure.
Why do I listen to that song?
Uh, yeah.
Okay, I think it's right.
The songs don't matter.
Alright, it's the Marches show.
Okay.
Can you take me to the Green Room or wherever?
Oh, okay, great.
Hey, great.
What is it?
It's beautiful.
It's fine.
It's like.
Well, not really sunrise, but it is.
I see a lot of pictures.
Where do you want it?
Right here in this district.
Very interesting race.
We've got two carpet beggars, frankly,
from the establishment.
We're going to have a little chat, quiet.
We're going to split, and we're going to talk to them,
and we're going to stand up and see what we can do.
Let me open you guys up so I can see what you're seeing.
You can fix the lighting a bit, too.
It's so bright out there but very poorly lit in here as it goes, as is my plight.
Hi chat.
Back in the cold weather.
Can I look you Miss Callie a bit?
Guys please open me up Marchie.
That's enough chat for today.
They're all in the bathroom, what if Marcia didn't do that to her?
Hi, I'm Kate.
What's up?
Nice to meet you.
Kate.
Nice to meet you.
I'm Kate.
Nice to meet you.
I'm Kate.
Are they all in the restroom?
All of them.
Are they all in the restroom?
Yeah, they all in the bathroom.
They're all in the restaurant.
Hi.
We're good, I'm the creator of the song.
Hi, March. Nice to meet you, Rexie.
I don't even know if I should go by March or Mauricio in these settings because it's like,
Which is my internet name, that is what I'm known for, that is like, my username and it also kind of become my real name.
Then it also feels weird to like, complete tone ARMYs who barely even know what to a chasing dude would be.
I'm March the Gamer Tank, but it's like,
But if I say Maricia too much, then it gets confusing. Oh my god, why are we glorbing?
Maricia Miranda? Yeah, I'm just gonna keep going with March, it's easier.
Sheds don't have to transfer.
Can I end up on email lists and identification things?
No one's moving that fast.
Yeah, there we go.
Alright, first person here, do you want to start the talk?
And then we'll go down below.
Okay, and then you'll hand me your cell phone.
I was taking a sweet-ass time. What's going on in there, yeah?
Green Room is just a curtain popped up in a hallway trying not to be trying to make
myself small. I have this class going on. I was finding some interesting
comedians college campuses. Somebody who is in college roughed out. We made it.
I ended up going to college eventually. It's not the way my parents probably thought I would have.
I'll stay in here. Here's not great. I'm trying to read chat, though.
Oh, hi.
Alright.
Excuse me?
Hi.
Hi.
I'll be out of here first.
Yeah, yeah.
We're standing together. Is that what we're going to be doing?
We're going to do a photo line real quick, and then...
You want me to just wait here? Where do you want me to go?
Okay.
Where do you want to be photographed?
Um, I don't care.
I have no idea what my hair looks like right now,
because I've been wearing this hat for a long time,
and I feel like it's, uh, probably not great.
Actually, you know what? None look too bad, right?
Hat hair, but it's like...
Can you tell?
Can you tell us hat hair, Chad?
I think you will.
Hopefully it's fine.
I think it's fine.
Oh, Jake Paul did blackface. Nice.
Wow.
Classic. Like today?
Yeah, he did blackface to portray himself as Jrewski.
Because why not?
Wow, that is not the same thing.
Yeah, he still is. I think.
No, I'm saying like, where did Jrewski go?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that's his, that was his counter.
Well, Lord, 24 Congress, this district, I feel extraordinarily short of this.
So, we're going to be organizing the Sunrise Movement,
two carpet-bagging warhawks in this race,
and a propel signing at the war.
He has to housing health care and all the positive billings.
you're the man. So thanks for being here. I don't know if I can give this to you or your guy here, but I'd love to get on the stream sometime.
This just lays out why I think this race is worth fighting for the win. Thanks for staying strong for the hell of a couple weeks.
Good luck. Thank you.
What are we, do we take photos?
Or is that?
This is Isaac and Ben, who are campaigning
with us here, they're big fans of this.
Nice to meet you.
I'm scared.
All right.
So what was that, the way you used to do it?
We're Lawrence, right, for Congress.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Back when I was like, you and you left me.
Exactly.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Alright, we're gonna get started with our first photo and then people can rotate to the sandwich section.
Sound good?
Okay, so we're gonna grab it and um...
Okay, that's like...
Are you guys ready to go together?
Are we doing singles with everyone or are we all three of us in the photos of everybody?
I think you guys need to do some trickles.
I think we should do some trickles.
I think we gotta...
Hi, I'm not sure if this is very...
She's very...
Oh!
She's the...
She's the...
Yeah, she's like the Mexican brother I've always wanted to be.
I'm going to take several and amazing. Thank you.
That's my one.
And done.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You have something?
Yeah.
It'll be faster.
There you go.
Yeah, that's all.
Yeah, that's all.
She's very nice.
All right.
Make a big smile.
It's all yours.
I know.
I'm used to it.
I am what I am.
That's what I say all the time.
Here we are.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Now when I do kiss on my mom's face.
I always do.
I do too! That's my go-to.
Okay, awesome.
Well, we're back. I get to do it now.
And everything's okay.
And amazing. Thank you.
I'm a cool person.
I'm a cool person.
I'm gonna run this thing.
Oh, thank you so much.
We'll kind of run you along.
You're like, sort of like trying to get some gas.
It'll work.
Yeah, it's nice meeting you.
I'll see you later.
I'm sorry, but it's always got this in on that.
Nice to meet you.
I appreciate you being here.
Thank you.
Of course.
Are you okay?
Okay, awesome.
And keep looking here and looking here.
Love's over.
Why are they doing all of that?
I feel like I saw him.
Thank you.
I feel like I saw him.
Can somebody explain this to me?
Clocking.
Come on, I'll do it.
I want y'all to know that there's nothing in it.
Also, this doesn't have anything to do with Gen Z.
Well, most of the Gen Z stuff is just stolen.
That was it?
Yeah, that was it.
You're rocked it all.
Rocked it?
Rocked it.
Thank you guys, appreciate you, nice to meet you.
So I'm so proud of you.
We both put it to man.
I'm so proud of you.
How are we doing?
OK, let's do this.
OK, I'm going to bring up the camera.
We're doing my height here.
It is perfectly perfect.
OK, perfect.
OK, ready?
And one more.
Amazing.
Thanks, James.
Thank you guys.
Okay, so...
I don't know what the schedule is, but like, when is the whole thing?
So, we're starting at 4.30.
If you guys are down for it, you got out of rent from the political group, we're going to talk to you all.
You guys know each other?
Yeah.
And then if you guys are okay with it, we'll give them the interview for a quick interview.
You're good?
Yeah, yeah.
You're going to talk to Steve Mantzik?
Yeah.
Manu Adru.
Oh, Manu is good.
Manu's here.
Hey, who's the guy who's calling you?
Those money
We've been in the video.
Is this about his transition?
Yeah.
You're all creators now?
Yeah, whenever I see Jake Tapper in his car
doing a vertical video format, I'm like, that's sort of time.
Yes.
After all, it was opponent Mallory McMorris
saying that you're like Nick Pointes.
I think it's a heinous smear.
I don't really think McMorris knows anything about me.
Some of the senators like Elise Slotkin and Cory Booker have been even more forthcoming
about openly not knowing who I am, claiming that I don't know who I am, and admitting that
they're just basically delivering talking points that someone else has given them.
I don't fault them for it.
They're trying to win a race.
It is a hanging smear at the end of the day.
And it's one that many of these groups actually apply because they can't have a conversation
about Israel's influence over American foreign policy on moral terms, so instead of attacking
the message, they attack the messenger.
Yeah, what do you think of the Muslim camp joining Bill Maher and the center of the Council
of Canada?
Yeah, I mean, this double standard is, is, uh, existent in American politics.
Islamophobia is, is oftentimes not considered at all.
Mahrez, not only in Islamophobia, but he's also demonstrated anti-blackness at every turn.
But at the end of the day, he is representative of the same forces of politics in this country
that are aligned with the establishment goals, and therefore, there's never a question
about, you know, participating on his show.
I think the reason why a lot of people are very critical about what I've said and
the manufactured outrage is because it's a way to possibly tie up Abdel El Saad with radical
politics. I don't think any of the politics that we demonstrated are radical at all. I
think we're speaking to a lot of people. That's why there's a lot of people out here,
a lot of young people, a lot of old people as well, because they want, they're sick
and tired of business as usual politics. They want something more. They want more
responsive politicians that will say no to endless wars and instead will demand
that the wealthiest nation on earth take care of its citizens.
Are there any views that the sign holds that you disavow people's views?
I'm not here to disavow people's views. I'm here to have a conversation about how to get money out of politics,
but money back in pockets and pass Medicare for all. That's the conversation that folks are here to listen to.
This whole gotcha game, platform policing, and cancer culture. I thought we were over it.
We've lived through the whole discourse of sugarcane and rogan and there's a lot that I would look at what rogan said that I would just
About so and I'd still go on his show
And so I just think that we need to get over this or serious about winning elections
You know the day not everybody reads political as much as I know you wish and I wish that they did not everybody watches
See that not everybody watches MS and MS now or Fox and friends, which I did this morning
Despite the fact that I disagree with them on almost everything when it comes to this war and the Trump administration
Yeah, they know I'm not leasing platforms
I'm going on platforms to have conversations about the kind of politics that we want to build
I think the sign is built painstakingly a platform for folks who feel like they've been locked out of our politics
It's critical that we share conversations with them. You see the kind of excitement that that creates and that's what we're focused on right now
But do you can see there's a difference between campaigning with him and going on his Twitch stream?
I think that's a very old-fashioned question, frankly
You know, I mean, I think at the end of the day, like,
we screamed on the way here.
So I was on the screen screaming the entire conversation.
And I think the question of, again,
you cannot engage with somebody's platform
because you might disagree with some of the things
that they said.
I think that is exactly that kind of platform policing
is exactly why Democrats too often fail to get our message
out to everybody.
We believe in our message.
Then you've got to be willing to take it everywhere.
We talked earlier today, Adam,
about the role of persuasion in our politics.
I think too often Democrats have forgotten how to persuade.
And part of that is because too often we don't think our positions are persuasive enough.
I think my positions are play persuasive.
So I'm going to take them everywhere.
And I'm going to have conversations with folks I agree with, folks I disagree with, folks
that we share very nothing with.
I've done content with food creators and workout creators.
But I want to take my message everywhere.
And I think that's on this building audience around that.
And so I'm grateful that you're here with us today to have a conversation to build
a room about how to get money out of politics, put money back in pocket and pass money
Last question, Hassan, what is the 2020 Democrats push back against you say about their effort
to rebuild a big democratic tent?
I feel like there are a lot of people that are worried that this primary cycle is going
to reshape the future of the Democratic Party with a vision that puts people first as opposed
to corporate entities and foreign countries' interests first.
And there are some people who I think are worried about what that says about their position.
We saw the Zoramum, Donnie's victory and the response that some in the establishment
of the Democratic Party and the forces that they aligned with in the Republican Party,
how many hurdles they set up in front of him.
And I don't think it was because they were worried that Zoram was going to be unsuccessful.
I think they were worried that he would become successful, and we've seen that
already, his popularity has grown throughout time, because he's demonstrating competent
governance and showing the entire country as a national figure that you can really dial
in and work for your constituents and people that elected you without compromising on your
values and that causes a little bit of tension with politicians that unfortunately don't
want to do that. They want to sit around, collect paychecks, get unlimited corporate
lobbying money, they want lobbyists to write their legislation for them,
and they're
calcified in their ways,
and they're worried that this would actually cause them to maybe do their job for once.
But that's precisely the enmity
and anger and resentment that I've seen
when I go out
to places like Minneapolis, when I go out to no-kings protests.
Not only are my fans there, not only are people in my demographic are there,
You know, people under the age of 35 that say,
we want more from the Democrats.
We want them to actively fight back
against the Trump administration.
We want to re-examine our relationship with Israel.
There are a lot of older people there as well.
You know, wealthy, educated, white women
that are over the age of 65 that
share that exact same resentment.
And these people are not there because they've
watched my content.
They didn't arrive at these conclusions
because they're watching me on Twitch for eight hours a day.
They arrived at those conclusions because the contradictions
are worsening, and it's becoming undeniable
that change, a real significant seismic change,
is a necessity so that we can combat the forces of fascism
in this country and move America
in a positive trajectory for once.
Because our downfall is imminent, really.
And I think a lot of people are worried.
They want to continue doing business as usual politics.
And that's the reason why they're
reacting the way that they are.
And I just want to say, I'm going
to be the oldest person who is on stage today at 41 years
old.
You've got a politician in Representative Lee
who's been leading on these values for eight years
since she's been in public service.
And I want to give you a chance
to talk a little bit about what it means for us to have to build a vanguard of
the politics that doesn't back down and fight on those values that takes on
corporate power that takes on a pack that is willing to speak about the
beautiful future we actually really want to build because I you know when I
think about the kinds of senator that I'd like to be I think about people like
you so I'm grateful that you're here. Thank you I appreciate that. No I mean I
think that right now we're gonna look we're in an incredibly difficult
moment and I think about my life as a representative I represent 75,000 diverse
different human beings who have a span of values and ideologies and some of the
conversations are tougher than others and some of the ones we have are right in
our alley and right in our comfort zone. Right now we are in the midst of fascism.
We are in it and I think that for Americans in America sometimes it's
hard to admit that but the work that we're actually going to have to do to
get us out of this moment to build what comes next is going to take us
having difficult conversations going through tension, demonstrating what courage looks like,
demonstrating what it means to be an elected official or a candidate who stands for something,
who fights for something, who brings in new people.
So I'm proud to stand with the people today.
I'm proud to be here in a swing state, not too dissimilar from my own, to say that we
are creating a party in a country that we can be proud of, that we are willing to
fight for.
I think that that's worth doing, right?
And I think that right now when we have a president
who is live tweeting, you know, the most maniacal things,
that the attention of the media,
that the attention of my own colleagues right now
who will remind you, not call us back into session, right?
I think we need to start talking about that.
I think that we need to get very serious
about our priorities right now.
We have a little bit of time right now.
Every single student we talk to,
maybe the difference between
whether or not this swing state has a Democrat in the Senate
or another rubber stamp for Donald Trump's wars
for his stated genocides, for his unconstitutional power grabs, all of those things.
It's important that we keep the main thing the main thing.
And I want to have an adult in office right now who will fight against that and not another
Republican who will continue to allow this, who will continue to turn around, who will
act like we don't need to be in session of evoking the 25th Amendment in peaching
him right now.
Let's talk about that.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
You see him.
Thanks to me.
Can we just do one quick question?
Yeah, I'm just underrated.
It's just about a shoemaker.
Oh, dude, never mind.
Never mind.
Just do it.
And then, are you guys,
are you open to CNN?
Sure, yeah.
I'm open to everybody.
I don't care.
I'm talking to anybody.
Here we go.
Honestly, does it come up?
I don't think so.
This is the one structure of our politics that we're creating for this morning in a question.
What's it?
Well, it is in its own way.
Now we all know the sinister ways in which they edit.
I'm just kidding.
No.
Now, I'm more worried about my hair and the way it looks.
I'm also worried about I didn't prepare a speech.
And it's March's fault, Chad.
It's March's fault because he was like,
so much better when you're on it, when you're doing off the top dome, so I'm just gonna go
out there and I'm gonna spit, I'm gonna spit, I'm gonna talk about unity, I'm gonna talk
about courage, boldness, I'm gonna talk about maintaining revolutionary optimism at a time
when there's so much instability and so much pain.
It's really stinking me right now, I'm sure.
Have you ever regretted speech?
I did, I did.
I've compared everyone at Stanford.
And then Mark said, he was a student years before I snubbed him.
That's what happens.
Do I want to take it off?
I'll keep it off.
I'll keep it off for now.
Do you want to try it on the van?
Are you wearing a car heart?
He's in the west.
That's crazy.
No, I don't.
I love car heart.
I love Carhart. It's the most reliable gear that you can wear.
I've been wearing Carhart. Also, otherwise, they're like socialist.
It looks so hot in there.
Yeah, well, it's socialist.
Even when we went with the Cupid, that's what they were saying.
They're like, look at all his clothes.
It's so crazy.
Socialism is naked.
You know what's really funny?
You know what I loved about that?
Washington Post, Washington Post opinion made a video about that and I was like, you're
owned by Jeff Bezos.
What are you talking about?
You're about to be fired by Jeff Bezos.
One of the wealthiest people in the planet.
Alright, who do I give this to now?
I'll take it to the bin.
Thank you so much.
I had to button it up a little bit both with my speech and also with my voice.
I had to button it up a little bit, both with my speech and also with the optics.
What's Henry in this picture?
I'm gonna do CBS this time.
CBS, okay?
Yeah.
I don't care.
I told them to do it.
Come on, come on.
Come on, come on, come on.
Okay, we have to do it.
We have to do it.
We have to do it immediately.
I like the whole question.
Yeah.
It's just like, it's also, I mean, you brought this up in your video too.
It's like, you talk to 10 hours a day, in 10 second increments, you're gonna find
something.
You're gonna find something.
Like, it's questionable.
You know, I've known ever since I ran for office everything I used to be flipped
against you know what I mean?
But like, it's a hard way to live your life that way, you know what I mean?
He's not a politician.
Yeah, he's like, honestly.
Also, the time is very different now
for a new kind of politician.
Anyway, we are unironically imposing this restriction
on ourselves, because that is how normal people speak.
Also, I don't want to be buttoned up.
But kind of on his presidency.
Bro, I mean, the end of Perfectly Inoffensive Faulted
should have been the first time Donald Trump got elected
president.
He's like, all right, so.
And for the record, what matters most, I think, is your principles, your values.
Yes, we want to really buy much more.
We're very offended by the things we do.
Yeah.
I mean, I can't really...
I'm offended by it. I'm offended by the policy that comes out in Washington.
Yeah.
That's what you're doing.
And it's all like this stupid messaging stuff.
Yeah, fucking don't be wrong. I'm offended by the record.
Yeah.
I'm harmed by the policy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, it's a twofer for Trump. It's both bad policy and then also horrible.
Yeah, that little one never does not.
This one is my, the one that you always had in the,
I don't know if this is the part.
I don't know if that one's part.
CNA.
Is this the CNA part?
Yeah.
Is that good?
Yeah.
I'm just watching, I'm just watching.
I'm watching.
I'm watching.
I'm watching.
I actually just stepped out of the place.
I love the name.
What are you talking about?
I'm just watching.
You never got me a name.
You never got me a name.
You never got me a name.
You never got me a name.
You know, you know, I get it.
I get it.
I messed up.
I'm crazy.
I got you.
You're telling me.
Yeah, I was wondering. I'm sorry.
Who asked you how come you're closed?
Uh, what's too nice to say?
Yeah.
He was one of the guys.
He was one of the guys asking it.
Yeah, he was tweeting from a soccer count.
Like, yo, this guy is a nice guy.
He's a nice guy's glasses.
So we have an old John's advisor here.
So we're going to go quick.
Hold up.
Please, please.
I'll stop it.
I'm somewhere that's very nice to meet you, Cheryl.
Excuse me, is this the end of the day?
Yeah, we're at the center.
Oh, we're at some point.
Okay.
Um, so we're gonna have a little bit of an update.
Are you taking pictures?
Yeah.
I've been looking at all of them.
Ready? One, two, three.
That's what happened.
You got options.
That's a real one!
I just moved the wrong person.
Thank you guys.
Thank you.
Did you hear where dinner is?
I heard you.
I thought you were going to join us.
There's a lot of green artifacting apparently taking place.
I can get a section in here.
Oh, okay. So I'm just going to go for four faith leads.
Beats right after the student speaker.
Summer label speak after him.
Okay.
So there's a little bit of green artifacting, but it's overall fine, right?
Chat is it really bad?
Chat is it really bad?
I'm trying to... there's very little internet in here.
We could use the internet.
There's no Wi-Fi there?
College campus. No, there is. It's MSU. MSU Net, yes.
We're pushing start times back through the moment. And there's a team in front of us.
I'd love to know how long it's been since we've been here.
Where does it end up somewhere? The Helion thing?
Yeah. We're going to try to get one.
Well, it'll be difficult though with the capture, the entry point, like you have to agree, that's hard on TV, right?
Yeah.
Anyway, anything new happening, Chad?
That I need to know of?
Keep me updated on the situation monitoring as we're here getting ready for speeches.
You have had hair in the back?
We're going to bring Annie back because we have you guys back in class.
I do. I have you guys back in class.
I think you're a plan on what to put together.
Thank you for having me.
Is it just us? I mean is it just all of us?
Do you want like the whole audience?
Two mics, bro.
I'm going to wait and see.
Do you want everybody or do you want just all of them?
If you all would love to participate.
I saw her reposition the camera when she said I'd be down to do it.
I still have
That's not what you say.
Does anyone in any of the teams have a USB-C charger that we can put to a wall mount somewhere?
That's a nice one, Charlie.
We would thank you forever
Okay, he's dropping
I'm gonna try to do that side
Sorry, I got it pasted. Excuse me, sorry.
This is...
Let's get to see how the sausage is made.
This guy's taking notes and starts to bust me into the wall.
So maybe just suggest me on the question?
Is that okay, there?
Okay, there we go. You're gonna have to be both in the frame.
You're like a one-woman shell. I'm just very impressive.
I got just like really like balancing the thing. You got the mic really just inspiring.
Thank you very much. Well, thank you both very much for being here for having me.
I would love to know, you know, I'm from D.C.
have been monitoring Twitter for the majority of a week.
There's been a lot of controversy about this event. I'm just curious, you know, from YouTube,
what is your reaction to that controversy? Do you think it's overblown coming from Washington?
Or what are you been hearing from the people you're speaking to here?
The President of the United States just tweeted about wanting to do a genocide in Iran.
And the fact that this is the controversy to me says everything we need to know about what DC focuses on.
I don't pay much attention to DC. I pay attention to Michigan.
Because I'm running for Senate in Michigan.
And here in Michigan people can't afford their health care.
Here in Michigan people can't afford to fill up a tank because of a war that's being fought out in DC.
And meanwhile half the stuff the President is tweeting about, what he's not tweeting about, is genocidal fantasies in Iran.
Iran, he's tweeting about the drapes in a building.
And so at the end of the day, I just
don't take my cues from there.
We're focused on reaching out to people
who feel locked out of their politics,
because they cannot afford the basic means
of a dignified life.
And that's what we're focused on here.
That's what these events are about.
And we're excited to be able to take that message out
to folks across our state.
I think that people should probably
keep their eyes on the ball and focus
on things that are world-changing events that are imminent right now.
We already have a global energy crisis.
There's very little attention on that.
And it's borne out of the appetite that this administration has to do unlimited death
and destruction campaigns overseas that are costly for the voters, that are deadly
for the people that happen to be under those bombs.
That's what people should be focusing on.
They should be creating a robust line of defense because that's what the situation requires right now
These are endless distractions and the reality of the matter is most people that I encounter out in the real world
Don't care about this stuff at all
They never they never come up and say hey
I can't believe you said this controversial thing that I saw this 10 seconds long
They they are at most supportive if they even bring it up at all
And you went there before I could, you know, the president put out a truth social this morning that I think some kind alarming about, you know, an end of the civilization.
What was your gut reaction to seeing that close this morning?
I mean, honestly, we have kids. I thought about my kids.
Can you imagine talking with that kind of language about people's kids?
I mean, that's what I want.
So 93 million people talking about maybe 30% of them under 18.
I'm talking about 30 million people that he is perfectly okay talking about wiping off the face of the earth in my name, in your name, in all of our name.
That's where my mind went. And I think we have a responsibility to stand up against that and condemn that in all possible terms.
And to make sure that our government doesn't get weaponized to take us into a war we can't extract ourselves from.
That is burning and torching our tax dollars to raise our gas prices to destroy other people.
That is not what my vision for a beautiful America is.
My vision for a beautiful America is one where people get health care,
where you don't have to worry about the quality of schools you send your kids to,
where you can work the same job tomorrow you worked yesterday.
That's what he said he was going to do,
and he's just gotten us into what, three wars since the year started alone.
Talking about blowing up people's children is disgusting.
It's fascist. It's exterminationist.
It's unfortunately where we're at in American politics right now.
and unfortunately it's unrestrained.
We need to use every single pressure valve that we can,
every single hurdle that we can throw in the direction of this administration.
Otherwise, we will be remembered in the dustbin of history
in the way that Adolf Hitler was, in the way that other tyrants, brutal tyrants were.
What do you mean by that? What is the response that you think Democrats
or the progressives need to have in this moment?
Everybody I mean like my guy is tweeting about genocide. Yeah, there's like this is it's not a like, you know
I think we sometimes think about our politics through the lens of like what is the politically right thing to do like as a human
You should have a particular gut reaction to somebody talking about killing 92 million people and I think in politics
People want to know that their representatives care on a human level
So I think everybody and like to me if this is not a crucible for Republicans
You're gonna go along with this to start about what 93 million people people are more offended that he dropped an f-bomb on
Eastern then they are about the fact that he talked about just a side of 93 million people right I don't care what you think about Iran
I don't care what you think about Iran is they're human beings. So you're talking about wiping a whole civilization
away
Why because you got into a war you never should have got us into and now you're stuck in a quagmire
And the best thing you can do is rattle your saber bullshit. I mean it's it's like it is
We just need to get past this question of like what is the right political thing to say and get to a question of like
What is the right human thing to feel what do we want as a society to be like?
And I don't want to live in a society where people are telling us somehow. This is just a political football
I want to live in a society where we embrace one another's humanity and the humanity of other people and that that guides our
Our engagement with politics so meanwhile people in our own country that there are people who are going to die today
Because they didn't get the health care they need it there are kids
We're going to go to school in a school where they're going to freeze because the heater doesn't work
There are people who are going to get fired today from jobs that should have existed.
Like, that's our country.
And my guy wants to talk about wiping 93 billion people off the face of the map.
And you know, my last question is you're here doing these mental college campuses.
What are you hearing from young people that is not registering with Democratic Party leadership?
Or what are you just hearing in general from them that you are relating to and getting
on their level here?
So I'll let Hassan speak to this because he spends eight hours a day, famously, twitch
streaming to them.
I will tell you this though, you know, if you're, there's a weird thing about getting old.
I'm not young anymore, but I'm also not old.
And I'm in this position now to have reflected on what it was like to be in my 20s.
And I remember being in my 20s and being so excited about the election of Barack Obama
and the future that we can live in.
If you're in your 20s today, all you've known is a world in which big banks got away
with financial crisis that they created
that probably cost you or a neighbor your home.
You know a world where big tech has used their machines
to siphon off your eyeballs and ear drums.
You know a world where Donald Trump
has been a fixture of our politics.
You know a world in which we've all we've done
is fight wars that we didn't need to fight like.
That's what it feels like to be young.
And honestly, what I'm hearing from folks is
that nihilism that is well-born
out of public policy that we've created in this country.
Now what I'm trying to do is have a conversation about what does it look like to actually show
up for each other in a time where everyone tells you that it's futile.
That daring, that willingness to do the thing that everybody tells you is futile, that your
politics has told you is futile, that's the kind of righteous action that we need right
now.
That's what this campaign is built up.
So I can't promise anybody any victory.
What I can promise you is failure if we don't try.
And so our job is to put ourselves into a future that we want to build, put everything
of ourselves there.
And sometimes you play righteous defense, but sometimes you can actually win.
And that's why I want to have these conversations.
I go everywhere and talk to everybody.
I start on my day talking to Fox in front, which
is not known for having a young audience.
But there are a lot of people on that set of channels
that feel left out because I'm not going to trick them
into yet another forever war.
And I'm really excited to be able to have this conversation
here because I know young people deserve a lot better
than the politics they've been getting.
Hasan, I know you talk to young folks all day every day.
So what are you hearing?
I mean, it's exactly what you just pointed out.
People want more responsive politics.
They want to end to the forever wars.
As a matter of fact, I think Donald Trump
was able to dupe a lot of young people,
specifically young men, with his message,
with his lies, really.
And a lot of people are feeling frustrated.
There's definitely a lot of young men
who feel like they were duped, taken advantage of.
And I hope that the Democrats can be
a little bit more responsive
and a little bit more responsible to their needs.
They have a massive affordability crisis.
There's a lack of hope for a better future right now.
And it's a cancerous attitude that we unfortunately have.
And one of the two parties has to address it.
I hope the Democrats can learn from candidates like Abdul
and the message that they're presenting
and be bold and not shy away
because they're worried about corporate donations
or they're worried about what lobbyists might think.
They're worried about the pressure campaign
that they might face
and instead be more responsive to the needs of their base
and actually represent their interests
rather than the interests of corporations
and the super wealthy.
That is the overwhelming message.
It's one that Bernie Sanders very clearly
was able to tap into.
It's this anxiety that the youth felt
and they were totally right on it.
And I think, I just want our representatives
to represent us and represent the youth.
They are poorer on average.
They feel the economic force is a lot more than well to do
voters do.
And unfortunately, they get side cast in this conversation
quite a bit.
We've got to stop pretending jadedness is seriousness.
And I think young people deserve a lot better than that.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thanks so much.
Thank you very much.
Thanks to you.
10 minutes.
We're going to knock out a few more areas with us.
That way, we can get this one forward.
Woo!
Okay.
Let's take a drink.
I'm good.
No, no, that's Morgan. They're watching.
Can you make sure that you're not secured here?
That one's working on that one.
Wow, legend.
In the meantime, I'll swap to the other one.
This is why I said we need the...
The wall charger? Yeah. Let's take it. We'll figure it out.
The other one we can potentially hurry up
and we'll be back. All we need to do is like make it through this.
We will. We will.
Oh, this is not a USB charger here.
That's not a USB charger.
Do we have a USB-C one here?
This is a Lightning one.
I don't want to care about it.
That's why we need it, yeah.
Do you want me to get it for you?
Of course.
Do you want me to get it for you?
Yeah, but it's fine.
Uh, you know what?
Uh, if I drop it, you need it in the car, right?
No, we need it in the car.
Sort of a little weird work though.
Okay, it's charging now.
And the camera battery is fine.
Let's try it right now.
You have extra camera batteries, right?
No, I do not.
You don't have a camera spare battery?
No, it will last a while. We'll make it.
I don't have my backpack.
I didn't get the needle.
You like it.
You're not.
Okay, yeah. Did you log into the regular government? If you log into the regular government, it will help you.
It's going to be low chatter.
No, you...
Yeah, it's true. You don't...
What is your reaction to what President Trump said earlier today?
Some very aggressive statements toward Iran.
That's a pretty big step.
It was not just a aggressive statement, but it's been cited.
It's been cited as wiping out 93 million people.
I'm a father of two of them.
Ooh, he's cream.
He's glorifying.
and the idea that when you talk about this politically,
and they'll talk about it in terms of part of the public,
we've got to talk about the humanity of this.
We've actually never really seen that.
Have you had a USB, a USB regular lightning cable?
I'm going to give you a brief.
I understand that.
I know that most folks who watch Fox probably don't support me, but I also know that some
of them might.
And my job is to go everywhere and talk to everybody about an alternative, which a
Trump and Trump isn't.
An alternative to this kind of genocidal ideology that gets us into wars without thinking
about what happens next, but it's spiking our gas prices by these major incoherent
We have a lot of people who are involved in the work of our clients.
We just have a little way of community support.
We focus on the concerns.
We think about kind of handling the talent.
