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04-08-2026 · 7h 23m
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I think head first into the
manasphere to rule male voters
ahead of 2028, but they'll have
to compete with the digital
world's new rising star, far
left activist, Hassan Piker.
And what I really want is what
social media influencers are
Twitch, YouTube, Hassan Piker
or other kind of promoters of
hate.
He must always maintain revolutionary optimism.
He must always continue to organize.
He must always continue to agitate.
Because the quicker we can create enough pressure
that causes the American state to recalculate
its suicide pact with Israel,
the quicker we can save as many Palestinian lives possible.
What's going on everybody?
My helper was having a fantastic evening afternoon, pre-new, no matter where you are in the world.
I'm Son Piker and this is us and our barcast co-tea live from...
Sonny California Los Angeles folks were alive and alive and I hope all the boys girls and
mbs are having a fantastic one because today's a beautiful late night.
Audio peaking?
What's going on right now?
Is my audio different?
Anyway, I'm alive, I'm alive and I hope all the boys girls and mbs.
Yeah, damn you loudest fuck.
Hopped my gunt gain a little high.
How did this happen?
someone fucking while I was gone to someone tweak my audio maybe I can see that happening anyway
yeah taco is over wars continuing he taco and on the taco anyway folks were live were alive
were alive and I hope everyone's having a fantastic one because today's a beautiful day
today's a wonderful day I'm a little tired a lot of travel has been happening in my life
and even though, even though travel, in my conditions,
I'm very fortunate to be able to travel
in a way where it's like the least amount of friction possible.
It's still obviously cooking my ass a little bit.
Bro, they're giving you permission
to dig them out of their grave
and fuck them on the majority report today, Lamar.
Wait, what, what are you talking about?
I sound sleepy, that's because,
and I'll tell you right now,
this is part of the broadcast
where I tell you about my personal news,
but what's going on in the world
of Hassan Hassanabi Piker in between the time period
where I press the stop streaming button
and press the start streaming button.
So help me God, that's precisely what I'm gonna do
and that's what I'm gonna do right now.
I ended the broadcast yesterday, it was like nine hours,
10 hours, I didn't even know how many hours we did,
but well, basically, basically,
I'm gonna get right into the situation monitoring
because I didn't get my, you know, I didn't get my,
yesterday and I wasn't able to do that but yeah into the broadcast I finally got
to my hodl ordered a sandwich first thing I ate was at like 12 yesterday but it
was it was an incredible day I was just like riding high off of the riding
high off of the the events of the adrenaline right like it was it was
incredible and I I hope you guys enjoyed it I mean you got to see how the
sausage is made you know behind closed doors that type of thing you get to have
unprecedented access into how these sorts of rallies are put together you
know, the real conversations that people have, right?
politicians, very different type of politicians are the ones
that you might be used to. But
yeah, March caught me trying to scratch that itch. I know I'm
gonna show you right now. Yeah, I woke up early in the
morning, we got on. I woke up early in the morning.
Uh, got on a plane and, uh, and, and I was monitoring the freaking situation, right?
And in March posted this of me and I reposted it.
And guess what?
Guess what?
While I was in the process of situation monitoring, I became the situation myself.
Okay.
I became the situation.
Sometimes, sometimes you monitor the situation long enough and the situation monitors you.
Okay, because I'm not, I guess it's not on here, but I was looking for that post, but
Yeah. I was watching CNN and out of nowhere, out of nowhere, I'm watching CNN, out of nowhere,
I'm on CNN. Okay. How the hell does this happen? How the hell does this happen? And the dude
is sitting next to me and he's looking at me. Okay, dude is sitting next to me. There's
a guy next to me. And he's looking at the screen because he's also watching CNN. And
then he turns around and he looks at me and he's like, is that he starts smiling?
Is that you and while he was pointing at this screen, while he was pointing at this screen,
what's insane about it is that my quote that was chopped in half from Dana Fash is on screen
and it's like, it doesn't matter if rapes happen on October seven, it doesn't change
the dynamic, all the stuff.
And I'm just like, I, uh, I, I'm not, I was just like, yeah, what are you going to do?
But the thing is probably I'll be honest, probably one of the, the worst situations to be in.
Imagine you're on a flight and then all of a sudden the dude sitting next to you is
on CNN breaking news, nine 11, right?
the 911 guy is on CNN sitting next to you. You don't understand everything that's going
on, but you're like, what do you mean? Did you did 911 and you're sitting next to me?
Like what the fuck's going on right now? You know what I mean? All of a sudden it's
like guys like, hold on. You, what's going on right now? You know, I have a family.
I'm obviously the joking that he didn't think I was the nine 11 guy, but as the case with
most people, you know, he, he wasn't exactly elated about CNN to begin with.
So CNN, he didn't really like too much Dana Bash.
He didn't really like too much.
So automatically he had a positive opinion of me, which is awesome.
just like sitting there watching CNN angrily doesn't like Dana Bash. Dana Bash says this
guy sucks. And, and automatically he, he had a positive approval of me by way of being
negatively polarized off of, of CNN coverage, a defiant, a son, Parker booths, Michigan
I'm going to say it in rallies taken on Israel. Yeah. So the nine 11 guys on my plane next
to me watching news of himself. Yeah. So is this ceasefire joke? Yeah. It will get into
all of that obviously, but, uh, lots of, lots of photos have come out. Uh, lots of articles
have been written, lots of takes have been given on the, on the last side stuff. Uh,
The GOP is doing some really funny shit too, because like, the GOP is doing some really
funny shit as well, where they're, they're like mad, they don't understand jokes at all.
So when I'm like, sarcastically endorsing Pills Mafia, they've been like, they've been
using that against the Pills Mills, which you know, we're Janet Sarri's obviously Mills
mafia rise up gang, but um the more they smear you the more the get random people checking
you and like develop a positive opinion of you yeah the situation you and the situation
are mocking each other on the plane yeah alright so in any case in any case in any
case in any case if you ever need a shout out hit up Zachary Foster oh yeah this was
funny. This is the funniest way for someone to know who I am, by the way, Jamel Hill.
I'm going to keep it real. I'd never heard of Hasan Pai Granthal last weekend. I consider
myself fairly politically informed. What I missed, I only found him at the beginning
of the genocide when he had Jewish historian named Zachary Foster on,
and I could immediately see why he's a threat to the dem establishment now.
He's informed, entertaining, not actually anti-Jewish and never stopped watching.
You're streamed to watch, by the way, if you're looking to get accurate info on the
the history of the issue. It's pretty funny that like Jamel Hill learned about who I am
by way of Zach Foster, like a Zach Foster fan. Noggle Island traveling so he can't use
a soundboard, I agree. So yeah, we got a big day today ahead of ourselves, obviously. Free
Press was there. I'll talk about that. I'll do a recap of the rallies, right? Like
a brief recap had to do that. But you know, there's, there's a lot of situation monitoring
that'll be going on.
I think, I think I'll over Taco Tuesday. I'll do all said rallies were major W's. Those
things are always so good, man. I love, I love seeing you guys out in the real world.
You know, Abdul Raleigh's rallies are major W's in parentheses, recap, and then what's
Tritoparcy's at on Twitter?
Let me find that real quick.
Can we watch the majority clip before we get serious?
Sure.
Um
Hold on T. Parsey, okay at T. Parsey on to talk ceasefire
These fire and
Where we go from here
Dems respond Iran W. Nicape on
What's Necap's at? Let's find that one too. Necap. Necap.
see y'all okay sorry
yeah
on to talk Cuba and new album Epstein's Fury Day 39 and more get in now
Yes, we're going to talk about Lebanon, obviously, okay, do this. So funny. People last I mean, I got hella blast off memes. Don't worry. I got two in the docket here. Okay.
Okay. All right. Yes, answer the allegation, stop defiling our grandmothers, our dead grandmothers.
I don't know what that means, but this is a quite unfortunate fate that they put me in,
which I think they did deliberately. This has shoulder pads. Like this isn't, I've
I've worn this before on stream.
The guy who made this sent it to me because he was like,
it's the comfiest hoodie I've ever worn.
And the designer who made this hoodie actually sent it to me.
It makes my head obviously look smaller.
I suspect it's on purpose.
There was a whole interview portion here too,
but I did this ID Mac photo shoot a while back.
Yeah, I know, I know, I know, I know, I was in ID mag.
We'll obviously talk about that too.
It's not that I thought that was edited.
No, no, it's, it's literally a shoulder pads.
It's a padded hoodie.
It's a shoulder padded hoodie.
It's ironic because I also did like an interview
about fashion on the ID mag thing.
And I genuinely talk about how like I'm, I'm too fat
and too big to wear this kind of stuff.
Like stuff that's supposed to work on like,
You know, handsome slender man, a way fish twink and I don't have that frame, but I still do it regardless because you know, I'm a shut ass loser. What are you going to do?
It's like those Chinese who lose to try to fake their fridge body with a shoulder puzzle amount. Yeah.
Ethan Klein shared it on his IG and their IG page is brigaded by scumbags.
um
Yeah
Dude, I don't know. I don't know what it is man. I don't know why people
I will never understand why when someone fucking hates me. They don't just like hate me this much
Okay, they don't just
Um, they don't just like give up and move on to other shit
They're just they go crazy for the rest of their lives like it dramatically alters their their trajectory
Where every waking moment is another opportunity to just be like, oh, I can get one off on them because you respond
No, even when I don't respond. I mean, I didn't respond for fucking months, right? Like I you can't say that about
most of my fucking haters, right? I
It's just confirmation bias. No, but it's
There are plenty of people that I never talk about which I'm not going to like
I'm not going to bring up right now, but actually the overwhelming majority of my
psychosexual relationship that like one-sided psychosexual relationship that
like a lot of my stalker-ass haters have are never reciprocated with a
response. Like there's nothing there at all and they still do it and I just
don't understand it. I don't know why. I will never understand. Like, there's plenty of
people I hate, right? There's plenty of people I hate. I mean, hate is a strong word, but
there are some I would use it for, right? I hate the morally repugnant worldview of
many Republicans, many reactionaries, right? And, and I don't, you know, I don't think about
them at all. Like there's never a moment where I'm thinking about Ben Shapiro, right? I'm never,
in my mind, I'm never like, oh God, I hate Ben Shapiro. I hate Randy Fine. I don't talk about
Randy Fine all that much. I don't think about Randy Fine all that much, right? There are a
lot of repulsive, racist, white nationalist, white supremacist, neo-Nazi, ultra-Zionists.
There's varying degrees of hatred that I have for all of these horrible ideals,
horrible ideologies, horrible people that represent those ideologies.
But like, I don't know, I feel like there's no way to live life, right?
It's no way to live life.
It's not a decent way to live life at all.
There's on the oil farmer.
You're asking me to haircut?
Look at the back of your head.
I know, I know, I know, I got to get a haircut.
I much rather have them hate you if they didn't hate immigrants instead of, yeah, but that's
not how that works.
The reason why they hate me is because they hate immigrants and I'm constantly defending
immigrants.
The reason why they hate me is because they hate black people, brown people, Jewish
people.
And all of these people, they hate me as a vector.
It's a multifaceted approach, not a surprise that there are so many different ideologies
out there where people will just like find one thing and fucking despise and hold on
to it and cherish it and let it manifest, let it fester in their souls.
So, we're gonna do this, this is retail time.
Let's do that.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Let's go!
What's going on?
What's going on?
They've done a lot of controversy about this.
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 focusing on. Oh, Jake Paul did
blackface nice for us
Yeah, bro, when I said like the Jake Paul did blackface nice, like Fox is going to clip
that and be like Hassan piker loves blackface.
Now let's get to our blackface expert expert who has done blackface, who has defended
Jake Paul and also a panelist comprised of Jake Paul himself in blackface, where
We will now talk about how racist this on is for saying, uh, Jake Paul did blackface
nice.
Like that's literally what's happening.
It just doesn't make any fucking sense where I'm like, well, your Fox news, like, what
do you mean?
Right?
Father Shocker was on, uh, was on Fox news this morning and they were like, well, a song
piker is, uh, is a woman hater and it's like, but your Fox news and then they
they were explaining the phase that it's really bad.
I'm a Republican panelist at the Republican News Network, defending the Republican regime.
And let me tell you exactly how bad it is to identify your movement with a guy like
this.
And it's like, I don't think you're giving us good advice.
I'm in enemy territory.
Why would I take your fucking advice, dude?
It's so dumb.
Um, this was, I mean, this hope core. Yeah. Are you going to report on Israel attacking
Beirut display ceasefire? What do you think chatter? Ops here. Hey, do this to beat us
trust. What? Who is this guy? Why is his head so small? Okay. Okay.
How loud was it in there? It was crazy loud. So yeah, first, first speech was let's be real,
kind of low profile and kind of mid, right? No disrespect to MSU. I didn't bring it. Luckily,
luckily, everybody else did, right? Because I didn't know what the vibes were gonna be like.
I've done these sorts of speeches on my own, but I never know what the energy is supposed
to look like, right?
And what's interesting is, you know, I got a decent understanding of it.
And the second speech, I brought it.
I brought it.
I think I brought it.
of that diet, you take it back from the work that we do for reasons that in this appropriate
hour, we're going to bomb the refugees and their schools and their hospitals rather than
building schools and hospitals for our own kids, right here in Michigan.
That's it.
What?
What are you doing this?
What am I doing?
I'm gaming, man.
Yeah.
Another Reingold, no, it was awesome.
The Reingold situation is awesome. Like a lot of the outwardly pro Israel,
Osboros are, they're so tarnished. You got mugged by summer lease. Sorry, guys, you're
comparing me to a legend. Okay. I look, I don't like a lot of politicians as you guys
know, it's not a big secret, right? I'm very critical of our politicians as that's,
You know, that's what is supposed to happen. You're supposed to be critical of your electives. They serve us
There are servants and if they stop serving us we get mad at them and we hold them accountable and we pressure them to do the
right thing
But there are some there are some politicians who I just fucking love. Okay?
Summer Lee is
Phenomenal, I mean she is
She is spectacular. She is incredible
incredible
She has a voice
She can just bring it right she was bringing up the energy like crazy. I mean she was blowing up the entire room
It was it was
unbelievable, right
And
Obdual size another one of those guys as well
Well, come on Chad, that's like saying you got mug bite each you go Kurosaki Naruto or any JoJo protagonist. Yeah. I
Yeah, I forget I I because I yap a lot and I'm very confident in my skill. I got the gift of gab I can do this for hours. I can be entertaining for hours. However, however, there is
Um, there is a very different skill for, uh, confident orders who are, uh, who are capable
of just like motivating people, right?
And summer has that gift for sure.
Be more passionate when you speak.
We want to hear your volume.
Yeah.
Um, but it was, it was incredible.
I mean, I saw her shoot it to leave who I love is you guys know Dr. Jihad stealing
your thunder after getting a pace or you know, the Trump speaking for candidates
or do you plan on doing? Some speaking for Canada's are doing the same for Oliver Larkin.
I'll do it for whoever wants me to do it. I don't, guys, contrary to popular opinion,
I'm a homebody. I like being a home base. It's not beneficial for me to be traveling
around. It fucks me up. I'm tired. It ruins my diet. I can't work out. You know, I'm
I'm not saying woe is me, but what a lot of these people think, especially in DC and everywhere else, they think that like, oh, son is doing this to boost his own profile or whatever.
It's not the case. You know, I'd be perfectly fine. My profile would be perfectly fine if I stayed my ass at home. Okay.
Did I enjoy it personally? Sure.
Is this something that I look forward to? I wouldn't say that.
it's the same with candidate profiles, right? I don't really like doing candidate interviews
and candidate profiles. I do it out of necessity. The reason why I do it is because
there are candidates who I trust. There are candidates who I like. There's a vision that I have
for a better future in this country. And I know a part of that goes through elections, okay?
Okay, in order to build a movement,
you have to have a multifaceted approach, okay?
And it's obviously about organizing direct action,
tenant unions, labor unions, right?
Like, all of that stuff is a necessity.
But a part of that, a part of this multifaceted approach is also making sure that we have one,
two, ten as many electeds as possible that are solid, reliable, that will keep putting
the pressure at the highest levels in American office.
Do you think emphasizing yourselves as socialists only cooperates with them, could help form
a new party leading from some of the nervous tent framework. They've laid out for you. It's
not fitting inside. It could be a real opportunity. You write me in my hose or something different
and more radical. I mean, guys, there's always this inside-outside pressure. I don't care.
I don't care about party names. I don't care about anything. I just care about advancing
materially, the interests and needs of working class people all around the world, not just
in the United States of America, but everywhere else, like I want, I want people to live lives
free of the daily pressures that they currently experience that they don't need to.
I want to relieve people of the unnecessary pressures.
I want to unlock the maximum potential of mankind.
These are my, my beliefs.
This is why I do everything that I do.
Okay.
And that's it.
Yeah, March's fat chud dog is here.
Yeah, and he's been barking up a storm at me.
Oh, thank you.
Anyway, yeah, fat gunner's here.
But, uh, yeah, clean air, clean water, clean parks, clean streets, Medicare for all.
Are you on pot-save this week?
I think so.
But, uh, yeah, all right, anyway, this was one of the questions that I got from the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, JTA.
Oh, yeah, the Rabbi Shmueli questions?
Yeah, I'm just not sure what you meant by that.
Oh, um, yeah, Rabbi Shmueli 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 dare that came to mind.
I probably should have used Randy Fond instead.
I feel like he's more of an annoying figure.
He's not a specific person.
What do you mean?
You're talking about a specific person, not a generic Rabbi
Schmooley.
Oh my god, you don't know who Rabbi Schmooley is.
I know a Rabbi Schmooley.
I didn't know who you were.
Oh no, that's what I was talking about.
Rabbi Schmooley Bltea, famous Rabbi whose daughter
has a kosher sex shop in Israel.
That's what I'm talking about.
I demand you clarify a statement.
I don't even understand, but it's definitely problematic because I was told it was,
we're talking about the public figure appears on television frequently when you refer to him by name or
yeah. Um, that was so, that I couldn't tell if he was like trying to do a gotcha thing,
or if he was like genuinely confused and, and thought that I was just like doing like a,
like an anti-semitic meme or something. I'd be like, huh, there's a rabbi. What's his name?
Schmooley, right?
And I was like, no, I'm talking about B. There's one and only, you know?
That would be such a weird trope.
Is that even a trope?
What are we doing at this point?
The conversation is like, if I had to use Randy Fine, was he going to be like,
Oh, I guess it's because you use the Jewish Congress person, right?
It's like, no, that's like a very specific guy, man.
You know, uh, there's a Jewish Congress person who I obviously deeply admire.
There's plenty, but one that I, uh, have clearly not only admired, but also I'm
out stumping for one of his hands.
So like the candidates, his name is Bernard Sanders, right?
So these kinds of things are really funny.
But
There's three actually Trunon did a episode called the three schmooly's yeah, I know there's other rabbi schmooly's as well
That's why I clarified it I don't think these reporters understand how different the power differential is between them and you and your ability to navigate these questions
Yeah, I think there there's like a lot of
of, um, there are a lot of, of, uh, normal, like old school media figures that get like
stumped by questions like that.
I feel like I'm not one of those people, right?
Um, I mean, I have to deal with like bad faith smears on a regular basis.
Um, yeah, this one banged on the timeline.
Look at this one minute clip from ace in 40,000 likes, bro.
Look at that.
Let's take a look.
battle brewing against not only the corrupt fascist forces of the Republican Party, but
also against do nothing Democrats that would rather sit there and collect paycheck after
paycheck and fundraise from corporate donors that put your interests second to the interests
of those very same corporations that poison your water as they sit idly by, that make
sure that every single piece of productive output in the wealthiest nation on earth goes
back to our massive military industrial complex that only brings about death and destruction
overseas. Because remember, every single dollar that is spent on a bomb is stolen from each
and every one of you. Because that's a dollar that they spend blowing up a school overseas
Instead of building schools in your neighborhoods
Yeah, the room was crazy the room with nutty
Right the room at nutty
Man, I just want to say I trust I'll do say the same way he trusts you
Yeah, I mean, I think it's uh, it's it's cool that he's chill, bro. That's off the top dome. Yes
Obviously, I had some, you know, I was a little bit rate limited on what I could and couldn't
say because I don't want like, especially when I'm on the stump, it's like a little
bit different than what I'm saying on my stream.
You know what I mean?
He's not like accountable for every goddamn thing that I say and do, but in that situation
he probably would be.
So I didn't go super hard on stuff.
And there's also a time limitation.
There's like a vibe.
I know people do the meme where they say you got mugged by Summer Lee, which I mean, she's incredible, but you should know you actually did super well.
I think from my own, judging by my own performance, my past performance, the speech was, the second speech was pretty good.
But yeah, Hassan is a true America first patriot is right.
That's like, that's the other angle that I was thinking about where the other angle that I was thinking about is like,
I wonder if we should just like talk about isolationism and like putting America first like these people have never put America first.
They put Israel first, they put corporate interest first.
They never actually put America and Americans first.
Maybe they put American capital first,
but we gotta change that dynamic.
And perhaps that could be a good way to,
like I'm just, I'm thinking about different ways
of communicating this as efficiently as possible.
Yeah, the president just posted some insane
genocidal evil shit.
Do you guys have any response?
Of course I do.
Hassan Piker must be stopped.
That's funny. I have been noticing that I'm getting a lot more positive feedback on TikTok than ever before with all of the onslaught of attacks.
Obviously Twitter is a nightmare, right?
Twitter is obviously a nightmare.
And it's unbearable, but...
And it's not even just...
Twitter is not just even a nightmare for like the Republican reactionaries, but there's also obviously a lot of
There's there are a lot of forces that are totally aligned
the supposedly ostensibly Democratic Party side that that play
that that play along with the
Insane smear campaign, right?
You're low-key developing on tendencies liking and saving everything you see. No, that's for the algo baby. You don't understand a little too positive. What is this?
He doesn't know this, but I shave my whole body just in case. That's so funny. Okay.
We just that we have to be careful about messaging not easily being corruptible into xenophobic nationalism. Yeah
I'm sorry, so I know where you're good doctor. Yes, oblox I can compete with the electricity in this McMororra room
Yeah, I mean, I don't really understand it
But like it's not it's there's these guys like Democratic wins media like the centrist Democrat forces are actively pumping
McMoron like they are very clearly recognizing
that if they slot in a, a, uh, semi like faux progressive, if they slot in a faux progressive
into that race, they can like really eat away, uh, at the, at the true momentum coming from
the left flank, right?
It's a very interesting dynamic. Cause I know for a fact that if this race was a, a matchup
Abdul El Sayed versus McMurray or Abdul El Sayed versus Haley Stevens, especially,
because that's what it was supposed to be initially before Mick Morrow got in here.
It would be over, it would be a blowout, right? It would be Graham Plattner. It would be the exact
same situation as Graham Plattner, but I think the party has basically realized that they have,
they have a better shot at bringing in more manageable semi-progressive figures that will
not only like craft their response while keeping corporate donors in mind, but will also not take
risky choices. Like they won't actually defend the interests of the people over the interests
of corporate donations. They won't actually rock the boat. They won't criticize the rest of the
party. I think the Democrats are a lot more aware, the politicians I mean, are a lot more aware
of where the party is headed. And they're trying to do their very best to stop it,
dead in its fucking tracks, in the identical ways that they did with Bernie Sanders.
Because Bernie Sanders was almost like a singular figure, right? Bernie Sanders,
when he came out and fought back against establishment Democrats in 2016,
there were not a lot of other guys like that. There wasn't like a robust caucus of Bernie
crats. There wasn't a big left flank movement. There were some, right? But it wasn't truly a force.
And therefore, the population had never even experienced that option. For many Americans,
that was their first interaction with the left populist candidate. They were like,
wait a minute, this is how Democrats could be. I like that quite a bit. So they did everything
in their power in 2016 and in 2020 to just like stack the deck against Bernie and Rat Flockum,
wish they did, right, successfully. But since then, more and more candidates have been able to
primary bad Democrats and build a robust left flank. Now, there's obviously still a handful
of them in Congress, but this time, we're trying to push actively to bring even more of them,
right? And when you have a lot of these left flank candidates, when you have a lot of
of these left-wing candidates, they're not beholden to the same interests that are unafraid
of shaking the party up every now and then. All of a sudden, you have a block. All of
a sudden, you have political power. All of a sudden, you can make a big fuss. You can
apply legislative pressure. I mean, look at what Rokana has been able to do. It was
almost like a singular force, right? Criticisms of Rokana aside, it's undeniable that
he is using his position as a rep to, you know, maximum efficiency, right? He's maxing out
on being a congressional representative, right? It's clear. It's clear as they now imagine
if there were a lot more House of Representatives, a lot more people like that in the House, a
lot more people like that in the Senate, and they were all aligning with one another
and creating these coalitions and advocating for certain things and showing the rest of the country
that you could be a force, showing the rest of the country that this is how the party could represent
itself. That's what they're afraid of, right? That's precisely what they're afraid of,
and I think a lot of people understand that. That's part of the reason why you're seeing more
and more people come out and defend me against the vicious mirror campaigns that these guys are
actively putting out there because here's the thing they understand like Bernie understands this
phase understands this right he gets what this is about it's not it's not about me at all it's
It's not about the choice quotes that they can use
from my 10 years of live streaming almost at this point.
I mean, it's been eight years, right?
I've done tens of thousands of hours.
It's not about any of that.
It's about what we represent,
what we represent here in this community, right?
And there are plenty of other people out there
who share the same values that we do
that are just not tuning in to fucking twitch.tv
to watch eight hours a day, right?
Like it's perfectly normal.
So, that's it.
And also here's the beauty of it.
You know, a lot of the worst villains
are coming after Abdul
So he can just like bring the fight back to them and position himself against all these
Republicans and it gives you a taste in the Democratic primary of how he'll operate.
This is a good thing, right?
How much money?
Rick Scott, John James, MI is right.
Michigan Democrats should be ashamed to be seen with a guy who called for my death,
celebrated Charlie Kirk's murder and said America deserve 9-11.
Like none of this stuff is real, by the way.
I mean, I never, I didn't celebrate Charlie Kirk's murder, even though obviously that
That position is almost like an Israel position as well, where it swapped spectacularly on
the Internet, right?
It went from something that the Republicans had a very heavy hand over, where they were
just trying to highlight him as this incredible martyr, this figure for the Republican movement.
And now everyone is curcifying him nonstop.
But it's, regardless, they still don't stop.
just like it's like a game of telephone. This is you lecturing us for the current
right before you left, right before you left MSU.
Actually are fighting for your rights that are actually saying, it doesn't matter.
We're done with all this, okay? We're done with this. If you are constantly worried
if you're like, why are the Democrats not here for us? Why are the Democrats not fighting
for us. Well, you know why? Because guys like Abdul have a harder time getting out of primaries.
They are much easier than actually are fighting for your right.
A lot of this stuff doesn't even play outside of terminally online political nerds, right?
Like if you ask someone if they agree that Americans are 9-11 out of cons, they should
be like, that sounds kind of stupid. But if you try to say, yeah, well this two
streamers said, said any campaign with Abdul, so you should involve for him. People
probably be like, what? I just want Medicare for all. Exactly. Exactly. So, um, you need
to see the boomer parents again, they bug in anyway, listen, listen, listen. Um, it's
undeniable that there are a lot of us out there in this community. We're all over the
fucking country. We can fill up rooms wherever we go, especially a lot younger rooms with
a lot younger people than you would normally expect to be excited about a fucking democratic
primary. Like, you think McMorrow, I'll just say it like this, you think Mallory McMorrow
could go to college campuses and fill up rooms? No, of course not. Especially at this stage in a
democratic Senate primary. It's not happening, right? It's not happening. Like, it's not real.
It's not a real thing at all.
There are candidates who can bring that excitement. Obviously, it's not me, and it's not all of you
guys either. I mean, it's Abdul and what he represents. That is part of the reason why there's
so many people that are excited. But yeah, this is disgusting, campaigning with a figure who
who glorifies violence against GOP, including my friend, Rick Scott of Florida, while spewing
anti-Semitic rhetoric says everything the voters need to know about.
They all sound like Democrats complaining about Trump. They all sound like Democrats
complaining about Trump. This stuff didn't work. And the reason why it didn't work is
because Trump was like, nope, fuck off. My values are my values. I stand 10 toes down
on them, okay? Now obviously his quote unquote values are morally repugnant, right? But
all of these different quotes, these distractions, it didn't work.
That's what the energy the Democrats have to bring as well, and unfortunately, many Democrats
who are just corporate suits, representatives of a neglected group of different corporate
interests are not gonna be able to do that.
That's why they focus test everything that they're doing, because they don't have
any real opinions, they don't have any real values, so they can't do it.
They can't actually they can't actually stand on those principles at all and they have to shy away to have to back away
But that's I think part of the reason why Abdul is is gonna do quite well, and he's doing quite well in this controversy so far
He he responded to Rick
Skies that how much money did you make defrauding Medicare again?
You're what waste fraud and abuse looks like in real uniform should be a shame get the fuck out of here
And that's it because a lot of the people that are shitting on me and claiming like oh this guy is really bad
this is a really bad guy. They have a laundry list of real villain behavior on the fucking
timeline. They have done horrible things. They've done horrible things as members in Congress.
They've done horrible things as people for Rick Scott, for Rick Scott, he's done, um,
he's done unbelievable amounts of, uh, I mean, he's done, he's, he's stolen money from
people. He's stolen money from some of the poorest Americans, right? I mean, he did Medicare
fraud, Olympic-level Medicare fraud. That's an actual villain. So, you can always turn
around and hit him with a dis-you in a way that so clearly and so, so expediently shows
that the words of a Twitch streamer, no matter how vulgar, is nothing in comparison to the
real immoral behavior that Republicans demonstrate on a regular basis, right?
You can't hang out with Benjamin Netanyahu, Republican or Democrat, it doesn't matter.
You can't hang out with Benjamin Netanyahu and defend Israel and then talk about this
Twitch streamer, he's anti-Semitic, he's dangerous, radical, like you can't. That's an infinitely
more radical thing that you're doing, right? You're a bad person. You are a fucking bad person.
We're doing that. Anyway, speaking of people who still are trying it though, Dana Fash,
we're going to be talking about Dana Fash obviously. I mean, I often wonder like how
much more right wing and pro-Israel can CNN actually get, especially considering that
even before even before CNN gets sold to David Ellison and Larry Ellison, they're going
pretty hard on this pro-Israel stuff, right. So, I was on the plane, and oh, before I get
to the CNN stuff, actually hold on, I gotta give a quick shout out to Summer Lee as well,
my goat, oh my god.
who don't love their neighbor, it's our moment to stand, put up, or shut up.
So...
I don't understand what we're up against right now, young people, especially you, I don't
understand what we're up against right now. I don't understand what it feels like when
You're getting to the level of people who don't.
Unk at clap. Yeah.
Um.
Yeah.
Oh, so Olivia Reingold was there obviously as well.
That was another good, like, uh, that was a good clap back on, on the free press
and Olivia Reingold to, um, she, she posted a bunch of things.
They know that we have power.
Hassan piker said on stage at the albino said rally he says the battle is brewing is do nothing
democrats reporting for the pre for a free press crowd goes wild one girl hasn't blinked
in 20 seconds another is holding hand to heart like pledging allegiance and it's really
funny that like this is supposed to be silly right this is supposed to make us look silly
and ridiculous and and because it's Olivia she just wasn't able to do that at all
and it didn't work. It didn't work at all. But there was a couple moments in there. She's
letting you aura farm. Yeah. One million views on yesterday's VOD. By the way, that's exactly
what they're scared of. Yeah, I agree. Why is she stalking you? She's on the Hassanabi
beat, I think, which is very funny. It's very funny that they got that going. Yeah, she is
the same lady that followed me around election night. Yes, it's true. It's Olivia. And I think,
I think she likes me quite a bit. She watches the women of the crowd like a hawk scoping out
rivals for attention. She's obsessed with you. I mean, it's fine. It's, you know, I have,
I have worse ops than Olivia, I think. Um, the woman that denied the Gaza famine, yes. So
that was a good moment as well. Uh, Ted Cruz is coming after me too. Obviously it's another one
of those guys that's, I mean, he's just like a straight up designated villain, right? Um,
He said, Democrat, a Democrat candidate for Senate in Michigan thinks it's politically
advantageous to campaign with the Marxist Islamists. He believes America deserve 9-11.
This is today's Democrat party. I said, we didn't forget what you did on 9-11, little man. Boom!
Immediately, a little porno runny for me. Ted Cruz, never forget, never forget. On September 11,
Ted Cruz woke up that morning, turned on Twitter and said, ooh, a little porno Rooney for me
today on my beautiful nine 11. Okay.
Wasn't it transport to now it wasn't, it was, uh, I think it was like
cuck porn or cheating porn or something like that. Yeah, or incest porn, maybe something
like that. I don't know. Stepmother porn. Bro, I was listening to house, I've had giving
interviews in the line and they were being strategic. Oh, I think it's honest cringe takes
from here for Abdul. If you give megafaunics the best chatter of the year, this is what
you get wait what don't give strategic fucking takes like that you dipshits no
just stand proudly there that's what they're trying to they're trying to cut
they're trying to cut fucking propaganda to be like oh see Hassan has no motion
it's really stupid that they're even fucking aligning with Hassan he doesn't
actually bring a crowd at all you guys don't have to do that you just be like
they're attacking him because they can't attack the fucking message so they're
trying to disparage the messenger is that simple?
Y'all are so lame, dude.
Don't be ashamed to fucking support me.
You got more fucking, you got Bernie Sanders out there supporting me.
You got like, you know, people who are, are prominent fixtures of this movement
out there being like, no, we know exactly why this is happening.
It's totally ridiculous.
Right.
Does this mean Hasan can joke more?
Well, without much criticism now, Fox Business discussing the Sam and the Hun campaign for
I will say you can find him crying for Cuba celebrating China.
The far left and Democrats love this battleground in this year's midterms is a hot mess up.
I mean, I don't want to like watch all of this shit, but there was a
Sama, Sam Harris thinks you're an amoral juvenile dishonest performance artist and not case not worth talking to but thinks Ben Shapiro is a serious enough person and isn't sure whether he talked to Candace Owens
Yeah, I these guys are so ridiculous dude. It's it's so
It's so crazy
I don't know what to say like you're such a silly person if this is your assessment
It's so obvious that you're almost exclusively interested in Israel. Like you, you test someone's
seriousness by virtue of their Israel approach. If someone is fucking pro-Israel, then you're fine
with them. Even if you don't align with all the other stuff, because like that's what Bishop
Uro is. They say like, what is his appeal? He is every bit the same reactionary as anybody else.
And then on top of everybody else, he's also super pro Israel.