Everyone is part of what we're trying to do.
One message to you,
we can build a beautiful future
if we can.
I appreciate it.
Thanks for the time.
Thank you guys.
You ever contact with me?
Yes, perfect.
Thank you, Craig!
Sorry about Craig, Craig, Craig Logs?
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Ben and Craig. Ben and Craig.
Hey! No! Rock the reporter, how are you, man?
Wait, Ben, Craig, Ben Salise, all my favorites are here.
Ben, Craig, Rock the reporter.
How are you feeling? How are you doing, man? I'm good.
I like you.
This place is very tight, Jack.
And we have reception over here for the backpacks.
That's why I'm standing over here awkwardly
and not following his son who is in the dead zone
he's in the sunken place
oh thanks, the fan gave it to us
March, pleasure to meet you
shout out to the fan who gave us the leeching
where do we got the leeching?
I don't know why I'm asking you, I can't reach out at all
If you go on his Twitter, there's a link for his, uh, yeah, an e-mail, if you send a
over there, they'll feel better.
I'm trying to open your chat.
I can't move from the spot.
We'll just film from out here.
A new pupil just came out while we were alive.
60% of Americans have a negative opinion of Israel.
Just 37% have a favorable view of Israel.
80% of Democrats, 41% of Republicans have a negative view.
Among agents 14 to 49, 84% of Democrats.
Among agents, 14 to 49, 57, majority of Republicans
have a negative view of Israel.
And there's still this conversation, this back and forth take in place.
I think it's...
I mean, it's disrespectful to people.
It's unbelievable, it's disrespectful to the intelligences,
this is something to be intelligible, that this conversation is like a media cycle that's
like played itself out in the way that it did, and I think it's outright dangerous, it's
outright dangerous that people are still coming after someone like myself who actively tries
the combat pushback against anti-Semitism, being and about anti-Zionist.
Bro, it's crazy. So many of these, like, do-nothing influencers on the timeline are like,
Man, this is all the people's fault. This is the people's fault for Tamil and nothing in response to the millions and the population.
Making it seem like I said, Tamil hair isn't being worse than Trump, but just like Trump.
On Israel, yes. But, Tamil hair is herself. Should have never advocated to wage war against Iran, which she did.
she never should have came out and said,
we want to have the most lethal military.
My criticism against Kamala Harris was that she wasn't representing
successfully what the party is based in and in.
And yet, there's still people that are fucking feeling it lost.
God damn influencers.
Unbelievably unproductive people.
There are a lot of people that see the world falling apart
and they think to themselves,
how can we make this little fucking push camera that I have?
I urge, I mean not you guys in here are obviously aware of the situation but I urge people when you see stuff like this just, you know, tell them, dude, lock the fuck in.
I think they're looking for a serious amount of what they want to do and I just think you're in a vulnerable position as a little bit like you're looking for.
But instead, I've been about it. I think consistency is what you're going to do now.
I'll say the same stuff then as this. I'm saying now, does that consist of matters or something about policy?
Because it's so important.
And then the other part of it is actually, I just think that, you know, I think this is going to be a problem.
I've grown up and I've been teaching a lot about life.
I also, are you coming to come on the watcher?
You're going to have to do them, where were you before this?
That I forgot to do the job.
I'm watching to see if you can help him.
I think you can help him.
The only way to get him is going to go like this when I'm still a buddy to you, isn't it?
No.
No, I didn't think there'd be any friction at all.
I was at the shop.
I also didn't realize that something is different.
And just like him appearing on my stream raising from the dynamic.
I didn't realize that there was a big difference for stumbling, I guess, according to someone.
I mean, I think most people care.
I think we're just getting a speech.
What happens all of the time is function is bacterial.
So if you're under talking or you're out of talking, you're out of talking.
I don't know. We're about to find out.
She said, of course, is that she's made of her own hands.
Which we have to be speaking of.
Where's your discord to the max?
And that's your proud decision to make?
Yeah.
That was interesting.
And I had no opinions on what's so wrong with me.
Whatever.
Do you want to break it down to the people?
If you want, if you guys could, of course.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, the Republican industries, like Rogers,
was doing some media earlier today.
And he said that the fact that FDUL is doing this
amount with you is discordal.
You and our sponsors.
I mean, he's a Republican, so it's automatically disqualifying, especially in a state like Michigan.
I mean, if you've got a rubber stamp for Donald Trump's agenda, I think the people of Michigan are already very aware that it hasn't been beneficial for them at all.
So any vote in that direction is going to be devastating. Any Republican anywhere is going to be devastating. That's my principle.
I'm not in significant portion of the Democratic Party condemn this kind of painstack over
a period of weeks.
And these are the same people who in 2024 said, we need to get out there and we need to start
listening to new voices.
You're one of those new voices.
And it seems that they're kind of repeating a costly mistake here.
Do you agree that by shutting people like you out of the conversation, they are going
to shoot themselves in the foot again, much like they did in the lunches next to them?
Yeah, I mean, it's not even a self-serving conversation for me.
I don't necessarily care to stump with candidates at all.
I mean, I trust Dr. Nule.
I think he's a real fighter.
He's with the moment needs.
And that's why I said yes to coming on board.
I've done many events with him already on my stream.
But the reason why I think a lot of Democrats
are upset with this is because they've
been told to be upset with this.
I mean, people like Elise Slotkin and Corey Booker
have openly admitted that they don't even know
and yet they have such strong opinions apparently.
They were very forthcoming about that.
And I feel like that's exactly what's wrong
with politics now again.
Where politicians should not simply be mouthpieces
for this eclectic group of corporate donors
and corporate interests.
They should make up their own minds.
They're adults.
They're very intelligent people.
They should be critical thinkers.
And they should recognize that they
have to represent the interests of the population
and not foreign lobbies or corporate donors.
This is a major problem at the heart of the Democratic Party
and I think it's a fatal problem for American democracy.
Someone has to fight back against the Republican forces here
and the expectation right now in our current duopoly
is that that's someone at the Democratic Party.
It's unbelievable that they still are trying
to lean into harm reduction narratives
and business's usual politics at a time
people are very loudly demanding change. Perhaps that's the reason why, even though it's the opposition party,
the Democrats are not all that popular as a national party, because we have weak leadership
and we haven't mounted a strong enough opposition. It's precisely the reason why I'm happy to campaign alongside Al Dool,
because the real fight is not going to back down. He understands that voters aren't stupid, right?
If you're honest with people, if you tell them you represent their values, you represent their interests, you're going to fight for them, they're going to vote for you.
I'm just gonna get up there and yeah, dude
That's what I'm gonna do. I never stop. So it won't be that difficult I assume
Oh, I thought it was gonna be five
They're gonna go through what? Oh, sure
She wants to play a check.
My favorite.
Just give us a hand.
We'll be sitting down in the corner right in front of you
with the clock.
Josh, you have five minutes.
Congress, one minute, 10 minutes.
I will give you a one minute queue.
And you have one minute left from the top.
I'll be at the top.
You'll be at the very bottom.
When you have one minute left, when I give that one minute
queue, I'm going to come to the door
and I'll queue the next person up.
And when it's about 30 seconds left,
I want you to walk down to the front.
our interditor can introduce you all and then walk right on.
Does that sound good to everybody?
Yeah, cool.
Any questions?
Are they sitting in the front?
Yes.
Oh, thank you so much.
Once you speak, if you can sit down at the front,
there's a reserve seat sitting up there for you.
Okay, before you speak, you're hanging out back here.
Is there overflow?
Not at this point.
We have about 21 people in line.
I would like to get started in about two minutes.
We'll go check on the line.
We'll go to queue in front and I'll come back here.
Thank you everybody.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You can get up.
What's up?
Yeah, sure.
I'll get the walk out and then I'll walk down.
Yeah.
And then what I was planning on is maybe not even filming like coming back out here.
And then, um, yeah, we'll be out here, we'll wait, we'll wait until I'm filming everything with them, all of the speeches I'm going to show you.
Um, we're going to, we're going to, because we're live streaming, right?
Yeah.
So, um, well I was thinking we could, I guess there's going to be time between, uh, the two stops, right?
I'm sure that you're right.
I'm not the only one out there.
We'll see you in a minute.
I guess we can film everyone's speeches.
I?
I don't know.
We're going to go in the green.
I'll just sit here and hear you.
During our first day of school.
Yeah.
And then film one of those speeches.
We'll send it in the future.
And then after, so.
You wanted to tell me what you thought.
I would have honestly recommended...
Actually, like, watch it, you think.
I'm trying to think. Okay.
How much time do you have?
I'm sorry.
I was just going to do this reason, then, to wait it out.
And the periods of time that we have, I can just, like, you know, be out here.
Yeah, that's...
Whatever you...
I think it's, I mean, I should probably, no, we should probably film it because I need to sit there.
It's inappropriate if I walk away while they're speaking.
Yeah, that's the-
Yes.
Um, there should be a seat for you.
Okay.
Um, let me double check that before starting.
Okay.
Fine.
And then after everyone stops speaking,
We are going to take a bigger group of breasts for a shorter amount of time, increase box
meters in the free vegan, so if you want to do it, then we'll do it.
Is there a middle lady walking?
Is there a middle lady walking?
So I have a middle lady.
I might make that.
Okay.
And then do you have a question?
I might have a question about the mistakes.
No, no, I'm sorry.
We'll just film everything, and then after all the speech is done, is there other
stuff going on, right?
You'll have a car ride back.
Oh, okay. And we're not doing that.
We're not doing that.
We're going to do a quick scrum with boxes.
I'll get the intervals, folks.
Um, but then you'll have an hour.
Did you set something like the bogeys for the real world?
I mean, that's kind of shit.
I didn't think you'd say that.
You just hold on to it.
Oh, my goodness.
Say that.
We won't tell them.
Let's check into this.
Let's see the juice.
You guys can we just...
Probably some progress being made.
I don't think so.
Maybe.
What's up, man?
Oh, I'm sure.
Oh, my God.
Oh, brother.
What's up, Marcus?
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Salam alaikum.
Salam.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
I don't know.
Look at there.
I'll just leave you here.
See you later.
Thank you.
Jolly's.
I don't know.
Let me check.
Let me check you this.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know.
We'll be fine, Richard.
That's not...
It's already getting to the four bars, Richard.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
You're welcome.
I'm on the job right now.
Whatever I can do for you.
I appreciate that.
From this room?
March.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks.
You're welcome.
Thank you.
I'm gonna get one of these to take a photos of me.
Hello.
There is a call.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm not in the RCT, and I'm not in the team.
I'm on Heritage.
Where are kids?
I don't know.
Thank you.
The crowd will turn to stay.
Yes, please.
Okay, um, here, I'll stand on this side so it's like the light is not blasting in your face.
Blasting in my face.
Boomies.
Oh, it did?
Okay, so it is working.
Nice, nice, nice.
Alright, good.
KW, don't worry about it, it's on.
Her Barak Reveal President has been briefed on two week extension requests from Pakistan
and will issue a response soon.
See, that's the type of Barak Unit 821 Reveal reporting I do like.
Hopefully, hopefully that's not a situation where they're trying to dupe people.
I can't read you that.
Hmm.
That's cool.
I can.
Only feeling chat?
Okay. Okay. It's a fake out to get the people out of the power plant. I mean, I don't think
they care one way or another how many people they kill especially especially
What a crowd.
Go ahead.
As you can tell, my horse is not familiar with speech.
So I apologize ahead of time.
With my great honor to be standing alongside incredible candidates and incredible politicians
like Avalon Sian and a summer league on this glorious, beautiful day in the future.
It seems contrary to what a lot of my naysayers have been focused on for the past three weeks
of Donald Trump's insane, rambling, and bombing campaigns, this is never going to be canceled
at all.
I want to talk about that a little bit because this morning, Donald Trump, the fascist tyrant
himself, came out and said unbelievably violent things. He talked about genocide in an entire
And he was so callous and so careless towards his using, but even worse, for the past 38
days now, he's also been unmoving and reviling.
And a lot of prominent Democrats sent the last few weeks instead of developing the appropriate
response to Donald Trump's mayhem, chose to repeat what corporate governors and foreign
and big donors had told themselves, including, but not limited to, all the Los Angeles opponents,
Mallory Mcmorrow and Haley Stevens.
And that's exactly what's wrong with politics in this day and age that's precisely the reason why all of you came in
and wanted to hear responsive politics and responsive politicians speak for months.
Politicians that will be of your interest above the interests of forward donations,
politicians that are bold, politicians that are fighters,
that will immerse in your interests rather than the interests of face-to-side-to-sort operations
that pollute our honors, that consistently extract all of the value that you put out.
A lot of these college campus jobs that I do, people constantly ask me,
Hasan, everything is so chaotic right now.
How do you pay attention to what's going on and how do you not feel so nihilistic?
Especially because in the current quality that we have,
one party is obviously representative theory.
We know that, right?
They're the factures for all of you and Barbie.
And the other party is supposed to be a turn around,
it's a force against the awful politics,
the revolts of more of the violent politics
that revolting are present.
And many Democrats are on the front,
so how do you not feel nihilistic?
And I know you have to hold on to little positive,
little positive changes that you may both be in your life
that will have reverberating outcomes
that will lead to a sea change.
That possibility could potentially be playing
the four-year role in electing someone like Sauron
when we're gone into New York.
Have you guys heard of that guy?
He's very close.
His wife has.
He's very close.
He's very close.
The project that's being somehow
connected with real life could be convincing one
of your parents, one of your older parents
that has had a lifetime of propaganda
accepted their consciousness and had a totally ridiculous view about the relationship that
we have with the state of Israel. Maybe that change, as many of you have, going out and
protesting, and maybe that change take place, has actually led to a sea change in attitude,
not to the size of the reason why, when a lot of people reached out to me, or when
course the last two weeks they said hey man I'm really sorry that this is
happening you know I hope you know you get through it.
Follow him.
In the last two and a half years they smeared people like myself and people like yourselves
and he said that we were radical, said that we were wrong.
And yet, we persevered and we understood
that the violence that was taking place, it was not that
it was a sacrifice, it was just a need for comparison
to the sacrifice that the Palestinian people had.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
And the senior campaigns that started shortly after our co-receding were obviously a lot more consequential, a lot more successful back then.
But now, I can easily say welcome because I'm a little longer or longer, neither are you.
Yeah!
That's the house of change.
But you should hold close to your chest.
And that's exactly the attitude.
That's exactly the steadfastness that you can bring to every conversation,
to every step that we take in the right direction.
and sometimes it's going to be electing a fighter that will stand alongside you and represent your interests rather than the interest of our country.
So the longest time foreign policy has been consistently talked about as though it's something
that doesn't have any impact on our lives.
time we think about foreign policy and in the endless words of the Asian, it's
that we have an e-related, it comes back, groggy, and the state of this for better
and the state actually doesn't even offer them the necessary health care, right?
Health care that they promise that they would get.
Foreign policy is directly related to domestic policy because every single
dollar that is spent on the mom that employs them to school overseas is an
The dollar that is stolen from you, all of our conductives are today, all of our conductives are now at the center of the world.
All of our conductives, they are supposed to be sent on your hot holes, on your bridges, are sent blowing on bridges to overseas.
That is our real death, and we say enough is enough.
Now, it's a real honor that I have to present to you the next speaker, Summer Lee, who best
represents this fight.
She's steadfast in her approach, she's uncompromising, and just like all the others who stand in
the box, in fact, she too has been attacked by Avaque consistently, and yet she's over
We're calling those guys and they've been an incredible representative.
Thank you. Give them a round of applause.
We might be in the lecture hall, but I'm going to say it right now, this ain't a lecture.
We're not here for a lecture, so I need y'all
to get your energy out of this right here.
We're here to send a warning.
We're gonna start with that one.
I'm suddenly, I am proud to be here
with fired up students and educators and citizens
and human beings who are here to say
that we're done with the static, but we're done accepting
that this is the way that our politics just has to be.
That's how you do it. That's how you do it, Steve.
So I drove in from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and I don't like to leave my district too often.
But right now, it's important that we send a message that nobody has the right to be on the sidelines anymore.
If you're like me, you woke up this morning, your president tweeted out that we were about to eradicate an entire people.
And look at this guy, he just tweeted that out in the middle of his third illegal war.
He tweeted that out in the midst of another genocide.
So when our president says stuff like that, we can't take it lightly.
So let's say that right now, we cannot afford to be on the side of young people in Sweden.
Michiganers, wait, it's Michiganers, right?
I know. And I don't promise you guys, I have been in the Congress for three and a half years.
At no point in my life did I ever believe that anybody would send somebody to Congress
who just says what we need, somebody who's from a working class, poor, black background
from the Mon Valley of West Pennsylvania where our people built steel and we built
We built the country and we have to protect people who they want to send to Congress.
So when I say that, I know what's possible.
I want to say that.
And we're about to go, I'm about to dive in deeper, too, right?
Because from the midst of Congress, I never in my life thought that we would be in a position
right now to determine what is the future of the world.
Guys, we're in the midst of a moment where we have to decide whether or not we're going
to let some of the folks who are fighting hard right now, fighting hard to keep you discouraged,
Hard to keep you filling out with that.
Hard to keep you feeling like your voice doesn't matter.
They want that because right now they
have the city as plans for you.
Right now, they are open about the country
that they're building, who they're building it for,
and who they're trying to put out.
And if we don't think that right now,
it's our responsibility to say that I'm
going to fight as hard as a Republican.
I'm going to fight as hard as mad at them.
I'm going to fight as hard as people who
don't love their neighbor.
It's our moment to stand, pull up, or shut up.
So.
So.
So.
So.
So.
So.
So.
And close.
So.
So.
So.
So.
So.
So.
So.
So.
So.
So.
So.
So.
So.
So.
So.
to politics there's somebody to tell you that you ain't doing it right. You don't vote right.
You don't protest right. You're not coming the right way. I know what it feels like to live through
financial crises and global crises in the midst of our taxpayer dollars going to genocide. I understand.
I understand how nerve-wracking, how annoying, how disouraging it is to feel like nothing that
that we do will possibly make a change.
But I need you to understand that we cannot stay there.
We don't have enough time to stay in that place.
Right now, we need to get stand in the game.
Right now, we have to find incredible candidates,
people, incredible human beings who cannot and to fix,
to build our future with us like Abdul,
who will go to the Senate and say that no double
Trump don't need to come to ask
for permission for a war on Virginia's Act.
He needs to come for his impeachment.
Yes!
We need.
We need.
We need.
We need.
We need.
We need.
We need.
We need.
We need.
We need.
We need.
We need.
We need.
We need.
We need.
We need.
We need.
And we can have people like Abdul, who has not just sat mad here for all, but has fought for it every day in his career.
because he knows that in the wealthiest nation on earth,
there is no reason why any American,
any human being on American soil should ever die
because they have to decide between their medication
and their health.
No!
No!
No!
No!
Come on, come on, right now, right now, right there,
right now, we need people like Abdul who can say
that affordability is not a hoax,
but that people in Michigan and Pennsylvania
and everywhere else deserve to be able to afford that grocery,
especially while another billionaire
buys another guy.
That's not the country that we are going to settle for.
So right now, I'm here to tell you
that yes, these have been bringing this by design.
I don't think much of it here, then.
I don't know if any of you guys know who I am.
But I don't even feel like they
want you to be here, though.
They don't think they want you to be here today.
Establishment politicians don't want you to be here today.
People who have a vested interest, who are invested in our oppression,
people who are invested in your college being too expensive,
they're invested in your medication being too expensive,
they're invested in another war, another war, another war,
and they're begging you to stay home.
And I'm begging you to reject that.
I'm begging you to keep coming.
Right now, don't just stand here today,
don't just say that we will sit in a bolt of Congress,
But we need you to say that we will flip this script completely.
That we know responsibility.
God, it's not just the responsibility.
We have in this room the power.
This is the most powerful room in America right now.
Oh, God, thank you.
God, thank you.
God, thank you.
This is the most powerful room in America.
But only if you believe that.
Only if you believe that when you stand together,
When you exercise your collective power,
you'll organize labor, you'll organize
solid that we actually can't do directly in the whole world.
And I know that we can do it because we've seen it.
Time and time again, we saw it in the civil rights movement
and we saw it with the Partate South Africa.
We will see it in policy.
We will see it again here in the United States.
Because you're shocked.
Because you're shocked.
Because you don't need to wait for a corporate donor to tell you how you should love up on
each other.
You're the most powerful woman in America because you know, because you know that those
folks are fighting on a taking time bomb.
This hate, the politics of hate and division,
they want you to hate your Jewish neighbor
or your Muslim neighbor or your wife.
They need you to feel the other is your enemy
and not the money.
They need you to believe that the many don't
have as big of a say as the money, but we know that.
And I'm telling you that right now,
Congress don't look like we need it to look.
But the town of Congress looks like this room.
Well, Congress looks like our movement.
We're cops, folks like people who have Brexit, not just own houses,
people who have lived through poison air and poison water.
That time is coming because we are taking the time to build it.
So right now I'm saying that there is a partner in this room who can come and
help us to build the America that you deserve, but he cannot do it alone.
He will not be able to do it alone.
So guys, have a vested interest in your future.
Have the bested interest in the movement that we're building.
Know that right now, history will write about us,
and it will say, did you stay on the sidelines
or did you get your hands dirty?
Yeah.
Come on, come on.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
History has gone to ask you, if you
look at the options in front of you
and you say that, there's no reason for me to show up
But you saw a real one standing before you.
Somebody who has skin in this game,
and you said, I will step out of it.
I will not just come to the rally,
but I'm going to my classmates.
And I'm going to let them know that we have a fight ahead
of us, but we are about that fight right now.
And you guys are ready for that, that I promise you,
that what they have in store for us,
they ain't ready for you.
They're not ready for you.
So I come here, and even though I started,
I tell you all the things that were up against I come here,
even though I've been a cop for three and a half years.
I'm telling you that I feel more powerful and more encouraged
than I've ever felt.
And I hope that right now you feel more powerful
and more encouraged than you ever felt.
Because the only people who can stop us right now are us.
And the only thing that's standing between us having
a fire in the city, or another status quo down,
or another do nothing Republican,
is whether or not y'all get up,
and you fight for what you deserve.
So I'm proud to be here with my brother, Azul,
right now.
I'm proud to build not just a Congress, a Senate,
a labor movement, a civil movement
that meets this varied moment.
It will take each of us doing each of the things.
So whatever it is that your move is,
if you want to register to vote right now,
then let's still do that.
And let's talk to three, four people in our lives.
When your double-climbs is called,
our family will let them know that I'm here.
He's fighting for Medicare for all.
He's gonna get money out of our politics with me
and get on our bill.
If you are organizing and doing your activism, know that you are in a time-honored position and that is important too.
If you're working or you're protesting, boy, I know that all works.
Each and every one, guys, there's room for each and every one of us.
But right now is the time to say that this is our country and nobody is going to build it.
And we own the world ourselves.
Thank you all so much.
The power of the people is always, always there.
I'm not going to be here, but we have a good thing to do because it's only going to be my
brother's honor to introduce to that at the moment.
So, somebody wake up late to me, but if not, then it's all good.
Right now, listen, we can, and he's been all over the state.
This man has been all over the news recently, and despite the noise, he is undistracted.
He's undeterred, and he's here to fight for each and every one of you.
So with that, I am so proud to be here.
I'm proud to be endorsing, but more than that,
I'm proud to be in this fight with you all
to make sure that we sit, that the Bulldogs play it,
to sit it, and he is here right now to tell you
when we have the sword, for when we build up that order.
That's how we do this, dude.
But a lot of people don't understand that, like,
this is his job, like, he's really good.
Yeah, I need to, I need to, I need to speech go.
I think that means...
Thank you.
Who do you know one more time?
Whether it's the Dutch L.A. or West Virginia,
we just heard for some real ones,
give it up for Congresswoman Summer Lee and the Sound Micers!
I don't even know if I'm going to write it, but I have to be U.S. Senate, I'm going to
be looking for some friends.
And there's a senator out of Pennsylvania, I really think we probably can replace somebody
like her, no?
Now listen, my name is Abul El-Zaid and I am running for U.S. Senate.
I was never supposed to run for office.
Money has a lot of letters in it.
You got sounds that come out of parts of people's throat so you don't even know they
have.
I'm not supposed to run for office like every other good brown boy. I decided to go to medical school
Now look I could go 15 hours from where I grew up and
I crossed 10 years difference in life expectancy
The place you follow grandma lost two babies before the age of one. I didn't have to go 15 hours
I could go 15 minutes from where I grew up in the city of Detroit
cross a mile and I would cross the same 10-year life expectancy gap. I became a
doctor because I wanted to do something about that. Shoot them out of the color of
your skin. It shouldn't matter what your parents do for work. It shouldn't matter
where you come from. You deserve to live a long healthy life in these United States of America.
I found myself in a good apartment doing the work that Dr. Zuhl need to realize is the
the healthcare system that I was trying to be a part of was itself part of the problem
and not part of the solution. Why? Because we've sold it off to FORGE to tell us that
the value of that system is how much money it can make for a CEO rather than whether or
not it actually heals our broken bodies. So I made a decision when I graduated medical
school I said, you know what, I want to be a part of building a system that actually
hallows, makes holy the diseases that we ought to treat and hallows our bodies
the process. I went into public health. I got the opportunity to rebuild the
Detroit Health Department after it had been shut down when the state came
through the city of Detroit, forced it to shut down a 185-year-old health
department in a city with a higher income mortality rate than my father's
day to each one. Across my work in public health, leading Detroit's Health
Department, Wayne County's Department of Health, Human and Veteran Services, we
did things to take on the challenges that people face. We put glasses on
kids' faces build a program that guaranteed a pair of glasses for every kid who needed
one. Deliver 50,000 pairs of glasses across the state since we brought it to Michigan.
Woo!
And you know what else? Because we've been fighting polluters in our whole state. When
Marathon Petroleum down in Southwest Detroit, the biggest polluter in the most polluted
zip code in the whole state wanted to increase their emissions. Despite the fact that
The EPA had already said there was too much pollution in the air.
We worked with the local community.
We organized.
We forced them to invest $10 million of their own money
to reduce emissions when they had applied to increase them.
We put our quality monitors all over Wayne County.
Mike Rogers, back when he was in Congress,
you know what he did?
Woo!
He was responsible for one of the biggest pro-opioid
pieces of legislation.
I had to be a medical school.
And I remember when they came up and told us,
no, pain is the fifth vital sign, you've got to treat it.
At all costs, opioids are a really effective drug to do that.
I don't remember sitting thinking,
I don't see this in the science.
Helped to kick off to the opioid pandemic.
When I was in Wayne County, we put Narcan,
life-saving anti-overdose medication
for free in vending machines in a hundred locations
to try and do our part to save people's lives
from the opioid epidemic that he and his corporate
overlords told us was in our best interest.
I remember sitting in my office when I heard about Flint thinking, what if our kids were
exposed to the lead and we were hearing about the increase in the places where we systematically
concentrate the most of the day, most of the year in their schools.
So we had every school daycare and head start testing from the lead in the water.
When the first CCH schools were tested, 19 of them tested positive for rent.
Got all the schools on the pathway to being let free and helped to rewrite the state's
let policy after fling.
And when our county, when we learned that our county ranked number eight for medical
debt nationwide, a staggering $700 million of medical debt, we realized we're thinking
of raising the price of the dollars, I guess that's what we did, but we set aside $7
dollars to erase 700 million dollars of medical death for 300,000 people the
biggest medical debt erasure in Michigan State history.
Seeing in my office in Wayne County the day they froze federal funds I'm sitting
here looking at all the line items in my budget they just froze. Weak food on
on the table for moms and babies, federally qualified health centers, and we're outside
of healthcare for people who can't get vaccines, frozen.
And I got a notification on my phone that after his long career, our current U.S. Senator
Gary Peters is not seeking re-election.
And I had to ask myself, been in there, where is the fight for the public side?
And I believe that that fight needs to go to the U.S. Senate.
I'm not stupid, I ran back in 2018 and I said something at the time, I don't think most
folks are ready to do it.
And I said Donald Trump himself is not the disease of our politics, he's just the worst
symptom of the disease of our politics.
The disease of our politics is a system that tells us that corporations and special interests
get to buy and sell politicians to do their thing instead of ours.
It's the reason the things we have to buy become more expensive,
and the things that we do for work give us less in return.
It's the reason that they are taking our tax dollars
and spending them to drop bombs on other people's bases
rather than investing in schools and healthcare for our own.
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All of them!
All of them!
All of them!
Now look, that work, that work starts in rooms like this.
That room starts in hearts that understand that we deserve better.
Now I've been to 90 cities now.
I've done 300-plus public events.
And it doesn't matter where you go.
You can be in a living room, in Grand Rapids.
You can be in a VFW hall, in Asinaba.
You can be in a church in Detroit.
But people understand a basic thing, that we can have nice things but we can't do it alone.
That the only way to do it is to do it together.
To build a righteous politics that unites us across the things that we deserve in our society.
The ability to look your kidding in eye and tell them, I know your future could be better than mine.
To send them off to a school and know that that is a school that dignifies their brains.
to be able to walk into a doctor's office and know that the medical death is not going to hit you in the ass on the way up.
Right.
To know that when you pay your taxes that that money is actually going to benefit you rather than to devastate tens of millions of people
people to subsidize a genocide on behalf of the foreign government that some special interest
has sold you somehow about as more than your own interest. And we're not going to stand
for that anymore. We're not going to stand for that anymore.
I want to talk about a couple of issues right here and other proof that you're being the
the guests of the people of Minneapolis in one of the worst moments of their entire history.
I went to Minneapolis to understand what it looks like when our own government weaponizes
itself at a paramilitary force, answerable only to one man, against the Constitution itself
by letting siege to a city in our own country. I got to meet brave people who would never
find themselves out in a protest except for they understood that this was foundational
about whether or not we as a society would continue to live as a democracy.
People showing up in ways and places to do things they would never have dreamed of in any other time.
Now, I watched ICE.
I watched what it looks like when government employees weaponized themselves against the Constitution,
which is supposed to be the document that structures the government they worked for in the first place.
And now you have politicians who tell you, oh, this could be reformed.
We could be retrained.
Ask yourself something.
What is the training document that you give to somebody who's used a child as bait?
Let me think about the PowerPoint.
I know you all are in college, right?
So you've seen a lot of PowerPoints.
What does this slide look like?
It's like a little boy and you're like, no, don't talk to the little boy.
If that is not foundationally obvious to you as a human being, you do not deserve the working government.
And then, and then you take it out the fact that they have funded ICE to the tune of $185
billion.
That is more than the funding of the FBI.
That is more than the funding of the U.S. Marines.
A force that is not about immigration, because guess what, I mean, y'all in college, you
saw a map, right?
How close is Minneapolis to the southern border?
I don't want to tell you this about keeping the southern border safe.
I'm sorry.
They don't want to tell you this about keeping the southern border safe. I'm sorry, wrong border.
And now they're trying to set up for the same admission. This is not about immigration.
We can have a state secure border. We can enforce immigration policy.
But you don't have to shoot people on the face.
So there is no reforming. There is no retraining.
There is only abolishing ICE.
And yesterday, I don't know if you all follow the social medias, but for the last two weeks
people seem to be real upset about all of us coming out here to have this conversation
And then Donald Trump gets on the social medias and decides to tweet about
genociding the whole country of Iran.
And I just want to be clear about this.
There is no justification.
There is no legal authority for a war that Donald Trump is using to torch our tax dollars
to destroy other people's lives rather than using them to make our lives better.
This is an illegal and unjustifiable war and honestly my message to anybody in politics
right now, Democrat or Republican, is do not give me some bullshit about how you oppose
the war but would vote to fund it.
Last but not the least, last I checked, we've had an affordability crisis here at home.
So why are we fighting the Third War in four months in this country's history alone?
Why are we there?
There is one country that benefits you.
One.
Benjamin Netanyahu has been talking about taking a war to Iran for the better part of 40 years,
and he finally found a dumbass dumb enough to do it.
I'm going to go back to my entire life.
Now ask yourself, why so many politicians in America support me for what?
In fact, 100 million dollars of not a billion dollars
their money. Being spent to tell us that the most important function of our foreign policy
is to protect the interests of foreign government in the form of APAC. And look, I am proud that
The APAC has called me, the single most dangerous candidate in the U.S.
in the U.S.
The only candidate in this race who's never asked for an APAC endorsement,
the only candidate in this race that is not supported by the Israel lobby.
Now, I'll be clear about something.
I'll be absolutely clear.
All of us love and revere our Jewish neighbors
Judaism because we love and revere people
Not sit idly by while all tax dollars go to fund the genocide on behalf of the foreign government
You cannot tell me you've got people.
And justify genocide. You can't do it. It's not possible.
So here's the problem though.
When you stand up and you say that that's some bullshit, that you don't want your tax dollars being spent to buy a tank or a bomb for a foreign government,
they come at you. Now here's the thing.
My family were great for me too.
You know the second biggest recipient of foreign military aid is in the world?
Egypt!
So you know what? Start there first.
And you go ahead and call me anti-Egyptian too.
Y'all, righteous opposition to the destruction of people is about principle.
It always has been and it always will be.
It doesn't matter who is being destroyed and it doesn't matter who is doing the destroying.
If you believe in people, then you stand up for the values of people.
And you understand that every dollar that gets spent over there, you drop a bomb over there on a child over there is a dollar that is not being spent here, on your child here, on your school here, on your health care here.
And we demand that our tax bed dollars get spent here in Michigan.
And you know why people love to say well it's because he's Arab and Muslim.
No, it's because I'm talking from Michigan.
We have a choice in this election. I know I'm not supposed to run for office. Again, I'm
the wrong color, I pray the wrong way, I'm from the wrong part of the world, I train
in medicine. But we got to stop playing not to lose. And we got to start playing to win.
Because it's not enough to hold the seat if you're going to do exactly the same thing.
You're not going to opponent what are done. The question for us is how do you hold the
seat to operationalize it so people get the health care they even deserve? How do you
hold the seat to make sure that you are standing up against unjust illegal war? How
How do you hold a seat to make sure that you are not allowing ICE to weaponize itself against
the very constitution that forms the backbone of this country?
How do you make sure that it needs United States and America to stand up to protect
what is most hallowed and that is the thing we share together in this beautiful, incredible
country with so much of its future left in front of it?
That is the question in front of us here right now.
And look, we came through it the last couple of weeks.
try to tell us all of it. You can't possibly appear on certain people. You can't do it.
That's not okay. But we don't matter. When they tell us who we can and can't talk to,
we don't back down. When they tell us that we cannot have healthcare, we don't back down.
When they tell us that there is no way for us to stand up to ICE, we don't back down.
When they tell us that there is no way for us to stand up against the legal war,
we don't. They tell us that we can't win a seat because we got the wrong name or
we're the wrong person. We don't. They tell us that our people power is not enough to
take on their money power. We don't. We will never move back down against the
likes of Donald Trump or the fascism he represents because we the people win
when we stand up and that is what this movement is about. MSU, thank you so much.
Let's see if we can go in front of the students, folks.
The winner of Winner Signs.Con is going to take a nice selfie with all those great signs.
Thank you all so much for being here tonight, our speakers are going to head backstage now
so please allow them in our staff some spaces that I say, if you are fired up by what you
heard tonight, we need you to join this movement on your way out, please stop by the tables
the tables to sign up to volunteer, you have a flyer,
and make sure you're ready to go home.
Usher's going to hunt down everyone out in orderly way
and he's going to have to keep the volunteer table.
Again, thank you for coming out for a support your goal
and for being part of this movement
and have a safe trip home.
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Excuse me, sir.
I'd like to get the same one started eating.
Excuse me, sir.
It's coming.
This one's still good.
No, it's full.
This one's still good.
The camera's at 40%.
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So I'm going to swap it.
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This one, the other one wasn't really charging.
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Got it.
This is yours, right?
Oh, yes.
Thank you.
We'll have you guys stand right here.
Let's talk something.
Hey.
You're rocking it.
You're rocking it.
Oh, you're not rocking it, but now I
know what kind of energy to bring.
I'm going to try.
I'm not the camera out.
I'm going to go.
That was crazy.
My chat was like, you've got speech mark.
That's what they were saying.
All you need to do is get the people right in the hand.
Swap it, put the new juice in, and then put the other one
to the camera battery charge.
I think it's setting you down through the chat.
The board, you can start here, please.
Can you help me, sir?
Please, please.
Would you just space?
Hey, Jeff?
Please, Jeff, how's my chat?
Space.
Can we have a picture?
back in. Yeah, we're gonna take about four to five
question. If you have a question, do your hand up please.
Okay, nice.
Alright, in the back.
What do you think?
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I'm scared.
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Great, thank you for asking a really good policy question.
on housing. I personally opposed any corporate ownership of housing. I think that needs to be
abolished. I also think that the likes of Airbnb and Verbo, where you have a lot of folks who
could bring outside this allocated capital back into the market, sit on housing that they use
for Airbnb and Verbo. If anything, it needs to be abolished. We also just need to address
the licensing and the zoning issues that are really impossible to get high quality housing
I ran the health department and I know what it's like just to get a restaurant.
To actually have a new housing development bill, what happens is our policies tend to be very opaque.
And so that tends to bias the folks who have the army of lobbyists and lawyers who can actually get a project moved.
I want affordable housing. If you want affordable housing, then you've got to address that.
I believe that we need a major housing bill and I believe that housing bill needs to address all of these issues.
It needs to incentivize local, state, and municipal governments to make one-stop shops for housing projects.
And we just need massive investment in new housing. We have not built the housing stock that we need.
I'll also just say that on the demand front, we need to give people the home ownership capacity
through down payment support. So I'd love to see that in the housing bill that maybe Congresswoman Lee and I can work on.
But let's get super back to them first.
I thought you were going to ask me that.
I'm sorry?
I thought you were going to ask me that.
Boom.
Boom.
Done and done.
She's already done it.
Do we have a state news report here?
Rhea, how are you?
I'm well.
Could you elaborate on this?
When it comes to destroying federal funding for climate
interest, if I can just stay here.
Yeah, so look, I had my medical school funded
by the age.
The idea that we're going to use federal funding
for research and development and for education
as some kind of cudgel to ideologically impose
a certain set of restrictions on universities
that are meant to be about allowing for freedom of speech
and free expression is insane.
It's against the First Amendment
and a category of work they impose it.
I believe we need more funding
in research and development, not less.
But I also believe that there's an opportunity for us
to think about what 21st century funding looks like.
Having worked in funding science,
I can tell you that too often for funding projects,
I'm not necessarily on the other edge.
So we've got a point for our scientists with funding that really does help them to do the
kind of work that really is leading us to work, that has some risk involved in it.
I'll also tell you that on the education side, I believe in debt-free, tuition-free, high
rent.
I don't think anybody should be going into tripling debt to get an education.
And that's more important in the world of AI than it is that it ever has been,
because our only way forward is to make sure that folks are empowered with the
maximum capacity that they can, and that means investing in high rent in a way that
we have in the past.
It also means investing in things like trades and it's investing in vocational training that
gets invested in apprenticeships like all of the above needs to be invested in.
The last thing I'll tell you on this front is that we also got to do something about
runaway inflation kind of from university level.
I mean part of the challenge right now is that we're in this desk file where higher
ed institutions are chasing the most lucrative full freight paying students and then they're
investing in things like more furlough at the residence hall or a nicer campus
recreation building and those things don't actually prove the educational
mission of the university. I do think that there needs to be some limitation on
the overhead that comes with IRED and I think as we invest more but also impose
some limiters on that useless spend, I think we can get the kind of investment that we need.
I think we're going to learn.
Yeah, thanks for taking the question.
Obviously you are speaking to large student groups here at MSU and at U of M.
Can you speak to your strategy when it comes to coordinating the youth vote
and what might motivate young voters to turn out the primary?
Yeah, I think my colleagues have a lot to say about the primary.
I'll just say this.
You got a reason with folks about the situation that we're in, like, too often politicians are having this debate that's completely divorced from the lived experience of young people.
And then we show up on election day and be like, how come young people don't vote? Well, we didn't get many people vote for them.
And so I think you've got to literally do the work of listening. I've been to every major campus on this state, every single one.
And I listened first, and then we talked about the challenges that folks face. I'm not talking down to them.
I'm talking specifically to the Chalmers of the Trace,
because I believe that they've got the great state
in our future, and we need to build a politics
that is responsive to them.
I'm also speaking to them in the places where they actually are.
We've probably missed the last two weeks of controversy,
but part of the reason that it's so important for me
to be engaged with someone like Sonders
because he's talking to these folks and raising a single thing.
And if we're serious about building a politics that unlocks
for the folks who feel locked out,
you've got to be serious about going to places where they naturally are.
watching MSNOW, they're not watching CNN, they're not watching Fox News. I do those
too, but they are listening and watching on Sun Street. So I want to go to where
they are to have a conversation that centers them on the kind of future that
they need and deserve. The other thing I'll tell you is this, it's not just about young people,
it's about all the folks that young people influence. I'm a father. My kids are not a
building agent. But I'll tell you what, if my kids tell me something's important
I'm going to pay attention. They're 83. So you can imagine if your kids are
18, 19, 20, 22 and they're saying this political conversation you'll keep
having has nothing to do with my life. And here's what I'm paying attention to. I'm going to listen.
So I want to empower all these young folks to have a conversation with your parents and your
grandparents. Talk to them about why you care about this campaign, why you are spending your
time here. It's fascinating to me like there are things that happen when I go to a defense.
We always have young people and older folks, especially when you go to like them clubs
where young people almost never would get caught there, right? Older folks come up to
me like, how did you get the young people much along? And I'm like, well, you know,
I go to where the young people are and then the young people come up to me like,
Let's go, so speaking of Fox News, let's take one from Fox News.
Fox News, I was on your program this morning.
You were, thank you for that.
Yeah, I'm honored to be there, we'll come again.
Thank you.
I got a great grilling.
My teeth are so clean out there.
Obviously, having a song here brought a lot of energy and excitement with this college crowd.
That's really important for what you're going for in the primary.
Do you acknowledge though, when you go to the general election, that's a strategy that could, you know,
have some negative consequences while it's helpful to find out?
No, I don't.
And the reason I don't is because a vote is a vote is a vote as well.
It doesn't matter if it's an 18-year-old, it doesn't matter if it's a 65-year-old.
I'll also tell you this, the most important person in an older person's life is the young people in their lives.
So, I'm betting that all of these young people who are here today, they're going to have conversations.
conversations when they go home for summer vacation with their parents and their grandparents
and I can tell you that watching parents interact with their kids, they're always looking for
something that the kids are telling them, right?
And if they're seeing their young people put a lot of sweat and tears in this campaign,
right, going out there not condors, they're going to ask, what is it about this campaign
that's so exciting to me?
But what does it say to you about the future you actually want for yourself?
And they're going to have a lot of important, probably difficult conversations, I know
I had this conversation with my friends when I was younger and I'm betting on that right as a pretty important electoral strategy
I'm also going to tell you this I remember back on Fox News when they were talking about ending the cancer culture here
I don't know when we found the cancer culture here again
I put it away right the whole platform police thing because what I don't agree with most of the folks who host boxing friends on lunch
But we had a conversation know why because I'm not too good then they're not better than having a conversation with people
people because I want to talk to their audience, right?
Whether we agree or we don't agree,
the whole point is to persuade.
So of course I'm going to show up on your station
the next time you're all invited.
It might be a difficult conversation.
Those are usually the best house productive ones.
And I'm not afraid of them, unlike too many Democrats
and frankly too many Republicans.
We're going to do two more.
Owen from Merce.
Yeah, hi.
Hey, Owen.
I wonder if, you know, with the controversy that's
been stirred by these weeks, I think the already
needed here for moderate Democrats
is that some of your more progressive positions
polishing ice, for example, some of your staunch
opposition to the US corporate Israel.
Here's a thought that those positions are too
progressive to ban an internal election.
And I know you implicitly hit on this throughout and during
the rally, but I just want you to fully make
your case of why that thinking is strong.
If perfectly inoffensive won elections,
then Donald Trump would never have been present.
I think people are looking for honest and direct and specific, and so I'm going to be
honest and direct and specific.
And I've got perfectly good reasons to believe what I believe.
Contrary to opinion in places like this where all of us live, breathe and eat politics all
the time, most people don't ask themselves where they sit on a left-right spectrum of
their politics.
Most people ask, what do I think about things?
And who's talking about the things that I think about?
And it turns out that a lot of people are, I'm going to use a word here, but I'm going to explain it, Chimeric.
It's not that they are on a spectrum, like between here and here.
It's that they got opinions all over the place.
And at the end of the day, they want to know whether or not you believe in your opinions.
So I've had people come up to me in places being like, you know what, I don't agree with you on certain things.
I'm like, okay.
But they're like, I'm going to vote for you. I'm like, why?
They're like, because I know what you believe.
Because you don't, you don't, you don't try and tell me what I want to hear.
I don't hold debate with a guy about the Second Amendment.
And he was like, well, you don't believe in the Second Amendment.
I was like, absolutely no.
Like, let's read what it actually says, because the whole point of the Second Amendment is
to protect you from your government.
And your government has nukes.
So you think you should have nukes?
And he was like, well, maybe I was like, you think I should have nukes?
He was like, absolutely not.
I was like, OK, well, if you don't think I should have a nukes,
then you agree there's a line.
The question is just where's the line?
And so he comes up to me afterwards with $100 check.
He's like, I'm supporting you.
I was like, why?
I thought we disagreed.
He's like, this is the one issue you and I don't agree on.
But I want to have health care and you want me to have health care and I don't think corporations should get to decide
Future of my politics and you don't either so I know that you're gonna go fight like hell because you were not afraid of me
And you could have just told me what you thought I wanted here
And you could have just tried to take the edge off you didn't you went right at it
That kind of politics is what authenticity is made for and people are sick and tired of voting for politicians
Who are trying to bake and polish themselves to be just right they want people who are people so we're having real
Real human conversations and let's see where it goes
Do you want me to make the case for Michigan voters to vote for Abdul?
Look, I don't appear alongside a lot of politicians.
I do have them on the broadcast quite frequently.
But the reason why I went up, Abdul asked me to come on this journey with them.
He said yes, absolutely. Not realizing what kind of backlash that would even start, but
I would do it again, just the same regardless. He's because he's a real fighter. He's honest.
He doesn't treat people like they're stupid. He understands that voters have demands and
he will respond to those demands. So if you personally want a fighter, then he's
going to make sure, and fight like hell, make sure that you get Medicare for all, that you
get free health care, that every other OECD nation has, that we simply don't have the
wealthiest nation on earth, then obduse your guy. If you're sick and tired of endless
wars and all of our taxes going to blowing up schools overseas rather than building
schools here and ensuring that we have a better future, a better trajectory for the United
States of America than Abdul's your guy.
So that's my argument for why you should go out and not only vote for him, but you should
go out and also doorknob for him as well.
Because he's going to need it.
There are a lot of corporate powers at play in every single race.
You've got APAC, you've got corporate lobbyists, you've got the big pharmaceutical
industry that are going to do everything they can to disparage them. They've
already started doing that as a matter of fact in the past two weeks. And the
reason why they're doing that is because they're afraid. They're afraid of your
voice, okay? They're afraid of your voice being heard in the halls of the
Senate. And that's why I'm proud to stand next to him. That's why I'm proud to
endorse him. And I hope that other people can see what I see as well.
I'm not going to have to pass on my place because I'm thinking about the famous questions, right?
What voters know is that in a primary, we sometimes will have tough conversations and tough battles.
Sometimes it will be ideological. Do we want someone who believes in Medicare for all or Medicare for some?
Do we believe in housing for the poor, in the working class, or exemptions for corporate landlords?
Those are some of the conversations we have. One thing that voters will know when we get to the general
is that that is about the direction that we want our country to go into.
to. The primary is the direction we want our party to go to, and the general will be the
direction that we want our country to go into. And right now, everybody who is a Democrat
in good faith will have an obligation to make sure that we make that clear. This will be
a decision between a Senate that does whatever it is that Trump tells it to do. It will
be a Senate that turns its head when it doesn't want him to look at it anymore. It
will be a Senate that's wits. Or it will be a Democrat who will vote for your best
interest. It will be a Democrat who will stand with working class people, with
marginalized people, who will stand with the people not just of Michigan but this
entire country and that will be clear not just by the end of August but
absolutely by November. And I think that any argument outside of that, if
anybody is gonna come, I don't believe any mission group members are gonna come
here and say well I'm voting because of the Hassan. They're gonna say I'm voting for the food on my table. I'm voting for the air and the water of my children.
I'm voting for those union jobs that President Trump has tried relentlessly to get rid of.
They're voting because they believe in a future that people have said is not possible.
And they will know at the end of the day where those stands, and they will know at the end
of the day where a Republican stands.
So I'm not worried about that.
I'm worried about whether or not we each do our job to make sure that the main
thing is the main thing, and that we don't use the same distracting tactics, the same
negative politics that so many people have gotten with over time in the memorial now.
But things of those politics are old and tired.
We'll take Andrew, and then we're going to wrap up.
We're off the reporter.
Andrew, off to me.
Sorry, I love all of you guys.
But like, you can cover me.
It's a serious, nice thing.
I guess I'll ask the room.
Senator Sanders has endorsed about dual.
Senator Warren has endorsed an allergy tomorrow.
Is there a concern that this race could become
sort of a proxy rematch of 2020?
No.
I think we've moved on.
It's 2026.
Nobody's having a proxy rematch.
And at the end of the day, you know, I don't love forced-race questions because I'm actually
not like we're not physically racing, you know, there's not like, this is about building
an indelible relationship with the voters in the state of Michigan.
My job at the end of the day is that they know who I am, words and all that.
They can predict what I will do based on what I've said I will do and based on
what I've done, based on how I come to my decisions.
And if they know that and they know me, then I'm betting I win.
And at the end of the day, the thing that you'll get with me is I'm pretty consistent.
I've been saying the same things since 2018 when I ran the first time.
I didn't take over money when I ran the first time.
I understood how devastating it was for our politics the first time.
I've been about the same things consistently.
I got yelled at by a lovely old lady at church.
She was like, why are you not talking about new things?
I was like, because we've got the same old problems.
You give me some new problems, I'll talk about new things.
But at the end of the day, we've got the same old problems.
And so until we solve the same old problems,
I'm gonna keep talking about the same old problems in the same old ways
because there are real solutions there.
They're right there.
Now look, we've got some new problems, right?
Like, think about AI and data centers and all these other things.
Yes, but at the end of the day, you kind of can predict where I stand.
Why?
Because I stand against corporations dominating our politics to get their way, right, in ways
that hurt us, pretty consistent across the board.
So look, at the end of the day, my bet is when people know who I am, when they see
what the name is actually about, I'm betting that they're going to support us.
That's the best bet I can make.
I wish both of my opponents well in their race, trying to do the same things, but
I got nothing against them.
I've got a lot more about what I want to do to stand between
Michiganders and a brutal corporate politics that has
had their way with the fucks along.
Can people in your community reflect what you're seeing on the graph?
I mean, look, I talk to people every day, and it's rare that we
end up sharing space outside of a certain number of forums.
But I'll tell you that people are sick and tired
of watching politicians come and tell them what they're going to do only to find out
that things have just gotten worse over time.
There's a thing that happens with politicians.
a certain willingness to move on positions because it seems to be a short-term opportunity.
And people don't realize that when you move, you're saying something about your steadfastness on its own terms.
And the only thing I can communicate is, I'm consistent, right?
And I don't back down to anyone.
So, you know, if that's what folks want, then I'll win this race.
If that's not what folks want, then so be it.
You know what I mean? But at the end of the day, like, I am not willing to bend, right?
Because somebody has told me that it was more politic to do.
That's just not who I am. It's not in my DNA. It's not how I work.
Um, you've covered me long enough to know that.
Thank you guys. We're gonna have a long summer here at Dual State here
and press exit out the black curtain that way.
Yeah, thank you guys for being here.
Sir, I just need to hit...
Hit on my sign.
Hit on my sign.
Hit on my sign.
Hit on my sign.
Oh, yeah.
Thank you guys. Thank you for coming.
Really great question. Appreciate it.
That's great.
Chad, you might have seen these two wonderful gentlemen on your TikTok feed.
That's precisely where I encountered their commentary.
And I was like, why so much? That's the first thing I thought.
I was like, there's a lot of leg here.
Short shorts and just legs for everyone to see.
And then I was like, whenever I see a new political commentary outlet,
I'm always like, oh, here we go.
These guys are going to be like moderates.
White boys talking to one another, I'm like here we go, they're gonna be like, oh it's uh,
Pusant is a dangerous man life?
Well you know, a Maliki tell us in America, once the check clears, once the check clears,
can't see, get on it, get these boys laced up.
Exactly, get us out of the Midwest.
Yeah.
Um, what's up, are we doing something here?
Are you guys just chillin?
We're just having a little chat.
I think we have to go to the next place, right?
No.
Are we at Five More Mids?
Sure, we can do it.
You can do it on the handle, Sam, it's real good.
Okay.
I'll do it one handed.
Okay, you're gonna one beat it?
All right.
You wanna set up right here while you guys hit the street?
Sure.
I can't do it on the other hand, Jayne.
I'll start, it's okay.
We get a roadie.
Oh.
I mean, you can, but I don't know anything about it.
I hope so.
I hope so.
Because honestly, it kind of feels like the Democrats speak.
No, but it's just so funny because they genuinely think this is like a reliable angle of attack.
And it's just like, they don't understand.
But they don't understand.
You hear that, they go, what are you talking about?
Who is the son, like no one that,
no one who knows of me, that has an opinion on me,
is going to, they're either gonna love me
and they're already gonna be voting for op-dual
or they're gonna hate me
and they're definitely not gonna vote
for most likely any of them, right?
So like it's so unbelievably stupid to try
and do this, especially on a issue that's 90-10.
Anyway, all right, let's get a little bit more of a deal here.
Why is he the most angry?
He's the most angry guy in the world.
Because he can lift three plates.
Honestly, I was looking through the candidates,
and I was like, who can actually out the bench
that drunk, rapist Pete Higgs, that lead
the Secretariat and the SAC guys off the left side?
And I was like, yeah, that's the guy.
Any Democrat that ventures through 15 on that.
Yeah, Jamal Bowman, shout out.
He can also do it.
See, I know.
I know my candidates.
Now, we're at Michigan State University.
What do you think Democrats should probably do to get you
back to the housing points?
I think they need to demonstrate that they're
responsive to their needs.
It's so weird that it's the constant thing
that I try to bring up to politicians whenever I talk
to them.
I'm like, no, listen to the voters
and be identifiable by key policies that will immediately
improve their material conditions.
That's what democracy is about, right?
We're not really at that level here, but so many politicians, and I will say, I will
never say this, he's not about the worst race or rat race, but I think there's a type of
politician that is trying to always moderate and they don't want to lead on issues, they're
afraid to lead on issues, they're afraid to be out there in any way shape or form.
And what I really appreciate about him really is he is unafraid.
He's very bold.
He wants to fight.
That's exactly the type of community we need right now.
And I wish that other Democrats that are already in office would also take note of that kind of
of that kind of politician really and start saying it like it is.
Because people are dumb.
Like, you don't have to do this song and dance about our allegiance to the state of Israel
because that looks transparently like you're in the pocket of a pet.
Like you are absolutely worried about getting yelled at, getting your nose and nerves cut,
to give you calls that are going to hurt your feelings, and maybe even withdraw support somewhere not for them.
Just have people back here to see, and stand on your fucking convictions, and stand on your principles,
and actually fight back for once. That's what people want, and I think that's what Uplil represents very well.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you guys.
Want to take a photo?
Alright.
Are they Instagraming you?
Instagraming you.
I'm true.
Stop it.
Stop it.
I'm looking at you.
Alright.
Let me get you.
Yeah, sure.
Why am I in a recording?
I'm not an iPhone person.
I'm a fan. I watch you guys.
Yeah, I watch you guys.
Three, two, one.
No, I don't think there's any chance we can do that.
It's not good.
It's not good.
So we're doing everything we can.
But it's still like...
I don't think people are saying that.
I think people shouldn't be afraid to have tough conversations.
Alright, let's skip into the series.
She absolutely is.
Yeah.
Oh.
Alright, alright.
Yeah, we're two.
Oh, yeah.
Nice.
Ooh, man.
Oh, look.
We're gonna have a...
Oh, shit.
We're gonna have like a, she expected this place obviously, but like, others, oh yeah, that's true
Fucking chatters for the chatters that don't know
Chatters that don't know, March is a heater
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You're a better man.
We need to find a way to charge.
I need a car.
I think that there are a lot of people who think everybody looks so excellent in their
clothes.
I don't think that there's more.
I don't even think that there are three of those girls on this strike on the left,
right, you know, binary, spectrum.
I think that people, or even themselves, this is the condition that they're on every
single day.
One of the chatters gave this morning.
I think that in Michigan or sweet state, that would give them a much greater
and to allow the media that have the green victory is diverse
and they all deserve a minority vote for them and that way.
So this kind of media that you have today,
you can't believe just by modeling up in this book.
Should I wear that?
I don't know how to tell you.
I'm a treacher.
Unbelievable.
And most of it for everybody,
that is possible to have more access
to help to air quality, also looking for somebody who wants to
please you inside of the structure and environment.
So, I think that's the interview you're starting.
I want you all to be removed by a change of mind.
You're still growing up.
You're still growing up on that.
It's crazy.
You can process through comments, which again,
he has twice impeached.
So, right now, we would need Republicans who have so far
Right now, my Johnson, who bring us back to bring us into fact, and we can do the right thing right now, and remove unprecedented abuse that will come in late and capable of solving it.
And if we all do that, Republicans can't move us on out of the same category.
We'll go between women.
So those are the two pathways that we have right now to do the right thing and to the shot that is.
And we can certainly come to this with a lot of ways to help people in the fight for our home.
Let's say right now, we move from a producer to a writer, and we need to build a team of
people to take every single shot that we have to get people sent right off to the data
center.
The center needs to be a control that the people are supposed to be able to take.
Yeah, I'm trying to get a tool in there to make sure that the center is looking
great for the Americans.
And there will be other shots coming through right now.
We're gonna talk about all the opportunities that we have right now.
I hope that in four years.
I don't know.
I'm a little democracy.
What's it doing, man?
I've been waiting for my invitation back.
I just got a little bit of a chore.
Let's just keep it charging for now.
We're in this way.
Just stand over there.
I want to get maximum juice out of that charger.
I love my boys in blue.
Oh my lord.
is so,
it's, they're such a massive disconnect
between like how DC operates
and how DC media operates
and how like normal people,
they don't understand where they're like,
even Dave, right?
Dave Weigel, who I've known for many years, right?
But he still has that like DC brain sometimes,
like I saw him just post about how,
you know, some release game, less attention,
even though she's like outstumping without doing it,
it's quite significant because like,
she doesn't have a challenger
and that's why she has no problem in aligning with the sun or whatever
but it's like, I don't know, I would have, if I was out of stone then I would have stoned for her too
Right?
It was a whole wide difference
Like, that's like, it's not even, like these sorts of things, these sorts of like, manufactured controversies
have a lot less relevance and a lot less significance in the eyes of like everyday people
It's it's old guard politics the idea that like oh, this is a controversial person
You actually linked up with them when I'm an endlessly accessible person
So you don't only get to hear from me on short verse on MSMBC or CNN or Fox News
You get to actually
directly hear from me
In an unvarnished manner so you can make that you can make up your own mind on these sorts of things
All right.
Yeah, I know.
More than $36,000 are streaming on someone's feet as well, so we're going to 400 in a room.
What's the reaction been so far, Chatters?
Is there more manufactured controversy or are we talking?
Sorry, Janet, I dropped you.
You wanna fuck with us?
Why are they talking about our fox names?
Well, I heard Dems appearing with us on Piker.
What we're seeing with Piker is an indication of where the Democratic Party is today.
I'll do a real shout out to being the first Muslim U.S. Senator.
That's something we're seeing in the significant march of Islam across the U.S.
There's been concerning to me in a lot of my colleagues.
Dude, you're...
I mean, you got a fucking white robe on at that point.
You know what I mean? You got the pointy KKK clans robot
Brother, that's a you issue, you know what I mean? Like
Abdul
and myself
we're
born here
you know
this man loves America so much he's running for fucking senate
like, what is this argument?
he definitely chip Roy, Texas congressman, he definitely loves America a lot more than you do son of a bitch
you're fucking republican
clearly he doesn't care
what someone's background is gonna give them health care no matter what this kind
of arguments these kind of arguments are so ridiculous
Anyway, the B-52s are turning back.
Taco Tuesday, baby.
Taco Tuesday.
I'll give you guys details on what the latest updates are with Iran and everything else that's going on in a second.
You know?
Well yeah, Democrats age 18 to 48, 9.
52% say the conflict between Israel and Amman is important to them personally
84% view Israel in favor of it
What is the argument?
What's the argument?
What are we doing?
There's still people that are like, oooohh
Now situation monitoring
I think it looks like a hoax going to me
I can talk all to that, hope that's the case
Hmm
Grab me a bag of those Miss Vicky's bruh
Miss Vicky
Little bag?
Yes.
I'm just kidding. I hope.
I'm afraid of the cops.
I don't know what's going on there, but I'll just give you a hand.
school have a harder time getting out of primaries. They're much easier. They have a much easier
time in the general. We saw this with Bernie Sanders in 2016. We saw it again in 2020. We
can't let it happen anymore. You have to go out and talk to your parents. You have
the doorknob. You have the phone bank. You have the fundraise for them. There's going
to be tens of millions of dollars that they're going to dump into this race, both in
the primaries as they've already started and certainly in the general as well. So
it's up to all of us to fight for not just Abdul, but people like Abdul as
well all around the country but you have very important mission so I hope you can do that all right thank you for coming
Go, Lone!
Go, Lone!
You gotta go.
You gotta go.
Get a good photo.
Get a good photo.
Sure.
Go, Lone!
Go, Lone!
You do it.
Yeah, you do.
Three, two, one.
Go, Lone!
Go, Lone!
Yeah, your team workers.
You're lovely.
Let's go read them.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Oh, shit.
Damn, it's cold.
Oh, she's a cold one.
Ah, there's people here, too.
Lunk.
Lunk of W.
So wait, whose charger is that?
It's his, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, so as long as we're not...
Yeah, we're good.
Thanks for coming, guys.
Thanks so much, man.
You're awesome.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Take the straight up.
Have fun.
We're in the gaming man, alright.
I'm fine with that seat. It's fine.
I'm sure. Where is he?
I'm trying to make sure that he's getting on to the beach.
Yeah.
You're going to make a difference.
I'm sure we can do that.
I'll let you guys decide.
He's the man.