Right?
Why do people like Sam Harris even care so much about Israel? I mean, I don't know where his
shit comes from but I don't know where his his attitude comes from but I think I mean he's super
Islamophobic that's probably what it is a lot of liberals are pro-Israel man a lot of like the
a lot of people that came out of intelligentsia and academia they they got uh they got inundated
with pro-Israel messaging and social conditioning and that's where we're at.
But yeah, we'll do the Dana Fesh a bit as well. Bitch, you're just yelling as you are more pleasant.
What? No, I yell a lot too, but what was I gonna show you? There was another thing. We gotta do
Dana we got to do Dana real quick as well but uh this is not the full one do we have the full uh Dana
fash what is going on what what wait it's right now i thought it was at one
oh shit it's right now okay hold on i'm going on right now okay all right thank you right
All right. I'm actually going to talk to Trita Parsey right now. Okay. And we're going to,
we're going into situation monitoring right now. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Road Unify. Hello, hello. No, no, no, that's not the right one. Shit. Microphone. Select
the microphone. Hello, hello, hello. No, it's not the right one. Shit. Headset, stream,
input, real caster. Okay, let's see. Hello. Hey, can you hear me? How's it go? I can
hear you. Okay, perfect. One second, Trita. I'm, I'm obviously live. There's like 40,000
people watching right now. But I also, as a part of this broadcast, I have to obviously
do a bunch of quick fixes instantly. But welcome, welcome to the broadcast. It's a real honor
to have you here. We can do this over Discord. Yeah, we couldn't do this over Discord, unfortunately.
So it's just, there's, this is not my favorite, let's say, but hold on. I'm trying it.
I mean, you, you, I'm, I'm like weirdly, I look weird on your screen, right?
I can see myself.
It looks weird.
You go in and out.
You're blurry.
And then you focus and then it gets blurry again.
But right now it's been, it's been focused for a couple of seconds.
Okay.
Hold on.
Um, here, we'll just do it like this.
I, um, I'm using zoom workplace for the first time.
Anyway, um, it just, no, it just looked like squeezed or something.
I don't know what it is.
Anyway, it doesn't matter. Trita Parsi, ladies and gentlemen, we are monitoring the situation.
First time on the broadcast, I've been a fan of your expertise and your takes for quite
a while now and very excited to have you here.
Thank you. I'm really happy to be with you.
And you know, it's an interesting time to be having this conversation with you.
I mean, this is, I would say, a lot of vindication for someone like yourself.
A lot of your assessments have borne out, and, you know, it's obviously still a horrible
time as well.
I hope, do you have any family in Iran?
Plenty of family loves to meet Iran.
Yeah.
I hope they're doing all right.
I don't know if you've been able to speak with them at all.
You know, other family members, my parents, aunts, et cetera, have been able to connect
with some.
I've tried a few of not been able to get through.
I've been able to talk to a lot of other people, any of them.
It seems like it is depending on whether they have functioning VPNs and things of that at
this point.
Okay.
One, I'm still trying to hold on one second.
I'm still trying to fix this thing real quick.
God damn it.
What is happening?
I don't know why this is so difficult.
All right.
You know what?
We're just going to keep going with the desktop.
Okay.
Okay, so for those of you who might not know,
would you please introduce yourself?
You're at the Quincy Institute.
Yeah, so my name is Trita Parcie.
I'm the executive vice president.
I'm one of the co-founders of the Quincy Institute
at Think Tank in DC.
That I would say is very different from other Think Tanks
because we are favoring a US foreign policy
of military restraint and focus on diplomacy.
One end, an approach that would completely end
endless wars and dramatically reduce our militarism.
Yeah, one of the only good thing tanks. Very few of them in the DC blob, but you guys are
certainly there. And you're also obviously unjustly maligned with regular frequency,
something I'm quite familiar with myself. Recently Laura Loomer was demanding your deportation.
There's a lot of conspiracy theories around, you know, what you represent and who you are,
But it's a big part of the reason is because you happen to be Iranian and also anti interventionist or anti wars of choice and
and have a long career of consistently advocating for such things, which I
Guess before we get to the the imminent situation
The ceasefire is it happening is it not happening? One of the things I wanted to ask you about is the
Do you feel like there is a real?
shift in the collective conscious in the Western world and especially in the
United States of America about our foreign entanglements. Do you feel like
there's a there's a there's a new wave of anti-war advocates even if they're not
necessarily going out and protesting even though they certainly did during
the Gaza genocide? I think that's a really interesting question because in
In some ways, we've had counterwaves as well.
So, for instance, I mean, the reason why Quincy could have been founded was precisely because
there had been the failures of Afghanistan, Iraq, all of those interventions had led to
a scenario in which there was a significant degree of lack of confidence in the direction
of American foreign policy and elite consensus to that also had kind of collapsed.
And that, you know, opened up the window in which you could push through new ideas and
new frameworks, new entire paradigms of foreign policy.
So when we were founded in 2019, we were definitely riding on a wave in which it was
clear that new thinking was needed.
And some of it was actually because of Trump.
In our view, Trump won was not a break with American foreign policy.
One was a caricature of what Trump, of what American foreign policy always had been. And in some ways,
it became much clear to a larger number of people that you're right, that actually is what our foreign
policy has been. It's just been, it's been shrouded in all of this beautiful language to
make us think that it wasn't, but in reality, it's just naked now. And that gave us a major
boost. But then you had the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, in which suddenly a lot of folks
were like, well, you know, there's another bad guy on the international scene, and then they were
just rushing back into militancy, and that's not to defend Russia. I think that was an illegal
invasion. Things needed to be done to prevent that. But the manner that the Biden administration
went about it, I think was highly problematic. There was almost no diplomacy. Prior to the
invasion, Biden had numerous conversations with Putin, but he never put NATO expansion on the
table to see if that actually could have prevented the war. And in retrospect, we also now have
some of his senior people from the NSC coming out and saying, yes, if we had done that, either then
or in April when negotiations were taking place between Russia and Ukraine, we could have prevented
a war. We could have prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths. Back then, we were advocating
for that. We were advocating for diplomacy. And we got maligned ruthlessly by a lot of folks.
who earlier on we thought that perhaps they also had kind of seen the light and were turning against the militarism
But they rushed right straight back into it now. I think we're in another way than which again because of another failed war another
War of choice. We're seeing that folks are once again realizing we really got a change of foreign policy
This is not acceptable particularly now when you have a candidate that actually won his election twice based on
Rallying around ending
forever wars and you know maligning the rest of the Republican party for having gone along with it
and yet he himself is now someone who not only has started this war he's done a regime change
in Venezuela he's threatened to annex Greenland and potentially even Canada so I think there's
a little reaction to that now that is coming and part of the challenge in all of that Hasan
is that so far most of the ways that we are riding on in which you know opportunities are
being created to push for a better line is coming not as a result of us proactively being
able to create those opportunities, but it's become these opportunities are being created
because the other side, the primuses, the ones, the militants are actually failing in their
projects and committing more and more mistakes. Yeah, speaking of that, obviously,
one of the major mistakes so far has been this this quagmire that we found ourselves
in Iran now. It's not a secret that both Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli foreign policy
has always wanted to get the United States of America and the administration to play ball with
them to finally go to war with Iran. It kind of feels like, and I want to hear your perspective
on this, it kind of feels like the Israeli objectives here were somewhat at odds with
the American objectives. The broader American objectives are regime change, have a client
regime or applying government that will play ball with the United States of America.
Whereas Israel's objectives here broadly seem to me to revolve around complete destabilization,
creating a failed state in Iran, regardless of what the impact might look like in the aftermath
of the Balkanization, fomenting ethnic tensions, and making sure that there's never a sovereign
state there or even an American puppet state there that could inevitably turn on Israel
once again as it goes along with his greater Israel project.
Do you agree with that assessment?
Do you have any input on that?
That's not, I think you're absolutely right.
Let me add perhaps a bit of detail on it.
I think from the U.S. standpoint, for Trump standpoint, he thought that this was going
to be an easy victory.
would either get the collapse of the Iranian regime or there would be a
capitulation, you know, perhaps a Venezuela scenario in which someone else
would emerge from within that system that would take over and would
essentially be a pliant ally of the United States. That is not the Israeli
objective. The Israeli objective always was to essentially establish a
balance in the region that gives Israel complete maneuverability and
dominance. And that means that they're less concerned about the nature of the regime and
more concerned about their capabilities that Iran has. I wrote my dissertation on Israeli
Iran and relations and I remember in one of my trips to Israel, I had this conversation
as interviewed with an Israeli general who said, look, Iran and Israel used to be friends
and that's true from the 50s and 60s and onwards. But then Iran turned into an enemy.
It is possible that Iran turns into a friend again. But after that, it can turn
into an enemy once more. And as a result, Israel's focus is going to be on the capabilities
and capacity of Iran rather than on the nature. So it doesn't matter if it's suddenly applying
to an American regime there because the fear is that regime may fall. It will be replaced
with another regime. And if the country then is in good shape, has the capabilities,
has a strong military, that could be a major challenge to Israel's domination.
And as a result, they've been going, and we can see that very clearly in their idea of how this war is won.
It's just about degrading as much as possible, bomb them back to the Stone Age, and then if you need to in a year or two years, you bomb them again.
This is what they are pursuing against almost all of their immediate neighbors in Gaza and Lebanon, in Syria.
We've seen it. They call it mowing the lawn. It's extremely dehumanizing.
But this is, you know, from the standpoint of having either not wanting to have peace with the neighbors or giving up on the idea that it's even possible, then this becomes the next best thing.
You just constantly mold along every couple of months or years and make sure that no one in the region or no combination of countries in the region can pose that challenge to you.
to you. Now, as this continues, it nevertheless puts Israel in a perpetual state of warfare,
not just with its immediate neighbors, but increasingly with more and more states.
Iran was a challenge. It is at war with Iran now, hoping to degrade it, set it back a couple
of decades and not have to worry about it. And the minute it looked as if it was being
successful with Iran, guess what happened? Suddenly in Israel, you have started to have
more and more commentaries from senior people, former Prime
Minister saying the Turkey is the next target.
Yeah. Turkey is now the most dangerous country in the region.
Erdogan is the most dangerous person in the region.
And the very same type of a campaign of painting Turkey
as a source of instability. The most dangerous country in the region,
you know, unchecked. It's a threat to Western civilization. All of those things
that you started to see in the early 1990s vis-à-vis Iran,
you're now starting to see them vis-à-vis Turkey. And it shows you that there's no end
to this type of policy. If you adopt this type of a security doctrine, you're constantly going
to be at work. Now, if that's the choice these Israelis want to make for themselves,
I guess they have the right to make that choice. But who's underwriting that choice?
It is the United States, because Israel is not a country powerful enough to be able to
sustain that type of a policy. The only reason why it can be sustained is because of a
constant level of military, political, diplomatic and economic support from the United States.
In fact, it's written into American law. We have in the United States a law that says that Israel
has to have the qualitative strategic edge in the region, that we make sure that no countries in
the region get the best type of weapons, the best type of weapons the U.S. produces goes to
Israel and everyone else gets a second or third-rate kind of weapons in order to ensure
that we sustain Israel's strategic qualitative edge.
Yeah, we also set back other regional actors that we have security cooperative agreements
with like Lebanon, Lebanon mysteriously doesn't have any anti-air defense systems. And in
this day and age, I feel like it's impossible to maintain any sort of sovereignty without
anti-air defense systems. But then you realize what Israel is doing in southern Lebanon
right now. And you understand exactly why America has refused to ensure that the
Lebanese standing military has any sort of serious capacity to purge invading forces because
that invading force is always going to be Israel.
Indeed. And also, take a look at what the US's posture in Lebanon has been. The US has agreed
to and pushed with the Israelis that the Lebanese government needs to disarm Hezbollah.
And in order to do so, the U.S. has been willing to help the Lebanese Army become powerful enough
to take on Hezbollah, but not powerful enough to be able to deter an Israeli attack.
So we're ensuring that type of perpetual weakness in all of the areas around Israel in order
to for Israel to have that sense of security, which that means that for Israel to feel secure,
everyone else have to feel insecure.
So, let's talk about the military objectives here, right?
The United States of America, led by Donald Trump, has had a lot of inconsistent messages
on why this war was supposed to be waged.
On day one, they said it was because Israel was going to attack with or without us, and
therefore, we had to go in and do a first strike through perfidy, once again, just
like what took place in the 12-day war, the Omani negotiators came out on US television
and openly explained that Iran had conceded on some of these maximalist demands surrounding
the enriched uranium and where to put the enriched uranium, which Iran has consistently
utilize as a mechanism for leverage in an effort to not necessarily develop nukes, which
they clearly had a fought for over and had no interest in doing, but instead as a way
to bargain against the sanctions that were implemented on Iran.
And there obviously was the success of the JCPOA, which Donald Trump famously destroyed
once he was in office, there was only one party that was obviously unfavorable to the
JCPOA, and that was Israel, um, and they let their criticisms be known and be heard and
plenty of Democrats in Congress were also, uh, antagonistic to Barack Obama's foreign
policy there because they also were, were beholden to the interests of Israel. Now,
one of those objectives was, uh, taking out the enriched uranium from Isfahan,
is where we suspect the the you know 500 kilograms I believe of like a nuclear
grade in which uranium is another military objective was to deteriorate
the strike capabilities of Iran that was also part of the negotiations process
as well the idea that they had to limit their their ballistic munitions
strike capabilities to 200 kilometers suspiciously outside of the range of
Israel and Tel Aviv. And they failed to do that. In the process Iran also
closed up the Strait of Hormuz, which 20% of the entire globe's energy passes
through. This is something that they had the capacity to do for decades, for
47 years, as part of the reason why America was worried about what could
happened in the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, and yet they had never done this, with some
exceptions, I guess, with the Iran-Iraq war, and they failed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz
by force.
Now Iran is collecting tolls, passing through the Strait, $2 million in Chinese Yuan, in
tolls that they're going to be sharing with Oman as well, according to their assessment.
Um, and they continuously have, have pummeled not only the Gulf States that have American bases
and also have been playing a role in striking Iranian targets. Um, and, and also Israel as well.
We don't know exactly what the damage to Israel has looked like,
but all of this has been a spectacular failure, which leads to, uh, where we're at now.
Yesterday, Donald Trump said in the morning that he was going to do genocide.
He was going to eliminate the entire Iranian civilization. He was going to snuff them out.
And then by nighttime, he backed away from that. And we found out that on background that
they were actually petitioning for the ceasefire. They were actively trying to get the ceasefire.
The Americans were, contrary to how they've postured so far. Do you feel like that was because
they have failed to achieve their military objectives? And where do we go from here? Sorry,
it's a long question, but I wanted to give a little bit of background to my audience as well.
No, I think there's no doubt that it is the failure of this entire mission that has led
to a scenario in which the United States very aggressively was trying to get a ceasefire.
I mean, in fact, if Trump could have, he would have ended the war
three, four weeks ago and just left, but he couldn't because the Iranians had
leveraged. They had the control of this straight-up or moves. They could continue
to strike at GCC states. It could continue to strike at Israel. So, you know,
he had ended up going into something in which he no longer was in control of.
And, you know, pressure was used to get other countries on board and helping
get some sort of a ceasefire. And when you take a look at what the, you know,
parameters of the ceasefire are, it is essentially allowing the Iranians to continue to collect these
tolls, which is a tacit agreement that they are now in control of the straits and that the U.S.
can't do much about that. And secondly, the basis of the negotiations is going to be some variation
of the 10-point plan that the Iranians put forward, not the 15-point plan that was essentially
the terms of Iran's capitulation that the United States put forward. Now, there may be some
Disagreements and lack of accurate information of what exactly is in those 10 points.
The one that I have used when you're doing some of my analysis has been based on what was
available publicly, but it's very likely that in the course of exchanges of messages and
indirect negotiations, those points may have been amended somewhat.
But I think the gist of it is probably remaining the same.
And Trump even said that this is a reasonable or a workable basis for negotiations.
So truly, Trump went forward, issued these genocidal threats, I think, very well aware
and inclined to come to an agreement by evening time, and that would be a caving by and large
to what the Iranian position was.
But in order to cover that up, he was issuing these threats in order to make it as the
opposite, as if the Iranians were coming and essentially bending the knee to him.
Because at the end of the day, it's going to be important for any world leader to have
a narrative of victory, but even more so for a superpower to make sure that it doesn't
lose face.
It's always going to be the case, probably more so when someone with a psychology and
the personality of Trump.
The question now of course is this going to work?
What could make it work?
What could not make it work?
A critical element in the Iranian 10 point plan, which we know is true because they're
repeating it publicly, is that they're demanding that Israel is also in the ceasefire, not just
vis-à-vis Iran, but also vis-à-vis Gaza and Lebanon.
Now, I think there's three reasons why the Iranians are doing this.
The first one is because they have to show that solidarity and they cannot abandon Hezbollah.
There's a perception that Iran abandoned the other groups in the Axis of Resistance
in 2024.
And now Hezbollah actually came to Iran's aid in this war and Iran cannot afford to look
as if it is abandoning Hezbollah.
That's one.
Secondly, I think there's also a recognition on the Iranian side that as long as Israel
continues to bomb its neighbors and Hezbollah in particular, there is a risk that that
war will once again clear up further and bring Iran into it, as it already has twice.
And if you go back to October 7th, 2023, and a lot of the commentary that came out back then,
and including what the Biden administration said, they said, crucial to make sure this war
does not get regionalized. It's been totally regionalized now, after the Israelis and the US
attacked Iran. So the Iranians recognize if that continues in Lebanon, this war is going to come
back to them at some point. And they're not looking for a ceasefire. They're looking for
enduring end to the war. The third point may actually be the most important.
This demand is there to test whether the United States is willing and capable of reigning in Israel.
Because if it isn't, then what is the value of a ceasefire with the United States?
Because if Israel can restart these wars and the United States is incapable of staying out when Israel decides that a war needs to be initiated,
what's the point of having a ceasefire with the United States?
And I think this is very crucial, because the Iranians have reached a point in which
they actually don't necessarily want to cease fire.
They're not trusting these agreements.
They're trusting that there should be enough deterrence, so that it actually deters the
U.S. and Israel from attacking, rather than there being an agreement that is the foundation
for a longer-term peace.
Yeah.
So let's talk about that element, right?
I've said from the beginning that given the diverging or conflicting interests of Israel
in the United States of America, regardless of how both parties have communicated their
desires, America has to reign Israel in.
And this is not just the Iranian demand.
This is just what has to happen in this situation, considering that they haven't
been able to accomplish military objectives.
Do you feel like that's possible at all?
Because since the so-called ceasefire was implemented,
obviously Iran continued strikes as well on Tel Aviv.
That could have been because of the way
that the mosaic defense has been structured.
It's decentralized or it could have been
for some other reason.
We don't know.
I'd like to hear your perspective on that.
But also, Israel started bombing other parts of Lebanon as they are known to do in, I think,
a direct effort to spoil what this ceasefire could potentially look like, because it was
not a secret that they were very frustrated.
As a matter of fact, there's some reporting that came out that suggested that Israel
did not even know that this ceasefire negotiation was on the verge of being signed until
the very last moment and they were very frustrated by it. I mean, I saw Hebrew Twitter last night,
they were going crazy over it, right? So, so do you feel like America will actually try to
restrain Israel? Where do we go from here? Is the ceasefire gone? Is it over? What do you think?
So on the first question, I think it's really crucial is like, you know,
can the United States do this? Can they stop Israel? I think it's actually a real problem
that we've reached a point in which the superpower asks, can it stop the country whose defense
and military industry is completely dependent on the United States? The reality is obvious to me,
obviously the United States can. It's a question of whether the president is willing to pay the
political price for implementing that and pushing through that, given the fact that there's
going to be a lot of resistance, there's a, you know, you're going to have to deal with a
a lot of lobbies, et cetera, that are putting Israeli interests, arguably in front of US
interests, et cetera.
That's what the real issue is, not that the US cannot do it, because if the United States
actually says we cannot do it, which is exactly what the Biden administration proudly said,
I mean, what kind of superpower are you, if that is the case?
I mean, to me, it's just stunning.
And if you listen to Joe Kent, who just resigned from his position as the head of counterterrorism
center, I mean, he's laying out details exactly what the United States needs to
to do, the specific things that the United States needs to take away from Israel as part
of this ongoing support to make it clear to the Israelis that the U.S. is absolutely serious.
And we do have examples of that in the past. We have the very famous example of how Reagan
told Menachem Begin, you got to get out of Lebanon because the TV images of the massacres
that Israel was causing back in 1982 was reaching American audiences, upsetting a lot
American upsetting Reagan himself and he got him on the phone and he said you got to stop doing,
you got to pull out and when Menachem Begin pushed back, Reagan essentially said, well then you're
not going to get the, I think it was the F-16s at the time that the Israelis were buying and,
you know, 20 minutes later Menachem Begin calls back and says they were pulling out. So obviously
this can be done. In fact, it was done just a couple of months ago by Trump himself. Yeah.
After the Israeli struck Doha
He really was under pressure from a lot of the states in the region that came together and demanded this of him
He told the Israelis that they have to stop and he even brought Netanyahu to the office had him read an
Apology to the Emir of Qatar and then later on when the Israelis denied that this happened the White House released the footage
Showing that this was being done. Yeah, what Trump has failed to do is to sustain that pressure
It cannot be episodic.
If you want this to stop, you have to put it on, and then you have to sustain it to make
sure that these Israelis do not find a way out and then start a war or put that pressure
on you again.
Absolutely.
They do.
America does have this power and rarely choose to enforce it, especially under the Trump
regime.
We have been, I think, changed the dynamic in this relationship.
I like to say that we put Israel in the driver's seat of our MENA policy, specifically.
And it's obvious that it's no longer just a special ally status, but instead has a commanding
role in what American foreign policy looks like, considering that the GCC states are
far more valuable to the Petro dollar, far more reliable as far as trillions of dollars
of investment into American companies. The fact that Israel can so easily throw them under
the bus and turn these American bases into missile sponges pretty much and shake up that
relationship so dramatically implies that America's willing to take a loss here, a
spectacular loss, both billions of dollars of equipment that they've lost in the
but also a loss in its forced projection capabilities,
which I think are going to be far more consequential.
I'll give you a perspective that I doubt
that you've heard from anyone though.
I think that America getting a bloody nose in this situation
is not necessarily a bad thing, but a good one,
because I think it will force the United States of America
to be a little bit more restrained
in our endless endeavors of empire and imperialism.
And I think that's ultimately going to lead to a hardened multipolarity that will force
America to reconsider how aggressive we are in our forced projection around the globe and
maybe even recycle some of the endless amounts of dollars that we spend on our military
industrial complex.
instead, hopefully, you spend that on ourselves, on our, you know, fixing our potholes, hardening
our infrastructure, maybe even Medicare for all things of that nature. That's my perspective.
I want to hear what you think about that. And then the other question, the follow
question of that will also be, do you feel like this is different than the military
quagmire in Iraq, in Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and why?
So on your first question, it actually goes back to what I mentioned to you earlier on,
that the kind of openings and waves in favor of a more restrained foreign policy has come
as a result of the failure of these wars.
So that's the trend that we have seen.
I mean, it is the Iraq war and Afghanistan war that really created a massive opening
that led to Trump channeling that anti-war sentiments on the American right in 2015
winning on it, even though all of the pundits in Washington who were all, you know, embedded
in this Washingtonian thinking of things, felt that that was a huge political mistake, turned
out there wasn't an absolutely winning card for Trump.
But here's what I would have much preferred.
Much preferred at the United States, instead of getting a bloody nose, actually proactively
adjusted as foreign policy in the right direction, not as a result of a mistake, but as a result
of a wise, forward-looking decision, recognizing the nature of power and that we are not going
to be unipolar forever. We have stopped being that. And as a result, if we want to be able
to sustain a strong global position in the long term, we actually do need to have an
approach that is far more careful, far less reckless, and far more focused on
American interest than the American people rather than all of this money that we're spending 750 basis around the world
You know the other country that has a lot of bases around the world
Outside of their own territory is Russia and China Russia has 11 China has one or two
Yeah, 750
Yeah, it's just not comparable the cost of that the manner in which it
it dictates the direction of American foreign policy
towards more militarism,
because that's the tools that we have.
We have more lawyers at Pentagon
than we have actually diplomats at the State Department.
What does that say about our priorities?
And what does that say that with those priorities,
could we easily shift in a different direction?
So I think it's gonna be very hard
and I'm fearful though,
that the real shift will not come
unless we have really big mistakes
and bigger mistakes than this one,
because at the end of the day,
if I wanna say something positive
or give Trump credit for something,
I would give him credit for taking this deal
and getting out of this war.
I think the outcome of this negotiation
will be a failed outcome.
I don't think the likelihood is that great
that it will come to an agreement.
I think the most likely scenario
is that it will be a non-agreed status quo
that will come out of this,
in which the two sides actually don't make an agreement,
but nevertheless the US doesn't go back into the war.
The millions continue to control the streets,
but they don't get the sanctions relief
that they're looking for.
Because at the end of the day, the two sides are too far away from each other to come to an agreement,
but they nevertheless have a common interest in not going back into full-scale work.
Now, it's not a great outcome at the end of the day. It may not be very stable.
But most of the American presidents, and we have now seen it,
once faced with a debacle like this, what would it do?
They just kick the can down the road.
They just keep on telling the American people victory is just a couple of weeks or months away.
And then 20 years later, we have ended up spending $2 trillion, changing the government of Afghanistan from the Taliban back to the Taliban.
Yeah.
So pulling out is costly, but it's actually far less costly if you do it now than you wait a couple of more years.
And to the second question, I'm going to repeat it because it was very long.
uh uh the the do you feel like this is a different scenario than the purposely long and and convoluted
uh military quagmars that we found ourselves in with afghanistan iraq and even vietnam as well
because that didn't actually put a dent in uh america's force projection capabilities
and if so why because i do believe that i think that this is different because there's a lot
more focus on what's going on. And this is the first time we've actually dealt with a
foreign adversary that had the capacity to strike at profit centers, in particular, both
in the GCC and also in Israel, and shut down the Strait of Hormuz and create a global panic
around the energy markets.
So I think you're onto something there, because what you have in Afghanistan and in
Iraq, the United States won the war militarily in three weeks, right? And then the United States
lost the peace. Same thing is true in Afghanistan. The Taliban were defeated, and then they came
back because the United States could not stabilize the country. It could not help set up a new
functioning government. Here, we're talking about frankly, a military defeat. Not in the
sense of a direct battle, but because the Iwanians managed to play the asymmetric
card very cleverly and very effectively and squeeze the global economy that would just
put the United States in a terrible situation and other countries in even worse situations.
And as a result, you know, we are where we are right now. So in that sense, it is very
different. You know, the Saddam Hussein did not manage to bloody America's nose. Iraq
and the instability that followed did bloody America's nose. But that was in the military
defeat. It was a political and diplomatic thing.
Yeah, so I guess what are, what do you foresee taking place beyond this situation where both
parties don't actually align, but like the battle lines are drawn regardless, America
fails to achieve his military objectives, clearly is incapable of successfully attritting
Iranian strike capabilities, given the asymmetric warfare that they've conducted.
Do you see any stability here? What do you perceive China's role to be here as well?
Because they are a major partner to the Gulf States, and they do get a lot of their energy
from the Gulf States. They were capable of crafting a successful agreement between Iran
and Saudi Arabia in the past as well. So, Hassan, I'm sorry. I do have to
leave after this answer. I have another meeting at four o'clock, but I think that's a very
important question. No, of course, my pleasure, and I wish I had more time. China's role in
all of this is going to be very interesting. There's a simplistic view in which, you know,
whenever China, whenever the United States shoots itself in the foot that it disbenefits
China, to a certain extent, that's absolutely true. But China is also in need of stability
and it's particularly need of stability in the Persian Gulf. So it is not happy to
see an instability that has almost doubled the price of oil, creates all of these different
challenges, and it could get much worse if this war had continued. So those are very
worrisome signs for the Chinese as well. And it does appear, I haven't gotten this confirmed,
that towards the end of these talks, the Chinese did weigh in on the Iranians to get them
to agree to this, even though it's mostly on their terms, it was still a debate. Because
Because as you know, the Ibanez agreed to ceasefire back in June that Trump asked them
for.
And there's been a lot of commentary in Iran and a lot of rethinking in Iran's security
establishment in which the narrative, the dominant narrative now is that it was a mistake
for them to agree to that ceasefire.
They should have continued the war then.
And that has now also reflected the debate in Iran in the last couple of 2448 hours.
And the Chinese appeared to have weighed in and successfully gotten them to agree
to this.
Now, in the scenario that I see most likely, again, not
preferable in any way, shape or form,
it will be not an entirely stable situation,
but also not an entirely unstable situation.
Because, again, as long as the common interest from both Iran
and the US is now to get back into a full-scale war,
they will probably try to avoid that.
You will see the Israelis continue,
but I don't think they can continue the war that long
without American help.
Instead, it will shift towards more of a dirty war,
assassinations and things of that nature.
There will be great difficulties
between Iran and the GCC.
They have a lot of mistrust and anger
on both sides to overcome.
Obviously, a lot of the GCC states are very angry
of having been hit as hard as they have been by Iran.
Iran is very angry because it believes
and has some evidence that many of them
did allow the United States to use their airspace
and Israel, and territory to do attacks against Iran.
And mindful of the fact that this was not just ordinary warfare,
it was a lot of war crimes.
It has really deepened the anger on the Iranian side.
In the best case scenario, the region
manages to find its own path towards the new security
architecture in which they manage and shoulder
the responsibility of security in the region
themselves rather than relying on outside sources
and enforcers.
That ultimately, the latter part
just constantly have an external guarantor of security, tends to actually create pockets
of security, but a lot of instability at the same time.
All right.
Trita Parsi, everybody.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much, Robert.
If there is something you'd like to promote before I let you go.
Love for the folks to follow me on Twitter at T-Parsi or at Substack at Trita Parsi
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All right.
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Okay, ladies and gentlemen, that was, like I said, Trita Parsey of the Quincy Institute,
Phenomenal Voice. This was the last second interview that I secured with him, and it
was really awesome that he was willing to do it. That's the reason why I was
like a much shorter conversation that we had. Hopefully we'll have a much longer one as well.
Chattas are expressing a huge interest in having Trita come back on stream in a couple weeks. Yes,
we will do that. Absolutely. But now we will get to the situation monitoring before I get to the
Abdul El Sayed stuff because clearly it's a big deal. Trita, never wrong. Parcy,
outstanding pick up for the stream. Yeah, yeah, it's true. Yeah, he's a brilliant voice in this space.
And of course, consistently, consistently maligned unjustifiably, as is the case
with most people who are right, but too early. Okay. That's just kind of how it goes. All right.
But I'll talk about Dana Bash and like the insanity of her panel.
But before I do that, I think it's important for us to monitor the situation a little bit, right?
And as you guys might know, I mean, look, I'm a big fan of the Quincy Institute, so
I've, I've wrapped them pretty hard. So let's get into it. There's a yesterday there was a
A taco moment after Donald Trump said he was going to do a genocide on Iran.
And then he backed away from it at the last moment.
And there's obviously some details that they're not covering adequately on mainstream news.
I'm gonna pee real quick while this runs.
And I'm gonna give you some commentary on this.
Let's go.
So in just a few hours, the Pentagon will provide an update on Operation Ethnic
Fury.
As President Trump reveals, the ceasefire between Iran has now been reached.
The Commander-in-Chief, posting in part, quote,
I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks.
This will be a double-sided ceasefire.
The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all military objectives
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 proposal from Iran and believe it is a workable basis
the next steps for the region quote the United States of America will be helping with the
traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz. There will be lots of positive action. Big money
will be made. Iran can start the reconstruction process. We'll be loading up with supplies
of all kinds and just hanging around in order to make sure that everything goes well.
Get a breakdown. The latest peace proposal is chief foreign correspondent Trey Yinks
live in Tel Aviv.
It's chief foreign correspondent Trey Yinks live in Tel Aviv. Good morning Trey.
Hey Lawrence, good morning. It was truly the 11th hour down to the wire when President Trump announced the ceasefire agreement.
Shortly after the Iranians put out a statement matching the presidents and then proceeded to launch missiles and drones at Gulf countries and US ally Israel.
Here's what it looked like in Tel Aviv after the ceasefire was announced.
So, one of the funniest things about this instance was, of course, the fact that a lot
of the pro-Israel spokespeople on the internet were instantly complaining and saying, what
do you mean?
This is supposed to be a dual ceasefire, which for the record, a ceasefire means both
parties agree to it regardless, right?
a dual ceasefire is redundant. And yet they had to say it's a dual ceasefire because Israel
usually never ceases to fire. So when they got a little taste of that medicine back immediately,
they were complaining. There was obviously my favorite Israel propaganda is my favorite
Osborist last night who was saying like, look what they're doing to us, you know,
sirens over Tel Aviv again. He said, breaking nonstop Iranian. Al Yacobi says breaking nonstop
Iranian missiles raining down on Tel Aviv, less than two hours into the ceasefire since the ceasefire
began. Iran has attacked Israel, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain. Whereas the outrageous said, oh,
you don't like it when one side doesn't cease its fire during a ceasefire. Interesting.
Because in every single one of these circumstances, it's like you only get to violate these
rules over and over again because you operate in this might make right environment and all of a
sudden if you have another adversary in the region that is mighty enough
when the shoe's on the other foot you don't like it okay. I don't know what the reasoning for why
the Iranian missile strikes were while the ceasefire was supposedly agreed upon.
having said that Israel very clearly did not want the ceasefire to take place
anyway. They were very frustrated. They were not cut in on this deal as I talked
to with Tritoparcy earlier and they were losing their minds on the
timeline. It turns out that they were not cut in on the fact that the
ceasefire was even taking place at all. I assume that it's a
byproduct of the mosaic system that they have, which is decentralized.
There's no central communications hub in the Iranian defenses.
So these different hubs were still continuing to pummel because they didn't
get the message that the ceasefire had been implemented.
So Israel on the other hand, the next morning,
this morning, started slamming Beirut and Southern Lebanon,
and southern Lebanon killing hundreds of people
in what the Lebanese side said was the most intense bombing
that they would stood since the beginning
of this last Operation Epic Fury.
What you just saw there was an Iranian ballistic missile
with a cluster of warhead.
those bomblets raining down on Israel's second largest city of Tel Aviv.
This came after the ceasefire was announced by President Trump and an indication that
it will take time to get this agreement in place.
Now since the overnight hours the fire has stopped toward Israel but has continued toward
Gulf countries, the agreement in part appears to be holding.
But we're looking now at the details of this deal.
The Wall Street Journal reports on Iran's proposed plan that includes 10 separate
points.
include the U.S. guaranteeing a non-aggression pact with Iran, continuing Iran's control
over the Strait of Hormuz, acceptance that Iran can enrich uranium for its nuclear program,
removal of all primary sanctions on Iran, removal of secondary sanctions, an end of
all U.N. Security Council resolutions against Iran, an end to the IAEA's resolutions
on Iran's nuclear program, compensation payment for Iran and its war damage, withdrawal
U.S. forces from the region and a ceasefire on all fronts.
Those are a number of points that are not going to be reached, and the next two weeks
are going to be critical as negotiators try to hammer this out.
Now, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted a statement on XOvernight agreeing
with the president about the ceasefire, saying Israel also supports the U.S. effort to
ensure that Iran no longer poses a nuclear missile and terror threat to America, Israel,
Iran's Arab neighbors and the world.
The two-week ceasefire does not include Lebanon.
We're also getting a look inside of Iran today, where pro-government demonstrators gathered
and chanted in the streets of the Iranian capital here in Tehran.
They chanted debt to America, debt to Israel.
They were burning U.S. flags and chanting victory in the aftermath of this nearly 40-day
war that erupted in the region with the beginning of Operation Epic Fury.
So right now, the entire world looking at this two weeks to see if some of these
These details can be worked out for a ceasefire agreement, but it is a delicate moment.
And for the record, this could have been a total ceasefire hoax to forcibly lower the
price of the oil barrel, which worked for the record.
It went from $114 approximately down to like 90.
I don't know where it's at currently, but is that good enough for Donald Trump
to advance and ensure that the ceasefire holds, which would require restraining Israel, as
I've said, bringing Israel to heel. That is the primary focus of American foreign policy.
It should have been the primary focus of American foreign policy since October 8,
2023. And we've moved in the exact opposite direction. A lot of people at the State
Department under Biden, understood that this was a necessity and some even quit their jobs
publicly because Biden wouldn't do it.
And now there are even people in the Trump administration that recognize that we have
to restrain Israel.
We have the power and capabilities of restraining Israel, but we're choosing not to.
And any kind of leaning in the direction of Israel is going to have devastating consequences
for the entire world, and we're seeing that unfold. We've been seeing that unfold for the
past 39 days. And yet, seemingly there's no restraint being demonstrated from or no restraint
being demanded even from the Trump side. That's where we're at. And considering the
The fact that it's clear that not only did American or Israel actually achieve any of
its strategic military objectives.
And on top of that, created this global panic that obviously had some pressures on Donald
Trump.
It's clear that the reporting that stated that America was the one that was pushing
for this ceasefire is most likely real, right?
Some might say it's propaganda.
Oh, you're just doing resistance propaganda, but it's obvious that there was one party
that was no longer willing to engage in this war.
And that was the United States of America.
i truly do believe that
iran wanted to set up sufficient deterrence
and if america doesn't think that this
sufficient military deterrence was established
and thinks it can continue waging this war
upping the anne
targeting more civilian
uh... targets
killing more civilians in general
and and trying to turn
a country of ninety three million people into bazaar
uh... in the sufficient time frame
that is necessary where they are not
capable of destroying the global energy markets permanently.
They're going to go back into it.
They're going to go back into it.
But there is the Financial Times reporting
that I'm obviously leaning into that says,
US directly pushed Pakistan to arrange a ceasefire deal
while talking about escalation.
So they were, on the timeline, they
were posturing in this barbaric manner.
But behind closed doors, they absolutely
were begging for a deal.
they were begging to stop the bleeding, right?
It makes sense.
It makes sense when you think about the war objectives
that were not accomplished at all.
And not only that, but also Donald Trump personally admitted
that initially that they thought
that the Iranian demands were quite reasonable,
that there was the workings of a negotiation, right?
There's the workings of a actual negotiation there.
And the Iranian demands, the 10 point demands that they've made
have not changed since day one.
So what changed?
Well, what changed is the calculation, right?
This doesn't mean that Iran has unlimited
striking capabilities.
Because I have seen a lot of people,
some of the resistance Twitter
that constantly talks about the IRGC or Hamas
or any number of different resistance fronts, as though they are pawns in this game that
they're playing on the internet.
In a way that's not dissimilar to how the pro-Ukraine, pro-NATO Twitter talks about
Ukrainians and how they have to consistently wage war.
Resistance Twitter was mad. They're like, what are you doing? You need to blow up
Israel further. This is so stupid. And it's like, Iran doesn't have unlimited munitions.
And the Iranian government's primary focus is still to maintain sovereignty, right?
And ensure that their people are not being slaughtered, so they understand their limitations
as well, which is, I think, the reason why they were fine.
They thought that maybe they had established sufficient military deterrence.
They had done enough economic damage that America would actually finally come to the
table and treat them as a serious partner. Okay? Iran doesn't have unlimited munitions
and Iran doesn't have unlimited appetite for death and destruction. You have to understand that.
They are thinking about this very clearly. They've demonstrated sufficient restraint in the past
and now they've demonstrated sufficient military deterrence. But they obviously interpret the
the battle conditions in a way that's a lot, in a way that's much more strategic than random
Twitter users. Okay. I don't think their capacity plays part in a specific war at all. No, there's,
there's, there's a, there's a limit as long as the war wages on, there's also a lot of
economic damage that they're taking. Okay. Their facilities are being destroyed. Their
railways are being bombed by Israel, which is what happened yesterday. They don't want
their power plants to fucking, uh, to be bombed into oblivion. That is not just tremendous
economic damage, but that will cause a lot of deaths. Okay.
So from their perspective, they've been able to get, they've been able to show the world
that they have the capability to force America to concede, whichever from this point on, as
long as America abides by these conditions, then they're good.
Now they can rebuild, right?
That was the goal.
Their primary focus here is to ensure that there's sanctions relief and to ensure
that America actually restrains Israel so they can have some regional stability. That's
it's clear that that is the goal. We'll see how much appetite America has for continued
death and destruction. Unless they actually threaten to withdraw from the talks, it just
sounds like impotent whining, which actually invites more violations, says Matthew Petty.
And I think there's some truth to that because it's very clear that Israel is not
interested in abiding by these conditions. And given that Israel has always played the role of
spoiler here, you have to make it very clear that if you're Iran, you have to make it very clear
that you have to restrain Israel. Okay. Galabao released this statement on the violation of
the three key clause of the 10-point proposal, agreed framework before the start of the
the negotiations. The deep historical distrust we hold towards the United States stems from
its repeated violations of all forms of commitments, a pattern that has regrettably been replaced
once again.
As the President of the United States has clearly stated in his Truth, the Islamic Republic
of Iran's 10-point proposal is a workable base on which to negotiate in the main
framework for these talks. However, three clauses of this proposal have been violated
so far.
1. Non-compliance with the first clause of the 10-point proposal regarding the
ceasefire in Lebanon, a commitment that Prime Minister Shabas Sharif also explicitly referred
to and declared as an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon and other regions
effective immediately.
This includes anywhere and everywhere where there's an axis of resistance force, including
Gaza as well.
It's not just Lebanon, but there is, I think, a little bit of miscommunication that's
taking place here on the American side.
it might be strategic miscommunication, or it might be genuine miscommunication, regardless.
The entry of an intruding drone into Iranian airspace, which was destroyed in the city of
Laar in the Farz Province, in clear violation of the clause prohibiting further violation
of Iranian airspace.
And the denial of Iran's right to enrichment, which was included in the sixth clause of
the framework.
Now, the very workable basis on which the negotiator has been openly and clearly
violated even before the negotiations began in such a situation a bilateral ceasefire
negotiations is unreasonable. If you understand that your enemy does not respond to anything
but force, does not respond to anything but military deterrence, that's the only way that
they engage in restraint. You have to go back to the, you have to go back to what's been
working for you. Okay. And like I've said, I think there are international partners here
that have to play a much larger role in demanding that America restrain Israel or maybe even
demand Israel cease its attempts if they want the Strait of Hormuz to be reopened again.
But considering how much Israel firsters have been frustrated when the ceasefire was even released,
It doesn't seem to be the case that there's enough appetite internally in the American
government to go back to implementing some sort of ceasefire here.
I think it almost feels like a repeat of Russian failures and a repeat of even the Western
agitation, and the Western interest in continuing the maximalist demands being made on their
side with the unjustifiable and illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
I don't know. I don't know where we go, but what I can tell you is that the Strait
of Hormuzas no longer open for business. I'm happy that the worst possible outcome has
been avoided. Donald Trump engaging in the nuclear option or the worst possible outcome
of Donald Trump blowing up the energy grid in its entirety in Iran has been avoided for
the time being. So that's good, especially because that was the threat. But it's obvious
that there are a lot of forces that are frustrated by this. Here is some of them.
Eli Afriat says, the time has come instead of Israel and the US eliminating the regime,
the regime is bombing Israel. Dear Trump, what did you do all this for?
Ifat Lo says, the ceasefire is disappointing. At the end of the day, the people of the
West that prioritized their own needs over the liberation of the people of Iran.
I don't have enough fingers that can't the amount of people who have ran to me about
gas prices for the last few weeks.
Of course, he says, I don't know how to feel about this. No, a maggot says, this makes
me sick.
Dr. Eli David says, what the fuck Trump just shared a rock. She's posed, but he accepted
the regime's 10 point proposal as a reminder. Here's the 10 point proposal. This,
course will be seen as weakness by the entire middle east as you have kaufman
a ceasefire is a very bad idea for the future for the uh... iranian people for
israel in the u.s.a. and basically the whole civilization
or ill i don't like it at all
this is a week moving a wrong move finish the job terminate the regime
no magnet i don't give a fuck about the trade hormones
daniel rubenstein
uh... iran has not conceded anything
springer on i'm so angry dejected and heartbroken right now fuck
trump instantly went from hero to zero says orn haas
are you disappointed with the ceasefire asks vivid prowess all the way
from india
uh... no magic again i'm disgusted a fake c-star with terrorists
while we're in shelters missiles over our heads while millions of innocent
iranians have lost hope
you'll cough and what good does the ceasefire do for anyone but iran
dot all trump fine here's a ceasefire slumber republic presses send on
ballistic missiles to israel
and it just goes on and on and on and on
it's very obvious
very obvious that the israeli population
not very happy about this really some of the mouthpieces
not very happy
about the ceasefire they wanted the death and destruction campaign to continue
they wanted to kill moronians they wanted to destabilize iran they wanted to
destroy iran
and they don't care if the rest of the fucking planet collapses
into this massive energy crisis
very selfish. Okay, unbelievably selfish. Why are we not telling Israel to suck it? We
are the United States of America. We are the hegemonic superpower, at least for the time
being. Why don't we act like it? All of this, of course, erodes the confidence that even some
of Israel's most loyal supporters have from the American side of things. So, nevertheless,
we continue. We continue the battle. The battle that's waging. Here's what JD Vance
had to say. First of all, I actually think, and there's a lot of bad faith negotiation
and a lot of bad faith, you know, propaganda going on. I think this comes from a legitimate
misunderstanding. I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it
just didn't. We never made that promise. We never indicated that was going to be
the case. What we said is that the ceasefire would be focused on Iran and the ceasefire
would be focused on America's allies, both Israel and the Gulf Arab states. Thanks.
First of all, this also makes it virtually impossible to deal with the United States of
America or Israel.
If you're a foreign adversary, if you're a nation of the periphery, how the fuck can
you ever trust America to hold its word?
Like, it's crazy.
This is a very different dynamic.
We live in a different world now.
39 days ago, we existed in a totally different reality.
We are no longer in that reality. And I don't think people in positions of power at the highest
ranks in the American administration recognize that. Okay? I don't think they recognize that
at all. Meanwhile, Shabal Sharif openly stated, ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon. How
many times will we have to keep quoting the direct words of Trump vans teams as
mediator it is insane the lower guard these people hold us in the United
States literally texted Prime Minister Sheriff what to say on Twitter and it
included Lebanon exactly we know it we know they copy pasted it
It's ridiculous, right? It's totally ridiculous. It's sloppy misinformation that doesn't even
work any longer. I think people have hardened their positions against Israel and against
Israel's malignant influence on American foreign policy and sometimes even domestic policy as a
matter of fact. And there's no way to change that dynamic. But what also doesn't make sense
is that America is still operating as though it has the capability of doing unlimited death and
destruction, it has the capabilities of achieving its strategic military goals, and they're just
simply not doing that. But they could, right? You talk like this, and you act as though there's
miscommunication. You say it's propaganda, only if you actually have the military might to back
it up. And it's very clear, given that America was consistently demanding a ceasefire, that
they also at a certain point recognized that they don't have that capacity any longer.
So on the one hand, they're still behaving like they could bring Iran to heal. But also
on the other hand, they don't have the force to show it. Or at least they don't
have the appetite for further death and destruction, especially while Iran continues to close the
Strait of Hormuz and dominate what takes place in the energy markets, or has a say in what
takes place in the energy crisis that will unfold.
It's clear, it's clear, and Myrov is correct.
Yahoo will absolutely use Lebanon torpedo this after defense officials make clear his bull
on disarmament is not a realistic goal in this current operation. So we know the reason the
press on it is for domestic politics, but it's not just domestic politics. I think this is,
like Netanyahu, I think Netanyahu is not just like responsive to like domestic
pressures here. I think he, this is the overall goal is like, they're pretty open about it.
like they think Iran is far weaker than it's ever been. The Iranian Axis of Resistance,
the Iranian-backed Axis of Resistance have been diminished in its capacity to restrain
Israel militarily. That is true, right? So they think this is the only time where they can
ever do this. This is the last possible moment for them, especially because what they did in
in the process caused tremendous anger towards Israel, and they've lost their base of support
in the western populations.
No one will ever see Israel the same ever again, and therefore it's going to be much
more difficult for these countries to continue being reliable allies to Israel, both on the
political front where they can offer political cover in the United Nations, or even when it
comes to offering military aid to Israel directly. So this is their last shot. That's the reason why
Benjamin Netanyahu wants to sully this deal, because he wants to keep dominating Iran.
And we've already known, cuz I read pieces of this New York Times article yesterday,
we know that this was always like the Israeli goals that they suggested to Donald Trump in
an effort to get him into pulling the trigger was a lie. It was built around complete lies.
The idea that this would be just like Venezuela, the most reliable lie, right? The idea that
they could foment enough instability internally to destabilize the regime. If it didn't
turn into like a Venezuela style operation, where they decapitate the existing leadership
and the new leadership that comes in as much more pliant to American demands, also
a lie, the idea that they could successfully attrit Iranian strike capabilities against
the Gulf and Israel, also a lie, that didn't happen.
The idea that Iran wouldn't even strike the Gulf states was immediately disproven, right?
So here we are in the region and a lot of moving parts guys.
And so you obviously were reporting there on strikes and we're still coming into Israel.
There were reports of strikes are still happening in the region.
What can you tell us about that?
Yeah, this morning there were reports of explosions on two Iranian islands and at least one
oil facility off the coast of Iran, an indication that the United States or Israel is still
conducting airstrikes against the Iranian regime.
But it also comes amid new incoming fire toward Gulf countries.
Both Kuwait and the UAE have reported dozens of ceasefire violations.
We're talking about drones and missiles being launched over the Persian Gulf toward
these countries.
And so it raises questions about if this ceasefire is actually in place, if this
This is an issue of getting the command down to some of these lower IRGC officials in the
south of the country.
But what we have seen in the aftermath of that announcement by President Trump is a
variety of ceasefire violations by the Iranians that has included ballistic missile fire
toward Israel and drone and cruise missile attacks toward Gulf countries.
So, Trey, speak to the enriched uranium.
It still remains a key issue in all of this.
What are you hearing?
I've been talking with Israeli officials this morning and they have been relatively quiet
simply responding we need to get the job done.
They raised a lot of questions about Iran's enriched uranium and questions about if this
will be able to be addressed at the negotiating table.
They pointed out that nothing has changed from the early days of Operation Epic Fury.
You remember US Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff talking about how the Iranians first entered
into negotiations before this war began, saying that they had enough highly enriched
uranium to create 11 nuclear bombs.
Israeli officials are asking, where is that enriched uranium?
And if the United States believes that as a result of these two weeks, they'll be able
to get a deal that addresses this nuclear threat, one official said, we don't want
Iran to turn into North Korea.
And there are serious questions that still remain about the ability to secure that
highly enriched uranium. The main reason that this operation began.
Trey, there are two things in the 10-point proposal that are really the biggest red flags
according to all the articles I've read and according to us. Number one is the acceptance
of the enrichment. They want to continue to enrich uranium. We can never allow them
to do that. In fact, we want to go in and try to get that enriched uranium that
is buried underground. So, but then I'm reading that question is how, but if we have
the capability to do so, why haven't we done it? You know, that like everybody talks about
what we should be doing. But at the end of the day, it literally turns into don't siege
Leningrad, just take it. Okay. All the armchair generals on television just keep demanding
that America do something that is clearly outside of their capabilities. Because if
If it was within their capabilities, they would do it.
Like, do we feel like America has this power and they're just simply not doing it because
they love Iran or something, like they want Iran to have the enriched uranium?
What a stupid demand this is.
It's been 39 fucking days.
Obviously, if America could do it without putting boots on the ground and engaging in potentially
a decades-long conflict with Iran, that will be devastating for every party involved in
it and all of the other forces in the region that will only continue the pain that the
global energy markets experience, like, without, in the absence of that, it's clearly not
in the cards for Donald Trump and the American forces to go in and take out the inverse uranium.
There's one way to do it, or there was rather one way to do it. It had happened in the past,
and that was with the JCPOA. If you want to restrain Iran's nuclear grade,
enriched uranium capacity, if you want to restrain Iran's nuclear capacity,
There was one way that we had successfully done that, right? It was with the JCPOA. Barack Obama
did it. Donald Trump ripped it apart. It's clear that there's no other outcome here. And it shouldn't
take tens of billions, almost $100 billion of loss and the loss of American troops from the
American perspective, because they clearly don't care about the people that they're killing.
But it shouldn't take all of that for America to finally come to that conclusion.
And it seems to me like America is still not at that conclusion, even if behind closed doors,
they're communicating as though they've reached that conclusion. Because that's the other element
here. Behind closed doors, they're begging for a deal. America is, right? In public, they're
saying, oh, Iran is begging us for a deal. It's over for Iran. We've destroyed them.
look at how mighty our military is, right? But the reality of the matter is they
understand that they don't have the capability to do this. They don't have
the power to do this without engaging in a potential decades-long boots on the
ground invasion of a country that is much larger than any other country that
we've invaded, that has 93 million people in it, many armed
combatants that have a lot more experience in engaging in counterinsurgency and insurgent
style asymmetric warfare.
And unlike Afghanistan or unlike Iraq, there's also clearly a strategic choke point that
they are controlling.
Levi says, the president, if President Trump lets the Iranians charge a toll for ships
in the trade hormones, then every time you fill up your car at the pump, you will put
money straight in the pockets of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
This will be a humiliating disaster for the United States.
Mortazah says, this is hilarious because Israel is currently inflicting a global economic
crisis on the world by continuing the war and even overriding any attempt to cease
fire and generating extreme anger in the process by people far from the conflict
whose material interests are being harmed.
Now that there's an obvious split emerging between the United States and Israeli positions,
foreign countries can safely engage in economic boycotts, deregulation of passports and other
measures targeting Israel until it ceases the war without having to confront Washington.
That is what has to happen.
There's also the other side of this obviously, the Democrats and the prominent Democrats
that are supposed to be, the prominent Democrats that are supposed to be like celebrating
the fact that Donald Trump is retreating from the absolute worst elements of his goals,
absolute worst goals that he had of like death and destruction, full blown genocide campaign.
Chris Murphy went on CNN and was like, oh, this is, this ceasefire is unbelievable.
I hope it's not real.
I hope it's not real at all.
Let's get out here.
One, the safe passage that Trump is saying is going to be provided.
This is what he said last night, and then he continued to say even more unhinged
things.
of this, kind of the central part of it, through Hormuz.
They're saying it's possible via coordination
with Iran's armed forces, which obviously implies
that Iran controls the strait.
And then from the National Security Council,
they say this confers upon Iran a unique economic
and geopolitical standing in terms of them regulating
passage through the strait of Hormuz.
So what do you hear in all this?
I mean, listen, who knows what's going on?
Donald Trump lies every single day.
Clearly, he's not telling the truth.
But if you accept even part of the Iranian statement,
Donald Trump has agreed to give Iran control
of the state of Hormuz.
That is extraordinary.
If you go deeper into the statement
from the Iranian National Security Council,
they claim that Trump has also agreed
to Iran's right to enrichment,
to suspend all sanctions against Iran,
and to allow Iran to keep their missile program,
their drone program and their nuclear program.
Now, who knows if any of that is true,
but if at the very least,
this agreement gives Iran the right to control the strait,
that is cataclysmic for the world.
And it is just stunning that that's-
Like, how can Democrats not understand
that this is horrible messaging, right?
Like this literally proves what I've been saying all along
we've been seeing all along, which is the idea that Democrats are not actually against destroying
Iran, blowing up Iran and waging war with Iran.
They just get to sit there and act as though this wasn't in the cars for them. This wasn't
their desire at all. This is no different than the same energy presented by Chuck Schumer
in that famous Taco Trump, Trump always chickens out. If you're going to cut a side deal
and negotiate with Iran without telling us like, that's bullshit. You have to bomb
them, it's the same shit. And this is the most transparent version of that sentiment where,
instead of saying, look, we should have never gotten into this predicament to begin with.
And although it's a worse position overall for Donald Trump, I'm glad that there's
finally a pathway towards a ceasefire, a long lasting peace in the region. But instead
Instead of saying that, they're saying we could have done it better.
We could have continued this war in a more effective manner.
Or saying Donald Trump should continue this war in a more effective manner to absolutely
destroy the Iranian nuclear capabilities.
Like there's no alternative here.
They don't even present the alternative that Democrats famously advanced.
Use the JCPOA.
Say this is a worse deal overall from an American perspective than even the JCPOA.
But it doesn't matter, like it's clear that we have to negotiate with these people.
It's clear that we have to engage with Iran in diplomacy rather than constantly war mongering.
All of this is unnecessary.
All this was unnecessary.
We learned a hard lesson.
But as people with clear minds and good conscience, we should now turn around and say, all right,
we're just gonna diplomatically engage with Iran.
Donald Trump even for following through on this, regardless of how tyrannical he is.
But they're not doing that.
What they're doing instead is agitating Trump.
And what they don't realize is this makes them look consistent.
This makes them look like cowards, makes them look weak, okay?
To the average person, they might not care about what happens to the Iranian people,
they don't like that the war is continuing and their gas prices are going up.
And the Democrats are supposed to be in opposition to that, right? At least they're trying to
communicate their opposition to that. But when they come out, when a ceasefire is imminent,
and they say, well, this is a massive failure for Trump. What the fuck are you doing?
You didn't achieve any of the strategic goals and don't actually provide any counter
Or don't actually commend even an attempt towards diplomacy, even if Donald Trump is
inconsistent on that front, and most likely will not pursue diplomacy and try to create
a long lasting ceasefire here, long lasting stability in the region, all you're basically
saying to the average person that's watching, to your base, is that you would be more
are violent than Donald Trump, you would have done a much better job of bringing Iran to
heel utilizing the same resources that Donald Trump is utilizing right now.
And that's fucking bullshit. This is the major problem. Democrats are not in disagreement
with killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Democrats are not in disagreement overall with engaging
Iran militarily, right? They actually want it and they like that Trump did it and
And now they can act as though they were always in opposition to it.
But even then, they don't present a strong enough opposition.
They don't actually try to get people on the record with the war powers resolution when
they should have, right?
Now they're talking about it, but they should have done this months ago at this point, right?
And they consistently say, it's the process that we disagree with.
You didn't ask us for advice, you didn't ask us for confirmation.
the process. You should be undermining the argument in its entirety. Why are we waging
war with Iran to begin with? It's unfucking believable. And while Americans, like I said,
are maybe not as careful or considerate about the everyday existence of ordinary Iranians
and what we're doing to them right now, they do see their tax dollars light on fucking
fire and they do know what it looks like when they're paying $20 extra at the pump.
They see that, they see that as a negative impact and they also tie this back directly
to Israel.
They know that we're waging this war because this is Israel's goals that we're accomplishing.
So for liberals to try to frame this as like we would have actually accomplished Israel's
war better than Trump, what's a fucking idiotic argument to present?
You look silly.
You're not even utilizing the moment.
You're not even taking advantage of the moment to set a clear distinction between yourself
and the Trump administration.
I can't believe it.
They're proving exactly what I've been saying all along.
Well, we've been saying all along, Democrats having spent five weeks doing another basalt
the go along with Trump's barbaric war, are now complaining that he chickened out.
They are going on cable news and lamenting the fact that Trump didn't commit a genocide
tonight, deeply, deeply unserious people scum even.
They're doing the same technique again.
They're saying, diet fascism.
We would have done restrained fascism, diet fascism.
We would have done more organized fascism.
Two weeks ceasefire is insufficient.
We need a permanent end to Donald Trump's reckless war of choice, which is why House
Democrats have demanded that Speaker Mike Johnson immediately reconvene the House back
into session so we can move a war powers resolution that will end this conflict permanently.
What seems unlikely to happen, what do you actually think is going to happen in this
two-week period?
What do you need to, assuming that doesn't happen, what do you need to see happen or
want to see happen in this two-week period?
So many doesn't happen this week.
We'll go back into session next week and we will present a war powers resolution
as soon as it becomes available to us to do so as a matter of privilege on the House floor.
All we need are a handful of Republicans to join us.
The American people strongly oppose this reckless war of choice and know that we should not
be spending billions of dollars to drop bombs in Iran while Republicans and Donald Trump
are unwilling to spend a dime to actually make life more affordable for the American
people including but not limited to by extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits. It's unbelievable
in terms of the priorities and yet we've seen this President's behavior unhinged, unpresidential,
unconscionable, including the messages that he's communicated to the American people
over the last few days.
Yes. Dana Fash talked about me. I know. I'll cover that. I will get into that in a little
bit. Okay.
Two weeks ceasefire is...
Yeah. Calling for a war powers resolution after the ceasefire announcement is funny,
But it will still backfire on Hakim Jeffries, because the reason why he's calling for it
after the ceasefire is because it's over, right?
In his, by his calculation, this is the least effective time to demand this.
However, given the, given the tendency of Israel to ruin ceasefires, even though he
said this last night, that ceasefire is not happening any longer.
The straight of Hormuz is closed.
So now he accidentally backed himself into a corner where he unironically has to do
the right thing.
Fantastic.
So expect him to turn around and say, all right, maybe now is not the time for ceasefire
later down the line or hold off on, not the ceasefire, sorry, hold off on demanding
war powers resolution.
Because from his perspective, now would have been the perfect time to make it seem like
he's against Donald Trump's unnecessary wars of choice.
Okay, so much for the wouldn't be
just as bad shit from Libs, I know.
It's very, very frustrating that so many liberals
are stuck on the optics of the situation
and refuse to recognize that our electives,
our representatives are not representing our interests.
And that's precisely the reason why they're pushing.
That's precisely the reason why they're pushing back on the war powers resolution, but Chris Murphy had a back and forth with
Adam Johnson that I thought was really good and really illustrative of the problems that I see with the way liberals are communicating on this
Adam Johnson's liberal messaging that one centers Israel's security to
paints Iran as strengthened and this being inherently sinister and three
Demagoguing about a nuclear program are reinforcing the logic of US and Israel hostility
These aren't gotchas, they're racist, morally stunted frameworks.
The U.S. bombed a school killing 150 girls, it attacked with provocation, it destroyed
hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure, killed 4,000 plus with no moral or legal justification,
no morally sound person should care what was achieved.
This isn't a game of risk, Adam Johnson says, and he's right, okay?
We have to oppose this war on the moral front, on moral grounds.
And we can also oppose the war on legal grounds.
We could oppose the war on the reality that is also leading to economic disaster.
Okay?
There's a million avenues.
But the one thing Democrats consistently keep doing when they talk about the process,
and they did this with Venezuela as well, okay?
When they did this with Venezuela as well, they said, oh, well, Maduro's a tyrant.
He's awful.
He's a monster.
We're glad that he's getting deposed, but we just don't like the way that Donald Trump
did it.
It's like, when you give him the justification, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter at all.
Rokana absolutely cooked on this as well.
He went on MSNOW and he said exactly those words.
I'm glad that there's at least someone saying the quiet part out loud or the part that
Democrats are refusing to say.
Here it is.
to people who say the 25th Amendment or impeachment, as we have seen twice before with this specific
president when it's controlled by Republicans, that's just not a realistic scenario.
I think you're using things too tactically. You've been so immune. How about moral principle?
How about that when a president threatens to blow up other nations, that we have to
see some response to saying that we have a higher moral dimension, that there's
something called conviction in politics, that the lives of the Iranian people matter, that
the lives of people in Gaza matter, that the lives of people in Cuba matter, that when Donald
Trump is echoing the lot and calling people animals who live in Iran, that we will be
a Democratic Party who says that is morally wrong.
And when we don't say that, and when we hide behind proceduralism, and when we hide
behind tactics, and when we hide behind the fact that we don't have votes, then
what we say to most Americans is,
we're not willing to fight for our vision for America,
for our moral vision.
You know who is willing to fight
for his vision of America?
Donald Trump.
And you know why the Democrats keep losing?
Because we don't have conviction in our politics.
We don't have inspiration and passion in our politics.
We've got people that are 50 years
who read the same scripts,
put out the same bland statements.
Get out, let a new generation lead.
You've been ineffective.
The base doesn't like you.
The base wants fighters.
The base wants people with moral vision and the only people the base are more upset with
than Donald Trump is the ineffective leadership of the Democratic Party to stand up when a
president of the United States is threatening genocide.
That's it.
This is wall to wall bars, one minute and 34 seconds of cooking, okay?
That's the message.
You should not shy away from saying exactly this, okay?
This is one of the best messages I've seen from any elected speaking clearly about the
demands that voters are making of their elected representatives to demonstrate moral courage,
to demonstrate a vision charting a better pathway, a better future for the United States
of America, especially with our foreign entanglements, especially with our dealings
with Israel, and what we've done in Iran and many other places as well.
The human element of this cannot be lost in the conversation.
It's crazy to me, but it is objectively racist, right?
It's objectively racist to just be like, well, yeah, we killed a whole bunch of schoolchildren
or whatever, but at the end of the day, you know, where we, if we achieved our war
goals, it would have been fine.
Would it have been fine?
Yeah.
Adam Johnson also talked to us with like Chris Murphy,
because Chris Murphy says,
Iran says the US has agreed to their 10 point plan,
which gives them control of the straight,
lets them keep their nuclear program
and also their missiles and drop sanctions against Iran.
If this isn't true, and let's hope it's not,
it's proved that there's indeed no deal.
Adam Johnson, the thing about Chris Murphy,
he is a pathological trial. He has pathological triangulation brain from immigration to war.
He simply can't resist taking a decent lefty stance, then immediately attacking Republicans
from the right and lamenting over the same confused process or competency criticism.
Right? It's so stupid. It doesn't make sense. You look inconsistent. You look like you
are utterly devoid of any principles on this. Right? And Chris Murphy actually replied
do it, right? Murphy explicitly, this was what he said after he said, Iran says the
US has agreed to their 10 point plan, which gives them control over the straight, lets
them keep their nuclear program and also their missiles and drop sanctions against Iran.
If this is true, let's hope it's not right. I just read that Murphy explicitly lobbies
against the tentative ceasefire deal. Pray tell Chris what terms you think Iran will
accept after the US sneak attack them killed their leaders, did an Oklahoma city
bombing on a girl school, killed 4,000 more. Guys, I know Fox is doing a hit piece on me
again. They haven't stopped doing it. Please shut the fuck up. Okay. It doesn't matter.
The hits are going to keep coming. We have to cover actual news. Okay. I can't sit here
and, and, and listen to, to racial animus directed against me and also candidates that
I align with over and over again for hours every single fucking day, okay?
We have to be serious.
Although they are unserious, the Hassanabi fucking broadcast have to be serious.
Someone has to actually fucking cover the news.
Okay?
Who cares what they say?
Anyway, Adam Johnson says, did an OKC-style bombing on a girl's school and killed 4,000
more?
Some versions of this is the only way it ends.
To which Adam Johnson actually replied.
He said, if you've paid any attention to what I've said for weeks, you know what I want
this war to end immediately.
So of course I'm glad the ceasefire, if the ceasefire holds.
That's not inconsistent with pointing out that we're worse off now than before the
war started and that it's bad if Iran controls the Strait.
I've been 100% clear.
There is no military means to reopen the Strait.
And the only way forward is for Trump to stop the war.
I think it's important to point out how ham-handed this entire endeavor has been.
And now nobody should see Trump's actions as some expert maneuver in war-making and
statecraft, to which he also had some pretty decent replies to, I don't know where the
replies are.
But he basically had a back and forth with Chris Murphy that ended up with, that
ended up with him saying like, how do you think we address the genuine demands
that Iran is a sovereign nation is making about the reparations that they are owed, right?
Clearly the toll process actually is the least, is the process in which they can demand these
reparations with the least amount of friction, because this way America doesn't do direct
payments, direct cash payments, and rather allows Iran to collect the toll and rebuild
their country and rebuild the damage that we have dealt them, right?
It makes total sense.
It's not like Congress is gonna pay for it.
It's not like anyone else is gonna fucking pay for it.
And they are owed reparations.
It's understandable, right?
To which he responded with fine, but some people are going to think, oh yeah, he
said how one of you's Trump's competency is irrelevant to the substance of the
ceasefire terms clearly he's enough but acting as if it's some giveaway to
iran is doing more doing the pro-war camps work for them what other
mechanism than tolls could around possibly leverage to secure reparations
chris murphy says fine but some people are gonna think the agreement is good
and the war was worth it our goal should be to show that the war was
the war and the subsequent ceasefire if it really exists was way worse than
the war having never happened and this involves showing how the world
after a ceasefire is worse than the world before the war started, which is why I point out it's bad
that Iran now tolls the straight. If people think this agreement is a victory, then it will open
lays for future Trump illegal wars. Yeah, you know what this actually opens up a lane for? Trump to
continue this illegal war because he sees this kind of stuff and he goes, okay, everyone's cooking my
ass. They're not letting me eat the damage on this ceasefire. They are obviously calling out.
They're obviously agitating for more destruction.
Fuck it.
Maybe we do actually do boots on the ground military warfare, so like, because Chris Murphy
isn't wrong, right?
This is correct.
From an American framework, if you are thinking America first, American Empire first, yes,
of course America is in a worse position overall.