The man is the man.
I'm afraid.
Oh, he did?
No, he did.
He might have just gone.
I don't know, man.
He's right there. He's right there.
Yeah, he did. He did a hand-off.
He was like, you can have this one for them.
I see him.
Don't forget the doorknob for Abdullah, right?
Phone bank and doorknob.
Talk to your parents.
Thank you, I have your siblings.
Alright.
Alright, where do we go?
You want to sit next?
I'm happy to sit this way in the main for like an hour and a half.
Oh yeah.
Sorry Chad.
Hold on.
You got room one more back here.
I think Kevin's got the time.
You all Brian, Brian, this is Brian.
Welcome.
Welcome.
I think Kevin's got the time.
Hey all, Brian, Brian, this is, uh, Brian?
Welcome.
Can we see if we can charge you out?
There's a car charge right here.
Yeah.
We just gotta use that.
Is there, like, an outlet?
One of these back there.
Uh, as if there is, you can just take a look.
Wait, isn't that a regular power outlet?
Yeah, that's a little bit.
Oh shit, wait, it was my phone.
Okay, I'll finish it.
How'd that go?
It was great. You guys rocked it.
You guys were phenomenal.
I appreciate it.
Sorry, I didn't do that.
So funny, there's like a...
I was talking about this, like,
there's this massive disconnect between like normal people
and what their values are, what they want,
out of politics, but also like,
what they consider to be controversial.
Yeah, we're getting started.
the DC bubble, it can like laser in on sometimes.
But the DC, they're trying to like frame the narrative.
It's like, I'm gonna convince you all,
this is the actual thing that's important.
But in normal circumstances, I think like,
in the olden times,
that's right, Kevin, keep asking me about coffee, please.
I know that's right.
Yeah, in the,
I'm like, ageing for a yellow rebel.
We have a, we have a club, I feel it.
Sin yellow rebels, no.
I think it is on. Oh, it is not. It's really good. It's a honey latte.
I made it while I was making coffee earlier.
Thank you, thank you so much.
You struggled through, you know, the best thing you want to do is take a ride.
Try?
No, I'm not that doubtful to you.
I mean, you're going to give me a good tip to your coffee.
This man is like a barista.
In his house, though.
Me too.
What I was going to say is like, in the old days, I think when there were, you know,
when there wasn't such diversity and where people can get their information from,
he did actually dominate the field, right?
nowadays especially with someone like myself like I am a media company on my
own in some ways right so like people are like oh what's this about
mainstream forces can no longer speak over me or I can just like speak for
myself right even if like those outlets that you know don't want to field
questions to me directly and want to create like whatever elaborate narrative they want to in
manufacturer outrage I think people are one more resilient to that kind of pressure because they
see it and they're like why am I supposed to care about this the president is who he is like this
is ridiculous but then also if people want to see context or see what I'm about I'm no longer
defined by those you know whatever whatever frame that they're using they can just come to me
directly and hear what happens here.
Everything changed when progressives found out how to communicate directly to people.
Yeah.
Right.
So the media...
That's what a lot of people are, I think, very worried about.
Well, it's their control of power.
Yeah.
They've been able to control the narrative for a very long time and dictate what was
in-bounds or out-of-bounds.
And when you're no longer able to control that narrative or say that some people
cannot be platformed because they can platform themselves,
At some point you start to realize that actually there's a lot more diversity and be that
The power players never really did us a service
Yeah, right in terms of actually exposing us to what was really like going on and like you know
I'm I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I understand why people are such conspiracy theorist because what happens is
Well, like I understand why people like people are looking for that because at the end of the day
It's like all of a sudden all the scales have fallen off
Like you look at the Epstein shit, right?
And you're just like,
how is this not actually a conspiracy?
Like at some point, like some weird shit happened here.
And like, if this is the cabal of people who hold power
and the weird shit that they were doing,
at some point, everything that I've been told,
I can think or cannot think, I have to rethink.
You know what I mean?
And, you know, it's tough when you feel like you're,
everyone who has told you
or has set the bounds of the conversation
seems to be doing it in their interest and not yours.
So I'll tell you, like I remember in the heart of the COVID epidemic,
I had conversations with folks about taking the vaccine and they were like,
well, how can I trust big pharma? I'm like, look, at the end of the day,
you can't, but the issue is not that big pharma makes bad stuff.
The issue is that big pharma that makes good stuff and raises the prices too
high. So you can't actually afford it. Right? Like that's the issue,
but getting that part right is hard. Once you're like, wait,
if you're frozen at your own interest is about making money,
how can I trust you on anything? Yeah. No, you're so right about that.
like I think that's a big part of the reason why we have so much vaccine
hesitancy in this country is because what do you hear all the time people are
like oh a big pharma like they take away the cure they give you the poison they
don't want it like they pay wallet they want to make money off of us and and it
creates this like a weird dynamic because it's so inhumane it's so
unbelievably inhumane to pay while someone's someone's here so I'm
able to also because of things like the testing you said for a study
Yeah, that too, for sure.
Lied, lied to people for decades.
The number one thing that I found that was very good at countering that kind of stuff
when the peak of vaccine hesitancy was every rich person cut the line.
Every rich person cut the line to get that vaccine.
That's true.
I know for a fact that Rupert Murdoch was massive.
He was genuinely so fearful of COVID for a good reason.
I mean, it was ripping people apart.
It's a terrible disease.
Yeah.
And it's, that usually is like when people go,
okay, actually that kind of makes sense.
I had a gentleman, it was wild, like I was in Detroit.
And he's like, I'm doing this, I'm gonna take it,
I trust you, I've been knowing you for a minute.
I trust you.
Well, I got a question for you.
I was like, he's like,
the other day y'all are out here
trying to get me to take this vaccine,
it didn't exist a year ago.
For a disease that didn't exist a year ago
that I don't even have.
and I've been having diabetes my whole life.
That medication's 100 years old.
So why weren't you out here
when I couldn't afford my diabetes for my insulin,
for a disease I know I have?
And at that point I was just like,
there you go, I want you.
Right?
You're absolutely right, is that okay?
I said, hey, why won't you?
Yeah, I mean, and this is like for me it was just like,
yeah, this is why we need Medicare for all.
Because if you can't trust that the healthcare system
has your best interest in a moment like this,
then at some point, we've lost the entire plot.
I mean, I also have a bunch of prescription drugs,
shit, and working thousands of dollars.
No, should be free.
Yeah.
Should be free.
Somebody in my family, I think it's about $10,000.
That's the same.
By the way, whenever people ask you guys,
like, oh, how do we reach out to young voters,
or why is this on there?
Why is this presence here so controversial?
Newt Coose, that he came out.
I'm going to read you some data.
Democrats age 18 to 49.
49?
That's like, yeah, that's not even stupid.
You're like, I made it in!
I made it!
Yeah.
I mean, it's just so old in that room.
Holy 21!
You're over probably.
But listen, 52% say the conflict between Israel and Hamas
is important to them personally.
That's the majority of people under the age of 49
that are voter eligible that say, or Democrats,
Let's say the Israel situation is important to them personally, 84% view Israel unfavorably,
84%.
Democrats 50 plus 57% say the conflict between Israel and Amos is important to them personally,
so it's an even higher percentage.
76% view Israel unfavorably.
It's ridiculous.
And then you look at our elected representatives and you would think that the numbers were
flipped on his head. It's unbearable. To be incredibly clear, even if that we're
not the number doing the right thing is still the obligation of your life
and force. We have the power of life and death in our vote. And I think that a lot
of people ask me about this. I mean they always do. I mean they still do.
They always have. And I have to remind people that at the end of the day, my vote has the power to determine whether or not a person survives.
Right? I don't take that lightly. So when you ask me, like when you ask me
non-civilian like in my role as a government official, right? To do that, right? As if that
doesn't weigh on my soul, on their souls, on ours, like even back in them themselves.
Sometimes if everybody was saying that it's like no, don't do it and the poll said that
we should not be poll watchers, like we're supposed to set the temperature.
Yes, what you, you are fighting this fight with the numbers to not look like them.
Yes. They did not look like them.
And you took it on the chin and you stood for a while. Like that, I mean that just took
incredible courage and I'm just really I'm really grateful for you. I remember
showing up on a I don't remember this I was your opening act on fundraiser I
think when you're running in 2022 and I remember just listening to you and be
like you know this is it would be so easy if you didn't believe it in your
soul. It would just be like you know what I'm gonna give up on this issue.
It's very much what we see, doing exactly that.
Even now, where it's like an 80-20 issue.
Yeah, but that makes it even more ridiculous.
I mean, it was ridiculous that they
refused to lead into this issue at all,
even from a perspective that was beneficial in the elections.
Like, I had so many conversations privately, publicly,
with campaigns, with Democrats, both at the DNC,
outside of the DNC.
I couldn't, I couldn't believe it. I mean, there were already plenty of polls that showed
that this was an issue that people had a lot of concern around, because I'm giving up on
the notion that they're, that, you know, most elected representatives are going to do the
right thing, even if it requires courage, do the right thing without any, like, immediate
tangible or equal benefits. But even there-
I don't want to dig deeper into that one day.
And I do also think that we treat elected officials
like they are a special unicorn species of people
and that they are not also just people poor and fallible,
who I know so many people who just want to be able
to represent their districts, right?
They didn't come into this.
Do you have to do a longer one?
Yeah, they didn't come into this like I'm gonna,
I'm gonna be apparently, I'm like,
I wanna represent my districts.
I wanna be able to talk about this thing,
to do this thing.
And I'm running politics ain't fake, man.
It's not that you think it's the machine that like I think it's very many things
I think it's many many things and I think that when we kind of like isolate them one by one
Then that's a real problem. It's again. These are real people, right?
Which means that we act the exact same way as the general public accent thing
We are the recollection of the American population like we're a mirror to each other
And I think that sometimes people want to act like that a case, but it is man. We're human
We go into these places. This is no excuse we go into these places
I remember the days after October 7th, it was very few of us who were taking that stance
like early days like on October 7th when we were like, we could think about what might
come next because we've seen what's happened before and we know what happens when the
president uses dehumanizing language and even just to try to like, scare people away from
dehumanizing language.
There's three and six of us.
You know, seven out of five hundred and thirty-five, right?
That's not easy.
Like it is choosing to be uncomfortable every single day and that is our responsibility.
it is. Don't get it wrong. Fully our responsibility to do the right thing to be uncomfortable because
we chose that. We chose this life. But also recognizing that human beings really ain't
built for always being under fire, always being alone, always being trapped. The reason
why I put money in politics as my number one issue, if people ask me, it's not because
I believe that I deep prioritize anything else. It's because I actually do believe
that the only way that we're going to get to the heart of building a Congress
that is responsive to regular people,
is to get the influence of corporations,
of billionaires, of just like terrible people out of it.
I don't care about APAC having an opinion.
I care about APAC having too much of a say.
Right, at the end of the day,
if we had a marketplace of ideas
that I would have my stance and they would have their stance
and everybody would have their one vote,
that's just not how the system is working right now.
I know I know people who are like I want to represent my decision. You know a pack is calling people on the house floor
But they're calling politicians. The politicians should be actually no excuse for a politician. It's a coward. Yeah, please leave
How much do you think there is that against me? I mean US Senate race?
Yeah, the Senate races are so much more expensive and honestly
I don't even know if they like they have they've not even to this day like played in the city that much
So this is gonna be new terrain and it's a place where they can you know, really have a big say
And it's not even gonna be them again
This is the thing, it's them, DMFI is all of them, and this is the, this is the whole part, right? Like, you can raise, you can say all of them.
I don't think your center raise should be $100,000.
$100,000?
My bad.
You're right.
$100,000!
That's how tired I am, but I said $100,000.
$100,000!
That's it, that's it.
100 countries have publicly funded campaigns for this reason. There's like, limits to what you can and can't spend.
And limits to who can and can't be in here.
I mean, you can't be in here.
So Chad, I'm just telling you, I need your help, okay?
Five bucks, 10 bucks, it goes a long way.
Yeah, we have it.
We have it.
I need your help, like y'all, like I really need it.
I mean, I spend half of my time,
how much of my time do I spend fundraising?
It's insane.
That's a really good question, guys,
because candidates, you remember the meme back in the day
where it was like, what this job does,
what everybody thinks I do, what I actually do,
like campaigning, that would be a good one,
because it's like, what do you think I'm doing?
And at the end of the day,
this column, you know, begging for dollars.
Like days like this, begging for dollars.
Begging for dollars.
Yeah, and like I spend 60% of my time on phone
calling people for money and it's just like,
it shouldn't have to be this way.
Every second you have to do that,
that's the second that you're not spending
with a barber in your district.
Or a grandma.
Yeah.
No, that's what it is.
It's just, I mean, Rashid was the one who told me,
because I asked all the time,
I asked every politician like our politicians
for the most part, are they cynical
or are they genuinely dumb or are they not?
They don't have any combination.
It's blunt, but I-
That's a lot, that's a lot of politicians.
Comical.
Comical.
People are-
They contain multitudes.
Maybe off camera, maybe off camera,
I think one day, which politicians,
which people have asked that question to
and how they respond it,
because it's not always on camera.
It is so crashing.
But she was saying that like,
no, they just, they're literally in a book
and I really respect,
like I respect her.
She's joining us.
I can't even know that right now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Legend has it.
Legend has it she's on her way.
No.
Oh my god.
I love her so much.
So if you want to know who Hassan Fangirl's over.
It's her.
I mean, I Fangirl over you guys.
She's awesome.
I love her.
She's so many attacks.
Oh Han, so many attacks.
For years.
You know what's up?
That's the other thing.
It's like it's so thick.
It's just like, I remember this happened
Jeremy Corbyn. This happened to him on our non-stop, non-stop, like back in the day
when she was talking about APEC and it's like and it's a pervasive influence over
American politics and it was like she's such an anti-Semitism. And that went
unconfested, right? At the time, nowadays, people, when they hear that now, like,
okay, sure. Like when they hear smears of anti-Semitism and slanderous
statements like that. That shit is like really heartbreaking, like when you actually
are somebody who fights all people who actually really do like have like like
deep love in your heart for folks like that actually really like that again it
does the last one is like who wants to be misunderstood like even even even when
it's like something simple they don't want to be misunderstood and the way I
see it is like you're being professionally misunderstood with regular
there's a misunderstanding machine yeah it's built specifically so make sure
that you are misinterpreted misunderstood, you are misidentified.
Yeah, it's very very frustrating.
There's gonna be a lot of...
Five segments now by the way today.
On the same day the trope announces going to wipe out
Ronnie Civilization Parks who's done five different segments on me today.
You're leading... you're leading for a smooth bit.
Yeah, but here's the thing.
I don't mind that, right?
They draw the line of demarcation.
They're united in their hatred.
I welcome that hatred. What really upsets me is when there are other people that also don't want
fascism, don't want MAGA, and hate the republicans or at least they claim to hate the republicans,
and they come at it from a position of like, well, you weren't sufficiently,
you weren't sufficiently excited about Donald Harris. Like, I made it very clear what the
differences are between Donald Harris and Donald Trump. My criticisms however,
revolved around the fact that she wasn't making that distinction and also she didn't go far enough in that distinction regardless
I mean so I'll tell you like I endorsed them right? I endorsed them conventionally
and they still say they're gonna they come after me and they're like well you worked
I was like listen at the end of the day I did it from a moral perspective I was like look
do you see this from the eyes of a child in Detroit or Gaza
Harris is better than Trump and I you know and I thought that that would create a space where I could move the conversation
But at the end of the day, that conversation to move, and I just think we've got to get
through this moment in our politics where we think that some ideas are okay and others
are not, where we think that some people's pain is worth more than other people's pain.
And when I have conversations with folks that I'm like, well, that's going to bother
somebody else, I'm like, listen, at the end of the day, if you want to win these
voters, I'm an Arab Muslim from Michigan.
I know my community.
And I'll tell you this, like our community, if you stab us in the face, we'll hate you
but we'll respect you.
If you stab us in the back, right, we'll hate you and we'll never respect you.
And people felt stabbed in the back.
And you can't ask people to justify having their tax dollars spent to bomb their cousin's
children.
And so, we're not willing to actually address that as a party.
It's an unconscionable thing to ask.
Yes.
me as a black person to ever co-sign, not for not people with destruction, I wouldn't
do it. If you shouldn't have to do it, man.
It's not even just like, it's not just Arab voters and Muslim voters. There were plenty
of voters that also felt the same pain and the same anger of like where our tax dollars
were going. And many of them chose to not go out and vote. And it's, it is awesome.
And it is on us to go and earn those votes.
It's not on voters to...
Exactly, that's the thing about a slag view.
If we lost these votes, what do we do to get them back?
And it's crazy to me now.
This is the crazy thing.
You got people in this race who are like,
well, if your community had voted in a different way,
then we wouldn't have done trouble.
Like, I agree with you.
This is why I try to get my community voted in a different way.
But again, it's me.
Gross way to...
Yeah, I'm like, but if you want to win the future,
you kind of need to win those votes.
Because so tell me how you've learned from that experience
But we lost the nation at that.
You know who they never say that to?
White Trump supporters.
Yeah, that's right.
There's so much room for agreement and understanding
and expanding the net.
Those type of swing voters?
Yeah, they love, they love.
And by the way, I'm not even saying we shouldn't make
an argument.
We respect when they leave.
We respect when they swing back and when they swing away.
We get them straight and hippy feet if we're there with them.
But folks, voters like you are voters like me, don't get the swing.
We're young people.
We're young people, obviously.
You just gotta show up, take the medicine, go like that.
I actually argue that we shouldn't take anybody for granted.
I actually argue that we should all have responsibility for each other.
I do believe that the parties share more responsibility to go and get the vote.
I'm a candidate all the time.
I have to vote and get voters, right?
And I do also believe that we are all, I vote for the voters.
And, but also, I do think that right now we are, we are in the midst of authoritarianism.
We really are.
And we all have to take the responsibility for that.
Yeah.
We have to take the responsibility for building a society that we want.
And that is unhospitable.
And I do think that sometimes, because we have lived through such a mixed comfort
in this country, right, we've accepted that, you know, we are accepted.
The exceptionalism of America is comfort, right?
It is perpetual comfort.
And that we now have to give that up, and maybe, you know, boycott target
because they don't black-coat them.
Or we might have to boycott the people who are funding genocides.
Or we might have to withhold our labor because our employer is funding Trump, right?
Those are very real tools that are the only things that actually move.
Yeah.
It is, right?
Yeah, so people have to expect that too.
Don't get me wrong.
Me and every one of my colleagues, we need to go there and we need to do our fucking jobs.
We need to do it every single day.
I don't know.
And but also, it is not to say that the American people don't also have a job too.
We all got jobs here and I want to make sure that in a real movement,
we all know our roles that we're all supported in our roles and that we're doing the things that we're supposed to be doing.
It also breeds apathy and people never, like when that apathy sets in,
people forget the power that they have.
People genuinely, that's what we're talking about with like the Black Lives Matter protests in place,
like the gossip protests as well, like when those protest movements happen, and there's
no, there's no responsiveness from the government, people learn the wrong lesson, or at least
the right lesson for corporate interests, the lesson that they want to teach you, which
is your voices don't matter.
Wait, this question about like impact stirs, is it exists to insulate politicians from
the righteous action of everyday people?
Yeah.
Don't worry. We got you. We'll drop 10 million to help support you so that you get to win your race
Even if you're not actually addressing the issues that every day
This has exist not just corporate past this has existed in american society and other societies
For as long as these societies have tried to sustain democracies
Right or people power movements and it's okay to call that out. It's okay to say that there are various wings
right like at the end of the day apathy is like the antithesis of any like strong
movements of progress and if Democrats seize this moment and I don't mean like
big deal I mean both big deal and little deep immigrants that we should never be
the people who are pushing more people from democracy yes we should not be the
people who look at their apathy and are feeding that instead of feeding their
We're looking at folks and be like, well, we don't actually want to be like, we should not be, we should not, we should not be the ones that do that.
We should be that.
That is the attitude, unfortunately, of too much of the Democratic Party.
Like, you know, I'm the kind of Democrat.
Everybody's like, oh, you're always logging off on Democrats.
I'm like, yes, you know why I'm talking about Democrats?
Because I want Democrats to be better.
Like, I want a party that is about fighting for the things we need and deserve, not just not going on.
And if our best argument is we're not him, then don't be surprised when you don't want to like someone.
I don't like, I push Democrats because I have a stake in this.
Yes!
I actually like really like, I actually really like, I really like, I really like, I really
need us to get this right.
Well, because at the end of the day, like, we're the only electoral force standing between
us in that sort of thing.
The question is, if you're serious about actually solving and taking on fascism,
you've got to be fighting for what you are for, not just what you're against.
And I think it's become too easy to do fashion like but Donald Trump though, you know clearly they didn't work
It didn't work twice. That's your best argument. I'm sorry. You're probably not doing the argument
There's literally people that are so not representative
anger and resentment that Democrats feel right now all over the fucking timeline that are
Using this as an opportunity like see elections and cost uses like yeah, we know
Oh man, we've been saying that for a minute.
Yeah, I-
We'll see why we can't afford for young people
to be just like, how do you feel like that?
How do you feel like that is a convincing message?
Like, do you genuinely feel like you're gonna win
anybody to your side?
Like, we just have to do away with harm reduction
there and it's-
I mean, I think that's a harm reduction there.
I think that they want certain people
because that advances certain priorities.
Yeah.
I think that the peer-
They wanna win with their own coalition.
they want to win their own way.
Yeah.
And the fear of like other people,
the type of people, you really should be brave.
The fear of them coming in
is that they're actually not as predictable.
Yeah.
They're not as, they're not like
They're not blindly loyal people.
So it's scarier because,
I always say that like the most disenfranchisable thing
is like it's encompassing.
Like as long as you're wrong,
I won't get my job,
I'm gonna come and I want my job.
But when we're caring more about like protecting each other
than we are protecting the actual interests
of our districts, right?
We've lost the plot.
And that place, like the institution is protecting itself
and it's forgotten all about its actual role
in the governance of our country,
in the governance of our country,
on behalf of the people, right?
Alarm of the foreign, by the people, right?
That makes me sad.
Would you make me not want this job, bro?
No, I mean, no, because I put a thing where you-
I don't really want the job, I want the work.
Oh, we're over, it's over.
I'm like I'm like I think about I mean I really I don't understand
I don't understand what's so great about the job that
folks will
Completely disregard what they want there to do a line of people just think you
Some people want to fit in and some people want to happen
I'm gonna have to hang out with
Imagine Lindsey Grant and then like Senator Jim to see his eyes every day.
Hi guys, it's not a... I know people think that this is like a luxury, it's like glamorous job.
There's nothing glamorous about this job.
I don't know, maybe for like five people.
I got really like...
I'm the sixth man, it's not glamorous.
You guys spend how much time away from home?
Lots. Too much.
You know? Like, uh...
And, not only that, like, well, it's fantastic.
If we're in DC, people are asking why we're not at home,
and if we're at home, they're asking why we're not at DC.
Yeah.
Um...
Everybody's mad at you all the time.
Yeah.
Right? Like, the only value of the job is that you can actually do something.
Like, I don't...
I really just don't understand.
Like, and to me, honestly...
Everybody's not always mad.
Yeah. Well, I'm going to put, like, all the chips in.
Right? Just keep putting the chips back in the middle.
There are so many! Let's go.
There are so many! There are so many!
It's just like, amazing people.
We're really good. Who is this?
That makes me happy.
Even though like apparently that oh, I didn't mean to Congress
Me and Bernie, I've met lovely people
The one thing that that gets me through all of this is that like I get to meet some amazing people every single day
And those people want what's best for themselves, their families, their country, and they bring
that good will to the conversation.
And I think the problem is that there's like a machine between them and the people who
represent them that serves to disaggregate that goodness that they have from what we end
up getting in our elected officials, you know, the President and the company excluded.
And I think that's the, that therein lies all the infrastructure we're talking
about, all the super PACs, all the 5144s, all that, right, exists to make sure
that the goodness in every day people is not actually represented in the government that governs us.
And I think taking that apart is part and parcel of our responsibility.
What I was really frustrated with, aside from like people suffering when they went to Cuba,
you know, rolling blackouts, food is spoiling, the refrigerators aren't working because there's no energy.
People can't get their medicine, their shortages.
But one of the things that was endlessly frustrating to see was that we had just robbed this island of its potential.
There's so many strong resilient people that are just living their days, that are trying to bribe by others.
And they've done so much in the field of biomedical research in spite of these setbacks.
And they're unbelievable. The setbacks are so arbitrary, so ridiculous, the sanctions are.
And I feel the same way about America too, like we are robbing the next generation of its potential when we come back on an age-money, when we come back, when we don't have the well-funded public education in this country, when we don't care, or I mean sure when we're going to buy a full but like Apple says it is more so a symptom rather than the actual disease, right?
it's just there's all this unbearable weight that people like regular ordinary
people have to deal with on a daily basis that's a setback and we don't know
what America will look like or we don't know what the rest of the world really
will look like if there wasn't this like constant pressure of endless profit-seeking
and trying to squeeze out every dollar from people's value on a daily basis
that's what's so frustrating about it we do this with we do this with the
It's just very unnatural.
Yeah, it's inhumane. It's just not a human way to operate.
Also, we're a country of people who have convinced that, right, what is different than somebody,
or why is somebody more or less deserving of safety and housing and food and protection
because of where they were born, because of the hack and stance of their birth.
What makes them any different than me?
They're no more or less human because they were born in a different geopolitical boundary.
We have the...
You sure? So I'm gonna get some air?
No, no, I'm trying to... I don't know. I'll go to the air.
I'll try that.
Hey guys, I have a gun.
I have a gun.
Alright, while you guys are doing that, I'm gonna read you guys the new Trump statement.
Um, okay.
What did Trump say?
I agree to suspend the bombing and attack on Iran for a period of two weeks, a double-sided ceasefire.
Based on the conversations of Prime Minister Shentaz Sharif and Field Marshal Hassi Midir of Pakistan.
Love Pakistan.
What do you mean?
And wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran
Iran and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran, agreeing to the complete, immediate
and safe opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks.
This will be a double-sided ceasefire, he says.
The reason for doing so is that we have already met, exceeded all military objectives, I'm
sure, and are very far along with the definitive agreement concerning long-term
peace with Iran and peace in the Middle East. We received a 10-point post from Iran and believe
it's a workable basis on which to negotiate. Almost all the various points of past contention
have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two-week period will allow
the agreement to be finalized and consummated. On behalf of the United States of America
as president and also representing the countries of the Middle East, it is an honor to have
this long-term problem close to resolution. Thank you for your attention as a matter
of President Donald Trump.
We just say it's a good thing that there's not going to be nuclear arm again tonight.
Yes, to good tell.
I know, but why the fuck did we write, like, why did we fight this war?
Uh, yeah.
It's really funny where he goes like, oh, I'm advocating for the opening of the Shrediform.
As the closure is done, it's like, oh, it was open.
Yeah.
It was open before you decided to blow up a school and like assassinate, ironically
enough, the leadership that was demonstrating the strategic restraint and was willing
to negotiate with America over and over again it's a like we also had an agreement on the
books that would have foreclosed on their ability to have the JCPOA exactly it was it was all there
like I have my disagreement with Barack Obama but as far as foreign policy goes normalization
with Cuba and the JCPOA were signature accomplishments and he got endlessly yelled at
forum and it was an unbelievable shame that the Biden administration did not continue, did not roll
back the clock at all, and did not get back to some semblance of reason with a country that is
always, always been totally willing to negotiate with the United States of America. I hate that,
like, you don't have to be a supporter of the IRGC or the Ibrani government, the Islamic
republic to recognize the truth that's what I'm so frustrated by where people
will endlessly say oh I guess you're I guess you want the same form of
governance here it's like no I don't you don't know why I don't I don't vote
Republican okay I don't want that and and it's pretty clear that I want that
because I oppose Republicans in general not to say that they're similar to
the Republicans in their governance in Iran either because they have a higher
degree of literacy and also higher degree of educational attainment for women in
Iran. A lot of people don't know that because we have this like insane
attitude like where everything is. We have this orientalist framework that we
operate also. The funny thing is people would take what you just said and say
oh you're an apologist for the regime. It's just the truth. You're a sherry fax.
You're a sherry fax. You're a sherry fax. That undercut a
narrative on which war is being waged unnecessarily to burn your tax
dollars to raise your gas prices and waste your money not actually solving your problems and that's the
thing about it like you can categorically disagree with the regime and also argue that we should never
have gone to war like those are easy things to do everybody should be doing it's not very difficult
to say. Also the idea that like we have to be the world police is so frustrating to me I'm
sorry like I think especially considering that like we our political environment relies on a
lack of nuance. Yeah. And it encourages a lack of nuance, right? Because it doesn't
want people to actually think more deeply about all types of things, right? Yeah. I
remember just like a foreign policy on domestic policy like infrastructure, like
I would give answers that like actually answered the question and it was like
listen, well if this been this, then this and this and that's too much, too much
nuance. It's so encouraged in us, so that now we have people who like when
you say you're an apologist for the regime, like people don't, they think
that it costs too much in your politics to even go that deep into
conversation that's why that's the number one thing I tell every elected
people be brave I promise you it's our responsibility people will reward you if
you don't care about like just saying the truth if you don't care about having a
moral foundation and you only care about winning elections it will be
beneficial to win elections the thing about the Republicans is their world
view is heinous I oppose it every step of the way there's not a lot that I
agree with at all if anything right but they do actually stand on their
horrible principles and and people do reward them for their base does reward
them for it they're a lot more responsive and in many cases I think so too
but we haven't even but we haven't seen it I think the hard part is the courage
is not in high supply we haven't seen it I mean let's show our base does our base
does not want to be but but you also want to feel with courage
that's what I'm saying you want to know why I know what I'm saying is like when you have
courageous folks you step out and keep coming I mean a lot of folks in point
I ran in 2018, I lost my race, right?
Looks like, see, you can't run that way.
I don't like sure, but at the end of the day,
it takes time, it takes effort.
Yeah, you can.
Think about all the older people now
that voted for Hillary Clinton,
that voted for Biden enthusiastically
and thought that like moderate policies,
which Biden wasn't all that moderate,
but he was just automatically built in as a moderate,
because he was a whole white guy.
But when people that actually opposed Bernie's
Bernie Sanders in the primaries turn around and say we were wrong we were wrong to do that we've
got duped by all of the the media that we were consuming into thinking that we have to operate
like democratic party consultants ourselves to think of like electability and then regurgitate
those talking points on a lake if you are a democratic consultant and gas prices wouldn't
be bothering you that much you're going to cost a lot of money yeah but to lose over and over
But the point is, and yeah, they get reported handsomely for regurgitating those exactly horrible talking points, that actually do only bring marginal victories, right?
They only bring marginal victories to get the death and sometimes they have a state defeat, but I think that the second Trump defeat, I think, was a real turning point for a lot of people from what I've seen.
And especially people that are like out there, when I go to Minneapolis, to a different place around the country,
and like I talked to a lot of older folks that participated.
These like, no, kings brought this stuff like that. They're like, I'm a lifelong liberal, I'm a lifelong democratic party voter.
I'm sick and tired of what the Democrats have been doing.
I was wrong about Bernie. And it's not just Bernie, it's like what he represents.
Just the more honest politics, more responsible politics that puts people and their needs over corporate interests.
So, I think the time is now and I think this movement is going to continue growing and again, that's what their first lesson was.