But this requires, like this situation requires people on the opposition party to position
themselves actually in opposition with the overarching goals of the Trump administration.
This is the problem.
The problem is Democrats are not in opposition to the goals that Trump has demonstrated.
They want those goals, they just never seemingly had I guess the courage or the mania
to follow through on it.
These aren't narrative abstractions Adam Johnson responds with and says, answer two questions.
Do you think Iran has the right to missile defense?
Do you think it's reasonable for Iran to expect war reparations for what you yourself concede
is an illegal war?
And if so, what mechanism should guarantee this?
You very much appear to be opposing baseline Iran self defense as such and any type
of recompense for Iran after the US killed thousands, destroyed hundreds of billions
infrastructure in a war of aggression that we all agree was unjustified and illegitimate, is that a fair summation?
This is what we mean when we say these guys are, you know, two sides of the same coin with like,
some minor differences, but if you are justifying the underlying reasons as to why
this, like some kind of military action had to happen, right?
Then it doesn't matter how belligerent Trump is, right?
Then it's just a difference in tactics.
What Democrats should be doing in this moment is to oppose the war in its entirety, not
Not justify, not justify, you know, the goals that Trump has presented.
You have to oppose the goals that Trump has presented.
You have to ask a tough question and say, why are we doing this?
We, on the one hand, claim it's an illegal war.
It's unjustifiable.
But on the other hand, we say, you know, that, that it's good.
It's technically something that needed to happen, right?
We had to kill Ayatollah.
We had to actually destroy Iran's munitions capabilities, right?
It's ridiculous.
It's a sovereign country.
Of course, sovereign nations are going to have some kind of military deterrence to ensure
that what's happening to Iran right now doesn't ever happen again.
When you present an argument like this, you're basically saying, you know, I agree
agree with the goals, I just don't agree with the methods.
And you don't even demonstrate what your methods would look like.
And that reads as inconsistent to the average person.
The average person is not putting a lot of thought into this situation.
But they are aware enough to recognize that this is an inconsistent way to talk about
this issue.
Okay?
I mean, I think Adam Johnson's two questions were great, you know, and the answers should
be, yes, of course, Iran has a right to self-defense.
Of course, every country has a right to defend itself.
It's how you defend yourself that matters, right?
Anyway, I'm supposed to be talking to the kneecap boys right now, but I don't know where it is.
Okay.
All right.
Yeah, we can reschedule as well if, you know, because I'm a little bit worried about the
What the hell we just lost the internet for a second, but it's back. It's back. That was crazy.
Yeah, Erm, what the sigma is right. We're back. We're back. We're back. All right.
There was actually a really good statement from PM Pedro Sanchez. I hate to get peace out here,
but he said, the government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire,
just because they show up with a bucket. And that was bars, okay? That was absolutely bars.
Let's be real, he cooked on that one. He cooked on that one, okay? Switch the vid to live now, huh?
Wait, what? I don't know what you mean by that.
So, I showed you one good statement from Rokana, opposing the war on all fronts, including moral
and legal, right?
And I showed you one bad statement from Chris Murphy.
Obviously, the Democrats are channeling exactly what Chris Murphy's been saying.
In an effort to immediately oppose Donald Trump while still maintaining some kind of
militant posture, they end up justifying why Donald Trump did this to begin with.
Okay? Suleyman Mosvitz says, an Israeli source tells me about the ceasefire,
we were surprised by Trump's decision, we received updates in the final moments
when everything seemed finalized, we are committed to the ceasefire as a diplomatic
correspondent. And Shail Bennett for him says, Israel was not updated until the ceasefires
on the verge of being signed, they were not part of the agreement process,
It shows a serious and justified lack of trust that Israel would try to sabotage the talks, but they are and they still are they they still
Obviously have the capacity to sabotage talks because one element of the demands
From the Iranian side, which make perfect sense is to restrain Israel is to ensure that Israel doesn't strike Lebanon any longer
And and immediately retreats from southern Lebanon, which it currently occupies
America has the capabilities of restraining Israel, it just chooses not to do so, which
of course gives Israel the opportunity to continue sullying these affairs.
The original 10 point proposal had that, the acceptance of enrichment in Farsi, in the
Farsi version, but then for some unknown reason that phrase was missing in the English
version that was shared by the Iranian diplomats to journalists.
The second thing that is of concern or biggest concern is Iran wants control of the Strait
of Hormuz.
had control of the strait. It's dangerous because they border the strait, but they didn't have control
and now they want it. No, this is incorrect. They always had the capacity to control it,
they just never applied it. Now they do apply that control and therefore they de facto have
control over the Strait of Hormuz. Okay? If you operate on might is right or might makes
right politics, you can't turn around and cry foul when someone else is demonstrating that, right?
John Favreau says, end USAID to Israel.
I told NECAP that we're going to reschedule. So we're going to reschedule the talks with NECAP.
So the Delta CEO won't commit to lower-inticket prices if the jet fuel prices go down. When asked
if his company would lower price of fuel costs drop, he said instead that lower fuel costs would
certainly help us boost our margins this year and certainly in the next year as well.
Great. So now you know that once a baseline price has been established, capital owners,
especially due to market consolidation, and we saw this during COVID as well in the aftermath
of like the peak of COVID, they don't actually drop the prices again, right? And they have
the capacity not to drop the prices because there's tremendous market consolidation and
And therefore, there's tremendous price leadership that takes place.
And dear, here we are.
I mean, this is literally exactly what happened.
This is what we talk about when we say greed-flation.
This is precisely what's going on.
There might be market forces that lead to inflation, but that inflation continues
because once a new baseline price has been established, why would you ever go back?
It doesn't matter because they don't matter, but it's wild to watch Democrats do the
The food here is terrible, and the porches are so small routine with the ceasefire.
Why even bother?
Go back to tweeting about rogue streamers.
Shouldn't we criticize Trump for losing the war?
Yeah, sure.
But can we maybe wait until the ink on the ceasefire is dry so that our demented president
doesn't decide to scrap the whole thing?
Can we hold off like one whole day before we start goading this fucking psychopath
is right?
You have to think, you have to think like what, if you're going to oppose Donald
Trump. You have to oppose him adequately. You have to oppose the principles of the reasons
to why he had to go into this battle, wage this unjustifiable war. You can't on the
one hand say, well, we agree with the fucking, we agree with the goals that have been stated.
We just don't agree with the methods. It's very stupid.
And also, Democrats haven't been vocal at all up until this moment anyway.
And it's ironic that the only reason why they could be vocal is because they thought,
oh, ceasefire established. Now we can start shitting on Trump.
Now we can actually hang this around his neck, even though this was something that we also
wanted. We would never act on it, or maybe we would if we were going into it. Who knows?
But now you can, now it's win-win. You accomplish Israel's goals that you were also invested in,
and you get to hang it around Trump's neck because it's, you know, very unpopular. However,
because the ceasefire fucking collapsed because of Israel's lack of interest in maintaining the
ceasefire, now they're in this unique predicament. Now they're in this unique predicament where
And they oppose it at a time when opposing it means something again, right?
They thought they were opposing the war when it's meaningless when it's over turns out now
They're opposing the war when it is meaningful they trap themselves in this situation
But you know make no mistake Democrats love retreating and they will retreat on this as well most likely at least most of them will
right
IRGC Major General Mohsen Rezai says Iran will stand with all of our might alongside Hezbollah
and that violations of the ceasefire will be met with punishments against Israel and America
military officially ready saying that the ceasefire has collapsed.
Here we are.
They not only want control of the strait, they want to also be paid at least $2 million
per vessel that passes through the Strait of Hormuz and then split that money with the
government of Oman.
And Israeli officials say that money will be used to funnel back into the IRGC weapons
program to try and rebuild many of the production lines that were destroyed by the United States
and Israel throughout the course of this war.
And so the bottom line here is that this isn't over.
It is a two-week ceasefire, and the question remains if the Iranians will be willing
to make a good, fake deal that addresses all of these issues.
But when you look at that 10-point proposal by the Iranians, there are a variety of issues
that simply aren't going to happen.
Not only red lines for the United States, but for the entire world.
There's no scenario in which the U.S. military is going to withdraw completely from the
Middle East.
There are a variety of bases where U.S. soldiers remain.
And if that were to take place, it would give the Iranians the ability and flexibility
to rebuild their military and nuclear programs and then pose a threat to U.S. forces
if they ever returned to the region and allies across the Middle East. And so there are a
lot of very serious questions here. The positive in all of this is that there are no missiles
soaring through the skies of Israel, at least at this moment. But there are serious questions
about the future of this agreement. And if the Iranians have changed their tune at the
not to put too fine a point on it and at the risk of sounding anti-semitic gag, it's
becoming increasingly obvious that when push comes to shove in the choices directly between
American interests and the Israeli interests at odds with each other, a shit ton of
sitting American bald issues with Jews is really interest. Yeah, it's, it is in some ways because
Israeli interests are technically also aligned with like the military industrial complex
and numerous other capital forces as well. And that's why I said what matters in this
circumstance most is pressure from capital owners against Donald Trump because there's
too much market volatility, too much instability, and it gets to a point where they can't make money.
But as long as the oil and gas industry is doing all right, especially now that they're
like refining heavy Venezuelan crude, as long as the markets are not too on fire,
as long as inflation doesn't completely get out of control, then there's a lot of opportunity
to make money. There's a lot of opportunity to make money here, so they don't actually apply
the pressure necessary to to force Donald Trump to to finally bring this to a close.
Negotiating table and if this is going to actually hold. All right great reporting down there.
Yeah, thanks. I'm glad you don't have to wear a helmet today or worry about the
missiles. Hopefully this will hold at least for two weeks. Thank you, Tray.
Want even more Fox News on YouTube? Look at that. Let's get now.
Trump to Trump speaks to Sky News hours before announcing the ceasefire.
This is again from yesterday, from last night.
The thoughts and the words of our US counterpart Mark Stone, who was spoken to President Donald
J. Trump. Mark, great to have you with us. What did the President have to say?
Well, he's upbeat. I spoke to him between the two posts that you referenced there. The first
post came about an hour and a half before his self-imposed deadline. That was 8 p.m.,
the deadline Eastern time. Remember, that was a point at which 24 hours earlier he had said,
if Iran didn't meet his demands, he would effectively, I'm paraphrasing all hell,
would break loose in Iran. He'd bombed the power plants, he'd bombed the bridges.
It was extraordinary language we heard from the president. But an hour and a half before that,
as you have outlined, he decided that he would accept this 10-point plan and accept
this two-week delay. After that, we called him. I called him and he picked up. He doesn't always,
but he did this time. And it was only a short call. These calls are very often very short,
about a minute and a half. He said, I haven't got long. Be quick, be quick, he said. And so I
asked him, you know, how he was feeling with this ceasefire in place. It's great, he said.
It's very good. He then went on to say that he believes that we've done everything we wanted to do militarily.
He described it to me as a complete victory, a victory in military terms.
And then he said, actually, in every other sense as well, a complete victory.
That is how he is framing this war which has lasted for just over a month.
a month. Now, I put it to him and I think this is really important. As you outlined there,
what appears to have happened is the president has accepted an Iranian position, which is
10 points. They're outlined in this document here, the National Security Council.
Great reporting, sir. Thank you. That's really good seasoning on this. I like that
everyone is just like trying to farm. This is like direct access to Donald Trump, but
no one actually has in a minute and a half. You're not gonna have any opportunity anyway,
but like, there's no like new reporting taking place here, right?
I guess the only funny thing that we can look at is the fact that he actually refused to
take a phone call from JD Vance when he was on stage in Hungary. And he's still picking up
the phone when random British journalists are calling him from unknown numbers.
Supreme National Security Council statement that came out overnight via Iranian media,
and in these 10 points, this is really important. There are maximalist Iranian demands like all
American troops out of the Middle East, not just those that have come for the war, but all of
them, like the Iran should control the Strait of Hormuz, something they didn't do before this
war, now they get to do that as part of this proposal, and also the removal of all sanctions,
a few other things as well. These are absolute maximalist Iranian demands. They are something
the Americans could never accept. And yet, Donald Trump is saying that now they form
the viable basis for a negotiation that he thinks could last just two weeks. So
I put it to him, how is this, how are these proposals anything like, anything workable
that America could agree to. And he said to me, you don't know what the points are.
You don't know what they are. I do know what they are. He then went on to say they're very
good points and that most of them, this is intriguing, most of them have been fully negotiated
already. So he is disputing the Iranian position, suggesting that the negotiations
are already well developed. Remember, we didn't even know they were directly negotiating.
he's saying, claiming that they are well-developed and that they are not the maximalist demands
that Iran is claiming in their side of the statement. So, something doesn't quite add
up here. He then said, if it isn't good, we'll go right back to it very easily. I
assume by that he's meaning we'll go right back to the fighting. Then he said, I've
got to go now and he ended the call. So it wasn't fulsome but it was certainly added a
lot I think to what has been kind of a dizzying night.
Extraordinary that you got to speak to him on such an important night, Mark. Tell us
a bit more about his mood. What did you make of his demeanor?
Well as I say, he was upbeat and you know what's very interesting. This is the first
time. We've had his number for a little while. A lot of journalists, I think this is kind
of worth pointing out because it's odd. It's unusual. There are not many world leaders
who, A, allow their phone number to be out and about, and, B, will just pick up to people.
But Trump's not any world leader. And his number over the course of a few months has
circulated among journalists here in Washington, D.C. We've had it for a little while.
We've tried to call a few times. He hasn't answered and tonight, you know, okay, I don't
care about this. Jesus Christ, question corresponding analysis unanswered questions ahead. Have you
tried calling him? No, I have not. The 30 year old hermuzer hasn't talked to high command
in weeks. Fires one drone every three days destroys the world economy. Greatest joy
is smell of burning HFO charges told doesn't let you through. Doesn't even know who's
running the country anymore doesn't care. Ah, I'm gonna her moves. True. 30 year old
her moves are IRGC Navy general IRGC Navy admiral going nutty mode. Just constantly
lobbing missiles and constantly lobbing drones. I have his phone number. He's
Hormuzin dude. He's fucking Hormuzin. Would you call him? No, I haven't. I haven't found
like the perfect opportunity to try and call him. Can you answer on for his number dog?
I already have his phone number. I have his phone number. Why are you guys saying get
his phone number? I have Donald Trump's phone number. I know what it is. Yes. Yes. Of
course I have his phone number. You lying? No, I'm not. I'm not fucking lying. One of
these days when I have something important to address, I'll do it. No, get Trump's phone
number from Zaraan. Buddy, I already have his phone number. What the fuck's wrong with
you guys. Oh my god, I know for a fact what his phone number is. Sign him up the cat facts.
Okay, you guys are so stupid.
Carl, John, we just heard you and said a lot of blank spaces in this agreement. You just
spoke with the president. He's trying to fill some of them in.
Yeah, and look, but first this is the most stunning reversal that I think we have ever
seen in American politics. In about 10 hours the president goes from threatening the annihilation
of Iranian civilization to saying he's got an agreement that will bring about
a golden age of peace in the Middle East. But look, the threat not only activated the
Iranians to do something, it more importantly got the Pakistanis and the Chinese to in turn
pressured the Iranians to agree to do something that they weren't willing to do before.
But massive questions, massive questions ahead.
This is classic Trump negotiating technique.
The question is, can you get from this deal that he's now done to something lasting?
And will the deal sustain itself?
Well, and Rick pointed out, some of this is about the straits of foreign moves and
whether or not Iran is going to be controlled, the United States is going to be in control.
Who's going to pay, whether it's really going to be open.
Yeah.
Look, this is the big question.
And I did speak to the president just a short while ago.
So he believes that his threat is the only thing that made this happen.
I asked him, are you going to be willing to allow the Iranians to charge a toll?
They're talking about a $2 million for a chip toll through the Strait of Hormuz.
And he said to me, well, maybe it will be a joint venture.
Maybe it'll be a U.S. Iranian toll.
Yeah, that maybe is a load-bearing maybe, doing a lot of work there, okay?
Doing a lot, a lot of work.
Maybe we'll we'll both collect the toll. Who knows? I mean who knows who knows who will collect tolls. What is the toll anyway?
Spiritually speaking philosophically speaking, what's the toll the real toll we all pay is
The slog of life day-to-day existence the banality of evil we must overcome
Slowly but surely chipping away at our conscience
that's right toll I a tola the real toll is the loss of friends like Jeffrey
Epstein very good guy big guy very big very big in the New York scene I love
that man I miss him every day leech I get it get a piece of it I also asked him
about something else that you heard Ian mention that the Iranians are saying
which is they maintained their right to enrich uranium and he was adamant on
this point he said there will be no enrichment but that was in the ten
point plan that he said is the framework well he has not who pays the
toll but for whom the bell tolls that's the kind of energy we're bringing that's
right I love tariffs it's like Iran is doing tariffs I tell you they told me
Mr. President you love tariffs we're doing tariffs too I said to myself that's
a good time I love doing tariffs and now Iran can do it too except the
The Supreme Court was very bad to me.
They took my tariffs away.
You said is a starting point for negotiations.
Is a starting point.
He says that it won't be in the final deal.
But we'll see.
These are huge questions.
I mean, basically that 10 points is what the Iranians were saying before the war
started.
That's true.
They were demanding that.
Well, no.
Before the war started, they weren't demanding those 10 points.
they were actually infinitely more conciliatory on like the the enriched uranium side of things
actually but now that the war started
and they very clearly have an upper hand
they very clearly have a lot more leverage
especially considering that america is the side that's been begging for a ceasefire
and iran is the side that said no publicly openly consistently
and continued to to
uh... bomb the gcc in israel
still. For the time being, I think the continuation of this, the continuation of this is going
to benefit Iran, but we shall see.
So we'll see if there are going to be any projections begin on Friday. John-Cruel, thanks
very much.
It's been just hours since President Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran,
but this morning, that temporary truce is looking fragile at best.
Moments ago, an Iranian news agent.
It's so funny because I watched this live in real time and basically, you know, 30 minutes
after this Dana Fash package, where she talks about serious news, she ended her broadcast
with like a 10-minute panel.
Schumer is still defending the war.
Oh, hell yeah.
The bottom line is great messaging guys love that.
This is great messaging.
Keep it up guys.
No, definitely.
Oh, Trump fucked it up.
We would have done it better.
How is this the, how is this the situation?
I mean, it's, it's not wrong, right?
It's not wrong that Trump did fuck this up.
Okay.
But if you don't end it on, this was unnecessary across the board, and that we have to reconsider
our relationship with Israel, and we have to reconsider the way we treat our foreign adversaries.
If you don't end it on that note, and talk about the importance of diplomatic approach,
and tie it back to Barack Obama's successful JCPOA initiative, which Chuck Schumer opposed,
so he's not going to fucking do that, this is nothing, okay?
i'm giving free game out here for the democrats who want to cut away from the
rest of the party and effectively communicate
okay
the diplomatic approach is the only time america's actually achieved any
of its strategic interest in in uh... reducing iran's uh... you know nuclear
capabilities
so fucking stupid
and still has
it's nuclear stockpile
it's nuclear it's nuclear ambitions and ran still has it's nuclear stockpile
it's nuclear ambitions
are still unchecked
if not accelerate
and finally american credibility
the nations of the world are furious at trump
the europeans the asians even the middle eastern allies
they say what the hell is he doing
in the united states diplomatic position credibility in the world is
dramatically worse because of this war
so just in summary
in summary
this war has made us worse off today
than before it started
the war made us worse in terms of control of the strait of her moves
war made us worse in terms of the strength of the Iranian regime, the war made us worse
in terms of high gas prices, the war made us worse because Iran's nuclear ambitions
have been unchecked and the war made us worse because American credibility is down the drain.
Yes, all of this is true, but how are you any different than Donald Trump?
Simply because you weren't responsible for it, doesn't change the reality that
you're not actually opposing the reasons as to why Donald Trump engaged in this action. Okay,
this is the problem. This is the problem with the Democratic Party's comms on this.
Failing to distinguish how they have a different approach than Trump.
They come across like they agree with the goals, just not the methods that have failed.
They should always tie this back to the illegality and immorality of engaging in this unjust and costly war against Iran to begin with.
Reinforce demands to restrain Israel, which brought us into this war.
And talk about the only time we achieved success with Iran's nuclear, with Iran's enrichment
process, Obama's JCPOA through diplomacy, which Schumer opposed at the time.
Of course, this will box is about to run a story on you, buddy.
Buddy, this is the eighth story that they've run on me today.
Okay.
They're spending every damn day talking about this.
We wish you had a fraction of Charles Ellis Schumer's sexual energy you fool, quit yabbin'
and take some much-needed notes from his sexual prowess."
Hold on.
Democrats are, of course, once again failing to differentiate.
to come across like they agree with the goals, just not the methods of Trump that have now
openly failed. You're on Fox 5 right now. I'm not demonstrably failed. They should always
tie this back. Dems should always tie this back to illegality and immorality. It's back
to the illegality and immorality of engaging in this unjust and costly war against Iran
to begin with, reinforce demands to restrain Israel.
Oh, wait, I'm on Fox five.
Oh, that's different actually.
Hold up, hold up.
I will watch that.
My favorite news program on Fox News. Never mind. That's actually pretty tight. I didn't understand when you said Fox five
I thought you meant like a local Fox affiliate or something
Wow progressive Democrat Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El Sayeed inviting Hassan Piker to a rally yesterday
Refusing to condemn any of Piker's pathetic beliefs
Are there any views that the sign holds that you disavow?
I'm not here to disavow people's views, this whole gotcha game, platform police day, cancel
culture, I thought we were over it.
So Dana, I think what gets me, gets my goat since we're talking about Hassan Piker.
Wait, what does that mean?
He has the part that decries toxic masculinity.
Is he trying to say I'm a like goat fucker because my name is Hassan?
The doctor denies the rapes on October 7th, which is basically just a horrible thing
to say anybody who knows about October 7th knows what happened there and he's a scumbag.
How can the Democrat Party?
I think it's almost worse than that because he doesn't just deny it.
He says it doesn't matter.
Yeah.
Like who cares?
It doesn't matter.
That's just the cost of war.
Too bad, too bad ladies.
The things he said about women are pretty incredible, but we've gone over this before.
Like we tell, we make fun of sexism because it's like a way to like deal with it.
It's like, it's funny.
I can laugh about how women are bad drivers, haha, but like I actually am not great.
Um, and yet you have all the stories we've talked about in terms of the victims of illegal
immigrant crime.
Most 98% of them are women.
We don't hear anything from anybody about that.
Remember the lady who said, well, she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Sorry, ladies.
I like that the game of telephone is like swapped at this point to be like Hassan participated
in October seven and committed sexual assaults.
Like it's, it's basically we're like one week away from them saying I did October
I was trying to win a primary.
They think that's where they have to be.
There are a lot of people that listen to those shows
and they listen to shows on the far right.
But remember the kind of hell that President Trump had to pay
for having dinner with Nick Fuentes.
And that's caused a huge fracturing on the right.
And now all of them are fighting amongst each other
and I can't even figure it out.
I don't, Jessica, I don't follow the far right crazies
because I am one, but I don't like, I don't know
but I'm pretty sure they don't say rape doesn't matter.
The spread or rapes of Jewish women on October 7th.
I don't know anything about it right now.
Wait, what?
They're saying.
I mean, CNN had this guy on.
Crazy.
Well, yeah, it's not.
You have to watch the full tape of it.
He's saying what Dana was saying,
which he thinks that Israel's response
is not proportionate to what was done to Israelis.
It's not the right to say that.
then you should just not like him.
And a lot of people don't like him.
But that, no, it's not really a like or don't like thing.
I think that-
I think he's handsome, is that it?
He is objectively handsome.
Look at the New York Times profile of him.
I mean, he is-
Of course, my queen.
My queen!
I'm gonna check the hard pass out.
Oh!
But the reason that there's a profile of him,
which includes a lot of the incendiary things
that he said, is that he does have this big audience.
And I think that the fight within my party
about whether to go on Hassanpiker's stream
or have him campaign for you is about dealing
with the issues from the 2024 election,
how we talk about Israel
and the Democratic Party's relationship to it,
how we talk about corruption
and anti-establishment sentiment,
how we talk about universal healthcare, housing, education.
These are issues that he talks about a lot
in these streams and he has millions of people,
a lot of young men who are voicing real concerns
about how they can get ahead in society,
not what they think about some woman
who fled communist something.
Yeah, there's something something that happened to some
chicken, a communist country. Jesse, uh, how is this not toxic
masculinity? You know, the people that often call you a
talk toxic masculine source are embracing this guy. They are.
Well, who cares? The thing about this is I kind of liked
his answer to it. He goes, I don't think we want to get
into platform policing and cancel culture. I agree with
that. So if this guy wants to run and win, he thinks this guy could help him win.
Give it a shot. Give it a shot in Michigan. You know what? I respect it.
Own it. Uh, it's could cost you a huge, but what is going on really feel do it.
I really don't care. Uh, we had word Churchill. Remember him? Word Churchill.
America deserve 9 11. Now I didn't think any politician would be inviting
world Churchill to rally and be like, I stand with the guy, but
things have changed. People say all kinds of stuff now and oh
my God, we just have to say this is some crazy guy. But I
like him. He might be too crazy for you. He might be obnoxious
and disgusting. But you know what? I'm gonna run with this
guy. And if I win, I win. If I lose, it might be a little
bit his fault. And it's your fault for the bad judgment.
It's all about judgment.
Hmm, spoken like wait, I think Jesse literally believes that I'm a misogynist. So he's now offering respect
I'm gonna go to you about 9-11 because you were there and when you hear this
Yeah, I mean you do get a free punch out of it. Don't you do you think Jesse waters is like he's like yeah
I like the I like the guy because he's like I believe he's misogynistic now recognize the currents that are blowing through this
Okay, this is where a lot of the young people are and let's recognize what it is
Okay. He is doing the stuff that we talked about in the eight block. He's using blame
Israel as the panacea for every ill in the world. It is Israel's fault. Period. End of story.
That's horrible embedded in this. That's a terrible way to respond to this. Turkish,
but that becomes the be all an end all excuse for anything he wants to say.
And so as a result of seven October, he can say America owned 9 11 deserved it,
etc. And all I can say is thank you teaches union because he's got millions of young men
who are following this thing who know nothing about world history, who know nothing about
American history who have no idea how lucky they are to be here. And the current blowing
through this is a marriage right now of Islam, Islam, Islam, Islam, Islam, and the far left.
They actually has a term for it. It's actually called the watermelon revolution.
water says the real thing is someone who thinks you're a bad person and wants to democratize and lose.
Yeah. And by the way, that's the same union that gave us the mullies in Iran. If you look into it,
those two were aligned in 1979. This is not unprecedented. And the commonality is America
sucks. Let's recognize that. It's a problem on the right and the left with the Israel issue.
And there's new polling out from Pew. 60% of adults have an unfavorable view. You're
ignore what is going on in the fracturing of our relationship with Israel in general.
That's true.
Why?
Well, hold on. Well, I didn't say anything about the right. And I don't like what's in
20 days either. You know what I mean? But this idea that it all comes back to, you know what?
I got to be elected wherever I run and 9-11 was deserved because I don't like the Israelis.
All right, we got to go.
Wait, what? There has nothing to do with the Israeli demands.
What the fuck is this guy talking about?
Oh, great. They moved on to more important stuff.
Um
That's okay. Um, I don't know what he is. I don't know what the fuck he was on but it's very funny
It's very funny that these guys
Over and over again keep on ironically boosting my profile calling me hot in the fucking process
and
Some of them are tactically retreating like Jesse waters. I think
is probably saying this because it's good to associate campaigns with a dangerous guy
like this because people will be repulsed by his worldview.
But the irony, of course, is that when he says, when the main takeaway and the main response
is like, oh, this guy actually channels a lot of the voices of young people, it ends
up failing, right?
not really an argument they can make in this circumstance, because they're Republicans.
Like, Republicans can't make that argument at all, right? Stop simping for terrorists.
No one cares about the opinions of third worlders. Got it, man. Thank you.
So here's the problem. Here's the problem. If you say, if you're Fox News and you
You say my worldview is repulsive and Democrats are shy away from it, right?
You look like a fucking hypocrite because you're trying to engage in petty cancel culture
and a lot of people that, that deploy it, right?
A lot of people that deploy that kind of cancel culture against their ideological enemies,
ironically enough, create this environment where like the normies in the middle, they
get annoyed by it.
they don't want to hear it, especially not right now, right?
If you're fucking Normie and you're tuning into Fox News, if you're like an independent
and you're tuning into Fox News, don't know what you're doing, but, and you're trying
to figure out like what the Republican agenda is in this moment where, you know, Donald
Trump is like engaging in spectacular fuckups that are leading to your gas prices going
up at the pump and you hear people constantly fucking harping on like, oh, this guy who's
like anti-Israel is an anti-Semite and you've heard it before for the past two and a half
years, right?
Your takeaway from that is not going to be, wow, this guy is really bad and, and Democrats
really stay away from him.
Your takeaway is going to be, why the fuck am I listening to this again?
Like, who cares?
Who cares who the fuck this guy is?
Why are you whining?
You know, you're Republicans. We know where your allegiances are. We know what values you represent. It just doesn't make any sense.
What's frustrating about this is, you're just a low cow dude. Yeah, I know. Totally. That's what's going on here, chatter.
I liked it the only way that you can frame whatever is happening in the universe is through like internet terminology such as a lull cowing
It's it
It's a demonstration of your your lack of
intelligence
It makes no fucking sense, but if you had any fucking friends in the real world you probably
Understand then that's an idiotic thing to say out loud
Anyway
You're a low cow dude now you've been on Fox news so even my parents know you're a POS
That's what he said
People who say log out are fucking low cows. Yeah, I know
Fox news is done I think 10 hits on me in the past
48 hours if not more
more. They obviously, I think, overestimate my motion. I don't think I have this level
of motion. CNN has also done this as well. They think that I have make-it-or-break-it status
for campaigns. It's very clear that a lot of powerful interests in the country that
have a lot of powerful interest in this country that have some control over both parties that
want to reinforce their level of influence over both parties are looking at someone like
myself and giving me unnecessary flattery.
I am not a kingmaker, okay?
I'm not.
I'm not a kingmaker at all.
What I am doing, however, is representing the resentment and the anger of the masses.
The anger that you all feel that business as usual politics has not worked for you.
That politicians do not represent your interests.
But instead, politicians and the media class, for the most part, represent the interests
of corporations.
Everybody understands that.
This is a bipartisan issue, okay?
You have Republicans and Democrats and independents alike that look at mainstream media as oppositional
to their needs.
You have a lot of people in this country that look to politicians and say, these guys suck.
They don't represent me at all.
And when those unpopular figures are launching haymaker after haymaker, especially on an issue
that is 90-10 in the Democratic Party's base, it's clear that these guys are willing to
throw it all out there to the best of their ability to try to forcibly separate myself,
my community from campaigns, by creating this panic, by basically creating this, this manufactured
outrage, okay? It's not going to work because at the end of the day, the frustrations
are not going to go away. Right? The frustrations are not going to go away. People are done.
People are sick and tired of it. They want a Trump-style figure to also emerge from the
Democratic Party. Okay? And by that, I mean someone who can be a voice for the people.
And Trump certainly was a voice for their resentment and manipulated a whole bunch
people and took their resentment, recognized it, said you're right to be
angry, and then redirected that anger to vulnerable populations, to marginalized
groups, to undocumented immigrants, right? And if there was actually a force on
the opposition party side that took the anger and the frustration that people
feel, and then redirected it to actual vectors of power towards people and corporations that
control the levers of power in this country, the forces of capital, they would be unbelievably
successful.
Okay?
I'm just one person.
I'm one person that happens to be very popular only because I share that same exact
resentment. I share that same exact anger. And my goal is to channel that frustration
back to the real people that are responsible for why you have a hard time paying rent,
for why your price at the pump is going up, for why no one is seemingly dealing with the
inflation crisis, for why you can't actually own a home. You can't get a good job that's
reliable with decent benefits and why you can't do that in the wealthiest nation on earth.
That's all I'm doing. That's all I'm doing. With or without me, if candidates also channeled
that frustration, they would win. These people in media that are beholden of the
same corporate interests that politicians are beholden to, are trying to sever that tie because
they see me as a singular force that is changing people's minds. To a certain degree, I'm capable
of doing that. That much is clear. But I'm one person. I don't have that much of a profound
reach and I have no capabilities of hypnotizing people. People have come to their own conclusions
on Israel, from all of the violence that they've seen, from all the arrogance demonstrated
by envoys of Israel, the demands to silence people who are opposing Israel, the United
States of America.
People have said, why should we be beholden to the interests of a foreign country that
is only able to behave in this belligerent manner because of our tax dollars going to
them?
Okay?
That's it.
have arrived at these conclusions on their own. Cat's out of the bag. Toothpaste is out
of the tube. You cannot put it back in. So all of these attacks, for all of these attacks,
they amount to nothing. People who hate me will feel emboldened in their hatred. They
will use this as an opportunity to say, see, even Fox News hates them. See, look at these
moderate Democrats that have spoken out against them. And people who like me are going to feel
emboldened because now we're under attack. Okay? There's some people in the middle who
will maybe slot themselves into, well, this guy's a bad guy. I believe the things that
I'm seeing about him, and I hate him without actually looking for the necessary context
thinking critically about it and a lot more people I think will come here as they have done so
and search for their own answers. However, make no mistake and I will keep reiterating this.
This is not an attack against me. Okay, this is an attack against all of you. They cannot
yell at every single person. They can't say, everyone shut the fuck up about Israel right now,
but what they can do is take advantage of the existing treasure trove of of clips out of context
and bias framings that that already exist out there in the ether to undermine malign
and smear someone who is representative of your interests.
Because they can't, if they were to come out and basically say like everyone that feels this way about Israel is a, is an anti-Semite that needs to fucking be denaturalized and deported, well, that's a whole lot of Americans, right?
So all they can do is just like figure out what kind of like effective parties, cut the head of the snake if you will.
Because at the end of the day, they can't attack the message, so they try to undermine the messenger.
That's it. That's it.
That's all this is. And I'm glad, I'm glad, that there are smart enough politicians out there
who actually are not playing ball with this, who unironically are showing this, showing
their stances by saying, look, we're not playing these games any longer, okay? We're not playing
these games. It's ridiculous. I'm glad. I'm glad that at least I can bring some attention
to certain candidates, right? And not only that, but also on top of that, I'm glad
that they can use as an opportunity to say they're bold, okay? To say, no, we're not
compromising. It's totally ridiculous. Because after all, no matter how vulgar I
might be, no matter how vulgar and angry I could be presented, after all, I
talk professionally for a living. There's, you know, thousands, tens of
thousands of hours of material that they can work with. No matter how vulgar I might seem,
the issues that I'm raising and the values that I represent are actually the righteous values.