God bless you, Bernie.
It's been a long life.
The thing about it with Bernie, too, is that even if you have disagreement with him, he doesn't like...
He understands coalition-building. There are a lot of people that cropped self that are more progressive than he is on many issues,
he doesn't he just carries like no these are these are the guys like these are
people who are we're gonna fight for for ordinary phone I've been saying the
same thing for like 10 years of politics now I know you've been saying the same
thing same even say for like 70 years yeah that's also why he's the most
popular elected official yeah and as far as people are rewarding somewhere when
you were saying like do this the base or over think about that moment and I've
I had some conversations with Zoran until the moment where he said I'm not going to Israel, I'm going to stay in New York.
That was the moment.
That was just also objectively the right answer.
Of course, but at the time, especially even then, we're looking at it with like today's vision, but like when you've been there.
Oh, I'll say no.
Yeah, but at the time, that was still a somewhat brave thing to say, even though it was the honest thing, it was the righteous thing to say, it was the correct thing to say.
Still, the calculation that most of the campaigners were making was like, I can't say that, but he did.
And I think that's how we cut across the rest of the field.
I saw so many writers that were like, wow, okay, why did he say it?
You know, that's actually cool that he said it.
He's right, why do we care about this?
And he was rewarded for it.
So I think too many candidates can't pay in to be liked and I think it's better to campaign to be respected
And at the end of the day like there are people who will vote for you
Even if they don't like you because they respect that you're consistent and you're honest
And so I think for most of these folks like people ask me what your advice is
Don't worry about what not people like you or just like you worry about people and not people can respect you
Right be who you are or respect. Yeah, stand by your principles
and be definable on your own terms.
Don't let your opposition define you.
It's such an annoying thing that Democrats do.
Everything has to be focused, tested.
Everything has to be perfectly calculated.
We have to bring in the largest head possible.
That looks indecent.
That oftentimes presumes a predicament
where you can change your opinion on things.
There's a major problem with the people I talk to.
I'll tell you, on immigration,
You can build a broad tent, you really can't build a broad tent if you're consistent.
People don't have to read through everything.
But at the end of the day, if they can map what you say you believe in to what you are saying right now,
and that's a linear mapping process, they're like, I can predict this person, I know who they are.
At the end of the day, they're not going to be with you on everything.
They'll respect you enough to be like, I know who I'm voting for, and I understand what they believe in and why.
And I respect that this person is going to go out and fight for my values.
if those values are consistent with what I believe in my values.
And that's the thing, it's not position by position.
You're voting for an individual at the end of the day.
So you want to know who that person is.
We're not like a collection of position papers.
We're real people who believe real things.
And the problem with it is that many politicians actually
they have lost their humanity and don't believe real things.
They're just issues of position papers that I can feel here when taking it together.
And then it's just like, wait, I don't understand actually who you are.
Why do you believe this on this thing and this other thing on this other thing?
Well, because you're trying to bake this little coalition
You're trying to coordinate your message. It's not going to work. People can see that people like the average person has this notion that
Politicians are kind of fake. They're elitist. They're fake like they're just telling you what you want to hear and in some
To a certain degree it is true that is what a lot of politicians do, right?
and that's why I think like having your own convictions and communicating that even if it's like a
a hard subject approach even if it's not immediately beneficial or even if it's
like the third rail, right, that most politicians are afraid to talk about,
while also simultaneously advancing universal policies that will help
everyone and showing people that you're earnest, showing people that you will
actually advance these goals, most people respond positively to that in my
experience because at the end of the day, the wedge issues, the Republicans are so good at
developing us. It's the Gingrich era, especially like wedge issues that they
fight on, culture war issues in general. Sometimes they create those issues.
Sometimes they identify like a fissure and they really harp on it.
Trans issues was obviously a great example of this. A transphobic person still needs something to do with it.
If you come out there and you're like, listen, what do you want more?
You want to destroy the lives of like 0.1% of the American population?
Or do you want healthcare?
Like, we're not going to compromise on transition.
There's like both a trans person and a trans person in healthcare.
Yeah.
Right? And then in a day, like, you can oppose a trans person's transphobia.
Yes.
And you can still stand up to them and be like, and here's the things I still want to do for you.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly, right those are not inconsistent. They're not equal here
Yeah, transphobic people need health care and a roof over their heads too and I mean that might and sometimes they're
Their own impediments are getting that yeah, no absolutely
And that's the thing is like is like you know the thing that a trans person and the person who creates a trans person both
Is health care roof over their heads and good job
Yeah, so like when we bring those things together
I had to say like one of the frustrations that I've had with the corporate Democratic Party
is that they took these identity issues because they weren't willing to actually speak to
the structural issues in our politics because they were taking money from the same corporations
calling the problem. And that exploited these identity issues and went to speak to each
little part of the coalition in different terms rather than just actually asking how do you
bring everybody in the tent to the middle of the tent about the things that all of
us need. And to be able to speak to, look, we're going to fight for everybody's rights
because your rights and your rights are not rights. And if we see them as such then
We cannot accept that anybody take anybody's rights and the structural failure of our politics to actually solve the problems that all of us have in common
The ability to afford a home the ability to get health care the ability to buy our groceries
And I think we can speak to those two right because like that
People talk about identity politics all the time and I'm gonna tell you my identity did not attack my politics
I would talk about it. My identity actually doesn't have my politics.
Yeah, but you're one of the, I think, few congresspersons that actually
takes that lived experience to advance
what others might perceive radical roles but are just like
universal about it. It actually isn't hard to hold multiple things.
It isn't hard to acknowledge that in a class struggle
black poor people and white poor people are actually not equal.
still saying that we need to have a class analysis. And I think that's exactly it.
It's that you recognize that the ways in which racism makes all of the structural
features worse for black folk. It's also the thing that undergirds it. Yes, but it still
points us to the same solution. Absolutely. If we guaranteed everybody in this country
health care. I believe in Medicare for all and the reason why I believe in tackling the race
problem is because we will have Medicare for all, right? When we have addressed why we live
in a country where too many people in power are happy to say that I won't go down with
the shit as long as I don't have to give that person a life right.
And the thing that you do is that you talk about both hands, not either or.
And I think the way that the corporate democratic party talked about this was either or.
We can either talk about race or we can talk about class.
You're like, no, we can't even talk about race and class.
Right?
Our class struggle will be so powerful.
We recognize how much we need each other, not as stepping stones, but as actual Congress.
As mutually interdependent folks.
We deserve better together and that's why I'm leaving them up. What was it?
What was it? They were like, uh, you know, like abolishing the banks on or not.
What the racism? Well, it won't end racism or something. It's like, that's what I mean when I say like, there's such a cynical way that Republicans use
identity policy and weaponize the cynically against their left-wing.
And I think a lot of corporate Democrats, a lot of establishment Democrats do the same against their left-wing as well.
Like, because this kind of campaign only works
If someone truly cares about this thing and a corporate Democrat is going to care about
You know not coming across as a white supremacist
Then a Republican and same with a leftist
I'm so sure the light between oh
Just like just like that some
Progressive is going to care more about
Not being misunderstood and be spurred or being smeared or slandered in that degree in that regard
And the corporate difference is that the weaponization, I think, of those sorts of values are very cynical,
but it only works for an audience that's receptive to it.
And I wish that we could have a more honest conversation about that sort of stuff as well.
Not that it matters. I mean, it's largely in consequence of this.
All those people are still carrying a lot of vice-cruises for them and that they've learned from their social conditioning, from their upbringing.
And that's obviously a much larger problem.
We gotta end poverty because we gotta end poverty. We gotta end racism because we gotta end racism.
But if we fail to end racism, we won't end poverty. And if we fail to end poverty, we can't end racism.
Those two things are mutually inclusive as problems, and it is absolutely critical that we ask what are the interventions that we can create that helps address them.
I'm going to try to be more energetic this time.
Oh you were great.
No, no, no. Now that I've seen both of you guys and how you command the attention of a room,
it's a very different skill than yapping for ten hours while we're here.
I couldn't do what you do, man. I think my brain would fry.
My brain is fried.
But yeah, Chip Roy went on Fox Nights and said some painless things about you.
How about me?
Yeah.
I'm welcome to his hatred, chivalro-i.
Yeah, he said, I forget where he's going to eat.
He was on the Will Cain show and they were like, oh, it says a lot that the Democrats
are like leaning in the direction of influencers like Hassan.
And now you got a Muslim guy, Abdul El-Sayed, and the Islamist.
He's taking over the Democratic Party.
He's going to be the first Muslim senator if he wins.
Nobody's gonna ask any of these people to condemn them this year.
Nope.
Of course not.
There's the total.
There's the total.
When I be a media witch hunt on Randy Fine, he just...
You know what I can't wait for?
I can't wait for him.
I've seen things every day.
Folks who take terrible shit about me and my faith and how I pray.
I can already tell you how this is going to go.
I can already tell you how this is going to go.
They're gonna talk so much shit on you on the outside and they're gonna shake your
hand and they're gonna say, hey, how are the kids?
That's what they do all the time.
I know.
Because they come to them and it's a game.
they're fundraising sometimes they're inciting their base so that they can
you know perpetuate their their own like little cycle but the most thing is they
want you to understand that oh man I'm not talking about this Josh yeah yeah we
gotta do that it's just they do that I watch them do this every single day I
why people say terrible things about me and then like clamor to come shake my
hand
At the end of the day, you know, like my goal, I'm not here to defend myself.
I don't shake your hands.
I'll let you go.
No, that's how it, that's like in a much smaller way, that's how like the political commentary
spaces as well.
I was like shot.
I was horrified when I went to Washington DC the first time I was at like the White
House Correspondents' Dinner, when I was with the young Turks and the room
lit up.
when, I think at the time, it was like,
maybe it wasn't, it was Kellyanne Comet.
Kellyanne Comet walked in,
all these like, liberal commentators,
they were all so excited to take photos with her
because that's a famous person.
So that's me.
And it was like, and I couldn't believe it.
I was like, so it is all fucking theater.
Like, you don't have any, you don't have real back.
Go ahead and have your viewers standing in this.
Like, you're not, you're not talking about these issues.
Like, your loved ones are in harm's way.
You're just one of the ones that are in the harm's way. No, but it's yeah
They're authentic to like their lived experience. Yeah, that's very real people always talk about the Democrats have a good time
I'm just the Democrats have a messaging problem. No Democrats have a messenger problem
Yeah, some people will inherently never be able to deliver certain messages because that is just not the life that they've known
This is not these are not the worries that they've had and this is not the concerns that they've ever had to live through
So how could they how could they be a successful messenger on that?
Right, not going to be wrong, you can have empathy for people, but we're supposed to be
a representative of a reflective democracy, and you can't talk and speak for the conditions
of working class people if you've never been in it, but you should still fight for them.
Do not get me wrong.
Do not get me wrong.
But how are you going to say that I want to incorporate facts and when you are appropriate
to do it yourself?
Yeah.
No, if you're a small business owner, like those are the types of things, or if
you have a shitload of stocks, for example, you're obviously going to be...
Or if you've never had to think about...
You're serving two masters.
Whether or not what you say puts crosshairs on your own family.
I mean, there's a thing about it.
What you do puts a crosshairs on your own family.
On my kids.
Every time these folks call us out of our names,
or they casually, like, want to lose a sale,
they're this, they're that.
It endangers us, right?
It actually does.
Yeah, no.
And then they want to say, how are the kids?
How are the kids?
They got you three death threats and now they want to be like, how are the kids?
Well, they're scared to death because they need the security detail
because of what you said.
I know, when you were talking about politicians, you were like, oh, well, they always just say what you want to hear.
When I had done it the first time, I had to sternly, politely, to say no.
People were shocked. They were shocked. What do you mean no?
I was like, no, I don't agree with that.
And they're like, there are a lot of folks who actually are not accustomed to their
their politicians saying that. I think that our role is to fundamentally always agree with them.
It actually isn't our role.
Our role is to take in all of the various sources of information that we have, which we
should have more sources of information.
We should have more access to information than other people.
And it's our job to get it to you.
So when I say no, I don't agree with that.
It's not even just like an opinion.
But sometimes you have to just say that.
Like, I respect you.
You still have access to me.
Me not agreeing with you doesn't mean that you don't get to come and petition
your policy, your year of representative.
Don't mean that you don't get to talk to me.
Doesn't mean that I don't have to come and answer to you.
It means that I listened to what you said.
I'm glad they said I'm listening to them and I don't agree with you
And no one can all which people said that
Yeah, I don't agree with you and let's let's talk about what we do. All right. What do you guys think?
about the idea that
At least for the duration of the you know back and forth now 38th day of operation
We just kind of make Trump feel like he's on here and we're like you did it sir.
So what if everybody around him was like you did it you want you're so bold, you're so beautiful, you're so brave
and maybe he just believes that.
You're beautiful.
Yeah.
Practice this.
Yeah.
You gotta have a good Trump.
You did it.
What about, you got a Trump boys?
Yeah.
He's like I would not date the Lord on my face that's the better.
You showed him.
Because I'm seeing, I'm seeing like, you know, right-wing influencers on the timeline being
like, oh, we won, we, we got Iran to like back away.
We won the war, we never should have fought.
And I'm like, yeah, sure, okay.
It's good.
Yeah, I, I agree.
Yeah, you did it.
We should just all collectively say, you're so cold and you're so brave and you're
so beautiful, you did it.
news something like eight months ago I subpoenaed the fc files they still owe us
three million documents really just thought it out there if people were
talking about like you know that really is why we fought for it also the
subpoena that I get like back in July it's like legally dining it's still
legally dining they still owe us these documents there are no loopholes for that
what do we do in that situation when they're just like yeah we don't care
We're just talking to abide by the protrusion. What happens when they just choose not to follow?
What happens when you choose not to, what happens when we choose not to, again, support the things that under your power?
Hold democracy.
Yeah, what happens when we choose not to do those things too?
Well, we continue to move at the people who have no power and have no leverage.
And that's just not true.
Yeah.
So even if like one politician, like, can I go and force them? Obviously not, because if I could, I would have already gotten the last to be made in documents.
documents. Can we collectively identify all the people who are who are funding Donald Trump,
holding him up, and can we say that we will no longer support them? Yeah. You gotta take the
ND filter off, bro. It's it's crazy dark. There's anything right now. Fun. What? Chasing.
First on operation?
Well, it's the worst.
Look.
The sun went down.
Yes.
Yeah, it's a lot better now.
Sorry.
I'll tell you guys off the suit.
Yeah, it's a lot better now.
Sorry.
I'll tell you guys off, this is one of the wonderful parts of...
I think it's a much more authentic experience.
That's why you can't really hide the truth on a live stream.
And it offers insight into how the sausage is made in many respects.
So I think it's very cool for my audience to see it.
Woo!
Hey, that's a wassy.
Hey, wassy.
That's the IRA.
Don't read the caption.
Just read the...
Can I have one of those white Gatorades?
Sure, man.
We got water to drink together,
but we also got to get right here.
What a powerful thing to say.
Anyways, this is my go-to flavor right here.
Yeah, I love this one.
Folks, what sausage is it made?
Um, it's not zero sugar, but...
Yeah, I usually do the zero sugar. I don't know how to say zero sugar.
Oh, look, I won the comments on my post. It's just like, ungebunga.
And they be like, oh my god, ampute blackness doesn't exist.
Oh, that's crazy.
Yeah, the internet is so vicious, but it's also made extra vicious.
Oh wait, the next one, don't you have a hair point meant to get to?
I'm like, no, I went the other day.
I'm sorry, not so.
It's definitely made worse when people feel enrolled
and when you have the adults that are also speaking like this,
when you have the opportunity to speak like this.
Uh, I was just gonna do voiceover for all of us.
It's fucked up.
I'm largely unshamed by other people taking care of the boys, you know, living a miserable
existence.
A what?
A miserable existence.
Like they're miserable.
Yeah.
Look at me wrong.
I mean, it's wrong.
I'm wrong, son.
How would you do that?
You only do that when you've got something that's severely lacking in your life and
this is just you lashing out.
The way I see it is like, the way I see it is you're trying to be as miserable
as you are and that's the way you are that's the reason why you operate one
would not be able to
I hope we uh, I hope we fundraise a decent amount today chat, all right make me proud
It looks very...
You hear me?
PBS
Use that bar
Use this over there
Is an hour one of those places where all the restaurants close at 8?
No, you got spots to stay on
Is it like a college camp or diner place?
Alright y'all, here we go
Take a look.
I love my people.
Honk them out.
Honk them out, Jack.
They don't know that we're in this non-script van.
Yeah, they do.
Yo, guys, can we try to think again before we get out the, uh, where you messed it up?
I messed it up.
I'm thinking of doing a good something.
What do I got to do?
Just be cool, be out the car.
Hold on.
I thought that was all I needed.
Can you hand me my other jacket?
Huh?
Can you hand me my other jacket?
I don't know, I'm just trying to get it.
I'm just trying to get it for you, sir.
Yeah.
Can we get the tractor with this as possible?
Does no one care?
What?
Yeah, there's no one.
I don't want to get the tractor with this as possible.
Yeah, we want to bring the drawers, or yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, the jean jacket gone.
I didn't realize we had outfit changes.
Yes.
I like it.
It's a different day.
A different day.
Different work.
Different baths.
People just want to camp in their ship.
You're so good.
You got it all down.
No.
This is just hot and constricting.
Uh-huh.
I did the suit jacket thing with you guys already.
I told you that the jacket would come off when I went and spoke to him this way
Alright, so we're letting Ryan, Mars, and Muhammad get out first
Ryan, you can sit like that for a while
I'm also the youngest
That's leadership.
No, America's a brother.
I'm definitely an oldie.
There's such a beauty in being the youngest.
Imagine.
So much more love.
Yes.
I only have my sister though.
Well, I don't know what to say.
You're going to go say hi to our friends?
I'm the youngest one.
Now we're actually at the point where we're going to pop up.
Yeah, that is such a...
Hey Kevin.
Hey Kevin.
I'm going to go run the line, okay?
No problem.
Alright, do the first step.
One close.
Alright, I got to get the mix up right here.
Yeah, yeah.
Back to work, guys.
Alright, alright, ND filter.
Keep those on.
Alright, look at that.
Wait, wait, wait.
Sorry, wait, wait.
Yeah, still like that.
Oh, it was just.
All right.
Here it is.
Can I get out?
Yeah.
It's a pretty hard one.
It's hard.
It's hard.
It's hard.
It's hard.
It's hard.
You're better.
You're better.
I need you to have more, that was actually.
Yeah, you need that. You need that.
You can see your pocket?
Sure.
You got all the, you got all the, uh, uh, other boxes.
Yeah, could I use the, where's the, that's our lifeline.
It's cold.
It's hot.
It's hot.
It's cold.
It's hot, everybody.
There is a real treat.
Not because of me.
I'll do it in summer. It's so good.
She's so cold.
She is cold as hell.
Come on.
Come on, guys.
Come on, Slush.
Come on, Slush.
Thank you.
It's a little good.
How are we doing?
I'm good.
Nice to see you, bro.
I'm in above.
I know, man.
What's up?
What's going on?
I'm in a bad mood.
I'm in a bad mood.
It's so cold.
I don't know how you guys doing.
All right.
I'm almost too good.
OK, OK, OK.
What's up, son?
What's up, son?
There's a bird of the alley.
What are we doing?
Son!
Hello.
Hello.
You're so lucky, old man.
See you in son.
Hey, guys!
See you in son.
Oh wait, I don't know who it was.
No.
I thought it was a gravy.
I'm sorry.
Why are you going to do this to us?
I'm sorry.
What a choice.
We just tried to get him to do that.
What a choice.
I don't know what the whole line is.
I'm sorry.
That was so funny.
That's hilarious.
I'm so sorry.
You know, these are up and jacking on,
they're not even up and jacking on.
This blazer is bottomed up.
Woo!
Woo!
Your head's looking fake today, period!
You're gonna get fired!
Come on, come on, come on!
What are we talking about?
That's not a peck inside,
but catch it up, now, please.
No, I don't want to catch that.
This is not!
I don't want to show you this.
Hell yeah.
Hell yeah, I need some help.
I should have worn the jacket.
It's going to happen to a waiter down here.
we'll find out maybe this place I have wife
I'm gonna make you perfect for a really good reason
you can't see anything you can't see if it's working
Oh my God, we're literally in a bonfire.
They saw it, it's good.
Hey, wait a second, wait a second, I'm going to leave.
You got to meet Amaro.
Look at him, see? Same energy.
No, you got to get on stage.
It was kind of good.
you
you
you
you
you
You
It's 40.
It's 40.
It's 40.
Don't pull me out like that.
It's 40.
It's just you.
It's just you.
You see it sounds like we're going to be a big group.
We're going to be finding a different guy.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
Look, I'm going to be a...
Oh, but I don't have a hair.
There we go.
Oh my God!
Nice to meet you!
Thank you!
How's it going?
It's going a lot better now.
Wow!
You're hearing your voice go so fast.
I feel I need to be more courteous and not curse.
That's what I need to be.
I'm a positive person.
I'm a positive person.
I'm a positive person.
I'm a positive person.
Thank you.
That's what I'm talking about.
I'm a potty man.
I'm sorry.
She's all the time like, he can say that on TV.
Sometimes I do, unfortunately.
When I don't care.
Alright.
We're going to do a solo.
Because you guys were soloing.
Ready, one, two, three.
Alright.
You know, when I saw you,
when I saw you at the women's fraudula,
I sent the picture that we took to the set.
Yeah, I told him you were his youngest friend.
It's true.
It's so nice to see you again.
So I'm honored to be here.
You're so smart.
Oh, no, no, no.
I was just...
How did he manifest that?
No, there you go again.
Thank you.
Alright, thank you guys.
Thank you for being here.
Hi, how are you?
I'm alright.
Hi, Chad.
Hi, Chad.
Thank you.
Nice meeting you.
Nice to meet you.
Hi, Marge.
How are you doing?
This is Isha,
There's like one of your biggest friends, there's also my student.
He also does all of our events.
He's basically our advanced guy.
So he's helped to set up all of these.
So, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
It doesn't bite my mouth.
You're giving it to you?
Oh, you're the one I called.
Nice to meet you.
Sorry, in two seconds.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah, that's what we're here for.
You mean me that I'm supposed to do?
I know.
He's like a son of my professor.
Alright, I'm gonna come back over here.
He's so tall.
I'm not gonna be doing this.
Alright, back up.
They're gonna spread it out.
I can't.
Nice.
Come on.
I love my family.
Please.
Please, please.
I love my family.
Yeah, I love my family.
Hi.
Thank you, guys.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Close with me.
Yeah, I got you.
Ready? Ready?
Ready?
I know.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm going to put you right in the middle here.
So we guys have a very active hospital in the United States.
I remember you came on time.
I was very excited.
So I'm going to show you more of how it's going to be.
Outside?
Yeah.
I'm ready.
One, two, three, four.
Some message for your daughter.
My daughter, when I was a kid, your mom is awesome.
She was worried about how to deal.
I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
I just think it works.
I wish you'd be good.
This is Alain, but look at that.
Alright, next up.
Take a look.
Hi, how are you?
Hi, nice to meet you.
Hi, nice to meet you.
Hi, nice to meet you.
Hi, nice to meet you.
Hi, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
How do I look?
I've never done so much.
You've got the yellow one.
Shane.
I'm not in the rest of us.
How are you?
Nice to meet you.
How is your group of heels?
It was a shameful experience.
Alright, everybody, push in.
Thank you.
Please come forward.
Thank you.
Congratulations.
Thank you guys.
Thank you.
Congratulations.
Amazing supporters of us.
Like Ailsson, the first woman
she holds an amazing business
called Red Run, which is sort of
All right, Jim, we'll be here for two seconds while I go find water. Enjoy the swim.
Thank you so much.
All right, there!
Thank you.
Appreciate you all.
Nice to meet you.
Thank you.
All right.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You see, he's one of the good ones.
And he does this for real because he took all his good parts from us.
He knows, he knows.
Thank you, just take it back.
You also have the same project.
Take it off, buddy.
Good!
He just actually has a...
This is a humble campaign?
I don't know real quick.
Thank you.
Thank you, Doc.
Are you going to Congress with it?
Yes.
Yes.
What's up, man?
How you doing?
What's your name?
I'm going to see the kids.
I'll sound over here.
What's up, chair?
Got any shots? What's your mom?
This is my campaign manager's family.
Oh, my goodness.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
What are we doing?
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Have the cameras ready?
No.
Thank you.
This is okay.
Oh, my God.
Hi.
Hi.
This guy is behind all the business guys.
How are you?
My son's gonna be awesome, sir.
No.
Alright, listen to me.
Bring it, bring it.
Okay, you just went out, okay?
Oh my god, this is the end! We've been here for the whole time!
Uh, yeah, we're going to go to Angus.
Oh!
Hey, do you want a picture?
Alright, mobilizing chat, sorry.
I got distracted.
Aw, let's see...
There is Wi-Fi down there.
I know that it's Microsoft, right?
There is Wi-Fi.
There's some in there.
The other side.
I see that.
That's embarrassing.
This is charging right here.
Oh, perfect, perfect.
What are we on juice in general?
One battery school life, right?
One battery school.
The camera is still charging, but probably not for long, and then this thing is charging in there.
So, I don't know, I'm optimistic.
Wow.
Yeah, yeah, of course.
Everything's going to be Di-Jobu chat.
Smile chat.
I just got a smile.
I know what you're doing.
Here you go.
Okay.
Okay.
Uh, it's time.
Okay.
They're on brand. It took a picture with the camera.
One more staff.
One more.
One more.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We're so glad to get the first part.
We have an incredible team, there's so many of them.
We're all the team, we're all the team.
You're going to have to give the camera to somebody else.
We're all the team.
You want to tell us who you are?
We can do those.
Come on, come on, come on.
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Let me know.
You didn't get to be here.
Is this a vlog?
No.
Was he?
Or is it a vlog?
Come on.
Yes, Eddie.
Test out the vlog.
So cool.
Well, I think we were trying to get someone to take a photo.
All right.
You all come on.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
All right, one more, one more, one more.
Any more?
Kids like that.
Two.
Everybody say a goal.
First on that.
Woo!
I believe Lee is good.
Yes, I got it.
So if folks who are not speaking want to start heading over to the auditorium, where the program is going to get started in the next...
Actually, I won't need it now, but I'll leave it at some point. Switch me.
So if you need help getting back to the auditorium, please raise your hand, otherwise you are free to go.
Perfect.
Oh, goodbye.
Last time she did dangerous.
Yeah.
So the same thing?
Or is it different?
Yeah.
So we have an MC who's like, gonna intro a DJ.
Oh, but there's an MC.
You don't have to intro the next person.
Yeah, look around, the MC didn't come.
I know.
I'll do it.
I'll do it.
And I heard you did amazing.
Okay, so there is an MC.
Okay.
Theoretically.
Theoretically.
Oh, he's right here.
He's right here.
He's right here.
Okay.
What are you doing?
Promo?
I'm here to go hit a bucket.
I gave them my money.
I'm just going to give you guys a quick round of views on the show.
I'm not going to say anything wrong.
I'm going to say,
I'm not going to say anything wrong.
I'm going to say,
I'm not going to say anything wrong.
I'm going to turn it up to Chell, not going to see you anywhere else.
Okay, so we're going to have...
We're going to use this on the camera.
I don't think I'm going to use it.
He's so self-assured.
We're not in this room.
I'll give the individual wrongs first when they get here.
Okay, so Amir's going to go first.
You have two minutes to speak.
I'm going to ask for you.
It's going to be Summit, who is on their way.
Summit is going to have five minutes,
They're he's gonna have five minutes and then it's gonna be Congressmen to leave. She is also on her way
She's gonna have five minutes and then we're gonna go to you
You have ten minutes at the last venue and then Congressmen leave you have ten minutes as well right after Hassan and then
I'm both gonna float the ask though that shouldn't be different at this one
That's a very and we'd love for the two of you as well as Congressmen to leave to join them
Don't worry about it
This one's gonna be a little bit different because it's gonna be it's gonna be easier for you guys to get there
So after you're done speaking, there will be reserved seats in the very front row.
They have stars on them. That's where you know to go sit afterwards.
So exit to the left of the stage. So you're facing this way, go this way.
So afterwards go sit down and then I'm gonna have you two as well as
Congressman Kalid join Abdul on stage. Take a selfie together.
I'm gonna get some shots. Take a selfie with the crowd.
And then Brian is gonna run up on stage and you guys are gonna do a bit
where you sign the lens of the camera. We're just gonna be really cute for a video.
Are they coming here?
Yes, so they're going to be coming in from the right of the stage. There's a side door.
So they're not going to be going down the ramp like you guys did last time.
You're going to be coming from to the right of the stage.
Is it after the speech is done?
Yes, after he's done.
Yes, so after a full speech is done, Mr. Brightside is going to start playing.
And that's when you guys should know you need to walk up onto the stage.
You mesh people, you know what that's about.
So, yeah, the third quarter they sing Mr. Brightside, I don't know, they can start to do it after I left, but it's just a thing that comes to you.
The famous newish thing. And so, afterwards, this is the room that Prostrom is going to be happening in.
You know what, actually, let's wait when Brightside goes on. I'd love to get the whole everybody singing it.
So wait until the song is up, and I'm going to call you guys up. They'll sing it. It's just a thing we do here.
Okay, so a bill will cue you guys to walk up onto the stage afterwards this is
where prox scrum is going to be happening so please kind of we're going to
obviously corral you guys and direct you how to get there but just in case for
whatever reason you get lost please note the way to kind of get here get here
since it's not as direct as it was at the loss of that. Any further questions?
How big is the roof?
Oh, we got to go right now.
Okay, great.
over. How do you guys start off with a chance when we do anything crazy? Do you man? Okay,
Amir, I believe you need to start heading up the triumph. Make sure you tell them what
you are and what you're doing. Of course. Amir, it's before you. This is about the
quarter of a year. I love you, bro. I got you. Let's go. Okay, Trent's going to
escort you upstairs. For each of you guys that are speaking, I'm going to have to
I'm gonna find a closer outfit to plug in if it's possible, like outside or something.
I realize just now that I haven't eaten yet.
Why do you always do this?
It's 8 p.m.
I don't know how the time just flew by dude.
It's crazy.
I totally forgot.
This is a bigger room to chat.
We have Wi-Fi right? We're good. Like everything has been...
Are you my story?
Got Wi-Fi, I've been watching. I don't think it's been going down.
It's time, Breton. Put me in the bottle.
How long until you get to escort us?
Two minutes.
How long until you get to escort us?
Two minutes.
I'll put six doors into the escort.
I'll be right about two minutes.
Two to five.
Two to five.
Hi!
No cancellation for you in Michigan!
We love you here.
You're always welcome here.
Hey honey, how's it going?
Summer!
Not the winter!
Yeah, it's the summer.
I'm sure you do.
I'm going in there and you can see it's the best.
How are you guys?
I'm good.
Did you bring the baby?
I'm sorry, I tried.
You know he's trying one this week?
Yeah, it's Sunday. I have a video for you.
You know how they put pictures of that trend where you put baby pictures?
Looks just like you.
Oh yeah, that's right.
No, that's a lie.
That's a lie.
That's a lie.
That's a lie.
Did you guys see that?
Yeah, it said that you're going to sell that.
Okay, okay, yeah, yeah.
No, you don't have to. I'm just saying.
Oh, he's good.
Listen, man, at the end of the day, I know where to vote.
I'm going to have you meet our field organizers.
Organizers you just hard five they're ready to roll for you. They're excited. So Mike this is my director of fields and he's yeah
I just did the training everything
We brought them so they've done Ann Arbor and East Lansing.
I was like, wow, I brought you here and didn't even do Detroit
and Dearborn.
We've got to make that happen.
What do I do?
I text a deal, but your phone goes straight.
She's here.
She's in the back.
Yeah, that's what you wanted.
I'm going to call her out.
She's talking across.
She's talking across.
Yeah, I'm going to call it.
Do you like everything that's here?
Yeah, good.
Oh, guys.
Yeah.
She's here.
Support, guys.
Yes.
If you're good, I can give you a run-through of the runner show.
I have it.
Oh, you have it?
You have 812.
I should be up?
Yes.
Perfect.
And then just plug in close to the other room.
Oh, OK.
Because I don't think it's very accessible.
We're going up.
We're going to have you guys join a board.
OK.
Once you stop speaking, take some pics.
Take a shot with the crowd.
And then we'll do a little bit where
Brian from our digital team is going to come up
with a camera.
And you can sign the camera.
It'll be a fun video.
OK.
So everybody's called me having, because I want to,
she's here.
This is our district.
I'll do the same.
I'll do the same.
I'll leave it to you.
I texted everybody.
No, I didn't want to.
She's always been up-to-curious.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not expecting support from young people.
I know.
I know.
I don't like a lot of people.
She says what she believes.
And I really admire that somebody said it.
I should be good.
She's like, just trying to get a real good one.
She's like, hey, if you were to take a cold-blooded shot of me, you're gonna be fine.
I'm gonna watch a girl now.
Yeah, play hard to get.
Yeah.
You know there's a string going on?
Yeah, yeah.
I remember last time no one told me and my son was like, you're so cringe, I can't believe you.
He's wrong.
You remember that last night?
I do, he's wrong.
No, he's totally Adam and he says, he's always live mom. Everywhere he goes, he's live.
Oh yeah.
No, I don't trust the chat anymore. Somebody needs to come in.
Maybe your own people, Prashita.
No, I don't. I mean, honestly...
Your kids.
Yeah.
But even my time is definitely.
It's funny because it's a whole group of people that won't re-talk to me unless I'm on the jump-pikers thing.
That's so funny.
That's crazy.
No, I gotta unsubscribe now to something in the comments after I was cashed with out.
Oh my God.
I was so confused about who you are, you know?
I'm so sad.
I'm just crazy.
You're way more happy.
The impression is really easy to do.
Okay, I see it now.
You didn't have to do that.
But now, I don't think I look like you.
You're not gonna be yours today.
I know.
You're not gonna be yours today.
I know.
For my staff to pull it out for them, like, that's tough.
Because we're all like, it needs more struggling right now.
Like, we don't gotta do folks out, you know, so.
Here we are.
Now we got a problem.
I think it's just a campaign to lift them back up and get them back in the game.
We just gotta get them back in the game.
We gotta get somebody.
I want my suit jacket again.
I knew she was gonna come in here with me this morning.
Did you change your mind?
That's crazy.
I changed my mind.
No.
You want me to go to the car?
I have a suit jacket.
Do you want me to go to the car?
No.
No, no.
It's too late.
It's summer.
It's too late.
It's too late.
It's too late.
It's too late.
It's too late.
It's too late.
Are you are you speaking to me different you just was that freestyler or is that?
Yeah
It's crazy
Like you know picture comes out I get I get the expectations up and it's not always
So far I got text in this view and like hey you did a good job, but
I know bro, you can tell me
They're different mediums.
I'm decent sometimes at this medium.
It's not always a Grand Sleeves.
So you mess up when you go on the stage?
I don't know.
I don't eat anything.
And I'm catching this.
I'm catching this.
I set the bar up.
Now you're going to be like, I don't know.
And now I'm going to be so mad.
I'm just going to rip your whole speech.
I'm going to go up there.
I don't know.
Oh, yeah.
That'd be funny.
Honestly, I learned how to do.
The reason why improv, extemporaneous, is because you never know if someone's going
to say that they met you.
So you have to always be ready to say something else or to add on to what happens very often.
You'll do a lot and a lot of stuff so we're gonna sometimes say similar things.
Let me play something.
I'm still in those holes, holes of chance.
That's long enough?
I'm taking that.
What was it?
Getting money out of politics?
Getting money in your pockets.
Getting money in your pockets.
You know?
If anybody asked we came up with that first.
That's not a good one.
That's the official slogan for the Abola Shari.
It is true.
You're like, I'm Summer Lee.
Yeah.
I just rolled in from Pittsburgh.
I love Natalie.
Yeah, I love Natalie.
Yeah.
People are like, that's strange.
That's not your background that we know.
Try something different today.
We'll see.
I'm going to try to keep the energy up a little bit.
Because I'm not, I do this stuff.
do the stuff but like how can you rally I mean not not regularly I can talk
endlessly but you know it's a different speed I feel like to be able to like
bring up the tempo in a crowd like that you know
good I mean we the tornado missed us in my district there was yeah and landed
in Van Buren township in Debbie's district.
So some commies got hit hard.
Yeah, we did.
It's a midwest.
Yeah, it happens though.
We got hills.
We're like more protected.
This is a reminder that this would be not the best.
We don't have to do it.
We don't have to do it.
We don't get a lot of flooding in Ukraine.
We do, we do get a lot of flooding, right?
That's a real problem.
We've been getting like microbursts, tornadoes,
like a deep end.
The common thing right now is flooding.
It's not flooding.
It's not flooding.
It's not flooding.
It's not flooding.
It's not flooding.
It's not flooding.
It's not flooding.
We don't have any other like energy beds or coffee here do we?
No?
I think you can do it.
It's not for this.
No you have.
Any sugar-free energy bed will do.
I just want a little pick up.
If possible, if not, it's also fine.
Okay, I understand.
Can I send a picture of the passion fruit?
Sure.
Any sugar-free spot.
Somehow, camera can charge in off of that same juice that I scooped it to the same before
we even got in the car.
You need Snaggy's chat?
I do, but I'm good.
I'm good without those snackies.
Really? Why are you starving yourself to 18?
I forgot. Like, today I literally forgot,
because Abdul says something about this event being catered by the famous place, potentially.
So I was like, oh, there's going to be sandwiches at the next thing.
When did they release that?
I didn't know that. Did they release sandwiches at the last thing?
No, I...
Should have gotten you some food last time.
No, no.
What's the thing you say? Zingermans?
Zingermans.
Yeah, I was like, oh, I'll have some cigarettes and...
Are we? Oh, yeah, they're gonna be there, yeah.
I'm not. I'm not here.
When's your flight leave?
I don't want to stay on the plane.
Yeah, fair enough.
I almost got into Dr. Schleif. How did you do that?
You probably learned the hard way.
But also, I called somebody.
Oh, my friend Sight is...
It's getting good.
First three times like that.
Very chocolatey.
I don't even like brownies like that.
Mmm, look at brownie. Look at what you get, Jack.
Look at what you get.
Do you really have something with sugar or nothing at all?
I'm so sure it is, mom.
I was really nappy now.
My whole face is cake with chocolate.
Well, there's a bunch of dirty rats in me on the three walls.
That's an option.
I love you again.
I feel very dirty.
Look at dirty boy.
We're doing it.
He came from the East Coast, the West Coast, he came from the Midwest.
True.
We're going to get him.
Hell yes.
Insha'Allah.
I love that.
Really?
Insha'Allah, your Chip Royce is going to get extra scared.
Insha'Allah.
Damn.
He was on Fox News talking smack.
Oh really?
Saying he's going to be the first Muslim senator.
I bet he wouldn't say it to my face.
That's true.
That's true.
That's gonna be my favorite part, like say it to my face.
Go ahead, see what happens.
Yeah, but you won't.
The office guys asked me, like, why do you like Abdul?
I said, I was looking for a person running for office.
They can bench press three plates.
I don't know why you guys saw that.
It was like...
Three plates.
He's doing it.
Him and Jamal Roman.
Those are the two people.
Bro, Jamal is doing like four plates of reps.
Jamal's insane.
I've never seen him like that.
He is like, he is like, he's out of the 80s man with his shirt on.
And he goes up, I was like, oh man, he's gonna do it.
He's gonna do it twice.
He's gonna do it four times.
You should do a diamond gym and work out with those guys.
I would.
Except for the old man with the week.
Yeah, but.
Have you been?
The diamond gym?
No.
Have you seen it?
Do you know what we're talking about?
No.
It's like a viral sensation.
They yell at you, they berate you.
They dominate you.
I did Dr. White.
Yeah, that's true.
I was just talking to him about the gym, too.
We've got to take you guys out.
Yeah, I mean, they'll cook me.
I'm a coward.
I'm a weakling.
Oh, it's very militant.
Like, go.
Yeah, yeah, a little crazy.
Like, that's the whole appeal.
That's the whole vibe, yeah, it's the whole vibe.
Some people like it.
It's motivated.
They go viral.
So in college, they used to work you out, please.
That's how I like training that cup.
I like every workout was the same.
You train, train, you throw up.
It was all fun.
I didn't work out for like, training my cup to work.
You know what?
Yeah.
I feel so safe.
All right.
Now that I got that one little brownie, I'm good.
I'm good to go.
I got my energy.
One bell is MSU.
Well, just kidding.
Yeah, there's like a lot of joy here because of the game.
I know.
Yeah.
That's it, that's it.
That's it, that's it.
It's going to be explosive.
It's just a wall.
I'm going to bring that up.
Oh, yeah. There's a cheat code, right? What do you say? Go blue? Yeah. Oh, you got to know that.
Well, what's funny is you'll say go blue and then MSE people like, oh, green. And then there's a
whole fight. And then I'm like, I went to Wayne State. I'm good. I'm in state.
Yeah, I'm glad you're a truck. I'm on that same level. In my office, like,
our district director is MSE Fred, is our chief counsel, and at U of M. And like,
they they razz each other like they'll like decorate their office door and this is this back and forth
oh yeah it gets really heated yeah yeah it's a big rivalry I forgot to take a little green when I was
there but you know it's fun for next time well I need to I need to learn how to do the crowd
pleasers things like that I think sometimes you go go blue and they say go white or something
Go for it? Yeah, yes.
Go ahead and do something.
Oh, shit.
Oh!
That's right.
Thank you!
Oh, don't do that.
I'm over here taking advice from Rashida because she's a true Michigan during this.
No, because I'm all for it.
She's all for us.
I'm for everybody.
I love that.
I love that.
Rashida for all.
That's right.
How are you doing?
Okay.
Good?
You know, other than President Moses, you're coming more unstable in it.
and it's about a minute.
No, I'm very serious.
Every time I say something, she corrects me.
She's like, no, that's always been the case.
It's like, okay, you're right.
You know, when you wake up to that kind of message,
it scares everyone.
Yeah.
And he also usually follows through.
I haven't heard that.
The bad guy, people think, oh, you know,
I still hear that.
And I'm like, how much more does he have to show you?
Yeah, he's already done it.
I mean, the opening salvo, they blew his teeth.
And it's it's crazy
Thank you. Yeah, you got swag
Mike came off I don't know if you remember from last time
We run a cooperative so it's equal say equal pay on the podcast
mistake
The socialism stuff
Yeah
Yeah
That's what we gotta cut it out your days are numbered large remember
Yeah
They did six stories on the day of Donald Trump's death, he's going to genocide the entirety
of Iran.
It's ridiculous.
Do you think Democrats, the ones that have spoken out about this stuff, do you feel like
they hear Fox News and all these other like writing outlets?
I do think they're the shared donor base.
Yeah.
And I'll be honest with you, the shared donor base,
folks that invested in those candidates
is what you don't want to watch watch,
who benefit from Fox right now.
Yeah, so they think it's good that we're in alignment.
Oh, thank you.
It's good that we're in alignment with the Republicans
on this.
They don't think like, this is probably unproductive.
I just think when you see that, come out of nowhere,
especially when they don't eat,
they've never heard you, they've never even.
That was so crazy.
Yeah, because a lot of the people making statements
probably have never, you know, but for my 20 year olds, I, I don't know, you know,
you know, he's got this stuff.
You're waiting for me to turn it on?
Yes.
Yeah.
Sure?
Yeah.
Thank you.
All right, so look.
I'm going to get that.
Oh, they're going to...
Yeah.
I'll get that.
Oh.
Tell me.
Tell me.
Tell me.
I'm going to ask for that one by one.
Yeah.
Okay.
Wait a second.
No, wait a second.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
I'm going to plan for our future.
What are we at? What are we at Juice was?
Hopefully the camera.
Oh the backpack.
I'm just going to swap this one now.
How many bars does the other one have?
Just more than enough for the camera and then when it dies,
this dies, I'll swap it in and then we start the baseline
and then we come back first.
We did it. If we didn't do this in Prom too, last second juicer we would have been cooked.
We would have been out.
Hi, Joe.
Hi, Joe.
Hi, Joe.
Hi, Joe.
Yes! All right. Good to see you, man.
How's it going?
I'm peachy, man. We're enjoying our time. Have a great day.
When did you introduce yourself to the Summit?
Summit! Hey, I heard you rocked it.
Have you met a son?
He's nice to meet you.
He's nice to meet you, too. You're tall.
Thank you.
You want to try that?
I heard you killed it.
I'm not a hero.
I'm always a hero.
I mean, honestly, it's not...
It's not home.
I'm just a student president,
and they came in.
I have a whole security team and everything.
The students play a real important role in this year,
and we're going together to have a protest in Spain.
It's really interesting.
Didn't they?
Did it actually happen?
Look at them.
It's really funny that they always
try to do counter-demonstrations when I go on to those
and it's never going to happen.
It blows my mind how much, like,
I hope most people have about 15-20 campuses.
We've had five events where we hosted ad-express events.
Yeah, we've actively, like, come out and said, like,
I was there, if you ever kill bad guys.
It's really nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you as well.
Student body president.
Yeah.
We'll pop in here for sure.
Want to go over here?
Oh yeah.
Okay.
That's okay.
Thank you.
How's my phone doing?
Chat, okay, another day?
It's nice.
Thank you.
This is chat, helps us raise money.
Yeah, I'm all right.
Yeah, I'm all right.
Oh, it's got it.
I'm throwing myself in there.
All right, this is Jacob.
I've been coordinating a whole campus program.
Thanks.
Got it.
Thank you.
All right, that is that.
Time to go.
Yes, sir, yes, sir.
It might be.
You should be up in the next lecture.
Got it.
I might go with images.
I just want to watch it.
Great.
Okay.
Is that okay?
Yes.
It's hard to fly one.
We want to see what happens.
Okay, I got you.
Well, summer is right before.
Do you want to watch it?
No.
We can also turn on the live stream.
Are people going to see it?
No.
We can make it so that they don't see it.
Okay, then why don't we just do it from everyone?
Together.
All right.
We have a ball.
All right.
So, I'm sorry, are you planning to go upstairs as well?
No.
I can help you.
I just am like, if everyone wants to come, I'm just worried that it's going to be like
way too many people in that small hallway that we have.
Yeah, I should not have an entourage to have one person shoot a company meet,
and I just want to see them.
Okay.
I will come here.
Is that our crew?
Yeah.
I love that.
I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good. I'm ready to go. All right, let's do it.
All right
I love Alanis. I really hope they're not problematic.
What are we studying?
I'm doing the same job as last time.
Yeah, yeah.
You get your walk out, but I'll find somebody to sit.
You dress.
Probably most of this place.
I think I see the walk out, too.
You don't have to move that.
You know what it is.
There's something.
Red says the sky?
Yeah.
Chatniz.
I like the side of it.
We've lost our way to the community.
Remember, there's a state, so it's going to be like, there's going to be some separation between, I know, like, we can all stay with me.
Yeah, I know, I'll get him, I'll get him.
I'm going to ask the government to do about the fact that we have a lot of crisis, where
our voices with the darkest times are over and ready to come in, and it can't even come
up the way for that.
It's shameful.
And I'm telling you, the most it can be, once you've got your game in the shield,
you're always coming to help the justice line and other people.
I tell them, if you, if you ever come or studied to support a child's life like that,
what else are you supporting right here in our back yard at home?
Dr. I do want to say this, but I don't really understand the other way to explain it.
People back here, I'm literally on the back of a town, so we can monitor their phone.
What I'm talking about right now is that people are going to lose their homes, their livelihoods, because they can't afford help here.
We understand the United States story.
And we're not talking to you.
He is going to move the urgency that he needed.
And then we saw him just like all of you are.
I'm so tired of having to wonder whether or not we're going to get this button.
This is nothing far enough for the group of wrongs or the wrongs on board, or all these things.
I'm exhausted!
So why not do this something about how long they are left to get, and you don't have to go to the Golden Chalice, or who already got, literally, the way it will work, and making sure that you're not going to be distracted by the question?
I don't know what you want to know, but this is what I'm actually trying to do.
You obviously don't really know what you're doing, I mean, I just want you to just know
how they're going to be able to understand it. They're all going to be able to understand it.
We need someone that is never, ever, ever in the outer union and position to put an end to this.
We need a senator that we don't have to physically call and dance into the right way.
So let's get back to our room and welcome them.
I do want them all to come.
I want them all to come and assist in their picture.
And we want my girls over to be a lot bigger than we would ever be.
I'm telling you, she's my girl.
We call our girls, literally, both of them girls.
From her miscellaneous initiative, she's not alone, I understand, but it means to our
own experience, the struggle of non-people. It's not just the education. It's the fact
that it allowed us to be so comfortable, and feel comfortable in what we understand
and that we can do the urgency that is needed. So please make sure you are on my
going from a lady who always complains about that and I will leave you with it.
You know, I'm also a support team. I've been taking care of people on my own, and so on.
And the new mom that I'm going to be is that I don't want to wake up the next day in general election
and have her that now I have to watch 24-7.
Let's get somebody in there. If it's not just the father and the child,
get out and give him something that fully understands that it's important,
just look at him and let him know that when he looks at the light, he can't lie to us.
He can't mess with you. Let's get somebody adopted that helps us thrive
and that continues to give us struggle and continual fear that the world is around
and we're creating speech mode, you know, literally turning around and stuff like that.
So, thank you all so much for showing up in our drill-up scene, don't give me more than a minute.
And I want to say that all the game is complicated because
when I ran, I only run by 900 volts, and I can't get rid of any.
Thank you!
Thank you for coming to my team, and thank you!
Let's give it up for the University of Michigan!
It's called, you know what I'm saying?
Go Blue!
I'm learning, I'm learning to be great.
Oh my God.
You know what?
We're shooting people hard.
I don't know if I'm a politician,
but we have a really solid crew tonight.
We got a machine to leave,
software to get on the other side,
and obviously,
little old me.
Regardless.
Regardless of the fact that
I wasn't even supposed to be here.
I was supposed to be here.
I wasn't even supposed to be here then.
I think you guys know, sorry, for the past 38 days,
Operation SD's Bureau has been continued
by a bunch of fascist monsters.
They got two killed by an Israel where Donald Trump basically was the first
and hopefully last-ever resident that would be foolish enough
to be at the mercy of Benjamin and Yadavid
and now we follow through on a flight-fond project
of continuous death and destruction campaign.
And a lot of the people that are on the Republican side
and the reactionary side, instead of talking about that,
decided to talk about me and something,
me something for Abba Losan instead.
That's what they did for the past two weeks.
Apparently today, Fox News had six different shows
where they talked about Dr. Rock with all of us ahead.
To all of them I say, they are united in their hatred of not just me, but all of us, and I am relevant to their hatred.
And this is the first thing that I myself included, saw heinous war crimes taking place every single day for the past two and a half years.
And we didn't stand out early on and we sold out. And in the beginning, it was a lot lonely when we were sold out.
They used the same exact heinous spirit they said you're going to de-semitic.
They said you are a radical Islamist, you're a radical fundamentalist, but I'm so really
bold at the same time.
It doesn't really make sense.
And back then, I felt a lot lonely, but I don't feel lonely anymore.
But obviously, the various state forces, the various state-perverse forces that have taken
your tax dollars and chosen to use that on death and destruction campaigns and endless
militarism overseas are still very much in charge.
And our job is not done.
Our job is not done.
And that's precisely the reason why I'm honored to be standing alongside the likes of Al-Qul-Alasayah
with the hopes that we can bring him into the Senate so we can be a real fighter for truth,
a fighter for justice, and a fighter for all of you in here.
here. For the past couple of years, we've seen defeat after defeat go electorally, and
it's created a lot of apathy. And I wanted to say, Assam, how do you combat the nihilism?
And each one of these people, we have to maintain revolutionary optimism.
So long for sure.
So long for sure.
Holding on to political victories.
The little victories are being given.
It's a loved one on an issue that you care for.
The little victories of being able to go out on door now
and potentially secure a vote for a candidate you believe in.
victories when you fall back to someone like Dr. Argyl-Elzayev. And hopefully a big
victory of finally breaking in, a responsible Congressperson, a responsible
senator who will fight for Medicare for all, and will fight for justice, and will not compromise to corporate, to corporate, and to think of victories. I'm very proud of this.
Just as you all came out here to show your support and to hear from us, we're going
to need all the help we can get.
So I want every single person in here, every single possibility that you have here, especially
for those of you who have power to convince others that we're done.
This is usual politics is over.
This is how it will end.
And this is not it. We are strong.
The body can be said, but United, we have power.
And they know that we have power.
And that's precisely the reason why many of those people say,
a foreign obvious has spent the last two weeks
trying to stop this event from taking place,
claiming that people like yourself and your interest
and your values should not be represented by our politicians.
But we're done with that.
There's a big down the road.
There's a down the road.
A down the road against not only the corrupt fashion sources of the Republican Party,
but also against do-nothing Democrats that would rather sit there and collect a fake application
The bottom line, the bottom line, that put more influence, second, in the interest of those various age corporations, that point to your water, and they say, I think, that make sure that every single piece of productive output of the wealthiest nation on Earth goes back to our massive military industrial complex that only brings about debt and construction overseas.
Remember, every single coward that is spent on a bomb is stolen from each and every one of you.
If that's a bomb, then they spend the money from the school or from students instead of building schools in your neighborhood.
And you want to put an end to the policies of corruption, you have to let your voice be heard.
Not only organizing your workplaces, not only organizing your communities, but also organizing
to get responses to politicians elected, and that's precisely what Dr. Abdel El Sayed is.
He's here for you.
As the Chief Executive said, you might not have to worry about having a politician
that actually fights for their values.
Wouldn't that be nice for once?
There's an example of that.
I was looking earlier on my way over there.
There was a huge state of study that came out.
52% of Democrats that are under the age of 49
said that the issue of Israel and Palestine is very important for them.
And among them, 80% sympathize with Palestinians over in Israel.
80%!
So why is it, why is it that if the base of the party is looking at this as a 90's
We can issue and get the politicians were like the e-murfs of those numbers.
I look at the Congress and I see it blitz.
There's only a handful of Democrats that are actually outspoken on this atrocity, outspoken
on the relationship that we have with a foreign country that we simply always have
to send under the billions of dollars to.
A bunch of men has healthcare, won't you? You do not! But each of you has free healthcare.
Yeah, you're right. We do have it.
They don't want politicians to be responsible for their needs. They do not want a real democratic approach.
And I fear that if we continue along this trajectory, we're not only going to lose democracy altogether,
we're going to be heading down a very dangerous path.
We're going to end fascism's fear.
Mass thugs, unaccountable to no one, unelected, ripping apart your heroes.
But their base is power in numbers.
We are strong when we are united and I am strong for my own two fathers in the United States.
So I want to leave on a positive note.
Let the actions in community organizing that took place in Minneapolis lead the way for all of us.
We all have a role to play here.
You all have a role to play here, no matter how small it may seem.
It could be a dollar here and there to give to a candidate that you know is going to get hammered by eight-pack dollars.
It could be phone banking. It could be demonstrated. We must not give up.
And if you cannot make big revolutionary actors, if you feel really sad, if you feel really angry,
Remind yourself of the worst fascist day you know,
it could be Donald Trump.
It could be God.
Slowly.
They're going to be very excited to stop fighting.
So we cannot fight this fight.
But we cannot stop fighting.
Let's fight.
Breathe life back into your movement.
There's a record, none of us are free until all of us are free.
Free for free.
in class, right?
That's why I'm saying something else, y'all,
because we have big flights ahead of us.
But first of all, they won't be here today.
I don't know, they're taking all the way
from Brooklyn to Virginia.
I mean, not all the way, but they're taking all the way.
But I am proud of you, y'all.
We have a reason to be out here,
can't make it before something,
someone that I believe in.
And I know that, I know that,
you all are here, too,
because we have taken this fight.
I know you're missing so all of our speakers.
If you might have watched the new Bollywood
and been on social media, listen, there are a lot of people
who take out one of us to be there and join the gang.
It was folks who fell in love with talking to people
who might rock the boat.
They don't want us to be a group of people
who make it unpopular.
But the guy needed it, and I said it earlier today,
and I'm eating now, we are equal powerful states
in America, and it's this brand that you all know that.
As soon as you know who you are, it is funny.
Such as when you're on a plane, you're on a plane to Michigan,
and this is only my second time in second day at the meeting in Michigan.
What I know is that if you're in Michigan, or if you're a bunch of kids that think you're a rascal,
If you're anywhere up to the country that we know it feels like a complex, or I don't think that we have,
we know it would tell us.
I'm the one that's supposed to know that it feels like to come from the working class for real.
I come from Vanitya, helped to build this country yet without a leader.
I come from most of the most of this country with our unpaid labor.
And we know that we deserve whether you are a teacher or a plant engineer,
and I know our people are feeling that we deserve to be here in clean water.
in the long-awaited national emergency, every single person here should go to a doctor when they have a sick patient
or you should be able to go to a school where you don't have to work your share of the money
to pay for the rest of your day. That is that we deserve to live in a country that says that we should have homes
and a country that says that we won't look at our homeless folks and say there's nothing we can do for a entire living country.
I'm going to talk about it, I'll talk about it, we'll talk about another time, we're going to go looking to your games.
I don't talk to students because I don't think you're right. I can't talk to students because I know that you all had experiences and perspectives that are so important to us in my disease and so left out that I refuse and we should all refuse to not turn my records to you any more.
which you might have to say.
Right now, right now, we are in front of multiple generations
who have only known chaos and crisis.
Crisis here in our own country, where the powers may be based.
Crisis is about our education system.
Crisis is about our healthcare system.
We know crisis abroad where our dollars go above our children in Gaza.
or crisis where we starve children in Africa.
We've gone through crisis, we've gone through crisis.
We've had more to come.
If you don't stand up and take those things right now,
I'm here because we can feel a confident vision
of what this country will do next.
Oh, my God.
Let me...
Let's get it to you.
Because during the break,
I want to make you believe that there is nothing that you can do about this room.
They want you to believe that you can't expect a change that you deserve to see.
And my Congress are eager on things that you can do for us and help us.
And it's angry. But I've come to a lot of places and I see out of you where I go.
I see the people who have been treated. I see people who have been ignored.
I see people who are tired. I see people who have tried and showed up.
I see people who went down from each other
and actually saw people who are fighting like hell
to make you feel like you're an atheist in the next few years.
That's you're meeting me.
It's somebody who worships differently than you are,
or musically different than you are.
I'm not saying that I'm a social-economic status,
but I'm not saying that I'm a corporate class.
Nobody's ever been.
They only have the politics of fear, and division,
and destruction, and destruction,
Making us, to keep our home is away from the people who have participated in the biggest sex traffic in the world and in our country.
But we can't do anything to need you to feel like you can't win.
I need you to instead, lead and work and live in your power.
Well, okay.
I'm just saying, I'm just saying because who fits?
I'm a new citizen of our city, and you deserve it.
I have a great energy in our country.
I will work every day to help every person that's holding here.
You need to do your job.
Oh, my father, who will get the money out of politics?
It doesn't matter what any eye can say.
It doesn't matter what the eye has to say.
But it matters what you and I have to say.
I'm a new citizen of our city.
Get the data on the plan and the city.
Put the sugar in every day.
If you're anxious for the camera, well, I know all that what you want me to do is know that he stands because he's always stood there, because he comes at every single time to save energy.
Look at how someone in the city who doesn't have power to incorporate into the corporate tax are to do the things that make you a much more actual vision and idea for this country.
Right now, we have to fight for it.
So right now, I'm not asking you here to believe in us.
I'm asking you to go for it, but yes, I see it.
So I'm not going to say that I need you to believe in beauty.
I need you to believe in how powerful you are.
I need you to understand how history is because you're a college certificate.
We're going to take the police check and we're going to wait over and over and over
So when we see that anytime portrayed as a problem, the solution is not in the college
geniuses. That anytime we're portrayed, the solution is not your home. That we've got
the right to vote tomorrow. So welcome to your power. And that's rather great.
So I'm saying welcome to your power right now. That you're fighting the man who
is seen and heard here and missing in the campaign. And that we need you to
We need to stay in carpentry.
We are in the military.
We are.
And it doesn't get us leaving too favorably.
Our president won't let me say that.
People ain't tweeting out that he's going to commit a genocide.
Things are okay.
But right now, we have to try and just as far as they are going.
So if they're able to go, they're trying to go.
But no one is trying to go.
They want a country that can trust only them.
That they're only about them.
It is we care about building a new world, it's time to stop saying that there is no possible, it's time to stop building that new world.
It's time to stop saying that there is no possible.
So right now, I need you to stop that and Parker, bring somebody who cannot hear that word with you.
I want you all to make it to the places that actually know we won't stay at home, we won't shut up, we won't sit down, you guys are just sitting at home.
Because you guys are worth fighting for right now.
So listen, if you guys are ready to accept that it is all of our responsibility and not a fact,
it's just that all of our power to help this independent world,
that I need you to actually be on fire and have a championship in you.
Because let me tell you something, it ain't gonna be easy to get out of my way and listen.
There are a lot of people who don't want people.
It's just a moment here for all.
They don't want us to come up to here and clean water.
They don't want us to get into these holes.
They don't want us to love our area.
They don't want us to come to the river house.
They don't want us to raise the weight of our hearts
to fight for you, the labor industry.
They don't want us to be a boat in power.
But we don't want to be here anyway.
We don't want to be here anyway.
So right now, I'm asking you all
To fight for my care, not for absolute law and not to be an absolute fact like every
self, an absolute to ask you some, what does your neighbor mean?
What does the person do as the most humble and the most needy, but mad?
And I mean this is going to work for it.
I mean this is going to look mad out for anybody else who doesn't get an
eye and say that we will need so much is what we are fighting for that
will go toe to toe with you.
So if you're feeling that right, don't leave here today and just feel yourself.
Don't leave here today and just record the music you just used to play.
I need you to leave here today and make the moment for the world.
I need you to go home and talk to everybody you know and talk to them.
I'm going to say that to you.
To deliver more loss.
I need you to hold your hand.
And tell them what the perfect new love team democracy has led us through by making it to all your young assistants and your older ones.
And tell them that it's our time to shake the next world and build it right up.
So I need you to knock on your doors.
That's what's taking on the public services.
All types of candy you're already drinking.
So I need you to put your mouth and your appetite to it.
Or you aren't playing out at the party at the time.
So we're having a problem from today until August, what day?
August 4th, until November 3rd, I need you all to find out how you're doing yourselves.
Make sure you don't miss anything.
Don't forget to tell us what you did, and I wish you all the best.