They are actually on the right side of morality. They might be civil, my opposition,
your opposition might be civil in their language, they might be civil in their optics,
but the things that they advance, the values that they write for, the countries that they want to
defend, they're doing a whole deal of monstrous, immoral bullshit. Okay? That's why I don't care
when Cory Booker says, oh, I don't know what's on. Don't want to go on a stream. Don't really know
about them, but I got a boss call from a donor and had to speak out. Okay? But you have no
issue hanging out with Yohav Galan, taking photos with the war criminal Yohav Galan, taking
photos with the other war criminal Benjamin Nen Yahu.
So I welcome your anger because it seems to me like you're not on the side of humanity
anyway.
You've already, you've already decided that you're in line with Israel.
So thank you for making that distinction for us.
Thank you for drawing a line of demarcation.
Thank you for being united alongside the reactionary forces in this country in your opposition against
someone like myself.
That's it.
They are united in their hatred of us and we must welcome their hatred.
Here's Fox News interviewing some people at the line from Michigan State University.
Students lined up and packed into these rallies and they ate up the anti-war, anti-capitalist
and anti-establishment messages from both Piker and El Sayed.
Here's a bit of what some of those students told us.
I don't think it's too far left.
I think we've gone, the Democratic Party has gone so far right.
Democratic Party was also against Zoran campaigning with the Sun and we see how
that went.
really just trying to, uh, shut down Abdul's race early because I don't think they want
another Zoran. And I think that they see Hassan as a way to do that because it is, you know,
statements that are famous controversial. Boom. Hassan Abihidz. You made me proud.
You made me proud. Those are great quotes. Those are bars, baby. Let's go. I'm surprised
Fox-Banded Injury, Dr. Jihad speaks on the destruction of the West.
I think we have to be a little bit more bold, right?
We have to be a little bit more bold.
We have to demand that our politicians are more bold as well.
They need to demonstrate conviction.
They need to demonstrate courage.
They need to demonstrate their morality.
moral compass. For far too long, politicians especially on the Democratic Party side have
been so scared of doing so. And that, unfortunately for them, translates to inconsistent messaging.
That, for them, translates to exactly what people feel about politicians in general, right?
People have this idea that politicians are cowards. They're constantly telling people what they
want to hear, what they perceive is what people want to hear. Everything is focused, tested.
Every message is perfectly framed to maximize output, to maximize the number of people that
are not offended by it, right? And yet, when you look at the politicians that are some of
the most successful, some of the most popular politicians, you see that moral conviction,
you see that stubbornness, you see someone being uncompromising in their values, right?
Bernie Sanders, even Zoramundani to a certain degree, right?
And they are rewarded with love, they're showered with praise, okay?
These are some of the more resilient forces in American politics.
And it might take a while for people to start recognizing that these politicians were right
like Bernie was right.
It might take a while for people who have voted against Bernie Sanders, who thought Bernie
Sanders was malignant force in democratic party politics because they ruined the chances of their
favorite candidates, the establishment liberals, the centrist, the center right figures. But eventually,
defeat after defeat causes them to really reconsider and that's what we're seeing in the base of the
party right now and that's precisely why people are attacking me. Because in their minds they
think I'm a singular force, I'm not. Okay. I'm not. I'm not alone. I can stand on my values.
I can stand on my convictions and continue doing what I'm doing. Because I'm not alone.
That's it.
Yeah, they might look like they're attacking me, but they're actually trying to attack
you.
I'm just in the way.
Anyway, there's more to it.
We'll look at some of the other ridiculous smears now.
Here, we'll get into it.
Let's take a look at some of the Fox News coverage.
just from this morning
progress in michigan senate candidate of dual
elsay
appear with controversial streamer assign piker
and michigan state rally where he refused to reject
his past comments
uh...
are there any use that the sign
disavow
i'm not here to disavow people's views
conversation about it
when he got caught
That's the conversation that folks are here to listen to.
This whole gotcha game, platform policing,
cancer culture, I thought we were over it.
Let's bring in New York Post columnist
and Fox News contributor Miranda Devine.
Okay, so he said that, that afternoon,
but earlier, that same day yesterday,
this is what he said when I pushed him on it.
Watch.
Of course, I oppose 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.
My question to you is, when did we start bending to cancel culture?
When did we start...
Wait, that's consistent.
Okay, so he repeated the exact same things that he said later in the day that he said
to you as well.
Do words matter?
This is very strange.
He's saying the same things to you in that moment.
It's exactly the same as a matter of fact.
I fear that the dumber we get, the more reliable this kind of smear campaigns happen to be.
We see this on Twitter, right?
In so many circumstances where someone should be like, Hasan hates Vietnamese people or
whatever.
And then you look at the video and it's like me criticizing a MAGA right winger who's
Utilizing their their position who's uh using their background identity policies as a shield to
To demonstrate fascist politics is the man of violent policies that I oppose
Right and people don't even watch the fucking clip. They just literally read the description if they're
fortunate enough to be literate
and and
And they just go along with it like no one actually looks at the context. That's in the fucking smear any longer
Start saying that cancel culture was okay
He's 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
So he didn't have any problems saying at the earlier in the day that he didn't agree with the comments
But when he faced the face with the man, he didn't want to talk about it.
Yeah, it really is hilarious.
That is the New York Post columnist writing hit jobs on you.
She's writing one story per day on you and now they are interviewing her.
They assign her to cover you and everything you do.
They assign another reporter to cover you.
You're anti-Asian now.
That is crazy.
Aren't Turkish people considered Asian?
That was such a big stretch.
Yeah, none of that stuff matters.
Yes, and I think that El Sayed is just an opportunistic politician.
He knows that Democrats have a big problem
attracting the sort of Gen Z and particularly male vote.
And that's Hassan Piker's apparent audience.
He spews his bile every day to an audience
on this gaming platform.
A whole bunch of young boys, I guess,
in their parents' basement, playing games
and listening to his expletives and abuse.
It's really cartoonish abuse.
He breaks every taboo, you know, he says America deserve.
Yeah.
The problem is, you like that.
You like that when it's your guy doing it, right?
That's the issue.
I mean, we know that to be the case.
They love Trump.
This is Fox News.
That's exactly what Trump does.
But when they see a Trumpian-style figure demonstrating left populism, all of a sudden,
They're like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
This is not appropriate, mate.
How dare you?
How dare you violate the norms and social tibuse?
9-11, he condones the October 7 attacks on Israel.
And then they just make up a whole bunch of shit,
but it's like, it's impossible to fucking deal
with the faucet, the barrage of misinformation.
You know, you pointed all of that out very well,
But it's not just El Sayed.
It's also Rashida Tlaib.
It's also Ro Khanna, some pretty mainstream Democrats
are quite happy to stand alongside him
and sort of launder his rank abuse
as being normal commentary.
Yeah, I mean, look, fair is fair.
Okay, I'm a bully to bullies, okay?
I've never shot away from that.
If your worldview is toxic, if you have repulsive ideals that you are committed to advancing,
if you're a reactionary, if you're a neo-Nazi, if you want to develop a white nativist anti-immigrant agenda and push for it,
I'm gonna shit on you. I'm not gonna be nice.
It doesn't matter what your background is, what matters is what your values are.
Okay, and I'm pretty open about that, but it's really funny that they try to
unironically
Flip the script and try to do this woke shit
Okay, because that's what this is right
This is what they have complained about with respect to the Democrats with respect to the Liberals over and over and over again
It's so funny and and while they're doing it they're also leaning into the Islamophobia to
While they're doing it, they're like, well, he's doing it Muslim style and you guys notice that he's doing it Muslim style
These are dangerous Islamic forces at play
You've been a fucking snowflake
By doing that they just lower the tone for everybody and you know, Amazon's obviously quite happy to have him on their platform
twitches and Amazon
subsidiary so
I know one's wanting to cancel him, but it just why did you bring the platform that I'm on then?
Why did you bring up the platform that I'm on then if you're not trying to cancel him now?
I'm trying to cancel him. Oh, no, I
Would just use in choice quotes that are clipped data context to fucking make him seem like I'm
Like a bad guy. He doesn't deserve a platform at all
Oh, he's calling it Parker Broadcasting Service, PBS, right?
Or no, he's collecting dollar it is.
He's collecting them in the form of subscriptions
like Twitch prompts that are free of a $6 dues.
He's saying, support the Parker Broadcasting Service, PBS.
He's saying for tomorrow's news today.
He's saying, thank you, Blonde Bob,
for the 50 gifted subs? Oh, no!
50 gifted subs!
EP Leipro!
Thank you for the 10 gifted Crocoductail!
Thank you for the five Tisitoid Run!
Thank you for the five gifted Marath Space Laser
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Shigellagirl, my bourbon pod.
Mango cake with another 50.
Julia Peluzer with a 5.
Pegium.
Okay, I'm done reading.
Alright.
Yeah.
It is funny that they're just like they they fucking complain about all this shit and it's just like it doesn't you know
Calls into question. It's irrelevant. What kind of people these Democrats are these progressives are but it worked for Mamdani
Bernie Sanders and AOC like appearing with Hassan piker
But you know, I think they ought to really look at his followers because yes
on on X recently
It's been exposed that he might have you know a million plus
followers, but a huge percentage of them are unverified
I think only one and a half percent are actually verified followers and that's the pattern you see when there are bots
But that's exactly the opposite by the way
No
It's not bots that are unverified followers, but I like that. That's what they think
No, motherfucker. Have you seen the state of blue checkmark replies?
No one in my community is ever gonna fucking pay or most people in my community are not gonna fucking be caught dead paying for you
Almost Nazi-ass platform. I
Tried to explain this to people. I was like, you know, I'm like on auto block lists, right?
I've been blocked automatically by so many people
because I have a blue checkmark because I got grandfathered into it because I'm a
power user. I'm a power user of Twitter.
They come in, they're paid, they boost someone's figures and therefore their
algorithm which doesn't discern rewards them and so he is a fully you know
constructed imaginary person. So why are you spending every waking
moment covering me then. It's like that also doesn't make sense. I agree. I'm
some irrelevant person. You should leave me alone. You should stop talking about
me. I agree with that entirely. So why the fuck are you on your 11th article on
me? Why are you on Fox News talking about me, right? Avatar, whoever it is
that wants to, whether it's himself or anybody who wants to disrupt and
so chaos and discord in America would, would elevate this, this man and his rancid toxic
views to mainstream. Yeah, it just makes you wonder the people within the community that are also
elevating this as well. I think there's this growing. All right, one more. Welcome back.
Some Democrats are popping up on a controversial live streamer, Hasan Piker's channel. If you
If you don't know him, it's okay.
Here's a little taste of who he is.
America deserve 9-11, dude.
I'm saying it.
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.
Respect.
It doesn't matter.
Respect.
Respect to Fox News.
Respect to Fox News for showing the full context,
once again, makes it a lot more difficult for them
argue against, right? Because, you know, all of a sudden, not a bad take, but a good take.
No matter if rapes happen on October 7, like that doesn't change the dynamic for me even this much.
America deserve 9 11. I mean, it was statements like that on the record. You think Democrats
might want to keep their distance? Nope, they don't. Instead, many are cozying up to a
son piker treating him and going on his platform like a campaign stop.
I'm 30 years old. Yeah, we're the same age.
He was just crazy, kid. I'm a loser and you're running from New York.
That's wild. I went to Japan recently and I got both of you guys gifts.
This one's for you. This is a Palestinian movie in Japan.
This is your third time on the stream for the first time in your studio.
Yeah, first time in like Christmas holiday spirit. I didn't know that. I didn't know you had the Christmas spirit
So AOC Bernie Sanders
Uh, mom donnie and then at the end there you saw rocona congressman
Who today after you heard was on that stream for three different occasions was asked about his association with piker
Why why would you not dissociate yourself from Hasan piker? Why well first of all I have gone on every media
I go and, uh, and, uh, Theo Vaughn, I've gone on Sean, I'm going to go on Alex Jones.
I, I, I, I would not go down, but Hassan Piker, but Hassan Piker, I have criticized some of
his statements. I have said that of course America didn't deserve 911 and that we were
justified in attacking.
Like this is the, this is the other side of it though. Like they have to, this
is why I say like, you just be honest, man, be honest. Like I'm not just as bad
Alex Jones is the whole point, right? Like that's, that's, because that's the other side of it where
you come across like you're being a little shifty with it. And you look on principle because it's
like it's ridiculous. This comparison is ridiculous. Like there is a reason why people who wouldn't
go on Alex Jones don't have an issue with going on my stream. And that's because I do the exact
opposite of what Alex Jones does.
You got to admit some of the things you said are pretty controversial.
Okay, let's take one of the quotes they're using, right?
Sexual assault happening or not happening doesn't change the justification for the genocide that Israel is conducting, right?
right? Do you think that's a controversial statement? No, it's not a controversial statement at all,
but you can present it as a controversial statement if you rob it of its context.
Even with America Deserve 9-11, if we're talking about blowback, I'm fairly certain that the
overwhelming majority of Americans can comprehend the logic behind that, right?
The point is, I'm talking for 10 hours a day, you can get me to appear as though I'm
subscribing to some of the most dangerous ideas that I oppose on a daily basis, right?
And they do that. They are doing that, right? Over and over and over again.
Don't know about majority. I think most, I think most people understand that
on its face, the reason why 9-11 happened, obviously it's unjustifiable, you know,
civilians were slaughtered. I'm not in favor of that. Most people would not be in favor of that unless
it's, you know, civilians overseas and brown people that are being slaughtered. But most people
understand 9-11 having because we fucked around all over the region. We set up these guys. We
armed them. We trained them. It's true. We did it. I mean, it's part of the political
games, mirror campaigns, why politicians live their whole lives trying to cover their past.
Okay, but notice how you actually backtrack and then compared me to a politician. I'm not a politician
and I don't even think politicians have to do that any longer. We're living in a post-Trump
universe. Okay, as long as you have your values, as long as you have your convictions, a lot
of this stuff is just noise. We give it power. We give it power by paying attention to it
and we give it power by responding to it with fear, right?
That's it.
You're still in politics game though.
They're going to throw this in your face your entire life.
Yeah, I know.
I don't care.
Do you think you can tell reliably what a person represents or who a person is by those
who choose to actively smear them, their ideological opponents who are very clearly trying to manufacture
or outrage? Or do you have the capacity to think critically and make up your own mind?
Because we all know the real reason why you thought right. We all know the real reason
why people are doing this because they oppose not just my worldview, but they also oppose
your worldview too, like they are fearful that there is a big movement of people
who oppose Israel's influence on American politics for example.
We've got an opportunity to change the face of American politics and we will not back down.
Dude I saw a guy who doesn't like you called you a doctor defending you from CNN and mainstream
media only help you especially when it comes from both sides yeah.
The other thing I was going to say, someone said, well, now that you're eating all the
downsides, why don't you run for office?
I mean, you got a little taste of one day of campaigning and what that looks like.
I wouldn't be able to do what I'm doing.
I'm much more effective at like leaning into candidates that have the time and have the
money and have the background to be able to engage in this.
My impact would be limited to one singular race as opposed to 10 races, 20 races, maybe
100 races.
You understand?
That's what it is.
It's virtually impossible for me to do 8 to 10 hours of news coverage on a daily basis,
develop a community of like-minded individuals from all around the country, and then
use that as a force to be reckoned with to prop up candidates that
demonstrate our values that are more responsive to our needs
than to hyper-focus on one race and maybe even lose at the end of that, right?
A totally different set of skills there.
In the wealthiest nation on earth, or whether you are a detourist, or a land singer, or an arbor, or a piss-pert, or a filly,
that we deserve clean air and clean water. Every single person here should be able to go to a doctor!
We deserve to live in a country that says that we should have a home.
Dr. Abdul-Al-Said not only understands we have a right to breathe clean air,
he is going to move with the urgency that is needed.
We are strong when we are united.
When they tell us that we cannot stand up in a bullish ice,
we don't back down.
When they tell us that we cannot believe in a future that is bigger than the present we have,
we don't back down.
Hell yeah
And my propaganda is known is a thousand Michiganders that came out to see summer Lee and Abdul with a song piker that are wrong. Yeah, exactly
The the thing that I've also learned though
In in you know all the years of withstanding these fucking smears
They're just like they keep unearthing over and over again and like trying to create panic around as though
it's new, like they're reheating the same old fucking dusty notches at this point, is there
are always going to be people that lean into it.
There are always going to be people that are invested in being duped, right?
It's that simple.
But what matters most is who you are, what you believe in, what you want to advance
in this country.
That's all it is at the end of the day.
And then the rest is hoping that people have that capacity to be charitable, hoping that
people have that capacity to think critically and dive deeper and try to understand why
people are attacking me, for example.
I have said that I do not agree with the anti-Semitism, but there are a lot of people that Hassan
Piker speaks to who are upset with the war in Gaza.
The idea that Democrats are going to expand their platform and therefore they should
be open to appearing with people like Hassan Piker is on its face absurd.
Of course they wouldn't extend that same courtesy to Republicans to show up on far right politically
incorrect.
Yeah, good thing you guys have always been good thing.
You guys have always been really considered of the democratic wishes, dude.
And you always do the that's so funny.
thing that you guys don't actually align with far right figures like what do you
mean the entire party's fucking far right randy finds in congress i mean half
of the people the person that he literally has on ship roy says heinous shit
like incredibly racist shit in a brief moment here let's watch a podcast but
it's not just showing up on his platform democrats are standing on stage
with piker one of them is michigan senate candidate abdul el sayed this
This is the same candidate who didn't want to comment on Ayatollah Khamenei's death, saying
some of his voters might be upset.
I also want to remind you guys that there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad
today.
So like I just don't want to comment on Khamenei at all.
I don't think it's worth even touching that.
Syed by the way also considers the United States to be under a regime.
We have no apologies 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.
Joining me now is Texas Congressman and currently running for Texas Attorney General,
it is Chip Roy.
Congressman, it's great to see you.
Good afternoon.
Glad to have you here in Dallas.
So after the 2024 election, I think one of the things that Democrats told themselves
is we got to get out there.
We've got to be on more podcasts.
And they're using that excuse to explain their association
with people like Hassan Piker.
Well, look, I think what we're seeing with Piker
is just an indication of where the Democratic Party is today,
where they are currently.
And we'll give at least a little credit to Haley Stevens,
who seemed to at least partially distance herself.
She's a colleague of mine.
But, you know, El Sian, who you just talked about
was openly embracing it.
And this is a, I think a pretty equal race to me.
He's certainly polling somewhere around 30%.
And as a real shot at being,
I think the first Muslim United States Senator, uh, this is something we're seeing in the significant
march of Islam across the United States, so insanity, okay.
It's just complete insanity.
This is the significant march of Islam across the United States.
Imagine saying that about a Jewish candidate being like, yep, this is the, the, the Malignant
force of Judaism in the United States.
you would obviously get fucking yelled at, you know, it's ridiculous, double standard
once again.
Something that's been concerning to me and a lot of my colleagues is we've created
the Sharia Free America caucus, my friend Keith South, local congressman from Collin
County just north of here dealing with Epic City.
But also what we've been seeing obviously with Mom Donnie, who you just showed the
clip where mom Donnie is sitting there saddling up with piker.
There's no shame here in dealing with someone who literally just said that he wasn't going
to be concerned about rapes after October 7th.
I mean, what kind of a human being is that?
Let's put aside the absurdity of saying that America deserved it on 9 11.
He's literally justifying or ignoring rapes.
Remember when you said you said on election night in New York that you would kill yourself?
You were proven liability mom Donnie.
They're trying to make you want to do it.
Don't listen to them because they're scared.
Yeah, I'm not going to actually kill myself, dude.
fuck. In a post-October 7th world, this is something that is fully out of touch with most Americans,
but unfortunately it's very indicative of the move of the Democratic Party towards this side
and this radicalization in the March of Islam throughout America. And not just, I feel like,
on the March of Islam, but Hassan Piker represents something else. He is- The entire party that
protected Jeffrey Epstein and the president's friendly, familiar relationship with Jeffrey
Epstein is now trying to make it seem like I don't care about sexual assault. You are a Republican.
The fuck are you talking about? You have no leg to stand on here. We know what your attitude
is on this issue. Okay. Obviously it's also bullshit. Okay. Well, obviously it's bullshit.
Right. They're, they're, you know, chopping up what I was saying. The response to this
is, do you not care about genocide? And the answer is yes, they don't, but they can't
I say that out loud, well some do, but most of them can't say that out loud anymore because
it's become a repulsive position to maintain.
It was already morally repugnant, but now the majority also finds it to be morally repugnant.
So they just turn around and fucking lie about my position.
You know?
If they actually cared about sexual assault, they'd bring Israel to heal.
literally had so much public pressure from international forces that they had
to actually prosecute six rapists in one of their concentration camps.
So they came on. What happened afterwards? They had a January 6 that was pro-rape
objectively. They got those guys out. The Israeli government dropped the
prosecution. Benjamin Netanyahu paraded the rapists and even apologized for the
the prosecution that they, that they withstood, presented them as victims and then heroes.
It's fucking ridiculous. Like, what do you mean? You can't, you can't do that. If the,
the Israeli government is saying like, yeah, rape is actually a sport for our forces, you
know, and perfectly valid. I mean, they had a Knesset meeting. They had an emergency
Knesset meeting where one of the fucking ministers of the Knesset straight up said
Rape is justifiable against Palestinians.
Like, the fuck are we talking about?
Thank you, Kud Dude for the 100 Gifted Subs.
Self-admitted, revolutionary communist.
His vision is to have communism
through revolutionary mechanisms here in America.
And to your point, this is where they are now on the left.
This is now where the American Democratic Party is.
They are cozying up to a guy who's saying,
Let's go communism through revolution. Yeah, and this is the red green alliance, right? This is not new
This is something we've been seeing across the the world
The red green alliance islamo communism
We're seeing it in full display in
Paris full display in london
We have you know a massive movement occurring. I just met with a very accomplished
Indian-american here in dallas who was talking about their experience in india their experience in the move of
of Islam and how that radicalization has hit India.
And he was saying, look, we just don't want this to happen
to America.
So we came here to be free from that.
And that red-green alliance, the march of Marxism,
combined with it, this is all well-funded.
This is one of those things-
It is pretty funny that these guys have no method
other than repeating exactly what the Nazis said and did,
but they just added the new seasoning,
which is instead of saying it's Judeo Bolshevism, they say it's Islamo Bolshevism, Islamo Communism,
is the same exact shit.
That is, Attorney General, I wanna look at. Open up the books to these NGOs and nonprofits
that are all getting funded to advance this radicalization throughout the state. This
is something we have the power to do. It's something we should do. It's something
Yeah, no, definitely. Yeah. Open up the books and you will find that I am funded
entirely by my community and that's it. I don't even take corporate sponsorships for the most part
you know. What are you gonna find? You're gonna find that you know I got tier 1 to tier 3
subscribers to the Piker Broadcasting Service PBS baby. That's it.
Yeah, she, I know he's anti-Muslim racist, chippro, but amazing to see him just say out
loud, it's bad that we might have a Muslim U.S. Senator. Am I just saying this is about
a Jewish politician or a black politician, bigotry is off the charts of the GOP and regularly
ignored by major media?
Yep. Meanwhile, you got liberal forces, right, that are supposed to stand against
this. From a purely partisan perspective even, the Democrats that are, the Democrats
and the liberal media organizations that are supposed to be attacking this stuff are leaning
into it. They're leaning into it over and over again. It's fucking unbelievable. Yeah.
This is a big reason behind the three-week unhinged to Sompike or Smear discourse and
maybe living through a major pivot point for US-Israel relations. After the Obama-Biden
experience of BB, Trump's Iran war, plus the cataclysmic shift in US voter opinion,
Democrats won't go back to the way things were. Israel critics are rising on the
right too. They know that this is happening and they're trying to deflect and distract the
performatively lash out, endeavoring in vain to reassert control and force the toothpaste
back into the empty tube, but that's not how this works anymore.
way for big yahoo to mention my streamer
thing that i'm talking about that's not about something i'm talking to top
blanche about
there's a coordinated effort in washington i'll bring that to austin and
work with them to try to read it out
our vice president jadie vance uh... today was hungry and he had a speech
where he got a surprise call from the president dot
and then the rest of this is just lame shit
more the bottom line with dagan mcdowell and brian brennberg okay
That's fake. That's not real. We're skipping that one happening right now on the campus of Michigan State University as a
Senatorial candidate causing Spartan leadership to respond. It's our top story at five. Thanks for joining us. I'm joining this is the top story for the
Local news. That's crazy. At a hopeful Abdul al-sayed is at Anthony Hall with US representative summer Lee of Pennsylvania and social media
commentator Hassan piker piker has come under fire for saying the
The 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas was a direct consequence of action by the U.S. and Israeli
governments.
And if Hamas soldiers raped people during the attack, it didn't change the dynamic for
him.
Here for you now from East Lansing, is there Zach Priest and Zach?
What is al-Said and Haikir said so far?
Shavon, Jorma, it is certainly quite lively inside Anthony Hall right here in East Lansing.
We got here just about an hour ago and supporters have been streaming in ever since.
Now unfortunately we're unable to go live actually inside the building.
Security would not allow us to do that so we are going to be outside today for you guys.
We expect El Sayed, he's going to be joined tonight by controversial commentator Hassan
Piker who is known for live streaming his far left political commentary daily on Twitch
which some have called radical and Pennsylvania rep Summer Lee.
al-sayed who is it's who's campaigning for the 2026 Democratic nomination for Senate here in Michigan
Previously ran for governor of Michigan in 2018
Some have called out al-sayed like for a Republican congressional representative and Senate candidate
Mike Rogers who called him too radical for Michigan
It's important to note that Rogers could actually face al-sayed in the election if say I was win at the nomination
Damn, bro. I don't think you would have been able to live stream inside of the fucking show either
What is this? I'll say it defends. What the hell is it? All right. All right. We're done.
We're done. We're done with this. All right. We're going to get back to the situation,
monitoring a second. The last two pieces I wanted to show you is that it got to such a point.
It got to such a point that they are,
are doing this thing where they tied me to Janet Mills. But like, I think it's a perfect
example of how stupid these guys are and like how little they care because, hold on, maybe
they're trying to like tie me to a campaign that's going to fail, Janet Mills campaign,
Or maybe they just didn't even think about it. And they're just trying to associate, uh,
with, associate me with like any politician that I've brought up, but this was very funny
town hall, RNC research, they all did this radical spokesman for the Democrats, Sumpiger
offers his full endorsement of Janet Mills. Uh, and, and it's a compilation of the
times where I've like jokingly said, um, um, uh, you know, Pills mafia, Janet Pills
Mills, part of the Janet Mills militia. And therefore this kind of stuff doesn't
matter to me. Okay. I've already made my most ethical voting decision in Maine.
I understand that people can change, but he has not earned the benefit of the
doubt. He hasn't properly renounced the service. He hasn't condemned black water.
He is not the ink. He needs to show us that he's changed.
You don't give people a chance like this as their first, second chance.
You don't put them in positions of sweeping political power because there's a chance
that he changed. I mean, that's why, uh, I feel like a lot of people don't
have any argument to when I say, yeah, that's why I'm a mills mafia.
This is precisely the reason why I am writing with Janet Mills, who has, uh,
a track record that is clear if those are the two options on the democrat front you know if we're
gonna if we're gonna be serious about it then what do you do janet mills all the way we're all
in the yeah i i don't even fucking know i don't even know what they're trying to do at this point
like i feel like they're just like throwing shit at the wall but it's like very clear that i'm
I'm being fucking sarcastic and yet, I guess they either don't understand that, they don't
comprehend it, I don't know, is this obvious stupidity or just lack of understanding for
for modern commenters, whether boozing or just mirroring you. Yeah.
It's those, I guess, I guess Chattas were right. Yeah. This is funny.
I think it's partially because they just like don't know exactly how to attack me.
So they're just throwing shit at a wall, seeing what fucking sticks.
Do we have the full Dana Fash hit though?
Because I think there was something very interesting in that.
So as I was telling you, that's the last thing I'm going to look at before we get
back to situation monitoring.
Yeah, Dana Fash did a whole piece on me.
Sompiker test the limits of the Democratic party's big tent seven minutes and 45 seconds now. Okay
Seven whole minutes and 45 whole seconds
Um, we're obviously gonna be uh covering that
Uh, I was in I was literally on the plane watching cnn monitoring the situation
Uh, when Dana fash did this piece on me
uh, it is uh
not dissimilar to the one that Jake Tapper had done two weeks prior at the beginning of this like
Hassan smear campaign, but it's also very interesting. To the Michigan Senate race where a Democratic
candidate is forging a controversial alliance with a left-wing streamer who has defended Hamas
terrorists. Abu al-Said campaigned yesterday with 34-year-old Hassan Piker who has more than
three million followers on the gaming platform Twitch as well as YouTube. Here he is at the
El Sayed Brally in Ann Arbor.
Every single person in here, 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 in the bar.
We spoke out.
And in the beginning, it was a lot of local leaders
when we spoke out.
They used the same exact heinous spirit.
They said you're going to need some medic.
They said you are a radical instrument.
That is Hassan Piker attempting to airbrush his past statements.
Here's some of what he actually has said about the depravity of the October 7 terror attack,
the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
quote, it doesn't matter if effing rapes happened on October 7th. Like that doesn't change the
dynamic for me. The Palestinian resistance is not perfect.
Dude, one of the craziest parts about this. First of all, thank you for using this cool
photo. Okay, I look pretty good. Um, secondly, uh, classic, uh, classic clip chimp that
uh...
very quickly
uh... identifies my position is
was really interesting about it is you'll see just like with jake tapper
just like with jake tapper it is
two things that are very interesting about this
fox news when they actually talk about that clip
they show the full context
which allows people to understand what i was saying maybe they disagree with it
maybe they don't, I don't care, right? The reason why CNN doesn't offer the full
context is because if CNN were to show the full context, they recognize that their audience will
go, wait a minute, he's not saying like rapes are good or whatever. He's not saying it, it
doesn't matter that rapes happen. He's saying that whether rapes happen or not doesn't change
the dynamic of Israel's genocide. It doesn't justify genocide.
Rape's happening or not doesn't justify Israel's genocide. That is the overwhelming majority position
for many Americans, especially liberals, right? So they know that, and that's the reason why they
have to clip chimp it further than even what Fox News utilizes, because for most people,
Fox News like they don't need this kind of clip chipping. Okay, they don't need that. They already
go, oh, Hassan against Israel. All right, I'm out, you know. Now, let that sink in. Hassan
Piker is excusing sexual violence by Hamas terrorists. He also claims Hamas is quote,
a thousand times better than Israel. Hamas is a designated terror organization not just by the US
but by the EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, just to name a few. And here's what Piker said
about the horrors of September 11th, 2001. America deserved 9-11, dude. I'm saying it.
Like we totally brought it on ourselves, dude. Holy s***. We did. We f***ing did.
A piker did later call that comment inappropriate and said he didn't mean Americans deserve
to die.
Several progressive politicians have appeared with piker on twitch, including congresswoman
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, senator birdie, like she's so angry.
She can't even get her words across dude.
It's the same with jake tapper.
It's so funny.
Like it's it's it's obviously it's obviously personal, right?
She's super pro Israel. We know that we already know that
She's very mad that
The the this issue is gone. She's aware of it
it's becoming increasingly more difficult for her to to
Chime in on a strong pro Israel stance and polite company
So she's just like angrily lashing out
It's not going to work.
Sanders and Congressman Ro Khanna.
Other Democrats, including El Sayed's primary opponents in Michigan,
Mallory McMoroll and Haley Stevens,
not only refuse but both condemn Piker and his comments.
My panel is back now.
David Chalion.
I just think this is a fascinating bet that El Sayed is making here.
That like refusing to back down from his association with
Piker embracing it, standing with him is, by the way, this is David Chaley and he's like
their top, their Washington bureau chief and their top policy analyst, okay.
Interesting, very interesting perspective coming from the top policy analyst at CNN on a panel
where she like word you know they have actually really wants him to say
something different
listen to him and his words here
not only refuse but both
condemned piker and his comments
my panel is back now it's a challenge
i just think
this is a fascinating bet that also it is making here that like
refusing to back down from his association
uh... with piker embracing it standing with him
is a
political bet and it doesn't mean you know all those comments you went through
that that will that will play a role here too as you noted McMorrin Stevens's
opponents are gonna make this a part of the campaign but the Syed operation is
betting the piker popularity with the base is is the safer bet in the cost
benefit analysis to make for him and I just think that that's a really
interesting thing to have us watch because the politics of Israel inside
the Democratic Party, especially in a state of Michigan, with a big Arab-American population
as we saw in the 24 primary.
This is still like a live wire inside the Democratic Party.
Yeah.
I mean, it's also a state where there were almost 100 something preschoolers almost
murdered by a terrorist.
She didn't get what she wanted.
She wanted condemnation, and that's it, right?
Oh, this is devastating.
This is bad for the campaign.
She didn't get that.
So she literally turns around and is like, well, there's a, there's a terrorist that you
know, attacked the synagogue as though that has anything to do with me.
Like as though that has anything to do with me at all, as though I wouldn't like fucking
condemn acts like that.
It's, it's so gross.
It's so nasty.
It's so Islamophobic.
It is what it is.
It's just a fucking reality.
A live wire inside the Democratic Party.
Yeah.
I mean, it's also a state where there were almost 100 something preschoolers almost
murdered by a terrorist who like that's her literally contradicting his point being like well
don't you think it's still fucked up shouldn't we rise above the the machine of politics here
and doing that by also conflating me and Abdul who will become the first Muslim senator
as we saw with what Chip Roy was talking about earlier inshallah with an act of terrorism by
US soil. It's a very insincere argument. It's a very cynical argument. There's a clear motive here.
It's terror jacketing, right?
Let's thank God, stopped from doing it.
Piker talked to our colleague, Dony O'Sullivan, a couple of weeks ago, and I want to play what
he said. I've spent my entire professional media career and far beyond that combating
anti-Semitism. I've been doxxed, swatted by neo-Nazis for my consistent advocacy against
anti-Semitism. I just also happened to be an avowed anti-Zionist. I believe Zionism
is a very racist ideology. It's an ethno-religious supremacist ideology. And it's the underpinning
ideology that has caused the genocide of Palestinians in the hands of Israel and
and also the United States of America.
Now, just a little bit of sort of fact checking here and context, because it's important, because
these terms are thrown around without understanding, I believe people-
Yo!
Lean into your panel, Dana.
Why are you commanding the conversation, Dana?
You have not one, not two, but three panelists on there, Dana.
What's going on?
how she played the entire hit where I'm able to speak, all of a sudden, I'm able to convince
the CNN audience, which by the way, I still do respect that they at least show that full
quote, right?
Because no one, and I mean no one that's a liberal watching CNN is going to see the
first half of that and then see what I have to say right there where it's not like
a clip out of context. It's not something that they're quoting that they claim I'm implying
or saying, but me directly, all of a sudden, very different dynamic. All of a sudden, people
are going to look at that and go, wait a minute, I don't think this guy is fucking
anti-Semitic at all. That's why she has to then turn around and slam additional context
of the conversation.
really knowing what they mean to a lot of people.
First of all, Zionism, what is it actually?
It's a nationalist movement, an ideology
supporting the notion of a Jewish state,
the Jewish people's right to self-determination.
He just called that a racist ideology,
the right for Jews to have self-determination.
Deborah Lipsvatt, who is one of the foremost experts,
academic experts who worked in the State Department
on anti-Semitism. I talked to her about this a couple of years ago, many times since. The
difference between quote-unquote anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Here's how she answered
that.
Also, Deborah Lipstadt is a perfect demonstration of someone who does actually live that ethno-religious
supremacist ideology, someone who is in a position of power, right, who was the
anti-Semitism czar into the Biden administration, who routinely has been cooked by Isaac Chotner
and numerous others for being openly aligned with Donald Trump's, openly aligned with Donald
Trump's goals with respect to the allegiance that we have with Israel.
Someone who has said that Donald Trump has done a lot of great things like moving the
the embassy to Jerusalem, all this stuff, it's, she can't get across the argument that
anti-Zionism is actually anti-Semitism.
So she has to lean into experts, but the experts that she's leaning into are also known for
being racist, race against Palestinians, race against Arabs, race against Muslims.
You understand?
This is what I mean when I say they can't actually fight against the message.
So they have to disparage the messenger.
They have to shoot the messenger because they can't tackle the message.
Here is Dana messing up and trying to actively disparage the message.
It won't work.
The moment that you do that, you give the game away.
She should have just stuck to the quotes and just been like, he's a bad guy.
He's a bad guy.
He's a bad guy.
Right?
But the moment that she has that conversation around my worldview my values and why I say the things that I say
All of a sudden it's a very different dynamic. It's it's indefensible from Dana Bash's perspective and
This is precise to the reason why
Dana could just as easily invite me to a panel and cook me if she wanted to right if she had such a strong moral foundation
Foundation she could easily ask me to come on the panel. I've been on CNN already. I was on the
CNN piece that Donnie conducted
But she can't do that she has to talk over me
She has to lie about my worldview so she can try and
Control the way that the audience sees me and still in that regard because it's such a 90-10 issue
Because it's such a 90-ten issue, it doesn't matter.
Most people know exactly what these tactics look like, these smear campaigns look like
when someone is a prominent critic of the state of Israel.
Criticism of Israeli policy is not anti-Semitism.
But when you question the right of a Jew to a national identity, when you question
the existence of a Jewish state,
you've moved beyond the political.
Yeah, I mean, when you,
I think he's sort of intentionally trying
to get in the weeds here to maybe shift
the spotlight away from some of his past comments,
which I think everyone can agree are unacceptable.
But this is the broader issue,
I think in this day and age in particular
with everybody being so online
with a ton of younger voters
starting to get in the mix on both sides of the aisle.
The ultimate question is how far...
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, the only thing that you show
that is like fully framed as a question and an answer
is actually me moving away from the subject matter.
No, you wanna stick to choice quotes
that you can utilize to disparage
what the actual message is.
when you hear the actual message you go oh he's just trying to dance around it
it's fucking bullshit
do we want to go with this and one of the reasons that democrats lost in the last
election was because the american people felt like
they were too far to the left and they weren't necessarily representing the
average at this part is also bullshit she says the democrats lost they went
too far to the left yet really
yet they went too far to the left on on palestine really
that's interesting
Because every single fucking poll right now shows the exact opposite of that reality.
Very odd that they even-
It's interesting that you-
Very odd to even bring that up.
It's just like, it's just such a, such a ridiculous fucking statement to make.
You have candidates who are teaming up with people who are sort of on the very far left
side of it.
On the flip side, you have the same issue in the Republican Party where you have
fringe folks sort of trying to weasel their way into this quote unquote mainstream
Orbit and there's a question on the with both parties of what do we do with these folks? Should we be going on their podcast?
Should we be denouncing them? Yeah, I mean, it's such an important point what was before thought of as fringe
Here both sides are definitely sort of moving into the mainstream
Slowly, but surely on that note. You mentioned it's Michigan, but it's beyond that
that. Rokana, for example, he said that he has no regrets about appearing on Hasan Piker's
show.
It's interesting because going back to the last presidential campaign, you were mentioning
that Democrats moving to the left. Another reason they struggled is, you know, they often
face criticism on not meeting people where they were, just communication-wise, right?
And you know, Hasan Piker, other influencers, these people have millions of followers,
and dem see it as a way to reach a younger, disgruntled base that is losing faith in their political system, right?
But the dynamic that you're talking about, what comes with that benefit of reaching those folks?
Yes, you had the interview there with Hassan Piker.
I think what's even going to be more influential is the questions that are put to the politicians that choose to go on these platforms.
They're also going to face the questions of whether or not they defend these statements and these views.
That's it. So two panelists that don't play the game that Dana Bash wants to play, one
panelist that tries to like lean into it a little bit and makes like ridiculous statements
in the process. But we're back to Dana Bash actually doing normal. Did you tell Chad
that the boosted tweet is being suppressed 100% what tweet?
Oh, I did see this.
Yeah. Um, as politics grows louder,
CNN's Dana Bash has become one of Washington's steadiest voices,
pressing for answers, rejecting spectacle and reminding viewers of the news,
not the performance around it still matters. Yeah.
But remember like Dana is doing that for her own personal goals here like this is when you're when you're Dana bash
You're one of the top anchors on the on the network
You're dropping all pretense of impartiality and you're totally doing this like smear job and you're failing to do so
But read the comments under that it didn't go well
I didn't see the oh you mean under this
under the PR tweet. Yeah, I know everyone was cooking her because everyone knows what she's about.
President Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran but this morning that temporary truce is
looking fragile at best. Moments ago an Iranian news agency reported Tehran halted oil tankers
traffic through the Strait of Hormuz reopening the Strait to commerce of course was a key part
Of the deal, the president and his administration says, Iran signed on to listen to Secretary
Hegzeff this morning.
What has been agreed to, what's been stated is the street is open.
Our military is watching.
I'm sure their military is watching, but commerce will flow.
One of Iran's demands in exchange was that Israel and its bombardment of Hezbollah
targets in Lebanon.
The Israelis say they never agreed to that and the strikes continue today.
as you can see here in Beirut.
In terms of this latest news, I mean, obviously,
the ceasefire has only been live for less than 24 hours.
And the fact that Iran can still close the straight
overall moves just to whim is going to strengthen
the US's resolve to ensure that it does not control
or retain sort of sole control of the straight
going forward.
And obviously, if the ceasefire is still ongoing,
when it comes to ensuring a permanent deal,
Both sides are going to be very far apart on that particular issue.
That's Stephen.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
The White House spent last night and this morning on a victory lap,
declaring that President Donald Trump had pulled off a masterstroke
by reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
That was somewhat of an absurd claim
because the Strait of Hormuz, of course, was open
before he launched this war that was opposed by much of the world.
But this new apparent closure will undercut the not only the White House claim that Trump has
pulled off a massive victory here and that the Strait of Hormuz issue is not even going to be
something that's going to be contentious going forward. I think it shows why a lot of people
are arguing that despite all the propaganda coming out of Washington, the United States has
absorbed a strategic defeat here because it shows that going forward at any moment, even
a few hours into a ceasefire, Iran has the capacity to close that straight and create
again that chokehold on the global economy.
So I think it's going to be very irksome to the White House.
The question is how will they respond?
Will they try to pretend this isn't happening, that it's just a teething problem?
or at some point will present Trump's credibility
and prestige and red lines again come into play
in such a way as he has to take some military action
and then we're back where we were before.
Now we're seeing the closure of the Strait of Ormuz.
Just talk about how the escalation
after the ceasefire last night has only increased.
Yeah, there are multiple sensitivities here.
there are multiple narratives, not least what we've heard from Pete Haig-Seth, the Secretary
of Defense, not least what we've heard from a whole variety of Iranian officials who both
sides claiming victory.
So you have that.
And it's not clear what precisely has been agreed.
Pakistan's ambassador to the UN said that Pakistan's Prime Minister had sent a, he didn't describe
it as a text on agreement, but an understanding to both the US and Iran who had agreed to
it.
He didn't say precisely what was in it.
He said that was bounded by secrecy to let the sides work out what are clearly very
big differences at the moment.
He spoke about the Pakistan's Prime Minister in his statement having primacy in this situation
because it had been accepted by both Iran and the United States.
And as you say, Prime Minister Ben-Yin Mennef Nyahu very clear that he doesn't see Lebanon
as part of that ceasefire agreement, which is a difference to the Pakistani Prime Minister.
Indeed, Israel launching its heaviest by its own statement a few hours ago, its
heaviest strike on Hezbollah targets inside of Lebanon, some of them deep inside of Beirut,
a coordinated against a hundred targets. So has that led to the closure of the Strait of Humor?
It's very hard to say that it is certainly one of the many threads and strands of the lack of
clarity, of the lack of certainty where everyone stands, of the multi-sided, multi-sided nature
of what's been happening. Iran has, it appears, sent missiles and drones against a variety
of targets in the Gulf today, long after the ceasefire. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
said it would take some time, as he said, for the carrier pigeon to get out to some
of the remote Iranian military units, who he says have been cut off from communications.
But I think when we look at the state of play on Iranian state media, the declarations
a victory, the popular support coming out in the street for the regime in Iran.
It's hard to imagine that even in the farthest one corners of Iran, military commanders haven't
got the instruction yet to cease and desist.
All of this is going to feed into that sort of uncertainty that can unravel what J.D.
called a, his precise words were sort of an unstable ceasefire, a fragile was his
precise word ceasefire. I think all of that plays into it and I'm trying to get at
which strand specifically is pulled that unravels the next one. Very hard to say.
With me now is retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges. He's the former
commander of US Army forces in Europe. So reopening the straight up her moves was
part of this deal. Is this ceasefire already broken in your view?
I think what Brett said earlier is correct. There is not really a ceasefire.
Did these are not a couple of angry sergeants out there launching missiles?
Uh, and I think, uh, we're gonna have to listen to what the insurance
companies say if they are not willing to ensure vessels moving to the
stricter for moves than the straight is in effect still closed. And I think this is why
it's also important that the president and others not speak too quickly about things
that are so tenuous because it ends up damaging the credibility.
And the president, as you know, has claimed victory here. At the same time, you have
these attacks in the region. You have the state of her moves closed now by the
Iranians based on our latest reporting and things are very active and moving by the minute.
That's where things stand right now.
There seems to also be confusion between the U.S. Israeli and Pakistani positions over
whether Lebanon was included in the ceasefire agreement.
How concerning is that?
Well very concerning and this is part of the problem when you don't have world class
professional diplomats handling these kinds of negotiations.
fact I was skeptical when I first saw that no because the goals that these guys
have are not to actually come to a managed conclusion a reasonable proposal
where both parties actually cease hostilities no it's just to express
the desires of Israel. So I don't think that's the goal, right? So no, these are the perfect
people who are playing that role, the helpers. Obviously, yes, Kushner and Wittkopf are
not like real diplomats or real negotiators or not, but they're not supposed to be.
Just as from Trump's position, he doesn't want like a competent person to lead the Department
of War, formerly known as the Department of Defense.
He wants a loyalist.
He wants an absolute dumbass that will never question his goals.
That's precisely what's happening here, too.
Emmanuel Macron came out.
Wow, turns out he has still some kind of fucking interest here.
I've just spoken with the Lebanese president,
Joseph Owen and Prime Minister, Navof Salam.
I expressed France's full solidarity
in the face of the indiscriminate strikes
carried out by Israel and Lebanon today,
which resulted in a very high number
of civilian casualties.
We condemn these strikes in the strongest possible terms.
They pose a direct threat to the sustainability
ceasefire that's been reached. Like, even when they finally fucking speak out against Israel,
like, look at how ridiculous this is. Dog, they've been doing this nonstop. The fuck
are you talking about? They invaded Lebanon, and they're striking further. Like, what do
you mean? You should have said this when they actually blew past the ceasefire the
first time the ceasefire is supposed to be implemented. That was like, what, six months ago?
I reiterated the need to preserve Lebanon's territorial integrity and friends' determination
to support the efforts of the Lebanese authorities to uphold the country sovereignty and implement
Hezbollah disarmament plan. Yeah, a lot of condemnations today of Israel by European leaders
for its bombardment in Lebanon. I wonder whether this also would have happened had Iran not made
a ceasefire in Lebanon a condition for the largest ceasefire between Iran, US and Israel.
I just had a long phone call with the president of Lebanon, General Joseph Aoun,
to whom I expressed solidarity with the Italian government for the unjustified and unacceptable
taxis suffering from Israel. It's totally ridiculous. Yeah, no, they're frustrated that the straight
is closed, right? That's probably what it is. They thought for a brief moment they could
have a moment of respite and Iran is saying, nope, straight is going to continue to be closed
as long as Israel strikes Lebanon. But it's good. It's a movement in the positive direction
at least. I mean, these guys are all monsters. Okay, these European leaders are cowards,
vassals, and perhaps most poorly, they're monsters, okay? They're monsters.
Clear that the only reason why they're doing this now is because Iran packaged Israel engaging
in a cessation of hostilities in Lebanon as a commitment to reopening the strait of
hormones. Israel's been doing this shit now stop in both Gaza where these people never
fucking spoke out against it. You are contradiction when you comment EU statements because America's
not handling America is corrupted by Israel's lobby. EU statement is correct and you cannot
figure it out because you're poisoned by Israel's lobby. Yet the European Union leadership
Europe is certainly not just as poisoned by the influence of the Israeli lobby, and then
on top of that are total fucking vassals to American imperialism and American needs anyway.
Europe has an opportunity to chart a different path.
I've made that very clear, okay.
They just don't seize it.
Iranian told you who was boss, are you going to be great pawn or on board for
Miss Kirk in future?
Are you ready to play this game for future?
Were you going to be on knees?
Nice.
EU leaders acting like they're at the table and not just vassals.
Asian century update. The entire mediation process for this conflict was managed by Pakistan,
China, Turkey, and Egypt with no active input from any European country. Yeah,
is the other side of it as well. I welcome a two-week ceasefire. The US and Iran agreed to
last night. It brings much needed de-escalation since Ursula von der Leyen. I thank Pakistan
for its mediation. Pakistan's at the table. Pakistan's in the bud. Okay. Now it's crucial
that negotiates for an enduring solution to this conflict. Continue. We will continue
coordinating with our partners to this end, except you didn't do shit. And now, now you
you got some condemnations coming in. Condemnations for Lebanon. But like I said, it's a step in
the right direction. As long as European leaders remember that as middle powers, especially
if they're united, they have tremendous opportunity to apply pressure to America
and Israel, then it's good. But of course, do they have the interest in doing so? That's
a whole different question. I don't think they do. I don't think they care enough about
it. Hopefully time will prove me wrong.
There is going to be a restriction on any operations in Lebanon or against
Iranian proxies. I was pretty sure there was no way that Israel could agree
to that. And so again, it's a mistake to claim a victory on something before you can be really
sure that it's going to be done. And there's, unfortunately, there's a, this is a con-
I think you're wrong. The Nordic countries are united. The Greenland issue is one example.
Dude, buddy, friend. It took them, Donald Trump directly threatening military annexation
in direct violation of the principles that NATO exists on for them to finally fucking
come out and be like, what are you saying?
Donald Trump literally threatened annexation and invasion of Europe, of a part of the European
continent for them to finally say, okay, you can't do that.
And the, the response to that was literally, yo, you're treating us like we're a brown
country.
Fucking chill.
It was pretty obvious what was going on because they were celebrating the, the violation of
Venezuelan sovereignty with the Maduro kidnapping, with the sham trial that they set up, right?
They loved that.
And then Donald Trump turned around and was like, I'm going to do to you what I'm doing
to everybody else.
He put Europe and the European continent in its rapist in his rapist crosshairs and all
of a sudden everyone was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, we love the way you were doing it in
the Venice.
Well, Macron at the time sent private text messages that we now know of to Donald
Trump.
Do you know what he did?
You know what he said in those private text messages?
He said, don't fuck around with Greenland.
What are you doing?
It's a European country.
We can do wonderful things together in Iran.
That's what he said.
We can do wonderful things together in Iran.
Now we're doing the wonderful things
without France in Iran.
You want to understand what these guys' mentality looks
like?
Look no further than statements like that, right?
System problem with the administration of making claims
about things that are just not the case
and that only damages us in the long run.
CNN's Anna Cooper joins us live now from London.
So, Anna, I mean, listen, just in terms
of where oil prices have gone.
I mean, obviously after that ceasefire deal was announced
just yesterday, we saw Brent Crude
We have it on the screen and WTI all trading lower. They're roughly around $95 a barrel
Obviously it's gonna take some time despite
Technically the fact that even yesterday the state of the moves was open. We all knew that it would take some time
Yeah, this guy's really good as fun. They are
But man Gilej
That sounds like a turkey gas last name Iran a flight
probably not maybe but one is actually not a Turkish word but one is Batman but
also oh it could be Armenian maybe or maybe Ozzy I don't know anyway whatever
Iran needs to know that Trump can control BB that is the single most
important factor in any kind of durable piece forcing Israel to stop hammering
Lebanon is the test. If the administration doesn't understand this, there's really no
chance that the ceasefire will hold. And he is absolutely right.
Oh, here, you want to see, you want to see the, the cocketing?
You want to see how cocked Europe is?
Here's Mark Rutte, NATO chief.
Yeah, Trump is daddy.
Remember, that's what he said.
That's what he said about Donald Trump.
Okay, Mark Rutte.
Yeah.
Okay, let's hear what they have to say.
Jake Tapper asked him a good question.
President Trump threatened to kill the entire Iranian civilization?
Did that bother you at all as a diplomat?
Well, you know, what I always say when it comes to what leaders are saying, I'm not commenting
on everything.
What I want you to know is that I support the president, and I know the large parts
of Europe do when it comes to taking out the capacity of Iran to export chaos to
the region, to Europe, to the whole world.
They are one of the main enablers of Russia's war effort in Ukraine.
We all know this with the drones.
It is an existential threat to Israel if they would get their hands on nuclear capability.
It is great to try to negotiate it away, but we also always knew that with North Korea
it took too long, and then North Korea had its hands on the nuclear, and then you
cannot negotiate any longer.
And they have that power.
I'm going to go ahead and
press.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Is that it?
Trump is that it?
again or before this weekend. Rota is not German. I mean, yeah, I have like a similar
dog. I'm Dutch. Imagine having these guys administer president for 12 years and now still having
to hear this demon in a higher position.
My number one op, Austin ox, New York Post, Trinus, Mirosauce, and he's from California
when the real dirt is that he's from New Jersey. California influence are embraced
that's what races anti-Asian rant viral video reveals is so funny
It's like
This kind of shit this kind of shit doesn't fucking work man
Yeah, races a anti-Asian rant and the rant is me shitting on
Some some fucking crazy
Maga supporter that's like we need to we need to literally kill immigrants and Donald Trump is gonna do that
Yeah, I don't give a fuck
You know go ahead
Go ahead dude
Good luck with this it's like you're fucking New York Post man
What is this Emma bigeland if someone dug up my grandma for that I'd be pretty upset
Yeah
Dead grandparents, yeah, right when I die you can dig me up
Fuck I see you avoiding going in New Jersey for Honolim and Adam homo we were noticing you won't step back into your homeland
The first guy you're gonna go to that will fuck your
Well that was the premise of the whole thing
I mean any other smack, I mean it better be a twitch celebrity
Anybody disrupting my channel please
Somebody who begins to dig six feet deep
I hear the
Brides fantasy
Nothing's saying
I hear the
Don't kink shame me
I hear the soil being removed from my coffin
I'm getting more and more excited
This anti-necrophilia mood on the left, it's so toxic on the left.
Dig me out a song.
What has the DPRK done since getting a nuke?
Do they nuke solely it?
Dog, do you think that's the point of getting nukes?
Are you fucking stupid?
The point of nukes is not to use them.
The point of nukes is to never use them.
You've greatly misunderstood why countries develop nuclear sovereignty.
So fuck.
I guess that's, oh, it's sarcasm, Mr. Hassan, oh, got it.
Yeah, the only country that developed nukes to use them is the United States of America, ironically enough.
We're the only fucking psychopaths that use nukes on civilian population.
Can someone please clip this and send it to him?
I think he'll get a kick out of it.
say that that was the initial I am, the son was the example. That's where that reference
came from.
Scott Grison says that's so valid, Brian.
Thank you.
It's a scene.
Um, Brian's core says, come on, so come find me.
It's called down here.
They aren't joking. Yeah, they're gonna clip this out of context and start attacking them too
All right, let's keep it going
And sort of recoup the 20% of global oil that was lost during the war now that there is this
Fragile ceasefire and it things do appear to be volatile and the straight is closed technically at this point onwards
Just walk us through what that means for oil prices going forward, Anna.
Well, you're right. There was an enormous amount of optimism in markets plunging oil
prices, but we're still high. You know, prices are still high. They're still not what they
were before the war. Brent, the global benchmark, was around $73. Now we can see there it's
around $94. So there's still a way to go. And the terms of this ceasefire or the
way it's playing out currently, as you've said, are incredibly volatile. We're seeing
that because of these strikes in Beirut, Iran is now saying that oil tankers can't
get through the strait. And already the terms of the strait reopening as a result of the
ceasefire were causing some really big questions for oil traders and for buyers. And that's
because Iran was saying that it was still going to make sure that oil tankers were
passing the strait in coordination with its military. And that raises questions as to
whether we're going to see a similar dynamic play out as not allowing ships that have
any sort of link to the U.S. or Israel, whether they be insured or owned or crewed by countries
that are aligned with Israel or the U.S. Is that still going to be the situation? And the
big question mark about tolls. There were lots of reports around certain ships paying
up to $2 million. That was a figure that was being bandied about to pass the straight.
And now we've got reporting that says that Iran and Oman are thinking about allowing
ships to pass through if they pay a transit fee. So I think that probably explains
I was seeing these enormous falls because of the ceasefire itself, but not really back
to where they need to be, which is where they were before the war.
Massive destruction in the heart of Beirut, in the centre and the west of the city, bustling
residential and commercial districts, not just the southern suburbs, the Hezbollah
strongholds, though they've been hit too.
Is anyone in there a man calls out, hoping for signs of life beneath this rubble,
great piles of it. 100 targets hit across Beirut, the eastern Bekavalli and the country's south,
all in the space of 10 minutes. Israel's largest attack since the start of the war.
Bro, why? Why do you keep saying this? You just keep spamming.
Hey, Russia, China and North Korea are prepping for a war?
Where is this coming from?
And weeks in the planning.
I've said temporary ceasefire with Iran wouldn't include Hezbollah,
and we continue to strike them with all our might.
Today, we've dealt them the biggest blow suffered since the pages.
We have attacked 100 targets in 10 minutes, in places they were certain were immune and
bulletproof.
And there are significant civilian casualties, how could there not be with this amount of
firepower?
Bro, Israel's won speed.
That's it.
time, any time they don't get their way, they're like a petulant child, but a petulant child
armed with nukes and unlimited weapons from the most powerful country on the planet.
They literally just go, it's murder time, and they strike with unlimited force at whichever
group of people that are seemingly the most defenseless, classic.
They did this every single time.
They would just hit Gaza extra hard whenever they didn't get their way.
Iran would start, Iran would start fucking retaliating after Israel would like blow up
an embassy or something and then they would hit Gaza.
Now they're doing it to Lebanon.
This can't go on.
It's a crime after a crime. They are martyrs. God bless them. What can we do? We are doing
our duty. This is a crime. The state has to do something.
This is a separate skirmish, Donald Trump has said, of Israel's fight with Hezbollah,
not part of the deal he'd struck. But Iran wanted the guns to stop with this war too and
will be weighing its response.
For Israel to hit Lebanon this hard at this point suggests that it is trying to inflict
maximum damage on Hezbollah while it still can and before it is forced to stop. We're
10 kilometers from the border here. This is one of those northern communities that
has seen its fair share of Hezbollah strikes.
Why are we coming out on the answer, but it's crazy that they're still, they're still
literally presenting this as though like there's a real military purpose.
Like, no man, they're not striking us as blood, they're just killing civilians, okay?
That's it.
Their goal is not to strike against his blood, they can't strike against his blood.
That's why they're killing civilians.
Okay?
Okay?
That much is clear.
And they did this for months.
And they did this for two fucking years almost.
They went in.
They got zero, they accomplished zero military goals
against Hezbollah.
They got the ship pushed in.
They had the retreat.
And the only time they made gains against Hezbollah
was when they were just like blowing up entire city blocks.
That's it.
It's towns like this that Israel has said that it is determined to protect
at seemingly any cost.
You are looking at this one, okay?
Okay, we are somewhere.
Serit Zehavi runs a center which focuses on the security challenges on Israel's northern
border.
She thinks Israel is right to press on.
We are tired of wars.
We want to make sure that this time something will truly change.
Are you prepared to have the war with Iran ongoing, if it means that you can keep
fighting Hezbollah?
We are prepared to defend ourselves, as much as it takes."
But these don't look much like defensive strikes, whatever Israel says.
And Iran is taking note.
The Speaker of the Parliament posting that negotiations were unreasonable, with three
of their key conditions unmet.
The ceasefire in Lebanon, the entry of a drone into Iranian airspace, and the denial
of Iran's right to enrich uranium.
This ceasefire deal is already soaked in Lebanese blood, even if there are some miraculous rescues.
Israel and Iran both have their fingers on the trigger.
Ready should the other blink first.
Ceasefire looks like very good news for the global economy.
Very good news for anyone filling up at a British petrol station too.
But there's expectation and then there's reality.
Reality is a bit messy.
We'll talk about why that is.
First of all, look, here's the good news, all prices.
They had been going up, of course,
because there's conflict going up very sharply.
They are now going down.
They're still way higher than they were before,
but at least they are not still going up.
And that's the same for gas prices, too.
They are coming down at the same time.
Now that is because a lot of this
relies on passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
And here we're going to start talking about reality.
This shows traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
Again, you can see exactly when the war started,
that traffic really plunges.
That's why it was such a threat to the global economy,
to people filling up petrol here, and all around the world.
So what has been happening since the strait was declared open?
Well, we've been tracking this using marine traffic.
And since the ceasefire was announced,
in the hours up to that point, we've
only seen two vessels go through.
And look where they've gone through.
These are bulk carriers.
They've gone through Iranian waters.
Actually, one started in Iranian waters
before they make their way out.
So this isn't perhaps what we might be expecting in terms of global shipping getting moving
again.
And bear in mind that route, it's really important, close to Iran.
So this is the straight-up or sort of map form.
This is how it usually works.
That red line ships go through there, unimpeded, they just go about their normal business
and that means you can get a lot of volume, a lot of stuff in and out.
This green dotted line is the Iran-controlled route.
We've seen ships taking that throughout this conflict.
The fact that even with the straight open ships
are still taking this route suggests Iran
is maintaining control.
So what is happening here?
The straits open.
Why aren't ships going through it?
Well, there's a lot of uncertainty.
A lot of that is down to maybe different statements,
different conceptions of what opening the straits means.
We've got Donald Trump on the left,
his statement, and Iran's foreign ministry on the right.
We don't have to.
I think it's pretty clear what it is, right?
For people who are aware of what's going on, yeah, no, you can...
Well, in the initial ceasefire proposal, it was very obvious that like Iran,
as long as you pay a toll to Iran, you can get safe passage.
They were most likely going to start processing those payments,
automatically rather than having them port like rather than having them go to one of their ports to dock
And instead just go through whatever payment processors that they have make that payment go through easily, right?
but then
But then obviously Israel struck Lebanon and the Iran's like all right. Fuck you straight home is closed
Anyway, there's a new statement from Trump, President Trump issue statement following his
meeting with Secretary General Rutte.
NATO wasn't there when we needed them, and they won't be there if we need them again.
Remember Greenland, that big poorly run piece of ice.
Awesome.
I like that he's threatening the European Union and threatening NATO allies by once
again, threatening to invade Greenland militarily. Yeah, that's cool. He's given the game away,
right? I guess after receiving the same blowjob over and over again, you kind of get bored
of it, right? You would assume Mark wrote the developed new techniques of sucking him
off from the back and maybe, you know, applying pressure to his G spot or something to like
switch it up a little bit, but kind of feels like this time around, Trump was like, you've
been, you've sucked me the same way. I need a new suck. I need a new suck, Mark. You're
You're not sucking great.
You got to put your tongue in it, Mark.
Bring in Laura Loomer, she's a free spirit.
She will lead the way.
And then Politico thought it was crazy to compare him to Hitler.
Yeah, I don't think anyone thinks it's crazy to compare him to Hitler.
I think it's a controversial enough statement
that they're trying to tie back.
But again, it's as bad as you make it as the candidate.
And I think Abdul dealt with that so well in the moment
where he was like, what are you talking about?
He just threatened to do genocide.
What the fuck do we call that?
Another good one you can also say is,
oh wow, the guy I had on the stump
called Donald Trump Hitler. Well, so did his vice president and his HHS secretary.
So he's not alone in that.
You know, because they did do that. R.K. Jr. and JD Vance have both called Donald
Trump, Adolf Hitler. So read through all of that. But let's see what they said
about the straight. So Donald Trump talked about the complete immediate and safe
opening of the straight, whereas Iran's Prime Minister, he was a little more nuanced, a little
more maybe in the reality of this. He said for a period of two weeks, safe passage through
the straight of hormones will be possible via coordination with Iran's armed forces
and with due consideration of technical limitations, two really important points.
Armed forces, that suggests Iran is in control, at least according to its foreign ministry,
and with due consideration of technical limitations. That is putting the break on it. We're
We're not going to see traffic moving, even if companies want to move.
That is a suggestion there.
There will be technical limitations, that will be slightly throttled.
We won't be going back to pre-conflict levels of traffic, and that's before we even consider
reports that Iran is going to charge ships to move through this.
So the upshot of all that is fuel prices here may remain high for some time.
So you've got diesel prices here in black, you've got petrol and green diesel.
A lot higher it's increased because we have to import a lot more of it.
both have had that rapid, rapid rise. They may stay high for a bit longer. And then the
cost of shipping. That also surged with what has come down a bit too again. There's a bit
of expectation there because you're building weeks, months in advance. But this is all
contingent on the straight being open as built. At the moment, it doesn't seem like
that is the case. And it's the nature of a ceasefire. This isn't the end of a war.
This is a ceasefire, there is a lot of uncertainty still to come.
Day 40 of the war could have been apocalypse now, instead of which it feels like apocalypse
postponed.
Because both sides have agreed to a two week pause, a ceasefire, while they try to work
something out.
The Americans have submitted a 15 point set of red lines via Pakistan, which has been
considered, and the Iranians have submitted a 10 point series of red lines via Pakistan,
which the Americans are thinking about.
President Trump said about this 10-point Iranian series
of demands that he thought it was a workable basis
for negotiation.
That's very curious when you consider some of the things
that are in these 10 points.
One thing that's in these 10 points
is an Iranian demand that the Americans
close their bases in the Middle East
and withdraw their troops.
Now, this is a view of some of the.
Well, perhaps that's a workable solution
because those bases have been rendered inoperable.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, what are they?
What are they going to do?
If anything,
if anything, they're doing America a favor.
So now they don't have to like, uh,
they don't have to go back and like rebuild the fucking things.
when it's clear that they're not really invested in the security of the countries anyway and
Who knows what the GCC's attitude will be
You know when when all this is said and done
Main base is not all of them by any means but some of the main bases in the region
There are 40,000 American troops normally in the Middle East plus the
8,000 or so extra who have arrived there in light of this particular crisis. The chances
of the United States withdrawing troops still less closing bases, which have been open for
many years, is absolutely zero. They just won't do it. Another Iranian demand is that
they be allowed to maintain a civil nuclear power capacity. They've always said this.
We want to be a civil nuclear power, and they say we have no desire to develop a
nuclear weapon. Now, they've been lying about that for the last 20-odd years,
presumably they'll continue lying about it why but here's the other issue in the main nuclear plants these three were hit
Why?
Why are they lying?
This is what's so fucking annoying like it's just automatic like
Anyone that says, I don't think that's the case actually. Let me tell you what the truth actually looks like
Immediately you're like oh, oh, here we go another IRGC dick writer
Another Islamic Republic defender
No, man, I'm just defending the fucking truth like why can't we why can't we engage in truthful discourse?
If you got a fucking biased position against Iran, you can say that you're biased against
it.
But at least say the truth.
It's so fucking annoying.
By the United States, Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan, not Bushier in the south.
They were hit last year.
And somewhere in the rubble of those three plans, it is believed that the Iranians have
got 400 kilos of highly enriched uranium, enriched to about 60% highly enriched uranium.
It may be under the rubble of Isfahan, maybe it's under the rubble of Natanz, maybe it's
been split up into two.
You know what's so annoying about it too?
Like what he just casually said right there, no one agrees with.
Like no, the International Atomic Energy Agency disagrees with that statement and they
They are obviously the most knowledgeable, right?
The only people that repeat this lie, or where this lie comes from, is Israel and also by
way of Israel, America.
Your own governments don't believe this.
It's just so stupid.
two or three tranches or maybe, maybe it is under the CIA and the U.S. State Department
also don't agree with that sentiment or agree with that assessment either.
But at least like American politicians will say it right like they advanced that lie.
Even if the the actual intelligence shows the exact opposite reality, at least there's
like American politicians who fucking lie about it and Israeli politicians who fucking
lie about it.
Underneath Pickaxe Mountain, which was built near the Natanz plant, and it's very, very
deep, very inaccessible, and it's possible that the Iranians move their uranium into
Pickaxe Mountain before the attack of June last year.
Either way, the United States is not going to get its hands on this 400 kilos of highly
enriched uranium, whatever it says about Iran's nuclear ambitions for the future.