I wish you all the best. I'm sure that I did, I'm sure that I did.
I'm so strong and I'm doing this possible right now, because I'm not just kidding.
It's about the rangers on time, put your hands together and really make some noise for our
brothers who are re-creating the next center of community, Dr. Akul El Sa'an!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
About the World Leagues!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
I'm not going to let you know that Israel is ready to be a mission capable of winning the flag.
To be a mission capable of winning the flag.
To be a mission capable of winning the flag.
To be a mission capable of winning the flag.
National League of Legends.
Now, I gotta tell you what I'm about, money out of pocket,
I need your pocket.
I need your pocket.
I need your pocket.
I need your pocket.
My name is Alphelel Sayer.
And I got no business or something like that.
At least that's what they tell me.
I also told me I got no business
having a conversation with all of you.
They tell me I got no business
having a meeting with someone like Miss Allen
or someone lead or Rashida.
What they're talking about
talking about the West in each other, we've got an opportunity to change the
and we will not attack them. We will not attack them.
Applause
Thank you very much for your time.
I've been away for a long time, I've got the wrong skin colour, I've come from the wrong part of the world.
How angry I am. I will tell you why.
I go 15 hours from where I go up
to my family's native region.
I crossed a 10-year-old language practice together.
I saw that imprinted in the lines of the people I love,
my grandmother lost her kids before the first one.
I didn't have to go 15 hours.
I'd go 15 minutes from where I grew up in the city to school.
And I could cross the same 10-year-old language
practice together.
And now the children are in the whole of their skin.
Children are like the parents who can work it.
Children are like them.
where they each had a long, healthy life in each United States of America.
But I didn't have to do something about it.
And in my final year of medical life, I realized that the health care system I was trying to be a part of
wasn't just not part of the solutions of all kids that are part of the problem.
Chewing up and spending people off simply because they didn't get monetized enough to feed the CCOs
or the pharmaceuticals or hospitals or the insurance companies that have sicked their technicals on our healthcare system
and monetized us because of the variants.
I decided to set it over public.
I got the opportunity to meet up with others.
The state of Michigan moved to the city, forcing things to vacate.
Courses of the shutdown were 100 and 85 in another department and it's taking a high
bit more time than my holiday meeting.
We were living on our needs.
We did things like guarantee a rich house, a free pair of glasses, a school building,
Appropriate by selling 50,000 plastic glasses across the street.
But if, as you can see here, Marathon Floyd wanted to raise their emissions and sell it off side,
at least go up and sell it, that does not happen.
We forced them to invest their own money to reduce their emissions when they could want to save the Christian.
We are calling on all over our county to support them to get back their information about the terrible news.
in many machines for free on hundred locations across every country.
I can tell you, I never will forget that experience is watching what was happening and thinking
that our kids in the city of Detroit were each state exposed to the same light you were hearing about
in a place where we systematized and concentrated almost all of the people
people for most of the day, most of the year, year, and years.
So we have a school daycare and head start
tested to let them work.
In the first, there was 68 schools in Texas,
and we didn't even get it.
Texas policies, they're good enough.
Got them out of halfway, we got them home with folks
like Dr. Gordon Health, rewriting the states
and all those we got for them.
And when we back out of the Wayne County, Wayne is number eight for making that nation wide
environment to set an hungry million dollars in that event, we realize that we're living
in the face of the dollars, it's just me, we're living in the face of the dollars.
I'm sitting in my office when this is an insurgency inside of the fridge, but look what I've done with that.
I'm sitting there looking at all the land items they've just frozen in my budget.
Food on the table from moms and babies to women.
The last line of health care depends on the quality of health care.
Vaccine goes all of it.
I'm sitting at my house, and I get a push-up notification from my phone.
And I learned that after this long career of offering to the US Senate,
is not seeking reelection.
It's going to be an opening in the US Senate.
It's not going to ask myself, where is the fight for the public self now?
I believe that fight can take us all away from the US Senate.
how did you become a man?
The question I've been left out a while ago was,
I'm not young enough to remember this.
I don't think you know it.
I don't even know the exact answer.
I'm not going too fast, of course.
I don't think you now know it.
I'm not a man.
I know what.
I don't think you know it.
I know what.
I know what you've heard.
I know what you've heard.
I know what I'm doing.
I know what I'm doing.
I said, you want to go big or go home, or big, and I'm on home?
But not off the take, 340,000 votes.
We ran a campaign on ideas and ideas.
I said something to try to reach this quite many here,
which says that Donald Trump himself is not the disease of our politics.
He's just the recipient of the disease of our lives.
I believe that this is a great project, a great direction to do it.
And especially because she's the one buying herself all the dishes she's been eating.
It's the reason that we pay the most of our money.
You pay much for what we do.
It's the reason that in this appropriate or tax dollars we don't have lots of other kids
and there are schools that have hospitals, rather than building schools and hospitals for our own kids.
Run your mission.
If only years we could talk about the systems, we would never have done it with the disease.
And in this election here right now, we have a choice about whether or not we are willing to stand up against that disease of our politics.
To take on corporations, where we find them, to do our bidding in our politics, rather than make it.
It is no longer appropriate for them to take our politics, specifically because of last week.
the longer we can be acceptable for DPD to raise up a race faster than 46 hours a day.
And the longer we can survive and revive, all ACAC tells us that the number one goal of our foreign policy is to align with the foreign budget.
You don't know what that's all about, they got everything it says to them.
Because you can't erase it.
What was that?
Fucking hair.
It's because I'm talking to a musician.
And I don't think I can express my musicianity.
And I can be a musician in here.
And I'm a musician in here.
And I'm a musician in here.
And I'm a musician in here.
This is a movement built on our love for people.
All of us love and revere Jewish show, our Jewish haters, the faith of Jesus.
And, trust me, you're welcome to get what I'm holding, against any circumstances.
Let somebody who easily can understand what it's like to be discriminated against,
is going to know I'm right.
Yeah.
But that's not a reference to the Jewish people who are standing in love and reference
to all people, so how dare I say that I love the Jewish people
without standing up against the genocide against Palestinian people?
He is the same love that should move us to stand when we see injustice against Palestinians,
that should also move us to stand up when we see injustice against Jews,
is the state you love and remember.
Now, I've heard about the friends students supporting Israel were going to be protesting us.
But I'll tell you this.
At the end of the day, they may be welcomed.
Because at the end of the day, we believe in the courage of our convictions and our ideas.
We believe in the ability to actually counter the sessions about the kind of politics we want.
Because at the end of the day, for me, all of us should be the business of supporting America.
And that is your architecture.
And remember, we believe that if you keep one person in one vote,
Hey, I told you, I told you, I told all the ministers in a number of issues lately that I'm not going to say is the single most dangerous candidate in the 20.6 elections I've done for the US is a real relationship.
I wish that I'd made it a shirt! I would wear it!
I don't pay taxes, so another country to take, or a bomb, I pay my taxes, so I'll give you the schools and help you here.
You know, if you want to win, you aren't going to win the award, but don't pretend that
somehow this is what's there for you.
When you're willing to stack up a hundred million dollars in cash that's funneling
You may need a system plan to run out of time and nothing to do with your judicial
issue. You have decided that the order must be started and it doesn't matter.
But you see, I studied these halls. I learned about the monstrosities I've been built
about having a displacement discussion about the kind of America we need to deserve.
If you don't think it's on me, then I'll have to put it in my shoes and buy it and give it to the fuck of rock.
I'll talk about it, I'll talk about it, I'll talk about it, I'll talk about it.
I'll tell you what it is though, there is no one to talk about it.
I'm a hacker, dude.
But once you respond to that, I was a therapy, it's a nice security.
And I was never a peacekeeping.
But for three months, this song, it passed about the beginning of Fear of My Dreams.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, everybody.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Now look.
I'll talk about the situation.
to dreaming by the Minneapolis, at the height of Project Metro, so I want to
understand the solidarity of the people of Minneapolis. I want to understand what it looks like when I look at the expenses of 185 million dollars,
which by the way is different from the budget of the FBI, it is different from the budget of the U.S.
to organize itself against the constitution and to
exceed to a city in our own country.
And he went back there.
Then courage of the very high, he was a full-on hunting
here, really.
And I asked him, I said, have you done this before?
He said, no, I've never done this before.
I said, who do you look for?
He says, Trump, twice.
I said, the white man.
He says, because I never knew what would get to this.
And he taught me two things that are not what we all think of us.
Number one, people have the immense capacity to change.
Thank you for believing that when faced with injustice, people are willing to do extraordinary
things.
I want to thank you for being here because I want to contrast this bravery with the
I'm not asking you to break your move,
politicians should tell us that we can reform or we train nice.
I've never thought about that without actually meeting.
Maybe you can ask your man down in the agencies
that I understand that the counter performance is like,
how do you teach somebody who was limited to use that child as bait?
That that's wrong.
Like, you do not use the power of a child.
Like, what's the result like?
You have a kid and you're not going to let them teach a little slush shit.
Don't take a kid.
I'm so sorry if you're going to be doing the child of the day, you will not be walking the US government.
Ice and happy reform. Ice and happy Ukraine. Ice and happy world.
We were going to get gay with the system.
Our president is raging the genocide of the legal, unjustified and warped, that is torching
I don't have the knowledge of the tune of one hundred and fifty million dollars per day.
Spiky recovery! Yes!
I'm sorry, just put it in the other part of the class dude.
And, I don't know what you feel about this dude. I payed extra twenty bucks.
And just this morning, the President talks about the waiting hour of the whole civilized
education.
Now, I don't know about you, but like, when I heard about it on the first thing I thought
about was my kids.
I think all of them were.
I think they had protection, I think they had empathy.
I think they wished me a long, long time ago.
How do we say that?
and get the wishes of my God.
How do we send back?
I don't know who gave it to those of us.
The people around the community for their kids.
90 million people, conservatively.
30 million of them are social.
And this guy is talking about the chair aside
a black, three million people were to eliminate the children.
And some of our options, some of our favorite,
become religious values, six fucking times.
And now I'm talking about the perfect fact
that the pleasant was a human judge like Iran.
Here's the thing.
This is the thing that gets me the most.
I understand that that guy
is a narcissist
with non-functional mental capacity.
I understand that he does stupid shit every day.
I was just raising our hearing sessions in breaks.
But what he knows is he will not lose his mind at all in part.
Why don't you do this double speed?
When you talk about, well, this is a little more,
but if that's what's more funny, how can I say it's more fun?
If either you're little and you wouldn't fund it,
Or you can completely agree with it, but stop the games!
Yeah!
No files!
We have to believe that we can move past this.
One of the hardest things about doing this is that I'm a gone alt.
I got to spend a couple of days using the money and in the last few days,
one of the hardest parts about it is it took my daughter a couple of days
to stop asking me when I was going to do this.
And we got home and I had a son that was about three years old.
Today I'm going to be about three years old.
And she said today is the day of your meeting.
I said just keep it.
And the only reason they didn't justify it now is because you believe that you are building
something that is worthy of those things.
I can't turn the commas up, don't know what you're doing.
I've been working on this for four years now.
But I don't know what it's like to be alive.
And this is the thing that only people do, which is, they think that what people do is like being old.
Which is ridiculous, it's not that old.
But we've been young.
I don't remember if it got that good in young, and in this possibility of a life-sharing family.
And I was blessed to be young at a time when our all-fixes looked somewhat different.
If you're 25, I mean, you're one of the year 2000s.
I'm glad you're happy about it.
And I'm just kidding, actually, there's some total of your lived experience in this class.
I mean, when you're eight years old and you have lost your home and you watch a family
near you lose their home and the worst financial crisis for which the best you've possibly
paid enough. You have been alive with the given that exists in your whole life.
I don't know how some of us are alive. The end is just like a lot of us in here
And you have to live in that reality forever.
You were what, 10? 15?
When Donald Trump came down to that biggest escalator?
He's built a picture of your policies and processes before that?
You have to tell people, get them off people, get it?
Tell people that they got hired and they're talking about that?
You...
You built a line for wars of a certain type of life.
And they're getting that tiny amount of them.
I understand the nihilists, for everyone who's here got blessing, I know who you know,
ten of the people who we call dead in a little crowd.
Belief itself is an act of hope.
I'm sorry, but I do promise you that someday there will be someone who will look in the
eye like I don't know the rules in the eye and who will want to tell them what you did
when democracy was at risk.
You will want them to know how hard it can be worked so that they can have a better life than you can.
And my ask is, I want you to think about that.
And I want you to picture that conversation as you have a wedding.
And I want you to put all of yourself into this.
Because if you may not believe it, forget it if you don't try to do those.
And look, we did it, this is right there.
We live at the golden edge of the horizon of our life.
We choose every day whether or not we want to force that for ourselves as the people we need after us.
And I'm asking you, we are going to call ourselves in these next few months, in the next few months as we are going to assist you in that.
I'm asking you to join us. I'm asking you to join us for the people that you will meet behind you.
And as we join us to the people who we are here with,
we have an extension, just can't get a hold of it.
That's the choice we've had out there, tell us.
Tell them, I know the person who can wear the mask.
I know that they think that they think
how it was until we did it.
I know they think that if they question us,
we're going to back up.
But yes, we don't back up.
The next of us, we can't just buy money out of our wallets since we go on back down.
But they're going to help us when we're not standing where we need to since we're brothers.
We go back down.
And let's go. We can't get out of the hospital.
And this is the college country of the world.
We go back down.
Thank you all.
Oh
Did that walk out too fast?
No, you're fine.
I'll follow you.
What's going on?
I'm trying to bring up the energy this time.
Because I knew you were coming up after me.
Obviously can't hold a candle down.
I mean, you have got another incredible speech.
We're just telling people to do this. You're gonna do that, right?
It's true.
Is that the one?
Who goes?
He's probably...
You've lost him.
He's probably crowd-serving right now.
He's literally shaking every individual hand.
Yeah.
He's the people's man.
This way.
right yeah yeah I remember uh packs at like 10% I have a swap that better oh
yeah well it's been charging right yeah okay you don't do that I'm gonna pee
real quick okay just need you think it's this room right oh I knew that and I
I knew that. It's this room. The blind leading the blind, truly.
Like that chat?
He's in the bathroom. He has a small bladder. Everybody says it.
Everybody says that.
No, I'm still alive. It never ends.
It's okay. We're in open books here.
Hey, how'd you feel?
He hasn't even come up here.
He's hoping we'll never be realized that there's still one.
Are you kidding me?
Yes.
I'm very worried about you.
I'm just down there in the line.
And he's not the one that we were paid for.
We're at the police station here.
Oh.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Tell the police who you feel, OK?
It's all right here.
It's all right here.
It's all right here.
All right.
We can have Crest come up here.
You have a great spot on your hat, Mr. Wiggy.
I don't know what I'm saying.
It's too late.
All right, Jim.
I'm talking to you.
Actually, after any of that, I'm
going to go out with you.
I'll keep you guys company while our piss baby.
Piss baby streamer has to go with empty as a little tiny.
That's all right.
We've been chaining off of what we've been, I've been having to charge these like every
time they're, because we only have three in Saturday.
We made it.
We made it.
We've been going for like six hours.
This is longer than we usually go on the IRL portion.
I'm March.
Where's your name?
March.
March?
Nice to meet you.
Yeah, actually, because I'm with The New York Times.
Do you mind if I get your name to screw in your photos that you're on?
Any photos that I'm in?
Oh yeah, sure.
March with an Indian
Miranda at my art
Producer Kamal
For about three years
That's good, thank you
Of course, nice to meet you
Good.
I'm on it.
Alright.
Alright.
Interviews time.
Excuse me, Dennis.
Excuse me, L.
I got a...
I got a...
Okay.
They said I got double stuff.
Where's he going to be there?
Speech month.
First, Rashida.
Then, Summer.
Then, Abdul.
It was like...
Speech month.
Speech month.
Speech month.
Speech month.
Speech month.
Usually he's pretty good.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
he's pretty good I don't know
we're jumping ship to there come on oh yeah I was the first one off
I saw your comment in the chat
you pulled out your phone to say that in the chat while you were filming
which hurts even more so now that's more work you're right
look right here look he was in the chat saying speech mod
They were
Equal say
She's so good.
Wait, wait, wait.
Who do you think won?
Oh.
And then Hassan.
Man.
Hassan, no, hold on.
No, you were.
No.
You were that.
No, you were.
Okay.
My audience was not feeling it.
They were saying.
All right.
Abdul's here.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
All right, I'll do it here.
All right, let's do it.
He's first.
Let me see.
All right.
All right.
All right.
Okay, everybody.
Can we have it quiet in the back, please?
Okay.
All right.
So I'm going to ask folks to raise their hand
if they have a question.
I'll be calling on folks individually.
Asking for your full cooperation here
just so we can make it run smoothly
and get you out of here before it's too late.
Can we have you come on up?
I'm going to sit down here today.
Can I sit down here?
Do I want to butt-height again?
That's what we're doing?
That's what we're doing.
All right.
Because we're at U of N, let's start with Michigan Daily.
Thank you, yes.
So Hassan, what would you say to students
who are apathetic to the political process
and are too disinterested to engage?
Yeah, to them I say I understand exactly why you feel that way.
You probably went out, you protested,
you were participating in the student encampments,
and you might have even gotten arrested,
as a matter of fact, in the process.
But the reality is we just got to keep pushing through it
because we have made some very significant gains
in terms of broad awareness initiatives.
Obviously, our job is not done, but you've got to hold on to those victories wherever
you take them and build on that and build the momentum that's necessary to make the
changes.
One thing that I always go back to is society never fosters unless old men plant seeds
for trees, they will never sit in the shade out.
And I think a lot of the youth have the ambition, they want to make that change
and then they receive these setbacks, whether the punishments or the cancellations
or a loss of job opportunities and they think to themselves,
all right, well, we didn't actually,
what was this all for?
But the reality of the matter is change takes a long time
and you have to remind yourself of that
and you have to hold on to those small victories
so you can maintain revolutionary optimism.
Thank you.
Can you raise your hand if you have a question, please?
You used to call over.
All right, hand raised.
Yeah, I'll give us on.
Why do you think Democrats chose this moment
to find a copy?
Great question.
I think they would rather talk about anything,
but the thing that many of them wanted, which is this war,
the reality of the matter is a lot of the Democrats
that are speaking out about this in the finite amount
of time that's readily available for them,
as opposed to banging the drums against Donald Trump's
unjustifiable war that he was goaded into waging
alongside Israel.
They're doing that because they would rather
lead into distractions.
There is obviously a positive outcome in all of this, though.
And the reality is that with the age of independent media,
voices like mine that used to be gate kept
from polite society, from conversations,
in mainstream outlets are no longer cast aside as easily.
And we saw that with obviously the sea change
on the issue of Palestine.
I brought it up in my speech earlier as well.
You have massive, massive super majorities
of the population that have completely shifted
their attitude on this issue because it's unconscionable
that we have supported a foreign country
that has committed a genocide and is currently
committing another ethnic cleansing campaign
in southern Lebanon with a million Lebanese people
that have been displaced.
People are frustrated with that.
And the previous ways of dealing with this issue,
Instead of talking about the actual issue itself,
let's simply say this person is a bad person.
We're gonna find quotes that we can mine
and smear this person, attack the messenger,
rather than tackle the message.
It's not working anymore in this new media environment,
but I think it's a place of fear.
It comes from a place of fear.
It comes from the fear of losing control
over the messaging.
And I'm very excited about what the future holds.
And I'm glad that there are real fighters out there
who say this kind of stuff is a distraction
and we should focus on the real issues, you know?
Feeding families, making sure that we fight for health care
for every single person, making sure that our tax dollars
are allocated back to us rather than, you know,
waging unlimited wars overseas.
And I'm very happy to stand next to Abdullas Ayed here,
who I think is a candidate that will represent
those forces very well in the Senate, hopefully.
Insha'Allah.
Thank you.
We're going to Associated Press.
Hi, Abdul.
I'm wondering why you think 2026 is different.
Yourself, a progressive movement,
has been able to fill rooms in the past.
Why do you think this is the year
that you can actually break through when
an election in a battlegrounds day like this?
Yeah, as I said in my remarks, Donald Trump himself
is not the disease, he's just the worst symptom
of the disease.
And for four years, we dealt with the symptom.
It didn't actually affect the disease.
And we know what happens to diseases
you don't take care of, they get worse.
So you're looking around, and people
are finding that the good life that they were promised
is just further away.
It's harder to afford groceries.
It's harder to work a stable job.
It's harder to afford a home.
We're graduating with more debt.
Young people are worried about whether or not
they'll ever be able to get a job.
Healthcare is more expensive, more people
have fallen to medical debt.
That is all worse now than it was when I ran in 2018.
And at the end of the day, our job
is to build an indelible relationship to the voters
that were asking to support us.
We win because they understand who we are.
And my job, because I've done this once before,
is to go back to voters and ask, hey, is it better than it was?
And I've been saying the same thing now consistently
for the past eight years since I jumped into politics.
And do you want someone who is going to blow in the wind,
or do you want somebody who's been saying the same thing
over and over and over again about what it looks like to actually solve
these problems?
And so consistency matters.
And I think it's something that we need to bring to every conversation in our politics.
So I think that's what's different.
The other thing I'm just telling you is, in this particular race, I've run once before.
When I first ran, I was 32, never run for office in my life.
This time around, I'm 41 with two kids and a mortgage.
We grow up.
And I'll tell you, there's nothing that chasens you like your children can.
And I used to be real precious about the critique.
And this time around, I just want folks to agree on the solution.
I don't care how you get there, but I want you to believe enough in yourself
that you deserve health care.
I don't care how you get there, but I want you to be asking big questions about whether
or not a corporation can come in offshore, automate your job, and whether or not you
actually need a unit, right?
I want you to be asking big questions about whether or not MAGA fighting another war that
they sure up and down they never get us into, whether or not that's making your
life more affordable.
So I think all of that is what's changed.
And I'll tell you, up and down the state, 90 different cities, 300 public events,
right?
and small in places like this, but also in VFW halls
and in Escanaba or living rooms in Grand Rapids,
that message is resonating, that we really can
get money out of politics, we really can put money
back in your pocket and we really can't
pass Medicare for them.
Also every single year in the year we show up in track.
There should be a progressive running.
Everywhere that one exists and there should be the option
everywhere that we have an election for people
who care about working families and working values
people who care about Medicare for all or affordable housing or free college.
Every single year we have to take the chance. Every year, every race, we might
not be victorious but every single time we have to call the question. Every single
time we have to show up. Yeah, thank you. I'm going to go to Andrew, Jewish
telegraph agency. Thank you. Abdul, you grew up around a lot of Jews. You grew up near
Temple Israel. I mentioned some of them. I know some of them are concerned now
by you campaigning with Hassan. What do you say to them? And Hassan, could you explain the
I should really comment.
So let me speak to that.
I am so grateful to have grown up in a community
with a large proportion of Jewish Americans.
I learned a lot from the Jewish tradition.
I'm grateful to have been invited to the bar in Batmitzfez
and be invited to Seder's and to be invited to spend time
at Shul.
And I'm grateful to have been able to do that
even on this campaign.
I stand deeply and profoundly against anti-Semitism
in the same way that I stand deeply and profoundly
against Islamophobia.
Those two things always run together.
It is not anti-Semitic to criticize a foreign government
and it's not anti-Semitic to criticize a super PAC
that is intent on aligning our interests
with the foreign government.
There are a lot of people who want us to think those things
because they want to stretch the definition of anti-Semitism
to encompass a foreign government.
And I just will never be okay with that.
It is out of my love for people, all people,
that I stand against anti-Semitism,
it's out of my love for people,
all people that I stand against genocide.
And I would expect nothing less of anybody who claims
to stand up for the equal rights of all people.
When it comes to Temple of Israel, I was profoundly shaken.
Many of my friends growing up worshiped the Temple of Israel.
Nothing justifies the heinous attack
that we saw on Temple of Israel.
And I stand in solidarity with my Jewish sisters
and brothers from America where
that kind of thing never happens again.
I also think it's just critical for us
to understand that hurt people do hurt people.
And the circumstances happening 6,000 miles away
can affect the lives that we live here.
And if we stand against violence, we've
got to stand against violence, all violence.
And I tried to make that clear in my comments.
I think some people tried to quote that out of context.
And I understand that's how politics works.
I'm not here to defend myself.
But I will tell you this.
I will always stand up to defend my Jewish sisters
and brothers who are fighting for an equal right to be
who they are, to express their beautiful faith
in the way that I choose to express mine.
And I hope that folks understand that.
Do you want me to answer the Rabbi Shmuely question?
Yeah.
It's not true what you might find out.
Yeah, Rabbi Shmuely is pro-genocide.
It's pretty simple.
And what I was saying is, if you want,
if you feel like there isn't enough courage within you,
if you feel discouraged, then let's
fight be the reason why you go out
and continue to fight the good fight for truth
and for justice, and for hopefully peace in this region.
And he was the first genocide there that came to mind.
I probably should have used Randy Fein instead.
I feel like he's more of an annoying figure nowadays.
You know what a specific person.
What do you mean?
You're talking about a specific person,
not a generic Rabbi Schmule.
Oh my god, you don't know who Rabbi Schmule is.
I know a Rabbi Schmule.
I didn't know who you were.
Oh no, that's what I was talking about.
Rabbi Schmule Botea, famous Rabbi whose daughter
as a kosher sex shop in Israel.
That's what I was talking about.
Thank you.
Can we have hands up for questions, please?
All right, we'll go to Olivia to repress.
OK.
So to follow up on the answer you just gave there,
how is that not an equivocation?
Because the logic, if you extend the logic there,
that would be like if after October 7th someone
went to a mosque and was upset,
did something awful there.
How is that logic?
How does that not translate?
After October 7th, there was a whole genocide
against Palestinians.
There's a lot of mass in Gaza.
I don't know if the Free Press reported on that.
Sorry.
So no, I just look at the end of the day,
we can play this rhetorical game where
we pretend that all actions stand on their own
without a context for.
We can try and have an adult conversation about context
that exists in the world.
Because at the end of the day we all live in the same confined world.
The things that happen one place in the world can affect what happens somewhere else in the world.
And if we're serious about preventing bad things from happening in the world,
we also have to be serious about the context in which they're created.
And I'm trying to be serious about that context.
So I can both say that the attack on Temple Israel was anti-Semitic and wrong.
And I can also say that the circumstances that created that,
it didn't happen in a vacuum.
And that those circumstances that created that are important to stand up against as well.
So, you know, the notion that somehow I cannot condemn a war that killed a little boy and
a little girl in Lebanon because of an attack on Temple Israel seems to me inconsistent with
the way the world actually works.
And I'd like to live in a world where we stand up against any and all violence, understanding
that anti-Semitism is wrong, understanding that wars that we should not be fighting
are also wrong, and understanding that there really is a connection between the
two of them.
However, much of the rhetorical games that people try to play tell us that there
somehow is not.
We're going to take two more questions.
We're going to have to move on to the next person.
I'm sorry, Olivia.
Olivia, we're going to have to move on.
I'd love to take a question.
Actually, what do you mean by your state?
If you can't find the right question,
I'm not going to answer your question.
We're going to move on to the next person.
Asad, do you feel like your presence on the campaign
trail may hurt the candidates that you're supporting?
Would that help them?
If I felt that way, I probably wouldn't show up, right?
I really like Abdul.
So no, I don't think so.
There are a lot of people who have the shared resentments
that someone like I have, anger and discontent
with the way politics are going,
people that feel completely shut off from this conversation,
people whose needs are not being met.
I've made it very clear I'm a megaphone.
The reason why I have the popularity that I do
is because a lot of people find themselves frustrated
and don't have the language to communicate
that frustration. Don't understand exactly why they're frustrated, why change is not
happening in the way that they would like to see. And that's what it is. At the end
of the day, I'm simply a megaphone. You can cancel me if you want, but the feeling
is not going to go away. And I think that's precisely the problem with the DC bubble
that currently exists that sometimes the media can lean into as well. And the DC
bubble that absolutely exists with our political class.
It's not an accident that you have a 90-10 issue here
with Israel.
And yet, the roles are completely reversed.
It's the inverse when it comes to our democratically elected
representatives.
We got to ask the question, why that's the case.
And we also have to make that change
so that our politicians are more responsive to our needs.
Our politicians are more responsive to our demands.
Because that's the fundamental principle of democracy.
I believe in democracy.
I believe in equal rights.
I believe in these values, and that's why I continue fighting.
And I think that message is resonating
with a lot of people.
So no, I don't think that it's a burden on the campaign,
regardless of how much people will try to slander
and associate me with radical politics
and dangerous politics.
When I'm a Muslim, Abdul's Muslim as well.
And we're two Muslim guys that represent
the moral majority at the heart,
at the center of American politics right now on this issue.
It's no different than any number of different candidates
that I've actually aligned with and spoken to,
and I will continue to support them
for the best of my ability.
We're gonna wrap this scrum portion.
We might have time for full sides.
Do you, any of the three of you have anything
to add?
Yeah, I think it's really important for us,
you know, a moment to ask big questions
about who are we as a society
and what do we want for people in our own society?
Right, you know, questions get asked in bad faith
in particular, specifically, to try and wrap us
around the axle of things that are not within our control.
What we really can control is whether or not
we build good schools for our kids,
whether or not we provide health care for our people,
whether or not we finally break the chokehold
of corporations and special interests on our politics.
That's what people ask me up and down the state.
If we want to talk about issues 6,000 miles away,
I believe in equal rights, dignity, self-determination,
and justice for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis alike.
But at the end of the day, when
And we try to argue that somehow the world is not as it really is when people don't ask
questions about whether or not, despite the fact that every single president who's ever
served this country since the creation of the State of Israel has talked about a two-state
solution.
But nobody ever asked the question if Palestine has the right to exist ever.
I think we all have to ask big questions about how serious we really are about these
issues.
But right now, every dollar we send abroad to drop a bomb on other people's kids.
dollar that we're wasting and more every dollar that we give because of the impact
of one gigantic super PAC is a dollar we are not spending on our own kids here
and like I said I care about this issue because I'm from Michigan and I'm
watching as people in Michigan are getting a bum deal because of our terrible
choices abroad we're making other people less safe while keeping us from
being as safe as we possibly could be so I really appreciate you all I'm
I'm grateful always to be able to be in conversation with folks.
As I said earlier, I started my day on Fox and Friends.
I finished my day speaking to an audience full of young people
with a sunpiker and some relief.
That's what it looks like to go everywhere and talk to everyone,
to build a movement that brings people together
beyond the differences in our politics
around the same central goals.
That's what this campaign represents.
I hope that's why all of you all are here.
And we've got four months left to work.
So watch us do what we do.
And more importantly, go and have conversations with the people in the state.
Go and ask them what it is they want.
Go and ask them what it feels like to be on the teetering edge of medical debt just
because they got sick.
That's what I see every day.
And I think the reason people miss this race from DC is because they're not
having conversations with those folks.
And I encourage, please, go have a conversation with those folks.
Thank you guys so much.
We're going to ask people with a great sticker to move forward to the back.
Thank you
Thank you
Uh, Oliva has some new media creators
Who?
Yeah, those are my boys, the Jam Pod
Yeah, they're my boys
Yo, what's up?
Yes, it's a great family name, man
Come now
Of course
I want to thank you
I could not miss a thing.
Of course.
I've got things to follow.
Yeah.
Uh, go ahead.
Go ahead.
Okay.
I'm gonna bring someone to the bill.
I don't think they need...
Oh, really?
I don't think they need...
That's a good one.