Yeah, but of course it's so funny because the source that they're using to talk
about where the power plants are is the International Atomic Energy Agency, an
agency that's supposed to be tasked with like covering the nuclear programs
and nuclear arsenal of every one of these countries that has them and 90% of
their work revolves around Iran for some reason, partially because North Korea won't allow them
to their facilities. It's not fucking stupid. And also partially because Israel doesn't even admit
that they have nukes officially. So it is a spy agency 100% for the record. And not only that,
but there's a clear, there's a lot of suspicion that the reason why Israel knew exactly who
to kill in the Iranian nuclear program, like civilian scientists, was because they got the
data from the International Atomic Energy Agency for the record.
Just another incredible cruelty.
Another instance where we have shown our hand, we've shown our real interests, we've shown
how fucking violent and barbaric we are, how perfidious we are.
The most immediate issue is the Strait of Omus.
And Donald Trump has said that these straits will be released as of today, that the straits
will immediately become open to shipping.
The Iranians have said, well, they will open in the next day or so.
But here's the big issue.
The normal channel in the Strait of Hormuz goes like that, right around the straits
and then along the Iranian side of the Gulf itself.
But in the last few days, those ships that they've been allowing through have had
to take a different route via the Talbuth, and this is where they have to go north
of Larac Island and effectively pay their tolls before they get out of the Gulf again.
Because in Larac Island the Iranians can take a good look at them, they could sink them
if they wanted to, they can turn them back.
And today, so far, day 40, all the ships that have left the Gulf have been going
north of Larac Island.
So the Iranians are still operating their restrictive policies so far.
If in the coming days they go back to the traditional shipping route, that will
be a relief but it's by no means guaranteed. Donald Trump can make lots of differences in
the world. He can influence many things. One thing he can't really influence is Israel's
war in Lebanon. The Iranians have said that all fighting must stop but the Israelis have
made it very clear with the most extensive attacks today on Lebanon since the 28th of
February that this ceasefire is not to them. They actually will carry on with their
war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, whatever happens in the Iran-United States arrangements.
Which leaves President Trump claiming victory.
He says that we have been completely successful diplomatically on all fronts.
Well, if we look at all the things that the President has said over the last few weeks
about what America's aims are, and they keep changing, but if we put them all together,
the fact is not one of those aims has been unambiguously achieved.
Some of them are in a worse state now than they were before he started.
This is the same exact dynamic we watched unfold when bias mainstream resources
and legacy publishers that had no investment in telling the truth
about what was going on in the ground in Gaza or the ambitions of Hamas,
the ambitions of the Palestinian Islamic jihad, the Palestinian resistance,
They just misinformed their populations, they misinformed the public.
And they're doing the same thing right now, and it's even dumber, because at least like
in that circumstance, albeit still totally unacceptable, these were non-state actors.
Non-state actors that don't have English language communicators, non-state actors
who were effectively shut out from developing a line of communication with the rest of the
world, right?
So it was much easier to disparage them and to refuse to listen to what their demands
were.
But like doing it to Iran is incredibly stupid because it's a sovereign state.
It's a fully fledged country.
It has a foreign minister that speaks English perfectly and it makes it even dumber.
To me, it's even dumber that they're trying to do this with Iran or they're like, oh,
what could the ambitions be here?
Oh, well, America tried to fucking achieve its military objectives and there's miscommunication
taking place in the back and forth conversation.
It's like, no, there isn't.
It's confusing to you if you're just not paying attention at all.
It's confusing to you if you have a totally distorted framework that you're operating off
of, you're totally biased and your job is not to really look at this stuff and try to
interpret it.
None of this stuff is strange and the reason why I'm bringing this up, the reason why
I'm maintaining this position is because you have to look at why this ceasefire
took place. Okay, look at why the ceasefire happened, because America wanted to happen.
Why did America want it to happen? Because America was looking at the risk calculation,
recognizing that they're incapable of reaching their military goals. They failed dramatically
in achieving any of those military goals. They didn't deteriorate around strike capabilities.
They didn't even develop full air superiority over the Iranian airspace.
They had no way of extracting this enriched uranium in this super ambitious military campaign.
They recognized that it's virtually impossible from the overtake of Clark Island or any
number of different islands without putting sufficient boosts on the ground and developing
uh... an area like a uh... uh...
cordon sanitaire
uh... with drones and with uh...
uh... with with sufficient aerial assets like it's just not going to happen
so they failed on all that
okay
they recognize they failed on that they understood that
clearly
the cards are in iran's hands
and that's precisely the reason why they were
advocating for a ceasefire behind the scenes
by way of Pakistan, um, that's, that's what the reality is. So any kind of conversation
around this, like, oh, well, you know, we don't know why America engaged in this. Like, we
do know why we know why it's, it's not, it's not dissimilar to the 12 day war when the
Israeli defense munitions were deteriorated and America had to literally stop Israel.
had to tell Israel enough, you don't have enough munitions to defend yourselves.
Ironically enough, this time around, it's been much longer than 12 days because they
brought in a lot more naval assets.
And even then, even then, it's clear that Iranian missiles are striking deep inside of Tel Aviv
and potentially even in the Negev Desert, where a lot of the Israeli air forces, that's where
their big air base is.
And we don't even know what kind of assets that they've been able to destroy.
We've only seen the success on the runways of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and many other places.
we don't know how successfully they've destroyed the Israeli fleets that exist.
We only have suspicions.
And also on top of that, they are capable of striking industrial areas and whatnot.
And it's clear, it's clear that Israel is getting cooked.
But they're so fucking insane that they think, no, we'll just, we'll get into the suicide
As long as America is by our side, as long as we can achieve our main objective, which
is to destroy Iran, rip it apart piece by piece, without any care or consideration for what
happens to the 93 million people that live there, they'll do it.
I
Yeah, we'll read this Nathan Taylor Pemberton wrote a Sompike extreme, but can you stump I
Want to see the photos because it's got took so many photos of me throughout the entire day
Okay, these are not bad
These are not bad interesting interesting style
very high on the very heavy on the flash but I do wonder if there's credence to
the theory Israel is also trying to degrade America's presence in the
Middle East no fuck no no not at all there's credence to the theory that
America is trying I mean Israel is is careless and inconsiderate about what
happens to the Gulf because a weaker Gulf is good for Israel there is that's
real. That's a real part of the objective. So the more they hit, the more they hit Iran, and the
more Iran retaliates to the Gulf, the better it is for Israel. Okay? 100%. Yeah, I saw this is very
funny. Hassan standing there like his lawyer. But no, as far as like removing America's influence
in the region? No, they don't agree with that at all. As a matter of fact, they still want to
maintain American military presence so hard in the Gulf that they've now finally openly admitted
that they're willing to turn Israel into a direct American military base. Part of that,
I think also is because you're just cutting out the middlemen there, recognizing that the
the Gulf is unsustainable to defend, and that America still has a, you know, a foothold
in the region.
How's the weaker Gulf good for Israel? What do you mean?
Chatter any country in the region must be weak for Israel, every country.
The Gulf has other allies, not only China, but also Turkey, for example, Israel wants
to destroy Turkey.
Turkey's next after Iran.
They've already, they've already Babe Ruth style called out their shot.
Okay.
That Turkey's next.
If they engage in land acquisition or the same stuff that they're doing Iran, but
the Turkey, what do you think the Gulf is going to do?
Turkish military based in the Gulf like in Qatar, right? Let's say somehow, Israel was able to
convince America to pull Turkey out of NATO or something, right? I'm just, this is hypothetical,
it's fucking ridiculous, it's not gonna happen, most likely, but you know,
and that's the explanation for your Israel hate. Buddy, what's really funny about that is
I have been far more critical of Turkey for literally aligning with Israel.
This is a relatively new phenomena from the Israeli side.
You don't know anything about anything.
Turkey is the primary party involved in sending energy to the Israeli grid by way
of Azerbaijan, Baku-Jahan. There's a pipeline that goes from Azerbaijan into Turkey, supports
on the southern point of Turkey with Turkish ships, Turkish tankers that take the oil and
gas and bring it, deliver it to the Haifa port in Israel.
okay? The fleets that do this are owned by Adonis son or son-in-law, one or the other,
I can't remember. Israel is still threatening to destroy NATO and Turkey because Turkey
He still has some semblance of sovereignty as a regional actor.
America lets it happen.
This is a reliable, uh, vassal state for American interests in the region.
And Israel doesn't like that.
Your target points is anti-EU, even though we agree with you.
You are using the same biased viewpoints that Fox News uses against you, against European
media perceptions.
We hate Trump.
Orban is the slight.
Vance lands in Hungary and helps him with Orban's election.
You get that, right?
Really? I don't think you understand. I know Europeans, I know regular Europeans despise
Donald Trump. I'm saying your leadership is cucked, okay? And it's something you should
understand and be sympathetic to because I'm an American citizen and my administration,
my government is nowhere near as responsive as European liberal democracies are supposed
to be, okay? At least I know that we don't have a real democratic process. Europe, I
believe in, okay? Especially because Europe is supposed to still be independent. European
Union is a powerful force on the planet still. My demand is that European leadership become
more responsive to the needs of the population. That is very different than whatever the
fucking Trumpian argument against Europe really is.
Okay? I've never, as a matter of fact, the reason why I say EU is so cucked is because
I am totally aware that the European population wants changes. The European population is
demanding changes, sometimes even more aggressively than my countrymen do. Right? Look at what's
happening in Italy with like strikes at ports and general strikes that take place to make
demands of the Italian government to decouple from Israel. Right? And yet, why do European leaders
refuse to listen to those demands? Why do European leaders place democracy under threat?
It's because they're vassals. They're vassals to slaves to both the interests of capital, just as our leadership is, slaves to international capital here in America, right? European leaders are no different.
But they're also slaves to America and by extension of America to Israel.
And that's precisely the reason why the overwhelming majority of European populations' demands
are never addressed.
And instead of leaning into those popular demands, deciding to cut away from the United
States of America, deciding to develop sovereignty and dignity for yourselves, for your nations,
show the world that middle powers, when aligned with one another, can actually build a
powerful coalition.
Union is already there, instead of doing that, instead of defending liberal democracy, European
leadership, what does European leadership do? Time and time again, they show that they're
totally fucking cucked. Fuck every fat American fuck.
And the same goes for Mark Carney, right?
Mark Carney is in the exact same situation.
It's unbearable to watch.
I as an American hope that one day these middle powers can rise up against America and demand
changes.
That's what my goal is.
I'm saying this as an American.
I'm saying show your might, show your power, develop dignity, develop sovereignty, say no
to America, so that we are forced to retreat, so that hopefully we'll have more responsive
politicians that will focus on American needs rather than advancing the needs of empire
that don't help everyday americans
but instead
only help the needs
of capital owners
not israel is bigger is the game of the reason
is the game she had a mizman
i mean the union in the government
yes and what the other national
i hate this fucking asshole every god damn day bro he's like all we are a
great power now
we're dominated the world look how much i'm fucking up donald trump
look how much
i play him like a fatal in hebrew and then in english he's like america
we have got we have delivered great sacrifice
for your safety and security
we are dying every day
confronting head on the dangers of islamic terrorism
and then in hebrews like off these americans are so fucking fat and
stupid. I know personally, because I lived in Philadelphia and I hate the birds. Okay. I would
never say go birds. And also simultaneously, I love dominating American politicians. Isn't
it fucking awesome? How cuck they are to me. Benjamin Netanyahu. Literally. Benjamin Netanyahu
on Hebrew Twitter versus Benjamin Netanyahu on English Twitter is like two different demons.
Both are demonic but very different types of demons on very different timing
Go birds the kid know that was Benjamin in y'all that's why he said he would never say go birds despite
The fact that he's from Philadelphia you fucking idiots. I'm saying
Do you want Benjamin in y'all to say go birds? I Benjamin in Yahoo love
The Philadelphia Eagles is that what you wanted here? Okay? He says go birds
God Philly fans are so fucking
they're there
Dude Philly fans get so
Philadelphia sports fans are so dumb. I'm sorry that you heard me say I would never say go birds
When referencing Benjamin and y'all and you just got so angry
They were like now fuck that good
Where's my where's my sock full of batteries?
So funny.
We will try to stop them, whether in the end or in the end of the war, because we will return to the war at any moment.
The U.S. will not open the door at the moment.
We have to ask for a meeting.
It is our duty to protect the land.
It is a mission to protect all our children.
Today we have been forced to take the largest amount of land,
which is the most expensive,
from then on, the most expensive.
We have taken a lot of land from the U.S.
and from the United States,
from the United States,
and from the United States,
and from the United States,
and from the United States,
and from the United States,
We gathered at the airport in ten minutes,
in places where the security guards were in.
Israelis and the leadership of our country today.
I haven't been involved in that
because I've been busy doing stuff and hungry.
I'm actually supposed to get an update
when I get on the plane, but let me say a couple things.
First of all, I actually think
that there's a lot of bad faith negotiation
and a lot of bad faith propaganda going on.
I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding.
I think the Iranian spot that the ceasefire
included Lebanon and it just did.
We never made that promise.
We never indicated that was gonna be the case.
What we said is that the ceasefire would be focused on Iran and the ceasefire would be
focused on America's allies, both Israel and the Gulf Arab states.
Now, that said, the Israelis, as I understand it, again, I'm supposed to get a full little
form when I get on the plane, have actually offered to be, frankly, to check themselves
a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful.
That's not because that is part of the ceasefire.
I think that's the Israelis tried to set up a separate success and we'll of course see
how that unfolds in the next few days.
But look, if Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting
hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States
never once said was part of ceasefire, that's ultimately their choice.
We think that would be dumb, but that's their choice.
Iran's foreign minister says the bull.
So cocked.
This is the guy that Iran wanted to deal with by the way, so funny, cocked.
Brinyasoladio is surprising with the slang that you conjure up EG, where's my sock full
of batteries dude I'm a meriboo.
How do you not understand?
What why won't he condemn you tide shift tide shift yeah I know.
Yeah, also remember when these guys used to make it seem like they're killing human shields.
And now they just openly say we are targeting non combatant family members.
They're like, it's crazy.
It's crazy, dude.
Like they're just flexing.
The more we have allowed them, the more we've given them this allowance, the more we refuse
to punish them, the more intense they get, the more belligerent they get.
It's ridiculous.
Both France and Macron and Spain Sanchez says Lebanon must be part of the ceasefire agreement
while Turkey harshly criticizes Israel for its bombing there.
That's three major U.S. allies effectively siding with Iran on this question.
Not surprising if Trump vans position of insisting Israel be allowed to indefinitely destroy
and occupy Lebanon for some reason becomes an increasingly isolated one.
Washington bizarrely clinging on to a globally reviled war criminal who just lied to the
U.S. President himself into war.
Yeah.
Did you just see this?
President Trump has sat 8 p.m., has threatened to destroy his civilization.
How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk? Oh my god.
Oh my god, that's perfect, dude. That is unironic. That's perfect. That's the demonic timing that we're on, demon time.
in time.
Bro, she dead ass gave herself whiplad. No, she's not even aware what she's doing.
Glenn Greenwald is defending me again, becoming my strongest soldier. It's kind of crazy.
We're in the middle of the most, our most dangerous war in the least in least in at
at least two decades fueled by her precious israel and stana's dana ruth
shawar's bash is still prattling on about some by her to suppose it is
sensitive towards israel in the suffering of her people
ironically one of the things that is annoying me about us on
is how constantly he goes out of his way to condemn anti-semitism and talk
about its evils
even when it's not relevant to his point and even when it's existence is
dubious
i get why he does it
but this insanely stupid two-week lynch mob proves that even
that if you're an influential critic of israel you'd be widely branded anti-semite no matter
how much you not only avoid anti-semism but aggressively denounce it as he does
i don't think people understand this though like glenn's jewish i mean he's been
fucking yelled at
not stop
but i think
because glenn's jewish doesn't understand like a a part of this is
racism baked into uh... zionism
right zionism is is racist
it's Islamophobic, it's anti-Muslim, it's anti-Arab, it's anti-everything, right?
And for that reason, for that reason, like, I,
no matter how hard I make my position be known, that I have always combat anti-Semitism,
no, it is a really good defense of me. It is really solid, but I'm just explaining why I do it beyond the fact that I also, you know, care about bigotry and combating bigotry.
bigotry is like yes it is heavy-handed I do I do actually fucking go above and
beyond like did not every single conversation I have about Israel has to
also be fucking packaged with anti-Semitism but you know that's part
of the reason why I've been a little bit restrained about like yelling as Zoran
right because no matter what happens no matter what happens like Zoran is a
Muslim guy he's brown right same with Abdul like you have to be you have to
be way way you have to go above and beyond to like overcome that fucking
racist trope that Islamophobic trope
No, it doesn't even matter though. It just like doesn't even fucking matter.
Yeah.
I don't necessarily think any of these people give a shit though about the truth.
Is in Washington's court, although whether or not the ceasefire deal holds. In a post on X,
Alex Abbas Harashi says the Iran-U.S. ceasefire terms are clear and explicit.
The U.S. must choose ceasefire or continued war via Israel.
It cannot have both.
The world sees the massacres in Lebanon.
The ball is in the U.S. court and the world is watching whether it will act on its commitments.
We're going to bring in Tokat Asadi, joining us now live from Tehran, or Iran already
warning of ceasefire violations just in the first few hours of this ceasefire and using
some very strong language particularly from the revolutionary guard about how it might
respond.
Yes indeed, we hear this strong message from the Iranian side warning about a repercussion
at the breach of the ceasefire agreement and obviously Lebanon and the situation there
seems to be critically important, as you mentioned, from the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas
Arajci, and also from the Speaker of the Parliament.
And added to that, now we hear from the Iranian president, Masoor Pazishkan, during his
phone call with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.
He came out to say that the ceasefire in Lebanon is one of the pivotal conditions
when it comes to the 10-point Iranian proposal directed to the United States.
And obviously, this is not the only factor that runs the risk of further escalation and
a potentiality of maybe Iran's withdrawal from the ceasefire agreement, but also we know
that in addition to that, Iranians are now talking about the attacks that happened in
in Lebanon, Ireland also, they are talking about the downing of a drone in central areas
of the country. And obviously, all in all, we can say that we're dealing with a very,
I would say, brittle and fragile situation as Iran and the United States are heading
towards a meeting on Friday scheduled in Istanbul in Islamabad, my apologies, to
paved the way.
That's crazy. You see?
He forgot. Turkey is no longer at the table.
Turkey is no longer the table.
Pakistan is now the table.
Pakistan is now at the table.
He said, Istanbul, sorry, Islamabad, because normally in these conversations, it's always
Turkey at the table, you know?
Oh, how far we have fallen.
A4A, diplomatic settlement to settle down the issues, but still we know that even when
it comes to that meeting, Iran says it's going to take part Iranian president as well
as the National Security Council of the country confirmed that, but the context is surrounded
by this cloud of mistrust when it comes to Iranian perspective, towards any rapprochement
with the United States, and obviously that's coming from the very fact that they've already
tried the trajectory of negotiation and diplomatic engagement, not false but twice over the
past 10 months. I think all sides are pretty much aware of how high the stakes are, but
still Iranian side is talking about a preparedness, a full readiness for any confrontational scenario
down the road. This is what we hear from the IRGC, the military sources here that
it seems in a sense they are not that much positive that there is going to be a sustained
peace even though the country is trying the trajectory of diplomatic engagement.
talk it is out of there talking to us from Tehran. Thank you very much indeed.
What was that? Oh, here's Nathan Pemberton's article on the New York Times.
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controversial some Democrats test his political influence on the 2022 campaign trail?
Let's take a look. All right. Finally, some, I assume some decent press coverage. Deep inside
the sprawling campus acreage of Michigan State University, let's political opponent
streamer, Sam Piker, stood before a packed lecture hall, taking in a rapturous welcome.
Proud about 400 people, many wearing hoodies and headphones plus the occasional Kofi
scarf and waited hours outside of a frigid Tuesday afternoon to see Mr. Piker and Dr.
Rob Dulles, I had a President-Muslim candidate running for U.S. Senate in Michigan's tight
league attests to Democratic primary.
For the last two and a half years, they smeared people like myself and people like yourselves,
Mr. Piker said, pointing a finger towards his listeners. They claimed we were radical,
said that we were wrong, and yet we persevered because we understood the violence that was
taking place.
The implied they here wasn't Mr. Piker's normal opposition on the right, but instead
it's critics within the Democratic Party. In recent weeks, they've dredged up
streamers past commas about the Hamas-led October 7th attack on Israel, which he
is called the direct consequence of Israeli and U.S. actions. And the September 11 attacks,
which he once said America deserved, though he later apologized, is a charge amplified
by the founders of the center left think tank third way, which wrote a Wall Street Journal
opinion piece last month urging the Democratic Party to break ties with Mr. Piker for his,
in air quotes, Jew hate.
On stage, the avowal socialist said, but one short response to his distractors, screw
him, Mr. Piker said, well, I said, fuck him. Though he opted for a four-letter
word that shattered the crowd's attentive silence to a roar of defiant approval. This
anti-establishment rebel, who is professed his love for things like streetwear, anti-prillist
politics, and marathon streaming sessions, is now at the center of white-hot debate among
some in the Democratic Party during his professional turn on the stump. In recent months, Mr.
Pecker-Stream has featured a number of prominent Democratic publishers, including Mayor's Armand
Downey of New York, Representative Zoro Khanna, Democratic-California, and Shroyka
Chakabarti, a progressive candidate running the field representative Nancy Pelosi's
seat
with the approaching midterm primary elections democrats seem to want what
piker has a devoted audience of young voters mostly male
yet will not embrace thirty four-year-old commentator despite the
party's well documented struggles with winning over highly online young voters
some democrats representing the party's establishment pro-israeli flank are
making a coordinated push to drive mr piker out of the coalition
cnfox news made mr piker the subject of roundtables political survey
democratic politicians about the so-called
Piker Pickle. And now Mr. Piker's primary antagonist, third way has begun to circulate
a letter demanding that Dr. Alsayad disavow Mr. Piker over his past comments. The website
Jewish Insider is imitated as tactic to pressure Democrats who have received even a whiff
of support for Mr. Piker, as is the case, as in the case of Senator John Ossoff of
Georgia to publicly condemn the streamer. Mr. Ossoff Senate reelection campaign has
so far ignored the group's inquiry.
Head of the rally, Mr. Piker's plan appearance has also drawn attacks from Dr. Alsayad's
primary rivals. It's a debate that many of the students at the Michigan State Rally found laughable.
I just don't think it sounds anti-Semitic at all. Say Colin Smith, 20, who was taking
a selfie with, uh, with the staging view as Mr. Piker was introduced. Mr. Smith, a student at
nearby Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, like many at the event, first came to watch Mr.
Piker stream as a teenager during the pandemic years. He's also a supporter of Dr. Alsayed,
whom he discovered through Senator Bernie Sanders during a fighting oligarchy event in
in the state. Mr. Smith felt that much of the criticism was motivated by religious bias
given Mr. Piker's Muslim identity. He's done so much for the Jewish community, constantly
pushing back his actual anti-Semite-Slegnic flint, as Mr. Smith said, referring to the
27-year-old white nationalist streamer. Mr. Piker likes to describe himself as a megaphone
for his ability to call out the failures of the democratic establishment, and in
turn, lower back, disaffected young men, some of whom have drifted to the right
or dropped out of the political process entirely. Nick Serafanov, a 29-year-old project
manager who would travel from Detroit to attend a rally, described himself as one of
those disillusioned young men. After Mrs. Sanders' exit from the presidential primary in 2016,
he stopped voting, a decision he now regrets. He credits Mr. Piker for bringing him back
into the fold after learning about Dr. Alsayed on the nightly stream.
Like many of the young voters who listen to Mr. Piker, Mr. Serafanov is frustrated
by the Democratic party's refusal to condemn the war on Gaza. There has to be a willingness
to meet people where they are, he said. Earlier that day, Mr. Piker in an interview
with the New York Times described the criticism of him as boomer desperation. During the conversation,
Mr. Prager said his opponents in the Democratic party had little understanding of the new media
landscape. He then began the day's live stream commenting on the president Trump's threat to
destroy Iran's entire civilization. For the next nine hours, Mr. Prager's every move could be
followed on Twitch as he traversed green rooms and campaign vans, press gaggles and auditorium
stages accompanied all the while by a shaggy haired cameraman named Mauricio Miranda. Oh,
shit. Mauricio mentioned a yo the stream which held steady at about 35,000 viewers
throughout the day seem to exist as a parallel universe.
The chat furiously commented on Mr.
Parker surroundings in a thread that moved too fast to follow students
thronged around Mr.
Parker asking the streamer for selfies.
And as you can say, one student asked Mr.
Parker to autograph a copy of the labor manifesto, secret secrets of
successful organizing.
Obviously he's tapped the nerve for a lot of folks who do not trust
traditional media to sift through our politics.
Dr. Al-Said said in an interview,
Dr. Al-Said who lost his bid to be the Michigan governor
in 2018 appeared alongside Mr. Prager last summer
as a two-man traveler, Dearborn,
home to one of the largest Muslim communities
in the country that met locals and indulged
in Manifestal recreation, working out and eating kebabs.
Dr. Al-Said, a former health director in Wayne County,
has stood by Mr. Prager during a fraught moment
refusing calls to disavow the Shimmer's past comments.
He told reporters on Tuesday that Michigan stated
efforts amount to cancel culture. While speaking with the Times, Dr. Al-Sayed, who was a practicing
Muslim, stopped short of describing himself as anti-Zionist as Mr. Piker does. Do I believe
that Palestinians deserve equal rights to things like dignity, self-determination, and peace? He
said, yes, I do. And if that makes me anti-something, I don't know. I guess I'm just more pro-something.
For Muslim Americans like Dr. Al-Sayed, the memories of the 2024 presidential election
are still painful, he said, partly because of what he sees as Democratic parties refusal
to engage with pro-Palestinian activists. At the time, Dr. Alsay had supported the uncommitted
movement and Arab American-led push for Democratic candidates to back a ceasefire in Gaza. The
call over revealed thank you for the 10 gifts and subs.
Ali Alam, 21, a senior at the University of Michigan and a chair of the Muslim Coalition
on campus, pointed out that in 2024, Kamala Harris had campaigned alongside the Republican
former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, a political figure he considered to be far more contentious
than Mr. Piker. She literally helped architect mass murder overseas, said Mr. Alam,
Referring to Ms. Cheney's support for the Iraq war, but we didn't hear any of the backlash
we're seeing now for a Twitch streamer in a brightly lit craft classroom. Mr. Piker
and Dr. Al-Sayed wrapped up the final interviews today as weary campaign staff members collapsed
on the shares. It's different, Mr. Piker said of his experience on a campaign trail,
his live stream after nine consecutive hours had finally come to an end. You're thinking
about how the things you might say might negatively impact the candidate. It's hard
Hard to dial it back for me, but I think I did it.
Nathan Taylor Pemberton is a reporter covering
positive culture for the Times.
Who was the journalist at the second location that Abdul
told he wouldn't answer a question that couldn't be
defined, and what did that person ask?
I couldn't hear it at the time.
It was my favorite stalker from the Free Press,
Olivia Reingold, who recently wrote an article about how she's an October 8th Jew.
There's also another good Guardian article from Boshkar Sankara, which is,
Why do elite Democrats fear Hassan Piker? I don't even know this photo existed, by the way.
The party establishment rushed to condemn the Twitch streamer after news of his alliance with the Michigan State candidate.
Gas is top $4 gallon for the first time since 2022. The president's approval rating fell below 40%.
The war in Iran is entering a six-week with thousands dead and no end in sight.
The should have foremoves is blockaded, food prices are climbing, and U.S. households are staring down hundreds of dollars and added living expenses.
So naturally, the Democratic party has found something truly urgent to focus on, a Twitch
streamer.
The latest intraparty panic was triggered by the Abdul El Sayed, a progressive running
in Michigan's competitive Democratic Senate primary, who announced that a Sampire would
appear at two campaign rallies alongside him.
The response from the party establishment was swift.
Representative Brecht Schneider branded Piker an unapologetic anti-Semite.
Michigan's own senator, at least Slocke, and a former Pentagon official weighed in
with their condemnation.
Representative Haley Stevens, one of Syed's primary rivals, another opponent, Mallory McMoroll,
who has enthusiastically prayed, went as far as to liken Piker to Nick Fuentes, a wife's
premises who has enthusiastically praised Adolf Hitler on camera. When political came calling
both Cory Booker and Ruben Gallego rushed to declare they would refuse an invitation to appear
on Piker's stream. It was quite the pile on, but who is a Sampire and why have some Democratic
party elites branded him enemy number one. Biker is one of the most watched political streamers
in the country. His audience skews young and male, exactly a demographic that deserted Democrats
and historic numbers in 2024. He's a socialist, talks about class politics, foreign policy,
and the failures of the American system with the directness that clearly resonates with millions.
Last month, he joined a solidarity convoy bringing humanitarian aid to Cuba. He's also the guy
who turned down $500,000 to play poker on stream and who walked away from a million dollar
offer from Pauli market for his 2024 election night coverage at a time when survey show nearly
40% of young men admit to betting more time than they can have betting more than they
can afford. That consistency is worth something. It also puts piger on a higher plane than
some establishment figures. Stephanie cutter Obama's former deputy campaign manager announced
just days ago that she's excited to be advising Cal. She one of Pauli markets prediction
market competitors. Guess who else is also getting paid by Kalshee? CNN. Just, you know,
so you guys understand where I'm at with my consistency as a singular force that could
be considered a media entity versus bucking CNN and Fox News. What a poly markers prediction
market competitors. The establishment's moral compass is conveniently selective.
Is Piker said things that are offensive? Of course, he's a streamer broadcast for
hours a day. The medium almost guarantees it. But the specific charges being
recycled against them are years old. A 2019 remark that America deserved 9-11,
which he has since walked back as hyperbolic critique of US foreign
policy forced for criticism of Israel and its crimes in Gaza. And the time
he called all the ultra-orthodox use in bread. In bread is an
unfortunate but standard piece of American insult vernacular. This is a
the British paper. So they're explaining it. Piker himself uses it freely against white
nationalists, neo-Nazis and anyone else he dislikes. He said he regrets applying it to
Jewish people specifically and will not do so again. None of this is new. And none of
it makes McMorris comparison of Piker to Nick Fuentes and actual Holocaust in our anything
but ludicrous. None of it was a problem for establishment of Democrats until the
day El Sayed announced his rally.
The framing of Piker as a threat to all that is, is decent, is nothing but a
campaign tactic designed to kneecap a progressive challenger in a primary race.
It's worth reflecting on the power of the respective sides of this controversy.
Cory Booker, for example, is a United States Senator.
Sondpiker is a guy with a laptop and an audience.
Booker supports a bill that would unconstitutionally ban boycotts of
Israel and has repeatedly voted to arm a country that has killed tens of
thousands of level to Gaza Strip. What a streamer has said strident things
about it from his living room is somehow beyond the pale. The double
standard tells you everything about what the establishment considers dangerous,
not the exercise of actual state power, but the existence of a popular voice they can't control.
On Potsdam, America, Booker said he'd never, he had never even heard a piker before this
past week. This is revealing in a way Booker probably didn't intend. A senator who aspires
to lead the party can't be bothered to know who commands the attention of millions of
the young voters he claims to want back, but he can't, but he can be mobilized overnight
to condemn the guy. His priority clearly isn't engaging with the audience, though he
He does find time to text message back and forth like teenagers with the American-Israel
public affairs committee.
Goddamn.
After 2024, Democrats conducted an anguished post-mortem about why young men were abandoned
in the party.
Pundit's Philip Collins wondering where the party's Joe Rogan was, someone with actual
cultural reach, who could talk to disaffected young men on their own terms.
As Ryan Zittgraf pointed out, they got one.
And the party's first instinct was to try to cancel him.
But this episode makes painfully clear is that for too many leading Democrats, the priorities
defeating progressives within their own ranks and triangulating their way back to power
behind a well-healed professional base.
Palestine has become a populist issue among young Americans in a way that Democratic mainstream
still refuse to comprehend, not just in Brooklyn and in Arbor, but in rural and
working class communities where people are angry and where anger at the human cost
of U.S. foreign policy doesn't break neatly along the lines the party expects.
We are living through an era of extremes, a war in Iran that almost no one asked for.
An economy that's squeezing ordinary people and a president whose approval is cratering.
The old playbook of moderating and scolding isn't just uninspiring, it's a proven loser.
I'll do what I'll say.
I don't understand is that you can't meet this moment by hiding from the people who
are actually reaching the voters you lost.
The Democratic establishment's problem isn't a Sompiker.
It's that they've run out of ideas and they'd rather police who progressives
talk to, then offer the country something worth voting for.
Bosch Grestin Karr is the president of the nation, the founding editor of the Jacobin
and the author of the Socialist Manifesto, the case for radical politics in an era of
extreme inequalities.
I want to see the comments.
W article, by the way.
It's not that complicated, tuition is attention-based ecosystem rewards, outrage and is commentary
to the establishment who represents the Milktoast Monera Center, where you still find 80% of
the elector are afraid that the moderates will be offended by the edgy stuff again.
44 articles read, confirmed article head, true.
This is the same commentator said 9-11 was a good thing, right? America deserved it, apparently.
And the Guardian article wonders why Democrats are desperate dissidents also from.
I find it distressing that the article does not bring up any seemingly equivocal
stands on the Armenian Genocide. Wait, what? And on Inham Aliyev's brutal conquest and ethnic
klinical art-sock issues that resonate with the crucial constituency of Michigan, and that
also ought to engage the constitutional conscious of every principled Democrat, ministerial
de-intended. Why should uniting the left include picking and choosing among which
genocides to condemn? What the fuck is this guy saying? Wait, is he, when he says seemingly
equivocal stance on the Armenian genocide, he means like, I actually equivocally condemn
the Armenian genocide as well, right? As, as I condemn the, y'all are so brainwashed
rich motherfucker trying to act like he cares about anyone but himself, LaMau.
There's a CBS one.
Oh, yeah, yeah, okay. We read. How would you feel about the next year's president pulling
on support from Israel. Oh, baby. These are all good answers, but I feel like we need
to stop and take inventory. The fact is CBS news of Murrow and Cronkai fame. Now is a
full-time staffer whose job is to stalk a torturer and ask rambling unfettered, unlettered
got questions to whoever he's standing next to. Oh yeah this was the Olivia
Reingold situation. I want to answer you just gave there. How is that not an
abbreviation? 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, you know, did
something awful there. How is that logic? How does that not translate? Well, after
October 7th, there was a whole genocide against Palestinians.
It blow up a lot of mosques and Gaza.
I don't know if the Free Press reported on that.
Sorry.
So no, I just, 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 happened 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.
She's so embarrassing to me every time she shows up.
She just ends up getting made fun of for a couple days. I know.
So I kind of think that somehow isn't it weird. I feel
is it weird that I feel a little bit bad?
Is that fucked up?