I think we're gonna split up you three
with different creators.
Yeah, yeah.
And this one's like a song.
Hi, guys.
Hi, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
You did the TikTok video.
You did my TikTok.
Oh my God, we watched her.
Oh, thank you so much.
Oh, so you're going to do the recording
and I can do it like that?
Oh, you're live right now.
We're live right now.
We're on the screen.
But you should record on your own as well.
If you would like your own.
I mean, I can record it for you.
Well, yeah, we're live right now.
We're live streaming.
So, first of all, it was to real watching media
target for specific topics.
I hate it. I am a big, I am super anti-AI. Maybe it's because I'm a boomer or at least that's what people say, but I remember being asked this question about like what would your advice be to someone born today if they were to read it right now?
And I said, stay away from AI. Make sure you don't engage in the cognitive offloading because I do think it's going to be a real problem. It's already a real problem.
A lot of people are leaning heavily into it and their usage. And I think it's actually making them a little bit dumber.
If you don't use it, you lose it. So I'm very fearful of AI. I'm fearful of misinformation opportunities that it creates.
It's already been a giant problem, both with the fake information presented,
But also in the unwelcome suspicion, where everyone is constantly skeptical, like oh, this AI video is not an AI video, you have real videos of it.
And then Yao, for example, and all the wishful thinking around his untimely demise has led people into believing that all of the videos that he's been filming to do Truth of Life are actually fake, they're AI videos.
And that's a little bit terrifying.
It is terrifying.
I'm in the information game. I'm constantly finding myself having to deal with a lot of misinformation in this environment and AI is super charged with it.
Alright, so AI is eliminating interior careers. It's replacing the remaining jobs and not getting back and they will talk about the universal income potentially.
So what do we need to ask of candidates and our leaders in terms of policies to address
this in the future?
Can we trust the Elon Musk to come up with the univac?
Absolutely.
Can we trust some Democrats to come up with it?
Absolutely.
Unfortunately not.
It's a great question.
I think, I'm a socialist, so I believe that technological improvement is fantastic.
It's amazing.
Unfortunately, however, technological improvement in the current organization of the economy
is always used as a way to draw efficiency, eliminate redundancy, which is, you know,
for post-peak or firing people in mass layoffs.
What I think we should be doing is a federal job guarantee.
What I also think we should be doing is to alleviate some of the workflows that regular workers have.
technological achievements make it so that 10 people can do the job of one and the reality is
a capital owner looks at that and says great we can fire nine people but what we should be looking at
as the perspective that we should maintain is let's let's reduce the workflow for all of the
the 10 people let's not fire them and let's continue paying them the same price but now
that have to work with us. And I think this is a totally radical way of looking at things,
but I think this is the best possible way to ensure that we have a healthy economy that
works for everybody and not just capital owners, not just the corporations and the billionaires.
Which is critical for elected progressives as many as possible.
Yeah
Absolutely
Alright, thank you
Thank you
You're far out of storage, but you were happy
It's okay, it's all here
On the broadcast, and we've filmed all of it
Alright, let's get it
My name is Hassan, your name is Hassan
Yeah
You know, his name is Hassan
Yeah
What do you say to the Hassans in the world?
Hassan is Hassan
Yeah, yeah
Keep fighting, keep fighting
A good fight for all the Hassans out there
Yeah, it's all the Hassans
You guys are like the coolest people out there
Yeah
Do you mind if I get a picture?
Yeah
I'll sign supremacy chat.
Do you want another one?
Alright, let's do it.
You do what you're doing, man.
I will.
Alright.
Anyone else that wanted to do an interview or are you guys good?
I think you're out here.
Hassan, here you go.
Oh, hi.
Do you want to make a video?
Uh, sure.
Say hi.
I have some advice for you.
Okay, let's see here.
You're getting cancer, right?
Uh-huh.
You're getting too radical.
Well, not really.
They're trying.
They're failing.
I think you should move into it.
You should get even more radical.
Okay, I will do it.
It's good to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Hey, it was good.
It was good.
We can, uh, get a little...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Take this mic.
I'll live.
Yep.
I literally...
I'm looking at properties.
I'm looking at properties.
I'm looking at properties.
I'm looking at properties.
I'm looking at properties.
I'm looking at properties.
I literally, I'm gonna probably split it together
for y'all answers and I know different questions
or anything, but we're gonna launch the first edition
of a show that I'm starting to call
Keep It Being, Keep It 100.
Cool, so I have a question for you.
So obviously you've seen the media about the world.
Oh wait, what's your line?
I was just, I was just saying.
But we've seen how much impressive this event
has gotten in general,
it's one of the reasons why I'm coming here.
because of the concept of not talking with you
for whatever other opinions that you might have had,
I wanna ask, what does that do for your,
I guess, optimism or hope of looking forward
in what you're hoping to accomplish?
Because it seems as though there's a battle
to try to expand the tent.
Yeah.
And there's multiple millions getting pulled
in to keep that tent as strict as possible.
So how are you navigating that?
I have a lot of hope.
Look, I've been doing this for 12, 13 years at this point.
And it felt a lot lonelier 13 years ago,
when I was speaking with a smaller audience.
And now that tech has grown,
whether it's a Democrat's life or not, yeah.
So, I feel a sense of optimism in all of this
because even two years ago,
this level of coverage was so heavily focused on
It would have done irreparably to my goals, my advocacy.
I would have been the smart company that would not have been able to maintain a platform
where I could continue communicating with thousands of people.
And now it doesn't work anymore.
And also, it's a 90-10 issue.
So if they choose to be on the other side, on the wrong side of a 90-10 issue,
When there's a three-way election, it's a larger era.
Yeah, I'll still say it's a phenomenal thing.
I've been very impressed with them.
I've been very excited about what we can do.
He's a great representative of the new wave of left-wing candidates that I want to drop off.
but I want to point to that, this even starts for us, and our shared values.
So, one of the problems in this race has been the fact that, despite that it's a Michigan
Sanctity seat, there hasn't been a lot of media coverage and I guess we solved that problem.
Yeah, of course, anytime. I feel like one of the reasons why it's so important to have
voices like us, because general people fall a little bit outside of what's mainstream acceptable,
Because you have to analyze what forces make an opinion mainstream.
If there are people pouring millions, we've seen it happen in Illinois, the other day,
where millions are pouring out from the outside of forces to try to buy off Senate seats.
And I feel like right now is you have to counter that with some of those.
And bringing the eyes, you hope that bringing the eyes, bringing the audience
of the people who are on a Twitch or on a more modern, like social media type view.
I don't think that that attention would be hopefully a good counterweight to our show as a propaganda.
Absolutely. Look, you know, we have a relatively sizable audience. I have a relatively sizable community.
I mean, you saw a piece of that upstairs. But the thing is, they're very passionate.
They're door knockers. They're campaigners. Like, these are the guys who are constantly locked in,
even when politicians seem to lead more from a normative perspective.
And these guys make the backbone of every solid, the foundation of every solid campaign.
They were there for Zoran as well. Hopefully they'll be able to show up for Abul-as-Sa'ed in a similar fashion.
And hopefully we can make these necessary changes.
Hey, watch and look. Get out there. It always starts with step one. It's a very good step one.
So come out and support all of the above.
Appreciate your help. This is your goal.
Thank you so much, I don't think you have to ask me for a word yet, let me know you're
ready again?
Yes.
Ready?
often talk about how the system is ready for corporations and Dr. Elze has pledged to refuse
corporate money to run a government that works for you and not you on my side. As a member of Gen Z
who doesn't see obvious path towards an affordable future how do we actually break the chokehold
of millionaires on our politics and what's the big action should Gen Z be commanding
of our elected officials? Make them commit to a better future, make them commit to
taking note over the back money. That's a good start. Holding them to the streets.
Meeting them in that first hour of the month, they do go to jail.
Sometimes yelling at them on the phone, applying a little bit of pressure.
From my experience, I have a fairly simple view of politics.
I've been doing this for 13 years.
And I always had this notion that politicians are not responsive to the needs of the base
because they know it, they hear it, and they choose not to act on it.
It turns out, no actually a lot of politicians are just in an echo chamber and they're completely oblivious.
They live in DC, they go back to their dishes, they rarely do any sort of events.
Most of them are closed doors, you know, $15,000 of fundraisers advance.
They only have in their contacts list, like the people that are constantly closing their homes or courthouse.
And that's the reason why there's this massive disconnect.
So you have to make up for it, you have to be there, and you have to say, look, we want
these things, we want Medicare for all, we want affordable housing, we want a clean energy
transition, we want renewable energy in this country, we want a better future for our
children, if it even gets there, we want to end these wars for them.
So we have to make that, we have to make that demand be enough.
And then also on top of that, organizing is very important.
Organizing your workplace, organizing in your student unions,
organizing your clubs, and using that organizational tool
to become an undeniable force for change.
So yeah, it's a tall order.
But I think you guys can do it.
Yeah.
Well, thank you so much.
Thank you for doing this today.
Of course.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I see the question is kind of happening
Not before, I'm saying this
I'm not professional so I don't have
It's all good?
Okay
So, um...
Have you ever been to Israel?
Have you visited there?
No
I was going to go
Because my mom has got like a lot of tourists
and there has been so much like...
some of them have been there
and some of them have been there
and there's some of them have been there
Yeah, no
There's violence again, look, look, this is why I oppose Zionism, this is why I say I'm
against Zionism.
Obviously, this is a vague definition that is, I would say tactically vague, it's different
for every single person when you talk about these issues, but the reality is, the underpinning
ideology is, it closely resembles fascism, it's an ethno-religious supremacist ideology
that is extermination of the principle, and we've seen not just the ideology itself, but
we've seen the impact of a society that has fostered this ideology and has committed heinous
acts of violence and genocide of all crimes.
Reality of the matter is, things are very different here in America in many respects,
but over in Israel, it is a fascist society.
Yes. Oh, no, no, no. I'm not saying there's a separation there. I'm just simply saying that cultural forces and cultural attitudes are different, right?
It's the domineering mentality in Israel, and that's precisely the reason why there's a lot of...
There's very little pushback against moving society in this fashion direction.
I fear that America is moving in a similar direction as well, with Christian nationalists
here in the United States, and I want to stop that from happening, and I want to stop that
from happening in Israel as well.
That also seems to be what Peter Christ has said, the very same day that Paul was on
Sunday, that he said, you know, the blood's on your hands, then Peter, he was washed
out of his church on Paul's Sunday, and then last Friday he had a spinole, he
didn't have Catholic services.
Yeah, that was strange.
American is a secular nation. It's very strange the direction that we're moving in.
It's interesting because I think a lot of American Jews don't recognize what's going on either in some ways
or they're too focused on what they perceive to be anti-Semitism
when people are critical of Israel. That's not the case.
But I think these guys, the people that are casting aside Catholics as well
I think those guys are the real fear here.
Those are the number one disseminators of anti-Semitic thought.
Even if they are in line with the agenda of Israel.
Right. It's weird because the area of foundation is based on the Gabbling
because the Gabbling has three or four people on our coast in Gabbling
but they don't care about this issue.
And I think all in the West Bank stuff is very slow.
It's like spading on Christians and our training over the last four Sundays.
I'm very familiar with it, but again, it's an ethnological tendency, that's what it is.
Unfortunately, it exists here in the United States of America, it exists in Israel, it exists in many societies.
And if we are people of good conscience, then we have to oppose these dangerous forces.
We have to fight back against these dangerous forces in order not to let that kind of attitude manifest,
kind of dangerous ideology manifest again because it was unbelievably bloody when it
happened the last time as the case with the Holocaust in Nazi Germany.
Nice to meet you, nice to meet you, hell yeah, nice to meet you, what's up, I'm good man how are you doing?
Yeah I'm Jacob from the Michigan Daily, yeah yeah, so it's good, Medicare for all seems to be like a pretty popular issue
among the Democrats and Bernie Sanders,
he ran a pretty successful...
You should tell that to Congress,
because they don't seem to hear that
as a popular issue to take on at all.
Well, I was going to ask you, yeah,
I mean, he ran a fairly successful campaign.
He didn't win, but fairly successful campaign.
The president primarily ran it on that.
So why do you think change has to do with the Congress
on that, and what can change?
It's corporate money.
It's corporate donors.
I mean, this is an unnecessary middleman
that doesn't exist in many other countries.
Many competent OECD nations don't have private health care.
Some of them do, but it's heavily regulated.
It's safeguarded so that what we experience here
in the United States of America,
which is the unthinkable medical debt,
doesn't happen elsewhere.
And that's the major reason.
It's sometimes it's that simple.
They get money from United Health Care,
Aetna, Blue Cross, Blue Shield,
all these billion dollar,
All these companies that represent a billion-dollar industry,
that's great for the GDP as well, right?
But it's not great for the overall welfare
of the American population.
And that's precisely the reason why Democrats
are unresponsive to the needs of the people.
And they'll come up with a million different reasons.
They'll be like, oh, it's not popular.
It'll be too devastating.
They just make the excuse after excuse
in an effort to justify their incompetence
or their lack of interest in making
necessary changes no matter how great that would be electorally no matter how
great that would be population.
Is this the beginning of your career campaigning?
I mean not campaigning, it's running for office but like going out and supporting their candidates.
Are you going to do more events like this in the future?
I mean we'll see we'll see how this goes right there's there's been a
lot of hubbub unnecessarily around this I've had many I've appeared
alongside Abdullah said and many instances have been on my stream. I came out here like
last year with the Dearborn. We've worked out together and there wasn't a lot of controversy
until again corporate donors started making boss calls and then all of a sudden there
is this manufactured outbreak, right? The very same outlets that had written profiles
on me and had even brought up the same quotes back then and saying like this is the guy
that's combating the manifesto. All of a sudden, I forgot about those previous reports that
they had conducted, and now we're taking a very different approach overall. It's insincere.
I think it comes from a place of weakness for these groups that are desperately on to power
in the party because they know that they've lost the base of support. So they're just
trying to pressure politicians, and some politicians are unfortunately too malleable. They shouldn't
be. They should be brave. They should be bold. They should say, look, this kind of stuff,
we're done with that, right? What matters most is not incivility, but what matters most
is what the person advocates for. Do I agree with that? I've spent a long, I mean, I've
been doing this for 13 years, and I've combated anti-Semitism every single day of my career,
and that hasn't changed post-October 7, either. And because of that, I've been
attacked by neo-Nazis, I've been doxxed, I've been swatted, you know, my family has been
harassed.
And yet I continue to do that because it's something that I believe in, right?
I believe in humanity, I believe in universal human rights.
And I believe in fighting against bigotry no matter what that bigotry looks like.
So it's very heinous, it's a very heinous smear to just like turn around and say,
especially at my level, I probably might be one of the last remaining political commentators
of my size that also still actively talks about anti-semitism. It's unbearable, but what are
you going to do? I think people have the capacity to see right from wrong and they have the capacity
to see a smear campaign and manufactured outrage when they see it.
Alright, thank you.
No problem. Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Alright, we're going to bring in these folks who are stocking in the capital.
Yeah, yeah.
They're stocking the capital?
Have you seen their stuff at all?
I don't know.
So we grade members of Congress using their personal campaign finances.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I remember Congress piece of shit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Love that.
I was hoping you wouldn't mind.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
On the integrity index, which is the website
that we've got that tracks all the campaign
finances and personal finances.
We have the top six right here, folks
that have gotten money from APAC in 2026.
Oh, OK.
I thought we were going to say the broke boys.
The broke is the integrity index.
They seem like they have no portfolio whatsoever,
or they have no donation from corporate banks.
No, no, no, these are, well, we have that.
Oh, we have them.
We have our top 10, but these specifically,
I'm not gonna show you.
Oh, don't show them.
These are the top six.
I got right here.
Recipients of APAC money, 2026 cycle.
I wanna play a little game.
You get three strikes.
How many of the top six?
It's gonna be tough.
You think you can get?
It's non-partisan, like it's both parties?
Both parties, and this is counting the earmarch money
and the direct donations, no super PAC money though.
Ooh, that's tough.
I genuinely have no idea.
Wesley Bell.
Wesley Bell, yes.
He's number three.
Boom!
Still got all three strikes.
Okay, okay, okay.
That was a good pull.
Yeah, I mean he's the one that comes to mind immediately
because like that was like a singular race
where A-Pack was like the only fours pretty much.
And the super pack money was crazy in that race.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right here, this is just,
it's right under $900,000 earmarked and direct
super pack money.
I think it was over $10 million in that race?
Yeah, no, it's unbelievable.
Okay, okay, let's see.
So that was a Democrat.
They do spend a lot of money on Democrats.
A lot more than you would think.
So,
you know what I'm gonna go crazy?
Hakim Jeffries.
Hakim Jeffries didn't make the top 20, which is, yeah.
Interesting.
Strike one, strike one, strike one, strike one.
Okay, okay, it's tough, it's tough.
Uh, ooh, wait, 2026 is where you're asking.
So this is, it's the 2026 cycle.
So 2025 and 2026, yeah, yeah.
Oh shit, okay, that's part of why.
So it's not going to be the folks that, you know,
we're living last week, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
2026, Hailey Stevens.
Hailey Stevens is not in the top 10,
but she is the Michigan member of Congress
that got the most impact money.
It is a second strike, though.
How damn it, who's the rules?
Okay, but they're good, there's just so many of them.
I know, yeah.
There are a lot, there's 332 recipients.
Can I say who is in opposition to?
Like the guy, I don't remember his name.
The guy running against the Roe Converse.
Oh, in California, oh, sorry,
these are all sitting members of Congress.
Oh, sitting members of Congress.
Sitting members of Congress, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, okay, no third strike there.
Okay, hold on, hold on.
And senators, this is all, yeah,
who's running who's in congress right now is running for reelection right that's
true the senators running for reelection are gonna have a lot of money right now
yeah John Federer no no let's start three that's right you said you want to
talk about it think obvious Josh Shapiro Gavin Newsom
I know what I'm doing.
He's trying to get through.
I'll give you one more.
I'll give you one more.
He's doing a book tour.
He's doing a book tour.
Who the fuck's doing a book tour?
God damn it.
It's Chuck Schumer.
We're thinking of Cory Booker.
Oh, damn it.
So, how do you do the top six?
Top six.
All right, let's do it.
Susan Collins, number one.
Tom Caw and number two.
You've got Wesley Bell, number three.
Lindsey Graham, number four.
Cory Booker, number five.
Richie Torres, number six.
I didn't want to say Ritchie Torres because he's been...
Okay, here's why I didn't say Ritchie Torres. That's my number one off, as people might know, right?
Or was my number one off.
Alright, who's your number one off?
Well, there's many of them now.
But the reason why I'm saying that is because Ritchie Torres was much more aggressive with his pro-Israel message for the longest time.
And he's been noticeably absent from the conversation, except to criticize Israel.
He recently...
Is that actually the Adam Freeland effect?
No, I think that's because he's trying to win his seat again, and he knows he's going to lose.
So that's why he's shut the fuck up about Israel except for when he actually criticizes it or when he came out and spoke out against settler terrorism.
Which was shocking. Real change of heart there.
Probably because of Adam Friedland. Let's give him that.
I really appreciate it.
Nice to meet you.
Great meeting you.
I started so strong.
Yeah, it was really good in this Michigan is Michigan money called extra big new home fire. Yeah, of course
Yeah
I just wanted to say
I'm a new, I was not a bad guy, I was just a listening in October, I'm a label organizer here for AHAVM
She actually endorsed my race, a CIU, for not more than a reason
Yes, I'm here on a personal, yes, we did endorse and we're happily, but I just wanted to say that you, I know you get a lot of shit
But you handle it, yes, you handle it amazingly in your early voice
Because I have my convictions, this is like, this is what I really appreciate about Abdul-Fu.
As long as you have your convictions, it doesn't matter what people say.
I know who I am, I know the values I represent, I know what I fight for.
And the onslaught of misinformation and slander and smear doesn't change that dynamic.
And luckily now I have a fairly large audience that also can see right from wrong
and recognize the truth and support me in spite of being a smear.
Well I was, I tweeted about this day, and that's kind of my media business, but
there was two kids in front of me waiting to get in and a Jewish
publication came up over a quarter and was asking a question.
Yeah. You know, are you here for, are you here for
something? I heard you here to have those. Well I've heard of that guy, but I'm here
because I supported you because you supported me here after all. Oh yeah,
Yeah, I saw your tweet I think.
So I said, you know what, I gotta tweet that.
Yeah, no, it's great.
That's what it's all about.
Yes, we all want those things.
Can we just get a quick picture of this?
Of course, of course.
Do you mind? I'm a real shorty, but I'm kind of banned.
Oh, thank you.
Yes, real quick.
Thank you.
We're so good to see you, man.
Take care.
Talk soon.
This is mom, Brad.
Good to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
You're sort of new to yourself.
Oh, okay.
But I've been following him for a long time.
I voted for him when he ran for governor in 2018.
And I feel like it's different.
Do you feel like Michigan is ready for Abdul?
Absolutely.
I think it's not just Michigan that's ready for Abdul.
I think the entire country is ready for people like Abdul
to finally step up to the plate and take back power
from corporate oligarchs, really.
This is the time.
I mean, it's always been the time.
But now I have more hope than I've ever had.
I've been doing this for a decade plus now.
And I've never seen the amount of support
in people that would normally vote in the primaries.
They're way more predisposed to electability arguments
that think we got to become a moderate center.
People are not having it anyway.
And I think that's precisely what
a guy who's not going to fake it, he's not phony. He has his convictions, he has his values,
he represents them, he's uncompromising, and he's always going to fight for the people.
And do you think the pushback that he's been getting and you've been getting throughout this,
do you think that that comes from a fear from the democratic establishment
that he's the party to change?
Yeah, absolutely. I think it's not necessarily the democratic politicians themselves,
themselves the exception of those who are much more responsive to the corporate calls that they get, the donor calls that they get.
But I think it's more so a couple of different interest groups that feel as though the left populist movement,
the left-ranked candidates that are now rising up all around the country represent a real threat to their interests
because they want to maintain as much control over the party as possible.
And they don't really care if the Democrats lose because from their perspective, you know,
they're hedging their heads.
They'll go and fund Republicans, too.
These are the basis of these corporations in the United States.
So they are worried.
They're worried that we will have a different type of politics,
one that is putting the interests of people over the interests of corporations.
And I think that that's what their fears are looking at.
That's why they want to stamp it out to the best of their ability.
by using a figure like myself, they're not just attacking me, they're attacking a lot of people who also have that same shared resentment.
They're trying to attack our candidates that we support, that are elected representatives of our values, of our principles, of our needs.
And, you know, this is not going to go away. This is going to continue throughout the midterm cycle. It's very clear.
I don't really mind when Republicans do it, because you know, they're Republicans who cares.
They're horrible.
But it does hurt me a little bit when I see Democrats come out
and try to dupe their audiences into believing that I'm just a militant force in the party.
It hurts, but what are you going to do?
Well thanks so much for your time.
Thanks for being out with us.
Two last things.
One, what do you think it looks to have?
Of course. How's it going, man?
Nothing much, man. It's a big fan.
I've been watching you for probably eight years or so.
And yeah, I just want to say I love what you do, man.
Also, as a cameraman, I just want to shout out to Mark.
Seriously. Don't make these up.
Thank you.
He's already too big.
Let his ego blow.
Thank you. Thank you.
I made this for you, I made an evil eye bracelet, you don't have to wear it if you don't want to.
So I'm handmade, and I love what you do.
Quick, quick Kono.
Awesome.
I can take it.
You know, trust me. Trust me not to lace me.
I'm not here.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Alright.
Thank you so much.
So I just want to thank you.
I'm here to interview with an original African American figure.
Love to have your support.
Of course.
So listen, our statewide election is coming up.
It's live by the way.
You're live already.
Do your pitch.
We're running a progressive platform.
has said we're the most progressive candidate. Running a platform that wants to get the sense
of fear out of the campus, get back to having academic freedom, the right to free speech on
campus. I was the lead attorney defending the students in the acampments here at the
University of Michigan. I took, sometimes you gotta take a victory out of the courtroom,
get into the boardroom. It put me in the ability to run for the seat. You know,
I want to re-institute the DEF policies that have been gutted by this board. They
They capitulated for the Trump administration and we need a fighter to come to the University
Machine Board of Regents.
It's going to push back and stand for the people.
We're running the deepest platform, brother, and I would be honored for your support.
Yeah, you got it.
To all the listeners that are out there, Amir Makhut is my name, and we need to get
a, you know, the right, the do nothing Democrats got to get out of here.
It's time for guys to stand up and stand tall for our rights.
Hell yeah.
Oh, here it is.
Cheers.
All right.
Nice meeting you.
You deserve a raise.
That's crazy.
This is one more, you say?
All right, let's do it.
Nice meeting you again.
All right, let's do it.
Where do you want to sit down?
Sure.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
There's, uh, uh, the New York Times want to do,
They want to do more, because I talked to them in the morning, yeah, I talked to them already.
I think you can let me know.
I mean, I've fundraised for Abdul already. I've fundraised for plenty of candidates in the past.
I've done, I've done like, I've brought candidates to my platform, many times, most famous to
Zoran probably is the one that comes to mind that was like a big, it was a big splash.
But I've never stumped for a candidate.
I've never gone to a campaign rally of Spoe alongside a candidate.
And I didn't even realize that that was supposed to be something different.
I thought, what's the difference?
I've hung out with the guy many times, who cares?
There's now, for DC, by DC standards, a big difference.
Or at least, they're trying to make it seem
like it's a big difference.
But it's all manufactured outright at the end of the day.
But yes, to give you a short answer,
to a much longer answer than you expected,
it's my first time.
I'm worried you support him at all in this situation.
I'm supporting him,
because he can bench press three points.
That's it.
That was the only reason.
Yeah, I mean, I'm supporting him
because he's honest, he's a fighter.
He is representative of the needs that people have, he's representative of the fight that
we need to take to Congress.
He is exactly the change that I want to see in the Democratic Party, a party that is actually
going to fight back against the excesses and the violence that the fascist Republicans
represent.
On that note, what's your response to Iran today, the pro-C spider deal?
i'm glad that uh... trump
talk about his talk of tuesday uh...
you know that
and he was unbelievable that he was just uh...
trafficking in genocidal language uh... it's
it's expected yet still uh... hurtful to see uh...
very little response reaction from the republican congress persons
uh... and even european
matter of fact
uh... but uh... i'm glad that uh...
I'm glad that there is a more productive conversation taking place right now, even though the bombing
campaigns are not going to stop, but I'm glad that they're not blowing up the power plants
at least.
And just on you again, are any other campaigns going to be here?
Whoever I like, if they ask me to stop for them, I'll do it.
I got the bug now.
And then one last question, you talked a little bit about this, but why do you
Why do you think that this is the moment that the press wants to play a role in all of the
House of Representatives' test, would you be the jury?
They're scared. They're scared of losing their influence in the party. They know they've already
lost the base, and they're really trying to stamp out dissent. They find people like myself
that are uncontrollable to be a real threat. I'm a megaphone at the end of the day. I
I represent the values of a lot of people that I speak to.
I represent the moral majority of the Democratic Party's base
of support and independence as well.
And they would much rather go back to business
as usual politics and hope that there isn't anyone out there
that's capable of combating against the misinformation
campaigns and the undemocratic initiatives
that APAC and many other corporate lobbyists represent
and bake into our so-called democratic process.
And last question, what do you think of Michigan?
It's wonderful.
It's very cold, but I love Michigan.
It's a beautiful place.
Are you going to go out tomorrow?
Yeah.
Well, thank you so much for the time.
Of course.
Nice to meet you.
Would I be able to get your number
for how many future questions?
Well, you can ask Matthew and he'll give it to you.
I don't want to say it on the live stream.
you check it? Sure.
Was that the final one?
No, photo.
I'm going to turn your camera right here.
I'm going to slide a little bit here.
Yeah, so you're going to be up against something this, but unless you get too much of a spot in this area.
Slide just a hair this way for me.
And the carry turn your hand slightly to the right.
Yeah, great, perfect.
And yeah, I like that little swivel of the eyes.
Turn your head a bit more this way.
And then on the other hand, great.
I've never seen somebody shoot so well in top-down lighting.
That's great.
Very impressed with me.
And then have the main portable with your head.
Yeah, great. It's like that.
Dr. G-Hodd fashion week.
That's looking so good.
Stupid sex at the same time.
This is great for the live stream.
Oh yeah, it's good for the fun.
You get to see the house sausage man.
It's all your profile by JP.
Yeah, you've got a few, right?
Oh yeah.
Good?
Can I just do a couple more?
Sure.
Yeah, I'm just going to get this.
This is how we get those sexy photos, Chad.
And then take out a slight south happen and then pull this way.
And then perfect, yeah.
Shut up.
Can I do in line with your neck?
You're looking at that one.
Yep, with the eyes here.
Hold that.
Turn it slightly this way.
Eyes on me.
Stay there.
I think there's a lot of hair.
And then the eyes.
The eyes honey.
Chin up.
There you go.
A little squint in the eyes.
There you go.
And then chuck a little bit of it.
And I have a question.
If you're down to try a certain portrait style.
Okay, let's see.
So...
How would you feel if you did like a post-fortress looking like
after me, like I scoped it out?
Uh, sure.
You done to shot it?
Sure.
Why not?
Let's do it.
Cool.
All right.
You want me to like take out my jacket or?
Uh, no, I think the jacket shot.
I think it'll just be a cool, more bit dramatic portion.
You're closing scenes up.
We're cutting it out.
Oh, OK.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, you should just do them first.
Are you done to do that, though?
Yeah, afterwards.
Yeah.
OK, cool.
If you got time.
Good, man.
Can you take a while?
Get a photo.
Thank you so much.
Catch it around man.
Keep up the good fight bro.
He ain't coming at you.
He's coming at you.
We'll catch him in a second.
Alright guys.
Alright.
Yeah, good.
There you go.
Oh, Roxie's next.
She's the priority.
Have this.
Oh, wait.
What's the thing about it?
No problem.
What's the problem?
You know they're trying to shut the bill.
Oh, we gotta go.
We'll do one quick fake it in your free.
Alright.
Do you want to see me take a picture of us?
Thank you.
I like how we're doing big five stars.
Yeah, this isn't tough.
Are you dead inside?
I'm just a little bit tired.
We've been going for like nine hours.
I'm going to grab my jacket.
I forgot it.
Oh, and the battery over here.
Alright, where did you get this one entirely?
It's the Marci show.
Oh, we have, we have, uh, Summer's, uh, Dime's Charger.
Um, it's not a Dime, I was, I was packing up.
Okay, well, I think we can end the broadcast at this point.
It's been probably a million hours.
Okay, let me just pick up the camera over there.
Alright everybody, thank you so much for joining me on this journey.
I didn't know what to expect and it was, I think it was spectacular.
You know, this is not a devastating consequence for the campaign.
Hopefully maybe we'll do more of this kind of stuff for others as well.
Obviously, we got a big busy week, I'll be back.
and home-based tomorrow live a little bit later than I usually am
but I'll be live nonetheless. Love you guys for coming along the journey
and seeing how the sausage gets made and I can't wait to see
what kind of fucking nonsense people have written about all of the events that
unfolded today because you know we were in the heart of it
and of course once again you know shout out to Samaritanshi Talibabu Asayed
every single person that works behind the scenes on this campaign.
Yeah, it was a great experience.
Remember, open up those walls, give the Abdul as well,
because he's got a big battle against them.
He's got a big hill to climb.
Anyway.