I don't know what it is. Like it's just,
I mean, she's not a, she's not a good person. Like she,
her output is like really fucking devastating, really awful.
But in some ways I'm just like, I don't know.
I just I feel kind of bad about it.
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.
I drew this is the leviest hockey the night is Zoran victory party understanding
that wars that we should not be fighting.
Yeah.
I think it's secondhand embarrassment.
Yeah.
No, chatter is right.
This is funny.
I saw this. This is so stupid. Look at this. They're clapping for him, man.
Another rare Tim Miller W. Yeah. Tim Miller has been impressive lately.
Understanding that there really is a connection between the two of them.
However, much more to Oracle games that people try to play.
Tell us that there's somehow is not. We're going to take you more questions.
We're going to have to move on to your next person.
Olivia, Olivia, I love to take the question.
I'd love to take a question. Actually, what do you mean by your state?
I feel like if you can't find the question, I'm not going to answer your question.
Damn.
We're going to move on to the next.
He just fucking
snap back. That was great.
That was great.
Yeah, I think the free press knows it's going to happen to just send her anyway.
This is funny. Is this a lady who writes about not having friends all the time? Girl, put
down the Zionism and join a kickball league. Tim Miller genuinely wants to dense the win.
It seems like, yeah. Breaking Trump administration considering
planned to punish members of NATO who were unhelpful to the U.S. and Israel during Iran
war and possibly moving U.S. troops out of those countries and stationing them
countries that were more supportive. Move every single US troop in the world to Israel.
Oh, that's so, oh my god. You're fucking it, dude. Oh, amazing. I mean, it literally is helpful for
everybody. Imagine taking the Marines out of Okinawa, Okinawa and South Korea where they're
wreaking havoc on the fucking street is getting drunk drunk driving killing families
You know and instead just slamming them into Israel the size of New Jersey
what
Israel small nation
Yeah, put them all in there dude
And the drunk driving rate in Haifa will rise by 3,000 percent.
Yeah.
Yeah, where are they going to put all the troops, Hungary and Israel?
Yeah, where's the Tim Miller quote?
Where is it? We got it. Oh, here it is. This is crazy. This is an eight minute combo between
Josh Butthimer, one of my least favorite. Alongside Moskowitz, Butthimer and Moskowitz are like
the two worst Democrats on Israel straight up. Like there's the actual, the Palestine tracker
shows it. I think it's like, it's like Henry Quayar, Gottheimer, and, and Mosque as I think.
Anyway, he was, he was questioned about this, right? He was questioned about his lack of opposition
to the war in Iran. Why not just oppose this? I don't understand why there'd be any...
But, Heimer is bad on everything. It's not just Israel. He's like one of the more
conservative, which is crazy.
Any interest from a Democratic member in a war when we don't know what the objectives
are, can't trust the people running it.
Knowing what kind of threat Iran poses, I believe the importance of stopping that threat
is critical.
But, you know, there's different ways to stop a threat.
And I, and I, and especially, I don't believe regime change right now, for instance,
is something that you could do unless you're going to put troops on the ground and
I don't support that.
That doesn't mean I don't still believe it's a threat.
So I guess I'm just, so do you want them to keep going?
Like what do you want to happen?
Would you like him to say, we're pulling out of this?
We're going to try to do a face saving deal
or do you want them to keep pressing forward?
What I'd like is to find out we get a deal,
which is going to reopen the straits.
It's going to make sure that we can get gas prices down.
Some commitments on their nuclear program
and their drone and ballistic missile program.
Understand what we're going to do financially
to contain their terror proxy program.
So that where we were six weeks ago
and the strait was open six weeks ago.
They bombed the nuclear facilities last year if we massively. Yeah, that's um,
I mean, it's it's so
Indefensible is so fucking stupid
It's
It's exceptionally stupid
When you're doing it as a democrat, okay
It's spectacularly stupid when you're doing it as a democrat like you're defending
the least popular guys, least popular actions.
If you diminish those programs, that would be a good thing.
I guess if the regime is still in charge though, and the IRGC is still in charge,
and they've demonstrated they have control over the strait,
I mean, sure, they've lost some ships and missiles, that could be replenished
because all this harm, because all this international harm, we've pissed off our allies.
People at home have higher gas prices.
For what end?
we got rid of a couple of their missiles and ships. Who cares?
Well, no, don't say who cares on that because what if we told you,
hey, by the way, we've set back their missile drone and...
I guess the one thing I will give credit to Butthimer on is that he's a little bit more
honest about most of these other... He's a little bit more honest about this issue than
the rest of the Democrats that are also kind of on the same boat, but they just don't
want to say the quiet part out loud because like other Democrats are like, oh, Trump, this was a
fucking big L is a big failure. Like we oppose the war on condition on a procedural grounds, right?
At least he's like, I don't oppose the war. It's good. I'm glad it's happening because Democrats
also say that they like the goals. They just don't like the process that Trump took,
which is so fucking stupid. Like they're like, oh, we agree with the goals. We just don't
like the process. Okay. Well, at least Godheimer is more honest. You know, he's like, yeah,
I don't care about the process. I agree with the goals. I'm in favor of the war.
Nuclear program several years. Would you consider that a winner a lot?
I mean, they said that last year, and now we're in a war with them again. I think that China and
Russia could replenish them. Russia's replenishing them now. Obviously, that's how they
shut down our plane. Now they know they can control the straits. We've given them more
power and leverage. We've alienated our European allies and our Asian allies and people in America
who had no idea what the purpose was of this war, who did not feel at all threatened by their
ballistic missile capabilities, are going to suffer major economic consequences. We pushed
it back their capabilities two years to screw over our own people. That feels like a
terrible thing. Do you think them having a nuclear weapon would be a disaster? Sure, but
they've been on the cusp of having nuclear weapons for a long time. We had a deal with them under
the Obama administration that Trump had taken us out of or other potential options. We did nothing
to diminish their terror program. Seems to me. Yes, no, that's not true. The JCPOA was good.
That's the, that is actually, in my opinion, the lack of mention of Obama's legacy on this
issue is what gives the game away for me. Cuz I am a critic of Obama, right? I'm a critic
of Joe Biden, but I defend Joe Biden's decision to courageously pull out of Afghanistan, right?
And I'm a critic of, I was gonna say, Biden. I'm a critic of Obama, but I have always
defend the JCPOA. Because it was good. I call balls and strikes, okay?
And the fact that like every Democrat is not constantly yelling about the fact that Trump
pulled us out of the JCPOA, which is supposed to be one of the signature accomplishments of
The most popular former democratic president, one of the most popular alive, uh, Democrats
kind of gives the game away. It gives the game away. Democrats didn't like it either.
Many of them didn't like it either. Maybe some of them are still operating with the,
oh, you don't want to be in opposition of the Afghanistan war mentality, right? Where they're
like, oh, we'll look weak. It'll be, they'll pepper us with like attack ads and shit like
that. But it's bullshit. It's total fucking bullshit. The fact that people are not constantly
yelling about how there was a successful initiative. If denuclearization was the goal, there was
a successful initiative and Trump got us out in the first term and Biden didn't bring
bring it back. And since then, things have fallen apart.
I guess to be fair, to Donald Trump, JD Pondon, he did actually achieve a much better deal
for Iran than Barack Obama. If we're thinking about it from the perspective of letting
Iran exists as a sovereign nation, it just came at an incalculable cost, a death toll
in Iran over 4,000, and also almost $100 billion of American assets that were destroyed in
the process, and also the global energy markets falling apart.
Having said that, in the aftermath of all of that, the art of the deal is real, now
Now Iran gets to enrich uranium as they see fit, according to their expectations from the
10-point plan that Donald Trump said yes to, and they also get to control the Strait of
Hormuz and toll it, generating a fuck ton of revenue for the Iranian government, for
the Iranian people, that you can basically take as reparations for what we've done
to Iran.
So I guess Trump was actually a lot nicer.
I mean, that's sanctions relief that's coming up too, right?
Iran had to fight like hell to achieve it, but it turns out it was achievable.
Donald Trump did the damn thing.
He was like, Obama's JCPOA didn't go far enough.
We want to defend the dignity and sovereignty of Iran.
The spirit of the Iranian revolution lives on in my heart, he said.
He is a Takia doing secret Shia, I think.
Not only is he a Maoist, but also he is actually practicing Takia.
Turns out Donald Trump is actually the real Dr. Jihad.
I mean, he, after all he did, he did pose praise be to Allah.
So you never know.
Policy test says, what do we have learned so far?
Here's five more support.
Everyone keeps posting this one.
The most important discovery is that Iran is a great power.
There's a real discovery that was not known that Iranians themselves specifically,
they could not be sure in advance that a strategic victory over the U S was
achievable.
It is a fundamental discovery about the polarity of the system.
There are now four great powers in the world and this structure will have very
important consequences going forward.
I don't think Iran is a great power.
It emerges as a great power out of this, but maybe I'm wrong.
The idea that you can secure strategic objectives with air, uh, with the air
weapon due to the precision strike revolution has been debunked.
The combined arms orthodoxy has been vindicated and proponents of
strategic air war have been proven, have again been proven wrong.
We have learned that Wardens decapitation idea does not work as
highly institutionalized states. This was always the position of serious scholars, but
recent Israeli successes had sown some doubt about the thesis. The doubts have now vanished.
We have learned that a mature precision strike regime is defense dominant. Specifically, we
have learned that a great power can deny global maritime power access to its near abroad
curtailing the latter's ability to project power. As a corollary of the above, the
US command of the global commons is gone. The US is no longer a maritime hegemon
that can guarantee access to even the most important choke point in the system, is the
development of great significance in the history of capitalism. Okay, that's the last
couple of, no, that's fair. That's absolutely fair. It's true. It's real. It is absolutely
correct.
I think that that is the most consequential aspect to this. Because like the great bargain
of allowing America to be the world police, the imperial hegemon, uh, the, the, you know,
the superpower that dominates the world is that America will always allow free commerce
to take place on the seas. Okay. That's the reason why we have 13 fucking, uh, aircraft
carriers, right? We can be anywhere, all at once. Uh, we're in all the seas and,
And we can deploy naval assets and our troops
in a matter of weeks to dominate any country
that we choose to dominate, okay?
That's huge.
That also plays a major role in the dollar
being the global reserve currency.
It's beyond force projection.
It's like the most consequential aspect
of like people leaning into the American economy
because America is the great stabilizing force.
I know why you say it, it seems not compatible
with on how many areas Iran doesn't have great power,
but I think it's not proven efficient military production
capacity and oil price dominance kind of proved
that there are super power as long as the world runs
on oil.
Bombing isn't enough. Decapitation doesn't work and America sucks. Got it. I mean, it's
true though.
It I mean the first two we knew already, right? The first two we knew already. There's never
been a there's never been an instance where an aerial bombing campaign alone has as effectively
led to regime change. You need popular forces on the ground. The only time you can point
to that, the only instance where you point to that is Japan. And even then, I guess it
wasn't really a regime change. And on top of that, there was the threat of a ground invasion
that played a big role in this by the USSR anyway. And it was also a once in a lifetime.
It was a nuke.
It was a world-changing incident.
And that's it.
Venezuela.
Buddy, what part of Venezuela was just an aerial bombing campaign?
Venezuela was a very efficient and very swift military strike.
We objectively put boots on the ground of Venezuela to extract the president.
What do you think?
They fucking teleported Maduro.
They just like flew over with a spaceship and we're like whoop and then they sucked
them out of the air.
No, they like, they went in.
Also the regime didn't change in Venezuela.
I was thinking about this, Donald Trump keeps doing this, bro.
His Afghan plan was swapping out the Taliban with the Taliban.
And that was at the tail end of a 20 plus year project.
At least now he's more swift with Venezuela.
He took a Shavista out and kept a Shavista in.
And that was like a what week, you know, a couple of week long process with like, uh,
you know, posturing around the, the, the, the Venezuelan coastline for a little bit.
And then just like a one night time mission.
And this time it's even more efficient than Afghanistan.
He literally went in, bombed the living shit out of Iran, replaced Ayatollah Haman,
with Hamané Jr. and he did it in such an efficient way. He did it in a spectacularly efficient way,
and it didn't take 20 years, right? Obviously the Taliban also hardened its position over Afghanistan
in the process of the last 20 plus years. And the same thing happened with both the IRGC and
and the, you know, the government of Iran, like he actually was capable of breathing life back in to the Islamic Republic.
A couple years prior to this, the Islamic Republic is at its weakest point, okay?
So weak that it can't even fucking fight back with all of its excessive resistance forces
that has been funneling money to for decades when October 7 happened.
Look at Iran now. You have opposition figures, dissidents, people who have been jailed in
the past in the Iranian government, by the Iranian government, going out and sitting outside
of fucking power plants to be like, our people are strong. We're going to defend
this country.
There was a total rallying around the flag effect. Donald Trump, the great nation builder,
Not just for China, but for everybody else it seems.
Just not for America, you know, JD Pondom, baby.
Turns out accelerating all of our worst tendencies and leaning into our excesses was going to
inevitably lead to failure after failure, also in an accelerated manner.
Yeah, he's destroying a civilization. It's just ours. And I feel a sense of shame calling
what we have a civilization. Let's be real. We're a very young country overall.
Agreed. I'm skeptical that Iran can impose a permanent peace time tolling system on
the trade of Hormuz is ultimately have to find a stable motives of ending with his neighbors.
The trade is not like the Suez Canal, which Egypt can charge a toll upon since it is acting
as a service provider for a constructed waterway. However, in as much as Iran has shown it as
the ability permanently shut the trade of Hormuz, it could trade this new leverage
for sanctions relief and reintegration into the global economy. That in itself would
be a significant improvement of its position as prior to the war, its efforts to remove
sanctions has seemingly reached a final dead end.
Aaron Bostanis has agreed the development of a threshold nuclear technology was also
about leverage and having a chip to end decades of sanctions ability to choose
hormones with conventional, close hormones with conventional weapons is
probably better in that regard. I still think they need to have nukes though.
long as a nuclear Israel or any Israel really exists in the region Iran has to get nukes
okay because as long as Israel exists they're gonna fuck with Iran they're gonna keep doing this
I mean it's obvious Japanese TV explain what taco means oh I saw this
Yeah, most of all is also pro nukes is what people were saying.
Turkey charges for boss first transit who cares that it is a natural waterway.
Ben Rhodes says, best case scenario, Trump struck a deal to reopen a straight that was
open before the point of the war he started with the IRGC demonstrating its control over
the trade and potentially extracting fees plus sanctions relief.
Thousands of innocents including hundreds of children, dead in Lebanon and Iran for no
reason.
US troops killed and wounded.
US embassies based in the Middle East badly damaged.
US standing in the world obliterated.
Okay, everyone's saying bless you.
It's science you.
It's science you.
US munitions badly depleted, hundreds of billions spent, prices up everywhere.
More global economic fallout to come.
Putin strengthened and enriched just a catastrophic situation, even in the best of circumstances,
a profoundly shameful episode in American history, no matter what happens next.
Oh, uh, a Georgia voter was asked about Donald Trump's insane statement that morning, and
it's a very awesome video.
We gotta watch this.
It's giving war crime.
You can't do that.
We don't just annihilate people because we can and, you know, make a grab for the money
in the oil.
And that's what we've done in Venezuela.
And that's what we're doing in Iran.
It's giving war crime.
I love that.
This is what happens when you don't sell the war.
Okay.
to give any advice to war criminals of the future, but there was a point to why even
the most rabid neocons felt the need to talk about how we were going to liberalize Iraq
about how we're going to bring democracy to Iraq. We're going to liberate Iraq from the
barbaric Saddam Hussein. Okay. There's a reason for it. Americans want to feel like while we're
doing maximum violence, there's a good purpose for it. And for years and years, America obviously
fucking kept it together. Okay. Hard to overstate how much Centuries Goodwill, Israel is burned,
a silver lining to this insane war. I saw those in they all seem sus, especially since
They were all posted within 24 hours each other. Yeah. Um, well, John Favreau is not,
I wouldn't even say he's got a centrist approach to this, but Josh Barrow, because John Favreau
has been there for a minute. Okay. He's been there for a minute. Josh Barrow on the other
hand, a borrow, that's surprising. The Israeli should be punished for this. And there's
no reason for a democratic presidential candidate to suggest we would lift one fucking finger
for them after the shit they have pulled boosting the republicans and then inducing our idiot
president into launching their war. Could we please differentiate the government from
the people? Josh Barkover says, no, the people like this government over and over. Yo! Yo!
These are the guys that were literally talking about like everything that I was saying
after you know october eight
being like all your causes dead all the left is dead
the left is dead they're fucking barbara
uh... you know islamist monsters
yet you don't fucked up now
all my god brother
all my god with a no is smith
no is smith
he did it know uh...
but you know uh... all my god one of the worst
one of the most annoying
versions of of ultra Zionism and unlimited defensive Israel came from Noah Smith. I put
him in the same column as Brianna Wu. Okay. Guy who didn't fucking know shit about Israel,
but after October seven became like a mouthpiece, like a Hasbro guy out of nowhere. And just
Just like with Brianna Wu, he had some of the funniest responses. Like he would work.
He first of all invented boycott divestment and sanctions from first principles after reading
one Isaac Chodiner article from a settler. Okay. He just straight up was like, Oh my
God, these people are monsters. Like we should probably boycott them. Right. That was funny.
Who could forget one of his first ever articles that he wrote, which was a two-state solution?
How about a five-state solution, okay?
Americans as a whole realize that Israel is not a good ally.
60% is a solid majority, and it's only going to grow.
A breakup of some kind is coming.
Matt Iglesias obviously, this war has been like a precision strike to take out pro-Israel
Democrats.
And if it drags on longer, it will eliminate the pro-Israel Republicans too.
Oh
Yeah
Incredible incredible
It's getting to a point listen listen these guys are they're they're fucking their assholes. Okay, they're assholes
They don't have any fucking reliable consistent positions. They're they don't have any backbone
Oh my god, this guy too these numbers are abysmal and isn't just sustainable for Israel long-term
This guy's like this guy's like straight-up paid I thought I
Mean these are some of the biggest grifters dude
These are the biggest fucking grifters. Oh
My god. Oh my god. It's getting to a point where the only people that will defend Israel are just like some of the most
rabid
ultra Zionists around
Okay
Oh my god, these are people who've spent the last two and a half years making my life fucking miserable
Coming after me non-stop
Holy moly
Incredible
Incredible
other pro-israel accounts is the main reason i give palestine activists a lot of shit but
pro-israel guys are some of the pissiest most arrogant people on this website they think
they can bully everyone into being pro-israel and it just backfires again and again oh my
lord even our biggest haters are admitting defeat on this issue i mean you got to carry
that. You got to carry that moment of indication and the success that we were able to achieve
on this issue into all of these other positions that we have moral clarity on.
That's it. If we could take out, if we could genuinely push back and successfully defeat
the massively well-funded multi-decade long Israel lobby and its influence on
American politics its influence on on organs of propaganda I mean skies the
fucking limit dude seriously like that's why I think like Cuba is small frying
comparison the Cuban lobby is tailored off of a pack for sure but it's nowhere
near as powerful as like Israel's pervasive influences over American politics.
I believe, I believe we can achieve anything, honestly. Yeah, Alisa Katz, editing chief of J.D.
Forward, sat down with Mahmoud Kallel and had an extended interview because he wanted to talk to
Jews, including those who see his free Palestine movement as an existential threat, his message,
take it or leave it, I want to liberate everyone. And people lost their fucking minds. My question
is, when is he leaving? Jonah Platt, I think this was actualized, is he opposing a two-state
solution that seeks to preserve a Jewish majority in Israel? Does that sound like Jewish liberation
to you? Buddy, you're a fascist. You're advocating for fascism. Who the fuck cares about
preserving a Jewish majority in Israel? That's a fascist, okay? That's fascist ideology.
It's and we know it's fascist because when Americans say we have to preserve a white majority in the United States of America
Everybody understands that the fucking fascist talking. Okay?
People are people there is no special category for Jews versus non-Jews only fucking fascists feel that way
God damn
These guys are so funny too because they they're like in
progressive adjacent circles for years and years and they just like fucking
cry about this shit where they're like why can't Jews have an ethno-state why
can't Jews have an ethno-state built on top of someone else's fucking land like
people were living there Jews were living there too but you know a lot of
non-Jews were living there and we just have to kill them sorry we have to
push them aside like that's a ridiculous argument
I
God
Anyway
US VP JD warns Iran not to liar cheat as fragile truce holds. I
I love the JD thinks he has a say in this process. Just cause like Iran was like, we want to talk to JD Vance, you know
Summer Lee says she condemns all forms of hay while defending controversial decision to appear with a Sompiker
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Michigan Senate candidate L said declines this about how Sompire's past comments
I think she's been led by the people you know the solution love to write policy to tailor
towards that massive demographic we can all aspire to be in black women bank CEOs way
what oh she dude I don't get it like now I'm a moral such a classic case of of like
So progressive like phony it's like
She is basically like
25% more progressive Hillary Rodham Clinton
One of the things I just want to say before we go to you Rachel is when I met Mallory and she was telling me she was running for
US Senate I said why
I said, why would you want to do that and I said there's there's all of these things going wrong
Yeah, a lot of people think they're like grand platner is is John Federman, but like this is a
Central committee is right. This is the most obvious Fedder woman of all time is so right
God left this man left this drop the ball so fucking much
like they literally
like they they
They have reasonable scrutiny over certain candidates. That's fine. But what they failed
to comprehend is like there is, there's Federmans all around. Okay. Or perhaps a better analog
here would literally be Marie concentration camp Perez. Okay. I think Mallory McMorrow
is going to be in that rank. Maybe not as aggressive as Marie concentration camp
Perez. Like I don't think she's going to have, uh, whatever, uh, like, uh, position
on genociding the local population of animals that she's annoyed by in the same way that
concentration camp Perez has.
But it's like pretty obvious, like she is super vanilla and is trying to tailor her message
to be somewhat progressive but also at the same time not too scary, right?
There's nothing there.
People like this, people like this are just mere vessels for corporate interests and whatever
the fuck the Democratic Party is going to want to do.
You have a real opportunity to vote for someone to change the direction of the party.
Why, you know, and she said, because what else happens if we don't?
And I said, well, why is the people that are there not doing anything?
And she said to me, because they're afraid.
I was there, and I don't even know if you remember that.
And I said, why are you not afraid?
And she said, you know, kind of him, but then what?
Right?
Like, and that's just it.
Unless we are just going to let this be and maintain this status quo, we have
to do something.
Right?
These conversations when you have policymakers and legislatures and I and I go to DC and I'm
Advocating for CDF is all the time. This is rare. I'm gonna be on her husband is literally a lobbyist for nuclear energy
I mean, I don't give a shit about that
and even when if
He was a lobbyist for for the oil and gas industry then I would care about it in there
They're not listening right there. They're really not listening. This is just a check mark
This is I have to do this. This was very different, right? And so
With that we have to hey find our allies. I don't I don't know how to say it, right?
We have to find our allies people that will champion our voices and move she only has juice from the low info MSNBC slot packs
Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's obvious that the Democrats are
not always dropping the ball like there are obviously races that they care about and and
And immediately we're able to prop up like a reliable spoiler against Abdul, cuz if this
was, let's be real, if this race was Abdul versus Stevens, oh my God, it would be a grand
Plattener style blowout right now.
If this race was even Abdul versus McMoral, there would still be a decent, quite significant
difference between Abdul and McMoral. Mallory promised to use alternative energy to power
data centers goofy. What? I don't care. I don't think that's that. I don't think that's
as big as a deal breaker as you're claiming it is. I mean, the fact that she wants like
data centers is annoying. It's a bigger deal breaker than, than, you know, alternative
energy sources or whatever. And you're implying like nuclear energy, right? That's
your argument. Like, and yeah, I'm going to get to the last part. The reason why I'm talking
about McMoron right now is for a good reason and then use that, you know, to our equal
advantage, right? But we do have to find our allies and it's important that we are involved
in these conversations. Anyway, I mean, it's just like basic Democrat posture, right?
I mean, it's not like offensive, but it's, it's purposely inoffensive as Taylor made
to be as inoffensive as possible. And I think a lot of like, um, as long as you say some
key words now, like that you're a fighter that you will fight for affordability, right?
If you get a little bit of that Zoran shine into your rhetoric, these, these boomers
see a young person and they go, Oh, that's great. That's, that's the, that's the
relatively inoffensive person that will fight for me, right?
We shouldn't be going for the minimum, like the bare minimum change candidate, okay?
That's the problem at the heart of the Democratic Party.
We should be going for bold radical change candidates.
Because that change is seemingly radical now, but it's actually just, you know,
moving America towards a sense of normalcy, moving us into a status where we're close
with our, you know, everyday existence to other OECD nations, right?
But this is not just a moment about D versus R or red versus blue. This is a moment that is about
our country. This is a moment for people to stand up and to decide who they are actually for. Are
Are they for the Constitution?
Are they for our citizens?
Are they for Americans?
Are they for Michiganders?
Or are they for Donald Trump?
Oh my god.
This just lays flat for me because it is, it is flat.
you can tell when someone is just saying shit because they gave, they gave her talking points
to repeat. Okay. It's low energy dem slop. It's low energy
lib slop, which is straight up just like, Oh, we got to fight against Trump. You know,
we got to put people first against Donald Trump. Like where are some of the key issues?
where do you stand on some of the key issues? What will you do for the people? Okay?
That's it. This is the moment to ask the question of every single person who's currently
serving in office. I know a lot of the Democrats serving in the federal government right now
are headed back to Washington now to talk about the war powers resolution, to talk about the
25th amendment, to talk about impeachment, to talk about everything that should be on the table.
Because Donald Trump should not be president. He should not be. Period.
This is not.
Brave. Can she say that?
Can you she say that anyway, it's just, you know, so our whole thing is to say Trump bad,
but passionately, some release of the same thing yesterday, but it wasn't the focal point.
It was a footnote in an answer to the press is just objectively less substance than what
I expected. And also there's this side of the story, which is time Schumer has quietly
signaled that he would be okay with the state, with state Senator Mallory McMarro in the U.S.
Senate over establishments favorite, Haley Stevens. And this is because they, they're
pulling the fucking rip cord on Stevens. They realized that she is a charisma suck.
They realized that she has no redeeming qualities. Let's be real. And now the manageable candidate
that would have been a reliable vote for APAC and a reliable vote for Israel is,
is in contention. She is most likely not going to win this race. I mean, we could,
I could see that for a mile away, right? Very obvious, very clear that Stevens was not going
to make it through, even with the, you know, millions of dollars that APAC was going to dump.
That is why these past couple of weeks, your boy's been eating it nonstop. Because McMorrow,
I think, was smart enough to recognize that Stevens was not going to win.
So, she had already given a private position paper to APEC and demanded APEC stay out of
this race, right?
So, she is trying to show by going to Jewish Insider and doing a sit down interview with
them and attacking me and attacking Abdul El Sayed on, you know, our advocacy against
Israel to say she's their guy to quietly funnel money into her campaign. Okay? It's very clear.
She is smart enough to recognize that Stevens is most likely not going to win,
and she will be that reliable spokesperson, a reliable vote for Israel when necessary.
Okay.
McMorah is one of several Democrats running across a country that want a new Senate demolition.
Now, that's what's funny about it is that McMorah is also, more knows how to read the
room, right?
And therefore, because she knows how to read the room, she has spoken out against Chuck
Schumer's leadership.
But what's even funnier about this process is that Schumer can't publicly endorse McMoron.
Because unlike me, Chuck Schumer actually is a reviled figure in Democratic Party politics.
Isn't that fucking hilarious?
For the past three weeks now, they've been in my ass, crawling inside of my asshole,
okay?
Constantly chirping at me.
Oh my God, is it appropriate to fucking stand next to this guy?
How dare you?
Blah, blah, blah, all this shit, okay?
He is, he's a dangerous anti-Semite, all these fucking smears.
Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer is so unpopular he can't even publicly support his second
choice candidate. It's awesome. There's some of me said for someone who is aware of their
own political toxicity enough to keep some distance between themselves and their preferred
candidates. I like that Stacey K is still the most loyal Fedeine for this cause. Okay.
She's trying to say, I'm the one. I'm the one who fucking was like, Abdul, you have
to have me on the campaign trail not realizing that he asked me again it's crazy it's crazy
that these people are just so fucking stupid about about all this shit awesome show I condemn
your comments on 9 11.
Stacey kind of low IQ.
Limb if I out, I think, yeah.
But yeah, it's, um, it's an interesting predicament, right?
Do you say in Texas confuse the shit out of Stacey?
Yeah.
true. Yeah. I mean, she's a classic, she's a classic liberal where she thinks like people
in Texas are just fucking stupid and don't have access to the internet or there, there's
no fucking DSA in Texas, just DSA everywhere in America.
Yeah. If it's not as bad for Democrats, why not just let them hurt Democrats without saying
anything. Exactly. Wow. Credit where credit is due, Dana Bash. Again, these people
are bipartisan, okay? They are Israel first. What, like, what is the connective tissue between
Laura fucking Loomer, an absolute psychopath of the highest order that loves Donald Trump,
and Dana Bash, who's supposed to hate Donald Trump? I mean, these people are absolutely
enemies, right? They're supposed to be enemies. What is the connective tissue
They both love Israel. That's it. It's right in front of you. What the fuck more do you need to see?
Laura Loomer giving credit where credit is due to fucking Dana Bash?
Great job, calm this out. It need to be done by someone in major media. The FBI should be monitoring some piker
You should be arrested for encouraging people to murder senator Rick Scott
They both drop party loyalty or whatever partisan opinions that they might have, okay, when it
comes to shitting on Muslims and defending the state of Israel, the beautiful state of Israel,
the only state that matters. That's it, because they're both Muslim. When our elected
officials are, when are our elected officials going to wake up and raise a common denominator
to all of our problems in Islam, Iran, Muslims, I'll do a lot of say a Muslim, the Sampaigar
Muslim, Ihan Omar Muslim, Qatar, Muslims, Gaza, Muslims. It's a death cult.
Well, Hassan, I'd be so obsessed with Israel. Yeah. No, definitely. I like reading this
screed from Donald Trump's most loyal servant defending another CNN anchors piece shitting
on me, calling me a fucking anti-Semite for my anti-Zionism, right? And these guys are
in line with one another. They're defending one another now. And that's, you know, pointing
that out, pointing out and wondering what the connective tissue is there, is totally conspiratorial,
is totally ridiculous.
I think the biggest thing is people just don't need to see a lot to jump to some conclusion
about who someone is.
My question is, if we're at death call, why do you keep invading us and trying to take
our resources and causing migration crisis?
One of the smart thing to do is to leave the death cult alone so then come to your country even that logic makes no sense
Yes, scruffy Rick clues. Thank you for the tank of the subs
Caleb shouted you out. Yeah, I saw this
Maybe you should get on switch
That's his sons. That's his sons domain leave it to his son
Leave it to his son to be on twitch to be talking about politics too much
Leave it to his son to be too much about gay guys too much
I said this I said this when I want to show he's talking so freely about gaming
I said this on you better fucking manner hush it up. I
Would say absolutely first in line for that you were deep Lee. Oh my goodness
And can I say I think all these people like coming for his on want to fucking do it. Oh sure
He's handsome. I like him. I like I like his son. I don't I don't need to know offense brother
I don't need to fuck him, but I think if I think if you don't need to fuck him
I would just be first in line if there was an option like if there's gonna be a sweepstakes
I think if he wants to keep talking to the Austin the little gay guy on his podcast
Yeah, if he wants to keep talking to Austin crazy about gay stuff. He needs to
the little gay guy
He referred to Austin is the little gay guy. Oh
My god
Has he been talking crazy about gay stuff? No, just like I kill me like he'll be like like when I went on his show
He was like he was like Austin's a selfish top and I was like, let's take a pause
Oh, man. I'm only ever calling Austin a little gay guy. It's so funny. Oh, you know, we're
talking about this on the pod. Oh my God. And Austin showed the little gay guy on his
podcast. Yeah. Stay in your lane. His son. I mean, this is my lane.
Yeah, DSA being at plus 33 and APAC being at minus 33 among Democrats in Texas is downright
poetic. How the fuck do that many Texans know what DSA is? I said they got access to the
internet, Stacey.
Remember when they were saying you were a threat to Tim Miller because he's gay. Yeah. Yeah,
that was not, I mean, that's not even a they, that wasn't a pot Horace that said that. That's
like, that was one of my favorite criticisms I've received. John power is being like,
The Hassan wants to throw you off of a roof because you're gay
Oh
Like what is it am I too woke?
Or am I anti woke now? It's I love living in this is
duality this dual state
you know
One day they're like, oh this radical guy wants to fucking abolish the police because he loves black people too much
constantly talking about critical race theory. And then the next day they're like, he's a
racist. He hates black people. Yeah, Glenn Greenwald said I was more gay than most gays.
He knows. Yeah, that was, that was my, that was peak. John Potthorod's, uh, uh, some
Piker would likely support Tim Miller's murder on the grounds that he is a gay man with children
And then support the murder of his children as he supports the murder of mine for being Jews. Nice going Tim
You've sold your soul. Enjoy the cash
Oh this so fucking good
Yeah, it's funny because you lived in West Hollywood for a decade the epicenter of gay and Jewish culture in Los Angeles is true
That's also yes
Yeah, it's gizam. It's cuz you know how like Yahya Sinwar was in Israeli prison and he learned Hebrew and any studied
Everything about Israel. It's it's kind of like that. You know, I'm just I'm just studying
I'm just studying the gays and the Jews here, you know, I'm learning so fucking stupid.
Oh, I can't wait for that to be clipped to be like he look at him.
He was he meant to sincerely it's obviously my enemy is incapable of crafting a joke.
Yeah.
Did you see this from John Marco?
Americans.
Both chose to go with an audio-based medium.
Oh, no.
Our children are sick or chronic diseases exploding.
And the answer is that we've been...
I mean, even on the visual medium, even on the visual medium, it's still kind of nasty.
You know what I mean?
He's just like constantly shaking.
He just looks so sick.
He's crazy.
He just looks so fucking diseased.
All right.
Anyway, that's all I got for today, folks.
I'm fucking tired.
Love you guys.
And I think.
I think that was a good day.
We got a lot out of our system, and I'm happy, even if it's like one day where I'm not
capable of doing situation monitoring in like regular desktop streams, I feel it itch, right?
I feel it in my bones, so I'm happy that I was able to come back home, even though I'm supposed
be going to New York again quite soon as a matter of fact so but you know got some
stuff that I need to do out there as always I've been going to New York quite a
bit anyway love you guys and I will see you tomorrow peace everybody
All the chatter's tricklin' in, I'll sell people hay
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